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Monday, July 24, 2017
The Library Table
I knew that I wanted a library table in some capacity in the new house, or at least some sort of table where books could be stacked facing upward, and there was a perfect blank wall between the two doors leading into the library.
I found the perfect table at a local antiques store where I got it for a great price. Sadly, the owner told me antiques were "dead" and whereas he could have sold it for thousands in previous years, it was now worth much, much less. Lucky for me I say!
I love the idea of switching out the books for different seasons or using the table for snacks during gatherings. It can even get smaller if the sides are let down, so I consider it a very versatile table to have.
I LOVE the Hollyhock fabric that we had the small chairs recovered in. It gave the chairs new life!
Above the table, we have a small gallery of photos and art work. The large photo is from our trip last summer and you can just barely make out Bryce and the children hiking amongst the Redwoods. The map is an old map that Bryce and I picked up in Paris years ago, the oil paintings are of our Airstream and Mount Rainer. As always, I love our art to have special meaning.
A favorite detail of mine is this frog tassel. We've had him since our days in Atlanta and he just keeps getting moved around to wherever he is best suited!
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
The Garden Beds Outlined in Stone
We have been working so hard in the garden and I can hardly believe that I haven't posted about it. I've mentioned before that it was important to me that it be beautiful as well as functional and it has checked off every box for me as it churns out lots of veggies, flowers and is pretty to boot. We are still working on some of the foundational bones of the garden but as we all know a garden is never really finished.
One of my most questionable decisions regarding the garden are the stone edges we used to outline each of the 24 beds. I had the idea to use stone from our property and to dig them in. At first, it seemed like not a huge deal but it sure turned into one.
Finding the stones got harder and harder and digging the stones in was an exercise in patience and a lot of work for Bryce. Each bed took well over an hour or two to complete. It took almost three months to get each and every bed dug in.
It maybe wasn't the best idea but, in the end, they look fantastic and I love that it was all part of the property and speaks to the creeks we have.
P.S. I'm trying not to think about the frost/thaw heave that could potentially take place.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Harry Potter in London
Last, but certainly not least, was our time in London with Harry Potter. On Sunday, we surprised the children with tickets to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and it was wonderful- truly a spectacular show! The actors were wonderful, the sets amazing, the scene changes were like a dance and the story felt right (much different than reading the play/book).
I've had lots of questions about how I got tickets and I'm afraid it was just luck and persistence. Back in January, when we decided to book our trip, I started looking for tickets to see the play. Much to my disappointment, tickets were sold out and even though I continued to check, they never became available. I did look on sites such as stub hub but was shocked to discover that our family of four would pay up to $10,000 for the tickets. Clearly, that wasn't going to happen.
The day before I left for England, I just happened to check and there were four seats available! I grabbed them up in record time! While at the theater I asked an attendant about the seats becoming available because I wondered if they simply hold some back to release later in time. She said that they must have been returned tickets because they do from time to time allow returns since they must be bought so far in advance. Our seats were wonderful (I would say we paid the equivalent to a Broadway show) and, fun fact, JJ Abrams sat directly in front of us.
After the show, we wandered around the area where the theater is and just so happened (I swear!) to walk past the theater to find the actors who played Hermione and Harry just finishing up talking to fans. We approached them and chatted with them for a bit and they could not have been nicer or more gracious.
While in London, we also took a bus out to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour. This was fun to see all the artifacts from the actual sets of HP. We learned loads of things about how they filmed the movies. The time, effort, thought and money that went in to producing these movies is mind boggling.
The showstopper was at the end of the tour, where we got to see Hogwarts Castle in all of its glory. This model is what they used for all the castle shots and the pictures don't even come close to portraying its magnificence.
And that's it folks, our England trip is a wrap!
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Sunday, July 16, 2017
The Queen and Windsor Castle
I'm just going to start out by saying...we saw the Queen of England. In person. Less than 15 feet away. It was all very exciting!
We took a day trip out to Windsor Castle and it just so happened that I, in my infinite ability to embarrass my children, joked to the ticket seller that I was hoping to see the Queen. She told me, in rather hushed tones, that the Queen would be leaving for the horse races in about twenty minutes and if we left the castle and walked to the "long walk" we would be able to see her as she left. We went for it and were rewarded with a view of the Queen in a rather festive pink suit!
With that exciting feather in our cap, we went on to tour the castle and its grounds. We did tour St. George's Chapel and the Staterooms within the castle but no photography was allowed.
I'm trying to convince my family that we too should dress like this on any given Saturday morning. I think Harris and Bryce would look dashing in a top hat.
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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Touring London Part 2
I'm going out of order of what we did on our trip because it's easier to group certain things together. Also, if you are still reading, well done! It seems to be going on forever :).
One of the places that Grace had seen on the internet, and really wanted to find while in London, was The Churchill Arms. Turns out it was literally right around the corner from us and so we walked by it multiple times during our visit. In person, it was just amazing to see!
One day we went to The Tower of London. Here we wandered around the castle, saw the crown jewels, and got more information on Anne Boylen's execution (my children think I'm weirdly interested in it).
From there we walked across the Tower Bridge. At the top of the bridge there are glass floors where you can see down below you. As neat as I thought that was, my brain couldn't seem to make it okay and I didn't care for it at all (and I'm not even afraid of heights).
We left the bridge and walked along the waterfront towards The London Eye. As we walked, we saw a lot of landmarks and stopped in to tour The Globe. It would have been fun to see a show there.
We rode The London Eye and it was fun to see the wonderful views!
