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We have been patiently waiting for the weather to clean long enough for us to start the process of adding a new 10-bed wing to the Odd Fellows Home. This new addition will add 20 more private rooms to the Home.
We welcome Mariah Matthews as our Director of Activities! Mariah graduated from Whitman College in 2015, having studied biology and art. During her senior year at Whitman, Mariah was the Adopt-A-Grandparent Community Service Intern for Whitman's Student Engagement Center and worked closely with Odd Fellows as her community partner. In this position, she grew to love the camaraderie and energy found in the staff at Odd Fellows and came to form many cherished relationships with residents.
Mariah enjoys teaching Sunday school and being an active volunteer in her community. In her free time, she loves to bike, rock climb, play volleyball, and read. She began her career at the Odd Fellows Home on June 1.
We welcome Katie Stephens as the Director of Nursing Services at the Odd Fellows Home. Katie has spent her entire career at the Odd Fellows Home, starting as a nurse aide right out of high school and working her way up to various nursing and management roles.
Katie shares that "the Odd Fellows Home is truly unique. I feel I have grown up here and the staff and the residents have helped to make me who I am today. I am blessed with great mentors and I look forward to being able to carry on the tradition of doing what it takes to meet the residents' needs and provide the highest quality of life. We have a great team here and people who are truly passionate about caring for our residents and their families."
Katie enjoys reading, mountain biking, and a variety of outdoor activities.
Both Ce Liskey (32 years) and Cathy Westbrook (29 years) retire from the Odd Fellows Home today. Ce has turned her Director of Nursing Services hat over to Katie Stephens and Cathy has given her Assistant Director of Nursing keys to Lorna Dotolo. With 61 years of combined dedicated service to the Odd Fellows Home, we wish them both the very best in their well-deserved retirements!
The Odd Fellows Home has just partnered with Amazon.com and the AmazonSmile Program. Please click on the link below to set up you Smile account naming the Odd Fellows Home as the charity you would like to support. Amazon will donate 0.5% of all your purchases to the Home and its residents. Thank you for thinking of us!
Check out our new video on YouTube.
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We're excited to introduce our new website to the world! At Odd Fellows we strive to provide the best care starting with independent living all the way through our skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.
We approached Spark Creative about creating a new website that highlights what Odd Fellows is all about, and to help us to communicate our message for our 3 levels of care. We hope you like it, if you think of anything else you'd like to see let us know.


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Research within the School
Scholarship, collaboration and academic excellence.
The School of Humanities and Social Science has an extremely strong research profile and our research teams – which are made up of academics, remarkable postgraduates and visiting scholars – champion our School's culture of scholarship, collaboration and academic excellence.
Our work sits within the following research groups:
- The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion
- Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History
- Centre for Port and Maritime History
- History
The volume of research our teams produce is prolific. In the latest research assessment (REF2014), 70% of our staff were considered for submission, making us one of the most active Schools in the University.
Our Research Excellence Framework 2014 results demonstrate an increased level of 3* and 4* activity across the School and we are now well-positioned to consolidate our School's international reputation for producing world-leading, high-impact research.
Our future plans include strengthening our external partnerships, enhancing our interdisciplinary research, continuing to secure external funding and increasing our impact activities through hosting conferences and symposia.
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Stepping Stones harvests healthy habits for children
Nothing says summer like a family picnic with tasty food, sensational sunshine and outdoor games! On Saturday, July 14 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, Stepping Stones Museum for Children is hosting its first ever Farmers and Friends Family Picnic, packed with a basketful of games and activities. Bring the whole family for a fun-filled, outdoor extravaganza and learn how easy and delicious it can be to make healthy choices and eat locally sourced foods.
During the picnic, which will be held in the Gullquist Family Celebration Courtyard, the award-winning children's museum will host its very own Farmer's Market featuring vendors with samples from local restaurants, farms, and stores.
Families are also invited to explore the museum and tour the Edible Garden to learn how to grow organic food and much more! "Lettuce" teach you how easy – and delicious – it can be to maintain a nutritious, balanced diet with healthy foods grown close to your home.
Tickets are available at www.steppingstonesmuseum.org/picnic and include museum admission for the day. Adult tickets are $40 for members and $45 for non-members. Tickets for children under 18 are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Space is limited, so advanced registration is highly encouraged.
Proceeds from the Farmers and Friends Family Picnic will support the Norwalk Foodshed Initiative at Stepping Stones. The Foodshed Initiative supports equal access to fresh and healthy foods, nutrition and wellness education, and sustainability in the greater Norwalk area. Stepping Stones has gathered many organizations, from grocery stores to food pantries, to coordinate efforts to support residents, schools and businesses by making nutritious food affordable and reducing waste.
"At Stepping Stones, our commitment to healthy eating, literally, starts from the ground up," said William E. Jeffries, III, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Stepping Stones. "We have an Edible Garden and herb garden onsite and some of the items grown and harvested there are used to prepare items in our Healthyville® Cafe. We work every day to implement the principles of nutrition into our exhibits, educational experiences, and even with the food options available for sale in our Cafe."
"The Foodshed concept is part of the museum's expansion of our long-standing Healthy Children, Healthy Communities® initiative, which introduces and promotes key health messages to children now because we know that these early experiences help shape their lifelong habits and views on health and well-being," Jeffries continued. "Picnic proceeds will help us expand upon this important work and fund some internal improvements to museum spaces like the aforementioned gardens, Cafe and other program areas to give us the capacity to do so much more. Ultimately, Stepping Stones looks to reach all young members of our community and their families with important lessons about how to make positive AND sustainable choices about their nutrition."
Vendors are invited to share samples of local food and organic goods at a small Farmer's Market in our Celebration Courtyard. All products must be approved in advance and any vendors selling merchandise must also provide free samples. There are still a few tables available in this Farmer's Market.
Providing important sponsorship support for the Farmers and Friends Family Picnic are: Carmody, Torrance, Sandak & Hennessey LLP; Choice Pet; Copps Island Oyster; Diserio, Martin, O'Connor & Castiglioni LLP; and Redniss & Mead with additional support from Subway. Additional sponsorship opportunities are still available.
For information about tickets, event sponsorship and/or vendor table prices, which will include the health department permit fee, please contact Linda McDonals at (203) 899-0606, ext. 246 r visit www.steppingstonesmuseum.org/picnic.


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"A very funny book about the frailties of the flesh, the absurdities of modern medicine, and how to stay sane amid it all. Scalise's voice is fantastically entertaining, unfailingly honest."
—Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Heroes of the Frontier
The Brand New Catastrophe: Mike Scalise and Alexandra Kleeman
Wednesday February 1, 2017
07:00 pm
Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2014 Christopher Doheny Award, The Brand New Catastrophe is a memoir exploring the public and private theaters of illness. The book's author Mike Scalise talked about his creative process and the challenges of writing the body with Alexandra Kleeman (Intimations, You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine).
About The Brand New Catastrophe:
Raucous family memoir meets medical adventure in this heartfelt, hilarious book exploring the public and private theaters of illness. After a tumor bursts in Mike Scalise's brain, leaving him with a hole in the head and malfunctioning hormones, he must navigate a new, alien world of illness maintenance. His mother, who has a chronic heart condition and a flair for drama, becomes a complicated model as she competes with him for the status of "best sick person." The Brand New Catastrophe is a moving, funny exploration of how we define ourselves by the stories we choose to tell.
Mike Scalise's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, AGNI, Indiewire, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He's an 826DC advisory board member, has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His memoir, The Brand New Catastrophe, was the recipient of The Center for Fiction's 2014 Christopher Doheny Award.
Alexandra Kleeman is a Staten Island-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harper's, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received scholarships and grants from Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and ArtFarm Nebraska. She is the author of the debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016), a short story collection.


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"Will my CRM implementation be a success?" - the million dollar question. The failure rate of CRM implementations, according to the market research firm Gartner, has reached 50% during some years in the past decade.
