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Arizona's attorney general on Wednesday accused three members of the state's redistricting commission of stonewalling an investigation of possible open meeting law violations that he said reportedly include private one-on-one talks between the chairwoman and other members before a key vote.Read More »
Redistricting commission to consider disclosing outside influences
The five volunteers tasked with redrawing Arizona's political districts may soon have to tell the world who they've been talking with, outside the commission's public meetings, about their highly-political work.Read More »
Horne to seek court order to compel IRC's full cooperation in probe
Attorney General Tom Horne is planning to file a special court action this week to compel cooperation from the three members of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission who have refused to submit to his investigation into whether the panel violated state procurement and open meetings laws when it hired a mapping firm in June.Read More »
Redistricting commission begins to tackle competitiveness
The state's redistricting commission is taking up the thorny issue of how to create districts in which both major parties can field congressional and legislative candidates with a realistic shot of winning elections, a key part of balancing sometimes conflicting redistricting criteria.Read More »
Goddard weighs in on Horne's redistricting commission probe
Former Attorney General Terry Goddard this weekend accused now AG Tom Horne of taking part in a Republican "intimidation campaign" against the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. The announcement was odd, and so was the timing – given that Horne's investigation has been ongoing for more than a month.Read More »
Redistricting commission to hear suggestions
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission will be getting some advice Thursday.Read More »
FAIR Trust targeted over allegations of illegally lobbying IRC
A Libertarian Party activist alleged in a complaint filed today that a group with ties to Republican politicians is illegally lobbying the state's redistricting commission.Read More »
Redistricting commissioner set to cooperate with AG investigation
More than a month after Attorney General Tom Horne announced an investigation into possible open meeting and procurement law violations by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, his attorneys will finally get to conduct their first interview with a commissioner Wednesday morning.Read More »
Is the sky really falling on Arizona Republicans?
Republicans have railed against the Independent Redistricting Commission, saying it intends to draw political lines that turn the state over to Democrats.
But the combination of constitutional requirements, federal regulations and voter registration numbers make for a reality that is far different from any tea partier's nightmare scenario.
IRC puts off decision on tracking media interaction
The state's redistricting commission today moved closer to making a decision about whether it will continue require detailed tracking of all contact between its mapping firm and any member of the media.
But the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission postponed a vote so it can get more input from its attorneys, media outlets and bloggers.


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An El Salvadoran man pleaded guilty to several charges in Davidson County Criminal Court Tuesday in connection to a wave of 2011 South Nashville crimes.
Rony Sorto, 25, [1] was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated rape.
His accomplice, Olbin Euceda, was sentenced to 75 years earlier this year [2] for rape of a child, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery.
In November 2011, the two men forced a woman inside her Bell Road apartment at gunpoint, tied up two people, stole items from the home, and Euceda sexually assaulted the couple's 11-year-old daughter.
The men were also charged in two other cases of rape and robbery.
According to the Davidson County District Attorney's Office, Sorto will be turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after serving his prison term.
[1] http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/police-arrest-suspected-accomplice-man-charged-robberies-child-rape
[2] http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/olbin-euceda-gets-75-year-sentence-sexual-assault-11-year-old-robbery

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Financial prudence is a critical life skill to be had by every individual. Many of the habits that form our character are influenced by our upbringing. An individual's approach to finance matters depends much on what he's learned from the way things were done at his home. Financial education is as important as learning language, math, science and history but unfortunately the education system in India is yet to incorporate financial education in curriculums. Financial literacy will help children gain understanding and awareness of money and will empower them to make good financial decisions in the future. When they are taught wise money management skills you better their chances of being successful in their financial life.
Start early
A proverb goes, 'train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it'. The key is to catch them young. Give them age-appropriate teaching on financial matters. Teach them to differentiate between needs and wants at an early age.
You can teach 5 year olds how money can buy things by letting them walk to the counter and buy their favourite Cadbury. If you have 7 year olds you can teach them that money has to be earned by paying them small rewards for tasks they do.
High-schoolers can be taught about spending v/s saving, bank accounts and bank deposits, importance of insurance and basic types such as life, health, auto, etc. By this time they will have learnt how money grows in simple interest and compound interest. Take them along to the bank so they can observe how bank transactions are done. At this age you can talk to them about financial independence and about borrowing and credit.
Children in their late teens and early 20s will be excited about having their own bank accounts and debit cards. You can discuss with them the dangers of borrowing on credit cards and how to avoid debt by planning for needs beforehand, whenever possible.
Make it fun
Learning finance doesn't have to be like listening to sermons; it can be fun. When you want to explain a concept, try to use funny illustrations that kids will remember. Buy board games like Monopoly, Business that teach them the value of money. Look out for comic books on money and other books like King Midas, Adventures of Tom Sawyer for younger kids and get financial literacy books like Rich Dad Poor Dad for teenage kids. Orient them to websites on financial literacy for kids. Make them your assistants in drawing monthly budgets, writing cheques, paying bills.
Giving gifts
Parents like to be generous while giving money to their children however you must ensure that they are taught the concept of accountability. Teach them the importance of not over spending their budget. While they should not be dictated on how every rupee ought to be spent, ask them once in a while how they spend their pocket money to teach them to keep track of money. Encourage kids to save money to purchase something they'd like to have. Say your 12 year old wants a new bicycle or a watch. Make a deal with him/her that when he/she accumulates a portion of the money required you'll chip in the rest.
Children will be more responsible with money when they know the effort it takes to procure it. You can encourage your older teens to take up small jobs at cafes, cake shops or eating joints to earn pocket money in the vacations.
Show it through your life
Children learn more by observing than by hearing. If you have taught them about frugal spending or having a list before shopping, don't do otherwise. If you want your child to have a successful financial life, you must show them how it can be achieved. If you have made mistakes, talk to them about it at the appropriate time and teach them how they can avoid it.


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The Football Foodie is dead, long live Foodball.
Earlier this week, I accidentally typed "foodball" instead of "football" about three times while writing about Shonn Greene's empty locker. I could have kicked myself. Going into the seventh season of writing the Football Foodie, I finally found a name I liked.
See the thing is, way back when I started the Football Foodie on a small little site called Ladies… (run with luminaries such as Grantland writer Holly Anderson, comedian Jelisa Castrodale, bon vivant Texas Gal, tennis expert SA, beautiful Miss Clare, hilarious Metsy and television critic Andrea Reiher), the word "foodie" was always meant as a joke. Of course none of the food I was presenting was fancy — okay, maybe the pork belly tacos were a bit fancy — but the name "Football Foodie" was always meant to be firmly tongue-in-check. (Also I am a lazy writer who loves alliteration.) Unfortunately over the past seven years the "foodie" grew to have a negative connotation; hipsters in pop-up restaurants Instagramming locavore humane foie gras topped cronuts with Pappy Van Winkle reduction glazes. With each passing season it became harder and harder to put the word "foodie" in the title of my column, especially when writing about white chicken chili and beer cheese soup served with kielbasa & potato bakes. Football food isn't foodie food, it is hearty, filling food meant to feed an entire tailgate or living room full of your family and friends. Food that gets you through and afternoon of drinking, yelling, cheering and yes, sometimes tears. Do you think you can maintain flipping between Falcons-Saints and Giants-Cowbotys while resetting your fantasy team for fifth time on nothing but a ramen burger? No. Of course not.
