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I've got a podcast up on the Emerging Writers' Festival blog about how important it is for writers (and people generally) to remember their bodies.
Have a listen here.
I've got a podcast up on the Emerging Writers' Festival blog about how important it is for writers (and people generally) to remember their bodies.
Have a listen here.
My next post is up on the Emerging Writers' Festival blog this week. It's about the relationship between breathing, writing and anxiety or distress.
I am standing in the kitchen, in front of the toaster and the kettle, waiting for the toast to pop, when I realise I'm barely breathing. It's a cold morning, and I can feel the cool floorboards through my thin socks and the colder-still granite bench top under my restless finger pads. My breath is shallow and quick and maybe even a little bit painful.
I start to count to four as I inhale, and again to four as I exhale — a familiar exercise and one I run yoga students through at the beginning of every class I teach. It helps, slowly. My breath begins to slow down, to feel calmer, even though I'm still aware of the tightness in the muscles between my ribs and in my belly.
This is a very distinct memory, although I'm sure it's actually cobbled together from a number of different occasions where I've been dealing with some sort of anxiety and noticed it in my breathing. I know it's happened often, because I remember so many different sets of small details. I remember exactly this situation, but with bare feet on a tiled floor, for example, and with shod feet wandering through a park. I breathe this way, and have to struggle to calm my breath, when I have deadlines looming or angsty life events.
To me, how someone breathes is one of the most intimate things you can know about a person. There are three reasons I think this: you have to be quite close to someone to notice how they're breathing; breathing is quite literally the first and most enduring way in which we draw the outside world into ourselves; and I know enough about the anatomy, physiology and psychology of breathing to see how it's useful as an indicator of how well someone is coping with their emotions.
Read more here.
It's May. I'm not sure exactly how that happened… but I am excited that this month is here, mostly because it means the Emerging Writers' Festival is just around the corner. And this year I'll be involved in some sessions at the festival, which makes it doubly exciting.
This year, the second weekend of the festival will be held at the beautiful Abbortsford Convent, which is one of my favourite places to wander around on a weekend anyway. That weekend, The Writers' Retreat, is focused on wellbeing for writers, and the program includes events on parenting and writing, health and writing, balancing writing with life, and nature writing. You can view the full list of events here.
I'll be involved in two events on the weekend.
Workshop: Yoga and Writing
11am-12.30pm, 1 June 2013
The Salon, Abbortsford Convent
Tickets $15, $12 concession
I'll be running a workshop on yoga and writing on the Saturday morning. I can't even begin to articulate how excited I am about running this. For me, yoga is an absolutely vital part of my writing practice. I use it in all sorts of ways, from a remedy for the physical ills that come with sitting hunched over a desk, to supporting and enhancing (I hope) the intellectual and emotional wrangling necessary to get words on a page.
The workshop will be an opportunity for me to share some of the ways that I use a yoga practice to help my writing, but I also want it to be a pretty open format. I'll be running the class through some of the yoga postures and other practices, but questions and discussion will be most welcome.
I always hope in my yoga teaching to help people develop sovereignty with their own bodies (and minds, for that matter), so that they can begin to use on their own the tools yoga offers for whatever it is that they need. This workshop is no exception. So come along and ask me as many questions as you like!
Seriously. I love it when people ask me questions about yoga.
Symposium: Keeping Active in the Arts
2.30-4pm, 2 June 2013
Rosina Auditorium, Abbortsford Convent
Admission is free
I'll also be involved in a symposium-style event on the Sunday called 'Keeping Active in the Arts'. In this session we'll be talking about the benefits of staying active, and how to actually do that.
Having recently gone back to a job that keeps me at a desk three days a week (as opposed to teaching yoga full-time, like I was in Sydney), I've spent a lot of time in the last few weeks mulling over exactly these questions. I'm really looking forward to discussing some of the ideas I've had, and getting some new ones from others.
But honestly, the whole weekend sounds like it's going to be wonderful, so even if you can't make it to my events, do come along. Here are some pictures I took on a recent visit to Abbortsford Convent — it's worth coming just hang out in the place.
This week my next Emerging Writers' Festival CAL Digital Mentorship Program blog post went up. This one's on the way exercise changes our brains and how that, for me, relates to writing.
When I was a teenager I loved to run. We lived on the edge of town, not far from where the road turned from bitumen to gravel. Every afternoon I'd head for the gravel, and often I'd close my eyes as I ran, just to listen to the sound of my feet crunching, the sound of my own breath, sometimes the sound of my heartbeat.
I ran for physical fitness, in part. But mainly I ran because it made me feel good mentally, because it calmed my mind.
On days when I was particularly anxious, or even angry, I'd sprint the section between where the bitumen ended and the end of the street. While I caught my breath after those sprints, I'd stretch my legs on top of the white wooden reflector poles, gaze out over the paddocks and feel the tension — the anger, the anxiety — loosen and drop away.
I was one of those angry teens. I was angry for reasons I didn't understand, prone to outbursts where things were yelled, doors were slammed and where I lashed out at my family. Running calmed me. I didn't know how it worked, all I knew was that it did. I knew that when I got home I'd be better equipped to do my homework or study, less likely to blow up at the antics of my younger brothers.
My relationship with anger is still one of the strongest driving forces in my life. Anger motivates me to do things, to write things. Expressed in a helpful way, anger can carry passion and fascination, so I don't think of it as a bad thing. But it can also become a (rather terrifying) hindrance too — it can cloud my judgement, it can leave me full of energy but with no idea where to direct it, rendering it and me effectively useless. None of this is particularly conducive to working or writing or living well.
Anger is why I've always been a highly active person; exercise helps me to turn anger into something useful.
Late last year, I was excited to become one of three mentees in the Emerging Writers' Festival Digital Mentorship program. I'll be writing about a post a month for them for the next six months or so (you can read more about the program, and the other writers on it, here.)
My first post, an argument for armchairs and an exploration of how posture affects thinking, went up yesterday. You can read it here.
This week I'm editing a piece I've been working on now for a few months — lots of research, lots of reworking. This edit, among other things, has involved rearranging the text, slightly changing the structure (thankfully not so much the actual content of the sentences). It continues to amaze me that moving a sentence from one part of a piece to another can change the overall piece so much. A tiny shift, a massive change.
It also seems kind of fitting that I should be doing this work in my writing when I'm doing exactly that kind of work in my life.
Moving interstate forces you to rearrange things.
I will write more about the moving interstate rearranging once things have settled a little. Which, I hope, will be soon.
I've begun reading Wendell Berry, as part of some research that I'm doing, and finding, as Michael Pollan says of him, that his writing makes so clear things that should already be self-evident, and it does so in a way that is "always patient and logical, as plumb and square and scrupulous, as well-planed woodwork". I could share about a million quotes that demonstrate this, but this one is my favourite so far. He's writing about the stupidity of factory-farming animals, but the ideas here could apply to all sorts of areas:
"If the people in our state and national governments undertook to evaluate economic enterprises by the standards of long-term economics, they would have to employ their minds in actual thinking. For many of them, this would be a shattering experience, something altogether new, but it would also cause them to learn things and do things that would improve the lives of their constituents." (from Stupidity in Concentration, 2002)
What I love about Berry's writing is that he doesn't forget farmers in his talk of the stupidity of the overall system. While its not universally the case, so much of the criticism of our food system neglects to mention farmers — which, unconsciously I'm sure, serves to lump them in as part of the problem. In fact that problem is the overall business model — which, for the most part is something that's as much imposed on farmers as it is on the people who eventually eat the food it produces.
