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I spent so much time last week re-enacting my emergency training as part of "Ballard Prepares" that I decided I need to get it out of my system by writing it down.
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It has been over a week since I attended the "Ballard Prepares" emergency training in the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society's set room at Crown Hill Neighborhood Center. I would be remiss if I didn't share the experience and its lessons. For starters, carry earplugs — not everyone can handle the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive" played at high volume before 10 a.m. However, along with other mnemonic devices shared that day, I will never forget the right beat for doing compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
After spending an unreal day in the company of almost 100 folks pumping dummies and practicing the Heimlich maneuver on one another I am almost disappointed that I have not been able to apply my new skills yet. I rushed to the scene when Martin burned his hand overfilling the French Press, but I wasn't needed. I can also understand his refusal to let me feel the cartilage give during compressions ("snap, crackle, pop" as our trainer repeated), but not even a practice splint?
When I bemoaned my languishing new skills to my ever laconic daughter, she told me it sounded like a movie she'd watched called "Ambulance Girl" in which a middle-aged woman is obsessed with becoming an EMT. Ouch!
The class started with an introduction by Tracy Connelly from the City's Office of Emergency Management. Then she and Ballard District Chair Catherine Weatbrook turned the training over to Carrie from Prevention MD. Standing on a table, wearing sequined jeans, Carrie preached first response techniques with the fervor (and rhythm) of an aerobics instructor. Her fellow coaches were her daughter, who has inherited her mother's blond hair and matter-of-fact approach to anaphylactic shock, a young man who survived choking on a penny, a comparatively normal nurse and a former Special Forces military officer, now an EMT.
The room was filled with faces familiar from various meetings and organizations, East Ballard Community, Crown Hill, Sunset Hill, Ballard Chamber, young, old, and in-between. The coaches took us step by step through dealing with witnessed versus un-witnessed collapse. We learned to tap and shout, make eye contact to yell, "Call 9-1-1" and "Get an AED and bring it back" (automated external defibrillator). The trainer shared graphic stories of what happens when defibrillator paddles encounter nipple piercings or too much chest hair. Let's just say one delivers shock and one burn.
After several hours, many participants looked like they might succumb to shock themselves (one of the three major causes of death we learned, along with cardiac arrest and blood loss). One young woman cringed whenever a trainer said the words ''compound fracture." After administering CPR to our trainer's satisfaction we tried not to choke on hot dogs, even as shouts of "Clear!" echoed throughout the room.
Then we broke into smaller groups to visit various themed stations. At the choking table volunteers donned vests with an air pocket on the front. We judged our Heimlich maneuver success on whether our efforts shot an air pellet towards another group. I made the mistake of asking what you do if the victim is wider than the circumference of your arms, and soon learned firsthand. We piled our baby dummies back on the table after clearing their airways. At the splinting table we learned how to secure long bones. I saw a participant climb up on the table and then lie down for a full body scan before splinting. We didn't get to do that in my group.
At her station lead trainer Carrie showed photos so participants could assess the scene to determine proper actions; teaching peppered once again with real life scenarios from her years in the field. She admitted that her life is a continual 'what if.' What if the 520 Bridge is impassable? What if that man has a cardiac arrest, what will it take to access the chest, will she need to remove hair? Will she able to do compressions from the side, or will she need to be able to straddle him?
The final station was on tourniquets and wounds. The former Special Forces officer stopped circulation to his left arm for almost the duration of the demonstration. We watched it turn white and confirmed that it no longer had a pulse. He told us that in combat soldiers are trained to be able to do their own tourniquet and then keep marching.
The class was running late and people were escaping the world of emergency response and Gilbert & Sullivan. We could already feel muscle cramps from our compression practice and we were looking at one another differently. Could I drag them from a car while keeping their spine straight? Would I need duct tape to remove the chest hair in order to be able to shock him back to a heart rhythm?
For almost seven hours we interacted with strangers in new ways, outside of our alleged Pacific Northwest comfort zones. "Are you choking? Do you want me to help you?" Then we were released with certificates, ready to practice on family members, who really didn't need or want our help. But comforted, and more confident, that we would be able to help if needed, no matter how much our own pulses raced.
In the almost empty room an older woman and I practiced bandaging one another at the last station, presuming what our trainer identified as venous rather than arterial bleed. We twisted the stretchy gauze on alternating wraps so that the additional pressure would stop blood loss. I held the woman's soft hand in mine, being gentle so as not to bruise her delicate skin. Then she reached for my arm and did the same for me.
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The island, which is about 20 kilometres from Kuah town, is modestly populated on one side and virtually unihabited on the other where the lake is situated.
Legend of Tasik Dayang Bunting – The favorite bathing pool of a celestial princess named Mambang Sari was said to be Tasik Dayang Bunting (lake of the pregnant maiden). A prince, Mat Teja, fell madly in love with her and tricked her into marrying him.
Sadly, their child died from a mysterious illness at the age of seven days. Distraught, the grieving Mambang Sari left the child's body in the lake and returned to her heavenly abode. Today, some believe barren women who bathe in this lake will be endowed with a child. Many have claimed to be successful.
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The island is roughly 11km long and 6.5km wide, and other than occasional groups of illegal immigrants from Cuba, completely uninhabited, though you can still see evidence of Taíno and early Spanish settlement. The island is essentially a raised plateau surrounded by 40m sea cliffs, with an extensive cave system and 8km of absolutely stunning pearly white beaches lining its southern shore. Other than enjoying the caves and these (usually) utterly deserted strips of sand, Mona's chief attraction is its wildlife. The Galapagos comparison was spurred chiefly by the giant rock iguanas that lounge on the shore, and can grow up to 1.5m long. There are also wild pigs, goats and cattle, left by Spanish colonists, and pods of humpback whales offshore in winter. Between May and October turtles nest on the beaches and there are over 100 species of bird zipping around the island, including hawks, red-footed boobies and pelicans. The DRNA maintains a basic ranger station, toilets and showers at Playa Sardinera on the west side of Mona, but otherwise you're on your own – you must bring a tent and all your food and drink.
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Global Copper Production Under StressCommodities / Copper Nov 09, 2012 - 12:39 PM GMT
Capital inputs account for about half the total costs in mining production - the average for the economy as a whole is 21 per cent. Obviously many of the costs, once incurred, cannot be recovered by sale or transfer of the fixed assets.
Mining is an extremely capital intensive business for two reasons. Firstly mining has a large, up front layout of construction capital called Capex - the costs associated with the development and construction of open-pit and underground mines. There are often other company built infrastructure assets like roads, railways, bridges, power generating stations and seaports to facilitate extraction and shipping of ore and concentrate. Secondly there is a continuously rising Opex, or operational expenditures. These are the day to day costs of operation; rubber tires, wages, fuel, camp costs for employees etc.
Copper mining has become an especially capital intensive industry - the average capital intensity for a new copper mine in 2000 was between US$4,000 - 5,000 to build the capacity to produce a tonne of copper, now capital intensity is north of $10,000/t, on average, for new projects.
Capex costs are escalating because:
- Declining copper ore grades means a much larger relative scale of required mining and milling operations
- A growing proportion of mining projects are in remote areas of developing economies where there's little to no existing infrastructure
The bottom line? It is becoming increasingly expensive to bring new mines, especially new copper mines, on line and run them:
- Antofagasta's Esperanza Sur project capex went from under US$3 billion to US$3.5 billion
- Inmet's Cobre Panama project capex climbed to US$6.2 billion from US$4.8 billion, that's a capital intensity north of $15,000/t
- Teck's Quebrada Blanca's capex is US$5.6 billion. The amount of money required to build Teck's new, and very large copper mine in a difficult environment, corresponds to a US$28,000/t capital intensity.
