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David Lowry
Professor of Communication
- B.S. in Psychology, Abilene Christian University
- M.S. in Human Relations and Management, Abilene Christian University
- Ph.D. in College Teaching/Interpersonal Communication, University of North Texas
- Office Phone: 405.425.1940 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Teaches Media and Society, Oral Communication
- Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma Christian University
- President, Seaver Faculty Association (2000-2001); Freshman Seminar Teaching Award (1995-1996); Director of Graduate Studies in Communication (1997-2002); Chair of Teacher Evaluation Committee (2001-2003)
- Hobbies include yoga, woodworking, reading, computing, travel and sailing
Dr. Lowry is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include interpersonal communication, media law, and communication pedagogy. Dr. Lowry is a member of the National Communication Association, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. He says, "OC allows me to combine my two passions—my Christian faith and communication. The best people on earth work at OC!" Dr. Lowry's favorite memories of OC are Opening Chapel, Freshman Follies, and the Associates Gala. He has two sons, Brent and Ross.
Larry Jurney
Chair, Department of Communication
Professor of Mass Communication
- B.A. in Communication, David Lipscomb University
- M.A. in Communication: Rhetorical Criticism and Theater, University of Tennessee
- Ph.D. in R/TV/Film with cognate in Higher Education, University of Michigan
- Office Phone: 405.425.5522 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Teaches Introduction to Electronic Media, Audio for Media, Video for Media, Broadcast News Production, Media Marketing & Sales, TV Field Production, Administrative Aspects of Electronic Media, Quest for Meaning: Christ and the Good Life
- Research interests include In-Community Religious Programming on Local Cable Systems and Academic Advising
- Emmy, Assistant Producer for "Dancing in Moccasins," an Emmy-Award winning documentary; Distinguished Service Award from the Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association for service and dedication to broadcast education in Oklahoma (2002); Two Fellowships with NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives); Faculty Leadership Award, Oklahoma Christian University (1998)
- Former President, Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association
- As a child, acted in live radio drama from Detroit
David Jurney
Mass Communication Instructor
Eagle Media Advisor
- B.S. in Communication, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.B.A., Oklahoma Christian University
- Office Phone: 405.425.5873 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Leads the Broadcasting Workshop and Advanced Broadcasting Workshop courses; teaches Advanced Creative Production, Television Field Production, Audio for Media, Photography Principles and Practices, and other mass communication courses
- Industry experience includes more than 20 years as director, producer and managing partner for Big Sky Productions
John Osborne
Director of International Programs
Assistant Professor of Communication
- B.S., Oklahoma Christian University
- Office Phone: 405.425.5463 Email: email@example.com
Philip Patterson
Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication
- B.A. in Religion, Lubbock Christian University
- M.A. in Mass Communication, Abilene Christian University
- Ph.D. in Political Communication, University of Oklahoma
- Office Phone: 405.425.5521 Email: email@example.com
- Teaches Oral Communication, Feature Writing, Introduction to Photojournalism, Reporting and Editing the News, Advertising Copywriting, Interviewing and Listening, Media Law, Media Ethics, and Mass Communication Practicum
- Excellence in Mass Media Ministry Award, Abilene Christian University (1996)
- Advisor to the Talon, campus newspaper; All-American newspaper, Associated Collegiate Press (1984, 2000)
- Gaylord Distinguished Chair of Teaching, Oklahoma Christian University (1988)
- Member of the editorial review board of Journal of Mass Media Ethics
- Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Member, Association for Applied and Professional Ethics
Brian Simmons
Professor of Communication
- B.S. in Mass Communication, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.A. in Communication, Pepperdine University
- Ph.D. in Mass Communication, Purdue University
- Office Phone: 405.425.5525 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Teaches Oral Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Persuasion, Family Communication, Argumentation & Debate, and Film & Religious Faith
- Teaches in the Honors program and serves as faculty advisor to the Honors Advisory Council
- Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
- His current research interest is in religious communication, specifically how apostates communicate the changes in their religious beliefs.
- Published research in Journalism Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Music and Society, Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, Media Coverage of Terrorism, and Sex, Religion and Media, and The Northwest Journal of Communication.
- Published two books: Falling Away: Why Christians Lose Their Faith and What Can Be Done About It (Abilene Christian University Press, 2005) and Wandering in the Wilderness: The Changes and Challenges in Emerging Adults' Christian Faith (Leafwood Publishers, 2009).
- Preaches each Sunday for the Metro Church of Christ in Gresham, Oregon.
Josh Watson
Assistant Professor of Communication
Communications Specialist
- Office Phone: 405.425.5527 Email: email@example.com
- Teaches Public Relations Principles, Public Relations Writing & Production Techniques, Public Relations Case Studies & Strategies, Advertising Principles, Symposium in Public Relations Research & Practice, Public Image & Reputation Management, Writing Across Media, Oral Communication, Business & Professional Communication
- Research interests include risk communication by organizational leaders, medium theory, computer-mediated communication, leadership communication, public relations issues, persuasion and influence, media effects, and political communication
- Member of the Public Relations Society of America, Communication Graduate Student Association, advisor for OC's chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America
- Previously worked at one of the top independent public relations firms in the country, where he helped build public support to fund and build a $600 million convention center
"Helping students begin and grow in their careers in public relations has been incredibly fulfilling. I love working at OC because so many companies in this large market come to me for smart, ethical, and strategic students and graduates. I love helping OC students see that growing in faith and attaining professional success are complementary goals."
Communication Adjunct Instructors
Jeremie Beller
- B.S. in Bible, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.A. in Bible, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.Div, Oklahoma Christian University
- ABD, Communication Department at Oklahoma Christian University
Amy Janzen
Director of Student Success
- B.A. in Communication, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.A. in Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma
- M.A. in Leadership and Communication Studies, Gonzaga University
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Katy Roybal
- B.A. in Liberal Studies, Oklahoma Christian University
- M.A. in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, Abilene Christian University
Dawn Shelton
- B.A. in Mass Communication, Oklahoma Christian University
Chara Watson
- B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Freed-Hardeman University
- M.A. in Reading with an emphasis in Storytelling, East Tennessee State University

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One parking atendant that I waved to every day was rumoured to have been a mathematics professor at the University of Ottawa.
|Lot #1 - Gilmour
|Lot #2 - Dominion Chalmers
I use the term "parking hut" and some folks call them "parking booths". The word hut seems more appropriate because the folks sit in these structures through all the seasons. Seems to me that they are more than a "booth" to get a parking pass.
|Lot #3 - Nepean
|Lot #4 - Somerset St West
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First Look: Baby Gap Home
It's no surprise that the Gap is getting into the nursery decor biz. Baby Gap Home carries original designs in bedding and accessories, plus brand-name items like Maclaren strollers, Quinny car seats, and diaper bags by Bella Tunno and Skip Hop.
Despite the somewhat traditional product staging we saw on Baby Gap Home website, we found ourselves drawn to several of the pieces in their inaugural collection. We've rounded them up below the jump.
There's an Umbra-esque quality to this mobile photo hanger ($12). Made of stainless steel, it comes with ten clips to hold family photos or postcards (or black-and-white infant stimulation graphics, if you want to squeeze in some early-early childhood education).
No matter how hot it gets, most infants still need a nice firm swaddle to get to sleep. These open-weave muslin swaddle sheets by Aden & Anais ($30 for a pack of two) fit the bill. They're a generous 47" by 47" and are available in pink, blue, or green with brown polka dots.
When the weather gets cooler, this embroidered fleece blanket ($29) would make a great stroller blanket. We have a hankering for the monkey, but other critters are also available.