Our last day in London was the only day it rained! We went to tour Westminster Abbey and to have tea!
We also made our way to Liberty department store (this is where Liberty of London fabric comes from!). You guys, I loved this place and I so wish I could do my shopping in a store just like it.
We stopped by this cute store in the Notting Hill area where they make and decorate the cutest cookies!
On our way back from the store, Grace was telling me that she was really hoping to see someone from the Sherlock series and right at that moment she looked behind her to see Una Stubbs, who plays Mrs. Hudson on the show. Grace approached her, she was delightful and Grace was thrilled with her luck!
We did make it to King's Cross Station to see Platform 9 3/4 but I have to tell you that both of the children were a bit disappointed in it. Due to the tremendous crowds it draws, and so that one doesn't have to buy a ticket to see the platform, they have put this scene on the main floor of the station. My children didn't feel it was very authentic and had no desire to stand in line (it was long!) to have a picture taken.
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The Dalai Lama & Harold Klemp
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- Hello All,
I found the comments
of this 14th Dalai Lama
more interesting than
Klemp's dribble.
Really, does Klemp even
make an attempt to speak
or write with any empathy
or compassion? All he
does is revise and update
or "streamline" the same
simple-minded approach
to spirituality with an
ekclusive message that
promotes delusion and
This Dalai Lama is seen
by Klemp to be of the 4th
Mental Plane while Klemp
sits on a Golden Throne
surrounded by Blue Light
and Blue or Golden Six
Pointed Stars on the 14th
Plane of Consciousness!
But, let's make a comparison.
What does each say and how
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Many Faiths, One Truth
By TENZIN GYATSO
Published: May 24, 2010
WHEN I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naïve I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today.
Times Topics: Buddhism | Christians and Christianity | Islam | Jews and Judaism
Though intolerance may be as old as religion itself, we still see vigorous signs of its virulence. In Europe, there are intense debates about newcomers wearing veils or wanting to erect minarets and episodes of violence against Muslim immigrants. Radical atheists issue blanket condemnations of those who hold to religious beliefs. In the Middle East, the flames of war are fanned by hatred of those who adhere to a different faith.
Such tensions are likely to increase as the world becomes more interconnected and cultures, peoples and religions become ever more entwined. The pressure this creates tests more than our tolerance it demands that we promote peaceful coexistence and understanding across boundaries.
Granted, every religion has a sense of exclusivity as part of its core identity. Even so, I believe there is genuine potential for mutual understanding. While preserving faith toward one's own tradition, one can respect, admire and appreciate other traditions.
An early eye-opener for me was my meeting with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton in India shortly before his untimely death in 1968. Merton told me he could be perfectly faithful to Christianity, yet learn in depth from other religions like Buddhism. The same is true for me as an ardent Buddhist learning from the world's other great religions.
A main point in my discussion with Merton was how central compassion was to the message of both Christianity and Buddhism. In my readings of the New Testament, I find myself inspired by Jesus' acts of compassion. His miracle of the loaves and fishes, his healing and his teaching are all motivated by the desire to relieve suffering.
I'm a firm believer in the power of personal contact to bridge differences, so I've long been drawn to dialogues with people of other religious outlooks. The focus on compassion that Merton and I observed in our two religions strikes me as a strong unifying thread among all the major faiths. And these days we need to highlight what unifies us.
Take Judaism, for instance. I first visited a synagogue in Cochin, India, in 1965, and have met with many rabbis over the years. I remember vividly the rabbi in the Netherlands who told me about the Holocaust with such intensity that we were both in tears. And I've learned how the Talmud and the Bible repeat the theme of compassion, as in the passage in Leviticus that admonishes, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
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In my many encounters with Hindu scholars in India, I've come to see the centrality of selfless compassion in Hinduism too as expressed, for instance, in the Bhagavad Gita, which praises those who "delight in the welfare of all beings." I'm moved by the ways this value has been expressed in the life of great beings like Mahatma Gandhi, or the lesser-known Baba Amte, who founded a leper colony not far from a Tibetan settlement in Maharashtra State in India. There he fed and sheltered lepers who were otherwise shunned. When I received my Nobel Peace Prize, I made a donation to his colony.
Compassion is equally important in Islam and recognizing that has become crucial in the years since Sept. 11, especially in answering those who paint Islam as a militant faith. On the first anniversary of 9/11, I spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington, pleading that we not blindly follow the lead of some in the news media and let the violent acts of a few individuals define an entire religion.
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for Infidels]
Let me tell you about the Islam I know. Tibet has had an Islamic community for around 400 years, although my richest contacts with Islam have been in India, which has the world's second-largest Muslim population. An imam in Ladakh once told me that a true Muslim should love and respect all of Allah's creatures. And in my understanding, Islam enshrines compassion as a core spiritual principle, reflected in the very name of God, the "Compassionate and Merciful," that appears at the beginning of virtually each chapter of the Koran.
Finding common ground among faiths can help us bridge needless divides at a time when unified action is more crucial than ever. As a species, we must embrace the oneness of humanity as we face global issues like pandemics, economic crises and ecological disaster. At that scale, our response must be as one.
Harmony among the major faiths has become an essential ingredient of peaceful coexistence in our world. From this perspective, mutual understanding among these traditions is not merely the business of religious believers it matters for the welfare of humanity as a whole.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is the author, most recently, of "Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together."