There are several serious concerns in regards to global resource extraction that we need to consider:
- Resource nationalism/Country risk
- A looming skills shortage
- Smaller areas open for exploration
- Competition with Chinese mining investment
- Low hanging fruit, the high quality large deposits have already been found
- Supply bottlenecks for equipment
- Lack of financing options for smaller deposits
- Lack of innovation and technological advancements
- Incredibly difficult and lengthy permitting processes
- Declining open pit production
- Ongoing operational issues
- Environmental group and labor risks
- Natural disasters
- *Lower economic attractiveness of new projects.
*Capex and Opex cost inflation have been felt across the entire mining industry for the past several years in what many say is the most severe cost escalation environment in decades.
The International Copper Study Group (ICSG) recently released its 2012 Statistical Yearbook. According to ICSG data the mine capacity utilization rate averaged 81% from 2008-2011 and mine production grew by an average of only 0.9%/yr. The ICSG Yearbook says the low numbers were a result of numerous factors including lower head grades, labor unrest, technical problems, and temporary shutdowns or production cuts.
Consider the following…
Resource nationalism is increasing - Xstrata Plc's plans to create a $5.9 billion copper-gold project in the Philippines has been halted because of a mining reform bill.
At least 15 mining projects in Peru (world's second largest copper producer) have been delayed with their start dates set-back for up to two years because of social unrest, mining investment in the country is expected to fall 33% in 2013 because of the unrest.
Barrick Gold Corp. has lowered its copper production outlook for 2013 due to permitting delays at its Jabal Sayid project in Saudi Arabia.
Chile is the world's top copper producer but the country as a whole is woefully short of power. The country's power generation capacity currently stands at 17,000 megawatts. It is estimated that the country will need at least 30,000 megawatts of power by 2020 to keep up with the demand, the increased demand coming primarily from mining projects. Unfortunately the government only plans to add 8,000 megawatts between now and 2020 and there is serious opposition to these plans from environmental groups who have, so far, been wildly successful by suspending several key projects and more than $22 billion worth of power investment. The Chilean Supreme Court recently struck down the planned 2,100-megawatt, $5 billion Castilla thermoelectric power plant project, citing environmental concerns.
Codelco, the Chilean state owned copper company, and the world's largest copper miner with 20% of global copper reserves, said that their 2012 first half copper production fell 6.4% because of lower grades mined. Codelco's direct cash costs increased 27% year-on-year mostly because of paying higher prices for electricity from the drought stricken SIC grid.
Many copper mining companies are having to go back to the drawing board in regards to their economic studies trying to lower their cost of production.
Zambia is Africa's largest copper producer (and wants to directly market its copper), in second place is the DRC. The copper-belt which straddles Zambia's and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's borders is being tied up for internal development by the two countries. The DRC and Zambia are amending their mining codes to enable the government to raise taxes and implement a 35-percent minimum ownership threshold for state shareholding in projects.
According to the World Bureau of Metals Statistics (WBMS), the global copper market had a deficit of 129,000 tonnes (t) for the first six months of 2012 on consumption of 10.2 million t.
China uses 43% of the worlds copper. Chinese copper prices are in line with LME prices, Chinese traders are not de-stocking and the countries copper imports are on track for a record pace.
"Total copper product imports improved 4% YoY and 11% MoM and are up 5% YTD, in line with our expectations of copper consumption growth in China this year. We attribute this result to the emerging pockets of strength for copper use in China, namely in power infrastructure, white goods restocking and auto production." Morgan Stanley
Commodities expert Jim Rogers said there are three questions you need to ask (and answer) to determine if a commodity is headed higher in price.
Lets answer based on coppers perspective:
Q1 - How much production is there worldwide?
A – Not enough, most older existing mines, the foundation of our supply, have increasing costs with production rates stagnating or even declining because of lower grade ore. Half of the world's copper reserves are more than 50 years old and four of the seven largest copper producers are over 70 years old.
Q2 - Are there new sources of supply?
A – Yes, but the rate of depletion is much greater than the rate of discovery.
We are also faced with increasingly complicated and more expensive extraction of metals from increasingly harder to find, lower grade ore bodies in almost inaccessible and hostile parts of the world
Q3 - Are there new potential supplies?
A – Yes, if energy was cheap and unlimited then recoverable resources would be unlimited. The metal content of copper ore has been falling since the mid 1990s. A miner now has to dig up an extra 50 percent of ore to get the same amount of copper. As grade drops the amount of rock that must be moved and processed per tonne of produced copper rises dramatically – all the while using more energy that costs several times more than it use to.
With the lower grades of ores now being mined energy becomes more and more of a factor when considering economics. The cost of energy is climbing, the amount used is climbing but the returns from energy expended is declining. Eventually the quantity of resources used in the extraction process will be 100% of what is produced
Increasingly we will see falling average grades being mined, mines becoming deeper, more remote and come with increased political and nationalization risk. Extraction of metals from the mined ore will become increasingly more complex and expensive, even more so when one considers the effects of increased energy costs – the cost of technology innovation to power mining will be very high.
The facts are:
- Highly capital-intensive greenfield projects in geo-political risky developing countries requiring significant infrastructure investment beyond the ordinary scope of the mining operations are associated with a higher risk of delays and capex overruns
- Capital intensity best determines a project's potential return and capital intensity clearly favors Brownfield projects in countries with adequate existing infrastructure
"In 2014, substantially all the mine production growth will come from new greenfield projects and these are subject to higher risk of production shortfall. New production from Africa, where infrastructure is less developed, also faces higher risk of shortfall particularly from power disruption." FitchRatings, Base Metals Update
BMO's London-based mining analyst Tony Robsonsaid; "Major copper projects required to meet demand long term are located in riskier jurisdictions, and come with increased execution risk; 75% of estimated additional supply required between 2010 and 2025 is from greenfield projects."
"This lack of inventory growth is the hardest indicator that there has neither been a significant negative shock to demand nor a pronounced destocking cycle." Andrew Keen, Head of Metals and Mining Equity Research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, CNBC's Asia Squawk Box
The few new mines that are being developed in geo-politically safe jurisdictions in close proximity to existing mines should be able take advantage of:
- Pre-existing infrastructure such as transport corridors, processing and power plants
- A known, established permitting process
- No green, or environmental opposition
In 2005 copper prices collapsed to under $3,000 a tonne leading many miners to rethink mine development and expansion plans, prices nearly tripled by 2007 because of a vastly under supplied market.
Perhaps higher Opex costs, Capex overruns, permitting delays, social unrest and resource nationalization should be on all our radar screens. Are they, and a brownfield copper investment opportunity, on your screen?
If not, maybe they should be.
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Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals outplayed the formidable Chennai Super Kings to reach their maiden Champions League Twetny20 final at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here Friday.
Opener Ajinkya Rahane (70 off 56 balls) and Shane Watson (32 0ff 23) steered Rajasthan to 159 for eight in 20 overs. Chennai kept on losing wickets through their innings and fell short of the target by 14 runs.
Ravichandran Ashwin (46) and Chris Morris (26) shared a blistering 73 run stand for the eighth wicket but that did not prove to be enough. Leg-spinner Pravin Tambe again came to Rajasthan's rescue, ending with figures of three for 10 and helping his team extend its winning run at home to 13 matches. The 41-year-old has now taken 10 wickets in four matches.
Rajasthan face either Mumbai Indians or Trinidad and Tobago in the final in Delhi Sunday. The second semifinal between Mumbai and Trinidad takes also takes place the Ferozeshah Kotla Saturday.