Of the several bedding sets ($249; each set iincludes a quilt, bumper, crib skirt, and fitted sheet) available, the Flower Shop motif caught our eye. (The lovely print on the quilt might actually make tummy time fun.) As pretty as they are, we wish these items were sold as separates, for those of us who'd prefer to bypass the bumper.
We do like the fact that Baby Gap sells organic cotton fitted sheets at a very reasonable $19 a pop. There's a nice selection of solids and prints to choose from, all with a 250 thread count.
We like to keep diapers all over the house for quick changes. This brown canvas diaper storage bin ($19) would blend easily into a grown-up room. (Also available in pink and blue.)
We have to admit that we didn't know Boon made bath toys ($14 for a set of fifteen bath appliqués, three balls, and two mini-scrubbies). At first glance, we worried that this set of fun wall appliqués, designed to stick to the wall when wet, would be a mildew magnet. It turns out they're non-absorbent kid-safe EVA foam, so mold shouldn't be an issue, provided you let them dry between baths.
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ForexNewsNow – Sometimes it's hard to conceive what the sovereign debt of a country represents, specifically when it comes to a country in very bad economic shape such as Greece.
As we showed in our last infographic (click here to view also published here), the EU debt crisis can be explained by many different factors. But how can someone have a frame of reference for what a sum like €357 billion is equal to?
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After college I had been off and away to the job pressure which required me to village in Saskatchewan. I did not know anybody and spent considerable time walking, biking and performing exercises within my small apartment. Used to do bodyweight exercises along with the combined light cardio and eating healthily began to decrease the load from the college years.
Inside my workplace they initiated a wellness program that incorporated some challenges. One challenge would be a staff challenge where each employee needed to lead as much as 60 minutes each day of exercise and every one of the minutes were added up for the path of three days. Then we compared figures along with other offices who have been area of the challenge and our workplace won. Winning did not matter although I'm quite competitive. It had been they aspect and adding towards the team. All of the minutes were recorded within the staff room for those to determine and there wasn't any way I wasn't adding my 60 minutes each day. Individuals three days were the jump start to a different me.
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Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade
Maybe she also deserves Lindsey Vonn's gold medal? Lindsay Lohan is suing the website E-Trade for $100 million because she says an ad featuring a baby named "Lindsay" who is a "milkaholic" and steals another baby's boyfriend must be based on her. "Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit," said Lohan's lawyer. "They used the name Lindsay. They're using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn't they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody's talking about it and saying it's Lindsay Lohan."


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Family mediation helps if your relationship has broken down and you need to agree on arrangements for your children, home and finances. You can do this without going through the stress of court by contacting a family mediator – you don't have to see a solicitor first.
You will usually need to prove that you've considered mediation before you go to court.
The majority of people who start mediation reach an agreement to sort out practical issues such as:


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For those of you looking for some end-of-summer cinema, the most important film to go see in the next few weeks is The 11th Hour, a global warming documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen. The film – which just recently opened in your local cineplex to great reviews – is a moving look at the world's contemporary environmental crisis, and a rousing call-to-action to try to stop global warming before it is too late.
Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, which was essentially a global primer on climate change, the 11th Hour filmmakers try to present their experiences in finding out how we had arrive at this moment, and how to best prevent the catastrophe in a way that makes the audience feel like they can be part of the same journey.
"We ourselves wanted to understand why humans were on a crash course with nature, and what we had to do to change course," says Co-Writer/Co-Director/Producer Leila Conners Petersen. Her sister and collaborator, Nadia Conners, adds, "One of the great things about doing this project was being able to meet people that inspired me or opened my mind through their work and writings. It was a great honor and a huge learning experience."
Don't forget to visit the film's website for information on the film and what you can do to take action and save the world. And make sure to read Inhabitat's Green Building 101 guide for some simple steps that will help you reduce your energy footprint and improve your health and the environment.
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The Southwest Face of King Peak
Personal evolution on an overlooked gem
by Joe Josephson
A profound form of love. This is how a long-time friend once described obsession. Ten years ago I used her words as a kinder, more acceptable justification for doing whatever the hell I wanted. In my impetuous youth, I really had no idea what that was. But I did know one thing. For the better part of a decade I desperately wanted to climb a new route on King Peak in the St. Elias Range of the Yukon Territories, Canada.
My taste for King Peak began in 1989 while on my first big mountain trip: the Trench Route on Mount Logan (19,540'). At 16,971 feet, King Peak is dwarfed by its neighbor, Logan, but nonetheless it is the ninth highest peak in North America. The north face rises in Eiger-like proportions in one dramatic 5,000-foot sweep. The south ridge falls from the summit with Peruvianesque flutings and ends with several tendrils submerged deep in the Seward Icefield. From an eastern or western vantage point, references to Nepal's Pumori are not uncommon.
In this age of trophy climbing, one would imagine a mountain like King Peak to be world-famous and climbed often, yet it remains unique in every sense of the word. When Steve House and I arrived at the base on May 31, 1998, only five parties had stood atop King Peak via four different routes. Of those, only one was alpine style and within the last 30 years.
When it comes to trophies, chasing numbers and focusing solely on achievement, I carry my share of guilt. In terms of climbing King Peak, I found myself wanting to climb the coldest, steepest and, more importantly, the most recognizable feature of the mountain. The austere, unclimbed north face of King Peak became a drive that, although not constant, was nonetheless obsessive.
In the early 1990s, I had made several narrow-minded attempts to organize an expedition to the north face. It was Canadian pioneer Chic Scott who first alerted me to what he called "a route of the 21st Century" on the southwest face of the mountain. In 1995, while attempting to guide Logan, Troy Kirwan, Barry Blanchard and I skied over from base camp with this carrot of information for a look.
The southwest face rises close to 7,500 vertical feet from the Quintino Sella Glacier. The first 4,000 feet is a sweeping 50- to 60-degree ice face which narrows into a small but passable icefall. The upper half of the face is all rock save for a splitter gully that rises to meet the west ridge. The first 500 feet of the gully, with mixed climbing, is clearly the crux, after which the route slants left and becomes a more straight-forward ice couloir.
The line is not visionary. It's obvious. Anyone with a compulsion toward new routes, alpine mixed climbs or just direct lines on big mountains would feel drawn. But in my mind I continued to defer to the hallowed ground of the north wall. The southwest face would be the "warm up"—the consolation prize. Unfortunately, due to horrific weather, Barry, Troy and I barely got off Logan alive. We hardly saw King Peak, let alone attempted a route.
In the years after our stalled trip, my vision of climbing King Peak evolved from doing one particular route for all the wrong reasons to doing a great route for a few of the right ones. As I mentioned, the southwest face route didn't take a visionary to figure out. But perhaps vision lies in style, and it definitely is found in the relationships required to succeed. Alpinism is all about relationships—with the range, the mountain, the weather, the conditions, yourself, your life, your friends, your lovers, and your climbing partners, if any. None of these take precedence over another. Intimate respect and heed is placed simultaneously on all these factors.
The vision of climbing the north face dimmed. Not to be mistaken, King Peak remained very much in my consciousness. Steve and I were both intrigued by the north wall, just as we would be with any spectacular feature. But by the time we arrived on the Quintino Sella Glacier, there was no longer any desire, latent or otherwise, to climb it.
Instead, we had a simpler objective: the southwest face. We also had an important attitude: a willingness to fail. We wanted to make a continuous ascent of the route by beginning around midnight and climbing the ice face and the crux gully. Then, after 14-16 hours of climbing, we would stop for several hours during the heat of the day to eat, brew up and nap. Once we started getting cold, we'd tag the summit and descend the east ridge to our camp at King Col. We would carry no sleeping bags or tents. Our only bivouac gear would be a single shovel blade and an extra coat each. We would either climb the southwest face in this style, or not at all.