And as my colleague Holly said when I told her about changing the column's name, "The word 'foodie' is used by too many assholes anyway." We don't want to thought of as assholes, that's for sure.
Of course when I Googled the word "foodball", I was reminded there was already a hilarious comic named The National Foodball League which features football players as food. Our own Burnsy even covered them last year over on With Leather. Clever. Not wanting to be the jerk that just takes a name someone else is already using, I reached out artist Will Riggins and asked if he minded sharing the term with my column. He could not have been nicer about my request, and for that I could not be more grateful. The series can finally shed its terrible title and focus on what matters; food and football.
2013 Foodball Kickoff: Roasted Mezcal Bloody Marys
As I said last season when I wrote about Pizza Bloody Marys, there isn't a better cocktail for tailgating or for morning brunch football on the west coast than a bloody mary. Still a little hungover from Saturday night? Need just a few vegetables to jump-start your metabolism with a touch of salt to balance out your dehydrated body and some booze to soothe your headache? Want to have enough energy to make it through the first game of the day? The bloody mary mini-meal in a glass is the perfect solution to all of your problems.
This bloody recipe calls for a smoky mezcal, rich and earthy as any scotch you will find. When paired with roasted tomatillos, meaty heirloom tomatoes, the heat of poblano peppers and the brightness of cilantro and lime, you get a refreshing, bracing bloody mary to jumpstart your day. Want a little extra heat and extra smoke? Add a chipotle pepper in adobo sauce to the blend, but honestly, I think the milder version pairs better with the mezcal. Poblanos have enough heat on their own to stand up to alcohol and tomatoes.
You will need:
1 pound tomatillos, husks removed and cleaned
2 3/4 – 3 pounds tomatoes, preferably heirloom tomatoes
Canola or vegetable oil for pan roasting, about 1-2 tablespoons (optional, depending on how well-cured your cast iron skillet is or if you are using stainless steel)
2 poblano peppers
Small bunch of cilantro, about a dozen stems worth of cilantro leaves
Juice of one lime plus one or two extra limes for garnish
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon cracked pepper
1 chipotle pepper packed in adobo sauce (optional for extra, extra heat and smoke)
6 1/2 to 7 1/2 cups smoky mezcal, mid-priced, like Sombra or Del Maguey Vida
Picked hot peppers for garnish
The reason why you want to use heirloom tomatoes if possible is they tend to me meatier, less watery than your average tomato and hold up much better to pan roasting, and frankly, they just taste better. You will get a thicker, richer bloody mary if you use heirlooms instead of the usual hot house tomato. (They also have far less seeds to deal with, which makes for a smoother cocktail without having to use a food mill.)
In a large cast iron skillet or large frying pan, heat a small amount of vegetable or canola oil if needed — no more than a teaspoon or so, depending on how well-cured your skillet is — to prevent sticking while cooking your tomatillos. Much like when making salsa verde, roast the tomatillos over medium-high until soft all the way through, about four minutes on each side. Once softened and charred, set in a large covered bowl while roasting the other vegetables for your bloody blend. Repeat the process with the heirloom tomatoes, which depending on size, can take about 5-7 minutes a side to soften.
While the tomatillos and tomatoes are roasting in the pan, roast the poblano peppers by either skewering them and cooking them over the open flame of a gas stove burner, or if you have an electric stove, roasting in a skillet like your tomatillos and tomatoes but without using any oil. You want the skin on all sides to blister and blacken. When the peppers have a nice char on them and have started to soften, put the poblanos in a bowl covered with plastic wrap or a brown paper bag for five to ten minutes to keep softening them via the trapped steam. Once cool enough to handle, scrape most of the charred skin off with a dull knife or a spoon, then slice the peppers open, removing the stem as you work, and scrape out the seeds.
In a food processor or a blender, blend together the roasted tomatillos, the poblano peppers, a small bunch of cilantro leaves, teaspoon each of kosher salt and cracked pepper and the juice of one good sized lime until liquified. Pour into a large bowl. Then liquify the roasted tomatoes and if using, the chipotle peppers in adobo, then add to the tomatillo mixture. If you want, you can run this mixture through a food mill to remove the seeds, but honestly, it's not really worth the effort. Stir until will combined and cover.
Refrigerate the bloody mary mix overnight. If you taste the blend now and think the lime is overpowering, don't worry, as the mixture rests the citrus will mellow.
When you are ready to make your bloody mary, make drink flags with a slice of lime and a pickled hot pepper for a garnish. Put a few ice cubes in a large glass and fill with 8 ounces of bloody mary mix and 2 ounces of mezcal. This is a cocktail where you don't want to overdo it on the ice, as cold dampens the heat and the smokiness of the beverage, so a few ice cubes means only a few ice cubes.
Stir or shake well, garnish and serve.
The heat of the poblano hits at the end, building on the smokiness of the roasted tomatoes and mezcal with each sip. A little extra kick of lime from the garnish picks up the cilantro and tomatillo notes, while the hot pepper gives you something to cry about other than the lack o-line in Pittsburgh, or worse, that you're watching the Browns-Dolphins game.
Yields 5-6 drinks.
Need even more football watching-centric recipe ideas? Find the complete archive of Football Foodie/Foodball recipes here, and all recipes that have appeared on KSK here.


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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
*Bertrand Russell – See: Dunning-Krugar effect
Reading about wine on the internet is uninspiring. I am convinced that in the end, there is very little value in what is on the web regarding wine that hasn't already been available someplace else for a very long time – only better written. Having access to background information through wine apps is great, assuming that information is accurate (a pretty big leap of faith). But what bothers me most about internet wine writing is the certainty with which people write about this subject. Wine is a topic that is pretty idiosyncratic and particular. And when one finally gets around to its appreciation – it is purely subjective.
There is a misplaced and unwarranted sense of certainty about the mythology that sustains both the social media in general and the impact that it ultimately has on the enjoyment and appreciation of wine and the wine business specifically. I just don't buy it. Regardless of the topic, if you approach your subject with some humility, experience teaches you how hard it is to make a definitive statement about anything. The truth in wine always resides in shades of gray (or maybe red and white).
Wine writers keep trying to turn wine into something that it is not. Here is a typical example – Karen MacNeil blogging on the subject of Why Wine Matters: "Wine matters because of this connection. Wine (and food) cradle us in our own humanity. Drinking wine–small as that action may seem–is an affirmation. It reminds us of other things that matter: love, friendship, generosity." I can't argue with the feel good sentiment. It makes me all warm and cuddly. I also feel that way when I scratch my dog. But what do MacNeil's words mean exactly?
