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When the '90s began, the only bands being called emo were hardcore outfits with screaming singers, but that all changed when Sunny Day Real Estate issued Diary in 1994. Suddenly the emotion was being channeled through powerful rock songs teeming with melody, and when layered with Jeremy Enigk's otherworldly vocals—which, yes, he sometimes screamed—the songs on the Seattle band's debut helped launch the second wave of emo. But things soon went awry in the Sunny Day camp, and the band split prior to the release of its second album, commonly referred to as LP2.
Since then, the four members—Enigk, guitarist Dan Hoerner, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith—have gone on to do things like play with Foo Fighters, release solo albums, farm in the sticks, get back together twice (the first time without Mendel), and start an entirely new project called The Fire Theft (without Hoerner). The current reunion is accompanied by reissues of the first two discs and a monthlong North American tour that commences Sept. 17 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The A.V. Club spoke with Hoerner and e-mailed with Enigk about the band's tumultuous past, having all four original members back together for the first time since 1995, and how they feel about the current state of the genre they helped shape.
The A.V. Club: Dan, it seems like every time Sunny Day breaks up, we hear about you running off to a farm in rural Washington state. Where exactly is that?
Dan Hoerner: [Laughs.] That's my underground lair in the mountain regions where I do my experiments. No—a long time ago, I got interested in some counterculture ideas and outdoor-lifestyle things, and I just got fascinated with the country and with farming and the rural lifestyle. So that was kind of a focus early on—as soon as I got two pennies that I could put together, I stashed them away to see if I could eventually get something going in the country. So it's been something I've pursued for probably the last 10, 15 years. We've got properties all over eastern Washington, outside of towns. I'd say if you're looking for a city that we're closest to, we could say Spokane, because that's really the only city of any size in eastern Washington. We're probably two and a half hours outside of Spokane.
AVC: Back in the day, the band was known for having only one publicity photo. You didn't give interviews, and most curious of all, Dan, you refused to play California. What was your problem with California?
DH: [Laughs.] I have no problem with California. I love California. And of course, we've subsequently played like 10,000 shows in California. It's kind of in line with what Sunny Day wanted early on: to be an anti-establishment outfit. I think that's why we decided that we didn't want to play any of the games that we saw other bands trying to play to be popular. And I think we were pretty influenced by kind of that Fugazi, we-owe-you-nothing, you-have-no-control ethic. Like, "We're gonna let you have one picture of us, we're gonna do one interview, and we're just gonna let our music speak for us, and that's gonna be that." Around that time, I think there was some music-industry dude who was courting Sunny Day. I don't want to name any names, but I think the guy had said something to me about needing to play the game to have any lasting impact in music, and something must have stuck in my mind about this person saying, "You have to move to L.A., and you have to play in L.A., and you have to be popular in California before you can be a popular American rock band." And I think being the dickish, arrogant, counterculture rebel that I was, I said, "Oh really? Well, fuck you, I'm never gonna play in California. I'm never even gonna go to California, and let's see what happens." [Laughs.] I stuck with it for quite a while, until I realized that it was just stupid and not really fair. Obviously, Sunny Day is renowned for making epically silly choices and doing crazy things, so I think that's just part and parcel of the beauty of being this kind of broken-butterfly, twisted bunch of weirdoes that we are.
AVC: One of the rumors at the time was that there was a warrant out for your arrest.
DH: Nice! Yeah, totally! I heard there was like gang issues; I had my heart broken. Yeah, I've heard all kinds of crazy things. I've tried, over the course of time, to set the record straight, and I've done big interviews, you know, big magazines, and talked about this over the course of time, but you'll notice that no matter how many times I talk about it or say, "Okay, well, this is what the thinking was"—the stories are permanent now. Despite what you write, despite what other people are gonna write, it's not going to change anything: There's going to be all kinds of weird stories about why we wouldn't do it.
AVC: Does that mean these will be the first California shows to feature all four original members?
DH: Wow. You know, I really didn't think about that, but you are exactly right. One time the other three dudes—during, I think, the Diary tour—they came in and played some KROQ festival and played a show in The Viper Room and stuff like that, but I wouldn't come. [Laughs.] So yeah, this is actually going to be the first time that the four original gangstas are going to play together in California.
AVC: Jeremy, much was made about your conversion to Christianity, which you announced on the Internet in a letter that included lines like, "I want it to be what Sunny Day Real Estate is about, so that others out there will hear. But there are mixed feelings about what we could do about me wanting to sing about Christ." So was it the religion that originally got in the way of the band?
Jeremy Enigk: It wasn't the reason the band broke up, but it did influence my final decision in leaving the band. We were having some internal tensions and were on the verge of falling apart. Sadly, all the joy was sucked out due to numerous reasons that made playing an arduous task. Having a spiritual awakening gave me the courage and strength to move on and create a new path in my life.
AVC: The letter also stated, "One of the members doesn't mind me singing about Christ, another is very uncomfortable with the idea of singing about Jesus, and one didn't mind, but now all of the sudden does." Dan, which one were you?
DH: I was the guy who didn't care. I couldn't give two shits about what Enigk was singing about, I just liked his voice, and I liked the passion. So no, for me it was not a problem at all, because I think that whatever moves a person, whether it's the desire to talk about love or the desire to impress people or the desire to rip people's faces off with your double-bass-drum, heavy-metal sounds, whatever desire that moves people to make music and express themselves is perfectly legitimate to me. Ultimately, I knew that wasn't the thing standing between Sunny Day and moving forward. It was really just a side effect of some other stuff that was going on. So over the course of time, it's sort of been like, "That's the reason why Sunny Day broke up," and the real answer is that, no, it's not, it's just something that was going on at the time, and kind of a part of Jeremy's spiritual awakening.
I think what really happened was that the Internet was kind of new back then. Who knew back in the day that if you type a passionate letter and you're a semi-public figure that that shit was going to stay online and in people's consciousness forever? Anyone with a brain now wouldn't put anything like that out on the Internet, where it would be constantly referred to and sort of become a defining moment in your life, when upon reflection it was probably something that could be privately thought and maybe discussed privately with people on a more intimate level. So I think the real story is that Jeremy was among the first victims of the Internet's ability to immortalize every single thing you say or do.
AVC: In the letter, it sounds like that's the first time you really expressed your feelings about your religion to anyone, including your bandmates and Sub Pop. Do you regret letting everyone know via an Internet post?
JE: I had no idea how massive the Internet was at the time. So I naïvely agreed for it to be displayed wherever as a uniform explanation as to why the band was breaking up. I certainly regret that it was made public. It created more confusion as to what really happened, and it wasn't fair to the guys in the band for me to drag religion into the breakup. Which was a very personal thing and had little to do with the reasons for breaking up. But on the positive side, many people over the years have thanked me for it and said it somehow helped them.