Within days of our arrival, we had moved a small camp to King Col, where we joined the critical mass of guided Logan parties. Over the next few days, in the name of acclimatization, we socialized, putzed about, did a little skiing and enjoyed our time together. One fine day we hiked up to the base of the east ridge of King Peak. From this vantage it became obvious the ridge is much steeper and icier than we had anticipated. To down climb it after a long and tiring ascent would be very dangerous, so we quickly decided to descend the 1952 West Ridge/North Face route instead. We moved our cached skis to a spot in the Trench at about 12,000 feet directly below the north face.
On June 7, we moved back to Base Camp to wait for the weather. On June 10, we laid around all evening and, after just falling into a nervous sleep, awoke at midnight on my 31st birthday.
Those individuals who have done a lot of alpine starts with me know I can be frustratingly schizophrenic. One morning I'll be outwardly talkative and hardly containable; the next, I'll stay buried somewhere inside myself and mumble barely a word. I've learned that, for me, both can be equally stimulating, but Steve had yet to understand this. He thought I wasn't psyched. In the hour it took to get ready, Steve had to deal with his own preparation while feeling like he had to motivate me. It turned into a classic case of polar responding. His attempt to motivate me simply plunged me deeper into my introverted side, which accelerated his own excitement.
If I'm feeling lazy or scared, I'll often just want to wallow there like a moose in deep snow until I figure out my feelings. Beginning climbers talk about developing a head so they can get over their reticence. I've worked hard to go the other way. In my tenure of alpine climbing, I've learned to listen to my "spidey senses." But perhaps the most important thing I've learned in my years of climbing is that intuition isn't infallible. I've been lucky. With that hard-earned knowledge I've gotten slower, more cautious, and less likely to go for it. I call it "Retro-Head."
At times I noticed myself getting annoyed at Steve's seemingly endless drive. In moments of impatience, I would want to shout, "Why can't you just calm down!" But this internal dialogue would be quickly replaced with, "Get a grip, JoJo. You know it's not him."
I know few people in this world who are less competitive or have a better understanding about their own mortality than Steve. My irritation was simply my own uncertainty about my feelings, laziness, and fear. Perhaps that is why Steve and I had connected and become friends and climbing partners. Unbeknownst to him, Steve had exposed a weakness and forced me to face it.
We left the tent at 1 a.m. It was a three-hour ski from Base Camp to the bottom of the face. By the time we got there, Steve realized that, in the frenetic pace he set for himself at the tent, he had forgotten one of two water bottles and his extra fleece jacket. Because we barely had anything in the first place, it was a noticeable oversight. I was a little surprised Steve would forget such things and simultaneously felt disappointment and perhaps a little hope: disappointment that we might not get to try what we had planned, and hopeful that perhaps we'd get to ski back to the certainty of base camp. Steve was just pissed. I gave him an extra hat I had planned to leave at the skis and figured we could manage.
Once we got above the bergschrund, we took the rope off and continued up the 4,000- foot ice face we later termed the "Great Sweep." Upon arriving near the base of the crux gully a little less than five hours later, Mount St. Elias was enveloped in cloud. Within minutes, the top 3,000 feet of King Peak disappeared in a large lenticular cloud. We started down together yet alone. Rappelling would have taken too long and been exposed to objective hazards with anchors too timely and difficult to make. These facts weren't up for discussion.
We barely spoke the entire way down. To ease the monotony, we'd alternate grabbing the top of the ax in piolet panne, holding the shaft just under the head. At times we'd be forced to swing both tools into the steeper, icier sections, but we generally avoided that as much as possible. We'd look for anything resembling deeper snow or softer névé where we could stand without front-pointing or cocking our ankles like the head of a curious dog. I would hone in on the next outcrop or ice feature to break the descent into manageable portions, only to find that I didn't want to look down too often lest I notice how painfully slow we were in reaching those chosen yardsticks. And looking down was only marginally better than looking up at the seracs that threatened the bottom half of the Great Sweep.
Getting off took over six hours of tedious crabbing. At no point could we turn around and face out. Flopped at the base in utter exhaustion and frustration, we agreed it was perhaps the worst thing either of us had ever done in the mountains.
We spent a few days recovering and socializing with new friends in Base Camp. A closer look at the crux gully and time in camp allowed us to rethink our packs. Among other things, we took out our 6-mm rappel line. This left us with one 9.1-mm 60-meter rope, seven ice screws, four cams, six pitons, six stoppers, a shovel blade, a MSR stove, pot, two freeze-dried dinners, tea, about 20 GU packets a piece, a down coat and extra pair of gloves and mitts each. Our packs weighed about 30 pounds combined, including the rope and rack.
Not often have I gone onto a 7,500-foot alpine face with one rope. Yet we knew the rope wouldn't be uncoiled before the crux gully, and once we got over that it would probably be easier to go over the top than retreat. The concept was simple. We were unwilling to down climb the ice face again due to objective danger and the sincere belief that we had burned a few lucky stars the first time.
Understandably, we were nervous about committing to the route without very stable weather. For days, there had been some fog and unstructured, high cirrus clouds streaming above, but the weather remained stable, with about 14 hours out of every 36 being perfect. The entire time we were in Base Camp the altimeter moved very little, if at all.
Our pickup date was June 21. By the 17th, everyone else on the mountain was gone. We were beginning to believe we wouldn't do King Peak. But the weather refused to change, so in the first hours of the 18th we left Base Camp for the second and last time.
Skiing toward the face, the frozen texture of the glacier reminded me fondly of the rumpled white flannel sheets I used as a child. There was none of my moody trepidation, and none of Steve's frantic packing nor forgotten crucial pieces. We knew more about the route and the conditions, we knew greatly more about each other, and we knew more about what we were there to do. The Great Sweep was under us quickly and we arrived at our previous high point by 9:30 a.m. Going a little higher, we found a rock anchor on the right and started belaying.
The first pitch was a nice moderate ice pitch with some thin ice. The second pitch climbed a short bulge to an easier gully that led to a prominent collection of icicles pouring off a thumb of rock to the left. The surrounding rock was proving to be some of the most bizarre, twisted, cooked rock I've seen. Decent rock protection was sporadic at best.
It was Steve's lead. The pitch would clearly be the crux—and it was beautiful, with good, hard mixed climbing to the right of the thumb of icicles. At first I felt a brief twinge of disappointment that it wasn't my lead, but I learned long ago not to argue if my partner draws the short straw and/or wants to do the hard pitch. I'll get my share naturally enough.
From the belay, Steve went into the gully and climbed up a vertical ice pillar in the back of the comer to the right of the icicles. After about ten meters, the angle eased. At this point the prominent icicles were level with and out in space directly behind Steve. Fifteen meters of hard mixed climbing with very little gear led to an invisible stance on the ice above the icicles.
The rope stopped. For 40 minutes I heard nothing except the occasional jiggle of the rope. Clumps of crusty ice shot over the lip, the bigger ones trying to smash my hands and shoulders, the smaller pieces searching a way into the back of my collar. Steve managed to get four pieces of gear: a slung horn (the best piece), a knifeblade behind a flake, a second (worse) piton and two equalized, tied-off, stubby ice screws. For the last half hour I had been watching the sun come around the face. My thoughts were preoccupied with its arrival—that is, I was looking forward to its heat but praying we'd finish the pitch before it hit.