I do not wish to diminish wine in any way. I too have had plenty of "spiritual" experiences enjoying some very special (and even not so special) wines. But I have never experienced a wine that has cradled me in my own humanity, nor have I ever seen anyone else cradled in theirs. Expecting to have that experience or thinking that you have missed it – is asking too much of wine.
Maybe someone can come up with a shelf talker that can let you know what kind of emotion to expect when drinking a particular bottle – Warm and Fuzzy; Indifference and Triviality; Nausea; Steamy Sexuality; Hold Me Close; Don't Touch Me with That.
At the end of the day, what we value in what we read is still dependent on experience and trust. But I don't expect things to change anytime soon on the web – we are still trending toward stupid.


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Looks pretty good but returning used oil is a huge hassle. Los Angeles you can have the perfect oil change for about a dollar if you're in with the mexicans.
Other states I can see it being a good deal.
Originally Posted by esplanade: How do you get it done for "about a dollar"?And that lube place on PCH and MB BL takes it for free........An oil change on my car is way over $100 though (10 quarts of Mobil One synthetic).
Being fesicious esplande. Hawthorne and an 120th. I don't go near the mechanics in MB. Ripoff and careless. Place you go (JiffY) machines your drain plug an ultimately strips it. (leak)
PM me and I'll be glad to put your oil change in the hands of a real mechanics up in Hawthorne.
Don't go to Jiffy on MB blvd. They don't care about leaks of any sort. That's why you sit in a waiting room instead of under the rack.
....Synthetic is
Unless you're running hot all day or on a race track it's worth it.
Bottom line is you still have to change out every 3k.
Every 3k? Un no.......you can go 5k on regular blend oil and get 8-10k with Synthetic. Sounds like you are passing bad info here pal
Go 'head and look at your oli clolor at 2,500 -2,700 "pal"
I'm not a mechanic but the man that touches my vehicle is one of the most highly regarded in South Bay Ca. That's not an easy award to earn.
Synthetic will go black same as 10/30 or 10/40. Keep waisting your money.
Yeah and your mechanic is the most highly regarded by whom? That does mean garbage to me or anyone else. Fact of the matter is I have a 99 Wrangler bought new, it has 136k on it and I've changed the oil every 5k and it runs like a raped ape.......So tell me now again what were you saying and how much more money do I have in pocket over 13 years?
Originally Posted by esplanade: Can't beat this deal.This is even better than the one free wiper deal Lipps came up with.
Oh hell I have posted a deal on this a few times. But on mine you didn't have to return 5 quarts of used oil.
Originally Posted by esplanade: How about, ONE free wiper. And the one that you buy is double priced and they don't even have your size.
Mine was $9.99. Not sure of the jacked up prices in your area. But I guess you could get the blue light special $3.99 one. If you don't mind changing it 4 times a year and have streakfest on your windows.


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I would have thought that wireless connectivity would have improved since 2000, but it doesn't seem to have. Whenever I connect via wireless with my laptop, only to then put my laptop into sleep mode and return to use it some 45 minutes later, I find I can no longer connect and have to reset my home hub, despite all the lights being blue. Similarly, if my wife connects with her laptop while I'm connected, my connection drops, sometimes she can't connect, or these problems kick in a bit later on down the trail and I must, again, reset the **bleep** thing.
What is going on here? How does one remedy this?
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The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than the solutions. Why? What is finance for?
John Kay, with wide practical and academic experience in the world of finance, understands the operation of the financial sector better than most. He believes in good banks and effective asset managers, but good banks and effective asset managers are not what he sees.
In a dazzling and revelatory tour of the financial world as it has emerged from the wreckage of the 2008 crisis, Kay does not flinch in his criticism: We do need some of the things that Citigroup and Goldman Sachs do, but we do not need Citigroup and Goldman to do them. And many of the things done by Citigroup and Goldman do not need to be done at all.
The finance sector needs to be reminded of its primary purpose: to manage other people's money for the benefit of businesses and households. It is an aberration when some of the finest mathematical and scientific minds are tasked with devising algorithms for the sole purpose of exploiting the weakness of other algorithms for computerized trading in securities. To travel further down that road leads to ruin.
©2015 John Kay (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC
"Kay is an admirable debunker of myths and false beliefs - he can see substantial things that others don't." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan)
"Kay is both a first-class economist and an excellent writer." ( Financial Times)
"Enjoyable overview of new finance"
Have listened to this 3 times now as it can be enjoyed on different levels . Very entertaining if you are interested in finance but don't really know how or why these mad new financial instruments work.
"Excellent book, excellent performance"
It's the exam period so I won't bother writing a full review.
Even if you're not interested in finance at all, buy this book! You owe it to society as a voter, and you owe it to yourself as a future retiree. The message is very clearly argued, and I daresay you will learn a lot, and enjoy the process, too. All I can say is that I certainly did.
Happy listening.
"Great Book. Great content."
Fantastic book.Very informative. However, Walter Dixon is not the best narrator! His tone was boring.
"Listened twice. Everyone must read this."
I never felt like I understood what's actually happening in the finance markets until I read this book.
Kay has a wonderfully grounded approach which asks, what is the good work the financial sector supposed to perform? And, is it performing it?
The answer is largely, scandalously, that most of what the financial sector does offers no service while causing enormous risks for the economy at large.
It was counterintuitive to hear that more regulations don't help. Instead, we need basic, fundamental structural changes in how the finance system works, rather than attempts to monitor every aspect of what bankers do. Laws and regulators can never keep up with the banks, and further complexity only creates greater distortions.
The book includes a whole chapter on clear, specific reforms. Everyone must read this book. That way, we could get the reforms we need.
"Grab a pillow"
Did a computer narrate this story? The narrator's voice is so monotone, it almost puts me to sleep. There's probably good information in this audiobook, but the narrator kills any desire to pay attention.
"Must read to understand the next crisis"
this book details why politicians will not see the next banking disaster we will suffer
"Overall good book!"
This book isn't written for someone that isn't interested in finance. It will also make you think twice about your goals if you are like me and thought about taking your math and computer science skills into this sector... It has boring parts but overall its a good book!
"Describes, critiques today's financial services"
The focus here is on those structures that face toward the public, and the presence of embedded conflicts and instabilities that pose risks for investors and other counter-parties, and the system as a whole. There is not much focus on details of what finance actually accomplishes, i.e., the part that faces toward projects, businesses, getting things done, which might compensate some for these problems. But this is a good portrayal of the sometimes unreliable and rickety structures that have grown into place in this sector, in recent times. It is also a good introduction to much of the language used in financial services.
"a must hear"
I think that anyone with policy making auctority should read or listen to this book. it's a complete and essencial guide to contemporary economics in a very critical point of view. in a sense, it states the obvious, but saying the obvious is normally the task of a genius.
"useful reading for investors"
all useful information while it questions what the financial system does and provides in way of benefit to society I think it presents what the reader needs to know
"Thought provoking insight"
Should be read by everybody who is interested in the further development of a sound finance industry and the well being of society in general.