Brief scores: Rajasthan 159 for eight in 20 overs (Rahane 70, Watson 32; Bravo 3/26), Chennai 145 for eight in 20 overs (Ashwin 46, Morris 26; Tambe 3/10)
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Act I
Scene I
Katerina, the young wife of the merchant Zinovi Izmailov, is bored: she loathes her husband, has no children and is driven to distraction by household chore. Her father in law, Boris Timofeyevich, is old but lustful and covets the young woman's body. He reproaches her, saying that after five years of marriage, she has still not produced an heir. Her husband Zinovi has to be away from home for several days in order to repair a dam at one of the Izmailov mills. The servants snigger knowingly, since the Izmailovs' unhappy marriage has long been an open secret. Boris Timofeyevich stages an exaggerated farewell to Zinovi and forces Katerina, in the presence of the whole household, to swear to be faithful to her husband during his absence. Aksinia the Cook draws Katerina's attention to a new worker, Sergey, who has been hounded from his former job following an affair with his previous employer's wife. Here is a man who could help dispel Katerina's boredom.
Scene II
A group of laborers molests Aksinia, manhandling the somewhat ungainly woman and threatening to turn the brutal joke into a full-scale rape, with Sergey playing a prominent role. Katerina intervenes. She defends the honour of women in general and berates Sergey for his behaviour. He challenges her to a trial of strength and leaves her in no doubt which of them is the stronger. But Katerina finds herself attracted to him, as Boris intervenes.
Scene III
Boris Timofeyevich keeps a watchful eye on Katerina. In her frustration, she complains that tenderness exists even among animals and in nature, but she alone remains unsatisfied. With the excuse that he wants to borrow some of her books, Sergey forces his way into her room, and they consummate their union.
Act II
Scene I
Tormented by sleeplessness and lost in lecherous memories, Boris Timofeyevich keeps watch over house and courtyard but chiefly over his daughter in-law. He decides to perform his son's marital duties for him. At that moment, Sergey clambers out of Katerina's window and straight into the clutches of the old man. He starts beating him senseless in the presence of the entire household and beneath the eyes of Katerina, who has no choice but to look on from her locked room. Boris Timofeyevich then orders Sergey to be locked up in the storeroom. His appetite roused, he orders Katerina to bring him some of the leftover mushrooms from the day's meal. She laces them with rat poison. As the old man dies an agonizing death, Katerina removes the key to Sergey's place of confinement. The laborers are heard setting out for the fields, at the same time as a priest arrives to assist the dying man. Katerina sings the requisite dirge over her victim's body, while the priest rants senselessly.
Scene II
Katerina shares her marriage bed with Sergey. While her lover dozes, she is tormented by pangs of conscience. The ghost of Boris Timofeyevich appears and curses her. Katerina's husband Zinovi returns and demands entry, calling her to account for her infidelity. Katerina and Sergey murder him and conceal his body in the cellar.
Act III
Scene I
Katerina is marrying Sergey, her husband having been declared missing. While Sergey looks to the future, Katerina sees only the past. With noticeable frequency and with fear in her eyes, she keeps on looking in the direction of the cellar. While all are at church celebrating the wedding, a Shabby Peasant breaks into the cellar, thinking from his employer's anxious glances that there must be good wines hidden there. But instead of the drink he was hoping for, he finds Zinovi's corpse and rushes off to repel his discovery to the police.
Scene II
The Police Sergeant and his men are offended at not having been invited to Katerina's wedding. They help to while away the time by hymning their own importance and persecuting intellectuals: a teacher is interrogated and accused of being a nihilist. News of the discovery of the body in the cellar gives them an excuse to attend the wedding uninvited.
Scene III
In the course of the wedding celebrations, Katerina discovers the broken lock on the cellar door, but it is too late for her and Sergey to make good their escape. The murderers are arrested.
Act IVKaterina and Sergey have been found guilty of murder and are now on their way to a labor camp in Siberia. In the encampment set up for the night men and women are segregated. Katerina bribes a sentry into allowing her to approach Sergey, whom she looks upon as her only support in time of need. But he reproaches her for being the cause of his present misfortune. The former merchant's wife has lost all her previous attractiveness for him. He tries instead to win the favours of a younger convict Sonyetka. As a proof of his love, Sonyetka demands that he obtain a pair of warm stockings for her. Taking advantage of Katerina's weakness for him, Sergey manages to obtain the stockings from her. When she realizes they are intended for Sonyetka, Katerina pushes her rival into the river and then jumps in after her; both women are drowned. The convicts are marched away.


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On Monday, the Egyptian army gave Islamist President Mohamed Morsi 48 hours to meet the demands of the citizens else the military threatened it would "announce a future roadmap and measures to oversee its implementation".
From an oil perspective, this flareup should have little bearing as Egypt is not an oil exporter. However, as we have seen in the past, any flareup of any kind in the Mideast tends to drive the price of oil higher.
This time is no different. In the past week Crude has risen from $93 to $102 and is up from $86 since mid-April. To be fair, correlation is not causation, and part of the rebound came before news of trouble in Egypt.
Brotherhood Defiant
With that backdrop, please consider the Financial Times report Egypt: Brotherhood defiant as deadline approaches
They have been jailed and tortured, hunted in the streets and blacklisted from public life. But a year after winning the presidency and reaching the pinnacle of their 80-year quest for power, Egypt's Islamists are again facing a threat to their existence.
President Mohamed Morsi was fighting back yesterday against what his supporters have dubbed a military coup against his democratically elected government.
In a defiant late-night speech, Mr Morsi made clear he would make no concessions to his opponents and said he was prepared to shed his blood to defend "legitimacy" in Egypt. He warned repeatedly that any moves against him could lead to bloodshed – an assertion that his opponents interpreted as a threat of civil war.
But this time, the president's Muslim Brotherhood and his millions of supporters made clear, they are not about to give up.
"If the military takes any street action, we will stand in front of the tanks," vowed Gehad Haddad, an official in Mr Morsi's Freedom and Justice party.
Following huge street protests on Sunday against what critics see as the president's ever more autocratic and erratic rule, Egypt's military leapt back into politics on Monday and demanded that the president and the opposition negotiate a compromise by today or submit to the army's own political "road map".
Under a draft of that road map, leaked to the to official MENA news agency yesterday, the constitution would be suspended and the Islamist-dominated legislature dissolved, if a power-sharing agreement were not reached.
One Picture Says It All
For the third consecutive day, anti-Morsi protesters packed Tahrir Square in central Cairo.
Image courtesy of Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters as posted on the New York Times.
Morsi Defies Egypt Army's Ultimatum to Bend to Protest
Also courtesy of the New York Times, please consider Morsi Defies Egypt Army's Ultimatum to Bend to Protest
President Mohamed Morsi rejected an ultimatum in an angry speech Tuesday night as Egypt edged closer to a return to military rule.
Mr. Morsi insisted he was the legitimate leader of the country, hinted that any effort to remove him by force could plunge the nation into chaos, and seemed to disregard the record numbers of Egyptians who took to the streets demanding he resign.
But before the president's speech, Egypt's generals took control of the state's flagship newspaper, Al Ahram, and used it to describe on Wednesday's front page their plans to enforce a military ultimatum issued a day earlier: remove Mr. Morsi from office if he failed to satisfy protesters' demands.
As both sides maneuvered, tensions rose on the streets of Cairo and other cities, where violence erupted between groups of protesters and Mr. Morsi's defenders, primarily members of the Muslim Brotherhood. At least 11 people were killed — four shortly after Mr. Morsi's speech — and dozens more were wounded as gunfire broke out in at least two neighborhoods of the capital. Angry Islamists gathered in the street with a sheet stained with the blood of one of their allies.