AVC: So what was it that broke you up?
DH: I think it was a problem of four young men still trying to figure out how to be in the world and how to relate. You know, it's four young men being married to each other, and breaking up. Bands break up because it's hard for dudes to live together and to spend every waking moment together and go through the grind of touring and recording and all that stuff. It's the really rare band that's U2, Aerosmith, The Who, bands that manage to make it through and persist over a long period of time. Most bands break up because dudes are unstable, especially young, not-even-fully-formed personalities. It was just four dudes and internal tensions and yadda-yadda-yadda starts to happen, and you break up. I mean, that's just the story of rock.
AVC: It's surprising to hear that you're the one who didn't care if Jeremy wanted to start singing about Jesus, because you two collaborate on lyrics. How does that process work, and how have things changed over time?
DH: Our process was almost fully formed from like the first time we ever jammed together, in that either Jeremy or I will have some kind of seed of a musical idea, and then we'll just start messing around with that, and it will develop and unfold and open up into new parts and evolve over time. And then lyrically, Jeremy will have the seed of a vocal idea, and then oftentimes we'll flesh that out and take that concept and turn it into a whole song. And whether that means me sitting down and trying to write full lyrics, like I did a lot for The Rising Tide, or just keep it simple and have the lyrics be really sparse and minimalistic—that happens on a song-by-song basis—whatever the right thing needs to be is what happens.
JE: The collaboration has always happened in many different ways. Most of the time, I would sing a melody so many times that I began to form words in key parts of a song, but would leave gaps of unfinished lyrics to which Dan would come in and complete the thoughts with me on paper. It was also quite common for us to take a song with no concept at all and sit down with pen and paper and discuss the song's meaning and write them out together. William was also with us on this method in the writing of many songs on How It Feels To Be Something On, which was a great source of comedy. Another method was that I would sing absolute gibberish with no real words at all, and Dan would accidentally hear these profound phrases that matched phonetically to my gibberish. This was occasionally pretty funny, as he would hear something totally offbeat and hilarious. During the recording of The Rising Tide, I was so busy recording most of the time that I didn't have time to sit down and work out many of the concepts with him, so he spent hours writing entire songs that matched phonetically to my melodies. Basically, we wrote lyrics together whatever way got the job done.
AVC: But with Jeremy wanting to make religion a bigger part of his life, did that change the way you wrote together?
DH: No, actually it didn't. Again, that thing is pretty overblown, and really has more to do with Jeremy getting caught by that machine—I don't know, but I'm assuming that if he could go back and not have written that letter and had it be immortalized forever on the Internet, he probably would. But Jeremy has always been a spiritual guy, and he's always been a seeker and somebody who was trying to figure out how to be a good person and how to express himself and how to experience the world. I mean, who isn't trying to figure that shit out, right? [Laughs.] From the first day I met him, he was writing songs about God and spirituality and—I think that's one of the things that is so cool about Sunny Day, is that we were unafraid from the get-go to talk about incredibly personal emotional things, both from the standpoint of love and the standpoint of trying to find truth and trying to find a higher reason for existence. So yeah, it's not like Jeremy was one way and then hit this point in time where he became another way. He's the same guy he always was.
AVC: And it's not like the lyrics you've written since then have been overtly Christian.
JE: After the initial burst died down a bit, I didn't want to blatantly sing about God from an exclusively Christian perspective, but more from a perspective of spiritual feeling that most people could relate with, and that I relate with. Songs that I've written about God, I am singing about in a language of my own heart, not one of an organized structure. I've always sought after God on a personal level so that I can understand for myself, and not simply because it was what I've been told by manmade religion. My lyrics really haven't changed much over the years, when I really think about it. Perhaps the only thing is that I started to write a bit literally on and after the Fire Theft recording.
AVC: But when you guys broke up the first time, your fans really did get the impression that the cause was Jeremy's conversion.
DH: How could it not, with the big letter? I mean, the fucking letter, the immortal letter that the dude probably wishes he never wrote. Of course. So by no means do I say to anyone who questions or wonders, there's no sense of like, "Fuck you, you've got it all wrong," because I completely understand. But if you knew Jeremy, you'd know that that was just a very, very small part of the picture. And really, it was a tiny fraction of what was tearing us apart, which had a lot more to do with our ages and external pressures and all kinds of other things. So it really became this whole focus of like, "This is the reason." But no, from moment one, our first songs—one of the first songs we wrote as a band was called "Song About An Angel"! Are you kidding me? You don't get it? We were trying to communicate about things that are deep in our souls, and we don't even know how to talk about it, and hardly anybody knows how to talk about it intelligently. I love bands that are able to explore those things, that are able to get deep and talk about things that matter. I think that's what we were trying to do, too.
AVC: When Sunny Day reunited in 1997, what changed in order to allow you guys to play with each other again?
DH: I think despite the fact that we broke up, there was a deep love that is sort of transcendent and kind of permanent. Jeremy made that wonderful Return Of The Frog Queen, which, in my opinion, was one of the better records of the decade, and I think he needed to make that and get a little perspective. I finally was able to pick up my first piece of land and start experimenting with some of that. And so a couple of years of that was fantastic, and then it was time to make some more Sunny Day music.
JE: I guess enough time had gone by to allow us to forget the old arguments and embrace the fact that when we get together, there is just some crazy musical connection that can't be duplicated.
AVC: What changed again for the other guys to move on to The Fire Theft without you? Were you kicked out, or was that your decision?
DH: Once again, I think when Sunny Day Mark II reached the end of its line, all of us wanted to do other stuff. I had a young family starting—when we were touring The Rising Tide, my first son was in utero, so I think that it was just again time to take some time and explore other stuff and make some other music. At the time when that stuff started happening, and The Fire Theft started going, there just wasn't even the contact or connection to see if anything could happen, and it probably wasn't the right time for us to come together and have anything happen. So I don't know that there was anything specific, I think it was just a matter of what was the right thing at the time. Those guys had that record in them that they wanted to make.
JE: I don't really know what happened. I guess it felt like we were kicking a dead horse. When you're wrapped up so deeply in something for so long, it's hard to clear your mind and look at it from a fresh perspective. Which is probably what we needed to stop taking it for granted.
AVC: So what brought you guys back together this time?
DH: Well, now's the right time. [Laughs.] I don't know exactly how to say it. It was that Nate called me and said, "Hey, guess what? You wanna do Sunny Day?" And I said, "Fuck yeah! Let's do it!" I think that getting that phone call from Nate was the exact right thing. I hadn't talked to him in forever, and it did seem like the right time—there were the right openings in everyone's schedule, and it was just kind of meant to be. It fell into place perfectly, which is what I like about Sunny Day: When something interesting is going to happen with Sunny Day, everything just lines up, and you get either a great record or a great tour or whatever out of the deal.
