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Genre: Fantasy
Jason Chiu
Ada Zhu
Legend claims that in Gods Shrine rests the Elixir of Eternity, a liquid granting immortality to whoever drinks it. King Hector is very sick and doesnt see why he should die hes a bloody king, after all so he offers the hand of his only daughter, Diane, in marriage to anyone who brings him the elixir, an offer which angers the princess but which is of great interest to the ruthless and ambitious hero Roland Morgaine. But Roland hasnt taken into account the plans of Frank Timber and Dwight Theseus, the thief and assassin who intend to become rich men at King Hectors expense. Princess Diane wants to live forever. Roland Morgaine wants everything he can get. Frank and Dwight just want to make some money. On a collision course, these four people will learn that you should always go around the haunted fort, that monsters named William should be fed regularly, and that immortality can get you killed.

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Series Storylines: Penguins vs. Bruins
by Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh PenguinsPenguins vs. Flyers Round One Schedule:
Wednesday, April 11 - Philadelphia at PITTSBURGH - 7:30 p.m. - ROOT SPORTS
Friday, April 13 - Philadelphia at PITTSBURGH - 7:30 p.m. - ROOT SPORTS
Sunday, April 15 - Pittsburgh at Philadelphia - 3:00 p.m. - NBC
Wednesday, April 18 - Pittsburgh at Philadelphia - 7:30 p.m. - ROOT SPORTS
*Friday, April 20 - Philadelphia at PITTSBURGH - 7:30 p.m. - ROOT SPORTS
*Sunday, April 22 - Pittsburgh at Philadelphia - TBD - TBD
*Tuesday, April 24 - Tampa Bay at PITTSBURGH - TBD - TBD
#1 Pittsburgh Penguins Overall: 36-12-0-72 Home: 18-6-0-36 Road: 18-6-0-36 | VS | #4 Boston Bruins Overall: 28-4-6-62 Home: 16-5-3-35 Road: 12-9-3-27 | ||
Pittsburgh and Boston have been two of the NHL's most successful teams over the last few years, with the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup in 2009 and going to the Final in 2008, while the Bruins won in 2011. And when the two Eastern Conference powers met during the regular season, the two clubs had dramatic, exciting battles – the kinds of games that make one wish for a playoff series between the teams.
That's finally going to happen in the 2013 playoffs. The Penguins and the Bruins will meet in the Eastern Conference Final, their first postseason meeting since 1992. That year, Pittsburgh swept Boston en route to winning their second of back-to-back Stanley Cups (they had beaten them in 1991 as well). This year, the Penguins swept the regular-season series with the Bruins and won all three games by one goal.
"It's going to be tough. It's going to be a challenge," Brandon Sutter said. "I think we're looking forward to it. If you look back earlier in the year, it's probably the team we expected we had to go through to get to this point, so it's going to be a fun series."
Here are some of the main storylines to follow as the series progresses. Click on any of the links below to be taken to that specific section...
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara is tough enough to play against one game at a time in the regular season; now the Penguins have the tall task (pun intended – ha!) of dealing with him in a best-of-seven playoff series.
There is no other player in the NHL like Chara, who measures 6-foot-9, 255 pounds and uses his unparalleled blend of size and ability to be one of the best shutdown defenders in the game. But while the Bruins may have Chara, the Penguins have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
With the Penguins healthy and having both of their superstar centers in the lineup, they pose a big matchup problem for the Bruins. Which line does Boston send Chara over the boards to battle – Crosby, Pascal Dupuis and Chris Kunitz, or Malkin, James Neal and Jarome Iginla? Chara usually matches up with Crosby (and the Penguins captain said he expects to line up against him), but with the way Malkin, Neal and Iginla have played and produced the last few games, the Bruins could opt to put their captain out against them instead.
Either way, unless Chara stays on the ice for two straight shifts during even-strength (which isn't completely out of the question considering he's averaging over 29 minutes a game, but unlikely), one of those lines will be free from having a 6-foot-9 shadow with a long reach and hard shot on their shifts – and free to try and force their game on the Bruins in the offensive zone.
"I guess it's good if you look at our team, he can't just play against one line," Dupuis said of Chara. "He'll be on the ice quite a bit if he's trying to match against both lines and I don't know how they're going to do that, but it's a good thing we have going there."
And even the line that does end up on the ice with Chara, no matter which one it is, can exploit his weaknesses. Chara still has his long reach and shot, but he has never been especially mobile – and that's starting to become even more apparent with age. At 36, he's not the same player he was even two years ago when Boston won the Cup. It's showed in a few goals against in these playoffs so far. And with the talent the Penguins have throughout their star-studded roster, the question may not be so much can the Penguins beat Chara, but can Chara keep up with the Penguins?
Boston's total commitment to defense has proven to be formidable enough in regular-season meetings, and it won them the Stanley Cup just two years ago in 2011. Will the high-powered Penguins be able to overcome it in a best-of-seven series?
"That's been one of their identities for a few years now," forward Craig Adams said. "They're really solid defensively, really committed to their structure and their system and you don't get a lot of chances on them."
The Bruins have always had a size on their blue line that has made them tough to play against, starting, of course, with Zdeno Chara (6-foot-9, 255 pounds). Johnny Boychuk, Adam McQuaid and Dennis Seidenberg are also big defensemen that play physical. But with the addition of rookie defensemen Torey Krug and Matt Bartkowski (along with fellow first-year Dougie Hamilton), the dynamic has changed. Krug and Bartkowski especially bring speed, skating and the ability to move the puck and break it out of their own end quickly in transition. Their mobility and offensive instincts could pose a problem for the Penguins, who struggled with that in the Islanders series.
Boston's blue line is imposing enough on its own, but when factoring in how responsible the Bruins forwards are, creating offense may prove to be a monumental challenge for the Penguins – even considering how they have been able to score in these playoffs so far. Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci, two of the best two-way centers in the game, lead Boston's front end. The forwards and defensemen all buy into their system and execute it perfectly, playing a very patient, structured game and supporting each other all 200 feet of the ice with positioning and passing.
