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So I'm sitting here on a Tuesday and going on about 4 hours of sleep. I went to bed at 1:30 and wake up at 6:00. I never learn, so I just keep being an internet junkie. I'm not tired at all though, but I'm sure towards the afternoon, I'll be a mess and I have to workout when I get home. Should be interesting.
I have a lot to talk about in this one. I might have to make short comments on each topic. We know I could ramble on and on with some huge post, but we'll see how it goes. The action last left off in here on Sunday, so I'm popping out a quicker than usual post for the millions and millions of fans. Or maybe it's just a number I can count on my hands instead. Either way, I'm out to do it big.
I'll start with a new food creation, at least for me anyways. My parents got some bigger banana wax hot peppers. They used the red ones for this. They cut the top off and hull out the middle and leave a good bit of seeds still there for flavor and hotness. Then inside, they stuffed hot Italian sausage grounded up into the pepper, filling it up. Throw it in the oven, no idea how long or anything. But it's some quality stuff. Crazy hot and it'll mess you up, but it's worth that. I knew what'd happen before I ate it, but I must want punishment on myself.
My Irish with the loss on Saturday as mentioned, but Sunday my Bears helped my football mood a lot. They put the smack on the Lions to the score of 38-6. My boys scored 31 in the first half. What's up with that?? No idea, but that's nice to see. Our defense is straight up for real. I'm still not hoping for a huge season, but maybe it'll end up a lot better than I expected. Go Thomas Jones.
Gear up for two paragraphs of wrestling. First, Sunday was WWE Unforgiven. I really liked this show and it delivered. I also delivered on my predictions, just missing one, when I picked Snitsky to beat Big Show. Not undefeated, but I'm proud of it either way. The best match in my opinion was easily the Cage Match. Matt Hardy finally got his win out of this series and these guys took a beating and put on a clinic. Maybe the best thing of the night was Flair winning the IC Title in classic fashion. He even hit a move off the top rope, something he never is able to do, and the crowd went wild. Then afterwards through the night, they showed segments of him in a limo with 4 chicks. Funny when he downed the bottle of Viagra before getting his swerve on. Say what you want about him being old, but he's still the man. And to be the man, you gotta beat the man as he always says. He can't be beat, at least historically speaking. There weren't many bum moments and it was fun to watch.
We move onto RAW the next night. The show opens up with Bischoff presenting Angle with the WWE Title since he feels it was deserved since Angle beat Cena the night before. He won by DQ though, so the title can't change hands. Vinnie Mac then comes down and does his thing. The strut is great first off, but he was in his yelling and evil tone when he brought Bischoff down to another level and said the title belongs to Cena. Then he hyped up WWE Homecoming, which is 2 weeks away, as RAW returns to the USA Network. On that night, RAW starts a bit before 8:00 and goes for 3 hours. Did I die and go into wrestling heaven? Must be. On that night, Vince is making Bischoff face Cena. There's also a Ladder Match in a Loser Leaves RAW stipulation between Edge and Hardy. Are you kidding me? I'm pumped crazy for that one. Then we get returns of many legends and guys who haven't been on TV for a bit such as Triple H, Hogan, Foley, and even Stone Cold. Then we'll have old school guys appear as well. Anyways, this is getting long, but Flair and Carlito had an IC Title Rematch that went on for a good half hour. Flair gets to carry one forth of RAW and then some? Great to see. Flair's eye got swelled shut and it was mangled. Crazy chopfest here. The main event was an 8-Way Tag Match. I mark out for big tag matches. This one had HBK, Cena, Big Show, and Hardy beat Masters, Angle, Snitsky, and Edge. Very good stuff.
My fantasy football team is off to a nice 2-0 start. I squeaked by in a close one this week and hopefully can continue to roll. 18-man league and just 4 of us start the year out undefeated. For those holding onto their seats wanting to know who else is undefeated, it's fellow Lincoln grad Walz, one of Houston's finest in Bono, and the pride of Maine, Blahah. I face a good buddy of mine in Week 3, the infamous DerekHood. He got romped this week in his matchup, so I'm sure he's ready to come swinging.
TV time? Tonight it's Real World action and I hope it's a good one. It seems to be a dramafest and that's always good TV. They have to be getting fairly close to the end of this season or am I wrong? Usually late in every season, one episode gets pre-empted out of nowhere with no warning. Also, I'll be watching Dog The Bounty Hunter on A&E before that. Great show for those who haven't caught onto this craze yet. Other than that, I figure I'll fit in some baseball or whatever else seems to be on other than BET and my usual.
Ooh, almost time to seriously start planning for the EDDFL, the fantasy NBA league that I run with the help of a big crew of my boys. We're drafting on Saturday this year on October 29th, more than likely in the evening. Of course we'll have the big draft board again and plenty of pics if all goes right. Much much more on that towards next month though, as it's the one thing I look forward to all year long.
I have a lot of time to kill at work right now and could write and write and write. But I'll spare you all this time. Hopefully you were able to follow along and there was at least one thing you enjoyed in The Madhouse. Until next time..
3 Quick Thangs:
1. Ever sit around and wonder what it'd be like to randomly walk up to someone at Wal-Mart and do a spin kick to their face? Maybe it's just me and my buddies, hah.
2. Today is a rough time for celebrity birthdays, so we'll turn the corner and get a cheap shot in on some D-List celebs. Drumroll since it's the Nelson Twins' 38th birthday. I can't be the only one to remember these bums can I? I know you're secretely jamming to one of their CDs right now.
3. Leave comments. Much appreciated.
Welcome to my little place. Hopefully you like my posts about anything and everything, just a bunch of total randomness. 2004 was when this place started up. Drop me some comments, it's much appreciated. Chat with you guys soon.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Blog, Blog, & More Blog
3 comments:
those peppers sound awesome! we need a big batch of those for the eddfl draft!- mandingo
- September 20, 2005 at 5:51 PM
hey, the blog is awesome. RAW was good last night. you got me hooked now. ahhh. we can go kick somebody together. lol. recipe sounds good. gonna have to make them tonight and let you know how they turn out. woo hoo. OMGosh, the hurricane is coming to hit me. I'M SCARED!! oh well, life goes on with or without me!! peace out K-TOWN
- September 20, 2005 at 7:52 PM
3 Quick Thangs is better than ever. - DK
- September 24, 2005 at 6:49 PM
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Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners acts on committee assignments
Forest Preserve District of Cook County met at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17.
A subcommittee of the forest preserve's litigation committee, the committee deals with all financial matters related to legal action involving the forest preserves.
Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 11:00 AM
January 17, 2017 FPD Board of Commissioners BOARD AGENDA
Authorization as a public speaker shall only be granted to those individuals who have submitted in writing, their name, address, subject matter, and organization (if any) to the Secretary 24 hours in advance of the meeting. Duly authorized public speakers shall be called upon to deliver testimony at a time specified in the meeting agenda. Authorized public speakers who are not present during the specified time for public testimony will forfeit their allotted time to speak at the meeting. Public testimony must be germane to a specific item(s) on the meeting agenda, and the testimony must not exceed three minutes; the Secretary will keep track of the time and advise when the time for public testimony has expired. Persons authorized to provide public testimony shall not use vulgar, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate language when addressing the Board; failure to act appropriately; failure to speak to an item that is germane to the meeting, or failure to adhere to the time requirements may result in expulsion from the meeting and/or disqualify the person from providing future testimony.
Pursuant to Cook County Code, the Secretary to the Board of Commissioners hereby transmits Consent Calendar Resolutions for your consideration. The Consent Calendar Resolutions shall be published in the Post Board Action Agenda and Journal of Proceedings as prepared by the Clerk of the Board.
Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE, Cook County Board of Commissioners
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners (the "Board") of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Forest Preserve") adopted resolution 16-0496 establishing the Chairs, Vice-Chairs, and number of members of the Standing Committees and Subcommittees of the Forest Preserve District Board; and
WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve now wishes to amend its previous selection of vice-chair for one of its standing sub-committees.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, that Resolution 16-0496 is hereby amended as follows:
Section 1. The President Pro Tempore of the Forest Preserve Board shall be Commissioner Steele.
