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Fish Out of Water – "I Need to be Free!"
Are you in a rut? Do you wish that you could find freedom by breaking out? Is your job a drag? Are social norms and rigid "truth claims" making you feel suffocated? Perhaps you are like the goldfish who wants to get out of her fishbowl.
In actuality, many imposed or self-imposed constraints are not healthy. Too much can produce irritability, defensiveness, or even a sense of superiority.
As long as we are in the "fishbowl" we can blame the glass surrounding for our negative experiences. But when we leap from the water, rejecting all confinement, we find ourselves gasping on the dry grass. Ugh! But take heart! The pressure and suffocation of this experience CAN be a positive thing. But how?
If you are flattened right now, gasping for life, it's a great time to admit "I can't survive here."
A fish grounded cannot get herself back into the water. She must ask one higher to pick her up and put her back. Faith is required for such a declaration.
As a wife and mother of five, I feel confined quite often. The pressures seem unending and I want to bolt. Loving family relationships require personal sacrifice and that is restrictive. Nevertheless, rejecting those relationships produce isolation.
We cannot survive in such a place.
Think for a minute with me. What are we made for? A fish is made to enjoy the freedom of being who he is, swimming in the water, eating fish food, and playing fish games.
We humans are made to give and receive love. We are to create and make the world a better place. When selfishness, resentment and defensiveness prevent us from giving, we are losing the freedom to be who we are!
We will thrive in "living water" spiritually charged with encouraging words:
"You are loved and eternally important to the one who made you."
"You have gifts that are to be used to help heal the broken world in which you live."
"Selflessness, forgiveness, and hope are the attributes of your flourishing."
Just being religious is not freeing. The fear of failure is always lurking. It can become dehumanizing to continually give up our freedom to a god that seems to only demand obedience.
Only one system of belief offers a love relationship with God in which he restricts his freedom for our sake.
The son of God jumped out of his glorious fishbowl and entered the dry deteriorating environment of our world for one purpose: to give us freedom. On the cross he gasped and gave his life away… So that we could have a loving relationship with him.
When anxiety, fear, and resentment build up we need to get back in the water. Restrictions always exist, but the proper restrictions produce amazing freedom and joy.


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Alex Sink Cuts Ad on Lying & Cheating… The Day After Lying & Cheating in Debate
Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink cut an ad this week called… get this…
From the ad:
"I'm Alex Sink and it's time for the truth… I'm a fiscal conservative… If someone lies or cheats, I hold them accountable."
Sink was just caught cheating during her debate with Republican Rick Scott on Monday. Then she lied about cheating.
Maybe she should hold herself accountable first?
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Yesterday I received this email from the American Association for Justice. The subject of the email was "Do Not Let DropBox Drop Your Rights". I am a member but I disagree with their position here.
Recently, Dropbox announced that it's changing its terms of service by adding a forced arbitration clause, a ban on consumers joining together in class actions and other offensive policy changes — a serious blow for its customers.
Don't stand by while corporations deny consumer rights and evade accountability.
This is silly. DropBox is a private organization. If you like their service you voluntarily purchase it. If you don't like their service (or their terms of service) then you cancel.
The must fundamental right we have is the right to voluntarily decide who you will and will not do business with. That is the right of contract.
When a corporation says "if you buy from us you must agree to arbitrate your disputes with us" you are free to act based on what your own judgment tells you to do.
DropBox is not taking away consitutional rights - it is setting the terms of engagement.
If you don't like what DropBox is doing you are free to:
- Switch companies
- Have no company store your online information
- Try to pursuade DropBox to change it's policies.
- Start your own company.
What do you think?


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Born and raised in Argentina, I have lived in the U.S. for the past 31 years. After raising five children, I knew I had an artistic passion not yet developed. I started painting my friends' houses, painting anything and everything. I decided this was my calling and through continuing education classes with other artisans worldwide through specialty schools, I honed my style and my craft and today have turned this passion into a successful business and studio teaching others so they also can ignite their passion.
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You remember that "one drop rule" that was used to segregate and disfranchise AA ?
Uhm yeah..it applies in this instance. No distinction whatsoever between half and full, assuming, of course, you identify with your African heritage. I've rubbed shoulders with quite a few half AA who swear off their black heritage altogether.
+1 I usually give them the Christmas gift of "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois (the hardest name there is to type on an iPhone).
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Trying to get a handle on the manic wonderland that is Los Angeles is no mean feat. It's really a wonderfully confusing place. That's why we go to people in the know – and who better to give us the scoop on La La Land than, say, oh, an awesome local DJ maybe?
We were lucky enough to get a few minutes with Andrei Osyka, DJ and 'Chief Smooth Operator' at Culprit LA, a record label that's been making waves in the world of dance music for awhile now. Together with Brett Griffin and Justin Sloe, he founded the DROOG Collective – purveyors of some of the most progressive dance music in LA. Andrei's also behind the ultra-cool Culprit Sessions, a weekly party atop the Rooftop Bar at the hipper-than-thou Standard Hotel. Read on for Andrei's thoughts on Barcelona, liquor laws and the future of dance music.
How did you get started DJing? What led you to form the DROOG collective?
I was a bit of a late dance music bloomer – was in my twenties when I fully realized what dance music was – got a sense of the whole sub-culture. That was around 1998, post-Daft Punk explosion, funky filtered house was all the rage. "Music Sound Better with You" by Stardust hooked me on – don't know why but it was immediate and strong. I was 20, coming out of college and totally absorbed myself in it…it seemed European and different to a regular American milieu. Being European-born myself, getting into dance music culture was sort of reconnecting to a different way of life, in a way. Plus it sounded fresh…I picked up DJing very soon after. I didn't just want to be an observed, I wanted to participate and DJing seemed like the best way to do so.
A few years later, after moving to LA, I met a group of fellas of roughly the same age and with similar dance music proclivities. Brett and Justin were sort of at the same stage of development, maybe Justin was a bit more dance-music-mature. We decided that there was strength in numbers, and if we could see how much fun we could have DJing and throwing parties together.
With the Culprit LA label, you're promoting dance music "done intelligently" – what does that mean and how does it differ from other styles of dance music?
We all have in-depth and eclectic music tastes, from indie to industrial to all sorts of things less obvious, so it made sense to translate that sensibility to dance music. In the age of dumbing down of pop-music and, now, dance music, it's a reaction against it…a movement to keep grounded in something more substantial and deeply rooted than the commercialized or "by-the-numbers" stuff out there. There is an audience for it and it's growing. It's just a belief that dance music doesn't have to be purely functional or extremely linear.
The Culprit Sessions at the Standard have become a requisite party in Downtown LA. Do you have any other favourite venues in LA?
LA has had a notorious paucity of quality venues, to be honest. The strict liquor licensing laws and the huge commercial dance music market are to blame. It's hard to say that there is a dance club we like to go to, frankly. But LA has some excellent bars of all stripes. Some of the favorites are Pattern Bar in Downtown, Harvard & Stone and La Descarga in Hollywood.
Are there any places you like to go after hours in LA?
After hours, I go either to my own or other people's houses, both because the after-hours scene is sort of weak – again, those 2am liquor laws and because we travel so much more now and don't have a lot of energy left for after-partying when we're home in LA. I do most of my afterhours stuff outside of LA :)
You just played Off-Sonar in Barcelona. How do you think the music scene in Europe differs to LA?
It's vastly different. Clubbing with house/techno music as a soundtrack is much more ingrained in European urban culture. There are just that many more options in Europe, better venues, a bigger demographic and better media infrastructure. You still fight an uphill battle to throw a really good party in the States, LA being no exception. But it's changing for the better…maybe.
Any favourite spots in Barcelona?
I love La Terrrazza – it's an old school Balearic club, the way I imagine they used to be in late '70s and '80s – the Golden Age. The Poble Espanol space right next to it gives you a really nice authentic flavour. Away from the clubbing world entirely, I love the Joan Miro Museum on Montjuic, it's fantastic…and just wandering the streets of Raval and Bario Gotico is a real European old city experience.
Back to LA – it can be a tough city to pin down. What do you think is its defining characteristic and what do you love most about it?
That's the thing – there isn't one defining characteristic. I suppose amazing weather most of the year is closest to one such thing. It's a fully multicultural town with so many authentic ethnic experiences. It's just many things to many people – it's malleable, that's what I love about it. You can make your own universe there. And it feels and looks your own private Hollywood film.
We asked Andrei what's on the horizon for Culprit LA and DROOG in the coming months and he pointed us in the direction of this cool vid. If you're in LA looking for a good party, definitely hit up the Culprit Sessions at the Rooftop Bar at the Standard Hotel downtown Sunday afternoons 'til October.
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SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Wire stadium fences were being unfolded, new X-ray security machines were being unpacked at entrances and clouds of dust billowed across roads leading to the World Cup venue.
There appeared to be a desperate sense of urgency among construction workers as Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador was being prepared to host a Group B game on Friday, a rematch of Spain's victory over the Netherlands in the 2010 final.
The work in progress on Thursday suggested that everything might not be ready in time.
"That is the Brazilian style," says Maria Flavio, a volunteer working at a media gate. "We leave everything for the last moment."
Salvador, Brazil's third-largest city after Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, will host six World Cup matches at the 52,000-capacity stadium which was one of the venues used in last year's Confederations Cup.
The stadium's construction was plagued by delays, and a small part of its roof collapsed last year following heavy rain less than three weeks before the World Cup warm-up tournament.
The modern-looking stadium at the foot of a favela hillside slum looked like a big construction site Thursday.
But it is not the only stadium in Brazil plagued by construction delays. FIFA has criticized Brazil over the late-running preparations, including the construction of promised road and airports.
"We will get this done, maybe not tomorrow, but by the end of the World Cup for sure," said jokingly a construction worker who identified himself as Joao. He was putting up one of several new metal light poles next to the Salvador arena's VIP entrance.
The old Fonte Nova was demolished in 2010 to mae way for the new arena.
The other group matches to be played at the stadium are Germany vs. Portugal on June 16, Switzerland vs. France on June 20, and Bosnia vs. Iran on June 25.
The Fonte Nova will also host a match in the second round on July 1 and a quarterfinal match on July 5.


