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We are often asked where is a good place to go for brunch, coffee, dinner, live music or drinks in East Van. So we are beginning to feature some of our personal favourites as well as those we've been hearing great things about. Our first feature was Let's Do Brunch in the Hastings Sunrise area, next up we are tackling our favourite bakeries. With Christmas coming, many of us our looking for that dessert to serve, or sweet treats to have on hand we just might not have time to bake So whether it's an Italian pannetone, a German stollen or Christmas cookies or those croissants for brunch, we've listed a few of our favourites spots.
Bakery Sate: 2879 Commercial Drive
This spot is run by Eric Ho, Pastry Chef & Owner, and he makes a mean croissant. Eric also has an amazing and delicious selection of gluten free cakes and desserts such as Milk Chocolate Salted Caramel, Black Forest and Cheesecake.
Fratelli Bakery: 1795 Commercial Drive
This Italian bakery makes one of our favourite things, St. Honore cakes. Others may try and imitate, but personally we think theirs is hands down the best. Why accept imitation, as they say. They also carry an amazing selection of dessert items.
Uprising Breads Bakery: 1697 Venables Street
This spot is just one block West of Commercial Drive and is most certainly a favourite go to spot for two things. One is Ginger Snaps and the second is pie. They generally have small and large pies on hand and on Fridays pie is 25% off which means, get their early or they will be all gone. They do have a wide range of sweet and savoury items including delish scones. Be sure to stop by and try this East Van staple that's been a part of the community for over 40 years.
Andy's German Bakehaus, 935 Commercial Drive
If you love German style cheesecake (think quark), flaky apple strudel and piled high Black Forest cake, this is your spot. This is a smaller bakery and café and thus not high volume, but quality authentic German sweets and breads. So if there's something specific you want, we recommend ordering in advance. Definitely worth a stop.
Batard Bakery: 3958 Fraser Street
This is a favourite spot not only for their amazing bread, but something I've come to love financiers made from mostly almond flour. They have some amazing individual decadent desserts for taking away or having in, but their seasonal treat that has us excited is a German stolen passed down from Oma's recipe (translation grandmother for those not up on their German) and yes for the diehard fans, with marzipan.
Brekka Bakery: 6533 Fraser Street
I grew up on just about everything from this bakery when it was called Fraser Bakery. It has many German favourites including a variety of strudels, Black Forest Cake, Christmas cookies and a Bee Sting cake or Bienenstich in German which is a white sponge cake with pastry cream in the middle and topped with honey glazed shaved almonds. A personal favourite. The added bonus is if you are in a time crunch trying to get yourself organized for Christmas and need to pick up some items in a hurry, Brekka is open 24/7 seven days a week.
Gluten Free Epicurean: 633 East 15th Avenue
Located in Mount Pleasant at the intersection of Kingsway & Fraser with great neighbours Like Matchstick Coffee and Les Faux Bourgeois. Everything here is made in house and is a 100% gluten free for celiacs and those that are gluten sensitive. They have an amazing selection of sweet and savoury ready made and frozen. Be sure to check out this quaint little spot.
East Village Bakery: 2166 East Hastings Street
A great selection of gluten free sweet treats perfect for a dessert tray. There are so many things we could list, but we love their blueberry orange chai muffins. They are in our view, hands down, the best muffin in the City. You'd never guess they were gluten free. The East Village Bakery also has gluten free breads, buns and pizza shells.
Italia Bakery: 2828 E Hastings Street (#104)
This amazing bakery has a great selection of cakes always at the ready. Lots of Italian sweet treats and a great selection of biscotti.
Black Rook Bakehouse: 2474 E Hastings Street
This spot is famous for it's Black & Tan Cake which has been featured as the one of the things you must eat before you die. Really, we aren't making it up. They have an amazing selection of desserts, cake and pies. Did we mention their cakes have names, Harold seems to be a running favourite, but when these cakes are featured on social media, best be quick. These cakes don't tend to last very long.
Le Gateau Bakeshop: 3458 East Hastings Street
Tanya Muller is the owner and pastry chef of Le Gateau Bakeshop and we think the creator of some of the most beautiful wedding cakes we've ever seen. She of course also has an array of seasonal sweets cupcakes, tarts and cookies. All decadent and beautiful as you can see pictured above and below.
Trafiq Café & Bakery: 4216 Main Street
Trafiq is a chic little café which we've only popped into briefly, but we keep hearing great things about this spot and the cakes look to die for. They have a Lemon Lavendar cake that's caught our eye and sounds amazing.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Half Baked Cookie Company and PBC Bakery. We've received some feedback that these two bakeries should be our list. Of course, there are many great bakeries in East Van not included, we write about what we know, so we will be doing a bit of research of our own soon to check these two out.
