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You think mead is not for you, that it is for adults you see in city parks dressed in smocks and pantaloons and staging wooden sword fights. Mead, you think, might only pair with a turkey leg. You don't like turkey legs.
Think ye again, gentlefolk.
Redstone Meadery in Boulder (4700 Pearl St., #2A, 720-406-1215, redstonemeadery.com), the largest craft meadery in the United States, ferments bunches of meads I would gladly drink instead of a pint of ale, a glass of pinot noir, or a gin fizz. Syrup in a snifter glass? Not at all — think effervescent, refreshing, often dry.
And now, in addition to finding Redstone's meads on taps around town and in big bottles, it comes in cans — a first nationwide for the fermented-honey beverage which is naturally gluten-free.
I visited Redstone last week and chatted with David Myers, the ponytailed guy who started the meadery nearly 13 years ago.
"Mead is the oldest beverage nobody has ever heard of," said Myers, as we sipped meads like black raspberry, boysenberry, juniper, pinot noir, one called Nectar of the Hops. Most of the honey he uses comes from Colorado, and all of the fruit he adds is real — no fake flavors.
With the new cans, he is borrowing a page from the craft beer industry, he said: "Take a can of mead to the river to go fishing, take it camping. A lot of music venues don't allow glass."
I can't recommend his nectars enough. Look for them on liquor store shelves, on tap ( his website lists the bottle shops and pubs where you can find the stuff — the list is far too long to include here) and at the meadery itself, where you can sample it all, and listen to The Talking Heads, Willie Nelson and maybe some bluegrass while you sip — Myers is a music nut.
"Mead is like music," he said. "It enhances life."
I have a feeling you won't find mead at Restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail (12 Vail Road, #100, 970-479-0175, kellyliken.com), but that shouldn't stop you from gunning for a chance to get driven in a limousine to the Sonnenalp Hotel in Vail, where Kelly Liken will greet you, followed by a bunch of pampering in the hotel spa and pools, a dinner at Restaurant Kelly Liken, and a nightcap at the Red Lion bar with the bar owner Phil Long.
It's all part of a fundraiser this Friday, from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Centennial Airport (7800 S. Peoria St., Englewood, 303-790-0598, centennialairport.com) for the Saddle Up! Foundation (39848 Swift Creek Circle, 303-788-1666, saddleupfoundation.org), an Elizabeth nonprofit that uses horses for physical, occupational and speech therapy. I have visited the foundation — they are doing great work.
Tickets range from $125 to $175 at blacktie-colorado.com, the dough goes to the foundation, and both a raffle and a live auction determine which two couples win the Kelly Liken extravaganza. One note — if you want the Vail trip, bring packed bags to the event. The chauffer takes you to the mountain town at the end of the Friday night shindig.
It's summertime in the mountains, people — enjoy 'em before they get shellacked with snow. Here's another excuse to head to the hills. On Saturday, Aug. 17, the Central City Bacon Tour comes to the casino town, bringing with it enough cured pig belly to garland Mount Evans. Your $20 gets you unlimited Tender Belly bacon samples, chef creations involving bacon, bacon-themed giveaways, casino discounts, live music and the possibility that instead of speaking in English you will oink the whole way home. Tickets available at King Soopers, participating Tony's Markets, at ticketswest.com, and 303-582-3345.
Little bits: Betcha didn't know that a large sourdough loaf tastes better than a small one, that the blossom end of a melon (the side opposite where it attached to the vine) is the sweetest, or that simple roast chicken may be the most versatile wine-pairing food in the world. I learned these things, and loads more, in Edward Behr's book, " 50 Foods: The Essentials of Good Taste," which will be published in the fall. Nab it.
Have you tried the new gin from Spirit Hound Distillers in Lyons (4196 Ute Hwy, 303-823-5696, spirithounds.com)? The juice is so packed with juniper, from local berries, that it smells like eau de juniper. Try it.
Another adult beverage to put on the list — the coconut fizz at Denver's super-cool restaurant Linger (2030 W. 30th Ave., 303-993-3120, lingerdenver.com). While you're at it, head to Linger's sister restaurant, Root Down (1600 W. 33rd Ave., 303-993-4200, rootdowndenver), and try chef Jeremy Kittelson's cornographic sweet corn risotto.
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Of all of our collections, Eucalyptus holds several distinctions. One, it's one of our very first fragrances, and it remains one of our best loved. Two, its glistening-green scent packs all the optimism of spring. Three, with that "y" and two "u"s, it's a dickens to spell.
Still, putting the "you" in Eucalyptus has always come with ease.
Fans of Eucalyptus contact us frequently with stories about how they met. Emily Miller, for instance, first smelled Eucalyptus at age 14. "And I've loved it ever since," she says, wearing it to senior prom, her wedding and even during the birth of her son.
Dina Castro is equally euphoric. She recently received Eucalyptus body lotion as a "little pre-baby mommy wellness gift" from an aunt. "Well, let me tell you! Between living in New York (stress), working in the hospital (stress) and adjusting to being a first-time mommy (stress), every time I use it I feel calm," she says.
But Eucalyptus is not just for the ladies, as a fellow who labeled his comment "Good for guys" attests. "I was at my local wine store the other day," he writes. "When I reached the counter the woman cashier looked at me and said, 'You smell really good.' I like the smell of Eucalyptus and I guess women do, too."
That's because the unisex, spring-fresh scent of Eucalyptus infuses the day with infinite possibilities. Which is precisely the reaction it inspired in our company's founders some 30 years ago.
Standing at a backyard picnic table, the women, who were childhood friends, immersed their fragrant oil blend in a bath of warm water and hovered, curious to find out what would result.
What unfurled were intricate layers of invigorating eucalyptus, bright citrus, energizing petitgrain, sweet bergamot, lively lemongrass, heady rosewood and lush fir. The aroma, both subtly and surprisingly fresh, was one of those rare "aha" moments perfume makers dream of.
Scooping the air toward their noses, they knew instantly that they had discovered a fragrance of uncommon character, complexity, warmth and depth. They named it Eucalyptus—and put all the "u"s and "y" in the right order.
Ever since, Eucalyptus has been one of our most popular collections. And its connection to its users remains a powerful—almost spiritual—one. As Gracie writes, "This scent smells like the Angels in Heaven have made this! It smells heavenly!" Thank you, Gracie, Dina, Emily and everyone out there who think the world of Eucalyptus.
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Nostradamus – a cruel hoax
I have a bad knee – well, they did surgery on it in 1983. My knee now reacts to the weather. I can always tell when it rained yesterday. Such is the case with the predictions of Nostradamus.
It is Christmas Day and I am tired – I stayed up late last night – hoping to see Santa Clause and his reindeer. Some old guy wrote a poem a couple of hundred years ago predicting that St. Nicholas would come by way of flying sleigh, powered by flying reindeer, to slip down our chimneys and leave gifts for all good people.
Oops. There is always a catch in the ancient prophecy hoaxes. There is always an out – if Santa does not come then that means you were obviously not 'good.' Nostradamus is the biggest prophecy hoax since his ancestor wrote the Book of Revelation.
A prophecy is a prediction of the future, not a metaphor of the past. The wackos who believe Nostradamus was a prophet point to all of the historic events of the 20th Century to validate their looneyism faith. They say Nostradamus predicted Hitler, the assassination of JFK, The World Trade Center attack, and all other conspiracy related events. How convenient.
I personally prefer prophets who provide useful information – something that will help us prevent future catastrophes. We have a few prophets running for political office in America. They are giving the if/then prophecies of behavior. I have some of my own.
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In my work with glass cutting, I was inspired by the ancient Mayan civilization artwork known for their high level of aesthetic and artisanal sophistication in both architecture and in decorative arts.
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We are just 50 meters from the most consistent wave in West Africa overlooking the spot from the house. "Ngor right" is also known as the first wave they surfed in 'The Endless Summer' movie. Only one minute walk to the calm sand beach in the bay of Ngor.
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In the summer of 2011, fans of the nostalgiac '90s programming on Nickelodeon were delighted to see a new middle-of-the-night block on TeenNick called "The '90s Are All That." From 12am to 4am, people can see shows like All That, Kenan and Kel, and Hey Arnold. The response to the programming was highly positive, often having weeklong trending topics on Twitter and high Nielsen ratings. Now it seems Nickelodeon is taking another step into the past by bringing back one of their classic game shows, Figure It Out.
