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Ryan Sessegnon Urged To Reject Liverpool, Tottenham
Reports are out claiming that Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic says Ryan Sessegnon should stay for the sake of his career.
The fullback has been linked with Liverpool and Tottenham.
Jokanovic told the London Evening Standard: "In my opinion Ryan will earn a lot of money in his life, but he should just enjoy his first days as a professional with us now, at this level.
"In the future, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he will be at the highest level. In front of him is something like 18-20 years as a professional and it is better for him to go step by step.
"Ryan and those around him need support to make the best decision. From my side, the best thing is for him to stay with us, keep going in this learning process and keep preparing for a more important step."


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How Pets Make a Difference: Tucker and Mr. P
"The hospice patient I'm currently visiting suffers deeply with loneliness. When his elderly dog died, it was an enormous loss to Mr. P. Within a short time, he had a new buddy named Tucker. The two quickly fell in love and trust. Tucker comforts the patient by simply being there. Tucker's jumping around from place to place enchants him and puts a long, wide smile on his face. When Tucker is ready to play, Mr. P. spins his electric wheelchair around to pick up the dog's favorite ball and throws it for him--again and again and again. He even seems to enjoy reprimanding Tucker when he barks at passing cars, pedestrians or any noise. He's proud of his "boy." Mr. P. is comforted by Tucker's constant attention and those big brown eyes that watch his every move.
The relationship with Tucker elevates his spirits and enriches his life. Tucker is someone who cares that Mr. P. is alive, someone to get out of bed for, someone to love and interact with all his waking hours and someone who accepts him as he is. What Tucker brings to this man not only enhances his own life, but also faciliates the work of caregivers and eases the concerns of family and friends. I truly believe that the last months of Mr. P's life are easier, more secure and happier because of Tucker's presence. I cannot even imagine him being able to stay in his home alone without his loyal companion."
Thank you, Mary Beth, for this wonderful story! Can you tell how much this relationship has impacted her life? Becoming a Pet Peace of Mind volunteer can be a rewarding and enriching experience. If you are a pet lover and you would like to "pay it forward" to someone who might not have the help they need to care for a beloved pet---please check our website for more information about Pet Peace of Mind hospices in your area.

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Had the eccentric banker lived but a short time
longer, there is no saying where his great fortune
might have been bestowed. One of David Buchanan's
Virginia partners, a cute American, raised a serious
lawsuit against the firm, which assumed such
proportions that, whatever way it might have terminated,
would have damaged, if it did not ruin,the estate. As
it was, however, the windfall enabled Mr. Buchanan
to come off unscathed ; yet everybody said that
sharing his painfully 'gathered gear' among the lawyers
was the last thing Robert would have submitted to,
could he have foreseen such a catastrophe.
The office of the Ship Bank stood on the west side
of the foot of Glassford Street, entering from Argyle
Street. It had been the city mansion of some
aristocratic family, and certainly was not built for a bank,
being destitute of all those artistic and expensive
decorations which in modern times appear essential to
the success and stability of a banking company. The
cashier's room was in the front, and the public office
in a small, dismally dark room behind. The town
house of Mr. Robert Carrick was on the upper floors;
and the house of the porter,John Crosbie,was behind
on the ground floor. The bank opened at 10, but was
shut from 12 to 1 o'clock, so that the officials might
bring up their books, and it was reopened between
2 and 3 o'clock. Bills were handed in to Mr. Carrick,
and when they received a favourable verdict he tore a
small piece from the bottom of the paper, which was
the mark of approval and the order on the teller to
honour and pay. The sweating chamber was the large
outer lobby, where the customers were kept standing
in suspense. When the bill was not approved, it was
politely returned to the supplicant by a raw Highland
lad, without other response than it was " not
convenient to-day." In the public room sat the teller,
Mr.Michael Rowan, a most worthy gentleman, who had
his country house (Linthouse) near Govan. The
public were kept within a pen, enclosed by a partition of
some four feet in height. There was no apology for a
counter. The cheques were handed over the pen, and
if found correct Mr. Rowan rose from his three-legged
stool to a large wooden desk in which he kept the
bank—notes. He placed the lid of this money chest on
his head, and slowly counted out the required sum,
which he handed over the barricade. The receiver
had then to check the notes either in the dark, in the
room; or,when he desired some more space and light,
in the lobby of access.
Much more to follow................
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Scottish Banking(part 3)
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0034: Quick announce
Hi again,
Recently I worked on the OLGAtherer Collection Manager for .Net 🙂 project for a while and I found few things very interesting.
One of them is SQLite DB size, second – Composite pattern, third – Observer pattern (I came across latter problem during my regular work, and Andrzej helped me out with this).
I have no time (as always), but I will try to write few short articles about problems described above. I will start with Composite, then proceed to Observer and, at last, to SQLite size (because I haven't explored this issue yet deep enough to tell something about it).
I hope you will find it helpful/interesting.
I read one interesting book too, maybe I will find some time to tell about it.
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after B, i guess my second love would be have to be makeup. and oh my lordie, i just can't get enough of the lovely products out there. i'm totally in love with my NARS Orgasm that i knew i just had to have more of the blushes from NARS. thank god for suppliers like mine, who offered to get me my NARS blushes at a discount. even though they're cheek heaven, they're just not good for your pocket.
i checked out the NARS website and am now officially lusting for these:
NARS in Nico - natural shade for a natural glow
NARS in Desire - a cotton candy pink for a sweet blush
me thinks of just buying one shade a month. that way i won't get broke and i won't get tired of them right away? just thinking.
i also checked out some Stila makeup after Karen of the Makeup and Beauty Blog posted a great review of the Stila Custom Color Blush.
the color isn't something i would normally want to put (i don't really feel the shade.) on my cheeks but after reading all the sci-fi descriptions and seeing the turnout on Karen's morena skin, i want to try it out for myself. i can't wait for the Stila section in the local mall to stock up on these. that would probably take months, but that only means i can still save up for it.
i'm also setting my sights on these other lovelies:
♥ NARS bronzing brush - the dome shape is just beautiful and i'm betting it would turn out great for me!
♥ Dashing Diva in Hell's Kitchen & Park Avenue Mistress - more red please.
♥ Stila Long Wear Liquid Lip Color in Caprice, Fiery & Petal - Fiery is another red that i would love to add to my red lippy collection. Caprice is a Barbie pink shade, and Petal would go great with my Nyx Tea Rose.
♥ OPI in Affair in Red Square & Malaga Wine - i just can't get enough of dark/blood red polish. i think it's the sexiest color out there.
♥ The Body Shop's Japanese Cherry Blossom Body Mist - pure sakura love. it sort of reminds me of my anime addiction days and mysteriously makes me feel like i'm a katana wielding character from Samurai X.
♥ Folded & Hung Fragrances in Stargazer or Ingenue - F&H has such affordable perfumes that i guess i'll be heading over this weekend to get my own bottles. i especially adore Stargazer because of its shimmer particles suspended in the perfume. so pretty.
*sigh* the list just goes on and on. if B knew about my beloved blog, he'd probably take note of this one and be my santa.
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, Disney Research Zurich
, Technical University of Berlin
Pages: pp. 24-25
The digital age in manufacturing is giving rise to output devices that allow rapid customization and manufacturing, revolutionizing how we design, develop, fabricate, distribute, and consume products. 3D printing is considered a disruptive technology with a potentially tremendous socioeconomic impact. In recent years, 3D-printing technologies have progressed significantly in terms of sophistication and price. Devices now feature high-resolution, full-color, and multimaterial printing. Affordable 3D printers have entered the homes of common users, and professional 3D-printing services let anybody manufacture custom objects with a few clicks. 1 Given the process's digital nature, computational models that facilitate intuitive design, efficient representation, fast simulation, and visualization of physically realizable objects play a central role in modern fabrication.
Computer graphics researchers have long been involved in designing efficient, easy-to-use content creation methods. Recently, authoring workflows have increasingly incorporated real-world constraints, leading to new theoretical insights and sophisticated tools for creating content that can be fabricated.
One important aspect is creating physical artifacts with controllable appearance characteristics from digital models. Several recent publications deal with fabricating objects made from simple base materials to emulate a visually complex computer graphics model. 2 Attempts range from the computational design of reliefs that let any surface with a significant diffuse reflection component serve as a display, 3 to systems that fabricate surfaces with the desired spatially varying reflectance by assigning different ink combinations to facets with different orientations. 4 All these approaches can reproduce a significantly wider variety of reflectance than the gamut of a printer's available base materials. In a similar spirit, researchers have investigated designing objects with mechanical properties. 5
These are just a few specific examples. Active research, as well as challenges related to fabrication's computational aspects, is often interdisciplinary, encompassing material science, mechanical engineering, geometry processing, human-computer interaction, and perception. However, to fully unleash this technology's potential requires an understanding of computer graphics fundamentals: shape, the appearance of shape and materials, and physically based simulation and animation. All these aspects interplay when you design an object.
This special issue comprises three articles illustrating how novel computer graphics approaches are advancing digital fabrication.
In "Design-to-Fabricate: Maker Hardware Requires Maker Software" (this issue's installment of the Applications department), Ryan Schmidt and Matt Ratto propose a class of design tools for the growing user base of consumer-level 3D-printing devices. They provide several examples of recent "maker" tools, which achieve accessibility primarily by constraining functionality. Furthermore, they describe recent developments in meshmixer, a freely available 3D design tool for easy 3D mash-ups, virtual sculpting, and mesh repair. They aim to provide both accessibility and expressive power for makers by leveraging recent computer graphics research in geometry processing.
In "Fabricating 3D Figurines with Personalized Faces," Rafael Tena, Moshe Mahler, Thabo Beeler, Max Grosse, Hengchin Yeh, and Iain Matthews present a computational pipeline that lets users efficiently create large quantities of personalized figurines. Their system seamlessly integrates 3D facial data with a predefined figurine body into a unique, continuous object that's fabricated as a single piece. The combination of state-of-the-art 3D capture, modeling, and printing provides the flexibility to fabricate figurines whose complexity is limited only by the designer's creativity.
Finally, in "3D-Printing Spatially Varying BRDFs," we, together with Olivier Rouiller, Jan Kautz, and Wojciech Matusik, introduce an approach for fabricating custom surface reflectance and spatially varying BRDFs (bidirectional reflectance distribution functions). (This article was reviewed and accepted independently.) Our approach optimizes microgeometry to conform to a desired normal distribution that can be 3D-printed on surfaces. We optimize the microgeometry for a range of analytic normal distributions and simulate the resulting surface's effective reflectance. This approach allows for printing svBRDFs on planar samples with current 3D-printing technology, even with a limited set of printing materials. It extends naturally to printing svBRDFs on arbitrary shapes.
Our young field is growing, and many research challenges wait to be addressed. We hope you enjoy reading the articles as much as we did.