So much sweet stuff so little time. We hope you get a chance to get out and indulge your sweet tooth.
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Growing Gardens in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Lesotho
Lesotho faces chronic food insecurity. Catholic Relief Services implemented an urban homestead gardening project, targeting 5,000 poor households in urban and peri-urban areas.
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Lesotho faces chronic food insecurity because of widespread livelihood failure, income shortfalls due to chronic illnesses and limited access to productive assets. An estimated 39,000 households, or approximately 195,000 people, face chronic food insecurity. The situation is worse in urban and peri-urban areas; reports estimate that poor and very poor households are unable to meet 50 percent of their food needs.
The CRS response
Catholic Relief Services, in partnership with the Lesotho Catholic Bishops' Conference and Caritas Internationalis, implemented an urban homestead gardening project, targeting 5,000 poor households in urban and peri-urban areas around the capital city Maseru and in commercial and industrial areas in the Maputsoe and Leribe districts. Of the total registered participants, 2,600 were textile workers and 2,400 were economically poor community members. Women constituted 77 percent of the registered participants.
The project aimed to increase participants' skills and assets to enable the production of vegetable crops for household consumption and local sales. About 64 percent of targeted beneficiaries obtain their main grains from the market. This indicates that food expenses are high for this vulnerable population.
Utilizing a series of Sesotho- and English-language training materials, CRS conducted demonstrations on how to create trench gardens, container plots, sack plots and hanging plots for 17 villages in Lesotho. Participants were also encouraged to construct keyhole gardens, which utilize organic technologies, absorb and retain wastewater and produce high yields of vegetables, even during dry weather and cold winter months.
These sessions were complemented by demonstrations on pest control, compost-manure making and seedling production. Additionally, CRS conducted formal training sessions for field teams and people living with HIV. Sessions included nutrition basics and market practices. The field teams then trained participants in target communities.
The project also provided participants with agriculture starter packs, including garden hand forks and six types of vegetable seed (20 grams of each type).
All 5,000 targeted households constructed at least three trench gardens, one or more container plots and one sack plot. They used either compost pits or compost heaps.
Participants formed self-help groups. Leaders who were elected by project participants guided each group. Reports from the field revealed that 200 groups were established and are functional, 60 in Leribe and 140 in Maseru. About 1,060 people have participated. To date, the groups have raised more than 21,000 maloti in contributions from their members to purchase vegetable seed.
Participants significantly increased their vegetable production during the course of this project (see Figure 1). The percentage of participants who consumed plant protein increased from 12.6 percent to 14 percent. In addition, the percentage of people who consumed fats or oils increased significantly, from 48 percent to 77 percent, possibly indicating that their incomes increased.
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The Good Fight
Born in a violent and neglected favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Alan Duarte suffered immense personal tragedy. However, he dreams of finding salvation and building a better future for his son and his community through his boxing project.
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Your Leader must be rejected by all, suffer many things and be killed in the most humiliating way, and if you want to be a 'follower,' you must deny yourself and remain faithful to Him and follow Him even if it costs you your life – which it most certainly will.
Now there's a religion that's never going to amount to anything.
No wonder Peter pulls Jesus aside for a little counseling. He thinks that Jesus has lost His mind and Peter is just the man to help Him find it. "Far be it from you Lord! This shall never happen to you."
Peter had just correctly answered Jesus' big question, like if you don't get this one right none of the rest matters, "Who do you say that I am?" It's a trick question. A 'trick' question because Jesus already knows that NOBODY knows the answer to this question. Everyone always gets this one wrong. The only way anyone will ever answer this question CORRECTLY is if someone gives you the correct answer.
Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." "And Jesus answered him, 'blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father who is in heaven."
But now the Christ, the Son of the living God, needs to be corrected. The heavenly Father may be 'inerrant,' but evidently, the Son of the living God not so much. If the "Father who is in heaven" revealed to Peter, Jesus' true identity, then maybe He also revealed Jesus' faults to Peter. "He takes things a little too seriously sometimes."
Or maybe Peter was just responding to Jesus' announcement like any of us would – AND DO. Who actually believes that God, IF HE REALLY IS GOD, would actually call it a matter of DIVINE NECESSITY that He be rejected, suffer and die in order to carry out His purposes for coming into this world? And who in their right mind would ever say, 'now that's the kind of God I want to trust my whole life to?'