"Thorough Thoughtful Analysis of Great Recession"
Author goes deeper than the "usual suspects" to identify causes of, and to propose principled and workable solutions for, the economic illness that threatened the world.
We ignore the principles and systemic flaws he points out at our peril.
Heartily recommended.
But this is not a casual read. Whether you are conservative, liberal, or libertarian you may experience challenges to your knee jerk explanations of what went wrong and what needs to be done to fix economic and political systems.
"Excellent Info; Needs Editing / Organization"
"Financialization" has distorted public policy, the economy and public perception. The absence of any concept of duty to clients in the financial industry puts us all at risk, individually and collectively (as demonstrated by the events of 2008). This book explains well many of the issues, but it could have been better organized. I fault the editor more than the author. However, even with the less-than-stellar editing, the nuggets of gold are worth the read.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama and some Washington children made a really long-distance call Tuesday and talked with astronauts at the International Space Station. Surrounded by the children, White House science adviser John Holdren and several members of Congress, Obama's 28-minute call to the Discovery space shuttle crew and the ISS included questions about the astronauts' diet and exercise regimen, whether they found life forms in space and how many stars are in space. Obama relayed ... [full story]
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BOERNE, Texas -- Police in Boerne, Texas, say a 15-year-old boy accused of planning an attack on his high school has been arrested again for similar threats. The teenager was charged last year along with Allen W. Doelitsch Jr., 18, of texting each other about killing students and teachers at Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School, Boerne Police Chief Gary Miller told the San Antonio Express-News. Doelitsch, who has pleaded innocent, remains in jail on charges of criminal ... [full story]
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WASHINGTON -- Some U.S. schools say they are coping with money problems by moving to four-day weeks, shortening the school year and making other adjustments. Shrinking tax revenues brought on by the economic downturn are necessitating the moves and state legislatures are being forced to make cutbacks in education spending, USA Today reported Tuesday. Mary Kusler, a lobbyist for the American Association of School Administrators, told the newspaper that even though funds from the federal economic stimulus ... [full story]
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We already have heirloom tomatoes, why not heirloom hogs? The Washington Post reported here (free registration required) on some of the high-on-the-hog varieties of pork now available in the U.S., including a talk with Heath Putnam of Spokane-based Wooly Pigs, who has been selling meat from his Berkshire hogs at the University District Farmers Market. Putnam recently alerted us that Jan. 19 (at the farmers market) will mark the U.S. debut of meat from his other, far more unusual pigs, the Mangalitsa. The pigs, imported from Europe, have "exceptional flavor and marbling," he wrote, and a very different fat composition from most animals.
"In the last 60 years, all the popular American heritage breeds (including the Berkshire) have gone from tasting like Mangalitsa to something more like chicken. Because the change has happened slowly, and to all the popular breeds, almost nobody knows what pork used to taste like," he wrote on his Web site. On Jan. 19, I guess we're going to find out.
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2 April 2013
A successful mission
April 2, 2013
The Economist
One can understand the initial concerns. The show, about a pair of hapless missionaries spreading the word of God in Uganda, is a skewering of the Mormon faith, a Christian denomination founded in 19th-century America which has relatively little exposure on these shores. British critics have pointed out that the show is consistently crude, with racial stereotypes that might be politely described as "broad". And, bearing in mind that many Brits are schmaltz-intolerant, it is saccharine in the extreme.
Despite these objections (or, perhaps, because of them) "The Book of Mormon" is succeeding. Primarily, the production has enough wit and chutzpah, particularly in Robert Lopez's songs, to pull it off. Who could sit stony-faced through the missionaries' extravagantly camp rendition of "Turn It Off", a number about repressing homosexual urges, or "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream", where a guilty acolyte shares a reluctant dance with Hitler and some familiar green-and-white coffee cups?
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'Book of Mormon' offensive
April 2, 2013
Tribune-Review (Pennsylvania)
The language was atrocious, including repeated use of an obscenity. There were girls getting female circumcisions and Jesus Christ being ridiculed and called an epithet. The young men who were Mormon disciples were alluded to as being gay.
This play is absolutely horrific and I am deeply offended. I'm sure Mormons, blacks and Christians also were offended.
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Coming soon: A Mormon temple in Rome
April 2, 2013
Global Post
The world's focus turned to the Catholic Church last month, when Catholics filled St. Peter's Square to witness Pope Francis' inauguration. But just a few miles away, Italians are building a tribute to a different sect.
Italy, known for its strong Catholic presence, is also home to nearly 25,000 Mormons. And just eight miles from the Vatican, a Mormon temple is being built–the first in the city, the first in Italy, and the first in the Mediterranean region.
Italian Mormons already gather at numerous chapels for Sunday worship, but a temple is something different. "It's literally heaven on earth," said Clay Lacey, a 20-year-old Mormon from California.
Like many Mormons his age, Lacey is a missionary, and he has been in Italy for almost two years. He said that according to Mormon belief, a temple is a link between earth and the afterlife. "The whole point of the temples is to seal us for eternity with our families, to really connect us, because one thing that's inevitable in life is death," he said. "The temple kind of gives us an eternal perspective of things."
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Tuesday's Religion News Roundup: Pope's Lung * Mormon Beards * Jabba's Hut
April 2, 2013
Religion News Service
The Salt Lake City Tribune asks LDS writers to come up with a list of their favorite Mormon books, from novels, to history to theology.
And here's how the Mormons lost their beards. (With his whiskers, even Brigham Young would not be allowed to serve in a temple today.)
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Public invited to tour new Mormon Church in Fairfield
April 2, 2013
Cypress Creek Mirror (Texas)
The public is invited to tour the newly completed Fairfield Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The bishops of the two congregations that will occupy the meetinghouse announced that an open house is slated for Saturday, April 13, with tours of the facility from 1-4 p.m. The church is located at 21521 Fairfield Place Dr. near the outlet mall and Salyards Middle School.
"Everyone is welcome," said Marc Calvert, bishop of the Fairfield Ward. "We are excited to open the doors of this beautiful meetinghouse to the community. The open house will be an opportunity for our friends and neighbors to see our new building and how we worship."
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Mormon Beard Rule: Brigham Young And Jesus Christ Would Break No Facial Hair Policy
April 2, 2013
Huffington Post
If they were alive today, nearly half the presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — from Brigham Young in the 19th century through George Albert Smith in the 1940s — would be forbidden from serving in the faith's 141 temples worldwide.
That's because being clean-shaven is generally a requirement for men to be Mormon temple workers. Whiskers are fine for temple-going members, but even nicely trimmed beards and mustaches are no-nos for temple workers.
"It is ironic that temple workers are expected to be more clean-shaven than the deity figures — God and Jesus Christ — portrayed in LDS films and portraits," says Armand Mauss, a leading Mormon sociologist in Irvine, Calif.
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Dating app used by college students for hook-ups finds unlikely following among ultra-religious young Mormons
April 2, 2013
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
Tinder, the hook-up app, has gained a huge following among college students since its launch last fall. Now it's finding a more unlikely audience: Mormons.