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Adam Koska
Adam is an experienced player from the Czech Republic who has a number of high-profile finishes under his belt:
Hey everyone and welcome to
another installment of the Level up series! Although regular tournaments in the
usual formats are still held this time of the year, everybody's eyes are
already fixed on the new big set, Return to Ravnica, which is going to be released
in just a couple of weeks from now. Standard is going to change dramatically,
so even though we could still crunch the data from events like the SCG Opens
and PTQs, there's not really any point in analyzing this "lame duck" anymore.
On the other hand, we still don't have enough information to be able to tell
what exactly is going to happen to the future Standard (apart from seeing what
cards rotate out), so creating rough drafts of new decks doesn't really make
sense either, just yet. Because of this, I'm going to focus on Modern today, a
format that is not about to undergo such a drastic change like Standard,
because the pool of this format is much bigger and no cards are rotating out.
In terms of popularity,
Modern seems to usually come in a distant second place to Standard, partly
because of the card availability issue and partly because of the fact that
there are many more high profile tournaments held in Standard than in Modern.
However, Modern is quite a diverse and interesting format, even though you
probably wouldn't come to this conclusion if you checked the results of the
Player Championship or the World Magic Cup. I still have high hopes for Pro
Tour Seattle, where the constructed rounds will be played in Modern, and I'm
eager to see if the top players will bring something new to the tables,
something else than a sea of Jund and Zoo. And as for the card availability
issue... have you checked the Return to Ravnica spoilers recently? I have and
I'm sure that building a reasonably-costed manabase in Modern won't be such a
big deal in just a few weeks.
Has Return to Ravnica so far
brought something that could have a major impact on Modern? I don't really
think so. Cards like Dryad Militant, Dreadbore or Abrupt Decay could see some
play in Modern, but they don't look like very important cards, since they'll
only replace some older cards with a similar function. They won't have a whole
deck built around them. But M13 certainly introduced several interesting cards
that have pretty important Modern applications, my favorite so far being Faith's Reward. Have you ever read this card before or actually played with it?
No? Don't worry, you're probably not the only one – Faith's Reward is close to
unplayable in both Standard and Draft, but in Modern, it is virtually a second
copy of Second Sunrise, a card that had once some serious combo potential in
Extended and with two versions of this card now available in Modern, I do
believe that this combo deck could make a comeback.
So what is the combo deck
about? It used to be called "eggs" and it's basically a "big turn" combo deck,
in which you play a huge number of cheap artifacts that draw you a card upon
entering or leaving the battlefield and can be sacrificed for good measure. Lotus Bloom is pretty important here, because it gives you the mana necessary
to pay for the two key instants – Second Sunrise and Faith's Reward. Both of
these cards let you bring back all of the trinkets that you sacrificed on the
key turn, so that you can sacrifice them again to generate more mana and draw
more cards, which will hopefully contain another Second Sunrise or Faith's Reward, allowing you to continue going off and ultimately find your one copy of Grapeshot and kill your opponent with it. Here's the list that I've been
testing recently:
(60 cards)
(15 cards)
by Ondrej Smid
This list is pretty stock,
as far as the "eggs" archetype goes. Reshape is the best way how to find Lotus Bloom, without which you can't really go off, because you lack the necessary
mana. You can sometimes also see Wargate in the deck as a way to get the Lotus,
but Wargate is a bit slow and the deck already has so much card draw that you
usually don't have troubles finding a Reshape or having a Lotus going out of
suspend on the turn you want to go off. Three Lotuses are enough, because you
usually want to search for it with Reshape rather than suspend it, as that is
often too slow, unless you draw it in your opening hand. Faith's Reward and Second Sunrise are the cornerstones of the deck and you can't really cut any of
them. In fact, the deck needs these two cards so much that it also plays three Noxious Revivals, which are there mostly to make sure that you keep going off,
placing used Sunrises and Rewards back on the top of your deck, where you draw
them with one of the "eggs" that you bring back with one of the two white
There are some particular
cards in this list that you usually won't see in other builds, but that I've
found rather useful so far. Peer Through Depths is a card that I really like in
this build. Some other versions play Serum Visions as the card filtering spell,
but I think that Peer Through Depths is vastly superior. You can't get any
"egg" from Peer, but the deck runs so many of these already that you usually
shouldn't lack this piece of the puzzle (and you're not really looking for any
particular egg, so it doesn't matter which ones you have). However, you do need
a Reshape and a Second Sunrise-type of effect and Peer can find both of these.
It also looks for some of the one-of and two-of instants / sorceries in the
deck, cards that I'm going to talk about in a minute. In order to be able to
feed Peer Through Depths and not having it fizzle too often, you need to run a
bit more instants and sorceries, but fortunately, that's not a big deal. A pair
of Gitaxian Probes fit perfectly into this deck, being a free spell and
allowing you to see if the coast is clear. Edge of Autumn is sort of an "egg"
as well, because on the turn when you're going off, you can float a mana in
your pool from a land, then sac it to cycle Edge of Autumn and then bring back
the land with Second Sunrise / Faith's Reward. Ghost Quarter plays a similar
role here, since you can "ramp" with it thanks to your white recurring spells
by eating one of your own lands and then bringing both the Quarter and the
destroyed land back to the light of day.
Silence is a neat little
card that can protect you from annoying counterspells and some of the graveyard
hate. Jund Charm can cause you some troubles, but if you start your big turn
with Silence, they can't get you with the Charm, since all your eggs are still
in play. Silence can also be found with Peer Through Depths, which can be
useful sometimes.
What I like about this deck
is that it's quite resilient. You have so much "cycling" that you often don't
really mind getting Thoughtseized or Inquisitioned before your big turn. Many
decks use Grafdigger's Cage to fight graveyard based strategies and the good
news is that the Cage doesn't do anything against you. The bad news is that
there are cards that hose you pretty badly, like Relic of Progenitus, Nihil Spellbomb, countermagic in general, Stony Silence and sometimes Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (although you can go off even with Thalia in play, since
you're not necessarily playing that many spells on your key turn). However, Gigadrowse from the sideboard solves a big portion of these troublesome cards
and Echoing Truth solves another big part. Because you're not relying on your
graveyard until the point where you start to go off, you don't really mind your
opponent having a Relic or a Nihil Spellbomb and if you send it back to their
hand with Echoing Truth before you start going off, you don't suffer any
damage. Leyline of Sanctity also helps a ton, especially in matchups like Jund
where they have a lot of discard. And killing a random burn deck with the
Leyline is just icing on the cake.
"Eggs" is a Modern deck
that greatly benefited from a card printed in M13 and Merfolk is another one.
Before M13, Merfolk had only been a "real" deck in Legacy, so most people
assumed that Master of the Pearl Trident will only have an effect there, but I
think that the format in which he will see the most play is actually Modern,
where the Master helped Merfolk emerge from virtually nothing to a respectable
deck that can win tournaments. A couple of good local players have been testing
and tweaking this deck in my local store for the past several weeks and they
have been posting really good results with it recently. This is the most up to
date list:
by Petr Brigurek
What we have here are
basically the best available Merfolk creatures (with Phantasmal Image acting as
the Lord number 15-18), Aether Vials to help you plop them into play at an even
faster rate, some cards to slow your opponent down and then a very light
sprinkle of countermagic. Mana Leak is also an option, but with decks like Zoo
and Affinity left and right in Modern, the format seems a tad too fast for Mana Leak to really do its work. Vapor Snag seems to have made a successful
transition from Standard to Modern, but the card that I like probably the most
here is Spreading Seas. Merfolk is a tempo deck that can kill the opponent quickly
and Spreading Seas helps a ton with this plan. The combination of fetch-lands
and Ravnica duals means that many Modern decks opt for a rather greedy manabase
and Spreading Seas can punish decks like Jund really badly for that. And it can
get even better than that, for example against decks with Tron lands, where Spreading Seas is an absolute all-star.
The sideboard contains
mostly the usual suspects, which is not terribly surprising, as the deck has
only access to a single color, so there are not all that many options. However,
you can still adjust the sideboard according to what you expect in your local metagame. Hurkyl's Recall is a must against Affinity, because the Robots are faster and
beat down harder than the fish, but if you expect decks like Storm, for
example, feel free to pack your sideboard with Mindbreak Traps and other
assorted goodies. Additional Kira, Great Glass Spinner might help if your
metagame is infested with Jund, etc.
These two Modern decks are
what I think is flying under the radar right now. Return to Ravnica will shake
things up a bit, although not as much as in Standard. What exactly will the new
set do to Modern – and how powerful The Eggs and Merfolk really are – will be
more clear after Pro Tour Seattle and I'm certainly curious if we'll be seeing
some Lords of Atlantis or Second Sunrises in the feature matches.
Thanks for reading and see
you next time!
You're just a huge fan of writing articles like 2 days before banned/restricted changes aren't you? Not saying Valakut made this entire article irrelevant (I mean eggs is eggs) but still, it's something to be careful of, since I remember one of your other recent articles being D.O.A to the website.