We're all theologians to one degree or another and we all have certain EXPECTATIONS based on our BELIEFS about what God is like and the way God carries out His work in this world and in my life – and although we all have DIFFERENT BELIEFS and EXPECTATIONS OF GOD – on this we all agree, "the message of the cross is folly…." (1 Cor. 1:18)
God, IF HE IS REALLY GOD, works in power and glory and success – and rewards all those who follow Him with power and glory and success – and who follows Him more faithfully than "the Son of the living God"? "SON OF GOD" and "SUFFERING AND DEATH" simply do not fit together. Surely what Jesus meant to say is that He is going to Jerusalem to establish His Kingdom and claim His rightful place as the new David, even the Son of David, to bring prosperity and success and to make Israel great again. (Sorry.)
Sigmund Freud said that all religion is 'wishful thinking, born from man's need to make his helplessness tolerable.' Maybe so. But if so, what are we to make of this thing called 'CHRISTIANITY' with its claims that God carries out His gracious and loving work in this world through rejection, suffering and death – and NOT APART FROM IT.
Who would ever have conceived of a religion as ridiculous as this one that has at its very core, the rejection and suffering and death of its Lord as the only hope this world has?
And that is at least part of the point. The central event of Christianity is too offensive and runs too sharply against the grain of human reason to ever have been conceived by man. If you want a religion that is 'reasonable' and runs at least somewhat parallel to you'd expect a REAL RELIGION to look like, that is, OF THE THINGS OF MAN, you should consider Islam or Buddhism or Mormonism or Jehovah's Witnesses or Unitarianism.
The Muslims have a high place of honor for Jesus but completely reject the thought that He was crucified – how ridiculous. Buddhism and Hinduism have carefully mapped out ways for you to reach Nirvana with no 'word of the cross' for either leader or follower. The Buddha's crossed legs and folded arms and wisp of a smile is far more sensible and appealing than the outstretched and tortured figure hanging from a cross to the mocking ridicule from men and the sound of silence from the Father in heaven.
Who builds their trust and hope and confidence for life and salvation on "the stone that the builders rejected"?
Peter's response to Jesus' perfectly natural. In the words of one theologian, 'we all want a God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." (H. Richard Niebuhr)
What Jesus is proposing both for Himself and for His followers is 'scandalous' to people who live in a culture that's all about doing what 'feels good,' and who expect that God, IF THERE REALLY IS A GOD, is there to help them achieve 'their best life now' which whatever that is, certainly does not include "denying oneself and taking up my cross."
Isn't this the reason that we're so confused about how to tell others about Jesus? Dare we tell them that He is the 'rejected,' 'suffering,' 'crucified' One who says "if anyone would come after me let him take up his cross and follow me…"? No, who would ever say, 'that's just what I'm looking for in a religion. How do I sign up?'
So we say that if they will follow Jesus, He'll make them happy and fix all their problems – whether we really believe it or not, because the truth is just too absurd.
Isn't this why people walk away from their baptism? They just didn't get anything POSITIVE out of it. It didn't do anything for them. When they really needed Him, He let them – He didn't do what He should have done if He is REALLY GOD and REALLY GOOD.
We all have our minds set on THE THINGS OF MAN and NOT THE THINGS OF GOD – whose mind is set on going to Jerusalem to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribers, and be killed, AND ON THE THIRD DAY BE RAISED.
Peter was so shocked by the first part of this announcement that he never heard the bit about "the third day be raised." And neither did the others. But even if they had heard it, it wouldn't have made any more sense to them than the bit about rejection, suffering and death, because these things are also "not revealed to you by flesh and blood but by my Father who is in heaven."
And that is precisely what "my Father who is in heaven" did on the 3rd day. He raised His rejected, suffered and crucified Son from the dead and crowned Him "with all glory and honor and dominion and authority before all time and now and forever." (Jude 25)
God has turned the tables on PETER and the ELEVEN and ON US ALL. He has done a NEW THING. An UNHEARD OF THING. A completely UNEXPECTED THING. "The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner."
Of all the scandalous and offensive things, this one tops the cake. GOD HAS VINDICATED the One who WE REJECTED. GOD HAS DONE THINGS GOD'S WAY. And in so doing He has pulled the mask off of our way and revealed it for what it truly is – the things of man and not of God.
We wanted to make God in our image – our fallen and dying image. But He has exposed all of our false gods for what they truly are – the things of man and not of God. He has become the great 'stumbling block' and CRISIS for all of us who refuse to consider that maybe, just maybe, the things of God are actually "the way and the truth and the life" after all.
Which may at least partially explain why these disciples of Jesus were more frightened than joyful when they heard the Easter news from the women that He was alive. What will it mean for all who COUNSELED Him and REJECTED Him and SUFFERED Him and CRUCIFIED Him when "he comes with his angels in the glory of his father to repay each person according to what he has done"?