"It ought to be obvious that in order to have sustainable agriculture, you have got to make sustainable the lives and livelihoods of the people who do the work. The land cannot thrive if the people who are its users and caretakers do not thrive." (from Stupidity in Concentration, 2002)
Definitely something worth remembering.
This essay is from a collection of Berry's work, entitled Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food, which is available on Amazon here. (Full disclosure: I've got an affiliate account with them, which means I'll make a small commission if you purchase the book through that link.)


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First up is activations. In my research into list building for this journey, I came across one prevailing thought. People would post lists asking for opinions, and again and again the response would involve this thought. You need enough activations. For those of you not sure what I'm referring to, Dark Age uses an alternating activation turn sequence. The logic being that the player with more activations can react better and control the field. As I've played games, I wrote lists that had what I thought were an acceptable number of activations. I used units that were points effective for creating activations. What I found was though I had plenty of squads and individuals, I was struggling to have an impact on the field. Dark Age is a game about killing your opponent, without effective killing models it didn't matter how many activations I had. My friends and I tweaked the list and though I have only 4 activations at 500 points, I feel that they are ultimately more effective. The prevailing thought behind this list is that I may have 4 activations to you 6 or 7, but if by turn 3 I've killed 2-3 of yours, we are on the same playing field.
Here is the list as it currently exists. The pictures aren't my paint jobs, but ones I found that I like.
Father Mayhem
3 Buzz Blades
Blood Reign (Attached to the Buzz Blades)
1 Puppet (With Keepsake)
Now, for those of you counting at home, technically that is 5 activations, but the puppet is only there to give the Keepsake an ablative wound. I played a variation of this list last night (instead of Keepsake and a puppet, it had 4 Buzzblades and Red) to great effect. Red being the only unit to not do anything for me, thus the change to Keepsake.
In other news, I'm looking for more opponents, so if you are in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, leave a comment below. Until next time...

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Here He Builds
The governor of California lives in one of his loft projects; the mayor of West Sacramento is moving into one of his townhomes. Even Barack Obama dropped by his office en route to the presidency. The scion of one of Sacramento's most prominent power couples, developer Mark Friedman is now stepping onto center court, hoping to shape the way we live and play through forward-thinking design, starting with the city's highest-profile building since the State Capitol. Meet our city's newest game changer.
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For Friedman's part, he says, "Mike is the best partner that I've ever had apart from my dad, and I deeply value the relationship." But consumed with The Bridge District project and the arena, Friedman had to put a lot of his smaller projects on the back burner, including one that he feels deeply passionate about—the restoration of the historic Crystal Ice buildings on R Street, for which Heller is now leading development.
Friedman's sense of legacy took on a different kind of importance in 2012, when his father died after three years of degenerative illness, a "cross between Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease," as Friedman describes it. Since Mark's return to Sacramento, the two had been both close and competitive, Friedman struggling to earn respect both from his dad and in a town dominated by Mort's accomplishments.
"Whenever anything was mentioned about Mark anywhere, it'd always be 'the son of Mort and Marcy Friedman,' " says Marjorie Solomon. But his father's death, coupled with his own success, quickly dissipated that tagline. He no longer had to define himself against the elder Friedman. Now, he was the elder Friedman.
"When Mark stood up at the memorial service and then a year later at the stone setting, I saw Mark in a way that I hadn't actually seen before," says Lial Jones. "It was important for him while he worked with his father to have his own development company, to do his own independent projects, to be very separate. And then, it was like, 'Now I need to come back in because I am the patriarch of the family. I'm honoring my father by continuing to greater heights.' "
Friedman quickly began melding his economic ideas into the Kings plans, preaching his belief in development as a social tool—both making profits and effecting change, and creating something more than a place to simply watch sports. He spoke eloquently at city council meetings and in front of state Senate committees and NBA owners. He chatted, evangelized and lobbied until the entire town knew his vision, even if they didn't know who to attribute it to—that this building, aside from being an architectural icon, would be an expression of who we are as a city. As Mayor Kevin Johnson puts it, Friedman framed the project as one that would reflect "our climate, our food, our respect for the environment, our entrepreneurial spirit, and our respect for the past while embracing the future."
"It's really about putting together a vocabulary that is capturing people's imagination," says Friedman. "It is so intuitively obvious to everybody, but as soon as you frame it in a way that is succinct, everybody says, 'Of course.' "
His language became key to persuading people to move forward, and his ability to articulate the potential of the arena beyond the interests of the ownership group turned him from just another minority owner to a major player.
"Very bluntly, I don't think that I could have done this without Mark Friedman because really the key component was being able to convincingly say we could build a new arena," says Ranadivé. "And there is nobody who understands Sacramento better than he does. He's a big-picture guy."
Marjorie Solomon says that big picture of what the Kings deal meant to both her husband and the city came soon after the deal closed and they hosted a dinner at their house for their new partners. They were sitting around with many of the team's principal owners—the Jacobs brothers, Chris Kelly, Andy Miller, Mark Mastrov and Ranadivé. "And everyone was talking about wanting to invest in Sacramento," she says. "If you get people from the outside coming in who have substantial wealth, which all those people do, and they want to make the place a better place, which they all profess to wanting to do, then you start having more synergy to make those kinds of things happen. This is just really the next step in a campaign to make Sacramento a better place."
Friedman is quick to point out that a project as vast as this is hardly under the control of one person. In particular, he says that Kings president Chris Granger has been fundamental in pushing "the idea of using this building to project Sacramento's identity on a national stage."
But Friedman, who has worked with the architects every step of the way, also owns that he pushed hard for the indoor-outdoor sensibility, and the final sunken bowl design with its hangar doors opening onto the central plaza is largely a result of that. It may sound like a trivial point—a pretty bit of propaganda as overused and meaningless as "cook's kitchen" or "move-in ready." But for Friedman, it implies something concrete and essential to success.
Friedman spends a lot of time thinking about space, the empty parts as much as the taken. He believes that space makes you feel emotions. Whether it's the instinctive formality brought on by a house of worship, or the way a grassy hill in a park begs kids to roll down it, the places that mean the most to people invoke feelings. Any of the architects the group approached could have made an iconic building—the Ranadivé mandate of an outline so distinctive that people can name it from a simple sketch. But Friedman knows what makes a building great isn't just in its form. It's when that form somehow tweaks at the subconscious, asking us to interact in some way, that creates a place we can't forget, a place we want to be.
"For Mark especially, this is more than a basketball arena," says Granger. "This is a civic place for Sacramento, a place where people can come together and feel excited."
Friedman is already hard at work creating that excitement and sense of community with his other projects. At The Park Moderns, for example, Friedman added undulations to the flat land to make his park more inviting and to give it places that felt sheltered. There is a wall along one side behind a small slope, which he envisions residents leaning against to read a book on the weekends. On the townhomes, the steps that rise up to the front porches are designed to separate the personal domain of the dwellings from the street, making it feel private and protected, a retreat for hanging out on warm nights. And inside Arden Fair mall, which he is currently remodeling, the old glass elevator is being wrapped with LED displays that will broadcast everything from video artwork to regional events—including, yes, probably a Kings game or two—in real time, turning what is essentially a banal corridor into a place to stop and interact. These are thoughtful and careful choices. They change what people will do in the space, and ultimately how people will feel there.