Mr. Morsi refused to back down. In an impassioned, if at times rambling, midnight address broadcast on state television, he hinted that his removal would lead only to more violence.
"If the price of protecting legitimacy is my blood, I'm willing to pay it," he said. "And it would be a cheap price for the sake of protecting this country."
At a demonstration in support of Mr. Morsi near Cairo University, assailants firing birdshot wounded at least 40 Islamists. A further 35 pro-Morsi demonstrators were wounded with rocks, police officials said. Groups of Islamists began seeking the attackers, beating suspects and dragging a person along the street.
In Alexandria, 33 people were wounded by pellets in clashes between Mr. Morsi's opponents and supporters, with gunfire from both sides, police officials said.
Mr. Morsi's government appeared to crumble around him. Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr resigned. Six ministers have now announced their resignations since the mass anti-Morsi protests began Sunday.
Did We Learn Anything?
- Please note that the US gives billions of dollars every year to Egypt.
- Recall that president Obama supported the movement that put Morsi in power.
- Recall that a US installed puppet president in Iran led to the Islamic revolution.
- Recall that US troops on sacred Mideast soil was a primary reason behind Osama Bin Laden's 911 attack on the US.
So what do we do now?
I expect more meddling with similar results. And when the negative results come home to roost, expect more government surveillance, more wiretappings, more phone eavesdropping, more loss of freedoms, and more trashing of the constitution as we become more like them, all in the name of freedom.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock


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This sort of energy and thought process gives me hope. Instead of lamenting the state of our world, Hesse is saying, our task is to speak of it as already existing, to experience it as real, right now, together. And if we add an insight from the Gita, our task is to let go of our attachment to the fruit, meaning, after doing all we possibly can, we let go and trust that we did what we were put on this earth to do, and it will emerge as the Divine energies of the universe intended. Amen.
For me right now this is the number #1 skill to work on — ignoring stuff that doesn't matter. I'm doing it softly, through meditation and gently letting go. But also more proactively, through reminders, affirmations, and repetition of orders to my subconscious mind.
I'm noticing that in dark moments I simply forget the truths about hardship, and even death. It's like my head knows it but my body doesn't always embody it. So that's my prayer in practice, that it help me embody my highest aspirations, what I know to be true.
Coronavirus is a wake-up call to check in with myself -- have i made peace with death? how much is fear driving my life? how can it help me forgive? Overlook what I perceive as the shortcomings in others? Motivate me to step up with more courage and compassion than ever before?
Wow I can relate to this! I'd like a daily reminder, to condition myself, so that each time I might sense, in frustration, that with the "wrong" person, that this person is a beautiful and beneficial part of my journey. And here's a chance to put my growth into action.
i am learning to cultivate joy in practice for its own sake. It puts me in the energy of quiet, steady movement, helping me to see the value not just of outcomes but also of process.
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At any time we can celebrate the amazement of being alive ... share the wonders of body, mind and soul. It's just that often we forget. So that's why it's so meaningful and rewarding to practice together in community.
We will share our hope — that as scary and dangerous as our new technologies are, we can also use them as tools of awakening. We can allow them to challenge our egos, to invite us to step into a different reality. We can build a new theatre of consciousness. It's not a quick fix. But it's a possibility. And it gives us hope.
Reaching deep down is scary, but necessary for our evolution. Today fear need not control us. When things get scary, we can surround ourselves with those who are on a similar path.
A supportive community helps us develop our gifts rather than focus on our problems or flaws. Community awakens us to the awesome responsibility we each have to show up in a way that only we can uniquely show up… to cultivate our individual gifts that reach their fullest expression when we join hearts and hands.
Artificial Intelligence is bringing to light emotional forces and psychological phenomena which, until now, have been below the threshold of awareness. We are learning to see the universe, and ourselves, through a non-sentient pair of eyes — and it's nothing like anything we've ever imagined. The first Axial Age was one of self-reflection; the second, of machines reflecting our self-reflections.
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With the Olympics currently dominating TV viewership, the animated characters of ParaNorman and Wreck-It Ralph have decided to get into the games. Two new TV spots have gone online for ParaNorman, the stop-motion animated tale directed by Chris Butler and Sam Fell that tasks Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) with preventing a curse that will allow the dead to overrun his hometown. Rich Moore's Wreck-It Ralph also gets into the act with a spot featuring stars Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch. Hit the jump to check out the TV spots.
Check out the two TV spots for ParaNorman after the official synopsis below:
The new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from animation company LAIKA, reteams the company with Focus Features after the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated "Coraline." "ParaNorman" is, following "Coraline," only the second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. In "ParaNorman," a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Watch the Olympic spot for Wreck-It Ralph after the synopsis below:
From Walt Disney Animation Studios and Emmy®-winning director Rich Moore comes "Wreck-It Ralph," a hilarious, arcade-game-hopping adventure. For decades, Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) has been overshadowed by Fix-It Felix, Jr. (voice of Jack McBrayer), the good-guy star of their game who always gets to save the day. Tired of playing the role of a bad guy, Ralph takes matters into his own massive hands and sets off on a journey across the arcade through multiple generations of video games to prove he's got what it takes to be a hero.
On his quest, Ralph meets tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun (voice of Jane Lynch) from the first-person action game Hero's Duty, and feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) from the candy-coated cart racing game, Sugar Rush, who may just be his first real friend. But everything changes when a deadly enemy is unleashed, threatening the entire arcade and Vanellope herself. Ralph finally gets his chance to save the day—but can he do it in time? "Wreck-It Ralph" crashes onto the big screen on November 2, 2012, in Disney Digital 3D™ in select theaters.


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IQ records vanish: was it more than a dot-bomb?
When retail tycoon Solomon Lew invested $4million in a company controlled by Andrew Landeryou and his business partner Ed Dale in February 2000, there were big plans to use the funds to build a sports statistics and online gaming group.
Investors from Britain, the Channel Islands and Switzerland had committed a further $4million, in part fuelled by high hopes that the company, IQ Corporation, would win lucrative contracts to supply media outlets with detailed sports data from football matches in Australia and soccer games in Britain and Israel.
It was the peak of the sharemarket boom, IQ had plans to float and Lew wanted a piece of it.
His company, Jordanlane Pty Ltd, ended up with 23 per cent and his closest adviser, Michael McLeod was appointed to the IQ board. Then it all went sour.
Four years later it has degenerated into an unseemly, bitter fight between the powerful Lew interests and the high-profile Landeryou family as a court-appointed liquidator tries to determine what happened to IQ's funds, its books and records, and whatever operating assets it once owned.
But the liquidator's task is made more difficult because, as the Federal Court has heard, most of IQ's books and records have vanished. Judging by the paucity of documents submitted by IQ's former officers to a liquidator's examination this week, IQ's liquidator Gideon Rathner of Lowe Lippmann has quite a task in front of him to resolve the puzzle.
More information is likely to emerge when the examination gets into full swing on August 24. But so far there are far more questions than answers about the curious link-up between the Lew interests and the Landeryous, and how the $8million was spent.
Back in 2000, McLeod said the Lew empire was "very impressed with IQ's management, proprietary technology and their advanced development of a global strategy. We are also pleased with what they have achieved to date and, going forward, we are confident about their business plan."
IQ Media in the late 1990s was a fledgling company with a few ideas on supplying sports statistics to the media. For a brief period, it supplied sport stats to The Age.
In 1999, according to Landeryou, IQ Media's business was sold to IQ Corp, both the IQ Media brand name and an online education business were sold to Isis Corp and Landeryou and Dale toyed with plans to float IQ Corp.