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Why didn't they just bring it out as this originally?
Money making scheme sure. But how many more sales do you actually expect..?
This handset is very good but automaticaly get hanging so need more features about this hand set
Before the color variants, please release 32gb version first!!! It has been 4 months since the original date, but why do we not see the 32gb version yet while it has been sold in other countries since a long long time ago?
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Doug Emblidge became interested in broadcasting when he toured WOKR-TV as a boy. These days, he's living out that boyhood dream, anchoring the hour-long 13WHAM News at 5:00 and Good Day Rochester, as well as reporting on a variety of topics on both 13WHAM ABC and FOX Rochester.
No one would have been surprised if Doug had become a pharmacist, however. After all, his father and grandfather owned drug stores in Honeoye Falls and Scottsville, and on Chili Avenue in Rochester. But that station visit, along with meeting Dick Burt and Don Alhart, convinced Doug he wanted to work in broadcast news...and he wanted to do it at Channel 13.
After graduating from Rush-Henrietta High School, Doug went on to earn a Bachelor's degree at Syracuse University. He joined WOKR-TV in 1983 to anchor a program called NewsScope. The program didn't last long, but Doug did. Doug went on to anchor weekends and report news. From 1986 to 1989, Doug anchored weeknight sportscasts. In 1989, he returned to news to anchor the station's new 5 PM newscast. In 2000, Doug took on additional duties as anchor of 13WHAM News This Morning, which became Good Day Rochester.
You can also listen to Doug on the radio weekday mornings on 95.1 The Fox. Doug serves on the boards of Camp Stella Maris, ABVI-Goodwill and Daystar, a unique daycare and foster home for babies with serious medical issues. He and his wife, Coleen, have three children.