text: There is wonderful news just out. That Gliocladium roseum, a fungus from the Patagonian rainforest, eats cellulose and excretes the same mix of compounds as diesel fuel. You can read the actual paper here. That's right. Take any cellulose source you want. Lawn cuttings. Old mattresses. Used underwear. Chop them up. Add water. Add fungus. Out comes diesel fuel.


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Must have tanker endorsement to operate water, dump and end dump trucks. You must be able to travel. Competitive wages and per diem offered.
Women & Minorities Encouraged to Apply.
Bob Bergkamp Construction provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Bob Bergkamp Construction complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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No, that's not some funky Chanism for Tom & Katie. I'm not a big celebrity watcher. However, after spending too much time in heels last week, flats are really speaking to me, even though I know they too hurt my feet and back with too much time standing…
And I'd be lying if I didn't confess that I'm being sucked into the bright spring fashion hues and envisioning lots of skirts and dresses and flats. So I clicked through an ad on a blog and eventually found myself on Tom's website on the page for their new ballet flats, Katia. The chambray really calls out to me, but I wouldn't turn down the entire collection.
Here's where I need your help. The website sends a mixed message; they saw these flats are sized to an industry standard, but then say for returning customers to size down. Since I'm generally a 6.5 but not always, does that mean I order a 6 or a 6.5?!
What are you eyeing for spring?


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a day trip to cherokee reservation & bryson city
last saturday was gorgeous. and you know what that means… road trip!! there is nothing like packing a few snacks (thanks to my love!), filling up the gas tank, and heading out with no real plans – except that we were headed west, toward cherokee, nc. cherokee is located beside the north carolina-tennessee border (but in north carolina), and is a national indian reservation. it is 56,000 acres and home to more than 10,000 eastern band of the cherokee members.Read More


