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March 15th, 11:05 am
A prayer around the 'Full Communion Tree' as we end our joint meeting of ELCIC National Church Council and ACC Council of General Synod ... See MoreSee Less
March 15th, 8:41 am
A re-post of the ELCIC Bishops' letter to congregations re: COVID-19. mnosynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313BishopsUpdateCOVID19.pdf
Please share this letter with your communities. ... See MoreSee Less
March 13th, 2:19 pm
In response to the many questions and concerns we are receiving regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Bishops of the ELCIC have jointly issued a letter to our members. You can find the letter here: mnosynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313BishopsUpdateCOVID19.pdf
Blessings to you all. ... See MoreSee Less
March 4th, 3:24 pm
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada In Mission for Others March 4, 2020 Sharing an important letter for our congregations and Synodically Recognized Ministries. Thank-you
A pastoral letter concerning coronavirus (COVID-19) and communities of the ELCIC.
Dear friends in Christ, God's grace and peace to you. Recent news about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has raised concerns for many of us for the wellbeing of people across the world and potentially in our communities and neighbourhoods. This may be raising fears and questions. In response, we first want to ask you to pray for all who are affected by this disease. God be with those who grieve, are ill, isolated and afraid, and the many people involved in medical and emergency care. We pray particularly for the people of China and other nations where the disease is spreading rapidly. And we ask that together we stand with and publicly express our support of Asian neighbours and communities in this country, that racism and prejudice be confronted among us and in our nation. We also ask that we resist allowing our fear to overwhelm us. We trust in "God with us," and in the revelation of God in Christ Jesus who speaks often in the Gospels the words of promise, "Do not be afraid." We are called to reassure others in this same promise. It is also important to inform ourselves of the risks and precautions, and our national, provincial and local government health authorities are our best source of information.
Please consult the Health Canada website: www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html or your provincial or local health authority for up-to-date information. We want to ensure best practises in our worship and community life together, especially for the sake of those most vulnerable to this and other diseases. The following are recommended in our communities, based on best practises of health authorities, for preventing the transmission of the disease. • People experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms, especially a fever, should stay home and avoid contact with others until symptoms cease. Thoroughly washing hands and avoiding contact between unwashed hands and
mouth, nose and eyes, and sneezing or coughing into your sleeve or a tissue, are the most effective ways of preventing infection. Concerning specific worship practises, the following are recommended in our communities that should ordinarily govern our public worship: • Greeting one another, including sharing the peace, should be expressed in ways that are comfortable for each
person, that may or may not include shaking hands or embracing, but also, a bow, nod, or smile. • Hand sanitizer should be readily available in and around our worship and other gathering spaces for everyone's use. • Cleaning and disinfecting surfaces according to local health guidelines in our public spaces of worship and gathering, especially washrooms, door handles, handrails, is recommended. • Those preparing Holy Communion should thoroughly wash their hands with soap and hot water and all vessels and containers must be carefully washed before and after worship as well.
• Presiders and Communion ministers should thoroughly wash their hands with soap and hot water just before serving Communion. • Medical advice tells us that the common cup, when properly administered, continues to be a hygienically sound means of receiving the wine in Holy Communion. A metal chalice wiped inside and outside and turned between each
person communing is the best practise. Ceramic chalices are not as hygienically sound. • Parishes that use individual glasses for Communion should ensure that good hygienic practises are followed by all persons who handle the glasses both before and after worship. • The practise of intinction (dipping the bread in the wine) is not recommended. But if used, worshippers need to take care that hands are clean and touching the wine is avoided. • People who are uncomfortable or anxious about receiving the wine in Holy Communion, regardless of the means, should be reminded that it is entirely appropriate to commune by receiving the bread only. • As we continue to monitor the situation, an extreme risk of transmission in a local community may require the temporary practise of communing with bread only. Local health authorities should be consulted in making this decision. In addition, appropriate food safe practises, including thorough hand washing, washing of dishes, careful preparing and serving of food and beverages should be followed for all gatherings for hospitality and community together. Consult local government health authorities for best information and training as appropriate. Our hope and prayer is that our appropriate concern for public health and well-being in our communities does not diminish our full and enthusiastic participation in worship and community life together. We trust in God's continuing care for all in response to this health challenge before us.
God bless us all with a Holy Lent and a springtime of hope in Christ Jesus.
Yours in Christ,
The Rev. Susan Johnson The Rev. Dr. Greg Mohr National Bishop, ELCIC British Columbia Synod
The Rev. Dr. Larry Kochendorfer The Rev. Dr. Sid Haugen Synod of Alberta and the Territories Saskatchewan Synod
The Rev. Jason Zinko The Rev. Michael Pryse Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod Eastern Synod ... See MoreSee Less
February 7th, 2:24 pm
Thank you, Bishop Susan, for putting into words our call to work for justice and peace in the world in Christ's name. ... See MoreSee Less


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Our church is considered a big church, not a mega church, but we do have quite a large number of attenders. In order to maintain an intimate small church feel we have this wonderful committee in charge of hostessing a baby shower for first time mothers. Last night was one of those special nights. This is the card I made for her (you can see they are expecting a baby boy)
and when I saw this cute baby buggy gift card holder I couldn't resist making one up for her.
What a cute little set this made up.
SS: Baby Bundle
CS: Bashful Blue, WW, So Saffron, Bashful Blue DSP
INK: Bashful Blue
Accessories: Markers, Perfect Dots EF, Big Shot, Bashful Blue Striped Ribbon and gingham ribbon (retired), Subtles Buttons, Punches: 1 1/4" Circle, 1 3/8" Circle, Scallop Circle, Scallop Circle Die, Brads
So For Now...
Happy Stamping!!
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Happy New Baby Shower
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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Labels: Baby, Baby Bundle, Baby Shower, Gift Card Holder
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on March 5, 2014
Faith and begorra, March is the month when those with the luck of the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day. You're sure to be feelin' you've found your very own pot of gold and pockets full of lucky shamrocks when you take advantage of the wonderful books being released this month by Writerspace Top Shelf Authors…. Read More


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It is no coincidence that the Alacria Queen is the bearer of such an emblematic name. The watch has regal, yet at the same time distinctly feminine, qualities. Its striking curves make the Alacria an exceptional watch. The stainless steel or gold case can be obtained with Top Wesselton vvs diamonds – bright white stones of almost perfect clarity. All watches are available with a highquality leather strap or with an elegant gold or stainless steel bracelet. The Alacria Queen is undoubtedly something special, and worthy of a monarch in every detail.


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Spain and Italy ban short sellingJuly 23, 2012: 10:44 AM ET
Securities regulators in Spain and Italy both instituted short-selling bans Monday as financial markets tumbled.
The move is designed to limit the downward pressure on markets by preventing investors from betting against shares of certain companies.
The ban in Italy applies only to short positions in shares of banks and insurance companies, according to the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e le Borse, or CONSOB.
Spain's Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) banned short positions in shares of all companies under its purview.
Both bans are temporary.
Related: Spanish bank bailout moves forward
In a statement, CNMV said European shares have been hit with "extreme volatility" that might cause the "disorderly functioning" of financial markets.
Regulators in Italy and Spain, as well as France and Belgium, imposed a temporary short-selling ban in August 2011, at the height of the last major flare-up in the eurozone debt crisis.
Back in 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission banned short selling for 799 companies in the wake of Lehman Brothers' collapse. The move was aimed at restoring confidence and stemming a steep stock sell-off.
The bans could limit the selling in the short-term, but longer-term, investors want concrete evidence that the global economy is turning around.
Investors are currently concerned that Spain might be forced to seek a bailout similar to those taken by other troubled euro area economies, although Madrid reiterated Monday that it will not need additional aid.>
Spain's benchmark stock index, the Ibex 35, slid 2.3% Monday. In the bond market, yields on 10-year Spanish bonds rose to another record high of 7.5%.
In Italy, shares fell 3.6% on the Milan stock exchange. Shares of certain Italian banks, which were halted earlier, continued to sell-off. Shares of UniCredit (UNCFF) fell 3.3%.
U.S. markets plunged nearly 2% as the worries about Europe spread. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) was down 220 points, while the Nasdaq composite (COMP) shed more than 2% and the S&P 500 (SPX) lost 1.7%.


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From Designers File to Web Build File: Solving Special Transparency Problems with Essential Layer and Layer Mask Tricks
- Transparency Blues
- The Obvious Solution (or So It Would Seem)
- The Solution
- Debriefing
Transparency Blues
Photoshop 6 and its Web graphics sidekick, ImageReady 3, both feature a great toolkit for processing images for the Web. Creating final images from a designer's layered file, however, is often not as straightforward as simply slicing, optimizing, and choosing Save for Web. It's pretty typical in many Web shops for the visual designs to be generated by a separate department than the people who are actually charged with building the final HTML pages. In some cases, this can cause production problems when the file gets to the build phase because the designers are not necessarily thinking of how a layered file needs to be set up for translation into individual image slices. If they have created a visual look by using multiple layers, opacity, and blend modes, then the people who are processing the graphics need to know a bit more about Photoshop than just the average Web-related features.