Landeryou said he had known Lew and McLeod for some years and their interest in IQ's prospects evolved into a shareholding. What happened after that time is in dispute.
Troubles first surfaced publicly in mid-2003 when McLeod asked the Federal Court to force IQ's other directors and company officers to give him access to IQ's books and records.
His solicitors told the court then that McLeod was not getting any communication or information from IQ's officers, and that there was trouble locating either the company or its officers or fellow directors when serving court papers.
At the core of the stoush is Andrew Landeryou, the son of long-time ALP powerbroker and one-time Victorian minister Bill Landeryou, and Ed Dale, IQ's founder, shareholder, technical specialist and long-time director.
Andrew Landeryou owned half of IQ's shares and was managing director; Dale owned about 15 per cent.
Dale, who is expected to be called as a witness, yesterday declined to comment and denied any wrongdoing. He said the dispute was "best left to the big boys who are heaving it out".
Bill Landeryou joined the IQ board in mid-2001 when, under pressure from the Lew interests, Andrew Landeryou quit.
But the Landeryou connections to IQ do not end there.
Kimberley Kitching, a Melbourne City councillor, was the registered company secretary of IQ Corp from October 1999 to February 2000 and, according to documents filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, was a secretary of some IQ companies until May 2001.
Kitching's demeanour as a witness was belligerent and theatrical. Before counsel for the liquidator had asked even the first question, Kitching cut him off and asked for someone to explain the layout of the court because, she said, she had not been there before and wanted to understand who all these people - the solicitors at the bar table - were.
This caused some surprise in the court: Kitching is a qualified lawyer. She told the court that her duties with Melbourne City Council now took up so much of her time that she was not currently practising law, nor did she have a current practice certificate.
Kitching said she had been employed or contracted by IQ - the dates of her employment are not clear - and was paid about $50,000 a year.
But Kitching said she did not have any receipts, personal bank statements, nothing - not even income tax returns - that would show the payments.
Kitching said those sorts of documents about her personal finances would have been kept at the IQ offices by Andrew Landeryou's sister, Anne-Marie Landeryou-Mason, who earlier gave evidence that she was "a jack-of-all-trades" at IQ - the company book-keeper, receptionist and personal assistant.
Anne-Marie's husband, Matthew Mason, was not employed by IQ but the court heard that the company reimbursed him for certain expenses.
Precisely what Mason did for IQ and the nature of those expenses is not yet clear.
The Landeryou clan, Kitching and Mason plumped themselves into the witness box before Registrar Jane Mussett this week only after counsel for the liquidator asked the court to consider issuing arrest warrants because they declined to turn up under summons.
Andrew Landeryou followed his wife into the witness box.
His evidence was given with his face mostly turned away from the liquidator's counsel, and he prefaced every question - even when asked to state his name - by citing "privilege". Several times during Landeryou's evidence, the registrar threatened to refer him to a judge for contempt of court.
For his part, Landeryou said it was "contempt, utter contempt" that his wife had been "dragged" into the examination.
Asked what position Kitching held at IQ, Landeryou cited privilege and said: "I do not recall, or care."
Indeed, the evidence of the Landeryou family members was riddled with a surprising inability to recall or remember very much about the company.
Bill Landeryou on Monday pointedly and aggressively told the court that even though he had been a director of IQ he did not retain any financial records, any notes, floppy discs, CD-roms, emails, statements or correspondence that may have transpired between himself, IQ and several of the company's officers. Nor did Landeryou-Mason, nor did Mason.
The Landeryous insisted that they did not know what happened to the company's records after the landlord unceremoniously evicted IQ from its premises in Sturt Street, South Melbourne, in 2002.
Peter Brannighan, who was chief executive of IQ's subsidiary, Betworks, in late 2000 and was employed as a consultant until October 2001, handed the court his own cardboard box of company records, and said the last time he saw any other files they were in boxes at Sturt Street. He said Andrew Landeryou at the time had told him all the firm's records, furniture and computers would be placed in storage.
What happened to IQ's finances may be a story of what happened to a lot of dotcoms at the peak of the boom: money was burned on frivolous items and fruitless ventures and there was little or no accountability.
Or it may be a story of something else again. More will emerge after August 24.
McLeod has declined to discuss IQ's collapse or the liquidator's examination, saying the Lew interests preferred to leave everything in the hands of the court.
Andrew Landeryou, for his part, denies any wrongdoing.


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MONTREAL – A number of Quebec politicians have lately been forced to deflect allegations of corruption. Now a Montreal mayoral candidate is deflecting allegations that he's too English for the job.
Michael Applebaum told reporters Wednesday that he intends to run for interim mayor and promises that, if he wins, he won't be a candidate in the 2013 election.
There have been suggestions in local media, quoting anonymous members of his longtime party, that Applebaum wasn't an ideal mayoral candidate because of his imperfect French and heavy accent.
While Montreal has a large English-speaking population, it has been precisely one century since the city last had an anglophone mayor.
Applebaum was the city's former No. 2 politician behind the recently departed Gerald Tremblay and remains mayor of Montreal's largest borough. But he was passed over by his party as it searched for a temporary replacement for Tremblay and he quit the party, citing policy differences.
He announced his intention Wednesday to run as an independent candidate. At that news conference, he was asked about his perceived linguistic handicap. The question was: What would Applebaum say to people who don't want an anglophone mayor?
"Yes, I'm an anglophone," he replied, speaking in French.
"Yes, I make mistakes from time to time. Yes, I have an accent that some people might even find charming.
"I was born here. I am a Quebecer. I'm proud of being able to work in French. Now I think we should focus on other things."
If Anglophones have traditionally held considerable power in Quebec's business community, the political and demographic clout has belonged to the French.
Some pillars of Quebec governance, such as the Caisse de depot pension fund, were even built around the idea of using the state to address that imbalance in the boardrooms.
Anglos did hold several cabinet positions in the recent Charest government including justice, immigration, environment and aboriginal affairs.
But one political commentator suggested Wednesday that there's a limit to what English-speaking Quebecers can aspire to in politics.
Longtime Montreal Gazette political columnist Don Macpherson weighed in on the issue in a blog post. He called Applebaum's French acceptable and questioned whether his perceived handicap is his accent or if it his English name and that French isn't his mother tongue.
He noted that 40 per cent of Montrealers are non-francophones but that the city had not had a non-francophone mayor since 1912. He pointed out that Anglos tend not to have senior cabinet positions at the provincial level, either.
"There's a linguistic glass ceiling in politics in Montreal, as there is in Quebec as a whole," Macpherson wrote.
"Applebaum's election as mayor … wouldn't shatter the glass ceiling. But symbolically, at least, it might put a crack in it."
The interim mayor will be elected at a council meeting Friday.
A key dynamic in that vote is whether the city's governing party, Applebaum's old party, can maintain some unity in the fallout from a corruption scandal.
The embattled party — named Union Montreal — has begun to splinter.
Applebaum, who resigned as chairman of the city's executive committee last week, said that five other people had joined him in bolting from the caucus of Union Montreal.
The party has been in turmoil since Tremblay's resignation last week.
The attempt to pick a new mayor created a rift, as Applebaum was passed over in favour of another candidate. He cast his departure as a matter of principle, accusing his former allies of preparing unreasonable tax increases and of suppressing embarrassing documents.
Now he's poised to challenge them.
When city council picks an interim mayor on Friday, Applebaum appears set to seek support from both the governing party and opposition ones.
His chief rival, Richard Deschamps, held his own news conference Wednesday surrounded by a number of caucus members to demonstrate that he still has strong support.
"Our caucus is more united that ever," he said.
