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TARA, Ireland - Ancient England may have Stonehenge, but ancient Ireland has the Hill of Tara. The 6,000-year-old sacred site in the middle of quiet rolling fields is revered here as the burial place of 140 kings, and as the formative birthplace of this land's national identity.
Modern Ireland also has Dublin, whose budding metropolitan area is home to about 1.5 million people of Ireland's population of close to 4 million. The city's growing sprawl is causing a clash that is affecting the entire country, as lovers of the mythical and prehistoric Ireland try to preserve the placidity of Tara against the needs of local residents struggling to commute to the capital on antiquated and inadequate roads.
That need prompted plans more than four years ago for a highway stretching into County Meath, where the population has soared in the last decade. Drivers rejoiced in the hope of relief from the interminable traffic jams on the existing two-lane road to Dublin, which carries double its suggested vehicle capacity as it winds through farmland and past rows of new housing complexes that have sprung up outside each little town.
The highway's proposed route, though, is to pass Tara, about 1.5 miles to the east, and is to carve through a valley that contains some of the oldest archaeological sites in Europe. As a result, the road plan has become a lightning rod for bringing ancient history into contemporary politics. Archaeologists and heritage campaigners have begun fighting a legal battle to move the road, and they contend that a failure to do so would prove that Ireland, awash with wealth after its "Celtic Tiger" economic boom, has lost touch with its roots.
Construction is to start early next year and be completed by 2008, but could take longer if protests go on.Continue reading the main story
The campaign to preserve the Tara-Skryne valley is backed by prominent members of Parliament -- one called the highway's route "an act of cultural vandalism" -- and has attracted significant international support on the Internet.
Tara "is important to our psyche, our nation, and our identity," said Julitta Clancy, secretary of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, which is opposed to the route through the valley that stretches from the monuments at Tara to the picturesque ruins of a stone church on a neighboring hill at Skryne. "But it's also important to archeology, and to what I think future generations should have handed on to them."
Supporters of the four-lane road, which at 40 miles in length and a $900 million budget would be Ireland's biggest highway, counter that it does not threaten the hill itself. They point out that alternative routes pass unacceptably close to dozens of houses. They also say that the 38 archaeological sites that developers have already found along the route would be excavated, documented, and stored in a museum.
"History and culture have a place, but I don't accept that they should necessarily dictate" planning decisions, said Michael Egan, corporate affairs officer for the National Roads Association, the government body that builds highways. "You can't sacrifice the current population en masse for archaeology alone."
That argument resonates with people like Alan Carton, who bought a house with his fiancée in Meath four years ago. Driving 32 miles to his job in Dublin takes him more than two hours each way, leaving little time with his 16-month-old son.
"It annoys me that the babysitter sees more of him than I do," said Mr. Carton, 30. "She gets to see him doing things for the first time that I don't get to see."
At a recent meeting of the Irish Parliament's environment committee, opponents of the route contended that the Tara-Skryne valley is an intact archaeological landscape, filled with dozens and possibly hundreds of undiscovered sites, like a ring of protective forts that encircle the sacred hill. They fear that Tara's spectacular views, which reach to 13 of Ireland's 32 counties on a clear day, will be marred by gas stations and restaurants at a proposed cloverleaf junction nearby.
Unlike Stonehenge or archaeological sites like the Newgrange passage tomb in Meath, Tara requires a lot of imagination from contemporary visitors. The oldest monuments at Tara date from 4,000 B.C. -- which, as every Irish schoolchild proudly knows, precedes the Egyptian pyramids at Giza by 1,500 years -- and Ireland's high kings were crowned on the hill until Christianity arrived. But most of its structures are buried or grown-over, and can be admired just as grassy bumps and ridges in the ground.
Still, many people consider Tara to be the heart of Celtic spirituality -- new-age Druids still hold regular ceremonies here -- and central to being Irish.
On a blustery afternoon recently, Ms. Clancy led a group of about 20 locals on a walk around the hill, pointing out monuments like the two parallel ridges stretching down a slope that could have been a processional or banquet hall.
"It comes down to the Celtic Tiger turning its back on its Celtic past," Ms. Clancy said.
Edel Bhreathnach, a historian at University College Dublin who has researched Tara for more than a decade, told the parliamentary committee that the route would cost more money and more time than the alternative route to the east that opponents are supporting because of legal challenges and expensive excavations that are required by law before construction begins.
"This destruction will be irrevocable," Ms. Bhreathnach said. "It will undermine Ireland's credibility as custodians of our shared European heritage."Continue reading the main story