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Thank you, President Jones
Thank you for your contribution to Project Union Responds. You were the first to answer to our call for a Christian witness to LGBTQ youth–and your involvement as the leader of our community was crucial. Without knowing it, you inspired us and galvanized a whole community into action–straight people, genderqueer people, queer straight people, lesbians, gays, queer people of color, butches, femmes, bisexuals, queens, trannies, aggressives, tomboys . . . we turned up. Thank you for helping to ignite the flame that's turned into this roaring blaze.
Follow the link to view President Jones's uncut contribution to Project Union Responds:
Spiritalk: Suicide & Suicide Prevention
THIS Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm to 2 pm
Pick up food at Union's community lunch and join us upstairs in the Upper Refectory
This week's speaker: NT Professor & Pastor Hal Taussig
What do we say to someone contemplating suicide? How do we care for a community when a loved one has committed suicide? Prof. Hal Taussig leads this week's Spiritalk, including case studies from his work as a pastor.
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A Love that Would Not Let Me Go
When we tell our stories, we are transformed. When others hear our stories, they are transformed. The story telling for Project Union Responds stirred up the Union community. We were stirred up because sharing our stories was an action of liberation, affirmation, by re-claiming our selves, our bodies, and our faiths. We were stirred up because sharing our stories required us to reflect on how we had been (and still are) harmed. As a community we received, held, and honored all that has been stirred up in us throughout the process; specifically during an evening, candle-light service on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, in James Chapel.
The following is a copy of the reflection offered by Barbara L. Rice. Ms. Rice has a master of counseling and is a first-year, master of divinity seminarian here at Union. Her employment portfolio includes working with LGBTQ youth. As a community, we are graced by her presence and voice.
A Love that Would Not Let Me Go
When Zach was a child I loved him. When Elizabeth was a child I loved her. When Luke was a child I loved him. When Erica was a child I loved her.
[Hosea 11:1–12] is one of those passages of scripture that I have always been drawn to, never fully knowing why. I'm sure my 16-year-old interpretations of this text were age appropriately simplistic and egocentric. But there was something in my initial and naïve draw to the passage that was innate—that was calling me back to some womb-like recognition of my connectedness with a love that would not let me go. I would not have used those words, but there was a desire to ingest these images into my being. I wanted to know that type of security, that type of love. I wanted to watch an old home movie of God bending down to feed me when I was a toddler. I wanted to see, feel, and touch these cords of human kindness and bands of love. I wanted to know that they would catch me, would hold that space, would keep me safe. And I wanted the people in my life to know and feel that security and love in their own lives.
And I think in many ways those bands of love were very real in my heart and in my life. At the risk of being stereotypical, I was very much a tomboy, and it was considered cute to run around in my baseball uniform all year long. And I was always picked fairly quickly in the process of choosing kick ball teams in elementary school. I would occasionally be called dyke, but had no idea what it meant, and I didn't care. I had friends because I learned early in life that if you listen to people they tend to like you. So, I could fit in pretty well and for the most part was spared the personal pain of bullying.
As I grew into adolescence I had that familiar gnawing sensation that many of you can relate to – that sense that something about me just wasn't right. And it would creep into my thoughts now and then, this utter terror, that there might just be some tiny chance I was gay. This nightmare sat in the back of my mind and would rear its head, and I would think that if this is in any way true then I probably didn't deserve to live. This belief that, if I were indeed gay, I would be unworthy of taking up space on the earth, mostly came from my family narrative which was passionately homophobic in the name of following Jesus. So, if this secret, this nightmare, was possibly true then it would mean that I was beyond the point of any repair.
And so I would sit with these images that I sought out in the Bible—pictures from Isaiah of loving protection amidst storms and scary things, the intimacy of Mary washing Jesus' feet and his defense and love for her, and then this one in Hosea of having been known and loved intimately since babyhood regardless of my attempts to escape. And I would try to connect with that love and tell myself that this was enough, and tell myself that I could get through this life devoting all of it to God, and that I would be given the strength to keep myself together (i.e. not fall to the temptation of living in that 'lifestyle') until I died and could experience ultimate union with the Divine. My life was full of sports, friends, mission trips, school work, and service clubs. By all appearances I was a pretty happy teenager and as long as I could keep the terror silenced or distant then I was OK.
I wasn't externally tortured for being gay, but I was internally tortured. I've thought about this a lot these last few weeks. I can't imagine what I would have done if there had been this added layer of ostracism, of being targeted, or being ridiculed. I truly do not know that I could have survived that, and I look around at my friends in this room, not knowing each story, but knowing that for many of you it was a struggle that words can't capture. And I sit with gratitude and awe realizing you have survived.
In my therapy practice in Greensboro, NC, I had the privilege of working with many teens and adults struggling to come to terms with their sexual orientation. Their struggles were often based on their understanding of what religion or the Bible said about same gender love, but they inevitably faced peer and family ostracism. In doing trauma work with my clients incidents of extreme bullying would often come up, and these memories would be so vivid that, as they were described to me, I felt like I was there. It was as if in their description I could see, hear, touch, smell and taste the terror, the fear, the punches, the tears, the shame. As if their spirits had been branded like cattle, we would work together to deconstruct the internalized messages left by these incidents. We would work to untangle and heal those messages, until they could become scars as opposed to gaping wounds, and we would work to take away the powerlessness of the memories.
However, the consequences of some of these marks can't be avoided. I think about a 26-year-old gay man I worked with who suffered such horrendous bullying and abuse in high school that he stopped going to school to avoid being tormented, which led to him eventually dropping out altogether. He completed his GED and now works a minimum wage job while trying to go to community college at night. He struggles with just making it day to day—not only financially but also emotionally. He stays in relationships with fairly abusive partners because, as he would honestly share, if he didn't have a partner with whom to live he would be homeless. The bullying and peer abuse that led to him dropping out of school has left its mark and he is trying to dig his way out, and it's a long, dark path.
