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So today was race day. I'd trained for all of 5 days with only 3 runs, only one of which was outdoors in the real world heat and humidity. Guess what?
That was a mistake.
It was 96 degrees Fahrenheit this morning with 51 percent humidity. Do you know what happens with 51 percent humidity? Well, I'll tell you if you don't know. Your body can't cool off. Sweating doesn't help, even though you do lots and lots of sweating. Your flesh is just stifled underneath this soggy layer of steam that prevents any cooling from taking place.
So I was shooting for a not-impressive series of 10-minute miles throughout the race. And I was concerned because I'd had knee problems and calf-cramp problems all week. I needn't have worried because the heat and humidity made my knee and calf problems the least of my concerns.
I ran a 9:30 minute first mile. Yay me. That's not impressive, but it was better than I'd planned. But I could already tell as I finished that mile that I was going to be in trouble for the rest of the race. The heat and humidity was KILLING me.
The second mile, several very attractive young women whom I had passed during the first mile began to pass me right back. I knew I was in a bad way when I glanced at their tanned and very attractive behinds striding past me and did not even consider trying to catch up. I couldn't afford to break my slowing pace or I would never finish. I ran a nearly 12 minute, gasping, steaming, God-its-hot 2nd mile.
Oh Lord, there's still further to go.
The third mile, an old man, hunched with a kind of shuffle, who was wearing ankle weights on both legs, I shit you not, passed me by. I was not happy. To be fair, I had a bit of difficulty passing him during the first mile, so despite his seemingly decrepit gate, he was motoring pretty good. But still, it was insulting. And I couldn't do a damn thing about it. I may not have raced in 2 years, but I know my limitations and I knew I needed to hang on to my ever-slowing pace as best as I could or I would be in serious trouble.
The last stretch of the third mile seemed to go on forever. We went up a hill, then over the top. And far, far down the slope I could see a big banner which appeared to be the finish line.
"Oh God, I feel like I'm going to slow to a walk. I am NOT going to walk on the last mile. I am NOT!" I struggled and ached and squirmed along in the heat, trying to straighten my back up a bit to ease the pain of my lower back and take some pressure off. I had apparently begun to hunch forward in the heat, so I had to force myself to straighten up and raise my head. Looking at the banner across the finish line helped. I tried to ignore the beautiful girls and hunched old ankle-weight-wearing men passing me and just focus on the finish.
Thank God no one pushing a stroller passed me or that would have been too much to bear.
Some runners, seeing the banner, began to sprint, or as close as they could to sprinting. I typically don't sprint until the final 100 yards, so I held on to my dying pace. Finally, I reached the bottom of the long slope. It was a very long, straight stretch to that banner with no shade and my body screaming "STOP! STOP AND WALK BEFORE I DIE!"
I began to feel the distinctive cold shiver of heat stroke hitting me. It was just the beginning. I had endured this before. But considering the terrible shape I was already in, and how close I was to slowing to a walk, it was bad news. I looked for any water stations where I could grab a cup of cold water to throw over my head. There were none.
Meanwhile, more runners sprinted past me towards that banner.
That's when I noticed the other banner beyond the banner I had been looking at. And then I remembered, at the start of the race, the race announcer had told us that the starting line is NOT the finish line. The finish line is PAST the starting line. The banner we had been running towards was the starting line. Oh shit!
If I had tried to sprint when I saw that first banner, thinking it was the finish, I would have ended my race in the back of an ambulance. There was a considerable distance to go beyond the banner for the starting line until you reached the banner marking the finish line, and in this oppressive heat, that was just far enough to kill me.
But I hadn't sprinted when I saw the banner, and it was a good thing. I stumble-ran underneath the banner marking the start, still fighting the urge to either slow to a walk or just fall on my face in the middle of the street and be trampled. I could see the true finish. I just wasn't sure if I could reach it before I collapsed.
Children passed me. Mothers passed me. People who thought the first banner was the finish line and had sprinted stopped to walk in utter exhaustion. But I did not walk. I ran at my horrible pace. I saw the clock marking the time at the finish line. It said 33:56 and I still had several yards left to go.
Then 33:57.
"Oh Lord, I'm not even going to finish in under 34 minutes!"
I tried to speed up. I just couldn't do it.
"Oh son of a ... "
I ran across the finish line, glancing briefly at the clock marking my time, groaning in disgust at the worst 5K time of my entire life, and then warned the runners around me that there was a distinct possibility that I may projectile vomit at any moment.
I immediately found a water station and started trying to cool myself down before any fluids forcibly escaped through my mouth and nostrils in the form of racers puke. I saw a PVC arc someone had constructed, which had a hose attached and cold water showering out of it for runners to walk under and cool off. Cool idea! I made a beeline for it. I walked under it several times, slowly cooling little by little. Then I stood under it like my own personal cold shower.
Teenage girls who had been giggling and playing in the water arc, performing a possibly illegal wet t-shirt contest, stopped giggling and looked at me. I was apparently interfering with their fun even though I was off to one side of the arc and not really in their way. I glared at them. They moved more to the opposite side and continuing playing and giggling. And then I went and sat down in the shade, exhausted, sunburned as hell, and soaking wet.
A 34 minute race! I ran a lousy stinking 34 minute race! Oh, the humanity! Oh the shame!
My only real consolation today is that apparently our racing numbers which we wore contained a computer chip. That chip is how they timed us. Since the start of the race is so crowded, only the front-row runners actually cross the starting line when the gun goes off and the main clock starts timing the race. But our chips alert the computer to the true time we crossed the starting line. Then the difference between the race start and the time we actually crossed the starting line is deducted from our final time to give the actual time we took to run the course. So I had 6 seconds taken off my final time, giving me the worst time I'd ever run a 5K minus 6 seconds. 33:54 - Yay me!
And also, I never puked.
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What does a wasted vote look like?
Is it cast on different paper? With a unique pen? Is the voter who casts it forced to stand at a special booth in an isolated part of the voting location? Is it processed through a different counter than the others? And what about the sticker at the end? Will it say "I wasted my vote?"
I'm curious because several people have told me recently that my vote will be wasted. And though I couldn't disagree more, I marvel at the fact that so many people have bought into this lie.
The definition of a wasted vote is one that is cast for a candidate who is not formally taking part in an election. So in November, if I write in Winnie the Pooh on my ballot, I will have wasted my vote, since the "chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff" isn't actually participating in the 2016 race. Likewise, if I write in the name of a candidate who has not been approved for my state's ballot, my vote will be wasted because it will not be counted.
A more stringent definition is this: any vote that is cast for a candidate that does not win the election. In other words, on November 8 of this year, it is possible that a whole lot of Republicans or a whole slew of Democrats will have wasted their votes because they cast their vote on behalf of the losing candidate.
Given the latter definition, my vote may very well be "wasted."
You see, I will not be voting for either candidate, because I believe that each is inept and untrustworthy. I fear them both equally because they are unqualified for the job, but I am not ruled by my fear of what might happen if one of them wins.
John McAlister, former Libertarian candidate for Congress, wrote in 2000 that a vote is as much a message as it is a choice of a winner. He explained that a vote communicates what each voter's vision of government and leadership looks like. So while my vote will never be the swing vote that wins an election for one candidate over another, it will be my means to communicate my values and beliefs to the leadership of this country.
But this election, like so many before it, isn't simple to interpret, because while some people will vote for one candidate, others will vote against another. And the distinction is an important one.
Let's assume for argument's sake that someone reading this intends to vote for Trump next month. As the returns come in that night, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus will no doubt puff his chest a little farther with each vote for Trump, and he will mentally congratulate himself for successfully promoting the party's candidate. But he's ignoring the possibility that the vote wasn't so much a vote for Trump as it was a vote against Hillary.
Same with Interim Chair of the Democratic National Convention Donna Brazile: Each vote cast for Hillary will, in the minds of party leadership, affirm the Democratic Party's platform and agenda. But it will ignore the possibility that the vote was cast by someone for whom Donald Trump was simply not an option.
My vote, on the other hand, will not be difficult to interpret at all. My vote will very clearly send a message to each party that the candidates they have championed do not represent me or my beliefs. My vote will very clearly be a vote against the lie that there are only two parties participating in the election. My vote will send a message to Governor Rick Scott of Florida that he cannot force me into voting for Trump by refusing to allow other candidates to be included on our state's ballot. My vote will very clearly indicate that I do not support the two parties and their strong-arm tactics against candidates like Bernie Sanders who, although his programs run counter to my beliefs, would make a much better president than the two candidates on the ballot simply because he is trustworthy and honest.
My vote will communicate clearly that I am not willing to sacrifice the things that are important to me on the altar of party loyalty. And my vote will communicate clearly that the leadership of this country should not ever, ever make the mistake of taking my vote for granted.
If Hillary Clinton wins in November, there may be those who will suggest that 3rd-party voters like me helped her get there, but I don't shrink from that accusation. I embrace it. I whole-heartedly celebrate the fact that there will be consequences for the party that allowed us to get to this place by telling voters one thing in order to win office, and then completely failing to follow through once they were there. I welcome the conversations about politicians who put the good of the party before the good of the country. I relish the discussion about the party whose credibility is such that Trump, in the opening days of his campaign, reserved the right to leave it because he doubted he would be treated fairly; or the party that ensured that Bernie Sanders would never succeed.
And lest you think this is a last-ditch effort to affect the election's outcome, I assure you it isn't. I'm not trying to sway anyone to a particular action. I'm simply suggesting that there are more than two options here for people who are unhappy with the choices. I'm simply pointing out that the tired, false contention that a third-party candidate can never be a viable option is touted most often by the two parties who have the most to lose when we, as a populace, latch on to that reality.
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Business News of Sunday, 29 January 2017
Source: Myjoyonline.com
The Upper West regional capital Wa is known for its various tourist sites. There are hundreds of visitors who troop to the city every year. It's there you will find the Nuoyong Empire Hotel, one of the most popular in the city.
Nuoyong is owned by entrepreneur, Stephen Mwinkaara. He left his corporate job 4 years ago to start his own business.
Stephen had never thought of being an entrepreneur, but growing up in a poverty stricken environment, his determination in life was to succeed.
"Getting a meal a day was a challenge. I went to some of the country's best schools but all those years were challenging. My father did not have enough money to give me some of the things I wish I had as a child", he told
Justice Baidoo on the BUSY 4G- sponsored Joy Business Van.
Stephen determined that he would give his children what his father couldn't give him. He believed education would propel him to the status he wanted to attain in life and it did.
Before he started his own business, he was the head of Agribusiness Development at Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited. However his motivation for business came up when he was working for TechnoServe.
"I became a business advisor at TechnoServe. This made me read books around businesses to be able to advice clients who were mostly in the rural areas."
As part of Steven's job, he had to look for business opportunities for his clients. He began to notice how much money his clients would make after they took his advice.
Stephen then began to develop an interest in doing business. He discovered a good business idea when he started his own building project. He couldn't acquire the materials in Wa. He would head down south, all the way to Kumasi to purchase the materials he needed. He decided to sell building materials. Soon, he would decide to set up a hostel too.
"In a few months when the foundation [of the building] was done and I didn't have money, I said to myself let me slow down and convert this into a hotel", Stephen recounted.
Stephen opened the hotel in 2015. It took about 13 years to complete the project. Today, Nuoyong Hotel does about 60 percent of the bookings in Wa. It's just like any world class hotel.
"Primarily I wanted to offer something not just for the people in Upper West, but for people who come here to enjoy world class standards," he added.
The Nuoyong owner is bent on making a contribution to the development of the region in which he was born and help create jobs especially for the youth.
Stephen believes there are so many opportunities in the region that are yet to be tapped. He sees them every day and he is determined to pursue them.