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- Weather up in Montana for the end of June averages between the mid 70s to the 40s (the resort website says 73/44). Be prepared for nice weather bust also some chilly temps, Chico's elevation is 5,300ft after all. It's probably a good idea to have a sweater/sweatshirt or light jacked around especially in the morning and evenings. (also check out the weather app to the right for the current weather conditions at Chico)
- Chico is in the Mountain Time Zone (see above for the Chico Clock to see what time it is there) which means most of us will either gain or lose a few hours. Just be sure to change your clocks over when you hit the border.
- Chico has internet access in the following areas.
- Wireless:
- Main Lodge Lobby
- The Chico Saloon
- Lower Lodge Rooms (Suites 405, 406 & 410)
- High speed Ethernet connections
- Warren Wing (Room 114)
- Fisherman's Lodge (Room 802. 803, 808)
- Convention Center.
Hot Springs Pool
- Chico Hot Springs has two open air mineral hot springs pools which are open from 7am to 11pm daily. The larger swimming pool has an average temperature of 96 degrees Fahrenheit and the smaller soaking pool has an average temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's a link to the hot springs page for more info. http://www.chicohotsprings.com/hotsprings.html
- I know it's a long trip, and especially when traveling with small children laundry is sometimes a necessity. For those of you without laundry capabilities, Chico does not have laundry facilities, but there are some down the road at Emigrant for when those emergencies arise.
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Maybe the best thing to do is steal a line from Harvard professor Tom Lehrer whose record album "That Was the Week That Was" from the 1960s is still a classic. Starting with the turmoil that began with Billy Donovan signing a contract with the Orlando Magic and ended a week later with the announcement that Billy D was back where he belongs at the University of Florida, we have a week that will forever rank among the Florida athletic classics. So with all due respect for Professor Lehrer, here's a take on the last seven days and Florida's "Week That Was."
It was a roller coaster week where emotions were stretched to their absolute limits. Each day had a new revelation. Each moment, it seemed, packed more intrigue that we've been used to in the 11-year tenure of Billy Donovan. Finally, when it was all over and Donovan had officially returned to the University of Florida, it was a time to reflect on what had happened.
Here are four different reactions from four of the principles that played out this soap opera from beginning to end.
FOLEY'S REACTION: Jeremy Foley never gave any hints Thursday morning after the Billy Donovan press conference. He answered all the questions about Donovan and you knew he had to be ecstatic about the return of his prodigal coach but he kept a subdued tone throughout. Nobody knew that Foley was gearing up for another press conference, this one not so happy, later in the day. As happy as he had to be that Billy Donovan was back as his basketball coach, he had to be torn up inside that he was going to be announcing that Pat McMahon would not be back as the baseball coach at the University of Florida.
Foley kept his focus during the post-press conference questioning and he was careful to gear down his enthusiasm for Donovan's return, probably because he understands what Orlando Magic president Bob Vander Weide had gone through during this tumultuous seven days. It was pretty obvious that Foley was feeling Vander Weide's pain and the pain of the entire Orlando Magic fan base.
"Our basketball coach is back and obviously, he's a very, very good one, but like Billy, you're not going to be too euphoric about this because a lot of people have been impacted by this and certainly the Magic first and foremost and their fans and their management," said Foley. "They've been hurt by this. I'm not going to get excited about this and neither is Billy about someone else's pain and hurt."
Later that afternoon Foley had to deal with the hurt and pain of dismissing McMahon, whose last two seasons of inconsistency finally over-rode all the points he scored for taking the Gators to the NCAA championship game just two years ago. Two years ago, McMahon was being hailed as the guy that proves nice guys can finish first. Thursday, Foley had to tell everybody that it wasn't good enough to be a nice guy — you also have to win and win with a reasonable amount of consistency to hold onto your job.
As the athletic director and CEO of the Florida athletic program, Foley is often under-appreciated by fans, boosters and the media. He's the guy given the charge of making all the tough calls and that means sometimes you have to tell a nice guy that his time is up. He understands better than anyone gives him credit that lives are disrupted when changes are made, but if you're going to demand excellence in every phase of the athletic program, then you have to draw a line in the dirt sometimes and say this is the end of the road.
When Foley makes the right call — like the one he made 11 years ago to hire Billy Donovan or the one a couple of years ago when he landed Urban Meyer — everybody is ready to proclaim him as a genius. When one of his decisions turns out not quite up to standard, then Foley is the one that has to make the tough call and Foley is the one that ultimately will take the heat. It's obvious he doesn't enjoy making the tough calls but it's part of the job and you'll never hear him pass the buck and blame someone else. He's quick, for example, to give Billy Donovan and Urban Meyer credit for winning national championships rather than take any credit for his role in bringing them here in the first place. He's also the first one to take the heat and absorb the blame when one of his hires, like Carolyn Peck (women's basketball coach; fired in late February) or McMahon doesn't produce.
Foley's been on the job as Florida's athletic director for 15 years. He's relied on his own time-proven methods for hiring and firing folks, but more importantly, he's shown that he has the necessary instincts for building a championship program. His track record shows plenty of outstanding choices but there are a few misses along the way. Nobody's perfect, but is there an athletic director in the country that has made as many good decisions as Foley has in the past 15 years?
One columnist speculated that it would take a long time for Billy Donovan to regain trust after the events of the past week. Perhaps that would be a problem with other athletic directors. Obviously, it's not a problem for Foley, who has always maintained that trust plays a big part in his decision making process.
"People are allowed to make mistakes," Foley said. "I think because he's a high profile coach, a high profile person and high profile personality that maybe he shouldn't make mistakes but he's a human being. Some people might hold that against you but when you make a mistake and apologize and take responsibility that's all you can ask for a guy.
"The way I feel about him hasn't changed one iota."
People talk about the pressure that's on every coach to succeed at Florida, and certainly, if you don't win here, you're going to be gone, but Foley succeeds because he knows when to trust, who to trust, and as part of the trust process, how to forgive.
If you want to know the secret of his success, that's it right there. He's done a brilliant job in his 15 years at Florida because there isn't an athletic director in the country that takes more time to know his people than Foley.
THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR: When Billy Donovan signed the contract with the Orlando Magic, one of the first things he did was ensure that Larry Shyatt would be coming along with him. Shyatt has been on the Florida staff three years and look at the track record: three SEC Tournament championships (first three in Florida history) and back-to-back NCAA championships. It's not an accident that the Gators started winning championships when Larry Shyatt was added to the staff. Not only is he the best defensive coach in the nation, bar none, he is the tough guy that Donovan needs to balance things out.
Players like Joakim Noah call him "Papa" because he's like a dad to them. Shyatt is 55 years old and he's been there, done that so many times before that handling a crisis is nothing new. That's why he was so valuable to Donovan in the days of limbo. Shyatt was rock steady, an anchor who held solid and helped Donovan see things clearly.
"Billy understood how many people were affected and in many cases, ill-affected," said Shyatt Thursday morning. "I just wanted to be a sounding block and hopefully a voice of experience when he needed it. We've all, once we hit a certain age, hit a crossroads and Billy Donovan hit a crossroads and handled it the best way he could.
"Quite honestly, all of us have the opportunity when we hit a crossroad to go one of two ways. When Billy hit his crossroad, his professionalism, his dignity and the way he tried to right the wrong was in fact the most professional way that he could have done it. There are so many others would have taken what was being offered because of what was being offered and hidden their inner feelings."
What was offered was $27.5 million for five years. The easy thing to do for Donovan would have been to take the money even when he had the misgivings about the job and as Shyatt says, the doubts hit like a linebacker less than a day into the new deal.
"Less than one day," said Shyatt. "I'm not sure this would have been a story if he had not been asked to sign a contract the first day. Sometimes that's protocol and sometimes not. In my case I didn't sign a contract at the University of Wyoming for almost two months so after two months I signed my contract. I think it would have been far less professional for me if I had hit my crossroads two months into it than for Billy. His happened less than a day after.
"He understood what he had done, then he went about righting what he felt was a wrong. He feels sincerely sorry but I also feel he followed his heart and he tried to right the wrong and make the next best adult decision. I compliment him for taking full responsibility. He showed what he's made of by doing the right thing."
What makes Larry Shyatt so unique is that he is as tough a man as you can imagine, yet at the same time, he's the most soft-hearted guy you will ever meet. He's the guy that took all the calls and determined who would and wouldn't have access to Donovan until it was clear that he could return to Florida. He's also the guy whose heart was breaking every single moment for his dear friend. Florida basketball is better off because Larry Shyatt is Billy Donovan's right hand man.
OUT OF LIMBO: A few days before Billy Donovan signed the contract with the Magic, he succeeded in finally luring Rob Lanier to the Florida staff. Donovan tried to hire Lanier off the Virginia staff in 2006 when Anthony Grant left Florida to take the head coaching job at VCU. Lanier stayed put but this year, he couldn't resist.
Even when he took the Florida job, he knew the NBA might be calling Donovan but it was a risk he was willing to take.
"His interest in the NBA from what I understand has been fairly well — don't know if it's been documented or not but it's certainly been alluded to over the last few days — so it was a question that I had for him and I was totally satisfied with the response I got," said Lanier, who says he came to Gainesville with his eyes wide open and prepared for anything.
Lanier has been a head coach and he's been a successful assistant coach. He's been fired as a head coach and he's made career moves as an assistant, so he's familiar with the turbulence of the coaching profession.
"I think when you come into this business, there is a certain expectation that you have to be prepared for the unexpected," he said. "It's easier for coaches to deal with it but a little bit tougher when you're dealing with your family. I think the limbo weighed more heavily on my wife and our children. From a professional standpoint, I didn't feel that I was hanging in the wind. From a practical standpoint — where are we going to be and how will we get settled — those things certainly weighed more heavily on my wife."
Lanier was on his way to the basketball offices at Virginia to clean out his desk when he heard the news on the radio that Donovan was talking to the Orlando Magic. He wasn't surprised and his first reaction was to call his wife.
"As soon as I heard it I called my wife and explained to her the potential that they might find him attractive," Lanier said. "I did not know anything at the time and I was trying to put two and two together. As it turns out he was the guy they had targeted.
"My wife and I started to talk about it somewhere between the announcement of Brian Hill was made and the time that Billy made the announcement so we had prepared ourselves for the whole uncertainty. We had a little bit of lead time to prepare ourselves for it. We didn't just wake up and hear about the Magic press conference taking place. It was something we were already talking about and following."
Lanier's first concern wasn't with himself or his family — he had the assurances of Jeremy Foley and Billy Donovan that everything would work out well — but instead it was with the people at Florida whose lives were about to be disrupted.
"At the time he made the decision, my stance was to back up as much as I could because I think there was a lot of people here that have so much invested in the program, invested in Billy and vice versa," said Lanier. "I thought the attention should be paid more to those people first and that Billy and I would talk at a time when it's more appropriate."
Lanier also took a moment to clarify his family tree a bit. Everybody has assumed for years that he's the son of former college All-American (at St. Bonaventure) and NBA great Bob Lanier. Bob Lanier's given name is Robert. Rob Lanier's given name is Robert. Rob Lanier went to St. Bonaventure and coached there. Everybody always assumes it was a like father, like son deal.
"Cousin," Lanier clarified with a smile. "He's my cousin. He's been called my uncle, my dad, everything but the right thing. It's cousin."
Bob Lanier was 6-11, 285 pounds with legendary size 22 feet.
"Half that for me," said Lanier, who claims that Bob got the size and the brains. "Actually, he got the brains too and I'm not all that sure that I got the good looks. He's a good looking guy!"
A LEADER EMERGES: During the season there was talk that he was unhappy with his playing time and that he was having troubles adjusting to college class work. There was message board speculation that he was seriously unhappy with the University of Florida. Everybody had a theory about Marreese Speights, the 6-10, 255-pound freshman who played well in limited action off the bench for the Gators last season.
The fact is he worked through the frustrations of limited playing time because he saw himself getting better every day in practice going against the likes of Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Chris Richard. As for the academics, he adjusted to the higher level of difficulty and passed all his classes. He's taking summer courses, hoping to get a head start on his sophomore year academically now.
What came as a surprise was how Speights handled Donovan signing the contract with the Magic. He didn't panic. He didn't threaten to transfer out. Instead, he became a team leader and decided he was one who was capable of rallying the troops. First thing was to make sure that his current teammates were okay with the change. Then he got on the phone and started calling the five incoming recruits.
"I felt like the class coming in was lost, so I called them and let them know that we're going to be okay," said Speights. "They know I'm coming back and that I'm going to be one of the leaders on the team. I called them and talked to them and let them know that we're going to be okay, no matter what happens. I told them we're here. We're Gators and we're the best for a reason. I told them we'll have a good coach. Well, it turns out that Coach Donovan is still our coach, but I knew that we'd have a good one no matter what happened. I let them know that nothing changes. We're still the Florida Gators. We're still the team that has won two straight championships in a row."
Speights likes the measure of respect he gained during this ordeal. He likes the fact that he was a calming influence and someone teammates looked up to during a potential crisis.
"It feels good to be a leader," he said. "I've been trying to do that all my life and now I have a chance to do that for this program. I want everyone to know that I'm going to do my best for my team and my coaches and my teammates. I'm a guy they can count on."
Speights knows the Gators will be young but he warns anyone that would dismiss their chances or take them lightly.
"Nothing has changed," he said. "He [Donovan] is still our coach and he's the best coach in the country. Two years ago nobody knew about those guys and they won. Nobody will know about us this year but we're going to work hard and do what he says and grow up. In the end, we'll show everybody we're still the Florida Gators. We're still the same team only different faces. The championship still goes through here."


