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Here is an interesting item that is making the day of a lot of homebrewers out there. Last year when Bruce Oland passed away, he donated to the Dalhousie archives a huge treasure trove of old material from the Keith's brewery. For those not in the know, Keith's got bought by Oland's in the 1920s, and then Oland by Labatt in 1971. As a bit of an aside, the Oland family brewing tradition has another branch which ends at today's Moosehead breweries in New Brunswick.
Homebrewers have always bristled over the "India Pale Ale" moniker on Alexander Keith's flagship beer. Those who know beer, know that this beer is most decidedly NOT an India Pale Ale. An IPA should be a fair bit darker in colour, and significantly more bitter from hops, and higher in alcohol. Here are the full details on the style, from the Beer Judge Certification Program website. That tells you what certified beer judges look for in an IPA. Incidentally, the style of beer gets its name from the fact that it was brewed hoppier and higher in alcohol to survive the trip to India, to supply the British troops there when they were colonizing India. Both alcohol and hops are a preservative. Alexander would have been one of the brewers shipping his beer overseas at the time.
Homebrewers have always said that there is no way in heck Alexander Keith brewed a beer that was anything even remotely similar to the beer which today bears his name.
Turns out they were right! Craig Pinhey is a well-known beer-o-phile from Halifax. He's spent a lot of time pouring over this new treasure trove of archives, and has finally proven what homebrewers have long suspected - that poor old Alexander Keith must be rolling over in his grave with what they put his name on these days.
In spite of the blazingly obvious, the Corporation maintains to this day that the the beer "for more than 185 years [... holds] true to its time-honoured recipe, steeped in tradition.". They go on to say that "Even as times change, Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale proudly remains the same" (quoted from www.keiths.ca just now). It would now seem to be pretty clear that these claims are bold-faced lies.
In 2002 when Ottawa had a (short-lived) annual Beer Fest, I spoke with Bill White who was at the time a brewmaster at Labatt and their public spokesperson for their beer. He used to be on TV a lot so you may be familiar with him. I asked him some very pointed questions about this matter and he danced around them much like the current brewmaster does in the linked article.
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Wolf Restoration: Success by What Definition?
Many wish to see the wolf restored to provide for recovery of an endangered species. Certainly that is what is legally driving the wolf recovery efforts across the country since the animal was listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973. But I hasten to add that we should also be advocating for wolf recovery because wolves are an essential evolutionary factor that has shaped wild ungulate populations and influenced many other species like competing carnivores, such as coyotes, throughout time. By definition, biodiversity preservation means we preserve the elements that create and shape biodiversity evolution. The wolf, as top predator throughout most of North America, is analogous to fire in its interaction with vegetative communities. We can not accept the idea of restoring a few token wolf packs in a few select areas. We need to restore wolves across the landscape to restore a major evolutionary force — the wolf. Biologically there is no reason why this can't be achieved.
Anything but a Success
Right now many hail wolf restoration efforts in the Rockies, Southwest, and Southeast as a "success." Success by what definition? Yes, we have wolves reproducing in the wild. They are hunting in the wild. They are dispersing and exploring new areas. In a limited way one can call this restoration effort a success. But in my mind, the effort to restore wolves will never be a real success until we find a way to restore the wolf across much of the landscape it formally inhabited.
Under that kind of definition, the wolf restoration efforts have been anything but a success. The only places where wolves in the Rockies and Southwest are not experiencing excessive mortality due to human control efforts is in designated wilderness or park areas. Yes, wolves are doing well inside the boundaries of Yellowstone Park. They are surviving in Central Idaho's Frank Church No Return Wilderness. But outside of these few protected zones, wolf recovery is not proceeding as desired.
Indeed, in the tri-state area of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, 79% of all known wolf mortalities are due to humans, primarily "legal" control by "Wildlife Services" at the request of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Indeed, control efforts may jeopardize any wolf recovery and delisting, and certainly has significantly slowed wolf recovery in the region.
To delist wolves in the northern Rockies-Northwest Montana (includes Glacier National Park), Greater Yellowstone, and Central Idaho, a population of 10 breeding pairs of wolves in all three recovery areas for three consequent years must be achieved. Though there is substantial output of pups, recovery goals are not being achieved due to excessive control efforts to appease livestock interests in the region.
For example, in northwest Montana, where wolves originally recolonized on their own from Canada and where wolf recovery has been going on for more than 15 years, there were only five known breeding packs in 1999. That was partly the result of the killing of 27 wolves (more than a third of the known population at the time) by Wildlife Services in one year due to conflicts with a few livestock producers. These control efforts were done illegally since the Northwest Montana wolves are considered "endangered" under the ESA and technically protected. But no voice was raised in objection to this kind of killing. This killing was done on top of a major prey die-off due to high winter mortality of deer. Is this how we "recover" an endangered species?
We continually hear about "problem" wolves. Even wolf supporters have bought into this pejorative use of the term. There are no "problem" wolves. The problem exists with how we humans define restoration. In nearly all instances, the reason wolves are killed is due to predation by wolves upon domestic livestock. Yet research and experience have demonstrated that proper animal husbandry practices that include swift removal of carcasses, the use of herders and guard dogs, and penning of animals at night are far less vulnerable to predator losses. Yet no one, not the FWS or even most other pro-wolf organizations, demands that such practices be implemented in order to minimize conflicts.
Irresponsible Ranchers
It is irresponsible ranchers, not wolves, that are causing problems and livestock "conflicts." Caring properly for livestock is and should be one of the costs of doing business. Right now ranchers have successfully "externalized" one of their costs — proper livestock husbandry — onto the public and upon the backs of wolves and other predators. And wolf supporters, by refusing to challenge this fundamental assumption, are as culpable for the deaths of wolves as the ranchers themselves.
Indeed, the entire focus of research and support appears to be toward changing the behavior of wolves. Research on the use of sound devices, shock collars, taste avoidance, and other manipulation raises real questions about whether we are going to recover "wild" wolves or merely have token animals that look, but don't act, like wolves running around the landscape.
I'm very impressed with the intelligence of wolves. I still feel that the average rancher is slightly more intelligent than the wolf, yet it is the wolf, not the rancher, that is being asked to change its behavior.
"Experimental and Non-Essential"
Worse yet, and more dangerous, is the status of the other wolf recovery areas in the Rockies. Wolves in central Idaho and Greater Yellowstone are considered "experimental and non-essential." This status allows for even greater manipulation and control of the animals. Wolf supporters in other regions such as the Northeast should be wary of accepting wolf restoration under these terms. Apparently, once an experimental wolf, always an experimental wolf — even for your descendants.
When a wolf from Idaho dispersed into Oregon last March, she was captured and relocated to Idaho because she was a "descendant" of a wolf pack that was part of the experimental non-essential population. Ordinarily, a wolf dispersing into Oregon would have full protection under the ESA and would not be removed or manipulated. "Experimental non-essential population status" allowed the FWS to yank this wolf out of the wild, even though she had not had any conflicts with irresponsible ranchers.
Under experimental and non-essential status, the FWS is able to avoid advocating any changes in federal land management or even practice livestock practices. As a result, lethal control has also taken its toll on wolves in the other recovery areas as well. In the past year, for instance, three wolf packs in a 150-mile swath of central Idaho were destroyed — again due to livestock conflicts.
A number of wolf packs in the Greater Yellowstone area also experienced lethal control to the detriment of the pack organization. For example, the Sheep Mountain pack whose territory extended just north of Yellowstone National Park experienced the loss of six members this past year due to lethal control.
Giving in to Opportunities
The Sheep Mountain losses exemplify what is wrong with our entire approach to wolf restoration. These wolves had established a den site and later a rendezvous site on an elk winter range and calving ground on Forest Service (FS) land that also happened to be used as a summer livestock grazing allotment. Even though the wolves were still actively using the area, the FS and FWS allowed the rancher to place his cattle on the allotment. As is the case with many slob ranchers in the West, this livestock operator left dead animals on the allotment, and was not required to herd or otherwise protect his animals. About a week before the rancher was supposed to pull his cows off the public lands, the wolves found and fed upon a dead cow carcass. A few days later, they attacked a calf and killed it. The FWS immediately flew in and killed four wolves. This was an entirely avoidable situation. Yet no one, not the FWS, not the FS, and even most environmental organizations, questioned the policy of allowing livestock and wolves to overlap.