Having spent thousands of dollars on implementing a CRM software solution and then struggling for user adoption, integration and data migration with additional expenses piling up is the inevitable outcome of a 'failed' implementation. Expectations are dashed and the real picture becomes apparent - instead of customer insights to improve customer centricity, the organization is struggling with a 'white elephant'. Their attempt to find a resolution through additional CRM customizations is fruitless - the solution provider is unable to meet their promises to deliver a system that forecasts through analytics, provides centralized customer and partner data plus streamlines processes. In other words, they are unable to deliver a "holistic view" of the organization's customers and related stakeholders. On the contrary, the organization is working around the clock to prevent customer churn and regain profitability for its products and services due to a failed CRM implementation.
CRM software solution providers earn billions of dollars through their product implementations on license fees, subscription fees and upgrades. Worldwide CRM application sales are projected to generate revenue of close to $18 billion in 2011 according to Gartner.
Will your CRM really be a "solution" or become part of the problem? Surveys taken for CRM implementations that failed suggest:
Prospective buyers of large CRM projects should not accept vague promises at face value. It is important to realize that organizations implementing a CRM software solution are ultimately responsible for the success of their project and will be the losers in most cases if it collapses. If a project that is too large or complex to understand and digest, in most cases it should be scaled down to a manageable size and expanded subsequently.
A CRM project that keeps dragging and the financial pressure can lead an implementation to collapse. To avoid a CRM failure, some important tips:


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Marcus Borg, The heart of Christianity, Thin Places.
A Few rambling thoughts and summary again on this book...
::The heart had a lot more metaphorical meaning when the bible was written than it has today. "The heart is an image for the self at a deep level, deeper than our perception, intellect, emotion and volition."
::The Closed heart ==> A human condition where the person hardens themselves, separate us and them.
:: Thin Places ==> Comes from Celtic Christianity, "...this way of thinking sees God, "The more", as the encompassing Spirit in which everything is. God is not somewhere else but "right here.". Thin places are where we actually see God ; We experience God in the world around us. (I really like this, a very strong resonance)
- Can be geographical, Borg mentions the island of Iona. (mine would probably be Wilson's promontory.)
- Arts, including music, poetry etc
- Serious illness, suffering and grief can become thin places (I've experienced this in palliative care)
- People can be thin places. Some people we can feel the presence of the Spirit upon them.
Thin Places and Christian practices
Worship in during Church is primarily a ' A thin place'. I liked Borg's answer to God requiring our 'worship'.
"I recall hearing a radio preacher talking about how "God just loves to be praised." He made God sound like a narcissist. Rather, worship has the power to draw us out of ourselves. Worshop is directed to God, but is in an important sence for us"
Other parts of a Church service which can be a thin place include
- baptism and the Eucharist
- sermons
- The bible
- liturgical words (lords prayer is a great example)
- prayer
The open heart
"The Christian life is about opening our heart to the Thin places". I say "amen" to that.
This was one of my favourite chapters. It explains why I want to seek God out. How the "thin places" give me a sence of peace. One of the blurbs on my blog is "looking for signs of beauty and redemption in the here and now". It is in many ways a prayer for the "Thin places".


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The UW Law School's Restorative Justice Project was featured on WKOW-TV, Channel 27 in Madison, in a two-part series profiling client Jackie Millar, who forgave the young man who shot her and left her for dead in November 1995. With a 2 percent chance to live, Millar survived, formed a close bond with the now-incarcerated man who almost ended her life, and works with teenagers on a mission to deter future crimes..
Part One of the series, which was broadcast on November 1, 2009, can be viewed as an article and video here.
Part Two was broadcast on Wednesday, November 4, at 10 p.m. It focused on Millar's ongoing work talking to teens, and can be viewed here.
The Restorative Justice Project, directed by Clinical Associate Professor Pete DeWind, is a program of the UW Law School's Frank J. Remington Center.
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It has never been easy for job-seekers to deal with rejection. It's quite natural for you to get disheartened when you send applications for various jobs one after the other only to get rejection letters from your prospective employers.
You must not lose hope under such circumstances. Rejection enables you to learn from your mistakes and grow with it. Consider rejection as a normal part of the entire job hunting process that helps you gather experience over time. Learning through each mistake will certainly take you a step closer to your dream job.
In your attempt to search for a job, the following tips will help you keep your spirits high through thick and thin:
- Taking things personally might not help
Taking rejections personally is normal. At the same time, you must remember that the decision-making process of a recruiter involves numerous factors that play a crucial role. Alignment of stars can decide an offer, which varies from whether or not an employer can bear the cost to company or if you're actually fit to serve the goals of your team.
A single job opportunity might draw applicants worth hundreds from various corners. How you score against others on a given opportunity ultimately gets counted. Your personality and skill sets aren't just the only factors that get counted. A single person can bag the job under a specific category. There's nothing wrong if you find another position set against your name.
- Lay stress on your strength areas
Your qualities and skills are bound to suit the required positions at another company. It's difficult to find the right fit. In order to attend your next interview with full enthusiasm and confidence, you must create a list of your past achievements and strength areas. Keep on updating this list with positive feedbacks that you earn from others. Your strength areas may even be pointed by your colleagues and friends. Identifying your strength areas will make it easier for you to identify job opportunities that suit your skill set.
- Find out options to improve
Improve your job hunting approach right from the beginning. Be it getting in touch with the recruiter through a phone call, sending emails, your resume or the cover letter, you'll need to improve through each step. Consider if you've highlighted enough options to prove yourself beneficial for your company or if you've addressed all areas of the selection criteria set by the employer. To get things free of errors, you must proofread. Ask for feedbacks at the end of interviews, so that you're able to fill out your areas of opportunity. It might lead you through pursuing a relevant course that adds more to your skill sets.
A competitive job market might show you through numerous outcomes. Interviews that you attend are bound to add more to your experiences. You must identify things that seem to have improved as compared to your past efforts. A few things might still not be in your control, but with experience you'll learn how to handle them. Don't waste your time over lost opportunities and move on with the next one!
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The hardest part was coming up with items to go with each reason, because I didn't want it to be all soda and candy. Maybe my ideas will help spark some of your own.
Each gift was wrapped up and had a corresponding time tag attached. Can you match up the items in the photo with each reason? Here you go:
1. Chips Ahoy!--Lynn's favorite store-bought cookies.
2. A Chili's gift card for our next date night.
3. Planter's mixed nuts.
4. Dentyne Fire gum--we have to hid ours from Ella! :)
5. Air Freshener for his car.
6. iTunes gift card.
7. Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. (I know, but what would you have done? Besides, we love those things. :))
8. Photo of daughter Ella, and granddaughter Madi, for his desk.
9. Heart-shaped box of candy. (This never made it back home...hmmmm.)
10. The lastest Pirates of the Carribean DVD. (Admit it, that's a good one. :))
{Bonus} A sweet card that reads, "I love my life with you."
I think Lynn really enjoyed it and it made him feel special.
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Cyprus will be wilting under a new heat wave on Wednesday with conditions between noon and 4pm expected to be the most sweltering as temperatures rise to 43°C in the shade.
Speaking to state radio on Wednesday, Meteorological Service official Michalis Mouskos said the hotter than usual weather had prompted the local authorities to issue an Orange Warning alert. An orange alert indicates that there is an increased likelihood of severe weather being a potential risk to life and property.
Mouskos said the height of the inland temperature created heat wave like conditions in the area, in spite of a lack of humidity.
"We also have to keep in mind that the temperatures on the forecast are for in the shade. There can be as much as a 10°C difference in the sun," he noted.
"Coastal temperatures, meanwhile, will rise to 37°C on the south and east coasts on Wednesday and 34°C on the north and west coasts and in the mountains," Mouskos added.