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Caldera elected Top Product again by Wide Format Imaging readers
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Press release from the issuing company
Caldera's RIP and workflow solutions have once again received the user seal of approval and been voted 2013's Top Products by the readers of Wide Format Imaging magazine. Caldera Version 9.10 was the poll winner in the Prepress: RIP Software category, while Flow+ 1.6 made the top spot in the Prepress: Workflow Software category.
The latest update to Caldera's award-winning series of RIPs, version 9.10, was released last year to a great reception from industry experts and this award is testament to the extensive improvements Caldera has made for its users. Version 9.10 includes full integration with Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) 2.6, Raster2PDF, multi-page collation and Japanese language support, as well as new options and extensions such as Textile Step & Repeat and enhancements to the VisualCUT+ and EasyMedia modules.
"We are delighted to have Caldera v9.10 voted one of WFI readers' Top Products for 2013," says Sebastien Hanssens, Vice President Marketing, Caldera. "With the new release, we worked very hard to ensure that we did more than simply meet the demands of our customers, but that we exceeded them too. This recognition serves as confirmation that we did that – but we won't stop there. We'll keep improving Caldera products as the markets change, so that our users will always be one step ahead."
Caldera's workflow solution, Flow+, also underwent a major upgrade in 2012 as the company refocused its workflow team with the addition of Workflow Sales Manager Serge Clauss. Improvements made based on customer feedback included a major overhaul of the quotation system, CRM and GUI and a new, faster processing engine. New features such as an Installation Planning tool and more reporting options were also added to simplify resource forecasting and production monitoring.
"This is great news for us on the workflow team, as it means that we're heading in the right direction," says Serge Class, Workflow Sales Manager, Caldera. "We set out to bring our users a really comprehensive and easy-to-use workflow product with Flow+ 1.6 and if the WFI readers say it's their Top Product, that's good enough for me."
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I wanted to let everyone know I just started a new business with Usborne Books. If you are not familiar with them, you can go to my website www.bookskidslove.org to learn more. To get my business up and running, my sponser and good friend Jamie is helping me host my Kick Off Party! It is scheduled for January 27th. I know most of ya'll will not be able to come, so I'm hosting an eshow. Its just like ordering anything else online, very simple and UPS will deliever the books right to your door.
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Company: University of Hartford and Ingram Digital Media Inc.
Title: Director of Graduate Programs in Accounting (UHart) and CEO (IDM)
Town where I live: Windsor
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College: University of Hartford
I have been married for over 16 years to my best friend and business partner, Jeffery W. Ingram.
What do you do in your current job? At the University of Hartford, I help accounting graduate students meet their professional and education goals through our mission to help our students become competent, confident and connected. At Ingram Digital Media Inc., I create educational resources to assist accounting students and small business owners through inspiration, education and empowerment.
What are your goals in your current job? At UHart, my goal is to provide the best student experience through excellent customer service and quality curriculum that prepares students for today's workforce. At IDM, my goal is to provide the best educational resources to nearly 1 million accounting students and small business owners we serve each year.
What's your biggest passion? I am passionate about education as I believe it is the key to unlocking a successful future. I love teaching in a way that makes information accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Through our website, AccountingInFocus.com, and our podcast, Small Biz Life, we have been able to reach people all over the globe. It is truly amazing what we can do when we use technology for good.
What are your future professional aspirations? I want to teach 100 million accounting students and small business owners through our online platforms and make the University of Hartford MSAT program one of the top programs in the country.
How are you involved in the community? I provide free educational resources to accounting students and small business owners to help them achieve the level of success they deserve, no matter their financial resources. I have also served on many nonprofit and town boards, including the Windsor Board of Education.
If you were governor of Connecticut for a day what is one policy you'd push to improve the state's future? I would make it easier for small businesses to do business in Connecticut by streamlining all the state services for small businesses into one online location. As small business owners, we regularly deal with the Secretary of the State, Department of Revenue Services, Department of Labor, and Department of Consumer Protection, among others. By consolidating these offices online, we could save small business owners time and money, while also saving the state money over the long term. Creating a more business friendly environment is a critical piece of Connecticut's recovery.
List four reasons why you deserve to be a 40 Under Forty: Founded a CPA firm at the age of 27, after beating cancer. Became one of the youngest program directors at the University of Hartford, a program I graduated from in 2006. Served as the chair of the finance committee on the Windsor Board of Education, responsible for a $66 million budget. Taught over 990,000 accounting students and small business owners through our online platforms in 2016.


