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MC phasing out building trades program, expanding diesel
Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, May 8, 2010
Due to low enrollment on the credit side in Midland College's building trades program, it will now be a continuing education course.
Meanwhile, MC is expanding its diesel certificate program and breaking it out on its own, Dean of Technical Studies Curt Pervier said.
The college has had a diesel certificate program for the past five to six years under the automotive banner, Pervier said. "We identified the need for Associate of Applied Science in diesel separate from an Associate of Applied Science in automotive," he said, adding the move was approved at the last MC board meeting.
Now students will be able to earn a certificate and AAS in diesel. "It's identified for smaller diesel engines in pickup trucks and 18-wheelers. That partners really well with our truck driving program."
Started under the automotive program in 2004, the diesel certificate program continues to gain enrollment. "We started with 10-12 (high school) students in the program, and it's grown to where we have over 60 students (32 in high school and 30 in the college program) … without taking enrollment from the automotive program, which continues to grow," Pervier said.
One example is the recent addition of a collision repair certificate program.
Building trades training will still be provided by Midland Independent School District students, but new equipment will be moved to Midland High School from the Cogdell Technical Building and the lab will be refurbished. The program will also be open to Lee High School students.
The building trades program is currently located across from Cogdell Learning Center, 201 W. Florida Ave.
He said the move would occur this summer and anyone in the program will be able to finish his or her degree.
MC also recently received a matching grant of $144,000 called Jobs for Educating Texans, which will be used for diesel equipment.
"We will help refurbish their woodworking lab at Midland High and offer continuing education classes," Pervier said. "We will help them teach some of the high school classes and offer an evening woodworking class" for those who want to learn how to make cabinets, for example.
"It will be offered through the Midland College continuing education program, so there will still be training in that area; it just won't be under the credit side of the house. We're still very committed to it. I feel like there is a need for it. We just haven't had the numbers to sustain the credit program," Pervier said.
At its peak, there were 15 students in the credit version of the building trades course, but that had dwindled to six. "This has been on the horizon for about three years," Pervier said, adding that the construction industry works more on an apprenticeship system.
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Myeongdong: 80 Years Of History At Hadongkwan
While the majority of visitors to the hopping shopping district of Myeongdong are there looking for the newest shiniest thing from apparel to cosmetics, there is more to Myeongdong than meets the eye.
Hadongkwan is a restaurant with more than 80 years of history having opened up in the 1930s and it's smack dab in the middle of all of those new gadgets and fast fashion shops. While the original shop which sat along the Cheonggyecheon Stream was demolished during the redevelopment of the area many years ago, the owner kept the original wooden tables and the front door which can still be seen welcoming customers in today.
(This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a certain percentage of a sale if you purchase after clicking. These funds go to maintain the site. Thank you for your support.)
Hadongkwan is so good at what they do, they only serve two dishes, gomtang (beef bone soup) and suyuk (boiled beef soup). Tip: one way to know that a restaurant is on point and good at what they do in Korea; they only offer one or two dishes on the menu.
Gomtang is a traditional Korean soup that is made by boiling beef and radish for a number of hours. The soup is said to help replenish you if you're feeling mentally or physically exhausted. But, you can also just eat it any old time because it'll surely hit the spot. When it arrives at the table, the soup is simply presented in a brass dish with a slightly cloudy broth, strips of beef and rice. On the table are salt and green onions to top off the soup with if you feel so inclined. With no artificial flavors or additives, this is one of the healthiest dishes you'll find in the area that can go a bit over the top with some of the other offerings. (There's a coffee shop that serves up drinks with cotton candy clouds in the area.) There are two kimchi dishes to go along with the soup: kkakdugi (radish kimchi) and kimchi (spicy fermented cabbage).
If you'll be visiting Seoul and want to stay in the popular Myeongdong shopping district, check out the Myeongdong TMark Hotel or the Grand Ambassador Seoul for a great stay in a great location.
Hadongkwan only uses Korean beef and has been using the same beef provider for over 60 years. They found quality and stuck with it. Another point that they are proud to make is that they never re-heat their soups. Once the soup for the day is gone, it's gone and they shut the doors. Get there before 3:00pm at the latest because they often close up shop by 4:00pm having filled the bellies of very happy patrons earlier in the day.80
10-4 Myeongdong 1-ga Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea
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Directions: Go out of Euljiro 1-ga Subway Station, exit 5 and walk straight. Turn right on the second street and Hadongkwan will be on your left.
Phone: 02-776-5656
Days: Closed 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month
Hours: 7:00am ~ 4:00pm
Website: www.hadongkwan.com
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A ten weeks' course for camp counselors on "Orientation for Jewish Camp Programming" to be conducted from the middle of April to the end of June, under the auspices of the Tarbuth Foundation for the Advancement of Hebrew Culture, was announced today by its president, Dr. Emanuel Neumann. The Tarbuth Foundation was established in 1962 through the generosity of Abraham and Jack Goodman, industrialists and prominent leaders in New York's Jewish community.
This course, to be given at the Herzl Institute, will be conducted by Dr. Samuel Grand, expert on Jewish camping and special consultant to the Foundation for the development of its camp program. While particular emphasis will be placed on the introduction of Living Hebrew into summer camp activities, the scope of the course will be wide enough to encompass all phases of the camp schedule and to demonstrate the many possibilities for blending harmoniously, values of Jewish living with the recreational objectives of camping.


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The Heart Has Its Reasons (Hardcover)
Atria Books, 9781451668339, 373pp.
Publication Date: November 11, 2014
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"Blanca Perea is a college professor in Madrid. Her life seems perfect -- she is successful and happy, with a husband and two grown sons. When her husband announces that he is in love with another woman and is leaving her, Blanca's perfect world is shattered. Desperate, she flees Madrid and takes a position at a university near San Francisco. It is her job to probe into the history of a long-deceased writer and former professor, Andres Fontana. As Blanca immerses herself in Fontana's life, she becomes captivated by the things that drove him -- his ambitions, his relationships, and his ill-fated lost love. As she untangles hidden agendas and lies, Blanca finds a strength that enables her to pursue a new life with new possibilities."
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Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances. A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew.