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When Uncle Remus returns to the plantation with the children, Sally meets them on the way and is angry at Johnny for not having attended his own birthday party. Ginny mentions that Uncle Remus told them a story and Sally draws a line, warning him not to spend any more time with Johnny. Uncle Remus, saddened by the misunderstanding of his good intentions, packs his bags and leaves for Atlanta. Seeing Uncle Remus leaving from a distance, [color=gold] Johnny rushes to intercept him, taking a shortcut through the pasture, where he is attacked and seriously injured by the resident bull.
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Originally posted by Dimithae
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Outer limits.The episode where the girl fell out of the bed into another dimension and her father had to go in and retrace his steps exactly to get them both out.
After seeing that one I was only 4 and kept falling out of bed and getting stuck between the bed and the wall
I must have drove my parents nuts doing that night after night.
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I share that trauma! When I was about 4 I was on the Bozo show - and was on TV as one of the kids who went to the giant clown mouth and got a prize
Originally posted by Dustytoad
I bet you know the movie I was talking about.
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Not a lot of scrapping going on here lately!!! I have been practicing my photography. A few blogs ago, I showed you BW pics for my photography course. Well here is the one I decided to send for grading...WOW...100%. I am soooooooo thrilled that I got 100% on my assignment. I would love to hear from you...What do you think????
Here are a few more pictures I took.
I also took an Advance Flash Photography course with Noel Chenier. Here are a few pics that were taken during the course. I finaly learned how to use my external flash. I have been enjoying inside pictures since my course.


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Report: Kimbo Slice Was Awaiting A Heart Transplant Before His Unexpected Death
Legendary street & MMA fighter Kimbo Slice was extremely ill before he tragically died of heart failure at the age of 42 on Monday.
Via SunSentinal:
"Slice, as Coral Springs-based fighter Kevin Ferguson was widely known, was admitted to Northwest Medical Center in Margate on Friday, complaining of severe abdominal pain, shortness of breath and nausea, according to information the hospital reported to the Broward County medical examiner.
Slice was found to have a liver mass and congestive heart failure, and was placed on a ventilator in intensive care, according to the report.
As Slice's condition declined, doctors advised his family he would need a heart transplant, the report states."
Kimbo was scheduled to be moved to Cleveland for extensive treatment before his passing.


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Since the last post we've been very busy. Nothing in particular...just life in general. Saturdays are our busiest..we have both swim class and music class all before 12pm.
Jonah has really changed in the last two months. He is talking a ton and knows so many words! He constantly surprises us and makes us laugh constantly. He is a smart little guy and will pick up on any little thing you do or say, so you definitely have to watch it! Below are some photos over the last few weeks. We are so glad it is finally starting to get warmer, it was a long winter!
Finding things we shouldn't put in our mouths. We have no idea where he got this, but it seemed to be a piece of chalk? But where in the world did it come from?!


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Warning: To my American and international friends who are tired of reading about he who shall not be named – you might want to skip this post.
I, like so many people around the world, am appalled by the state of American politics and the xenophobic rhetoric of alternative facts that are polluting the international community and journalism fronts. And while I try to avoid open debates about politics (in part because I hate conflict and in part because I get really anxious when people start to yell – even if it is not at or about me), I have been reflecting on the fate of the international community and I hope writing about it will help soothe my soul a bit.
I have seen, heard, and watched the videos, memes, photos and digital content that are linking the US political scene with the us vs. them mentality Hitler propagated during WWII. People are right to say that Germany didn't wake up one day and decide that gas chambers were the best way to deal with the non blue eyed, blonde haired population. It was a snowball affect change that started with a country wide conversation of dividing people into us and them. Slowly but surely the snowball gained momentum and the atrocities we can now so easily identify became a normal next step to people of the time.
I can appreciate where people are coming from when they compare the divisive dialogue that the Republican Party is propagating and the equally divisive language Hitler used. But I need to speak out about something that has been going on for far too long without the same attention.
The crisis in Syria started in 2011 and we now have some of the world's top foreign correspondence who are saying that the death toll, atrocities, and violence that is being used in Syria is on par with the violence of the Holocaust. People are saying that unless something is done we will quickly outrun the numbers in Syria in comparison to WWII.
We vowed never again, and yet Syria has not held our attention. We ask how did pre-WWII Germany get to a place where killing millions of people felt normal and yet we aren't asking the same questions around Syria. I am not saying that because there is war in another country we cannot focus on what is going on in the US. I am just saying that we should be careful about how we use Holocaust imagery and language to relate to the political instability in the US while we are overlooking the cries for help of people who are already experiencing the violent side of that instability.
I guess all I am asking is that the conversation become wider than just the fact that the US has a small handed, orange spray tanned, toupee wearing, xenophobe at the helm of a world power. I am asking that we pay attention to the overall global conversation about humanity and how we need to do a better job at standing together instead of fighting one another.
So just to summarize: Things in the US are bad right now. We need to engage. We can't forget about the rest of the world. We need to stand with immigrants. We need to stand with an international community that values life. We need to stand with the people taking political action on a local, national, or international front. We need to stand with the fight for creating the world we want to live in, and not accept anything less.