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In the meantime, Valandraud and all our portfolio are finding exclusive and direct distributors. It is serious work done calmly, taking our time to chose and be chosen by our distributors, with no pressure and this seems to work even in this (difficult) year. It is a good omen for the future.
We now have exclusive distributors in the following countries and regions:
The Czech Republic
South Korea
Pending : the rest of the world.
Notes TAST – Bettane et Desseauve :
Château La Dominique 17/20
Château Fleur Cardinale 17/20
Château Bel Air Ouÿ 14/20
Clos Badon-Thunevin 15.5 /20
Château Valandraud 17.5 /20
Virginie de Valandraud 16.5 /20
Domaine Fayat-Thunevin Pomerol 15/20
Clos du Beau Père 14.5/ 20
Château La Commanderie de Mazeyres 14.5/ 20
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Valandraud 2008
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- Brian Monks said...
I like how you were careful to say "countries and regions" so that you could add Quebec. The rest of Canada thanks you! ;)
- April 28, 2009 at 11:17:00 PM GMT+2
- Darcy Kelley said...
Hello J-LT. I spent 3 weeks in Bordeaux last October -- including several days in St-Emilion. The wine of the trip for me was the '05 Valandraud, which I had by the glass in your wine bar!
Sadly, our liquor monopoly in Ontario, the LCBO, is not offering '08 Valandraud futures. I was extremely looking forward to buy.
Warm regards,
- June 5, 2009 at 6:16:00 AM GMT+2
- Darcy Kelley said...
As a resident of Ontario, who do you suggest I contact to pre-order some '08 Valandraud?
Also, I have relatives in Quebec, and would appreciate knowing who the contact is there.
- June 5, 2009 at 6:24:00 AM GMT+2
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A long overdue update…
So, where have I been? I've been editing books for someone else, because working on my own stuff wasn't helping to pay the bills. I just finished editing one, so last night while I was sitting here awake all night, I went back to the 2nd edition re-edit of the third book in the series and got chapter five done. I'm going to start mixing in getting this re-edit completed along with my other work. I can't just set it aside like I've been doing.
Aside from that, our dog Buddy passed away. He was diagnosed with cancer, and died about three weeks later. We did everything we could for him, but it was inoperable, and it was too far progressed by the time we found out to do anything to stop it. Buddy was the absolute center of our lives, and to say that his passing was devastating would be the most colossal understatement I could possibly make. Naturally, working on anything during this time, and in the weeks following, was about the last thing on my mind.
What really helped us during this time was playing carrom. We have a carrom board set up in the living room, and we would spend hours and hours playing, just to distract ourselves. When we weren't distracted, all we did was cry, so we were just trying to do whatever we could to be strong for Buddy in his final days.
Things are finally gaining some semblance of normalcy again. We're getting a new border collie puppy as a brother for Rusty this coming Saturday. His name is going to be Kiyoshi, and he's absolutely adorable.
Aside from that, nothing special to report. Just waiting on my invitation to purchase from the waiting list for the Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III. That should be coming this week I hope. Gotta clean up around here and get the fence fixed up and ready for the new puppy. Tell you what I'm NOT looking forward to is the time between getting the puppy, and the time when he's finally house trained. I don't mind picking up turds so much, but having to get out the steam cleaner every time he pees somewhere is going to be a massive pain. Oh well, it's all part of the fun of having a puppy.
So that's it for now. I'm back at it, and I'm still alive…at least for now. I'll post again when I have another update.


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So today while I was at the middle school that I am helping out in their production of Peter Pan, I cam across this discarded survey. It was entitled "Same Sex Marriage Interview Questions" It was a questionnaire/survey that was created by one of the students we will call her Jane (not real name) The person answering was a female.
Q. Would a gay marriage in you family effect you?
A. Maybe a little bit, everyone can make their own decisions, but I don't agree with their choice.
Q. Would you support your friend's realization of their sexuality if they came out to you?
A. I would not support them, but I would not discard them as my friend. I would appreciate them for who they are.
Q. Are you offended when people use the term "gay"?
A. No, not usually. It is said all the time.
Q.Do you believe that homosexuals should have the same rights as heterosexuals?
A. Not all. I don't think homosexuals should be allowed to have kids or be considered being "married"
Q. If later on you realize you are a homosexual do you think your opinion would change?
A. Maybe, I don't plan on becoming a homosexual.
K so first off the fact that this is in our middle schools makes me kind of proud of America. The fact that a student could confidently make such a survey is wonderful. This school was the same one I went to and it is amazing to see how far they have come, and how close they still are to the homophobia that was present when I attended 8 years ago.
So the first question about a gay marriage in your family effecting you, A. maybe a little bit. This response is so great! the fact that this 7th or 8th grader in Mormon town thinks that a gay marriage would only effect them a little, this is so wonderful!
The second question is my type of answer, rather dichotomous, but it represents a long way from my day when I would have been shunned by my friends.
Fourth question ;( I look at my gay friends, both MOMs and Partnerships and think that no kids or marriage for them would be horrendous. granted I am biased, but at least she wouldn't be opposed to giving us any rights.
Final question provides the title of this post. Were any of us really "planning" on becoming a homosexual? I know that I didn't, but if that were such a possibility, which in an odd way it is (not to actually plan to become one, but to realize it) wouldn't it be so wonderful to be prepared for it? at least somewhat. and that is one things that our schools want to prohibit. They want to keep any discussion of a gay-friendly nature out of schools and that just leads to longer closet times and more self hate.
So if you had the chance to go back and prepare to come out to yourself, what would you have wanted to know? what measures would you have taken to make sure that you were a good Boy Scout?
PS I also want to know what you guys think this means about Jane. She is kind of depressed sometimes. She hangs out with a kid who is a proud atheistic Democrat who was told by his (female) crush's mother that they couldn't hang out because he was too effeminate. Basically this kid could be an earlier version of Rainbow necklace kid and Danny Noriega. could she be doing this for him? or is she closeted? or am I just looking to much into this piece of paper I found lying around after school?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Emergency Preparedness
Labels: MoHo Dilemma
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I don't know that you can read too much about a person based on a few brief answers. For example, there are lots of reasons a middle school aged girl might exhibit depression. She may feel she doesn't have many friends (evidenced by her hanging out an atheistic effeminate boy), or she could feel she isn't pretty enough, etc.ReplyDelete
Something else to consider, at this age, children often parrot what they hear their parents say at home. So, the answers on that survey may say just as much about her parents as it does her, which is encouraging as it suggests that Utah citizens are not as homophobic as their legislative representatives might suggest.
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text: I think I'm attractive, and I have a nice figure and my belly is flat. One such guy is a regular at a place I hang out. He had no fear approaching me and we flirted a few times. Once, he lifted my shirt and tickled my belly and I pulled back. He asked me out and we went on a date. One time we ended up making out, and he pushed my shirt up, exposing my midesction and he started kissing my belly and I let him take me. I can't feel anything when a guy is too soft but I don't know if he'll be a jerk.


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ESEA Flexibility Waiver
New to our Federal Program, is the impact of the Elementary and Secondary Education Flexibility Waiver. In order to give the districts in the state of Ohio some needed flexibility in use of Title I funds to support district improvement efforts, Ohio wrote a waiver so that schools in School Improvement Year II and beyond would be able to implement programs and processes that would meet the intent of the law but not have the restrictions of School Choice and Supplemental Education Services funding keep them from offering similar services within districts that would offer more direct assistance to students.
This flexibility went into effect during the 2015-2016 school year. Our district has elected to offer these services in lieu of the supplemental educational services that the law required last year. In place of SES and School Choice the district instituted in school intervention periods for grades K-12, after school (extended school day) services for grades 3-5, on-line programs such as Moby Max and Accelerated Reader for grades 2-6, and extended school year ( summer programs) for grades K-6. There are also district requirements to participate in the Ohio Improvement Process which Sebring Local Schools instituted several years ago. Previously the district implemented a District Leadership Team and each building has a Building Leadership Team. As part of the Ohio Improvement Process, this year B.L. Miller instituted teacher-based team meetings that focus on the intervention for students needing additional assistance in mastering grade level goals in reading and math.
Should anyone have additional questions about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver, the 2015-16 requirements for our district based on the ranking of our schools are located in the forms section of our webpage. Both schools are ranked Independent.


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An MP's weekly advice sessions set for this weekend have been cancelled.
Jim Cousins, who represents Newcastle Central, was due to meet residents at Montague and Fenham libraries tomorrow.
But with the buildings being closed over the Bank Holiday period, the sessions have had to be called off.
However, Mr Cousins can still be contacted at Newcastle Civic Centre Customer Services department today between 1pm and 2pm.