Section 2. The Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of the Committees (identified by all capital letters) and of the Subcommittees (identified by initial capital letters) of the Forest Preserve District Board shall be as follows:
AUDIT (8 members) Chair: Tobolski
Vice-Chair: Gainer
BOTANIC GARDEN (9 members) Chair: Goslin
Vice-Chair: Schneider
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE (9 members) Chair: Steele
Vice-Chair: Silvestri
CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT (10 members) Chair: Arroyo
Vice-Chair: Sims
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL (7 members) Chair: Steele
Vice-Chair: Morrison
FINANCE (Committee of the Whole) Chair: Goslin
Vice-Chair: Steele
Litigation (7 members) Chair: Silvestri Vice-Chair: Fritchey
Labor (9 members) Chair: Arroyo
Vice-Chair: Tobolski
Workers' Compensation (5 members) Chair: Schneider
Vice-Chair: Arroyo Moody
LAW ENFORCEMENT (7 members) Chair: Moore
Vice-Chair: Silvestri
LEGISLATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS (Committee of the Whole) Chair: Suffredin
Vice-Chair: Fritchey
REAL ESTATE (Committee of the Whole) Chair: Moody
Vice-Chair: Moore
RECREATION (9 members) Chair: Morrison
Vice-Chair: Moody
RULES AND ADMINISTRATION (7 members) Chair: Suffredin
Vice-Chair: Daley
ZOOLOGICAL (9 members) Chair: Tobolski
Vice-Chair: Moore
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County do hereby approve this Resolution Amendment.
Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE, Cook County Board of Commissioners
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners (the "Board") of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Forest Preserve") adopted resolution 16-0497 establishing the members of the Standing Committees and Subcommittees of the Forest Preserve District Board; and
WHEREAS, there now exist various vacancies on the Standing Committees and Subcommittees of the Forest Preserve that must be filled.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, that Resolution 16-0497 is hereby amended as follows:
AUDIT Members: Tobolski
Gainer Arroyo Boykin Butler Goslin Morrison Schneider
BOTANIC GARDEN Members: Goslin
Schneider Arroyo Butler Daley Morrison Sims Steele Suffredin
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE Members: Steele
Silvestri Arroyo Butler Garcia Moore Moody Sims Tobolski
CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT Members: Arroyo
Sims Fritchey Gainer Goslin Morrison Moody Schneider Silvestri Steele
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL Members: Steele
Morrison Boykin Gainer Moody Schneider Silvestri
FINANCE Members: All Commissioners,
including the Chair and Vice-Chair
Labor Members: Moody
Tobolski Arroyo Butler Fritchey Gainer Garcia Moore Sims
Litigation Members: Silvestri Fritchey Boykin
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January 17, 2017 FPD Board of Commissioners BOARD AGENDA
Gainer Schneider Suffredin Tobolski
Workers' Compensation Members: Schneider
Tobolski Arroyo Moody Goslin Moore
LAW ENFORCEMENT Members: Moore
Silvestri Arroyo Butler Fritchey Goslin Tobolski
LEGISLATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Members: All Commissioners,
including the Chair and Vice-Chair
REAL ESTATE Members: All Commissioners,
including the Chair and Vice-Chair
RECREATION Members: Morrison
Boykin Moody Daley Gainer Goslin Schneider Steele Tobolski
RULES Members: Suffredin
Daley Fritchey Gainer Morrison Schneider Silvestri Sims Steele
ZOOLOGICAL Members: Tobolski
Moore Boykin Daley Garcia Goslin Morrison Silvestri Steele
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, the Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners do hereby approve this Resolution Amendment.
Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE, LUIS ARROYO JR., RICHARD R. BOYKIN, JERRY BUTLER, JOHN P. DALEY, JOHN A. FRITCHEY, BRIDGET GAINER, JESÚS G. GARCÍA, GREGG GOSLIN, EDWARD M. MOODY, STANLEY MOORE, SEAN M. MORRISON, TIMOTHY O. SCHNEIDER, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, ROBERT B. STEELE, LARRY SUFFREDIN and JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI, Cook County Board of Commissioners
WHEREAS, in accordance with Title 1, Chapter 5, Section 4-(a), the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Forest Preserve") Code of Ordinances, the Board of Commissioners (the "Board") shall hold regular meetings pursuant to an annual calendar adopted by resolution of the Board; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 2.02 of the Illinois Open Meetings Act, every public body shall give public notice of the schedule of regular meetings at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year and shall state the regular dates, times and places of such meetings; and
WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve Board satisfied its statutory and local ordinance obligations to publish notice of its schedule of regular meetings for calendar year 2017 by passing Resolution 16-0495 at the regular meeting of the Forest Preserve Board on December 13, 2016, and
WHEREAS, it was indicated in Resolution 16-0495 that the Board plans to conduct at least three of its regular meetings on March 9, 2017; May 11, 2017; and July 20, 2017 in locations other than the County Building Room 569, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60602, which is where the other regular meetings for calendar year 2017 are scheduled to be held; and
WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve Board now wishes to publicize the locations in which the regular meetings scheduled for March 9, 2017, May 11, 2017, and July 20, 2017 are to be held.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Forest Preserve Board:
1. That the Forest Preserve Board shall hold a regular meeting of the Board on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the Forest Preserve Volunteer Resource Center located at 6100 N. Central Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60646.
2. That the Forest Preserve Board shall hold a regular meeting of the Board on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the Forest Preserve Dan Ryan Woods Pavilion located at 8659 S. Western Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60620.
3. That the Forest Preserve Board shall hold a regular meeting of the Board on Thursday, July 20, 2017 at the Chicago Botanic Garden located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60022.
4. That the time for holding the regular meetings referenced above in items 1-3 of this Resolution is 11:00 a.m., local time.
5. That the same dates listed here will be used to schedule the following standing committee meetings of the Forest Preserve Board, set to begin at 10:30 a.m., local time: a) the Committee on Rules; and b) the Committee on Finance.
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Department: Conservation and Experiential Programming
Other Part(ies): University of Illinois Extension, Champaign, Illinois
Request: Authorization to enter into Intergovernmental Agreement with the University of Illinois Extension and make quarterly payments on contract.
Goods or Services: Environmental education and outreach services
Agreement Number(s): N/A
Agreement Period: 1/1/2017, retroactively - 12/31/2017
Fiscal Impact: $250,000.00
Accounts: Corporate Fund Districtwide Services, 01-6919
District(s): Districtwide
Summary: The University of Illinois Extension ("Extension") will provide educational and public outreach programs, thus significantly expanding educational opportunities for youth and adult populations within Cook County, including the Conservation@Home program. Extension will also provide professional training workshops for Forest Preserve staff and assist in growing the number of Master Naturalists and Master Gardeners that volunteer with the Preserves. The Forest Preserve Conservation & Experiential Programming staff will work with Extension staff to coordinate and direct these educational activities. The University of Illinois Extension will also work with Preserve staff on specific projects related to the Next Century Conservation Plan as outlined in their Scope of Work. Payments will be made quarterly based on UIE invoice and work completed.
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Request: requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Preserves") to enter into a Partnership Agreement with Audubon Great Lakes, Chicago, Illinois.
Reason: Audubon Great Lakes has received a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation in the amount of $50,000.00 to support invasive species identification and removal at Bartel Grasslands, Spring Creek Forest Preserves, Orland Grassland, Poplar Creek Forest Preserve, and Schaumburg Road Grassland. The project will also work with the Preserves' Volunteer Resources staff and existing stewards to recruit and train new volunteers and bird monitors. These efforts will develop advocates for the Preserves, while increasing the quality and sustainability of regional grasslands which provide valuable bird habitat.
Funding will be expended over the course of a three (3) year period, at no cost to the Preserves.