With inland temperatures of above 40 anticipated on Thursday, weather officials expect to issue a Yellow Warning once Wednesday's Orange alert expires, he said.
Yellow means that you should plan ahead thinking about possible travel delays, or the disruption of your day to day activities.
Although a small drop is anticipated between Thursday and Saturday, temperatures will remain above average until then.
A facility providing an air-conditioned space and refreshments to residents of Nicosia. Situated within the municipality's multipurpose centre by Famagusta Gate, the centre will be open between 7.30am and 6pm over the coming days, Nicosia Municipality said.
The general public and vulnerable members in particular, including the elderly, ailing, pregnant women and young children and babies, are advised to take particular care.
According to the Health Ministry this includes avoiding spending time in the sun particularly during the hottest times of the day, avoiding anything other than very light exercise, wearing light and loos clothing, and wearing a hat and sunglasses when out an about.
People should also a void alcohol, caffeinated drinks including coffee, and heavy, fatty foods, instead selecting light foods including fruit and vegetables, and drinking plenty of water.
Frequent showers can help cool you down while fans and air-conditioning should be used during the hottest times of the day and windows left open at night.
Don't forget to ensure your pets have adequate shelter and round-the-clock access to fresh water. You may also like to leave out water for strays.
The hottest July day on record in Cyprus occurred earlier this month when inland temperatures reached 45°C on Sunday, July 2. Three elderly people with chronic health problems have also died of heat-related illness and at least another seven admitted to hospital over the past weeks.
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Activision have announced their next game in the Skylanders series. Skylanders Trap Team is said to "reverse the magic of bringing toys to life – incredibly letting children pull characters out of the digital world into the physical world".
In Skylanders Trap Team, Kaos continues his ongoing quest to rule over Skylands. He has discovered the location of the legendary Cloudcracker Prison - a fortress built entirely out of the magical substance Traptanium and home to Skylands' most nefarious baddies. In an attempt to build his own army of foes, Kaos blows up the prison, releasing the most wanted villains and blasting shards of Traptanium to Earth in the form of Traps. Now it's up to Portal Masters to recapture all of the escaped villains using powerful Traptanium Traps and defeat Kaos before it's too late! The new adventure delivers a diverse and dynamic story-driven gameplay experience, filled with adventure, combat, puzzles, mini-games, activities, platforming and drop-in/drop-out co-op play - all set within new compelling environments.
With Skylanders Trap Team, Portal Masters seek out and defeat the most wanted villains in all of Skylands, pulling them out of the game and into living rooms by capturing them in magical Traps. Players can then send villains back into the game where they play as them to fight for good. The game will include the Traptanium Portal, a new ring of magical energy that enables kids to not only bring their Skylanders to life, but also magically capture villains using the new Traps. Once they've defeated the villains, kids will be able to place a Trap into the new portal to capture them. They will also be able to hear the villains inside the Traps, an innovation that truly brings life to toys.
Skylanders Trap Team introduces Skylanders heroes known as Trap Masters, brand new Core Skylanders characters and reposed fan-favourite Skylanders characters. The game also features a variety of elementally aligned Traps with unique and interesting designs. With every addition to their Trap Team collection, Portal Masters unlock exciting gameplay possibilities within each level.
This new play pattern also gives players the option to switch between playing as a Skylander hero or a villain at any time, creating fun and unique "tag team" gameplay. In addition, fans can even take their Traps and their Skylanders characters to their friends' houses for fun, co-operative adventures across all console game systems.
"When we created Skylanders, we invented a new category of play and, in the process, disrupted two industries - videogames and toys. With each new Skylanders game, our commitment to continuous, disruptive innovation has led to surprising and delightful new ways for kids to play with toys and games," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, Inc. "With Skylanders Trap Team, we're no longer just letting kids bring their toys to life inside the game anymore. This time, we're letting them pull their toys out of the game as well. We are confident this instalment of Skylanders will once again redefine what's possible at the intersection of the physical and virtual worlds."
Fans can pre-order Skylanders Trap Team now, with special offers available at select retail destinations worldwide. Skylanders Trap Team will be available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo's Wii, Nintendo's Wii U, and a completely unique adventure available on the Nintendo 3DS.
Skylanders Trap Team will be available on 10th October in Europe.


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Making Monsters Season 2 Episode 10
Making Monsters: The Travel Channel is taking a trip to terror land with MAKING MONSTERS, their fall series that focuses on the Distortions Unlimited animatronics company in Greeley, Colorado as they create creatures for haunted houses and other fright attractions.
Genre: Horror Reality-TV
Actor: No Famous Actors
Country: USA
Quality: HD
Release: 2011
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Malts are divided into categories by the way they are kilned and how they are utilised by brewers. The groups move from light in colour and enzyme-rich to intensely roasted and void of any enzyme action. The terminology related to malt can be unclear. There are usually different names for the same malt, and the same word can denote different things in different places. Maltsters often use branded names for their malts and can be fairly cagey about how their malts are created. The variances between malts can be astounding, there's pretty much no way you can have any success building a recipe until you have a personal understanding of what different malts taste like. Get hold of as many different types of malt as you can and do what great brewers always do—taste.
Base Malts
Lightly coloured malts are known as base malts, as they can form the majority of a beer recipe, even in the darkest beers. Pilsner, pale, Vienna, mild, and Munich malts can be found in this group. Base malts have enough enzymes to transform their starches into sugar, while darker malts usually don't. Certain base malts are often associated with the continental or British brewing customs. British malts are usually kilned at lower moisture levels, which yield toasty flavours, while continental malts are kilned with higher moisture levels, producing softer, caramel notes.
English pale ale and German Oktoberfest, both pale amber beers are brewed from similarly coloured malt, but their malt characters are different, largely due to the different moisture levels used during kilning. The contrast of toasty versus caramel can be observed in the darker base malts, 5°L, and right up to about the 30° range, where the toasty biscuit/amber malt contrasts with the cookie-like melanoidin malt.
Malts with modest amounts of colour can still have some enzyme action. In modern malts, enzyme activity fades above 30°, but when porters were in their prime, malts such as brown and amber apparently had enough enzymes present to convert themselves.
NOTE: If you struggle to understand the stats of the examples below, we recommend checking out our guide to Understanding a Malt Analysis
Six-Row Pilsner Malt
Colour = 1.4–2.2 (Lovibond) 3–5 (EBC)
Enzyme Activity = Excellent
OG per lb in 5 gl = 1.0068 (1.75°P)
OG per kg in 20 L = 1.0129 (3.30°P)
Max % = 100
Origin and Notes: Pilsner malt appeared in the beer scene in 1842 in Plzen, Bohemia, in connection with the first pale lager, Pilsner. This popular malt is now produced worldwide; it forms the basis for the majority of the beer consumed on this planet. American versions tend to be higher in protein content than European ones.
Production: A light and fast kilning at 176 to 185°F/80 to 85°C, just enough to remove moisture and much of the DMS precursor, results in a very pale colour.
Flavour and Aroma: Clean, malty aromas, possesses white bread–like or cracker-like qualities. Flavour differs by maltster and particularly due to climate, soil, and grain origin.
- Used as the primary malt in many forms of pale beers, ranging from Pilsners and other lagers to blonde ales and Tripels.
- Can lift the colour and reduce the toasty edge influenced by pale malt in IPA and golden/summer bitters
- Equalise or thin out the rich, caramel aspect of Vienna or Munich malts in Märzen and Vienna lagers, and in maibocks.
Two-Row Pilsner Malt
Colour = 1.4–2.2 (Lovibond) 1.8–4.4 (EBC)
Enzyme Activity = Very Good/Excellent
OG per lb in 5 gl = 1.0070–73 (1.80 to 1.87°P)
OG per kg in 20 L = 1.0133–140 (3.40 to 3.57°P)
Max % = 100
Origin and Notes: Very similar to Six-Row Pilsner Malt (see above).
