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The Taronga Bird Show's newest feathered star is Ord, the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Ord is currently being trained by keeper Brendan to sit on a specially designed box to take coin and note donations from visitors after the show.
The donation box program has been running since 2007, and has helped to raise over $130, 000 for the conservation projects that Taronga supports. Ord has been in the QBE Free Flight Bird Show for six years so he is used to soaring overhead and delighting visitors. But for his new role as a donation bird he needs to get used to being close to large groups of people.
You would have noticed at Taronga that all our keepers wear distinctive green jumpers. The downside of this is that Ord is only used to seeing people in green. This will not do as our visitors wear an array of colours and we don't want Ord to get spooked. To prepare for his new role, Brendan put the call out to all the staff at Taronga to help train Ord by wearing a variety of colours and hats to ease Ord into his new job.
Brendan said,"it's important for Ord to get used to as many environments as possible. All the staff were asked to come down and practice giving Ord different sized coins and notes for him to place in the box."
"He's getting more and more confident so he can enjoy the experience as much at the visitors."
In training, a volunteer offers Ord a coin which he places in the donation box. Brenden gives Ord a seed and says "good" for encouragement and to thank him. Ord is doing well but it's still taking him some time to get used to redheads.
Ord will join other donation birds, including Daggles the White-tailed Cockatoo which is also being trained.
Our QBE Free Flight Bird Show runs daily at 12pm and 3pm.
Madeleine Smitham, Media Intern


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This article is part of the Mtbr's Enduro Compare-O. See all the stories in this special section here–https://reviews.mtbr.com/category/enduro-compare-o-2014
While you might confuse the name Fezzari with Ferrari, it's unlikely that, even with its racy lines, you'd ever mistake the former's Timp Peak for Fernando Alonzo's F138. But on some level, there are similarities. Carbon for one—both vehicles employ a high percentage of the magic black stuff to achieve their relatively high strength-to-weight ratios and swoopy good looks. Likewise, managing 800-odd horses of Italian power must surely elevate the heart rate, as does ripping 27 pounds of mountain bike to-and-fro.
Decidedly different, however is the price-of-entry. While $6,300 sounds like a lot for a bike, the cheapest Ferrari goes for about 32-times as much. And old Fernando's F1 whip? Well, you might be able to get a set of wheels and tires for the Timp's asking price.
Absurd comparisons aside, the 27.5-inch-wheeled Timp Peak is actually an amazing value when compared to other, similarly-spec'd bikes. Much of that value is the result of the Orem, Utah-based company's direct-to-consumer sales model which has would-be buyers go through a thorough 23-point fit questionnaire that asks not only for standard measurements and body weights, but factors like gender, age, and preferred riding position. These variables, Fezzari says, have a major impact on sizing and fit. After entering these details through Fezzari's website, factory and customer typically communicate via email and telephone clarifying ambiguities and, occasionally, adding an upgrade or two.
Thus was the case with our test bike, which started out as the $5,500 Timp Peak XO1 build—originally shod with aluminum wheels, but upgraded to a pair of sweet carbon hoops, at a cash register ring of $800 extra.
Out of the Box and Into Your Heart
We'd have to say Fezzari's fitting system is pretty dialed. The bike arrived mostly assembled and fairly well-adjusted. After about 30 minutes of unpacking and simple assembly, throwing a leg over confirmed that well-acquainted comfort of a bike you've had for years. Shocks were adjusted to rider weight, and even the tubeless tires were sealed and dialed.
Out of the box, it took almost as much time to remove the packaging as it did to fully assemble the Timp Peak.
Not a Ferrari, but Still Pretty Damn Sexy
Even the shock's remote cable has an elegant look when paired with the Timp Peak's graceful lines.
The Timp Peak features a sleek, black, full-carbon frame—front triangle, rear triangle, and rocker link—with smooth, graceful lines, optimized for stiffness and weight, according to Fezzari. The bike's four-bar-like FRD Tetralink 275 suspension is compact, packs 150mm of rear wheel travel, and looks visually similar to Giant's Maestro system.
Left: Not content to merely do its main tubes in carbon, both the Fezzari's rear triangle and rocker link (here) are made of the material. Right: Internal routing nicely cleans up what could have looked like down tube powerlines on the Timp Peak.
Internal cable routing accentuates the Timp's clean looks, which, with cables for remotely controlling the damping of both fork and rear shock, is almost a necessity. Not having a front derailleur cable helped minimize the cable-itis as well.
Houston, We Have a Cockpit
One button, one lever—we can do this.
The absence of a front shifter made placing the remote lever for our RockShox Reverb Stealth ideal—under the bar and on the left where God intended. The right handgrip is much more crowded with not only the rear shifter and brake, but the shock damping remote lever as well. The arrangement drew mixed opinions from our reviewers at first blush.
Things are getting complicated on the right hand grip, but the guys at Fezzari—enthusiastic riders themselves—say its all worth the clutter. Note the cable splitter on the right that controls the damping settings on both shocks simultaneously. Slick.
Let's bounce
For suspension, our Timp Peak counts on an all-Fox affair with a 34 Talas 150mm CTD FIT Kashima up front, and a custom-tuned Fox Float Boost Valve CTD Kashima out back. The aforementioned remote damping is actuated via a single handlebar lever that controls both simultaneously.
THE Component Spec of 2014: SRAMano
Pair Shimano disc brakes with a SRAM 1x drivetrain and you're gonna score points with us. The deluxe-econo combo of Shimano XT Trail stoppers and SRAM's XO1 drivetrain might add a few grams over their respective top-of-the-line brethren, but frankly we can't detect an iota of discernible performance difference. Fezzari went for the best performers in each component category, bravely eschewing the obvious price-concession component bundling we see from most other bike brands—kudos.
SRAM XO1 business in the front, Shimano XT party in the back—we hereby declare this a compomullet.
Those chi-chi wheels we mentioned? Yeah, they're the 1,620-gram Reynolds AM Carbon's. With their broad 23mm internal rim width, the high-volume 2.25-inch Maxxis Ardent tires get a chance to spread out for a nice, grippy profile. We likey. And when they show up already mounted tubeless with the sealant juice dance already done, we like them even more.
Maxxis rubber came mounted on our Reynolds AM Carbon's, though at about a third of that 65 psi listed.
Though none of our test riders had ever ordered a consumer-direct bike before, many were impressed with the cut of the Timp Peak's jib, and all were keen to take it for a spin.
2014 Fezzari Timp Peak Key Specs
- Weight: 26.36 (size medium, without pedals)
- Wheel size: 27.5 inches
- Frame Material: Full carbon
- Travel/Suspension: Rear: 150mm/Fox Float CTD Kashima; Front: 150mm/Fox 34 Float CTD Kashima
- Drivetrain: SRAM XO1, 1 x 11 12-42, 30-tooth front ring
- Brakes: Shimano XT,
- Seatpost: RockShox Reverb Stealth, 125mm drop
- Wheelset/Tires: Reynolds AM Tubeless 27.5, Maxxis Ardent 2.25-inch tires
- Bars/Stem: Race Face Atlas Stealth, 780mm bars
- Bottom bracket type: Shimano Press Fit
- Head tube angle: 67 degrees
- Seat tube angle: 72.5 degrees
- Chainstay length: 17.2 inches
- Bottom bracket height: 13 inches
For more information visit www.fezzari.com.