JE: Nate approached us about it in late 2007, but I was in the middle of writing and recording a new album, and William was in pre-production with his band Brawley Banks, so we put it on the back burner. The fact that Nate wanted and had time to do it was the most exciting thing for me. It was a difficult thing when we reunited without him for How It Feels To Be Something On and The Rising Tide. It never felt whole or complete. So the fact that we could unite again with all four of us was a no-brainer.
DH: It's so much fun—and we're playing stuff from How It Feels and The Rising Tide, too. Everything Jeremy and I write is always meant to have Nate play on it, really, so now to have him be able to come back and play on those songs that he was supposed to play on, just put his Nate-ness all over everything, is just fucking awesome.
AVC: Jeremy, before you guys got back together this time, you were quoted as saying, "The Sunny Day machine is such a monster! And it takes over, it has a momentum to it that none of the band members can really control." What exactly does that mean, and why do you think that happens?
JE: For some reason, people respond to this band. The music industry's gears start moving the moment we say we are jamming, and suddenly we have numerous tours and random requests on the table. It's really quite an amazing blessing, but overwhelming when desiring a somewhat quiet life. The quote you mentioned was a response to the question, "Will Sunny Day ever get back together again?" I was ultimately trying to say that I wasn't sure if I was ready for that giant responsibility. Looking at the big picture, knowing that one jam could easily turn into multiple recordings and tours, 'til expectations begin to get out of control.
AVC: Was it easier agreeing to reunite this time knowing you have a solo career to fall back on?
JE: Yes, and we all have separate obligations now that hopefully allow Sunny Day to remain a source of joy as opposed to our one and only job.
AVC: What does this mean to the future of The Fire Theft?
JE: Ha, well, if Sunny Day were to continue, I doubt there would be much point to The Fire Theft, but maybe Dan could join and we could record some weird techno music or something. I have thought about doing something extremely experimental with The Fire Theft, but obviously it's not anytime soon. Who knows.
AVC: So what's the future of Sunny Day Real Estate?
DH: I think right now the plan is to take it one step at a time. Nate is still in Foo Fighters, and that's his main priority, and that's a huge commitment, and Jeremy, he's got his solo thing, which is cruising along—I thought OK Bear was really good. I think the public priority, the thing we're talking about doing, is potentially doing a European tour and a Southeast Asian/Australia or New Zealand tour. Since we're in the business of making my dreams come true, I'll go ahead and wish that we could record another record. I can't even imagine that happening, but it would be so amazing to be able to record with Nate again. But right now the mandate is: just get ready for the shows, get ready for the tour, and do the best we can do. But I would love to play new music.
AVC: So you won't be playing new material on this tour.
DH: No, we don't have any new songs that we're planning on playing on this tour, but when we get together and we start rehearsing, inevitably we start writing songs and jamming and stuff. We actually have been jamming on quite a bit of new material, just purely out of fun, and kind of the same way that we did it in the Diary and LP2 era, which was like no expectations, no thought of success, no thought of doing anything other than just playing music because it feels awesome, and having fun. So we definitely do jam, and we always are making new sounds and creating new music and stuff, but up until the point when we were ready to record or maybe even had recorded, I think we would keep that pretty close to the chest anyway. Just not to build any expectations or anything that didn't ultimately come to pass. But if I could have my druthers, I would love to make a new record. That would be insane.
AVC: Diary and LP2 helped create the template for the second wave of emo. Do you share the opinion of The Get Up Kids' guitarist, who recently apologized to the world for influencing the current state of emo?
DH: [Laughs.] Fuck no. First of all, if Sunny Day's music had a positive influence on even one person to play music or to express themselves in a different way, then I think we won the war. To look down on people who are currently making music because they have influences—are you kidding me? [Laughs.] I was trying to be The Edge. I just sucked at playing guitar, so I was not able to be The Edge. But if I could have been in a U2 cover band and played The Edge's music perfectly, that's probably the career path I would have taken. So I love the fact that people consider Sunny Day an influence—I don't give a shit what kind of music they play. The fact that they're trying to express themselves, that they're gonna be these monkeys and get up onstage and bang on their noisemakers and try and say something about what they're feeling—to me, that's like the greatest compliment in the world. Because everyone's got their own feelings. For me, it's like the height of arrogance to say that what people are doing now is wrong or bad. They're just trying to express themselves in whatever way they can. I hope that people continue to enjoy Sunny Day.
AVC: Your sound has evolved over the years, moving in a proggier direction. Was that a natural progression, or were you actively trying to get away from your roots?
JE: I believe it was a natural progression. The music has always been an extension of how we were feeling at the time. We didn't take the time to actively achieve a certain sound. We just let the songs take form on their own. It's really just a glorified form of meditation.


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Last month I did a blog post on super foods for men. I also threw in some basic (and not so basic) differences in male and female brain function. This time I'll focus on us girls.
Is there a better place to start than hormones and chocolate? Maybe fashion, hats, and shiny things. I'll see if I can weave them all together, but the launching pad has to be hormones. A brain sloshing around in a pool of estrogen looks and behaves quite different from a brain infused with testosterone. I touched on a few cognitive gender differences in my last post, but since I find this so fascinating, I think I'll keep this neuro-thread going.
I'm a research nerd and guess what I've discovered after logging zillions of hours reading scientific papers (plus, years of field study)?
Men really are from Mars.
Before you jump to the conclusion that I might be gender-biased in my observations, I've also discovered that women are from BabbleOn. See – if I was going to fudge my findings, I'd pick something far more flattering.
Here's the deal. Women do better than men on tasks that require verbal communication and memory of personal experiences. Men excel in the manipulation of complex spatial information.
What does that mean?
Women talk a lot and remember everything. Men can park 2 cars, 1 motorcycle, 3 mountain bikes, a fishing boat, a side-winder circular saw, 6 pairs of skis and 300 pounds of camping gear in a 2 car garage.
Like I said before, we're different.
Back to the hormone part. Scientifically speaking, aside from all the other stuff estrogen does, it also provides females with the ability to outperform males in associating stimuli across time. It even shows up in more adult-generated neurons in our hippocampus.
What's a hippocampus, you ask?
It's a little doo-hickey in the brain that just so happens to be a long-term memory consolidation station and an emotional storage bin. It's like a jewelry box for stuff you can dig up and throw into a heated conversation years later.
So think about that one for a minute.