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Just received Book of Stirs via ILL. The pages which are supposed to be centered are skewed in one direction or another. Nice color selection for the cover. Looking forward to reading this.
This is exciting.
How do you know a full moon is nearing? The cat is out all night and I am up at 4:30. Wrote for about an hour and half. The actual physical process of writing in a notebook reminds me that writing is a sensual engagement. I write better when my hand is stained with ink. I should have been a painter. I need to push and glob my materials, form them into something. Scratch them out, draw arrows, circles, run out of room. I become impatient when writing directly on the computer, there is little gestation. Regard is lost. Capacity seems limitless. Limits create freedom.
I've dropped off the planet with correspondences, be patient with me.
This quote by Roethke from the quotes portion of Catherine Meng's blog, "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." Yes.
Trying to manifest an active passivity. This is very difficult for me. Life is trying even with all its wonder.
Lots of longer walks lately. Seeking to get myself out of my head and into my body and thus back into my head integrated. Huh? To remind myself that the brain is a muscle and to return to materials that renew, i.e. nature. Francis Bacon said that flowers are beautiful because they die. Trees are even more beautiful because they die several times.
OK lack of sleep among other things has made me decidely philosophical this morning. I'd like to continue some of these ideas at a later date. I'm off to work.
word of the day
Schlimazel (Noun)
Pronunciation: [shlê-'mah-zêl]
Definition 1: A person with no luck at all, a sort of loser who magnetically attracts misfortune.
Usage 1: Today's word is almost always defined in terms of interaction between schlimazels and schlemiels. According to Leo Rosten (Hooray for Yiddish!), if a waiter spills the soup he is carrying, he is a schlemiel; the person who gets it down the neck is a schlimazel. When a schlemiel accidentally knocks over a priceless vase, he blames the nearest schlimazel. Most dictionaries will allow you to omit the [c] after [s] (shlimazel), but our spell-checkers frown on the practice.
Suggested usage: Although both these words refer to unfortunate people, they are generally used in good humor, often with sympathy attached: "The poor schlimazel had just cashed $500 in travelers checks when he was mugged." In fact, this word rarely occurs without the attribute "poor" preceding it: "One time in his life he runs a stop sign and the poor schlimazel hits a police car."
Etymology: Today's word comes from Yiddish shlimazl "bad luck, unlucky person" from an ancestor of German schlimm "bad" + Yiddish mazl "luck" from Late Hebrew mazzal "constellation, destiny." "Mazzal" came from Akkadian manzaltu, mazzatum "position of a star," the noun from the verb izuzzu "to stand." The Yiddish variant of "mazzal" is also found in mazel tov "good luck," the indispensable toast at Jewish weddings, from Mishnaic Hebrew mazzal tôb "good luck." (Today let us thank Evelyn and Morty Hershman of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania for suggesting another little lexical jewel loaned to English by Yiddish. For a treasure chest of them, read the 'JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words,' always available in the Word Shop.
—Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com
why must you
I fight back
while a beech
tree looks inside
me in the
eye orange in
red there push
pins of hope
I fight back
an engine cries
I know nothing
the blood
in my eyes
the sky is
lying a leaf
falling no
a swallowtail
dang me
Watched this the other night. Highly recommended. I love this IMDB Plot Outline: Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.
The relationship between Daniel and his parents is particularly interesting.
sausage, etc.
Was made. My friends harvested their pigs recently. We made hot, sweet, and breakfast sausage. The hot is not so hot. Not in flavor, but temperature. I couldn't convince my friend to go hotter. More chipotle! We processed about 35 lbs of pork. Making sausage is a labor of love, it is very time consuming. Well worth it. I'm very fortunate to have friends who have the right priorities.
It is getting cold. It should be getting cold.
Saw Borat. I feel no justification needed for saying this film is essential viewing.
The color of my work space at home is all wrong, remember I just bought this place. I've some definite ideas about what color to paint it, but if you have suggestions please comment. It is currently dark purple with black and glitter trim. Yes, glitter. It is about 12 x 12.
I've revived an old manuscript. Realizing that in light of finishing current projects, I always invent new projects. Is this a good thing? It is what it is. Such as my brain. At least I finish.
Marden: Rothko was the shining light in terms of everything I'm thinking. He was the one who showed that you could be that way, just make beautiful paintings. I thought that those black and gray paintings at the end simply ranked right up there with the best ones. I remember going to the Rothko Foundation with (David) Novros to see hundreds of un-mounted paintings on paper, and we got up on these ladders and we were flipping through them; it was just incredible. Maybe I was too young to be able to make the right kind of judgment, but it seems to me that there was just something different than Kline and De Kooning. To me, what he talked about, what he believed in, is all invested in the paintings, so you're responding to that, you're sort of thinking along those lines while seeing the paintings. It can be a very intense, moving experience, unlike any other. When you're in the Chapel looking at his paintings, especially if you're standing there long enough, the painting will engulf you. It is definitely the most elevating, spiritual experience. You're best not distancing yourself from the situation, at least for me personally. Then you start trying to figure out how he does it. He really had this thing about intensifying beauty. He presents color in his own way, it becomes all about color, but it's not color, it's drama, but drama is too light a word. These terms almost seem cliched, but it's true. He's really otherworldly. In one of the Rothko books that came out last year they asked him what is the ideal viewing distance from your painting and he said, seventeen inches. And there're always pictures of him standing there. And you go back and look at them and he's absolutely right. And you to any museum, and they just hang his paintings in a room with other works of art, and it just doesn't work. He needs his own space. There was a point when I studied some of those monochromatic paintings and it made me push color in a certain way, not at all similar to how people had referred to his sense of color to Matisse or Bonnard. Rothko is simply a very, very tough painter.
from In Conversation Brice Marden with Jeffrey Weiss
thanks to Bill Corbett for sending this
G: Images that can be too quickly recognized. To preconceive an image, or even to dwell on an image, and then to go ahead and paint it is an impossibility for me. I have often wondered why I find an image that is easily recognizable to be so intolerable in a painting. My answer is that it is intolerable -- and also irrelevant -- because it's too abstract. By that I mean that it's simply and only recognizable. The artist had a thought and then proceeded to paint the thought. Paul Valery once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning. In a painting in which this is a room, this a chair, this a head, the imagery does not exist -- it vanishes into recognition. The trouble with recognizable art is that it excludes too much. I want my work to include more. And "more" also compromises one's doubts about the object, plus the problem, the dilemna, of recognizing it. I am therefore driven to scrape out the recognition, to efface it, to erase it. I am nowhere until I have reduced it to semi-recognition. R: Could we say that you are opposed to realism because it is too subjective, too closely confined to the artist's notions of things? For you, it would seem, an image can have meaning, or reality, only if it first comes into being on the canvas and not previously in the artist's eye or in his mind. G: Yes. And this has to do with how the image comes into being, with the process of its creation. It means that the point you are working toward is that -- that -- you didn't do it. You have to work to achieve a kind of nonentity, althought it's not anonymous.
from Philip Guston's Object
A Dialogue with Harold Rosenberg
Thanks to C Brand for sending this.
This is looking even more positive.
On an unrelated note, a word of advice, if things aren't working, give up.
Some poems or publications function like little mechanical toys: the delight is to come back to them and see them perform the same simple manoeuvre again and again.
One strength of poetry is that in an overcrowded world it can open up imaginative space. The whole sweep of the landscape can come into a room, with a hill of sufficient bulk, the din of rushing water. I like the flicker between literal and imaginative space, that our environment can be subject to a nominal transformation. A few words on a card propped up on a table can summon up a prospect or command a whole situation.
I like the way that our publications fall through the system but yet exist in the world. They are to be found pinned to a notice board, carefully placed on a table, in a walker's jacket pocket, in galleries (or display cases in a library), rather than in bookshops. I like the fact that they get little acclaim but a lot of attention, that they are not given by the culture but are a discovery for each person who comes across them.
Thomas A. Clark
I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
Whatever the reason,
it is: beginning and end
and what comes
between. Including this
being here, too late
by far into the night
to make a difference
to whatever it is I seek
to make a difference to.
Not even believing it could
be grasped for good,
rather than known
in an instant--which cannot
be lived in, but loved.
And lost as soon again.
John Phillips
Some things change, some things stay the same. We'll see...
Politics making me happy is unheard of. Thanks for the memories Don.
Finished a month long of Woody Allen films with the movie watching gents. Next up, got this in my hip pocket, film noir. What are some of your favorites in that genre, if you care to?
From Thomas A Clark's "Lullaby"
curlew and coromant
the colours of dusk
an arrow of wild geese
a slow release
of thistledown
Thanks Sam Ward!
Tulips, irises, crocuses, daffodils, and garlic. Wait Until Spring, Bandini.
So and So
So and So #7
Saturday, November 11th 8 pm
@ the Lily Pad
13 53 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA (Inman Sq.)
Adam Clay, Kate Greenstreet, Matt Henriksen, and Jess Mynes
Adam Clay, Kate Greenstreet, Matt Henriksen, and Jess Mynes
Listen up
Andrew Mister has an earful for ya.