The sunken bowl of the arena—with seats below ground—is another careful choice. Traditional stadiums are enclosed with little view inside from the street level because there is nothing to see except the back wall supporting all those chairs. Opening that space by moving the seats down allows for the indoor-outdoor effect, and looking into the structure at street level becomes a dynamic sight line. That changes the feel of the plaza from being the entryway to a monolith into being a flowing spot that will hopefully attract people in its own right and work as the heart of the nearby burgeoning businesses when the arena is not in use.
"The [arena] plaza is essential to that because that is the place that is going to be visible, accessible and active at 2 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon," says Friedman. "It's critically important for the restaurants and the stores that we are going to develop that the plaza be a beautiful place that [people] want to visit. Otherwise all of our surrounding development doesn't work."
If those design choices turn out the way Friedman hopes, then "this becomes the center of Sacramento for the next several decades," says Granger, and could serve as that elusive bit of civic tinder.
In truth, Friedman daydreams not about what the finished building will look like, but what we will think of it, whether it will live up to this promise. "There's a moment that I imagine and look forward to, which is when the ribbon is cut and the big glass hangar doors are wide open," he says of that debut planned for 2016.
But until that hoped-for moment of validation, Friedman is all-in on the process, savoring what it means to be an NBA owner and the king of arena construction. For a guy who, as Johnson puts it, has "swagger," the pressure is part of the enjoyment.
"It's very interesting to be thrown into an ownership group where you're dealing with other people who are role leaders in their own professions, ranging from people like Chris Granger, who's one of the leaders of the NBA, or somebody like Vivek, who's got his own business and his own persona," says Friedman's wife, Marjorie. "Mark is fortunately secure enough that this can be something that's really exciting and fun for him as opposed to something that's threatening. To rub shoulders with these people I think has been really, really great and horizon-opening for him."
Steering the Audi past the arena site, Friedman heads back up J Street toward his midtown office in the Elliott Building, the project that started him down the path that led him to this pivotal juncture. Eleven years later and 11 blocks away from that beginning, he's looking at a legacy he never imagined as a builder of this city in both concrete and ethos. The moment is not lost on him. "My life is charmed," he says. "There is nobody in Sacramento right now having more fun than I am." S


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Really good website with baby freebies or samples?
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July 3, 2009 12:52pm CST
I am looking for a good website that has samples and freebies for babies. Anyone know of any good ones that are 100% free? Thanks!
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@khayshenz (1384)
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3 Jul 09
startsampling.com - this is a fairly good site. I mostly go there for coupons and such. They have pretty good deals - especially if it's double coupon days at the local grocery stores. Those are always fun. But I think they're only for US residents. I'm not sure where you live. Maybe if you good f"freebies for baby" or something like that, I'm sure you'll come up with something. walmart.com - they have free samples as well. Though all I've gotten from walmart are soaps, shaving needs, women stuff. Maybe because I'm not interested with other stuff, so I don't look for it. Good luck!
@beautyqueen26 (16034)
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11 Dec 09
The walmart site has free samples all the time as you mentioned. I'm always getting new samples from that site. It's nice to have a few money saving samples around the house. Those shampoo samples save a trip to the grocery store, until regular shopping day. Sometimes, they will send out the free samples while other times, you can pick up the freebie in store at your local Walmart. Here's the link for that. http://instoresnow.walmart.com/enhancedrendercontent_ektid80785.aspx


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The family name Humulus, coined in the middle ages, is said to derive from the Slavic word chmele (hops) or from the old Germanic Humel or Humela (fruit-bearing). The speculation that the name comes from the Latin humus (earth) is improbable. The species name lupulus is the diminutive of lupus (wolf), which refers to the mistaken idea that the hop bine (creeper) strangles plants. The origin of the English name hop is unsure, but maybe traces through the Norwegian hupp, which means «tassle» or «tuft», or comes from the Anglo-Saxon hoppan (to climb).
The hop was known in antiquity, but does not appear to have been used either as a medication nor as an ingredient in producing beer. The 8th-century Arab physician Mesuë praised the syrup as a good medication for bilious fever and to purify the blood. It subsequently appeared in the herbal books of the middle ages. Lonicerus writes: «The water mornings and evenings, each time drunk on three Loth, and its drink mixed therewith, for three or four weeks, purifies the blood and drives out melancholy, which causes scabiousness, impetigo, manginess, leprosy, and all that comes of impure blood. The water, drunk, opens the constipation of the spleen, drives off stabbing pains, and all illnesses arising from or caused by a constipated spleen.» The physician Bohn wrote at the beginning of this century: «Hops have a strong diuretic effect and can be used to combat the uric constitution. Hops is considered a calming substance.»
The hop is a 4 to 8-meter-long climbing plant that likes to twine up hedges, fences, and the edges of forests. In spring, annual, thin, rough stalks with anchor-like, astonishingly adhesive reflexed hairs rise from the branchy perennial rootstock. In contrast to most European climbing plants, the hop twists in a clockwise direction. The broad, cordate, three- to seven-lobed leaves are sharply dentate and opposing. The hop is dioecious, i.e. there are male and female plants. The male flowers form loose axillary, hanging panicles with whitish-green, five-tipped bracts. They are not planted, because they do not develop lupulin glands. The female plants form cone-shaped catkins, small, oval infructescences composed of yellowish-green scales. The interior surface of the scale bears small, yellowish-reddish glands that give the hop its characteristic bitter taste. The hop pollinates by wind.
The hop flowers from July to August.
The hop originated in eastern Europe and western Asia. It loves deep, nutrient-rich soils and sites protected from the wind at the edges of forests, fences, and hedges at altitudes up to 1000 meters. In Europe, hops have been cultivated since the end of the Merovingian culture (ca. 3rd to 8th centuries), when beer supplanted mead. Today, hops are cultivated on high poles or wires in large hops gardens in many countries with moderate climates.
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Facebook privacy policy receives a major overhaul
Facebook rolled out a completely revamped privacy policy this week that promises users simplified tools to protect their personal information. In a Dec. 12 blog post announcing the changes, Facebook's director of product management Samuel W. Lessin said the updates are designed to help users control what they share on the site and provide tools to help them act on content they don't want shared.
Some of the changes include:
Privacy shortcuts and apps permissions. Under the Facebook privacy policy revamp, key settings such as privacy and timeline controls are available on the site's main toolbar, rather than forcing users to navigate separate pages. The changes also alter application permission settings, providing users more control over what they share on their Facebook page.
Updated user education and activity logs. Under the new privacy policy, Facebook will provide in-context notices to users throughout the site. "We've created a series of messages to help you understand, in context, that the content you hide from your timeline may still appear in news feed, search and other places," Lessin wrote. Facebook's "activity log" will feature new navigation interfaces as well, designed to ease users' ability to review their Facebook activity and to help them decide what they want made public on the site.
New tools to manage content. In Facebook's updated activity log, there will be a new "request and removal tool" that allows users to take action on photos they are tagged in. "If you spot things you don't want on Facebook, now it's even easier to ask the people who posted them to remove them," Lessin wrote.
The Facebook policy updates are scheduled to roll out before the end of the year, and come as online
privacy remains a hot topic in the IT world. Earlier this month, Delta Air Lines Inc. became the first organization to be sued for potential violations of California's Internet privacy law. The suit claims the mobile phone application "Fly Delta" violates the law because it does not adequately disclose what personal information is being collected from users and how that information will be distributed.