"Okay," Steve said, breaking the stillness. "I'm going for it."
With Steve's call the sun disappeared, and my only thoughts went up the rope, into my partner and whatever he was dealing with. In all my alpine climbing experiences, it is exactly moments like this that are the most hopeful, the most dreadful, the most intense, the craziest, and the most savory. I concentrated on my belay, adjusting the rope so as not to give unwanted tension and ready to feed it out if he needed slack for a desperate clip. But the desperate clip never came. The rope fed upward at a steady rate and I heard nothing save the pattering of hard snow crystals and the occasional ice chunk bowling down the gully. When I was hit by a pillow of spindrift Steve had knocked down and then heard a telltale hoot, I knew he had reached easier ground.
Upon following the pitch, I seriously wondered if I would have attempted it. Above Steve's gear there was but one narrow strip in the rotten smattering that took good tool placements. This strip was on the right side of an overhanging groove that pushed me backward onto a pillar of unconsolidated ice that resembled wax drippings more than an icicle. This also leaned, forcing me into gymnastic body positions reminiscent of cragging close to the car. Yet the entire 20 meters of this overhanging section was covered in a tapestry of useless crusted snow that is typical of and really only found on alpine routes and for which no roadside waterfall route could ever prepare you.
I was proud of Steve's lead, and thankful it was his. Ten years ago it would have been my focus as well. Today, it was merely a pain in the ass. But it dawned on me that I was at the point I'd evolved to in the last ten years: in the middle of an adventure with an incredibly talented partner and awesome friend, knowing that every aspect of our route and the trip were equally important and valuable.
After a brief, relieved break at Steve's belay, we continued up, sharing the work and the hopefulness. The entire upper face was about 50 degrees and, although it had a lot of rocks sticking out, pure ice. We climbed roped up, placing ice screws and the occasional rock piece between us as we moved together. After nine rope lengths we moved left onto a broad ice slope that, in another four rope lengths, gave easy access to the west ridge. All told, it had taken 13 hours to reach the west ridge from where we left the skis.
We dug small platforms out of the wind on the north side of the ridge and sat down to eat, brew and attempt a nap. We had hoped to stop earlier in the day but had found absolutely no ledges anywhere and no snow to dig into. Cornices had threatened the bottom part of the upper gully. All day high cirrus had been building, yet St. Elias remained clear. We thought little of it, as it was no different than the preceding days' patterns.
Around 9 p.m., the clouds got thicker, blocking the warming sun. Caps formed over St. Elias and Logan, and darker rain clouds could be seen lower in the Chitna Valley. Our hydrating nap in the sun turned into a few hours of shivering and choking on indigestible freeze-dried munge. With nothing better to do, we packed up and nervously headed for the summit.
The first pitch from the ledge wandered out across snow slopes to the bottom of a small, broken rock step. A mixed step left put Steve in a shallow snow gully, which he followed to a good belay off a slung horn just below the summit ridge. A short easy section led to the main ridge. We then moved together across the ridge, first on the south side and then, several pitches before the summit, on the exposed north side. We stayed well back from either edge and some ten meters below the true summit for fear of cornices.
All-in-all, it was a disappointing summit. Despite appearances from below, the top was non-distinct and the 11:30 p.m. twilit gloom was ominous. The clouds were thickening and the top 1,500 feet of Logan were already gone.
We returned to the summit rock step, where we made a short rappel off the slung horn (our only rappel on the entire descent). As soon as we got back to the ledge and repacked, the weather really turned. We continued to down climb the ridge by moving together and threading the rope around snow pinnacles, staying on opposite sides of the ridge and only occasionally placing ice screws. We anticipated rappelling the obviously rocky sections we had scoped from the Trench. In the heavy snow and twilight darkness, however, we found not a single rock anchor worth weighting. After battling this peak, I doubt they would be found even under brilliant blue sky and unlimited time to look. On King Peak, they don't exist. With some effort we were able to find our way around the rock sections by down climbing and traversing through bad snow on the north side of the ridge. It was a white-out pretty much the entire way down and we were frightfully dehydrated, but by then we were so wet that if we stopped we'd get too cold. Our only food, GU packets, stuck to our mouths like half-and-half on a hot day.
The trickiest part of the descent was finding the start of the ramp that leads back below the north face. Steve led out on a likely looking snow bench. I wasn't convinced, but lacking a definitive alternative, I went with his judgment. It was too high, leaving us stranded somewhere on the north face with eerie shadows of seracs and omnipresent voids invisible through the whiteout. We returned through deep snow back to the ridge, taking some two hours.
I was pissed. How could he be so impatient? Somewhere inside, though, I knew my anger was nothing but my own fatigue and frustration. I didn't know any more about the descent than he did.
Later on, Steve lowered me down an ice section when I just couldn't take it any more, and then down climbed it himself. The unspoken give-and-take; the shallow desire to say "told you so," immediately followed by unrequested assistance just when you need it most; two people allowing each other to feel whatever it is they feel. This is what alpine climbing is all about. These relationships are only spawned out of intimacy—out of a profound form of love.
A big bergschrund guards the top of the ramp. After several belayed probes and more time and energy than either one of us cared to expend, we found an easy way across. The visibility cleared quite a bit, and the route across the ramp proved to be easy. We spent 40 minutes under very big and active seracs. It's amazing how dread can motivate. It was the best we felt all day as we virtually sprinted to the relative safety of the Trench.
When we got to the skis, I asked Steve if our initial attempt on the face was still the most hateful thing he had done in the mountains.
"No," he said with a smile.
A quick ski on perfect snow brought us down to Base Camp, 35 hours after leaving. I am a survival skier in the best sense of the word and frequently use the phrase "hating life" when describing my ski experiences. Yet halfway to base it dawned on me that I had been skating down the freeze-thaw surface of the glacier. I was even practicing alpine turns on the steeper parts. At that moment, in the King Trench with Steve gliding down somewhere behind me, I was glad to be alive. It became obvious to me why King Peak has been climbed only six times.
Summary of Statistics
Area: St. Elias Mountains, Canada
New Route: Call of the Wild (VI WI6, 7,500') on the southwest face of King Peak, June 18-19, 1998, Joe Josephson and Steve House


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While perusing about:config(changed NOTHING!), i noticed an entry:"network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS"-should I be concerned? Sounds bad to me...
To be clear-- I've never edited any about:config entries before, without following explicit instructions to do so, by a trusted source(i.e., Firefox Help). Out of curiosity though, I like to browse the entries once in a while, and seem to have developed a "sixth sense" in detecting things that don't seem right. My "gut" is rarely wrong! The entry in question: "network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS" sure seems like a bad thing to me, I've never seen it before. Have I been hacked?(I've just updated FF, I have it set to update automatically) Does this signify compromised https pages that I visit?
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hello, per default network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS should be set to false.Read this answer in context 1
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hello, per default network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS should be set to false.
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Thanks, it is set to "false." You have put my mind at ease on that one!


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P's story is being told in a series. This is the second installment in the series. If you missed the first installment of the series, please click here.
My pregnancy started out well enough. Like any newly expecting mother, I talked to my new little one, sang to my tummy with my hand draped across where I thought baby was and, later, I put a saucer just above my belly button to watch it dance. I was religious about taking my prenatal vitamins and attending obstetrician appointments.