He appears to have budged on the tax issue, and agrees with Applebaum that a property-tax increase be limited to no more than 2.2 per cent.
The administration has also released a series of embarrassing reports, after being publicly pressured to do so by Applebaum, that suggest the city knew years ago that Montrealers were getting gouged by a closed construction market.
Applebaum now says that what the city needs is an interim mayor who doesn't fall under any political banner. Several people who quit the ruling party said they'll support Applebaum's candidacy.
"I've seen his work ethic, I've seen his politics, I've seen his love for Montreal," said Alain Tasse, a municipal councillor from Verdun who quit Union Montreal.
Tasse said he has no problem with Deschamps and wants to continue to work with him. But given the current climate, having an independent mayor and a coalition executive committee is the way to go, he said.
Opposition leader Louise Harel said she would hold a caucus meeting of her fellow Vision Montreal members on Thursday to discuss whom to support.
Harel said she met with both Applebaum and Deschamps on Wednesday. Harel said her party hasn't ruled out putting forward a candidate from its own ranks.
City councillors are expected to vote by secret ballot on Friday morning.
As it stands, Union Montreal holds 29 of the 64 seats on council.
Tasse said the winds of change are blowing quickly in Montreal municipal politics. He wouldn't venture a guess as to who would emerge victorious Friday.
"Every 20 minutes in the last few days, things change," Tasse said, "so I don't know."


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If all people have original sin and Jesus was a human being, then didn't Jesus need to have had a sin nature?
Before we can answer this question, we need to know what the term "original sin" means. This is a term used to describe the effect of Adam's sin on his descendants (Rom. 5:12-32). Specifically, it is our inheritance of a sinful nature from Adam. The sinful nature originated with Adam and is passed down from parent to child. We are by nature children of wrath (Eph. 2:3). So, if we inherit our sinful nature from our parents, then Jesus, who had Mary as a parent, must have had a sin nature. Right? Not necessarily. I believe that the sin nature is passed down through the father. Let me explain.
Some Bible commentators, with whom I agree, hold the position that the sin nature is passed down through the father. Support for this position is found in the fact that sin entered the world through Adam, not Eve. Remember, Eve was the one who sinned first. However, sin did not enter the world through her. It entered through Adam. Rom. 5:12 says, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned." The concept behind this is called Federal Headship. This means that a person (a father) represents his descendants. We see this concept taught in Heb. 7:9-10, "And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, 10for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him." We see in Hebrews that Levi, a distant descendant of Abraham, is said to have paid tithes to Melchizedek when Abraham was the one offering the tithes, not Levi. What this means is that there is biblical support for the idea that the sin nature was passed down through the father. Since Jesus had not a literal, biological father, the sin nature was not passed down to Him. However, since He had a human mother, he was fully human but without original sin. Jesus has two natures: God and man. Col. 2:9 says, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of deity in bodily form." Jesus received His human nature from Mary, but He received His divine nature through God the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Jesus is both God and man. He was sinless, had no original sin, and was both fully God and fully man.


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The Awards Ceremonies Program Guide Book will get very wide distribution both online and in physical reality, certain retail stores, hotels and other outlets will be giving it to locals and visitors alike.
Including all the Stars, celebrities and attendees that show up at the Event itself will also receive a copy of the program guide book, so you could land some very influential people as new clients.
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[November 07, 2012]
The Lincoln Community High School Choir
will once again this year present Ye Olde Madrigal Dinner at the
Maple Club. Scheduled evenings for the event are Thursday and
Friday, with doors opening at 6 and the performance beginning at
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Click here for the cast list for this year's event.
On the menu this year: tossed salad with
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baked sweet potato with whipped brown sugar and butter, green beans
with bacon and onion, pumpkin cake, tea, and wassail.
Thursday and Friday tickets are priced at $25 for adults and $22
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For the Sunday event, dessert only will be served during the
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by Bourdain
It is a measure of how seriously crack-brained, rapacious and evil the Deep Thinkers at Food Network must be that I find myself–yet again–in deep sympathy with their stable of stars. Last night, during the breathtakingly awful, interminable cruelty that was The Food Network Awards, I even found myself feeling bad for Rachael Ray. YES, friends. Rachael Ray. If nothing else, Rachael's BIG now. Network talk show– doing- well- in- ratings- Big. Own magazine Big. Friend-of-Oprah Big. So, how must it have felt for her to stand up there in front of what appeared to be a halfway empty room of stunned, near comatose trout and feign enthusiasm while presenting the award for "Best Appliance"?
Do Emeril and Bobby–who, whatever you think of their shows–BUILT that fucking network, deserve to be pimped out with such casual disregard? Does anyone deserve to run the Gauntlet of Shame that was the "red carpet", forced to waddle past the California Raisins and Tony the Tiger and a bunch of other corporate Big Heads? The overmuscled fuckwit from DINNER SLIGHTLY DIFFICULT delivered the best line: something like "This is the greatest night "ever!" If that was his greatest night ever, I suspect he would say the same thing while being publicly butt-slammed by the San Diego Chicken.
(If you've ever seen his show, by the way–it's hilarious. It's "Knight Rider Meets Leonard's Of Great Neck "" Can four professional cooks make onion dip for 40– in time?!!!" )And Nigella, Nigella, Nigella..the strange and fabulous Nigella Lawson!! Iconic in England– and internationally…. fabulously wealthy.. a good cook…new to the Network– and this is her welcome. Surely she had no clue as to the horrors she was facing. She looked trapped up there on stage.."the information" as Martin Amis calls it, coming terribly, suddenly home with painful clarity. To be stripped of one's dignity by one's new masters so quickly and with such ferocity–all in the cause of some product placement cannot have pleased. My only hope is that Charles, her husband, on hearing of this atrocity, this degrading mis-use of his wife , will buy the network–in order to spare her further ill treatment.
Emeril always the good soldier, sweated dutifully through his obligations, wondering privately, no doubt, what he had done to deserve this.
The production itself–above and beyond the witless, ill-considered, just-plain stupid "concept" of an Awards show where most of the "awards" went to inanimate objects (accepting the award for Best Comfort Food is…Macaroni and Cheese!!), appliances or cities (Portland's mayor wisely did not bother to show),–the production values–were lower than whale shit. The food styling during the "Best New Appliance" looked like some kind of 1960's themed monkey effluence, dying, soggy, butt-ugly. Perfectly appropriate to the Info-mercial From Hell theme of the presentation as a whole–but still shamefully crude for any "Food" network. The selection and photography of "beauty plates" from winning "Delicious Destination,. Portland, Oregon (in fact a terrific food destination) looked like somebody took a dump at McFunsters. Portland for fuck's sake! They couldn't find some good looking plates in fucking Portland!?
You have to ask yourself: WHAT were they THINKING?? Okay…so some brain dead douche bags from Ad Sales and "creative" got together and cooked up this hybrid, fur-bearing catfish of a beast, this jackalope of a High Concept. Fine. That's what they do. But who green lit this monstrosity? Did no one raise their voice and say, "Boss…boss..Can we really DO this to our talent? " or even ask.."Uh…boss..Do you think this will be even remotely entertaining?" The answer, apparently arrived at the taping in Miami–where the Awards were perhaps the lone under-attended event of the South Beach Food and Wine Fest. . They couldn't even hold on to a LIVE audience–ordinarily mesmerized simply by proximity to Sandra and Paula. In a few shots in the finished show, you can actually see the large empty spaces–the quick and the shrewd fleeing for the exits.