According to The Universe, Brigham Young University's student newspaper, the free iPhone app is spreading through the college like wildfire.
Some have labeled Tinder the 'female Grindr' because it works in a similar way as the gay dating app. So why is it so popular among an ultra-religious student body where more than 20per cent of the student body is married by graduation?
Perhaps the app appeals to Mormons because it also has a clean-cut, polite image.
The app works like virtual speed dating meets 'Hot or Not': It uses Facebook profiles to pair users up with matches within their geographical area, rating them based on shared friends, interests, and networks.
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Mormons launch online push to ordain women to the priesthood
April 2, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)
Thanks to social media, the first organized push to open up the LDS Church's all-male priesthood to women is attracting attention from a range of grass-roots Mormons.
The budding movement, known as Ordain Women, created a website on which it posted personal profiles of church members — including a current LDS bishop — who describe their lives, commitment to the Utah-based faith and reasons for wanting women to hold the priesthood.
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April 3, 2013
Herald Journal (Utah)
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All events are free and are open to ages 8 and older.
– Wednesday, April 10 — British organist Simon Johnson will present an organ recital in the Salt Lake Tabernacle at 7:30 p.m. This concert is co-sponsored by the Salt Lake City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Johnson is the organist and assistant director of music at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he presides over the five-manual Willis/Mander organ. His April 10 recital will include Elgar's Sonata no. 1 in G Major, op. 28; Wammes' Miroir; and Dupre's Three Preludes and Fugues, op. 7. Tickets are not needed for this concert.
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"Among the loot is a treasure map."
This statement never fails to get the players' attention. Suddenly the magic sword and the rare gems are forgotten at the possibility of even greater riches. I've seen players expend more energy arguing over who gets the treasure map while other magical treasures on the floor right in front of them go unclaimed. The idea that someone hid something valuable and you could be the one to find it really hits a nerve with players. Why settle for this lame flaming sword +3 when I could have something even better? Ah, the insatiable greed of players.
Personally I love treasure maps. They're one of the easiest and best adventure hooks in D&D (or just about any other RPG). The promise of something valuable, the excitement of following the map's directions, and the thrill of acquiring treasure appeals to an overwhelming majority of players. Knowing this, it's easy for the DM to lead the PCs anywhere he wants them to go, because who can resist a treasure map?
But a treasure map can and should be more than a map with a big X marked on it. It certainly can be this mundane and direct, but if it is then it's a safe bet when the PCs get there they won't find anything worthwhile. A good map has a story all its own, a history, a personality if you will. Someone went to a lot of trouble to hide their treasure and then write down the location. The last thing they wanted was for a bunch of idiots (the PCs) to easily find it and steal it just because they got their hands on his map.
Before throwing a treasure map haphazardly into your game you should answer the 5 Ws – who, what, when, where, why (although not necessarily in that order). It may seem like a lot of extra (and unnecessary) work, but believe me it's time well spent.
This is the treasure itself. The loot. The swag. The MacGuffin. Whatever. This is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This is the thing that the PCs are trying to locate. In many cases it will be something tangible and physical; something the PCs can hold and claim as their own. It might be the traditional buried treasure chest full of coins and gems, a weapon of power, or a lost spellbook. It might be something important but not valuable, like a body. Perhaps the treasure isn't anything nearly so cliché. Maybe it's a location – a Dragon's lair, the fountain of youth, or the lost city of gold, for example. The important thing is that the DM have a clear idea of what the PCs will find when they get to the X on the map.
Sometimes the best treasure maps are ones that don't give any indication of what they lead to. By providing other clues and details finding out what's in the spot marked by the X can be an adventure in itself.
Once you've figured out what the map leads to the next step is to figure out where this treasure is located. But more importantly the DM needs to decide what the map actually depicts in regards to the location. Is it something as simple as a map of the world with a big X marking the spot of importance? Hopefully not because that would be incredibly boring. The location should be difficult to decipher, but not impossible to find.
Think of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indy's dad pieced a map together from clues. The map had geographic landmarks but the origin city had no name. Without that critical piece of information the map was useless.
As the DM you need to figure out how much of your campaign will revolve around deciphering the map and how much will revolve around the journey itself. If you are just looking for an excuse to get the PCs on the road then clearly label the map so they know where to go. If you don't want them to find the treasure immediately and would rather they work for it, make the maps details vague or transcribed in some kind of code. Either way there's plenty of adventure to be had.
Someone drew this map. The cartographer can be an important detail in the treasure hunting process. Players are greedy and will likely go after any reasonable treasure dangled in front of them, but the map maker's credibility can weigh heavily on their decisions to take action. A ranting mad man who produces a map he says he made himself is not likely to be given much value, but a retired adventure who produces a map he made that leads to the Druid's hidden grove is likely to raise eyebrows.
Sometimes the PCs find a map and have no idea who created it. Determining who the cartographer was can be an important clue to unraveling the map's mystery. Recognizing a signature or artist's mark can reveal the map maker which can then lead to other clues about the map, the treasure and the locations depicted.
An important distinction when thinking about who is to know if the person who created the map is the same person that left the treasure behind. This is not a detail the PCs need know immediately, but the DM should figure it out. Doses the map lead to a place an explorer visited and wanted to get back to or was it transcribed by a member of a pirate crew present when the loot was buried? This distinction can go a long way to determining the map's authenticity and more importantly the authenticity of the treasure.
As long as there have been treasure maps there have been treasure hunters. The older the map, the less likely the heroes will be the first to find the map or the treasure. This can be both a good and bad thing. PCs following an older map could find nothing more than an empty treasure chest when they get to the X, or they could learn from unsuccessful attempts made by older adventurers to improve their own odds of success.
Some treasures are so important that the map maker needs to ensure someone will be able to find the loot some day. In these cases they may take extreme steps to keep the map itself alive, no matter how much time passes. This could be the case if the map leads to a special item needed in the distant future – like a weapon that is only useful against the Ancient Dragon when he returns in a century. The map maker could have chiseled the map into a wall, hid it in the layout of an emerging city's streets, or rearranged huge monoliths in seemingly random patterns (think Stonehenge).
For more mundane treasure the maps won't likely have this kind of permanency so recording it on paper seems more likely. However, treasure maps could also be hidden in lines of hieroglyphics, the notes of a song, or tattooed on the back of an old pirate captain. Be creative when creating your map, but remember that some of these maps will eventually be lost or destroyed depending on how much time has passed.
This is probably the most important of the 5 Ws. Why did the map's creator decided to make a record of this location. If it was something he intended to keep secret, then why write it down at all, why not just memorize the location? After all a treasure map could be lost, stolen, or copied. Obviously there was some reason to write it down.
If treasure was buried there must have been a reason? Maybe the mapmaker didn't want to share his wealth with a legitimate partner? Maybe it was something he didn't want to have stolen? Maybe he intended to give the map to another party whom could retrieve it at a later date? If the map leads to an important location, why is a map required? Is the location hidden from all or just some?
Discovering why a map was produced can often reveal important information that the PCs can use to help them identify what's located at the X (if the PCs don't already know).