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June 2016 updates!
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CBN – the Stuttgart interviews!
Earlier this year Sister Hatune Dogan and Hans Erling Jensen gathered with Dale Hurd from Christian Broadcasting Network in Stuttgart, Germany. Here Dale Hurd was given the opportunity to meet and interview some of our Yazidi friends – all refugees from Sinjar in Iraq.
CBN launched the event on the Club700 platform May 16, 2016. You can watch the outcome here: http://hatunefoundation.com/international/cbn-interviews-in-stuttgart/
During August 2016 we plan to launch our new Web-TV channel NTT.
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Regensburg was another one of my
favorite ports! It is a gorgeous little
college town and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
There was the most adorable couple
taking their wedding pictures on
the steps of the cathedral. I loved their
traditional outfits
We also happened upon
a fun, little farmers market!
Then it was time for lunch!
We had been looking forward to lunch
in Regensburg for a while because they
have one of the oldest "fast food"
restaurants in the world and they are famous
for their Bavarian sausages and sauerkraut.
The historic Wurstkuche was founded 500 years ago
and they are still using the same recipes they were using
in the middle ages. They are also famous for
their irresistible sweet mustard, which was
so amazing. This may have been the best meal
we had on the entire trip.
After lunch we took a stroll
across the medieval stone bridge
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We got some amazing views of the town
On the other side of the bridge
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I don't believe you have to have regular, old children to be a dad. Greg's a dog dad. Best dog dad ever as his kids will attest with a woof. If you know a dad like this, get him this shirt. It's perfect!
If your guy is like my guy, he wants big boy TOYS. (Cue my groan here.) I can't begin to list all the toys Greg has either bought for himself or been given but I'm sure it was more than some countries' gross national income.
One of his favorite toys of late has been a drone (with camera). They're quite cool actually, and the video feed has great resolution, but the techy lovers probably get a bigger kick out of them than I do. If you're at a loss for a different kind of toy for your best dad, a drone is a good choice.
I felt bad for my dad. We used to give him terrible gifts. Poor guy. We gave him the gifts kids back then gave their dads. For us, it was handkerchiefs and bow ties. (He wore bow ties!)
I'm sure he'd rather have had books. He read a lot. To teach himself English, he read comic books because he could follow along with the pictures, but in his native language, he liked to read novels and historical accounts of famous people.
Even when I got older, he was hard to shop for gifts. He was content with whatever he had. He had lived through the Depression, so anything he had was like a gift to him. I think I learned my frugal ways from him.
My dad died of pancreatic cancer in 2001. In the weeks leading up to his death he regaled us with stories (he was a great storyteller) and memories. Looking back, I think he was trying to recall every good moment in his life and pass them on to us. His body might die, but his memories and stories will live on. I know I'll never forget.
While dads (and dog dads) generally get the low end of the stick compared to moms on Mother's Day, remember that they could use some fussing too. I try to pick things around their hobbies…or is that vices?
Here are some other ideas for dads.
• Sporting event tickets or paraphernalia: You'll know if he has a favorite sports team. Guys never keep that a secret.
• Life experience gift: I once gave Greg some flight time in a helicopter. We couldn't afford the lessons, but at least I could give him a taste of it.
• Electronics: If he doesn't yet have a tablet, there's a perfect gift. Greg doesn't go anywhere without his.
• Liquor: I never saw a man turn down alcohol. Find out what his favorite is then buy the good stuff.
• Clean his car. Get the kids to do this for him as a gift.
• Professional massage. There are lots of places to try. Some might have Father's Day specials too.
• Gardening supplies: Man or woman, father, mother, aunt, or uncle, if your favorite person is a gardener, he'll always appreciate quality tools–or plants for his garden.
• Food: What man doesn't like to eat good food? Whether you make it yourself, use a specialty service, or take him to an extra special restaurant, he'll know he's being treated like a king.
Are you doing anything special for your favorite guy?
On another note, I noticed that Amazon has DROPPED the price for the Roomba 890. This is definitely the lowest price I've seen, and I've been keeping track.
Update on my Roomba review. I still love this thing. It has a couple of quirks but I think it has more to do with my house than it. For example, it stopped once in the middle of cleaning. We don't know why, but we clicked the button again and it finished its job. We suspect it got confused between the different levels of floor. It only happened that one time though.
The biggest reason I'm still happy with it is that Iko has been shedding like crazy but my floors are still clean. His undercoat is very fine fur, the kind that likes to float in the air. I run that machine twice a day sometimes and it's been great at picking up all that hair. It's been a lot of fur too. Iko has been the real test on the Roomba's ability.
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I spent a romantic weekend at the South Coast Winery and resort in Temecula and discovered the "Grapeseed Spa." Nestled in the vineyards that include private romatic villas is this most wonderful and enchanting spa. It's opened
seven days a week and has a feeling of tranquility to it that makes you feel like you are on a mini vacation in some exotic locale. It's quaint and small enough to feel intimate and equiped with a steam, sauna and jacuzzi for both men and women.
The Grapeseed Spa has exclusive packages that include skin care, massage, body rituals and a fittness center. The breathtaking views from the veranda and complimentary champagne or wine is a nice added touch to help make you feel like you could have possibly died and are now in heaven after one of their treatments.
I had a chocolate flavored massage and smelled so yummy that champagne and truffles afterwards made me feel like I was a dessert ready to be devoured. You can customize your massage and combine a warm stone or a combine aromatherapy, swedish or deep tissue. You may also choose a 25 minute, 50 minute or 80 minute massage.
This is a great place to getaway for the weekend or celebrate a holiday like Valentine's Day, an anniversary or special occasion. I personally love spas and highly recommend this one. There are also spa packages that combine facials, massage, lunch. You can even choose to spend your day in one of the private Tuscan cabana and lounge by the pool with a bottle of sparkling wine to cool down your senses in between treatments.
The Grapeseed Spa is ideal for wedding packages as it's resort offers everything needed for the perfect relaxing day for a bride and her bridal party. So the next time you want to truly have a romantic getaway or just feel like relaxing at a terrific spa. Try the South Coast Winery's Grapeseed Spa located in Temecula!


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As a leading online provider of CPAP equipment and supplies in Las Vegas, our facility carries Resmed CPAP machine power supplies, each of which provides a convenient option to extend the use of your equipment while also making it easier to take your device with you on an overnight trip or weeklong vacation. If the unavailability of an electrical outlet has prevented you from using your sleep therapy equipment when you are away from home, one of the options that we carry in our shop might be perfect for your needs. Here is a brief look at what is currently available.
The ResMed S9™ 30W power supply is designed so that it can be used with any of ResMed's S9 devices. You aren't required to use the heated (H5i™) humidifier at the same time in order to use this particular power supply. It is much smaller than the ResMed S9™ 90W power supply, which is the one that comes with your purchase of any S9™ device. Since it doesn't weigh much, it provides a good option when traveling with your ResMed sleep device and don't intend to bring your heated humidifier.
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Offering a high level of flexible use, the ResMed S9™ 90W power supply is compatible with any of ResMed's S9™ pieces of equipment that are utilized with its heated (H5i™) humidifier. It allows you to connect your sleep therapy device with the primary power supply.
Designed to work alongside of your CPAP equipment, the ResMed power station II (RPS II) is a lithium-ion battery with a long life. It is designed for use with ResMed ventilators and CPAP devices. This piece of equipment is lightweight, so it is easy to carry for most people, making it the perfect choice for traveling. No electricity? Don't worry. Just plug your equipment in and use it for as long as 13 hours. The ResMed power station II (RPS II) is also a great CPAP accessory for those times when your home is experiencing a power outage.


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The Penny Lane Effect: There's A Difference Between A Great Actor And A Great Performance
By Joanna Robinson | Miscellaneous | June 7, 2011 |
By Joanna Robinson | Miscellaneous | June 7, 2011 |
It's no secret I love Almost Famous. In my opinion it's one of the few perfect films that exist. I know not everyone agrees and I certainly know not everyone agrees with my assessment of Kate Hudson's performance in that flick. She is, astonishingly good. Charismatic, sly, heartbreaking and raw. When that film came out I fell as much in love with Kate Hudson as young William Miller did with Penny Lane. The problem is I confused the actress for the role. In the intervening years, Hudson has proven herself time and time again to be a featherweight when it comes to acting. She has never again come close to whatever magic it is she tapped into when playing Penny Lane. Was the role just that perfect for her? Was Cameron Crowe just that good at drawing out whatever talent she has buried under all that McConoughorror? Who can say?
Well, fool me once shame on me. Fool me twice-wait, I already messed that up, didn't I? This brings me to Jennifer Lawrence. The beautiful, young (age 20) actress garnered much acclaim for Winter's Bone and, based on that performance alone, landed pivotal roles in not one but two major Hollywood franchises (X-Men, The Hunger Games). Problem is, folks, I will be completely honest with you, she was staggeringly underwhelming in X-Men. (I believe my friend called her "remarkably pedestrian." Yes we are those people.) I said as much yesterday and received this comment from long-time Pajiban Christian H.:
Okay, you need to lay off Jennifer Lawrence. Winter's Bone is fucking beautiful, and she was insanely great in it. You want to take pot-shots at young actresses? Fine. At least lay off one of the good ones.
I agree, my friend. Winter's Bone was fucking beautiful. Jennifer Lawrence was insanely great in it. But don't confuse a great performance for a great actress. Don't make my mistake. Don't allow yourself to be Penny Lane'd. To help you all remember The Penny Lane Effect, here is a list of young, often untested actors who were praised (and Oscar-nominated, oh boy!) for a particular role. Some of these actors are fine, serviceable performers who just never lived up to their initial potential. (Ryan O'Neal, there's still hope, buddy). Do I think these actors deserve praise for these roles? Yes, absolutely, 90% yes. (Sorry, Mira.) But it's dangerous to judge an actor based on one nominated performance.
By the by, this list is illustrated with a fun new feature called The Hollywood Career-O-Matic which is based on data from Rotten Tomatoes. Go play with it yourself when you're done here. The charts are included just for fun and aren't meant to prove anything because a) the greatness of a movie is certainly not made or broken by a single performance and b) sometimes Rotten Tomatoes is full of crap.
Cuba Gooding Jr.--"Jerry Maguire"
Goldie Hawn--"Private Benjamin"
Kate Hudson--"Almost Famous"
Timothy Hutton--"Ordinary People"
Ryan O'Neal--"Love Story"
Haley Joel Osment--"Sixth Sense"
Anna Paquin--"The Piano"
Mira Sorvino--"Mighty Aphrodite"
Jennifer Tilly--"Bullets Over Broadway"
Oprah Winfrey--"The Color Purple"
By they by, I'm not saying Jennifer Lawrence is a bad actress. As this list proves, it would be as ridiculous to judge her based on one performance, good or mediocre. I hope she is as fantastic as her Winter's Bone performance promised she might be. I hope nothing but the best for both Lawrence and young Hailee Steinfeld, but they've got a ways to go before they win me over completely.
Joanna Robinson almost included Minnie Driver on this list and then she realized she absolutely loves Minnie Driver and wishes she were in more things.