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While the leaves have already finished falling where I live, I couldn't resist making these gorgeous edible ones. It's just too soon to start making winter cookies. I refuse to get sucked into that vortex this early in the season. I wanted to make the cookies gluten free since one of my sons follows a gluten- free diet and I was curious to try out Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free Baking Flour. It is a blend of white rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, tapioca flour, and xanthan gum. You just substitute it cup for cup in your regular recipes.
I was inspired by Elizabeth over at lizybakes and crouton crackerjacks on youtube.
Roll out dough between two sheets of parchment paper and freeze for about 30 minutes before trying to cut out shapes.I got some beautiful copper cutters from coppergiftscom. They have thousands of different shapes. If you are a cookie lover it is easy to spend lots of time (and money!) over at their site. Don't say I didn't warn you. I mixed up 4 colours of royal icing for my leaves. The formula to get these colours is in the recipe at the end of this post. I like to place the piping bags in a tall drinking glass. I place a crumpled up dampened paper towel in the bottom of each glass too keep the icing from drying out and getting all crusty, once you cut a hole in the piping bag. You can only decorate one cookie at a time as the icing must be wet to create the marbling effect. You will need toothpicks and a paper towel to wipe the toothpick off after dragging it through the wet icing. I created a video to show the technique.
The cookies will need to dry overnight before you can package them up. They will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 weeks. Perfect with a glass of milk or an afternoon latte!


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Follow the journey of Dr. Martha Tara Lee as she masturbates everyday for 30 minutes.
I almost pulled the plug on my 30-day Orgasmic Yoga journey on day 16. This is what happened:
"Day 16 of Orgasmic Yoga. Yesterday was day 15, so I was halfway through. I posted a picture of me holding this toy on my Facebook account, so as to encourage more people to follow me on this journey. I got an email on my Facebook account. This guy had attended one of my public events previously, and he made some cheeky sleezy kind of comments. I just ignored him. He had been emailing me on Facebook but hadn't done so in about a year. Yesterday, he wrote me an email saying, "How about a private demo with your vibrator? Wink. Wink."
This was really uncalled for and some people would say I deserve it and I should have known better; however, I found myself going into shock, into anger, and into shutdown. I emailed him back saying that his joke was not appreciated, it was not funny, and I thought about it. I said, why? Why do I have to put up with this kind of treatment all the time? In fact, I almost just decided to cancel the entire Orgasmic Yoga journey, because people who don't really understand my intention would just think I'm a joke.
The reason I am doing this is because I want to encourage more people to begin talking about sex in positive ways, more openly. I also want to be able to facilitate learning through me and my life experiences. Because if nobody is talking about masturbation, or how they are feeling pleasure, then when is the change going to happen?
And even in the media here in Singapore, a lot of the information is being censored. Sex toys are pixelated so that you can hardly see what is it. If I don't put out messages that are different, that will encourage more of a conversation going on, then when is change going to happen? When I remembered my intention behind running this project, I decided to persevere and continue.
View the entire video of week 3 of 4 here.
What is Orgasmic Yoga?
Orgasmic Yoga involves pleasurable, intimate and transformative practices. When practiced regularly over time, Orgasmic Yoga can change your life. The practice sessions involve breathing, savoring, sound, movement, touch, placement of attention, and awareness of intention. Erotic practice sessions weave together the heart and genitals. This alone is a profound reason to commit to practice. Orgasmic Yoga often produces a state of arousal that is free of fantasy, unfinished emotional business, religious dogma, cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviors. In this erotic trance state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom, happiness and freedom.
For more about Orgasmic Yoga, view my video here! This is how I did in week 1 and week 2!
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Dr Martha Tara Lee is Founder and Clinical Sexologist of Eros Coaching in Singapore. She is a certified sexuality educator with AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists), as well as certified sexologist with ACS (American College of Sexologists). She holds a Doctorate in Human Sexuality from Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality as well as certificates in practical counselling, life coaching and sex therapy. She is available to provide sexuality and intimacy coaching for individuals and couples, conduct sexual education workshops and speak at public events in Asia and beyond. For more, visit www.ErosCoaching.com.
This article was originally published at Eros Coaching. Reprinted with permission from the author.


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The LS110A-1350-XY dual axis deflector provides high speed simultaneous vertical and horizontal axis beam position control at near IR wavelengths. It is comprised of two orthogonally-mounted single axis TeO2 deflectors which sequentially diffract the input laser beam to generate up to a 240 x 240 spot combined matrix. The LS110A-1350-XY may be operated in raster (linear), random access and vector scanning modes from the same RF drive electronics. It is well suited for applications requiring accurate beam placement at high speed, such as laser range finding and laser pantography.
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Lights: Nate Hill and Ann Hirsch
November 2, 2013
7-9 pm
Interstate Projects is pleased to present Lights¸ a durational performance environment by Nate Hill and Ann Hirsch in which the artists employ two central props—for Hill, a Porsche 911 sports car; for Hirsch (performing as "Jason Biddies"), a water bong—to explore issues around masculinity and fantasy. The artists will perform simultaneously—Hill in the front gallery; Hirsch in the basement—for the duration of the two-hour event.
Taking inspiration from his strained relationship with his father who owned a Porsche when he was young, Hill's frenetic performance employs movements from aboriginal dancing, Muhammad Ali, and Southern Baptist churches to "confront" the Porsche as if it was his father. Meanwhile Hirsch's Jason Biddies character, a "little guy" who always feels he has to prove himself, soothes his anxiety by taking a toke and painting a dimly-lit basement with fog and iridescent rainbows.
The sole sources of illumination during the event will be the headlights of the Porsche in the front gallery and several candles in the basement.
Nate Hill is best known for his character-based interventions in public space– both online and offline. In addition to performing in public, his work has been shown at Flux Factory, Grace Exhibition Space, Elga Wimmer, and Abrons Art Center (forthcoming); and his work has been written about in Vice, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, BlackBook, Rhizome, and The New York Times. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist who looks at the ways technology has influenced popular culture and gender. Her work often evolves from immersive research, including becoming a YouTube camwhore (amassing over two million views on her videos), and making appearances on several popular reality television shows. She was awarded a 2012–13 Rhizome commission for her two-person play Playground, which recently debuted at the New Museum to a sold out crowd. Playground's companion e-book is now out on iTunes through Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. She is currently an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Curated by Gene McHugh
Special Thanks to Collosha Clothing for support in providing the Porsche 911


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One of the most memorable meals of my recent vacation to Seattle was also one of the most simple: a plate full of farmer's market ravioli, dressed with a little butter, snap peas, and green garlic.