"They can really frustrate you with the way they play," defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "They're really good defensively, in the neutral zone, they're really, really responsible. So they kind of bait you into situations where you think you have something and then they close it down pretty quick, and they're a good transition team."
But while Pittsburgh respects Boston for the way it plays, the Bruins also respect the Penguins for their ability to score goals against seemingly any team. In this postseason the Penguins are averaging 4.27 goals per game, which is the highest since the 1985 Cup-winning Edmonton Oilers (5.44), the highest-scoring team in NHL playoff history. The Penguins have scored at least four goals in nine of their 11 playoff games and are 8-1 in those games. Only once this postseason have the Penguins been held to fewer than three goals.
That's the most Pittsburgh was able to score against Boston during the regular season. But will the Bruins be able to withstand the Penguins attack during this series and force them to play the way they want them to? Or will the Penguins have the patience of their own to stick with it and find a way to overcome them with their deep arsenal of offensive weapons (Crosby, Malkin, Neal, Kunitz, Dupuis, Iginla, Letang, etc.?)
One future Hall of Famer is producing at an impressive rate with the team he joined at the trade deadline, while the other is struggling.
Pittsburgh's Jarome Iginla has 12 postseason points (4G-8A) in 11 games entering this series, which ranks fifth in the NHL. Despite playing right wing for the majority of his career, he has gotten comfortable at left wing on a line with Evgeni Malkin and James Neal and the veteran leader and former longtime Flames captain is becoming everything the Penguins hoped he would be for them when they acquired him from Calgary.
Meanwhile, former Penguin great and the NHL's active leading all-time playoff scorer Jaromir Jagr has not been a perfect fit in Boston since joining them at the deadline from Dallas (he had spent the previous season in Philadelphia). Julien experimented with the aging star just about everywhere in the lineup after they acquired him, but nothing clicked until he joined Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. While it has probably been the best combination so far, Jagr still did not record any points in the first four games of the Rangers series and had just four assists in the Toronto series. He is goalless in 12 games and hasn't scored since April 21.
But, despite all of that, Jagr has been using his big body to keep possession of the puck and create scoring chances, and is a constant threat on the power play. And it seems like the 41-year-old always comes to play against his former team. A matchup against the Penguins may be just what he needs to get the salute out.
The juiciest part of this storyline is how stunned the hockey world was when it was announced that Iginla was coming to Pittsburgh, since nearly every major media outlet had reported that he had been traded to Boston. Even Penguins general manager Ray Shero's own children thought Iginla was a Bruin. "The first people I called (after the trade), I actually called my kids and let them know that we acquired Jarome Iginla," Shero said. "And they said to me, 'No you didn't. He's going somewhere else. We see it on TV.' And I'm like, 'Well, I think we're getting him (laughs).'"
The Flames did have deals on the table from both the Penguins and Bruins – which sparked all the reports that Iginla was headed to Boston. But Iginla had to waive his no-trade clause as a part of any deal and had the power to pick his destination. He chose the black and gold of Pittsburgh instead of Boston's black and yellow and became a Penguin, not a Bruin. Penguins fans were overjoyed while Bruins fans were understandably miffed about the situation, and booed Iginla in his first game as a Penguin in Boston (where he ended up scoring a goal). How this series ends up may determine if 'Iggy' made the right choice in his goal to winning his first Stanley Cup. It will also be interesting to see if Jagr still has what it takes to make an impact in big games.
The Penguins have been successful all season at making star goalies look very average. Will this dynamic Pittsburgh team do the same to Tuukka Rask? Rask has had his ups and downs in his first season as Boston's No. 1 goalie with the depature of the Stanley Cup-winning Tim Thomas. But at the end of the day, he has done what he needed to do to get Boston to the conference final and brings a .928 save percentage and 2.22 goals-against average.
Rask recovered from an embarrassing misstep that led to a big goal in Boston's Game 4 loss to the Rangers with an excellent performance in the Game 5 series-clinching win. The tall, athletic Rask benefits from the way the structured, disciplined Bruins play in front of him. Boston is completely committed to its system and takes a team approach to playing defense. So we will see how the Bruins, and Rask, can withstand the Penguins' attack. Rask went 0-2 this year against the Penguins, stopping 37 of 42 shots (.881 save percentage). He's made five career regular-season starts versus Pittsburgh, going 1-4 with a 2.63 goals-against average and a .903 save percentage.
Meanwhile, Penguins goalie Tomas Vokoun started two of Pittsburgh's three games against the Bruins this season – winning both and stopping 69 of 72 shots (.958 save percentage). He has won three straight and four of his past five decisions against them. Vokoun stepped into the role of starter in Game 5 of Pittsburgh's first-round series against the New York Islanders and has gone 6-1 in seven straight starts since. He ranks second in the NHL with a .941 save percentage and is tied for third with a 1.85 goals-against average in these playoffs. Like Rask, Vokoun has done what he needed to do between the pipes for his team to get them here. While Rask has to defend the net against Pittsburgh's seemingly endless supply of offensive weapons, Vokoun's biggest challenge will be dealing with Boston's tendency to crash the net and battle for loose pucks and rebounds in the blue paint. He will have to be alert and prepared for that.
The Penguins power play has been a game-changer during these playoffs, converting at an obsence 28.3-percent success rate (13-for-46). The Penguins have been using the following units: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Chris Kunitz and Kris Letang on the first one and Jarome Iginla, Jussi Jokinen, Brenden Morrow, Matt Niskanen and Paul Martin on the second. Letang leads the NHL with seven power-play points, while Crosby ranks fourth with seven and Malkin is fifth with six. The Bruins have been struggling on the penalty kill with an 81.1-percent success rate that puts them eighth in the playoffs – and they may be no match for Pittsburgh and its superior talent.