Read our Bottom Line Evaluation of the Fezzari Timp Peak here.
This story is part of Mtbr's 2014 Enduro Compare-O. Check out our intro story here for all the ground rules and goings ons.

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This is an excerpt from the Fourth Quarter 2013 edition of the Wind Program R&D Newsletter.
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released an expanded version of its FAST wind turbine computer-aided engineering tool under a new modularization framework. The new framework will transform FAST into a powerful, robust, and flexible modeling software for wind and water power technology developers. The new release includes:
- An upgraded version of the AeroDyn aerodynamics module that includes tower drag loading
- The capability to analyze multimember offshore wind turbine substructures
- A new state-space hydrodynamic theory option in the HydroDyn hydrodynamics module
- A new Mooring Analysis Program for modeling multisegmented mooring quasi-static behaviors of floating offshore wind turbines
- Full conversion of FAST into the new modularization framework.
The upgraded version of AeroDyn can simulate both the upwind and downwind influences of the wind turbine tower on the rotor and calculate drag load on the tower.
The multimember offshore wind turbine module enables the software to model the hydrodynamic loading and structural dynamics of multimember, fixed-bottom offshore wind substructures such as tripods and jackets. These types of offshore wind structures are being built in water depths between 30 and 60 meters. The substructures can be composed of multiple interconnecting members with incline, and the members can include the effects of flooding and marine growth.
The new state-space hydrodynamics option in HydroDyn enables more computationally efficient time-domain solutions than the previously available implementation, and permits model linearization that is important for modal analysis, linear system-based controls design, and linearized stability analysis.
The Mooring Analysis Program simulates the quasi-static behavior of complex multisegmented mooring systems—a critical component of both wave energy conversion and floating offshore wind systems.
The new FAST modularization framework improves the ability to read, implement, and maintain source code; increases module sharing and shared code development across the wind community; improves numerical performance and robustness; and enhances flexibility and expandability to enable further developments of functionality without the need to recode established modules. Read more about FAST's new framework.
In November 2013, NREL presented a full-day workshop on FAST in Frankfurt, Germany, hosted by the University of Stuttgart. The workshop was attended by 50 participants, including equipment manufacturers, consultants, certifiers, laboratory researchers, and university professors and graduate students from across Europe and Asia. Workshop topics included basic theory, structure, capabilities, and future plans for FAST; this was the first workshop to focus on FAST in its new modular framework. Workshop materials can be downloaded at the Announcements of Modeling Workshops page.


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Authentic Suburban Gourmet and saw this yummy one. It looked delicious and incorporated lots of things I love, plus some new elements I was excited to try (raw zucchini, mint). I made it at the beginning of the week and ate it all week long for lunches. I just kept the arugula separate and mixed it in when I was ready to eat. It was amazingly fresh and light, yet so filling as well. Definitely a perfect combination of flavors for summer!
1 C. Quinoa
2 C. Chicken Stock (I had made a big batch with just water, and it was fine)
½ t. Salt
2 Medium Zucchini, one inch julienne slices
2 C. Tomatoes, small orange or cherry, halved
2 C. Arugula
½ C. Pine nuts, dry roasted or toasted
¼ C. Cilantro
Salt and Pepper to taste
In a medium sauce pan, add the quinoa and chicken stock plus ½ t. of salt. Quickly stir and bring the mixture to a boil. After it boils, reduce the heat to simmer and cover with a lid for about 10 minutes. Check and stir the quinoa. If liquid remains, check every 2 to 3 minutes until liquid has evaporated. Set aside to cool.
Once the quinoa is cooled, add to a large bowl to assemble the salad. Add the zucchini, tomatoes, pine nuts and cilantro. Toss gently and add the vinaigrette and toss again to combine. Right before serving, toss in the Arugula. Taste and then season with additional salt and pepper as desired.
Mint Vinaigrette
1 C. Fresh mint leaves, lightly packed
3 T. Red wine vinegar
2 t. Dijon mustard
2 Garlic cloves, minced
½ t. Sugar
½ t. Salt
8 Grinds pepper
½ C. Olive Oil
Add all of the above ingredients to a food processor. Pulse until well combined. Taste and adjust salt and pepper to your desired taste level. Set aside to strengthen the flavors for about one hour.
Calories...I divided it into 6 servings, which per my calculations would make it about 315 calories per serving
Quinoa Salad with Zucchini, Arugula, Tomatoes and Mint Vinaigrette
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Farm Industry News received an anonymous tip last month that Versatile would be coming out with a high-horsepower tractor on tracks. Well, now we have some proof that such a tractor exists.
You Tube clips shot two weeks ago at the 2013 Versatile Dealer Meeting in Palm Springs, Calif., showed a Versatile tractor on tracks, an unprecedented move made by the Canadian company Buhler Industries, Versatile's parent company.
Watch the unveiling at Versatile's dealer meeting last month
"Here is what legends are made of," says Adam Reid, Versatile's director of marketing at the beginning of one of the clips. "And I hope you remember where you were the first time you laid eyes on the newest member of the Versatile family. The new, the legendary, Versatile Delta Track."
See the action: Watch the Versatile Delta Track being trucked away at the 2013 Versatile Dealer Meeting
The new Versatile Delta Track marks the company's first entry in the tracked tractor market. Versatile has gone with a four-track system instead of two, the same path Case IH carved with its popular Quadtrac and Rowtrac tractors. Other companies, such as John Deere and AGCO Challenger use a two-track system.
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Pellegrini's THE UNPREJUDICED PALATE is a lesson in how to enjoy life
in an elegant and highly civilized way."
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"Angelo Pellegrini remains undoubtedly one of America's greatest food writers. But THE UNPREJUDICED PALATE is not just about cooking; it's about taking the time to slow down and savor life. This delightful classic is a must read for those who live in our fast-food nation."
–David Rosengarten, author of It's All American Food, The Dean and DeLuca Cookbook and Taste
"THE UNPREJUDICED PALATE is a forgotten gem from what might be remembered as the Golden Age of American food writing. This Italian born, beloved Seattle professor, friend and colleague of MFK Fisher, wrote with charm, wit, and a rare intelligence about food."
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The first water standard in the nation for chromium-6 has drawn fire from Erin Brockovich and residents of the town the movie about her made famous. And water providers, the chemical industry and consumer protection groups also aren't thrilled with the new standard.
On Tuesday, the California Department of Public Health submitted its final decision to regulate the cancer-causing chemical made famous for its disruption of the community of Hinkley and the film "Erin Brockovich."
With the decision will come the nation's first limit on chromium-6 in water, at 10 parts per billion – far stricter than the nation's current standard for total chromium, at 100 parts per billion, but much less than a standard proposed for chromium-6 as a goal long ago by the state.
"It's bittersweet," Brockovich said Wednesday. "I certainly feel disappointed that they did not set the (maximum contaminant level) closer to the public health goal of .02 parts per billion."
Brockovich's comments referred to the public health goal of 0.02 parts per billion of chromium-6 in drinking water set by CalEPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in July 2011.
"But we should all be proud of the work we have done," Brockovich said.
Dr. Ron Chapman, California Department of Public Health director and state health officer, said that the standard of 10 parts per billion for chromium-6 "will protect public health while taking into consideration economic and technical feasibility as required by law."
The new drinking-water standard will take effect on July 1.
The federal standard is for total chromium, which is comprised of the known carcinogen chromium-6, and its more benign cousin chromium-3.