I recall checking my voice mails early one morning before work, and listening in heart breaking horror, as I learned that a queer mutual friend of several of my teenage clients had hung herself the previous night. I was familiar with this girl, who had committed suicide, because they both frequently spoke of her. When I saw these two clients that same day, they were both obviously wracked in pain with all the things that go along with the ones left behind by suicide—what could we have done, why didn't we see this coming, why wouldn't her parents get her help? But, as if that wasn't enough, one of the girls, who also identified as queer, sat sobbing on my sofa as she told me how unsympathetic her parents were to this devastating loss. By her reports her parents were not at all accepting of her orientation, and did some ridiculing of their own. So, the night my client learned of her friend's death she was hysterical, and went to her mother for comfort, only to have her mother respond by saying, "well, that's what happens to gay kids, they end up hanging from rafters."
Well, I'm here, we're all here, to say 'no.' That's not the inevitable fate of gay kids. Swinging from rafters, jumping off bridges, shooting themselves in the head… this is not the unchangeable fate of our queer kids!
How I wanted to transmit to these clients, to my friends, and so many others, a sense of the tenderness of God's love, of these totally devoted images such as this passage from Hosea. I wanted them to know that they too had access to a love bigger than all this pain; that they too could tap into a love that would not let them go. This is our job – to take this love to the people, to be living examples of this determined devotion.
As some of us have been telling our stories for the video, I've wondered about who didn't make it among us. Who would have been here, sitting with us now if they could have made it a little longer? How has God grieved for the lives cut short due to hate? Who are we missing? What ghosts are among us who dreamed of seminary and theological education, but who didn't survive the crucible of a queer childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood? Where would they be sitting right now? How would they enrich our community and our lives here at Union? Who would be their boyfriend, girlfriend, their partner? Who would be their best friend on the hall? And so I look out at your faces and am filled with gratitude that you made it, that we have the chance to become the beloved community; that we have the chance to share our stories with each other. I also am grateful to have made it, and grateful that I have been able to cling to my daughtership during dark times.
And out of Egypt I called my daughter. Out of Egypt I called my son. Out of Egypt I called my child. Daughtership, sonship, beloved child…. What does it mean to be called out of Egypt, out of bondage, out of slavery? What does it mean to be called to freedom, to life? Sometimes we prefer the bondage we know over the freedom we don't know. But we are called, if we can hear – and I believe we can hear when something inside of us is ready to hear – to take the first steps of a journey towards freedom. Sometimes that first step is a commitment to find support, to find somewhere you can be honest.
For me I heard the call towards freedom one day in 1997. I was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship,a conservative parachurch ministry, and I reached a point after years of being in reparative therapy, where I could no longer live with my internal incongruence. I reached the point where I didn't care if I was indeed going to go to hell, because I was already in hell – my life was hell, my internal struggle had driven me to the brink of again wanting to be on the other side of this existence into the next one, just wanting Jesus' arms around me. So I picked up the phone and called my supervisor. And, as I suspected, I was asked to resign, I was then asked to leave my non denominational church, which led to loosing most of my friends, and my family relationships experienced a type of death from which they have never fully recovered. And, it was in this wilderness space that I spent a lot of time reading and praying and wrestling with what to do. Regardless of what others said, what did God say? Could I still have a relationship with God and live this earthly life in a way that honored all parts of me, including my sexuality? I had wanted to be in vocational ministry since early childhood, and I thought that dream was over, and I was not sure who I was without this dream. I knew I did not want to live without a palpable connection to God, because to me that has been the only thing that gives life meaning. So, I decided I would take the first step. I would just move forward with what I could, and live, and see what happened. It was kind of an experiment because I was out of options, other than suicide. Of course what I found was more connection with God, and that God did not forsake me, but met me in ways I could have never known without taking that first step.
In this way, I was experiencing something similar to what Hosea describes at the end of the 11th chapter: "They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes." The freedom of flying, even though you're trembling. The sense of soaring even though you're shaking – but heading to your true home. I happen to believe that home is always and only coming home to that love, that Divine love, that claims us and declares us perfectly made. In essence I believe coming home is a kind of coming home inside of ourselves, to rest in the love that waits for us there. As these tragedies in our queer community have moved us to share our own stories, as we have been moved to do anything we can to give a struggling kid hope for one more day, I have come to feel that we can become, that we are becoming the beloved community. And I believe it is from that grounded place that we move out into the world to serve, to stir, to rage, to liberate, to mourn, and to ultimately heal. As Hafiz said, "God revealed a sublime truth to the world, when He sang, 'I am made whole by your life. Each soul, each soul completes me.'"
When Tyler Clementi was a child I loved him.
When Billy Lucas was a child I loved him.
When Seth Walsh was a child I loved him.
When Asher Brown was a child I loved him.
When we were children God loved us.
—Barbara L. Rice, MS LPC
©2010 Project Union Responds. Reprinting available with permission.
All of the sudden…
This past week I have been uplifted and angry.
I am overjoyed that Union Theological Seminary students, staff, and faculty have come together to voice a positive and inclusive message to LGBTQ youth. The comments we have received have been heartfelt and grateful. One in particular says "This is the first and only message from Christians about LGBTQ people that I've ever heard that was supportive, loving and in the spirit of Christ. I am deeply moved and profoundly grateful for these words today. Thank you and God bless you."