Lethal control of the Mexican wolf in the Southwest to appease ranchers is also inhibiting restoration of that animal as well.
Indeed, there is not one wolf pack that I am aware of in the West that has the majority of its territory overlapping with livestock that hasn't wound up preying upon livestock at some point in time. Maybe not every generation, maybe not every wolf, but sooner or later, wolves give in to the opportunities presented by sloppy livestock operations, and consequently suffer some kind of response — whether removal or lethal control.
Questioning Lethal Control
Ironically, few wolf supporters have questioned this use of lethal control with regard to wolves, yet this is highly unusual in our approach to endangered species recovery. Yes, the killing of a cow causes an economic loss to the rancher, but such losses can be compensated or, more importantly, avoided if proper husbandry practices were mandatory. Moreover, we don't allow logging companies to shoot spotted owls because they remove trees from the timber base available for cutting, despite a far greater economic impact upon timber companies and communities. Yet far too many accept the notion that ranchers have a right to kill wolves for livestock depredation.
Even if we could win some concessions from livestock operators to minimize predator opportunity through herders and night-time penning and other measures, it's important to recognize that the presence of livestock still creates conflicts. Many prey species like elk avoid areas actively being grazed by domestic livestock, and are displaced. When wolves are tied down with pups they can not follow displaced prey easily, creating a hardship upon wolves attempting to feed their young — and indirectly creating a situation that may lead to livestock depredation. Thus even so-called "predator friendly" livestock operations pose a problem for predators like wolves even if the predators are not directly killed.
Without changing livestock operations, I have serious doubts that substantive wolf recovery across the landscape can or will occur. Unless livestock are removed from a large part of the land base (such as eliminating them from all public lands — see "Cash Cows") or at a minimum demanding a change in the way livestock operations are conducted, I find it difficult to imagine a future where wolves are commonplace across the country. Currently livestock producers are externalizing one of the real costs of their operations — preventing predator opportunity. This cost is being borne by the rest of us who want wolves, and more importantly, upon the land that needs and requires that we restore wolf predation as a major evolutionary force.
Rethinking Wolf Restoration
We may need to rethink wolf restoration. The wolf is a highly adaptive animal. The assumption that wolves require wilderness is false. They have been relegated to these areas because humans have refused to change their behavior to allow for wolf coexistence. Indeed, wolves survive fairly well in close proximity to humans in Europe and elsewhere. Give them some protection from persecution. As long as there is sufficient prey, they can live among us.
Indeed, I think wolf recovery might be more successful if we focused more on bringing wolves back to the edges of our cities rather than putting them among rural communities. After all, there is far more support for wolves — hence tolerance — among urban dwellers than among rural residents. I'm not suggesting that wolves be placed in Central Park, but within a reasonable distance of our major urban areas there is an abundance of prey, and enough woodlands and forest to provide some habitat — fragmented though it may be. I believe wolves might prosper better in western Massachusetts than in northern Maine. Right now in Massachusetts, there are few farms, and deer are so plentiful that hunters can kill a dozen or more a year.
Similar situations exist in many other parts of the country. They may well do better in southern New York than in the Adirondacks. Maybe they should be restored to the national forest lands outside Portland and Denver rather than in the "wilder" parts of these states like Oregon's Blue Mountains or Colorado's San Juan Mountains. The real factor that seems to determine wolf success is not roads per square mile, but ranchers/cows per square mile. With few farms and ranches, and fewer ranchers, maybe wolves will experience a higher survival rate in our more urbanized regions than they do now in rural areas. Give wolves half a chance, and we can restore them as a major evolutionary force — but only if we are willing to challenge the assumptions and attitudes that jeopardize wolf recovery today. If we are going to recover the wolf, we need to learn how to live with the wolf, not merely relegate it to a few "reservations" we call national parks.
George Wuerthner is a wildlife ecologist, botanist, photographer, and writer whose work on wildlife issues has been widely respected for decades.
Reprinted from Predator Defense Institute's Predator Press, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Fall 2000
Cash Cows
According to "Cash Cows: The Giveaway of the West" (San Jose Mercury News, November 7, 1999):
- In the 11 western states, about 26,300 livestock operators lease 254 million acres of federal public land from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to graze 3.5 million cattle and sheep.
- These ranchers receive direct subsidies to the tune of $100 million in below-cost grazing fees, plus millions more for programs such as predator control, fencing, and water programs.
- Despite all the subsidies and all the millions of acres of land sacrificed for ranching, only 3% of the nation's beef supply comes from western public lands.
- The top 10% of BLM grazing permit holders control 65% of all livestock grazed on BLM land. The bottom 50% of BLM grazing permit holders control just 7% of all livestock grazed on BLM land.
- The top 10% of Forest Service grazing permit holders control 49% of all livestock grazed on our national forests. The bottom 50% of Forest Service grazing permit holders control just 3% of the livestock grazed on national forests.
- In 1998, the Forest Service and the BLM lost more than twice as much money on grazing programs as they spent to restore endangered species. Together, the agencies spent $116 million to prop up grazing on public lands, and took in just $22 million in fees, a loss of $94 million, and that just covers direct subsidies.
- The fee ranchers pay to graze livestock on federal lands is lower today than at any time since 1975: only $1.35 per cow (or per five sheep) per month. Because so much land is needed to provide the forage for these animals, the actual fee is just pennies per acre. Half of the grazing fee paid by ranchers is returned to them to pay for fences, water tanks, and other equipment.
The Environmental Price of Agriculture
By George Wuerthner
"What remains of our native fauna and flora, remains only because agriculture has not got around to destroying it."
—Aldo Leopold
Anyone flying over the middle of the United States and looking down on the miles upon miles of corn and wheat fields can see for themselves the enormous geographic footprint of agriculture. Yet it's surprising how few people really grasp the magnitude of agriculture's effect upon biodiversity.
Livestock production and farming are together the most destructive human activities in North America, affecting up to 75% of the U.S. land area, excluding Alaska. Agriculture is responsible for a phenomenal 70% of all species listed under the Endangered Species Act. This, however, underestimates agriculture's impact since it doesn't include the water developments necessary for irrigated agriculture in the arid West. Reservoirs fragment watersheds and withdrawals from streams reduce flows and change water quality which contribute significantly to the decline of aquatic species.
Agriculture has essentially eradicated the entire tallgrass prairie and most of the mid-grass prairie. Again, this underestimates its impact on biodiversity since the presence of farming and ranching amid otherwise undeveloped land can fragment the remaining habitat to the point where its suitability for wildlife is greatly reduced. Indeed, the presence of undeveloped land in the midst of farmland is often a mortality sink where ground nesting birds and other wildlife become easy prey for predators.
Although the amount of land converted to urbanization is accelerating, the total amount of land devoted to urbanized uses is still less than 3% of the total U.S. land area. That is about the amount of land devoted to one crop, feeder corn. Yet a common message portrayed in the media and even many environmental organizations is that sprawl is the major threat to wildlife. As important as fighting the next subdivision might be, we would gain far more land for restoration, and do far more for native biodiversity, by reducing the amount of agricultural land than any other single factor.
Furthermore, we expend a huge amount on agricultural subsidies to maintain overproduction and the continuing degradation of our landscape. Some estimate that total U.S. agriculture subsidies are nearly $70 billion each year. To put this in perspective, the entire budget to operate all 520 national wildlife refuges in the nation is just $280 million and we spend less than $30 million yearly on our entire endangered species program.
Landscape scale ecological restoration could be funded by shifting just a fraction of these agricultural subsidies to land acquisition. It has been estimated that what has been spent on direct farm pay-merits in the Great Plains since 1933 is enough to have bought every single acre of cropland and rangeland in the region with $42 billion left over. Most of these lands are simply not suitable for sustained agricultural activity. They are too arid and too erosion prone to be grazed or farmed. Without government subsidies, most of this land would have been abandoned and returned to the public domain decades ago. A slight shift in diet from meat to greater consumption of vegetables and grains could easily make up for any reduction of crop land needed to restore our western public lands as well as a majority of the Great Plains.