The example and techniques in this article grew out of an actual site that I served as a consultant on for a Web design company. The company had tried the standard, obvious workarounds but was not happy with the results. The solution to the problem was firmly based in advanced layer and layer mask skills that had nothing to do with the "Web features" available in Photoshop.
The Problem
As designed, the images at the top of each page had a faded, blue duotone effect. The section titles overlaying these images were also faded back and slightly transparent. For the build, these images needed to be made into transparent GIFS and matted to the background color of #336699. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1 This is what the final transparent GIF needed to look like when matted to the background color.
In the final design file, the blue duotone effect had been created by setting the image layer's blend mode to Screen and its opacity to 80%. When combined with the blue background underneath, these settings gave the image its faded blue appearance. Additionally, the text layer was white and set to 50% opacity, causing its color to fade from a light blue where it interacted with the blue background, to more of a pale white tone where it blended with the image. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 2 The settings in the Layers palette that created the blue duotone effect.
The problem with this arrangement is that when the background color was turned off in preparation for exporting the transparent GIF, the entire effect was broken and all traces of the blue duotone look disappeared. (See Figure 3.) Because the text was 50% white, it was barely visible when viewed over the transparent background.
Figure 3 With the background turned off before exporting the transparent GIF, the blue effect disappears.


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Johnny is the leader of a group of squeegee kids who terrorize motorists for their spare change in exchange for an unsolicited window washing. When they happen upon a video camera the power he perceives through its lens changes Johnny from a simple thug to a power-hungry sociopathic menace that pushes his compatriots closer and closer to the edges of sanity. Even playing them off of one another for his own enjoyment. In the end, Johnny becomes the ringmaster and auteur for his three-ring circus of the dysfunctional. Bizarre but compelling, Johnny keeps you at the edge of your seat until the very end.
The audio is a bland DD2.0 that does not support the film at all. The dialogue is easily understood however the audio itself is not engaging in the least. A director's commentary is included that chronicles the filmmaking process and turns into a "how-to" instructional segment on independent film.
The video is presented in a widescreen format that is both grainy and poorly rendered. Artifacts aplenty, this transfer is only fair in its presentation.
In addition to the commentary track, the director introduces the film and has included deleted scenes. The scenes played just like the finished print and could have stayed in the film.
Johnny is a film that will have very limited appeal. Its subject matter is classic "Power corrupts-absolute power corrupts absolutely" material and its presentation here is well done.Recommended.


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HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc is expected to pay a record U.S. criminal penalty and plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster which caused the worst offshore spill in the country's history, sources familiar with discussions said.
They told Reuters that a plea deal with the Justice Department over the 2010 disaster, in which 11 workers died, may be announced as soon as Thursday.
London-based BP confirmed on Thursday that it was in "advanced discussions" with the Justice Department and U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).
Three sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said BP would plead guilty in exchange for a waiver of future prosecution on the charges. The Justice Department declined to comment.
The sources did not disclose the amount of BP's payment for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico and leak from the Macondo oil well, but one said it would be the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history.
That record is now held by Pfizer Inc, which paid a $1.3 billion fine in 2009 for a marketing fraud.
BP said the talks were about "proposed resolutions of all U.S. federal government criminal and SEC claims against BP in connection with the Deepwater Horizon incident", but added that no final deals had been reached. Its shares were down 0.9 percent on Thursday morning.
The mile-deep Macondo well spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 87 days, fouling shorelines from Texas to Florida and eclipsing in severity the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.
The oil giant has been negotiating for months with the U.S. government and Gulf Coast states to settle billions of dollars of potential civil and criminal liability claims. A deal could resolve a significant share of the liability that BP faces.
BP, which saw its market value plummet and replaced its chief executive after the spill, still faces economic and environmental damage claims sought by four Gulf Coast states and other private plaintiffs.
A record fine would far outstrip BP's last major settlement with the Justice Department in 2007, when it paid about $373 million to resolve three separate investigations into a deadly 2005 Texas refinery explosion, an Alaska oil pipeline leak and fraud for conspiring to corner the U.S. propane market.
BP has sold over $30 billion worth of assets to fund the costs of the spill. Matching that, it has already spent about $14 billion on clean-up costs and paid out, or agreed to pay out, a further $16 billion on compensation and claims. The disaster has dragged it from second to a distant fourth in the ranking of top western world oil companies by value.
A week after the U.S. presidential election, a massive Deepwater Horizon settlement could prompt a debate in Congress about how funds would be shared with the Gulf Coast states, depending on how the deal is structured.
Congress passed a law last year that would earmark 80 percent of BP penalties paid under the Clean Water Act to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas.
In an August filing, the Justice Department said "reckless management" of the Macondo well "constituted gross negligence and wilful misconduct" which it intended to prove at a civil trial set to begin in New Orleans in February 2013. The U.S. government has yet to file any criminal charges in the case.
Given that the deal will not resolve any civil charges brought by the Justice Department, it is also unclear how large a financial penalty BP might pay to resolve the charges, or other punishments that the company might face.
Negligence is a central issue to BP's potential liability. A gross negligence finding could nearly quadruple the civil damages owed by BP under the Clean Water Act to $21 billion in a straight-line calculation.
Still unresolved is potential liability faced by Swiss-based Transocean Ltd, owner of the Deepwater Horizon vessel, and Halliburton Co, which provided cementing work on the well that U.S. investigators say was flawed. Both companies were not immediately available for comment.
According to the Justice Department, errors made by BP and Transocean in deciphering a pressure test of the Macondo well are a clear indication of gross negligence.
"That such a simple, yet fundamental and safety-critical test could have been so stunningly, blindingly botched in so many ways, by so many people, demonstrates gross negligence," the government said in its August filing.
Transocean disclosed in September that it is in discussions with the Justice Department to pay $1.5 billion to resolve civil and criminal claims.
BP has already announced an uncapped class-action settlement with private plaintiffs that the company estimates will cost $7.8 billion to resolve litigation brought by over 100,000 individuals and businesses claiming economic and medical damages from the spill.
Additional reporting by Andrew Callus in London; Editing by David Stamp
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.


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Eugene, Cascades & Coast
While the leaves are a week out from peak in the lower elevations, the fall colors are still playing a bit of hide and seek in the mountains. Sounds like the perfect excuse to get in the car and explore doesn't it? We suggest a journey that leads you to one of the 7 Waterfall Wonders. With a bit of moisture on the horizon, we want to play in the rain. What could be better than tiptoeing down a forested path, tear drops of water sneaking quietly through the canopy of trees, and one spectacular reward of a waterfall at your journey's end?
There's plenty to keep you and the whole family outdoors this weekend. Join Ducks and Huskies alike in downtown Eugene and Springfield Friday night for Duck Downtown. Start the evening with a run with five-time 800 meter U.S. Champion and two-time Olympian Nick Symmonds at the 3rd Annual Nick Symmonds Springfield 800. Runners and walkers of all levels are invited to run down 5tth Street in the Historic Washburne District.
Oregon Coast
Light rains and cooler temperatures on the Oregon Coast are breaking in the fall season. With weather like this, it may be a good weekend to share a cabin with family or close friends. Try Fort Stevens State Park on the North Coast. This uniquely diversified state park offers views of wildlife, hiking trails that wind through forests of spruce and pine, and its own brand of fall foliage; needle dropping. Located just 10 miles outside of Astoria, Fort Stevens is the sight of a historic shipwreck, and houses remnants of an old military base. In Coos Bay, the South Coast Striders will be leading a group hike through Silver and Golden Falls. Choose the short or long route, and bring a sack lunch, raingear, and sturdy waterproof boots. Make friends, catch the last of the wildflowers, and get outside!
Willamette Valley
The leaves are at their peak along the McKenzie River. With colors ablaze and the rain setting in, this is a great week to take the Aufderheide Scenic Drive. Though Bracken ferns are fading to brown, big leaf maples are orange, yellow and gold, and other broad leaf varieties are showing off their fall splendor. Colors tend to be better closer to Westfir.
Greater Portland
It has been a crazy summery autumn this year – while some trees seem to have forgotten to change, others are morphing and quickly dropping their bits of wonderful color. The season has peaked, but whether or not you have gotten your fill of reds, yellows, and golds, you can be sure to get a good dose of orange this weekend. A must-see is the annual West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta in the Tualatin Commons. After the pumpkin parade and weigh-off, witness these 1,000-pound pumpkin boats bob and weave on the waters as racers try to get to the finish line first. Not ready to call it a night after the races? For all you brave souls out there make sure you take a stroll through the Haunted MAiZE at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island.