I am also deeply heartbroken and angry. Over the past week I have heard from friends and family who ask "what is happening all of the sudden?" To them, I reply, "all of the sudden? What do you mean all of the sudden?"
The media has recently started to pick up on the LGBTQ issues, most popular being violence and suicide. They are feeding off of these headlines, which gives them the ability to create revenue and promote themselves. In a few weeks the issue will most likely be dropped. This is another reason why it is important for the Christian community to speak up.
Yes, it took us hearing from the media to get this project going, I'll admit that, but it comes at a time when we are aware of these two problems:
1. There aren't many positive Christian messages of inclusion that are being heard and recognized outside of our safe churches and affirming communities
2. The media will use the stories of violence to promote themselves, because it sells, and soon it will all be forgotten. And, we in turn, will shake our heads and move on.
I must confess to being slightly complacent and comfortable on these issues over the past few years, excusing myself for being young and thinking that someone, somewhere was already doing the work. However, I realize that my ability to reach out to the community is supported by the Seminary and I have access to resources for networking and sharing compassionate stories of hope and love. It was most regrettable that there were no headlines from churches or religious leaders across the country speaking against hate crimes, hate language, exclusion, quality of education, equal rights, youth and young adult services, etc, etc, etc… It is devastating.
Please, let's all work together and create an on going positive Christian message to our communities so we do not have to ever answer "what is happening all of the sudden?"
–Stephenie Stovall
Union Responds to LGBTQ Youth Suicides
When we heard about the death of Tyler Clementi, the most recent in a string of queer youth suicides (a list which gets much longer if we take into account all of the queer suicides that we don't hear about) we asked ourselves whether there might have been something–some act, some word–that could stop other queer youth headed down the same road to complete self-destruction. In this video, a whole community has mustered just that. Seminary students, post-docs, faculty members, and the President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York speak to LGBTQ youth at risk and to those who find themselves being bullied and ostracized just for being who the Divine created them to be.
– Atticus Schoch Zavaletta
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hello all,
I'm simulating the methane burning inside a big room,the burner is located on the floor at the middle of the room. the direction of flame is horizontal while that must be vertical. other thing seems correct, please help me to solve this problem.
Hi, can you please explain further your case? Otherwise people might not be able to help you....
How is your burner? is it a jet flame? is it premixed? how is the geometry of the burner and the surroundings? boundary conditions you are using? are you considering buoyancy?... Post a (or some) pictures if possible.
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this is a room 6*5*4 m,full of air. the methane burner is 0.5*0.5 m right at the middle of the room,just methane comes out of that with 6 gr/sec mass flow rate. there is an opened door on one of the walls (1*2 m). I consider gravity and use transient solver.
burner is mass inlet and door is pressure outlet, walls roof and floor are just wall.
Hi, I'm assuming that methane comes out of those four cells with blue border at the bottom at the room, right? if so, the mesh is extremely coarse, you cannot pretend to compute a flame with that mesh. Is it URANS, LES, or is it a laminar flame?
Do you mean that the injection hole is 0.5m*0.5m? if so it does not seem very realistic, that is a hell of a burner! How is the true configuration? is it a case you have experimental data or is it just an academic example? I have never seen such thing before...
Flames are very thin regions where large temperature and chemical species concentrations gradients are found, therefore you should refine a lot your mesh close to the flame if you want to get good results.
If there's no other inlet, where does air come from? after a while, the oxygen in the room will be completely depleted and your flame with extinguish, then the methane will just come out without burning and fill the room.
How do you initialise your calculation? how do you ignite it? do you model something like a spark or you just put some hot pocket at the beginning to ignite the mixture?
Did you have a look at the velocity profile? Maybe the velocity is blowing the flame towards the door and that's why you get something like a horizontal flame shape, anyway, with that resolution I don't think the results are meaningful.
Can you post a picture of the flame shape? (heat release field). Also, methane concentration field will be useful.
P.S: If you have access to the book y Versteeg & Malalasekera, there's an example of a room fire CFD model, maybe you can get some ideas from it.
Hello and great thanks,
Honestly I want to simulate the pool fire ( liq fuel) so the geometry is for real situation but for liq fuel.
I think it is my mistake that I don't change the geometry, I try to do it, instead of 0.5m*0.5m hole use just small hole with finer mesh, I will write to you the result asap.
I use the tutorial guide:
Chapter 16: Modeling Species Transport and Gaseous Combustion
So according to that I don't need any ignition although I try with ignition too.
There is a door, isn't it enough for coming fresh air in?
Hi. The example I pointed to before (in the book by Versteeg&Malalasekera is precisely a pool fire so you might want to have a look at it).
What you want is to define a door that enables incoming air and outgoing burnt gases, right? I don't know if such thing can be modelled (maybe "opening" boundary condition? any Fluent user here that can help us?).
In the reference example they set up an air inlet and an outlet though.
Good luck.
Hello again,
Thanks I have found the book it is useful.
Also I'm trying to take door in 2 parts and run the sample again, hopefully I get air coming inside.
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Sagermann Set to Lead Wildcat Offense
While there is never an exact formula for winning in sports, the Kentucky softball team had one major trend last season. The Wildcats went 32-26 overall, but were 19-4 in games when they scored at least five runs. When they scored four runs or less, Kentucky was 13-22.
The good news for the 2016 Cats is that nearly all significant offensive contributors return. Only departed catcher Griffin Joiner will not be back with the team this season.