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The Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo is offering positions of Research Assistants in 2016 and 2017. Research Assistants will work with Dr. Xiaozhong Wen and research staff as a team on a research project that helps pregnant women to quit smoking. This research project involves multicomponent behavioral interventions including education, monitoring and feedback, contingent financial incentives, and supporter. For this specific position, the Research Assistants will work on literature review, data cleaning, data analysis (using SAS), presenting results with tables and figures, drafting manuscript, and/or presenting their work at an academic conference.
This Research Assistantship is open to students from majors of health and life sciences, and have at least a 3.0 GPA and basic statistic skills. You can earn course credit (1-3) for this position if you want. The research participants in this project are PREGNANT women who are currently SMOKING. To find out more about the Research Assistantship, or to apply, please go to the website (www.surveymonkey.com/r/ubmchsmokingra) to fill out the screening survey. You can e-mail Dr. Xiaozhong Wen at: email@example.com. The research profile of Dr. Wen can be found at "http://medicine.buffalo.edu/faculty/profile.html?ubit=xiaozhon".
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Would you please support us in prayer? It is absolutely crucial we have people holding our arms up in prayer (Exodus 17). Below are some of the specific ways you can pray for our ministry. We greatly appreciate each of you who provide this vital support.
- Here's our #1 all-time prayer request:
"And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should." (Colossians 4:3-4)
Whenever you don't know what to pray for us, pray that God would give us open doors and open mouths.
· Wisdom for the ministry as we lay a good foundation and choose God's open doors.
· Financial provision to provide for the daily needs.
· The empowerment of the Holy Spirit for Michael, Donna and the team.
· Enablement for Michael's book and other outreach leadership and spiritual formation resources
· One of the greatest temptations in ministry is to begin relying on one's own wisdom and power instead of God's. Pray that our walk with God would remain central to our ministry.
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Lear, Inc. has $800,000 in current assets, $350,000 of which are considered permanent current assets
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Lear, Inc. has $800,000 in current assets, $350,000 of which are considered permanent current assets. In addition, the firm has $600,000 invested in fixed assets.
a. Lear wishes to finance all fixed assets and half of its permanent current assets with long-term financing costing 10 percent. Short-term financing currently costs 5 percent. Lear's earnings before interest and taxes are $200,000. Determine Lear's earnings after taxes under this financing plan. The tax rate is 30 percent.
b. As an alternative, Lear might wish to finance all fixed assets and permanent current assets plus half of its temporary current assets with long-term financing. The same interest rates apply as in part a. Earnings before interest and taxes will be $200,000. What will be Lear's earnings after taxes? The tax rate is 30 percent.
c. What are some of the risks and cost considerations associated with each of these alternative financing strategies?
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NEW DELHI: A leading Business school Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research (DSPSR), New Delhi is organizing International Conference on 'Governance: Emerging Paradigms' at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on 3,4 January, 2015.
Conference is very much relevant must attending for Senior Management of organizations, academicians, research scholar and management students.
The conference to address contemporary issues including e-governance, transformation governance & Lokpal in India, New Companies Act 2013-issues and challenges, food security for humanity-challenges and opportunity.
Registration is open. Registration fee to be paid before October 15, 2014.
The fee will be further increased by 15% after October 15, 2014.
Here is detail of registration fee:
Business Executive/General: Rs. 4000
Academicians: Rs. 3000
Research Scholar: Rs. 2500
Students: 2500
Detailed information is available at http://www.internationalseminar.org.
Research papers presentations on contemporary issues
Conference will provide excellence opportunity to present Research papers on contemporary issues. Best paper awards will be given in technical session. Some selected papers will also be published in International Journal – Delhi Business Review (Listed in Cabell's Directory, USA), DSM Business Review. Here are some topics for Research papers presentations:
Accounting, IFRS, Finance, Micro Finance, Marketing, Human Resource, IT, IB, Production and operations Management, Construction Management, Supply Chain Management, Applied Economics, Rural Development, Inclusive Growth, Sustainable Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Creativity and Innovative Practices, Development Economics, Ethics Morality, Spirituality, Role of Civil Society, Corporate Social Responsibility.
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"Time spent with a cat is never wasted." ~Colette
"What greater gift than the love of a cat?" ~ Charles Dickens
Today in Buddhist class I found out it's National Cat Day then I saw people posting about it on Facebook!
In class, the monk told us that people working for Uber were taking kittens around to let people pet to brighten people's day! How cute!!
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The kitty above is Lacey!! And tomorrow just happens to be the anniversary of the day she came to live with us years ago!!
She's getting a special can of food! Shes so cute and loves to snuggle! She's not always the sweetest girl and sometimes whacks us with her paw!
She may have a psychotic problem. She chases stuff that isn't there.
She loves to be hugged & petted and loves to sink her nails in soft material and suck on it!! It's just the cutest!! ❤
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She often has her tongue sticking out!
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Cherry Mobile has unveiled a new smartphone, dubbed as Cherry Mobile Cosmos Two. It is priced at Php 5,499 (about 122 USD) and goes official in Philippines.
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New design for gethemes and web addressIts been awhile since we added new themes but in the background this site has been in the making.
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Spring is in the air and the promise of warm summer days are on the horizon. The time has come to begin lightening things up in the kitchen to suit the warmer months ahead. Here are some healthy and delicious meal ideas to try.
Light and satisfying protein choices
Hearty winter favourites like roasts and casseroles often take a backseat in the warmer months. Make these protein foods the star of your dishes in spring.
1. Eggs are a really versatile protein that are easy and quick to cook. Combine them with spring vegetables to create an impressive frittata, add boiled or poached eggs to a salad or make a no- fuss weeknight omelette.
2. Seafood contains mood boosting omegas 3 fatty acids, and oily fish like salmon and mackerel are a good source of vitamin D, which many of us tend to be low on coming out of winter. Bake your fish in the oven with herbs, lemon and ginger for a light and aromatic flavour, while . prawns are great skewered with vegetables and barbequed. You can also try making prawn burger patties by finely chopping raw prawn meat, binding with an egg and breadcrumbs and flavouring with garlic, spring onion, ginger and chilli.
3. Beans and legumes are a light vegetarian protein choice packed full of fibre. Tinned cannellini beans, chickpeas and lentils make a tasty addition to spring salads. Pureed white beans make a fabulous meal base when blended with crushed garlic, lemon juice and a drizzle of olive oil.
Lighter cooking techniques
- Mashed sweet potato is a lighter, less stodgy and more flavoursome alternative to mashed potato. Spice it up by adding ground cumin powder or coriander.
- Short crust and puff pastry are both high in kilojoules and fat. Swap these for filo pastry, which is a much lighter choice as there is no fat in the thin, tissue like sheets of pastry - only flour and water. This allows you to control the amount of oil or butter that is used between layers as a large amount is rarely needed to get a crunchy texture. Filo pastry can be used as a pie topping, quiche base or to make savoury triangles that can be frozen and reheated for a quick meal as needed.
- Using evaporated milk instead of cream in pasta dishes and curries is a great way to get a creamy texture without overloading on fat and kilojoules. Thicken with a few teaspoons of cornflour during cooking.
Sprightly side dishes
- Asparagus really shines in spring. Make the most of this vegetable by lightly grilling and seasoning with rosemary, or add an Asian- style dressing of soy, sesame oil and ginger.
- Dress steamed vegetables like green beans and broccoli with red wine vinegar, olive oil and roasted hazelnuts or slivered almonds.
- Serve steamed sugar snap peas with freshly torn mint, lemon juice and ricotta.
- Make a refreshing vinaigrette for salads using soft spring herbs, mustard, lemon juice and olive oil.