Contract period: 1/17/2017 - 7/14/2019
Fiscal Impact: None
Account(s): N/A
The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approved this item.
District(s): 6, 15 and 17
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Request: requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Preserves") to enter into a Partnership Agreement with Friends of the Forest Preserves, Chicago Illinois.
Reason: Friends of the Forest Preserves has obtained a grant from the Bobolink Foundation in the amount of $199,653.00 to be used to field a six member Northwest Conservation Corps program. The program will engage a Crew Manager, an Assistant Crew Manager, and four (4) participants (thirty (30) hours per week) in hands-on ecological restoration activities centered on chainsaw operation, herbicide application, prescribed fire, native seed collection, and invasive species removal.
Ecological restoration will be conducted in partnership with the Preserves, the Lake County Forest Preserves, Citizens for Conservation, and Audubon Great Lakes to advance joint goals in support of volunteer stewardship projects and invasive species management in the region. In the Preserves the crew will work at Spring Creek Preserve, Poplar Creek Preserve, and Schaumburg Road Grassland in northwest Cook County. The crew will also work on preserves owned and managed by the Lake County Forest Preserves, as well as at various Citizen's for Conservation holdings in the Barrington area.
The project will leverage the volunteer stewardship expertise of the participating partner organizations and advance the Preserve's Next Century Conservation Plan goal to mobilize people to heal and nurture the land.
Contract period: 2/15/2017 - 2/14/2018
Fiscal Impact: $35,000.00
Account(s): 09-6750, Habitat Restoration, 09-6758, Intern Programs, 09-6757, Potential Grant Match and Work Fund, Grant Accounts, 10-6750, 10-6757, and 10-5800
The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approved this item.
District(s): 15
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Request: requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Preserves") to enter into a Partnership Agreement with The Nature Conservancy, Chicago, Illinois.
Reason: The Nature Conservancy has obtained a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through the Sustain Our Great Lakes Grant Program and wishes to contribute approximately $50,000 to the Preserves to support ecological restoration activities at Powderhorn Prairie and Marsh Nature Preserve. Work performed will consist of 40 acres of herbaceous invasive species control, and selective shrub removal and thinning across the site. The Preserves desire to grant The Nature Conservancy access to the property in order to complete the project, which will be conducted at no cost to the Preserves.
Contract period: 1/17/2017 - 10/31/2018
Fiscal Impact: None
Account(s): N/A
The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approved this item.
District(s): 4
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Department: Finance and Administration
Request: Receive and File
Report Title: Procurements and Disbursements Report
Report Period: 11/1/2016 - 11/30/2016
Summary: Submitting the Procurements and Disbursements Report for the period of November 2016. This report is to be received and filed in compliance with Section1-8-2(BB) of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County's Code of Ordinances.
Presented by: ARNOLD RANDALL, General Superintendent
Department: Conservation & Experiential Programming
Summary: Forest Preserves of Cook County Events & Activities Calendar - 1/17/2017 - 2/8/2017 WINTER SNOW FUN (with appropriate snow conditions)
Saturday, 12/17 - Monday, 3/6; Open daily, 9 am - 4 pm. Cross-Country Ski Trails Open at Sagawau Nordic Sagawau Environmental Learning Center, Lemont Trails will be opened and groomed as snow conditions permit, and could include a late start or early finish. Watch our Facebook page and call 630-257-2045 for the most up-to-date trail conditions. Cross Country Ski rentals and lessons are also available.
Snowshoe Lending, All Nature Centers Snowshoes are available when snow is 4" or greater. Equipment is limited and is loaned with no charge on a first come, first served basis. Driver's license required.
Sledding We offer five sledding hills with lighting, open 10 am - 9 pm Every Day Dan Ryan Woods - Chicago • Caldwell Woods - Chicago • Deer Grove #5 - Palatine • Westchester Woods -Westchester • Swallow Cliff - Palos Park (open when there is at least 6" of snow) We also offer four sledding spots without lighting, open 10 am - sunset: • Pioneer Woods - Willow Springs • Ted Lechowicz Woods - Chicago • Schiller Woods - Schiller Park • Deer Grove #4 - Palatine. Sledding hills are open when there are at least 3" of snow on frozen ground.
Friday, 1/20; 6 - 8 pm Winter Bonfire, Sand Ridge Nature Center, South Holland Join us as we enjoy an evening around a bonfire as we roast marshmallows and sip hot cocoa. Register by 1/18.
Friday, 1/20; 7 - 9 pm Owl Prowl at Thatcher Woods Trailside Museum of Natural History, River Forest in partnership with Chicago Botanic Garden Join Steve Bailey, ornithologist from the Illinois Natural History Survey for a captivating night exploring the mystery of owls. $49/$39.20 member. To register, call 847-835-8261 or visit chicagobotanic.org/education.
Saturday, 1/21; 9 am - 3 pm
SURF THE WHITE WINTER WAVE , Sagawau Environmental Learning Center, Lemont Don't let the weather get you down! Join us for a Polynesian spin on winter by skiing the "frozen wave" our winter storms leave in their wake. After skiing, relax and enjoy surfing videos and live updates on surf conditions from Oahu's North Shore. Dress Hawaiian and win a prize! Event will take place if ski trails are open.
Saturday, 1/21; 1 - 3 pm Conservation@Home: Birding in Your Garden, Little Red School House, Willow Springs University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalists will share their experience of designing, planting and caring for two gardens built for the birds!
Saturday, 1/21; 12 - 3 pm SNOWSHOE TREKKING PLUS, Camp Reinberg, Palatine There's no better way to experience the Forest Preserves in winter than by snowshoe. Come out to these campgrounds (snow conditions permitting) and try our snowshoes for free. Open to the public, no registration required. There must be at least 4" of hard snow on the ground in order to snowshoe. Call the campground for snow conditions, 312-636-9750. If there isn't enough snow, we'll still be out with hikes, games, fire and other outdoor fun.
Saturday, 1/21 and Sunday, 1/29; 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Weekend Family Class: Loco for Cocoa!, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe Discover the sweet story of chocolate from bitter bean to delicious dessert. Participants will investigate the raw ingredients, taste test different types of chocolate, and practice dipping fruits and snacks into melted chocolate to make treats extra enjoyable! Preregistration required; fee applies.
Saturday, 1/21; 9 am - 4 pm and Sunday, 1/22; 1:30 - 5 pm Seed Swap Weekend, Regenstein Center, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe A weekend of events including a film, classes and workshops to learn, share, and swap seeds with other gardeners. Preregistration required and fee applies for some of the activities.
Sunday, 1/22; 1 pm Headbangers World, Crabtree Nature Center, Barrington Hills Woodpeckers are vital to the health of woodland ecosystems. Learn basic species identification and anatomy.
Friday, 1/27; 7 pm Winter Night Hike, River Trail Nature Center, Northrbook Use your senses to search for animals active on cold winter evenings while on a guided hike. Afterwards, warm up inside with snacks and hot chocolate. $2/person.
Saturday, 1/28; Noon - 4 pm
Winter Exploration Days, Dan Ryan Woods Pavilion, Chicago Get out to your local forest preserve and explore the natural beauty of winter! Each special event offers activities to prepare you for a delightful wintertime experience. Learn how to navigate using newfound orienteering skills, create snowshoes and backpacks from natural materials and track animals that make the Forest Preserves their home during winter. Snowshoeing and sledding will be available, should weather conditions permit. Please join us for one or all events! For further details, call 708-386-4042.
Sunday, 1/29; 1:30 pm Winter Wandering, Sand Ridge Nature Center, South Holland Put on your winter boots, bundle up and join us for a brisk 4-mile hike along Thorn Creek. Meet at Sweet Woods, Cottage Grove & 183rd Street in Glenwood.
Sunday, 1/29; 1 - 3 pm Nature Sketching, Trailside Museum of Natural History, River Forest Explore line, value, shading and form as we practice sketching plants and animals from life. For adults and older children w/adult. Register by 1/26. $5 fee includes take-home artist's tools.