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Faust – Something Dirty review
A review of the new Faust album written for Classic Rock magazine.
Something Dirty
Bureau B
The sick sounds of the underground
Faust is more than a band. Faust is an infection, an idea virus that spreads among the musicians of Faust and the listeners, a sickness that has persisted unchecked in the world for over 40 years. Faust has survived its creator Uwe Nettelbeck, journalist and avant garde scene-maker, who, in the early 70s, tasked with "creating" an underground band, assembled Faust from two component groups Nukleus and Campylognatus Citelli.
Uwe was the Typhoid Mary of the German avant garde.
Viruses mutate. There are now two Fausts. There's the Faust fronted by Hans-Joachim 'Jochen' Irmler who released Faust Is Last in 2010. There's also the Faust – this Faust – centred around bass player Jean-Hervé Péron and drummer Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier. You may have seen them on the BBC's excellent krautrock documentary jamming with a cement mixer. They are joined by James Johnston ex-Gallon Drunk and Bad Seeds and painter, writer, musician, photographer and filmmaker Geraldine Swayne.
Regardless of the personnel involved, the Faust disease continues to rage like an uncontrollable fever. Industrial noise, seemingly random samples, disjointed noises, snatches of poetry, passages of deceptively conventional rock music all pop in and out of the collage of sound. John Peel, an early champion, described them as being like a picture that was smashed up – a picture that may have been pretty strange to begin with – and reassembled in a random order. That still pretty much holds true for the Fausts of the 21st century.
Opening with the Chrome-like drone charmingly entitled Tell The Bitch To Go Home, things quickly fall apart into a series of noise bursts, burps, machine sounds, snatches of poetry. By the time the still un conventional Nico-like dirge Lost The Signal emerges around 20 minutes in, it sounds as instant as a JLS song emerging from radio static.
While one faction of the post-68 German underground has influenced the explosion of electronic music in Europe and the US – Can, Kraftwerk and Neu! pretty much spawned everyone from the most primitive house and techno music to new school psychedelic jammers like Cave, Wooden Shjips and Animal Collective – Faust(s) infect the real nutjobs, the people who compose symphonies for chainsaws, who sample the noise of high rise buildings being demolished and who explore the percussive possibilities of live ammunition and a well oiled gun.
Both Fausts are still sick. Thankfully there seems to be no cure.
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Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R [Deluxe Edition]
This is a review of the anniversary deluxe edition, written for Classic Rock.
Rolling Stone's 82nd best album of the decade. Tits.
There's a case for saying that we've just been through yet another of rock's golden ages.
The years between – roughly – 1999 and 2008 (please, 'the noughties' makes us puke) saw
Jeremiads about the death of guitars once again fail to come to pass. Great years for the
underground but they were also good times for very mainstream bands too, bands you saw on telly that your uncool mates might have heard of too. We got career-best albums from Machine Head, The Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Green Day, Judas Priest and Tool. We had awesome newcomers like Opeth, Mastodon, Coheed & Cambria, My Chemical Romance and The Mars Volta. And even Metallica eventually made a record that wasn't totally shit.
The first great rock'n'roll release of the new decade/century/millennium was the second
album by Queens Of The Stone Age. Josh Homme never set out to be a trailblazer for
proper rock music, but things just kind of worked out that way. After years when the charts
were dominated by hip hop, pop and R&B, when 'rock' was a sickly category, either retro
fallout from grunge or Britpop or heritage acts stumbling onstage to die, here was an album
that sounded the way that a 21st century rock band should. Queens were robust and tough
and vibrant. They were eclectic. Queens had metal, punk rock, prog rock, psychedelic rock,
krautrock, glam rock – every damn variant of cool rock you can think of – wired into their
The opening lines of Feelgood Hit Of The Summer "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol" serve notice that this is no album by a bunch of businessmen with guitars. It ain't U2. They were not here to service a demographic or to provide content between the ads on modern rock radio. Yes, oh my goodness, that's drugs they're singing about, mum. Cover your ears.
The self titled first QOTSA album was still really a Kyuss album. It was the last 'stoner rock' album that Josh Homme made. Rated R was something else again. Produced by Josh and Chris Goss, a long time friend and mentor of Homme's, it made enough compromises to get the band on MTV without selling the essential soul of the band. It was made with a loose line-up of madmen and geniuses, a gentleman's club of cool that included Rob Halford, Pete Stahl, Mark Lanegan, Barrett Martin and of course Nick Oliveri.
Even a decade on, the album well played and imprinted on the consciousness, you hear new stuff all the time. Like the robotic beats and repetitive riff on In The Fade, which call to mind both Neu! And The Groundhogs, sounds slippery and different every time you listen to it. Or the mellower low key psychedelia of Auto Pilot, which sounds strangely contemporary, suggesting a direction not taken that other bands could build an entire career around. And at first BetterLiving Through Chemistry sounded like a failed trip hop experiment; now it sounds futuristic and oddball again. Monsters in the Parasol is almost Doors-like, a dark surreal ode to dropping acid in the desert. Rated R progresses from the singles Feelgood Hit of the Summer and The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret through to the discordant brass annoyance at the end of I Think I Lost My Headache. It's showing off. Homme wants us to know that this is a band that can do anything. You want MTV friendly fodder? He will just fuck you raw with MTV friendly fodder. You ask when Kyuss will reform? They're still here, at the guts of QOTSA.
Songs For The Deaf, the third album, is arguably the better. But Rated R is still a magnificent work, seeming much bigger and broader than 11 songs over a mere 42 minutes.
To celebrate a decade since its release and generally reactivate interest in this album – it certainly doesn't need remastering or anything – there's a bonus disc of live material, most notably the Reading Festival show, as well as -sides and oddities. Like all such discs, it adds precisely fuck all to your enjoyment of or knowledge of this album. It does remind you that the QOTSA live experience is not something to be missed. It pads the box nicely, too.
Whether the new golden age of rock'n'roll is already over is a moot point. Too much tongue in cheek retro, too many bands retreating back to the underground: mainstream rock might be in recession again. Josh Homme has been arseing around with joke bands and ironic supergroups for too long now. Hearing this ought to be the wake up call that demands he get back to his proper work. The next golden age is nothing without him.
Peter Hammill London Cadogan Hall
Live review for Classic Rock presents…Prog. I've been a fan of Hammill since I was about 14; I had a really ancient scratched copy of The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other, swapped – as I recall – for a copy of Funky Junction Pay Tribute To Deep Purple and The Eternal Fire Of Jimi Hendrix. Well worth it.
You could hear a pin drop but nobody had the poor manners to actually drop any. Peter Hammill was paused to strike the piano and maybe sing some more. But in the few nano seconds after the reverberation of the last note faded, and the next begun, it was like being in the eye of a storm. Tense rather than calm.
The Mercy is the best song from his most recent solo album Thin Air and indeed one of his best songs ever: in many ways it is almost a typical Peter Hammill song. A beautiful, rippling melody, a complex structure that eschews the standard verse/chorus pattern and words shot through with anguish, loss, his voice always calm but on the edge of rage or a roar of pure pain.
It's one of the night's memorable moments. Hairs on the back of the neck stuff.
Hammill's solo career has always run in parallel to his work with Van Der Graaf Generator, allowing him a more confessional and – sometimes – quieter platform for his writing. Tonight is proof that along with a rare coterie of songwriters – Neil Young, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen are the only others that really spring to mind – his work in middle age is every bit as vital and engrossing as his work in youth. Arguable, more so.
In fact songs like (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga, originally written and recorded in 1975 on the harrowing diary of the death of a relationship Over, take on an added edge of bitterness and wry self-deprecating humour coming from a bloke in his 60s.
Hammill is not some dysfunctional genius, some pained too-sensitive-for-the-world middle aged adolescent. Offstage, he's probably as capable of banal moments in front of the telly as any of us. But over the past 40 years, as an artist, he has mined his own failings and shortcomings without quarter, exposing something raw and even embarrassing, something truly honest.
Sometimes in the course of this long and troubled performance, you actually wince at what he reveals. It's like watching somebody confess at a show trial. Dressed all in white, alone onstage, he looks vulnerable.
Sometimes, though, it's just a concert. You need a few of Hammill's brilliant 'greatest hits' like Shingle from Nadir's Big Chance – truly one of the great classic albums of the 70s that nobody knows about – and Habit Of The Broken Heart from Van Der Graaf's The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome to balance out more recent material. But it's songs like Friday Afternoon from 2006's Singularity and Undone from Thin Air that actually prove the most intense and emotional points in the show.
Finishing with A Better Time from 1996's excellent career high point album X My Heart, we leave feeling emotionally wrung out but in no doubt that we have been witness to one of the great English singer songwriters of the age with no signs that time has wearied him.
Buyer's Guide to Jazz Rock
This is a piece written for Classic Rock in 2008. Normally I hate reading and writing stuff like this. Lists. Consumer guides. But I'm a whore. I did it for the money. I had a bit of 'guidance' with the list, so I probably wouldn't have included Colosseum and would have put something by Soft Machine in its place. And whither George Duke, Spirit, Ian Carr's Nucleus, Seventh Wave, Alan Holdsworth and newcomers Diagonal? I know, I know…
Let's begin with a warning: jazz rock can be terrifying and it isn't for everyone. But you can take comfort from the fact that it alienates and angers as many 'proper' jazz 'buffs' as it does rock fans. If you think Dylan going electric was a big deal, you should have heard the hissy fits from the hep cats when Miles Davis went on stage in the mid-60s and started playing along with a bunch of crazy muthas with Afros who fed their instruments through wah-wah pedals.
Jazz rock, or fusion, was the last gasp of jazz, the final surge of energy and creative power before lapsing into the hideous heritage industry that it has become today. Jazz rock is pretty hard to define. For bands like the Mahavishnu Orchestra it involved hard rock structures but with complex, improvisational elements.
Rock and jazz have a few ancestors in common – the blues, even ragtime – but it wasn't until the mid-60s that the two converged in what came to be known as jazz rock/fusion. Bands like The Grateful Dead, The Byrds and The Doors cited jazzers such as John Coltrane as major influences (listen to The Doors' Light My Fire back to back with Coltrane's Ole), although jazz fans and musicians tended to regard most rock as inferior.
By 1967, rock had become more creative, and for the first time jazz artists began to take influences from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Beatles and Sly & The Family Stone. There were also commercial considerations: jazz had waned as the dominant form of popular music.
It was a two-way street: rock artists like Jeff Beck, Ginger Baker and the late, great Tommy Bolin wanted to stretch themselves as musicians, and acceptance by the jazz fraternity was like passing the cycling proficiency test. Had he lived, there's little doubt that Hendrix would have followed the logical course set by his Band Of Gypsies and become a jazz-rock star.
From roughly 1967 until the mid-80s, the intermarriage of jazz and rock produced some of the most stunning, original and mesmerising music of the 20th century (to be fair, it also produced more than its fair share of unlistenable toss.) Much of what we know as progressive rock – Yes, ELP, post-Red King Crimson – was essentially jazz rock lite. Today we can still hear the influence of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis in bands as diverse as Tool, Mastodon and The Mars Volta.
Essential – The Classics
Birds Of Fire
"A person would be a moron not to appreciate [John] McLaughlin's technique," Frank Zappa once said. "The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as
if it were a machine-gun."
Birds Of Fire was the Mahavishnu Orchestra at their absolute best, a multi-ingredient fusion – jazz, rock, blues, Celtic folk, Indian classical – churned out at an amazing breakneck speed.
John McLaughlin's guitar work was staggering, and keyboard player Jan Hammer and violinist Jerry Goodman were also virtuosos. The seemingly telepathic interplay and improvisation is a joy to hear.
Beck was one of the few rockers to make the transition to jazz. His 1976 masterpiece Wired – particularly his cover of Charles Mingus's Goodbye Pork Pie Hat – is one of the few albums you could describe as jaw-dropping and mean it.
Entirely instrumental, and at just under 35 minutes comparatively short, Wired is an album that passes in a blur of high-speed funk, ultra-heavy technoflash guitar solos and thrilling power chords. Yes, it's Beck shamelessly showing off, but it's hardly self-indulgent.
It's like a shopping list of musical ideas and directions, each of which could have spawned an entire album in its own right. Marvellous.
Superior – The Albums That Helped Build the Genre
Atlantic, 1973
As the drummer with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham was one of the foremost musos of his generation. Spectrum, though, is more than a bunch of difficult drum solos.
Opening with the truly amazing Quadrant 4 – which highlights the high-speed roller-coaster guitar of the young Tommy Bolin – Spectrum is all about the interplay between great musicians, crossing every boundary from hard rock to the soulful heavy funk of Red Barron. The drumming, as you'd expect, is from the realm of the angels – listen particularly to Stratus, where Cobham proves the superiority of the human over the drum machine.
Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy
Verve, 1973
There's some debate among aficionados as to whether this or its follow up, Romantic Warrior, is the superior RTF album. …Galaxy is a less polished album, leaner and meaner, full of high-jazz musicianship and a low-down hard-rock attitude. The inventiveness on the title track, and keyboard player and leader Chick Corea's reworking of his own Latin-flavoured Captain Senor Mouse, are definite highlights, as is After The Cosmic Rain which showcases bass player Stanley Clarke's propulsive style. RTF is kind of the next stage left after Yes's Close To The Edge.
A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis always bragged that he could put together the best rock band ever and blow everyone away. With this album, a soundtrack for a movie about boxing champ Johnson, recorded with John McLaughlin and Billy Cobham, Miles lived up to that boast.
Two extended jams, kicking in with Right Off, McLaughlin playing heavy blues rock guitar, breaking down into moody psychedelia, James Brown-like funk and going back to bar-room rock, this is probably a clue as to how the mooted Hendrix/Miles collaboration might have sounded. A good jumping off point for Miles's electric work.
Heavy Weather
Easily the most accessible jazz rock release here and the most commercially successful, Heavy Weather actually spawned the hit single (albeit a minor hit) Birdland. However, it was possibly that success that closed the book on fusion's more creative years and gave birth to the ghastly easy-listening mutation that was jazz funk.
Regardless, this album still sounds as fresh today as it did at the time. Weather Report went straight for the jugular, delivering marvellous tunes, keeping the instrumental flash in the background, and made an album that was less jazz rock and almost jazz pop.
Good – Worth Exploring
Hot Rats
Reprise, 1969
After he disbanded the Mothers Of Invention in 1969, Zappa surrounded himself with some little-known but extraordinary musicians to record what became his breakthrough album, praised or damned as the Zappa record that people who don't like Zappa like.
From the instrumental opener Peaches En Regalia, through the scatological blues of Willy The Pimp, this album album heralded Zappa's foray into jazz rock. While Mahavishnu and even Miles had a sort of spirituality, Zappa remained cynical, deflating the undeniable brilliance of the arrangement, writing and performance with the usual lame dirty jokes. A brilliant album nevertheless.
Valentyne Suite
Vertigo, 1969
Colosseum's second album finds them reaching beyond their limitations as, essentially, a Cream-influenced blues rock band and groping to create something revolutionary. The extended jazz rock jams and particularly the 15-minute title track are reminiscent of what US bands like Blood, Sweat And Tears, Chicago Transit Authority and Chase were also doing at the same time. Essentially these were the handful of bands from rock backgrounds who were able to make a convincing transition to jazz. Along with King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King, Valentyne Suite is one of the early milestones where prog rock and jazz rock met.
Polydor, 1969
There's no argument that this album is seriously flawed: Williams can't sing for toffee, and the production is truly awful. That said, the music made by then-prodigy drummer Williams and his band is pure electric hellfire. To the staid jazz establishment of the time, it must have been as shocking as Anarchy In The UK.
Emergency emphasises the rock in jazz rock, John McLaughlin's guitar almost anticipates classic heavy metal, while Williams's drumming veers from hostile to ecstatic joy in the space of a few beats. Years ahead of its time, this album is a slightly ragged and tattered masterpiece.
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Although the best jazz rock was released between 1967 and '77, there are a lot of paths and tangents for the explorer to follow. Jazz rock in Britain is best represented by Soft Machine's Third ('70), with more profoundly avant-garde noises following from the likes of Henry Cow's Unrest ('74) and cult classics like Centipede's Septober Energy ('71). The early works of Blood, Sweat And Tears, such as Child Is Father To The Man ('68), the Buddy Miles Expressway – most notably Expressway To Your Skull ('70) – and Chicago Transit Authority's self-titled 1969 debut represent strand of US jazz rock which came from rock bands rather than from jazzers 'slumming' it.
European jazz rock is where things got really weird and wonderful: Wagnerian French band Magma released several sci-fi concept albums, most notably '73's Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh (which reimagined John Coltrane fronting an orchestra from Saturn), while the altogether gentler Gong fused jazz rock with late-period psychedelia on their excellent '73 album Angel's Egg.
Kenny G represents the dire depths to which fusion eventually sank. Flushed with and egged on by the commercial success of Weather Report's Heavy Weather, a few jazz-rockers decided to chuck out all that scary, innovative stuff and just play some peaceful elevator music to soothe the folks after a hard day being yuppies.