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One of the early calls to celebrate a Mother's Day in the United States was the "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe. Written in 1870, it was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.
In the years after the Mother's Day Proclamation, Ann Jarvis founded five Mothers' Day Work Clubs to improve sanitary and health conditions for working women. In 1907, two years after Ann Jarvis' death, her daughter Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother and began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the US. Although she was successful in 1914, she was already disappointed with its commercialization by the 1920s. In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day", and created the Mother's Day International Association. She was specific about the location of the apostrophe; it was to be a singular possessive, for each family to honour their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world.*
This year, my family honoured me with breakfast in bed, a necklace hand-picked by my daughter accompanied by, not one, but two Mother's Day cards of her creation. To my surprise, I also received a card from my husband (being that I am not his mother...) in which the card so much as said this and "thanks for taking care of (him) anyway."
From my friends, and supporters of GROVE STREET kids, received the honour of becoming a winner in the StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Competition. I joined the competition late, and so I had no idea where I would fall amongst the ranks of thousands of mom-owned businesses across the country. My only hope was to finish in the top 200... and I did... at 134! In hindsight, it seems a little silly, really. But as most of us moms know, we do and we give and we work hard for ourselves and our families, so when a little recognition comes along for being, not just a great mom, but a great mom in business then, well, I'll take it! It seems only fitting considering what Ms. Howe had in mind...
*source: http://www.wikipedia.org/


text: First thread here at BHW. With little time I do have to log on here, I walk away learning something new every time. Here is my dilemma. I currently have a website hosted through GoDaddy on Wordpress. My website has 300+ quality images of sunglasses and load so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow and I have their Ultimate website hosting. Can somebody point me in the right direction as to what I need to do to get my website running faster? Keep in mind I am new to all this and actually had a friend help me put the site together.


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Intur Orange
Intur Orange Hotel is a 4-star venue positioned about 31 km from Ermita de Santa Lucía y San Benet. Built in 1973, the comfortable hotel was renovated in 2007.
The hotel is set within a 30-minute walk from the city center. The public beach is 250 meters from the property.
Quick access to casinos and restaurants is provided.
For a pleasant stay in Benicassim Intur Orange Hotel offers 413 guestrooms complete with complimentary Wi-Fi, a minibar, a private safe, flat-screen TV and a personal computer. The rooms feature a tasteful interior.
Guests can enjoy Mediterranean and Spanish cuisine in Les Barraques located 200 meters away.
Intur Orange Hotel lies 80 km away from Manises airport.
Business facilities include computer equipment, a business centre and a meeting room.
The hotel spoils guests with a spa centre, a Jacuzzi and a sauna along with such activities as boating, lawn tennis and hiking. Such fitness options as a gym and a fitness centre are available on site.


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"Galatians 4:6-7 says that the Spirit leads us to call out passionately to God as our loving Father. Paul refers to this experience as 'knowing God' (4:8). That's the ground motive of Spirit-directed, Christ-mediated prayer – to simply know him better and enjoy his presence.
Consider how different this is from the normal way we use prayer. In our natural state we pray to God to get things. We may believe in God, but our deepest hopes and happiness reside in things as in how successful we are or in our social relationships. We therefore pray mainly when our career or finances are in trouble, or when some relationship or social status is in jeopardy. When life is going smoothly, and our truest heart treasures seem safe, it does not occur to us to pray. Also, ordinarily our prayers are not varied – they consist usually of petitions, occasionally some confession (if we have just done something wrong). Seldom or never do we spend sustained time adoring and praising God. In short, we have no positive, inner desire to pray. We do it only when circumstances force us. Why? We know God is there, but we tend to see him as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, he had not become our happiness. We therefore pray to procure things, not to know him better.
All this changes when we discover that we have been mired all our lives in forms of self-salvation, and we turn to Christ. When we grasp his astonishing, costly sacrifice for us, transfer our trust and hopes from other things to Christ, and ask for God's acceptance and grace for Christ's sake, we begin to realize with the Spirits's help the magnitude of our benefits and blessings in Christ. Then we begin to want almost desperately to know and love God for himself. His love and regard make popularity and worldly status look pale and thin. Being delighted in him and delighting him become inherently fulfilling and beautiful." (Tim Keller in Prayer)
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Different Types Of Prayer (Reading Notes)
"All prayer is responding to God. In all cases God is the initiator – 'hearing' always precedes asking. God comes to us first or we would never reach out to him. Yet all prayers are not alike or equally effective in relating to God. The clearer our understanding of who God is, the better our prayers. Instinctive prayer is like an emergency flare in reaction to a general sense of God's reality. Prayer as a spiritual gift is a genuine, personal conversation in reply to God's specific, verbal revelation.
Yet prayer can be even more than that. Many or perhaps most of our conversations are relatively superficial. Persons can exchange information without much self-disclosure. Some conversations, however, go deep and we sense that both of us are revealing not just information but our very selves. The conversation then becomes a personal encounter, a true connection." (Tim Keller in Prayer)
Celebrating Crosspoint's 1st Year Of Ministry
On Sunday, June 7th Crosspoint Community Church celebrated it's 1 year anniversary of moving into a new facility and changing its name (it was New Vision Fellowship for 10 years). The year has flown by and I am incredibly grateful to have pastored such a wonderful group of people for the past 3 years.
Over the past year we have seen 25 people join our church, baptized 13, and paid down the note on our building $300,000! We have given over 10% of what is given to our church to local, national and international ministries. We also have 6 children that have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ and we are working with them and their parents as we prepare to baptize them in the coming months. God is at work in and through our church family!
We should celebrate all that God has done over the past year but I am convinced that he wants to do more! Statistics tell us that 80% of our community is unchurched and they lack a relationship with Jesus Christ. The mission field around us is huge and I believe the Lord wants to use our church to pierce the darkness and carry the gospel to our community.
Will you join me in praying for our church and our community? Will you ask God to open doors of opportunity for us to reach into the darkness around us? I am reminded of Jesus' words to his disciples in Matthew 9:38, "Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send our laborers into his harvest." Let's pray. Let's go. Let's see what God will do!
The Church Needs Pastors Who Will Study (Reading Notes)
"The Church is in urgent need of shepherds and teachers who will study. The pressures and pace of contemporary life make that an increasingly difficult goal to achieve. Christ's flock on earth depends upon its undershepherds to lead it into fresh pastures of God's Word. Undershepherds maintain an effective ministry as they extend their own understanding of God's Word. If we are constantly pouring out without pouring in, we will soon cease to pour out anything that is of value to others." (Derek Prime & Alistair Begg in On Being A Pastor)
Pastors As Servants (Reading Notes)
"Our goal is not empire building. Although all called to serve our Lord Jesus Christ would accept that, it is easy nevertheless to err in this respect through lack of personal watchfulness. Lording it over others has no place in the work of shepherds and teachers (2 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Peter 5:3). The key title for those in Christ's service is servant. Shepherds and teachers are for churches, not churches for shepherds and teachers. Churches do not exist for our benefit or for our livelihood. We exist rather for their good." (Derek Prime & Alistair Begg in On Being A Pastor)


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Let's go outside and catch butterflies!
When catching butterflies and moths, you must be gentle. They have a layer of special dust that coats their wings that is needed for their health and ability to fly.
This activity promotes curiosity and learning about flying insects.
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Big Sur (Wild Cattle) 3200′, 3-17 mph W
Afternoon flight at Big Sur (Wild Cattle). After a very nauseating drive up the hill, reverse launch with good torpedo. Found some good lift over the sping on the way out but also was fighting a headwind. My speed bar was not connected (probably should have waited a bit longer for the nausea to pass). I considered hooking it up in air but spent my energy flying instead. Lower over the spine than I wanted to be I bore to the right to have more clearance over the final ridge.
Crossed the ridge about 150 AGL and passed through the corner of a small cloud. I didn't lose sight of the ground and it was always clear which direction I was facing. Circled in some lift, just enough to fight gravity. Headed out over the flats and found the wind much stronger and from NW. Had trouble penetrating to the LZ, very slow ground speed. Speed bar would have helped. Pulled the bar lines with my fingers a few times.
Landed with very little forward speed, in the wind. Practiced kiting for about 20 minutes.
- Preflight fail! Speed bar not hooked up.
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Big Sur (Wild Cattle 3200′), reverse launch.