Mt. Hood/ The Gorge
We're seeing bits of gorgeous gold in the Mt. Hood and Columbia River Gorge areas. Conditions are a bit chilly (Mount Hood saw the first snow fall of the season!), but we think that we can come up with activities to keep you warm. Friends of the Columbia Gorge offer 35 Autumn Hikes throughout the Columbia Gorge while Rasmussen Farms continues the fun for the whole family at their Pumpkin Funland. For one weekend only, the Gorge Fruit and Craft Show is going on at the Hood River Co. Fairgrounds. Also, catch the 32nd Annual Hood River Valley Harvest Festival.
Central Oregon
Fall weather is here with its breezy days and light showers. Though season is at its peak, the beautiful fall foliage still pops against this newly muted backdrop. Aspens are in their full golden glory, and Bend's Shevlin Park is positively aglow with these trees. Explore neighborhood streets, like Mt. Washington Drive or Colorado Avenue for brilliant displays of color. Venture further, and hoof it on a section of the Deschutes River Trail. The mile stretch between Aspen and Big Eddy is a brief holiday among willow flats and the sound of roaring rapids. Get there before the snow sets in.
Eastern Oregon
Color is looking great in Baker City. The urban forest has turned, and peak is expected within the next week. Geiser Pollman Park is an excellent destination for foliage seekers in the area. Located off of the Leo Alder Memorial Parkway, bordering the Powder River, this park has more than 100 trees of varying species and age. In Haines, sensational color can be found along Main Street, in Dick Camp Memorial Park. For those seeking adventure, tackle some gravel back roads and explore Burnt River Canyon, between Durkee and Unity. Exit the canyon, and continue to roll through the vast, open country between Unity and Herford. The drive provides great splashes of color set amidst rolling hills, and big, Eastern Oregon skies. This is also the weekend for the Sumpter Valley Railroad's Fall Color Trains, a unique opportunity for those that want a steam-powered trip through beautiful fall foliage without making it an all-day event.
Southern Oregon
After weeks of waiting, seasonal colors have reached their peak in Southern Oregon. The valleys of the Rogue and Umpqua rivers are ruggedly scenic, and though the forecast calls for rain and snow over the next several days, it's not too late to have a great fall experience. Visit the Fremont-Winema National Forest, and embark on the Billie Creek Nature Trail. Take Highway 140 from Klamath Falls toward Lake of the Woods. The trail is located off a dirt road that can be accessed just after the Lake of the Woods turn off, but before mile marker 36. This two mile loop trip is well forested, open through November, and begins on Rye Spur Trail. Dress appropriately, pack snacks, and keep an extra set of clothes handy for when the adventure is over.


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Devin The Dude & Coughee Brothaz - We Get High
Devin The Dude and his crew Coughee Brothaz present the official music video for "We Get High," the first single off the soundtrack to Devin's new film "Highway".
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Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate religiously and, as well, to those who merely enjoy it secularly. For while a big fat man in a red coat will not drive his sleigh around the world at nearly impossible speeds dropping presents into your home, it's fun to pretend. And since we're pretending, what should that sleigh be if he had his choice of any new car?
If you're an officer in the War on Christmas that doesn't exist just consider it a car-turned-winter transport for an old delusional diabetic Laplander.
(QOTD is your chance to answer the day's most pressing automotive questions and experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good "Question Of the Day" send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)


text: Steven Dix Australian Abstract Artist. Experience the exhibitions and creative energy toured Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, Japan and around the world. Both highly regarded in fine art and one of Australia's leading commercial artists, Steven Dix art is seen daily by millions of people every day without them even knowing it. Working mostly with Acrylics on canvas, the DIX style captures the essence of Australian colours and nature. "The objective of my art, is to remove the walls and perceived boundaries around us, 'which of course', are often there to serve a purpose with the elements of life, through art. We don't look at the what anymore, we see the art and the messages held within." DIX


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Powerful pomegranate
Pomegranates are no longer an exotic fruit that only show up from time to time at produce counters.
These beautiful fresh fruits and their juice have become a mainstream ingredient.
Fresh pomegranates are particularly plentiful right now and their sweet/tart seeds can add wonderful flavour and color to so many dishes.
They lend themselves particularly well to salads.
This week I've provided a recipe for a salad that includes pomegranate seeds and roasted beets along with some orange. This salad can be served on endive spears to make a particularly attractive presentation.
Pomegranate seeds can also jazz up your morning breakfast by being tossed over top of your favourite yogurt or oatmeal.They can be used in many salads as a garnish and think about adding them to a glass of sparkling wine for a festive touch.
(Serves 6)
3 roasted beets, peeled and diced (about 2 cups)
1 cup (250 ml) pomegranate seeds
1 tsp. (5 ml) orange zest
1 tbsp. (5 ml) olive oil
2 tsp. (10 ml) white wine vinegar salt and pepper to taste
2 heads Belgian endive
2 clementines, peeled
1/2 cup (125 ml) mild goat's milk cheese such as chevre honey
In medium bowl, combine beets, pomegranate seeds, orange zest, olive oil and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Trim and wash endive leaves. Place on platter or place 3 or 4 on individual plates. Pull clementine sections apart and place one on each endive spear.
Spoon some of beet/pomegranate salad over top. Garnish with crumbled goat cheese. Drizzle with honey and serve.
How to seed a pomegranate:
Gently roll pomegranate on counter to loosen seeds. Using paring knife, score fruit around middle. Tear pomegranate in half.
Hold the half over a large bowl, torn side facing down. Using wooden spoon, firmly tap fruit until all seeds fall out.
Editor's note: Back by popular demand, the Age Dispatch is reprinting a selection of Jill Wilcox's recipes. This one was originally published Dec. 17, 2016. Enjoy!


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Note: There is no going back to ICS.
Downloads (Mirrors) of the update:
In a surprise Christmas gift from Motorola and Verizon... Jellybean 4.1 is now being pushed to the Verizon DROID RAZR and the Verizon DROID RAZR MAXX! We weren't expecting this until well into 2013, so this is quite a gift!
The update is 98.72.8 and is for coming from 6.16.211. If you are on 6.16.214/215 you need to roll back to the 6.16.211 update first.
Please be aware, this new build is likely not rootable yet! If you want to have root!
Go back to stock 6.16.211 and wipe data. This can be done with Option 1 of the DROID RAZR Utility 1.82.
Root with Option 2 of the utility.
Use the utility option to Install Voodoo's OTA Rootkeeper. ----Please make sure it is the latest updated version in the Play Store! Utility 1.81 and earlier use the old version!----
Go into the Superuser app's info pane and make sure this information is correct, if not, update!
Superuser App is 3.1.3
Superuser (su) binary is 3.1.1
Open OTA Rootkeeper.
Choose ' Backup Root '
Choose ' Temp Unroot '
Choose ' Restore Root '
Choose ' Temp Unroot '
Choose 'Restore Root' (Yes, we did that twice. And no, you do not want to be Temp. Unrooted when you update.)
Install the OTA update via Settings > About Phone > System Update (Note that this won't be open to everyone yet, its just rolling out to a few right now)
Restore Root in the OTA Rootkeeper app once booted into Jellybean.
Install the update via external storage by booting into Motorola Recovery manually. Download here temporarily:
Restore Root in the OTA Rootkeeper app once booted into Jellybean.
Good luck everyone!


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Sleeve SATA - Titanium-Grey MK2, 1 Metre
- 1 Metre Sleeve for flat SATA cables in Titanium-Grey MK2. PET-X-made fibers and flexible diameter of 5 to 14.5 mm for modding cables.
14 In stock
Stock Code: CM-032-MD
Manufacturer: MDPC-X
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Sleeve SATA - Titanium-Grey MK2, 1 Metre
Specifications- Colour: Titanium-Grey MK2: (A very pure medium to dark grey shade without any color tint.)
- Usable diameter: ~ 5mm to ~ 14.5 mm
- Length: 1.0 m
- Material: PET-X
- Temperature range (constant): -58 ° C to + 155 ° C
Yes, this is the legendary MDPC-X Sleeve! It's the original sleeve, which started, continued and brought the sleeving-art to where it is today. From 2007 until now, this cable-sleeve demonstrates what the famous MDPC-X saying "no-compromise" stands for: A product, which can not be exceeded for the purpose it is designed for. It's coming in colors of extraordinary variety and beauty. A class of its own - globally known.
Sleeving techniques - Absolutely no limitationsShrinkless and with-shrink techniques were both originally invented and brought to perfection with MDPC-X by enthusiasts all over the world - including many more methods. Just browse the internet and you will find an almost unlimited amount of inspiring methods and applications.
Rigidity - You decide what the cable shall do, not vice versaMDPC-X Sleeving is designed to turn a simple cable into a piece of art, which lets you see cables in a completely different way. MDPC-X Sleeve adds a perfect rigidity to the wire, it removes all the wobbles in the wire and enables you to shape the cable as you want, with perfectly smooth curves or absolute straight lines: No need for additional helpers to force your wire into a beautiful flow.