Figure It Out was a late '90s childrens' game show that aired on Nickelodeon for 4 seasons (1997-1999) and was hosted by Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders. The show centered around children with unique talents, and four celebrities (mostly stars on Nickelodeon shows at the time) would have to guess what they were by asking yes or no questions. Periodically, they would often get clues in weird and wacky ways (and would get slimed, a Nickelodeon staple). Nickelodeon president of development and original programming Majorie Cohn said, "Figure It Out is a show that celebrates kids and their wonderful and often bizarre talents. In this internet age where kids are expressing themselves online, it feels timely to give them a TV platform to showcase those talents in a uniquely Nickelodeon way." The show will be hosted by Jeff Sutphen, known to Nickelodeon fans as "Pick Boy" (formerly of U-Pick Live). I grew up with this show and I am mildly curious to see what they'll do with this new version. Perhaps they will also revive other Nickelodeon game shows like Double Dare, Slime Time Live, and Legends of the Hidden Temple. Are you happy to see Figure It Out return to the airwaves?


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The feminist phrase "what is personal is political" applies not only to feminists but to lesbians as well. The phrase has come to mean that distinctions between the personal and the public realms are fallacious (Humm 204). But can the phrase also be applied to lesbians--particularly young lesbians--who do not identify themselves as feminists?
Women who love women still face discrimination in Catholicism-dominant Philippines, and the lesbian movement has been fighting this discrimination since the 1980s alongside their heterosexual feminist counterparts. Although most lesbians readily subsume themselves under the women's movement, they still have distinct concerns that can be addressed only by breaking out into another movement. Young lesbian advocates who started this struggle in the 1980s and 1990s have been lying low these days, focusing on other aspects of their personal lives and contributing to the political struggle when time permits. And while the younger lesbians have entered the scene to continue what was started, they basically come and go--a phenomenon that began at the start of this decade.
Today's society is indeed less strict and forbidding when it comes to homosexuality. With the rise of new technology and more intelligent social mores, Filipino lesbians and bisexual women--especially the younger ones--seem to have more "weapons of adaptation" in their arsenal today such as organised lesbian groups, exclusive parties, chat rooms, SMS communication, and independent publications on print and the web to strengthen and expand their community. Young lesbians are not afraid to speak their minds out about their sexuality--they come out as early as high school, explore the lesbian nightlife while still in college, including women-only dance parties and designated 'women's bars,' and discuss common issues over the Internet with other lesbians from around the world.
But do these young lesbians use these tools to enhance and push forward their feminist ideals? Do they have such feminist ideals?
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Definitions of feminism by feminists tend to be shaped by their training, ideology or race, but in general, feminism is defined as the ideology of women's liberation since intrinsic to all the strands of feminism is the belief that women suffer injustice because of their sex. Consciousness-raising is seen as the quintessential method of feminism (Humm 94-95).
Although aware of what feminism is about, the young lesbians, however, seem to have more personal things to deal with, and feminism is sometimes not one of them. They associate feminist advocacy with women rallying in the streets and carrying "women-power" slogans. Though this description is true to a certain extent, the young lesbians do not understand that this kind of activism is a historically important picture of early feminism and that such forms of protest, for paving the way for certain liberties women experience today, have their own legitimacy and should be respected.
Some young lesbians do not want to be associated with the "grim and determined" stance of rallying feminists. In the age of wireless communication and the World Wide Web, young lesbians consider these early modes as "outdated and very 1980s."
Roselle Pineda, a 27-year old art teacher and lesbian advocate, believes that this kind of stance by young lesbians of today is not helpful to the lesbian or the feminist movement, pertaining to her observation that most of these young ones have an "underdeveloped" social consciousness. "Not all lesbians are feminists, especially in the Philippines, because a lot of them are not exposed to feminism. Feminism is as much an identity as it is an ideology."
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I do so love green chiles. They are quite handy for giving dishes a lift. But usually, it involves putting a tiny 4 ounce can in a recipe full of other creamy things. This recipe is all about the green chiles. You cannot escape them. You will know whether or not you want to try this recipe by the end of this sentence because I am about to tell you that there are 28 ounces of canned green chiles in this recipe. Are you still with me? Yes, that is four of the big cans or seven of the little ones. Yeehaw!
If you don't cook with green chiles often, don't worry. These are not jalapenos or habaneros or serranos. In fact, they are a very mild green pepper. The resulting stew is not so much hot, as peppery. That is, it is a sensation of flavor, not heat. The use of tomatoes softens the dish a little bit. Other than that, it is a very straightforward braise.


text: Cape Town - South Africa will pick up more medals in the pool on the final evening of swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, if bookmakers are to be believed.Separated at birth? Graeme Smith and Cameron van der Burgh...Team SA are represented in five of the eight events scheduled for Tuesday night.In the men's 50m freestyle (20:16 SA time), Roland Schoeman and Bradley Tandy are considered as outsiders for the podium, but don't be surprised if veteran Schoeman shocks with a bronze at the very least.SA has two bites at a medal in the men's 200IM (20:47) in the form of Chad le Clos and Sebastien Rousseau. Le Clos is favoured to pick up the silver medal behind Australia's Daniel Tranter, while Rousseau should finish just outside the medals.In the men's 1 500m (21:23), Devon Brown isn't expected to see the SA flag raised as he's only the fifth favourite in the eight-man final.The women's 4x100m medley relay (22:02) doesn't offer much hope of a medal unfortunately, but SA can expect to finish off the swimming in Glasgow with a medal in the final race, the men's 4x100m medley relay (22:12) where our most likely scenario is a third-place bronze.


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Bucs (11-4) at Bears (4-11)
OF NOTE: Yes, it's going to be cold. And yes, the Bucs always seem to freeze like a Popsicle when it's 40 degrees or below. And yes, the Bucs, who seemed on the fast track to the Super Bowl in recent weeks, layed an egg Monday night against the Steelers. QB Brad Johnson (back contusion) still will be inactive, but concussion-plagued Chris Chandler will not start for the Bears either. Former CFL player Henry Burris, who replaced Chandler on Dec.22, will make his first NFL start. That guarantees a Bears loss.
FRY'S PROMISE: Bucs 20, Bears 3.
OF NOTE: Talk about a meaningless game. Actually, the Lions are in the running for a high pick in the draft. Only the Bengals have fewer losses. With QB Joey Harrington injured, the Lions should help their draft position without much effort. The Vikings, meanwhile, seem to have found their offensive groove. Too bad this is the last game of their season. The Lions defense is no match for WR Randy Moss and QB Daunte Culpepper, who figure to have huge games today. Let's hope this one doesn't get too ugly.
FRY'S PROMISE: Vikings 34, Lions 20.
OF NOTE: Remember when this game meant something? Not today. The only thing hanging in the balance is the job status of Cowboys coach Dave Campo. Believe it or not, Campo's team isn't that bad. Dallas has lost several close games and has a defense that easily could decide the outcome today. Look for the Cowboys to shut down Washington's running game and force rookie QB Patrick Ramsey to beat them, which he won't. This is one time when nice guys like Campo won't finish last.
FRY'S PROMISE: Cowboys 24, Redskins 23.
OF NOTE: The Texans wrap up what has been a solid first season. Don't be surprised if they contend for the division title sooner rather than later. At this point, they are no match for the Titans, who are arguably the hottest team in the AFC, perhaps in the league. As long as gimpy QB Steve McNair doesn't go down, the Titans, coming off a win over the Jaguars, should cruise. The Texans' stingy defense will keep this one from being a blowout. If QB David Carr can put some points on the board, the Texans could scare the division champions.
FRY'S PROMISE: Titans 30, Texans 14.
OF NOTE: This is a huge game with playoff and division implications for both teams. Both are struggling, especially the Fins, who are coming off a shocking loss at Minnesota. The Pats were pasted by the Jets. New England would seem the choice today if only because the weather plays to its favor. Still, don't underestimate coach Dave Wannstedt's ability to inspire his team. Losing this game, which likely would cost the Fins a playoff berth, would be too embarrassing. Wannstedt won't let it happen.
FRY'S PROMISE: Dolphins 27, Patriots 24.
OF NOTE: The Ravens put up a valiant effort down the stretch, but it was too little, too late. Meanwhile, the Steelers appear to be peaking at the right time. Their Monday night win at Tampa Bay couldn't have been bigger for them. The Ravens defense will keep this one from getting out of hand, but expect an easy Steelers win. QB Tommy Maddox got banged up against the Bucs but should be healthy enough to get the job done today. To protect him, the Steelers likely will pound the Ravens with RB Jerome Bettis.
FRY'S PROMISE: Steelers 26, Ravens 10.
OF NOTE: The Bengals, bless their hearts, actually are coming off a win against the Saints. They could make it two straight today. A lot depends on the availability of RB Corey Dillon, who is nursing a bruised elbow. Without him and in frigid conditions in Buffalo, the Bengals have no chance. If they allow the Bills to score more than 30, they'll be sunk regardless. The Bills could have beaten the Packers on Dec.22 and probably will try to prove it by piling it on the Bengals, who may be powerless to stop them.