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Irrational Fear
If I do a search on the web for cycling related stories, as I often do, it is most times depressing; many of the stories are related to cycling deaths.
If one is not careful this can give a person a totally distorted view of cycling and the risks cyclists take. It is probably the reason many people who would ride a bicycle, are afraid to do so.
If you are a cyclist you cannot allow fear to take over your thoughts, and one has to constantly push negative thoughts from your head. Most people believe in the power of positive thinking, and that success and good things happen to those who constantly think good thoughts.
By the same rule, if every time you ride your bike you think, "Is today the day a car will hit me," chances are at some point a car will hit you.
It is not so much thinking those thoughts; one has a hard time not to sometimes with all the stories of cyclist killed on a daily basis. The important thing is to be aware of those thoughts and constantly push them from your mind.
One has to get the whole picture in perspective. 32,788 people died in automobile accidents in 2010, the lowest figure since 1950. That is still almost 90 people a day who got out of bed in the morning climbed in their car without a second thought, and by the end of the day were dead.
In that same 24 hour period less than two cyclists were killed. The difference is most of the 90 people who died in their cars did not get a mention in their local newspapers, but the two cyclists did.
For the last decade the number of cyclists who die on US roads each year has fluctuated around 650 and 700. (Less than 2 per day.) That is about the same as the number of people die in the US every year from accidental gun discharges.
Is there any gun owner who wakes in the morning to wonder, "Is today the day I will accidentally shoot myself?" Does anyone consider any one of us could be accidentally shot by someone else; of course not.
Also close to the cyclist death rate is the number of people who choke of a piece of food and die. Over 500 people drown each year in swimming pools. Over a 1,000 die from falling down stairs or steps.
So the next time you prepare for a bike ride and a nagging little thought that you might get hit enters your head; ask yourself, would I have these same thoughts of death and doom, as I walk down a flight of steps, or that I might choke while I am tucking into a nice juicy steak in a restaurant?
I refuse to let irrational fear stop me from doing what I love, that is to ride my bike on the road. I don't take chances, and I choose the safest routes. I also look at statistics and I like my odds of survival.
If I consider the odds of getting hit by a car today is about the same as being accidentally shot; maybe I should wear a bullet-proof vest along with my helmet.


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Saturday, September 13, 2014
16 Life Changing Albums
I just posted this same long note to Facebook and thought it might interest a few folks here. I friend that I've known since my college radio days, posted 16 albums that were influential in forming his musical identity and nominated me to do the same. These aren't necessarily my favorite albums of all time(though some are). Some introduced me to new sounds or artists.These recordings form a timeline of my musical evolution.
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1972)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering (1976)
David Bowie - Low (1977)
Brian Eno - Before & After Science (1977)
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer (1977)
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1978)
Brian Eno - Music for Airports (1978)
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour (1978)
Peter Gabriel - 3 (1980)
Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)
Bryne & Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (1986)
Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return (1988)
Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (2007)
I was a high school freshman with mediocre music taste(Beatles, Elton John, Foghat), when my brother changed my life, musically. In 1974 for my 14th birthday, he gave me 4 albums - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Led Zepplin I, Rod Stewart - Every Picture tells a Story and Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Bowie & Tull were very important in setting me on a path of musical discovery.
I remember listening to Pink Floyd on headphones, playing it on my parents giant RCA console stereo. It blew me away & started a love affair with prog rock. Speaking of prog, my entre to Genesis was "Wind & Wuthering" which is why it's on the list rather than "The Lamb." I won the album from a local radio station & had no idea what the music was like. 20 or 30 albums later I guess I liked that first taste.
I didn't like Bowie's "Low" album when I first heard it. But it grew on me & it was my introduction to Brian Eno. I bought Eno's "Before & After Science" just because of his association with Bowie and that lead to a lifelong obsession with all things Eno.
I picked up the Tangerine Dream album because it was used in a William Friedkin film & I liked the Tubular Bell's cut he used in The Exorcist. "Sorcerer" was probably my first all electronic album and played a big part in my love for synths.
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians is probably one of the best albums ever recorded. I was completely amazed when I heard it for the first time. Totally different from anything I'd heard before.
Eno's "Music for Airports" is crucial to my musical development because of the role ambient has played in my musical life ever since this ground breaking album.
I put the Police album on the list not because it is an all time fav of mine. It's there because of the way it changed my thinking. At the time it was released I was heavy into prog rock & I knew very little of punk or new wave. Then along comes this tight, catchy three piece and I started to realize that music could be more than 5 minute guitar solos.
PG - 3 was a sonic adventure due to Gabriel's use the Fairlight CMI sampling synth. It is another album that just blew me away.
"Remain in Light," and "Bush of Ghosts" are important because of the different sonic worlds they exposed me to.
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth is on the list cuz it's awesome. Steve Roach - Dreamtime continued my love of ambient music & expanded it even further.
The only recent recording on the list is The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism. Banjo! Who knew I could love the banjo?! It's also on the list because it represents a shift in my taste toward more "normal" music, essentially indie music, in recent years. I still listen to the old stuff and I make ambient mixes, but much of my time is spent tracking down new stuff from artists like Andrew Bird, Alt-J, Deep Sea Diver, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, The Antlers, Strand of Oaks, Phantogram, etc.
If anybody cares to share their list, please do so.
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- Dave Bush said...
My list, which also includes Gone to Earth.
The Monkees
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
Talking Heads - 77
XTC - Drums and Wires
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Zoviet France - Garista
Brian Eno - On Land
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
John Foxx - Metamatic
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Autechre - Incunabula
REM - Murmur
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
- September 21, 2014 8:46 PM
- Dave Michuda said...
Excellent list, Dave. Thanks for posting. I think I have 11 of those 16 albums. I almost put in Talking Heads '77 or Drums & Wires in place of the Police album on my list as they both were part of the same shift in my musical tastes at that time. I ended up going with the Police album because I heard that one first. But long term I listen to the other two more often.
- September 22, 2014 10:20 AM
- David Quartet said...
Here are my 16, whittled down from around 30 or so...
1967 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1970 King Crimson - Lizard
1971 Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
1971 Yes - Fragile
1972 Roxy Music - Roxy Music
1973 Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)
1974 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
1975 Neu! - Neu! 75
1975 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1977 David Bowie - Low
1980 Joy Division - Closer
1981 The Cure - Faith
1982 Brian Eno - On Land
1983 The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
1994 Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
2005 The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
- October 03, 2014 8:30 AM
- Dave Michuda said...
David, awesome selections! I see so much of my own musical history in those albums. I am familiar with The Bad Plus but haven't heard that album. I'm firing it up on Spotify as i type this. I've never heard of Rheostatics but I'll give that a spin right after The Bad Plus.
- October 03, 2014 10:04 AM
- David Quartet said...
Hi Dave - as you can see there's not been much in the way of life-changing music over the last 20 years! Mind you that's partially because there were so may in the 1970's and early 80's that I couldn't NOT include - and, of course I had to limit the Eno input - "Evening Star" should really be in there too with, perhaps, "Let the Power Fall" by Robert Fripp too...
Great to have stumbled across your blog thanks to your mixes on Mixcloud...
Cheers from Scotland!
- October 03, 2014 2:13 PM
- Charles Glaspole said...
After a lot of sifting here's my list. This music takes me to my happy place or immerses me in fond memories.
The Necks - Aquatic (or many others)
Sun Araw - Beach Head
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Beach House - Bloom
Casino Vs Japan - Night On Tape
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Christoph El Truento - What We Used To Know
Joni Mitchell 'Coyote' (from Shadows And Light)
Daniel Lanois - Acadie
krill.minima's DJ sets
Syli Authentique 'Andree' (from "Dans l'arène")
Tetsu Inoue - Inland
Opitope - either of their first albums
Loscil - First Narrows
Balla Et Ses Balladins - Objectif Perfection
- November 21, 2014 4:13 PM
- nikos said...
Hi dave, i am Nikos, i like very much your list, here it's mine:
1) Eloy - Ocean
2) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
3) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4) Pink Floyd - Meddle
5) The Who - Tommy
6) Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
8) Brian Eno - Ambient 4 On Land
9) Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
10) David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
11) Manuel Gottsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
12) Can - Tago Mago
13) Steve Reich - Six Marimbas
14) Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
15) Killing Joke - Killing Joke
16) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
- October 23, 2015 7:40 AM
- Thalmina Cam said...
Sorry that's the right list
1) Eloy - Ocean
2) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
3) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4) Pink Floyd - Meddle
5) The Who - Tommy
6) Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
8) Brian Eno - Ambient 4 On Land
9) Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
10) David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
11) Manuel Gottsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
12) Can - Tago Mago
13) The Doors - The Doors
14) Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
15) Killing Joke - Killing Joke
16) Nirvana - Smells Like teen Spirit
- October 23, 2015 3:51 PM