This tender bounty would be impossible in Texas' June, but Seattle's late spring weather let us feast on the season's delicate produce for a second time this year. David and I prepared the whole meal in about four square feet of kitchen space, using a single burner in our Seattle vacation rental.
We gathered the ingredients for our meal at Ballard Farmer's Market the day before. Every stall at the market was bursting with spring veggies– each one fresher than the next. As soon as I saw that snap peas and pea shoots were available, I knew those were going to be on the menu. Some exquisite smoked local salmon ravioli from Pasteria Lucchese served as the centerpiece of our meal, and a baguette from Tall Grass Bakery rounded out the dinner.
We bought the wine, lemon, and butter for this meal at the Interbay Whole Foods Market near Queen Anne. Scoping out Whole Foods was actually another foodie highlight of the trip for me. It may seem silly, but I love visiting local grocery stores in addition to farmer's markets on vacation. The foods at both places help me get my bearings– there's no faster way to know the people in neighborhood than through their food.
One of the challenges of cooking this dish, simple though it may be, was the limited space (less than a foot of counter room!) and supplies (no colander!) in our kitchen. If I had previously aspired to appear on a reality cooking program, those dreams were dashed by the harsh truth of trying to mince garlic with a tomato knife. That foot-long, serrated blade was one of two knives in our cabinet, the other being paring knife the size of a fold-out nail file. Seriously. That thing would have passed TSA inspection. After several tense minutes of garlic mincing with the tomato sword, I got frustrated and turned the meal over to David to finish.
He managed to snap the peas, brown the butter and garlic, and boil our market ravioli without incident. Even the tender pea shoots were safe in his care– they practically cooked themselves in the steam of the finished dish. A grate of cheese, a splash of lemon, and a pinch of pepper later, the last supper of the vacation was complete.
Smoked Salmon Ravioli with Snap Peas, Pea Shoots, and Green Garlic (serves 4)
1 package Pasteria Lucchese smoked salmon ravioli or similar prepared pasta
6 tablespoons and one teaspoon salted butter, divided
3 bulbs green garlic, peeled and minced
1/4 pound snap peas, trimmed
1/4 pound pea shoots, trimmed
Juice of half a lemon
Lemon wedges to garnish
Hard cheese to garnish, such as Island Brebis
Pepper to taste
These instructions are for one burner and two pots, the set-up we were using in our vacation rental kitchen. You can cook the pasta and sauce concurrently if your stove has two working burners:
Cook ravioli to al dente in a large pot of salted boiling water, about 7 minutes for frozen pasta, 3 minutes for fresh pasta. Carefully reserve a few tablespoons of pasta water, and then drain ravioli. Return pasta to the cooking pot, along with a teaspoon of butter to help keep pasta from sticking together.
Melt remaining butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add minced garlic and stir frequently until garlic and butter just begin to brown, about 2 minutes. Add peas to the butter and saute for 3-4 minutes, until peas are bright green and tender crisp. Turn off the heat and gently pea shoots into the sauce so they wilt evenly. Finish the sauce with a squeeze of lemon juice and season with pepper to taste. Plate ravioli and top with butter sauce, peas, and pea shoots. Grate cheese over the top of the dish and garnish with a lemon wedge. Serve immediately.


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THE Colombian government is seeking to woo this country into purchasing a long range patrol vessel in an effort to assist the country, and the region by extension, to fight the drug trade.
During a media tour of the vessel, which docked at the Cruise Ship Complex, in Port of Spain on Wednesday Vice-Minister of Defence for Colombia Yaneth Giha said the visit is to "confirm our interest in co-operating with the country".
Giha said Colombia has gained a lot of knowledge and training in the past years and is now seeking to co-operate with the rest of the region in the war against transnational crime, specifically illegal drug trafficking.
"We feel that the region requires a more specialised approach to the phenomenon that we are living. With this long range patrol vessel we want to show that we are ready to co-operate with the region" Giha said.
Colombia is regarded as the world's leader in the production of cocaine and Trinidad and Tobago is regarded as a key transshipment point for the illegal narcotics to get to the United States and Europe.
Giha said that local law enforcement have received training in maritime interdiction in Cartagena for the last five years and is now working on a broader plan to train special forces team to also include aerial interdiction.
"If Trinidad is interested in this vessel then we are ready but the most important thing is that Colombia is ready to show the capabilities to show how to use it. To show operationally speaking you can really win this war (on drugs)," Giha said.
Giha said the vessel, which was handed over to the Colombian Navy in 2011 after being built with both Chilean and Colombian input had intercepted 954 kilogrammes of cocaine in its first mission.
Asked what was the cost of the vessel Giha said she could not give a figure as that is "always difficult" but added that it cost "several million dollars".
The vessel, which is equipped with a helicopter and an interceptor capable of a top speed of 55 knots (101.860 kilometres per hour), can stay out at sea for a maximum of 55 days before it needed to be re-fuelled.


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I recently got quite a shock. I looked in my bank account to find a large chunk of my savings wiped out. I didn't have enough money to pay off my credit card, despite having just been paid. I couldn't understand it. I found the culprit: Fido charged me $1,287.18 for one month's mobile phone service. Over a thousand dollars on a phone bill!!
I always knew that Canadian mobile phones are the most expensive in the world, and I've blogged about it before, but I had no idea just how extortionate it is to use your phone overseas in any country other than the USA (and even then, it's crazy expensive). The advertised rate for roaming is 3c per kilobyte. Which doesn't sound that bad. But when you realize it's over $30 per Mb, and that a megabyte can be downloaded over 3G in just two seconds you realize how ridiculous this is.
There are horror stories in the press such as the $9,380 bill one Canadian got, the $22,000 phone bill received by a British Columbia man, or the $201,000 phone bill in Florida. But it seems to me this can happen to anyone. As one friend put it very well.. the charges are so high, that if you knew in advance what they were, you would not use the service. They make huge amounts of money from customers' mistakes – they profit from our lack of awareness or preparedness. I find this immoral.
So based on my experience, here's five questions I would like to know an answer to.
Is it in the same ballpark as the $30 that Fido charge? How much of it is profit? How much is due to the amounts the phone companies charge each other?