Vienna Malt
Colour = 3–4 (Lovibond) 6–8 (EBC)
Enzyme Activity = Good
OG per lb in 5 gl = 1.0071 (1.82°P)
OG per kg in 20 L = 1.0135 (3.45°P)
Max % = 100
Origin and Notes: Vienna began in the city from which its name hails in the mid nineteenth century, a transition between the darker Munich and paler Plzen types.
Production: Malt is treated like Pilsner malt, and then kilned at 194 to 203°F/90 to 95°C for a few hours in order for the colour and flavour to develop.
Flavour and Aroma: A clean, caramel character which lacks toastiness.
- Favoured malt for the Vienna style
- With its pale colour, it can be worked to lend complexity in blond ales and pale lagers (2 to 20%)
- Base malt when a caramel quality is required, without a toasty edge.
Mild Ale Malt
Colour = 3.5–5.5 (Lovibond) 7–11 (EBC)
Enzyme Activity = Adequate for self-conversion
OG per lb in 5 gl = 1.0070 (1.80°P)
OG per kg in 20 L = 1.0133 (3.40°P)
Max % = 100
Origin and Notes: Back in England, there was a significant hierarchy to malt types and the beers which used them. At the top of this structure was pale ale malt and beers such as October ale, the long-lived pale ales made in country-house breweries. Further down you could find mild ale malt, from slightly less plump barley and employed in dark beers designed for quicker consumption.
Production: Similar to pale ale malt, but with further kilning for slightly higher colour.
Flavour and Aroma: This is essentially the British version of Munich malt, with a dry, caramelly aroma.
- Advised to be used as a base for all darker British ales, such as mild ale, sweeter stouts, porter, and darker Scottish ales
- Provides depth and complexity to darker bitters and pale ales (5 to 25%)
Pale Ale Malt
Colour = 2–4 (Lovibond) 4–8 (EBC)
Enzyme Activity = Very good
OG per lb in 5 gl = 1.0073 (3.55°P)
OG per kg in 20 L = 1.0139
Max % = 100
Origin and Notes: Prominent with robust, extremely high-quality October and March beers brewed on English country estates, the beers that would develop into pale and India pale ale. These malts had existed over a century before their popularity in the industry sored around 1780, when brewers began to measure the gravity of their worts, as the pale malt produced more extract than the brown and amber malts which had been standard for dark beers up to that time.
Production: Traditionally used for only the very best, lowest-protein barleys were used for pale-malt production, because they gave the beers the capability to age well. Traditional (Tizard, 1850) pale ale malt kilning increased temperatures slowly from 80°F/27°C to 120°F/49°C over a period of four days. Current kilning schedules for pale ale malt are usually shorter and hotter, with a drying at 104 to 113°F/40 to 45°C and a five-hour kilning of up to 203°F/95°C.
Flavour and Aroma: Clean, malty aromas, possessing slight hints of toastiness. Certain strains such as Maris Otter provide a more subtle and complex character.
- As the primary malt in pale ale, India pale ale, and pale barley wines
- Can attach a slight crisp edge to blonde or golden bitter ales crafted mainly from Pilsner malt
- Equalises the richness of mild ale malt by merging into the base malts of darker beers such as stout, porter, and mild ale


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I love reading. I come from a long line of readers. My grandfather on my father's side read all the time, as do many of my aunts and uncles and cousins. My dad's brother said once that he reads 150 books a year, and my father probably reads almost that many. All of my three siblings have a solid book collection, and wish for more bookshelf space.
At our house, we have books in every room, including the bathrooms. I usually read several books at once. Currently, I am reading a book about an Indonesian revival in the 1906's by Mel Tari, 50 Great Short Stories edited by Milton Crane (1952), Abba's Child by Brennan Manning, Stu Weber's All the King's Men, Visions Beyond the Veil by H.A. Baker, and the Bible. I plan to read Romeo Dallaire's eyewitness account of the Rawandan genocide called Shake Hands with the Devil. I suppose I should be disciplined and focus my reading on one book at a time, but what's the fun in that? With so many books in the world, why not read them in bunches?
When I go to the city, there is really only one store I want to go to: a used bookstore. My wife, being the frugal shopper that she is, regularly shops at Value Village and similar stores. Entering a store that has racks and racks of used clothing stretching off into the distance is almost nightmarish for me. But I have found a solution for my dreaded boredom in used clothing stores: shelves and shelves of used books! So we can shop together in contentment: she finds bargains in the clothing racks, and I find bargains on the bookshelves. I also find used books at garage sales, libraries, our own local second hand bookstore, and my dad's bookshelves. (I don't like taking them from my dad because sometimes I have to bring them back.)
All this to say that my reading interests are quite broad. I don't pretend to be a great book critic, but I have learned to distinguish good writing from bad. Often I read a book and think, "I'll never read that again." But occasionally I read one that gets an honoured place in my collection.
Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (1946) is just such a book. I have rarely read a book that:
Paton served as a principal in a reform school for young offenders in South Africa. In the 1940's he visited correctional facilities in Scandinavia, Europe, and the United States. During his travels he wrote his seminal novel. The main character in Cry is a black Anglican priest, Stephen Kumalo, who travels from a small village in the backcountry of South Africa to Johannesburg to search for his son and sister. He eventually finds them, but his finding only leads to more heartache. Along the way, he finds people who help, people who hurt, and people who hope.
A remarkable dimension is the deep pain mixed with fresh hope. Few stories that I have read juxtapose the extremes of these emotions. On one hand, the pain is unbearable. How can it be overcome? How can Kumalo go on in the face of the deepest loss? On the other hand, hope is coming from a most unlikely source. From THE most unlikely source. In a drought-torn land, there will be water, there will be healthy soil. The cattle will have grass to eat and the land will support "maize that grows taller than a man". In other words, there is hope, the old ways can work, but it will take time.
When I finished it, I made the decision that it will become part of our homeschooling curriculum. It is that good. It challenged me to love deeply, fight fearlessly, and hope patiently.
Still learning….
Pastor Keith
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
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Ever heard of poster tape? I hadn't until my friend Joanne sent me some about 2-3 years ago for our son's posters/pictures. Poster tape is similar to a double sided post-it pad but much stronger. It works an absolute treat for sticking unmounted rubber stamps to acrylic blocks. You don't have to cover the whole stamp with tape, just enough to keep it in place. After use, simply peel your stamp off, no mess from glue sticks and just keep reusing it! You can buy poster tape from Amazon if your stationers don't supply it.
I had a fuchsia stamp that I liked but hardly used because of it's limitations. So I took a scalpel blade to it and removed those 'limitations', in this case the border. I look forward to using it in a new way now! Never be afraid to cut up your stamps… Just a couple of more photos for you! We had the immense pleasure of meeting up with the delightful, energetic and very talented Coco at an exhibition of her work last week! She is a lovely lady and we had a wonderful time together😁 You can see her fantastic artwork and more photos at Les Folies de Coco Finally, last Monday we had a beautiful sunrise……
I'll leave you with that and bid you all a happy WOYWW day! Thank you for coming to take a look at Teacup Doodles and reading my ramblings. God bless you and have a wonderful day!
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Wow- So many things to catch up on. I have been a total blogger slacker, and now I hardly know where to start with an update...We have had an interesting and yet, amazing summer. Right before graduation in April, we moved to a little duplex in American Fork right up by the temple. John started working building houses with his Uncle Matt, and I took a much needed break. We planted a great little garden and started teaching a little primary class. We absolutely loved being in American Fork and had so much fun discovering new places and fun things to do. Mostly, it was just nice to get out of Provo! We especially loved the cute little movie theater in AF- aka "the sticky." We spent quite a few nights there grabbing a movie with friends. We also spent time cooling off in the fun pool at the AF rec center. Oh- and we made probably a dozen or so trips back to Idaho to see our families and do lots of boating!