The reduction in the amount of land used for crop production would significantly reduce soil erosion, pesticide use, fertilizer use, air and water pollution and the spread of exotic weeds. Reducing meat production would also reduce the heavy use of antibiotics and other drugs in livestock that are producing drug tolerant viruses and bacteria. Finally, the reduction in meat consumption would significantly reduce meat-induced health problems including colon cancer and heart disease that cost all of us billions of dollars each year. The best way to restore wildlands across the continent begins with a forkful of food.
Reprinted from Green Roots (The Newsletter of Forest Guardians) No. 8, Fall 2000
Wildlife Services
The Wildlife Services program (formerly Animal Damage Control) is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). One of Wildlife Services (WS)'s most controversial activities is killing wolves and other animals, primarily to protect western livestock interests. Each year more than $10 million in federal funds is spent for this purpose, and more than 50% of this budget is spent on western livestock protection.
In 1999, WS killed 601 badgers, 349 bears, 2,435 bobcats, 85,938 coyotes, 6,182 foxes, 359 cougars, and 173 wolves, using trapping, shooting, poisoning, and denning (the killing of pups in their dens with poison gas and/or clubbing).
Evidence indicates that the predator control program is unsafe, biologically and ecologically unsound, unethical, and an enormous waste of public funds. Other nonlethal means of predator management and animal husbandry techniques have been found to be more effective in reducing livestock losses.


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Levi S. Christner, 90, of rural Geneva, died Thursday in Adams Memorial Hospital.
He was born to Sam J. and Elizabeth Miller Christner.
Ronald Thornton, 71, of Decatur, died on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne.
Ron was born on August 16, 1939 in Xenia, Ohio, to Edward and Maxine (Elliott) Thornton Sr.
He married Sharon L. Thompson on January 14, 1967.
Ron was a lifetime member of Moose Lodge 1311 in Decatur and a longtime volunteer for the Adams County Emergency Management Agency.
Noemi Carrasquillo, 93, formerly of Decatur, died Tuesday in Lutheran Life Villages at Fort Wayne, where she had lived since 2005.
She was born in Puerto Rico to Jesus M. and Maria Mayoral Carrasquillo.
Among survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Jacob (Illis) Perez of Decatur; one son, Ithiel Torres of New Jersey; and one sister, Elizabeth C. Borges of Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Lena B. Moore, 83, of Berne, died Tuesday in Swiss Village Retirement Community.
She was born in Adams County in July 13, 1927, to Daniel and Irene Badertscher Morand.
Among survivors are her husband, Daniel Moore; one son, John Moore of Bryant; and one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Ginette) Tielke of Richmond, Texas.
Ronald L. Thornton, 71, of Decatur, died Tuesday in Lutheran Hospital at Fort Wayne.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Haggard and Sefton Funeral Home, Decatur.
"We deserved it," declared Bellmont junior Brooks Faurote, standing amidst the victory celebration at the Adams Central Team Wrestling Regional Wednesday night.
That they did. Brent Faurote's incredible Bellmont Braves turned the tables on No. 5 Yorktown and No. 8 Carroll to grab their 15th Team Regional Wrestling title, reclaiming a spot at Team State that the Yorkies took from them a year ago.
INDIANAPOLIS — IHSAA Commissioner Bobby Cox announced Monday the new classifications for 409 IHSAA member schools in several sports for the next two school years.
The enrollment figures, the total of boys and girls in grades 9-12, were submitted by the schools to the Indiana Department of Education last fall and are used to determine the classifications in the sports of baseball, boys and girls basketball, football, soccer, softball and volleyball.
The public relations push in support of a North Adams Community School's general fund referendum — which will ask school district voters during this year's May primary election to approve an increase in property taxes to support the financially-struggling district — will include door-to-door canvassing, meetings with township trustees, newspaper and radio promotions, and website postings.
With the big construction/renovation project at Adams Central School making good progress, the AC school board discussed at its February meeting what to do about the elementary school playground.
That play area has been on the north side of the school for many years, but some space was lost when an extension was added for offices, classrooms, and bathrooms to make that side of the school the main entry/exit point.
LEO-CEDARVILLE — "Leo" is a three-letter word that ends in "o" and Leo's Lions are a three-point team with a whole lot of "O."
That point was driven home at home on Tuesday as the highest-scoring high school team in Indiana (at least five games over 100 . . . and counting) bombarded Adams Central, 104-73.
The 31-point margin was the worst loss of the season for the 9-6 Flying Jets, who carried the Lions into overtime in the ACAC Tourney last month before falling, 86-79.


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Alexandria Light and Power supplies the city of Alexandria with water. The water is pumped from the underground water supply, or aquifer, to a series of wells and then it is treated at the Water Treatment Plant. Because the water you drink comes from ground water, you will be directly affected by the success or failure of a ground-water protection program. Alexandria Light and Power is a member of the local Wellhead Protection Committee. That committee was formed to help protect our community's water supply. You can help to protect our valuable ground-water supply from being contaminated.
What kinds of substances can contaminate ground water?
Septic tanks, cesspools, surface impoundments (ponds, lagoons), agricultural activities, landfills, underground storage tanks, abandoned wells and accident and illegal dumping of toxic materials all can contribute to contamination of ground water.
What can you do to help protect our ground water?
The way you dispose of products you use at home can contribute to the contamination of Alexandria's ground water. Products like motor oil, oil filters, old car batteries, pesticides, leftover paint or paint cans, mothballs, flea collars, weed killers, household cleaners and even a number of medications contain materials that can be harmful to groundwater. Don't put them in the trash or dump them on the ground! See to it that they are disposed of properly by bringing them to Pope Douglas Solid Waste. You can bring any of the items listed to Pope Douglas Solid Waste and they will dispose of them in an environmentally-safe way at no cost to you.
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Wellhead protection is designed to protect public water supply wells. All states are required to have wellhead protection programs under the provisions of the 1986 Amendments to the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) administers the State Wellhead Protection Rule Minnesota Rules, Chapter 4720.5100 - 4720.5590 that sets standards for wellhead protection planning.
In 2002, ALP initiated a Wellhead Protection Plan to help protect Alexandria's municipal wells from contamination. Alexandria's Wellhead Protection Team includes ten water experts from the State of Minnesota, Douglas County and the City of Alexandria. The plan addresses the delineations of the capture zones and the vulnerability assessment for existing water supply wells.
ALP, along with the Wellhead Protection Team's Protection Plan, is committed to on-going inspection, testing and protection of Alexandria's public water supply. The following is a drawing of a geological cross section of Alexandria.


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ARG! Passwords, passwords. It seems like I have a million log ins to various things all needing passwords! I know I can't be the only one so, How do you keep track of all your passwords?
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Well, it's about time that I change passwords right now. Sigh. I usually do it in bunches. When I change my email passwords, I change all of them and make it a habit to visit all the sites every day so that I don't forget. Then I'll change the passwords for other sites that I visit regularly.
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|Mon, 04-04-2011 - 11:55am
Do you have passwords that you reuse for various things or do you create a new password each time?
|Mon, 04-04-2011 - 12:05pm
Some I do reuse; I switch around on regular basis and add number or signs. The ones where there's a higher security I create a new password each time. It's always a word play of some kind, often funny, to help me remember. Plus the longer the password the more difficult it is to guess.
|Mon, 04-04-2011 - 12:27pm
hahaha-I add numbers and signs to some of my more used passwords too. The problem is remember what number I added. lol
|Mon, 04-04-2011 - 1:16pm
I have 2 different passwords and I just use those. Maybe slight variations on them if there are limits to how many charactors. But it seems like we do need a million!
|Tue, 04-05-2011 - 1:17pm
I'm like several of you, I have 3 or 4 passwords and just alternate them around, with slight variations, when I need to change them.
|Tue, 04-05-2011 - 3:31pm
I use a password manager, Roboform. I could not live without it but I still write everything down on a rolodex.