Meanwhile, rookie defenseman Torey Krug has injected a shot (literally) into Boston's previously lethargic power play.
Despite all of their success over the last few seasons, the power play has always been Boston's one weakness – even having Zdeno Chara and his bomb from the point. When the Bruins won the Stanley Cup two years ago, they did it with a 10-for-88 power play – converting just 11.4 percent of their chances. They finished the next season with the No. 15-ranked power play and fell to 26th this season. However, after scoring just three goals on 20 chances against Toronto in the first round, the Bruins went 4-for-12 in five games versus the Rangers in the second round – with three of those coming off the stick of Krug.
The Bruins have used Krug, his ability to distribute the puck and his laser-like shot on the point alongside another rookie defenseman Dougie Hamilton with David Krejci, Brad Marchand and Nathan Horton up front. Their other unit has consisted of Chara at the point, Jaromir Jagr and Tyler Seguin on the half walls and Patrice Bergeron and Milan Lucic down low. They've continued to improve in that area, with Krug and their ability as a team to win faceoffs – "(faceoffs are) going to be a big factor for (our) penalty kill; they're very good to start their power play" Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said – driving that success.
Getting the power play going has been big for the Bruins and helped them win their second-round series. But even with Krug lifting it, it still cannot compare to Pittsburgh's.
While Zdeno Chara is the player to watch on Boston's back end, Patrice Bergeron is their player to watch all over the ice. He is arguably the most valuable player in the Bruins lineup as he is one of, if not the, best two-way centers in the game. Bergeron will likely be the center to match up against Sidney Crosby – which will be a battle within the game to watch closely, as the Bruins alternate captain is capable of shutting down the best.
Points don't define Bergeron's game, but he has been clutch when it counts for the Bruins this postseason. His most epic performance came in Boston's dramatic Game 7 comeback victory over Toronto in the first round. With 1:30 minutes left and his team down 4-2, Bergeron helped set up Milan Lucic's goal that brought Boston within one, scored the tying goal to force overtime and then netted the winning goal 6:05 into the extra session to send the Bruins to the second round.
The versatile Bergeron logs big minutes in all situations for the Bruins. The 27-year-old leads all Bruins forwards in average time on ice this postseason – averaging 20:38 minutes per game and playing both power play and penalty kill. He is also the NHL's most successful faceoff taker, leading the league by winning 63.5 percent of his draws in these playoffs (160-of-252). He finished the regular season with a 62.1-percent success rate. Bergeron, a four-time 20-goal scorer, also finished the regular season with the NHL's sixth-best plus-minus total (plus-24), while his combined plus-60 rating over the previous two seasons is the top figure in the NHL.
Coach Bylsma on Bergeron…
"He gets the big responsibility usually on the matchup situation for other team's top lines. Bergeron, I think, stemming right from the faceoffs to his ability to play on both sides of the puck, he's a patient guy, he's not a guy who goes looking for his offense or tries to find the chances to go for offense. He's a real patient guy, he plays on the defensive side of the puck, fits well in that matchup role-wise, but he also is a guy who does have the skill and the ability to make that play – to make the big play – and does that for his team and continues to do that for his team. He's a tough guy to play against. He's a patient guy. He's willing to play that defensive style of game and continue to do that. A lot of times, that frustration he builds in the opposition is where he does eventually get his offense from and timely scoring for his team. So it's a tough matchup situation, he's a good and tough guy to play against in that regard. I'm sure we'll see a couple matchups, not only from him and his line but defensive pairing as well."


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By Kevin Fogarty | Posted 2008-04-10 Email PrintA look at the changing landscape of call center technology and practices.
Exony is only one of a group of vendors that develop specialized CCPM products. Others include Aim Technology, Aspect Software, Enkata, Merced Systems and Verint Systems. Performance management. Fluss says, relies on specialized data-access and reporting tools from relatively mainstream vendors, such as Business Objects,
While the market for CCPM accelerated during 2007, awareness and demand for the whole category of tools still lags behind business-intelligence and reporting tools that more obviously give contact center operators an advantage in dealing with customers, Fluss says.
Good data integration is critical to any contact center, but comes in two distinct flavors, according to Sami Akbay, vice president of product management and marketing at real-time data replication and integration vendor GoldenGate Software, which runs half a dozen contact centers in different parts of the world.
"First it's important to have 24-hour continuous support, so the ability to pass information from one call center to another is critical," he says. "Customers want support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but they also want to talk to the same person they talked to last time, who knows their systems and their problem. But if they can't talk to Joe in one call center, you'd better make sure his twin brother Jim knows what Joe told the customer and how to address the problem."
The other level of data integration is designed to allow contact center agents to upsell customers based on their past activity. Customers who call a cable company to buy pay-per-view access to a soccer game will be much more likely at that time to buy a subscription to all the games than they would be the next day, Akbay says.
"When I call [the company], I'm engaged and interested. If [company employees] have to wait 24 hours to find out that I might be interested in this other product and they call me, I'll be doing something else and may not be interested at all," he says.
"Of the companies we talked to, even those that really hated their vendor said they would never run a contact center again without a CCPM," Fluss says. "It was a striking finding. It's still hard to know which indicators to pay attention to; even with CCPM, you have to think through your KPIs. But CCPM makes it a lot easier."
Respondents to DMG's survey said the payback time for a CCPM system was generally between six months and 12 months, and that the quantifiable benefits would eventually equal two to three times the original investment.