Estrogen, emotions, new neurons, and memory storage? It's no wonder we never forget things men do (or, don't do). Sorry, but I have to take this one step further (female trait, babbling on). Gender differences in memory and learning are facilitated by differences in hormones and brain anatomy. But it doesn't stop there. That also gives us the ability to further change our brain anatomy by forming new neurons. The actual structure of the brain changes allowing us to remember more stuff you guys did for longer periods of time.
Like f o r e v e r.
Oh my gosh, it's a self-perpetuating cycle.
Although I took a rather convoluted, gender-driven journey to get here, I want to stress the importance of balancing blood sugar (glucose) and hormones when it comes to women's health. Those two things form the foundation for radiant energy, stable emotions, and better stuff in your jewelry box – both pleasant memories and shiny things.
To function optimally, the body must maintain blood sugar levels within the proper ranges. Extreme fluctuations cause roller-coaster hormones, which can lead to hissy fits, dish tossing, and crying jags. It also leads to all kinds of health problems down the road. We can avoid the drama by keeping glucose and hormones in balance. That starts with nutrition and exercise. Yoga is my preferred form of movement-induced, hormone balancing (pun intended). Here are my food favorites.
Melissa's top 10 super-foods for women (in no particular order)
1. Cinnamon
Cinnamon has a long history as a functional food. Not only does this sweet spice smell and taste wonderful, it also helps control blood sugar and makes you feel full longer. It's anti-microbial, helps fight candida and is a good source of fiber, calcium and iron. I add about a teaspoon of cinnamon to all my smoothies. I also sprinkle it over yogurt, add it to homemade granola, power bars and whatever else I can think of. I try to eat at least a teaspoon of cinnamon a day.
2. Broccoli
According to cancer researchers at the University of Michigan, a natural compound in broccoli inhibits breast cancer stem cells and helps block their self-renewal pathway. There are all kinds of studies regarding cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, bok choy and similar green leafy vegetables) and their positive role in cancer prevention. Good stuff!
3. Fiber
Although not a food per se, fiber is so important for blood sugar balance, weight loss, and overall health. I'm a huge fan and eat way more than the recommended amount. For a detailed post I did on fiber several years ago, check here. You'll find all the information you need to boost your fiber intake. Make sure you do it slowly and drink lots of water.
4. Avocados
Avocados are high in fat, but it's a healthy fat and worth adding to your arsenal of super foods. Plus, if you add avocado to a big green salad or a fresh salsa mix, you greatly increase the absorption of the other nutrients. Carotenoids (in tomatoes, peppers, carrots, greens, etc.) are fat-soluble nutrients that need to tag along with high-grade fat to be adequately absorbed and assimilated. Avocados are also a low-carb, high-fiber food source, which is great for balancing blood sugar and hormones (once again, so important).
5. Coconut
Another high fat food, but again, this is good stuff, so don't be fat-aphobic. The key is to be very picky about your fats. Please check here for a detailed post I wrote a couple of years ago on the health benefits of coconut. I love the stuff! Eat it, cook with it, put it on your skin, slather it on your hair.
6. Dark chocolate and red wine
Hey, what can I say? Girls are programmed to lust after chocolate. Resveratrol, a substance in cacao and red wine, is the "it" supplement right now. But, in most cases, I believe we're better off eating the whole food rather than taking supplements. Treat yourself on occasion (moderation, moderation) and eat a small chunk of high-grade dark chocolate. You might even pair it with 4 ounces of a nice Pinot Noir.
Past resveratrol posts: dark chocolate as health food, enlightened hot chocolate, carnival of love (red wine)
7. Beets and berries
Those of you who have following this blog for the past 4 years know I'm passionate about beets. Ridiculously so. I've been a beet girl my entire life. My mom says I ate them as a baby and grew up thinking they were dessert. I was lucky. I had a mom who fed me beets, spinach, and broccoli during the explosion of processed foods. I can't remember ever having a Twinkie, sugary cereal, or Hamburger Helper. We ate real food, made from scratch. There are so many studies linking the nutrients in beets to good health that I won't even try to list them all. Just trust me, they're amazing. I have a lot of beet blog posts in my archives, but since summer is around the corner, here's an ice cream recipe.
8. Apples
Apples are high in fiber, help balance blood sugar in several different ways (they're magic), are anti-inflammatory, high in antioxidants, support healthy gut bacteria and are packed with goodness. Studies show positive results with age-related health problems as well (macular degeneration, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, etc.). I'm taking this "apple a day" thing seriously. Apples are sprayed with some seriously nasty stuff, so choose organic.
9. Swiss chard and leafy greens
Greens are true super foods. All greens are great sources of beneficial plant nutrients, but I'll focus on Swiss chard since I'm on my "balance your blood sugar" rant. There's a substance in chard (syringic acid if you must know) that has warrior princess power when it comes to blood sugar regulation. Chard (like beets) also contains a group of phytochemicals called betalains, which are high in antioxidants, are anti-inflammatory and promote detoxification.
10. Chick peas
How could I not include chick peas? Lucky for us, these little nutrient-dense namesakes help regulate blood sugar and are packed with fiber. I know, this blood sugar/fiber thing is getting tiresome, but it's so important for long-term health, artful aging and hormone balance. Chick peas are also super high in the mineral manganese, which is an antioxidant involved with energy production. Who doesn't want more energy? Check here for one of my favorite roasted chick pea recipes from Shirley at GFE.
Just as important is what you don't eat. Avoid processed foods, refined sugar, soda pop, too much caffeine or alcohol, and junk food. Stick to whole foods with an emphasis on veggies and fruit.
Peace, love, and real food!
Image of Robert Lewis Reid painting courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Mother's Day gifts for the many mom-isms you've heard over the years
Mom Knows Best
"Clean your room!"
"Finish your homework!"
"Wipe your feet!"
You've heard it all. And you may not have listened (or cared) back then, but now you're all grown up. Show mom that you were paying attention and have actually taken all the little things she said to heart.
"Wash your hands before you eat."
Add a little luxury next time mom lathers up with Kula Herbs' handmade soap in locally delicious scents such as pikake, gardenia and white ginger.
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"Money doesn't grow on trees."
Once in a while you still long for monthly allowances, so give mom a fun new place to stash her cash with a Lil Coconut Hawaii clutch, made right here in Hawaii.
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"No dessert till you clean off your plate."
Properly balanced meals look even better in this oh-so-pretty bento set, complete with matching thermal and lidded containers.
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Uzbekistan Through iPhone
Have been away from my SLR's as we relocate from China to Uzbekistan - Couldn't wait to shoot life here in Uzbekistan. Here is an effort to extract the best of this beautiful less known country, deep in culture and history, using my trusted iPhone 4. All pictures in these gallery are shot using iPhone and processed in "Camera+" iPhone App. This is marriage of art and photography ! Something I always loved to do ! Who says one needs a Nikon or Canon to shoot ?Read More


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Armored Car HD Racing Game 1.5.0 Apk Data Android
- Current Version: 1.5.0
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Armored Car HD Racing Game 1.5.0 Apk Data Android
"Armored Car HD" is definitely a fun racing game that you can look and feel its vivid, beautiful graphical screen and enjoy a variety of series-favorite features.