"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." With that little word, "anyone," Jesus places US squarely with Peter and the eleven who rebuked the Lord for not doing His job the way we think it should be done.
Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God and He has done the DIVINELY NECESSARY THING to rescue and deliver you from sin and death and the devil – and redeem you and make you His own – and bring you to His Father in heaven to present you to Him as His precious bride "in splendor without spot or wrinkle – holy and without blemish." (Eph.5:28)
He entered into our 'rejection' and 'suffering' and 'death' that we, by our sin of worshipping the 'things of man' above the "things of God" deserve. He owned it all as though it were all His – because you are His.
So, "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?"
Face it. God's ways are not our ways. Its time to stop trying to force the "things of man" onto God. Be done with it. The game is over. Give up.
There is nothing left for you to cling to but Him. Whatever the folly of the cross is, it's now your folly and you're the fool who delights in your foolish Lord.
As absurd as it sounds, your greatest delight is in knowing that "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I, with all of my false hopes in all of my false gods, who live, but Christ, the 'rejected, suffering, crucified and risen Christ, who lives in me. And the life I now life I live by faith, not in the 'things of man,' but in the Son of God who whole loved me and gave himself from me." (Gal.2:20)
Today, the rejected, suffered, crucified and risen Lord comes to you, not in glory but hidden under bread and wine, to "repay you," not "according to what you have done," but "according to what He has done for you." "Take and eat, this is my body." "Take and drink, this is my blood." These are the "things of God and not of man." So even if you were to "taste death" today, you have "seen the Son of Man come into His kingdom."
This is the 13th Sunday after Pentecost and our gospel reading opened with these words from St. Matthew, "From that time Jesus BEGAN to show his disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things… and be killed and on the third day be raised."
This is just the BEGINNING. We have 13 more Sunday's to go in this journey with St. Matthew, and a lot to learn along the way.


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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-614?page=all ] Bryan Pendleton updated DERBY-614: ---------------------------------- Attachment: derby-614.stat derby-614-with-tests.diff Here's my proposed patch. It includes substantive changes to DRDAResultSet, DRDAStatement, and DRDAConnThread, changes to the big.sql tests, and a small new test called jira614.java which specifically reproduces this bug. For reviewers: the big.sql tests pass with both the old code and with the new code. I added new tests here in order to exercise a few more cases of the new code, specifically the handling of rows which were split across 3 QRYDTA blocks, but those cases were not broken in the old code, so the tests pass in both cases. The new jira614 test fails with the old code, but passes with the new code. Suggestions about additional testing that may be needed are welcome. I've run the reproduction case, as well as all the cases in both derbynetmats and derbynetclientmats, which appear to be the primary test suites for testing the network server code. Also, of course, suggestions and feedback about the code changes themselves would be wonderful! Please have a look at these changes at your convenience. thanks, bryan > Execution failed because of a Distributed Protocol Error > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-614 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-614 > Project: Derby > Type: Bug > Components: Network Server > Versions: 10.1.1.0 > Environment: Linux 2.4, Sun JDK 1.4.2_07, full SYSINFO will be attached. > Reporter: Bryan Pendleton > Attachments: clientSideTrace.txt, clientStack.txt, derby-614-with-tests.diff, derby-614.stat, derby-614.zip, derbyTrace.txt, query.txt, serverSideTrace.txt, spec.html, sysinfo.derby > > I am intermittently receiving Distributed Protocol Error exceptions in my client code. Simultaneously, > my derby.log is recording Distributed Protocol Error exceptions on the server side. > I cannot reliably reproduce this problem. > However, the problem always occurs in the same section of my application, so I can at least > describe that section of my application. (I'll do so in an attachment). > Here is the error I receive on the server side. Sometimes, the CODPNT is 2116 and the > Error Code Value is 1d, rather than 2114 and e. > 2005-10-05 02:10:23.663 GMT Thread[DRDAConnThread_2,5,main] (DATABASE = BuildFar > m), (DRDAID = GA0A0026.P7E6-4182154075488704215{136532}), Execution failed becau > se of a Distributed Protocol Error: DRDA_Proto_SYNTAXRM; CODPNT arg = 2114; Er > ror Code Value = e > Execution failed because of a Distributed Protocol Error: DRDA_Proto_SYNTAXRM; > CODPNT arg = 2114; Error Code Value = e > 2005-10-05 02:10:23.663 GMT Thread[DRDAConnThread_2,5,main] (DATABASE = BuildFar > m), (DRDAID = GA0A0026.P7E6-4182154075488704215{136532}), null > null > org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAProtocolException > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.throwSyntaxrm(Unknown Sourc > e) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.missingCodePoint(Unknown So > urce) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.parseCNTQRY(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.splitQRYDTA(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.writeFDODTA(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.writeQRYDTA(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.processCommands(Unknown Sou > rce) > at org.apache.derby.impl.drda.DRDAConnThread.run(Unknown Source) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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How to handle the Halloween candy crush
October — a time for falling leaves, cooler temperatures and pumpkin-flavored everything. For kids, October means Halloween and the thrill of dressing up and trick-or-treating. For parents, it's a time to sort out the dilemma: What to do with all the candy?