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What can be said about Cave Story that hasn't been said before? In 2004, a freeware game was released after 5 years of production by Studio Pixel (Daisuke Amaya) that would forever raise the bar for the retro indie game scene. Considered a masterpiece amongst gaming aficionados, Cave Story is a completely wonderful, immersive experience that tugs at your heartstrings and gives you that "new gameboy game on Xmas morning" feel. The. Whole. Way. Through.
A genius combination of games like Pokemon (Red and Blue), Zelda II, Contra, Megaman, and a touch of Castlevania, this game will hook you from the start. Filled with cute yet dangerous enemies, puzzle-like maps, and challenging bosses, Cave Story seems to take on that delightful middle ground between a casual everyman game and a Megaman style, "throw the controller across the room because the boss kicked your ass 3 times in a row" game. Luckily, save spots are frequent though, so if you ARE throwing a fit, deep down you know it's because YOU fucked up. This game is extremely fair to the player.
[Both versions of "Quote" the robo-boy]
In the game, you play the character, "Quote"(above), who is a robot boy from the "surface world", flung into an underground cave-like world, filled with rabbits (called Mimigas) and more robots who have been either damaged, powered down, or just kinda depressed.
[The mighty "Balrog"]
It becomes apparent over time that something called the Demon Crown was used along with hallucinogenic Red Flowers to take over the "above world" years before, that the Mimigas can be transformed into giant beasts with the flowers, and "Quote" has no recollection of this. Players uncover mysteries about Quote's past, make friends with various characters for item upgrades and attempt to stop the current antagonist from acquiring the Demon Crown again, taking over the world, etc. I am being a bit of a reductionist here but the story is actually very dense and interwoven with the NPC's that players meet along the way, good and bad. One of my favorite characters, Balrog (photo above) is that classic "Bad dude before, but has a heart of gold and ends up helping the ol' team o' good guys" character, who provides some fun learning-type boss battles and some comic relief throughout the game. A quick tip: Remember to talk to EVERYONE during your adventure. Certain bosses, stage changes and progressions are really contingent on having dialogue with the locals. Even if it is something as mundane as "Yeah, I'm sick so I can't help you out."
Doukutsu Monogatari, Cave story, Awesome game I cannot put down, whatever you would like to call it has since come out for WiiWare and the 3DS with positive reception. However, the original game itself is STILL free and STILL available with an English Plug in. How kick ass can it get, right? Realizing Wicked Basement is a litttttle bit late on the fandom, we still wanted to throw a review and a download up on the site because this game is WORTH the hate mail we will get for having JUST played it ourselves. This game is like a wonderful dream created by someone who truly understands WHY the golden age of gaming was so golden. The character design, the music, the story, all of it works perfectly together to create a really fun game that ends WAY too soon.
Available for Mac and PC!
I would say play this game YOUR way, then maybe the second time check out a walkthrough. The only time I needed any assistance is for those god damn puppies, which the one I was looking for was literally right in front of me. Enjoy the game!


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Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned something in on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, but if you turned something in during the week, it is probably still in the Stack. You can check the Stack to make sure I received your assignment. I should be able to finish the Stack by the end of the day on Friday (that's my goal each week). Meanwhile, if you have not turned in your Week 3 Project yet, you can still do that on Thursday morning; if you don't manage to do that, it will be your Project assignment for Week 4, due this weekend.
Blog commenting. After the grace period ends at noon today, I'll start putting together the new random blog groups for the blog commenting. I'll get that done this afternoon and then I'll update these announcements when the groups are ready to go — the blog groups should be ready by 5PM at the latest.
Update: The Week 4 blog groups are ready to go! Have fun!
The following items are for fun and exploration:
A Field Guide to Procrastinators. What kind of procrastinator are you? I am an Internet Researcher and Social Sharer, alas! I also make lists to procrastinate. :-)
Words to Watch: Today's words to watch out for are WAIST and WASTE. For details, see this blog post.
Free Book Online: Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon. This blog post provides additional information about this book of stories from the Nights, including the voyages of Sindbad plus tales of princes and princesses.
India Comic Book: Tales of Balarama: Valiant Brother Of Krishna. This blog post provides additional information about the comic book which is on Reserve in Bizzell Library. There are several stories about Balarama here, including the wonderful tale of how Balarama marries Revati, daughter of a gigantic, and mysterious, king.
Words of Wisdom: Today's proverb poster is The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence (an English proverb). Details at the Proverb Lab. This is a proverb that is still alive and well in the 21st century!
Today's Video: Manas Darshan Exhibition. I thought those of you in Indian Epics might enjoy this video about a Ramayana display at Chitrakuta in India, which is one of the places where Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana spent their forest exile, so it is a site for Rama tourism today. You'll recognize the major scenes from the Ramayana here:
Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is all about stretching yourself: The bigger the challenge, the more you stretch. Details at the blog.
details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
September 17: There are two Indian holidays that coincide today: Vishvakarman Puja AND Ganesha Chaturthi.
Vishvakarman. Each year, September 17 is a festival of the Vishvakarman, the divine architect of the gods in the Hindu tradition. You can find out more at Wikipedia: Vishvakarman. The Vishvakarman Puja holiday is celebrated by architects and also by engineers and all kinds of technicians and craftspeople, especially in eastern India. Happy Vishvakarman Day!
Note: You can page back through the older blog posts to see any announcements you might have missed, and you can check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day.


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Setting up your iPad or iPhone email with a cPanel based hosting account is a manual process, but fortunately it's fairly easy – although it does require a degree of concentration and patience.
Apple have vastly improved iOS7's ability to setup iPhone mail with popular third party services like MS Exchange, Google Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Outlook.com, but obviously they can't be catering for every email service out there, so here's how to configure your iPhone with the mail service typically found on cPanel hosting servers.Still rocking iPhone 3 or 4? Get this PDF Guide to configure iOS4 iPhone for cPanel mail
If you find this process doesn't work, then you have almost certainly made a mistake somewhere, or there is a connectivity issue between your phone and your cPanel server – In my dayjob as system admin, I constantly see people mistype various stages in this process – any one of which will result in failure, so read carefully 🙂
Step 1 – Tap the Settings icon from your Home screen
Step 2 – Tap Mail, Contact, Calendars
Step 3 – Tap Add Mail Account
Step 4 – Tap Other
Step 5 – Make sure IMAP is selected (the default), and fill in the fields as follows:
- Name : Enter your name as you would like your correspondents to see it.
- Email : Enter the full mailbox address that you created in cPanel.
- Description : Enter a friendly description for this mail account (this just helps you identify this account in amongst your other mail accounts).
Incoming & Outgoing Mail Server settings should be exactly the same as follows:
Click here to find how to determine your Host Name
Your hosting provider should be able to give you your server's Host Name, but you can find it out using a couple of methods.
Method 1
You can usually find this by browsing to http://yourdomain/cpanel or http://yourdomain/webmail – If your hosting provider is security minded, this will redirect you to something like https://hostname:2083 or https://hostname:2096 – The hostname bit is your incoming and outgoing server's Host Name.
Method 2
If you log into cpanel, then you can find the settings by clicking on the Email Accounts icon
then find the row of email accounts (you may only have one), and click the More button, then click Configure Email Client.
This will open the Mail Client Configuration screen, where you will find the information as marked below
- Host Name : This will be the name of the server that hosts your cPanel account. See above.
- Username : On cPanel servers this is always the full mailbox address.
- Password : This is your mailbox password (not the cPanel account password!)
When you have done all that, tap Next (top right).
Step 6 – Turn off Notes
Turn off the Notes switch by tapping it, and tap Save
Step 7 – Configure more settings
You should now be returned to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen. Tap your new account entry.
Step 8 – Tap the account as shown
Step 9 – Tap Advanced settings
Step 10 – IMAP Path Prefix
Scroll to the bottom and enter IMAP for the IMAP Path Prefix
Step 11 – Set IMAP Mailbox Behaviours
This stage is important because otherwise your Sent, Drafts and Trash will be stored locally on your iPhone, and you won't be able to see them when accessing your mailbox from another computer or webmail.
Start by tapping Sent Mailbox
Step 12 – Connect to correct IMAP folder
You will see that currently there is a little blue tick next to the Sent folder ON MY IPHONE. This causes no end of support calls! Just tap the Sent folder under ON THE SERVER.
After which you will be returned to the Advanced screen (Step 11) – repeat this process for the Drafts and Deleted folders, connecting them to the server's Drafts and Trash folders respectively.
Step 13 – Unlucky if you forget it!
Once you are back to the Advanced screen, don't forget to tap Account (top left) to return to the Account screen, and then tap Done (top right) otherwise your advanced settings won't be saved.
That's it – you've now configured your iPhone correctly for a cpanel email account.