During this time, I was looking for my first real job out of college-not an easy thing to find in this economy. Anyway, the plan was for us to stay in American Fork and for John to commute to Provo for school in the fall. In July- two things happened. The first is that I received a couple of job offers. Finally! I decided to take an offer with Wasatch Mental Health working in Youth Outpatient. The second is our great friends, the Harrisons, announced they were moving to Atlanta, Georgia. We were seriously bummed to see them go...but they did have a great apartment in Orem. With John going to school at BYU and me working in Provo, it only made sense for us to shorten our commute. So we packed up our stuff, said goodbye to AF and headed to "The Harrison House." Luckily, the Harrisons had been kind enough to leave behind a great garden for us. Thanks guys!
We love our new ward and our close proximity to Krispy Kreme! So for now, we're settled in with school and work and trying to enjoy the little time we get together. John goes to school around 7 am and usually comes home around 10 pm. We try to at least take a quick dinner or lunch break together once or twice a week, which just means we've been eating way too much Costa Vida. I'm working full time at Wasatch and enjoying putting to use the things I learned at BYU and in my internship. It's nice to have all that schooling finally pay off! Well, that pretty much sums things up for now...
Monday, September 28, 2009
Where we are NOW
Posted by The Harpers at 9:24 AM
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5 comments:
- Ciara said...
Congrats on finding a real job!
- September 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Travis and Sherise said...
It's so nice to hear what you two are up to! Congrats on the job and starting a garden - that's still on my "to do" list!
- September 28, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Claytie and Suzie said...
Thanks 4 the update! We've missed you guys! And congratulations on your job, that's awesome!
- September 30, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- B and K said...
Now that Brant has more room to garden, could we bribe you to come visit us out in Georgia with more delicious garden goods??
- September 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Mike and Kaci said...
Finally! I thought you guys dropped off the face of the earth! We need to come see you. Next time we come to UT- you guys are on our list! :)
- October 1, 2009 at 4:29 PM
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Free article: my different travels (1)Par Lucile Mejean dans Accueil le 8 Juin 2015 à 22:30
Morecambe and Blackpool
Hi everybody!
In the following articles I will present you the different travels I have done during my Erasmus semester.
During my Erasmus semester I have visited several cities. First of all, I will present you two of them: Morecambe and Blackpool.
Morecambe is very close to Lancaster, we can go there by bike, by train… It's very fast! Morecambe is a seaside resort of the city of Lancaster in Lancashire. The city is located in Morecambe Bay and there are approximately 45 000 inhabitants.
Morecambe is a beautiful bay where we can observe the sea and the sunset. When I went there with my friends, the weather was not very sunny and it was very windy. However, even if the city is small and even if there is not a lot of things to do, the sea view is worth a look!
Blackpool is a coastal city located in the northwest of England. It takes 40 minutes to go there by train. There are 142 100 inhabitants in Blackpool.
Blackpool is a seaside resort where we also can observe the sea and the sunset. The beach is very beautiful and it's very pleasant to go for a walk along the seaside. In Blackpool I went to a burlesque show. It was a very fun experience!
Thanks for reading,
See you in my next article where I will present you another journey!
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My friends Michail and Hannes visited last week, we visited Owen Jones in the Lakes and the Carpenters Fellowship Frame event where we were all demonstrating hand tool woodworking. It was school holidays so Ollie came with us. Lots of good times.
This is Owen working on a basket.
He lives on the banks of Coniston and let us take out his gorgeous old rowboat.
We had to head for "wild cat island" my son Ollie is a great fan of the Swallows and Amazons books and so was Michail. You can see the island in the distance here.
Half an hour later we were there.
No trip top the lakes would be complete without climbing a hill.
And on the way back home we called in to see the Rivington barns, very impressive cruck frames.
Demos for the timber framers. Hannes hewing Japanese style.
Michail carving with the adze.
Me teaching axe and knife carving.
And afterwards we toured the Avoncroft museum where the event was staged, one of the highlights was the old circular saw where we were treated to a full tour and even had a go. It ran from a four litre single cylinder tractor.
My favourite part of the museum is the chainmaking workshop and when I last visited there was a chap demonstrating chainmaking but alas he passed away and now they have no one to demonstrate and the exhibit does not have the same life. The baskets are interesting, they are swills similar to Owens but a regional variation which died out.
Back home we had one spare day and chose to climb the hill behind the house, it is always good to have visitors to help you to see with new eyes and appreciate what you have.


text: Those released include Luis Eladio Perez, aformer Colombian senator [EPA] Barbara Hintermann, the Red Cross director for Colombia, said the helicopters are now en route to the border town of Santo Domingo before heading to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, for the hostages to be reunited with their families. "It's a very important day for the Colombian people and for these four freed people," she told journalists in the Colombian city of Bogota. Chavez also spoke with the hostages by phone following their release, Jesse Chacon, a senior aide to the Venezuelan president told AP. "We want the relatives to know they are in our hands and safe and sound," Chacon said. Red Cross spokesman Yves Heller said the two doctors on board the helicopters determined that the hostages were in good enough medical condition to travel, although more medical tests would be performed on them once they arrived in Venezuela. Hostages' health The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) had offered on February 2 to hand over to the Venezuelan president three of the hostages. Gechem was later added to the list on health grounds, as he is reportedly suffering from heart, back and ulcer problems. The former state senator was kidnapped six years ago after Farc fighters hijacked a commercial aircraft he was travelling on. His fellow former hostage, Polanco, was kidnapped with two of her sons, who were later released. Her husband, a prominent politician, was later killed by the Farc. Her other son Daniel, who was 11-years old when his mother was seized, told journalists in Caracas on Wednesday that the kidnapping "surely tears out one's insides". Remaining captives There have been world wide protests callingfor Ingrid Betancourt's release [AFP]The hostages are part of a group of about 40 foreign captives whom the Farc want to swap in exchange for 500 of their fighters being held in Colombian prisons. Two Colombian legislators, Consuelo Gonzalez and Clara Rojas, were released last month after an agreement brokered by Chavez. Those still being held include three US Pentagon contractors and Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian former politician. Last week, rallies were held in France and Colombia to protest against her continued detention. About 700 Colombian hostages, many of them civilians, are also reportedly being held by the group. Chavez's role Al Jazeera's correspondent Lucia Newman said that the Farc had freed the hostages because, firstly, they wish to be seen as a legitimate fighting force. Secondly, they want the Colombian government to demilitarise a large area of the country so that negotiations can be held over a prisoner exchange. Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, has indicated a willingness to negotiate an exchange of prisoners, but has ruled out demilitarisation of such a large and populated part of the country - suggesting a smaller, less inhabited zone instead. Chavez has been involved in the hostage negotiations since last year, however an original deal to free the two women prisoners collapsed amid acrimony between Uribe and Chavez. The Venezuelan president angered Colombia further when he said that Farc should not be labelled as a terrorist group but as a "belligerent force", with legitimate political aims. SOURCE: Agencies


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DETROIT, MI - The attorney for a teenager who alleges he was the victim of inappropriate behavior with former Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh filed a criminal report with the Madison Heights Police Department on Saturday.
The allegations against Pugh remain extremely vague. Further details, if any, are likely to remain unavailable until Monday at the earliest, according to Madison Heights police.
Madison Heights Police Sgt. Richard Lochbiler told MLive Saturday evening that that is when a detective will pursue the case.
"We don't give anything out on allegations," Lochbiler said, adding that information is only released to the public should an investigation result in charges against someone. There are currently no criminal charges against Pugh.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the criminal allegations postpone a previously planned civil suit by the teen's mother against Pugh, who has been absent from council activities for some two weeks now. Meanwhile, neither the 18-year-old alleged victim nor his mother have been publicly identified.
Pugh has done little to face the growing media speculation of his whereabouts, instead choosing to shy away from the public eye and releasing only cryptic statements to staff members that he's "fine," while also ignoring calls by city Emergency Manger Kevyn Orr to return to work or face losing his pay.