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Tired of being on the dieting merry-go-round? Ready for a nutritional makeover? Then, I think you will enjoy reading Michael Pollan's Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. In this 140 page easy read, Pollan shares 64 simple principles for healthy eating including:
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Ladies! It's time for the resolutions of the new year and the promise to lose weight.
Recently, I have become aware of a parallel universe, one where there are no grains in the diet. It is quite a challenge to learn to cook without any grains—and to learn all the tricks for replacing grain-containing ingredients in favorite recipes.
I find it interesting to see books that circulate quickly. In other words, these books go out and then return within a few days. Most of the books in my unscientific examination of book turnaround fall into one category: diets.
Yet again, I find myself attempting to take some weight off. It is a never ending struggle for me. This time, however, I am amazed at the overwhelming amount of books and online resources available to help and encourage me. The library literally has hundreds of books on the subjects of weight loss, diet, and exercise. We have a wealth of books on health topics and how to change your diet to improve your health. There are also a lot of exercise DVDs that can be checked out to get us moving!
Does anyone else still feel full? I was still full from Thanksgiving, and now that Christmas is over, I think it's time to go on a water and salad diet. No more turkey. No more ham. No more casseroles. Absolutely no more cookies, candy, and pie! I'm definitely going to have to dust off the treadmill and pilates mat.
Well, the unofficial beginning of summer is two months away. Backyard barbeques, trips to the lake, and outdoor activities mean that wearing shorts, bathing suits, and sleeveless tops is just around the corner. And I have yet to lose any of the weight I gained over the fall and winter. I was rudely shocked into reality when I began switching out my fall/winter wardrobe for my spring/summer one, and I realized that the vast majority of my clothes don't fit me anymore! So, it's time to get serious about losing the extra pounds and inches I've been holding on to for too lon
On a recent visit to Spain, I found living proof that the Mediterranean diet works. Walking through the streets and people-watching, I couldn't help noticing that the population, as a whole, is incredibly fit and active. There are very few overweight people. For years, scientists have noticed that Mediterranean countries have less obesity and the related health problems: hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. The key seems to be the diet.
Let me start by saying I've tried pretty much every diet out there. I've limited my fat intake. I've limited my carbs. I've limited my sugar consumption. And, it never worked. Not really. Maybe it would have if I played by the rules, but I always felt too helplessly deprived for that to ever be a real possibility. I'd eat my allotted portion and go to bed hungry. In a week, I'd return to my old ways and push the cardio so that I could indulge my sweet tooth.
Everyone who's ever gone on that epic weight loss journey has found some aspect of it difficult. Maybe, it's like pulling teeth to find the time to cook. Maybe, your willpower is lacking. Maybe, the smallest workout winds you. Maybe, chocolate chip cookies are your weakness. Living a healthy lifestyle isn't the easy choice to make after all. It's the right one though! I'm convinced of that. In July, I decided to join Jillian Michaels' weight loss program, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.
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Jabadabadana said...
it's not quite 40+7. several of the old world rep grinds, see Thorium Brotherhood, and Argent Dawn, are much much easier to grind through quests. I think my level 48 is now revered with the Argent Dawn, and didn't do all the quests in EPL.
If there's another low level one that's easy, I haven't figured it out yet, however, 40+9 is a lot closer to 50, and by now, most people with 40 prob had either 41+, or are/were close to 41+.
I have 51 exalted reps, but I still think it was a stupid mode. If anything, anyone who got the achi pre-cata deserves the damn title, and really, I don't think too many people got 40 between cata release and 4.06.


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The explosion took everyone by surprise.
Even the hijackers, Shades noted with much dismay as he veered sharply away from the blast area. If the explosion isn't their doing, he mused ominously, then whose is it? "What the hell was that!?"
"Holy shit!" Justin nearly lost control of his craft from the shockwave as he swerved past the scene.
The crane boom was in mid motion at the instant of the explosion, unceremoniously dumping the second crate on the deck of the Seeker, the hijackers tossed right off the deck of the now sinking platform like living crash-test dummies. The blast itself toppled three or four enemy craft.
Which suited Shades just fine, as his current tag-along was still tagging along, and he had enough on his hands with just that. Even as he tried to figure out how to lose an enemy that could shoot at him when he couldn't shoot back, another craft came in from in front. Swerving back-and-forth in a desperate attempt to evade their shots, he was frustrated to find that it was having the same effect on his own aim.
As the other bore down on him, apparently thinking he wanted to play chicken or something, Shades recalled a trick he learned, and executed a move his friends had shown him out on the lake. As his two adversaries closed in on each other, Shade jumped his craft, plunging beneath the surface while turning sharply. Having found a new use for an old trick.
Shades resurfaced as the other two, having gotten too close to avoid each other, both fired belatedly as they slammed together, throwing both riders over their handlebars. As he looked around to see who would attack him next, he wondered offhand if John's bandmates, Sandy and Becky, would give him points for style. Though he doubted either of them would ever have imagined him using a stunt move in battle. His sense of victory, though, was fleeting as he took in the rest of the battle, seeing they were still ridiculously outnumbered, and at this rate, they wouldn't hold out much longer.
Justin had arrived at much the same conclusion: now that they had thinned out the ranks a little, with just him and Shades they didn't stand an ice cube's chance in hell. As he shot down a third craft, he could see the odds were still too heavily stacked against them. Every fiber of his being was telling him to drop this no-win battle and make a break for it, book it to one of the islands or something. But he knew that Max wouldn't leave, not until he had done everything he possibly could— Shades, too, most likely— and found he just couldn't bring himself to abandon him like that.
As Justin circled around, another craft pulled up alongside him, the pilot whipping out a power pistol. But although he was barred from carrying his guns in public here, Justin had taken to concealing his laser staff on his person, and now that he was at a close enough range to use it, he did. Before his opponent could aim at him, Justin took the barrel off his gun, then slashed again, cutting the guy's handlebars off at the shaft.
Wondering for a second what the expression on the bastard's face looked like under that visor as his black-clad opponent veered out of control and crashed into another watercraft on approach, sending both adversaries skidding across the water, Justin remembered the other weapon he had taken to concealing on himself. Kicking himself for not thinking of his original backup plan first, and checking to see that it was still tucked snugly in his pocket, much to his relief. Wasting no time, he swung around and made a bee-line for the Seeker.
Arcing in close, and trying his best to remember speeds and distances from their battle with Striker's pirates, Justin pulled the pin on the EMP grenade with his teeth and tossed it at the Seeker.
As he sped away, he just hoped he could make it out of range in time. Which he did, whether by timing or by luck, but several pursuers were caught in the effective radius, their engines and weapons disabled by electromagnetic pulse. Even so, he realized, he was still outnumbered at least five-to-one, and the only thing that would save them now was a miracle.
Two miracles, he amended, seeing that they were now outnumbered nearly ten-to-one, since Shades' craft was also caught in the pulse.


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TORONTO - On the eve of his memorable exit interview, Greivis Vasquez sat down for dinner with the league's most famed and influential global ambassador, carrying on his mission to secure a new contract with the team that gave him new life in the NBA.
In Vasquez time, the meal may have lasted six hours. What did he and Drake discuss?
Perhaps a certain 2013-14 MVP came up in conversation.
Thunder forward and four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant has been on the minds of Raptors fans for the better part of the last year. Could Drake help lure Durant from Oklahoma City when he becomes a free agent following the 2015-16 season? He may have found a partner in crime.
"Hopefully I get to play with him one day in the NBA," Vasquez said of Durant, his high school teammate and old friend, guesting on TSN Drive with Dave Naylor on Monday. "Hopefully it's here in Toronto."
He wasn't done.
"Imagine if we get KD, Kevin Durant in 2016 and he leads us to a championship," the Raptors' point guard added, unprompted in an interview with Bryan Hayes on TSN 1050 the following day. "I think he'd have statues right outside the ACC."
Well played, sir. Vasquez, the quote that keeps on quoting, is angling for a new deal and with the offseason barely a week old, he has positioned himself favourably.
In case you haven't heard, Vasquez is quite fond of being in Toronto.