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Most Researched Probiotics: Comparing Brands
Etiquette often dictates that modesty is the best policy, however in certain situations, I think it is acceptable, or even advisable, to over-rule that and to sing your accomplishments from the proverbial rooftops! So, if you can excuse my immodesty, I'd like to take this occasion to do just that, and to 'shout' about the huge amount of scientific research that we have behind our probiotic supplements.
As the following graph depicts, at OptiBac Probiotics we have significantly more clinical trials on our finished products, than any other live cultures brand available in the UK. This means that our customers can take our supplements with every confidence that they have been demonstrated in clinical trials to have a positive impact on health! This is important as every probiotic strain has different characteristics and exerts different physiological impacts on our bodies. To read more about the importance of selecting the right strains for yourself and your clients, you may want to read our earlier FAQ. No two strains are equal, and for that reason we like to have concrete 'evidence' that our formulations really do lead the way in terms of research, and support good health...
I have omitted the brand names from the graph, as my aim is simply to demonstrate the extent to which we research our products before bringing them to market. It is not my intention to undermine other brands who may choose to have other priorities. So, suffice it to say then that brands A-G on the graph relate to the other leading probiotic brands in the UK. The number of clinical trials attributed to their ranges are genuine and accurate, and we spent a long time looking in depth at the research on everyone's products! The graph shows the numbers of trials that each brand has on finished products, so OptiBac Probiotics has 156 finished product clinical trials (a finished product trial is one conducted on the exact product; combination of strains and dose as sold in store). If you were to include all of the trials that we also have on single strains ,or different combinations of strains within each product, then the number would be much higher.
Types of research:
There are different types of research that a product can under-go, both in-vitro and in-vivo.
In-vitro tests are performed in a laboratory setting, using simulated conditions of the human GI tract. This type of testing should be performed to ensure that the live bacteria:
1) survive at room temperature (even refrigerated probiotics spend time away from the fridge)
2) resist gastric acidity & bile salts (so that they survive to reach the gut!)
3) where applicable1, adhere to the intestinal wall (it is only then that probiotics can multiply in the gut)
4) inhibit pathogens once in the intestines.
All of the strains that we use have undergone this testing. To read more about these in-vitro tests, read Joanna's informative blog post here.
In-vivo tests on the other hand are carried out in living beings, and should ideally be performed in addition to the standard in-vitro tests that I have just mentioned. Human clinical trials are performed to understand if a certain probiotic strain or combination of strains has a strong potential to confer health benefits to the host. A good probiotic will have strain and formula-specific double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trials that have been carried out in humans. As demonstrated above, the OptiBac Probiotics range has nearly five times more clinical trials than our nearest competitor. Furthermore, wherever possible our clinical trials are conducted on the indication for which we name the product e.g. the trials on 'For those on antibiotics' have specifically tested this probiotic in those taking antibiotics, and is likely the most researched probiotic alongside antibiotics - tested alongside many different types of antibiotics and at various strengths.
To read more about our clinical trials, see our Clinical Trials page.
Who funds our clinical trials?
Funding of trials can be an important question, as in the interest of impartiality, trials should ideally be performed by an independent third party with no vested interest in the clinical outcomes. The vast majority of trials on the OptiBac Probiotics finished products, and as on the blue bar in the graph above, are funded by universities and research institutions around the world, using resources from university funds, government funding and grants from organisations such as the EU.
In summary:
We are proud of that fact that our range of supplements has more finished product clinical trials than any other probiotic brand in the UK. Our aim is to bring the best quality and most effective, strain specific probiotics to the market, and clinical trials are an important component of this strategy. The information they provide allows us to target the strains we use to specific symptoms and conditions, rather than adopting a 'one formulation fits all' type of approach. We hope that this makes it easier for you to choose which product you or your clients need, so that you can recommend them with confidence.
If you are a holistic health practitioner you may also find our recent blog post on the safety of probiotics interesting. The blog talks about the part that clinical trials play in ensuring product safety, but it also looks at the importance of balance and achieving homeostasis, and how probiotics can positively impact on the immune system. Alternatively, to find out more about our clinical research, (complete with summaries & illustrations of key studies) read our about our clinical trials. Happy reading!
1. Adherence to the intestinal wall is not always applicable, depending on the probiotic strain in question. For example, the strain S. boulardii is understood to be transient, and therefore does not adhere and multiply in the gut, yet it still meets the essential criteria for a probiotic; ie to have a positive benefit on the host. Furthermore, other strains such as L. reuteri RC-14® and L. rhamnosus GR-1®, as in OptiBac Probiotics 'For women' are actually tested to colonise the vaginal flora, and not the gut flora - therefore despite being some extremely well researched strains, these are not tested to adhere to the gut wall.