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"Armored Car HD" gives you the pleasant sensation more than your expectation, not only enjoyable from racing, because it provides special features such as shooting, launching a missile and dropping mines for the rivals who operate the cars. In addition, racetracks are optimized through appearance of some obstacles intermittently that you are advised to watch out otherwise other rivals can take the an opportunity to beyond your car. To drive ahead, you can use a nitro boost or enter the 'O' mark zone to accelerate your car. Surprised wealth is waiting for you when your car go passing through a blue mark of the track.
To share your battle track with your friends, you can capture winning result and screen, posting them onto your Facebook account (Function provided in the game).
Don't miss the opportunity to be the no.1 of competitor in the rank list.
Game Features:
- 38 scenes
- 9 cars
- more rank type :Own Cars, Own Tracks, Add Coins, Daily scores, new Total scores and more
- 3 racing types: standard, survival and chase
- Sharing your result with screen-captured onto Facebook
- Multi-languages support: English, Chinese(Traditional), Chinese(Simplified), Russian, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, French, German, Norwegian and Danish
- Get free coins fast easy!
- Bluetooth, WiFI and Online Multiplayer mode ( Up to 6 players at the same time)
- Tuning the car: Body color, engine, gears, suspension and wheels
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* Avoid destroying or knocking against obstacles
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* Pass through the arrow mark zone on the track to get wealth
* Adjust the 3D quality and other settings to enhance the performance
- "APK" install it on your device.
- "com.credeone.armoredcarhd" folder "android / obb" copy into.
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Trinh Tuan - Previous Sales
Trinh Tuan (born 1961, Hanoi) graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College in 1985 and received his M.A. at Hanoi Fine Arts Institute in 2000. His lacquer paintings are aesthetically rich and his artwork evokes curiosity and interest. Whether two figures are joined in an embrace or depicted with their backs against each other, Tuan has a remarkable ability to tell a story about emotions - love, loneliness, and betrayal. Trinh Tuan is adored by his students and rightfully honored as one of the top lacquer artists in Vietnam. Many of Trinh Tuan's followers claim that his sense of humor is equally balanced with his sensitivity toward human emotion. Apart from being meticulous and labor-intensive works, Trinh Tuan's paintings are admired internationally for their beauty.Read More


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[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Sunday's episode of True Blood. Read at your own risk!] Just three episodes into the final season, and True Blood is once again proving that anyone and everyone can be killed off. It's never been safe to be friends with Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) — See: Pretty much everyone who has ever died on this show — but poor...
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Sunday's episode of True Blood. Read at your own risk!]
Just three episodes into the final season, and True Bloodis once again proving that anyone and everyone can be killed off.
It's never been safe to be friends with Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) — See: Pretty much everyone who has ever died on this show — but poor Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) never really stood a chance. The moment that the HBO series paired the fan-favorite werewolf with its leading heroine, he seemed destined to meet a grim fate, especially since this is the final season, and Sookie still has unfinished business with original suitors Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard). But the real surprise was that he was killed off by a nameless character well after danger seemed to have passed.
True Blood's first final season victim speaks out
How does Manganiello feel about Alcide's unceremonious death? Below, the actor discusses why Alcide had to go, the "polarizing" series finale, and whether he'll return before the end:
When did you find out that Alcide would die so soon into the final season?
Joe Manganiello: When I read the script for the finale of last year, I called it. I put it down and I was like, "Oh, Alcide and Sookie are together? They're going to kill me." Story-wise, you can't have her break his heart because then the audience isn't going to side with her. You have to get her to Bill and Eric because they have to tie up the A and B plot. If you're looking at a show like this where they're looking for characters to help the show be vital, meaning you can kill off main characters and all of a sudden anyone can be killed off at any time, there is no one else my character is connected to except for Sam (Sam Trammell). So by default, I did some quick math in my head and was like, "They're going to kill me really quickly."
I always used to have lunch with [former showrunner] Alan Ball before every season to talk about what they were going to do with my character. Sure enough [new showrunner Brian Buckner] called me up and said, "Hey, let's go out to dinner." It's like that scene in Jerry Maguire with Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr). I was like, "OK, this is going down right now." We went to get something to eat, and he had the first three scripts with him and he's like, "We're killing you." and I was like, "I called it!" He's like, "You know we have to do this, there is no way around it." That was how I found out.
How do you feel about the way in which Alcide was killed off?
Manganiello: Getting shot in the head by some nameless, faceless hillbilly, dying naked in the woods on the ground and then being in Malibu when it was about 30 degrees out and try not to shiver? [Laughs] That's not exactly how I saw it going down, but I guess it's better than giving one of the vampires the bragging rights.
Why do you think they bothered to even put him with Sookie when he was just going to die anyways?
Manganiello: They want to give the audience that. It was the one relationship that they didn't cover that actually still had mileage. The two of them probably should've been together in Season 5. They probably would've been best served to follow the books and have Sookie be the one to help Alcide become the packmaster rather than introduce a female werewolf character that really didn't get explored or go anywhere. In the books, Sookie helped him. Also, that was the one season that they decided to have her be single, which, looking back was a mistake because it's a sexy show. "Let's have our ingénue be single this season?" No! You want to have her at least try it out with the good guy who was in love with her from the time he met her. Hell, HBO had Team Alcide t-shirts. It's capitalism. We've got to sell t-shirts.
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With Alcide's death, do you think this opens up the door for Sookie to end up with Bill?
Manganiello: I think it paves the way for resolution of those plot lines going back to Season 1. I don't know if it paves the way for her to wind up with somebody, but it definitely paves the way for resolution. You have to have some sort of tie-up one way or the other, whether that's an endgame situation or a confrontation. In Charlaine [Harris'] book, she winds up with Sam, so that's a completely different choice. Obviously we now know that it won't be Alcide. There are infinite possibilities. The ending will be controversial, I will say that. It's going to be polarizing.
Sookie said no to Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) turning Alcide into a vampire. Are you a little disappointed that you never got to be a vampire or are you glad they didn't go that route?
Manganiello: Not with this character. It would've wrecked the character, so I think that was the right choice. I can see myself playing a vampire at some point down the road, but in a different project. I don't think that wrecking this character by turning him into a vampire would've benefited the show very much. Once again, you have to get him out of the way. He has to be gone. He can't be hanging around. You have to have him gone and you can't have her break his heart, so you have to kill him off.