Expandability - You can do what others can'tThis cable sleeve can be expanded and contracted from bigger diameters to smaller and vice versa, allowing you to put the sleeve over connectors (or similar), which are a good bit bigger than the wire itself. With this property, MDPC-X allows you to use it in a wide range of situations and designs. The flexibility in diameter naturally adjusts the sleeving size to the wire size. Being expandable, the process of putting the sleeve onto a cable is extremely easy - it's even possible on cables of endless lengths.
Manufacturing - The opposite of today's high-volume industryMDPC-X Sleeving is made of a very high number of PET-X fibers, machined on the most modern and precise machines in this industry, handled by highly educated and well paid experts, made in a clean and ecological environment. Only this total focus on quality and constant precision during the whole manufacturing process allows the creation of MDPC-X Sleeve. It all results in what the world knows as the highest quality sleeving product since 2007 - a class of its own in this industry.
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Leslie Mann joins "I Love You Phillip Morris"08 Apr 2008
By Ryan Al-Hakim (Web correspondent)
It has been announced that a new actress is to join the cast of "I Love You Phillip Morris". Leslie Mann, the star of the film "Knocked Up" has been set down to play Jim's (Steven Russel) wife in the film. Fans will also recognize the name Leslie Mann from when she starred along side Jim Carrey playing the character of Robin Harris in "The Cable Guy".
"I Love You Phillip Morris", directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa the people who brought us "Bad Santa" will begin filming in New Orleans and Florida during the months of May and June. The fact-based film casts Carrey as Steven Russell, a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He fell madly in love with his cellmate, who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times. The film looks set to be released in 2009.
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Happy National Scrapbook Day everyone! In honor of the day I put a coupon code at the bakery. If you use coupon code NSD08 at the checkout, you will receive 35% off your purchase. Happy Shopping! Also, if you mention you saw it here on the blog, you will get a goodie prize with your purchase. Here is a hint of one of the goodies that may be in it.....
Speaking of ribbon, I wanted to share something I did awhile ago. I don't know about you but I have lots and lots of scraps of ribbon b/c I use it so much. So, I took some that I had and cut them up into even smaller pieces, glued them (using a glue stick) around and enlarged photo....and this is the result. I took this picture of my niece (Taylor) when she was just seven months old...now she is almost 5! How time flies! Anyway, enjoy the day and thanks for stopping by! Keep checking back throughout the day, there may be a few surprises! :)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
It's the most wonderful time of the year...
Posted by Heather Ruwe at 9:58 AM
3 comments:
- laura vegas said...
look at all that yummy ribbon! although i feel this need to come take it all off the spools and stick it in a jar. lol! great idea on the ribbon scraps too ... love the cute way it framed the photo!
- May 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Carla said...
I love that technique...may have to borrow it sometime!!
- May 3, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Wendy Sue said...
What a cute way to frame your photo! Such a clever use for all of those scraps I can't seem to part with! :o)
- May 4, 2008 at 2:08 AM
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August 31, 2016
Six Key Factors That Affect the Sales Price of Your Home
Posted in Selling by Tara Sharp
Pricing a home for sale is not nearly as simple as most people think. You can't base the price on what the house down the street sold for. You can't depend on tax assessments. Even automatic valuation methods (AVMs), while useful for a rough estimate of value, are unreliable for purposes of pricing a home for sale.
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August 29, 2016
Relocating Your Home to Advance Your Career
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Tara Sharp
Many of us dream of getting a better job. But when a promotion or new job opportunity comes with a request to relocate, the result can be very disruptive to your home life. There's a lot to consider when making this kind of move...
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August 22, 2016
How the American Home has Evolved
Posted in Living by Shelley Rossi
Owning a home has been an American tradition from the start. But the home itself has changed dramatically over the years. For example, you may be surprised to learn how much the size of the average American home has increased since the turn of the 20th century—especially when you compare it to the size of the average family during the same time period.
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August 19, 2016
Why So Many Americans Are Either Upsizing or Downsizing
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Shelley Rossi
According to two recent surveys that took industry watchers by surprise, many family homeowners are putting frugality aside and upsizing to new houses that average as large as 2,480 square feet (an increase of as much as 13 percent from the year before), and sometimes exceed 3,500 square feet in size.
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August 15, 2016
#YourStoryIsOurStory: The Little Blue House
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory by Shelley Rossi
It's tough being a first time home buyer, especially in a fiercely competitive market like Seattle where multiple offers are the norm. Windermere clients Haley and Yash experienced this first hand when they started shopping for a home. With the help of their agent Elsa Nunes-Ueno, they found and fell in love with "the little blue house".
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August 10, 2016
Helping Children and Families Gear-up for Back to School
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
Getting your children prepared to go back to school is stressful enough. We all want to make sure that they are adequately prepared for the upcoming year. Now imagine that you also have to worry about how you're going to pay for new clothing, shoes and school supplies—it can be quite overwhelming! Many parents just aren't able to afford all of the back-to-school necessities.
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August 08, 2016
6 Smart Home Gadgets Perfect for Summer Fun
Posted in Living by Kelly Schwarze
Tell your friends and families to clear their weekend schedules throughout the entire summer—your house is the place to be for fun all season long. If you sloughed through winter with visions of making your house the hangout spot of the summer, you'll want to bookmark this page. We're outlining the gadgets you'll need on hand to turn your home into a modern entertaining destination!
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August 05, 2016
25 Ways to Make the Most of Small Spaces
Posted in Living by Shelley Rossi
Suburban homes—with their large spaces, big yards, and separate bedrooms for every child—will always be popular with families, especially families of four or more. But there's also a contingent today that's eager to live in a dense urban setting: a high-rise condominium in the downtown core, a small home in an urban neighborhood, a small apartment, or even a shared housing arrangement.
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August 03, 2016
Nevada Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Nevada Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Job recovery in the Las Vegas metropolitan area took a bit of a pause during second quarter. May employment was down by 200 jobs from the prior month, but still 21,300 higher than seen a year ago. This matches the annual pace of 21,300 jobs seen at the end of last year, but is below the average annual rate of 32,700 for the whole of 2015.
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August 02, 2016
Southern California Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News and Southern California Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Over the past 12 months, the Southern California markets covered by this report added 122,800 new jobs, and the total number of people claiming unemployment insurance dropped by almost 204,000. With these changes, the unemployment rate has dropped by two percentage points from 6.3% to 4.3%.
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Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar, New Orleans
Your initial perception of Dos Jefes may depend on how you get there.
You may take the streetcar along St. Charles Avenue, through the Garden District and Uptown, passing glorious mansions on either side, then descending at Joseph Street, and finally strolling with a cigar toward the Mississippi River. The houses will get smaller (and arguably more charming), and the air will get thicker. You'll walk past banana trees and palm trees, and wave to people on their porches, people who have lived in these shotgun houses—some elegant, some in captivating disrepair—all their lives.
Or maybe you'll drive along Tchoupitoulas Street, a largely industrial strip lined with warehouses and wharves where boats from all over the world stop to load and unload their cargo, as they've done since the Spanish and French settled this swampy region centuries ago.
Dos Jefes sits on the corner of these two worlds.
Step on in. This place is more like a hangout than a chichi cigar bar, with velveteen recliners and a sofa sharing space with a diner booth, Formica-topped tables and an old church pew. Two wooden Indian chiefs, the dos jefes for which the place is named, keep an eye on the action, one wearing sunglasses like the bust of Professor Longhair over at Tipitina's. The place seems to have been furnished by a couple of guys who pitched in their favorite furniture, novelty lamps and movie posters of actors with stogies—all the stuff their wives had relegated to the attic. (No basements at three feet below sea level.)
Still, nothing could be more New Orleanian. Ceiling fans spin overhead, as they do in nearly every New Orleans home. A stuffed fish arches above the bar, and near the jukebox sit three video poker machines, which have cropped up in seemingly every watering hole since gaming was legalized in New Orleans in the mid '90s.
The crowd reflects the easygoing mix of ages and walks of life that the natives take for granted. "About 75 percent of our customers live within two miles," says owner Shawn Stallard, who opened the joint with his partner Ritchie Shaner, in 1996, following up on the success of their eponymous cigar store, opened a few blocks away in 1994. Old neighborhood eccentrics sit at the bar aside workers, a young couple with their Boston terrier, and graduate students from Tulane and Loyola universities. They come for smokes, conversation, pool and nightly live music. "We never have a cover charge," says Stallard. "We have too many regulars. Dos Jefes is the best free show since Mardi Gras."
A glass humidor to the left of the bar displays about 40 brands of smokes available in a wide range of sizes and prices. There's no cigar menu, because Stallard and Shaner rotate the selection between the bar and the shop. Believe it or not, the cigars here are priced at or just above the store prices—making them a downright bargain. A Macanudo Portofino goes for $7.50 and an H. Upmann Churchill for $6.75. Most of the cigars fall between $6 and $10. The most expensive choice is the Partagas 150 A at $40, which wound up here after a successful run at the store, where guys gather on Sundays and Mondays for cigars and televised football.
New Orleans is steamy, even at night, but a rum or whiskey drink offsets the heat. A list of 18 rums reminds you of the proximity to the Caribbean, while the men sipping Bourbon and telling stories don't let you forget this is the Deep South.