A week ago, on a day in which Kyle Lowry's impending free agency took centre stage, it was his backup, Vasquez, that stole the show delivering an emotional 19-minute soliloquy, with the occasional question sprinkled in.
He thanked the city, its fans, his teammates, coaches and general manager. He thanked the Toronto school board. "My son cannot wake up at 8:00 in the morning, he wakes up at six because he's excited to go to school." He thanked his waiter at the local all-you-can-eat Brazilian steak house.
So, he was thorough. It was exit interview meets academy award acceptance speech, only no one had the heart to play him off with music.
"That's Greivis," GM Masai Ujiri said a day later.
The 27-year-old point guard rarely holds back on the court, playing the game with a refreshing passion that helped spark Toronto's remarkable turnaround in 2014. The same could be said about his approach away from basketball.
"I'd use the word passionate for Greivis," said newly extended head coach Dwane Casey. "He has stones. He's probably, truth be told, probably the most confident player on the team. He feels like he can score on LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan in his prime, which is great and you need that."
"If you tell him, 'Greivis, run through that window right there,' he's going to do it. Now he may look at you a little bit, but he'll do it."
Vasquez, a restricted free agent this summer, is sincere in his sentiments, he truly hopes to remain a Raptor and the way he's gone about publicizing it could go a long way in ensuring he's back with the team next season.
"It would be heartbreaking if I don't come back," Vasquez exclaimed on a Monday afternoon in the bowels of the Air Canada Centre. "I'm an emotional guy, so I really embrace, I'm really committed to the team, to the city, to this franchise."
Seven days later, there was Vasquez, on stage shaking hands with Toronto's Deputy Mayor and representing the organization as May 12 was proclaimed "Raptors Day".
After arriving in an early-season trade from Sacramento - where he says he lost his passion for the game - Vasquez averaged 9.5 points and 3.7 assists in 61 games for the Raptors, his fourth NBA stop in four years. He has not wasted the opportunity.
He's gone all in. The Venezuelan-native has established himself as an emotional leader on the team and an ambassador in the city. For good measure he's also offering up his services in recruiting one of the NBA's premier talents, should he still be around in 2016.
But will he be around? Ujiri will not be pressured, not by elaborate speeches or the promise of an endorsement in two years from now. Vasquez will be retained if Ujiri determines it makes sense in basketball terms, and it may. Still, the extracurricular incentives can't hurt, especially if the Raptors' GM values continuity and chemistry as much as he has indicated.
"We hope to get something done," Ujiri told TSN.ca, in reference to Vasquez's contract status. "He's one of those pieces on the team where you know that he's always going to be a great teammates and he's going to go out and compete."
As Vasquez walked off the podium, an audience of assembled media brimming after he captivated them with a season-ending speech for the ages, he left the room the same way he entered it 20 minutes earlier. The "loveable underdog" - as he once referred to himself - wore a black cap decorated with the words "We The North" on his head and a big smile across his face.
"I'm not taking this for granted," he told the city and its acting mayor on Raptors Day. "I'm saying it because I mean it."
And he does, but he knows exactly what he's doing.
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2013 Hawaii Business Top 250: (UHA) University Health Alliance
One of the hot topics among employers these days is the insurance exchange, which will be launched in October. Although it's just two months away from being implemented, there is still some uncertainty about the responsibilities of employers and whether migrating to the exchange makes sense for them.
While the intent of the exchange is to ensure more people receive coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act, it's important to note that coverage alone does not guarantee a healthy population.
In Hawaii, more than 90 percent of Island residents have some kind of insurance thanks to the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act. However, healthcare costs continue to rise. Why? And what can we do about this as employers?
As a health plan, UHA is doing much more for our members to help them stay healthy. Many of our policies are counter-intuitive to cutting costs. Instead of cutting back on benefits or making eligibility requirements more stringent, we provide more benefits to support long-term health and well-being. Instead of an adversarial relationship with providers and physicians, we collaborate. Instead of shunning at-risk individuals for high utilization of costly services and procedures, we give them special attention and tools to better manage their health.
These approaches to healthcare have always been at the heart of UHA since its inception. Physicians who wanted to improve health care quality in our state formed UHA 17 years ago, and physicians continue to guide the insurance company's policies and practices to ensure optimal care for our members.
Even before health reform mandated preventive benefits, UHA was at the forefront by offering these benefits at no cost. We continue this win-win approach with extensive wellness programs starting with our own employees. We offer stipends to subsidize employee participation in fitness programs and paid time off for exercise.
UHA also invests in those who are not healthy. Using predictive modeling software, we can identify individuals at risk for diseases such as diabetes. Our physicians and nurses collaborate with their physicians, intervening early to ensure they get the extra medical attention they need.
We make health plans work for our 52,000 members, rather than having members figure out how to make their health plan work for them. We educate members about their benefits, rather than debating why they cannot have a particular service. We believe this level of personalized support is key for health plans in the future.
Health plans must continually develop innovations to support, rather than be an obstacle to, optimal health. This is the only way to ensure we provide our members better health and a better life.
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Mila Kunis + Ashton Kutcher Reportedly Expecting a Girl
Oh Mama Mila! It's a girl, according to multiple sources close to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who are expecting their first child together.
Oh Mama Mila! It's a girl, according to multiple sources close to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who are expecting their first child together.
'Jupiter Ascending,' which released two posters earlier today, has just unleashed its latest trailer, giving us a better look at the story. It seems The Wachowskis have merged the standard 'Star Wars'-esque hero's journey with the tale of a princess (Played by Mila Kunis) who finds out her destiny from Channing Tatum after a lifetime of menial labor. The big takeaway from this new spot is that the film looks epic.
Mila Kunis made her first public appearance Thursday night after it was reported on March 24 that Kunis and fiance Ashton Kutcher are expecting their first child. According to Just Jared, the 30-year-old actress was wearing a loose-fitting dress from Acne Studios.
First comes the engagement and then comes the baby! News broke last night (March 23) that incredibly good-looking and talented duo Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are expecting their first child together.
Normally we'd consider CBS' long-running 'Two and a Half Men' out of our wheelhouse, particularly given how unrecognizable the series has become from its original inception, but the latest casting coup is too retro to ignore. Ashton Kutcher will reunite with his 'That '70s Show' co-star (and now fiancee) Mila Kunis for an arc later on this season, but what does it mean for the show?
In what could be the strangest modern development in the comic-book universe, a poster has been revealed that hints at a 'Wonder Twins' movie starring two veterans of 'That '70s Show,' Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. There are a couple options for what this could mean, but it's more than likely we're being Justin Biebered.
Russell Brand is still busy promoting his 'Messiah Complex' comedy tour, and this time around he talked to the UK paper the Mirror, which allowed him to tell amusing anecdotes (rather than belittling him).
To wit: There was that time he tried to mack on Mila Kunis, but all she wanted to talk about was then-boyfriend Macaulay Culkin.
Notoriously private actress Mila Kunis still refuses to talk about boyfriend Ashton Kutcher, but that didn't stop her from teasing a reporter about how being in love is the best thing ever.
Both Mila Kunis and Vanessa Hudgens have a lot in common. Not only did they grow up in the public eye, they have similar faces and have been known to appear in works that involve spontaneously breaking into song.
'Jupiter Ascending,' the Wachowski's follow-up to 'Cloud Atlas,' has begun filming with Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum in the lead roles. While we've been keeping track of the project through casting reports, we still had no official word on what it was actually about. Now Warner Bros. has released its first plot synopsis for us, along with the confirmed casting roster.


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Environmental concern and the choice of transport infrastructure projects in Sweden
AbstractOne of the goals of transport policy in Sweden is to minimize the impact from transport on the environment. Using a database consisting of over 800 rail, road and maritime transport infrastructure projects, we estimate whether environmental factors, such as negative environmental effects arising from the project (noise and barrier effects), or emissions of five pollutants (NOx, VOC, CO2, SO2 and PM) affect the choice of which projects will be built. For a broader model including all three transport modes, we find that projects that cause negative environmental effects in fact have a greater probability of being included in the National or a Regional Transport Infrastructure Plan for 2010-2021. For a narrower model including only road investments, we find that if we include a measure for the Net Benefit/Investment Cost Ratio (NBIR), only the negative environmental effects matter and raise the probability of a project being included in a Plan. Excluding the NBIR measure reveals that what matters are the CO emissions and traffic safety measures. Thus, an increase in the emissions of CO lowers the project's probability of being included in a Plan, and traffic safety benefits increase the probability.