The U.S. government is paying attention to online and mobile privacy as well: This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the Location Privacy Protection Act, which would require companies to get customers' consent before collecting or sharing mobile location data. The move came just weeks after the same committee approved a bill to update privacy safeguards for email and other electronic communications.
As the quest for consumer privacy online continues, the federal government will likely keep seeking regulatory requirements to protect personal information. After being criticized for their privacy rules in the past, perhaps the new privacy policy is a sign that Facebook is trying to take the initiative and revamp consumer protection policies before regulatory compliance rules become the norm.


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Berry-Apple-Rhubarb Pie
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 65 min. + cooling
Makes8 servings
- 2-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter-flavored shortening
- 6 to 8 tablespoons cold water
- 2 cups thinly sliced peeled tart apples
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup halved fresh strawberries
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- 1 cup fresh blackberries
- 1 cup sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1-1/2 cups plus 1 teaspoon sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon 2% milk
- In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in shortening until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide dough in half so that 1 portion is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
- Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, roll out larger portion of dough to fit a 9-in. deep-dish pie plate or cast-iron skillet. Transfer pastry to pie plate.
- In a large bowl, toss apples with lemon juice and vanilla; add berries and rhubarb. Combine flour, allspice, cinnamon and 1-1/2 cups sugar; add to apple mixture and toss gently to coat. Spoon into crust; dot with butter.
- Roll out remaining pastry; make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edges. Brush milk over lattice top. Sprinkle with remaining sugar.
- Bake 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake 50-60 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cover edges with foil during the last 15 minutes to prevent overbrowning if necessary. Cool on a wire rack.
Editor's NoteIf using frozen rhubarb, measure rhubarb while still frozen, then thaw completely. Drain in a colander, but do not press liquid out.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 615 calories, 28g fat (8g saturated fat), 8mg cholesterol, 318mg sodium, 86g carbohydrate (46g sugars, 5g fiber), 6g protein.
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Jan 1, 2018
Made it for a dinner party, everyone loved it! Will definitely make again,
Nov 16, 2015
I won our village pie contest with theis pie.
Mar 27, 2014
Pie Crust is excellent. However, I'm having an issue with the filling being too runny. Admittedly I'm not following the recipe EXACTLY for Fruit quantities and types however. Just need to figure out the proper amount of flour..... Husband and Grandmother both loved it none the less. ;)
Sep 19, 2013
My husband loves rhubarb and he loved, loved, loved this pie. He usually shares whatever I bake with family & friends, but he refused to share even one slice of this pie with anyone. The only fruit that I had on hand that was fresh were Granny Smith apples. Everything else was frozen. I just let them thaw and drained them in a colander. The pie still came out great and was still delicious. I used a 9-inch glass Anchor Hocking pie plate with the handles. It said "Deep Pie Plate" on the bottom even though it didn't look that deep to me. Nevertheless, it held all the filling with no leaking. My husband is very picky about pie crust, but he said that this one was perfect. The Crisco makes a flakey crust and the butter flavor gives it a great [email protected] - I didn't have any issues with runny filling. I did follow the recipe in regards to quantity of fruit and the correct amount of flour. You diagnosed your own problem. Next time you make this pie follow the recipe and see if you have a better result.
Aug 29, 2013
I haven't made this pie yet but want to try it. I have a question though. It calls for a total of 7 cups of assorted fruits, even making this as a deep dish pie this seems like a lot not counting the flour and sugar you will be adding. Does anyone have a problem with it overflowing or all the fruit not fitting in the pie? What size pie plate is used?
Jun 5, 2013
did not make it yet
Jun 23, 2012

Amazing! I didnt have blueberries so I just added a little extra of everything else. I used whatever apples I had on hand instead of buying tart apples and I forgot to dot with butter. Still turned out fantastic. Best pie crust I've ever had.

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Sep 30, 2011
This pie is very easy and great tasting
Apr 17, 2011
This is an old time favorite of Naples, NY. It's called Fruits of the Forrest pie down there. Absolutely delicious!


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SLASH On Possibility Of New GUNS N' ROSES Music: 'I Think Everybody Wants To Do It'
August 4, 2018
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash has not ruled out the possibility of recording new music with the current incarnation of the band, which features three-fifths of the classic lineup. During a surprise appearance on yesterday's (Friday, August 3) edition of "Trunk Nation LA Invasion: Live From The Rainbow Bar & Grill" on SiriusXM, Slash was asked if the group has considered going into the studio. He responded: "It's been talked about. I think everybody wants to do it, and we'll just see what happens. We've been busy doing this running around the planet," referring to GUNS N' ROSES' ongoing "Not In This Lifetime" tour, which kicked off more than two years ago.
According to Slash, the original plan for the GUNS N' ROSES reunion was to only play five shows. "That's initially what it was gonna be," he said. "We didn't have a big, long-term thing [planned]. Axl [Rose, GUNS N' ROSES singer] and I got together, and we talked for a while and so on, and we thought it would be cool to these Coachella dates, because we [got] offered to get back together and do Coachella every year for years, and we obviously didn't do it [before]. So now that we were on good terms, it seemed like a good idea. So that was the basic focus — just to do those two shows and a couple of warm-up shows, so we did the Troubadour, one show in Vegas, in Mexico and the Coachella gigs. And that went so well, and everything just fell back into place. So we said, 'Okay, we'll do this U.S. run that they're offering us,' and then everything just snowballed from there."
Asked if he was surprised by how much of a commercial success the "Not In This Lifetime" tour has turned out to be, Slash said: "The last shows that we did was '94 in South America, so we were at that place where we were playing stadiums. So when this came back around, the first offers were to do stadium-type gigs. So I was, like, 'Okay. That's great.' I think, more than anything, I was just excited about the enthusiasm. Considering, for me personally, being out of it for so long, coming back into it and seeing these insane crowds… It was, in my opinion, better received this time around than it was in the last years of the '90s that I was in it. It was really, really cool. And it's one of those times you can appreciate playing in a stadium, because you're playing for anywhere from 30 to 80 thousand people that are so dialed into your shit that it's like playing in a club — it's got that kind of personal toe-to-toe feel to it. So it was really, really a blast."
Slash went on to say that reconnecting with Rose after nearly two decades was "huge." He added: "The most surreal moment was soundcheck at the Troubadour [in April 2016] — that was a very surreal moment. Way before we played the show and everything, just being together with everybody, being in that particular environment, of course stuffing 10 times more gear in there than we had back in the day. And then looking over and seeing Axl and seeing Duff [McKagan, GUNS N' ROSES bassist], that was a very surreal moment. The rest of it seemed very, very new. I'm with a guy who was a partner in crime with me for many years before we had this, sort of, falling-out thing. And then, obviously, Duff. And we were up there playing these gigs. And I know these guys, I know these songs, but something about it was not really reminiscent of, say, the 'Use Your Illusion' tour. So it felt really fresh and new. It's an interesting thing. It didn't hit those tiny moments of, like, 'Oh my God! I remember hitting this chord, and he was there back in 1991,' or anything like that."
Slash also spoke highly of his new GN'R bandmates Richard Fortus (guitar) and Frank Ferrer (drums), saying: "All in all, it was just a great bunch of people who were really excited about doing what we're doing, and going out there and playing in front of a bunch of people who are glad we're doing it."
The guitarist praised Rose for his "amazing" vocal performance at "every single show" during the "Not In This Lifetime" tour, noting that GUNS N' ROSES was playing "three-and-a-half-hour sets" on many nights. "So it was really cool to watch him do," he said.