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More Cool New Stuff : PP at Infocomm 2008
More from our Projector People team on the showroom floor at Infocomm 2008. Again we should have photos and more information in future posts. Whenever possible we will link to other tech sites covering the technology too.
What if They Made a Projector without a Lamp?
DLP technology from Texas Instruments asked, and answered, the question of a lampless projector at this year's Infocomm trade show. The new technology utilizes LED technology (version called PhlatLight Light Emitting Diode has been used in LCD TVs) in place of the DLP color wheel and mirror and light engine. Instead of a spinning red, blue, and green color wheel, there are RBG LEDs which plus rapidly to create the color.
The new product is the first of its kind with a regular sized chassis, but many new projectors using LED technology have been released for cell phones and so-called "pocket" projectors.
So what are the benefits? For starters, you could kiss the $200 – $500 cost of a replacement lamp goodbye along with any of the hassle of caring for it. That is good news for consumers who might have been hesitant to incur future costs after the purchase. It may also mean a dramatic increase in consumers choosing projectors as a primary display source, as the lamp life would be comparable to that of LCD and plasma TVs. Also, as we have seen with the pocket projectors, the lamp lack also allows for smaller footprints and even more portable opportunities. The fan will also not be required to cool that hot lamp, which means nearly silent operation and less energy consumption.
But wait, there's more! With the new LED-based DLP technology, the color space possible for a projector is increased beyond that of traditional lamp'd projectors up to 50%. That's a big benefit for the folks in the DLP camp, since color has been one area where they have been consistently challenged by 3LCD.
Are there any drawbacks to this new technology? Well for one, it's new. So even though you won't pay to replace the lamp, there will probably be a premium to pay initially. It's not yet available to the general public yet, and won't be for a while. And some reporting on the scene mention the color is not quite "lifelike" and has a bit of a red haze.
"But what about brightness?" you may ask. A good question, since previous LED projectors were in the 25 – 100 lumen range. The latest incarnation on the tradeshow floor is said to be very bright. TI claims a brightness from 500 – 1000 lumens, which was once considered a benchmark for home theater projectors. However, newer products are typically upwards of 1000 lumens. So, brightness is an issue that will probably need to improve.
But hey, nobody's perfect on their first go. Texas Instruments says they will begin by focusing on Home Theater projection, since here is less brightness required and expects to have products released by manufacturer partners by the end of 2008. Watch us here for more updates on this potentially groundbreaking technology.
Coming Soon from Mitsubishi
{ updated } Replacing the top selling HC4900 will be the new HC5500. What's noteworthy about the HC5500? To start, the Mitsubishi HC5500 is reported to produce just 19db of fan noise, which is a nice improvement for home theater enthusiasts. It also has true HD 1080p resolution and a suggested retail price around $2495.
[ photo: Mitsubishi HC4900 projector ]
{ updated } The new projector is scheduled to be released in or around July 2008.
How Much Does it Cost to Go Wide?
Our projector PI's has been looking for industry trends to share, and one point of interest has come to light. As more people begin adopting widescreen technology in business, either in their lapotop computers or high definition displays at home, the question arises, how much more does one have to spend to go widescreen?
So how much more will you pay for widescreen resolution over an equivalent 4:3 model? About $200.
That's all for now! But stay tuned for more from our roving reports on the floor at Infocomm 2008!


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Yes an Alien with fresh complexion, hazel eyes and dark hair! As with all red tape, four copies were required.
- Immigrants to Britain who arrived between 1918 and 1957 were known as aliens in the legal terminology of the time.
- British-born wives of aliens lost their British status upon marriage.
- Aliens were legally required to register with the police until their application for naturalization was granted.
Alien status did not hold Dad back as he achieved a degree in electrical engineering and started work designing radar components for British Thomson-Houston (BTH) at Rugby. He stayed with radar design, never changing his job, but his employer's name changed several times to Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), English Electric Valve Co (EEV) and finally The General Electric Co (GEC). His department won the Queen's Award for Industry and by the time he retired he had risen to be manager of Lincoln Division of GEC.
Having shown that missed schooling and a foreign language were no barrier to a successful career, he also demonstrated that two years of hunger and forced labour on the collective farms of Soviet Kazakhstan did no long term damage to his health. Wanting to celebrate his 80th birthday with him I had to fly to Ecuador, where he was doing voluntary work for 3 years and living with a new partner from Canada! Having gone out to replace the bathrooms in a seminary he went on to design a solar powered herb drier and fit the electrical system in a new village school high on the slopes of Mount Chimborazo. He returned to semi-retirement in Lanzarote and died when he was 83. I am very proud of him.
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Political representation by civil society.
Democratic reforms have produced new spaces in which civil organisations engage in representation of sectors of the population. The forms of political representation practised by civil society (collective) actors such as NGOs, neighbourhood and community associations and non-profit service providers, differ from more conventional forms of representation thus destabilising long-standing ideas about democratic legitimacy.
Research conducted in Brazil by the Centre for the Future State explored the range of concepts of representation that civil organisations use to justify their roles. Promisingly, the most common form of representation claimed by civil organisations, that of 'mediation', is the most compatible with democratic norms and existing, more conventional, representative institutions.
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, 4 pp.


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A fruit crusher, a fruit press and food-safe containers are the only equipment required to make cider. Apples need to be crushed into smaller manageable pieces before being pressed. The crushed apples are then pressed, and the juice is collected in a container. The juice is left alone to ferment.
Depending on taste preference, the length of fermentation ranged from a few weeks to several years. Ciders are typically fermented at 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The longer the cider is left to ferment, the more acidic and sour the profile. The alcohol content of apple cider varies from 1.2 percent to 8.5 percent.


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(Reuters) - Payment processor Vantiv Inc VNTV.N said it would buy Mercury Payment Systems LLC for about $1.65 billion from private equity firm Silver Lake Group LLC to boost its point-of-sale payment systems.
Mercury, which filed to go public this year, said it was suspending its IPO plans.
The IPO was expected to value the Durango, Colorado-based Mercury at up to $2.5 billion, Reuters reported in November.
Vantiv expects the transaction to contribute 1-2 percentage points to its net revenue growth per year and to modestly add to its earnings per share in 2014.
Silver Lake bought a roughly 60 percent stake in Mercury for an undisclosed amount in 2010, leaving the rest with founders Marc Katz and Jeffrey Katz and investor Larry Stone.
Mercury's revenue rose 17 percent to $237 million in 2013, while its adjusted EBITDA jumped 23 percent to $93 million.
Founded in 2001, Mercury grew to become one of the five largest nonbank payment processors in the United States as measured by the number of transactions.
The company targets small and medium-sized merchants such as restaurants and stores, with cheaper credit card payment solutions.
Credit Suisse, BofA Merrill Lynch were the financial advisers to Vantiv, while Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Barclays, and FT Partners advised Mercury.
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year.
Vantiv shares closed at $29.82 on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
Reporting by Anil D'Silva and Abhirup Roy in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila