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04 December 2009
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I feel totally the same way right now. It's like my entire face feels weighted down by this frown. I think its only the stressful sleepless finals period and just a lust for home again, but even still it depresses me that I'm so unmotivated and dead to inspiration. I'm either incredibly rambling and scatterbrained to the point where you could question my sobriety or very sullen and able to converse, but clearly not interested in the conversation I'm having. I'm sure I'm irritating to be around because I'm even irritating myself right now haha. UGG
I dunno if this is a symptom of being at college in a big city (DC as you know), but when I'm down I tend to watch movies or read books about Americana. Big roadtrip movies like Elizabethtown or books like "Travels With Charley" by John Steinbeck (a memoir of his crosscountry drives with his dog). Maybe I'm just homesick or DC isn't the right place for me, but...that's my best remedy
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 (PG)
Chris Evans alone, for me, is reason enough to watch this movie, but I like the on-screen chemistry of Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, even if I think the Black Widow is meant for someone else. Anthony Mackie as the much slower Falcon was convincing and of course, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury was superb. You've gotta love that very intense scene when he was trapped inside his very intelligent car.
I don't think I could say the same for Robert Redford. He was just so, so as Alexander Pierce. That was very disappointing because I respect him a lot. I still do, but... Anyways, he was not bad, so I guess it's OK.
Cobie Smulders, as Mara Hill, should be given more exposure in the offing.
Sebastian Stan as Bucky or the Winter Soldier, is so sexy. My guess is that he would have a bigger role in the next episode.
Bucky as Winter Soldier. Promotional art for Captain America vol. 5, #11 (Nov. 2005), by Steve Epting .
It's a bit too violent for younger and impressionable kids and my friend's four year old daughter seems to think so too.
My seven-year-old nephew enjoyed it, but there was a scene where he requested me to cover his eyes(he was holding some popcorn).
Some of scenes were quite improbable, but hey, it's movie about superheroes centered on the very first avenger.
Look at Bucky's tortured eyes
Anthony Mackie as The Falcon
Emily Van Camp as Kate/Agent 13, looks perfect for Captain America, but I think the writers want Natasha and Steve to have a love angle.
Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill

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Mary Alice Wheeler
Mary Alice Wheeler
Mary Alice Wheeler was born August 9, 1921 to Paul Hill and Alice Justis, the oldest of five children. She passed to her heavenly home on February 21, 2013 at her home in Ravenwood Assisted Living surrounded by family.
She married Don B. Wheeler on August 17, 1941 and to this union four children were born, Judy Patterson, Kathy (David) Phelps, Don R. (Kathi) Wheeler, and Mark Wheeler. She has eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
Mary was a charter member of St. Luke United Methodist church where she was a pianist for over 30 years. She was also active in UMW and was also very involved in other church activities.
Along with her husband, Don, and daughter Kathy and son-in-law David they started Family Flowers Greenhouses in 1985, which still thrives today. Later, they also helped their two sons in establishing greenhouse businesses.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband Don in 1994 after 53 years of marriage, her parents, sister Norma Sorrell, and brothers Paul, John, and Bob Justis.
Mary was very proud of her family and her faith in God. She always put both first in her life. She will be remembered by all her family and multitudes of friends.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Tuesday, February 26, at 11 am. in Greenlawn East Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 6-8 pm on Monday, February 25.
The family would like to thank the management and staff at Ravenwood for the love and personal care they gave to our mother during her stay there. She truly considered it her home.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to HPC Hospice, Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield, or
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It's amazing, what changes in a year. Only two seasons ago, Rafael Nadal, had Novak Djokovic's number. Back then Djokovic, was a serious contender and great competitor, capable of scoring the occasional win against Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But he wasn't on their level when it came to the slams and subsequently lost most of those matches.
Then Nole, hit a low point. When he lost in the first round of the Miami Masters, to Olivier Rochus. This prompted him to fire his part-time coach Todd Martin and make some major changes to his training habits. Which included adapting to a gluten free diet. His results were streaky throughout the summer months but he managed to reach the semis at Wimbledon (losing to Berdych) and the finals of the US Open (losing in an epic 4 setter to Nadal.)
While this was a fantastic showing, it was evident, that he wasn't on the same level as Federer and Nadal.
Then something incredible happened. Novak, went on a crazy winning streak. Starting with the Davis Cup in 2010, he went undefeated for 43 straight matches. Claiming seven titles, four of which were master series and the Australian Open. During this time, he beat Nadal and Federer a combined seven times. Before his winning streak finally came to a close in the semi-finals of the French Open.
Things didn't stop there for Nole. He knocked Nadal, out of the #1 position by reaching the finals of Wimbledon. Then to add salt to the wound, he beat the Spaniard in a thrilling 4 set match. And again two months later in the US Open finals.
Now with the Australian Open underway. Djokovic is the #1 seed, defending champion, and a huge favorite to win. If Nadal, were to make the finals and set up a rematch with his longtime rival. You'd have to think things would be grim for the Spaniard. What can Nadal, do to turn this situation around?
Well, the answer is really quite simple. Nadal, is a grinder. His success, has always depended on his ability to wear down an opponent, in long, grueling rallies from the baseline. While keeping his own errors to a minimum. The problem with this strategy, is that it doesn't work well when your opponent isn't missing. Djokovic, is fitter than he used to be but most importantly, he's more confident. He knows that he can stay with Rafa, even in the 30+ rallies and still be the one who strikes the winner. It's hard to beat someone when they're able to do that.
For Nadal, to start winning tournaments again, he's going to have to resolve the Djokovic, problem. And while I think it's possible for him to do this, there are several things which he absolutely must change.
The first thing is his serve. So much of tennis depends on being aggressive. Being able to get ahead in a point and keeping your opponent on the defense. That's why the server, is always at such an advantage. They have the ability to start the point any way they choose and are usually in an attacking position, right from the first stroke. Novak Djokovic, is an exceptional returner. He's not afraid to get in close to the baseline and take a big cut at the ball. Especially, when it's served to his forehand. This puts tremendous pressure on Nadal, to come up with something first rate, that won't be returned as a scorching winner by Djokovic.
Nadal's serve was incredible at the 2010 US Open. He was getting into the 130mph range and was able to depend on it to get him out of some tricky situations. He won 73% of his first serve points in the 2010 finals compared to only 52% the following year. For Nadal, to beat Djokovic, he must maintain a high first serve percentage, while still mixing up the shot selection and keeping the average speed around 120 mph. Obviously, much easier said than done.
The other thing that is critical to his success against Djokovic, is shot placement. To take control of a point, you need to be able to get your opponent, on the run.
Here is a schematic of a tennis court. The red boxes are where Nadal needs to be able to place the ball to get on the offense. Hitting to these boxes will move Djokovic off the court, which allows Nadal to drive the next return cross-court and puts Djokovic in a coast to coast situation.
Personally, I don't believe he'll be able to beat Djokovic again if he doesn't play more aggressively. Djokovic, is too confident in his ability to rally with Nadal. That old strategy of giving him the ball again and again while waiting for a mistake, doesn't work anymore. He's going to have to start shortening some points and finding sharper angles.
Anyway, that's my prediction. If Nadal, can change some of those things, then I think we might start to see him become successful against the Serb. But if they make the finals, and Nadal comes out with the clay court ball retrieving strategy, look for Djokovic, to be the one lifting the trophy.