FRY'S PROMISE: Bills 31, Bengals 22.
OF NOTE: Who knows what the Browns will do? One minute they look like playoff contenders; the next minute they look awful. The Browns defense is fast enough that QB Michael Vick probably won't find a lot of running room, but RB Warrick Dunn might. He has exploded lately and could pose serious problems for the Browns. The Falcons must start fast and gain the early lead, taking the crowd and the Browns out of the game. If the Browns are in the hunt near the end, they could ruin the Falcons' playoff chances.
FRY'S PROMISE: Falcons 29, Browns 22.
OF NOTE: What's up with the Saints? They lost two straight -- to the Bengals and Vikings -- and now must win today to keep their playoff hopes alive. It won't be easy. The Panthers played them close in their earlier meeting and probably should have won. And the Panthers have won three of their past four. Thing is, the Saints are at home and undoubtedly will be re-energized by their fans. Meanwhile, the Panthers have nothing substantial to play for. The Panthers' highly respected defense should keep it close, at least until halftime.
FRY'S PROMISE: Saints 27, Panthers 14.
OF NOTE: The Colts blew a chance at winning the AFC South with their loss to the Giants. Now they need to win to make sure they have a place in the playoffs. They are playing at home, but that didn't help them Dec.22. The Jags could rally around coach Tom Coughlin, whose job is on the line. The outcome will hinge on the Colts' ability to run the ball, which sets things up for QB Peyton Manning and WR Marvin Harrison. If the Jags shut down Indy's running game like the Giants did (held to 50 yards), the Colts are in trouble.
FRY'S PROMISE: Colts 28, Jaguars 13.
OF NOTE: There's a lot riding on this one for both. The Packers are trying to secure a first-round bye and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs, and the Jets are just trying to get in the playoffs. The Packers have been solid if not impressive lately, so they could be due for an upset, especially considering they are playing away from Lambeau Field. Plus, the Jets are soaring after beating the Patriots on the road in a must-win game. This one could go either way, but for some reason the Jets seem the wise choice.
FRY'S PROMISE: Jets 22, Packers 21.
OF NOTE: It's a good thing the Seahawks aren't going to the playoffs because nobody would want to play them. They are easily the best 6-9 team in the league. They've won three of their past five and were within a touchdown of pulling out those two losses. They are catching the Chargers at the perfect time. The Bolts are slumping, dropping six of their past eight. Still, the Chargers will be desperate to snatch one of the last playoff berths as well as finish with their first winning season since 1995.
FRY'S PROMISE: Chargers 30, S'hawks 26.
OF NOTE: The Broncos were manhandled by the Raiders and need to regain their confidence to prevent the Cards from making a disappointing season worse. Having QB Brian Griese would help, but backup Steve Beuerlein is more than capable. As shattered as the Broncos are, they probably aren't in any real danger of losing. The Cards' season is essentially over, meaning they aren't likely to play their best. Their game plan will be to run the ball and hope that RB Marcel Shipp can go over 100 yards, which they would need to do to pull off this upset.
FRY'S PROMISE: Broncos 34, Cardinals 17.


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Kim and Asada also had to go through this phase in their career in which Liza is right now, building the reputation and increasing PCS.
Kim's components in her SP in 2006-2007 season:
Skate Canada 24,83
Trophee Eric Bombard 27,52
Grand Prix Final 28,40
Worlds 30,46
Like Irina Slutskaya once said: "The same program, the same dress, different components". Did Yu-Na's choreography or transitions really change so much between SC and Worlds? It's the same with Liza now. If she was allowed to compete et Euros and Worlds her components surely would be higher there.
I have found myself crying when watching some of Mao's performances. Never had that happened to me before. In such moments, 'artistry' is not enough of a word to capture the wonderfulness of her performance.
I think Mao's spins and skating skills have improved over the years, and so she's a more rounded skater now than before.
But I would say that she has always had the ability to embody the music because she has an innate ability to seamlessly coordinate parts of her entire body into a fluid movement.
If facial expression is considered important in terms of defining whether or not someone has 'artistry', then she's been improving every year. If you look at some of the photos of Mao performing Bells, her facial expressions were surely appropriately dark to match the darkness of Bells, and her joyful smile this season is appropriate to the moods of this season's music.
I don't think I am.
What you are saying is: 10 different skating fans of 10 different skaters all think their own favourite skaters is the most artistic, AND they would be right, because it is 'subjective' to their preference and what they think artistic. I disagree with that.
In the bigger world where artistry are often applied (fine art, music, literature, fashion, theatre etc) regardless of my own personal preferences, the ones that qualifies to be called artistic is the one that shows their best work with originality, credible persuasion through all manners of creativity, imagination and expressions beyond what is laid out infront of them, hence in the art circle, we often talk about 'beyond the self'. That is what artist do. They need to visibly seen make progress, realisation, exploration in their journey for new ideas, old ideas, bring forth their own unique thinking, approach, communication that is different from the last to to reach some aspect of transcension and realisation.
While you can be the most successful fashion designer in the world doing the same thing over and over again, but that does not make you the most artistic designer. It just makes you a great craftsman like those Saville Row suits makers who can make immaculately suites but were based on knowledge passed down through generations instead of go out there and become a Paul Smith, who are interested in new fabrics, textures, new techniques, new quirky ideas and styles, individualism etc.
But that's your own definition of artistry. Artistry is only in the eye of the beholder. You can't say that because the world has said such and such to be artistic, that it is the standard, because all those that have been deemed artistic are also determind by human subjectivity. Based on your criteria, roughly 99.9% of all people are not artists, because they are not progressive enough. My mother is an artist, she worked both as a corporate graphic designer as well as creating her own art, and I have learned from her that there is artistic merit in everything. You can find artistry in the strangest things. For example, I recently visited the art museum at my university (which is very large so the art museum isn't some run-of-the-mill gallery) and there was a painting on display that was quite literally cheap paint and nails on a canvas creating two people's heads that looked like a second grader's art. Yet we were told all about it, told it was a fine example of folk art. I didn't think it was artistic, it certainly didn't look "new", but others basically planted that it was art in our heads. And I don't think you can do that.
The question here is: who determines artistry? For example, I don't think Bach's music is "artistic" (if that makes any sense) at all, but as a whole human society has deemed it "art". I don't really find Andy Warhol's work innovative (although I love it), but it too, is art. So how can we say something is artistic or not? We didn't determine that they were artistic, others did for us. So artistry is all about your own interpretation IMO.
Here is the definition of art (noun): the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Aesthetic principles are created by human subjectivity.
But aren't definitions also created by what humans think "oh, this describes the word best"? We're trapped!
Of course, this is all in my point of view (aka subjective). So take it as you will! Different opinions spice things up.
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Podocarpus sellowii
Syn.: Nageia sellowii (Klotzsch ex Endl.) Kuntze 1891 (Farjon 1998). There are two varieties, the type and P. sellowii Klotzch ex Endl. var. angustifolius Pilger ex Engler 1903, p.88.
Shrubs or trees to 20 m tall and 100 cm dbh (usually much smaller), with a rounded or irregular crown. Bark red-brown, fibrous. Twigs green, stout, round, prominently grooved between decurrent leaf bases. Buds conical, 3-4 mm wide at base, sometimes clad in leafy scales up to 15 mm long. Leaves densely borne on the twigs, 8-15 cm × 12-20 mm on juveniles, but only about 4-9 cm × 7-11 mm on mature trees; variably shaped, from elliptic to lanceolate to linear, straight or slightly curved, with a wedge-shaped base and 2-3 mm petiole; midrib raised on lower side; shiny dark green, coriaceous, not waxy. Pollen cones axillary in groups of 1-2, 1-3 cm × 2-3 mm, microsporophylls ovate-acuminate. Seed cones axillary, solitary on peduncles to 10 mm long, with a receptacle that turns reddish purple at maturity, 6-8 × 4-6 mm, bearing a seed (including epimatium) 7-9 × 5-8 mm (Eckenwalder 2009, Farjon 2010).
Variety angustifolius differs from the type in having smaller leaves (3-5 cm × 3-8 mm on mature trees, vs. 4-9 cm × 7-11 mm) and smaller pollen cones (ca. 10 × 1 mm, vs. ca. 20 × 2 mm) (Farjon 2010).
Brazil. The type variety is widespread, occurring in Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, and Sao Paulo. Variety angustifolius is rare, occurring only in two districts of Rio de Janeiro: Cerro dos Orgaos and Pico do Tingua (Farjon 2010).