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We live in a mobile obsessed world. The rise of the digitally-connected storefront has not only transformed the face of retail as we know it, but has also ushered in a new type of store employee: the digitally-connected associate. However, the industry is still severely lacking.
The proliferation of smartphones and retail apps has enabled shoppers to become quasi-experts on nearly every product on their wish list - thanks to product reviews, sizing guides, and price comparison features. Associates must also possess the same - and preferably, greater - knowledge in order to truly serve customers. The solution? Give your retail staff a smartphone. Equipping them with the proper mobile and digital technologies at the very least means they can provide instant expertise on any question a customer could ask. I can't tell you how many times I felt I knew more about a product - its color size combination availability, its location in the store, its latest price reduction, etc. - than the store associate "helping" me did. Perhaps because I'm a Type A personality, or perhaps because the associate simply wasn't armed with the appropriate tools to do their job.
Today, shoppers expect premium one-on-one service, and retailers have to be ready to deliver on those expectations. In a relationship between store associate and consumer, its outcome is often a direct result of the connection the two people shared. When a retailer can truly connect storefronts, associates and consumers, it will succeed.
Connected storefronts: the tried-and-true model of products on shelves and employees behind the cash register is outdated, and frankly quite sad. When consumers visit a store, they want to be wowed by the experience - tangible evidence that the brand is not only delivering the products they want or need, but the experience they desire. A shopper's journey includes many touchpoint - both digital and physical. To truly feel excitement about the brick and mortar experience, there needs to be something "new" - for example, smart fitting rooms, apps with product-scanning capabilities and fast inventory lookup, or NFC-enabled checkout stations.
- Smart fitting rooms let shoppers change the lighting in their room, call for an associate and view product styling tips - all with a few taps on a screen. If a shopper loves the way a pair of jeans fit, she can opt to try on a complementary top and request one in her size, which can be delivered by an employee without even having to leave the fitting room. Tablet- or smartphone-equipped retail staff receive the request, retrieve the desired item and ferry it over to the customer within seconds.
- When it comes to connecting the physical storefront to mobile-savvy consumers, comprehensive retail apps can be hugely beneficial. Many retailers are implementing product-scanning features into their apps, thereby allowing customers to use their smartphone to scan a product tag in-store and access a wealth of pertinent information, such as inventory, item reviews, price, and sizing. This eliminates the need for individuals to search for a product on mobile web and potentially get sidetracked by a number of website pages.
- NFC-enabled cash registers allow shoppers to pay with their mobile devices in lieu of cash or credit card. More and more consumers are using Apple Pay and Android Pay, and actually prefer it over other payment methods. Retailers must have the necessary in-store equipment to accept these forms of payment. It's one of the mandatory features retailers need to satisfy the demands today's mobile obsessed consumer. Another bonus to mobile payments? They generally speed up the amount of time spent transacting, resulting in faster-moving lines.
Connected associates: Store associates must be more knowledgeable about products than customers are. This sounds obvious, but it's not always the case. In the age of smartphones, most item information can be found within a few clicks by a consumer, making them savvier about shopping than ever before. Consequently, retail staff falls short on the floor. They must be armed with store-specific information that cannot be found elsewhere, including up-to-date inventory and products' exact aisle locations. If associates had mobile-optimized style guides and lookbooks that weren't accessible to consumers, they could greatly enhance the experience.
Ultimately, providing a storefront and all of its in-house personnel with complementary technology can only enhance the shopping experience and give customers a slew of physical and digital touchpoints with which they can interact. While this may seem like a daunting task to some retailers, the key is to experiment on a select number of stores and staff members before expanding the new initiative across the footprint. There will always be risks with experimentation, but the potential rewards will transform an everyday brand into a true digital connoisseur.


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Karl Lagerfeld has paid tribute to his seamstresses at the Chanel haute couture show.
The 82-year-old star declared his appreciation for the hard working team behind his creative masterpieces on the catwalk at Tuesday's (05.07.16) fashion show in Paris who he believes "deserve" to be credited for their input.
Speaking at the star-studded bash, which saw 'Hitch' actor Will Smith and his 15-year-old daughter Willow admire Karl's designs on the front row, Karl said: " They [seamstresses] never get to see the show and deserve to be honoured."
Meanwhile, the German fashion designer has admitted he believes "today's rich" people make people who dressed in designer garments in the past look poor.
Speaking to The Telegraph online about his thoughts on the ever evolving fashion industry, the creative director of the luxury designer brand Chanel said: "90 per cent of them [people] no longer come to fittings.
"[And it is] today's rich make the rich of the past look poor."
Although Karl has revealed he has a "no contact with the clients", he has admitted he has more contact with his 200 employees - who he calls "petites mains".
Speaking about his colleagues, Karl - who launched his eponymous label in 1974 and has boasted over four decades at the helm of the fashion industry - said: "They are passionate - and they are young.
"People sometimes dismiss couture as frivolous luxury. But it also represents jobs."
Meanwhile, the entrepreneur enjoys his own company, and has previously claimed he is independent, he relies on others to bring him meals throughout the day.
Speaking previously, he said: "Mostly I stay at home from the morning until five pm, and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home.
"I like to be alone. I do everything. I don't like people to touch me.
"But there is no kitchen in my house. They bring me food, like at a hotel, for lunch and dinner."
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Too long since I've posted
Sunday, June 14, 2009
"Fast Food" for us
Friday, June 5, 2009
first grilling
Monday, June 1, 2009
Long Winter
After spending the winter focusing on work, family, slowly redoing our kitchen (and shovelling snow), we are ready to start blogging again.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Belmont CSA
Thursday, October 23, 2008
CSA distribution and more !
Saturday, October 18, 2008
winter share
Many farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, meats, or any sort of different farm products.
A CSA, (for Community Supported Agriculture) is a way for the food buying public to create a relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season.
A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall. The number of CSAs in the United States was estimated at 50 in 1990, and has since grown to over 2000. [read more here: http://www.localharvest.org/csa.jsp ]
It is a way for us to help the community - by keeping the land a farm instead a subdivision. It is also a way for us to eat locally grown food - at a time when Stop and Shop, Costco, Publix, etc bring in food from all over the world so that we can have tomatoes, strawberries, plums, etc all year long.
Except, the tomatoes you buy at the store, they don't SMELL like tomatoes, and they taste like tomatoes from a store. We've gotten a bit used to the way that supermarket veggies and fruits taste like, and thats what we expect, and now even, to a point, enjoy.
But if you've ever had a garden, the smell of a tomato is a beautiful thing. In fact, just rubbing the leaves of a tomato plant will intoxicate you, and leave you wanting more. Handle tomatoes at a supermarket, and your hands smell like your hands.
I digress.
Since we are novices at this, we are sharing this winter share with friends. We've split the cost down the middle, and will split the distribution down the middle, or roughly. They don't like brussel sprouts, so we will take those, but they will take our cabage, etc etc.
Since this is my first time picking up and enjoying a distribution, I'm really looking forward to driving over to the farm for our 10:30am pickup.
From the Belmont CSA blog [ http://belmontcsa.blogspot.com/ ]
How many people will one Winter Share feed? How much produce is in one Winter Share? How long will one monthly distribution of vegetables last? Each monthly distribution contains between 35 and 45 pounds of produce. We hope that the October share will contain an additional ten pounds of storage apples. In my home, it barely feeds two adults for a month. Of course, we cook a lot, eat most of our meals at home, and have the neighbors (two adults and two vegetable loving kids) over for a weekly shared meal. This year we've decided to do our best to eat locally-grown produce all winter. We might need two Winter Shares.
Will one Winter Share be enough for your household or will it be too much? Here's some information that might help you answer the question for yourself.
The monthly distributions will weigh approximately 35 to 45 pounds. If your goal is to completely eat all the food in each distribution within a month, that's about 10 pounds of produce per week. That's a good amount of food for a couple. Much of the produce stores well - winter squash, potatoes, onions, shallots, carrots, parsnips, celeriac, beets can last months if stored at the right temperature and humidity. Shareholders often make the produce last even longer by cooking and freezing it (winter squash soup, potato and leek soup, or my favorite, turnip, leek and sweet potato soup, for example), pickling it (beets), fermenting it (cabbage). Other shareholders use the share up more quickly by juicing some of the produce (carrots, beets, apples) and using it to feed family and friends at holiday meals/parties.
And apparently this is a multi-farm winter share, so we are benefiting from a few farms' worth of winter crops.
Will report back later with what we got!