As a registered dietitian, I like to remind families, and my own kids, that moderation is the key. There's room in your child's diet for sweet treats, but the most important thing is that kids maintain overall good nutrition.
Here are some suggestions for enjoying Halloween without going over the top:
Prepare kids before trick-or-treat
- Make sure kids have a healthy snack or dinner that includes protein before heading out. This will help prevent overdoing it and having a sugar rush (and crash).
- Keep kids active by walking from house to house, if possible, instead of driving.
- Set a time limit. After a certain time, have kids come home to help hand out candy.
- Determine the number of pieces each child will get to eat after trick-or-treating has ended.
- Have each child pick a predetermined number of his/her favorites and then collect the rest.
Using extra candy
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- Add candy to cookies or muffins or stir into icing.
- Add a few pieces to a milkshakes or smoothie, or top ice cream or yogurt sundaes with it.
- Mix candy with pretzels, nuts and dried fruit for a healthy trail mix.
- With young kids, use candy for counting or sorting activities.
- Turn the candy into science or engineering experiments. Have kids predict if candy will sink or float. Make towers with toothpicks and soft candy.
- Get crafty and use on a gingerbread house or to make a candy necklace.
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You've used all your creativity, and there are still gobs of candy left. What now? Time to share:
- Send overseas for the troops (search online for local organizations that collect candy).
- Some dentist's offices offer candy "buyback" and will then send to troops or charitable organizations.
- Bring candy to work.
It's okay to throw away extra candy too. This helps demonstrate making healthy choices to kids, and shows them that even sweet treats are fine when enjoyed in moderation.
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"Attaining Enlightenment with this Body": Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan
. Buichiro WATANABE's dissertation for his PhD in Anthropology at SUNY, Stony Brook. In preparation for writing this, Watanabe spent time on Mt. Kōya going through the same initiation and training program that novice Shingon monks must go through. The result is this study of the concept of
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(attaining enlightenment with this body) and a comparative look at the relationship in Shingon Buddhism between practice and the study of Buddhist theory.
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Kōbō Daishi and Shingon Buddhism
. This is Joseph KITAGAWA's PhD dissertation and the work that got him started in the field of the history of Japanese religions. Very good information and well worth the effort of tying to get a copy. A bit pricey, though, if you have to buy it from UMI.
UMI Dissertation Services, 1951
Kūkai: Major Works
. A well written book by HAKEDA Yoshito, this is the standard when it comes to books about Kūkai. It explains Kūkai's life, upbringing, education, and teachings. More than half of the book is dedicated to translations of Kūkai's major writings. A necessary read if you want to understand his teachings and Shingon Buddhism, and a wonderful primer for the trip.
Columbia University Press, 1972
Kūkai The Universal: Scenes form His Life
. Ryotaro SHIBA. An English translation of Shiba's 1978 biograqphy of the life of Daishi-sama. Well researched and easy to read. Recommended.
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Saichō and Kūkai: A Conflict of Interpretation
. Ryūichi ABÉ. A study of the relationship between the founders of Tendai and Shingon Buddhism and of their different interpretations of esoteric Buddhism in genreal.
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1995
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Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume I
. Edited by Wm. Theodorede BARY, this anthology has been around for a long time and is the earliest book that i have found which contains chapters with both commentary and translations of original works on Kūkai, Saichō, (a brief mention of) Kūya, and Esoteric Buddhism.
Columbia University Press, 1958
Tantric Poetry of Kukai, Japan's Buddhist Saint
. Morgan Gibson and Hiroshi Murakami. A very small 76 page book containing information on Kūkai and Shingon, followed by 10 of his poems and excerpts form the Dainichikyō.
White Pine Press, 1987
The Founder Reinterpreted: Kūkai And Vraisemblant Narrative
. The 2003 thesis of William MATSUDA for his Masters Degree at The University of Hawaii. Matsuda looks at the historical writings by and about Kōbō Daishi and analyses how they changed over time as both the Daishi and others tried to define who he was.