It seems reasonable to expect a similar data roaming charge in different countries, especially when many of those countries (UK, Japan, Germany) have much more advanced phone networks than the USA & Canada. What is the justification for charging three times more for roaming to any country except the USA?
Both the CRTC and the Consumer Protection office of Quebec refer you to CCTS, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services for any complaints. This is an independent agency which telcos sign up to. In its mandate, it contains the following statement:
We are able to assist with most types of problems that can arise between you and your service provider, including […] billing disputes and errors (but not the price of the service itself).
[…] While we are able to assist with the issues above there are certain services and issues that are frequently associated with the telecommunications industry which we will be unable to assist. […] Examples of matters which we will be unable to assist you with are complaints about […] the pricing of services […].
In their FAQ, they provide the following question and answer:
I think my provider charges way too much for its services. Can you look into this?
Our mandate is to determine whether the provider has complied with its obligations to you under its Terms of Service and internal policies and procedures. The amount that your provider charges for the services it delivers is a business decision that it alone is entitled to make. Marketplace competition means that you may find a better deal with another provider.
Does this sound like a statement from a regulatory body that is protecting consumers? Or a statement from a conglomerate of media companies trying to protect their profits? Is that last sentence true?
The CCTS website says that for matters it does not cover, consumers should visit their resources page. The only applicable resource on that page is the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The CWTA includes a code of conduct for its members (which includes all major telcos). What are you supposed to do if your carrier has broken this code? CWTA says you should complain to the CCTS. They send you back where you came from. Does no agency take responsibility for protecting consumers against high prices?
This is something that has been recently discussed by CRTC. The media companies are in denial, saying "customers don't want caps".
Telcos already have the mechanisms in place to cut you off if you don't pay your bill. Do they they let such large charges build up simply because they know it's pure profit they can keep?
These are important questions that must be answered. And if you agree, please sign the OpenMedia petition and Demand Choice.
If anyone knows where we can find answers to these questions or has other ideas, please add your thoughts & comments below.
Related reading: Why Internet access is like healthcare by Alistair Croll


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Welcome to the newest post of Understanding the Rhymes. Instead of analyzing song lyrics this week, this post we will be a reflection on the blog so far. Feel free to post in the comments section what songs you would like to see analyzed in the future.
Writing this blog has been a great experience so far. When thinking of blogging, I never thought this topic would be an option. I used to think of blogs as being geared towards moms with topics such as cooking. Thankfully I received the opportunity to start my own blog, and of course, had to do a topic relating to my passion; hip-hop. Because there are hip-hop blogs already on the internet, I had to come up with an original topic. The chosen topic was obviously analyzing song lyrics and I am extremely glad this was the topic I chose.
I planned to write this blog to be able to inform listeners on the deeper meaning of certain songs. Not only have I achieved this, in the process I have learned much more about these songs. This process did not take long and I ended up realizing this on my first post; Uncle Sam Goddam. I did not see this coming and did not think I would be getting positives out of my own blog. Reading comments from you guys as readers, seeing that my posts are actually being read through site statistics, and the unexpected element of learning more about songs already familiar to me have been my favorite aspects in writing. I hope you all have enjoyed the blog so far and would love to keep hearing what songs you all would like analyzed. Until next post….
On a side note….The Stimulated All Stars request is on the way…sorry for the delay. Hope you are still interested.


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With all the changes to our class lately, I've found myself having to stand back and think about what this blog is and what it represents. There are a lot of really good and informative hunter blogs out there and most of them have very different focuses, and it's really visible with this patch. There are people busily hammering out the next max-DPS spec and there are others sticking to their favorite playstyle. There are Survivalists perhaps a bit baffled that their spec is suddenly the one in the sun. There are people reporting anywhere from DPS losses to DPS gains, depending on their gear and spec and what they do. And there are others who don't do much PvE stuff and aren't affected very much. Everyone has a different opinion and it's really brought out to me how unique all these dozens of hunter blogs are from each other.
What about Aspect of the Hare then? Is this a hunter kindergarten blog, or a Beast Mastery blog, or a "casual"-raiding blog, or what? That's what I had to ask myself today, sitting here at my computer with a hunter shirt on and a Tauren Hunter figurine beside my desk and my first character standing guard over everything. What about Pike?
I decided that while this blog covers a variety of topics, it is mostly about two things. The first is that it is about teaching new hunters about their class, and also sort of reviewing these things for long-time hunters. This comes in the form of the guides that I post, for example.
Secondly, and more importantly, this blog is about three little words: "Hunters are fun."
This blog is for anyone who has ever enjoyed the hunter class. It doesn't matter if you PvP or PvE or fall anywhere along that spectrum. It doesn't matter if you are decked out in epics and have screenshots of doing over 6000 DPS on a boss fight, or if you have never set foot inside a raid. It doesn't matter if you're a hardcore theorycrafter or if you avoid math like the plague. It doesn't matter what spec you are, and it doesn't even matter what level you are– if you have ever felt a little thrill at sending your pet in to attack something and proceeding to start some semblance of a shot rotation, this blog is for you.
I just figured I would get that out there; it's never a bad thing to define a blog's focus. Rest assured that while there may be some frustrations and nervousness as we– myself included– try to sort out our collective reactions to the latest patch, I, for one, can still log into one of my hunters and still feel that thrill.
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Woman on gastric-band waiting list fears for her life
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A Kildare woman has been speaking of her fears she might die before she gets surgery to help her lose weight.
Susan Lyons is one of 180 people who had been on a waiting list to have a gastric band fitted at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.
It emerged earlier this month that the procedures were being cancelled in a bid to cut spending.
Ms Lyons had been on the list for two years, and she has described how her health is deteriorating.
"It's like they're playing with my life," she said.
"Am I going to be here next year? Can I wait another four or five years on the waiting list? I don't really think so.
"I was only in hospital a couple weeks ago, they thought with a mini-heart attack.
"They had me hooked up to machine sot make sure my heart was pumping right - it was frightening.
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Hi Everyone,
For the past week and a half my life has been pretty hectic, with work, auditions, visiting friends and life in general. For the first time in my acting career I had 5 auditions in one week and I was so excited. I was excited that someone called me in! I was excited for the opportunity to be put on camera! I was excited that if I booked 3 or these jobs I would get paid! Not much, but it was something. As I went to the on camera auditions I had to remember what I learned in conservatory and also remind myself to take control of my audition. During the first one, I forgot to take control. During the second one I took control and I had a blast. I was very proud of that audition. The third audition is all about my look so I put on my makeup and dressed nicely like I normally would, except I wore boots instead of sneakers.