Bringing it all together
Next time you're assigning treasure to a monster's horde, consider throwing in a treasure map. Be sure to have a basic understanding of the 5Ws so that you can answer initial questions about the map, but don't bother going to much into details early on. Wait and see if the players take the bait. When they do, go through the whole exercise of answering the 5 Ws so that you're prepared for whatever the PCs choose to do next.
Players love handouts. If you're artistically inclined consider creating an actual treasure map for them. It doesn't have to be perfect, most treasure maps aren't. Once they have a map in hand they won't be able to resist following it, no matter how obscure the directions, locations, or loot.
What are some of your favourite treasure map adventures? What kind of creative things has your DM included when your party found a treasure map? What's the most original thing you've ever found at the end of a treasure map?
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Microsoft had designed the iPod?
Ha! That was great!
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Oh yeah. Excellent.
I don't see anything!
For some reason the user on you tube has removed the video.
That's why you don't see anything.
It was a product spoof type of thing...
an ipod with crazy eloborate "Bill Gate-ish" product names...
funny stuff...
Bummer...I was hoping it would stay around for a while longer.
Opening: A picture of Apple's ipod in the packaging...simple cube box with photos on the sides...no print. A halo appears above.
Microsoft's team then starts repackaging it...photos and background changes, features lists are added, third party compatability lists are added, etc, etc, etc, until final package design is approved: a box with such a cluttered mess of colors, inset boxes, fonts and logos that you can't even tell what the product is anymore.
"Yes! this has great shelf presence!" :ha:
They call it a MicroPod?


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Between March 9 and 18, nearly 25,000 people armed with smart phones, tablets, laptops and netbooks, converged on the city of Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Conference, an annual eclectic gathering of musical artists, filmmakers and technology geeks.
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Fergie, Let Us Decide How Hard We'll Be On Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo stays at Manchester United. Fergie wants us to forgive him all his shameless courting of Real Madrid. It's not that easy.
'The fans have to understand it has been a very difficult time for him,' Sir Alex was quoted as saying in The Telegraph.
'He has been offered all this money - when his dad has died a young man and he is looking after his mother, his sister and his brother.'
Come on Fergie, you know this is lame. On 100k a week he can afford to look after the entire island of Madeira, not just his family. And when he was out partying in Los Angeles it did not seem he felt his position to be difficult...
To his credit, at least Ronaldo himself did not come up with this sort of nonsense but admitted his ambition was still to play for Real Madrid and cited nothing else as a reason for his shenanigans over the summer.
'But once he knew my stance, he settled down - and as far as we are all concerned, the matter is finished. The boy is a United player - that is what is important,' Fergie continued.
'We cleared the air in Portugal, and the boy spoke to a few of the players as well.'
Jolly good. Well, it will be interesting to see how Old Trafford treat him when he returns. I won't boo him - firstly because I hate booing our own players and would never do so and secondly because whatever he did over the summer, the previous two seasons should not be forgotten.
But please, Fergie, don't start appealing to our better nature. We can decide what we want and how we wish to treat our players. And if you still feel we need persuasion then please come up with better arguments...


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Shops see summer business slump
Albany neighborhood's population drops when students leave for break
Published 6:39 pm, Monday, July 1, 2013
It's lunchtime on a Tuesday at Hudson River Coffee House. Customers wait in line at one end of the cafe. At the other end is a stack of boxes of cups and coffee filters waiting to be unpacked.
Owner Anton Pasquill rushes from the sandwich station to the coffeepots to the register. He works alone serving lunch and iced coffee to a queue of Pine Hills residents.
When the University at Albany and The College of Saint Rose are in session, Pasquill works 60 hours a week. Come summer, he increases his hours to 80 or 90.
"Literally the day after the last final, that's when I switch over to summer hours," Pasquill said.
Pasquill estimates a 50 percent decline in revenue from June through August. "I survive by working more," he said.
Pasquill's is one of several businesses that adjust their hours to compensate for the seasonal reduction in the neighborhood's population.
Mild Wally's, which cuts nine hours a week, is not affected only by lack of student customers. Owner Brian Kovelman said summer means vacations and barbecues, so delivery service suffers.
Josh Davis and Andrew Whyte, who manage the D.P. Dough on Western Avenue, cut nearly one-third of the restaurant's hours in summertime in anticipation of revenues being slashed in half.
The Brown Bag in Troy suffers when RPI students leave for the summer, losing about one-third of its profits, said owner Terry Matthews, but he remains open all week from 3 p.m. to 5 a.m.
At Washington Tavern in Pine Hills, Michael and Pat Byron have managed the summer slump with no cut in the hours since they purchased the business in 1971.
"We have a different customer base," Michael Byron said. "We have a lot of parties here in this room — banquets, bridal showers, baby showers. We have office meetings. We have retirement parties."
Still, Byron expects a decline in earnings greater than 50 percent during the summer. The night crowd, mostly students, suffers a huge loss.
"We are impacted, period, by the absence of students in Pine Hills," he said.
The tavern handles the seasonal deficit by cutting staff hours.
"We have a two-stage reduction in staffing," Byron said. "Once senior week is over, we reduce staff for the first semester of summer school."
The second semester is more challenging.
"That is when most of the staff take their vacations," he said. "It is also the time when bars and restaurants do repairs, maintenance, upgrades, much needed dressing up."
When the drop in business comes at Mild Wally's, "We don't necessarily have to lay anybody off," Kovelman said, noting that his student employees leave town. "They say to us, 'I can't work here anymore until September.' And we say, 'That's OK, we don't really need you until September.' "
Reducing inventory can minimize losses.
"You start getting things in smaller quantities, which causes your food costs to go up, but at least you're throwing less out, hopefully," Pasquill said.
Meanwhile, he tries not to alter what the shop offers.
"It's tempting," he said. "It would be nice to say, 'OK, we don't serve this in the summer.' But I think that's more likely to just complicate things. It's not worth it."
Pasquill is determined to maintain the spirited environment of Hudson River Coffee House. The Thursday open mic night runs throughout the summer.
"The first summer that I came across, there was a big debate with the open mic regulars and myself," he recalled. "What you don't want is an open mic where there's three people. That kills it pretty fast. I decided to keep it going and it worked out pretty well."
"It's not like it is during the year where it's jammed and you can't move," he acknowledged. "But it's still worth keeping around."
Freelance writer Corey Stockton graduated in May from the University at Albany.


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By Emma Hinchliffe
On the day they had been told they had to be out of their apartments at Crestmont Village, tenants in the troubled south Houston complex were in the process of moving out.
With U-Haul trucks pulled up directly in the complex's courtyard, tenants loaded their belongings to be hauled to their new homes or storage units.
Still, many residents lingered in front of the units that have been boarded up over the past few weeks or in the courtyard that has been plagued by overflown sewage. Many residents of the complex where they have often gone weeks without power, gas or hot water said they still don't know where they will go.
Signs marked as "urgent" posted around the complex told tenants they were required to have moved out and applied for city assistance by a Sept. 30 deadline.