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The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse
. Ryūichi ABÉ While highly theoretical, this is an extremely well written and detailed look into Kūkai's life, thoughts, writings, and interactions with the government's ritsuryō system and the Buddhist sects of Nara. As the back of the dust jacket says, it "... offers valuable insights into the linguist and ritual dimensions of esoteric Buddhism and traces the development of Kūkai's thought and its role in the creation of a new social order." For those wanting to truely understand Kūkai, what he thought, and what he believed, this is a must read.
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Blake Bortles has regressed in 2016 and is failing to even look competent on some plays, but he may not go anywhere because of the Jacksonville Jaguars' shift at offensive coordinator.
Putting all of the blame for the Jacksonville Jaguars' struggles on quarterback Blake Bortles may not be entirely fair, but in the modern NFL a team is only as good as its quarterback. As far as quarterbacks go, Bortles hasn't been great (to put it nicely) in 2016.
Bortles' 59.2 completion percentage is a career high for him, but just 28th in the NFL this season. His 6.5 yards per attempt is similarly low, coming in 28th. He also has the fourth highest interception percentage, tossing a pick on three percent of attempts. This all combines for the 27th highest quarterback rating in the NFL at 80.2.
To give some further perspective, this puts Bortles in league with a regressing Joe Flacco and Cam Newton, Case Keenum, and Trevor Siemian. That's not company the Jaguars want him to be in after a big year of progress in 2015.
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Whether Hackett can actually get Bortles to become much better doesn't matter much. Just the fact the OC changed and he is there to try his hand with Bortles should be enough to keep the struggling QB on the field. As noted by John Oehser, there's bound to be more games for Bortles because Hackett just took over.
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- Course Designer :Milton Coggins - 1967
- Facilities :Driving Range (40 Tees)
- Holes :Regulation - 18
We are very proud of what Sun City Country Club is today and where it's going quickly. The course is in great shape and it's turning heads. Greens are now at a respectable speed and work is beginning ….more
We are very proud of what Sun City Country Club is today and where it's going quickly. The course is in great shape and it's turning heads. Greens are now at a respectable speed and work is beginning on remodeling bunkers soon. If you haven't played in a while, we think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Friday, April 5th, 2013 09:16 pm GMT -7
markinaz wrote:
Fun course, the trees make your tee placeent critical. The sand traps leave a little to be desired though.
Friday, April 5th, 2013 10:47 am GMT -7
ronald wrote:
The sand traps are a in poor playing condition and a real eye sore with unmanicured edges and sand extending outside of trap area. The course has no rangers or marshalls and play becomes slow at times. The practice area is uncontrolled and persons hit from where ever they choose. The Pro and Pro shop persons are great.
Friday, April 5th, 2013 10:25 am GMT -7
robert wrote:
Even thought it getting hotter and the winter grass is begining to disappear, the course is still in great shape, greens are excellent, on scale 1 to 10, they are a ten. There some great deals as well on greenfees if you are willing to check out the web site!
Friday, April 5th, 2013 07:51 am GMT -7
fyoung wrote:
The course is a great layout with lots of trees and just enough water to make it a challenge. The bunkers and traps are dirt and gravel, no sand, so don't go in them. A beverage cart would be a great addition. I have played it a dozen times and the pace has always been good. Worth the money if you get one of there deals.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 06:15 pm GMT -7
golfergyrl wrote:
The trees and narrowness of the fairways make this course challenging but fair. Very lush greens. Nice clothes in the pro shop with friendly staff. Love the chance to warm up on the driving range.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 04:44 pm GMT -7
hotdog2012 wrote:
Best kept secret golf course in Phoenix, never an issue with a tee time
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 02:42 pm GMT -7
benchpress4 wrote:
Nice change of pace from Sun City Rec courses. A tight, well conditioned layout that challenges even the low handicapper. Great venue for women and juniors as well. Greens are some of the better I've golfed in the area.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 02:16 pm GMT -7
Geoffrey wrote:
Great course for the money! The mature trees make it a challenging course. You don't get courses with may mature trees in Az.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 01:29 pm GMT -7
Chuck wrote:
I used to play here occasionally, but since Tom and his crew took over it is a whole different ball game. The course looks and plays beautifully and his staff are very professional and friendly. Keep up the good work.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 11:02 am GMT -7
catkinson123 wrote:
It is rare these days to have a golfing experience where you are always treated as a "member" of the golfing community, instead of a paying customer. When Sun City Country Club open their doors to the public they never stopped treating everyone like an exclusive member. The course is always in great condition and the people friendly and helpful.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 10:07 am GMT -7
Ray wrote:
The fairways are in great shape, the greens are in great shape and the sand traps actually have sand in them. What more could you want? Maybe a few less trees. Somewhat narrow driving lanes. Need to hit it straight or second shot is under tree limbs. Course is very fair for all playing levels.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 09:22 am GMT -7
Connor wrote:
Sun City is a great golf course for anyone between great and poor skills. It is more open and able to support a few bad shots but the dog legs in the fairways and the lots of water hazards make it a challenge. I've never played a long round there and the people are amazingly friendly. I am 21 and love the feel of the course. Anywhere I can play for a reasonable price is A-ok with me!