The 10 parts per billion chromium-6 standard will replace the existing state limit 50 parts per billion of total chromium in drinking water.
The public health goal is the level of chromium-6 in water that does not pose a health hazard. It is intended to be used by the California Department of Public Health as it balances health concerns and costs to determine the appropriate enforceable water standard.
The MCL is 500 times greater than the public health goal. But physically, it's a very small amount.
In the early 1990s, Brockovich successfully led an effort that forced Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to pay a $333 million out-of-court settlement to about 650 Hinkley residents.
From 1952 to 1964, chromium-6 contaminated water at PG&E's Hinkley natural gas compressor station was periodically dumped into unlined ponds, where the heavy metal seeped into the groundwater, where much of it remains today.
The new standard, while more stringent than the former state standard for chromium, was met with disappointment from High Desert residents to industry.
"I know this irritates a lot of cities with chromium-6 in its water, but any carcinogen should have a lot less that 10 parts per billion in water," said Lester White, a longtime Hinkley resident and community leader. "Access to good, clean water shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a right."
National Resources Defense Council Attorney Avinash Kar said the "California Department of Public Health's long-delayed action … simply does not provide enough protection for people's health.
"The department both inflated water treatment costs and underestimated the benefits of a stronger standard to justify its proposal."
Jack Porrelli, spokesman for the Coachella Valley Water District, said there was no way the water agency for 110,000 customers will be ready to meet the new standard on July 1.
As many as half of the district's water wells have naturally occurring chromium-6 as high as 21 parts per billion.
It is estimated that the agency will need to spend $450 million building treatment facilities that will boost the typical water bill by $50 monthly, he said.
The city of Glendale, which has chromium-6 in its water from industrial sources and his pioneered remediation techniques, won't be impacted with the new standard, said Tom Lorenz, city spokesman.
Glendale limits its chromium-6 levels to 5 parts per billion by cleaning polluted water and blending it with imported water.
Officials from industry were also disappointed in the standard, but for different reasons.
"We are extremely disappointed that the state of California has ignored findings from the best available research on chromium in drinking water," said Bryan Goodman, spokesman for the American Chemistry Council.
"This has resulted in CDPH moving ahead with an overly restrictive and costly MCL that will provide little to no additional public health protection to the existing California standard," he said.
"Fourteen peer-reviewed papers have been published about the effects of exposure to low levels of hexavalent chromium in drinking water. This research indicates that the new MCL in California will be well below the level necessary to protect public health," he added.
The result means that "financially strapped utilities across the state will now be forced to expend a great deal of resources to address exceptionally low levels of a chemical that occurs naturally in drinking water supplies," Goodman said.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Ten years ago Friday, NASA astronaut Jerry Ross was in a convoy at the north end of Kennedy Space Center's shuttle runway, awaiting the scheduled 9:16 a.m. arrival of Columbia and its seven-member crew.
[Story courtesy of Local 6 News partner Florida Today]
Eileen Collins, set to command the nation's next shuttle mission just a month later, was at home in Houston watching live NASA TV coverage of Columbia's atmospheric re-entry with her son, Luke, age 2 at the time.
Then, 16 minutes before touchdown, as Columbia soared over Texas, Mission Control lost telemetry and voice communications with the orbiter. Soon tracking data also disappeared.
"And, of course, we had a strong suspicion as to what that implied," Ross said. "I stepped immediately outside of the vehicle and paused for a moment, and said a silent prayer for the souls of my friends on board."
Mission Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, and two Mission Specialists — Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla — were on Columbia's flight deck. On the middeck: Payload Commander Michael Anderson; Mission Specialist David Brown and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon.
All died that day, and the U.S. human spaceflight program suddenly faced sweeping change.
"It was a turning point, without a doubt," said Collins, who commanded NASA's first post-Columbia test flight. "Columbia really was a turning point for our strategy in space exploration."
A decade later, NASA is in mid-pivot.
Flash back to Jan. 16, 2003: 81 seconds after liftoff, a 1.67-pound chunk of foam insulation broke free from Columbia's 15-story external tank. A second later, it blasted a six- to 10-inch hole in the leading edge of the ship's left wing.
The damage went undetected during a 16-day space science mission. Hot gases blow-torched through the wing as Columbia sped home. The ship disintegrated.
"They were a great crew. They really were. Very personable, very humble, very polite," said Ross, co-holder with Franklin Chang-Diaz of the world record for most space missions flown — seven.
Ross had just started a new job as Chief of NASA's Vehicle Integration Test Office, the organization that managed crew quarters at KSC and supported astronauts and their families before launches and after landings.
On launch day, Ross escorted Columbia's astronauts partway to the launch pad. He was among the last to people to see them off.
Eleven months after the accident, on Jan. 14, 2004, then-President George W. Bush outlined his "Vision for Space Exploration" which called for the retirement of the shuttle fleet and development of a new crew exploration vehicle to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
The course changed under President Barack Obama.
Obama canceled "Project Constellation" in February 2010 after a presidential commission found it was on "an unsustainable trajectory." He directed NASA to invest in the development of commercial spacecraft for missions to the International Space Station, and push toward a goal of sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 and the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s.
NASA flew its last shuttle mission in July 2011.
Both Ross and Collins are frustrated by the current state of the U.S. human spaceflight program.
Ross worries about the amount of money and focus being placed on the development of commercial transport systems.
"It's taking the money out of NASA programs that should be the ones we're funding through the federal government," he said.
"The commercial systems are going to get us to low-Earth orbit, and we want to go beyond low-Earth orbit. We want to go out to the moon. We want to go on to Mars, and we're diverting most of our resources, or a large portion of our resources, to just going back into low-Earth orbit. And that's the wrong answer."
Collins, who in the 1990s became the first female space pilot and mission commander, thinks the current plan is a good one — as long as human expeditions beyond Earth orbit are not forsaken.
"Am I happy with where we are right now? No, because I'm not a very patient person. I like to see things happen faster. So with the cancellation of Constellation, it really slowed us down," Collins said.
"But there's a program now, and I'm just praying that it doesn't get canceled — that it's successful, and that it's safe. And that we actually make it happen," Collins said.
So, should we venture back to the moon? Or journey to an asteroid? Or go straight to Mars?
It doesn't matter.
"I think we should pick a destination and stop changing it," Collins said. "You know, I think these are all good ideas. But at some point, we've just got to go do it."


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(Mock Latin for "Don't let the bastards get you.")
When you dare to try something big, and put yourself out there, the amount of support you get from others will undoubtedly be matched by the amount of people who secretly, or not so secretly want to take you down.
They're either jealous, or they like to be right--so they play the odds that you'll fail. Sometimes, they're too cool to admit you've done great work. Other times, they can't get noticed for their own success so they try to start a flame war to stir up some controversy.
The best way to fight it is just to put your head down and work that much harder. Success is the best revenge.
But, trust me, it will be hard to bite your tongue and not to take things personally--because you're all in. What you're doing IS you so it's hard to face criticism about your efforts.
You just have to ask yourself what you get if you win.
If you're taking about winning a flamewar, nothing. Everyone loses.
If you're talking about ultimate success in your career, you win pride in knowing that you did your work in a positive, impactful way. That's not something someone who tries to block your success can ever say.
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I've said it before - the best thing about coffee is the wonderful people in the industry.
Had a fantastic experience on Sunday.