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British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke said "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it". Later it became commonly known as "Those who ignore...blah blah blah". I give you Paul Allen, Blazer owner and knucklehead. He sat in silence as the franchise was ruined by then GM Bob Whitsitt who brought in a collection of low class losers. You know the JailBlazer saga. Following the 1993 season the Dallas Cowboys won their 2nd straight Super Bowl. A team brilliantly designed and put together by Jimmy Johnson. The trouble was egomaniacal owner Jerry Jones felt he deserved credit. He did, for hiring Johnson. The issue led to the dismissal of JJ and the hiring of Barry Switzer. They would win another title, with the cast Johnson assembled but soon fell into mediocrity then worse. From January of 1997 until this past January without winning a playoff game. I think Kevin Pritchard is a terrific General Manager. The name Sam Presti has been kicked around as a possible replacement. He's done nice work with the Thunder drafting Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook as well as acquiring Jeff Green in a trade. They are a good young team, but they or he have never won anything and it's no lock he's an upgrade from Pritchard. KP took a mess and made something of it.
Let's give away one of those super sweet Cumulus Golf Cards. They're available on our website www.953thescore.com as part of Half Price Eugene. Send the correct answer to the following to my e-mail at email@example.com
This year's British Open is set for St. Andrews in less than 3 weeks. Tiger has won the last 2 times it's been held at the legendary track. In 2005 he bested Colin Montgomerie by 5 shots, who were the co-runners up when Woods stroked his way to victory in 2000?
Friday, June 25, 2010
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Had a fairly good day yesterday. Met my friend Nick for breakfast downtown- we got croissants and walked down to the dock on the river, sat there eating and throwing sticks in for Willa. She does these cute belly flops off of the dock and swims like a baby seal. Had a great time just talking with Nick too- at one point he brought up how much he was going to miss me after we graduate. Nick and I have been pretty close for the past few years. I used to spend all of my time with those boys- Steve, Nat, Lars, Nick. I meet up with him atleast once a week for breakfasts or lunches, wish I could keep doing that even after I leave.
I went to the labs to work for a few hours. I'm about 29/30ths done my thesis, just have to figure out how to do one last type of analysis. I downloaded the Pinkerton album on the school computer and must have listened to it three or four times through. Decided it was too nice to stay cooped up, so I packed up and headed back home. Grabbed Willa, threw her in the car and drove out to Cliff City. Windows down, music playing, dog's ears and lips flapping in the wind. We spent the afternoon with me throwing sticks for her, her bellyflopping in the water and romping with other dogs.
Came back, got a call from Nat. We decided on a night of mojitos, so I jumped in my car again to run to the store- except some kid had drunkenly passed out in the middle of the street. Cops had decided it would be smart to line one whole side of the street with 6- seriously- cop cars and an ambulance, blocking my driveway. I waited for a bit, got a call from some other people saying that they were at Andy's and were drunk and didn't want to drive back-I said I'd drive them. Saw a cop returning to her car. I went to go talk to her, asked her if she could just move her car back two feet so I could sneak my car out. She got incredibly angry with me, asked if I was too blind to see that there was a situation occuring. The kid was already standing and walking around, but still needed twenty cops standing around him. I would have gone back to my car, but then she said something like "you damn college kids should take responsibility, this is your fault that he passed out. You and your damn college parties." I was pretty insulted, pointed out to her that this was a rash generalization and that I had been inside doing homework at the time that he was drinking. And then I pushed it- told her that if she would prefer I not use rash generalizations about cops that she should not use them with me. She started threatening to take me in- which I pointed out that, by law, she could not do. She then referred to me as hippie girl- I guess because my hair was messy-curly, I had ripped jeans and a tank top on, and she pointed to a bumper sticker on my jeep that said "war is not the answer". Started ranting about how her uncle was over there, how I was disrespecting the soldier and the president, that I had no idea what was even going on politically. I said that she had every right to her own opinion but not to insult me because of mine. She walked away and another cop walked over- I flirted with him a bit and within a minute had him move his car while the other cop glared on.
Had a great night sitting around drinking mojitos and beer with Nat and Lars. We grabbed the trashcan out of their roomate's room and started a mini bonfire in it. Nat went inside for awhile and I sat talking with Lars, which was really nice. Been sort of worried about him since he left the college, he just seems out of sorts. Was a really relaxing evening though.
Parents are coming down for lunch today, then I might be seeing a movie tonight with that guy.


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I've been pretty quiet here lately. There have been many reasons for my lack of content generation, some of them are probably even good ones.
Partly, I've been lazy. Partly, I've been caught up in Asimov's Foundation series (three books in two weeks; that's pretty good for me). Partly, I've been inspired to get back to writing my fantasy series (I had put it down for a year or so; I'll put up a post about the series soon), in addition to the nonfiction book I'm co-authoring. Partly, I've been working diligently on several editing projects (including Brian Jacobs' second Enigma Squad book).
Most recently, though, I've been consumed with a new project for our company, Creative Fuel Studios. I'm officially the Director of Publishing there, which is great — I don't think there's anyone as young as I with that title anywhere else in the world. The only problem is, we're not a publishing company. Since we formed the company, we've been claiming to be an "Interactive Media" company, but if you looked at our portfolio, you'd think, "Design Studio." Most of the company has been too caught up in doing what pays the bills to do much of what we really want to do. And what is it we want to do? Content creation and production.
That's where I come in. I run the company hobby.
It's been quite a ride trying to figure out how to do that, but I'd grown pretty frustrated in the last month or two at trying to do it on my own. Then my wife started working at CFS. She inspired me (as she so often does), and we started brainstorming. The ideas kept building, and we developed a plan. We're now developing CF Publishing as its own vehicle, and I'm driving! Between facebook, Twitter, and our blog, I think we'll actually be able to start leading the industry, generating new, awesome content and ideas. So fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a fun ride!