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 09:15 am GMT -7
jeffr wrote:
I started playing 2 yrs ago and scc is my home course play here atleast 2 times a month forgiving yet challenging at same time Great course always in great shape!! thx for the hard work
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 07:35 pm GMT -7
Paula wrote:
Great value for legit golf. Greens good. A few t boxes crowned.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 06:52 pm GMT -7
Chester wrote:
Greens are excellent. Fairways are OK, most have grass but it is not very thick so ball does not sit up. However, right now the grass is not cut too close. Last year (2012) they cut the fairways close and lost much of the grass for the summer. The tees are very small and as such, generally dug up with divots and not much grass. Course needs to replace most of the tees to provide less elevated teeboxes and more playable surface area.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 05:49 pm GMT -7
gary1127 wrote:
I always feel comfortable coming back to this course. Even with all the trees lining the fairways I know I can play a rewarding round and post a decent score. I always take friends to play here and buy any online specials I ever see for SCCC.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 05:04 pm GMT -7
scottcoreyd wrote:
One of my favorite courses in the Suncity area. The back 9 is one of the best.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 04:59 pm GMT -7
ldbryant wrote:
This was the first time we played here,, nice course very well kept, coming back next week.. i thought price was a little high
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 04:57 pm GMT -7
Lawrence wrote:
I played this golf course twice once in early fall and once in early winter. Both times I played from the Back tees. Course is not long but from the back tees it makes worth while to challenge yourself. Early fall the greens were a little choppy, in the winter early mid morning the greens were a tad slow but true as the morning progressed the greens got slicker and at times tough to keep on the greens. For the money this course is well worth it especially for the mid to high handicap players. If you have a group of friends wanting to play a golf course on a moments notice chances are you can get on that day or the next day. Local High schools use this course for there golf matches.
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This post originally appeared on The Social Media Freelancer, on online community exclusively for aspiring and current social media freelancers.
At one point in my social media freelancing career, three clients completely slashed the budget, and another one didn't renew their contract, all within two-and-a-half months.
In other words, nearly 70 percent of my annual income went down the drain in about 70 days.
A lot of people, including my younger self, would have proceeded to freak out.
Was it my fault? What did I do wrong? Is my social media freelancing business not working anymore? Is it time to hang things up and go work for another company? Should I start asking around for job openings?
Hell no.
I've learned that, if you want to manage and grow a successful business over the long haul, it's all about reinventing yourself, reinventing your services, and reinventing your vision.
Initiating the reinvention process
The first step to reinventing yourself is not action; it's inaction. Take a timeout. Clear your head. Let the emotional effects subside before making any moves and decisions.
As a freelancer, it's easy to take things personally, because so much of being a freelancer is about developing personal relationships with your clients. However, it's important to make business decisions with your head, not just with your heart.
It's better to own who you are than aim to be someone you're not.
Painting the reinvention picture
Once I was emotionally removed from these series of events, I took a self-awareness inventory. In other words, I analyzed my strengths, my weaknesses, my pleasures and motivations, my pains, and my personality as they pertain to my business and to my vision.
Here's what I discovered and confirmed:
- My Strengths: I'm really good at high-level social media and content marketing strategy, as well as inspiring and motivating people through tangible instruction.
- My Weaknesses: I really suck at managing people, not because I'm incapable of being a people person or because I lack empathy, but because I'm (1) a control freak, and (2) a perfectionist who demands the same level of perfection from other people as I demand of myself.
- My Pleasures + Motivations: I really enjoy and thrive on the challenges that come with developing high-level social media and content marketing strategies, as well as teaching, inspiring, motivating and helping others.
- My Pains: I used to enjoy the day-to-day of social media management and content creation, but I no longer do. While I've mostly removed them from my personal responsibilities by bringing on other people to perform these tasks, I still need to be involved at some level — which I view as a time-waster more so than a growth enabler.