According to Carvalho (2003) and Ledru et al. (2001), this species has an extremely broad and scattered range, occurring in montane vegetation, north to Amazonas, Pernambuco and Ceará, south to Rio Grande do Sul; west to Rondonia, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. Márcio Renato Guimarães (e-mail, 2003.07.12) reports that in S. Brazil, it is typical of montane areas in the Tropical Coastal Range Rainforest (Mata Atlántica), and rarely occurs within Araucaria angustifolia forests.
Based on data from 11 collection localities, it grows at elevations of 530 ±510 m. Within its range, mean annual temperature is 20°C, with an average minimum in the coldest month of 11°C, and a mean annual precipitation of 2020 mm (Biffin et al. 2011, Table S5).
In the granitic peaks of Serra do Mar (as in Anhangava Mount, Paraná, more than 1,200 m), it grows among the rocks, in the Ilex theezans montane forest, where it occurs as dwarf plants less than one meter tall (Márcio Renato Guimarães e-mail 2003.07.12).
It can be found growing with Podocarpus lambertii and Araucaria angustifolia in Campos do Jordão State Park in São Paulo State (22.7333°S, 43.7333°W) at elevations of ca. 1800 meters (Sousa et al. 2004).
Variety angustifolius can most readily be seen in the Reserva Biologica Tingua (Farjon 2010).
Named for the German botanist Friedrich Sellow (1789-1831), who collected the type specimen (Eckenwalder 2009).
Carvalho, P.E.R. 2003. Espécies florestais brasileiras: recomendações silviculturais, potencialidades e uso da madeira. http://www.cnpf.embrapa.br/pauloernani/temp/indek_especies.htm, accessed 2003.07.12, now defunct.
Ceccantini, Gregório, Universidade da São Paulo, Instituto de Biociencias, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail, 2007.08.02.
Ledru, M.-P., R.C. Cordeiro, J.M.L. Dominguez, L. Martin, P. Mourguiart, A. Sifeddine, and B. Turcq. 2001. Late-Glacial Cooling in Amazonia Inferred from Pollen at Lagoa do Caçó, Northern Brazil. Quaternary Research 55:47-56. ABSTRACT: New pollen data from a core at Lagoa do Caçó, Maranhão state, Brazil (2°58'S 43°25'W; 120 m elevation), show higher frequencies of Podocarpus at the end of the Pleistocene than today. The increase in Podocarpus, which follows the successive increase of various pioneer species such as Didymopanax, Melastomataceae/Combretaceae and Cecropia, implies a progressive late-glacial increase of moist and cool climatic conditions. A comparable increase in Podocarpus is found in other lowland records in Amazonia. A review of published pollen data from Amazonia suggests that the moisture source was from the southeast. By contrast, present day moisture comes from the tropical Atlantic and from the Amazon basin, with its convective precipitation. The likely cause for the southeastern moisture source between ca 15,000 and 14,500 cal yr B.P., was enhanced polar (Antarctic) advection that reached low latitudes and maintained year-round the meteorological equator in its austral winter position or reduced drastically its southern summer displacement. This hypothesis is corroborated by marine and ice core records.
Sousa, V.A., I.P. Robinson and H.H. Hattemer. 2004. Variation and Population Structure at Enzyme Gene Loci in Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) O. Ktze. Silvae Genetica 53(1):12-19.
The species account at Threatened Conifers of the World.
Angely, J.A. 1965. Flora analitica do Parana. (L Parana)
Laubenfels, D.J. de. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the genus Podocarpus. Blumea 30:259.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
The Substance of WVU v. Rodriguez
In an interview yesterday about West Virginia's suit against Rich Rodriguez, I made two points to a reporter (prior posts here and here). First, I think the case is going to end up back in state court--the university is an arm of the state and not subject to diversity jurisdiction in federal district court, not to mention the uncertainty about where Rodriguez was living on December 27. Second, I think this controversy could have significant future effects on the relationship between coaches and schools, the mobility of coaches, and the ability of schools to protect themselves from vagabond coaches.
Today's Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette prints in full a letter Rodriguez sent earlier this month to WVU Athletic Director Ed Pastilong (this is the letter that had as a return address Rodriguez's West Virginia residence and was used by the school as evidence that he remained a West Virginia citizen). The letter seems to hint at what Rodriguez's substantive case will be in the lawsuit and it includes the following:
On Page 6 of the lawsuit (Article 17) it mentions that the University and I mutually understood and agreed on all the terms, conditions and understandings either oral and or written. It also mentioned that any further modification or amendment was effective only if made in writing and signed by both parties. This is not true - several issues were promised and discussed and were oral agreements that I thought would be upheld. Verbal promises and statements made by Mike Garrison, Craig Walker and several Board of Governor members were a factor in my agreeing to sign the second amendment. They include:
In other words, Rodriguez is arguing that he does not owe $ 4 million; he owes at most $ 2 million or maybe nothing at all, because university officials orally agreed to waive the clause, although it remained in the agreement. Now, it was been almost 15 years since I dealt with contract law (back when I was slogging through Contracts as a 1L). But am I completely off in remembering that a basic doctrine of contract law prohibits a party from arguing in court that an oral agreement altered or overrode a contract term--that the terms of the contract control over any oral representations to the contrary, unless the contract allows for oral amendment? Can anyone educate me on this part of contract law?
Clearly, those facts could set up an issue of fraudulent inducement, either as an affirmative defense or counterclaim. But can he defeat the university's basic breach of contract claim in this way?
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I think the parol evidence rule may apply here in not allowing any of this extrinsic evidence of oral an oral agreement. At the same time, doesn't an exception to the rule apply in that the oral agreement R.R. is alluding to was subsequent to the written contract? So, if the exception does apply then this evidence should be allowed and taken into consideration by the court.
In regards to integration, whether the k is deemed partially or fully integrated, contradicting evidence can never be admitted. Here, it appears that the 2 million dollars buyout clearly contradicts the 4 million dollar buyout. A court will most likely rule void the extrinsic oral agreement. Further, i think a four corner test (which I'm not sure whether WVU follows) would demonstrate that the document is complete for it already includes the buyout price of 4 million.
In regards to integration, my understanding of the law is that any relevant evidence is admissible to prove that the written K was not intended to be final.
The way it was taught to me, the parole evidence rule isn't applied all that rigorously. Maybe my prof was too into legal realism, but he basically told us the court will or will not use the parole evidence rule depending on the outcome and the circumstances of the case. Generally it's more fair to have all of the relevant evidence factor into the decision, so the parole evidence rule is set aside.


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Sabres Edge Canadiens 3-2
Published 7:00 pm, Friday, January 10, 2003
Stu Barnes had a goal and an assist, and Martin Biron made 25 saves to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
Defensemen Alexei Zhitnik and Henrik Tallinder also scored for Buffalo, which has won four of five, including a 4-2 victory over Boston on Friday night. The Sabres, 12-23-5-2 overall, have just four wins in 21 road games this season.
Montreal, which has just one win in its last nine games, got goals from Saku Koivu and rookie Marcel Hossa _ his third in as many games since being recalled from the minors.
Barnes, who assisted on Zhitnik's goal 48 seconds in, made it 3-1 early in the third when he scored his ninth goal.
Koivu scored with 16:12 remaining to draw Montreal within one, extending his points streak to seven games.
Canadiens goalie Jose Theodore made 29 saves, including 15 in the second period when Montreal was outshot 16-5.
Trailing 1-0 after Zhitnik beat Theodore with a shot from the point in the game's first minute, the Canadiens squared it with 41 seconds left in the first when Hossa one-timed a pass from Patrick Traverse past Biron.
Tallinder gave Buffalo a 2-1 lead when he beat Theodore 1:57 into the second for his third goal of the season.
Theodore made several big saves late in the second to keep the Canadiens within one, including a huge pad stop on Miroslav Satan on a Sabres power play in the final minute of the period.
Notes:@ Sabres rookie Ales Kotalik, who scored two goals in each of his three previous games, assisted on Zhitnik's goal to extend his points streak to five games. Kotalik has six goals and three assists during his streak. … Koivu has two goals and eight assists in his seven-game points streak. … Canadiens LW Doug Gilmour returned after missing four straight games because of a sore lower back.


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Ryan Kwanten has gone all Brendon Villegas on us. Possibly.
A photo of the True Blood star exposing his penis has emerged online. Is it real? Hard to say, considering Kwanten's unit is pretty much the only body part of his that has not been exposed on the HBO hit.
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I am very fortunate to have two events Sunday night (May 24). At 4:00 p.m. EST, I am going to be the guest for the live chat on the Fiber Arts/Mixed Media Forum with Susan Sorrell. My topic will be Art Marketing and Licensing.