Slash also talked about what it has been like for him to perform songs from GUNS N' ROSES' 2008 album "Chinese Democracy", which he did not play on. "It was cool," he said. 'There's some great songs on that record, so I just sort of adapted my own way of playing them and just made them more my own so I felt more comfortable. And they just kick ass."
GUNS N' ROSES launched its long-rumored and long-awaited reunion tour in April 2016 with a club show in Hollywood and been on the road around the world ever since. The "Not In This Lifetime" trek, which ranks as the fourth-highest-grossing tour of all time, based on Billboard's Boxscore archives, features Slash, McKagan and Rose, backed by Fortus and Ferrer, plus keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese.
"Chinese Democracy" came out in 2008 and featured only Axl from the classic lineup.
The last album on which Rose, McKagan and Slash appeared together was 1993's covers set "The Spaghetti Incident?"
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Overall decline in venture capital activity from 2016 to 2015, but median valuations are continuing to rise. These median valuations are increasing at early stages, reached a new high (past $100 million median) for Series C, started plateauing at Series B, but are declining for the first time since 2009 in later stages past Series C. It is also important to note that 2016 was the lowest year of IPOs since 2009, but the market has started strong in 2017.
End of 2015 and in beginning of 2016 public market comparables to private companies were doing bad so people thought there might have been a valuation bubble. Additionally, some mutual funds were marking down there private company investments which scared people about the valuations. Before 2016 began there had never been so many private companies valued at $1 billion and so much unrealized value in the VC market.
So in 2016 people took a step back and slowed down in terms of investing at crazy high valuations. In 2015 there were 60 unicorn deals and that number declined to 37 in 2016. The highest number of companies in the last decade exited at values lower then there most recent private valuation at 37 companies.
VC deals with corporate VC participation have been completed at high valuations than those without. The reason for this is that they don't necessarily need a financial timely return, but get ancillary benefits from investing in the company such as technology and insight into if it makes sense as an acquisition. Corporate VCs are also at the height of how many investments they make in terms of quantity and dollar value.
Participating liquidation preferences have declined to the lowest levels in the past decade. These are more founder-friendly terms because the VCs do not get a 1.5x or 2x return in the even of an exit, but they receive 1x their money and there equity holding.
Looking at exits we are still continuing a downward trend started after the peak of 1,050 exits at a value of $80 billion in 2014. The following year 2015 provided 970 exits at a value of $48 billion and 2016 gave us 800 exits at a value of $53 billion. Having said all of that – 2017 is shaping up to reverse that trend with Snapchats $3 billion raise at a nearly $20 billion valuation and AppDynamics acquisition by Cisco for $3.7 billion. 15 companies in total have either filed for or completed their initial public offering in 2017 so far with MuleSoft raising $220 million at a $2 billion valuation and Okta raising $150 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.
Reasons for this increased activity include the S&P at all time highs, oil prices coming back, and the US dollars strength. Exits are also moving toward IPOs rather then M&A brecause private valuations have made companies so expensive that the pool of buyers is becoming very short.
Deep Dive my Three Industries:
Esports: No complete 2016 data, but assumed similar to 2015
2015 = 45 companies backed with $320M
Asset Management: No complete 2016 data
2015 = 265 companies backed with $3.2B
Government Technology: 2016 = 41 companies with $336M
2015 = 44 companies backed with $330M
ESports and Government Technology are currently in very similar situations in terms of deal quantity and value, however, looking back five years shows a different story. Government technology has had a relatively linear history of capital invested and number of deals closed over the last five years. This is in contrast to ESports which has had a spotty history of very few investments and capital raised until 2015. I believe the reason for this is Amazon's 2014 acquisition of Twitch which put Esports on the map.
Asset Management is an entirely different league with spotty amounts of capital invested over the last five years, but a steady increase in the amount of companies backed. The volume and dollar amount is also in an entirely different league with around 200 companies being backed in Asset Management compared with approximately 45 for its peers.
One thing that all of these industries share is that they have all been increasing in terms of quantity of deals and dollars invested, which also mirrors the industry as a whole represented on the chart at the top of the page.
I still believe that all of these industries have strong opportunity for growth and have not reached their full potential. Esports represents a brand new untapped market with tons of different opportunities and a long lasting future ahead of it. Asset Management has internal inefficency, a fragmenting of its business and a high cost that is not justified by the service. Government Technology is fragmented, large, slow, expensive, necessary and has a catalyst for change in Trump's recent executive order.
Including everything each industry has going for itself I also believe that all of these industries and select innovations within them will be around for the next 15 years and will not immediately be disrupted and turned on their head. Asset management and Government technology share the qualities of high cost and bad customer service, while Esports will likely avoid this misstep because it is an emerging industry. Lastly and most importantly all of these industries have the potential to be completely disrupted by startups right now and there is the opportunity of new market leaders.


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Psalms from the Hive
by Jeannie Saum
Take a lesson from the bees
About how to be
A faithful friend.
It seems that they
Have read The Book
And found that love's
the key.
Clover, Bee, and Revery
I've been thinking a lot lately about how people treat each other – both adults and children. It was prompted in part by my middle-school-aged granddaughter's encounter with bullying and racial comments, from her "best friends". We've all been through times in our childhoods when we were subjected to teasing or name-calling or harassment. But sometimes, this escalates to the stage of over-the-top bullying or prejudice or down-right meanness. It's what causes some grown men and women to carry around the scars of childhood deep inside, into adulthood. It's what causes young people to shoot up their classmates at school.
It's something that sadly, many adults feel is not their problem, believing that kids should be left alone to work it out themselves. I'm all for kids problem solving and learning to navigate their social circles, but are times when we adults need to intervene, set the example, be the guardrail, provide guidelines, say enough's enough and put a stop to this kind of behavior in our children.
My daughter tried and failed to engage the other parents to get involved and put a stop to the hurtful behavior of their children – children who need guidance in learning what is acceptable and what is not, how to be a good friend and be kind to one another. Kids won't learn what we don't teach them.
Without cooperation from the other adults, my daughter chose to close ranks with her family to protect her daughter, and she gave her daughter a wonderful lesson from The Book, about what a true friend really is. The idea came from something she had seen on Facebook, and it was a powerful eye-opener for my granddaughter. It made her think about what kind of friend she wanted to have and what kind of friend she needed to be.
The task was to read 1 Continthians 13:4-8 and substitute a "friend's" name ( or your own name) in place of the words "love" and "it". For my granddaughter, the question her mom posited was: as we read through this passage, is this person treating you like these standards? If not, are they truly a friend?
This all got me thinking about a similar situation in my life- the abandonment of a long-held friendship by some adult friends of ours over differences of minor theology. Sometimes adult friends don't act any better than children! I've been thinking about the truths and convictions Steve and I have learned from our faith and life experiences; tenets we've tried to live by and teach our children – faithfulness, grace, mercy and love. I long at times, for others to show us the kind of faithful friendship we try to practice.
As I read these verses in 1 Corinthians, I can see how all of us often fail to live up to the standards set down in these Bible verses, but it is something to strive for. And if someone in life is constantly behaving in the opposite way from these qualities, then one needs to question whether this is a healthy relationship and one where you can trust to let down your boundaries and open your heart, or not.