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Continuing with hairstyle 2013 theme, i might prefer to share with you many ideas on short hairstyles for the season. Long hairstyles undoubtedly prevailed at the runways throughout the big apple Fashion Week, however i used to be still able to spot some short hairstyles 2013, that due our attention.
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Alizadeh R, MD, Ziaee V, MD, Aghsaeifard Z, MD, Mehrabi F, MD , Ahmadinejad T, MD
Characteristics of Headache at Altitude among Trekkers; A comparison between Acute Mountain Sickness and Non- Acute Mountain Sickness Headache
Asian Journal of Sports Medicine. 2012 Jun;3(2):126-30
Farahbakhsh F, Rostami M, MD, Kordi R, MD ,PhD
Necessity of Adding Sports and Exercise Medicine Topics to the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum in Iran
Thrita Journal of Medical Sciences - 2012;1(2):49-52
Kordi R, MD, PhD, Mazaheri R, MD, Rostami M, MD , Mansournia MA , MD, PhD
Hemodynamic Changes After Static and Dynamic Exercises and Treadmill Stress Test; Different Patterns in Patients with Primary Benign Exertional Headache?
Acta Med Iran. 2012;50(6):399-403
Memari AH, MD, Ziaee V, MD, Mirfazeli F,MD, Kordi R, MD, PhD
Investigation of Autism Comorbidities and Associations in a School-Based Community Sample
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.2012 May;25(2):84-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2012.00325.x.
Rabbani A, Rahmani P, Qoddosi Sh , Ziyaee V
Dental problems in calcium metabolism disorders
Tehran University Medical Journal; Vol. 69, No. 6, September 2011: 393-398
Alizadeh R, Ziaee V, Frooghifard LA, Mansournia MA, Aghsaeifard Z
The Effect of Path and Beginning Time of Ascending on Incidence of Acute Mountain Sickness around Mount Damavand in Iran (5671 m)
Neurology Research International, 2012,doi:10.1155/2012/428296
Rahimi M, Halabchi F, Alibakhshi E, KHalali N, Nazeri Sh
Sport injuries of Karatekas at competitions
Iranian Journal of Military Medicine international, 2012,VOl.13,No.4:235-240
Kordi R, Ziaee V, Rostami M, Wallace WA
Sport injuries and health problems among wrestlers in Tehran
J Pak Med Assoc,March 2012,Vol. 62, No. 3,Pages:204-208
Ansari M, Shafiei M, Kordi M
Dog bites among off-road cyclists: A report of two cases
Asian Journal of Sports Medicine, Volume 3 (Number 1), March 2012, Pages: 60-63
Soleimany G, Dadgostar H, Lotfian S, Moradi-Lakeh M, Dadgostar E, Movaseghi S
Bone mineral changes and cardiovascular effects among female athletes with chronic menstrual dysfunction
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Last month Missha had a one week sale on a lot of their skincare items, everything was under $15 so I took full advantage of the sale since their stuff usually cost about $22+ I purchase mostly on their Super Aqua line because I really do enjoy them from my previous purchase, this line is amazing for people with combo/dry skin like me.
Since my total was over $40 I had a free mini gift set which I have 2 of them already so I'll be giving them away to a friend or a family member.
Few weeks ago CVS had a super deal on the Revlon Age Defying foundation and their Color Burst lipgloss which I also stack them with manufacture coupons plus my extra bucks so I ended up getting these 2 for free!
I bought the OPI Crackle nail polish which I've been deciding on for months if I should get them or not and finally got it, now I want the other colors :D
I also purchase two new Revlon eyeshadow, it's their Diamond Lust finish (it's super sparkly which is the only reason why I got them) and my all time favorite eyeliner "L'oreal Lineur Intense liner" since the one I'm using now is almost finish.
I bought the famous mineralize skinfinish in "Lightscapade" if you haven't know me already I'm a Mac MSF junkie :D
Surprisingly they had plenty of this in my closest MAC store and I took four days after it was release to purchase it. I was expecting to sold out super quick like Stereo Rose (which I didn't get ;_;)
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Get Your Dunkin Monday
Apologies for the late Dunkin. I had my computer updated and spent most of the morning organizing my desktop as well as my bookmarks. I had to download or re-install many of the most basic functions, but it is all cleaned up and ready to go! The weekend was relaxing and it was sad to leave the boat. Lil Sis Frank was able to come along and she enjoy the sun, the water and some grillin'. All in all a great weekend. I also finished the first month of Insanity! This week is technically a "recovery week" where the lady and I will take it easy, then wham, bam thank you MAX INTERVALS! Thus far my results have been fantastic, can't wait to start up the next month. Let's do this!
Here are your highlights:
Stimulus Now: Economists plead to urge our leaders to lead.
The GOP v Dem strategy. The Bush Zombie arguments
Five Reasons Why Green Tech has had such a Tough Time in America
Sign this, Let Elizabeth Warren Protect Consumers (h/t Digby)
The FAIL of Austerity
When the GOP gets a talking, you will almost always here about the Tax Cut Fairy.
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The Redeemed Christian Church Of God, Rivers Of Joy Parish
Love. It's simple isn't it? You love your family and friends, and they love you back. You find partner whom you love and loves you too. And you don't even have to try – it just happens. All true…. we already know well that its much, much more concentrated than that.
Love between people almost always has it's complications, because people are complicated love can be tried
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Have you seen this? A woman spanked another woman's child in a Salvation Army. They did not know each other and nor did she have permission to spank the child! Another man a few weeks ago was arrested for spanking a child in the face inside a Walmart. He did not know the child but apparantly told the mother "you either shut him up, or I will!"
What the hell is wrong with people? I have a BIG problem with this. Why do people think they have ANY right to touch another person's child. That right is only given to the parents! God holds parents accountable for the children, not society! Seriously, there are so many other ways to deal with any child, that you should NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS even threaten to spank someone else's child! In all of my years working with kids, I have thought "if only that child just got one good spanking on their little butt!" Or "that parent really should spank him one!" But, never have I ever threatened it or done it. I have never had to. Usually kids respond really good to me and I just have to give them that look and they stop (for a while anyways). It bugs me when people say that they spank someone else's child. (Don't worry, I won't name names. LOL) My answer is "FIND ANOTHER WAY!" Leave the parenting up to the parents! Enough said.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
What the heck is wrong with people????!!!
Posted by Embarking on a New Journey at 1:56 PM
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- Miss Erica said...
Hi. I got your blog from my mom- I guess she met you on cleft advocate? Anyway, I have a daugher w/a cleft l/p too. I guess we just miss each other @ children's hospital. anyway, I enjoy reading your blog. It's nice to know we are not alone in our journey!
Oh and you have such beautiful children!
- September 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Katie81 said...
I saw both of those stories...don't even want to think about what my reaction would have been if some stranger laid a hand on my kid. Jail would probably be involved
- September 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM
- Embarking on a New Journey said...
Katie- I agree! Hal and I were talking about it and I don't think I would have stood back to watch even if it wasn't my kid!
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United Airlines changed their web site when it merged with the Continental site. All of the pages changed, but one of the pages seemed to just disappear. That one page is the Travel Invoice. This showed what travel was accomplished and what charges were incurred. This may not be missed by active employees (with a salary), because all charges are taken out of the monthly paycheck. But for those inactive employees and retirees, I think it must be sorely missed. If you know where this is now, please pass the URL. If not, read on...
Without access to travel accomplished and travel charged, there is no way to see what is owed to whom and how much to pay. Also, with the new pass procedures, passes have to be "purchased" before they are used. This means that flights where the employee gets a different seat than the one purchased (coach vs. first class) OR if the flight never happens (can't get on or rerouted), the system takes my money and I have to request a refund. But without knowing what charges were incurred, I can't know what needs to be reconciled and I can't know what I owe. It's frustrating. Does anyone else have these issues? If the invoices are accessible, that solves the problem. If not, does anyone have a solution?