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Sagermann moved from the middle of the lineup to the leadoff spot last season. In doing so, she saw her chances to knock runs in drop significantly. Sagermann saw her RBI total fall from 49 in 2014 to just 23 last season.
Sagermann hopes to return to the middle of the lineup this season.
"I enjoy (batting) leadoff," she said. "But I'd rather be more in the middle of the lineup because I do enjoy batting the runners in and being in pressure situations."
If she can come close to the numbers she has posted in the past, Sagermann is likely to see her name appear in the UK record book on numerous occasions. She needs just five RBIs this year to break into Kentucky's career Top 10 in that category. She's already among the school's career leaders in career slugging percentage (.523). Sagermann also ranks sixth in both career walks (87) and career home runs (28).
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Sagermann is one of the leaders of this Wildcat team, and as a senior, she can mentor many of Kentucky's young players. When asked what advice she would give the Wildcat freshmen, Sagermann would have them be patient.
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Hot on the heels of Attachments, Rainbow Rowell's second novel, Eleanor & Park, hits the bookshelves.
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Marc Portier <email@example.com> writes: > > Long due, but here goes... > > Over time our RepeaterBinding has been reported as behaving > 'odd' and as > 'not expected', in the best cases some argumentation could bend those > into 'unobvious'... > The brave among us probably just patch the beast or make their own > 'SimpleRepeaterBinding' and go on with their job... <big-snip/> We're not using woody/cforms since we have a proprietary forms system we've built over the years. However, I do have an observation from our system: we've learned over the years that in the middle layer we really don't want to distinguish between single valued things and multi-valued things. Single value things are just a special case of multi-valued things. What we are building is instead a way to distinguish between the "type" of thing and its presentation behavior. Types of things are essentially Java classes or SQL types, Strings, Integers, Decimals, Dates, Cblobs. etc. Presentation behaviors are sort of like Woody widgets: currently our list includes: normal, hidden, single-value list, multi-select list, searchers, read-only and a couple of others I won't go into (compound object behaviors). We really need to normalize behaviors a little more, so that hidden and read-only can be yet a third dimension, but I think you can see where this is going: basically, anything can be presented any way and you don't have to modify the middle layer to change the presentation (and yes, if a thing has multiple values presented as "normal", you get multiple "text" input fields). Don't know if any of this is of any use in the cforms design, but we had to learn this the hard way...
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Galvin Brothers Book Reading Dinner at The Pompadour by Galvin held on Wednesday 11th September was a great success.
Michelin-starred brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin hosted a special dinner to celebrate the first birthday of The Pompadour by Galvin at the city's Caledonian, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Following a book signing at Waterstone's on George Street in Edinburgh the chefs hosted a special dinner at The Pompadour with readings from their book "A Cookbook de Luxe'. The evening started with champagne and canapés in the salon followed by a 5-course dinner in the restaurant, with Five delicious sommelier-matched wines.
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Theatre of Mayakovsky spoke about the upcoming premieres
Pushkarev a lane, 21. The scene on Sretenke Theater. Mayakovsky. Here after a short summer break and touring adventure team came together and journalists to discuss the creative plans of theatre for a new one, the 94th season. Not all of the expected artists came — there was no Igor Kostolevsky, neither of Svetlana Nemolyaeva, nor Evgenia Simonova. The absence of the latter, commented the Director of theatre Leonid Asarin: "gaining strength after the shock of the tour and three performances in a row in tel Aviv". With details — the correspondent "MK".
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Begin with congratulations. Director Leonid Asarin along with the theater's artistic Director Mindaugas Karbauskis handed bouquets to all born in the summer, and also to those artists who have the current season of jubilee. A lot of them 35 years of working in the theatre celebrate Yuri Korenev, Yuri Sokolov, Alexander About the Love Rudenko; 40 — Eugene Simonov, 45 — Tatyana Rogozin. Champions Maya Polyanskaya (55) and Galina Anisimova, marking the 65th season of work in the Mayakovsky theatre.
Congratulating the birthday girl and all anniversaries, the Director began to voice plans. A lot of them, but this season the focus — not the main stage, and the Scene on Sretenke. There are scheduled several premieres. The first (5, 6 November) will be staging Leonid Heifetz "All my sons" by Arthur Miller — this is the second play by American author, previous, "Price" 2012 is going in the repertoire.
Will premiere on the main stage. Scheduled for April the premiere of "Mad money" Suljeva Anatoly Ostrovsky's play. One of the main roles in the premiere, "Mad money" will be performed by Svetlana Nemolyaeva, which in April 2017 will celebrate its 80th anniversary.
Also in ' 94 the planned season premiere of "Folly" by Ostrovsky directed by Yuri Joffe on the Small stage.
In addition, Mindaugas Karbauskis said that since September, the theatre will launch the "Small evening", which on the Small stage of the Mayakovsky theatre will be held creative meetings and concerts of the theatre.


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I Corinthians 13
INTRODUCTION: Church feuds have been known to happen but when the preacher and the choir director get into it, watch out. I heard about one church where the preacher preached on commitment, and how we should dedicate ourselves to service. The director then led the choir in singing, 'I Shall Not Be Moved.'
The next Sunday, the preacher preached on giving and how we should gladly give to the work of the Lord. The choir director then led the song, 'Jesus Paid It All.'
The next Sunday, the preacher preached on gossiping and how we should watch our tongues. The hymn was 'I Love To Tell The Story.'
The preacher became disgusted over the situation, and the next Sunday he told the congregation he was considering resigning. The choir then sang 'Oh, Why Not Tonight.'