Then I had my theatre auditions. One of the auditions is for the company I am member of and I am disappointed to say that I didn't bring my A-game to that sucker and I should have. It is funny now, because I don't feel comfortable on the stage anymore like I do in front of a camera. I lose my energy and become stiff with anxiety over cold readings on stage. It baffles me, because I was inspired to be an actor from being on stage. I got a rush whenever I would get a laugh or applause and now I feel stiff and unsure which is very foreign to me and I am trying to wrap my head around it.
Last night, Jen and I went to see Twelfth Night at The Knightsbridge Theatre. I wanted to see the production and cheer on a fellow company member. It was a wonderful production and I got a kick out of the actors that played Toby and Feste. On the ride home, Jen asked me, "Who was your favorite performance?" and I told her. She then asked, "Do they inspire you?" and I got emotional when I said, "No" and realized that I have only been inspired a handful of times while here in L.A. and four of those were because of nature and the world around me, not because of a performance. Jen then asked, "Don't you get inspired in class?" and again I replied, "No, because it is all technical. There is only one person in my class that consistently works her ass off to give a good performance and when I watch her, I say to myself "I'm going to be better than you". That is my inspiration. But it isn't. It's jealousy and competitiveness. Which then made me realize that all classes in L.A. are technical. How to act on camera, how to break down a scene, how to audition, how to be still and show emotional vulnerability in a closeup, but there are no classes that deal with the art of acting. The methods of acting. The soul of working off another and being open to what comes.
My acting has suffered. I have to commit myself to morning exercises in meditation and character work, but all I long for is the repetition exercise from Meisner. I miss my class in NYC and being inspired by them to be an actor. I never felt jealous or competitive in the sense I had to be better than them. I trusted them and I knew that if we worked hard and let ourselves be, we would be the best. I was inspired to write, paint and create because of performances I saw in class. When I went to a show in NYC whether it be Broadway or Off Broadway I knew it was going to be magical! There has only been one show I have seen in Los Angeles that excited me and felt like magic! That makes me sad. It makes me sad, because I love NYC for reasons I didn't count on. I miss certain aspects of it and if I go back it won't be the same. I am sad, that Jen's question opened my eyes to what has been eating at me lately. Sometimes it feels better to live in denial. I love L.A. for it's own reasons too, but I am going to be 35 this year and I feel as if I need to make decisions in my life that lay down the latticework of my future and I keep going back and forth on what I want. When will I have peace? Why can't I be an successful actor and a woman with a husband and kids? When I dreamt of being an actor this wasn't it. I have never been so poor in my life. Why is money and the lack thereof always a problem for me? And all my life questions played in my head from Jen asking, "Do they inspire you?"
Monday, January 17, 2011
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Seriously! Stay out of MY head... ;0) I feel ya honey. I miss Steve's class too. It was amazing to walk in every week and know that someone was gonna knock it outta the park. I always left inspired. Partly because of Steve and partly because of you guys. Wednesday was the highlight of my week! Meeting prviately with you guys...only another perk. A chance to connect with another like minded character. I miss it so. I've decided to take a trip in March... just to reconnect with those things that made NYC special for me. and of course that means stopping by Steve's...ReplyDelete
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February 01, 2007 11:23 IST
Mission Netaji is conducting its own investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the hero and moving various government agencies for information on the matter. It had requested the RAW under the Right To Information Act for disclosure of any information that it might hold on the issue.
"I am directed to inform you... that the RAW does not have any information pertaining to Netaji. As such no list as requested by you .. can be provided," Under Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat P N Ranjit Kumar told Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar in a letter dated January 19.
Kumar also reminded Dhar that the RAW was not obliged to provide any information under the RTI Act.
Dhar, however, is skeptical about RAW's response.
"In 2001, the then Home Secretary Kamal Pande filed an affidavit before the Mukherjee Commission (which was probing Netaji's mysterious disappearance). This affidavit listed out several Top Secret/Secret records whose disclosure was likely to evoke widespread reactions and harm India's relations with friendly countries," Dhar said.
Dhar said among these records some are with RAW.
It was an 'Under Office' note under the identification number 11/1/94-IC-2829 dated March 25, 1994, concerning certain articles based on classified KGB records published in a Russian journal.
Dhar claimed that the RAW had initially informed Mission Netaji that it had no record or files relating to the alleged disappearance of Netaji as the organisation was formed on September 21, 1968.
"And now, P N Ranjit Kumar has made a sweeping statement that RAW does not have any information pertaining to Netaji and that RAW is under no obligation to spill the beans. But it has no licence to mislead either," Dhar said.
The Delhi-based organisation would now bring the matter to the notice of the Central Information Commission.


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The gaming scene is changing (evolving?). No more is it limited to gamepads and keyboard-mouse configurations. Touch-based games, hate it or love it, is now a big part of gaming, maybe even bigger than your orthodox forms of gaming (consoles, PC). Call it 'casual' gaming if you're a PC/Console nazi, but you'll have to agree, touch based games are serious business now. Many have come to despise or simply discard touch-gaming altogether, because of reasons such as "its not what gaming is" and "only the thick/shallow enjoy touch". We'd suggest that if you're really a true gamer, have an open mind and start accepting touch-gaming as the Next Big Thing, because, IT IS! Here's why:
Who needs a controller with 10 buttons, 2 triggers and 2 analog sticks! Touch gaming keeps it simple, and achieves almost everything that a controller can. Don't expect to go on a button mashing rampage though, that's the only thing we'd surely miss with controllers.
Not only do touch games remove the need to memorize controls, touch games cant be learnt straight out of the box, or should we say, out of your screen! While we're yet to see any Touch games realised to full potential, we can surely expect to see some soon. Obviously you have Angry Birds and Temple Run but these are just casual games, with pretty basic touch mechanics. We need to see touch games reach the next level, and from the way things are going, we should be in for a touchy treat (!) soon.
Touch gameplay, coupled with buttons have also shown good synergy. PS Vita has illustrated some neat touch + button mechanics with many games. Try the Uncharted PS Vita version and this is the by far the most advanced touch technology I've seen, personally.