At 7:15 p.m. EST, I will be on Inspired at Home with Tiffany Windsor on BlogTalkRadio. My topic will be Trending and using trends in designing, home decor, and crafts.
I would love to have you join me as you will be able to ask questions. If you are unable to join in, you can still listen to to the interviews later by visiting the above links.
I had some wonderful pictures that I took at Quilt Market. However, something happened to my disk with the photos and all the files were corrupted with strange file names. I have been unable to open them to post the pictures. What a bummer! If any of you know how this could have happened, please let me know.
Quilt Market was wonderful, upbeat and exciting! I will write more about it in the next couple of days and hopefully, I can get some pictures that my friends took to show you.
I hope to visit with you tomorrow night!


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Northeastern's Burlington campus to expand
By Sara Brown, Town Correspondent
Burlington's Planning Board Thursday approved a proposed expansion of Northeastern University's Burlington campus. The addition of the 60,000- to 70,000 square foot graduate-level engineering research center to the campus, which is off South Bedford Street, will nearly double the square footage of the campus buildings.
The project had the endorsement of the Board of Selectmen and the town administrator.
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"Northeastern has always been a good neighbor to us in Burlington, and to have them expand in Burlington is a definite plus because it helps keep Burlington on the map and Northeastern is a good school,'' said Ralph C. C. Patuto, the selectmen chairman and a Northeastern alumnus, told the Globe earlier this year.
Noting the new building would house a new specialized graduate-level program, he said, "It's exciting to bring that level of education to Burlington.''The Globe reported in May that the existing three buildings on the Burlington campus are not suitable to accommodate Northeastern's future plans for the campus.
Renata Nyul, Northeastern's director of communications, said at the time that those buildings will no longer be used for classes as of the end of this term and their future use remains to be determined.
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Advent Conspiracy and How I am Like a Christmas Tree
I'm not sure when trimming the Christmas tree dropped out of the top ten Christmas activities in my opinion. Somewhere along the line I lost the magic of transforming the green bush into the sparkling personification of Christmas. It may have been, now that I think about it, back in high school when I realized my mom was tricking my friends and me into doing "her" job by offering pizza and cookies. It was a brilliant ploy, and one that I've used successfully around here, as well.
But today is the day. And by the end of the day I will be thrilled with it all, entranced, sitting in my living room with the lights low thinking about how it was all worth it. And it will be, once again, magical.
I read something today about Christmas trees that has me thinking.
We bring an essentially dead tree to our home. We water it and give it fresh cuts to keep the water flowing. Some people swear by misting their trees. Yet no matter what we do…the tree is dead. At best we're giving a form of life support to keep up appearances. Without roots, without a healthy, though essentially unseen, delivery system for nutrients and contact with the ground, the tree is dead.
This Christmas as we've been contemplating the Advent Conspiracy and ways to celebrate Christmas differently, I want to make sure I'm not like my Christmas tree. I want to make sure my roots aren't severed from the source of life. There's no sense in making myself appear decorated with a bounty of tinsel, ornaments, garland. I'd rather spend the time rooted and grounded, connected to God and my family and the things that matter the most.
I want to live more this Christmas.
Our friend Timmy Allen created this video for Advent Conspiracy at Christ Fellowship this year. I think it's awesome. And someday (tomorrow, I think!) I'm going to make my acting debut as a stick model in one of his productions. Check this out. And then think about ways to grow your roots deeper this Christmas.
The Advent Conspiracy – Enter the Story from Timmy Allen on Vimeo.
Me. And You.
What an amazing weekend!
Some of the details will have to wait for another post, but I was so privileged to go and tour a completed and running safe house for girls rescued from trafficking. It is the only Christian safe house in the state of Florida. And while I was humbled at the dedication it takes to run the house, I was also overwhelmed by its simplicity.
You see, this wasn't a huge home. It was pretty average. And they didn't have ten and twenty girls. They had two, with room for five. And these two houseparents were not specialists trained for trafficking. They were parents who answered the call to love on two girls in a radical, unconditional way. The overwhelming part was this: it was all so doable.
And yet there is only one Christian safe house in the state of Florida.
This has got to change, and you and I are the ones who have to change it.
Later in the weekend David and I were at a weekend retreat sponsored by the Luis Palau Association. If you don't know who Luis Palau is, click this link or google his name. We heard so much over the course of the weekend that confirmed what God was saying. This is our job to do, and so we need to prepare.
Luis was speaking on Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice Isaac, his son. True worship, he said, involves sacrifice. We are called into the world to tell others that Jesus loves them more than they could imagine, more than they've been told. He loves them so much, that nothing they have done could keep him from heaping even more love on top of them. He loves.
But for someone to hear that message, others must sacrifice. As Luis said, "Someone must pay the price. Someone must sacrifice to do the work."
My mind flashed to the safe house.
I don't know what it is going to look like yet, but that someone is me. That someone is you. These girls need a place to heal and be restored.
This is our sacrifice.
Less is More: choosing the theme for your life
I've already sensed the trend for 2011 in my life. I'm fighting it, but I know that I'll give in eventually. Here it is:
Less is More
Not a novel idea, and not my own idea. John Maxwell kicked off our year at Christ Fellowship (as he always does) with a series of messages on finding our fresh start for 2011. This one point, a sub point at that, leaped out and grabbed me by the throat. Less is more.
I'd already picked my New Year's resolution, which was to simplify.
Now Maxwell was telling me that Less is More.
He went on to remind me of something I've known intuitively for awhile: you can only tell a few stories with your life. If you try to tell them all, your words become jumbled. It's hard for God to speak out of a jumbled mess. But if you edit the themes of your life down to what God has truly called you to, then you can make your life tell the story He planned for you from the beginning. Edit your own story.
Well, then.
I've spent today looking back at the past year and forward to the next one. I'm working on narrowing down my field of vision to the story God wants me to tell. I'm still stuck in the chaos of my everyday, unedited life, but I'm working on it.
Simplicity is complicated.
How about you? What story is God asking you to tell in 2011?
Breaking my silence…
You may have noticed how quiet Coffee Shop Journal has been for the past few weeks! I've sat down to write more times than I can count, but the peace and quiet only lasts for a few moments these days. And above all else, I need silence or white noise when I write.
Honestly, there's been another reason to be quiet, as well. David, Jillian and I have been on a trip with our church to Israel. We returned last Friday, and have been living in jet-lag induced brain fog ever since. I'm slowly starting to climb out of it! I had my computer in Israel, but was competing for internet time with Jillian. I lost. As you know. And then I discovered that posts I was writing in Jerusalem were sailing off into the ether, rather than landing on my page. I gave up the idea of blogging my way through Israel.
I think I lost something precious in the process of giving up. I lost the ability to share the journey with you. And to me, sharing the journey is really the only point. On the other hand, I gave myself the time to just process what God was saying to me on the trip. That was valuable.
So here's the weird secret about my trip to Israel. I expected a spiritual high. I expected that His voice would be clearer in that land he so clearly loved. I expected to be close to my traveling companions, and to make life-long friendships. I was excited about hanging out with John Maxwell and Tom Mullins and busloads of people I'd not met yet. And all those things kind of happened. There were spiritual moments, and some friendships that were new. But somehow that part of the trip fell short in my mind, as if God doesn't make a command appearance to speak in a new way. On my tour schedule. "Lord, there are 45 minutes of free time in the Garden of Gethsemane. Please be prepared to speak then."
He spoke differently. He spoke by enlarging who I am in my spirit, by making me more comfortable about my place in the world and more uncomfortable about my purpose in the world. He spoke through memories made with Jillian, Melissa and Nick (our traveling companions) and Todd (our neighbor and pastor). He kind of spoke in the absence of speaking, if you know what I mean.
It's kind of like this: I have no plans to renew my wedding vows on my 25th anniversary or any other anniversary. Why? Because I've never forgotten my original vows for even a moment. Why renew what has never been tarnished? (By the way, I'll happily take new diamonds..jewelry is exempt from that discussion.). In the same way, I didn't feel a fervent spiritual renewal in Israel partially because He's been doing a lot of speaking and poking and prodding in my life anyway. I didn't meet Jesus anew in Israel; I took the trip with him in the first place.
I'm sure that I'll be writing more about this or that experience in Israel. It's inescapable. And the trip really did change my worldview and outlook more than I realized at first. But in the meantime it's just good to be home on my couch, wrapped up in the throw I bought in the marketplaces of Jerusalem and watching the videos on Facebook posted by team members.
400 Yard Sales in Palm Beach County to stop human trafficking
This past weekend Christ Fellowship hosted over 400 garage sales all over the county. We did it to raise funds and awareness for the issue of human trafficking. So in our own yards, in our own neighborhoods we all did what we could. In the end we have raised thousands and thousands of dollars that are going directly to help free people kept in slavery all over the country and the world. That's pretty amazing!