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DAILY MANIFESTOThis Dragon Ball Game is not Worth $2kPosted on Friday, November 19 @ 19:31:55 PST by Blake_Morse
Ebay seller legendsandmoreinc, has graciously decided to re-list his auction for a sealed copy of the rare Playstation 1 game, Dragon Ball GT Final Bout for the reasonable amount of $2,000 American. That's marked down from his original offering of $7,000. No, that's not a typo, this guy's just nuts and proves it in his long winded rant that gets way more personal than an ebay auction ever should.:"I want you all to realize that I am NOT just another store uploading another GENERIC auction! That's why you WONT see me pulling stuff from Wikipedia and TRYING to sound like I know what I am talking about. I am using my Aunts eBay store for the BUYERS PIECE OF MIND knowing that he/she is NOT dealing with a FRAUD, but rather an honest and thoroughly knowledgeable collector. If I had the monetary funds needed to finish up my Bachelors of Science Degree in Biology (I'm a Pre-Med in a financially unstable economy… BAD combination), my BRAND NEW COPY of GT Final Bout would never be up for grabs! Like I said before, I searched and searched for years and (got cheated out of close to a thousand dollars, that's right $1000.00 USD) in pursuit of an original U.S. Copy of the 1997 Release (NOT THE ATARI RE-RELEASE from 2004)." Sorry dude, but anyone who'd go through all that just for this particular game probably shouldn't hold the title of "Dr.". I've played Final Bout and I can tell you that it's rare in the same way that E.T. is: it's a really bad game that isn't worth the time to play. You could play any number of the poorly done DBZ titles out on the current gen of consoles and get the same experience. But with just over 9,000 copies made (10,000) it does make it rather unique. You'd just have be batshit, nutso crazy to think it's worth anywhere near 2k. [go bid now] |
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The New York Times today has a nice opinion piece by Adam Cohen that does a good job of laying out the concerns about locational privacy that EFF and other privacy advocates have raised:
A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up "locational privacy." Even in low-tech days, our movements were not entirely private. The desk attendant at my gym might have recalled seeing me, or my colleagues might have remembered when I arrived. Now the information is collected automatically and often stored indefinitely.
Privacy advocates are rightly concerned. Corporations and the government can keep track of what political meetings people attend, what bars and clubs they go to, whose homes they visit. It is the fact that people's locations are being recorded "pervasively, silently, and cheaply that we're worried about," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a recent report.
People's cellphones and E-ZPasses are increasingly being used against them in court. If your phone is on, even if you are not on a call, you may be able to be found (and perhaps picked up) at any hour of the day or night. As disturbing as it is to have your private data breached, it is worse to think that your physical location might fall into the hands of people who mean you harm.
This decline in locational privacy, from near-absolute to very little in just a few years, has not generated much outrage, or even discussion.
For more discussion of why this problem exists, and what needs to be done to solve it, check out EFF's whitepaper, On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever.
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Afghan war? Drama? Zack Snyder? Admittedly, something in there doesn't make sense but believe it or not, the man behind "300," "Watchmen" and "Sucker Punch" came up with an idea for just such a movie and with his regular collaborator Kurt Johnstad penning the script, they've had it in development for a while. Sergey Bodrov ("Mongol") was originally attached to direct back in March 2009, and earlier this spring Niels Arden Oplev ("The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo") had come on board but it looks like Snyder doesn't want to part with his baby any more.
Twitch reports that Snyder is gonna direct the damn thing himself once he's done with "Man Of Steel" and it will certainly be a big shift and change of pace for the speed ramping helmer. The story centers on a journalist and the sole witness and survivor of an attack on a group of Americans in Afghanistan, who teams with an ex-special ops dude to help find the people who kidnapped one of this family members in exchange for the story. Christian Bale and Sean Penn were among the early names mentioned for the roles of the journalist and special ops agent respectively, but with this film at least two years away before lensing, it's not known if they'll be sticking around.
As for Oplev it's not known why he exited the project, but he recently signed on to direct "Game Theory" for Summit and that's likely where he's putting his energies right now.


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National Register of Historic Places Program
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
Property Name | Hawthorne Hill |
Reference Number | 13000401 |
State | Tennessee |
County | Sumner |
Town | Castalian Springs |
Street Address | 195 Old Hwy 25E |
Multiple Property Submission Name | N/A |
Status | Listed 6/14/2013 |
Areas of Significance | EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT, ARCHITECTURE |
Link to full file | https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000401.pdf |
Completed c. 1805, Hawthorne Hill is located in Castalian Springs, Tennessee, a small unincorporated community in Sumner County, Tennessee with a population of 2,716. Hawthorne Hill is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for local exploration and settlement patterns. The present day 10.45 acres was once part of a 208-acre land grant given to Charles Carter in the 1790s by the state of North Carolina. For many generations this plot of land was used as a farm, and represents typical agricultural patterns seen throughout this frontier community. The property retains a dwelling originally constructed during the early settlement era, c. 1805. The house is an excellent example of an antebellum rural farmhouse with elements of Federal-style architecture such as the symmetrical three-bay faryade, simple decorative embellishments, and a four-light transom over the main entry door making it eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C. |
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Is Kate Moss ready to bare all for the cover of Playboy magazine? While Kate is no stranger to stripping down for various things, most recently for a fake tanning product, Playboy would be a big step.
The report comes from Refinery29.com, who claim to have spoken with Kate's hair stylist, Oribe Canales. Canales says that not only is the Playboy appearance happening, but it's already been shot. How does Canales know? Naturally, he was at the photo session to take care of the supermodel's hair.
The cover is reported to be running in January 2014 for Playboy's 60th anniversary. So far, there's no word on just how naked 39-year-old Kate will be in the pages of the magazine, but Playboy isn't exactly known for the clothing women wear in pictorials.


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We are happy to report that Rev. Marie received a kidney on Monday. She has successfully undergone transplant surgery and is doing well. Please continue to keep her in your prayers for a full recovery! God be praised! Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Archive for March, 2012
Calling All Women and Friends of Metropolitan AME Church!