Pugh did not respond to a deadline set by Orr this week, and the state-appointed emergency manager moved to strip Pugh of his $77,000-a-year salary as well as his duties as Detroit's city council president.
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At least one local new outlet says it spoke directly, and at length, with the allege victim's mother. Here is what local ABC affiliate WXYZ had to say about the mother's claims:
"Pugh gave an 18-year-old student more than $200 in cash, including money to pay for a prom night hotel and about $150 in dress clothes. He also purchased a cell phone for about $150 and paid for the cost of activation, according to the young man's mother, who did not want her son to have a phone."
But also according to WXYZ, while Pugh admits he gave the teen gifts, both Pugh and the woman's son deny there was ever any "inappropriate conduct," making the entire matter all the more opaque.
Pugh met the young man through his mentoring program at Detroit's Douglass Academy.


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A calzone is sort of a wrong-side-out, folded pizza without all the sauce. Your favorite fillings can be folded inside the crust.
Red sauce can then be poured over the calzone and eaten with a fork, or if you make a small hand-held version similar to a meat pie, it can be dipped.
I happened to have Italian sausage, sweet cubanella peppers and a vidalia onion on hand. The whole process took mere minutes. The result? Crusty, delicious calzones and a happy husband!
2 refrigerated pizza crusts
1 T. olive oil, for cooking, plus more to rub on dough
1 pound sweet or hot Italian sausage, sliced into pieces
a pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)
1 large onion, chopped
4 small cubanella peppers or 1 large red or yellow bell pepper, chopped
4 cloves garlic minced
salt and pepper to taste
2 T. concentrated tomato sauce from a tube
1/4 c. dry red wine
1/4 to 1/2 c. prepared red sauce
1 T. fresh rosemary, chopped
8 oz. fresh mozzarella balls (boccini or pearls)
Add the vegetables and stir. If you like a little heat, throw in a pinch of red pepper flakes. Season with black pepper and a tiny bit of salt. When meat is cooked through add the tomato paste. Let it brown a little, then splash in the red wine and red sauce. Toss in the fresh herbs, if you have them. If not, add a teaspoon of dried herbs.
Simmer to reduce sauciness. When it has tightened up quite a bit and most of liquid is gone, remove from heat and let it cool. Prepare the dough by cutting into two or three pieces, depending on desired size of calzone. Stretch dough, fill with sausage and peppers. Evenly distribute fresh mozzarella balls among the calzones. Crimp edges to seal. Make a couple of tiny slits in the top of each one to vent. Bake in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes. Remove and serve with sauce.
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Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Board, thanks France for their support to GAVI
French Minister for Cooperation H. de Raincourt, and GAVI Board Chair Dagfinn Høybråten.
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Mr. Henri de Raincourt, Minister for Cooperation and Mr. Dagfinn
Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Board, have provided today an update on
the progress made in terms of access to immunisation, and the key role
France has to play in improving the health of people in developing
Mr. de Raincourt and Mr. Høybråten held discussions today
during a visit of the Chair of the GAVI Board in Paris. Mr.
Høybråten also met the Members of the Parliament and the NGOs in France.
At the occasion of this meeting, Mr. Høybråten, Norwegian parliamentarian
and former Minister of Health of Norway, thanked France for its support
to GAVI, recently extended to the tune of € 100 million until 2015. The
total commitment of France to GAVI is over € 1.3 billion for the period
2004-2026, including through innovative funding solutions (IFFIm and
solidarity tax on airline tickets).
Illustrating the ability of
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Raincourt said that the GAVI mission was aligned to the strategic
objectives of France, which considers maternal and child health as
priorities for French development aid.
"We are particularly
grateful to France for the importance it gives to the health of
children. Its support is essential in our efforts to protect over 250
million children by 2015," said Dagfinn Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI
A child dies from a preventable disease every 20 seconds, and the vast majority of these deaths occur in developing countries. This death toll is morally inacceptable in the 21st century.
Dagfinn Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board
Thanks to the unprecedented mobilisation of the
international community to fight against the two major causes of child
mortality - pneumonia and diarrheoa - more than 15 countries are
already protecting their children against the main causes of at least
one of these two deadly diseases.
Indeed, the pneumococcal and
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and diarrheoa respectively (together account for 36% of child
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John of the Cross – The Dark Night of the Soul – The Poem
The Poem: One dark night, fired with love's urgent longings – ah, the sheer grace! – I went out unseen, my house being now all stilled. In darkness, and secure, by the secret ladder, disguised, – ah, the sheer grace! … Continue reading
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Selfhood is the foundation of all knowledge ‒‒ as the foundation of permanence in change ‒‒ as well as the principle of utmost diversity (You.)(Instead of the non-ego ‒‒ You)
(Novalis, 2007, p. 151)
There are many tales about the world of Western logic which since Aristotelean times has not allowed for a "tertium datur" ‒‒ a third option in between true and false ‒‒ the shimmering grey. Somewhere/-sometime was all we knew about the coexistence of contradiction, and all we knew about us was I.
I was given my position with the help of a secret bond ‒‒ drawn as a line from me to somewhere/sometime/called-Being to the many objects that I was able to grasp. There was no you beyond extension. Logically no us was given either. Paradise was placed on hold. It is by logic, that in this world ‒‒ to which somewhere/sometime presented confirmation of all imperfection in the here and now ‒‒ the prophets did not survive. The revelation of the secret bond logically proved fatal; for death presented a perfect solution ‒‒ a double confirmation, not of the bond itself, but its necessity. Two constitutive tales confirm as well the two-valued logical conclusion that progress is bound to efficiency. When Socrates began his journey, he started from the Earth, travelled to the sometime/somewhere, and returned. Christ reduced the journey to half its distance by starting out in heaven. Two prophets left two symbols of a necessity to the Western world ‒‒ a glass of toxic liquid and a cross. Hope ensured my being in the world. Yet, for the doubtful, hope was not.
The next big tale that has shaped the Western world until today came without a prophecy, but with increased efficiency. A mastermind of logic took the shortest journey he could take:
Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
(Descartes, 2002)
Yes, I am ‒‒ I am expelled from the world. Without relations, without future there is nothing left to say. To whom should I speak and how? this is the reality that has traced out my path: I am out! … Or, am I not?
…we have got three elements once the subjectivity has set itself free from its self abandon and from the originally direct tie with Being. We have got firstly the representational existence of Being with the objects, in which it (Being) steps out as "World". We have got secondly the Cartesian ego that ‒‒ in the act of reflexion ‒‒ pulls itself out of the world onto itself. And thirdly we have got … (1)
(Günther, 1991, p. 83)
We have seen many attempts to break the fatality of the Cartesian construction. Yet, in a society in which efficiency is key and has a long tradition, the shortness of his journey has always worked seductively. Since I could doubt everything but not myself while thinking, we live in a world of minds.
Today science shapes the world and how we experience it. It follows its path to prove that we are in the world, and not alone. True and false are valid. Time is gentle to us. Life is not endless, and thus we need just a little truth that endures for a little while to be joyful again. If not, perhaps a poodle saves us ‒‒ it is more gentle than it appears, less wise than it appears:
Part of the part am I, which at the first was all,
A part of darkness, which gave birth to light
(Mephisto in: Goethe, 1808)
We might surrender to the devil's voice. He knows the ifs and thens.
If in fact the impetus of our striving is absolute knowledge, then signing his contract may be wise. For all those who have progressed from hope it might present a perfect short cut to a reality that is perhaps less gentle than it appears.
Our heritage is not preceded by a testament. (2)
(Char, 1999, p. 30)
I have entered the library a long time ago on this journey which never seems to end. Its construction is astonishingly unfamiliar to such an extent that any attempt to construct an image through description has always failed. All I can see is that it relates to itself as if in a dialogue. It is strangely unfixed and yet, I know, it will never fall apart. It looks as if it played a game that I cannot understand ‒‒ constantly readjusting the elements that constitute the whole to create new relations within itself. However, I never witnessed the elements move.