- My Personality: I'm not the kind of person who butters people up. I'm very to-the-point, no-BS, cut the crap, call it like it is. Am I proud of these personality traits? In some ways yes, in some ways no. But I need to be true to myself. While I may (unintentionally) come off as an asshole to a lot of people, a lot of my success is derived from my A-type personality. So frankly, it is what it is. Ultimately, it's better to own who you are than aim to be someone you're not.
The people who are great at a few things will always out-compete the people who try to be good at a lot of things.
Observations and results
After analyzing my strengths, my weaknesses, my pleasures and motivations, my pains, and my personality, I was able to more clearly understand the vision for my business.
There's two ways to look at it: Either you can try to improve your weaknesses, ease your pains and perfect your personality imperfections. Or, you can hone in on your strengths and pleasures, and optimize them. In other words, you can go from good to great, and then from great to remarkable.
While they're not mutually exclusive, I believe the latter option is the better of the two.
For me, that meant re-branding and repositioning myself as an international social media consultant, instructor, speaker, and content marketing strategist. That also meant declining (many) opportunities to take on (sizable) projects that involve day-to-day social media management and content creation, even if I can hire people to perform said responsibilities.
If you want to manage and grow a successful business over the long haul, it's all about reinventing yourself, reinventing your services, and reinventing your vision.
The takeaway
Many people want to be everything to everyone — especially when there's money involved, and especially when the going gets tough.
I used to be one of those people.
Now, I'm the guy who says it's perfectly acceptable to fail and suck at many things, so long as you stay true to yourself through ongoing self-awareness and an unwavering focus on making the things you're good at, great.
The people who are great at a few things will always out-compete the people who try to be good at a lot of things.
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I had a demo of BrandWatch recently, ably accompanied by Seb Hempstead (Account Exec), and was impressed both by their current Web Dashboard and it's forthcoming incarnation.
BrandWatch are serious data-heads. Having started out building monitoring systems for the British Government, they struck out on their own, creating a high quality social media monitoring and tracking system of their own. While some services (notably Market Sentinel) employ human intervention to measure "sentiment" in the posts people make on Twitter, forums and blogs, BrandWatch concurs with Scoutlabs, among others, that automation is the way forward when dealing with large quantities of data (as Seb points out, you get real-time trends, regardless of thhe inevitable inaccuracies).
BrandWatch works by enabling companies to set up a range of "classifiers". These might include "industry", "country", "sector" etc. within which data should be tracked. They can then set the "keywords" they want to track within these boundaries – and the system does the rest. Once the data has emerged, the user can slice, dice and present it in a wealth of useful, fun and, if I'm honest, mind-boggling ways.
A particularly nice feature is "Groups" that enables companies to track their keywords across a set list of websites. So Mothercare, for example, might discover that they get more comments about their prams on Netmums, while their baby clothes stoke up more interest in the Confetti.com forums. Similarly, users can check which keywords appear most often in comments and which are increasing in frequency over time – i.e. what the hot topics are. These kind of stats and flows can have a huge bearing on advertising spend.
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For anyone not familiar with tracking social media, BrandWatch, like many other services, offers hours of fascination: the peaks of activity on a Monday; the troughs at the weekend; the emotive spikes generated by "new" products (about which people are much more opinionated that old ones); the wild differences in sentiment detected between a brand and it's latest product or marketing campaign; the amusing acceptance that, no matter how clever they get, computers will never understand irony.
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The threesome was out partying at the VIP club in Cannes, France, after hitting the red carpet for the posh film festival. Kendall wore this stunning backless frock, showing off her slender, statuesque frame. No friends necessary to help with the cleavage though. That's after-hours stuff only!
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To say that I have a love affair with leaves and want to constantly be surrounded by them may sound like an absurd statement, but let me clarify.
In fashion and in decor, regardless of whether you think it's kitsch or not, florals are always around. Be it in a floral dress paired with a leather jacket, a wall featuring floral wallpaper or even some scatter cushions, you can't deny that flowers dominate. While I think flowers are beautiful, I think leaves on their own are wholly underrated and deserve to shine.
I've committed to investing in foliage for my house which will last longer and look stunning on my shelves as opposed to bouquets of flowers that hang limp after a few days.
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The Jungalow obviously gets first mention as it is the most fantastic collection of plant photography. From simple to eclectic, it never fails to inspire me!
Lisa Muñoz is an interior plant designer (can you imagine a more glorious job?) and documents the beauty that she creates through plants.
While Kara Riley does feature a lot of flowers as well, her Instagram account is well worth following for the gorgeous leaves peppered throughout.
Like The Jungalow, Urban Jungle Bloggers document mini jungles within peoples' homes. It's amazing to see how an abundance of plants can look so natural in even the tiniest spaces.
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