The Women's Day and Season Steering Committee is announcing the colors of purple (royalty and spirituality) and white (peace and purity) for our Day and Season. Be sure to parade your purple and white on Sunday April 15 and display a touch of our colors each Sunday leading to our special day. Men can sport… Read more
Sermon: It Takes a Village
Rev. Jonathan V. Newton Sunday, March 25,2011 Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Supposedly with Liberty and Justice for All (Trayvon Martin)
Sermon Notes: "Supposedly…With Liberty and Justice for All…."
By Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Braxton, Senior Pastor, Metropolitan AME Church, Sunday, March 25, 2012
I pledge allegiance, to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, supposedly one nation, supposedly under God, supposedly indivisible, supposedly with liberty and justice for all.
I wear this morning this "Hoodie" – I didn't even know what I was wearing; when I jog in the morning outside, I just put this thing on, and the pants that go with it, and go out for my morning jog. I didn't realize that by wearing this, I was in danger. I didn't realize that someone in the community in which I live – it's not gated, but it's a community – but I didn't realize that when I ran around in that community someone could actually do me bodily harm and justice would not prevail. I didn't realize that could happen even having an African American president, and even with slavery ended a long time ago – I thought I was free. I vote. God knows I pay a whole lot of taxes. I thought I was free. I never thought that this hood makes me look like a criminal. I never thought that if I was walking in the dark and I pulled out my cell phone that it looks like a gun. And so anyone who claimed that they were a part of a protective force – a force that I thought was trying to protect ME – would have the right to shoot me dead in the street and then go home, and the police would never raise any questions about my murder. I never thought – my mother told me about it, my grandfather told me about it, but I never thought that people could actually beat other people to the ground, get a hundred dollar fine and a few weeks of community service, while other people could steal a loaf of bread because they were hungry and go to jail for a year. I thought I was free; I thought I was part of a country "with liberty and justice for all."
Sermon Notes: It Takes a Village
By Rev Jonathan V. Newton, Associate Minister, Metropolitan AME Church, Sunday, March 25, 2012 The Scripture: Acts 6:1-7 – The Choosing of the Seven (NIV Bible Translation). 1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of… Read more
Pastor Braxton Feted; Upcoming Honors for Rev. Karimah, Steward Oxendine
Pastor Ronald E. Braxton was one of 20 Washington area ministers who were honored on Saturday, March 17 at the Praise 104.1 Prayer Breakfast at Martin's Crosswinds. The lively event drew a hundreds of guests, including a supportive crowd from Metropolitan
Rev. Aisha Karimah and Steward Joan Oxendine will be honored by Universal Center for Development at its first Church Girls Rock program on April l, at 5:00 p.m. at The ARC, 190l Mississippi Ave. SE., Washington. DC. The event celebrates women of distinction who have made significant contributions to their church and community.
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Quarterly Conference
The Fourth and last Quarterly Conference of the current conference year will be held on Monday, March 26 at 7 p.m. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Give the Gift of Life to Rev. Marie
And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.' The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these." Mark 12: 30 -31
Our own Rev. Marie Braxton is in need of a kidney donation. If you are able to help or know of others who can, please contact Eloida Gonzales, Clinical Transplant Coordinator, Washington Hospital Center, 202 877-9035 and let her know that you are interested in donating a kidney to recipient: Rev. Dr. Marie M. Phillips Braxton.
Please continue to keep Rev. Marie in your prayers and feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested in giving the gift of life.
Anti-HazingTown Hall on March 27 at Metropolitan
Metropolitan's Bethel Literary Society is co-hosting and partnering with NAFEO, the national membership association of the nation's 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and 50 Predominantly Black Institutions, to host a Town Hall meeting on March 27. The program will be moderated by Dr. Charles Ogletree, noted professor of law at Harvard University. The event… Read more
Musical Spring! The Met Needs All Age Groups to Sing
Did you know that singing in a choir can help you spiritually, physically, educationally and emotionally? Find out the answer when a new choir, an existing choir and a Special Event choir take the spotlight as Metropolitan heads into a musical spring. Nearly everyone has a song they can sing. On Friday, March 23, at… Read more


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Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 31, 4:32 pm ET
LOS ANGELES The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
Angela Suleman told The Associated Press she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year.
"It can't go on any longer," she said in a phone interview Friday. "She's got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get married."
Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth Monday in nearby Bellflower. She was expected to remain in the hospital for at least a few more days, and her newborns for at least a month.
A spokeswoman at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said the babies were were progressing daily, with all eight breathing unassisted and being tube-fed.
While her daughter recovers, Angela Suleman is taking care of the other six children, ages 2 through 7, at the family home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone."
Angela Suleman said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are "plugged up."
There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children.
Her mother and doctors have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos and, later, the fetuses. She refused.
Her mother said she does not believe her daughter will have any more children.
"She doesn't have any more (frozen embryos), so it's over now," she said. "It has to be."
Nadya Suleman wanted to have children since she was a teenager, "but luckily she couldn't," her mother said.
"Instead of becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not the normal way," he mother said.
Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.
"Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out."
Little psychological research has been conducted on the reasons some mothers seem hooked on repeated pregnancies. David Diamond, a co-director for the Center for Reproductive Psychology in San Diego, said mothers can be drawn to repeat pregnancies for a number of reasons, with some finding the experience so satisfying they choose to become surrogates.
Diane G. Sanford, a psychologist and author specializing in women's reproductive mental health, said while she doesn't know much about Nadya Suleman's background, women that have obsessive-compulsive disorder can become fixated on different obsessions.
"Her obsession centers around children, having children and being a mother," she said. "To what degree are her esteem and identity based on being a mom and why has this from a young age been such a preoccupation of hers?"
Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago.
"From what I could tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
"She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it."
Garcia said she did not ask for details.
Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck told the Press-Telegram.
Her fertility doctor has not been identified. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times all the children came from the same sperm donor but she declined to identify him.
Birth certificates reviewed by The Associated Press identify a David Solomon as the father for the four oldest children. Certificates for the other children were not immediately available.