Do you think Alcide had his defining moment narratively speaking, or do you think he still had more to do?
Manganiello: I feel like there was so much left unexplored. You never really got into Robert Patrick's character, you never found out where his mom went and why [he and his father] didn't get along. He had a love interest that really didn't go anywhere. There was this little girl, Emma, that he orphaned by murdering her father — rightfully so, but still. He didn't want to have kids because he didn't want to pass his genes on. He is then given custody of this little girl who is a werewolf and there was no real resolution to that or exploration of him, out of guilt, helping to raise this little girl in the pack. You never really explored the guy. I would play him again in a movie if the rights became available. I would do a spin-off. I actually started writing a story line for that guy intended to be for the comic books, but then they got canceled, I guess.
Is there a possibility that Alcide will return in some way, shape or form before the series ends?
Manganiello: If anybody has been following my Twitter feed, I've been flying around all over the place. I've been super busy running around, so I really haven't had any time to do that, which I don't think is much of a secret. Once he's gone, he's done. That's it.
Did you bond with Rutina Wesley over both being killed off so quickly?
Manganiello: I don't think we got to talk about it because she was out of there so quick and then I was out of there so quick. I didn't bump into her at the premiere. Going out in the cold open! The good news for her is that she showed up for one day of filming and got paid for an entire season. That's probably a record.
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Any chance of seeing you back on TV soon?
Manganiello: Not anytime soon. I was offered roles while I was on True Blood. The reason that I was being offered roles was because of the popularity of the show. But I was offered roles that I literally couldn't show up to on the first day of filming or we couldn't clear however many days off away from the show that I needed to go and shoot that. I then had to go to the theater and watch other people playing those parts. There was give and take with the show in terms of my film career, so there was a lot of stuff that I really didn't get to do that I wanted to do.
Right now, it's about movies and getting out there and really keeping myself open to be able to capitalize on those opportunities when they come up. It seems like a lot of my favorite comic book and fantasy properties are being made into shows, like American Godsor Preacher. I just chase good material. It seems like a lot of the really great material that I love and have responded to growing up is winding up going to TV. For right now, it's probably going to be film.
Were you surprised that Alcide was killed off? Hit the comments!
True Blood airs Sundays at 9/8c on HBO.


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The Secret Beyond Matter
It takes just a few seconds to read a sentence. Yet if one of the body's enzymes failed to work, it would take 1,500 years to read that same sentence. Enzymes activate cells and initiate and accelerate reactions up to 1010 (10 billion) times. In their absence, those cells that are waiting to go into action and perform many other reactions that keep you alive, even though they are unaware of each other and motionless, would start to die one by one before you even finished reading this sentence. As a result, you would die before you reached the end of this sentence.
Enzymes carry out all of a cell's reactions. If they stopped working, it would be very difficult to restart them in a simultaneous and rapid manner. Despite today's advanced medical science and impressive technology, scientists have failed to produce a comparable system. In fact, they have been unable to manufacture a single model that can perform reactions as quickly as enzymes. This shows that it is impossible for all of these miraculous proteins, which initiate and accelerate the body's chemical reactions and perform vital functions (e.g., reproduction, control, and copying) to have come into being spontaneously as the result of unconscious events.
Therefore, one needs to reflect on the fact that Allah, Lord of the universe and all of its details, creates each person and his or her body's enzymes:
Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the heavens and Earth and has showered His blessings upon you, both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating Book. (Surah Luqman, 20)


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It has been so fun to already see blocks popping up in the Virtual Quilting Bee Flickr group. One of my favorite things about quilting is seeing the variety of colors and fabric choices people use.
I've decided to make my own version and spent the morning pulling fabrics from my stash in a new palette I've never tried. It's a bit of a break-away from my traditional primary-color palette that I use most often. I'm kind of excited. Most of the fabrics are bits and pieces from favorite fabric collections from days of yore like Denyse Schmidt's Hope Valley, and a few of her collections from JoAnn's, Joel Dewberry's Deer Valley plus I've thrown in a bunch of the recent Bike Path Dots by Alison Glass that I've been itching to create with. I'm excite to play with this stack.
When making my block, I remembered that a couple of people have asked me for a quick tutorial on squaring up half-square triangles. So here's a quick explanation: Half-square triangle (HST) blocks are one of the most versatile blocks in quilt-making. They are quick and easy to make as Sherri showed by drawing a diagonal line on the back of one of the squares, matching the two prints right-sides together, and then sewing down either side of the line with a scant ¼″ seam allowance.
Then cut on the drawn diagonal line and press both blocks open and voila: two identical half-square triangle blocks! As Sherri mentioned in her tutorial, you are going to want to square-up these particular HST to 2 ½ inches – that means trim them to the right size and make the sides straight – or "square". I personally like making my HST's slightly large and squaring- up the block when I'm done because it makes the blocks so much neater to work with.
Even with the most careful of sewing, when you sew on the diagonal you are sewing on the bias. Drawing that line and sewing before you cut, will help keep the diagonal edges from stretching but there will still be some misshapen edges on those blocks. Squaring-up will make things nice and neat, not to mention the right size, in many cases.
One of my favorite tools for squaring up HST blocks is a square ruler with a diagonal line. (There are lots of nifty tools for such purposes.) You don't need to have this – it's definitely possible to square-up with any ruler – but if your quilting budget allows for one of these, over time it's a great investment.
When squaring-up a pieced block, you want to be careful to keep that diagonal seam running from corner to corner. If your ruler has a diagonal line on it place that line right over the seam. This will keep your seam centered and your block square. If your ruler does not have the diagonal line, place the corner point of the ruler over the seam and make sure the point you are measuring to (in this case the 2 ½″ point) also on the diagonal seam at the other end.
First trim two sides, then rotate the ruler so that the 2 ½″ lines (in this case) are on the newly squared-up edges and square-off the other two edges. I know it's a little more tedious to square off all 4 sides, but it definitely makes that block neat with straight edges on all four sides.
If the block has fairly square sides before sewing up, you could place the 2 ½″ lines directly on the left and bottom edges (right and bottom if you're left handed) and just square-off the right and top edges. Your call. Make sure you trim those little 'tags' in the corner though, so you won't have a lot of bulk when assembling your block.
Post Edit: I have since found a new favorite short-cut method for squaring-up HST's using a specialty ruler.
Hope that helps!
And just a reminder – I'm answering questions as much as possible in the comment sections of each post. Let me know if I've missed something. Thanks again for playing along!


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How to optimise and extend the battery life on Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus?
How to optimise and extend the battery life on Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus?
The Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus's battery life depends very much on how the device is used.
If you are experiencing problems with battery life, then please refer to the list of suggestions below to resolve your Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus's battery issues.