When the preacher resigned the next week, he told the church that Jesus had led him there and Jesus was taking him away. The choir then sang, 'What A Friend We Have in Jesus.'
Is there a way to avoid division in the church? Yes - it's called LOVE. I'm in sermon series entitled "The Ties that Bind." Paul wrote the 1 Corinthian letter to a church that was at war with itself. Part of the problem was that some of the church members had supernatural gifts such as prophecy, healing, miraculous powers and speaking in tongues, while others did not. The "haves" were acting all superior to the "have-nots." The "have-nots" were envious and jealous of the "haves." In his letter Paul gives principles that will bind a church together if internalized and applied. ANY church. Friends we need to study this letter hard and make sure we're practicing these principles not as cure but as PREVENTION. We do not ever want to get ourselves into a situation like the Corinthians where we are broken, divided and stymied by bad attitudes and immaturity. The best way to prevent that from happening is to learn from OTHER peop ...
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Tickets are now on sale to see Vanessa Hudgens make her Broadway debut in Gigi.
Hudgens stars in the revival as a vivacious young woman coming of age in turn of the century Paris. The score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe includes such classics as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," "The Night They Invented Champagne" and "I Remember It Well." Co-starring alongside Hudgens are Corey Cott (Newsies) as Gaston, Tony winner Victoria Clark (Cinderella) as Mamita and Tony nominee Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera) as Honore.
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Coal-Fired Plants in Belgium
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 116 MW
Operation: 1960 (ret 1997)
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Sulzer
T/G supplier: Escher Wyss
EPC: Electrabel
Quick facts: In May 1955, Interborinage was formed by local power company Societe Intercommunale Belge d'Electricite and six local coal mines to build a new power station to burn lower-quality fuels produced in the area. The new power station went online on 24 Feb 1960 with some of the highest steam temperatures in Europe. Main steam flow was 340 t/h and turbine steam conditions were 170 bar/600C/570C. The plant was connected to the 150kV grid. In 1969, the progressive closure of local mines led to modification of the boiler to burn natural gas or coke-oven gas from the former Cockerill-Sambre Carcoke works in Zeebrugge. The three fuels could be used simultaneously. In early 1997, the Carcoke plant was closed and after 37 years of operation and 280mn MWh of production, the power station was closed. On 30 Jun 1999, the cooling tower was demolished followed a year later by the boiler and turbine hall.
Photograph courtesy of Jean-Pol Samain (www.borain.be)
Location: Limburg
Operator: German Pellets GmbH
Configuration: 2 X 230 MW, 2 X 45-MW topping
Operation: 1973-1988 (ret)
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas, oil, biomass
Boiler supplier: Chaudronneries P Brouhon
T/G supplier: BBC
Quick facts: These units were built as oil-fired sets and converted to coal in 1985/86. They were then down-rated from 280 MW. Topping gas turbines were added in the late 1990s. The plant was acquired by E.ON Jul 2009 from Electrabel in a share swap, and sold on to German Pellets Jan 2016. Langerlo was closed 31 Mar 2016.
Photograph courtesy of E.ON
Location: Antwerp
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 124 MW, 1 X 136 MW CHP
Operation: 1962-1967 (ret)
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Babcock Power
T/G supplier: BBC
Quick facts: Mol was closed in 2008/09.
Photograph by Jan de Swart (panoramio)
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 125 MW
Operation: 1959 (ret 2000)
Fuel: coal, natural gas, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: Stein, CMI
T/G supplier: Siemens, ACEC
Quick facts: This was the first large-size steam-electric plant in Belgium not built on a river.
Photograph courtesy of Charbonnages du Hainaut
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 19.2 MW, 1 X 65 MW
Operation: 1925-1932 (ret)
Fuel: coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: Wod-Lopulco-Cockerill
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: The first phase of this power station was built on the initiative of the local coal mines. In Feb 1930, work on a new 65-MW began and this started up in Jan 1932 with three boilers totaling 100 t/h of steaming capacity. The power station was demolished in Jul 1985.
Photograph courtesy of Jean-Pol Samain (www.borain.be)
Location: Belgium
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 2 X 60 MW, 2 X 130 MW (ret), 2 X 300 MW
Operation: 1958-1974 (ret)
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: Sulzer, CMI
T/G supplier: Escher Wyss, BBC
Quick facts: Ruien is on the Scheldt 10km upstream from Oudenaarde. Over about 20yrs, the plant expanded to become the largest conventional power station in the country. A 45-MW topping gas turbine was added to Unit-5 in 1998 followed in Jan 2003 by a small atmospheric wood gasifier. This can supply about 17-MWe equivalent of input fuel to the main boiler. The plant was closed on 28 Mar 2016.
Photograph by orins (panoramio)
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Location: Belgium
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 60 MW
Operation: 1932 (ret 1974)
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: Siemens
Quick facts: This machine built by Siemens-Schuckertwerke at the Schelle power station in Antwerp was the world's largest 3000rpm turbine-generator when completed.
Photograph courtesy of Siemens
Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data BaseUpdated 16-Apr-2016


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A half century after linking smoking to lung cancer, the U.S. is confronting stalled progress in kicking the habit of 42 million Americans with new evidence that many common ailments such as diabetes, arthritis and impotence can be tied to tobacco use.
Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak in a report Friday criticized the "fraudulent campaigns" by cigarette companies, weaknesses in regulation and a rebound in smoking depicted in Hollywood films.