2. RESULTS IN CLEANER UIs
Clunkier UIs have always been the eternal foes of gamers and developers alike. Many games have been mistakenly loaded without saving just because the buttons were too small and close-by to be distinguished in the heat of the moment.
Touch gaming, with its limited space on the screen and with its ability to minimize the "thinking time" (time a gamer spends searching for something on the game's UI) works in favour of the games that utilize touch controls. This in turn leads to a more fluid and clean experience.
Nothing dispels the notion of a fad than that trend giving birth to a whole new genre of games. One can't argue that endless runners (Temple Run, Subway Surf, Agent Dash) are a whole new craze which have been created to utilize the simplicity behind touch controls. Even the rhythm genre and the age-old point-and-click adventures have had a boost thanks to the simplicity of touch gaming. Take for example the iOS port of The Walking Dead, the touch experience is far superior than the mouse-keyboard experience on the PC or the gamepad experience on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
When you have an army of games you've propelled into popularity (and touch gaming is awfully capable of doing that) then one can see why this is way more than a fad.
Most of us can agree that nothing ruins fun as much as tutorials *especially* when they are intrusive enough to break the entire flow of the game. Instead of having not-so-subtle splash screens being pasted all over your screen, touch gaming essentially removes the need for complex tutorials. Often a single splash tutorial, generally during loading, is enough to explain the controls.
Perhaps, the best example of this is Fight Night Champion on iOS which brought in the level of complexity in controls as its console version without requiring much exposition on the tutorial end.
Mobile/handheld devices deliver the majority of touch-based game. 4000-5000 mah batteries, 1080p screens, eight core processors, flexible displays, powerful GPUs, gesture controls – all of these parameters are at the peak of their development and are advancing at blitzkrieg pace. The pocket gaming experience is taking a massive leap. A sound comparison would be mobile games of 2007-08 vs 2012-13. Indeed, the Minority Report days are not far away.
Touch, one your five God-given sense, is being utilized to interact with a game directly. On the contrary, with a gamepad or a mouse-keyboard configuration, you need to press/click a button, which is then registered to a command. How complicated is that! Touch gives a sense of being in control of what you're doing, and also makes you interact with video games more closely, making them all the more personable and interactive. Its a fuller experience.
This is a no brainer. When Touch technology was first introduced, frankly, it sucked. Touch commands registered only half of the times, and seldom did what they were intended to do. But man, did it felt cool or what! We're sure that like us, you also had your "Damn I'm already living in the future" moment when you played your first touch game.


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Drunken the moonlight, drunken of horizontes,
We thought that life was holding each other
The rumour of the pine woods, the blue of the hills
And all the green gardens of the Sea.
But solitary we are and pass,
They are not ours the fruits and flowers,
The Sky and Sea pass away on the outside
And become the ghosts the we dream of.
For what gardens that we will not harvest,
Cleanly the dawn that is being born,
For what the Sky and the Sea that we will not be
Never the Gods that able to live them.
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Assassin's Creed 2 has been released on November 17th, 2009 by Ubisoft. The new Assassin's Creed II walkthrough trailer is available here and it features are very little killing and lot of cunning. This type of game is much loved among all those generic 3rd person shooters. I will also update Assassin's Creed 2 Cheats & hints as soon as possible when it's available.
The game Assassin's Creed II is designed with a superior variance for several ways to complete a mission. In order to finish an objective, Players don't always have to kill everything in sight much like IO Interactive's Hitman series. You can see in trailer clearly that players can use NPCs, environments and a host of other diverse in-game interactive spots to help tackle any of the given quests/tasks.
The main story of Assassin's Creed 2 is located in Venice in the XV century and appears that it contains over 16 types of different missions.
You will be able to swim and throw people to the water, new places to hide, new weapons and movements etc.…
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Call of the Wilde: Habs beat elite
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier makes a save against Montreal Canadiens' Max Pacioretty (67) during first period NHL hockey action in Montreal on Saturday, March 1, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
By Brian Wilde, CTV Montreal
Published Saturday, March 1, 2014 10:12PM EST
Wilde Horses
- The Leafs are one of the marquee offensive teams in league. They have some giant weapons up front. They needed 15 minutes to get a shot and that included 2 minutes of powerplay time. At least, that's how it looked until Toronto woke up.
- Therrien tried Alex Galchenyuk again with Plekanec and Gionta in a shutdown role against JVR-Bozak-Kessel. Moen is usually in the left wing hole, so a huge goal for the sophomore in the first.
-Gallagher on the 3-3 Subban goal is the player running the goaltender screen. That's right, the guy shaped like a candle accepts all responsibilities, including the ones that should not be assigned to him. Gallagher showed that this game cared to him a lot. He hustled and worked to the danger areas at every opportunity.
- Dale Weise, who took a Kadri skate in the face, bled profusely, got patched up, put on a cage and said put me in coach. Hockey players are a special breed, or to non-hockey lovers, this is known as crazy. By the way, since Weise has been a Hab, Montreal has 11 of 12 possible points.
- That was much better from Lars Eller. No breakthrough but a better game. More around the puck.
- Even though his bench management will continue to confuse me at times (Murray) Therrien used his time out at the perfect moment when the Habs were reeling. You might say too late but 2-2 for the time out is too reactionary. The recovery time at 3-2 was a good time for a speech.
- Briere's overtime shift was enough for everyone to see that he still has some hockey to give. It may be situational but get him out in the right situation and he'll give you results.
- Max for being Max. He's a perimeter player said the nationally respected NHL broadcaster. I reply with you do not watch the games, Sir.
Wilde Goats
- The 2-2 JVR shorthanded goal had 3 goats. Markov passed to no one. Pacioretty and Subban both kind of stared at each other and Subban got beaten for speed.
- On the 3-2 goal, Kessel's speed was simply too much for Emelin and Murray who looked like two ocean liners turning around compared to the Kessel speedboat.
- Fault to J.J. Daigneault and Therrien on that Kessel goal too. They surely know that is a mismatch. Those two, Emelin and Murray, don't play together, so it was a mish-mash all around.
- Honestly, I don't really like the skill set of Doug Murray. I know people say he clears the net and people worry about his physicality. However, even his defenders have to wonder how he gets use on those four-on-fours. That hockey is just too wide open for him coach. You're welcome.