Display settings: Long screen time-out setting or high display brightness will increase battery drain.
Try setting your screen timeout to 30 seconds and display brightness to Auto.
Third party apps: Apps that automatically sync data in the background will drain battery – e.g. social networking, instant messaging, news readers, weather widgets, etc.
The battery life can be extended by individually setting apps to sync less frequently or by disabling background data and auto-sync.
Multimedia usage: Please be aware that any apps or content usage that keeps the Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus awake over an extended period will quickly drain the battery, e.g. reading books, playing games, watching movies, etc.
Signal bars: Check the number of bars that you normally see on your Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus while at home or work. Using the handset in areas with very low signal uses a lot of power and therefore should be avoided if possible.
Latest available firmware: Software can be checked in Settings > About phone.
Upgrade your software using either FOTA ('Firmware Over The Air', i.e. wirelessly) or via Samsung Kies.
No power up: If a device fails to power-up, the first thing to do is check carefully for damage to the power key or battery contacts.
After checking, connect the phone to a working charger and leave it for a few minutes to see if it shows any sign of life.
If the Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus does not power up, then you may have a dead battery or a faulty charger.
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GREENWICH, CT – Harlem Globetrotters 4-point shot shadowed by announcement of name change and move.
The Harlem Globetrotters recently announced that the team will be relocating to Greenwich, CT. The move is a result of the fact that the team was sold to Thurston Billingsly IV of Greenwich, CT.
Shamrock Capital Growth Fund sold its 80% share of the team for staggering $33.2 million making Mr. Billingsly the majority shareholder. The globetrotters will continue to display their entertaining moves in venues throughout the world. The only change to the franchise is that the team will be dropping "Harlem" from its name and will now be referred to as the Greenwich Globetrotters or G2.
"Not only did I feel that the name should reflect the new location but in today's day and age every enterprise can use a face lift, just like my forth ex-wife, Gloria. G2 is just the thing that the Globetrotters need to give them that 21st century edge," explained Billingsly.
This news comes just as the Globetrotters announced that they would premier their new show stopper at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI, this Sunday; the Four-Point Shot! The new 4-point shot is made 35 feet from the basket, or 4 yards behind the 3-point line. The new shot can only be made from two midcourt areas.
"At the end of every quarter with three minutes left, there will be a sound that goes off, which means the 4-point shot is now activated," explained the Globetrotters' resident slam dunker, Brent "Thunder" Petway, "And either team can shoot from the 4-pointer, which can mean if you're up already, you can blow the game away. Or if you're down, you can come back that much faster, so it's pretty cool."
The fans were excited to hear about the new awe inspiring antics but outraged over the location and name change.
"They ain't the Globetrotters if they [are] not in Harlem," said Leroy Williams, Harlem native, "that sh*t ain't right!"
The players are taking the news well, all things considered.
"With all of the gentrification that has taken place over the past few decades in Harlem, Greenwich is really not all that much different now," said one of the players who wished to remain anonymous, "plus most of us live there anyway so it will make the commute as easy as a three-pointer from mid-court."
In other related news, two of the now Greenwich Globetrotters will be competing in the new season of the CBS show, The Amazing Race. Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton and Herbert "Flight Time" Lang will both appear on the show which primers February 20 at 8pm. Both declined to comment on the sale and move of the team but said that they were excited about making some 4-pointers.
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Paraguay and the IDB: partners in development
December 15, 2011
Paraguay is a founding member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Bank's partner in development Through an ongoing process of cooperation, financing has been provided to the Paraguay to carry out major works, which have spurred the country's economy. This year, the Bank's portfolio of projects in execution in Paraguay totals 27 sovereign guarantee operations for $755.27 million, of which $445.9 million are pending disbursement.
IDB expects to provide more than $500 million to help Latin America and Caribbean prepare for natural disasters
March 10, 2011
Financial disaster preparedness is a growing concern in Latin America and the Caribbean. Last year the region saw devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti and an active hurricane season that impacted Central America and Mexico. In addition, the La Niña-related weather phenomenon has brought severe flooding to Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, among others.
Mesoamerica renews push towards integration
October 25, 2010
The presidents of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic will meet tomorrow, Oct. 26, in Cartagena, Colombia at the XII Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Coordination. The heads of state will be informed of the progress made by the Mesoamerica Project in terms of regional integration and will decide further courses of action.
The Caribbean and the IDB at a Glance
September 27, 2010
The IDB member countries of the English-speaking Caribbean – The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago – along with Dutch-speaking Suriname, are brought together by commerce, geography, history and traditions. Their economic situation and development challenges, however, may vary widely.
Central America's integration is in full swing
July 21, 2010
In late July, the first substation of the Central American Electrical Interconnection System (SIEPAC) is opening in Costa Rica. A week later, the substation in Panama will be ready to operate. Towers, lines and cables are already in place, so the southern section of the nascent Central American electricity market will soon be a reality. PAC53 - Road from La Chorrera to Arraijan, in Panama.


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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a leaked conversation between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.
The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".
In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".
Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Yaşar Güler replies that Fidan's projected actions are "a direct cause of war...what you're going to do is a direct cause of war".
Turkey's foreign ministry said the leaked recording of top officials discussing the Syria operation was "partially manipulated" and is a "wretched attack" on national security.
In the leaked video, Fidan is discussing with Davutoğlu, Güler and other officials a possible operation within Syria to secure the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire.The Western media has purposefully obsessed myopically over Turkey's ban of Twitter and Facebook and leaks regarding "corruption," in an attempt to sidestep conversations revealing Turkey, a NATO member for decades, planning a false flag attack that would lead to an intentionally provoked war with neighboring Syria.
This comes as Turkey provides air support, logistics, and artillery cover for members of the US State Department designated terrorist group Al Nursa who have been leading an ongoing offensive from Turkish territory into Syria's northwestern province of Latakia.
Since the operation began days ago, Turkey has fired on and shot down a Syrian warplane that was targeting Al Nusra militants in Syrian territory. While Turkey claims the warplane violated Turkish airspace, the plane crashed in Syrian territory, and the pilot ejected and was recovered on Syrian soil. The incident has been used by Turkey to lay the rhetorical groundwork to further escalate tensions between Ankara and Damascus, most likely in an attempt to serve as an impetus for war instead of NATO's riskier false flag operation.
Turkey's belligerent posture in the north of Syria is matched by a joint US-Saudi offensive in the south, near the Syrian-Jordanian border city of Daraa. Called the "Southern Front," the offensive appears to already have been neutralized by Syrian security forces.