Tasted espresso and cupped coffees from a whole range of folks - with good friends Andrew, Drew and Gabe.
The coffees were amazing (you can read Gabe's account above for more information) but it really was the company and the experience that made is so special.
The experience also allowed me to crystalize something I've been trying to clearly explain for awhile. I have this belief that there are coffee roasters/buyers who are producing coffees that are more than just a "signature flavour" but are in fact a true representation of their own vision and identity and even personality. Duane from Stumptown is one such person. And Andrew Barnett from Ecco is another.
Tasting the Experimental Espresso #3 that Andrew was so kind to share made me realize that it was a near perfect expression of who he is - his values, his taste, his goals and beliefs.
That's such a cool thing.
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For the past 3 years, the Saints have been on of the most dominant teams in football. They have broken records, won a Super Bowl, and produced a future Hall of Famer. Their record in the span is 37-11. Simply fantastic. Sean Payton is one one of the best coaches in football, Drew Brees is arguably one of the top 10 or 15 quarterbacks of all time. Nothing could stop this team, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, there is a major obstacle that this New Orleans Saints team has to overcome, and it will not be over the course of the 2012 season. It lies within the offseason.
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Personally I think this article is way overblown. We just about beat (and should have...) a top-notch SF team WITHOUT Pierre Thomas, Mark Ingram, and Lance Moore. It would be truly sad to see either Meachem or Colston go, but I wouldn't be surprised by it.
Maybe a miracle will occur: The Saints work out a long-term deal with Brees, slap the franchise tag on Colston, and somehow keep Meachem in the process. I don't see it happening, but it's possible.
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Long as we keep brees we are ok cause we have the number one tight end and three dominating running backs but we shore need colston for shore we need some one on the other side of the field to jump instead of going to Jimmy everytime and Robert Meacham this guy is fast man I say cut people who's not playing to much and keep Robert and Markus I know we need secondary and its all about the salary cap we need impact players for next season because super bowl is in our house next year and we gotta be one of the teams plyin in it and the team winning it
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OH please! PLEASE! P L E A S E!! Help me figure out how to make
Swedish Meatballs!
I have looked at recipes with Allspice (or without), Ginger ( or without), Nutmeg (or without), etc. My friend the Swedish professor who is a fine cook tells me only to use Allspice--I get no flavor.
I use the proper sized ice cream scooper thingy and they start out round in the pan, but after rolling them around to brown on all sides they are flat, or they fall apart, etc.
I have used bread, or bread crumbs and they never stick together.
I have seen recipes with Soy Sauce, but I am very sure that those old Swedish gals in church, who used to make such wonderful meatballs, never heard of Soy sauce.
Please help!
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sounds like there's two problems here -
first getting a little meatball
second getting the taste / seasoning 'right'
your note didn't mention anything about an egg - beaten egg is typically used as a "binder" in meatballs to keep them from falling apart. as they cook the egg 'sets up' and binds the meat & bread crumbs together.
there is also the 'oven finish' technique. make the meatballs, brown them in the pan - you put them in, do not crowd the pan, do not fool with them until they begin to set up. no forks, spatula, etc. you should be able to shake the pan and make them roll around (that's the reason for not crowding the pan) minimal "handling" avoids the breaking apart problem. it does happen that toward the end there a couple spots that didn't roll over on their own to cook - I use a fork and a spoon to lift&turn them - but if they are still 'sticking' to the pan let them brown a bit more on the bottom. when they have browned they'll 'release' from the fry pan. I don't try to cook them thru in the pan - just brown. transfer to an oven pan or an oiled rack (over a roasting pan) and pop them in a 275-300'F oven for 10 minutes to cook through. small meatballs will need less time (the 10 mins) vs larger ones which can take 20-25 mins. if you're making a large qty, pan fry in batches then put all in the oven at the same time. to judge "finished" - take one out and eat it . . .
on the issue of taste / seasonings thing get stickier because there are thousands of variations, all "authentic" according to [someone]
some folks like to use a mix of ground pork or sausage with the beef.
since the sausage is most likely seasoned, that incorporates some flavors.
also note, using ultra-lean beef can be trickier as it has so little fat to help with flavor and binding (bread crumbs absorb the fat . . .)
>>(allspice) & get no flavor: how long has it been hanging around? most spices age and lose potency. . .
then the gravy question. you'll see recipes stating "served without gravy" some with a brown gravy made from the pan drippings, some with a cream sauce based gravy.
seems "Swedish Meatballs" has morphed to mean "small meatballs" - I've always considered it to be in a cream based sauce with dill.
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Dear Dilbert:
Thank you so much for the help. With regard to bread, or bread crumbs, which do you prefer?
With regard to Allspice--it is very fresh (just purchased and smells wonderful), but I don't get that old fashioned Swedish Taste. Let's say I am using 1 lb beef and 1 lb pork how much allspice? Do you add nutmeg, or ginger? Allspice seems to deaden my tongue --nothing happens!
Yes, I agree it should be cream gravy with dill, but I also like to make a good brown gravy from the frond given this wonderful opportunity!
Thank you again,
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Finding an uneasy peace with Cito
On the one hand, we concede that he was that even-keeled influence that helped to guide them to their most hallowed heights, and while his value to those teams is an open question, it seems overly curmudgeonly to begrudge him his proper place in the team's pantheon. On the other hand, he's the stubborn man whose management acumen seemed to decline in tandem with the team's efforts to rebuild.
It's half the reason why in our head, we've turned him into a series of different individuals, if only so that we can simplify him and wrap our head around who he is and what he means to the franchise...and more to the point, what he means to us. (Hence, our reliance on the coy term "The Manager" all season long. Because "Cito" and "The Manager" are two very different entities, so far as we are concerned.)
We have lots of fond memories of the 1989-1993 Cito, which may have something to do with the frustration and heartache that came with watching Jimy Williams precede him. Cito, at that point, seemed like a breath of fresh air, and a cool cat who didn't need to constantly muck about with the pitchers and slavishly follow "the book". Jimy loved the platoons, and loved the lefty-lefty matchups, almost to the point of distraction.
(The Russians had an expression, and we're sure to share this again soon: If you think the last Czar was bad, wait until you see the next one.)
Even that era has its warts that now go unnoticed when set against the bright lights of the championship teams. Part of the exuberance around the 1992 win was that it came on the heels of a few major disappointments, including the 1990 team that led the division in the last week, but finished 2-6 and coughed up the AL East to the Red Sox in the last weekend. And at that time, Cito didn't cotton much to some of the criticism that was leveled at him from the fans and the media.
And that defensiveness would return from 1994 through to his exit in 1997, where the Blue Jays ran aground as young players (Carlos Delgado and Shawn Green in particular) were mishandled and benched in favour of marginal veterans (Mike Huff, Ruben Sierra, Darnell Coles, Juan Samuel), and the team underperformed while squandering the talent available to them.
On the whole, we're probably not overly agonized about his latest incarnation as the Vaguely Cynical On-Field Marketing Campaign, given that some of the coaches who came along with him -Dwayne Murphy in particular - have seemingly paid dividends. We're still anxious for him to vacate the seat, and we're happy to think that Travis Snider and J.P. Arencibia might get a fairer share of at bats in 2011. Still, we can't necessarily call his time with the team disastrous.