Sunday, 2/5; 1 pm Evergreens and Winter Trees, Crabtree Nature Center Unearth the secrets of evergreen trees and learn what other trees are doing during these cold months. If weather permits, identify trees of all kinds on a winter stroll.
Wednesday, 2/8; 2:30 - 6 pm Snowy Scavenger Hunt, Rolling Knolls Pavilion 11N260 Rohrssen Rd, Elgin Let's go on a scavenger hunt! Make some interesting winter observations as you hike through the woods. Record your findings as you go. Dress for the weather.
District(s): Districtwide
17-0034 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS meeting held on 12/13/2016
17-0041 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS special meeting held on 12/13/2016
17-0001 PROPOSED DISBURSEMENT Friends of Forest Preserve, Chicago, Illinois
17-0010 PROPOSED DISBURSEMENT Path Construction Company Inc., Arlington Heights, Illinois
17-0011 PROPOSED DISBURSEMENT Path Construction Company Inc., Arlington Heights, Illinois
17-0023 PROPOSED DISBURSEMENT Speedy Gonzalez Landscaping Inc., Chicago, Illinois
17-0019 REPORT Corporate Fund Analysis of Revenue and Expense 11/1/2016 through 11/30/2016
Organizations in this Story
Forest Preserve District of Cook County

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Solids : Whatevers and Neverminds : Generic Dogs EP (2010)
- Debut EP. Two singles out as well.
- Debut LP is out in early 2014
- This is one of the albums I'm most highly anticipating in 2014.
- Montreal post-punk rock band.. Think Japandroids with less shouting.
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks : Houston Hades : Wig Out at Jagbags (2014)
- 6th album with the Jicks
- Leader of the incredibly influential indie band Pavement.
- 2008's Real Emotional Trash is one of my all-time favorite albums.
Black Lips : Boys in the Wood : Underneath the Rainbow (2014)
- 7th studio album.
- Recorded with the help of the Black Keys' Patrick Carney and blues and soul man Charles Bradley.
- 1st release since 2011's incredible Arabia Mountain.
The Dead Weather : Open Up (That's Enough) (2013)
- Latest single released to members of Jack White's Third Man Records' members.
- No rumors of a 3rd album yet.
- Glad to see Jack White is still recording with this outfit featuring Alison Mosshart from the Kills.
EMA : Satellites : The Future's Void (2014)
- 1st single from forthcoming 3rd album.
- 2011's Past Life Martyred Saints gained her mounds and mounds of critical and indie praise.
- Erika M Anderson
Night Beds : Night Beds : Night Beds EP (2008)
- Debut EP
- Released one of the most gorgeous albums of 2013, Country Sleep.
- Led by Winston Yellen.
James Vincent McMorrow : Red Dust : Post Tropical (2014)
- 2nd LP. One EP as well.
- More R&B infused album than his previous work.
- Slightly mellower style of folk that Bon Iver, but definitely some crossover.
Yellow Ostrich : Shades : Cosmos (2014)
- 3rd (maybe 4th?) album.
- Led by Alex Schaaf.
- A little more Racounteurs/Brendan Benson rock feel to this track.
Songs: Ohia : Just Be Simple (Demo) : The Magnolia Electric Co. 10 Year Anniversary (2013)
- Expanded re-release of possibly Jason Molina's greatest work.
- This is a demo from the bonus disc of demos added to this edition.
- Released following his death earlier in the year.
- Secretly Canadian release.
Death Vessel : Ilsa Drown : Island Intervals (2014)
- 5th album.
- Experimental folk band led by Joel Thibodeau teaming with Sigur Ros's Jonsi here.
Laura Marling : Master Hunter : Once I Was An Eagle (2013)
- 4th album.
- 3 of her first 4 albums were nominated for the Mercury Prize (Best UK Album)
- Folk songwriter from the UK.
Streets of Laredo : Laredo : Streets of Laredo Vol. 2 (2013)
- 2nd EP
- Download the EP for free from their Official Site.
- New Zealand indie folk.
Natural Child : Saturday Night Blues : Dancin' With Wolves (2014)
- 4th full length album.
- Also contributed to a brilliant Burger Records tribute compilation album covering Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat.
- Their southern rock drawl is makes for an incredibly enjoyable take on the title track.
Smith Westerns : 3 AM Spiritual : Soft Will (2013)
- 3rd album
- This is a band that I've not been overly impressed with up until I heard this song.
The Memories : The Gift : Burger Records White Light/White Heat (2013)
- The longest song by about 4 times over from this fun, loose, laid back sloppy garage rock set.
- Brilliant tribute compilation album covering Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat.


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Many of the sites I used to visit during my own transition are long gone. The irony is that the people who ran the sites are now actually personal friends in many instances. So although some websites are significantly scaled back for one reason or another, or gone altogether, others have taken their place. And, mine will endure for at least a few more years.
I'll be updating the website. More to come on that....
I've also decided on a couple of things about this blog.
One, I don't know how often I'll be updating it but it seems to happen fairly regularly. I'll try to keep that up, but it often just flows with life. I've got lots and lots going on right now - as usual - and I've learned to NOT put too much personal stuff here. That won't change.
I've also decided that each entry will have at least one photo. I find my world to be a smorgasbord of sights and sounds and smells and often I'll take at least a photo a day. Plus, I just love photography. I'm still hoping that it's a future career....believe me, I'm working on that. In the meantime, my blog will become more visual. And, each photo will have context, or a story, to go along with it.
There are places to upload photos in a kind of diary thing, but I'd rather do it this way. So, every entry will contain a photo or two. I expect I'll take most of them with my iPhone, as it's always with me and it's the easiest way to get them here without too much extra work. I'm not looking to make this a big effort where everything needs to be perfect - it's simply part of my own enjoyment in doing it.
That said, here's today's photo. I took it while strolling downtown last night. Living here in Charleston is like being on constant vacation sometimes, and although I've never been to Europe this is what I'd envision a back road in a European city might look like. As I mentioned in a previous post, downtown is bright with spring colors and the air is thick with aroma. The little white flowers are jasmine, and the sweet smell is absolutely intoxicating. Anyway - here's today's photo from my world.
This weekend the Olympic Trials for Wrestling are happening. They'll be streaming on NBC so I'll be watching. Anyway, in a way I'm glad to have my life back. I've been on an eating bender since I got back from Iowa. As soon as I finish this I'm headed off to the gym. :)
As I've moved to fill that spot in my world with other things I've also gone through a process of deciding what's there, which things are energy suckers and which provide energy back, and what other things I want to leave behind. Pretty profound stuff, and some big changes in some areas. But the process of taking the time to take life inventory on a regular basis is important....
10pm Update
A couple more things...
There are a couple of good concerts coming to Charlotte, NC in July that I'm planning to see. Coldplay is coming, and so is Train. There are other good bands, as well, but those are the two I'd shell out the bucks and would travel the 200 miles to go see.
I went to see Daughtry in Columbia last week. I realize that they're very pop-rock kinda formulaic stuff, but for some reason I like pretty much everything they do. I was surprised at the age distribution of the audience - the average age was probably 30 something.
For some reason, several of his songs hit home for me in a number of ways. Some are of the angst of relationships. Others are of deeper needs. Somehow, we connect. Here's a clip from the concert.
I wasn't all that far back, but it makes him look teeny.
Here's another song that strikes a chord in me. I guess it's the romantic in me that tries to get out sometimes...I dunno.
I'm going through a "phase", or at I should say I'm going through several phases right now.
One is that I realize how much I miss live music. Charleston doesn't have the most active live-music scene so I'm willing to travel to Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Asheville - I'm not picky. In that respect, I miss Austin.
Another is that I'm also going thru what I'll call a "feminine" phase. It's hard to feel feminine when you're wrestling, or at least it was for me. Now I've got my nails back, I'm enjoying dressing up for summer, my hair is nice and blonde - it's a good thing. I do find that these kinds of things happen in phases so now the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction.