I remember thinking that I was doing well and that maybe there was some chance I wouldn't have to suffer through morning sickness. Then one morning, as I was getting ready for work and my husband was going through his morning routine in the restroom of our small one-bedroom apartment, I was sent speeding to the parking lot where I got horribly, publicly sick. This was the precursor to what became a month-long battle of intense morning sickness and, thus, dehydration. A word to the wise: Orange juice is a very, very bad idea if you're having morning sickness. I still remember being sent home from Fashion Bug, where I worked, because I was trapped in the ladies room sick. In my attempt to be healthy, I had drunk a huge glass of orange juice and had eaten nothing that morning.
In the midst of all with which we were coping - being concerned with my pregnancy - my husband's paternal grandfather died, and we were to move from Indiana to Arkansas while I was about five months preggers. The move went well, but the transition was hell. I had lost my mucus plug and ended up in the emergency room on the first day in our new town. I was now in a new city in a state I'd never thought I'd live in with no family or friends, no job, and at home every minute of every day with nowhere to go. I had some mild passing depression earlier in my pregnancy, but nothing like this. With every passing day, it grew worse. I wanted to nest and to fawn over baby things, but I was alone—except when my husband was home from work. I lost 15 pounds while I was pregnant; I think, in part, due to stress.
At seven months pregnant, I found myself in the emergency room in such a depression that I was disassociating and speechless. My husband spoke for me, as a mother does for her child at the doctor. I remember hearing the doctor say that my best bet was to go inpatient at a psychiatric facility located forty-five minutes away. He also cautioned against it because, in such a place, it isn't guaranteed that a patient will be given medication that is completely safe for her unborn child. None of the kinds of medications I needed were entirely safe. I made an appointment with the local psychiatrist, whom I had seen previously, and was sent on my way.
A few days passed and I made it to my appointment feeling numb and depressed at the same time. An hour later, I was prescribed Prozac and was told it was my safest option. It was a lovely sentiment, but I found little relief. I'm not convinced that my condition was a biological issue as much as circumstantial. Too much at one time without the support of local family and friends took me into a tailspin. All the while, my soon-to-be-born bouncing baby boy was healthy and developing perfectly. He was actually born a week early at 9 lbs 3 oz on January 13, 2008. It was a Sunday, just six minutes after midnight, by cesarean section. Everything was wonderful and perfect in relation to him. But I was not well, and it would get worse for a time. What felt like a very long time...


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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 hard reset using hw keys
How to delete password on Galaxy Tab S T805. Tutorial on how to remove forgotten password or unlock pattern on Samsung Galaxy Tab S T805 Android tablet, hard reset, tablet repair, unlock password, remove unlock pattern on Galaxy Tab S SM-T805, Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Wifi SM-T805 factory reset,
With the Samsung Galaxy Tab S T805 turned off, press and hold the HOME + VOLUME UP button, (or simply the Vol up) and then briefly press the POWER button for a few seconds, but keep pressing the other buttons until the recovery menu comes up. In recovery menu select wipe data / Factory reset using Volume down button and confirm with power key.
Repeat it on the next screen, highlight Yes -- delete all user data using the Volume down and confirm the deletion using the power key. All data will be lost!
Resetting Samsung Galaxy TabS from the menu settings
When your Galaxy Tab S T805 tablet freezes or has fatal errors, does not response to any input
If your device freezes or hangs, you may need to close programs or reset the device to regain functionality. If your device is still responsive but a
program is frozen, close the program using the task manager. If your device is frozen and unresponsive, press and hold [POWER ] for 8-10 seconds. The device will reboot automatically.
If this does not solve the problem, perform a factory data reset. In Menu mode, select Settings → Backup & reset → Factory data reset → Reset Tablet and confirm using OK
Samsung Galaxy Tab S SM-T805 ODIN mode / firmware update mode
To put your tablet in ODIN mode press Volume down + power (on some models VOL DOWN + home)
Note: If you see "Downloading" "Do not turn off target" on the screen with an Android shoveling you are in ODIN mode. In this mode you can connect your device to PC / laptop and update the firmware, or download (upload) a custom binary.


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Natural polymer produced from the leaves of the Carnauba palm (Copernica cerifera) in Brazil. The wax is a hard yellow-brown wax. It is obtained from the leaves of the carnauba palm by collecting them, beating them to loosen the wax, then refining and bleaching the wax. It has a glossy finish, acts as a lubricant, and is an anti-caking, and surface finishing agent which makes it ideal for use in many food products. It is also widely used in cosmetics. Occasionally causes allergic reactions (dermal eczema) and possible carcinogen.
Common Uses
In bakery products, chewing gum, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, frostings and sweet sauces, hard and soft confectionary, to wax fruit and vegetables, and in water based flavoured drinks (including sport, energy, or electrolyte drinks).


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For those who have the "carry on" part down or for the Joan Jett who has everything, The Poster List presents "Keep Calm and Rock On". All posters are printed with 100% vegetable inks on organic acid-free paper and, for a limited time, they're having a 2 for $20 sale! Now that rocks! (Yeah...I said it. Totally, dude.)
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K.J. Parker on the 'cast
Apr 19th, 2015 by jonathanstrahan
With a little good fortune the next episode of the Coode Street Podcast will be out with the world sometime in the next thirty-six hours. This week's episode features the first ever "live" interview/chat with World Fantasy Award winning author K.J. Parker. We will be talking about Parker's new online project with Orbit, new novel with Subterranean and, of course, what it means to be K.J. Parker./ We've been waiting for this one for a while, and think it should be pretty special.


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Family Business Day Honors Montana Businesses
Connecting Montana Family Businesses to the Global Market
The Montana State University College of Business is hosting the 14th Annual Family Business Day at the Holiday Inn on Friday, September 21.
Several family businesses, which ranged in size from fewer than 10 employees to more than 50, are in contention for a number of Family Business Day awards. This year's winners will receive their awards at the Family Business Day awards luncheon. The winning businesses will also be eligible to compete in the national MassMutual Family Business Awards.
This year's top family businesses in Montana are: Little Athens of Great Falls, in the very small business category (fewer than 10 employees); Falls Construction Co. of Great Falls, in the small business category (10 to 30 employees); Diversified Plastics, Inc. of Missoula and Cascade Electric of Great Falls, tied in the medium business category (30-50 employees), Mergenthaler Transfer & Storage Co. of Helena, in the large business category (more than 50 employees) and Honeyland of Wolf Point, in the old business category (operating at least 50 years as a family business). Sletten Construction Co. of Great Falls won the Judge's Special Recognition Award.
Gary Bishop, an adjunct instructor of management in the College of Business, will be the guest speaker for this event. His seminar, Out of Service, is an overview of customer service and how it has become a lost art in our society. A portion of this presentation will be a hands-on workshop focusing on delivering outstanding customer service and effectively responding to customer demands.
"It is wonderful to be able to recognize exemplary family businesses that have all shown a commitment to customer service, family values, and diversification to satisfy the needs of their markets, often in challenging situations," said Nancy Dodd, director of the Montana State University College of Business State Farm Insurance Family Business Program and an MSU professor of management. "Family businesses are central to the economic vitality of Montana, and the businesses that are honored are perfect examples of why and how family businesses contribute to our communities, our state, and our nation."
The MSU College of Business and State Farm Insurance, in honor of Robert Jaedicke, host the program. Stockman Bank underwrote the awards, with additional support for the program provided by Combs Law Firm and the Montana Chamber of Commerce.
The registration fee to attend the entire event is $25, which includes a continental breakfast, lunch, the seminar and the seminar materials. Participants who wish to attend just the lunch and awards ceremony pay $20. The cost to attend the seminar only is $10. For more information or to make your reservations call Karen Beach 994-6796 or e-mail email@example.com.