From what we could tell, folks were pretty happy to say their farewells to the skipper last night, and we're sure it was a nice moment for those who like Cito. On a certain level, we think that he probably personifies a nostalgia that most of us continue to hold for those days when the Jays we a consistent contender, and when the game held the city and the country in rapt attention. Give it a year, and we'll be back with you all, getting weepy at the mention of his name.
(And because those feelings don't die easily, we're pretty sure that Cito will get many more opportunities to stand on the Rogers Centre turf and wave to the fans in the years to come. You'll barely miss him.)
The thing about nostalgia is that its a comforting thing, but not something that you can indulge in for anything more than a passing moment. Yesterday, T'Pau's "Heart and Soul" popped up on our iPod, and we were instantly brought back to those days in the late 1980's. They seemed so fun, so simple, so exciting and so filled with promise and we longed to be there. But you can't let yourself be governed by those thoughts. They'll weigh you down, like the most pleasant one-tonne down comforter you could imagine.
Like we've said here before: Change is persistent, and relentless. And if you to stay ahead of it, you need to take your eyes off the rear view, and start looking forward. And speaking for ourselves, we're plenty excited to see what lies ahead.
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- ROB FORD said...
- September 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- William J. Tasker said...
A real fair piece, sir. Well done. And the conficted notion of Gaston as the manager is valid. You had five years of success (except for the last week of 1990) and then a whole lot of nothing. Like always, the manager gets too much credit for the good times and too much blame for the bad.
Gaston, at best, gave the organization class and pride and he didn't leave it worse off then when he started it. He's rightly an icon for Toronto fans, but there have been better managers.
Nice post.
- September 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Well said, as always. I think this season more than last, in my efforts to defend Cito, it went right over my head that "Cito" and "The Manager" might be two different entities. That makes sense. While I'm plenty excited, too, about what lies ahead, I think I have a greater tolerance and love for nostalgia than anyone else around here. What this team accomplished when Cito came aboard, until the strike, was simply amazing. And I took it for granted. I never thought 1993 would be the last time the Jays would make the playoffs, and that I'd go through all my 20s waiting and waiting for an October that would never come. Fuck it, let's celebrate it.
- September 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM
Well put Tao!
- September 30, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Can I just add that Jon Heyman can fuck right off!
- September 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Please...Anytime that anyone feels the need to tell Jon Heyman to fuck right off, they should feel right at home.
Fuck off Jon Heyman!
- September 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM
- The Ack said...
"On Roy Halladay and the Persistence of Change" might be my fave Tao post ever, by the way. Top-5 for sure.
- September 30, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Probably my favorite too.
From great pain comes great art. Or at least tolerably readable posts.
- September 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- SP said...
"And at that time, Cito didn't cotton much to some of the criticism that was leveled at him from the fans and the media."
That's RACIST!
- September 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Captures my Cito feelings pretty accurately. Obviously, he brought something to the table, but his 92, 93 teams were so awesome, the championship was his to lose, not win.
Cheers, Cito, but, please, let's get down to business.
Hopefully, those 4 first class tickets were one-way. Ha! I kid!
- September 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Interesting use of the word "cotton," all things considered.
- September 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Tao, you have my sympathy. I know you didn't use cotton ask some sort of backhanded racial slur. We live in interesting times. A post-racial mindset can land a person in hot water when one chooses a perfectly reasonably verb.
Better luck next time.
- September 30, 2010 at 9:03 PM
great post. You know, except for the subtle racial slur.
Only white people live in a post racial mindset. What a stupid concept.
- September 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Agreed. "Post racial," whatever that means, sounds ridiculous.
- October 1, 2010 at 2:31 AM
Cito Gaston is and was awesome. I guess some of you saberfags might argue he 'cost' the Jays games while conveniently forgetting your other rule about managers not really contributing much to a team's success.
In which case, I'll gladly take the 2 WS championships, you take the 30 extra wins spread out over 10 years. A$$hats.
- October 1, 2010 at 6:44 PM


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It's really interesting to see how we're rewiring our brains to adapt to the world around us. The internet wasn't a thing twenty years ago, and now everyone with an eye on productivity is figuring out ways to shut out or limit the amount of time we spend on it. Dieting would never have become an issue until cheap, high calorie food became so readily available. We're all struggling against something in our lives. And I'm not exaggerating when I call it a struggle. Fighting our natural instincts takes work, and a lot of mental energy. Honestly, we've got it a lot harder than those cavemen ever did. They got to follow their instincts all the time. And as far as I can tell, the only thing they ever had to deal with was hunting for food and avoiding dinosaurs.
Alright, confession time: the whole point of this post is to admit that six months in, despite my best efforts, Create / Consume is still not an easy process for me to maintain. Technically, I never actually said it was ever going to be easy or get easy, but in my head I guess I figured I would have somehow mastered my use of my free time by now. I thought maybe I could come on this blog and tell everyone I figured out the secrets of mastering productivity. But sadly I have not achieved an automatic, instinctual balance for myself just yet. Perhaps there simply is no point in which I will ever love all the lazy things I do any less. Like everyone else, I'm hard-wired to not want to work any harder than I have to. And I'm probably flying directly in the face of my body's internal mandate to just chill the heck out and stop working so hard. Especially with Mad Men Season 5 out on DVD, and the holiday gaming season upon us.
The good news is it hasn't been a fruitless struggle. I have done quite a bit of writing and performing over the past six months, and as always, I can feel myself improving, both in my work, and in ability to my avoid some of the pitfalls of productivity. The victories are mostly minor at the moment, but progress is always worth noting.
I have some to thoughts to share that come from my efforts against the eternal struggle. I've talked about how to make Create / Consume work for you before, but these are some additional tips to help get yourself on track when you're not seeing the results you want, or as a way to improve your current level of productivity. I honestly think these three little things (all of which you've probably heard before, but I'm going to reiterate today) in addition to the C/C strategy of tracking your time can make all the difference in a productive day/week/month. It really goes to show how much productivity is less about constant internal motivation or straight-up willpower than it is about just providing the proper environment for inspiration.
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I've been bad about this, despite hearing it over and over for years, but I think I'm finally starting to get it. At work, when I have the time to spare, I try to get in an hour of Creation - usually writing - during my lunch break. It's actually hard to make the mental shift from day-job mode to writer-mode, but having said that, it's the only time I ever make it a point to put myself in a totally stimulus-free environment, because its the only way anything will ever get done. I try to find an empty conference room, I turn off (or just hide) my phone - which is honestly the biggest distraction any of us have these days, and with nothing but uninteresting stimuli around me, my brain pretty much has no choice but to focus up. And it totally helps. Now if only I could ever get myself to leave my distraction-prone apartment when I'm supposed to write...
2) Deadlines!
If you're involved with Create / Consume, it's likely that you're trying to develop your skills to get to the point where you're working that dream job or creating your best work. For now though, you're probably working on your own time. Although there's something great about the freedom that comes with picking what, when and how much you want to work on something, sometimes without any kind of deadline, nothing ever escapes "creation limbo" where several of my story ideas (including my unfinished NaNoWriMo novel), blog posts and plans for world domination are currently floating.
It's amazing how much more motivated you'll be when, more than just goals and aspirations (which I presume you've already got), you have an actual deadline. I debated taking writing classes for a while, having told myself there was no reason I couldn't write just as much on my own. "I'll just write when I say I'm going to write, and everything will get done." Right? WRONG. Sure, I wrote, but I'd hit a wall on a lot of pieces, and at some point I decided to start writing something else instead, because hey, technically I'm still writing.