The biggest "phase" in me right now is the need to let go of some things, and the need for home. I'm taking active steps in both regards.
It's deeper than that, but that's enough for now. All good as far as I'm concerned....


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12 x 9
Pastel on Mi Tientes Sanded Board
Continuing in the water garden and pond life theme is "Poised". Represented are a lovely pale yellow almost white water lily nestled in by a pickerel rush leaf. Poised on the edge of the pickerel rush leaf is a dragonfly. It's usually late spring or early summer when the dragonflies show up. By fall, they are positively swarming. This guy has a more gold/brown and black body. His wings are fairly unremarkable except for a very narrow black band at the top edge. I have also had visiting dragonflies with bodies of the blue and green variety. My most favorite though are the black ones with wings that are very markedly white with black spots. Perhaps I'll get some photos of him this year.
In this painting, I tried to avoid detail on the water lily pads. The painting is about the Dragonfly and the lily. I suppose that could have been another name - Lily and Dragonfly - kind of like "Dog and Butterfly" or "Beauty and the Beast"...but the dragonfly is not a beast. Certainly not like Smaug the great and stupendous. I don't think this guy will be breathing fire any day soon.
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Five days before the launch of her first app, Riter Liu is thousands of miles away from her team in Beijing, learning how to run her business at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone (DMZ).
Liu, 24, is one of four visiting scholars from the Communication University of China (CUC) developing their technology startups at Ryerson.
While it's well known for its work with local startups, the DMZ developed international partnerships with universities in Israel and India last year and now has its first fellows from China. International students from these universities face fierce competition to have their big ideas made business-worthy at Ryerson.
Liu's app, Friends on Your Trip, combines a map with instant messaging to help groups travelling together plan their trip and find each other while abroad.
As her group works to finish the app for its demo release on the Android app store later this week, Liu is hard at work getting the product marketable.
"My major is computer application technology so maybe we have a lack of business or product experience. That's why we come to DMZ," she said.
Her stint at the DMZ has brought her together with Jane Li and Lee Li, two other technology entrepreneurs from her university. Although they didn't know each other before competing to come to the DMZ, they now share an apartment in Toronto, and have toured landmarks like Niagara Falls and Quebec City together.
Jane Li, 26, co-founded Sound of Colour, a free mobile app with 20,000 users that provides downloadable audio entertainment — from news to novels to TV shows — for long commutes without Wi-Fi.
"Our goal is to make this app into everyone's personal radio," she said.
Lee Li, 24, is the co-founder of New Media Technologies, an audio system that records and plays back 3D surround sound for film and music production. Li compared his product to similar systems by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. or DTS, Inc., two audio behemoths leading the market in surround sound technologies.
"But we have (a) different way… and we think our way is better," he said.
The fourth student from CUC, Mia Chen, is working an interactive design platform called UI creator.
The students from China were accepted based on unique ideas already at the prototype stage, as well as their ability to collaborate with others and pitch their product.
"The whole purpose of having international students is twofold," said Valerie Fox, the DMZ's executive director. "No. 1 is to attract other great talent and have them work with the other companies.
"And most important is to understand what do companies need internationally?"
Fox added, "It's wonderful to see the interactions between the companies — all the different types of companies — and the learning from one another is priceless."
Liu said the other startups she's spoken with at the DMZ are interested in the Chinese market, and she wants to help them understand it better.
Ryerson has had international institutional partners for many years, according to Marsha McEachrane Mikhail, director of Ryerson International, a school department that assists with accommodations for students on exchange, among other services.
Last year, a group of seven students from India and a group of three students from Israel spent a few months developing their technology startups in Ryerson's technology incubator.
"There's been a concerted effort in the last several years … to partner with really strong institutions in certain countries," McEachrane Mikhail said. "Both students and faculty want to engage with counterparts in many countries."


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As I'm writing this, my tears blur my vision. Not from sadness or being upset, but at the simple thought of life and what life has brought to me.
Throughout my life, I've always imagined someone being on the other side of a two-way mirror following me. This follower would be a director who called the shots in my ever so dreary life. But what makes my life any less or even more depressing from yours? Nothing. I've diverged from my original thought, but the point is that this director has placed barriers to break and hold me back. This director is trying to win a god damned Oscar or some shit because the amount of death, love, and tragedy that has occurred in my short existence is painfully suffocating. From the moment I said my first words to the moment I first fell in love, life has been torturous. A father dying is not comparable to falling out of love, but the pain echoes on and on. Although the echoes delve deep into the caves of my mind, happiness seems to climb its way out of the darkness. Even if the amount of darkness in one's life outcompetes a flicker of light, you can still see the light in all that darkness. If anything, the flickering light is beautiful. A rare sight to behold. Although happiness rarely comes, it is an intoxicating emotion. To me, love and happiness are one in the same. To be happy is to love that point in your existence. To be content with the chaos that may encircle your flickering light. At this point of my existence, I've lived many different lives. The director of my life must love torturing me at sudden and unexpected moments because pain and suffering comes out of nowhere. I guess that's the best way. But every now and then, the director decides to throw in something that'll put a smile on my heart.
The newest addition to the chapters of my book called 'The Life of Joshua: A Comedy' includes a new love interest. And by the sun, she is the goddess Venus. She is my sun. She is my flicker of light in the cold, darkness of my existence. The corona to the starshine. How the fuck do I describe her by using words? To use words and letters and concepts of this mortal realm would do her injustice. So I'll stop here, and let you know she is the void. She is oblivion, oblivious to the fact that I'm in love with the universe in her eyes. She is the absence of everything. She encompasses everything at the same human concept of space-time. Around her, time doesn't exist. My love for her at the moment is timeless, ever expanding with no boundaries to leash it. I haven't felt in months. But lately, with her. I feel life again.


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Dizzy Thinks: Ex-Tory Ex-Councillor is Lefty
Yes, that's right. Anything wrong in the world of politics is by definition leftist, according to Dizzy Thinks. Certainly making a monkey of Croydonian who provided an endorsement claiming hilariously that Phil Hendren thinks before he blogs. As if!
Still, he does get a visit from the ex-Tory ex-Councillor "lefty" himself. His finger slipped and he posted before he had polished his turgid sermon:
The article went up erroneously before being completed, and that (like the rest of the material that (Ed's insert) went up) was a quote I had taken from elsewhere -- actually last September -- and was trying to find the original source when I was interrupted (pushy 'cold caller' at the door!).
I had to dash out after he'd held me up, so I never finished the job.
Actually, I have since found the link (in Google Blogs) though the page itself has been taken down -- just as I did with mine for that matter, once I realised what had happened.
Anyway, the point was to show that this kind of extreme thinking was already out there, and we need as a nation to 'brainstorm' a better solution before the economic crunch forces Gordon B into one his typical dithers followed by panic draconian measures.
As always, where possible I prefer 'carrots' to 'sticks'.
Of course, the hatchet men of the media [Ed: Lefties like the Mail] weren't interested in that, as they had their own agenda...
Anyway, for good, pragmatic reasons, I have now resigned, and (as I have blogged HERE) it is a weight off my mind.
Just like Enoch Powell, John M Ward was quoting from elsewhere when he made his headline grabbing contribution.


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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Haikus from days gone by.
shatters the early dawn mist
like migrating geese
hot water boiling
awaiting the green tea leaves
with Spring almost gone
train platform hauntings
with steel wheels slipping goodbye
as past meets future
melting kisses bloom
for the new season's coming
wet snow on my boot
humming car engines
like one hundred white horses
move Time without Space
with flat feet slapping
Love ran up the small rough hill
And dreamed of old friends
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Minus 2 Sonnets
I stole away and cried for you
In corners dark and sunless rooms.
Our last goodbye, the morning dews
disturbed by the gun's echoes Boom!
The chase was on, and we were split;
I to the Moon and you the Sun.