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Day 47 Sun 27.03.2011
Location: Day 5 at Kiko Park Campsite, Calle Del Assagador De Carro, Olivia (ACSI Camping Card)
Long / Lat N 38º55.954' W 000º05.889
We spent a very pleasant evening with Lyn and Ian the couple on the pitch next to us, we drank far too much cheap wine and beer, Paul tried his 0.55€ 1 ltr carton of white wine and enjoyed it so much he's getting a couple more tomorrow.
We woke up this morning feeling a little but under the weather. It's another warm sunny day, Paul has been on the roof of the motorhome to clean it and has caught the sun.
The van is now clean and shiny inside and out, all ready for Deina on Tuesday.
This afternoon we have been for a walk along the beach in shorts and t shirts, it's been a lovely day.
The sky has clouded over a bit and the wind is getting up so we have taken the carpet up before it blows away.
The bright pink tripe sausages that Paul bought by mistake yesterday have been consigned to the bin, neither of us could face eating them.


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07 November 2012
Run for something
5 comments:
- Rock Chef said...
I hope they give out free hot choc after the race!
And what sort of strange people would drive for miles to play on mud? :-)
- November 7, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- ShadowRun300 said...
We have a run for doughnuts around here. I wouldn't drive 5 miles to run in that one, but I could be talked into driving down to Dallas for a hot chocolate run. I've talked myself into stranger things before. ;)
67 days? I'm excited for you! Share your bits of running wisdom occasionally. I could use 'em.
- November 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- meleah rebeccah said...
What a cool race!
- November 7, 2012 at 2:28 PM
- Abby said...
Run for Chocolate?! Oh those organizers know how to pack a race!
There's a local one coming up for black friday. Sort of a run for breakfast. I'm thinking....
67 days! You should make one of those chains like the kids do for Christmas - snip off a link each day.
- November 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM
- terri said...
I would run for chocolate. Leave me a trail of M&Ms and I'm sure I could go for miles and miles! :-)
- November 7, 2012 at 8:28 PM


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For those new to EE, 'The Cultural Thermometer' is a post in which I link to interesting stuff I have come across recently, along with some very brief commentary as time allows. It's kind of my way of keeping tabs on where our world is headed. I hope you find it helpful. I also intend to highlight some great blog posts and free internet audio. Don't forget to check out Tyler's review of the new documentary Expelled and to take our final church history quiz.
- Just Roommates – When I first read that several Colleges are now allowing young women and men to room together, I thought it was simply a bow to the reality of widespread presence of premarital sex on college campuses. Though that would be concerning enough, these colleges clearly have a deeper agenda: Now, some colleges are crossing the final threshold, allowing men and women to share rooms. At the urging of student activists, more than 30 campuses across the country have adopted what colleges call gender-neutral rooming assignments, almost half of them within the past two years. This, however, means more than over-sexualized college students trying to cross moral barriers, there are much bigger worldview implications, especially with regard to how we view sex and gender, here is an excerpt: "Supporters hail the trend as a key advance for homosexual and transgender students that eliminates a gender divide they see as outdated, particularly for a generation that has grown up with many friends of the opposite sex. Traditional rooming policies, they say, infringe upon students' rights and perpetuate gender segregation." Gender-free housing is the fruit of several decades of our schools of higher education teaching that gender is a social construct. Pray for these campuses and the Christians on them, that they would be salt and light in the midst of such moral confusion.
- Marriage and the Glory of God -Dr. Albert Mohler has written an excellent article on his blog about the purpose of marriage. I know many people who read this blog have probably already read Dr. Mohler's article but I think we also have many readers who are unfamiliar with Dr. Mohler, so I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to him and especially on this important article on marriage.
- Ours is an era of self-expression. Individuals express themselves through marriage, and then express themselves through divorce–as if all of life is nothing more than a succession of acts of self-expression. A divorce culture explains away obligation and sacred promises as temporary statements of emotional disposition. I may feel married today–I may not feel married tomorrow.
- Marriage is the source of great and unspeakable happiness. Yet because of sin it is not unmixed happiness. But marriage is not first and foremost about making us happy. It is for making us holy. And through the covenant of marriage two Christians pledge to live together so as to make each other holy before God, as a testimony to Christ.
- The Myth of the Victimless Crime – I know I am way behind the times in addressing the Gov. Eliot Spitzer story, but I wanted to link to this article because it seems that every time a prominent figure gets caught with a prostitute, there are tons of op-eds calling for the legalization of prostitution hailing it as a victimless crime. This op-ed article by Melissa Farley and Victor Malarek debunks this idea that prostitution is a victimless crime primarily from the perspective that it devalues women and causes untold emotional and physical damage to women. I agree wholeheartedly with this but I would take it a step forward and say that not only are women victims but men, families and society as a whole are greatly harmed by prostitution as well. Prostitution, simply put, is a direct violation of the one-flesh union that God set up when he created Eve to be Adam's companion and a society that embraces prostitution as legal should prepare to embrace widespread denigration of society as prostitution cuts at the most fundamental human institution and calls it into question, making one-flesh union something that can be bought, sold, and traded rather than something God created never to be separated.
- Asahel Nettleton, The Forgotten Evangelist – Matt Crawford at Standing on Shoulders has written an excellent article on a man you have probably never heard of, whose conversion sounds starkly different than most of the conversions you hear about today! This article was a joy to read–Nettleton is a crystal clear example of true conversion.
- Great Audio of the Week – Simon Gathercole on The Preexistence of Christ – These lectures were preached way back in 2004 in the Gheens lectures at SBTS, but have only recently been posted online. Dr. Gathercole does an excellent job of showing how the Gospels present Jesus as eternal with the Father. He does so by looking at the "I have come" sayings of Jesus in the synoptic gospels (Matt., Mark, and Luke). These lectures would make a great Sunday school series on why Jesus came (giving due credit to Dr. Gathercole of course).
Here is an excerpt that expresses why I have taken it upon myself to address divorce and remarriage:
Later in the article, Mohler writes:
Also I recommend checking out Mohler's Radio Show from Monday where he interviews Stephen Baskerville on his new book Taken Into Custody, which tells the untold tale of the many victims of no-fault divorce.