What amazed me more, is that apparently that's not a big deal.
We couldn't get any local news organization even interested in the fact that the Freedom yard sales were going on at all. In fact, trafficking in general is apparently not a very popular topic. It's time to change that.
Today, in fact, was "Freedom Sunday" all over the country. Churches were preaching freedom for the captive, hope for the hopeless. I love that. David and I were worshipping at Ascent City Place this morning. I don't know if it was the temperature (warmer than usual in the venue) or the crowd (more people crowded in than normal), but in the midst of worship I had a huge claustrophobia attack. If you've ever had an attack, then you know what it feels like to be stuck in a place (front row!) when your heart is pounding and the sweat starts pouring. I've dealt with these every so often, so I have a few tricks up my sleeve. None of them worked. I kept praying that I would be able to quell the rising panic and return to worship. I needed to worship. I needed to worship even in the middle of the panic.
I made it. In a few moments the attack faded, and I was able to go back to singing and standing next to David as usual. It's been quite awhile since that happened to me, so I was surprised. And more surprised moments later, when God used it for an object lesson. You see, we began talking about the 27 million people in slavery today. People in bondage. People who feel, as I just had, utterly trapped and unable to breathe. With my heart-rate barely back to normal, I suddenly had more empathy for girls stuck in crowded brothels, never seeing daylight.
My attack passed, but theirs will only pass when we do something about it.
A scene from our garage sale on Saturday keeps running across my mind. In South Florida, you see, it is common to find Haitian women at garage sales, buying large amounts of clothing to send back home. This situation is even more pronounced now, in the aftermath of the hurricane. So often, we'll drastically cut the prices of the clothing to help these women help their own families. But this sale was different: it was a charity sale. Knowing that the day was early and we didn't want to cut prices too steeply, we were busy negotiating with the women. Sometimes these negotiations got firm, and lasted awhile.
One of these women drove a hard bargain. She wasn't our toughest customer of the day, but she was close! She needed help hauling her treasure to her car, and we gladly jumped in. Half way down a long driveway she stopped and began hunting in her purse, her pockets, her back pockets. We assumed she was hunting for her keys, and began looking about for the set of keys. She kept digging. Eventually, this woman pulled out a folded up bill from some deep pants pocket, turned back and put it in the donations for "Hope for Freedom."
I realized two things: she had negotiated down to nearly her last dollar, and then she had turned around and donated that last dollar to do what she could.
The news may not have thought that the Freedom garage sales were a big deal, but I did. I can hardly wait to see what's next.
Seeking Justice…
It's been kind of quiet on the blog-front this week, hasn't it? Life has been moving along full tilt for me and mine these days. In brief:
- This week we are preparing for a yard sale, something I promised NEVER to do again! But Christ Fellowship has chosen to stand strongly against the tremendous injustice of human trafficking. As a way to raise both funds and awareness, church members are hosting yard sales for Freedom this week. The idea is simple: we sell of our junk and donate the money we raise to one of several ministries that work in the trafficking area. We have hundreds of homes all over the county hosting these yard sales so pray for a nice weekend and lots of eager treasure-hunters!
- These are some of the ministries that we hope to support. If you have a few moments, go look up their websites. Love 146, Not For Sale and International Justice Mission.
Super Bowl Party for the homeless…and the rest of us!
The Super Bowl for the City party is in the history books, and though I may not remember who won it in a few years, I'll remember how I spent this Super Bowl. It turns out that hanging with the homeless for the game is a whole lot more fun than my usual guest list!
The first few minutes are always the toughest. That's when you realize that this isn't just another party, these aren't just nameless people, and the gulf that divides us is both broader and narrower than you can imagine. Those first minutes are terrifying: talk to them? Do they want me to? As it turns out, they do. They really do.
My first conversation with a guest was with a man named Charlie. He was a white guy with gray and black hair. I first spied him getting a hair cut at our hair cutting station (manned by a local stylist school students). The cut gave me the opening I needed. "I like your new hair cut."
"It's good, it is," he responded. "You people are doing something amazing. You're gonna be blessed." This felt backwards to me. Wasn't he the one supposed to be blessed? I sat down and chatted with Charlie. Turns out that he had studied to become a priest, before deciding the Catholic religion wasn't for him. I was surprised he'd lasted that long. When Charlie was six a nun accused him of lying. "Stick out your tongue," she said. "See…it's black. I can tell you are lying and God's going to get you."
"My tongue isn't black, I'm not lying, and I know this much: God isn't going to get me. He loves me and you don't."
Charlie's eyes were yellowing and kind of watery. He looked like he'd had a rough couple of years. But he told me he wasn't there for the Super Bowl ("Don't care who wins") or the meal ("I can eat anywhere"). He was there to talk to people, normal people. It was one of the few chances he has to sit with people and strike up a conversation.
So simple to sit and talk. So simple and so hard.
The night was filled with little conversations like that. There was the dancing woman who seemed determined to show everyone each layer of her clothing, causing a little drama when she got to the last layer. There were the die-hard football fans in the front row. Two guys argued about why in the world we'd want him to wear a nametag with his name on it. "They just want to address you by name! It's ok. No disrespect." There were the foodies thronging at the table and stashing whatever looked like it would travel. All over the stadium there were back packs and bags, bicycles stuffed with stuff, and even a stroller stuffed with at least three dogs, though I honestly couldn't tell if the dogs belonged to a guest or a volunteer! By the end of the night it didn't much matter.
And oh yes, there was Paris.
Paris was an outgoing black guy who liked nothing more than to sit and watch both the game and the goings on. He gave me an education. I sat with Paris for quite a long time, getting treated to his Barry White imitation and his monologue on life. A highlight may have been the moment he introduced himself to my husband as "I'm her lover; now don't get mad and fight me."
In the end, it was Paris who taught me the deepest lesson of the night.
As part of our outreach, we'd collected blankets to give away to our guests. This was vaguely prophetic as the temperatures (for Florida) plunged into the low 50's and it was COLD! So our guests, ironically, were wrapped up in their various new blankets while we volunteers had a taste of what it was like to be cold. Sitting with Paris, he kept asking me if I was cold. I finally admitted that I was, and he tossed me one of his three blankets he had scored. "Well silly white girl, put that blanket around you."
Oh! That's when I realized it. If I put that blanket around me, I'd look like a "Guest." With little else to distinguish us, those blankets were the easiest way to tell who was a guest and who was a volunteer. And while some of the volunteers would know me, certainly not the majority.
What will you do in that moment? You have a choice to be identified not with the helpers, but the helped. Not the powerful, but the humble. I wanted a badge, a wrist band, an identifier. I wanted to keep my identity. I turned down the blanket. For awhile. But I got cold and I had been thinking about why I wouldn't take that blanket. So I finally accepted Paris's hospitality and charity, and borrowed his new blanket. Sure enough, it wasn't much later that one of our volunteers sweetly asked me my name and if I'd like some chips or crackers. I smiled, said "No thank you!" and resisted the urge to say "By the way, I'm a volunteer. Elder's wife. I'm just cold."
Paris seemed to get that. And if he didn't, I sure did. God was speaking furiously to me. He was talking about how it feels to be identified with the people you are trying to help. To take on the outer clothing of the homeless for just a minute or two. It was a powerful lesson, only partially learned.
Super Bowl in the City. It didn't make much lasting difference in the plight of these folks. It didn't change much except to provide a few services they may have needed and a night of pure entertainment in lives that rarely indulge in such a thing. The addicted left mainly addicted, the homeless left homeless but with a new haircut perhaps. But it was a bridge. It humanized the stories. The party brought together people who needed to learn from each other. And hopefully, that Super Bowl party may have planted a seed of God's love and life in the kingdom.
And we'll always have Paris. 🙂
I'm pretty sure Jesus will be at my Superbowl party!
Kind of a dramatic statement, isn't it? But inbetween the cheering, the commercials, the dips and the wings, Jesus is definitely going to be at my Superbowl party.
Because David and I have decided not to throw our own party this year. Instead, we are going to Christ Fellowship's Superbowl in the City party. It's an outdoor event with an even mix of guests and volunteers. And oh yes, the guests are the homeless of West Palm Beach. With a great outdoor venue and the game on a large screen, the homeless guests will have the rare opportunity to sit down and eat a meal and enjoy the game. There will be a few resource tables set up for them in case anyone is needing help, but in general the point is to enjoy spending time watching the game. In fact, as Pastor John Poitevent pointed out: "Don't forget these are guys watching football. If you're going to refill their drinks, do it during the commercials."
Yes, I might miss my own Superbowl party with dips and chips and my own spot on the big comfy couch.