Did the network, upon realizing (as they surely did) that the whole thing was a hideous, stultifyingly boring cluster fuck–and a public slap to their talent–did they consider maybe having the good taste to just bury the whole thing in archives like a rotten bone? They reportedly had no trouble burying the Ripert and the Ramsay episodes of the excellent, critically acclaimed My Country My Kitchen. Have they no decency?
There's a famous story where Robert Mitchum walks into studio head David O Selznick's office, pulls down his pants and takes a crap on his white carpet.
I hope Emeril is pinching a loaf right now.
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CHICAGO -- It's been a crazy summer for right-hander Daniel Bard, who found himself throwing a bullpen session at Wrigley Field for the Cubs on Friday, ending a week in which he'd been in four states in five days.
The Cubs claimed Bard, once considered one of the best setup pitchers in baseball, off waivers from the Red Sox. For now, he'll work with pitching coach Chris Bosio on the side, which he did on Friday. There is no timetable as to when he will get in a game, manager Dale Sveum said.
Bard's session didn't start well, as he cut his thumb on his first pitch and it started to bleed. The right side of his pant leg was stained in blood, but all that was needed was a bandage.
When he was designated, Bard said, he was in "baseball limbo" and not sure what would happen next.
"I was ready to hit free agency this offseason, which was fine, and then this opportunity came about, and God's plans are a little better than mine," Bard said. "I was happy to hear from [president of baseball operations] Theo [Epstein]. We had a good chat and talked about the plan moving forward, and here I am.
"He's a guy who has seen me at my best and at my worst," Bard added of Epstein, who was Boston's general manager when he selected Bard in the first round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft. "It's pretty awesome to have somebody you know is on your side."
Bard's struggles started when he was switched from the bullpen to the rotation.
"I don't think it was a bad move," he said on Friday. "We -- the coaches over there and myself included -- tried to change too many things to turn me from a reliever to a starter. I could have just taken the pitcher I was in the bullpen for four years and plopped that into a starting role and probably would have been fine.
"We tried to overhaul in Spring Training and throw more changeups, cut the ball, sink the ball, change speeds with the fastball, things that I hadn't done in the past. It worked a few times, and I had some good starts, but it got me out of my game, and it's been a little bit of a journey here the past year, and some injuries have gotten in the way as well. I'm healthy now. [To have] a fresh environment to start working in is really exciting for me."
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I don't have a ton of time today, but I did want to offer some food for thought on the four changes that are being reported as going up on the PTR for Resto Druids.
Let's start with the biggest one.
Omen of Clarity
· Omen of Clarity now procs from damage spells and attacks instead of proc from damage and healing spells.
What do I think? At first I was like most other people and went WTF do you mean OoC no longer procs from healing spells! But that was quickly followed by jumping to the fact that they did not change Malfurion's Gift. So what I think is that Malfurion's gift is now an absolute must talent in the resto tree (not that it wasn't before, in my opinion) and the only healing spell that will proc OoC for resto druids will be lifebloom, and only via Malfurion's gift.
It is an interesting change, to be sure. I'm not hugely certain about how much it will affect our overall mana regeneration, I think that's going to depend on how many of our OoC procs were a direct result of OoC procs via Malfurion's Gift. That being said, if it seems low on the PTR, and it's not restoring sufficient mana to us with this change, it's a pretty easy fix to just increase the chance of an OoC proc from Malfurion's Gift.
I think I'm going to go with a "wait and see" on this one. I'm not entirely sure it's going to be terrible, but I'm also not entirely sure that it's needed and that Blizzard is sufficiently reviewing all of the data on OoC's mana return. Sure, as my gear has increased in my 5 mans I've gotten to the point that I'm frequently sitting pretty full on mana most of the time, but in my raids I'm damn well using every mana resource I can get and still running to empty by the end of most encounters. If it ends up netting out as a small reduction in OoC procs, I do not think it will be hugely missed. If it significantly reduces the amount of OoC procs that we get I think it's going to be more problematic.
· Rejuvenation now costs 16% of base mana, down from 26% of base mana.
All I can say with regards to this change is Thank God! I really do feel that this was needed. While it doesn't solve the problem of resto druids not having a competitive burst AE healing ability – it also gives us a lot more leeway to utilize the strongest raid healing tool that we do have. I am very happy to see this change on the horizon.
Now if we could just see a buff to Efflorescence too…
Nature's Bounty
· Nature's Bounty proc effect removed and replaced with a new effect – Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth spell by 20/40/60%. In addition, when you have Rejuvenation active on three or more targets, the cast time of your Nourish spell is reduced by 10/20/30%.
I actually find this change extremely interesting. It's clearly a buff to a talent that a large majority of druids have been leaving out of their specs due to the low desirability to utilize Regrowth as a result of its lack luster healing and high mana cost.
This change says a few things to me. First, obviously Blizzard isn't happy that this talent was being left by the wayside. But second, I think it's reinforcing that Blizzard is intending us to utilize Rejuv as a staple of our raid healing. And, think of the potential of this to have rejuvs on the requisite number of people – and then be able to utilize a faster nourish to handle some of the more bursty damage on those hotted.
Now, I still think that nourish needs to have the HoT component removed from it to make it more uniform with what other healers have for the "cheap" heal, but that really isn't a discussion for right now. But having a 1.5 second cast time on nourish – which after some napkin math I believe would be the rough cast time assuming all three talents in nature's bounty – is intriguing from a "filler" raid healing perspective. I'm quite curious to see how this plays out and if this truly makes Nature's Bounty a more desirable talent for us.
If we decide that Nature's Bounty is worth it, we are then presented with the problem of where to find the 3 talent points to give to nature's bounty. I find it hard to give up Swift Rejuv with this seeming push towards encouraging us to utilize rejuv more . Similarly, giving up the points in Gift of the Earthmother – which also boots rejuv – seem hard to give up with this push at Rejuv. Ideally, I'd love it if they unlinked the lackluster living seed from Efflorescence so that we could drop the three points in living see. As much as it pains me, if Nature's Bounty ends up being a significant throughput increase, I think I'd probably be looking at having to give up: either all three points in GotEM; 1 from Swift Rejuv and 2 from GotEM; 1 from NS, 1 from Swift Rejuv and 1 from GotEM; or two points in GotEM and NS (/sob).
Really, none of those options seem particularly desirable. I suppose that I will have to wait and see how the throughput numbers crunch out on this one (which is far more math than I have the time for right now!).
Empowered Touch
· Empowered Touch now increases direct healing done by Healing Touch, Regrowth, and Nourish. (Old – Increased healing by Healing Touch and Nourish only)
Again, another push to Regrowth. Apparently Blizzard feels resto druids aren't making enough use of this spell. Which I can see, because, you know, it was pretty terrible. I don't think that this buff is going to be bad. It's interesting that our "flash" heal will now refresh lifebloom – or does it? I am assuming that it will also benefit from the other benefits of this talent, but that isn't stated.
I'm a bit curious about how this buff will play out with Nature's Bounty – and if it will end up making Regrowth a stronger spell for us or something that Blizzard just never got quite right in our healing arsenal and that we continue to leave by the way side.
I'm curious on your opinions with regards to these changes. Obviously, I'm more curious about the two big changes we see in OoC and Nature's Bounty – what are your thoughts on it? Are you on the same page as me, or reading a whole different book? In the end, it's the PTR and anything is bound to be up for discussion and change, and the only thing that will give us definite answers is when the changes go live. But I'm still intrigued by the changes, and find some of them quite interesting indeed.


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Officials in Orange County are investigating the death of a man on McDougall Court Wednesday.
Authorities said they were called to as condominium at the Plaza De Las Fuentes shortly before 10:15 a.m. because of an aggravated battery.