It seems there isn't any order to the books' arrangement on the shelves ‒‒ no order that I could identify. And even within the books, sometimes, I find strange motifs. There are books that know the myth of Babel before they know the myth of the Word. It is as if someone has turned history upside down, or taken a journey backwards and then traced it to a coordinate system of other dimensions. One may think that we perceive when light is surrounded by shadow. this library, however, seems to emerge sometimes as if it was pure light.
And thirdly we have got a You, in which the same retreat is actualized objectively. …the same identical pulling out of the world is to be understood only in the ego as reflexion-in-itself in the real sense, i.e. as thinking … (3)
(Günther, 1991, p. 83)
There is some truth in the mystic fairy tale that tells the story of a tower to be built higher and higher, to reach not the heavenly beyond, but instead, to mark the beginning of misunderstanding. To this day many towers have been built. There will be more. Yet, they may never reach beyond. They may never reach out to You ‒‒ beyond a two-valued logic that has made objective Being coincide with subjective thought. From this landscape You were logically excluded. Objectively one can conclude that misunderstanding was logically included.
In the You appears the same retreat, that appears from the viewpoint of the ego as from "me", as objective directed by a "selfpotency", thus as will or act of will. (4)
(Günther, 1991, p. 83)
Within all construction, you are the unknown addressed to become creator and the author of a story that is hidden now, but will emerge as yours, to be told in a future present. Inhabitable theories exist in present time exclusively ‒‒ exclusively constructed for you to perpetually arise. I have dissolved for a very good good reason ‒‒ not on the basis of a necessity and not on the basis of will. I was complete before you. You are the creator of my absence and my reality.
The You is an "object of second order" that is capable to offset itself both from me (the ego) and from the world ‒‒ the objects of first order. It is thus "a third, free from both". (5)
(Günther, 1991, p. 83)
The library is confirmation of a being-in-the-world. It plays a symphony of a higher order. Within it, there are reflections of a passage to a present that is still unknown: I have been created to always become what you desire me to be. I am the sole opportunity, a mere offer to you ‒‒ to follow the traces that resonate your voice ‒‒ your unknown voice. I do not wish to speak but your speech. I want to dissolve in your desires, want to be possessed, be made all your own. It is you ‒‒ the unknown addressed ‒‒ who is my orientation. I come as a perfect gift, without expectations. ‒‒ All that which resonates, resonates in you.
Today, we stand amidst the first emerging attempts to achieve a transition from the second metaphysics to a third metaphysical level of man. …At the beginning of every new metaphysical epoch of man is the myth, which constructs the framework for the oncoming concrete history. (6)
(Günther, 1952, p. 238)
You are.
(*) I mentioned this text in an earlier message. It is the text that I presented in the second half of my talk at the Unprimed Canvas symposium that was held in February 2011 at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. There is also a PDF version of this text available.
(1) … wir haben dreierlei, sobald erst einmal die Subjektivität sich aus ihrer Selbstvergessenheit und der ursprünglichen direkten Bindung an das Sein gelöst hat. Wir haben erstens die gegenständliche Existenz des Seins in den Objekten, in denen es als "Welt" heraustritt. Wir haben zweitens das in der Reflexion auf sich selbst sich aus der Welt zurückziehende kartesische Ich. Und wir haben als drittes …
(2) Notre héritage n'est précédé d'aucun testament.
(3) Und wir haben als drittes das Du, in dem sich derselbe Rückzug als objektiver vollzieht. … dasselbe identische Sichherausnehmen aus der Welt [kann] nur im Ich als Reflexion-in-sich im eigentlichen Sinne, d. h. als Denken verstanden
werden …
(4) Im Du erscheint derselbe Rückzug von "mir", also vom Ich aus gesehen, als ein objektiver Vorgang, dirigiert von einer "selbst-Potenz", also als Wille oder Willensakt.
(5) Das Du ist ein "Objekt zweiter Ordnung", das die Fähigkeit besitzt, sich sowohl von mir (dem Ich) als von der Welt, den Objekten erster Ordnung, abzusetzen. Es ist deshalb "ein Drittes, von beiden Freies".
(6) Heute stehen wir inmitten der ersten sich anbahnenden Versuche, einen Übergang von der zweiten Metaphysik zu einem dritten metaphysischen Niveau des Menschen zu bewerkstelligen. … Am Anfang jeder neuen metaphysischen Epoche des Menschen steht der Mythos, der den Rahmen für die kommende konkrete Geschichte ausspart.
Char, R. (1999). Hypnos: Aufzeichnungen aus dem Maquis (1943- 44). Feuillets d'Hypnos (2nd bilingual ed.). Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer. German translation by Paul Celan; written in 1943/44; 1946 – 1st French edition;
Descartes, R. (2002). Principles of Philosophy (first published in Latin in 1644 as: Principia Philosophiae, translated to French during Descartes' lifetime – revised by Descartes, English digital ed.). The Classical Library.
Günther, G. (1952). Kommentar zu Überwindung von Raum und Zeit. In G. Günther (Ed.), Überwindung on Raum und Zeit, Volume 3 of Rauchs Weltraum Bücher, pp. 223–238. Rauch.
Günther, G. (1957). Idee und Grundriss einer nicht-Aristotelischen Logik (1957 – first edition, pagination acc. to this third ed.). Felix Meiner Verlag.


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Or they can just tell Marvel to **** because the character was around long before they came into existence.
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Or they can just tell Marvel to **** because the character was around long before they came into existence.
I understand the reasoning behind it, but as my comic shows, it does NOT work!! They need to change the magic word he says then.
It's a comic, it should look cartoonish.
I expect Sleepy Hollow to be gone after 4 episodes and Dracula will disintegrate into the sun about 8 episodes.
Why Calling Him Shazam! is Stupid!!
Because Ca$hcom would rather let MM sit and get fat for a fighting game than make anything new with the character.
I'm going to disagree there for a moment. The first 3 BN games were excellent. Anything after was terrible.
Plus, they did give us Powered Up and Maverick Hunter X on the PSP and 9 and 10 on...
Didn't they say they are done following the comic? If so, I see no reason for them to even continue the show.
Meh, I'll care if it actually comes out. I don't believe in kickstarter as I find it to be a scam more than anything else. Good luck to him though.
What about the Spectra?
Dracula looks pretty bad as it seems like they have modernized the entire setting and it is loosely based on the original novel.
Yes, but what version of the Gameshark is it? Depending on which version it is will determine if it works or does not work with your exact SP model.
Ah, Gameshark, the device that would only work half of the time.
Did you make sure you have the correct version of the gameshark that is compatible with your system? If you have an older version...
Arrow Season 2.
I just started watching the show this past Sunday and we are up to episode 14. It isn't the best thing ever, but it is quite enjoyable.
I would say that SHIELD tv show, but...
That would require Digital River having to actually do work instead of sitting at the computer as they wait for people to call and complain about something they don't care or know about.
Wow, they can't even take the time to write an actual email to thank us for supporting the sub and stuff. Wow, I am so glad I am pretty much done with Mattel after this year.
Klatu... Barada... Nikto...
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To think, I am halfway through my top 10 favorite DC heroes. So today is an odd choice because I never really have read his own comics, but more...
I'm sorry, but the director is the one in charge of the movie, thus, he takes the heat regardless. Are you saying we should let Scott pass on his lack of communication because it is the heads at...
I still disagree there. You aren't established unless everyone has heard of you, and since no one I knew knew he was, that isn't exactly established.
Nevertheless, Affleck is a terrible casting...
I agree on Momento. I own the movie, bought it when it was on sale for $5 about three years ago, but I watched it that night and have never watched it again. In fact, the only reason I still have...