Spent in the woods; a world unlit.
I, in darkness, still on the run.
Round Heaven and Stars I did roam.
To find you out; alive or dead.
My image of you almost gone.
My heart filled with blackness; dread.
So Sun come out and sing your song
For Darkness has reigned far too long.
Odysseus, to Ithika
Your home and kin, long left behind.
The paths you take are mythical
The obstacles so well defined.
A Goddess, favours you, so bright,
With loving guidance holds you true
Through your perils and sorry plight
With wind filled sails and star night blue.
To Ithika you come unknown.
Wreaking bow vengeance; right restored.
Your identity revealed, shown.
A harmony, life's perfect chord.
Telemachus, Penelope
Have you back from Posiedon's Sea.
The open road of Kerouac.
Exhilerating cars and gurls.
Across the continent and back.
Jazz and tea, motion twirls and swirls.
Holy mornings, sunsets, back beat.
Epiphanies, all visions clear.
Exploding drug mad, mad minds meet.
Angels singing for them to hear.
Bill, Neal, and Allen bop dealings.
Travelling their similar paths,
To the outer limits of things.
Jazz and words mixed with life and laughs.
And so that time has come and gone,
Good night sweet princes of that dawn.
A quilted blanket of all Time
That organizer of pattern.
I wish that it could be all mine
My mood would not be (quite) so saturn.
Think of a Time and then be there.
The fabric shifts and all dreams come.
Shall I be brave and think to dare
And to all dangers appear as numb?
Adventurer through Time & Space
A bold and mighty man alone.
I might even peek at God's face
To see if I would turn to stone.
Late night train wheels clickety-click
Lulled by my study clock …tick tick.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
'The Voice of the Devil':
"All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:
- That Man has two real existing principles: Viz: a Body & a Soul.
- That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body; & that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
- That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
But the following Contraries to these are True:
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2. Energy is only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight."
- Wm. Blake
I'm probably dreaming some fantastic fantasy existence where the people I care for & love live w/in a proximity that each & everyday the love & energy that is being put out by everyone by the sheer fact of the energy being is returned 10 fold to everyone so that they may be filled w/ that good knowledge that they are not alone, that they are part of a strong group of individuals who by chance are creating this situation, I am alone here, as I am alone in most places, except now I am not so numb to the fact, my bitch green Mistress is here to 'soothe' my solitudes, they are brazen & sitting bold faced in front of me, I fear that I have spent too much Time on my own, that certain aspects of my social being remain but they are not connected, the wires are cut, Do you ever feel as though you may know too much? That what you have been thinking about & the things that you have applied yr inner energies to have taken you out of the realm of the regular, and now it seems that the world is adhering to the bland concept of the lowest common denominator so that no one is left out, I'm crazy, I think somehow or other I am socially insane, a bad citizen, I have no reference pt. at all to my own society.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
breezing for a moment
Love, a sustainable state of insanity?
Tossing and turning throughout the night, not in a restless way but as part of the whole - and the whole was good.
In my dreams I would be answering questions. Then I'd rollover and start another phase of the same dream, not anxious or conscious, but knowing. Physically I was relaxed and never woke in a bad position or sore. Spectacular.
I feel as though I am breezing, flying through this life without knowledge of the present. I'm wondering how I'm going to do all this. I haven't got a clue.
Forward eyes and forward motion. This is my idea of right now. Onward and …well, onward!
The long, last rays of sunshine slanting through the green new grass. In the distance, carried on a still cool Spring breeze, "Money for nothing…Iwant my… I want my… I want my MTV…" can be faintly but distinctly heard.
Thoughts of love and companionship. Cart before the horse thoughts.
To break this dreamscape life. To see what is through my eyes. To translate these actions, these growths and their inherent pains and jubiliations. But most importantly to do it.
Voices carry over from past times. Neil Young keeps popping up. Neil's music reminds me of a good friend. No longer among the living in the flesh. Although he is in many hearts, living in love. Remembered.
Motorcycle days are ahead of me. The excitement builds.
Enforcement of ideas and plans.
Intellect and education often only alienates and confuses.
Social patterns, real and imagined, are cow trails through the wilderness. Full of shit and pricks.
Doubt is the plague of modern man.
Youth begets Youth/Age begets Beauty
The fear, and therein the power, of being ostracized in our society is much stronger (greater) than a physical beating.
Rules are made to be exceptions to.
In the lightning flash, silhouettes are revealed.
A series of sketches, like the artist sketches his models-short poses and long- but of people, things, moments, and sunbeams. This is what I want to do? I don't know. It seems on one hand frivolous and w/out reason. On the other it will create a series of moments perpetuated by themselves into their own eternities.
These greats truths that I know are nothing more than mere reflections of what they are understood as. How does one respect and honour reflections?
Without pain Life is dull.
Dieters like the religious when true to their calling rarely speak to preach about their calling. It is the ones who doubt that speak incessantly about it.
All I ever do is wait. Life is a series of waiting. Sometimes the pay-off is fantastic. Sometimes it's simply a set-up for the next session of waiting. Perhaps it's what you do while yr waiting that counts.
Piazza Michaelangelo at Sunset
The sun begins to set to the applause of distant churchbells ringing, calling the devout to worship and the watchless to dinner. The city below is praised in languages foreign to me but not the view. German, Japanese, Italian, and yet they must speak the same words that have been spoken for ages. The final dip behind the Tuscan hills sends the sunlight pink and flaming to the bottom of the clouds reaching through to the grey outer limits. A jet splits the city sky in two.
Lovers, old and young, holding hands, arms around one another, touching. Renewing themselves with a view most complete. The birds have now begun to sing their evening song from trees nearby.
I try not to look back at the parking lot, although even that has a certain beauty in this light. O what an illustrious city! Centuries upon centuries of work, defining work, held within its broken walls. Gates calling out to weary travellers of old.
The cool night breeze has picked up as the lights of Fiesole begin to dot the far hillside. But the chill refreshes, reminds me only of comforts later to be afforded. To my left is a perfect little valley replete with vineyards, olive groves, villas and blossoms. Straight ahead the remains of today's sunlight with a church's duomo and the Arno flowing under Ponte Vecchio. The tower in Piazza della Signoria stands proud against the background smoked grey hills.
Civic to Spiritual my eye swings as Chiesa de Maria de Fiore fills the view of the citied skyline. Brunelleschi's grand Duomo standing out like the Queen of the Valley. The jet's stream is pure pink against a fading blue sky.
A natural line up from the buildinged street-like fields to the Duomo to the heavens and back to the piazzalle in time to watch a beautiful redhead walk up the stairs. O Beauty absorbing.
Darkness is now descending to alleviate the overwhelming sense of grandeur. And yet Santa Croce stands to my right with a silent (and not visible from here) Dante and I watching over it. Magnificent the accomplishments, human accomplishments that were realized in this city.
The old waiter removes the settings from his patio tables that overlook the city. His trade, with the Sun, are gone till tomorrow.
I look around in the fading light to see a radiance, similar, in all the faces. An inherent glory of sorts. The wind has now chilled me to the point of departure. And the feeling I get as I prepare to leave is that the people up here and the city are now as one: lit up as a reward for being here.


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Opportunity Cost of Lost Opportunities
While some people may complain that its almost impossible to find a true premium generic domain name at a "good" price these days, I believe there are still great deals to be had.
Like the saying goes, sometimes it's necessary to overpay today to find a good deal tomorrow. I believe there are three reasons to overpay:
- Create goodwill with a domain owner/seller to buy the next name (the really desirable name) from him for a fair price. Most sellers prefer to deal with trustworthy, quick paying clients that they know rather than trying to establish a new relationship with someone else.
- Acquire a group of domain names in the same vertical or a set of similar names that add value to each other. If a person owns the singular and plural of a name (Deal.com & Deals.com), the value of both can be enhanced as a set. Likewise, owning several extension (.com/.net/.org/.info) of the same domain name can increase the value, too.