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Most of my wild ramblings are just that, rambling about the wilds from one place to another on foot, while my mind rambles from one thought to another within the confines of my imagination. There is little doubt that my mind does the most wandering. My ramblings give me the chance to answer questions I have about life; questions like and I contributing to the universe and what can I do better to create a better natural world? Although I have not found complete answers to these questions I always feel that I am just a little closer to a major breakthrough at the end of a wild jaunt. So I keep rambling about the woods whether it is near my home or far away in the wilderness. As I wander around in the wilds I mentally record my thoughts so that I can write about them later on. Below are some of my thoughts on a recent excursion in the woods.
It is an early morning in mid-May. After several brief spring days that were followed by winter-like weather, today feels like the warm weather might be here to stay. I am walking on a trail that starts near the back door of my house. I could easily take this trail past thousands of acres without ever crossing my own tracks. On this day I will be lucky to cover 50 acres on my short ramble. Today my time is limited as more pressing events with my children will take precedence.
As I enter the woods I notice that the clintonia has produced its first new leaves. These leaves are exposed to the few sun rays that can squeeze between the newly formed foliage on the overhanging branches. This wonderful clintonia plant will later yield a delicate yellow flower. Eventually the plant will grace the landscape with multiple tiny blue berries hence the common name blue bead. Nearby are a variety of ferns and clubmoss. These plants are remarkably ancient. As a group of plants they were preceded by only a few other plant groups like algae, fungi, and some aquatic plants. In the very, very distant past ferns and clubmoss, also known as allies, were a dominant plant in many regions of our planet. Long lost cousins of our present ferns and clubmoss grew to a tree-like size. They were amongst the first plants to be able to transport water through a vascular system to foliage that converted sunlight to chlorophyll. We now see the remains of these vast ancient jungles in our coal mines and fossil fuel supplies. Millions and millions of years later we still feel more than a whisper of their ancient existence.
Ferns and clubmoss are examples of nonflowering plants that reproduce by unusual means. Each plant contains spores. When the spores get deposited on the soil they produce a secondary nonchlorphytic plant. This produces male and female cells that reproduce and eventually grows into the plant with which we are all familiar. This unusual reproduction technique makes perfect sense for plants that had to endure a volatile environment. The chances for species survival were likely heightened if reproduction could take place in a more stable environment. I find myself digging around in the soil at the base of the ferns in hopes of finding some evidence of this process. On this day I am not so fortunate.
After this brief activity I renew my walk in the woods. On this day the woods smell cool and damp. The clean, clear smell of the damp woods clears my head and I can focus on the narrow trail that runs up the hill in front of me. As I look up the path I can see movement. It is difficult for me to determine what the movement is. My body reacts and goes into some primative stealth mode. My breathing slows but I can hear every heart beat in my chest. And then slowly, emerging from behind a shrub, I see a hen turkey. She is alert. It is apparent to me that she senses my presence given her nervous behavior. Not too far behind are several turkey chicks lined up in a single line. At first I think there are just a few, but they just keep appearing, still in a single line. There are perhaps twelve of these precious birdlets. I am surprised because it is early to see a turkey brood. They appear to be freshly hatched and I believe that the hen is trying to guide them to a safer environment. The hen quickly moves over to an area of thick, low undergrowth. She begins clucking to call her chicks. They all run, breaking the single file formation as they gather around their mom. This time the chicks were lucky. If I were a fox or coyote their lives would have been short lived. I am reminded that of the twelve chicks only three or four will be lucky to live out a full year; a triumph for those that survive.
I move on and wander off the trail to a red oak stand that is a favorite forage spot for wildlife in the autumn and winter months. Every other year, or so, these trees produce vast quantities of acorns that provide valuable sustenance for numerous wildlife species. Acorns are valuable for building the fat reserves that are necessary for winter survival. Black bear, white tailed deer, red and gray squirrels, chipmunks, turkeys, crows, and many other species will depend up areas like this one for valuable nutrition. This area has few understory plants. The light on the forest floor is sparse in the summer because of the spreading limbs that block the sunlight overhead. I am attracted to a small sugar maple sapling that is trying to buck the trend and grow beneath the thick overstory. A good deal of the bark has been worn off of one side of the narrow trunk. It is clear that during the previous rutting season a young male deer used the trunk as a marking spot, rubbing its orbital glands against the tiny trunk and scarring it by removing the bark.
I push towards the top of the hill and approach a small wet area that I have known about for years. For a long time I was puzzled by this wet area. There is an opening above this damp spot. Sunlight finds its way to the forest floor allowing wetland plants to grace the damp area. The bedrock is close to the surface here. Over time I notice that this area stayed wet even during the driest years. I concluded that it must stay wet as the result of hydrostatic pressure, more commonly known as a bedrock spring. The actual water pressure is from a distant source; another connected piece of bedrock on a nearby hill that stores water at a higher elevation. The plant community in this micro-environment is lush. Cinnamon fern, spinulose wood fern, and bluejoint grass are all present. There is no standing water but the soil is saturated. A small down-gradient channel is present but not flowing at this time. During innundated periods the water likely runs off from this wet area to lower terrain rejuvenating the groundwater as it seeps into the soil. This is probably a great spot to spy on wildlife. Small, isolated, water sources can be an important commodity to forest animals.
I wander a little farther to the south. The ledge on which I stand has a picturesque view. If I look to the northeast I can see a mountain about 20 miles away that is on the opposite side of the Connecticut River. From this vantage point I see very little other than miles and miles of forest. I wonder how many others have stood in this exact spot and have experienced the wonderful view.
It is the perfect place to sit, think, and reflect. I find a moss covered section of exposed bedrock on which I can sit comfortably and take a few minutes to relax. My mind wanders to my childhood. I used to fantasize that I would stumble into a dimensional time warp and find myself deep in the forest two hundred and fifty years ago. In my young imagination I would find myself being terribly afraid at first. Being lost in the woods is one set of experiences, but being lost in time is something else altogether. In my imaginary world I would wander through the forest and eventually find my way to a colonial village. The pioneers that I encounter are curious about my appearance; sneakers, cotton t-shirt, and dungarees, all very foreign and unknown to this era. In my imaginary world I eventually display great capabilities based on my 20th century knowledge. Like many childhood fantasies I become a legend in my own mind.
In remembering these childhood fantasies I am reminded that our minds are capable of taking us nearly anywhere.; sort of the ultimate freedom. I sit here and wonder if this is how oppressed people survive the awful experiences to which they are exposed.
The drumming of a partridge on a distant ridge brings me back to reality. The partridge is some distance away, perhaps a quarter mile or more. I try to imagine him beating his wings, pushing so much air that it sounds like someone trying to drum some ancient message to be interpreted by our inner souls.
And with this thought I start rambling back to our homestead. My mind and body are ready for a new adventure, real or imaginary, with every step I take.
Originally written for the Heath Herald in May of 1992.


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Well, there's a lot of mysteries here but The Bell Curve, Human Accomplishment and other works by Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray, and others indicate that Jews have higher IQs than others on average.
Also, my thesis is that the synoptic and integrative genius of Jews springs from their monotheist vision and their faith in a coherent and meaningful universe. Einstein was very willing to assert that connection, and so was David Bohm, another great quantum theorist. John von Neumann also reflected this demand for coherence, integration and synthesis.
The theory of relativity and quantum theory are insights that are not restricted to a narrow experimental base but reflect a kind of synoptic imagination that can integrate all sorts of different fields. I think this is essentially a religious impulse. It reflects the monotheist demand that the whole universe be in some way integrated, unified, coherent and meaningful.
The scientific vision reflects the religious vision and is enabled by it. And the abandonment of the religious, monotheist vision results in the tower of Babel that we now see in theoretical science, where the whole effort to unify the sciences has broken down pathetically.
In your book, you shower praise on Benjamin Netanyahu. Why?
Netanyahu is the Reagan of our era. He is a leading authority on supply-side economic theory, he understands it better than any American politician, and he just has the kind of intuitive mastery of economics that eludes most other politicians around the world.
He has advocated market-oriented policies and supply-side tax cuts, which really climaxed in 2004 when he managed to get the percentage of ownership of Israel's leading corporations reduced from 60-80 percent down to 20 percent. He also managed to secure the privatization – over 20 years – of the pension system, which was run by Histadrut with heavy government subsidies. Today the privatization of this system is yielding some 400 million dollars a month of capital.
These developments are presumably good for Israel.
Well, it's also good for the United States because we're in financial turmoil. We have very little idea of what we're doing with economic policy these days. Israel has become a haven for American capital and talent. Israelis are taking the lead under Netanyahu.
I think it's a providential development to have Israel following aggressive supply-side policy at a time when the United States is debauching the dollar and socializing a lot of its economy. Israel is proving that the other line of policy is more promising.
Interestingly, in your book you demonstrate that Israel's economic policies have benefited Arabs even more than Jews.
When Israel inherited the territories in 1967, it administered them, but much more loosely than it administered it own economy. And so the territories became the fastest growing economy on the face of the earth. Some 250,000 Israeli settlers moved to these previously Judenrein areas, and they attracted some two million Arab settlers. Eight Arabs moved in for every Jew.
This was a golden age for Arab Palestinians. Their numbers tripled, their per capita incomes also tripled, their educational levels soared, and their life expectancy rose from 42 to some 70 years.
My belief is that it was the manifest success of this collaboration between Jews and Palestinians that terrified Arafat and the PLO and precipitated the intifada, the return of Arafat from Tunisia, and the delivery by the international community of the territories to the PLO – who then brought to a screeching halt all the economic development. The PLO caused a 40 percent drop in GDP per capita incomes, and just generally reversed the huge achievements of the previous 20 years.


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I did awful at haggling down the price (the seller only knocked off $200). But I got the van I wanted. It's beautiful ! And the price was pretty fair for the condition, age and mileage.
I won't go on and on about it here. I've already talked about it on FaceBook and YouTube. Just sharing a quick update here.