It's well worth the money I spend just knowing that I have submit a "finished" piece on certain dates, whether I'm in the mood for it or not, and whether I think its any good or not (more on this in a second). Whatever it is you're working on, figure out a way to make it DUE, even if it means giving a friend $100 (or more, if $100 means nothing to you, money bags) and telling him/her they get to keep it if you don't meet the self-imposed deadline in time.
3) Avoiding Perfection (And Just Focusing On Getting Better)
Second confession time: this blog post has taken me way longer than I thought it would because I wound up scrapping the first two drafts of it. I didn't like how I started, I felt a lot of the advice was stuff that's already been said better elsewhere, and I didn't feel like I was saying anything incredibly valuable or important. So I sat on it for over a week. Here I am now, finally finishing it, telling myself it's going up today one way or another (see: deadlines above) because I have to this post behind me.
One of the reasons I think I got into improv and didn't write for so long was I think I didn't have time to second guess myself on stage. I got up there, did my scenes, and for better or for worse, they were over, and I didn't have much time to second guess my work, since my next scene was right around the corner. I was extremely self-conscious about my ability as an artist early on, even to this day as a matter of fact. I'm very well aware that I have a ways to go as a writer, but it sucks knowing that the work I'm putting out right now isn't up to the same standard of quality of those I admire/aspire to be as good as. I think Ira Glass sums up the whole issue in this video here - he talks about storytelling specifically, but I think it applies to almost anything creative, or any skill, really:

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

Don't worry about mastering the craft, or creating a masterpiece in the short term. You just have to get better, and the only way to do that is with practice. LOTS of it. Seeing an idea through to the end is an accomplishment, no matter how's it's received, or how you feel about the finished product. Easier said than done sometimes, I know. Like I said before, even with minor victories, you know you've made progress towards your goal, and that's further than you would have gotten had you opted not to try at all.
The struggle to create, to be productive, and to form new, better habits for your life is an exercise of will power, and it can be quite draining at times. Like any training regiment, it requires hard work, and dedication. You're not going to be able to rely on self-motivation all the time. Your body will fight you. You mind will fight you. It will come up with every excuse in the world to keep you from doing what you need to do. We're all in this struggle together, and we're all doing what we can to achieve our goals. Keep at it, and know that you're not alone (that was as much for me as it was for you guys).
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8 comments:
- Debbie said...
I totally know where you are!
Im expecting end of april.
I had to get 5 quilts done in feb/march for baby showers and quilt guild class.
of those- I have the binding to go on one, sew up another one for class and my challenge quilt (due in June)
IM thinking that I should also make one for my own kid too!
- March 12, 2012 at 7:14 AM
- Andrea said...
This is your form of nesting! :-) In a few weeks, life will be even more beautiful...
- March 12, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
Eek! Good luck on all the quilting, which is gorgeous, by the way!
- March 12, 2012 at 8:59 AM
- jen said...
Great Quilting Cheryl. Those turned out just great.
- March 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- Jean said...
Quilting is lovely -- if just a little insane! Your friend will be thrilled.
- March 12, 2012 at 9:38 AM
- Suzanne said...
It's so hard not to rush through the quilting! May the force be with you.
- March 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM
- Kate said...
Ooh, the quilting does look good... Goodluck getting it finished before the baby comes:)
Oh, and congratulations about your book! What a huge acoomplishment!!
- March 13, 2012 at 4:20 AM
- Amanda Jean said...
wow, that quilting looks amazing!! i'm dying to see that quilt revealed!
- March 16, 2012 at 3:51 PM


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Who Exactly is Family with Whom?
"Not to hide it from fifth brother, but A-Heng saw servants from Qing An Palace walking around Fei Cui Hall yesterday. I hope that fifth brother will investigate this matter carefully. Fourth sister does not know anything about it, as she was only worried about attaining fifth brother's love. There is no need for fifth brother to support fourth sister."
Feng Yu Heng's words made Xuan Tian Yan immediately freeze. The three words Qing An Palace immediately allowed him to know what had happened, as his face immediately collapsed. It was as ugly as it could possibly be.
Feng Jin Yuan angrily snorted: "Your Highness, please go back. Although my Feng family's daughter is not as honorable as a prince, she will not be given away in such a disorderly manner."
Xuan Tian Yan did not have anything to say this time; however, he did throw a look at Fen Dai, sincerely saying: "Don't worry. This prince will definitely provide an explanation for this matter." After saying this, he turned and left.
Fen Dai was dazed. Seeing Xuan Tian Yan leave, the tears in her eyes flowed out uncontrollably.
Chen Yu also sighed, making a very sympathetic took, as she consoled Fen Dai: "Fourth sister, think about it a little more. Don't we all need to listen to father for our marriages? We are just daughters of concubines, so we originally should not have too many requests."
It would be better if she did not console her, as this consolation made Fen Dai even more depressed, causing her to not just cry louder, but she also glared at Chen Yu and said: "Now you're happy! I am no longer able to be the secondary princess, so you are happy!"
Chen Yu cried from being cursed at, "I know that sister is grieving, and elder sister does not blame you. If cursing at elder sister will allow you to feel better, just go ahead." After saying this, her cries became just as miserable as Fen Dai's.
Feng Jin Yuan felt his head swell. Looking at Chen Yu and Fen Dai, he finally made a decision "After the eighth, fourth young miss will go to Pu Du Nunnery to calm herself and may only return after personally copying sutras 1000 times."
"What?" Han shi was shocked, "1000 times? Until when will she be copying these sutras?" A book of sutras could not be copied in just one day, this meant that she would be copying for many years! She could not stand this and immediately made her position clear, "If husband truly wants to send fourth young miss to the nunnery, then this concubine will go with her!"
"Nonsense!" Feng Jin Yuan scolded her, "She is being punished!"
"This concubine accept this punishment with fourth young miss." Han shi steeled her heart. She definitely could not allow Fen Dai to be sent to the nunnery. If she went, who knew how long it would be before she could return.
The matriarch watched Han shi cry bitterly, and she could not help but become anxious: "You woman, how many times have you been told that you must not cry. Even if you do not worry about yourself, you must worry about the Feng family's child that you are pregnant with!"
Hearing the matriarch mention a child, Kang Yi looked at Han shi's belly in surprise. Because it had not been a full three months, Han shi's belly did not stick out, and Kang Yi had not heard about any of the Feng family's concubine mothers becoming pregnant. Hearing this suddenly caused her to feel doubtful.
But she also quickly followed up, using her customary calming voice to defuse the situation, as she said to Feng Jin Yuan: "Lord Feng, nothing is more important than the well-being of the child. Now that fourth young miss' birth mother is pregnant with a life, please think it over."
Feng Jin Yuan originally had a belly full of anger, and he was unwilling to listen to what anyone had to say; however, he found that only Kang Yi's voice was pleasant to listen to. He could not help but glance at Kang Yi and say apologetically: "I've allowed eldest princess to see something unseemly."
Kang Yi shook her head, "I can't be avoided."
The matriarch truly did not want to see Fen Dai's crying appearance, and she had already felt that the fifth prince and eldest prince were not guaranteed. They were unlike Feng Yu Heng's ninth prince, which was a pre-arranged engagement. They found each other congenial and suited each other very well. What could Chen Yu and Fen Da's situations be considered?