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My unit was running under pretty heavy load for a year or two and it stopped cooling. I took it apart. Capacitor is good. Thermistor is good. Fan motor is good. Compressor is good and hums on. It responds to changes in fan speed based on temp.
Coldest air it blows is 71 degrees. It's a Frigidaire, 2 years old.
What else can I check, could it be the coolant? The copper at the bottom of the evaporator is green but that's pretty normal.
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"In this game AlphaGo shows its flexibility when Black abandons a running fight and tries to control the open lower side of the board instead," says Michael Redmond 9p in his game commentary on AlphaGo-AlphaGo Game 6. "In the second fight of the game, White deals with two weak groups masterfully. Finally, Alphago shows its bias for complications when White allows a dangerous ko in the corner."
Click here for Redmond's video commentary, hosted by the AGA E-Journal's Chris Garlock. As usual, the commentary in the sgf file here includes variations not covered in the video commentary, and the sgf commentary includes additional comments transcribed from the video.
The video is produced by Michael Wanek and Andrew Jackson. The sgf file was created by Redmond, with editing and transcription by Garlock and Myron Souris.


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Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Sausage and Spinach
In an effort to reduce waste (and my grocery bill), I tasked myself to create a healthy dinner recipe entirely from ingredients that we already had on hand. Challenged accepted and attained! This easy, cheesy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Sausage and Spinach turned out to be one of the tastiest meals we've eaten in weeks.
For a household of two in which neither person is either a) a professional athlete or b) training for an eating contest, our monthly grocery bill is embarrassingly high. Although a large portion that expense is a necessary hazard of writing a food blog, I am also guilty of wracking up some serious Drive By Expenses*.
Drive By Expenses*: Costs incurred when I'm pushing (driving) my grocery cart down the aisle to pick up a specific ingredient for a blog recipe and, "Oh my goodness, this [fancy jar of olives; tub of my favorite salsa; bottle of wine] is on sale. I better buy seven!"
I check out, mouth gaping as the cashier announces my total, then open my pantry to put away my new groceries and discover that…everything I bought last week is still sitting on my shelf, unused.
I need to change my buying habits and make better use of the groceries I have already purchased. It's less wasteful for the world and my wallet. Also, as this Sundried Tomato Pasta with Sausage and Spinach demonstrates, I have been missing out on some delicious, healthy recipes by ignoring my pantry!
Although the contents of my pantry and refrigerator will look different than yours, I am betting that much good can be found if you peek behind the open cereal boxes and half-eaten jars of nut butter.
This Sun Dried Tomato Pasta starts with a few items I always have on hand—dry whole wheat pasta (I love this brand), beans, garlic, semi-wilted greens, and cheese (obviously). I also had a package of chicken sausage links in the freezer, so they went into the skillet too.
The final touch is sun dried tomatoes. I love keeping a jar around, because they require ZERO effort but add INSTANT flavor to any recipe, especially pastas.
My pantry may be more fully stocked than yours (again, food blogger hazard), but this recipe is an easy guide you can adapt. No Great Northern beans? Use cannellini. No spinach or arugula? Try adding sautéed kale, broccoli, or whatever other leftover veggie is lurking in your crisper drawer. Vegetarian diet or no sausage on hand? This sun dried tomato pasta is still fantastic and filling without it.
Even if you do need to pick up a few ingredients to make this Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Sausage and Spinach, I promise it will be worth the trip. This pasta recipe comes together in one pan, is healthy and filling, and the combination of the tangy sun dried tomatoes with the zesty sausage and creamy white beans is nothing short of fabulous.
Cheesy Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta with Sausage and Spinach
- 8 ounces whole wheat penne pasta
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 8 ounces precooked chicken sausage links — I used Trader Joe's roasted garlic flavor, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 can reduced-sodium white beans, rinsed and drained (I used Great Northern; cannellini or white kidney would work as well) — (14 ounces)
- 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil — drained and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic — minced
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 5 cups mixed tender greens — I used half arugula, half baby spinach
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Chopped fresh herbs — for serving (parsley, basil, green onions, or anything you like or have on hand)
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta to al dente, according to package directions. Reserve 1/2 cup of the pasta cooking liquid, then drain the pasta and set aside.
In a large, deep skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high. Add the sausage and brown on all sides. Reduce the heat to medium, then add the white beans, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, salt and pepper, and red pepper flakes. Cook until the beans are warmed through and the garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the reserved pasta, then the spinach and arugula. If the pasta seems dry, add a little of the reserved pasta water to loosen it. Cook just until the greens wilt, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat and sprinkle with Parmesan and herbs. Enjoy warm.
Recipe Notes
- Refrigerate leftovers in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Reheat gently in the microwave or on the stovetop with a splash of chicken stock (or water) to keep the pasta from drying out. Sprinkle with additional Parmesan cheese and herbs before serving.
Nutrition InformationAmount per serving (1 (of 6)) — Calories: 350, Fat: 11g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 33mg, Sodium: 430mg, Carbohydrates: 46g, Fiber: 8g
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If you like this Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Sausage, Spinach, and White Beans, don't miss these other healthy pasta recipes!
Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Chicken
Eggplant Pasta with Red Pepper and Tomato
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YUM! I have been sooo good about my pantry lately. When I make my weekly meal plan, I aim to use 3-5 things up from the pantry. And I make my menu in the kitchen so that I can check 'do I really need more canned tomatoes, etc.'
LOVE this!
haha I have the same problem. Although I blame mine on my ridiculously stupid shaped pantry … it's impossible to find anything in it (I've tried so many different ways to organize) … so I wind up with half used bags of EVERYTHING. This pasta sounds delicious!
This casserole sounds great. I definitely like one dish meals.
Everything you make looks so yummy….I really hate to cook :) I'd rather look at the pictures of your food you cook and wish I had some lol….
I'm just cooking for one, maybe that's why….today I have fish in the oven…..but not really healthy fish tho…..but fast….was going to go to Arby's for a Reuben and decided I needed to cook the last 2 pcs. fish in the freezer….don't know what else I will have, could make a salad, but a lot of trouble….so I'm just sitting here eating Russel Stover chocolate and waiting for my fish to get done…..:) told ya I didn't eat healthy….
maybe tomorrow….
You always do such delicious things with sundried tomatoes! Gorgeous. We spend a crazy amount of money on food, too. Last week we were out of town for Memorial Day weekend, and it was my birthday, so we didn't make it to the grocery store. After about 15 or 16 days of surviving on what we had, we finally caved and stocked up again, but in that time, we were FINE cooking from what we had! It definitely made us realize that we don't reallllly need to buy so many groceries :)
hey girl this looks really good! So creative!
I know all to well what you mean about a higher monthly grocery bill for two! Matt and I eat quite a bit between us, but our more frequent trips to Aldi are primarily due to eating our fresh produce so quickly. He and I can't seem to eat enough greens, vegetables, and fruits. Also, I claim the blog "trap" too. :-) This recipe and approach are perfect! Thank you for demonstrating how keeping a few staples on hand can really pull together a phenomenal meal. Great job, Erin!
This looks so delicious! I am obsessed with sun dried tomatoes!
You have me drooling every time I stop by. This dish looks so fresh and so delish. I've gotta try this one soon!
Yum, this looks fantastic, Erin! And even though it has spinach AND tomatoes in it, I think it's something my husband would actually eat (and love!), too. Oh, and I'm totally with you on the "drive-by" items… I need to know how anyone manages to resist!
I love being able to throw together a meal with what I have on hand! This would be a hit at our house!