- Not the greatest game from Markov, as Bergevin contemplates what his next move is - trade or contract. However, one hell of a pass to Pacioretty on the OT winner.
Wilde Cards
-Daniel Briere is tops on the entire Habs team in 5 on 5 points per 60 minutes played. This is a remarkable stat made more so by the fact Therrien barely plays Briere and he started the Leafs game lined with those two awesome finishers Moen and Parros. "Thanks for the empty promises Bergevin," is what I would say if I were Briere.
- The CBC went batty criticizing Subban for tugging his sweater after his goal. Give it a rest you geezers. You are on Subban so hard you look like you have an agenda. Why not comment on hockey for a bit?
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Animation &Animation Artifacts &Chuck Jones &Frame Grabs &Layout & Design &repeated posts 06 Aug 2012 06:38 am
Conrad – again
I repeat this post for good reason. This is one of the prime films John McGrew planned for Chuck Jones, and the work is just dazzling. However, to our eyes it hardly looks unusual. Many of the tricks here were done for the first time, and others are so seamlessly done that we hardly notice them. It just looks like another War cartoon from WB. It ain't.
It's special.
- Regulars to my blog know that I'm a big fan of the work of John McGrew. He was a designer/Layout Artist working in Chuck Jones' crew at Warner Bros. in the late Thirties/early Forties. His work was daring beyond compare, and, I think, with support from Jones, he changed the look of modern animation backgrounds.
He designed the seminal film The Dover Boys as well as amazing pieces like Aristo-Cat, Inki and the Lion and Conrad the Sailor.
In an interview conducted by Greg Ford and RIchard Thompson, Chuck Jones was asked about McGrew's style:
- Q: What about John McGrew's style and approach, as compared with Noble's?
A: John McGrew didn't really have a style; he was experimenting all the time. Maurice does have a style. John McGrew, you might say, was more of an intellectual. You could be intellectual, and get away with it— but if you're solely intellectual as a director, you weren't going to get away with it. The result was, however, that he goosed me into thinking that it might be worthwhile to try some different things with backgrounds and so forth. And later on, I would find this kind of thing very useful, in that often it would make your gag work, and sometimes you wouldn't even know why. Like that little abstract background at the end of Duck Amuck, with the sharply angled lines going off.
Today I'd like to feature some frame grabs from Conrad the Sailor. Where I could, I separated the characters from the backgrounds to just feature the Bgs. My guess is that the Bgs were painted by Paul Julian, but they were planned by McGrew.
The one scene I don't illustrate is the most original in the film. Daffy is shot into the air with a bullet. (illus #18) The camera does a 360° turn to head back to the ship. The Bgs don't hold up on their own. Lots of blue sky and wisps of cloud. It works in motion.
Of this short & McGrew, Jones says:
- . . . we used a lot of overlapping graphics on that particular cartoon so that one scene would have the same graphic shape as an earlier scene, even though it would be a different object: first we'd show a gun pointing up in the air, then in the next shot, there'd be a cloud in exactly the same shape. It gave a certain stability which we used in many of the cartoons after that. John McGrew was the artist responsible for that sort of thing. Conrad was also the one where we used the first complete 360° turn, when the characters went up through the air.
For more information read Mike Barrier's excellent interview with John McGrew.
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The following BG pan can be seen in full to the left. I've broken it into three parts for a closer look.
———-(Continue scrolling down.)
A bicycle pan that keeps moving to the left.
Continue moving right to left.
And here's the cartoon.
Pay attention to the Layout in the sky from 6'25″ to the end.
It's amazing.
4 Responses to "Conrad – again"
on 06 Aug 2012 at 7:44 am 1.Steven Hartley said …
Ben Washam's first screen credit.
on 07 Aug 2012 at 2:11 am 2.Liim Lsan said …
Only Ken Harris could animate 45 feet of a character doing nothing cut singing and mopping while on a listing ship, and make it WORK. I stand in awe of the talent that went into a weak script.
You ever notice that the cartoon repeats motifs of three? Three guns, three sailors times three, three empty spaces in the pipe pan…
You'd know better than I would – the shot of Daffy walking along the mast singing the chorus of 'Shovin' right off' – zzat Bobe Cannon or Rudy Larriva? Still can't tell that one.
on 07 Aug 2012 at 4:44 am 3.Michael said …
My inclination is to say that it's Bobe Cannon. all those frames of double exposed arms or hands. Just another way to add swipes as frames for movement. And only Chuck Jones would let an animator get away with this on low budget shorts. Interesting experimentation. The roundness, the openness of Daffy. If it isn't Bobe Cannon it sure feels like a great imitation. But I'm horrible at this identifying animators' work. I just love Cannon's stuff.
on 15 Aug 2012 at 2:15 pm 4.Russell H said …
What's also notable about the backgrounds of the ship is that, while stylized and simplified, they are still a remarkably accurate depiction of a US Navy battleship of the era. Despite the low budget, it looks as though someone probably took the time and expense to get detailed photos of real battleships to use as models.


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ALFRED, NY- The Alfred University women's soccer team fell to visiting Utica College in a 2-1 decision Sunday afternoon, in Empire 8 play.
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Utica struck first at the 68th minute, giving them a 1-0 lead. Junior defender Nicole Lobur (Akron, NY/Akron) evened the score at 1-1 off a free kick goal, at the 74th minute. Utica scored another goal four minutes later closing scoring for the game, sealing a 2-1 advantage.
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AC/DC Shockingly Admits that (some) Rock n Roll is in fact NOISE POLLUTION!
Despite the hit song titled the contrary, AC/DC concedes that some rock n roll qualifies as "noise pollution".
LONDON, UK- In the anthem from 1980's Back in Black, the "Thunder from Down Under" defended rock n roll against allegations that it caused hazardous effects on the aural environment. Thirty-plus years later, the band has changed its defiant stance.
"I must admit that today's rock music is in fact complete shit," Johnson told Effin' 88.5. "Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any shelter to the seemingly endless stream of garbage polluting the airwaves."