Although some Crestmont residents woke up Wednesday morning panicked they would be on the street by the end of the day, a group of city officials and community activists who are helping to handle the closure of the complex attempted to dispel those rumors.
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While Sept. 30 was cited as an ideal date for move-out, apartment staff said, tenants still figuring out their plans will not be evicted.
William-Paul Thomas, who has been at the complex as a representative from the mayor's office, clarified that Crestmont residents would still be able to receive city services after Sept. 30, despite the signs warning them otherwise.
"It's not putting them out, we're just trying to say there is a time frame," said Crestmont's court-appointed temporary receiver, Gerald Womack. He is overseeing the property until an Oct. 8 hearing.
Concerns about the Sept. 30 eviction deadline brought a handful of representatives from the National Black United Front to the complex Wednesday afternoon planning a rally in protest. The group instead ended up speaking with representatives from the mayor's office and community activists to ensure that tenants would not be forced to leave.
Down Selinksy Road at Bethel Institutional Missionary Baptist Church, community activists continued calling real estate agents and landlords to find homes for tenants who have not yet been able to secure a lease.
Staff from the Houston Department Health of Human Services worked out of a Sunday School classroom temporarily decorated with blueprints of the complex that are color-coded to mark units where residents might have trouble finding a new place, because of limited income or past evictions.
Volunteers served oatmeal, biscuits and deli meats to tenants as they argued with the receiver's office over receiving replacement food stamps for food that spoiled when the power went out.
"Our goal is to move everybody out," Thomas said. "I can't imagine anybody living like that."
Reporter, Houston Chronicle
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Program 3: Pet Hospice
The Training in Pet Hospice has 3 Training Classes to help you understand what's needed with compassionate ways to ease your beloveds end of life care in their senior years, and through their passage.
The senior years and end-of-life time span with dogs, cats and horses is often a challenging time physically and emotionally.
Caring for your animal during this time can be even more difficult when you don't understand what is happening as everyday function diminishes and when you just don't know what else to do to support your animal.
Common Challenges during end-of-life care:
…Pain issues
…Breathing difficulties
…Weakening hind ends
…Dullness, disorientation, depression
…Pacing, panting or clinging behaviors
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When faced with these challenges many questions, worry and fears arise.
There are so many options to help your animals through this time, help for you to better understand the process, and tools you can easily put into practice.
Don't let your fear hold you back from learning specific ways to help your beloved animals through this time more gracefully.
In the Pet Hospice Training Program's three classes, you'll get the benefits of Sandy's 25+ years of training and extensive personal experiences in working with end-of-life and hospice care with animals.
Sandy has helped with 20 of her own animals through their end-of-life transitions and hundreds of clients with their animals in their senior years and in end of life care. Each time she gains critical care knowledge, along with a deeper appreciation and understanding of the challenges, and gifts, this time presents.
Let Sandy help you learn new ways to help your animals enhance and ease this precious time. Find out how to make this time more gentle and compassionate for you as the caretaker, and for your beloveds…
…So you can know you have truly done all you can do, to enhance your relationship, and to ease this passage.
The Pet Hospice Training Classes are for you if:
- You have a senior animal, horse, dog, cat – or any species
- You're experiencing, or anticipating the loss of beloved animals
- You are facing difficult decisions about treatment options with a pet
- You want your heart and your head to match when making difficult decisions
- You want to learn Natural Practices to ease end-of-life and hospice care
- You've experienced physical and emotional ups and downs with your senior animals,
and want tools to ease the time, and have something that feels useful to do to help
- You want an even deeper bond together during this time
- You'd like to give your animal the best possible care during their end-of-life
- You'd like to learn more about the end-of-life process with animals
- You have an animal approaching their senior years and want to be better prepared
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How would it change your life, and ease your heart, if you knew what else YOU can do to help your dogs, cats, horses, when facing their end-of-life?
Join internationally recognized Animal Communication and Transformational Healing Coach, Sandy Rakowitz, for this compassionate, insightful, often tender and moving, content packed training to help you and your animals through their end-of-life with more grace and ease.
Whether you are new to Pet Hospice and End-of-Life Care with your pets at home, are whether you are an animal care professional – with or without previous hospice experience, this series on Pet Hospice offers new perspectives and tools for you to put into practice right away.
In Pet Hospice Training Class 1
End of Life Hospice Support for Your Loved Animal:Easing The Transition with Natural Therapies for Your Elder Dog, Cat or Horse
In this class, 'meet' special elder animals to gain supportive insights into:
- The myriad of questions that arise during this time
- Emotional roller coaster up and downs
- Decisions regarding terminal care
- Matching your heart and mind with difficult decisions
- Care options and vet suggestions
- Dealing with the judgments of others with your care decisions
- Listening to your heart
- Powerful Natural tools that help make daily life more comfortable
- Empowering Holistic Practices so you don't feel helpless – but give you ways you CAN help
- Support for side effects of cancer and treatments
- The hard question, "How do I know if it is their time or not?"
- The death and dying process
- You'll also Hear Messages from Animals who have passed addressed specifically for this class
- And, you'll get the very popular added bonus of the profoundly Healing Honoring Prayer, specially channeled for this class.
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In Pet Hospice Training Class 2
7 Compassionate and Critical Life Enhancing Steps for You and Your Beloved Dog, Cat, or Horse
This class offers support with the death and dying process, in offering very specific steps, tools and resources to help you take action in making life as comfortable as possible during this stage of life; make changes to care as needed, learn about natural holistic care options for increasing your compassionate, competent, and informed assistance with your beloveds during this precious time.
In Pet Hospice Class 2 You'll Learn Steps, Tools and Resources to help you with:
- Food, nutrition, supplementation for Elder Animal Care
- Adapting Exercise for changes in rhythms of life
- Support for pain and restricted movement
- Learn ways to help those who are tripping, grumpy, unable to get up on couch, bed, or move around.
- Better understand and learn ways to help those unnerving behaviors that may arise: standing in the corner, yowling for no reason, pacing, whimpering, heightened anxiety, clinging and velcro like behaviors
- Support Common Digestive issues; upset stomachs, throwing up, diarrhea
- Explore Kidney-Bladder issues, incontinence, peeing more often, and what in the world we can do to help this with caring, gentle, effective, natural means.
This class is packed with moving end-of-life stories with information that you can put into practice right away. You'll get a better understanding of what your animals are saying to you through this end of life process. And, you'll get empowering Energy Healing Tips along with TTouch, Essential oils and Flower Essence methods for you to enhance the quality of life for you and your animal's end-of-life time, hospice time
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Using Essential Oils with Animals in Hospice Care
This training was recorded Live as a Special In-Service Training for New England Pet Hospice and will help you get the insider's track on using Essential oils and supportive supplements for Pet Hospice Care.