When compared to these standards, my granddaughter realized that maybe these girls were not worthy of trusting with her heart and her friendship. Not to say that she was to treat them badly, or refuse to forgive if amends were offered, but to just keep a distance and move on, seeking more trustworthy and faithful friendships. And it also gave her guidelines for the kind of friend we want her to be, and the kind of friend we adults in her life strive to be.
I often end up relating my musings with our experiences with our bees. I think we all could learn something about how we do life with each other from the bees and The Book. The bees have it down. I think their little colonies could be a model, a metaphor, of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. How's this?
First of all, there is only one Queen (like one God in our lives), and the whole hive is all about her. She is the top bee, the creator of life, all other bees bow before her. The reason for their life is to serve the queen. They can't all be queen – there is only one queen. She is in charge and sets the tone for the whole hive. She works hard at what she does, serving the hive – giving life and sustainability -and the other bees, in turn, serve her.
Bees are patient and kind. The nurse bees take care of the eggs, larvae and pupa for 20 days. Worker bees don't brag or try to act like a queen (usually). They just do their jobs, the first ones being to clean up the cells, take out the trash, and keep the brood warm. No big flashy jobs to brag about!
Bees don't dishonor each other or just think of themselves, rather they live a life of service to the colony – tending to young, grooming each other, building comb, carrying food, and even caring for the dead. They work together, cooperate, do their tasks and take care of each other.
When a bee finds a good source of pollen or nectar, she doesn't keep it all to herself. She comes back and does a joyful dance to communicate to the others, where the good stuff is, so that all may partake!
They take whatever comes and don't give up. When humans or animals come into their hive and take their honey or pollen, they just keep making more. If comb gets damaged, they fix it. They keep building comb, and foraging for nectar and pollen, and bringing it back to the hive.
They don't go looking to do evil. They really don't want to sting you and they won't bother you unless you bother them, or they get trapped. They just want to go around doing their gathering and pollinating.
Bees protect and defend each other. They stand their ground to defend their hive against unwanted guests by guarding the entrance and checking out the smell of any creature trying to get in. If it's not a friend, they bar the door! And if one bee gets killed, or one has to sting to defend, they send out attack pheromones to call all the others bees in to defend. And the bees practice kind of a tough love – when the drones are not longer needed, they boot them out the door.
Those little bees hope and persevere – They go out with hope every day, searching for food and water. Collectively, they spend months flying back and forth to the hive, bringing in loads of pollen, water,nectar and propolis. They spend days and weeks fanning their little wings to evaporate the moisture out of the nectar to turn it into honey.
They are loyal no matter what the cost. The attendant bees keep a protective circle around the queen, tending to her, feeding her, grooming her. And in the winter, they all cluster around the queen and flap their tiny muscles a million times a minute, creating heat to keep their queen warm. And sometimes they do this until they die, sacrificing to try to keep their queen alive. Their whole focus is to keep their colony alive and enduring, and they will do anything and everything it takes.
I think we (adults and children) could all take a lesson in application of 1 Corinthians 13 from the bees! Can we be patient with our friends, understanding that sometimes they will have bad days, or weeks; that sometimes they will be difficult to deal with and might need an extra measure of grace (undeserved gifts) or mercy ( not getting the punishment they deserve)?
Can we be faithful friends that don't envy what each other has, or become so proud about what we have, or how upright and "holy" we are that we can not longer be friends with someone who makes a mistake, or has a different philosophy or is going through a hard time? Can we be the kind of friend that doesn't always have to get our way? Can we compromise or take turns "being happy"? Remember, we can't all be the queen!
Can we be the kind of friend to others who doesn't have to gossip about them or put them down to make ourself feel more important? Can we be even-tempered and tolerant of each other's differences, choosing to overlook little idiosyncrasies and only choosing the most important "hills to die on"? Can we forgive and forget when our human selves hurt or offend each other?
Can we be the kind of friend that does not stir up drama but can speak truth in love to kindly shut down ugliness and drama when it comes from another? Can we be honest with each other, and when absolutely necessary, practice tough love? Can we wish the best for each other and defend each other against bullies and gossip and hurt?
Can we be the faithful friend that will help and protect someone, even in the hard times, instead of cut and run at the first sign of difficulty? Can we be the kind of person that someone else can trust to stand by them, keep confidences, be encouraging, and persevere even during the difficult times in the relationship?
Fair-weather friends are not what we need. Not as children or as adults. The bees get it – they don't quit. They'll do whatever it takes for the good of the colony. I believe we are called to succeed and not fail at this faithful servant love that both the bees and The Book teach us.
Being a faithful friend is something that Steve and I have always strived to be. To us that means being dedicated to relationships through the good times and the bad times. It means sometimes giving extra patience and mercy to that "extra-grace-required" friend. It means over-looking differences of opinion – politics, theology, child rearing, schooling, etc, etc, – and knowing you can still have a relationship, agreeing to disagree. It means being willing to put time into people's lives, being willing to "get dirty" or lend a helping hand or a shoulder to cry on during the tough times. And yes, sometimes, being a good friend also means that at crisis points, what might be necessary is a kick out the door, for a time, but working for restoration. And it also means sticking around long enough through the hard times, to be able to get to the joy!
Our children are grown now, and it's their turn to practice these things in their relationships and teach their children a few lessons from The Book and the BEES!
1 Corinthians 13
from "The Message" Bible
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.


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Loy Xingwen (Loy)
Ph.D. candidate – Emory University, USA
Ph.D. candidate (current 3nd year) in Population Biology, Ecology & Evolution
Emory University, USA
Advisor: Assistant Prof. Berry Brosi
BSc in Botany – Honours First Class (2014)
University of Queensland, Australia
Honours supervisor: Associate Prof. Margaret Mayfield
Dip in Horticulture & Landscape Management (2009)
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
Research Interests
I'm interested in the impacts of climate change on plant communities. A changing climate can impact plants directly, through changes in the abiotic environment, as well indirectly, by interfering with inter-species relationships. I examine both of these, focusing on two factors that are well-known drivers of plant fitness: changes in soil water availability ('direct effect' of climate change) and changes in plant-pollinator relationships (an 'indirect effect'). My research also extends to other anthropogenic forces that shape natural communities, including land-use change and biological invasions.
Peer-reviewed Publications
Loy, X., Wainwright, C. E. and Mayfield, M. M. (2015). Asteraceae invaders have limited impacts on the pollination of common native annual species in SW Western Australia's open woodland wildflower communities. Plant Ecology 216 8: 1103-1115.
Staples, T. J., Dwyer, J. M., Loy, X. and Mayfield. M. M. (2016). Potential mechanisms of coexistence in closely related forbs. Oikos 125(12): 1812-1823.
Reynolds, V. A., Anderegg, L. D. L., Loy, X., HilleRisLambers, J., Mayfield, M. M. (2017) Unexpected drought resistance strategies in seedlings of four Brachychiton species. Tree Physiology. 1-14.
Wainwright, C. E., Staples, T. L., Charles, L. S., Flanagan, T. C., Lai, H. R., Loy, X., Reynolds, V. A. and Mayfield, M. M. (2018), Links between community ecology theory and ecological restoration are on the rise. J Appl Ecol. 55:570–581.
Miljanic, A. S., Loy, X., Gruenewald, D. L., Dobbs, E. K., Gottlieb, I. G. W., Fletcher, Jr. R. J., Brosi, B. J. (2018). Bee communities in forestry production landscapes: interactive effects of local-level management and landscape context. Landscape Ecol.