He said he's considering greater restrictions on sales to achieve "a society free of tobacco-related death and disease."
While a landmark 1964 report on smoking and lung cancer helped cut cigarette use by more than half to 18 percent of U.S. adults, the decline has slowed. Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death, killing 480,000 people each year, and the U.S. might miss a 2020 goal of limiting to 12 percent the share of smoking adults, Friday's report shows.
"Enough is enough," Lushniak said repeatedly at a news conference in Washington where he presented the more than 900-page report.
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Maintaining the status quo on tobacco control will lead to further stalling in the declining rate of smoking, said Lushniak, whose job serves as the nation's main public-health advocate. He placed part of the blame on tobacco companies.
"The tobacco epidemic was initiated and has been sustained by the aggressive strategies of the tobacco industry, which has deliberately misled the public on the risk of smoking cigarettes," he said in the report.
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On June 18, we participated in Design for the Senses, a Third Thursday event presented by the Gardner Museum and AIGA Boston. The evening featured talks by designers who go beyond the visual, including our very own Eric Gunther. Eric spoke at the design panel alongside Meejin Yoon of Howeler and Yoon Architecture and Sara Hendren of Alber. We had a great time, enjoying live music in the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a maker workshop on creating with Little Bits, and lots of opportunities to connect with friends in the Boston design community.
Eric and Jackie teamed up with AIGA Boston to do a visual recap of the design talks. We created a series of animatied graphics that illustrate things we learned about designing for the senses. To incorporate the theme of the night, we use the soundwaves of the spoken phrases to drive the movement and mutation of the type.
All of the speakers expressed a spirit of working across the senses. We knew that the final designs would be visual and wanted to find a way to incorporate other sensory inputs.
We converged on the idea of using vibrations to modulate and break apart the text. At their core, all of our senses are reading different frequencies of vibration. The human voice provides an expressive source of vibrations: rhythmic yet unpredictable.
We recorded our voices speaking each quote aloud, and mapped the audio to different motion effect parameters applied to the text layouts. We kept our color palette minimal to avoid overwhelming the visual sense. We chose a treatment to reflect the character of each statement, using texture and motion to convey a feeling.
If you are interested in seeing more of this type of work, Jackie created a visual recap for an AIGA Boston event earlier this summer, Future/History with Susan Sellers and Hillary Greenbaum. Or you can check out AIGA Boston's recap of the whole event. We love being involved with our design community and participating in local events, so see you around town!


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By Mike Clark, USA TODAY
Charles Ferguson's Iraq documentary, No End in Sight (2007, Magnolia, unrated, $27), has been on DVD for only two weeks, but already I know it's one that I'll look at again and again. Here are three more from the past that affect me the same way:
The Day After Trinity
Jon Else's Oscar-nominated chronicle of the A-bomb's genesis conveys a remarkable sense of what developers of the so-called "device" thought of it then (and later). It also conveys wartime life in makeshift Los Alamos, N.M. — both for locals and invading physicists — and the tension between brooding J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the bomb, and his fall from grace amid Cold War fallout. By coincidence, the 1989 docudrama Day One, which covers some of this material, is out today (Acorn, $25).
American Dream
Barbara Kopple won her first Oscar for 1976's as-great Harlan County, USA. For her second, she tackled the dilemma facing strikers during their 1985-86 walkout at an Austin, Minn., Hormel meatpacking plant. Boiled down: Keep shooting yourself in the foot when management holds the cards, or face the stigma of crossing a picket line. The best scenes concern the battle for power between the anti-strike national union and pro-strike local as dinner-table servings continue to shrink.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Writer/director Alex Gibney, executive producer of No End, nails the human dimension of the era's premier financial scandal — adapting the equally devourable same-name book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Room's rogues' gallery: poker-faced CEO/chairman Kenneth Lay; mercurial Jeffrey Skilling; and Lou Pai, who walked away unscathed with millions, presumably enough to satisfy his passion for topless joints.
New Tuesday:Shrek the Third; the Emmy-winning A-bomb drama Day One; Johnny Cash Christmas specials
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After a month of being non-primal while on vacation and 7 lbs heavier (this is despite trying to watch my carbs!), I'm keen on getting back to being on a proper primal diet. I was about 60-70% primal for about 3 weeks before my vacation. This may have been already covered in another thread, but in case it hasn't, here goes:
How do I make my pantry primal? What primal essentials do I need to stock it up with? How can I do it on a budget? Apart form nutrition and fitness, what are other areas where I can be primal and how?


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What do Thai youth think about the future and their country's priorities?
Thailand has come a long way and represents an impressive development story: it has drastically reduced the number of poor people from nearly 70% of the population in 1986 to 11% in 2013 and its economy grew at an average annual rate of 7.5% in the late 1980s and early 1990s, creating jobs that helped pull millions of people out of poverty.
However, challenges remain as there are still 11% – 7 million – of the population living below the poverty line, and another 7 million or so who remain highly vulnerable to falling back into poverty. Although inequality has declined over the past 30 years, the distribution in Thailand remains unequal compared with many countries in East Asia. Significant and growing disparities in household income and consumption can be seen across and within regions of Thailand, with pockets of poverty remaining in the Northeast, North, and Deep South. Today, the Thai economy faces headwinds, and growth has been modest. Export competitiveness is sliding, and a severe drought is expected to weigh on off-season rice production. Poverty is expected to continue to fall at a slower rate, with poor households concentrated in rural areas affected by falling agricultural prices. The country is now at a critical time since the new draft constitution won approval by a majority.