You know when I heard of Bale? When he was casted as Batman. After I saw that, I came across Equilibrium and watched it, loved it. No one I know ever heard of Bale until he was casted as Batman. ...
Because when I think of Joker, I think of Joker's Five Way Revenge, The Long Halloween, Death in the Family, The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, and The Laughing Fish.
I do NOT think of...
Completely disagree. Romero is a freaking joke. Hamil was not that great in the original series. Not because his voice did not fit, but because he was too tamed. It was not until I heard his...
The arm on my Elasti-Girl broke and Matty refused to exchange it for a new one.
THe problem is that Affleck is NOT Batman. He might be able to pull off Wayne, but not Batman. They might as well have just brought George Clooney back for the role, as it is the same thing.
They need to do Joker as well.
Wait, Scott said on their forums it would be immediately. It better be sooner than next week because I could use that money now!!
Spent the day watching The Dark Knight Trilogy and what an awesome trilogy it is. It starts off with a nice origin story and a great beginning to the series and gives a nice look at the persona of...
Well after the amount of male character I have listed, I feel it is time to take a moment to look at my favorite female character of the DC universe. Many people consider their favorite to be Wonder...
If they were to do Doomsday for sDCC, it would be containment suit version, so they might as well just keep him.


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Facebook Me a Baby? No I'll Have it Later, With An Apple .
It's been a real challenge to keep pace with the fringe benefit Joneses.
Our company OHEL Children's Home and Family Services, a nonprofit social service organization employs 1,350 people. Astronomical health care costs coupled with a more regulated pension environment has challenged companies to search alternative recruitment and retention strategies.
Salary increases are simply insufficient to lure and maintain good employees.
Day care, flexi-time, avant garde cafeterias, employee wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, remote work from home, paid meals at your desk, late night drive-you-home-limo service, exotic retreats – all serve to supplement salaries and kindle employee interest and morale.
The faster the world moves the greater the evolution of the marketplace.
No more so than in technology. It's a race to be the world's biggest or smallest computer, the world's richest entrepreneur, the world's savviest marketer. Cutting edge is simply not good enough in technology. New boundaries need to be created by the instasecond.
Novelness in fringe benefits must match quantum salaries, options and putts. Becoming a millionaire at 30 is so grandish.
Facebook and Apple have decided on a new world order. Delay the population of the human species.
A fringe benefit at Facebook and Apple will now bonus female employees $20,000 to freeze their eggs to delay childbirth and focus on their careers. "We want to empower women at Apple to do the best work of their lives" said an Apple executive. This new perk is described as being family friendly.
Family friendly?
This past week, we just read Parshat Bereshit "In the Beginning."
It is the story of G-D's creation of the world. On the sixth day He created Man and Woman and eternalized the human species.
The world was created by G-D to regenerate. Agnostics and atheists may have difficulty with G-D but they like to have children.
Even one in seven infertile couples who may be non-believers beg, borrow and pray to have a child.
Facebook and Apple in their self-interest introduce a fringe benefit to delay childbirth. They consider this a fringe benefit?
This is the epitome of misogyny.
It demeans women saying we can't wait for you to take standard maternity leave when you wish or when we consider it to be the height of your career. It discriminates against some infertile women in the workplace who wish they could benefit from this perk. It places pressure on husbands who wish for a baby and must now contend with Facebook's and Apple's redefinition of the sixth day of creation. The baby shall be Facebooked into your life cancel your Ob/Gyn.
Israel, the Jewish state once again stands apart from the rest of the world.
Silicon Valley pays you to delay childbirth. China bans you from having more than one child.
Israel pays you a bonus for every child you have.
Israel understands the value of every child to be born as soon as possible. No delay.
No freezing. Mommy dearest today not tomorrow. Technology can order your groceries. It was never meant to order your baby son or daughter.
Facebook and Apple should take a lesson from Israel.
They are losing sight of the primary purpose of this world.
It is not for every person to own a computer. It is for more people to be born as soon as possible so more people can buy a computer faster. That is marketing. That is the fringe benefit bonus they should be giving to their employees.
Several years hence women who embraced the frozen egg option may find that their planned delayed motherhood has not progressed as planned.
Reproductive science is not as exact as computer generated models.
Facebook and Apple may guarantee money in the bank, but they can't guarantee a baby in the womb.


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Nerd Corps Entertainment Recruiting Lead Designer
Lead Designer
Department: Design
Location: Vancouver
About the position
We're looking for a wildly imaginative character designer for Nerd Corps Entertainment's latest original comedy series. It's set in a crazy insane world with dimensions and boundaries that no artist has ever dared to explore! Driven by super bold and hilarious characters, the stories go to ridiculous places that you only wish you could be a part of. Well, you can! You could be the one designing this whole hot, delicious mess.
If you can draw awesome, hilarious characters, embrace your wildest, wackiest dreams and tell us why your crazy talents and experience are the best for our crazy show. Pitch us already!
Create original thumbnails, concepts, maps and designs for human characters, facial expressions, creatures, vehicles and all the machines that appear in the show (including turnarounds and other detailed notes)
Meet with the design supervisor and supervising director to discuss the character requirements for the show
Finalize the line art with tone indication to assist with the coloring
Complete work assigned within the scheduled timeframe
Keep designs manageable and in line with the modeling days allotted for each
Work directly with the modellers to develop the environments and sets, offering advice throughout the process and revising designs on the fly when necessary
Accept feedback on designs and execute on changes quickly
Participate in production-related meetings offering thoughts and ideas
Stay up to date with shows by watching animatics
Maintain the show style and keep designs working within the story specifications
Communicate effective and production-friendly solutions when the requests of the client or other department heads are not possible within production timelines
Keep your work orders current and accurate in the design approval system
Keep design coordinator in the loop on all activities and any issues that may arise
File management – keep files efficiently organized
Carry out all duties in a professional and positive manner
5+ years in CG animation design
BA/BFA degree in fine arts or commercial arts field an asset
Must have strong design experience for 3D animation and be able to design a wide variety of human characters, facial expressions, creatures, robots, machines and vehicles
Must possess excellent communication, interpersonal, and multi-tasking skills
Must possess strong self-management and scheduling skills
Experience interfacing with other designers, modellers, animators and directors
Ability to communicate creative and technical thoughts and ideas
Strong problem solving skills
THANK YOU to all those who express interest in being a part of the Nerd Corps team. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we may be unable to reply to all applicants. If we feel that you may be a good match for one of our current openings you will be contacted.
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Will Rogers, the American humorist once said:
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
True, but I have found that sometimes the temptation to just lay down on the tracks is great. I get weary of the turmoil and confusing nature of life.
Maybe you can relate to this scenario of mine:
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Nite Jewel "One Second Of Love" (patrickWHAT Remix) Premiere
Nite Jewel – the Los Angeles pop outfit fronted by Ramona Gonzalez – follows the thumping dance track "One Second Of Love" with the equally dope "One Second Of Love" (patrickWHAT Remix). The remix handcrafted by producer patrickWHAT aka Patrick Wimberly (from Chairlift) lands squarely at the intersection of the the trap and the electro-ethereal for a trillwave joint that marries the familiar tick of Atlanta bootyshake to a sputtering synth bass that throws back to the poppy aesthetic of 80s r&b. The remix features DaVinci, Squadda Bambino, Micah Freeman and Das Racist. This joint comes ahead of a series of dates the group will play across the west coast beginning this week, including performances with Shlomo and Bat For Lashes. Check the remix below. Scroll down for dates.
Nite Jewel Tour Dates:
04/05/13 San Francisco, CA – 1015 Folsom +
04/06/13 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre +
04/12/13 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom ^
04/14/13 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom ^
04/17/13 Pomona, CA – The Fox Theatre w/ The XX
04/19/13 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library ^
04/23/13 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre ^
+ = w/ Shlomo
^ = w/ Bat For Lashes