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8 p.m. Saturday, March 27. $28.60 in advance, $30 day of event admission includes book. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., No. 138, Woodstock. 770-516-9989, www.foxtalebookshoppe.com, www.dogthebountyhunter.com.
By Candice Hannigan
The phone's been ringing off the hook at FoxTale Book Shoppe, a 2,000-square-foot independent bookstore in downtown Woodstock.
Duane "Dog" Chapman is coming to town, and die-hard Dog fans from as far as Florida and South Carolina have been calling for directions.
"Woodstock is on fire about this event. This is huge, huge, huge for Woodstock," said FoxTale Book Shoppe's Ellen Ward, who shares ownership of the store with Karen Schwettman and Jackie Tanase. "It will be our biggest event to date."
They've reserved the gazebo and town park in front of the store, where the crowd will gather to wait for Chapman's 8 p.m. arrival. Then the fans will file into FoxTale, have their books signed and exit through the back of the store.
Ward expects at least 1,000 people will turn out to see Chapman, star of A&E's "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and author of "Where Mercy is Shown, Mercy is Given." It's not clear how many family members will be with him besides his wife, Beth, but judging from the calls she has gotten, many will be thrilled if son Leland makes an appearance.
There's a possibility Chapman's entourage will include a camera crew, and fans will be notified that footage shot here may be part of a future television show. Although Chapman won't pose for pictures, photos can be taken from a designated area set up 10 feet away from his book-signing table.
FoxTale will have 1,000 copies available of Chapman's latest release, which chronicles the success of the bounty hunter's 30-year career apprehending more than 7,000 fugitives.
Chapman spoke to the AJC by phone from Los Angeles recently.
Chapman said he gets calls from the most wanted criminals in the country.
"We have criminals on the top ten FBI list calling me, saying 'Dog, I need to see you.' I caught this guy who was completely relieved. He said, 'Thank God, Dog, you got me. I can't do this no more, Dog. Thank you.' "
He attributes his success as a bounty hunter to time spent on the other side of the law, which ended with an 18-month stint in a Huntsville prison.
"Do you remember the story about a little Indian boy who walked away from his parents, and the wolves found him and raised him till he was 14, when his parents came by again?" Chapman said. "Even though he didn't live with the wolves anymore, he knew how to communicate with them.
"When Dog speaks, my people listen because they know I've been there, done that, and don't want to do it again."


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I have all of my previously existing cities in place. More or less where they were before. Changes in position or state were predicated either by the slightly altered geography or by my evolving ideas about this planet and its cultures. I'm being somewhat conservative due to time constraints. For example, I'm considering, as part of the conworlding project, altering Valkam into the capital of an independent kingdom. For now, I'm ignoring such things as the balkanization of the main continent. I'm also considering moving most of the big cities on the northwest continent to the northern lobes of the main continent. Again, that's for the new year!
Next I need to label known hydrographic and geographical features and then add more cities and such. River labeling will be particularly miserable because of the way Saga generated the channel vectors. Thousands of independent short segments. I love ArcScan!
Please, oh god, please, don't lock down till the ball drops in Fiji.
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Serpents be Damned! Addressing ISKCON Concerns About My New Kirtan Book
Hari Bol,
pamho. agtsp.
I spoke with a very senior devotee about kirtaniyas outside of iskcon. He observed following points:
1. These kirtaniyas charge hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend their programs/retreats/seminars etc. and many of them are not sincere spiritual seekers themselves. They are doing this to simply make money. Affluent people who are spending these money are doing that as a fashion or a status symbol. He gave me anology of cheaters and cheated.
On the other hand, iskcon distributes Harinam for free.
2. Some of them are cow-eaters, gamblers, womanizers etc.
3. Indian kirtaniyas like Jagjit Singh, Anoop Jalota may not have pure Bhakti.
Then he adviced me following:
1. There are many good Kirtaniyas in iskcon like Lokanath Maharaj, BB Govind Maharaj, Niranjan Maharaj, Indradyumna Maharaj, Radhanath Maharaj to name a few. One should listen their Bhajans and Kirtans.
2. Do not listen to so called devotional singers from India who are singing for money.
I practice following:
1. Listen to above-mentioned Maharaj's Bhajans when I am doing some work like cooking, cleaning, ironing my clothes etc.
2. I email iskcon bhajan songs' links to my friends and just spread the word.
Here are my observations about this topic:
1. we do not allow non-initiated devotees to cook Prasadam for Krsna. We do not allow anybody other than Brahmana to enter sanctum sanctorum in our temples. We generally do not allow Hindu demigods deities in our temples. The same standard can be and should applied to Bhajan and Kirtan in my humble opinion.
2. A rock music practitioner was leading a Kirtan in Prabhupad's presence and he was doing it in a very Tamasik way, Prabhupad asked him to stop and ask other devotee to replace him.
3. Prabhupad was given many suggestions to increase preaching by lowering standards, but he stood firm. His opinion was "Purity is Force".
4. We can market our excellent Kirtaniyas to people outside of iskcon. There are various ways, youtube, itune, selling cds etc. Our Kirtaniyas are following 4 regs and chanting 16 rounds and they can beat hands down these money-hungry fake kirtaniyas. This will increase our revenue which can be used to increase our preaching.
Please forgive me if I offended anyone.
Hare Krsna
your servant
aspiring Vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 22.08.2008 @ 02:54
Will you join me to campaign for a safe Vrindavan?
Hare Krsna
pamho. agtsp.
I entirely agree with the objectives of the original poster. I have some different ideas about achieving those.
I am in Indian body and lived there more than half of my life so far.
I gather that some ISKCON Maharaj have friends amongst Indian politicians.
In India bribe(what we call in the US campaign contributions) works very effectively when dealing with politicians.
We can find Krsna-friendly powerful Indian politicians amongst all major political parties and get special laws passed for Vrindavan. Also local chief minister can be influenced with money and other methods.
I personally very much dislike bribing, but that is the only way things can get done in India.
One of Vaishnava Acharyas of yesteryears reportedly instructed disciples to treat a Mughal officer(some Kazi) providing him tobacco and other things he wanted, so that the Math will be in good books of the local government.
We can raise funds for lobbying Indian politicians about this issue.
Also, we need to make aware all our resident Indian devotees about happenings in Vrindavan and they will mobilize some actions.
Indian politicians can also be pressured by local population apart from campaign contributions :-)
Hari Bol
your servant
aspiring Vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 06.06.2008 @ 01:52
Hari Bol,
I entirely agree that running a greenhouse will not be cost-effective in cold climate in West Virginia. But then we are talking about dirty energy like oil, regular electricity etc.
We can explore following sustainable energy options.
1. Solar panels
2. Wind turbines.
3. Gobar gas(Bio-gas) plant.
I understand that New Vrindavan has many cloudy days in a year, so we have to use all the above 3 at the same time. We have 20+ cows/bulls in the Goshala, we can run Gobar gas plant to provide electricity for the greenhouse. We can place greenhouse close to Goshala. With using all 3 at the same time, Krishna willing, we can feed electricity back to the grid and actually earn energy credits for the temple.
Where does money come from these options?
Options 1 and 2 are almost free. Many states in the US refund you the cost of Solar panel and Wind turbine installations in the first year itself.
Gobar gas plant will incur some cost of installation and maintenance.
New Vrindavan has earmarks for some projects, Eye surgery for poor people in Vrindavan, India is an example. I donated for that project.
So, the temple management can have earmarks for maintaining a greenhouse.
Where the workers to maintain greenhouse come from?
1. We can involve local devotees
2. We can spread the word out in the Iskcon world and ask for short-term volunteers, train them to work in the greenhouse.
3. we can get devotees from other parts of the world on temporary farm-workers visa.