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A legion of attorneys and other campaign volunteers will descend on Nevada over the next three weeks to monitor the battleground state's election, causing the state's chief elections officer to worry about possible disruptions at polling places.
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama has "close to 1,000" lawyers prepared to observe polling places beginning with early voting Saturday and running through the Nov. 4 election, campaign spokeswoman Kirsten Searer said.
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Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, said he is concerned that the number of poll observers could become unwieldy, crowding voting sites and causing disruptions. Observers will be required to wear bright orange stickers, he said.
"Obviously, we want to make sure the election is as transparent as possible," Miller said. "But there are significant concerns ... the number of poll watchers could put considerable strain on the election."
Miller is talking with the attorney general's office about whether county election clerks will have the authority to cut off access by observers if they become too numerous or out of control.
Searer, the Obama spokeswoman, said the campaign's "Voter Protection Program" is intended to make sure the process runs smoothly. "The last thing we want to do is slow down the process," she said.
Observers will watch to see that voting machines appear to be working, that lines of voters don't get too long, and that those who show up at the wrong voting location can fill out a provisional ballot, she said.
"We want to protect the right of voters," she said.
She would not disclose how many polling sites the campaign's volunteer attorneys plan to monitor on Election Day, other than to say "we are recruiting at least one attorney for each major polling place."
There has been an increasing focus on the integrity of the election over the past week, since state law enforcement officials, including from the secretary of state's office, raided the Las Vegas headquarters of a liberal-leaning community group that turned in fraudulent voter registration forms. Leaders of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, said the fraudulent registration forms were flagged by their own quality control process, and were the result of workers' making up registrations to meet quotas.
Though Republicans are publicly starting to question the validity of voter registration numbers, which are swinging heavily Democratic in Nevada, officials say rarely does anyone show up to vote under a fake name or vote twice.
"I've been here 10 years, and there's never been an allegation of fraudulent voting," said Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax. He said there are occasions during elections when someone mistakenly votes twice.
Miller said he thinks election watchers will be on the lookout for "overt voter suppression or overt voter fraud." But, he noted, election observers are not allowed to talk to voters inside polling places or interfere with the election.
Challenging a voter over his identity or residence can be difficult.
The challenger has to be a resident of the precinct in which the voter he is challenging is voting. Additionally, the challenger has to sign an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that he has "personal knowledge" that someone is fraudulently trying to vote, according state law.


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Fall is in the Air
Frost on the windshield, the sounds of combining corn and soybeans, and geese flying overhead means that winter is just around the corner. I still need to cover my strawberries, haul out the manure and pull the rams out of the breeding pastures (hopefully all that will be done by this weekend).
The Shepherd's Holiday is coming up the weekend of Nov. 15, and an updated agenda is posted on the website. Be sure to get registered and reserve your room by Nov. 1 for the best prices! You should be getting your newsletter soon, but all the conference information is now available on the website.
Join us for the Celebrate Lamb Social on Friday night, and stay for a great conference. Bring the kids to enjoy the waterpark at Thumper Pond. See you there.