Feel like something a tad less potent? Choose from 18 wines by the glass, including Caymus Conundrum ($7.50), a Napa Valley white that's as fragrant and heavy as the air outside, and Heitz Zinfandel ($6.50), also from Napa, a spicy, dark red that stands up nicely to a full-bodied smoke from Honduras or Nicaragua. Then again, sometimes a beer hits the spot. I recommend the Abita Turbo Dog ($3.50), a local microbrew made across Lake Pontchartrain in Abita Springs, Louisiana. The Dog is my favorite, but if you prefer something a little less stout, go with Abita Amber or even Dixie, an underrated light lager that always wins with fried seafood. Both are a steal at $2.25.
Speaking of food, the menu's scribbled on the chalkboard above the bar. You might munch on fries or nachos, or go a little upscale with a pesto tart, shrimp toast or baked brie. Whether you graze or gorge, snacks range from $3 to $7. If they are available, order the oysters meuniere ($6.00). Even in this city renowned for its seafood, these crisp, meaty tidbits stand out as delicacies. A ribeye steak sandwich ($7.50) satisfies heartier appetites.
Some come to Dos Jefes for the music. Young men shake their heads to jazz or bebop, entranced by the energy of the Webster Davis Bebop quartet, for example, which plays here often. Other folks prefer to sit outside on the patio, a south Florida-style haven with hanging hammock chairs and a bar surrounded with swings instead of stools. A tropical mural by Mississippi artist Tazewell Morton features fish and other underwater creatures smoking stogies beneath the waves, a kind of cigar-friendly Octopus's Garden.
Smoking, drinking and relaxing, all stigma-free. And you wonder why they call New Orleans the Big Easy? Unlike so many cigar bars in America's more frenetic cities, Dos Jefes isn't an escape from real life. It is real life.
Angel Antin is a Denver-based freelance writer whose roots and heart are in New Orleans.
Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar
5535 Tchoupitoulas St. (corner, Tchoupitoulas and Joseph)
New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
(504) 891-8500
Daily, 5 p.m. until late (sometimes as late as 5 a.m.)


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(Foxx shown with co-star Farrell).
If nothing else, Miami Vice (1984-1989) was the ultimate triumph of style over substance.
For the success of that popular cop TV-series probably derived as much from its ambiance as from its high-octane action. Memorable more for its dizzying opening sequence, pulse-pounding theme song, and an unabashed promotion of pastel colors than for any of its plebian plotlines, this was a show which wowed its audience with oodles of attitude and cutting-edge chic.
And that attitude and chic mostly came courtesy of the animal magnetism of co-stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in their capacity as Dade County Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, respectively. Each week, these larger-than-life heartthrobs didn't so much solve crimes as define cool, generating a palpable buddy chemistry while making cutting-edge fashion statements which would help shape the tastes of a generation.
The executive producer of the program was Michael Mann, director of such critically-acclaimed feature films as Collateral (2004), Ali (2001), The Insider (1999) and Heat (1995). The challenge the four-time Oscar-nominee faced in adapting Miami Vice to the big screen was whether to appeal to a sense of nostalgia via a faithful recreation of the original series or to take the risks associated with overhauling a proven commodity.
Well, Mann opted for the latter, meeting with mediocre results. Besides the lead characters' names, not much is recognizable about this edition of Miami Vice. The picture pairs Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell as Tubbs and Crockett, though the partners fail to exhibit any of the camaraderie a fan of the franchise might expect. The primary problem is that Farrell is exposed, here, as not quite ready for prime time, as he simply lacks the charisma called for to star in a summer blockbuster. Foxx, by comparison, turns in one of his typically engaging performances, even if his animated exchanges are with a wooden Indian.
Why Mann bothered to call this flick Miami Vice is beyond me, because it could just as plausibly have been named "Murder She Wrote,� "Matlock ,�or "The Rockford Files.� Gone are the citrus-colored clothing, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and the local flavor featuring that trademark Art Deco architecture. In fact, most of the movie was shot outside of Florida, in Los Angeles and around exotic locations in Cuba, Colombia, Paraguay, Haiti, Brazil, Uruguay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
But the convoluted, unnecessarily complicated story does at least start in Miami where we find Crockett and Tubbs assigned to go undercover as drug dealers in order to crack an international cartel. A most improbable plot twist has Crockett falling in love with Isabella (Gong Li), an Amer-Asian gangster's moll with a mean streak. Tubbs' love interest, on the other hand, is fellow officer Trudy Joplin (Naomie Harris) who ends up in the clutches of some sadistic white supremacists about to incur her boyfriend's wrath.
Moviegoers familiar with Michael Mann's work in Heat and Collateral are already aware that he's given to the graphic depiction of senseless slaughter. The trouble is that, here, he makes us wait and wait and wait for those savage sequences as the film lumbers along, getting bogged down by about 45 minutes of dead dialogue that should have been left on the editing room floor.
No chemistry, no cool, no compelling characters, no air of urgency. Just a very average crime caper which fails to entertain the viewer on a gut, cerebral or superficial level. Not exactly your father's Miami Vice.
Fair (1 star). Rated R for sex, expletives and graphic violence. Running time: 132 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures.
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May 3, 2009 at 6pm to May 15, 2010 at 7pm – Bethesda Row I'd like to get together with local tennis enthusiasts, play some tennis and perhaps develop an fun group to hang out with as well. Organized by Natalie | Type: tennis, get, together
September 26, 2009 at 12pm to October 31, 2009 at 1:30pm – Golden Gate Tennis Complex Fall Tennis League! Dates: Saturdays at 12pm, September 26 - October 31 Location: Golden Gate Tennis Complex Fees: $60 (includes balls plus the cost of reserving courts) Format: Women's singles, 2 s… Organized by Lindsay Bland | Type: league
October 17, 2009 from 8am to 11:30am – Rudder Middle School Tennis Courts All members and guest are welcome to come out and hit and meet fellow Aces...play singles, doubles, or just find someone to work a bucket of balls with..all levels of play are welcome. See you there! Organized by SATennisguy | Type: hit, around, rally
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As we swing into summer, families all over the country are planning where they want to spend their vacation, but, where should they go? After all, there are a variety of factors that go into making a destination 'fun' and what may be fun for one family, may not be all that great for another. For example, while California ranks #1 as the best state for entertainment options across the board, Alaska has the best access to National Parks.
Thankfully, WalletHub compared all 50 states using 26 metrics of 'fun' for two categories: "Entertainment & Recreation" and "Nightlife." From how much a movie ticket costs, and the availability of national parks to the most marinas per capita, WalletHub's survey is a great way for your family to plan their next vacation without breaking the bank.
If your definition of fun includes dining out at a nice restaurant; California, Florida, New York and Texas have you covered as they tied at #1 in WalletHub's survey in having the most eateries per capita. Dark horse candidate Illinois came in at #5 for dining out.
On the other hand, people planning on a vacation in Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska or North Dakota, will have to go a lot farther to find something to eat the survey found those states had the fewest restaurants per capita.
Looking to go see a movie? In no surprise, the home to Hollywood was tied for #1 in having the most movie theaters per capita with Texas and New York. On the other hand, it'll be a lot harder to catch the latest blockbuster if you're in Mississippi, Rhode Island, or Delaware.
On the other hand, if you're looking to get out into the Great Outdoors, you'll definitely want to stop by North Dakota or Wyoming. Those states spend the most on parks and recreational services. Hawaii comes in at #3 with Colorado and Illinois rounding out the top five.
Finally, if you prefer to get out and have a good time at a dance or nightclub, or maybe even get some drinks with friends, you might be surprised to find that Wisconsin is ranked as #2 for its nightlife in WalletHub's survey. Nevada, home to Las Vegas (and everything that happens there) was ranked #1 for finding a good place to dance and drink the night away.
States across the country are always looking for ways to attract more tourists. One strategy is for states to provide attractive tax incentives to bring professional sports teams and other types of entertainment to their state. However, those tax incentives aren't always successful according to Professor Phillip Lamy.
"In most cases, the average taxpayer benefits little from such schemes, which tend to benefit owners, real estate owners, and political coffers," said Lamy. "In fact, the average and below average tax-payer can't even afford to pay the exorbitant prices for big league sports tickets. Instead they earn more traffic, more pollution, displacement, higher real estate costs, and the inability to fully participate as a fan in a local pro team. And the jobs sports franchises provide are mostly part-time and low wage."
With 11 states legalizing recreational marijuana, cannabis tourism has become a big draw for many states like California and Colorado. Professor Lamy says, those types of programs have garnered a huge amount of support in his home state of Vermont.
"Recreational marijuana has only been legal in Vermont since July 2018. The state has yet to figure out how to create a tax and regulated retail market. Therefore, our tourist industry has not been able to "legally" and fully capitalize on the marijuana market. But it will come. And the projections for the role of marijuana and cannabis oriented products, services, and entertainment in Vermont are significant," said Lamy.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A man walked 351 miles to Neenah, Wisconsin to have sex with whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl, according to federal prosecutors.