Ah! I know how im going to adapt this to what's in my fridge! Wilted sliced mushrooms instead of the sausage, broccoli instead of leafy greens and garbanzos instead of white beans. Can't wait And my fridge is going to be so cleaned out afterwards! I bet it'll be delicious…!
Ah and another note, when I find myself with a stuffed pantry/fridge I put all grocery purchases on pause and devise a menu plan that will use up everything I have. I can only buy things if they are super necessary to use up what I have. I find it makes me get really creative. And you end up saving a couple weeks worth of groceries too, especially when you find yourself with all kinds of dried beans and grains.
SIGN ME UPPPP for this! YUM!
Just made it for my family and it was a hit! I can't believe how healthy it is and it is beyond yummy!
Thank you for sharing this fantastic recipe. It's a winner!
I forgot to add that I used Einkorn pasta, but I think I may try the pasta you recommend, as the stats are similar.
We tried this tonight after getting home at dinner time from being up north, and it was awesome. My hubby commented several times (from his perch in front of the US Open, of course) that it is delicious and needs to go in the regular rotation. THANKS!
My husband LOVES this recipe. He does a dance every time I suggest making it. :D


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Moriya is an international society uniting Jewish girls and women in striving to become more complete Jews, through exploration of the mesora, of the world to which we apply it, and of the unique gifts each of us brings to this task.Moriya members are Jewish women and girls, ages seven to adult.In-depth study and discussion of Torah texts... discovering effective ways to help others... making shoes, beading jewelry, paddling canoes, using chemicals to blow flaming bubbles...FAQ
Q. Mori-what?Moriya is an organization similar in form to Boy Scouts, but for girls and with Torah as well as general content. Unlike Scouts, it's also open to adults.
Q. Is Moriya a club?Yes! Members meet in groups to work toward their goals. You can also join Moriya without being part of a group.
Q. Does Moriya have a curriculum?Yes! Members choose an area of focus, like woodworking or a parsha or midda (character trait). They explore that area of focus through learning and discussing Torah texts, and hands-on activities. Finally, they design a chesed (lovingkindness) project using their new expertise.Moriya provides a detailed curriculum to facilitate all this.
Q. Does Moriya feel like school?Nope! Moriya is extra-curricular and largely open-ended. Groups can choose whether they want a scholarly focus or a theme that's almost entirely hands-on.
Q. Give me an example.One group of 4th-5th grade girls has chosen to focus on leather-working. We're learning how leather was processed and used in the Mishkan and we'll also touch on some other instances of leather in the Torah (can you think of the first one?). The girls learned how to polish shoes, and will be making their own leather ghillie brogues; and we'll see how leather is tanned (the girls will have a chance to try it). When we're all done, we'll figure out a way to use our new knowledge for the benefit of the community, and do it!
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Our History
Artis Metals Company has been in business since 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. Our founder, Samuel W. Artis, moved his family from Florissant, MO all they way out West to Idaho in 1930. Sam worked as a "tin knocker" in Missouri and and "fell in love with the West". In a freight car he moved the contents of 2 shops and a 12 room house, then traveled with two trucks, a 1928 Rickenbacker Car and a 1930 Model A Ford to Idaho.
The watershed moment for Artis Metals came when Sam and his oldest son Edward Joseph invented a new design for a chimney cap that prevented down drafts from backing up smoke and soot in stoves. Additionally, they invented a leak proof extension product which affixed the chimney cap to tile or brick chimneys. These products broke into national distribution and catapulted the Company into a nationally recognized specialty sheet metal manufacturer. They later obtained patents for the Artis Vacuum Cap in 1940 and the Artis Leakproof Chimney Extension in 1942.
The original major customers of Artis Metals Company were the Coleman Stove Company, which placed the caps on its oil burning stoves, and the US Military. As WWII broke out, the US military bought thousands of Artis Vacuum Caps to help keep our soldiers warm in quansut huts across the US and the world where they were deployed.
In the years following the war, Sam's four sons continued the tradition of innovation and growth and as the HVAC industry evolved, Artis Metal Company followed suit. The Company began designing and manufacturing sheet metal products beyond chimney and stove products to include exhaust vents for appliances, roof ventilators, and other accessory items needed in the developing American consumer markets.
Many of these sheet metal items are commodity items, as patents have expired and products are made by companies in massive bulk runs from thinner gauge metal and plastic. Artis Metals Company has remained true to its historical reputation of providing quality products to customers large and small, constructed from heavier gauge material and continually adapting the products based on feedback from its customers, employees and the changing industry. The business remains family owned by the offspring of founder Samuel W. Artis,
Upon their arrival from Missouri, the Artis family established themselves as active and compassionate members of the Caldwell and later the Boise, Idaho communities. Sam was known for his generosity and willingness to step in and help the less fortunate citizens whom he encountered during the Great Depression and throughout his life. It is this strength of character and values that we strive to continue at Artis Metals Company today. These values are reflected in our daily interaction with our customers, our community, and our employees.
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Hi everyone,
Have not had internet for quite awhile as I moved out of the marina, I am now anchored outside the lagoon by Pidgeon Island, its about 2 miles away from Rodney Bay and takes 3/4 hr to come ashore there, so sorry I havn't posted for ages. Next plan is a visit to Marin in Martinique and I may even leave today if all goes well. Have enjoyed my stay here, it is a beautiful island and the people are very friendly, so much so, that the social events seem to keep you here as there is always something more to see or do.
I hope to return to St Lucia on about the 18-19 Feb to take part in the round the Island Rally on the 20th, its 2 days with an overnight stop in Vieux Fort, this could be good fun!
Pictures 1 is all those who took part in the farewell flotilla, and GL in Castries sailing around the harbour.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
January 2010
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Some more views of the Island after a little tour I did with some friends from the Netherlands, we were with Malaki, he took us to the not so well visited places so we could see the real St Lucia, swiming in a river and seeing the small fishing villages, took us all day and included a swim in a hot mineral waterfall and a visit to the volcano crater which bubbles and steams away, bit smelly as sulfurous. pic 1 fishing village pic 2 swimming hole pic 3 rain forest pic 4 boiling sulfur mud pic 5 the famous Pitons with the town at there base Soufriere.
In the process of planning the next route and will post info later. Hope all had a good time over Xmas and New Year.
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t will get worse. The Government now backs a more or less open-ended commitment to pouring ever more resources into the demonstrably inefficient bureaucracy of the NHS. Pensions, welfare benefits and education will devour tens of billions more even than current projections suggest. Labour practises ambiguity on this — alternately taking pride in all that money that has been thrown on the NHS bonfire and promising "reform" through the introduction of more choice in public service provision. But does anyone really think that the party intends to reverse the slide towards Scandinavian levels of profligacy?
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As for the Liberal Democrats, has there been a more inaptly named political structure in the world since some clever North Korean came up with the Democratic People's Republic? The liberalism that this party favours is the sort that would accelerate the confiscation of private property now in train by returning to some of the punitive tax rates of the 1970s. The democracy they favour is the sort that involves surrendering sovereignty to the EU and the United Nations as fast as possible. Didn't there used to be something called the Trade Descriptions Act that forbade this kind of mis-selling?
The lack of serious fiscal choice on offer is only a reflection of a broader surrender to the principle that government has the answers and the people should stop worrying their little heads about it. Every conversation one has in this country seems to start from the premise that everything that ails us can be put right by government — whether it is obesity or the decline of classical music.
And what exquisite irony! The one thing in the past four years that the Government really did get right — the deposing of a dangerous dictator and the liberation of 24 million people from tyranny — is now regarded in the closed circle of serious political discussion as an act of pure evil.