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The Oscar winning actress, Angelina Jolie, who made her debut as a director with critically acclaimed war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey, has decided to quit acting and get into direction full time.
Angelina Jolie has picked up another challenging project, Unbroken, the incredible life journey of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini that releases this Christmas, for her second film.
Angelina Jolie said she had never loved being in front of the camera and felt much happier in an off-screen role. She told of her decision while promoting her latest film Unbroken, which she directed, about Olympic runner and US airman Louis Zamperini, who spent forty seven days living on a raft after a plane crash and survived two years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
Earlier this year, she hinted that her appearance as Cleopatra in a biopic of the Egyptian queen could be her last acting role. She recently signed up to direct Africa, a biopic of Richard Leakey, a Kenyan politician and conservationist.
In an interview to a leading publication, Angelina Jolie stated that she fought for the project which was gestating for almost half a century. She feels she is finally at home with directing.
"I've never been comfortable as an actor; I've never loved being in front of the camera. I didn't ever think I could direct, but I hope I'm able to have a career at it because I'm much happier," Angelina Jolie stated in her interview.
Angelina Jolie is also multitasking as a writer, actor and director for period love story By The Sea, starring husband Brad Pitt. The movie is about a 1970's American couple and their complicated marriage during a trip to France.
Angelina Jolie, who is married to actor Brad Pitt, won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a supporting role in Girl Interrupted, in 2000, and made her directorial debut in 2007 with the documentary A Place In Time. She followed this with In the Land Of Blood and Honey, about the Bosnian war, in 2011.
Last month she was made an honorary dame by the Queen for her campaign work fighting sexual violence and for services to UK foreign policy.
The Oscar winning actress, Angelina Jolie, who made her debut as a director with critically acclaimed war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey, has de...2.5


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Well we're finally back home from our over 3 week trip down south. First Snowbird trip if you will.
The Ladysmith January weather (as in most places) was the pits so we decided to go for 10-14 days down to Palm Springs to visit some friends and see if we wanted to do this kind of thing.
The trip down was uneventful crossing the border quick after leaving mid-day from the island and getting into Vancouver at 3:00 pm. It takes 3 days to do it with truck and camper. We stayed in Bayview St Park the 1st nite, then drove down thru all of Washington and most of Oregon on the Friday, stopping at Valley of the Rogue St Park there. Nice camping, warm temp's, cheap rates. Stopped in Medford the next morning and found by chance the Motorcycle Superstore, a great online web store for M/C gear. Spent a couple of hours there and sized ourselves up for new color matched helmets and warmer weather armoured riding gear for our trip to Europe. We then left and headed south staying overnight just outside Stockton CA.
The next day we drove all the way thru to Palm Springs (with a quick stop in Merced at our favorite Mexican food store) arriving at dusk. After BBQing chops we enjoyed the warm evening weather. The next day we woke up to this
image outside our berth window.
Later I would work on my laptop and overlook the lake like this.
We booked into there for a week and stayed an extra day as well at that point. The whole RV park was filled with Canadians who were so friendly and wanted to tell us about their best campsites to stay at. Borrego Springs boondocking, the State Park there, Sonny Bono Wildlife refuge, the Avery sculptures, and the Fountain of Youth Spa.
We met up with Doug and Louise and spent some excellent time with them, a day of biking and another where we went to the Farmer's market and the aerial tramway. The tramride was great in itself, and to be taken back into winter at the top of the mountain was very good.
So we went to Borrego Springs and area. It is a small community with a high desert environment and a great Nature centre. Avery's of Avery Office Products fame own a large tract of land there and have commissioned an artist to prepare a number of animals which inhabited the area during dinosaur times. Here are a few pics of them.
What really surprised us was that the Avery's have posted 300 acres of land that anyone can camp there for free for 3 days. The area is beautiful in a desert sort of way. While we didn't stay on their property we did boondock 1/2 way between there and Salton City. That is where we fell in love with the desert. It was so beautiful, peaceful and quiet that we stopped for lunch and stayed till the next day. Weather was excellent!
We then headed out to the Wildlife refuge and then on to the Fountain of Youth spa. When we got there we weren't that interested in it but they gave us a "look" pass. After a quick look we thought OK we'll stay a night and enjoy their naturally hot mineral pools. Well the people there was very friendly, the activities were unbelievable, and the camping great and inexpensive. We ended up staying there 6 nights and took part in 1 longer mountain-bike ride (36 mile) to Niland with others as well as a great hike into the Painted Canyon around the San Andreas fault area.
Here are the Painted Canyon pictures. First is the San Andreas Fault line which is evident in this rock formation.
The next is the set of ladders in Ladder Canyon that have you move between canyon areas. Sandra can be seen standing at the base of a ladder ready to climb up it.
The last is of the walls of the canyon. It is so narrow in spots you have to turn sideways or crawl under some rocks to get thru.
This was a great entry tripwith us now excited to be able to do it every year.
And yes, we have great tans at the moment.


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DCM students registered for the Winter and Spring sessions at the PreBallet level and above are invited by the Ballet Chesapeake to participate in the Spring Production performed in June. Ballet students who wish to participate in this performance must register for the corresponding performance class, and will learn choreography that integrates into a classic story ballet. Students studying contemporary dance forms will perform in the Mixed Bill portion of the program which features jazz, tap, modern, hip hop, and contemporary choreography. will learn choreography that integrates their role into the overall performance. The resulting concert is a cohesive production presented in a professional stage setting with lighting, sets, costumes and the dancers and guests of Ballet Chesapeake. Past performances have included Swan Lake, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Coppelia. Registration and concert commitment contracts are distributed in October and must be returned by November in order to participate in the performance. Please note that students must be registered in BOTH Winter and Spring sessions in order to participate in the Spring Production.
Students ages 6 through 12 enrolled in at least one ballet class are invited to audition for Ballet Cesapeake's annual presentation of The Nutcracker, performed in December. Dedicated students who fulfill this commitment have a unique and wonderful personal experience interacting with company members in various children's roles within this performance.
Auditions will be held the first Saturday of DCM classes in September. Check the schedule page for more details.
DCM Instructors will invite parents in periodically throughout the year to present a selection of classroom material that our youngest students have been working on. This in-class presentation allows students to experience the art of performing on a more personal level for their families and friends. Your child's instructor will let you know when class observation sessions are scheduled.
Parents and friends are invited into the studio to observe DCM classes during at the midpoint in the year. This offers an opportunity for guests to see what dancers have been working on in class, and to track a student's progress from year to year. Parents and friends can take photos and watch DCM instructors interacting with the class. Visitor's Week schedules will be posted in January of each year.
Learn more about the National Honors Society for Dance Arts HERE. DCM Students in middle school and high school are eligible to participate in this group of dancers presenting the NHSDA Showcase and/or join the NHSDA Ensemble traveling and performing at regional festivals and workshops.
YAGP is the world's largest ballet competition. Select students and advanced dancers in the DCM Pre-Professional program have the opportunity to perform at the regional YAGP competition. Dancers prepare a solo by working one on one with an instructor and perform on stage for a group of family, friends, dance peers, and internationally renowned judges. You can learn more about YAGP HERE Please contact DCM to inquire about this opportunity.
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Last year I asked here 'why isn't the art of Recording Britain better known?' Well Sheffield's Millenium Gallery is currently hosting a touring exhibition devoted to Recording Britain, with some of the original paintings from the 1940s set alongside earlier topographical watercolours and recent landscape art by people like Richard Long, Keith Arnatt and Ingrid Pollard. A display case has books from the period, including A Prospect of Wales (1948), one of the old King Penguins (like John Piper's book on Romney Marsh which I described in another post last summer). This book has illustrations by Kenneth Rowntree, whose contributions to the Prospect of Britain project were often quite unusual, e.g. The Smoke Room, Ashopton Inn, Derbyshire (1940) - a rather unprepossessing interior with dartboard, wall calendar and a fish mounted in a case. The accompanying essay is by Gwyn Jones, who founded The Welsh Review, wrote novels and translated Icelandic sagas. Seeing this in the exhibition, and having just booked a week's holiday in Wales this summer, I thought I would get hold of a copy.
The title, A Prospect of Wales, sounds paradoxical - how is it possible to see the whole country? To some extent Gwyn Jones' essay represents a kind of landscape writing I've mentioned here previously, the imaginary prospect which begins with the local and then spreads out far beyond the limits of sight. Jacquetta Hawkes does this in A Land, which was published three years later than a A Prospect of Wales; as I wrote in an earlier post here, 'the book ends with 'A Prospect of Britain', from the city streets round her home in Primrose Hill to the different landscapes of Britain described in the order they were created: the chalk Downs, the Cotswold's, the West Riding, the Lake District.' Another example: Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), whose hero/ine is able to climb a hill so high 'that nineteen English counties could be seen beneath; and on clear days thirty or perhaps forty, if the weather was very fine.' And another, which I have not mentioned here before because it takes the reader completely beyond 'some landscapes': Olaf Stapledon's vision of the cosmos in Starmaker (1937), a book that begins with a view of suburbs and the sea's level darkness, and the opening sentence: 'One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill.' A Prospect of Wales begins, by contrast, 'I have just come down from the hill fronting my house in mid-Cardiganshire', but a few pages later he is asking us to ascend again to a point where 'we may survey with swinging glance the western counties of Wales.'
In my photograph above, the book is open at two of Kenneth Rowntree's illustrations of Pembrokeshire, which is where we will be heading next month. 'This is a coast,' Jones writes, 'soaked in colour and radiant with light.' He quotes Graham Sutherland's essay 'A Welsh Sketchbook', which had appeared in Horizon in 1942: 'The quality of light here is magical and transforming - as indeed it is in all this country. Watching from the gloom as the sun's rays strike the further bank, one has the sensation of the after tranquillity of an explosion of light; or as if one had looked into the sun and had suddenly turned away.' I will no doubt have more to say about Sutherland and his Pembrokeshire paintings after we've explored this landscape. I'll conclude here with four lines of Welsh poetry quoted at the end of A Prospect of Wales which encapsulate what Jones sees as the real essence of the country, to be found 'not in the famed vistas ... but in some corner of a field, a pool under a rock, in a bare sheep-walk or a cottage folded in a gulley.' The poem is by Hedd Wyn and Jones translates these lines as follows: 'Only the purple moon at the edge of the bare mountain, and the sound of the old river Prysor singing in the valley.'
Dim ond lleuad borffor
Ar fin y mynydd llwm,
A sŵn hen afon Prysor
Yn canu yn y cwm