"Quickly send fourth young miss back to her courtyard!" The matriarch gave an order, and even Han shi, who was wiping away tears, followed her back.
Fen Dai not being sent to the nunnery was a blessing. If she was only being sent back to her own courtyard, it naturally meant that there was no real complaint, but right before she left, she really wanted to beg Feng Jin Yuan for forgiveness; however, Feng Jin Yuan did not even look at her. This made her feel unhappy.
Everyone once again returned to the feast. After such a commotion, there was no trace of a celebratory mood. The matriarch heaved a deep sigh and repeatedly shook her head. Feng Jin Yuan also had an angry expression. The other concubines were even more unable to speak up. Looking about, only Feng Yu Heng had the right to speak at this sort of time.
But Feng Yu Heng refused to speak, as she sat there and continued to sip tea.
Feng Jin Yuan truly felt too embarrassed. Thinking a little, he spoke up: "The one in Qing An Palace is just a lunatic. Ever since the year that the Emperor completely gave up on the fifth prince because of that matter, she began to go crazy. But her madness is not out of hatred for the Emperor. It is out of hatred for her own son and the women that look a little like that imperial concubine. There are so many women in the fifth prince's palace; however, he does not dare bring a single one into the palace because he is afraid of trouble. It's also my fault for forgetting about this matter; otherwise, I definitely would have kept a close eye on Fen Dai."
Kang Yi originally had no understanding of this situation, but after what had happened at the banquet, she took the initiative to ask around when she had gone back. Only then did she clearly understand why the Emperor would be so angry over Fen Dai's snow dance. Now that she heard what Feng Jin Yuan said, she had a bit of knowledge about the fifth prince's birth mother.
"Hah!" Feng Jin Yuan sighed and no longer spoke on that topic. Instead, he turned around to apologize to Kang Yi: "Originally, eldest princess was invited to the manor to celebrate the new year. Who knew that this sort of thing would happen. This is truly embarrassing!"
Kang Yi, however, shook her head and was very understanding: "There is no need for Lord Feng to mind. It is inevitable that such unseemly things would happen. Even in my Qian Zhou, although the country is small, there are also things that are quite unseemly that happen. Of course, when the Emperor was enthroned, the palace had found that there were two fake eunuchs. This caused the imperial family to lose a great deal of face."
That was how people were. When running into something, if someone only focused on comforting you, you would not feel particularly happy. But if they picked at their own scars and chose to share, you would naturally feel much better.
Kang Yi had been born as a girl in the middle of a power struggle, so she was all too familiar with all of these tricks. Sure enough, once she said this, not only did Feng Jin Yuan not feel as embarrassed, even the matriarch's impression of her improved. She felt that, even though Kang Yi was the eldest princess of a foreign country, she was very kind to other people, and she did not appear arrogant. In fact, she was even able to reveal such a secret about Qian Zhou's imperial family for the sake of comforting the Feng family.
The matriarch looked at Kang Yi and could not stop herself from nodding.
She did not know whether she had reacted to her attitude, but after she finished speaking with Feng Jin Yuan, she turned to say to the matriarch: "All of this commotion is not good for your body. I see that this lotus seed stew is quite good. Elder madam, try it. It is very good for calming the mind." Saying this, she picked up a bowl and spoon then personally poured the matriarch some stew.
The matriarch was a little flattered by the sudden favor, as she repeatedly said: "I am not worthy of this, I am not worthy of this!"
Kang Yi, however, continued to pour her this stew. She then brought it over to the matriarch and said: "There is nothing about worthiness. Since today is your family's feast, then elder madam is the only elder at this celebration. Kang Yi pouring some soup for you is something that should be done. Moreover, in our Qian Zhou, there is no rule of someone not being able to hand out portions because of their rank. Even if I am the eldest princess, I still must be respectful when meeting elders."
The matriarch liked this statement very much. She then looked at Feng Jin Yuan and saw the love in his gaze when he looked at Kang Yi, thus she had an even better understanding. She drank the lotus seed stew while pondering. Right now, the Feng family did not have a head wife. Feng Jin Yuan was a standard first rank official in Da Shun. Speaking of, joining with a princess from a foreign country would not be considered aiming above one's social standing. Moreover… she secretly stole a glance at Ru Jia. Not only had this princess been married before, she also had a daughter. From that perspective, it was a good match.
She had also heard that this eldest princess from Qian Zhou was heavily relied upon by the ruler. If she entered the Feng family and became one of the Feng family's people, in the future, Feng Jin Yuan would be able to deal with the relationship between Qian Zhou and Da Shun. Being able to share the Emperor's burdens, that was a great accomplishment.
The matriarch pondered to herself. The more she thought, the more she felt that this was a good deal. If her family had an eldest princess as a daughter-in-law, how glorious would that be!
Thinking like this, she looked at Kang Yi with an even warmer gaze.
Kang Yi saw that the matriarch was becoming closer, thus she was very happy. She stood up once more to give the matriarch some more food. The two ate and chatted and appeared very close.
Feng Jin Yuan was happy to see the two be able to chat, as he began to take care of Ru Jia.
This scene made Chen Yu, Xiang Rong, An shi and Jin Zhen look at each other in dismay, as there was a feeling that those four were truly a family, while they were the guests.
Feng Yu Heng, however, did not care about these things. She was very hungry. She had woken up too early in the morning, and the energy from small amount of congee that she had eaten was already exhausted. Others did not eat, but it was impossible for her not to eat.
Feng Jin Yuan watched her concentrate on eating. Originally, he wanted to have her pay attention to appearances, but he gave up after thinking about it a little. Originally, he and Feng Yu Heng spoke very rarely. Now that there were honored guests that had come, he did not want to provoke that irritation. Thus he simply decided to ignore her and allow her to continue eating.
Ru Jia was very close with Feng Jin Yuan, as she called him uncle Feng very warmly. Hearing it made Feng Jin Yuan's eyes bloom with a smile. Feng Yu Heng heard Ru Jia say: "The Emperor awarded me two bolts of moon palace silk, right. When the Summer comes, Ru Jia will pick a darker colored bolt and use it to make uncle Feng a cool garment."
She went "pft" and let out a laugh, as Chen Yu and Xiang Rong's expressions became ugly.
Make clothes for Feng Jin Yuan? This sort of thing was done by either the matriarch, a daughter, or a wife or concubine. No matter what perspective it was from, it should not come from a foreign princess?
Jin Zhen saw Feng Jin Yuan's happy expression, and tears began to flow even more uncontrollably. She understood at heart that the days where she was favored had come to an end. She glanced at Feng Yu Heng and greatly hoped that Feng Yu Heng would be able to look at her at this time. Unfortunately, Feng Yu Heng was only occupied with eating, so she had no intention of paying attention to anything else. She felt a little despair. When she looked again at Kang Yi, her gaze carried hatred.
At this time, who knew what the matriarch and Kang Yi were talking about, as they suddenly began laughing.
Everyone raised their heads to look at the matriarch, and they saw that she held Kang Yi's hand and sincerely said: "Going out with a child is not easy. No matter how nice the post house is, it can't compare to your home in terms of comfort. I don't know how much longer you will be remaining in Da Shun, but as I see it, how about you come and live in the manor. There are many courtyards here, and there are many servants. It would be quite convenient."
Feng Yu Heng raised an eyebrow. She was beginning to try and pull her into the family?