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i mean it when i say "Leave Me Alone!"
u can't persuade me if i 0redy said "N0!"
diz is the first thing that i'd like u t0 kn0w
i'm kn0wledgeable but n0t s0 smart
i luv writing n i luv d0ing ART..
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lucky me, i d0n't get fat!
i can be a gud friend t0 any0ne
i'm kind but n0t cl0se t0 be a n0on..
i'll brighten ur day just like the sun
i will help u as l0ng as i can!
bef0re i end diz f0olishness 0f mine, i better tell u smething bf0re the m0onshine..
that's my fav0urite line..
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"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing..." Zephaniah 3:17 a verse I use often because I love the sound and idea of God taking care of us and "singing" over us!!
We were with family tonight and got to talking about "do you believe in ghosts". I never thought about this as I grew up but about 20 years ago, we were living in a house we build near the site of an OLD house. John and I noticed a "presence" occasionally passing through the hall way, not threatening, just something there. We would laugh about our "ghost", not really believing it. A friend came by one evening and asked where I was and before John could say, she said "Oh I see her upstairs" but I was not upstairs. As I came out of the kitchen my friend asked who was upstairs, I said that must be our ghost. This was strange, and I had never totally believed in such but it was something!
When John was about 14, he was milking the cows in his grandfather's barn and a man came in the barn, and went into a stall, but no one was there. Needless to say, John never milked after dark again if he could help it! Strange things can happen. Our grandson said he was helping repair an old 1840 house and the locked doors kept opening and closing.
I guess we will never know for sure about such as this.
Our "great" did not seem scared with the idea of ghosts, just thought it was funny.
Anyway, fun being with family, talking about strange things. This particular great started first grade this week, and has lost two teeth. I haven't heard if the "great" in Augusta has lost any more teeth.He will home school and be in first grade when they start next week or so.
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So it's been a while and among the stuff that's been happening was a curious encounter with Morris dancers.
Now I had never held particularly strong views on Morris dancers, unlike some. I was happy enough that they're about on bank holidays keeping the old folkways alive and making small children cry. It pleased me that there is a serious schism in the Morris dancing world between those who see it their duty to keep the moves pure and exact to those written down a hundred and a bit years ago and those who believe that Morris dancing is a fluid living thing that moves with the times. Bit like those interminable arguments about grammar. And while I like folk music, a lot, I have never been tempted to get involved with all those sticks, bells and hankies.
My attitude has hardened. Let me elucidate.
The time, a few months back, a Saturday.
The place, the pleasant if alarmingly well-off Thames side town of
. To be precise, a pub at lunch-time. Abingdon
We were meeting people and had scouted out places for lunch and this seemed pleasant with a cobbled courtyard and extensive and not too, for Abingdon, expensive a menu. But when we returned, we found it filled with Morris dancers.
It seemed that there was some get-together going on and so every Morris dancer in the South had descended on Abingdon, and then onto this pub for lunch. Well, we weren't in a hurry and were hungry and hey, they were only Morris dancers. It would be fun.
Now it turns out that there are two things we did not know about Morris dancers. The first is that – like toddlers – they are constantly restless, always moving and, unless gently persuaded otherwise, liable to start hitting each other with sticks. They also have no volume control. If two Morris dancers meet for the first time in a year, they do not shake hands or hug and talk wryly about time passing or the snows of yesterday. No. What they do is stand at either end of a pub lounge and shout to each other with that dispiriting heartiness. that middle class and middle aged men with beards and pot bellies like to indulge in.
The other thing concerns the thing we all do know about Morris dancers. They wear bells on their trousers. But what only becomes apparent if you are in a pub full of Morris dancers who never stop wandering around the place, is that these bells are loud. Very loud. Very very loud. If you would care to think of a loud thing, they are louder. The practical upshot of which was that every time one walked past our table, all conversation was completely drowned out. And as aforementioned, walking around is what Morris dancers like best after dancing, hitting each other and shouting.
At first I was inclined to be charitable. They're having fun, it's better than loud sports commentary or those fruit machines that unexpectedly explode into noise just as someone is finishing their story, even Morris dancers may take their luncheon. Then I noticed that the bells were not, as I had supposed, sewn onto their trousers but were in fact attached to a sort of mini cricket pad which was attached to the leg with Velcro. In other words, it would have been a matter of a moment for the dancers to remove their bells and so make do with shouting at each other. But no. The bells had to stay on despite the genuinely surprising noise level they produced. My charity died as swiftly as it does when I see a chugger approaching.
Still, like the Ring Cycle, it had to end some day and they departed to return to their primary task of boring adults and scaring children, leaving us in what can only be described as suffering from serious bellshock.
And that is why I will never again gaze upon a Morris dancer with kindness in my eye.


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And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war.The testimony of Jesus is our receipt of the promises of God, which are in Him yes, and in Him Amen. Through our testimony the Holy Spirit releases instruction, encouragement, and comfort to the saints on earth. We can receive His promises now: health and healing, soul restoration, dominion, continuous and continual blessing. Through the manifestation of these things the heavens are opened to us on earth, and we work the works of Him Who sent us in righteousness. As we do so the Lord Jesus, Faithful and True, will judge and make war on our behalf even now, until such time as the Scripture is fulfilled and He returns to redeem the earth.
Related Scriptures: 2Corinthians 1:12-24; 1Corinthians 14:1-40; John 6:28-50; Philippians 3:8-15; Micah 4:1-13


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It is a rainy thursday afternoon and somehow everything reminds me that I am such a melancholic blue person. Even the gray clouds want to be friends with me, but I don't really like them. Oh, and the music, oh the music is perfect. Only the sound of my good, old blues can make me feel at home, and less lone for a while. A few days ago, I was so tursty for some pooring rain, and some real gray, while now I feel like this whole wilderness shackles me and it's hard for me to escape.
Let's say that those muffins are pretty much the only thing I'll remember my friends with this summer.


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We're back, we're tired. All that hanging around in 12 inches of water wears a girl out.
I can't seem to muster the presence of mind to string words together in an entertaining way. I'll settle for stringing words together. So, for the record:
-It is now clear who Ollie looks the most like: Dylan. With like 80% less hair.
-I started feeding him oatmeal yesterday. He was like, I don't know what you're doing, but I like it.
-At four months he is routinely sleeping 7-9 hours in a row, starting between 11pm to 1am. He's still uncomfortably gassy and screamy a lot in the evening, so I'm not sure if he'll sleep so well at night when he stops wearing himself out from all the yelling. Maybe I just don't trust him since Dylan was an unpredictable sleeper until she turned two.
-I'm still having trouble getting him to nap in a bed even once a day, but it's getting a little better and some days he'll hang out with my happily while I try to do stuff around the house. He likes the jogging stroller so when all else fails at least I can get some exercise.
-He screeches A LOT. He sounds like a yipping puppy sometimes. Per blog history Dylan did the same thing.
-I am now up on many many tv shows that I don't really want to be knowledgeable about (see: bedtime, Ollie's; Olympics, ending of). There is a little girl on Parenthood who more or less IS Dylan.
-Dylan is more fun than ever and more crazy and complicated than ever. Three-year-olds: are nuts.


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came up with "Why Jeb?":
Jeb Can Fix It.
Josh Marshall asks the obvious question. (I think he's subliminally sending a message about his campaign to the donors.) But there's a lot of less-obvious fun that the Internet has been having with "Fix it Jeb". Gawker darkly reminds us that Jim'll Fix It was a long-running British children's program that starred, it turned out, a monstrous pedophile. Jeb Bush says he eats nails in the morning--doesn't that impair his ability to...fix it?
He wants to have a more positive campaign, and claims that he'll somehow fix Washington gridlock. I'm just not sure he has the proper toolkit.


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How else will you know if a pin is a success or crap?
The Verdict: Crap
Doesn't that look fun? I instantly decided that I needed to make these! The super bowl was coming and I thought it'd be the perfect dessert for our mini Superbowl party with my then boyfriend and his family. I made the recipe exactly as it specified, prepared a muffin tin as described and put it in the oven. The timer went off and I opened the oven… and smoke came out! The cookies had overflowed over the pan, and there were pieces burning at the bottom of the oven. Before I could even tell Bryce that it hadn't worked, the fire alarm went off. With hot pads swatting the air to dissipate the smoke, we quickly took out the cookie bowls. I let it set for a bit, but not too long, and it all just crumbled. What a fail! Luckily, I still had a ton of dough, and I made cookies the normal way.
A few weeks and an hour or two of research later, I tried again. I changed the recipe and still – the same results! Then, I found these fancy cookie bow tins at Shopko:
I bought one and prepared the recipe on the package. It didn't even resemble cookie dough. It was so crumbly I couldn't even form cookies. I refrigerated it and had the same problem. I added more butter and it sort of looked like dough. I molded it around the tin and put it in the oven. However it still over flowed! This time the dough didn't even taste good when I tried to make cookies. I was so annoyed!
So logically, what did I do? I went out and bought another pan! My thinking was that if I put dough on one pan, and then another pan on top of that, it'd have to keep it's shape better. But alas, I was wrong. Lucky for me, I have Bryce who is an engineer. He stepped in and suggested molding the dough differently, that didn't work. He also suggested greasing (and when that failed, not greasing) the pan differently. He reminded me that from the beginning he didn't think these would work, gave up, and suggested I do the same.
I have since promised to stop trying for a while, though my new plan is to line the pan with foil and try a different recipe. I've yet to do this though… but maybe someday!
I see pins for cookie bowls all the time and every time wonder if anyone has succeeded. I mean, clearly people have since there are photos of it. I've even read blogs of people getting it to work. However, everyone I ask "have you made that cookie bowl you pinned" just laughs and says "no, I don't make most of the stuff I pin."