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Good afternoon, everybody! Today's prompt for the CYNA All Things Blue theme is 'Windy Weather' and is probably the prompt that I was most excited about. My original idea was to have a cloud-guy blowing air across my nails, but after Googling 'wind' to get an image reference, I saw a tree with its leaves being blown off and the thought "I'm a leaf on the wind" immediately came to mind. I sort of froze and had a "wow, I'm stupid" moment, and decided to take this nail art in a slightly nerdier direction. I know it's not strictly windy weather, but it's close enough! So, Firefly/Serenity nail art!
Once I started thinking about this idea, I realized I also have Lucky 13 Lacquer A Leaf on the Wind. It was one of my earliest indie purchases, actually, and I got sort of excited to wear it for a challenge that fits it so well. It's a pretty sky blue polish with silver microglitters and small light green hexagon glitters. I love it because it incorporates two of my favorite colors without being too in-your-face. It was also good in 2 coats and despite sitting on my shelf for the year or so, I didn't have to fish for glitters (which is a plus in my book because I didn't even shake the bottle well). I used Kleancolor Black and China Glaze Gaga for Green for art itself.
I almost made an attempt at adding Serenity to one of the nails, but then I looked at the two nails I had done, and I thought it would be a good idea to leave it as is (no pun intended). In my opinion it's a fantastic follow-up message to the autism awareness prompt from yesterday. Plus I like the simplicity of it.
And just to show A Leaf on the Wind on its own, here are some swatch photos!
Seriously though, I like this mani so much that I think I'm going to wear it for a few days. What a great way to finish off a challenge!