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Do It Yourself Dehaze
OK, for me at least, the new Dehaze is cool. But not everyone has joined the Creative Cloud and I've heard from some who want to know if they can get the same results without the real Dehaze. Here's my version of a do-it-yourself Dehaze.
First of all, nothing about image editing is magic. It's digital, and digital means that everything is in the numbers. If you can make the RGB numbers for every pixel in an image come out with particular values, that image will look a particular way. The numbers are the image. It doesn't matter in the least how you got those number to have those values. Whatever it was you did made the image look that way. There are countless ways to manipulate the RGB values in an image. But image files from modern cameras have quite a few pixels in them. After all, they measure image resolution in megapixels, or millions of pixels. And nobody wants to manually edit the RGB values for a million pixels, let alone ten, twenty or more millions of them. The trick then is to find a way that changes the numbers for as many pixels as possible at the same time in a meaningfully helpful way. Otherwise, you'd never finish the task of editing even a single image.
And manually editing pixel values has another problem that is equally difficult to overcome. Unless you're handy with a calculator and possess an intimate understanding of the physics of light and imaging, there's no way you can determine values for successive images across an area that will retain a natural looking gradient. The resulting image is supposed to still look like the original image, but better.
These are both high on the list of why Photoshop and Lightroom each contain so many tools that can change pixel RGB values. Dehaze is just the latest addition to such long lists of tools. Yes, it's enormously convenient for the effect it provides, but it isn't indispensable. There's no reason to feel like you can't achieve the same results without it. It may take a tad more effort, but for this particular purpose at least, you can thereby avoid the Creative Cloud licensing change. This, of course, is a tradeoff you'll need to decide to accept yourself. But what I'm going to describe here will work just fine without the Cloud.
In line with the first of two points I started with here, my goal is to make use of techniques that leverage tools capable of changing the most pixels as possible, as easily as possible. I could just tell you to break out the paintbrush tool set to a very fine brush size and go at it, but would certainly prove unworkable in terms of time investment, but it would also nearly as certainly fail you in terms of creating natural looking results.
Last week, I talked about how the Dehaze tool shared a lot in common with Clarity, the tool many of us previously used to minimize the appearance of haze in troublesome images. So I started there, and since I expected to need Layers and Layer Masks, I did my Clarity adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw. I probably could have used Lightroom, but I wanted to keep my options open for manual tweaking if need be. If you're a Lightroom user without access to Dehaze, I'd encourage you to see what you can do with the tools you do have. For this week's article though, I went with ACR and Photoshop.
The first thing I did as a control for my tests was to open an unaltered hazy image in Photoshop. That image is of Mt. Baker at sunset, looking towards the northeast across the islands of Puget Sound as seen from the top of Blue Mountain in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State. On a perfectly clear evening, this is a great view. But as the crow flies, Mt. Baker is a good 75 miles away, and perfectly clear evenings over that distance are hard to come by.
I also opened a second copy with the single change of setting Dehaze in Adobe Camera Raw to what gave me what I was after. Yes, I have Photoshop CC, but I promise this is the only thing I did here that made use of features exclusive to the Cloud. I only did this in order to have a reference image to compare my manual tweak efforts against to determine how close I could come to Dehaze without using Dehaze.
So, I proceeded to open the original unaltered and raw hazy image in Adobe Camera Raw. Since haze problems generally increase based on distance, I created a Graduated adjustment in ACR and began my tweaking. I pushed the Clarity to the max, and then did the same to the Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness. That may seem like a lot, but I had a lot of haze to cut through. One of the nice things about digital image optimization in general is that you can see what you are doing as you do it. So I watched the image, and I fiddled with the sliders.
Having thereby maxed out what I could do in Camera Raw, opened the image with those adjustments in Photoshop to see what more I could do without a lot of effort. What I had done in ACR was a huge step in the right direction, but a simple push of the Dehaze slider was able to do so much more. If I couldn't get within striking range of that, this whole experiment would end up a failure. Rather than finding a viable replacement for Dehaze I would have proven instead that Dehaze was indispensable. I had to do more.
The other thing a pointed out last week was that the results from Dehaze seemed to be masked based on the brightness of each part of an image. That makes sense since haze limits the black point of an image, wiping out dark areas and replacing them washed out white. If a part of an image retains a useful black point, it probably doesn't suffer from haze. Assuming it wasn't underexposed of course.
There's am easy way to create an image mask based on brightness. First, select the entire image by hitting Ctrl-A on the keyboard. Then copy it to the clipboard via Ctrl-C. Create a new Levels adjustment layer by clicking on the half-white / half-black circle icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. Don't actually adjust any Levels yet, just create the layer so you get the accompanying layer mask. Now make the mask visible and active by holding down the Alt key and left-mouse clicking on the white square for the mask next to your new adjustment layer. The image itself will get replaced by a full-sized white rectangle. The real image is still there of course, but you can now see the mask rather than the image. Hit Ctrl-V to past your copied image into the mask. You should see a black and white version of your image since a mask has just a single channel rather than all three RGB channels. Since a mask is active proportionally to brightness, this gives us what we want. Any adjustments to the levels will affect the areas where the mask is white and not those where it is black. Shades of gray in between will be affected proportionally. To maximize the usefulness of what you created, adjust the levels of your black and white mask to stretch the contrast range from pure black to white. Don't worry about keeping the mask image realistic. Remember it's only a mask.
Now adjust the Levels associated with the new mask to push down the black point. Pull the black point marker inwards towards the center to help restore the missing contrast. These changes should affect only the brighter, washed out areas of the image since mask limits the effects. Our efforts so far are starting to look close to the real Dehaze results, but there's still something missing.
The other thing Dehaze has a great deal of similarity to is sharpening. There's a well-known trick to add local contras to an image by means of sharpening with a high radius value but a low amount. Again, just watch the actual image while adjusting the two Unsharp Mask sliders until you get what looks good. For my image, I ended up with an amount of 22 and a radius of 150 pixels. Your results and needs may vary.
Altogether, this serious of relatively easy edits mimics the appearance of real Dehaze fairly well. And at no time was I forced into manually tweaking individual pixels or even manually painting on the mask or image. Was it more work than simply pushing the Dehaze slider in Creative Cloud? Well, of course it was, but not onerously so. Assuming you don't need to reduce haze in every image, I'd consider this a viable alternative.
Graduated adjustment for manual Dehaze in Adobe Camera Raw
Of course I do have Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC, both with real Dehaze. Even so, I consider my little experiment to be time well spent. It's forced me think about just what Dehaze does and made me more aware of where it can go wrong. I mentioned last week the potential flaw of Dehaze oversaturating an image. You can see it here too in the top of the foreground rocks that jut out in front of areas that do have inherent haze. You could say that this is just the warm glow of sunset reflecting off the rocks, but it's clearly overdone. My manual experiments here show the same flaws. This can be toned down with a touch of targeted adjustments but that was beyond the scope of what I wanted to address here. The other notable issue with the actual Deahze version of my Mt. Baker image is the ghosting visible around those same foreground rocks. It's only minimally evident in the screen jpeg accompanying this article, but at full size in Photoshop I can definitely see it. If I push Dehaze to the max, it becomes even more evident. Interestingly, my manually dehazed image doesn't show that same ghosting. I think my trick of using the image itself as a mask helped to constrain the levels shift more accurately than did real Dehaze. Score one for manual effort.
Will I give up on using real Dehaze? Of course not. I pay for the Creative Cloud plan so I get to use the good stuff. But Dehaze doesn't need to be reason you upgrade to the Cloud, unless you want it to be.
Date posted: July 5, 2015
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