Tommy Lee Jenkins, 32, faces charges of using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. The case will be prosecuted in Green Bay's federal court, according to a WBAY report.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Jenkins recently moved from Oshkosh to Whitestown, Indiana, an Indianapolis suburb. On Oct. 1, he started exchanging instant messages with someone named "Kylee."
Federal investigators say Jenkins believed "Kylee" was a 14-year-old girl who lived in Neenah. In reality, "Kylee" was a Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputy assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court says Jenkins demanded sexually-explicit photos from "Kylee." He also tried to get "Kylee" to come see him in Indiana.
When "Kylee" declined, he embarked on the 351-mile trek from Whitestown, Indiana to Neenah, Wisconsin.
"Along the way, Jenkins continued to engage 'Kylee' in sexually explicit conversations and updated her as to his current location," reads a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Jenkins was arrested on Oct. 10 in Winnebago County.
"Our nation faces an epidemic of child sexual abuse, with the Internet making it too easy for predators to communicate with children across the country," said United States Attorney Matthew Krueger. "The Justice Department is committed to working with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to prosecute child sexual abuse aggressively."
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(Edited: My bad, it was 2TB/s, up from 1.3TB/s, the solution has been getting bigger and upgraded, plus the post talks about the E5400, the newer E5600 is much faster).
What do you do when you need so much I/O performance that no one single storage system can deliver it, no matter how large?
To be specific: What if you needed to transfer data at over 1TB per second? (or 2TB/s, as it eventually turned out to be)?
That was the problem faced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and their Sequoia supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), one of the fastest supercomputing systems on the planet.
You can read the official press release here. I wanted to get more into the technical details.
People talk a lot about "big data" recently – no clear definition seems to exist, in my opinion it's something that has some of the following properties:
- Too much data to be processed by a "normal" computer or cluster
- Too much data to work with using a relational DB
- Too much data to fit in a single storage system for performance and/or capacity reasons – or maybe just simply:
- Too much data to process using traditional methods within an acceptable time frame
Clearly, this is a bit loose – how much is "too much"? How long is "too long"? For someone only armed with a subnotebook computer, "too much" does not have the same meaning as for someone rocking a 12-core server with 256GB RAM and a few TB of SSD.
So this definition is relative… but in some cases, such as the one we are discussing, absolute – given the limitations of today's technology.
For instance, the amount of storage LLNL required was several tens of PB in a single storage pool that could provide unprecedented I/O performance to the tune of 2TB/s. Both size and performance needed to be scalable. It also needed to be reliable and fit within a reasonable budget and not require extreme space, power and cooling. A tall order indeed.
This created some serious logistics problems regarding storage:
- No single disk array can hold that amount of data
- No single disk array can perform anywhere close to 2TB/s
Let's put this in perspective: The storage systems that scale the biggest are typically scale-out clusters from the usual suspects of the storage world (we make one, for example). Even so, they max out at less PB than the deployment required.
The even bigger problem is that a single large scale-out system can't really deliver more than a few tens of GB/s under optimal conditions – more than fast enough for most "normal" uses but utterly unacceptable for this case.
The only realistic solution to satisfy the requirements was massive parallelization, specifically using the NetApp E-Series for the back-end storage and the Lustre cluster filesystem.
A bit about the solution…
Almost a year ago NetApp purchased the Engenio storage line from LSI. That storage line is resold by several companies like IBM, Oracle, Quantum, Dell, SGI, Teradata and more. IBM also resells the ONTAP-based FAS systems and calls them "N-Series".
That purchase has made NetApp the largest provider of OEM arrays on the planet by far. It was a good deal – very rapid ROI.
There was a lot of speculation as to why NetApp would bother with the purchase. After all, the ONTAP-based systems have a ton more functionality than pretty much any other array and are optimized for typical mostly-random workloads – DBs, VMs, email, plus megacaching, snaps, cloning, dedupe, compression, etc – all with RAID6-equivalent protection as standard.
The E-Series boxes on the other hand don't do thin provisioning, dedupe, compression, megacaching… and their snaps are the less efficient copy-on-first-write instead of redirect-on-write. So, almost the anti-ONTAP 🙂
The first reason for the acquisition was that, on purely financial terms, it was a no-brainer deal even if one sells shoes for a living, let alone storage. Even if there were no other reasons, this one would be enough.
Another reason (and the one germane to this article) was that the E-Series has a tremendous sustained sequential performance density. For instance, the E5400 system can sustain about 4GB/s in 4U (real GB/s, not out of cache), all-in. That's 4U total for 60 disks including the controllers. Expandable, of course. It's no slouch for random I/O either, plus you can load it with SSDs, too… 🙂 (Update: the newer E5600 can go up to 12GB/s in 2U with SSDs!)
Again, note – 60 drives per 4U shelf and that includes the RAID controllers, batteries etc. In addition, all drives are front-loading and stay active while servicing the shelf – as opposed to most (if not all) dense shelves in the market that need the entire (very heavy) shelf pulled out and/or several drives offlined in order to replace a single failed drive… (there's some really cool engineering in the shelf to do this without thermal problems, performance loss or vibrations). All this allows standard racks and no fear of the racks tipping over while servicing the shelves 🙂 (you know who you are!)
There are some vendors that purely specialize in sequential I/O and tipping racks – yet they have about 3-4x less performance density than the E5400, even though they sometimes have higher per-controller throughput. In a typical marketing exercise, some of our more usual competitors have boasted 2GB/s/RU for their controllers, meaning that in 4U the controllers (that take up 4U in that example) can do 8GB/s, but that requires all kinds of extra rack space to achieve (extra UPSes, several shelves, etc). Making their resulting actual throughput number well under 1GB/s/RU. Not to mention the cost (those systems are typically more expensive than a 5400). Which is important with projects of the scale we are talking about.
Most importantly, what we accomplished at the LLNL was no marketing exercise…
The benefits of truly high performance density
Clearly, if your requirements are big enough, you end up spending a lot less money and needing a lot less rack space, power and cooling by going with a highly performance-dense solution.
However, given the requirements of the LLNL, it's clear that you can't use just a single E5400 to satisfy the performance and capacity requirements of this use case. What you can do though is use a bunch of them in parallel… and use that massive performance density to achieve about 40GB/s per industry-standard rack with 600x high-capacity disks (1.8PB raw per rack).
For even higher performance per rack, the E5400 can use the faster SAS or SSD drives – 480 drives per rack (up to 432TB raw), providing 80GB/s reads/60GB/s writes.
Enter the cluster filesystem
So, now that we picked the performance-dense, reliable, cost-effective building block, how do we tie those building blocks together?
The answer: By using a cluster filesystem.
Loosely defined, a cluster filesystem is simply a filesystem that can be accessed simultaneously by the servers mounting it. In addition, it also typically means it can span storage systems and make them look as one big entity.
It's not a new concept – and there are several examples, old and new: AFS, Coda, GPFS, and the more prevalent Stornext and Lustre are some.
The LLNL picked Lustre for this project. Lustre is a distributed filesystem that breaks apart I/O into multiple Object Storage Servers, each connected to storage (Object Storage Targets). Metadata is served by dedicated servers that are not part of the I/O stream and thus not a bottleneck. See below for a picture (courtesy of the Lustre manual) of how it is all connected:
High-speed connections are used liberally for lower latency and higher throughput.
A large file can reside on many storage servers, and as a result I/O can be spread out and parallelized.
Lustre clients see a single large namespace and run a proprietary protocol to access the cluster.
It sounds good in theory – and it delivered in practice: 1.3TB/s sustained performance was demonstrated to the NetApp block devices. Work is ongoing to finalize the testing with the complete Lustre environment. Not sure what the upper limit would be. But clearly it's a highly scalable solution.
Putting it all together
NetApp has fully realized solutions for the "big data" applications out there – complete with the product and services needed to complete each engagement. The Lustre solution employed by the LLNL is just one of the options available. There is Hadoop, Full Motion uncompressed HD video, and more.
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Nurses talk about caring for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center were asked to care for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- and though many were uncomfortable with the idea, all of them agreed. The Boston Globe walks us through the six days they spent with Tsarnaev, from the four checkpoints they had to walk through to get to their patient's room, to the guilt some of them feel for having done a good job. They found themselves treating Tsarnaev differently than other patients -- not discussing current events with him, for example -- yet they sometimes stumbled into old habits, with one realizing she called him "hon," for instance.
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The Globe notes that the nurses referred to Tsarnaev as a "boy," and while some said they felt no sympathy for him, others were more conflicted:
"You see a hurt 19-year-old and you can't help but feel sorry for him," says one of the nurses. But at the same time, the nurse continues, she "would not be upset if he got the death penalty. There is no way to reconcile the two different feelings."