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The U.S. Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Ashton Carter further noted that deploying a specialized Special Ops Force that will "over time" conduct raids in Iraq and Syria "to put even more pressure" on the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham, Daesh, or simply Islamic State (IS). "These Special Ops Force will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture Islamic State leaders." He further when on to say, "that creates a virtuous cycle of better intelligence, which generates more targets, more raids, and more momentum."
The raids by the "specialized expeditionary targeting force" will be done at the invitation of the Iraqi government, and focus on defending Iraq's borders and building the Iraqi Security Forces' capacity and capability. Though the Iraqi PM disagreed.
Carter further expanded; "This force will also be in a position to conduct unilateral operations into Syria". As reported, the force will consist of roughly upwards 200. This will obviously consist of various JSOC teams to include; special tactics/terminal attack controllers, CAG, and DevGru to perform the various special operations core missions the SecDef advocated to Congress.
The SecDef's comments expand on the Pentagon's announcement in October that the U.S. would conduct more raids similar to one conducted in northern Iraq to free Iraqi hostages. The Pentagon also announced it would send fewer than 50 special operations forces to Syria.
The creation of a "targeting force" to conduct unilateral raids in Iraq and Syria represent a step away from the president's commitment not to have "boots on the ground" fighting the terrorist group. And the White House has argued that deployment of special operations forces is different from large-scale ground combat operations. That's a bull shit argument. The Obama administration is trying to imply that "boots on the ground" on applies to "conventional forces". The reality is that the administration is continuously feeling the pressure for its failed policy in the Middle East and against IS, and certainly both the Paris attack and Russia's escalation of its support to al-Assad in Syria.
The administration is more focused on, and essentially cares more about the political cause. Certainly, CJCS General Dunford's contradiction of the administration's position played into the mix. From the perception standpoint, this is a reaction to the need to make the President appear stronger. Therefore, by broadcasting this publicly, he is shown as telling the world, 'see 'I'm doing something about it.' This essentially is media theatrics and perception management — to get some semblance of a revised policy publicized of showing engagement and 'doing something', to show an element of success throughout the remainder of the Obama presidency, and finally, to establish plausible deniability of no policy and to pad Obama's legacy.
On the positive side, there will be certainly successes executed by our special operations team in both Iraq and Syria, no doubt, but this is a step that is in reality 18-months behind. This should have been the approach and policy implemented when IS was re-evolving and establishing itself after we pulled out of Iraq in 2011, and certainly at the latest in June 2014, when IS proclaimed itself to be an Islamic state and worldwide caliphate. Further, on the fringes leaves absent the discussion of the tooth-to-tale ratio of 5-to-7 support personnel (logistics, supply, communications, life-support systems, maintenance, intelligence, etc.) needed to the core "specialized expeditionary targeting force" special operators. Nor does it address the aspect of mission creep.
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Help me settle a debate.
If you've seen Up in the Air, what happens at the end of the movie?
Right now, the polls are split 50/50. All of the women I've asked agree that he chooses a destination from the list of cities and flies away from his job to a happier life. All of the men I've asked agree that he flies back to the job he's had, to the same life he's been living.
So, which is it?
And in case you care as much as I do, here's the movie's creator talking about the ending.