Wainwright, C. E., HilleRisLambers, J., Lai, H. R., Loy, X., Mayfield, M. M. (2019). Distinct responses of niche and fitness differences to water availability underlie variable coexistence outcomes in semi-arid annual plant communities. J Ecol. 107:293–306.
Teaching Experience
BIOL/ENVS 247 – Ecology (Fall 2018)
Teaching assistant – undergrad course, Emory University
BIOL/ENVS 241 – Evolutionary Biology (Fall 2017)
Teaching assistant – undergrad course, Emory University
BIOL/ENVS 241 – Evolutionary Biology (Fall 2017)
Guest lecturer – undergrad course, Emory University
ENVS 131 – Intro to ENVS Field Studies (2018, 2017, 2016)
Guest lecturer – undergrad course, Emory University
STEM school workshops and family events (2018, 2017, 2016)
Kittredge Magnet School Science Night, Barack and Michelle Obama Elementary School, Toomer Elementary School, Fernbank Museum of Natural History Adventures in Science day, Freedom Middle School Career Week organised by New American Pathways, Mary Lin Elementary Science & Technology Night, Oak Grove Elementary School Grade 5 plant identification workshop.
Work and Volunteering
Emory University Herbarium (2017 – 2019)
Volunteer curatorial assistant, illustrator, social media manager
Mayfield Community Ecology Lab, University of Queensland (2014 – 2016)
Lab manager/research assistant, social media manager
'Bee Aware Brisbane' non-profit (2014 – 2016)
Volunteer infographic designer
Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, Singapore Botanic Gardens (2009)
Infographic designer
Singapore National Parks Board (2009)
Intern at SBG and nature guide for Southern Ridges Park


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Mitla Cafe, the ever popular staple in San Bernardino for generations and the oldest Mexican restaurant in the Inland Empire celebrated its 80th anniversary on Saturday evening, with Grammy award-winning jazz musician Poncho Sanchez performing to hundreds of close family and friends.
We want to give a big shout-out to Mitla and say congratulations on your 80th, and many more to come!
There was a lot that happened over the weekend. On Saturday Rialto Unified School District held its 9th Annual Parent Summit, where over 2,000 parents/guardians showed up, not to mention the thousands of students and staff who were also in attendance.
The event took place at Rialto High and included a dynamic speech by nationally renowned speaker Dr. Daniel Walker, who also happens to be the brother of RUSD Board of Education President Dina Walker! He challenged students to innovate, and to embrace their histories, diversity and change.
The event truly highlighted how committed parents/guardians are in their kids' education.
Also on Saturday Omnitrans held its very colorful 2nd Annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest at the San Bernardino Transit Center where over a dozen artists participated. The theme was connecting the community through transportation, and artists made it challenging for judges to whittle it down to the top three.
Judges were Gil Botello, Chair of the Fine Arts Commission; Barbara Babcock, Vice Chair; Chris Mathews from the Art Institute; and Danielle Wallis with Art Connection.
Congrats to the winners: third place and $100 gift card to Alicia Rubio; second place and $150 to David Mir; first place and $300 to Arlette Ramirez who captured the theme most accurately, Botello said.
Anthony Victoria writes about student lunches this week, and I had the opportunity to witness Rialto's first student farmers market last Thursday at Curtis Elementary. It was very impressive that RUSD has partnered with a local farmer for the last 10 years to bring locally sustained produce to the school menu. Not only are students getting fresh fruit and vegetables other than the typical oranges and apples served at school cafeterias, they are being fed passion fruit, dragon fruit, and toad skin melon! I haven't even heard of toad skin melon.
School meals are so important and when schools make the effort to embark on a Farm to School initiative the advantages are two-fold: children are eating the freshest produce and it sustains local farmers.
On the horizon, former San Bernardino Mayor Judith Valles will be the featured guest speaker at Rotary North on Thursday, Nov. 4 at Arrowhead Country Club at noon. The public is invited to hear Valles speak of her childhood in San Bernardino, her later successes, and most importantly, what she learned from her mother.
The cost of the lunch is $15. and the meeting begins promptly at noon. It is recommended that one arrives at 11:45.
Her popular book, As My Mother Would Say; Como Decia Me Mama will be available for purchase and Valles will happily autograph it.
For reservations or questions, please phone Rotary North president, Dee Williams, at (909) 883-9001 or (909) 841-9644.


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A new permanent museum in Milano, accessible to all, free. A cultural district in the city where you can walk and be able to say "here, the walls know history too ". It's OR.ME Ortica Memoria: 20 works of urban art among the largest in Italy made by the collective of artists OrticaNoodles, in which each mural tells a story of the twentieth century Milano. The entire cycle will be completed by the end of 2019.
Each mural tells a story, but it is also a work born with the inhabitants of the neighborhood.
Walk with us through the streets of the Ortica district and meet the history of the 20th century.
The wall of the women who have made the 20th century great
WHERE: Istituto Alberghiero Pasolini, wing of the school building on via Trentacoste 9-5
The twentieth century was the century of women, the century in which they reached milestones that were unattainable until a short while ago. They have won the freedom to choose their lives in work, in marriage and, for the first time in history, in motherhood.
They struggled to get all this. They sweated to show that they could be all they could dream.
And this thanks also to the illustrious examples also present in the city of Milano that have inspired other women.
This mural is dedicated to them, who have taught us so much, who we have admired. They have taken care of us, looked after us and taught us that if you really want tt, everything is possible.
Here are depicted: Camilla Cederna, Alda Merini, Ersilia Majno, Alessandrina Ravizza, Anna Kuliscioff, Antonia Pozzi, Maria Maddalena Rossi, Liliana Segre.
The wall of legality
WHERE: Railway bridge Via Rosso di San Secondo corner Via San Faustino
The work is dedicated to those who fought, and often lost their lives, in the name of legality, of a higher sense of justice.
Beyond any ideology, beyond all convenience, with perseverance as admirable as frequently misunderstood, they are the protagonists of unequal, courageous and noble but obstinate struggles, tenacious, rigorous and lucid against a real enemy, which often led to a tragic end.
Here are represented: Giorgio Ambrosoli (lawyer, killed 11 July 1979), General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa (killed by the mafia on 3 September 1982), Emilio Alessandrini (magistrate, killed by terrorists on 29 January 1979), Mauro Brutto (journalist, killed in 1978), Walter Tobagi (journalist and writer, killed by terrorists on 28 May 1980), Tina Anselmi (politics and partisan), Lea Garofalo (judicial witness, killed by the 'Ndrangheta on November 24, 2009).
Popular music
WHERE: along the railway bridge of via San Faustino (near via San Faustino 10)
In music, the Ortica is one of the most sung Milanese neighbourhoods along with Porta Romana and the Navigli. It is well known that the area was and is full of trattorias and taverns whose customers, between a glass of wine and a slice of salami, have always lingered in the song, beautiful or ugly.
The meeting place of these singers was the old Trattoria del Gatto Nero in via Ortica, in a building founded in the fifteenth century. Here it is the tradition that every evening or almost someone would come to cheer up the evenings, and often it did not close until dawn came knocking on the shutters.
The colourful mural is dedicated to the most prestigious and well-known authors/performers of the Milanese song, as Ornella Vanoni, Enzo Jannacci, Dario Fo, Ivan Della Mea, Giorgio Strehler, Giorgio Gaber and Nanni Svampa.
The wall of cooperation
WHERE: Cooperativa Edificatrice Ortica via San Faustino 5
Work dedicated to the Italian Cooperative Movement.