- Ensure that the offer meets the seller's needs in order to secure the name. If the seller isn't inclined to sell for market value, it may take a considerably larger sum to convince the owner to sell.
Frequently, a person only has one chance to buy a domain name before someone else acquires it for a development project. Once a domain name is developed into a website, the name may be impossible to acquire. To avoid this, sometimes a buyer has to jump on an opportunity as soon as it presents itself, or the name may not be on the market again.
If the ideal domain name is available to acquire, now might be the time to do what it takes to secure it. Otherwise, it may be a source of regret down the road.
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there are many unique premium domain names available on the market. Just forget English. Prosperity is now in China, Russia, Brazil, India, etc. The non-English domain names market is by far the most interesting.
This week, I bought hentai.fr, and the word for hotel & hotels in latvian (.com & .net). The market is there. Those domain names are still available at reasonable prices, they monetize well and they will be the jewels of tomorrow.
Elliot, #1 is a good way to go broke fast…#2 just happened to me…saw a name just sell for 4950 I could have had for 1500 6 months ago
I've seen it happen on a couple of decent sized portfolios. There are many people who don't necessarily need the money to sell, but they just aren't inclined to do so. When the time comes for them to be more motivated to sell their best names, sometimes they go with the person they like – oftentimes a person they did business with before.
This makes me feel better. I'm bidding on a generic on Sedo, and I'm getting cold feet. I buy a lot of generics in a particular vertical, but I bid on this on a whim and didn't research the traffic enough. I know it'll be worth it over the long run, and it's unlikely to devalue, but still – it's Xmas and there are lots of presents to buy!
Don't spend more than you can afford to lose. Buying domain names can be a gamble.


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The Lenoir-Rhyne University Men's Basketball Team has officially released its 2017-18 schedule, Head Coach Everick Sullivan announced today.
"This is one of the most challenging schedules that Lenoir-Rhyne Men's Basketball has faced in some years, both in and out of conference play," said Sullivan, who is entering his second year as Bears' mentor.
The Bears open the season with the South Atlantic Conference/Peach Belt Challenge in Pembroke, N.C., and will face UNC Pembroke (Friday, November 10, at 3:00 p.m.) and Francis Marion (Saturday, November 11, at 5:00 p.m.). The Braves (24-8) won the PBC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Division II Playoffs.
Lenoir-Rhyne faces King in a home-and-home series and will host Limestone in a key regional contest on Saturday, November 25, at 4:00 p.m. The Saints (27-6), last year's Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Champions, also earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Tournament.
The Bears (10-17 overall, 9-13 in the league) will also host Belmont Abbey on Wednesday, December 6, at 7:00 p.m., to round out the non-conference portion of their schedule.
"Our goal is to prepare our team for a tough, non-conference schedule and an ultra-competitive South Atlantic Conference. We must get better throughout the preseason and season with the goal of playing our best basketball heading into the month of February. We want our players and our team to progress toward postseason play and we think this schedule will allow us to accomplish our goal," added Sullivan.
Speaking of the South Atlantic Conference, Lenoir-Rhyne will face three schools twice – Lincoln Memorial (30-5), Queens (30-4) and Wingate (20-11) – who all earned berths to the national postseason tournament.
The Railsplitters advanced to the national semifinals while the Royals hosted the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Tournament. Both LMU and Queens finished the 2016-17 season ranked No. 15 and No. 6 in the nation, respectively. The Bears host the Royals for Senior Night for the second straight year on Wednesday, February 21, at 8:00 p.m.
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Let me begin by saying that this post has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with how to get what you want out of life. Growing up I was taught how to recite the Lord's Prayer and so I did but, today I realize that there is an art to prayer – it is more than just reciting words that you've memorized.
For the longest time I thought all I needed to do for my prayers to be answered was to pray about it repeatedly and now I realize that if what I asked for was what was best for me then all I had to do was ask once and just KNOWN that it was going to happen. Have you ever driven to the mall and just KNOWN that you were going to get that parking spot I believe the art of prayer works in much the same way.
I am Christian and I strongly that God exists and I am aware that your higher power might have a different name to mine – all religions teach us to be kind and loving toward our fellow human being so as far I am concerned whether you choose to call yourself a Hindu, Muslim or Christian all I see when I look at you is a fellow human being – but, the art of prayer has two steps and will work for regardless of who/what you believe in:
- Step 1: Ask – ask God for what you want.
- Step 2: Believe – just KNOW that you are going to get what you asked for.


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Have some pineberries for the summer wait, what?
How would you like your strawberries just like strawberries, but smelling and tasting like pineapples? Oh, and the colors completely backwards as well.
Thats exactly what pineberries, as the British have begun to call it, are. Theyre becoming quite the delicacy this summer season, and its exactly as advertised: strawberries with the taste of pineapples.
The fruit was first discovered in the South American wilds, and was supposedly saved from extinction by Dutch farmers.
Grown in glasshouses, pineberries start off green, gradually turning paler as they ripen.
When the fruit is sweet and juicy enough to eat, the flesh is almost totally white but studded with red seeds the reverse of the usual variety.
They are smaller than most commercially grown strawberries, measuring between 15 and 23mm across slightly less than an inch....being a human...


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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Today's crit - NCA Grand Prix
I won the open and Janna won the cat 4.
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"you don't win races by crashing. It's part of the game but you'll learn to avoid people and situations that cause crashes." -- cominatcha
Very good point and a skill I practiced today racing with the cat 4 men crit. Instead of racing to win, I just worked the group, monitoring wind and position, and watched the riders, picking out who was wobbly, irresponsibly aggressive, etc. then worked to maintain a decent position, but away from those riders. Also focused on looking up the pack in order to have some time to take evasive action if necessary. I think my recent asphalt encounters have given me the motivation to make these skills top priority -- Not because I'm scared of hurting, altho I don't much care for it -- but because of the reason pointed out above. If you wreck your bike and put yourself on the ground, you aren't going to win the race, or even place. Better to play it smart AND fast. :D
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YEAH to not crashing!
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I'm full of cycling technique so here's another:
Keep your head up. Never focus very long at the distance of your wheel to the wheel in front. A good focus point is the small, of the next person in front, back. There you can see up the road, to the side, and the wheel in front.
You'll learn to "feather" the brake to slow. This keeps your momentum going forward. No need to grab a handfull of brake. Even moving slightly off of the wheel in front causes more resistance to slow you down. Save those brake pads. Plus, when things are moving smoothly your upper body remains relaxed and you save energy.
The more you ride in a group the better you become at developing these skills. On group rides I'm always working on these skills. Even after 23 years of racing I still try not to train to much by myself. Group rides are good for sociallizing but also for developing skills.
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Great tips for group riding skills-well put!
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Winkworth Franchising today announces the appointment of Michael Stoop, its former managing director, as a consultant to the business with immediate effect – days after his final departure from the Property Franchise Group, still better known as Martin & Co.
Stoop returns to Winkworth after a remarkable 25-year break, in which he headed up – for 22 years – Xperience, the Legal & General franchising brand with well known brands Ellis & Co, Whitegates, Parkers and CJ Hole, which was sold to Martin & Co in 2014.
As part of that £6m deal, he was appointed managing director of the group.
Last August it was announced that he had retired from that role, but that he would continue as a consultant to the business until this June.
In his new role, he will work to help expand Winkworth's franchise network.
Dominic Agace, CEO at Winkworth, said: "I'm delighted to welcome Michael back to Winkworth after 25 years. His experience in the industry, and particularly in franchising, is second to none. I have no doubt that he will add great value to our brand and help to drive Winkworth's expansion into new and exciting areas nationally."
Stoop began his career at Winkworth in 1976, and was the first to open a franchised Winkworth office in 1981, in Parsons Green, London.
He re-sold that office in 1988 to a new franchisee, before going on to become managing director of Winkworth between 1986 and 1992. He is also currently vice chairman of The Property Ombudsman as well as acting in an advisory and mentoring role for other property-related companies.