In this class you will learn:
- The use of Essential Oils with Animals during End-of-Life and Pet Hospice Care
- What Are Essential Oils and How they Function
- Safety factors in using Essential Oils with Animals
- How to use Essential Oils
- Essential Oil Properties
- Methods & Tips for Application
- Case Studies of Hospice Care with Dogs, Cats and Horses who were effectively supported with Essential Oils and Tellington TTouch
- Uses of Essential Oils with Lymphoma in a Dog in collaboration with a Vet
- Uses of Essential oils with a Brain Tumor and Old Age in a Cat, while collaborating with a Vet
- Signs and Signals of pain and discomfort – and what to do
- Key Oils & Supplements for Supporting Quality of Life during EOL
- Natural Leading Edge Care Options
- How to get started using Essential Oils with your animals
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What People are Saying about the Pet Hospice Trainings….
"Thank you for sharing such deep, personal experiences. You are amazing. ..I want you to know that your class was much more than that. I feel like it was a healing, for me. The honor prayer is amazing, life changing. Thank you for a beautiful gift of healing, I sure didn't expect that. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Sharon Daussin
"Thank you for your generosity in offering the the Pet Hospice Class and sharing your personal stories with us. I found it very helpful to hear your experiences and those of fellow listeners on the call. I think it takes an extraordinary person to be in the hospice care field as well as pet hospice. Being with another, patiently and gracefully thru their process of end of life care and dying is amazing and beautiful and also really challenging for me. Thanks for shedding some light on the process and bringing up some great points." April A Whiston
"Thank you, Sandy…I listened to the very end…I so appreciate your authenticity, your gentle, loving demeanor and point of view…thank you!"
Lori Spagna, Animal Communicator
"Thank you so very much for the beautiful class and for sharing of yourself again. Thank you for offering us your Honoring Prayer." LaNell
"This class helped me see this process in a more positive light. I really want to thank you for what you are doing because it is so incredibly hard personally and culturally. I really, really thank you, this is so critical and weighty. I loved your message from Grace. It was so beautiful. It is a wonderful reminder to take the time to live through the process."
"Thank you for this class, the timing is so right for me."
Janie R.
"Thanks so much for addressing this very important issue that so often gets swept under the rug. It is very comforting to know ahead of time that there are things we can do to make this a better transition for our loved animals. Although my dog is young, I am so glad to have this information for the future. It also reminded me to spend more personal time with my parents who are in their 90's!
The sharing in Q & A helped me to release some of the feelings of grief for our other sweet dog who we had euthanized last year. I had wanted to spend more time after he passed and still feel that I missed out, but am glad to know about waiting a while for burial in the future. It's also a good lesson for me in remembering in to follow my intuition because I had not wanted to bury him right away as we did.
I am glad you suggested having our animals in the room. I think it probably helped to have him hear your voice. At one point during the talk, our dog looked around him with wide eyes, as if he was looking at something around him I could not see, and then he got up and went to his favorite spot on the rug. I thought about what I had heard from you before about animals seeing beings that people can't see, and wondered if that is what had happened. Thanks again for your sharing."
"Thanks so much for the prayer– as usual you did an amazing job with it and it is so beautifully presented—-I am incredibly blessed to have you in my life!!! Much love to you"
Sharron Hoilman
"I just finished listening to the Pet Hospice Class 1- wow! I feel like your dog Liza you spoke of in the class – I really really don't want to talk about any of this, or even think about it, but I know I have to for Charlotte's sake. Also, Bear has been chiming in, saying "You should educate yourself on this as much as possible – for Charlotte, yes, and for other animals who may cross your path and for yourself….because, don't forget, you'll experience passing yourself someday." Kind of unnerving to hear, but Bear does get right to the point, as always – and he's right, of course.
I'm sure it wasn't easy for you to share those stories, but they had a profound impact. Thank you!"
"What a wonderful class last night (Pet Hospice Class 2) – very touching and inspiring. I learned so much and also felt such relief that we seem to be on the right track with Charlotte in her golden years.
Thank you for talking about Bear's story! He loved how you described his life, especially when you talked about his strength of spirit – that he never gave up. A sense of contentment fell across him when you said that. He says that's what he wants people to remember about him more than anything.
Thank you – and Haley, Ibis, Zoey, Scarlett, Liza, Sunny, Grace, Pasha and Jetta – for all the work you have all been doing on these courses. They are an immense help and source of support!"
Kristin Neubauer
About Sandy–
Trained in both Hospice with people and animals, Sandy has personal experience
in end of life care with close to 20 of her own horses, dogs and cats in addition to assisting many human clients through this time of life as well. Using this depth of training and personal experiences, she has helped hundreds of clients through geriatric, end of life, hospice care and beyond, to benefit the quality of their lives, while easing their transitions, and helping them through the loss of their beloveds.
Sandy Rakowitz, Animal Communication and Transformational Healing Coach guides and trains animal lovers and animal care professionals to develop their natural intuitive and psychic abilities, understand their animals viewpoints, learn holistic wellness methods and awaken their life purpose.


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Judge dismisses riot charges against Democracy Now! cofounder Amy Goodman
There may be hope for the First Amendment rights of new media journalists― a North Dakota judge has dismissed riot charges against Democracy Now! cofounder and investigative reporter Amy Goodman. As TechCrunch reported this weekend, Goodman was charged for "participating in a riot" after she reported from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, on the… Read More
FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Universal Merger, Critics Warn Of 'Dire' Consequences
Not only does LittleBigPlanet 2 come out today, but the FCC pproved the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal. Will the two companies use their combined powers for good and not evil? A healthy skepticism may be in order. Read More


text: I won't dwell too long on the absurdity of the grounds the city is using to try to contain, control, and ultimately quell this legal gathering. Tonight should be an exciting rally, though, and if you are sympathetic but nervous please don't worry too much, it is more likely you will get hit by a bus on your way there, than that you will get arrested without being given a chance to disperse. Of course, if you stay at home on your couch you are most likely to die of a heart attack anyway. You only live once, people. The constitution has never felt like a slimmer shield against hordes of jackbooted thugs than right now. Let's hope it is a sail to help us make our way towards the future. Jake the spaz made me a super radical light and battery for my camera. i plan to start streaming video around 10pm. @rachelyra on twitter, same handle on ustream. some general info on the expected raid below. They can take all the tents they want without stopping this freight train but it breaks my heart to see what happened today. The city demanded a bunch of crap, people gave it to them, dismantling really amazing vernacular architecture made using tree branches, tensegrity, and tarps. They aren't happy, and are coming anyway. We are responding with a dance party. More info below. R. a police raid is expected tonight on the camp at Justin Herman Plaza. It has been reported widely, including by the SF Chronicle. According to police, all off duty officers were called to work for this evening. OccupySF expects it will happen around midnight, and is asking for your support. 5pm: Press Conference 7pm: Civil Disobedience Training 11pm-12am: Raid Expected Come down at any point tonight and show your solidarity for as long as you can stay. Bring cameras, musical instruments, signs, and your freestyle rapping skills. Sign up for text alerts to know when the raid is imminent. To join, text "occupysf" to 234.200.4031. (NOTE - DIFFERENT NUMBER THAN BEFORE)