What are advantages for doing all this?
1. We can attract more western devotees who are eco-friendly. Preaching to westerners was a major mission of Srila Prabhupad.
2. We can use this as a showcase to show Iskcon's commitment to eco-friendly living.
Hare KruShNa
your servant
aspiring vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 17.05.2008 @ 13:01
Hari Bol,
pamho. asgtsp.
If anybody is going to start some websites, i can volunteer my computer programming skills and time(about 10 to 20 hours a week).
Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hare KruShNa
your servant
aspiring vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 13.03.2008 @ 20:29
Hari Bol,
This author has a negative comment about monotheistic religion like Christianity in this article.
Is Gaudiya Vaishnava not a monotheistic religion?
i refrained from forwarding this link to my atheist acquaintances for the fear they will jump on that sentence and put Gauidiya Vaishnava in the same club as other monotheistic religion.
Any comments?
Hare KruShNA
your servant
aspiring Vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 29.11.2007 @ 02:15
Hari Bol,
Radhanath Prabhu's life story is very inspring. sometimes we see that some devotees when diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, panick and stop or reduce chanting. if we follow example of Radhanath Prabhu, we could do better.
i request, some devotee who knew Radhanath Prabhu personally, write a short biography of him and publish that online. we can circulate that thru email and demonstrate devotees and others, how devotional service can be performed in spite of physical challenges and disease.
Hare KruShNA
your servant
aspiring vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 27.10.2007 @ 13:46
Overwork now, samadhi may never come
Hari Bol,
If we are doing some service in temple, we can still engage ourselves in bhakti.
ShravaNam, Kirtanam. ShravaNam is also important and we can listen to MahaMantra bhajan if we are doing some work like washing pots.
when i wash pots or cut vegetables in a temple or my home, i have cd player playing bhajan and i sing Mahamantra along with bhajan.
if somebody is doing accounting or word processing service for a temple, they can play mp3 bhajans in the background. our subconscious mind will be listening. IMHO, this will help in our moment of death.
we can try to find ways to engage ourselves in KruShNa-bhakti all our waking hours.
Hare KruShNA
your servant
aspiring vaishnav
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 25.10.2007 @ 21:44
Hari Bol,
i would like to make a small donation to ParthaSarathi Prabhu's preaching efforts in Iraq. Please post details to send donations. can we setup a paypal account?
Hare KruShNA
your servant
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 26.09.2007 @ 14:10
Hari Bol,
Some devotees had raised some concerns about iskcon's image in the minds of Iraqui people earlier, when ParthaSarathi Prabhu had declared his plans about Baghdad Rathyatra. Prabhuji explained that this Rathyatra would be only for American soldiers and yatra would happen on an American army base.
Hare KruShNA
your servant
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 23.09.2007 @ 13:28
Hari Bol
Cidanandas Prabhu, i will send you US$50/=, once you reach Iraq and start preaching in the warzone.
Hare KruShNA
your servant
Comment Posted By asprng_vaishnav On 23.09.2007 @ 03:19
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Area Guide – Lake Mattawa
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Lake Mattawa
Lake Mattawa Rd., Orange, MA
A clear, spring-fed lake. Swimming beach, summer trout fishing, ice fishing.Description:
The 112-acre Lake Mattawa boasts very clear water – you can see 15 feet down – and the reputation of producing trophy trout. The trout's success here is probably due to the numerous springs that feed the lake and the high number of the smelt they forage on. Other fish found here include smallmouth bass, pumpkinseed, bluegill, yellow perch, golden shiner, white sucker, and brown bullhead. The state stocks the waters each spring with rainbow and brown trout.
From Orange Center, go south on S. Main 0.2 mi. Turn right on W. River St. and go 0.3 mi. Turn left on Walnut Hill Rd. and go 0.7 miles. Turn right on Lake Mattawa Rd. and go 1 mile to parking.Contact:
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Just some old stuff… some I dug out of storage… some i just had
Pic #1
l to r: Aesop Rock, Inkwell, Cryptic One (front), Blueprint (middle), Illogic (back), DJ Cip One (front), Alaska (middle), Vast Aire, Kasm… photo taken by Windnbreeze.
This was when Weightless re-released Illogic & Greenhouse albums on CD (previously only on cassette) print asked us all to perform at their release party. And we said fuck yeah and hopped in the van and drove the 10 hours to Columbus, Ohio and chilled with weightless for a few days. Was a real fun and strange trip filled with lots of surreal moments like wind, illogic, and aesop outside of the venue in a cipher trading verses back and forth… wish i had video of that
Picture #2 & 3 is Saga Tetsuo from 1997, which was Alaska & Vordul who were a group before Cannibal Ox was a group. They wrote a bunch of joints but only recorded one that i remember offhand called "Small Sample of Sperm" which was an incredible joint which Vordul co-produced and vordul blacked out for a long 100-120 bar verse. Recorded it in Ozone studios, same studio all the originally co-flow, indelibles, mike ladd, sonic sum, saul williams, etc stuff was recorded in. Alaska later re-used his verse on the song Eff the Heard with me. I think this pic #1 was from an Atoms show we did @ SUNY Purchase but Im not sure honestly. Picture #2 is Saga Tetsuo from the same day but in my old studio
Picture #4 was from the first trip some of the Atoms made out to my place in LI to record. This was from 96 and has some previously unseen atoms. From left to right:
Alaska in the back with the blue jacket
Analytic - who was the 3rd original member of Hangar 18 who at the time was Alaska, Windnbreeze, and Analytic… Analytic was one of my favorite Atoms at the time but he stopped rhyming around 97-98ish when he had a kid (and some other reasons)
Konfucious - from the group outter limits… he appears on the Centa of da Web EP and also appeared on a few other joints from the Atoms Archives. He was definitely one of the most talented atoms back then, ill never forget this song that him and void had where Void told the story of a bombing from the perspective of the bomb and Konfucious told the story from the point of view of the person attempting to diffuse the bomb… shame we never recorded it
MLF - him and Vordul were the youngest Atoms and went to high school together… they drew comics and rhymed together with vast
Vordul - Vordul @16 years old
Picture 5 - l to r Jestoneart, Alaska, and Windnbreeze. This was the night of the Cold Vein mastering session @ the Lodge studio in NYC. Was a pretty epic night with the Cold Vein done and being mastered in a state of the art studio by Emily Lazar who was pretty well known for her mastering and also for her Avalon ads (studio equipment geeks understand and know). This photo was taken at a deli around the corner after being in the studio for hours doing nothing but bullshitting with el, vast, & vordul and playing fooseball. We got a little stir crazy and went to eat. I think this was in December of 2000… maybe January of 2001
Picture #6. This was drawn by Osirus one of the original Atoms Fam members who also drew the Cannibal Ox "Cold Vein" artwork & logo (and appears on the Atoms track Lemmie Atom). Osirus and Vast were originally a group (and also drew comics together) when i met them in 96. The above artwork was for the group me and Alaska formed "IT" and was for a single that never was released
Picture #7. This is up for lol purposes. When I used to rent out studio time back in 93 or so. First lol is that 8trk studio was a pretty big deal back then. 2nd and larger lol is the fact that this was the days of beepers. I remember everyone used to think I was a drug dealer back then because of my pager… hilarious
Picture #8. Just random shit I pulled out of storage yesterday:
Labor Days and Cold Vein vinyl
Poster from an in store performance 4 days after Cold Vein dropped with Aesop, Ox and the rest of Atoms (and El-P came with us to just chill)
Cold Vein poster signed by Vordul, Vast, Cip One, C Rayz, and Aesop… they each traced their hands on it and signed it for some reason…
Random show poster, not sure what city… with me and Hangar
Euphony, Prequel, and Cold Vein CDs still sealed
The original Atoms Fam sticker (maybe not original, there was another one from 96) with DJ Cip's name misspelled… i remember when we first got these stickers to promote at Scribble Jam 98 maybe 99. Met so many people that trip, Blueprint, Eyedea, Slug, and a billion other people. So many people showed us love out there was really our first times out of state hip hop wise (me and Alaska were the only ones that went).. i remember eydea walking around with atoms stickers stuck all over his rhymesayers t-shirt, RIP Mike. He was only 16 when i first met him so i guess that means it was 98
Vast Aire - Adversity Strikes
Prepare for another long winded Atoms History 101 novel
This was the 2nd or 3rd joint I ever recorded with Vast (first was Lemmie Atom i believe. He came out to the studio with the rhymes already written and the idea for the intro of the track being the Cannonball Adderley intro sample. While recording the verses he thought of the Organized Konfusion "one plus one get it together" hook/sample combined with sampling himself "swinging at my man but got trapped in the Vast nucleus" from Not For Promo. I had the beat already made before he arrived and then I recorded my vocals for the first "Im from the Atoms Fam" part and we ran through his verses pretty quickly. This was back in 97, maybe 96. First released on Persecution of Hip Hop, then later released and remixed on The Prequel.