Stoop said: "It's almost like coming home. I'm thoroughly looking forward to returning to Winkworth after such a long time away and hope to provide real value in helping to promote and expand its franchise proposal.
"We're on the look-out for talented, experienced agents with in-depth knowledge of their local market to join our network of franchisees, so I'd like to invite these individuals to get in touch to find out more."


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So this week's Song Lyric Sunday is to post something from the singer/songwriter genre. Again, there are so many great choices here, but to me one name sticks out above all the others: John Prine.
I've been a huge John Prine fan ever since my old supervisor and department chair from grad school turned me onto him. John Prine is one of the most underrated singer/songwriters in my opinion: not the greatest singer of all time (actually a lot of what he does is "speak singing") but some of the deepest and most emotional/heartfelt lyrics of all. He has so many great songs it was hard to narrow it down to just one, but I think I've done that now.
The song I'm going with is called "All The Best." It's a song I'm sure most of us will be able to relate to. I know I sure relate to it as I felt (and still do) feel a lot of the same things this song expresses.
I wish you love
And happiness
I guess I wish you
All the best
I wish you don't
Do like I do
And ever fall in love with
Someone like you
Cause if you fell
Just like I did
You'd probably walk around the block
Like a little kid.
But kids don't know
They can only guess
How hard it is
To wish you happiness
I guess that love
Is like a Christmas card
You decorate a tree
You throw it in the yard
It decays and dies
And the snowmen melt
Well I once knew love
I knew how love felt
Yeah I knew love
Love knew me
And when I walked
Love walked with me
And I got no hate
And I got no pride
Well I got so much love
That I cannot hide
Yeah I got
So much love that I cannot hide
Say you drive a Chevy
Say you drive a Ford
You say you drive around the town
Till you just get bored
Then you change your mind
For something else to do
And your heart gets bored with your mind
And it changes you
Well it's a doggone shame
And it's an awful mess
I wish you love
I wish you happiness
I wish you love
I wish you happiness
I guess I wish you
All the best
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Yesterday, British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband spoke with his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada regarding Japanese accession to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Miliband quoted Okada as stating,
"I fully understand the seriousness of the issue."
For several years, mounting pressure has been applied on Japanese officials to accede to the Hague Convention.
A recent round of US/Japanese diplomatic talks, have led some parents to criticize both American and Japanese governments for not doing enough to help left-behind parents and internationally abducted children.
It is not just the US that has been making representations; the G8 countries have collectively been applying pressure. Canada, Australia and New Zealand have numerous cases where children abducted to Japan have all but disappeared from the lives of their left-behind parent. In addition, fellow G8 members - the UK, Spain and France - have been raising the issue too.
In the context of international child abduction, the much maligned Hague Convention is still the mechanism of choice, however, Japan has so far failed to accede to the Convention for a number of reasons, mostly cultural and specifically, on the basis that signing the Convention could place Japanese mothers and children in harms way if they were fleeing abusive partners.
Visitation in Japan upon Divorce
In Japan, the notion of shared custody or visitation with a child by the non-resident parent is practically non-existent. One parent, typically the mother, is awarded sole custody and the matter ends there - continuing contact between children and non-resident parents (fathers) is nil to negligible. In many respects, it is the Japanese legal system which is deficient in the inability to recognize the right of a child to continuing contact and involvement with the non-residential parent.
This sharply contrasts with the legal position in many Western countries which, if not perfect in practice, do frequently recognize the bonds of love and support between child and non-residential parent and seek to continue contact between children and fathers after divorce.
The Hague Convention's Cultural Challenge
The issue of domestic violence is a smelly cauldron, and one which the US in particular, does not have a credible leg to stand on. Morally, Japan is right to take its stand with "protecting" Japanese mothers claiming abuse when the US does so in so many cases when the tables are turned - even providing a specific exemption for the two-parent signature law to gain a US passport for children to effect their removal to the US from overseas.
Domestic violence is a challenge no matter whether the Hague Convention is in situ or not.
The issue at hand is the adoption of an international treaty which recognizes the rights of children to both parents by a country which does not have any cultural or legal basis for doing so. In Japan, children go to the mother and father is out of their life until they grow up - this is the practical situation and very close to the legal one.
Imagine the effect of Japanese courts granting visitation rights to "geijin" foreign fathers (and most will be fathers), while Japanese dads can't get a look in. Personally, I don't see that happening in practice, and yet, so many appear to be placing faith in the Hague Convention as a step in resolution of abductions to Japan.
One left-behind parent, Carlos Bermudez with his son, Sage, abducted from the US to Mexico, pointedly quipped:
"You're given a box marked Hague Convention on the side and you open it up to find you have a pea-shooter with which to take on a tank!"
Parents with children internationally abducted to Japan, are in for a very rude awakening when they get to try to use the Hague Convention, as and when Japan accedes to it.
But, there is the rub - I feel sure Japan will accede to it and in doing so, an opportunity will exist to continue to cast some daylight on the murky underbelly of international child abduction and the use of domestic violence allegations as a tool to justify abductions, not by the Japanese, but by the United States. Accession will also mean the US Department of State can shuffle Hague Convention application paperwork and play the waiting game with left-behind parents, with children in Japan, in exactly the same fashion they do so today with parents abducted to any other Hague country.
Japan signing the Hague Convention without a major cultural shift in thinking and behavior is full of challenges and obstacles; but teh Hague Convention is the hope parents with children in Japan will cling to as is the case with the rest of us. Without the US authorities performing a similar acrobatic feat in shifting thinking and attitudes, especially with how they manage Hague Convention cases, my honest view is the entire process is meaningless.
That is not what parents with children in Japan want to hear.


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Sunday, September 13, 2015
Kitchen Remodel
This kitchen had standard, and out of date, laminate counter tops, wall paper that needed to be removed, and some serious updating. The family had someone else install the granite counter tops (because I don't do that) and then I tiled the back splash and island, installed 12" slate tile on the floor, bead board on the ceiling, painted the cabinets, etc. Here are a couple of "before" pictures
Here is finished work.
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Does anyone else envision some crazy dance move when they hear "Funky Artichoke"? I can't get that image out of my head!
The idea for this quilt came from a facebook comment earlier this year. I committed to a Pay It Forward-I would make a handmade gift for the first 5 people to comment on my facebook, and they in turn had to commit to doing the same. The gifts could be anything handmade, and you can see the other items that I made here.
My college roomie, Emily, was one of the 5 commenters, and she jokingly suggested an artichoke quilt. To say that she loves artichokes would be an understatement. Last winter the midwest was pummeled with snow (seriously, people, Lakeshore Drive was a PARKING LOT!), and Emily's then-boyfriend trekked through the snowstorm, artichokes in hand, to spend the snowstorm with her. So I knew that I had to try my hardest to actually produce an artichoke quilt.
I started out by google searching for images of artichokes, hoping to find inspiration. Somehow in my searching, I came across an image of Sugar Pop by Liz Scott. I think the photo owner had described one of the greens as "artichoke", which was how it ended up in my search.
I wasn't making much headway with the other photos, and I happened to have a charm pack of this line, so I pulled it out and started to thumb through the prints. I sketched a bit, and thought I had an idea. I started to piece all of the charms into half square triangles, using an ivory kona for the other half of the HST. My intent was to piece the HSTs into concentric diamonds, which I would offset in the quilt top. The offset diamond would result in a large corner of the ivory kona, where I envisioned an artichoke-like image appliqued. Have I lost you yet? Imagine this quilt, but with a large area of background fabric in the lower righthand corner.
I had all of the HSTs pieced when I started to play with the layout. Before sewing the top together, I decided that I should try a few different ideas. I sort of stumbled onto this layout, but once I did I couldn't get it out of my head. It wasn't a literal translation, but it was *so* perfect for Emily:
The Funky Artichoke
Does anyone else envision some crazy dance move when they hear "Funky Artichoke"? I can't get that image out of my head!