Though details of Tsarnaev's specific treatment are shielded by privacy laws, during their 12-hour shifts the nurses would have given him typical ICU care: checking wounds, asking about pain, monitoring vitals -- all with FBI agents stationed in the room.
One atypical thing they also did: attended special counseling sessions.
Explains another nurse, "When you step away, you take it in. I am compassionate, that's what we do. But should I be?"
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The Town of Lewiston held the first of its information sessions on the proposed Town of Lewiston Community Recreation and Senior Services Center Monday before a packed house at Town Hall.
Overall, the nearly two-hour session very much lived up to its billing as being informative.
It led off with a meeting of the Lewiston Planning Board. There, Jerry Wolfgang, chair of the Town of Lewiston Environmental Commission, appeared and presented his group's recommendation of a negative declaration for the estimated $9 million-plus center, which now allows the Lewiston Town Board to proceed with the required State Environmental Quality Review as lead agency.
Soon after, Kristin Savard, owner and president of Advanced Design Group, provided a very detailed presentation to the Planning Board, covering a host of engineering and site/design issues relating to the center's plan and construction. "We have gone through all the comments that we received, and we provided a revised set of drawings, a revised engineering report ... to the town engineer, the town building department and the fire marshal," she said.
Savard opened with a discussion on traffic, where she reported that Creek Road is a state road and Department of Transportation approval is needed prior to any permits being issued. She said the traffic counts and projections solicited by Advanced Design Group thus far are favorable. "What was discovered is that the facility will peak on alternative times than the current traffic. ...Volumes for that facility are projected to be less than what is currently happening on that road," said Savard, adding that a worst-case scenario for any Creek Road adjustments would be a turning lane added for the center's use.
"This is strictly a DOT jurisdiction; we cannot dictate a need for a light, we cannot dictate the need for a turning lane, it is all based on numbers."
Regarding design/drainage issues on the Lew-Port School District land eyed for the center, Savard said a flood plain does exist around the ditches that surround the property, but that no actual base flood information exists. As a result, storm drainage system modeling was done by Advanced Design Group under worst-case scenarios of a 100-year storm and no drainage concerns are projected. Similarly, no groundwater issues were found to be a future concern for the property.
As to water/sewer demands, Savard said a study on the facility's anticipated demands and capacity would be done as part of its construction documents. "We do not know the demands for the facility (at this time)," Savard said, adding that once engineering studies are completed the town would need to upgrade the Creek Road waterlines. "It is our understanding that the water line along Creek Road has flow problems. It's a known issue," she said, adding that any improvements would benefit the whole area. Any sewer improvements would be performed in the same fashion, to meet demands.
Regarding parking, Savard said Advanced Design Group compared existing similar-sized facilities to architects' projections for the rec/senior center and determined that 253 spaces would be needed to handle the center's varied athletic/senior/social activities. "Should there be an event where we find a need for more parking, we have options," Savard said, noting the town has shared parking agreements with the Lew-Port School District and that alternate parking exists nearby in local parks.
Special dedicated parking and handicapped parking with 14 spaces, ramps and curbing would be provided for the senior center and adequate parking lot lighting would be included throughout. As to roadways, two-way traffic would be included in front of the center; and Daryl Johnston Drive and all adjacent ring roads around the center would be widened to a width of 26 feet to accommodate traffic/use needs, including the possible use of any large vehicles, such as those associated with RV shows, etc.
Savard said any future building expansion would not be considered as current plans envision the rec/senior center facility to be at full capacity when complete.
Other minor areas discussed included the relocation of the school district's information sign/message board outside; plans for installing two grease traps inside the center to accommodate the senior center and concession stand, plus assorted soil, drainage and landscaping and garbage refuse collection needs.
"We will continue to resolve all issues," Savard said, telling Planning Board members that she has discussed all these issues with the Lewiston-Porter School District and that both sides are in agreement.
"We've been communicating back and forth for several weeks now," said Lew-Port Superintendent of Schools Chris Roser. "It's really covered in our letter of intent; we're still negotiating, we really don't see any problems at all."
Planning Board members all appeared comfortable with Savard's presentation and voiced no concerns. A motion to approve the plan to forward to the Town Board was then presented and approved by a 4-1 vote, with only member Carol Catlin voting no.
Soon after, the Town Board convened to begin the public comments segment. A full house packed the Town Hall meeting room, with attendees spilling out into the front hall area. Visitors ranged in age from school children to seniors. Over the course of more than an hour, 25 spoke and virtually all came out in strong support of the plan, although there were also some naysayers.
Notable comments included:
•Tim Ireland, president of the Niagara Pioneer Soccer League called it "a wonderful addition for the community." Ireland said that Niagara Pioneer currently serves 800 families and that the town could benefit from soccer-related revenues of $136,000 to $140,000 annually if the center was built.
•Realtor Tom Deal, who told the board a "facility of this type will enhance much of Lewiston." Deal also presented the board an on-line petition bearing the signatures of more than 200 who support the plan.
•Ransomville resident Jason Lombardi, whose father Jim formerly served as a Lewiston town supervisor, told the board that such a project would make Lewiston a "destination place" for many and called it a win-win.
•Lewiston-Porter coaches Mark Waple (varsity baseball and modified boys basketball) and Kevin Jaruszewski (girls JV basketball and boys modified soccer). Both came out in strong support for the plan, with Waple telling the board, "It's a long time coming," and Jaruszewski saying the "Benefits are enormous; it's a win-win for everyone."
•Resident Paulette Glasgow, oftentimes a critic of Supervisor Steve Reiter and the town on its various proposals, told the board, "I look at this project with numerous questions, with common sense answers."
Glasgow said that while overall she did favor the recreation center concept and its numerous benefits to the community, she also questioned its size and its cost. Particularly, Glasgow had reservations with respect to Lewiston's seniors and the need for the existing senior center to relocate to Creek Road.
"Do our seniors need a better and improved facility? Of course they do. But our seniors love where they are and don't want to move," she said, adding that the town has the financial resources right now to improve the existing senior center.
As to funding the proposed center with Greenway money, Glasgow commented that such a move could eat up roughly 18 years of dedicated Greenway funding and said the town should be considering a public referendum before moving forward. "That is 18 years of Greenway funding that can't be used for economic development or job creation," said Glasgow. "I would hope ... you would give the public the opportunity to tell you, through a referendum, if they wish this to be done." (See Page 4 for additional comments on Lewiston's seniors by Glasgow).
•A Sanborn resident who listed her name as Vicki, vented to the board on the location for the proposed center. The woman stated that the center's location on the Lew-Port campus would prove to be a major inconvenience to the 5,000 residents who live in the Sanborn area.
•Bill Angus, who serves a community relations director for Assemblyman John Ceretto, conveyed the assemblyman's enthusiastic support for the project in a statement. "This is an exceptional opportunity to create a valuable community asset without utilizing taxpayer dollars. I support the town's endeavors to continue supporting our children, seniors and recreation needs."
•Travis Dietz, a rep for Laborers Local 763, praised the proposal for its economic impacts and job creation, including construction jobs. "The center would create jobs, it means a positive impact," said Dietz.
•Former Village of Lewiston Mayor Richard Soluri, speaking on behalf of State Sen. George Maziarz, complimented the project on it being "very professionally done," and said that with it "Lewiston has to start thinking about the future; it has to accommodate its needs."
•Lew-Port student Ben Hastings, who told the board he speaks for many Lewiston-Porter athletes who support the rec enter "wholeheartedly."
•Saunders Settlement Road resident Sharon Keller said she supported the recreation center but that she wished the town would keep the senior center on Lower River Road. "The seniors like it where they are; keep it where it is," she said.
•Oriole Lane resident Ed Van Valkenburg told the board that a move to a new location for Lewiston and Sanborn seniors' populations is needed. "Space is very limited there," said the resident. "Not all seniors want to stay at the current senior center."
Reiter wound up discussion by emphasizing the "seniors have had a lot of input" and that the board has discussed the possibility of not including a new senior center in the overall plans for the new facility. "This forum is just a starting point, your opportunity to voice your view."
Calling the project "a big endeavor," he continued, "This is our starting point."
The town announced its next information session on the rec/senior center proposal would be Monday, March 25, with sessions also scheduled for April and May.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Go ahead and hit Rob Gronkowski on his right knee. See if he cares.
The tough tight end is anxious to get into a game and take his chances less than eight months after surgery.
"If I'm ready to get out there, I'm ready to get out there," the Patriots' star said Monday after his first contact drills in training camp. "It's just like any other part of the body getting hit now. So once I get rolling like that, it'll just be like another day getting hit."
Playing in New England's third preseason game Friday night against the Carolina Panthers seems unlikely.
Playing in the regular-season opener Sept. 7 against the Miami Dolphins? That's still his goal, although the coaches and training staff will have the final say.
"I just love playing the game of football," Gronkowski said. "So whenever they let me have a chance, I definitely want to play."
The contact was light, but it was encouraging after his last two seasons were filled with injuries.
He missed the first six games last year recovering from forearm and back surgeries. In his seventh game back, the ACL and MCL in his right knee were torn on Dec. 8 on a hit by Cleveland safety TJ Ward, now with Denver.