Yes, I might (will) be nervous interacting with our guests at the Superbowl in the City party.
Yes, I believe Jesus will be there hanging around with us. Makes it all worth it.
This is a video of Bridgetown Ministries, in Portland Oregon. They do a groundbreaking ministry to their City every Friday night. Around 3 minutes into the video they show the footwashing stations, something we will also be doing on Sunday night.
The missing New Year's posts…
I tend to go MIA around New Year's for no other reason than I am a stubborn person underneath my calm (!) exterior. It's the same reason why I won't go to the gym today even though I'm craving a little exercise. I just hate to do the thing that is expected of "everyone."
So you haven't read any end of the year retrospectives, or best of 2009 posts. No lists of what's to come in 2010. At least not from me.
But I may have to rethink that strategy. Two people lately have challenged my thinking in this area.
Mark Batterson, in his new book Primal, puts a new spin on the idea of "taking every thought captive." I don't have the book with me, but the concept was that God speaks to us in "God ideas" and we have a responsibility to capture them so that He can use them. Anything less is being an unfaithful steward of the imagination, intellect and creativity that God has given us.
And last Sunday, John Poitevent (Christ Fellowship's City Place campus pastor) challenged us to spend time reflecting on the year and relationships past. His point was that we need to constantly try to bring the kingdom into our relationships. This requires reflection. Further, we need to spend time pondering both our successes and goals as well as our failures. When you fail, you need to immediately turn and worship God, allowing your soul to reconnect to God and denying the enemy a chance to beat you over the head with the failure.
So I guess some reflection time needs to be scheduled in the next few days after all! But hey…at least it isn't New Year's Eve anymore.


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Artificial sweeteners are chemical body toxins that must be detoxified. Over half of America now uses a no calorie sweetener. And it shows around the waist.Most of the foods you eat have artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohol, or sugar in them. It may well be the reason you continue to gain weight? These chemicals are more addictive than alcohol and nicotine and is the reason you can't only eat one potato chip and put the rest away.
Why does all food taste so good now? Sweet foods play a big role in your life. Unfortunately, fake sugar, and even real sugar, will not satisfy your body needs nor make you thin and happy. Sweet treats are the comfort food of your choice. After all, you call your dear ones: Honey, Sugar, and Sweetie. As you eat these empty calories you are actually starving your cells. Some calories have a long lasting affect on what you eat later on.
You eat over 140 pounds of caloric sweetener per year, (43 teaspoons a day). Drinking more than one pop a day raises your risk of obesity by 80%. No wonder you are gaining weight.
Sugar satisfies a craving for energy and gives your brain a serotonin mood boost. Sugar is cheap, adds bulk and texture, gives you empty calories, and takes the place of real nutrients.
The sugar in the past came from complex natural sources as fruit, honey, molasses, barley and maple sugars that had other nutritional qualities.
Since sweet foods are seasonal, it was grown only in the summer, and exclusively in warm climates Only after 1900, did we refine sugar from sugar cane. We got smart and refined pure sugar from its food source: thus it became a rare empty calorie, without protein, fat, nor fiber.
Sugar now comes in many forms, from simple carbohydrates, like white bread, to complex forms like dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, malto-dextrose, and corn syrup with high fructose.
Sugar, sucrose, is a carbohydrate that directly burns into glucose, fueling your brain and muscle. The purer the source, the faster it bypasses digestion and enters your blood stream. Refined sugar and carbohydrates is just as addictive as tobacco and alcohol.
It raises your blood sugar, causing more insulin to be released; this in turn, drops your blood sugar to very low levels, causing you be become hungry again. This insulin spike also blocks leptin, a hormone that your fat cells secrete, that normally tells you to stop eating. Fat people have lots of leptin, but the brain can't respond to it.
Eating sugar shoots up your sugar, and triggers insulin hormone, to prepare your cells to absorb this sugar. It stimulates serotonin, a mood elevator, giving you pleasure. Special taste buds trigger enzymes, making you anticipate that extra boost.
Foods with high sugar and fat content promote a resistance to fullness. These foods block the hormonal messages your body sends to the brain to stop you from eating and cause you to feel even hungrier.
To date, the FDA approves five artificial sweeteners: aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame-k, neotame, and sucralose. These are considered food additives by the agency and are not foods.
Artificial sweeteners are chemical body toxins that must be detoxified. They don't nourish your body in any way and have zero calories. They are meant to confuse and momentarily distract your brain, priming the brain for an insulin surge.
You feel cheated when the surge doesn't come. Soon you seek carbohydrates to satisfy your craving. To give you a needed jolt, caffeine is added to most diet pops.
Approve in 1981, it was found as a tabletop sweetener, and in gum and breakfast cereal. Use was expanded to pops in 1983, and to all foods and drinks in 1996. Today, aspartame is found in a staggering number of grocery products. Many health bloggers are linking it to neurological diseases.
A researcher raised concern about brain cancer in 1995, and the European Ramazzini Foundation in 2005. They were concerned it caused leukemia and lymphomas. The FDA say there is no human proof to stop its use.
Equal and NutraSweet are the trade names for aspartame; in the body, it converts into methanol and two amino acids—aspartic and phenylalanine acids. People with phenylketonuria find this very dangerous. This methanol accumulates in your body as formaldehyde, and can alter your nervous and immune systems.
It has a blue package and is used with another artificial sweetener, Ace K, to make Coke Zero. It is mixed with sugar and now also sold as Nutra Sweet Cane. Under heat it falls apart and turns into formaldehyde and methyl alcohol.
Think of our troops, who get palates of this in 100 degree temperatures, drinking this when the aspartame has" fallen apart." It is now being mixed with Stevia in many products.
Harvard researchers found people who consume diet drinks, gain a lot of weight.
The more you drink, the fatter you get! How can that be since it has no calories? Your body is fooled into thinking that food that doesn't taste good is delicious. Empty sweetness makes your body expect food, and when it doesn't come, you get hungrier.
Put some diet pop in a pan and heat it. It will break down into formaldehyde and you might get a migraine. The aspartame molecule is a precursor of formaldehyde and methyl alcohol.
An enzyme in your brain and eye tissues turns this alcohol into formaldehyde. Methyl alcohol, also called wood alcohol, and methanol was the major cause of death and blindness in prohibition days. You don't want to fool around with nature. Studies show it ca
n damage your short-term memory, cause breast cancer, genetic damages, birth defects, thyroid disease, and multiple sclerosis.
It is the trade name for Splenda, a synthetic compound found in 1976. It is 600 times sweeter than sugar and has no calories. In 1999 it was approve for all foods. Being made from sugar it is advertised to be natural, has a yellow package, and has captured 60% of the market.
Diet authors for the South Beach Diet and Atkins diet push Splenda. Under heat, unlike aspartame, it does not fall apart and keeps it s flavor.
Indeed, It is made from regular sugar, but has chlorine atoms added. British scientists, looking for a new pesticide, added three OH (hydroxyl ions, and replaced them with chlorine atoms. Take a lot of this and your body will become a well-chlorinated swimming pool.
Once sucralose gets into your bowels, it can't be easily processed, and all these unrecognized chlorine molecules must be excreted. Rodents were found to have shrunken thymus glands, and enlarged livers and kidneys. Since there are no human studies on this, the FDA approved it. We are the guinea pigs.
Side effects of Splenda include rashes, agitation, diarrhea, muscle aches, headaches, bowel cramping, asthma, breathing difficulties, and sinus, bladder, and kidney problems. These same side effects are found from using aspartame.
Saccharin is 70 times sweeter than sugar, and also has no calories. Brand names are Sweet and Low, Necta Sweet, and Sweet Twin. It is used in tabletop sweeteners, baked goods, pops, jams, and gum. This was discovered in 1879, and was the first chemical sweetener.
The FDA, who felt there was no need for safety research, grandfathered it in. Remember when it was added to coke and sold as TAB? It comes in a pink package and called Sweet N Low.
In 1977, it was banned because of bladder cancers found in rats. Congress issued a moratorium on the ban until more safety studies were done, and a label warning was required. In 2000, the warning label was removed. .
Today it is considered generally recognized as safe (GRAS), and is in OTC medicines and some gums. End of story.
The new kid on the block is Stevia. It was approved only as a dietary supplement, under the names Truvia and PureVia. This December, the FDA approved it for all foods. Since it comes form a plant leaf, it is pushed as a natural sweetener.
It is mixed with bulking agents to get rid of its menthol and licorice taste. It is being packaged in a green color. It costs 5 times as much as SweetN Low which is the oldest and cheapest artificial sweetener.