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I'll be the first to admit that running and I are not the best of friends. There are times when I'm loving it, especially if I have a great new playlist on my iPhone that keeps me motivated or if I am meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in awhile and we catch up while doing laps around the Washington D.C. mall. Then there are other times when I despise my running shoes — usually those are the times when I have taken a serious break from the activity and my lungs are screaming at me.
For the longest time, I never even thought I would run long distances because I'm slow as molasses! My first attempt to run longer than a 5k was when I first moved to D.C. in 2001. My friend and I signed up for the famous Army Ten Miler in October. Unfortunately, the event was canceled due to security concerns from September 11th. Honestly, I was relieved because I had only reached 7 or 8 miles in my training by then, and I was not mentally ready. Thankfully I have a fantastic friend who offered to run the ATM with me six years later in 2007. This awesome friend stayed with me the entire time, even though she normally runs a 2x my race pace! I think she secretly enjoyed giving me obnoxious encouragement, like "That lady in front of you has a bigger butt than you. You're not going to let HER beat you to the finish line, are you??" She's great, isn't she?
Having finished that race, I became a running snob, scoffing at little 5ks. D.C. has an absolutely beautiful 10 mile race in the spring, running under the cherry blossom canopies, so with that under my belt I figured what's another 3.1 miles, right? I ran my first half marathon in 2009 with Team Challenge. I thought that if I was going to put myself through 13.1 miles for the first time, I'd better not do it alone! Plus, the destination was Miami in January, so you can't really complain about the race weather conditions! Since then, I've returned to Miami to run two more times, ran the Disney Half in January during a shocking sleet storm, went to L.A. to do the Disneyland Half and get our Coast-to-Coast medals, and then did a Rock and Roll half. Hey, if you're going to run that far, you should at least do it at a fun place and make a vacation out of it.
|Team Challenge – Miami Half Marathon 2009
The funny thing about running is that if you don't get back into it after a serious injury, it's like you've never raced before in your life. That's what happened to me. First, I got achilles tendonitis that took a good part of a year to recover, which required me to quit running altogether for that time. Then the worst thing I've ever endured happened. I've lived a very healthy, or lucky, life as far as injuries go – nothing broken, no joint problems. But in 2010, I finally got hit with two extruding discs. It's amazing how much an injury like that can be both a physical and a mental hurdle because you don't want to do anything to take away the calm and relief from pain after receiving a cortisone shot. So I can honestly say that running stopped being a part of my life because I was afraid of the pain and being helpless again. Unfortunately, my brain thought that I was still a runner, and when I did a 10k last October with a friend, it was telling me "No problem! I got this! This will be easy peasy at half the distance you've gone before, so it won't matter that you didn't train at all." Boy did my brain get a lesson that day! Within 3 painful weeks, I was back on the surgery table getting more cortisone injected into my spine.
|Best finisher medal ever? I think, YES!
I don't know what I was thinking this spring when I entered the lottery for the Nike Women's Half Marathon in San Francisco. It must the lure of the Tiffany's finisher necklace that has me determined to participate this darn race, despite its nasty hills. I had been doing this lottery for the past four years, but never got selected. Maybe I figured it wouldn't be different this year and I'd be off the hook. Well, my luck changed, and I've paid my entry fee. So here we are now, time to get moving and start training again! If it makes any sense, though, after last October/November, I'm really scared to run again, for fear that I will be on a training run and have something go wrong with my back and be stuck far away from home. But, I got the green light from my orthopedist today. In fact, he told me that the November cortisone shot had long worn off and my lack of pain is due to all my work being conscious of my activity and movement and from strength training. Good news!
|Wait…this is what awaits us at the finish line?
The race is in October, so let the countdown begin! 17 weeks to go! Stay tuned for the race recap in October, fingers crossed I'm injury free and able to race. If this works out well, I'm definitely signing up for the lottery to run in the brand new Nike Women's Half in Washington D.C., coming in Spring 2013….
|If this is cheering me on, I could run a marathon too!


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Pinspiration – numero dos
I LOVE King's Hawaiian Bread.
Source: King's Hawaiian Bread
Really love. I buy the rolls just to eat by themselves. It's my aunt's fault. She's the one who introduced me to them way back when.
When I was on pinterest a while back, I saw these 7-up biscuits.
Source: www.PlainChicken.com via Tricia on Pinterest
While I know they're nothing like King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread, I still felt compelled to try them out and see if it would be cheaper to make these than to buy those.
Thus, Pinspiration – numero dos, was created.
Here are the ingredients. Bisquick, sour cream, 7-up, and butter. (Butter is not pictured because I didn't use it.) Check out those flames!! I love the overlays offered by Pixlr.com!!
Pour two cups of bisquick into a bowl. Measure out 1/2 cup of sour cream and cut it into the bisquick.
It will look a little dry and lumpy.
Then measure out 1/2 cup of 7-up and pour it into the bowl.
From here you're to mix it all up and place it onto a bisquick-floured suface and cut shapes to place into a buttered 9-in square pan. Well, I poured the mixture onto a bisquick-floured surface but it was too sticky and gross and it wouldn't form from my cutter.
So I ended up just pouring the whole mixture into a 8-in square pan (all I have).
Then I baked it in a preheated 450 degrees F oven. The recipe calls for 12-15 minutes or until slightly browned. Mine took 18 minutes to turn slightly brown. (I forgot to take a picture of it right out of the oven.)
I'm not quite sure how I feel about them. When I placed the first bite into my mouth, I didn't have that instant "OMG! I'm in love!". But after a few more bites, I thought they tasted okay. I'm sure the missing butter has something to do with it too. So I will make them again but with the butter so I can make a more accurate decision.
Thanks for reading!
All images, except the first two, have been edited by Pixlr.com/express.


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Askos is the name given in modern terminology to a type of Greek vessel used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil. They were usually painted decoratively like vases and were mainly used for storing oil and refilling oil lamps.
I fell in love with the closed form while traveling in Greece.
The work shown below is was inspired by the Askos.


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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
(Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure: Lost and Found, 1992
There's something exhilarating about cold, real cold, the kind of cold that freezes your nostrils and forms tiny icicles on your eyelids, that nips at your flesh, penetrating the layers of fleece and polyester and Smartwool. It is at once energizing and humbling: it reminds us that nature is both a blessing and a force.
Last weekend, my friend Pete and I set out for the DeDominicis trail in Cheshire at 8:00 am, when the thermometer said the temperature was minus-five. Before we had even reached the trailhead, which is about a mile and a quarter from my house, the wisps of hair that had made their way outside the balaclava I was sporting had become white and hard, and my teeth were so cold that conversation was nearly impossible. My feet, still warm thanks to the miracles of Gore-tex and merino wool, seemed to stick to the ground with each step, and my breath came in short, sharp gasps.
I admit that none of this sounds especially enjoyable or pleasurable. Yet, as we trudged up and down (mostly up, or so it felt!) the snow-covered hills, less packed down than we had hoped, our quads burning from the effort, I felt alive, really and truly alive. Having lived, albeit briefly, in the cold climes of Anchorage, Alaska and Burlington, Vermont, I had come to think of Connecticut as mild, disappointingly so. My heavy thermals rarely have occasion to leave the bin of cold weather clothing under my bed. My down jacket comes out two or three times a year. As a result, I felt my own spirit had become domesticated. I would shiver when the temperature dipped below forty. I would lament my "tame" geographic location (much to the irritation of friends and family, who have had more than enough of my complaining, and of my nostalgia). Now here was Mother Nature in her essence, showing us that she could flex her biceps even here in southern New England. And while I embraced the challenge of working my muscles in the arctic air, I also bowed to the power of Nature.
Such a deranged view of cold is probably a result of my obsession with Alaska, a place to which I still feel drawn. Alaska, for me, was a personal challenge, a test of physical and emotional will. While my time there was too short, I emerged a more complete person, more confident, more awake, more aware. This is the gift of adversity, be it in the form of weather, exercise, tragedy, distress, illness, or emotional duress.
Blow, blow thou winter wind;
Thou art not so unkind. . . .
(William Shakespeare)


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Passion for Poetry?
9 comments:
I not only love reading poetry but also love jotting down some lines.. I have a topic in my blog for it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2009 at 7:40 AM
yeah, noone reads poetry anymore unless they have to.ReplyDelete
I've always liked poetry, although I'm a picky reader. I can't be arsed to sift through volumes of it to find one or two poems that I like. It's a nice thought, but just not that important to me. Now if they had a way to search all the poems one can find for style, that'd be another story. :)ReplyDelete
On the contrary, I feel that poetry is an enduring form of human art, and will continually adapt to ever-changing times (as contrasted by, say, newspapers). An example of this is here:ReplyDelete
Hope you can check this post of mine out:
i don't really like poetry.ReplyDelete
Finding and reading the poetry of Rumi over a year ago has changed my life. I like the English translations by Coleman Barks.ReplyDelete
I LOVE POETRY....because the possibilites when form meets creativity...when an established way of doing things is attempted by idiosyncratic people with diverse experiences and knowledge....are utterly endless and liberating...ReplyDelete
if you like poetry can you give me some feedback
i have a poetry blog @
havent been writing long, still trying to find my voice...any comments would be appreciated :)
Hi There Yes I love poetry my blog is quite new but I have loads of content ready to type in on a daily basis - mostly poems I've written over the years some of the situations are quite comical as you will find out as I go along! Most are romantic/love lost/besotted in love but some are about loneliness/hope and life in general!! I'm putting in a bit of background story to why each was written along the way!ReplyDelete
Here it is for those interested!!
I'd be grateful to any followers and will willingly follow you back!
Poetry is very personal...in my opinion one can relate only to a self written poem..but only sympathize with someones else s...well at least i find myself doing that anyway!!ReplyDelete
inspiring blog BTW!