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Christchurch software developer Jade Corp is splitting off its fast-growing intelligence-gathering software arm, Wynyard Group, as a separate entity, with Wynyard likely to be considering options for new capital to support growth by late this year.
Jade's managing director since 2009, Craig Richardson, will move to work exclusively at Wynyard, as chief executive, as it pushes into the US market and starts to challenge its parent, Jade, as the larger entity in the group.
Richardson would not be drawn on when, whether or how Wynyard would seek to raise new capital, but said the issue was likely to become live for the Jade board next year as Wynyard seeks to ramp up growth in the huge US market. It recently clinched a break into the lucrative US market by entering a strategic relationship with aviation and defence manufacturers Northrop Grumman..
"Our deals in the US at the moment are fairly small," Richardson told BusinessDesk. "But we are thinking big. There's no point going there for $100,000 and $200,000 deals. We're thinking about how to go to the US for multi-million dollar deals.
"The reality is that we really focused on 2014 for that to become revenue."
The issue of capital-raising would occur in the context of supporting such fast growth.
The major shareholders of Jade and Wynyard are the UK-based Skipton Building Society with 57 percent and a private US investor, who owns 25 percent.
Jade's total revenue last year was in the region of $35 million, with Wynyard believed to be about half of that, but growing quickly since its launch in March last year, and with the potential to eclipse Jade.
Wynyard's software helps manage and connect mission critical risk management, intelligence and investigations cycles, and is already used by a range of banks, police forces and intelligence agencies globally, as well as attracting significant contracts with New Zealand agencies and private sector customers.
"Wynyard is very well positioned in this high growth, specialist technology market and our board has recognised the importance of a strong, mission-focused management team," said Richardson in a statement on the separation from Jade.
Jade's chair, Ruth Richardson, announced Jade's current chief operating officer, David Lindsay, has been appointed managing director of Jade and will lead the company's global marine terminal (Master Terminal), enterprise and mobile development (JOOB Mobile) and infrastructure service business.
Jade last raised capital in December 2010 when it sold a payroll business for $8.5 million to help fund Wynyard's development.
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Question: How many of us still own a bible?
At work I found, to my chagrin, that I still keep my bible in my locker.
I was having a conversation with a theist, about things that didn't involve religion, and some how he steered it towards how he often reads his bible. I keep a track in my bible, as a book mark, and I started thinking about the contents of the track. For instance: "Do you feel sad?"… read Mathew chapter 5:11 (not the actual wording but…). I always kept the track as a mind fuck for me. I'd say that the bible gave me a road map to how to live my life; as long as I adhered to that little pamphlet that I acquired somewhere in my travels. What bullshit.
When I get to work today I'm giving that guy that bible… What's an Atheist need with a bible? what am I trying to hold on to? Think this is subliminal? Am I trying to hold on to the last visages of my failed stabbed at religion? Yep, started questioning my new found unbelief...
Can't bring myself to throw it away. Don't know why. Guess I still look at the damn thing as something personal, something of value; despite the fact that I think it's all bullshit. I've had it for so long and it's followed me clear around the world and back that I just don't want to just shit can it. But giving it to another human being just don't seem right to my atheist ass… LOL. Quandary.
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"The self awareness of ignorance" is a rarity, that's why folks like us are necessary in modern society to call them out on their ignorance and make them aware of same.
To store notes and important things, well it came with a zip-up cover , and things can easily be hidden between the pages. The book was given to me by my religious parents as a gift... 90% of it is useless content.
It can be used for many things, such as a paper weight, emergency cigarette papers if you smoke, a fire starter for the camping trip/ or survival kit, a cure for severe insomnia just by reading its boring contents, fly swatter, cockroach killer, use in halloween to scare kids with demons and hell, a bookshelf marker between novels and textbooks, emergency toilet paper, picking up dog poop, or cleaning cat vomit, a notebook tray if it is large, an artist's brush cleaner, a rough sketchbook of ideas, a device to prevent a trailer/car from moving down a slope if the had brake is broken, and paper mache sculpturing... the uses are endless , more than zombicom
Thanks, I never thought of those uses/applications of "The Word", handy, very handy indeed!
Packing a KJV along with the Porta-Potty would be handy and prevent unspooling of the Charmin. I would be embarrassed for someone to see such a paper weight on my desk or on my library shelves; however, tossing it at varmints makes some sense, but stored among the firewood with the cover up to keep it dry for kindling makes more sense. Thanks for the new perspective on such uses.
Well it has more practice value than literacy value... some so called "books" which appear as chapters of names , rituals and barbaric laws. I think its too wordy, and MS Word is more usefull lol.
If you wish to study it for theological research to pick and point out errors in correcting people that believe in a lie created from misinterpretation created by translation, the King James is by far the worst version, and much of the modern versions is based and re translated from the king james Shakespearean English, much of the original text had been altered and meanings changed from the original hebrew version. The Easter Orthodox version seems to have more chapters. Here is some of the versions that exist http://www.allbibles.com/t-bibleversions.aspx
Hell why would I be embarressed having a book performing a different function from what it had been intended for when people see me as a character that had wondered off a secret star trek set and people always ask what my gender is in public when the obvious is evident that I had been born intersexed ? I could care less what people think..., yep everyone has their thoughts in how to give the book some practical use in saving the planet with many creative methods of not wasting precious paper and put some use to it, when the words are simply noise to a logical mind.
My wife is Christian,so there are three or four around the house, including an Arabic translation of the KJV New testament and a plain text KJV on the computer. I also have a text file of the Qu'ran.. I ke3ep the computer plain text versions for reference.
My bride of the past 47-years is a born-again evangelical and has a library of bibles and related material that would do a divinity student proud. I have a library of writings by the most prominent atheist writers and thinkers, and had the pleasure/privilege of watching Hitchens the Great debate and eviscerate William Dembski the Dolt in Evolution v. Creation at Preston Academy in Plano, Texas during the last few months we were gifted with Hitchen's presence in our civilization and society. RIP Mr. Hitchens.
So, a very high profile atheist and a born-again live happily with a very successful marriage under the same roof. I've often said if she and I can manage to live together, anybody can. I don't object to her books as long as she doesn't object to mine. She even has a white-covered bible inscribed with my name that I don't allow in any other room in our home.
Buck the fible! There's nothing contained therein that I need to know.
My girl friend and I are in a similar pickle. She a Lutherian, I Humanist/exCatholic/post-Modernist/Recovering Rationalist/wanabe Atheist.
I am still working on it...it not realy very hard to be teased....
One of my closest friends in Wise County, TX owns a communications company and has a young employee who is a self-described atheist and sports a large American Atheist logo on his lower left arm and is non-apologetic about his atheism; be that as it may he has a dilemma. His girl friend is a christian fundie and acknowledges his non-believer status as long as he doesn't make an issue of it. He is scared to join my Wise Free Thinkers & Skeptics Meetup Group. You can find us at www.meetup.com and search for our name. Why you may ask, he says "she's too good in bed" or words to that effect to take a chance on running her off. WTF???
Atheism is easy, look for reality and skip/ignore anything that speaks of the supernatural or paranormal; welcome to the real world mate.
Noel, you can give it to your coworker and say "I finished reading this, spoiler alert, Jesus dies!"
But, according to some, He didn't die; think Easter, which should be Ester as the whole bit was stolen from the Pagans.