Angela Suleman told reporters Friday that doctors implanted far fewer than eight embryos but they multiplied. Experts said this could be possible since Nadya Suleman's system has likely been hyperstimulated for years with fertilization treatments and drugs.
The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.
"You should always shoot for one," said Dr. Marcelle Cedars, a professor and director of reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, who worried about the increased risk of potential health complications for the babies.
Others worried that she would be overwhelmed trying to raise so many children and would end up relying on public support.
"This woman could not comprehend the ramifications of having eight children of the same age at the same time," said Judith Horowitz, a Parkland, Fla.-based psychologist and author who works with couples on fertility issues. "After Pampers stops delivering the free diapers, then what?"
The eight babies six boys and two girls were delivered by cesarean section weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted in the deliveries.
Associated Press writers Thomas Watkins and Noaki Schwartz contributed to this report.


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When I first found out that we were going to Pittsburgh for the (now) annual Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference, several thoughts crossed my mind. First, as always, I was excited to check out a new city. Second, I thought that there might not be much to check out. Visions of a ghost town caused by the abandonment of the steel industry (and now facing the threat of hydrofracking for natural gas), similar to towns in MI abandoned by car industry, flooded my mind. Third, I was mostly really excited to see the progress that other colleges and universities have been making toward sustainability!
We hit the ground running. Well, first we hit the ground driving. Everyone from our office, minus Tarah who was coming from an event in DC, piled into a high-tech van and drove down to Pittsburgh on Saturday Oct. 8th. It took a while, but we had some relaxing stops along the way and stimulating conversations in the van. On Sunday, we went our separate ways to various special topics workshops. I went to the advanced workshop on the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS), which is a framework developed by AASHE for institutions of higher education to track their progress toward sustainability. It is similar to LEED for buildings, but for the whole university system.
Several speakers from other institutions shared their experience in participating in STARS, including sustainability directors/coordinators from Middlebury College, University of Florida, and Moraine Valley Community College. They shared their insights on how to address certain difficult areas, such as creating a process to count "sustainability-related" and "sustainability-focused" courses. Some issues include: Do you count the number of credits or the number of actual courses? How do you get people to be on the same page about what "sustainability" even means? To many not involved in sustainability work, the word is equated with "environment" in their minds, although it means much more than that, including social and economic sustainability and diversity.
All of the keynote speakers were very inspirational and well-spoken. Majora Carter talked about "greening the ghetto" by increasing racial and economic diversity in the Bronx, while providing green community space and local employment opportunities for the poor. Dr. Sandra Steingraber talked about the dangers of hydrofracking and the role that higher education can play in addressing the issue with the government. Dr. David Orr was very inspirational in talking about the need to educate the younger generations about climate change and getting them excited to be active politically and socially. The Chancellor from UC Riverside, Tim White, talked about the many opportunities that universities have to support renewable energy and other sustainability initiatives on campus.
Steve Posner, a fellow at the UVM Office of Sustainability and the Eco-Reps program coordinator, and I presented on the ENVS 187 Camus Sustainability course. I introduced the history of the Office of Sustainability and the course and Steve talked about about how we integrated system thinking into the course in the Spring of 2011. Our presentation was well attended and people were very interested to ask questions and talk to us afterward.
Finally, I went to as many individual sessions as I could. I attended sessions on how to: engage the campus community while working on a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, create strategies for writing and implementing a climate action plan, think about creating a carbon offset program on campus, and participating in STARS.
We rode back to Burlington feeling inspired, excited, and exhausted. I did get to see a bit of the city when Kate and I walked from our hotel suites to the conference center (a 4 mile walk!). We walked through some diverse neighborhoods where you could get everything from pierogies to Thai food. For dinner one night, we also checked out a restaurant that had been converted from a church to a brew pub, which was very interesting.
Now the challenge is to take what I learned at the conference and try to use it in my own work. I have already reflected a lot on what I heard and typed up my notes to try to have something to reference. I look forward to continuing learning and doing the best I can to help UVM become more sustainable!


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Tag Archives: New Year
New Year, New You: Refresh at Laluna
December 31, 2014Tonight at Laluna, we celebrate New Years Eve. New Years is always a special time for us: A time to reflect on the past year and to make plans for the upcoming one. After a busy holiday season spent indulging, we know that many of our guests like to recommit … Read More
New Year, New Improvements at Laluna Resort
January 9, 20142013 brought many updates and improvements to the resort, and we can't wait to share them with you in the new year! In fact, we've resolved to make 2014 our best year ever! If you've visited before, you will notice the following new items at the resort: New Road In … Read More
Continuing to Enjoy the Holidays at Laluna
December 31, 2013The holidays are a special time at Laluna Resort. We not only celebrate American Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we also pull out all of the stops for New Year's Eve. We invite you to ring in the New Year with us this year. The Perfect Location Laluna is the ideal … Read More
Laluna Re-Opens
October 23, 2013After a month of being closed to work on resort refresh renovations and to build our new, state-of-the-art gym, Laluna is re-opening on Sunday, October 27th, 2013. What We've Done There has been no real downtime during Laluna's closing. We've re-roofed, upgraded suite bathrooms, refinished the pool, and built a … Read More
Detox for the New Year in Grenada
January 1, 2013For many, the treat-packed holiday season is capped off with an over-indulgent New Years Eve, chockablock full of food and drink. Often, the new year begins with resolutions to eat healthier and imbibe less. When in Grenada, we find the perfect way to start the year off right is by … Read More


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Natasha Williams Leads Blue Demons Over Northwestern
CHICAGO The DePaul basketball team outscored Northwestern 33-21 in the second half to win its 34th consecutive game against an opponent from the state of Illinois. The Blue Demons won the local rival game 60-51, Sunday at McGrath Arena. The Blue Demons have won their last five games and improve to 9-2, while Northwestern falls to 2-7. It was a tale of two halves as the Blue Demons were ice cold from the field in the first half while the second half was highlighted with stingy defense, hot shooting and a strong inside presence. Natasha Williams sparked the Blue Demon offense with a season-high 22 points, while Deirdre Naughton finished 12. Williams also registered with a pair of blocks and three rebounds. Cold shooting haunted the Blue Demons in the first half as Keisha Hampton drilled a three for the first points of the game, but the Blue Demons missed their next nine shots while Northwestern made its first four and took a 9-3 lead with 16:07 left in the half. Northwestern sustained its advantage and was ahead by as many as seven points until Williams hook shot with one minute remaining in the half gave the Blue Demons their first lead since the opening minutes. The Wildcats closed out the half with a pair of jumpers to take a 30-27 lead into the second half. Northwestern shot 52 percent from the field in the first half behind 7-for-9 shooting from Ellen Jaeschke. Jaeschke finished the half with 15 points to lead all players while she finished the game with 17 points. The Blue Demons went into the locker room for just the second time this season trailing at the half. DePaul shot a cold 32 percent while, Williams led the team with 14 first half points. Down by three, the Blue Demons came out of the locker room a new team. Sam Quigley converted a pair of free throws and Felicia Chester's jumper with 18:30 left gave DePaul a 31-30 advantage. With the lead in hand, the Blue Demons never looked back and used a 20-6 run over the next 7:55 to take a 51-36 lead. DePaul stretched its lead too as many as 17 on Naugton's three-point-play with just under two minutes left in the contest. Northwestern closed out the game with eight unanswered points, but the Blue Demons lead was too much to overcome as the clock expired. DePaul shot 41 percent from the field in the second half, while the team forced 15 second half turnovers which proved to be the difference. DePaul outscored the Wildcats in the paint 40-28. The Blue Demons welcome Northern Illinois to McGrath Arena Thursday, Dec. 18. The 37th all-time meeting between the two teams begins at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Park. Notes: The Blue Demons extended their streak to 34 straight wins over opponents from Illinois... DePaul has won 48 of the last 49 and 55 of the last 57 games against Illinois programs... Natasha Williams' 22 points were a season-high... Williams has finished with double-figures in her last five games... Felicia Chester took her first career 3-pointer in the second half... DePaul is now 2-2 when scoring less than 70 points this season... the Blue Demons have held nine of their 11 opponents this season to less than 70 points... DePaul's streak with a three-pointer continued to 117 consecutive games... the Blue Demons have held eight of their first 10 opponents to under 70 points this season... DePaul is now 93-14 since 2003-04 when holding opponents under 70 points... The NU/DePaul series is knotted at 13 wins apiece... DePaul has won the last 10 meetings between the two teams.
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Hyarmendacil I
Hyarmendacil I | |
Gondorian | |
Biographical Information | |
Other names | Ciryaher |
Titles | King of Gondor |
Language | Westron |
Birth | T.A. 899 |
Rule | T.A. 1015 - 1149 (134 years) |
Death | T.A. 1149 (aged 250) |
Family | |
House | House of Anárion |
Parentage | Ciryandil |
Children | Atanatar II |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Gallery | Images of Hyarmendacil I |
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Hyarmendacil I, born Ciryaher, was the fifteenth King of Gondor.
Hyarmendacil was the last of the Ship-kings, and his reign brought Gondor to its greatest extent and power.[1]
The Haven of Umbar, to the far south of Gondor, had been captured by Ciryaher's grandfather Eärnil I, but had since proved difficult to hold. Ciryaher's father Ciryandil was slain during a siege of the Haven by the Haradrim. Ciryaher began his reign by reorganizing Gondor's armies and in T.A. 1050[2] he openly declared war on and conquered the men of Harad. After this victory he took the name Hyarmendacil, meaning "South-victor".[3]
For the rest of Hyarmendacil's one hundred and thirty-four year reign Gondor was at peace; the passes of Mordor were well gaurded, and no one dared contest his power.
He was succeeded by his lazy son Atanatar II Alcarin.
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- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Realms in Exile", "The Southern Line: Heirs of Anarion"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion"
Hyarmendacil I House of Anárion | ||
Preceded by: Ciryandil | 15th King of Gondor T.A. 1015 - 1149 | Followed by: Atanatar II Alcarin |


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US GDP Hurts, ADP Cheers, NFP Won't Matter -- City Index UK
LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- City Index UK: Today's surprise 0.1% contraction in US Q4 GDP challenges the notion of an exit strategy from the +85 bn in monthly asset purchases and keeps the Fed firmly in the path of pursuing its 6.5% unemployment target, the implications of which are a weaker US dollar.
Read Full Article by Ashraf Laidi at cityindex.co.uk: US GDP Hurts, ADP Cheers, NFP Won't Matter
Neither a fresh five-year low in US jobless claims tomorrow or a surprise +200K print in Jan NFP is expected to remove the Fed doves from maintaining +85 bn in monthly purchases in the first three month of the year.
The GDP report shifts markets' attention further to the immediacy of the US debt ceiling, which takes precedence over the Fed's language/guidance on for 6-12 month's horizon. Five-year lows in jobless claims and five-year highs in equity indices support the case for reconsidering QE3 duration, but periodic disappointments such as today's GDP figure and yesterday's 15-month lows in US consumer confidence will give the Fed doves the upper hand over the hawks.
Euro overvalued?
We have been here before. Each time the euro rises 10% from its cycle low, Eurozone politicians (and some ECB members) rush into making claims of the euro being overvalued with the intention of stabilizing the threat to competitiveness.
Such claims are misplaced due to the fact that: ECB is the only major central bank engaged in actual tightening, with its balance sheet shrinking [5% since June vs. +5%, +15% and +9%] for the Fed, BoE and BoJ respectively, relative policy flows are further boosting euro momentum. 32-month highs in German business sentiment, fully subscribed bond auctions from Italy and Spain and are also a manifestation of robust market metrics. Read more...
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"I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned"
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"In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have."
Conan O'Brien
"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."
Dan Quayle
"There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation."
William Osler
"If the Kaiser Chiefs win then I could well be the one seeking employment, they have been consistently backed and we have a very lopsided book,"
William Hill
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."
"Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."
William Shakespeare
"Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly."
Edward Carpenter
"The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations"
Andre Gide
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Ahmedabad: Nov 8, 2012
Kevin Pietersen completed his comeback into cricket with a brisk 110 off 94 balls while captain Alastair Cook narrowly missed out on yet another century on tour, as England made mincemeat of Haryana bowlers in the third warm-up match at the Sardar Patel Stadium B Ground, Motera.
After electing to bat first on an even batting surface, openers Cook (97 off 115 balls) and Nick Compton (74 off 144 balls) shared a 166-run partnership to put Haryana on the backfoot from ball one.
Cook, who had scored 119 at Mumbai against India A in the first warm-up tie, carried forward his sublime form into Ahmedabad after skipping the match against Mumbai XI. The England captain was unfortunate to miss out on a second century on the tour after being dismissed on 97 by offie Jayant Yadav. Compton carried on with Jonathan Trott (48 off 83 balls) before Haryana captain Amit Mishra scalped the duo in quick succession.
Talismanic batsman and comeback-man Kevin Pietersen then took the reins and walloped his way to a swashbuckling century to take England past the 400-run mark.
Brief Scores: England 408 for 3 (Kevin Pietersen 110*, Alastair Cook 97; Amit Mishra 2 for 50) vs Haryana


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DURHAM — Megan K. Wyand daughter of Robert and Martha Wyand of Durham graduated May 19, 2012 with her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of New England. Megan was a 2005 graduate of Oyster River High School. She graduated cum laude with a BS in medical biology from the University of New England in 2009.
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The University of New England has campuses in Biddeford and Portland, Maine. UNE's College of Osteopathic Medicine is the only Maine-based medical school and the only osteopathic medical school in New England. Twelve percent of all practicing physicians in the state of Maine, 17 percent of Maine's primary care physician workforce, and 25 percent of physicians practicing in Maine's rural areas are UNECOM graduates.
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The Coast Guard says 20-year-old Benji Aven was swimming from Salt Island to Westbrook early Monday when he vanished. Coast Guard officers were notified of his disappearance late Monday morning and began searching for him.
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For the past three years I have been taking care of a feral outdoors -- including building a shelter to get him through the winters. He first arrived at my back door with his family -- three kittens, and a mother cat that disappeared abruptly. From day one I took the opportunity to calm and socialize them. The three kittens showed great promise and ultimately -- even after TNR -- they were all adopted in very good homes (one kitten went to my mother who is thrilled to have the best cat she ever had in her life). Through the past 30 years in the same home I have placed several other cats, born or arriving in my garden, with good results. In fact the wonderful cat I had for the past 15 years was a feral kitten from my garden, but he died this past February. He turned out to be the most affectionate, loyal and well adjusted cat anyone could ever hope for. (But I hardly saw him in my house for the first three months!)
I would have taken in DaddyBoy when he was younger (he's about 4 or 5 now); but my cat would never have any part of sharing his house with another feline and with his state of failing health I didn't want to stress him out.
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Posted by TheShot on 13 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
New York City — that backwater of quality espresso that has long proven, if I may paraphrase Frank Sinatra, "If you can make decent espresso there, you can make it anywhere" — has reportedly been hit by a "wave" (here we go again) of better coffee. Or so says today's New York Times: Espresso's New Wave Hits Town – New York Times.
It's nothing we haven't exactly seen before. The article touches on a few of the better quality espresso shops now in New York. But it does offer a nice overview of what goes into bean selection, roasting, dosing, tamping, and pulling a quality shot.
Meanwhile, those wizards of semi-stale coffee put under strict quality controls, Illy, announced the opening of another month-long, temporary exhibit in New York called "Beauty Has A Taste": Illy Introduces 'BEAUTY HAS A TASTE' an Exhibition in the Heart of New York City.
Beverage marketers must be spending a lot of time at conventions having pajama parties to talk about this recent fad of sponsoring temporary exhibits/installations. I hesitate at the prospect of subjecting myself to a walk-in infomercial. But if I was in New York during the next month, curiosity would still probably get the better of me. Afterall, I was lame enough to stumble into the Glenlivet City Links miniature golf- and scotch-themed (no, really) exhibit on a lunch break last February.
UPDATE: Oct. 25, 2008
Yesterday the New York Times essentially published a two-year update to this same article: Beyond Starbucks – Coffee Shops Overflow, but Will Connoisseurs Pay the Price? – NYTimes.com. The difference now being that there are more and more decent places to get espresso in this long-standing coffee wasteland. Even so, calling New York "Bean Town" now (as in the title of the article) is a bit of a stretch — considering that there are still more than three million residents for every great espresso purveyor in town.
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[…] On the other side of the divide, we have people who respond to the same news with incredulous disbelief and outright ridicule. When people whine about Starbucks' announcement to raise prices a whopping $0.05 per cup, these folks shake their heads at the infamous "$4 cup of coffee at Starbucks" — even if you cannot buy a basic cup of coffee at Starbucks for that price. On this side of the divide, the appropriate response to news of coffee price hikes are articles about where to get the most dirt cheap cup of joe available (e.g., Five Places to Get Cheap Coffee – washingtonpost.com). To them, and to most New Yorkers, coffee is a basic consumable just this side of tap water with little differentiation other than price. […]
[…] their recent opening of Espressamente Illy cafés across Europe and temporary exhibits such as "Beauty has a taste" in New York City — all primarily as advertisements for the Illy brand. It also touches on his […]


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