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There are a lot of things you should refrain from doing when you reach the age of 80. Never try out for the Olympic Gymnastic team. Don't try to "hold it" until the next rest stop. And never, I mean never, be the last Senator to interview James Comey during a three-hour hearing. And although John McCain never tried a triple backflip and always has a pee bottle handy, he did violate the third rule when the elder statesman and cranky old man from Arizona, apparently had a stroke on live television while questioning the witness.
It was a historic day, to say the least. It was the first time in history that you had the former FBI director, who was fired by the current president, testifying to potential obstruction of justice. Second, it was the first day in that Donald Trump didn't tweet a word. Sources tell us this was accomplished by distracting him with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken and various artist conceptions of what his inauguration would have looked like if anyone attended.
But it all built to the most dramatic moment at the very end of the hearing when Sen. John McCain, the man who made Sarah Palin and Depends Breathable undergarments famous. As he proceeded, his line of questioning sounded a drunk asking how his pants got pulled over his head. "Why," he asked Comey, "did you end the Clinton email investigation and not the Trump/Russia investigation?" This was like asking Franklin Roosevelt why he was fighting the Second World War and not the Civil War. Comey explained that one investigation was finished and one was ongoing. McCain just was totally confused and looked like the time your grandfather wandered into the panty department in Target.
As McCain persisted in asking the same question over and over again and you could see his staff behind him frantically dialing 911 on their cellphones. They were looking on like family members watching Grampa remove all his clothes and jump into his birthday cake. Just shield the kid's eyes and grab a big towel. But in this case, there was no towel, just Sen. Gramps flailing through papers, which didn't help because all that was in front of him was his lunch order from the day before. Realizing McCain's dilemma, Comey explained again that the Clinton investigation had reached a conclusion and the Trump/Russian investigation had not. This seemed to make him angrier, and I swear he mumbled something like "get off my lawn" or "build the dang fence." He blurted out, "there just seems to be a double standard here." Yes, John, you are right, there is a double standard. One for when investigations end, and one for when they are ongoing.
Now I know that McCain must have a professional staff who probably took him aside, explained that he had just crapped his pants in front of millions of viewers, and then quickly medicated him. Thankfully, he was the last questioner and was never elected president. But there is a lesson for us all here which is, when you reach the age of eighty, stop hitting on twenty-year-olds, stay close to a bathroom, and never, never go last at a Senate hearing.


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I felt pretty good to be out there completing that transpennine cycle. It was an interesting self-suffiency and lone endurance experiance. All part of the rich tapestry of what a well endurance-honed indivdual can do. However the achilles problem I mentioned has brought me back down to earth with a bump.
It took me a bout a week before I could manage any kind of endurance training after this. I tried a run midweek but the achilles was too sore and I bailed out after about 600metres. I passed my leisure time semi-constructively by upping the variety of my core, upper and lower body strength work. Things looked up when I managed a very flat soft trail run on the Saturday of about 2.2m. No massvie reaction from a hopefully recovering achilles or the stress fractured leg. I repeated this distance two days later and then four days later whithout major complaints. Then bizarrely after two days rest on the Friday the area of the stress fracture seemed to be feeling sore again?!
So I opted for a cycle today as the achilles was now the lesser of two evils and I fancied a longer and tougher cardio session, due to feeling - probably paranoically - I'd be starting to lose fitness with the limited distance running. So off, out I went, pretty nice day compared to some of late, for a nice trip into the wolds. Bouncing up and down hills between sea-level and a not-quite dizzying 550ft above - but on a bike at speed even a shallow climb feels harder work than the equivelent when running.
It was enjoyable and all going pretty well, but the achilles got more and more sore throughout. Towards 1hr45 out I was glad to be nearly back as it was now close to as bad as two weeks before. So a good hard session - which I then followed with some strength work in front of the Ryder Cup ("Go Europe!") - but at what cost?
That rules out cycling of any great distance and perhaps running also after the reaction from my tame return in the last week. Unfortunately my run of good training and eventing has made me impatient and I sorely miss the things I was able to do just two months ago. If this goes on I may have to do a deal with the devil and join a gym. I guess I've got to be patient and accept that I'm not the first person this has happened to, or by far the worst effected. But as the title suggests; I'm frustrated!
Off the road, to the trails.... and off the rails? Not a bit of it! I've opened my mind to a whole world of self-powered challenges, mostly featuring awesome backdrops.
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I think this sandwich is the best sandwich I have ever made for myself. And, as you may have cleverly deduced, I have made a lot of sandwiches in my life. I started off by baking a chicken thigh fillets marinated (for a day) in a yoghurt and spice mix. Once cooked, and slightly charred, I cut a couple of fillets into strips, put them between two slices of buttered (not margarine) seeded wholemeal bread, added some date and lime pickle and finished off with a handful of rocket and cress. The result was wonderfully aromatic, spicy and succulent chicken with hints of sweetness from the pickle and pepperiness from the rocket. The textured bread and leaves added a nice bite to the sandwich as well. If I hadn't made this myself, I would have given it a 10, but for some reason I find it difficult to award my own creation a 10.
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Alright, I totally have a crush on Captain Sully. The first reason? One of my nicknames at work is "Sully," also because of my last name, and it always makes me giggle.
Below are the interviews he and his crew gave to 60 Minutes over the weekend. My favorite quote:
"I had this expectation that my career would be one in which I didn't crash an airplane."
Jesus, good grammar AND…..the guy's fucking ZEN. David and I totally cracked up when he said that.
Just a word of warning, footage of another plane crash is shown in the first clip. I only say this because I am terrified of plane crashes and it was a big hand:mouth situation when I saw it.


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We went to Philadelphia last week to see what is new at the Buyers Market of American Crafts. Its fun to see some city life after being in the Maine woods.
A walk from our hotel takes us through Redding Market and terminal and on into the convention center filled with artists and their works.
Lynda and I found Don Drumm and Cricket Forge sculpture exhibit and got to talk with Don and staff about his work. We've carried their work in the gallery for 16 years. Both companies offer artistic sculpture for indoors and outdoors. Don Drumm uses Francis Vega's Cricket Forge shop to make some of his designs. He creates whimsical sculpture and functional kitchen wares. Francis's work is more representational designs in metal for the garden and home.
We also visited with Diane Kline at the show. Her acrylic floral paintings are featured in our gallery, and at Arabica coffee shop in Portland Maine. Diane,s "Poppies" is a beautiful impression, giving the feeling of spring just around the corner.Diane has some new figure paintings on exhibit at the show this year.
We spent three days looking over the show ordering new items from familiar artists and discovering new artists to present at Harvest Gold Gallery in 2013.
See you again Phili :)
Stop by Harvest Gold gallery whenever you are in beautiful downtown Center Lovell, overlooking Kezar Lake and the White Mountains.


text: I went to my local surgery yesterday for blood tests for Thyroid function (Hypothyroidism) Liver function, and Inflammatory markers (for Polymyalgia Rheumatica). I did ask if I could have tests for FT3, Vit D, Folate, Ferratin, etc as recommended by others on this forum and I was met with an incredulous reaction by the Phlebotomisy. I was told that these could not be taken unless requested by the GP and almost no-one ever had these tests done unless, maybe, in the case of suspected Anaemia for the Vit D. I was made to feel as if I was asking for something to which I was not entitled and, when I expressed the opinion that I felt it was a good thing to try to manage my condition, I was told that the best approach was to put trust in the GPs. I will be going to my GP next week for the results. I will be questioning the policies of my particular surgery and the guidelines they use. Any advice would be welcome.


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A guy who I know with high risk sucked my penis, am I going to be infected ?. Please help me I can`t sleep at night and I became paranoid...
Response from Mr. Shernoff
You need to educate yourself about what are the real risk factors. You have not even said that the man who went down on you was infected with HIV, just that he is known to you to be high risk. You seem to be greatly over reacting. If you do not feel better soon, then consult a mental health professional to do the work necessary in order help reduce the high level of anxiety you are experiencing. Michael Shernoff, MSW
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Elisabeth got a lamp for Christmas from Granny, which is something she has requested for awhile. I'm going to jump back a little and give you the story on why she wanted a lamp.
Each night after we put the kids to bed, we would go upstairs to our room, turn on our lamp on our headboard and then we read and write and talk until we go to sleep. Elisabeth will occasionally get out of bed once she's been put there for the night(I know, surprising huh? What kid would ever do that?) and so she knew about our lamp and our night time reading and writing. And so now Elisabeth has her princess lamp on her headboard and after I sing her a song and give her kisses for the night, she turns on her lamp, grabs a book or two from her headboard and sometimes her little journal and pencil and will stay up a little while longer…I'm not sure exactly what time she falls asleep but so far it has always been before Scott and I get to bed.