When pressed, Johnson declined to name any specific bands. However, bandmate and guitarist Angus Young was more than happy to elaborate, with specificity:
"I could go on forever, mate. The fucksticks in Nickelback are public offender #1. Not only do they write the worst shit ever, they write it over and over again. I mean, we wrote the same song at least 5 dozen times, but the song was a fucking ripper, mate. The dickbags in Disturbed are almost as bad as the Nickelfags, but I give them credit for working animal sounds in every tune. I really have no idea why anyone would ever listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pure drivel. Staind's latest song is called "Not Again"…which is exactly how I feel when I hear Staind. All you really need to know about the band Seether is that they named themselves after a Veruca Salt song (I shagged the hot one) and they're South African. Then there's a bunch of queers who call themselves rock bands, but clearly aren't: The Black Keys, Foster the People, Florence and the Machine, Coldplay. Those blokes can eat a bag of dicks, or better yet, the barrel of a gun."
When sarcastically asked to "tell us how you really feel", Young simply took a drag off his cigarrette and spit in my face.
Rock n Roll isn't dead. Like everyone, it just got really old and judgmental…
Hey, that sounds kinda like someone else I know.
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Nebular (against my protesting) decided to accept an invitation by some local beatniks to take part in the Thursday night Poetry Slam at the Hideaway Cafe. Phil took his flip camera and captured the fun.- Mr. Sex
I'm not sure how this happened…
So, here's an unsolicited email I got from a (seemingly) nice girl named Hannah. She's apparently under the impression that I'm in the market for some women's undergarments. I guess that's what happens when your name is "Mr. Sex".
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"In tense places of transition the temptation is to run to a seemingly bigger & better opportunity. But incarnation calls us to deeper roots."I talked in my M post about the advice someone gave me to "Bloom where you're planted" and said I would talk about it a little further in my Z post. So here it is!
In the Spring of 2011 I took a course on the Mission of God in the world. At some point during that class someone mentioned Jeremiah 29 - it may have been the professor, or it may have been one of my classmates. Everybody knows verse 11; but for the first time my attention was drawn to verses 4-7:
4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." (NIV)God was speaking to people who were in a foreign land, away from home, and many were likely separated from friends and family. He instructed them to live life where they were at. (Maybe this is where the Vulcan greeting to "live long and prosper" came from...? You never know.)
I have always been a person who would "move in" to a place without actually "moving in." Like...I would move my boxes in and unpack half or most of them and never get to the rest. I hardly ever hang anything on the walls, and for almost two years I slept on a mattress on the floor at one of my residences...just never bothered to buy a bed frame. (And when I did finally buy a bed frame, I was putting it all together and found a HUGE spider in my sheets at the foot of my bed, so that pretty much made me never want to sleep on a mattress on the floor again ever.) Part of this might be due to my personality...physical surroundings don't matter all that much to me (to a degree). But I think it was a sign of something deeper.
I always felt like I was in a transitional position, like wherever I was, I wouldn't be there long, so why get comfortable? I did end up getting close to some friends in Joplin, but not until the second half of the ten years I lived there.
It felt like God pointed this Scripture out to me and was telling me to put down roots wherever I found myself - to engage with people and experiences that presented themselves, even if there was a risk that I could be uprooted and moved to another place at some point. It felt like maybe He was telling me that though there was a chance I would experience loss or pain, the relationships and memories made along the way would be more than worth it.
So the last couple of years, that is what I have been trying to do. In fact, I have succeeded more in the last few months than ever before!
And now I see this tweet from Zach that further deepens the idea and relates it to incarnational ministry. Just as Jesus took on the form of a servant (see Philippians 2) and became one of us and shared life with us, so we too best serve and enrich life for others when we become "one of them" and share life with them. Pretty incredible.


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Army National Guard Pfc. Beverly W. Mwangi has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, Mwangi studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exercises.
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|Reviews for The PlumbBob Saga
| Lazy Merasmus chapter 31 . 12/14/2015
This is amazing! I can't believe it hasn't been updated since 2014. If you're checking this, I would absolutely LOVE for a continuation of some sort.
| guest chapter 5 . 1/10/2015
Who knew a Sim's life could be so tough? :(
| guest chapter 3 . 1/10/2015
Okay, this just got freaky... I wonder what'll happen next! Will they ever be able to fight the PlumbBob's control?! :/
| guest chapter 1 . 1/10/2015
This is awesome. I love how you incorporated the green jewel-like thing that floats above the sims' heads (is it really called a PlumbBob?) into the story. It's a nice idea and I'm interested to see where this story goes.
| leo3487 chapter 31 . 11/17/2014
I like this story
Now a question, as characters started at Sunset Valley, then later Bridgeport and also Pleasantview
Marcus or Melissa will go to Willow Creek?
| mrrp01 chapter 25 . 11/10/2014
Our town :)
| SnowFrost13 chapter 31 . 10/29/2014
Ohh... Some meaty action then and I hope Marcus and Melissa or Mandy, do tell their parents. Pretty sure Mr. Forte is Sean, Sean Forte, sounds like a perfect match for a name. Anyway, see ya next chapter.
| leo3487 chapter 26 . 10/21/2014
Im the only than think The Controller refers to Nraas Master Controller?
| Maya Gordelia chapter 13 . 10/4/2014
Haha! Oh wow, "Pomp and Circumstance"! I haven't heard that in forever, great choice! And thanks for rekindling my love for that song.
| Jyoti chapter 22 . 8/5/2014
Wow I need to catch up on this story! I'm glad you've updated though. Sims section seems a little dead lately, but I see a lot of stories being posted so great. Anyway, I absolutely adored this chapter. I just love Boinky so much, and it's really intense I like it. You also write very well, grammar-wise, which allows me to enjoy the story without any typos. Thanks for posting!
| goldden eyes chapter 26 . 7/28/2014
Yay? She's back! :D
| MagicalMisa chapter 25 . 7/26/2014
"It was sunny, weather hadn't been invented yet." Love that part. I also like the mention of the Generations magazine, which I think is the expansion pack. As for the famous play, I feel like it must be something Shakespeare, don't really know the play's name. Great job though.
| goldden eyes chapter 25 . 7/25/2014
Oh, That was a sad chapter... I don't like how short sims lives are...(I change them to be longer :P) and... I do not know.
| Uh ok chapter 24 . 7/22/2014
So I loved it! but what the check man u totally left me hanging here!
| MagicalMisa chapter 24 . 7/20/2014
Story's coming along great. I really wonder what's gonna happen next, with everything pausing and being choppy. Really nice job, keep up the great work!