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Madera, Chihuahua: A Land Living through War
Marco Antonio López (La Silla Rota)
Las Varas, Chihuahua is a town where nobody knows who is in control nor what rules apply. To survive people know what it takes to stay safe after six in the evening. Survival is what they think about when they use the highways crossing Chihuahua's western mountain range.
Las Varas, with its population of 1,417 people, is where two drug cartels fight over territory, according to the explanation from the Office of the State Attorney General in the Western District. La Línea of Ciudad Juárez and the Sinaloa Cartel have let loose war in Chihuahua's mountains, submerging the western part of the state in a violent dynamic, severely impacting the region's tiny population. Death, shootouts, kidnappings and disappearances have become routine, daily events.
Those in control for now are the state, federal and military security forces. They arrived this Wednesday after a confrontation between both criminal groups leaving fifteen dead and wounding five people. But the second in command of the Chihuahua State Police, Alberto Chávez also says that once they leave the area will be unprotected, at the drug traffickers' mercy.
So the police do not have permanent control. Nor do La Línea or the Sinaloa Cartel. The mountains are the land everybody wants and nobody has. The paradox is that the people who have least control are the ones who live there.
At the town's entrance there is a sign that says, "Las Varas." The rectangular metal bearing these letters has holes in it from at least a dozen heavy caliber bullets. Next to the sign there is a cemetery, and in it lie the dead with their rights to a name, remembrance, and Christian burial. The entrance to the cemetery is littered with spent shell casings, its gate shot up more than a hundred times. A bullet-ridden cross serves as a warning against poking around.
Two improvised bunkers sit right there by the main entrance. The hideouts are littered with cartridge boxes, two mattresses, food, cans, and bottles of beer. The police here said that they belonged to La Línea.
Behind the cemetery is a place set aside for those dead who, somebody decided, don't deserve a cross with their name. Without a marked grave family do not know where to stop by with flowers from time to time. Five graves were found right there: a total of seven bodies in a state of decomposition. A mess of bones. All of the dead bodies were mutilated and two were decapitated. Untended graves. Nobody is looking any deeper into things. Although the second in command says that there are permanent traces of what happened, there are no investigators because they are all occupied elsewhere, collecting cadavers or identifying unnamed bodies.
Further into town there is a warehouse, the scene of a brutal massacre. Outside, shot up doors and walls. Inside there are bloody pools and blood spatters, macabre decorations left by merciless killers. Right here the lifeless bodies of those fifteen men and the five left alive but wounded were gathered up and taken to Chihuahua. The prosecutor says that the confrontation between the two criminal groups began around six o'clock on Wednesday morning, lasting about an hour, with security forces arriving afterwards. However, an official said that where you see a blood stain on the wall, that's where an injured man was resting when somebody else found him and shot him in the head. His brains were spattered across the wall. The official version is dubious if not kind of tactless. "That's where that pig was," he says under his breath.
There are stretches of blood on the warehouse floor. They are black, that color blood makes when it dries. They are run through with the marks of truck tires trying to getaway. Nine vehicles – one of them armored – were seized there, along with long arms and fragmentation grenades. By midday Thursday what remained were bags of corn, potatoes, tomatoes and other food along with cushions, casings, bullets, bags, clothes, and marijuana. Everything behind a metal door bearing a stenciled sign: "Failing to make time for God means living is a waste of time." It too is shot up.
The cemetery and the graves are by the town's eastern exit, the one that leaves for the state capital. The warehouse with its massacre and its remains are to the south, towards Madera. The municipal building is in the town center. It is closed. Nobody came to work. There is a little building, barely the size of a room right beside the municipal building, its front wall riddled with holes left by large caliber bullets. The windows are all shattered. A burnt out truck sits right by the door. The room was a command post. Last week an armed group ambushed two state police officers, murdered without anybody able to stop the brutal attack.
In less than a month, eight bodies turned up, two police officers were murdered and fifteen suspected drug traffickers were killed. All of it happened in Las Varas. One person, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity, said the graveyard was shot up because it was the site of another battle leaving as many or more dead from the warehouse fight. But no police turned up and each group carried off their own dead. These facts, however, do shock: at least twenty-four people were killed in the last month. Most of those buried bodies are just bones in several graves. The town has fewer than 1,500 residents.
The person who told the story about the graveyard said armed men who are not police have placed roadblocks on the highways. These men ask about where you are going and your purpose. They decide if you can continue on or not. They can take whatever they want from you, including your car. "That's why I have this cellphone," the man says, before proceeding to say how they took his other one on the highway from Madera to Las Varas.
The countryside is impressive and overbearing. Las Varas is one of 42 communal land holdings (ejidos) in the municipality of Madera. It's the town that provides access to deep into the mountain range. It has a waterfall, a scenic overlook, rivers, swim parks, archaeological zones. All this beauty makes Las Varas magical. On sight paradise springs to mind. But these are abstract notions and the facts overwhelm instead. Violence has made this place into something quite different: a town with and without law in the service of drug cartels.
The natural beauty that makes Madera attractive is also its principal problem. Situated on the highway that wends into the mountain range, it has become a strategic point for drug trafficking. That's why factions within the two cartels fight over this place, says Félix González spokesperson for the Western District of the Chihuahua Attorney General's office.
The problem became so big that the municipal police, with its 100 officers and less than forty patrol cars became overwhelmed. State authorities entered into an agreement with the town, assuming control over security since 18 February. But violence is still on the rise. "Unfortunately, these things that cannot be avoided. It is a war between them. It's like a family feud," observes second in command Alberto Chávez Mendoza.
Of the fifteen killed in the shootout, five have been identified. They came from towns in Chihuahua. The youngest of them, Luis Leonel C., was 18 years old. Rafael C. was 25. Hugo Antonio G. was 33, Álvaro T., 35, and Astolfo C., 47. They spent their last day alive surrounded by the terror guns cause when aimed to kill.
The five wounded men were arrested. Only one of the wounded comes from Chihuahua, Leonardo G., who is 18 years old. Carlos H., 24, was born in Hidalgo. Efraīn G., 25, is from Michoacán. Marco Anotnio M., 27, comes from Tabasco. And Luis G., 36 years old, was born in Minatitlán.
A week ago, Chihuahua's governor, Javier Corral announced a salary increase for state police officers, grants for their children and an increase in their life insurance policies. He committed himself to reducing violence in the state and of bringing calm to Chihuahua's residents. The state attorney general, César Augusto Peniche, said the homicide rate was deceptive and that really security had improved.
The prosecutor's office in the Western District impounded the shot-up trucks from the confrontation. One even has a bloody handprint on the bodywork.
A woman came out of the coroner's office in tears. She had to identify a dead family member so that he could a have a name and a grave with a cross on it to visit from time to time.
A convoy of about thirty squad cars with more than sixty state police and prosecutor's officers patrol the highway that winds into the Chihuahuan mountains. Soldiers on the lookout for criminals. Two helicopters soar above the immense pines. A commander says that they are about to leave and that the cartels will continue their fight over the region. In this battle the one with more kills wins.
Journalist Marco Antonio López Romero writes for La Silla Rota. He is based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Translator Patrick Timmons is a human rights investigator and freelance journalist based in Mexico City. He edits the Mexican Journalism Translation Project.


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If you ask the original Hippies of the late 1960s and early 1970s to name the band that played the largest role in their lives, there will be a range of answers with various explanations. If it's the band that changed many from being music-agnostic to music-passionate, the answer is probably The Beatles. Regardless of whether there was a respect or personal dislike for The Beatles, music became a topic that entered most conversations. On the other hand, if it's the band that moved people away from Top 40, cookie-cut hits, the answer is most likely The Doors. "Light My Fire" was the first hit that was much longer than the commercial-friendly length of slightly more than three minutes. The Doors opened the gate for the 17-minute "In a Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly and for the "underground radio stations" that became alternative radio in the late 1960s.
But if the question is directed to the most influential band in shaping life beyond music, the response is likely to be The Moody Blues. Between 1968 and 1971, The Moody Blues released five albums that triggered many discussions about life. Given the time, many of the conversations were probably among people in altered states. The songs didn't lead the listener to any conclusions. They merely caused questioning. It wasn't a level of influence The Moody Blues sought, or even wanted. In fact, their next album ("Seventh Sojourn" in 1972) included a song that proclaimed "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)." That message was not one fans were happy to hear.
"Departure" - Lyrics
Be it sight, sound, the smell, the touch.
There's something,
Inside that we need so much,
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers, to be covered, and then to burst up,
Thru tarmack, to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things in our memories hoard,
And to use them,
To help us,
To find...
"Ride My See-Saw"
Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
Ride, take a free ride,
Take my place
Have my seat
It's for free.
I worked like a slave for years,
Sweat so hard just to end my fears.
Not to end my life a poor man,
But by now, I know I should have run.
Run, run my last race,
Take my place
Have this number
Of mine.
Run, run like a fire,
Don't you run in
In the lanes
Run for time.
Left school with a first class pass,
Started work but as second class.
School taught one and one is two.
But right now, that answer just ain't true.
Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah
My world is spinning around,
Everything is lost that I found.
People run, come ride with me,
Let's find another place that's free.
Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
Ride, take a free ride,
Take my place
Have my seat
It's for free.
Ride, my see-saw.
Ride, ride, ride, my see-saw.
Ride, my see-saw...


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We've already seen X38 launch announcements from both Asus and Gigabyte, and it seems MSI is ready to join the party. The company's high-end X38 motherboard is known as the X38 Diamond, and it carries a number of goodies, including integrated X-Fi Xtreme audio from Creative, four PCIe x16 lanes (two of which are electrically x4 lanes), dual eSATA ports, dual gigabit ethernet, support for DDR3-1333, and support for 1333/1066/800MHz bus speeds.
Interestingly, MSI doesn't appear to be claiming that the X38 Diamond is capable of a 1600MHz FSB speed. Both the ABIT and Gigabyte board launches we reported on a few weeks ago emphasized support for 1600MHz operation, as did the ASUS X38 board launches we covered last week. All of the X38 boards we've seen thus far have been full-featured products with an emphasis on multiple PCIe x16 lanes and value-added configurations. With so many boards mentioning 1600MHz FSB support (even if the MSI X38 Diamond doesn't), it's a fair conclusion to say that Intel plans on releasing compatible parts within the relatively near future.
If you're in the market for an X38 board, the most expensive feature is which RAM standard the board supports. Personally, I'd go with DDR2—DDR3 is far more expensive, and has yet to demonstrate a real performance difference over DDR2—but which standard you want to support may depend on how much overclocking you intend to do and how much cash you have to burn.


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