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Monday, December 29, 2008
Strawberry Fields Forever, or The Promise of Organic Farming
I would probably be remiss if in a discussion of organic farming, I did not provide some perspective or context from the origins of farming.
Prior to the start of systematic agriculture, populations were hunter-gatherers. Gatherers could rely only on what edible plants that could be found, and hunting is, well, hit or miss. All available time was spent seeking food for survival. A better system was clearly needed.
In my little pet theory about how this transition came about, when a hunter would return to camp without success, Mama wasn't happy. Then, as now, when Mama wasn't happy, wasn't nobody happy. Except back then, Mama had herself a wooden club. Necessity being the mother of invention, so to speak, it was in fact Man who around 9500 BC first sought to cultivate emmer and einkorn wheat, then later hulled barley, peas and lentils. I might lose some arguments, but at least on this point I'll stick to my guns; you know, when your right, your right.
Agriculture was humanity's first technology, and allowed for surplus food supply. Populations thus began to grow, and some individuals were able to focus on other advances.
In the past 50 or so years, agriculture has become intensive and industrial in scale. Extensive use of pesticides, fertilizer, herbicides, and oil- based mechanization has brought about significant advances in crop yield and efficiency. Use of antibiotics and growth hormones in livestock has resulted in similar economic gains.
These advances have fed a growing population, and starvation is no longer a common death as in the previous century. The positives have not been entirely without any unforeseen consequences or negatives, however.
In the case of pesticide, the extensive environmental impact caused by DDT
was first brought to public attention in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. 10 years after the books release in 1962, DDT was banned in the US. While subsequent replacements for DDT may be considered less persistent or toxic, it seems a pesticide which can kill insects which have been around hundreds of millions of years can probably harm humans. More than 80% of the most commonly-used pesticides today have been classified by National Academy of Sciences researchers as potentially carcinogenic -- and are routinely found in mothers' milk.
In addition, many pesticides are non-selective, and kill many helpful insects along with the pests. This collateral damage, along with habitat destruction, is impacting wild pollinators, whose presence is obviously important in the ecosystem.
In the past many different animals pollinated plants, including butterflies, bats, and more than 40,000 native species of bees. As humanity has increasingly disrupted native habitats, many species of pollinators have gone to that great bee hive in the sky. The honey bee has filled in for a time, pollinating a wide range of plant species, but now even the wild honey bee is at risk. Commercial bee keeper operations have been experiencing a problem which has been termed colony collapse disorder, resulting in loss of up to 85% of their bees. Causes of the loss include mites, viruses and possibly inadvertent exposure to pesticide.
Certified organic methods avoid synthetic pesticides altogether. Some organic farming certification standards do allow the use of natural methods of protection from pests such as those derived from plants. Organic advocates state that natural pesticides are a last resort, while growing healthier, disease-resistant plants, using cover crops and crop rotation, and encouraging beneficial insects and birds are the primary methods of pest control.
In the case of fertilizer, as far as possible, organic farmers rely on crop rotation, crop residues, animal manures and mechanical cultivation to maintain soil productivity and soil tilling to supply plant nutrients, and to control weeds, insects and other pests. Commercial farming typically relies on synthetic fertilizer, in which studies have shown result in nitrogen leaching 4.4-5.6 times higher than organic plots. Current farming practice tends to result in nitrates and phosphates running off into lakes, rivers, and groundwater. This leaching can cause algae blooms, eutrophication (nutrient pollution), and subsequent dead zones.
In the case of livestock husbandry, current practices routinely include the use of antibiotics and growth hormones to facilitate growth and production. As in the situation with widespread use of pesticides and herbicides, the long term results of such practices cannot be predicted. However, it is likely that extensive use of antibiotics in animals could lead to further antibiotic resistance in microbes - a growing concern. It is also likely that introducing growth hormones into the food we eat could have some deleterious effect.
In any case, organic farming practices are more sustainable than its industrial cousin. The former requires fewer synthetic (man-made, often oil based) inputs, and results in less environmental impact than the latter. Note the phrase 'more sustainable,' instead of actually sustainability. Very little of life in the modern developed world could be considered sustainable, from the perspective of either the continuing availability of natural resources after the next several generations or the continuing viability of this planet to support ecosystems sometime into the 22nd century.
If we were all inside a spacecraft instead of on a planet, how sustainable would it be with a malfunctioning climate system and scarce food supply? But, you are probably thinking that this is a ridiculous analogy, without any similarity to form a proper kind of comparison whatsoever. However, in my defense, it is likely that I was dropped on my head as a kid, although my parents continue to deny that. (But they do get a deer-in-the-headlights look in their eyes when I bring it up, and that is rather suspicious.)
In recent years, the word sustainability has been used in reference to how long human ecological systems can be expected to be usefully productive. It has been noted that in the past, there have been complex human societies that have died out as a result of their own growth and associated impacts on ecological support systems. The implication is that modern industrial society, which continues to grow in scale and complexity, seemingly without much regard to either diminishing resources or the resulting ecological consequences of our actions, might also collapse.
The Beatles (the Fab Four, not the pest) evoked ideas and images of a better world in many aspects; however idealism does not always effectively make the transition from a construct in the mind to a concrete reality. Hope is not a method, as the Army is fond of saying; to attain the possibility of strawberry fields forever, we are going to have to make it happen.
Of a President, a Veep and "The King"
The other day I had something of an epiphany. As I was watching the Disney Pixar film "Cars" for about the ninth time, and seeing North Carolina's own Richard "The King" Petty, personified as the 1970 Pontiac Superbird, and the host of other cars including Dale Earnhardt Jr., drafting on a super speedway for the "Piston Cup" championship, it occurred to me that there might be something analogous between this energy saving technique and our present need to prepare for the looming energy crisis.
"Cars" is actually a phenomenal movie, and should be seen by any kids aged from two to one hundred and two. Featuring the voice talent of the likes of Mario Andretti, Paul Newman, Darrell Waltrip and Bob Costas to name a few, it contains all the drama, trauma and love interest of any world class classic.
Drafting, or slipstreaming, is best known perhaps in auto racing, but is employed in other sports such as cycling and speed skating as well. In the animal kingdom, geese and some other birds fly in a V formation, the wing tips of the leading bird providing upward vortices, and thus lift, for the tailing bird. No dummies of the deep, lobsters also use cooperative drafting, migrating in single file over hundreds of miles in a "lobster train." Although they are not as fast as Mario's Ferrari, they are red once they are cooked.
Back in '01, Vice President Cheney made comments regarding US energy policy that drew much review. (Sorry, a little slow on the uptake.) Mr. Cheney commented that conservation may be a personal virtue, but not the basis for a sound energy policy.
Conservation has probably not been a virtue since the days of Thoreau and the 10 foot by 12 foot cabin in the woods at Walden Pond. Today, it is exactly the opposite. Only a lunatic would reside in such a domicile.
Conservation, however, is the most cost effective method to utilize and stretch resources. Even a 10 MPG AWD SUV can be driven on planned out errands, with ride sharing to double or quadruple people-mpg (the number of people times mpg). At some point in the future, in order to maintain some degree of equality and economic parity, scarcity will require that rationing distribute the dwindling resource, similar to the case of WWII. At that point, drafting behind tractor trailers will be de rigueur, though not in the fashion sense, but more in the protocol sense.
In the case of NASCAR, teams track their efficiency and a number of other parameters. They average around 5 mpg, about what a fully loaded tractor trailer gets on the Eisenhower Interstate. But they are moving around 180 – 200 mph. And they only have so much fuel capacity per regulations. So drafting provides the best fuel economy at a given speed.
This planet also only has so much fuel capacity. Oil reserves are now in depletion mode. Spurred on by high oil prices, more rigs are drilling around the world than anytime in the last 20 years, however production has remained flat since 2005. New fields, much heralded in the news media, are but a drop in the oil drum.
Back in our time machine again, in 1992, President George Bush Sr. stated that the American way of life was non negotiable at the Earth Summit. Our current President and VP have echoed the same statement.
We should probably respect our elders. Mr. Bush Sr. was absolutely positively right, in a way he probably did not imagine.
The first oil crisis, in 1973, and the second one, in 1979, emanated from political tensions and resulted in temporarily reduced world oil supply and increased oil prices.
It is possible to negotiate with OPEC, the cause of the first episode. The political slash economic organization, at least Saudi Arabia, is tight with recent and particularly current US administrations.
It may even be possible to negotiate with those that govern Iran, the cause of the second episode.
However, it is impossible to negotiate with geology. It does not concern itself with the triumphs and tribulations of the human condition.
We are discovering new fields, yes. From 2000 to 2006, about 20 Gb (Billion barrels) of recoverable reserves in giant fields (over 500 million barrels) were discovered. This amounts to about 8 months of world oil consumption at the current rate of about 30 Gb per year. From 1960 to 1969, the peak years of discovery, over 400 Gb of recoverable reserves were located. This difference should put things in perspective.
So a new field, if it is less than say 500 million barrels, is not news worthy. This would last less than a week at the current global burn rate of around 80 million barrels a day, and provide false hope and misinformation as to the current peccadillo the planet is in.
To use another example, the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, the subject of much controversy, contains at least 4.3 Gb, according to the US Geological Survey. If we ever do drill there, it will amount to only 6 months of US oil consumption at the current rate. We might want to leave some for future generations, if only to use as a raw material to make life critical products, such as pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and plastics, to name a few.
All this stuff about Richard Petty and NASCAR and fuel has got me all revved up. I am feeling an irresistible compulsion to drive out and get some STP gas treatment. And I drive a diesel.
The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change? WTF?
By the time of this publication, hopefully it will all be over. Sponsored by the euphemistically named Heartland Institute, the stated intent of this first supposedly annual conference is "to call attention to widespread dissent in the scientific community to the alleged "consensus" that the modern warming is primarily man-made and is a crisis," to borrow directly from their website.
Scheduled from March 2 – 4 in Manhattan, the conference sounds like something the United Nations would put on. Don't be mislead. The Heartland Institute is another "Astroturf" organization, which attempts to mimic the kind of spontaneous grassroots movement in which the populace gets behind an organization, such as Greenpeace. However, the Heartland Institute is merely a front for a number of corporate interests, with Exxon Mobil and Phillip Morris among its largest contributors. The organization does not currently reveal its sponsors.
The Institute is already threatening to descend upon the hapless city of London in 2009. Forewarned is forearmed.
Corporate America, bless its little heart, has figured out that to muddy the waters of an issue can be to corporate advantage. Witness the decades long effort by the tobacco companies to minimize the perceived negative health impact from smoking. The orchestrated campaign of lies continued up until the 1990s, insuring continued fat profit margins at the expense of public health. In fact, representatives from major tobacco companies lied directly to Congress regarding their knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco use, and got away with it. At the corporate level, crime absolutely does pay.
In 2000, the coal industry could well see the benefits of sugar coating serious problems, and started the Americans for Balanced Energy Choices campaign, another Astroturf organization that obviously claims to represent Americans. As a result of these efforts, and under the Bush administration, coal fired power plants have experienced a grand resurgence. If coal is clean, then so is crack cocaine.
It is apparent that these public relations and misinformation campaigns are an effective method for corporate special interests to advance their goals. Dozens and dozens of legitimate sounding non-profit front organizations have cropped up like so many dragon's teeth, much to the chagrin of some people who happen to like something called the truth. With names like the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to name two really big and influential ones, they espouse sound science and claim to be non-biased, which are two big fat lies right before they even get started good.
The following is an example of the sound science and sound logic promulgated by the Heartland Institute:
"Some environmentalists call for a "save-the-day" strategy to 'stop global warming,' saying it is better to be safe than sorry. Such a position seems logical until we stop to think: Immediate action wouldn't make us any safer, but it would surely make us poorer. And being poorer would make us less safe."
One cannot argue with such bullet- proof logic as that. It must have been spoken by one of their so called "scientists," the word being used very loosely in this sense.
Someone from the Blue Ridge School or Summit Charter School could probably help here, but it seems like the process of science involves something along the lines of making a hypotheses, testing it, and drawing conclusions. I don't seem to remember anything about getting paid money by Exxon Mobil or a tobacco or coal company and then making stuff up, but I may already be starting to slip.
The "scientists" from these so called think tanks may be under the influence of big corporate dollars, or they may just be really, really out there. Like Star Wars out there.
What was it that Obi-Wan Kenobi (Sir Alec Guinness) said to Luke before entering the cantina?…Oh yes,…."You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." Sir Guinness could have almost been talking about this recent conference as well.
Still, it must have a spectacle to behold, the cast of characters similar to that as seen on Tatooine. I wonder if the hammer head guy made it to this conference? That guy was awesome!
Global Warming - Its What's for Dinner!
The other day, I was thinking; because, you know, that's just something I do. Nothing short-circuited, but it did make some smoke bellow from my ears.
The subject of all this effort, believe it or not, was cows. Not the cute, talking ones affiliated with Chick-fil-a, mind you, but more regarding their 1.3 billion non-talking, non-standing grain fed brethren.
The issue goes to the environmental impact of mankind's agricultural activities, but also the sustainability of those same activities in a modern system of agribusiness, which is entirely dependant on oil to make food.
In a culture which is accustomed to a stream of incessant entertainment and infotainment, but lacking a solid understanding of physics and science which a high school graduate would possess, it is regrettably not an issue high on the radar screen.
In other words, the environment is not as interesting as say, Brittney Spears.
As we are all stakeholders in about the only decent planet around, maintaining the biosphere should be interesting, or at least important.
Globally, cattle emit an estimated 100 million tons of methane annually, the result of anaerobic digestion of grass and grain in their 7 tummies. Methane is the second major green house gas resulting from human activities, behind carbon dioxide.
Granted, there are other sources of methane, such as rice cultivation, coal mines, land fills, and other ruminants, such as sheep, goats and buffalo.
In the case of mines and landfills, the methane can be captured and used as an energy source, while preventing the gas from reaching the atmosphere to act as a warming agent. An example of this strategy is the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Sylva.
Dr. James Hansen, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has suggested that a methane reduction strategy could effectively slow global warming in the short term in his paper "Global Warming in the 21st Century: An Alternative Scenario."
Methane has a 10 to 12 years life cycle in the atmosphere, compared to the 120 years cycle for carbon dioxide. Thus, reductions in methane emission have a relatively quick reduction on warming.
Currently, on a global scale, food prices have risen dramatically over the last several weeks, an indication of the amount of fossil fuel energy used to produce food. On average, about 10 calories of fuel energy are expended to create 1 calorie of food energy. As a result, an increase in energy prices is magnified in the price of food to consumers.
In the case of beef production, the ratio is closer to 60 to 1. Let's examine the steps. Natural gas is used to create fertilizer. Oil is used to create pesticides. John Deere powered mechanization is used to plant, maintain, and harvest grain. Tractor trailers haul the grain to the cattle. Tractor trailers haul the cattle to processing, which incidentally is a rather cruel process for the Moo-moos. Finally, they haul beef to supermarkets and burger joints. Viola! Dinner is served!
In the coming few decades, as oil prices continue to climb and supplies start to drop off, one strategy may be to produce our own locally grown food to minimize the dependence on the dwindling resource. In fact, the issue extends into the realm of food security, two words which have not been typically used together to describe the situation in the US.
Well, all this ruminating has left me a bit peckish. Probably mosey over to The Library for a Filet Mignon and a martini. You know, hand mashed potatoes and olives are considered veggies. Then I'll probably download some Brittney Spears.
Of Cats, Climate Change and the Human Condition: understanding the lens through which we view the world.
Nowadays, it seems you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting some bad information regarding this fine planet we live on, or the state of mankind's dependence on fossil fuels. It is in the media, and it's in public discourse.
As an exemplary case, in the recent March 10th issue of Forbes, the editor-in-chief, Steve Forbes, writes two interesting articles under his "Fact and Comment" column. The first article is entitled "Brrr," showing a picture of an igloo and the caption "Florida in 2100?"
The article discusses how it is the natural rhythms and cycles of the planet to which any measured warming can be attributed. In fact, he posits that we should be worried about the ice age in which we would be headed based on historical cycles. If not for anthropogenic (man made) warming gases, the mercury probably would be headed down.
Of course, there are natural cycles. We are marooned here on this dumb rock. It is spinning and orbiting a medium sized star, in an elliptical orbit. At the same time, the solar system is flying through space at ninety thousand miles per hour. There is going to be some variation. The universe is not some big Rolex watch.
But to attribute recent warming to natural causes, when close to seven billion people are changing the composition of the atmosphere by adding back carbon dioxide which was deposited hundreds of millions of years ago - is not consistent with modern non-financially-biased science. As a side note, we should all be very thankful there is at least some CO2 in the air – the average temperature would be a rather frigid 0 degrees Fahrenheit were it not so, so powerful is carbon dioxide.
According to Drew Shindell, at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the radiation change in the solar cycle, an increase of two to three tenths of one percent over the 20th century, does not have the ability to cause the large global temperature increases experienced. Shindell concludes that greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role. As a society, who do we listen to - captains of industry, or our scientists?
The other article, entitled "Hurting Us for Nothing," illuminates how passing a cap and trade system to regulate and limit carbon dioxide emissions will damage the economy. The bill was put down in the Senate recently. At some point, we will need to decide which is more important – the Bentley, or the biosphere? It's a hard one. We cannot have both, and if we make the wrong choice, we won't have either. An economy depends extracting resources on a planet which can support (human) life.
Regarding resources, has anyone noticed the price of gas these days? What's with that?
Any rig worth more than its weight as scrap is pumping around the clock. Responding to the "price signal" of high oil prices, the market has more rigs running than any time in the last twenty years. Yet production remains flat. Despite the urban myth that oil reserves are 100 or 200 years, the world may now be peaking in terms of oil flow per day.
All of this was predicted and predictable. A Shell oil company geologist, M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that the US would peak between 1965 and 1970. At the time, his prediction was not taken seriously. He was a respected geologist, but as this was a time of increasing production and record oil discovery, the observation drew little attention.
As 1970 came, naysayers said – "See, we are at record levels of production - Hubbert was wrong." By around '73 though, it was apparent rate of oil production had already peaked. By definition, the peak is the time of maximum oil production, which for the US was around 11 million barrels per day. And the peak can only be seen in hindsight. We are now down to about half that - and dropping.
More ominously, he predicted that the world would peak in 1995. The geopolitical oil crises of '73 and '79 dropped production and hence delayed the peak.
It is now widely believed, even privately among some oil executives, that production cannot be sustained past 2012 - 2015. The largest fields, such as Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, are mature, past peak and dropping. New fields being brought online are much smaller, and will not equal the giants in terms of quantity or oil flow.
Hubbert will wind up being off by a couple decades, but no off by centuries as some would have you think.
There is still at least 1 trillion barrels left, not including non-conventional sources, which correlates to 30 years worth at the current burn rate. But since demand is increasing and supply is close to dropping, it portends of further increasing oil prices and market disruption.
It is hard to understate the degree to which the market and mankind is dependant on oil. Most people here now are alive because the resource allowed exponential population growth. Population growth previous to oil, as seen on a chart, is almost flat. By comparison, growth now is almost straight up. Between the forces of exponential population growth, and depleted resources, something is going to have to give.
While it has been widely assumed that this problem, this poison apple, can simply be bequeathed to the next generation, it is now plain and clear that this will play out over the next few decades.
If we can recognize a problem, we can respond. At this point, continuing denial in light of the current evidence is plain foolish. Even market analysts are stating that the market is sending a "signal," that it is time to find alternatives to oil.
However, we are overlooking one simple fact. The Earth is a closed system. There is only so much in the way of resources. And the by-product of those resources, i.e. green house gases, stay in the air due to something called gravity. (Also, the earth's magnetic field keeps the atmosphere from being eroded away by the solar wind.)
Now comes the bad news part. There is no adequate alternative to oil, because of that pesky closed system - thing.
Alternatives do exist. But all of the alternatives together, i.e. tar sands (recently changed to oil sands), electric cars, etc. do not add up to a fraction of the resource that oil was. It is beyond the scope of this article to de-mystify this widespread myth. Nevertheless, some alternatives will have a role to play.
A number of cities and communities have already recognized the problem and started to respond. One of the most prominent aspects of these plans involves local food production. The 3500 mile Caesar salad, as noted by author James Howard Kunstler, will be a thing of the past, referring to the oil resources required to make and transport all the components that go into it.
Local and regional meetings to plan and adapt in these changing times will be important. The recent planning done in the Mountain Landscapes Initiative meetings seemed to reflect an auto-centric mindset, focusing on issues such as traffic congestion, walking paths and such. A decade or two from now, everyone will not be incessantly driving around all the time. However, in one regard, the main charrette at WCU in Cullowhee was revealing, in that they blocked out a time for farmland preservation and local food systems.
Where is the plan for local food production for Cashiers? For a community to survive in an energy-scarce era, it will need to be as productive and independent as it can be, and inter-dependant as it has to be - to remain viable. Produce from the fertile fields and flat lands around the Tuckasegee and Cullowhee area will not really be local in a post-oil economy, as incomprehensible as it may seem. Such is the divide between general public awareness and actual severity of the problem.
It's somewhat baffling how this could be so. It may have something to do with inertia; the mass of humanity moving along, with so many distractions along the way. It may have something to do with keeping the apple cart rolling along for just a little while longer, at least until the wheels come off.
It has been said the myriad difficulties facing humanity are not so much a problem, but a function of the human condition.
Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle in 1906 and Oil! in 1926, upon which the movie There Will Be Blood was based, may have said it best. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Incidentally, in case the humane society or PETA is reading this, no cats were harmed during the writing of this article. Hell hath no fury…
A Tale of Two Toads
(Published July 30, 2008 Crossroads Chronicle, Cashiers, NC)
On the July 4th weekend, we saved a toad. Please allow me to explain.
Like so many critters, it had gotten caught by a human made structure. It had hopped into the window well of our basement condo, and it couldn't get out. In a way, it had fallen; and it couldn't get up. We all get that way sometimes.
Now, the author is no herpetologist, but the toad looked to be an American Toad. I believe it to be of the genus kisseous americanus. At this point, the reader is probably thinking… "Gross. Who cares about some stupid toad? Besides, it could have been a Fowlers' toad."
To the first point, toads are important because of the vast quantities of insects they consume. By eating insects that destroy crops, American toads can save farmers, horticulturists and consumers substantial amounts of money. Also, they are part of nature. Besides, the American toad may be distinguished from the closely related Fowler's toad by the presence of enlarged warts on the lower section of each leg (tibia).
Reluctantly, I picked up the toad.
It was dry to the touch, and had probably been down there some time. It could just barely move its eyes.
We put it in a bowl of water, and it sunk down underwater for some time. I reported to my wife at one point that our patient would probably not make it.
But toads are hardy. The next time we checked, the toad was standing up in the bowl, on watch like some noble creature.
I found a beetle and a cave cricket, and set them next to our toad. When I returned, the bugs were gone, and our toad was enroute towards the woods.
You can probably imagine how I felt. You know; you give someone shoes, and they just walk away. Sometimes, I wonder if some princess isn't holding him, going, "Maybe, this is the one?"
We know, not all stories can have a fairy tale ending. For the Golden Toad (Bufo periglenes), the story is different.
The golden toad was only discovered and named in 1966. It lived in Costa Rica, in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve.
True to its name, the males are a brilliant gold, lighting up the forest floor beneath the canopy above. The females are a mottled black, yellow and scarlet.
For much of the year, its a secretive creature, spending its time underground in burrows among the root masses of the woodland. As dry season gives way to the wet in April and May, it appears above ground en masse, for just a few days or weeks.
The last mating season of the golden toad was chronicled in detail by amphibian expert Marty Crump, a researcher working with the Golden Toad Laboratory for Conservation.
In April of 1987, Crump noted that with the dry weather, the pools containing the eggs had dried completely. The toads tried to breed again in May. Of the 43,500 eggs in the ten pools she studied, only 29 tadpoles survived longer than a week, for the pools again dried quickly.
The following year at Monteverde, Crump found only a single male after a long search. On May 15, of 1989, a solitary male was again sighted. He was almost certainly the same one seen the previous year, sitting only ten feet from the previous sighting. He was, as far as we know, the last of his species, as the golden toad has not been seen since.
The golden toad, along with 122 other amphibians since 1980, has vanished forever. They are today's canary in the coalmine.
Numerous studies and papers have been written about this disturbing trend, and most come to the same conclusion. The amphibians are dying from a fungal infection, and the disease is likely spreading, or exacerbated by, global climate change.
"Disease is the bullet killing frogs, but climate change is pulling the trigger," says Alan Pounds, an ecologist at the preserve in Costa Rica.
No bulldozer is responsible for killing these amphibians in their pristine habitat, but rather it is coal-fired power plants in North Carolina, and cars in China, that are responsible. And a bowl of water and a couple of bugs, will not change any of that, so intractable is the problem.
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers, pp 114-122
Dr. James Hansen for President
To anyone who is paying attention, we are in something of a sticky wicket.
That is, we are within a decade of oil production peaking over, for which we are unprepared. And we are witnessing ecosystems teetering on the brink of collapse, with the current extinction rate between 100 and 1,000 times the normal background rate. Climate change resulting from global warming is beginning to play a major role in these extinctions, not requiring a bulldozer or chainsaw to kill these animals in their pristine habitat.
We'll get through current financial crisis, but these other two concerns have the capacity to collapse the global economy and kill the biosphere.
Inherent to both of these problems is one simple fact: the earth is a closed system. By burning a few hundred million years worth of hydrocarbons in a period of just a century or two, mankind is throwing the carbon cycle out of whack. What CO2 that is not absorbed by ocean or forest remains in the atmosphere. The oceans are becoming acidic, and carbon dioxide levels are 30% higher than anytime in the last million years.
Current CO2 levels, along with other greenhouse gases (GHGs), are melting the polar ice cap, Greenland and West Antarctica. As much of humanity lives within a few meters of sea level, there could be some economic, ecological and humanitarian consequences.
Recent warming trends are accelerating. Natural feedback cycles are reinforcing anthropogenic (man made) warming. And those feedback cycles, which were thought to be slow, such as the albedo flip of melting glaciers and sea ice, are happening at an alarming rate. Instead of reflecting 90% of solar irradiance, exposed deep sea reflects only 10% and absorbs 90%. This albedo flip is causing the poles to warm as much as five times the global average, which by the way is .8 degrees Celsius since the Industrial revolution.
Permafrost across Canada and Siberia is thawing, releasing CO2 and methane from decomposing organic matter. Roads, forests, train tracks and buildings are collapsing into sinkholes. Google it and see for yourself. Permafrost is thought to contain some 500 billion tons of carbon, which if allowed to thaw and decompose, is good for enough GHGs to cause tens of degrees warming.
So, current business as usual scenarios of capping off CO2 at 450 or 550 ppm, if implemented, are not going to be just dangerous. A warming of 3 to 6 degrees Celsius would be somewhere between calamitous and cataclysmic. Most species will not be able to adapt to a rate of warming which could exceed .4 degrees C per decade.
The United States, we must admit, has played a major role in GHG emissions. We emit about a quarter of emissions. We have set the example of a lifestyle most are trying to emulate.
Our rise as a superpower was largely shaped by our bounty of oil reserves. Up until the 50s or 60s, we were the Saudi Arabia of the world. Now, we know, the situation is reversed, with $700 Billion being sent annually to unstable regions.
There is now a narrow time window in which we can affect the changes required to save both this nation and this planet. For less than we are sending oversees, a recent Scientific American article illustrated, we could build the infrastructure for solar thermal power generation based in the southwest which would obviate our need for coal, and provide enough electricity to charge a nation of electric cars.
Oil is used as a feedstock to make over 300,000 products, including fertilizer and pharmaceuticals, so it might be wise to save some for those uses, as well as for future generations.
Both candidates have expressed a desire to cut dependence on foreign oil and expand renewable energy sources. Current efforts though, such as ethanol, are costing taxpayer dollars, exacerbating global warming, and causing children to starve.
Political expedience, and business as usual, are grinding the United States of America and the biosphere into oblivion. I say, let's elect Jim Hansen of NASA, America's top climate scientist. Its high time that logic, science, and compassion play some role in our decisions.
You never know, the planet we save could just be our own.


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Last night at 20:20 (our senior YF) was absolutely amazing! The topic was 'worship' and as i prepared on Friday i got really excited because i knew that if they 'got it' then it would be a special night. Well guess what? They got it! It's hard to say what happened but as i tried to explain what real, true, genuine worship is, which is what God is looking for, i just knew that people were really listening. So as we moved into a time of worship at the end i really hoped that what they had been challenged about would start to be practiced. The worship was fantastic and i know that young people really met with God, spirit connecting with spirit, which is what worship is all about.
As i looked around the room i was really moved and i realised there is no where else in the world i would rather have been at that moment than in that room, with those people, worshiping God. Afterwards i was absolutely buzzing with excitement which meant i hardly slept a wink last night!
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Posted by Neil Harrison at 6:17 pm
Labels: Youth work
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- Adrian Eagleson said...
neil, those are special moments, annointed times when the presence of God & our gifts seem to collide to impact young people - glad it went great, hearing great reports about what you are doing in warringstown. keep her lit!
- 11:46 pm
where is it?
get your mojo working lad
- 6:26 pm
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text: http://www.kxan.com/ Sorry for the new thread, I couldn't find the old thread. This is the latest on "a good kid says the father" the officer was found not guilty of wrong doing in the shooting of Nathaniel Sanders. The dash cam video from the back up unit was released and it was confirmed that Nathaniel Sanders did have a gun. The internal investigation is on going.


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1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 TBS worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp pepper
1 small onion, chopped (1/4 cup)
1 large egg
What to Do:
1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. In large bowl, mix all ingredients (it's easiest to mix with your hands). Shape mixutre into twenty 1 1/2 inch meatballs. Place in ungreased 13x9 in pan or on rack in broiler pan.
3. Bake uncovered 20-25 minutes or until no longer pink in center and thermometer stuck in center reads 160 degrees F.


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Well, life has been pretty crazy, but oh so wonderful around here the last couple of months. If you follow me on Instagram (my handle is dana_loveleighstampin), then you're in the know! Lovely & I spent an amazing, dream-come-true Christmas season in Hawaii (more on that in a later post), I've moved my stampey room to a full on studio (more on that later as well), Lovely has been working an insane schedule and it's only getting worse, and life is just busy & full with family, friend, doggie, and a smidgen alone time (translation, minimal crafty time). In January, I saw Beauty & the Beast off Broadway in Fort Worth with my sweet goddaughter and my dear friend, chauffeured my aunt, mom, and her childhood best friend around to a few fun stores, mostly antique, and a winery. I've spent as much time as possible with Lovely, done a few small projects around the house, and finished digital scrapbooks from two trips! I planned on getting back into the swing of things stamping wise, but only successfully worked up one class and a couple of orders! However, I that did give me a little push to stamp a few projects for myself, and I'm excited to finally get back to sharing them with you!
With the new Occasions Catalog AND Sale-A-Bration, there are so many fun new products to play with! Valentine's Day is coming up next week, so I've done several projects for that. I am smitten the new Wood You Be Mine stamp set, so I have made several projects with the set. It is perfect for creating for the men in our lives whether that be for husbands, dads, boyfriends, or even sons! This set would be great for creating Valentine's for little boys to share with his class. I need to work up a few ideas on that! But today, I do have a fun Valentine card to share!
I nicknamed this guy Lumbie, because, of course, he is a lumberjack! He couldn't be more fun, and I paired him up with lots of fun embellishments and a great, masculine color combo. I used Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Island Indigo, and gold. I can't gush enough over this combo! I adore how the Cajun & Indigo pair with gold! It's really a stunning color palette, and perfect for this set.
I had so much fun with Lumbie, and really can't wait to create more with this set! I have so many ideas for him, including a fun scrapbook layout and more Valentine's. He's the perfect masculine set, and any card featuring it is sure to be a hit with your man! Thank you for stopping by today. I can't wait to share more with you, so be sure to check back for more great Valentine ideas! Don't forget, it's Sale-A-Bration! Pair Wood You Be Mine with another set, and you've earned a FREE Sale-A-Bration product! Every $50 you spend (before tax & shipping) gets you Sale-A-Brating!
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Greetings from YUMA, ARIZONA!!
I just thought I'd share some humor here in my travels...
the Yuma phone book.... (yes, I'm BORED and have spotty Internet service!)
the ad reads:
"Lutes' Gretna Green Wedding Chapel
No Waiting, No Blood Tests
You can be legally married at
our chapel immediately after
being divorced in Arizona!"
and the one-and-only bridal shop is called "Sugar n Spice" !!!
I love it. I needed some laughs!
Anyway, things are good here. Ari and I have been hotel hopping (apparently there is a rodeo in town that is taking all the hotel rooms!) and trying to enjoy the Desert air. We are looking forward to having a little 'wedding reception' with my family and his family next Saturday. (if you didn't know, we were married last year in Vegas!) My brother is flying in from Miami, my parents from Pensacola, Ari's parents are driving from LA, and we'll all meet at my aunt and uncle's house in Laguna Beach with my grandma and cousins. When I think of all of our brides I always wish for a celebration that is focused on what matters most- on the love, on the great gift we are given in finding the love of our life. I'm very grateful and wish all of you the same! I'll post pictures : ) Enjoy this pic from last March in the Bellagio lobby. (What an amazing hotel for a flower lover! You MUST see their indoor flower atrium!)
More adventures from Yuma to come...


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Re: MONKMAN,Scarborough,1800s-present
In reply to:
I am also tracing the Monkmans, mine come from Sherurn-in-Elmet, near Leeds. I have a Thomas born 1791 and I am trying to trace a little further back, but as I am also tracing the other side of my family and my wife's family I am afraid that the Monkmans sometimes take a back seat.
If you have any info that connects to this family I would be pleased to hear from you.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween
If you are reading this and don't live in the Des Moines area you are probably wondering how I got these pictures up before Halloween arrived. In this neck of the woods they have something called Beggar's night the night before Halloween. That's when the kids go trick or treating and "beg" for candy. Anyway, it was a super night for it and the girls didn't even have to wear coats. In own town you can trick or treat around to the businesses on the town square before you go trick or treating house to house. We had never gone before but we went this year. Oh my goodness at the crowd!! I didn't know that many people lived in our small town. Turns out when everyone comes out of there homes all at once it makes a pretty good crowd of us. Here are some pics of the girls.
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I have to tell you that I worry for Obama, part of the package of hope I carry for him. While it was a resounding political victory, I am reminded that it could have gone differently. The economic meltdown definitely helped Obama shine in the public eye. If the collapse had held off until after the election, would this all be happening? It's not for me to say.
I can feel the possibilities whispering in my ear, shouting from my soul. The sobering reality that Prop 8 looks like it's winning shows the power of fear that still exists in our society. I guess what I usually do at a time like this is quote T. S. Eliot.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeLet us dance into the future.
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.


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I'm very pleased with the results of my latest dyepot. (These photos were taken as the roving hung outside to drip dry.)
By using Wilton gel food coloring - black - and removing or adding dry Falkland Top at various stages of exhaust, with different amounts of acids, I achieved three different colorways.
A "Black Raspberry" colorway with maroon and burgundy going through raspberry to lavender purples.
A "Blue Ridge" colorway which has smokey purply blues hinting at denim and steel.
And a happy "Robin's Egg Turquoise" blue (in the middle of this photo) that was the last of the color to absorb/exhaust.
I was having so much fun, I also broke brown then.
I really love the way some of the copper colors came out deeply but some went almost peach, and in the yellowy tans there's just a hint of almost green that gives this a very rich woodland feel.
I thought I was going to like the broken black better so I didn't use very much of my fleece on the brown. That was a mistake, I love the brown! But no worries, I plan to do this again. :)


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Actor-turned-moviemaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt has landed another big name for his feature film directorial debut – Julianne Moore has signed up to star alongside his pal Scarlett Johansson.
The Inception star's untitled new project will feature him as a modern-day Don Juan, who sets out to mend his ways and become a less selfish person. The Oscar nominated actress will play an unlikely mentor to his character, reports Variety.com.
Confirming the casting news on his Twitter.com blog, Gordon-Levitt writes, "I'm incredibly happy to have the brilliant Julianne Moore on board!"
Filming is due to begin in April.


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The problem of how to connect the upper and lower floors of the house had us stumped.
The more we studied Steve's architectural renderings the more we knew we didn't want a flight of wooden stairs tacked onto the side of our concrete house.
But we couldn't think of anything better.
For a brief moment we considered putting the staircase on the garden side. At least it wouldn't be an eyesore from the road. But to make this work we'd have to install at least one and maybe two new doors into the exterior walls, and we were pretty sure we lacked the intestinal fortitude to withstand another demolition project.
The logical fallback, of course, was to put the staircase inside. Hailing as we did from a latitude where things like staircases are most often found indoors, this seemed to make perfect sense.
But it didn't take us long to figure out that staircases gobble up lots of square footage—we'd have to sacrifice a hefty amount of living space if we chose this option. Also, the few places where it made sense to break through for the staircase on the upper level made no sense at all in the corresponding space below.
In desperation we turned to shelter magazines.
Alas, most of the staircases in Architectural Digest and The World of Interiors are grand, sweeping and often marble.
Not quite what we had in mind.
So we moved on to travel magazines, many of which feature vacation houses in far-flung places.
But as staircases in vacation homes tend to be utilitarian rather than decorative, few staircases are actually depicted.
In fact, almost none.
"Let's look at photos of our own house," Michael logically suggested one afternoon. "Maybe we'll get inspired."
So we downloaded all of the photos from our recent trip onto my laptop and prepared to be inspired. Here, after all, were beautiful shots of the great room, the bedroom, the kitchen, the balcony.
We stared until our eyes hurt.
Nothing. Or at least nothing we hadn't thought of before. There just didn't seem to be a practical solution to our problem.
"Maybe we should rebrand our advertising campaign," I remarked. "You know, 'Vacation with your kids without ever seeing them,' or, 'Stay with us and lose ten pounds walking from bedroom to bedroom.'"
Michael wisely ignored me and continued scrolling through our photos: sunset at the beach, a long shot of the fort, an interior of the coffee bar in Isabel.
Hang on. The interior of the coffee bar. What's that object in the middle of the picture?
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post7644628929551743157..comments2018-06-19T18:35:51.661-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Vance Goes Home to OhioDarwinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-74573161784516071082017-03-26T03:12:36.283-04:002017-03-26T03:12:36.283-04:00Very interesting point about the investment of hum...Very interesting point about the investment of human capital in struggling cities. This is also a point that could be made about struggling schools. Throw all the money you want at a mediocre school and it will remain mediocre until excellent teachers, and an administration willing to let them teach, commit to spending long and often thankless years cultivating enthusiasm for learning.

And as a midwestern transplant to southern CA, I can understand Vance's longing for his ancestral home. Although I will say I have been happy about the large number of great parishes in our area, I am constantly frustrated a number of things that make raising a family here difficult, as well as expensive. I understand why people are willing to spend great sums of money to live someplace with perfect weather nearly all the time and few bugs, but they miss out on the great beauty and joy of experiencing spring after a hard winter, and the nostalgia of autumn after a hot summer. And besides, the traffic is awful! Emily J.https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-83206456614403879132017-03-21T02:02:30.936-04:002017-03-21T02:02:30.936-04:00" I put a lot of value in belonging to a fair..." I put a lot of value in belonging to a fairly solid Catholic diocese with faithful young priests coming out of a seminaries and churches built 100+ years ago that actually look like churches. It would be very hard to decide to move back into Los Angeles Archdiocese or San Francisco Archdiocese."

You can actually find some of this in the San Francisco Archdiocese — the City and even down the peninsula have a few very pretty churches, many even close to one hundred years old. As you get farther from the City, however, the churches (and vocations numbers) grow less inspiring. San Jose, for example, has five times the people and half the seminarians as San Francisco (and most of their churches look like school auditoriums...)Michaelhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-2427980921753836702017-03-18T23:41:22.638-04:002017-03-18T23:41:22.638-04:00Yeah, that would be interesting, though frame of r...Yeah, that would be interesting, though frame of reference might be challenging. I live in a cross-over of small town Ohio outside Columbus and the Columbus professional set, and I'm comparing that to a stint in suburban Texas and growing up in suburban Los Angeles. (And doing job interviews in professional Silicon Valley.) I've never even visited the upper midwest.

I probably heard the most racism in everyday conversation when I was in Los Angeles, but that may have a lot to do with the kind of place I was working there (small company with various gently simmering racial resentments) whereas now I work in a corporate environment where I never hear racist comments at all.

There's a lot of specificity to regions, and to particular sets without regions. Darwinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-75592081908484887312017-03-17T14:38:22.144-04:002017-03-17T14:38:22.144-04:00We could have an interesting conversation about mo...We could have an interesting conversation about moving, I think, because I have moved from Ohio to a very blue city in a historically blue, although purpler-than-expected in 2016, state.

Despite leaning libertarian/conservative by many of the usual measures, I feel culturally much more at home in a blue city than I did even in cities in Ohio. It helps a lot that corruption is low and that city services, though taxed/assessed expensively, are competently executed. It also helps that I am able to homeschool and do not have to subject my children to the institutional schools here (as it would help anywhere, I guess). I like the anonymity of a larger city and the larger personal space of the upper midwest. I don't feel as comfortable with the more Southern standards of how much you are expected to chat with strangers; too much friendliness reads like nosiness to me, and I would rather be more guarded. I like very much that we have enough parishes to choose from that we could easily leave for another when our previous one went totally off the rails some years ago. I like city noise and city bustle and traffic doesn't bother me all that much. I find the linguistic diversity around me an opportunity to learn something cool and not something to resent or be annoyed at. Despite my address, I am still quite unlikely to be a victim of violent crime.

I don't miss the casual, sometimes overt, only sometimes unintended, racism that I heard much more often coming out of the mouths of Nice White People in Ohio than here in Minnesota. And yes, I know: Not All Ohioans. However, More Ohioans I Run Into On A Brief Visit Than Twin Cities People I Run Into In Six Months.

Setting aside bugs and features that can be found everywhere, I guess I find in the red lower midwest and the blue upper midwest things that attract me as well as things that repel me. But just as a matter of personal taste and lifestyle, I find that I'm more strongly pushed and drawn in this direction. bearinghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Oh dear loads of calories in this bento especially the cream and do you know 25 minutes on the treadmill burns 150 calories only for me guess I have to step up the level...la..yikes!
Have a happy day bento-ing.....
Cute Furkid! :)
Don't remind me about exercise, I one year din stretch a muscle already!
That's so cute!! Ah..pls don't remind me..I'm trying to forget about dieting for awhile.
Shoppingmum, just started exercise again since stopped yoga at Mandala for so long!
Pigpigscorner, me too find it difficult to diet with so much delicious food available.
Great Furkid!!! So sweet.
Exercise...hm, that's always on my mind and seeems to stay there ha ha ha
Very cute! I just bought that bento box too, so cute!
Javapot, brain exercise..LOL!
Susan Yuen, ya the double tier Pikachu bento box is so cute, glad you have that too!
that's a nice swiss roll...did u baked it yrself, i've never seen such flower swissroll outside...
I too couldn't' resist getting the pikachiu box...& i just got 2 of it this week!!
if only 'brain exercise' equals to actual cardio workout, i'd be super fit!! ha ha hahah
hi there.I love bento too!!but i dun really post them on blog i use flickr.can we be friends?
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WALT be cybersmart using a game called Interland. In this game there are 4 different cyber worlds each focussing on a different part of cyber smart. The green mountain which is the one we started with is about being kind and caring. I got to the top of this mountain and scored 160 see my screenshot below.
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The Mary Garden spreadsheet is now a Google spreadsheet which you can view here.
The list of Mary's flowers was taken from Mary's Gardens: 100 Plants For A Larger Mary Garden. The spreadsheet includes information on each flower, i.e., by Latin name, ordering link (some are obsolete, and I'm working on updating them), Type (Annual, Perennial or Biennial), Common Name, Religious Name, Height (average, or whatever I found for the seed/plant that I bought/plan to buy), Spacing required, Sun Exposure required, Color (usually the one I bought/plan to buy), Water requirement, and other info gathered from websites/catalogs/books.
On the spreadsheet, I forgot to add that PS = Partial Shade, FS = Full Sun.
ETA: 9/16/07. I've been reading Mary's Flowers by Vincenzina Krymow — what a wonderful book! It even has meditations and illustrations, etc. I bought the book months ago to get free shipping at Amazon and just really read it today. I've started updating the spreadsheet with additional information supplied by this book. Now the only thing left is to figure out WHERE I could possibly fit all these plants that I plan to have in the garden! Mary's waiting…. Right now all I have near here are some hostas and liatris…. I'd like to move her at some point to a permanent grotto, maybe tufa that the kids and I will make, with maidenhair fern trailing from top to bottom…. that would be nice….


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Well, most of the time it is, but right now I am not so sure. Is it possible to save bits, or bites, or 1's and 0's if I recycle blog posts? Would it help keep the tubes of the Internet from getting clogged up? How will we ever know the real answer?
Any way, it is time to say "Happy New Year" again. Main difference from last year's post? We are now in Year "B1." I still love the whole Advent thing and there isn't much to add, other than I can't think of a better way for a church to celebrate the New Year than the party St. John's got to throw yesterday.
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•it's DAMN COLD OUT THERE!
•Ruairi and Keith are in town tonight.
•Street Fighter Alpha 3's Zangief has pissed me off so he will be goin' down soon!
•im gonna be part of the geekadphia.com podcasts soon! [laugh at my ability not to speak as much as you laugh at my horrible writing here]
•anyone have Battle Star Galactica DVDs i could borrow to catch up on the show...i never saw any of it...ever.
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Discovery of the day: And the games begin....
This next two weeks are probably going to be the most challenging ones I've faced to date, food-wise. My boyfriend has his procedure on Wednesday then Friday we catch a red-eye flight Back East to attend my daughter's graduation and meet up with family and old friends.
So right there's your stress, disruption of routine (always a problem for me), travel (see disruption of routine again), and partying. I'll miss the next three running classes and there's no guarantee I'll do anything exercise-related on my own.
But I think I'm down a pound, bringing my total weight loss somewhere close to 12 lbs. All I want to do is maintain until I get my feet back on solid ground.
Wish me luck....
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