Gronkowski underwent surgery on Jan. 9, was cleared to participate in non-contact drills when training camp opened and spent time running routes and catching passes from Tom Brady without defenders. He recently started doing that against cornerback Darrelle Revis.
That was a necessary step before getting into team drills.
"It's huge," Gronkowski said. "It's always good to do everything I was doing leading up to it, so when I went out there today I felt like I was prepared."
Monday's drills were just another step in his progression to playing without restrictions.
"It wasn't like full (contact) or anything," Gronkowski said. "It was just little routes and stuff, but (I'm) feeling good, progressed a lot out there doing routes versus the defense."
He did that in 11-on-11 drills for the first time and expects to step up his activities Tuesday.
Now come more repetitions and some blocking as he takes more small steps toward being the major part of the Patriots offense that he was when healthy.
"It's going well so far, no setbacks or anything," Gronkowski said, "just having a blast competing back out there and having fun catching some balls and making some plays."
The Patriots had just one healthy tight end for Friday night's 42-35 preseason win over the Philadelphia Eagles, converted tackle Steve Maneri. And he signed with the team just five days earlier.
Michael Hoomanawanui, the No. 2 tight end, has been out for much of training camp. He had a brace on his left knee on Monday and didn't participate in team drills. Another tight end, D.J. Williams, is out with a left leg injury.
So on Monday the Patriots re-signed tight end Justin Jones, a rookie free agent from East Carolina, just eight days after cutting him and released long snapper Tyler Ott, a rookie free agent from Harvard.
"You obviously want to be out there whenever you can so that's the passion I have and will always have to this game and for this position," Hoomanawanui said. "To watch other guys go out there and take all those reps, you want to be out there and helping this team."
That also drives Gronkowski.
"You want to be out there together helping each other out," he said. "Maneri did a great job for just being here for a couple of days and going in and playing. He did a great job on assignments and he did a great job blocking."
Gronkowski seems much further ahead in his rehabilitation than he was last summer but wouldn't compare the two comebacks.
"We're not allowed to do that. We're not allowed to compare," he said with his usual smile. "That was a good question, though. Better answer."
The best answer for the Patriots would be for him to be productive in the opener. Before camp, Gronkowski said his goal was to play in all 16 regular-season games.
"Yeah," he said. "I'm still operating off the same plan."
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Coolers: often ugly, frequently necessary. You can get a styrofoam piece of junk that you're going to spend $3 on only to throw away later, or you could spend $50 or more on a hunk of ugly plastic that will sit in your garage nine months of the year collecting cobwebs. Those aren't your only options, however. These lovely baskets actually hide coolers inside.
The wood-wrapped chillers come by way of New Hampshire's Peterboro Basket Company, which has been in business since 1854. Not only is this secret cooler nice looking, it's also pretty smart way to hide your cold beverages (what cop is looking for beer in a wood basket?). There's either a drum-shaped version ($99) or a taller, skinner one (on sale for $84). Both hold five gallons will really class up your next lake trip. [Design Sponge]
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RELIGST 166: The Divine Feminine in India (FEMGEN 166)
What happens when God is a woman? Is the Goddess a feminist? The Goddess, in her numerous incarnations, is foundational to much of Indian religiosity, whether Hindu, Buddhist, or even Jain¿and in turn, without her story, much of the theology and practice of these religions remains incomprehensible. This course examines the principal expressions of the theology and ritual worship of the Goddess in Indian history, from the Vedas to the Hindu Epics, to Indian philosophy, tantric ritual practice and modern global and new age movements in order to understand how the gendering of divinity affects theological speculation, religious experience, and embodied religious identity.
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
RELIGST 169: Sacred Words: Jewish Thought and the Question of Language (JEWISHST 129)
Jews have long been referred as the people of the book, but they might better be referred to as the people of the word. Drawing upon texts from the Hebrew Bible to the works of modern Hebrew writers like of Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Amoz Oz, this seminar will chart the development of Jewish thinking on language over the past two millennia. We will explore issues such as: the idea of canonization; oral versus written language; the nature and possibility of translation; the origins of language; notions of negative theology; mystical approaches to the word; the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoken and cultural language; and the limits of language after the Holocaust. This course will also bring Jewish thought into dialogue with contemporary philosophical reflections on issues of language. Modern explorations of language will prove an interesting way of deepening our understanding of the Jewish thinkers on one hand, and enriching contemporary intellectual discourse on the other.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
RELIGST 174: Religious Existentialism-Kierkegaard
Existentialism is often understood to be a secular or anti-religious philosophy of life, a substitute for Christian ethics in a post-theistic world come of age. Yet this twentieth-century philosophical movement owes many of its concerns and much of its vocabulary to the hyper-Protestant Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard, and much of the best Christian and Jewish thought in the 20th-century (Bultmann, Buber, Tillich) adopted existentialism as the ¿best philosophy¿ for making sense of these traditions in a secular age. This course will examine the origins of existentialist thought in the writings of Kierkegaard and its appropriation by a handful of influential 20th- century religious thinkers.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
RELIGST 180: Gender Relations in Islam (FEMGEN 180)
This course investigates the ways in which gender identities and relationships between men and women have been articulated, constructed, and refashioned throughout the Muslim world. Starting with problematizing the fixed notions of gender and sexuality, we map the attitudes toward these notions through visiting a diverse array of sources from the Qur¿an, Sunna, and legal documents to historical and anthropological case studies, literature, and film from South East Asia to Europe and North America. We examine the notions of femininity and masculinity in the Qur¿an, family laws, and attitudes toward homosexuality and transgendered populations. We read examples of ambiguous use of language with regards to gender and sexuality in Persian poetry and mystical traditions. We study the dynamic relationship between Islam and Feminism in the Muslim world. Finally, we witness the implications of these attitudes in our case studies and stories, from a divorce court in Iran to a wedding in Sudan.
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
RELIGST 181: Heidegger and Mysticism (PHIL 133S)
A close reading of Heidegger's Being and Time in light of the new paradigm for reading his work, as well as a study of his long-standing interest in mysticism and the question of the divine.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Repeatable 3 times (up to 12 units total)
Instructors: Sheehan, T. (PI) ; Gentzke, J. (TA)
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09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at STLC118 with Sheehan, T. (PI); Gentzke, J. (TA)
Instructors: Sheehan, T. (PI); Gentzke, J. (TA)
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RELIGST 205: Religious Poetry
Religious poetry drawn from the Islamic, Christian, Confucian and Daoist traditions. Limited enrollment or consent of the instructor required.
Last offered: Winter 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
RELIGST 217: The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism (RELIGST 317)
This seminar explores the influence of the Lotus Sutra, one of the most important Mahayana scriptures, in Japan. We will study how different Japanese Buddhist schools have interpreted this sutra and analyze a wide range of religious practices, art works, and literature associated with this text. All readings will be in English. Prerequisites: Solid foundation in either Buddhist studies or East Asian Studies. You must have taken at least one other course in Buddhist Studies. NOTE: Undergraduates must enroll for 5 units; graduate students can enroll for 3-5 units.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Mross, M. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
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09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at Departmental Room with Mross, M. (PI)
Instructors: Mross, M. (PI)
Notes: All classes will meet in East Asia Library, Room 338.
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RELIGST 221: The Talmud: Research Methods and Tools (RELIGST 321)
This seminar introduces students to the academic study of the Talmud and related classical rabbinic texts from late antiquity. Students will engage the major philological and historical questions concerning the making of the Talmud, along with textual tools to help them decode the texts. Prerequisite: Hebrew.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Fonrobert, C. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at 70-72A1 with Fonrobert, C. (PI)
Instructors: Fonrobert, C. (PI)
Notes: Undergraduates must enroll at the 200-level for 5 units. Graduate students must enroll at the 300-level for 3-5 units.
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RELIGST 224: Classical Islamic Texts (RELIGST 324)
The course is based on readings in primary Arabic sources in the key fields of pre-modern Islamic scholarship. The list of readings and topics will depend on the interests of the students. In addition to focusing on the language, contents, and context of the texts covered, the course introduces genre-specific historical research methods. The reading selections may be derived from Qur¿anic interpretation (tafsir), the hadith literature, adab, biographical dictionaries, fiqh, ta'rikh, kalam, or Sufism. Reading knowledge of Arabic is required.
Last offered: Autumn 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Repeatable 3 times (up to 9 units total)
RELIGST 230X: Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945 (AFRICAST 248, AFRICAST 348, HISTORY 248, HISTORY 348, RELIGST 330X)
What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia have used multiple media forms- newspapers, cell phones, TV, radio, and the internet- to gain new converts, contest the authority of colonial and post-colonial states, construct transnational communities, and position themselves as key political players.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Cabrita, J. (PI)
2019-2020 Spring
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED |
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Grading: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Exception |
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03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Mon 4:30 PM - 7:20 PM at 200-202 with Cabrita, J. (PI)
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