When deputies arrived, 41-year-old Larry Duggan, who had been armed with a knife, was found shot to death in an apartment, according to officials. He did not live in the apartment.
Investigators said Duggan went to the homeowner's condo and became very aggressive while demanding money. Duggan had been staying in another unit in the complex for free that is also owned by the condo owner.
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Jonny Flynn to Michael Beasley: 'be that Mike Beasley that I remember'
He has averaged 32.6 points a game — the most prolific five-game stretch in team history next only to Kevin Garnett's 34.4 average in 2000 — since he and Jonny Flynn ordered room service at a Sacramento hotel nine days ago.
"We were talking about AAU ball, high school, about how it used to be," Beasley said. "It was a long conversation and then there was an awkward moment for like three seconds and he (jonny Flynn) just came out and said, 'Man, you got to be that Mike Beasley that I remember growing up.' "
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Good for Jonny Flynn.
The second year point guard reminded Minnesota Timberwolves teammate Michael Beasley that he possesses the skill-set to be a superstar.
In The MIA, Beasley was mostly, well, MIA. He struggled with off-court issues. He couldn't find his rhythm next to Dwyane Wade. And many nights he resembled a lost rookie.
Enter Minnesota.
Beasley is the undisputed first-option, and his numbers show he's making the most of the opportunity. Gone are the distractions of South Beach. Gone is the pressure of being a second overall pick.
It's just basketball. Like when he was growing up.
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Here's a lottery where you cannot lose.
Nov. 27, 2013 -- Imagine a kind of lottery in which players can win up to $10,000, but it's impossible for them to lose a dime. Such lotteries are now being offered in by 58 U.S. credit unions in four states. Pending federal legislation would allow banks, too, to offer them.
The object of these lotteries isn't to encourage risk, but to promote saving.
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Called "Save to Win" accounts, they work like this: To become eligible to play, a consumer deposits $25 into his or her credit union savings account. For every additional $25 deposited (up to 10 deposits a month), he earns a raffle ticket, which qualifies him for a monthly prize drawing and for a grand prize drawing if the account remains active for a year. The monthly prizes range from $50 to $100, the grand prize, $10,000.
Losers don't lose. They just fail to win. They keep all the money they've deposited, plus interest (in the form of a CD). The prizes are paid for by the credit unions and their associations as a savings incentive.
Sharon Hall, CEO of Express Credit Union in Washington state, has offered the accounts since 2010. "My credit union serves low-income customers," she tells ABC News. "We saw a benefit to offering an incentive win component." So far, she says, feedback from her customers has been 100 percent positive. "I don't know of a member who doesn't like it or hasn't responded well." Winners, she says, take the money and reinvest it, in hopes of winning a bigger prize.
Save to Win was developed in 2008 by the Michigan Credit Union, in collaboration with the Filene Research Institute and the Doorway to Dreams (D2D) Fund, which promotes financial opportunity for low and moderate income consumers.
The number of accounts has grown from 11,700 in Michigan in 2009 to close to 17,000 now in eight states. The number of participating credit unions has grown from eight to 68, and the amount of money saved per year has increased from $8.6 million (an average of $734 per person) to $45.6 million (an average of $3,000). In all, depositors have saved more than $70 million since the inception of the program that might not have been saved otherwise.
The program is aimed at low-income people who have had trouble saving or have never saved before. Such savers, says Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Maryland who has studied lottery-based accounts, told the PBS News Hour her research found the accounts' game-of-chance aspect leveraged low-income depositors' desire to win big.
If Washington State Representative Derek Kilmer gets his way, Save to Win accounts will become available not just from credit unions, but from banks, which for now are forbidden to offer them. "Due to outdated federal regulations, banks and federally chartered financial institutions are unable to offer prize-linked savings accounts," says Kilmer. His American Savings Promotion Act would remove that regulatory barrier.
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Bit of anomaly in that one, at the time I was taught when I wore the suit, we got to pull the crew out, but the doctrine was if the helo caught fire use the monitors to knock it over the side and prevent damage to the ship...often wonder were the AC aware of our intentions?Not forgetting the Silverman to save the ship (or was he on the flight deck to pull the flight crew out
In the one incident I was involved in the Aircrafts own extinguishers had suppressed the fire before I got to dump 20kgs of dry powder into the engine involved, bet the engineers were well happy about that.
My latter training in the CAA fire school taught that 'snatch' rescues using silvers suits very verboten ....and were strictly used by military only.
I reckon the helo was going over the side only because the rescue divers wanted the practise...which brings me nicely to those people who qualified with the RN, dropping from Helos etc, a member here being one....cue Damo!!!!


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Saltie Sandwich Shop's Late-Summer Roasted Tomato Soup with Fregola and Kale Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
While October might be pushing it for "late summer," farmers' markets can still be counted on for inexpensive, past-their-prime tomatoes. And those are perfectly suited for the treatment they get in this wonderful soup, from the Saltie cookbook: a slow roast with olive oil to concentrate their acidity and sweetness. Along with garlic, sage, and rosemary, they're the heart of this spare and satisfying soup.
Why I Picked This Recipe: It's a perfect time of year for soups, and this vegetarian recipe's use of concentrated tomatoes, plenty of garlic, and woodsy herbs sizzled in olive oil made for an intriguing combination.
What Worked: The simplicity of this recipe is wonderful, and the steps work out nicely to allow most of it to be prepared while the tomatoes are roasting, keeping the prep and cook time short.
What Didn't: The tomatoes weren't quite as caramelized as I'd hoped in the recommended time and oven temperature; an adjustment to either might yield more deeply flavored results.
Suggested Tweaks: Fregola is a type of pasta that can be hard to find, but Israeli couscous is a perfect substitute, as is farro or another grain.
Adapted from Saltie: A Cookbook.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 25 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
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- 12 Roma tomatoes, cored and cut in half lengthwise
- Extra-virgin olive oil, as needed
- Salt to taste
- 2 cups fregola (or substitute Israeli cous cous, farro, or another grain)
- 12 cloves garlic, sliced
- 6 sprigs rosemary
- 6 leaves fresh sage
- 1 bunch kale
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Arrange the tomatoes skin-side down on a baking sheet and drizzle evenly with olive oil (leave plenty of room to allow them to caramelize). Season generously with salt and roast until concentrated and charring a little on the edges, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, boil the fregola (or substitute) in salted water until al dente, then drain and toss with a little more oil to keep it from sticking.
In the bottom of a large heavy soup pot, heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat until shimming. Add the garlic and cook until golden, about 3 minutes, then add the rosemary and sage (they will sizzle) and cook until fragrant, about a minute longer. Stir in the roasted tomatoes along with 4 cups of water and bring to a simmer.
Add the kale and season to taste with salt. Simmer until the kale is tender, about 10 minutes, then add the cooked fregola. Laddle into bowls, sprinkle with sea salt, and serve with a drizzle of olive oil.
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If you're gonna be caught in one for several hours, it might as well be interesting.
Coolest is used here because we're not just looking for the most beautiful airport. (Certainly that can be the reason, but you're welcome to nominate them for other reasons as well.) Which airport is the most fun to spend time in? Which looks the best as you approach it? Which one is the most technologically advanced?
Alas, for our nomination we fall back on that old standard beauty. Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD for those of you who had to memorize your country's airport codes in elementary school), was designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen. It contains no inner support columns, meaning the roof floats free over the giant interior concourse. Sure, it really doesn't work that well by today's standards (something the airport is trying to fix) but it mimics a plane taking off! What could be better? Apparently, nothing, since when Taipei needed an airport they decide to just copy it.
Any other cool airports out there? Being Saarinen fans, we can think of at least one more. Have at it in Kinja!
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