Stevia is mixed with sugar and is selling as suncrystals. Pepsi has introduced it in its orange juice as Trop50( half water and half orange juice, with a splash of stevia). It is now in what is called Sprite Green.
Diabetic foods have for many years have polyalcohol sugars added: sorbitol, xylitol, malitol, and mannitol. They have half the calories of sugar and are not digested by the small bowel. The FDA as a food supplement and not a food additive approves it.
These sugar alcohols are found in fruits and vegetables and made commercially from dextrose, and are found in many processed foods. If the label reads 'sugar free' the chance are you have a sugar alcohol in the food.
Polyalcohol adds texture to foods; keep food moist, and keeps food from browning on the shelf. Foods, containing polyalcohol, can't be sweetened without adding dietary sugar. Despite the sugar free label, the foods contain carbohydrates and give you calories,
ACESULFAME-K (potassium)
This sweetener is 200 times sweeter than sugar and has zero calories. Brand names are Sunett and Sweet One. It was approved in 1988 as a tabletop sweetener. In 1998 it was approve also for pops, and in 2003 it was approved for all food, except meat and poultry. It is present in cough drops, mints, pops, candies, frozen desserts, and baked goods.
This sweetener is 13,000 times sweeter than sugar and has no calories. It was approved in 2002 for everything except meat and poultry. It is structurally similar to aspartame, and also has potential for release of phenylalanine, but the FDA deems no warning labels are necessary.
Comes naturally in fruits and vegetables as lettuce, carrots, strawberries, corncobs, and mushrooms. It is a sugar alcohol from birch trees, and is made today from dextrose. It is in your chewing gum, candies, frozen dairy deserts, mouthwash, jellies, and even your toothpaste. Dogs eating this product get liver disease and clotting problems.
Found in chicory and roasted malt. It gives a creamy consistency to foods. It is found in sugar free candies, as a candy coater, in gum, chocolate flavored deserts, baked goods, and ice cream.
Is naturally found in fruits and berries. Sorbitol is added to shredded coconut, diet drinks and foods, and chewing gum. It also has a laxative effect.
Mannitol is found in pineapples, olives, asparagus, sweet potatoes and carrots. It is a bulking agent for powdered foods, and is found in nutrition bars and candy. And chewing gum to keep the gum moist and non-sticky. It is a carbohydrate and only 2 calories per gram of carbohydrate are absorbed (sugar has 4 calories per gram). It has virtually the same glycemic index as table sugar (52 versus 60 for sugar). It is an expensive sugar and causes gas, diarrhea, and cramping. The only thing good is that your teeth will not get cavities, since bacteria can't grow in the alcohol.
Our FDA has not adequately done a good enough job ensuring our long-term safety with the addition of artificial sweeteners and polyalcohols. Being used in minute but powerful amounts, it requires no labels and no safety testing, and these chemicals are marketed to you as nutrients.
Many now are being mixed with regular sugar to mask their bitter after tastes. None have required any research safety studies to get approval. Whatever you ingest must be somehow excreted from your body. You hope your kidneys and livers can adapt and excrete these chemicals, which are not nutrients nor natural food supplements.
There is no free lunch. How do you know how much artificial sweetener and sugar alcohol your body tolerate? Could this be why you can't lose weight, are nervous, and why you have an ever expanding waistline? Is our new epidemic obesity problem related? You tell me!


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Kerry Washington Is Nominated for a 2014 Golden Globe!By Alexis Johnson | Dec 12th, 2013
Congratulations to Kerry Washington! She has been nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama for her portrayal of Olivia Pope in Scandal. This is both Kerry and Scandal's first Golden Globe nomination. Earlier in the year, Kerry was nominated for a 2013 Primetime Emmy Award as well as Co-Star Dan Bucatinsky.
We're thrilled Kerry is nominated and wish her many congratulations! Please share your thoughts for Kerry and favorite Olivia performances in the comments below. Here are some of our favorite Olivia performances ever:
This sweet joke-vetting session
This moving confession to Huck
This epic father-daughter talk
This devastating love scene in the Rose Garden
You can see the winners for the 2014 Golden Globes announced on January 12th.
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In the previous post, I asked what is the difference between having a painful experience myself and feeling sympathy for someone else's pain. The answer seems pretty clear. My experience of my own pain is neurologically 'hard-wired', but there is no direct neural connection between other persons and myself which exposes me to their pain. Things could have been different. If we, like the Na'vi of the movie Avatar, had the physiological equivalent of USB-ports which allowed us to connect our nervous systems at will, then we could experience the pains, pleasures, and other sensations of other people while we were connected to them. The 'privacy' of our minds is an anatomical limitation, not a metaphysical necessity.
A parallel question can be asked about future experience. What is the difference between anticipating my own pain and having sympathy for a friend whose pain I can foresee? As in the case of present pain, there is a vivid difference in my experience between anticipating having pain, and expecting you to have pain. There is nothing resembling a direct neural connection between myself, now, and myself in the future, to explain this difference. Nevertheless, neuroscience can help us understand it: why it is so vivid, why expectation of my own pain makes me anxious rather than just sympathetically concerned, why foreseeing pain in my own future feels like an unavoidable problem for me in a way that foreseeing your pain does not.
Another difference is that sympathy for others, unlike self-concern, seems at least partially under conscious control. When we feel we cannot afford it, we tend to dial it down or switch it off altogether. It feels optional, in contrast to the sense of unavoidability that clings to self-concern.
In his book, Hardwired Behaviour, Laurence Tancredi of the New York University School of Medicine offers some clues to an answer from a neurological perspective. The engine of self-concern is a cyclical interaction between the limbic system, which generates our emotions (giving emotional 'meaning' to experience), and the prefrontal cortex, which makes plans and decisions. (more…)


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- Transfer to another Council dwelling
- Am I eligible to apply for a transfer?
- Can I apply for a Mutual Transfer?
- How do I change the names on the tenancy - Transfer of Tenancy?
Transfer to another Council dwelling
If you are a Tenant of the Council and need to move from your current home you can apply for a transfer to alternative accommodation with South Dublin County Council. Transfers are facilitated in accordance with the Council's Allocation Scheme. Eligible applicants are placed on the Council's Transfer List.
The Council also facilitates Mutual Transfers where two tenants apply to swap dwellings. This tends to be a quicker process than being placed on the Transfer List and can be approved once the following criteria is met:-
- A minimum of two years living in your current home.
- A clear rent account.
- Complied with the terms of your tenancy.
- Kept the dwelling in a satisfactory condition, an inspection will be carried out.
Am I eligible to apply for a transfer?
To be eligible for the transfer list, an application will only be accepted on the basis of the below criteria:-
- Exceptional medical/compassionate grounds (Regard to be had for report from Council's Medical Advisors/Housing Welfare Officers as appropriate)
- On grounds of anti-social behaviour where a Garda Superintendent has stated that there is a risk to personal safety
- Older Persons (aged 55 or over) downsizing accommodation
- Tenants downsizing to the specific unit size of accommodation that matches their need
- Overcrowding
- Tenants other than those in categories (c) and (d) above downsizing accommodation to make better use of housing stock.
How Can I apply for a Mutual Transfer?
A mutual transfer can be arranged between South Dublin tenants or tenants of another Local Authority or Voluntary Body as long as both Authorities are agreeable
Criteria for both parties as follows:
- Clear rent accounts.
- Compliance with the terms of the tenancy during existing tenancy.
- Acceptance of both parties to occupy dwellings in existing condition
- The accommodation involved must suit the needs of both sets of applicants i.e. if one tenant has a boy and a girl or 3 children then they must be transferring into a 3 bed unit.
Tenant's find a suitable swap themselves. Both Tenants complete the application form and submit it to the Council for approval.
South Dublin County Council maintains a register of tenants who are interested in a mutual transfer. If you want to be included on the mutual transfer register please complete the relevant section on the Transfer Application form.
How do I change the names on the tenancy - Transfer of Tenancy?
A transfer of tenancy is the process whereby a name is either removed from, added to or changed on a tenancy. This can occur as result of a number of difference scenarios such as a marriage, death or legal separation. For a transfer of tenancy application to proceed, the form must be completed and submitted along with the relevant documents and the applicant must have a clear rent account and no charges. Persons wishing to be included on a Tenancy must have been included on the Rent Account for two consecutive years prior to the application. Application forms.


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Are Women Really Supposed to be Silent? Musings on the Paradox of Women's Spiritual Authority
To neither be seen nor heard, this is the prescription and role of women in the Church—at least, according to some interpretations of the scripture. The role of women within the body of Christ is a difficult one, a topic which I have tried to avoid for some time because I am caught between two extremes that make me rather uncomfortable. Along with homosexuality, the role of women within the church is an issue over which the body is splitting apart.... Read More


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