Some completely useless uninteresting trivia about the song:
my favorite lines from this joint:
Divine parasite?
Put a muzzle on it… Reality Bites
Im a peaceful cat, but I respect beef like a hindu
Must one fail for another to pass?
Said by a wise man watching a fool pull a mule's ass
and the line that got the most rewinds and LOLs was "I think hard, like Christopher Wallace with a cheeseburger on his mind in his last minutes"
This was definitely the breakout song that got Vast known in the NYC underground scene at the time
anyways thats all… and here is the remix version from The Prequel
Atoms Family - Adversity Struck (Cryptic One Remix) feat. Vast Aire, Jestoneart, Windnbreeze, Alaska, & Cryptic One
Here is another never released Atoms related joint… well kinda unreleased… as usual with any unreleased joints i let out into the world there is a disclaimer: its unmixed, unmastered, and missing some elements of the beat… including 1 major beat change
(be warned…a long story about the origins of this track follows below… and it will be a boring story to anyone but the die hard Atoms Fam fans)
The story of this track is basically this. Me and vast did a song called Adversity Struck (i produced it)… the song just never clicked so it just kind of sat around and we eventually scrapped it
Embedded Records was putting together a compilation at the time and asked Atoms to get on it. They sent us a beat and vast, alaska, wind and jest came through to record over their beat (Vordul was MIA). Vast didnt have a verse ready to go and couldnt get motivated to write a new one that day so he re-used the first verse from Adversity Struck since the song was scrapped
So anyway everyone laid their verses and when it was my turn to record it was mad late and everyone had to bounce. I never felt the beat that the Embedded guys sent us (sorry jesse) so I remixed it just for the sole purpose of having a different beat to spit on… we sent the song to embedded with their beat and they released the compilation Embedded Joints (i think sometime in 2004 maybe 2003)
So with all that said none of us were feeling the song at all so Vast re-vitalized his original song Adversity Struck and re-used that verse again and you can see him recording the song on the Def Jux Documentary with Jestoneart and the final song is on youtube somewhere… (just search for Vast Aire Adversity Struck 9x9)
Anyways… i said all that to say this… i remixed the embedded joint with all of us on it and this is the remixed version… i never released it because frankly the Jestoneart produced Adversity Struck 9x9 version with just Vast is a much better song in my opinion… but im throwing this out there now because i think wind and alaska kill it and its worth hearing those verses over a beat that i feel is better than the original… the original is on youtube too and i cringe every time i hear it (again sorry jesse if you read this, it is what it is homie)
Cannibal Ox - Metal Gear
This was actually the 1st joint that Cann Ox recorded with EL-P… it didnt fit with the rest of the Cold Vein so they wound up leaving it off the album…
side note and rarely spoken of fact is that Vordul freestyled a good portion of this verse (and others). If you listen to the track when he starts with "im too motherfuckin ill" at the 4:01 mark the rest of the song is off the head
This wasnt a rare thing for Vordul, there are a ton of songs it happened on… Ive seen it firsthand so many times where he is spitting a verse and forgets a line or stumbles over a word and just starts freestyling… so when recording sessions with vordul we always just let him go until he would stop because you never knew what gem was going to happen naturally… and a lot of times we would go back and listen to the freestyle part and just wind up using that take instead of the actual verse he wrote…
off the top of my head (pun intended) another song he freestyled on was Atoms All Stars… everything was written until he said "I shine for allah with mad skills" then the rest of the verse was off the head… on the take we wound up using he kept freestyling for a good 3 or 4 minutes… but to keep the length of the song manageable i cut it off at "fly in the sky live pigeon" and echoed out the word pigeon to make it sound like the end of a verse…. somewhere i have the old version where he just raps for 4 minutes straight… gotta dig that up
Thought this was a good article. (link above)
For those not in the know SYFFAL is Tim Baker aka Alaska site and he wrote the article. Alaska of Hangar 18 and Atoms Fam obviously
yoitshim said: why waasnt windnbreeze on the cannibal ox atom track?
Im pretty sure wind was finishing up school at New Paltz at the time so he wasnt around, but I could be wrong, it was a long time ago. It could of also been that me and Tim (alaska) were just the most active Atoms at the time and we were always around recording, at shows, etc in those days.
For the official "real answer" you would have to ask Vast and Vordul for the reasoning. A lot of the Atoms songs over the years used to just happen because of whoever happened to be around and able to make it to the studio that day, so it might have just been as simple as that, me and Tim happened to be around and answer the phone when we got the call.
stepfatherfactory-deactivated20 said: When I first heard atom, your verse stood out the most to me. That shit is fucking incredible. No riding intended. Lol
Thanks man… no worries, it isnt riding man, always cool when people are feeling my work… i always liked that verse a lot too but always knew I could have spit it better… it is what it is
Cannibal Ox - Atom ft. Alaska and Cryptic
"Yo, I ain't superstitious, but these niggas is nice…"
That "Yo I aint superstitious but these niggas is nice…" line was a hat tip to the song we did in 96 or 97 called "Not For Promotional Use" with me, vast and vordul. Technically it was the first recorded song of Cann Ox and originally was released on the double vinyl compilation I put out in '98 called "Persecution of Hip Hop"… im sure its on youtube somewhere. I guess you could consider Adversity Strikes as the first true Cann Ox song but it was really a Vast solo song..
The song "Atom" was an interesting recording experience. I wish we had more time to prepare honestly… The Cold Vein was just about finished and Vast and Vordul wanted to get an Atoms track on the album so they called me and Alaska up and we headed to El P's crib in brooklyn, heard the beat for the first time, and recorded it and bounced. Vordul hadnt even recorded his part yet so it was a pretty sick surprise to get a copy of the final version a few weeks later (Vorduls verse is my favorite on the song)… Alaska came with a verse he already had, and I wrote specifically for the song. It all happened so fast because there were deadlines to hand the album in, but Alaska and I always wished we could have kicked those verses over… it is what it is, and at the time we knew Cold Vein would be pretty big but never foresaw just how big…
Sidenote: just about every lyric site has it wrong and lists Alaska's verse as mine for some reason… only lyric site that has it right is rapgenius.com because I actually emailed them to correct it
Ambient butterz from the Atoms Fam.
Side note… I made this beat in about 94 or 95… maybe even 93. Originally i rhymed over it, and i scrapped the song… then it wound up in Hangar 18 of Atoms Fams hand and they did a song over it that never got released. A few years later Vast was working on his solo and came through to hear beats. I played this beat accidentally because the ASR-10 disc had a blank label on it and Vast stopped me right there and said "BOOM" and thats the track that wound up as the single and title track.
side note 2: i wasnt really feeling the beat (mainly because it was so old), and was a little upset that I didnt get to play the new tracks I made specifically with Vast in mind. I wound up not mixing the final song (i forget who did the final mix) so the beat sounded different than I originally intended when making it… not complaining at all, just stating the way it was… good times
I remember the day I took this picture. We had just come from a rehearsal space on the west side. Ox was about to go on their first headlining tour if I remember right. We left the spot and walked past this truck that said Oxford Transportation or something and I obviously had to take a picture blocking out the "ford" in oxford.
The pictures were strictly for us at the time, had zero clue that they would eventually end up in magazines and on websites everywhere. The picture was taken sometime in early 2001…. good times


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