The historical photo (dated 1914) from which the mural was taken portrays the members of the Section of Cinisello of the Società di Miglioramento e Resistenza tra i Lavoranti Muratori di Milano, a construction cooperative founded in 1887. The socio-cultural identity of the cooperative is rendered by the two paintings representing Jesus Christ and Charles Marx.
The wall of the partisan and the bishop
WHERE: residential building on via F. Villa 6 on the side of via Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (facing Via Giovanni Antonio Amadeo 57)
The Italian Liberation Day after the Second World War, on April 25th, is one of the key events of the Ortica district. This is why we wanted to pay tribute to this work to two people who have frequented the neighbourhood in the dark periods of fascism and heroics times of resistance, and who have witnessed with their lives what they believe in: Bishop Marco Ferrari and partisan Luigi Morandi.
The words of freedom
WHERE: Cavalcavia Buccari
On April 25, 1945, the partisan insurrections put an end, a few days before the arrival of the allied troops, to the Nazi-fascist occupation of Milan and Turin. It is the end of the dictatorship of Mussolini, of the Second World War, of the civil war. And it is on the 70th anniversary of that event that this small masonry work is born, that in its small represents the beginning of the project Or.Me Ortica Memoria.
It represents the words chosen by the students of the schools of the district and that, in their opinion, better represent freedom and resistance.
Mural of sport
WHERE: Società Sportiva Scarioni, via Tucidide corner via Cavriana
Mens sana in corpore sano, that's what the ancient Romans recited.
Sport has always been important in Italy, and Milan is not far behind. So much so that its football teams, Milan and Inter, have always been at the top of the rankings so that the San Siro stadium is called the "Scala" of football.
And just from there that the mural comes alive, paying homage to the symbolic teams of the city and representing two of their flags: Mazzola and Rivera.
But we don't want to talk only about football: there are athletics, a symbol of determination and effort, swimming, tennis, boxing, cycling, artistic gymnastics, skiing.
In choosing the samples represented in the murals, we also tried to favor those sportsmen who, with their lives, have not only given prestige to the sport for which they have struggled, but have also tried to give testimony of the civil value that sport can have in a society healthy, becoming promoters of important social battles.
The following are represented: Gianni Rivera, Sandro Mazzola, Pietro Mennea, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Sara Simeoni, Novella Calligaris, Deborah Compagnoni, Nadia Comăneci, Martina Navrátilová, Wilma Rudolph, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay).
Mural of Labour
WHERE: Wall of the railway facing via Ortica 23
Milano is the city of labour and the cradle of the workers' movement. Here in 1891 the most ancient Camera del Lavoro (Labour League) of Italy was born, with the aim of fighting exploitation and unemployment, and in 1906 established the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro (General Confederation of Labor), the first general union.
The Mural of Labour is a tribute to the industrious and supportive city, tells the battles of Milanese workers for the improvement of living and working conditions, recalls the struggles of workers for a more equitable and democratic society.
Teresa Noce, who is portrayed in this masonry work, symbolically embodies the parable of the workers' movement: she was a partisan, a member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy, a trade unionist - general secretary of textiles - and the parliamentarian to whom we owe the maternity law.
Ortica comes from 'garden'
WHERE: Via Ortica 12
The name of the neighbourhood "Ortica" does not derive from the pungent plant "nettle" that we all know, but from "garden", a place suitable for cultivation and irrigable from the nearby river Lambro.
It is to this name that the mural was dedicated. Remembering the agricultural past of the small village with flowers and colours. In fact, the Ortica in the chronicles is always painted as a place where the soil was fertile, and you could also catch the silver coloured fish that gleamed in the Lambro (which at the time was much closer to the town and less polluted).
And remember at the same time through the red poppies, the symbol of peace and flower dedicated to the victims of the world wars that have upset the '900, those who have fallen for us all.


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In an autobiographical letter dated 19 January 1823, Robert Southey describes his childhood reading and his first impressions of reading the Faerie Queene, which would have been after 1783, when John Hoole's translation of Ariosto was published. Sir Walter Scott also read Spenser for the first time about 1783; see his autobiographical fragment.
The future laureate does not (here) claim, like Abraham Cowley, that reading Spenser made him a poet, though he elsewhere describes his boyhood plan to complete the unfinished books.
A letter of June 29 1824 recalls an early effort in verse: "there was also a satirical peep into Pluto's dominions, in rhyme. I remember the conclusion only, and that because it exhibits a singular indication how strongly and how early my heart was set upon that peculiar line of poetry which I have pursued with most ardour. It described the Elysium of the Poets, and that more sacred part of it in which Homer, Virgil, Tasso, Spenser, Camoens, and Milton were assembled. While I was regarding them, Fame came hurrying by with her arm full of laurels and asking in an indignant voice if there was not poet who would deserve them? Upon which I reached out my hand, snatched at them, and awoke" 1:120.
The holidays made ammends for this penury, and Bull's Circulating Library was then to me what the Bodleian would be now. Hoole, in his notes [to Tasso], frequently referred to the Orlando Furioso. I saw some volumes thus lettered on Bull's counter, and my heart leaped for joy. They proved to be the original; but the shopman, Mr. Cruett (a most obliging man he was), immediately put the translation into my hand, I do not think any accession of fortune could now give me so much delight as I then derived from that vile version of Hoole's. There, in the notes, I first saw the name of Spenser, and some stanzas of the Faery Queen. Accordingly, when I returned the last volume I asked if that work was in the library. My friend Cruett replied that they had it, but it was written in old English, and I should not be able to understand it. This did not appear to me so much a necessary consequence as he supposed, and I therefore requested he would let me look at it. It was the quarto edition of '17, in three volumes, with large prints folded in the middle, equally worthless (like all prints of that age) in design and execution. There was nothing in the language to impede, for the ear set me right where the uncouth spelling (orthography it cannot be called) might have puzzled the eye; and the few words which are really obsolete, were sufficiently explained by the context. No young lady of the present generation falls to a new novel of Sir Walter Scott's with keener relish than I did that morning to the Faery Queen. If I had been asked wherefore it gave me so much more pleasure than ever Ariosto had done, I could not have answered the question. I now know that it was very much owing to the magic of the verse; the contrast between the flat couplets of a rhymester like Hoole, and the fullest and finest of all stanzas written by one who was perfect master of his art. But this was not all. Ariosto too often plays with his subject; Spenser is always in earnest. The delicious landscapes which he luxuriates in describing, brought everything before my eyes. I could fancy such scenes as his lakes and forests, gardens and fountains presented; and I felt, though I did not understand, the truth and purity of his feelings, and that love of the beautiful and the good which pervades his poetry.


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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:11:01 +0900 (JST)
firstname.lastname@example.com (Yutaka Sato) wrote:
YS> I'm not sure but it might be a side effect of your configuration
YS> which is not shown in the log.
YS> In message <firstname.lastname@example.com_> on 10/09/09(21:33:21)
YS> you NoSFeRaTU <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
YS> |10/09 16:12:41.30 [14021] 0+0: ext[0] SERVER=https
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YS> By the way, what does this HOSTLIST mean?
It means nothing, just a result of experiments with parameters :-)
Problem appears with this simple config:
I found out why it happens. It is because 10.1.1.1, from which request come in
the example above, is the same machine where delegate is located. Other
computers from net can access through this delegate successfully. Anyway IMHO
it is weird behaviour and it is harmful, especially for vds which doesn't have
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