Regarding the creation of the "Southern Front," the US corporate-funded policy think tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, even stated in its post, "Does the "Southern Front" Exist?," that:
Rather than an initiative from the rebels themselves, word is that it was foreign officials that called on rebel commanders to sign a statement declaring their opposition to extremism, saying it was a precondition for getting more guns and money. Since beggars can't be choosers, the commanders then collectively shrugged their shoulders and signed—but not so much to declare a new alliance as to help U.S. officials tick all the right boxes in their reports back home, hoping that this would unlock another crate of guns.With the "Southern Front" arriving on the battlefield stillborn, and NATO resorting to false flag attacks in blatant support of Al Qaeda-affiliated terror organizations, the West's desperation in what appears to be a strategic "last gasp" is palpable.


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Walter Reed Center's Closure May Be A Boon To D.C.
Walter Reed's Closure May Be A Boon To D.C.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center has a storied past. It has been the country's leading Army hospital for more than 100 years, sitting on a complex that includes a Civil War battlefield. There was a time when 16,000 patients a year sought treatment for wounds of war or illness.
By the end of August, all of the patients and doctors will have left, moved to Bethesda and Fort Belvoir as the Army consolidates its bases. But as one era closes, another opens: Washington, D.C., may be left with nearly 70 acres of prime real estate.
Neighborhood Businesses Face Change
Just after the midday rush at Ledo's Pizza on Georgia Avenue in Northwest D.C., Tim and Kelly Shuy sit down at a table.
"We get a lot of military families, people who are visiting, folks who are in the hospital. We get a lot of contractors," Kelly says.
Their pizzeria is across the street from the sprawling Walter Reed campus. Lush with trees and a hilly landscape, the campus includes several iconic 100-year-old buildings with red tile roofs where patients, their families and staff were able to wander and just look out on the rest of the neighborhood from a distance.
Many in the neighborhood call the medical center a fortress. But for the Shuys, it was a mainstay. Doctors and patients alike have supported their business for years.
"Some of them come in uniforms. We have patients who come in who haven't been out of Walter Reed," Kelly says. "I've had dozens of people tell me this is their first meal out of the hospital."
But those days are just about over.
"We've been saying goodbye to people for a long time. We say goodbye to people every day," Kelly Shuy said. "But it's horrible — we've had tears over saying goodbye to people who are regulars."
Of course the Shuys are losing more than just familiar faces.
"As far as the business goes, obviously it's a huge hit for us," Kelly says.
As Walter Reed closes down, it leaves behind questions. What is going to take its place? There is no shortage of opinion among interested residents:
"We are looking for quality space for our students," says Christine Encinas.
"We'd like to use part of it to develop affordable family housing," says Troy Swanda.
"We'd like to see a bit of parkland right along here," says Ellen McBarnett. "Many of the neighbors have been talking about dog-walk parks or places for children to play."
City Eyes Retail Development
And that's just the beginning. The State Department will take a chunk of Walter Reed's 113 acres, possibly for embassies. But that leaves almost 70 acres for D.C. In a city where a quarter of the land is owned by the federal government, demand for land is high.
"This is a uniquely vocal community, let me just put it that way," says Victor Hoskins, deputy mayor of Planning and Economic Development. He co-chairs the committee that is going to figure out just what the District of Columbia is going to do with all of this land.
"Actually, the interest we've gotten from a number of retailers already has been, really, quite astounding. What's going to happen is when that fence comes down [and] we develop the retail along there, it will become a place to go," Hoskins says. "And there's a chance now to revive a Main Street, which is Georgia Avenue, which has for years been suffering from decay."
D.C.'s government has a major interest, as well. For 100 years, this property has been federal and untaxable. The city estimates it could get $20 million a year in tax revenue.
And the people who worked at Walter Reed mostly drove in and drove out, not spending as much in the neighborhood as destination consumers might. Plus, if retail takes off, it might supply local jobs.
Of course, that's assuming the city gets it right.
Coming Up With A Plan
Faith Wheeler is a neighborhood representative who lives near Walter Reed. Standing about a mile away from the hospital, she points to a block where new development didn't work out so well.
"Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says. "If that happened on Georgia Avenue's Walter Reed campus, it would be awful, horrible. According to textbook ideas, this is the place where retail ought to be booming. It's not."
This is what Wheeler does not want to see: a street that's a commuter corridor, lined by sterile and vacant office buildings. One thing she does want is some sort of tribute to the place's history. And that is likely; many of the historic building facades will be kept. But Wheeler's voice is one of many.
Public Meetings, And Many Rules
"It's kind of the new realities of urban planning in the 21st century," says Lisa Benton-Short, a professor of geography at George Washington University who has written about previous base closings. She says the Walter Reed campus will take awhile to sort out.
"I think for much of the 20th century, planners were quite top-down in their planning," she says. "They told us what we needed in our spaces. Sometimes they were right, and sometimes they weren't. In the last 25 years or so, the planning profession has really changed. And one of the most important ways it's changed is to bring in public participation and planning."
That means public workshops, public forums and many public meetings. Benton-Short says it will be messy. And the military has its rules, as well.
There will have to be services for the homeless, there will have to be organizations that serve the community, such as schools. And there's an entire bureaucratic process that will probably take two years before a deal is finalized, let alone anything getting built. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will have to approve the plan, and there will have to be an environmental impact assessment, as well.
"We're talking 10 years, 15 years before these visions are actually transformed into reality," Benton-Short says.
That only heightens the fear of area businesses who will have to wait that long.
There's also radioactive waste from X-ray machines and cancer treatments that needs cleaning up. And there's asbestos to be removed. That's all possible — but it will take time. It's also one reason that the amount D.C. will have to pay the Army for the land hasn't been nailed down yet.
But when all is said and done, one thing everyone agrees on is that the site holds real potential.
A Positive Legacy
"This is something that I hope will be a positive," says Ethelbert Dawson, 77, who attended Walter Reed's official closing ceremony last month. He lives around the corner, and for 25 years, he worked at Walter Reed as a research chemist.
"When I was here, I never thought that this day would ever come. We used to call it Walter Wonderful, because that's what it was."
He says he can't really predict what this new space will mean for Washington, D.C.
"But for Walter Reed and all of the positiveness that hospital has given this community," Dawson says, "I don't know if they can ever reduplicate that."
All eyes are on this space, to see whether the disappearance of a 100-year-old place of healing will usher in an urban rebirth — or leave a scar.


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Mexican Witness
Between 1942 and 1964, as many as 300,000 Mexican laborers—called braceros—were employed as farmhands or railroad workers in the United States. The Bracero Program eventually became the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.
Veterans of the Bracero Program now living in the Kansas City area discuss their experiences in this panel conversation moderated by Christopher Leitch.
The presentation complements Bittersweet Harvest, a bilingual exhibit about the Bracero Program on display through October 27, 2013, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Co-sponsored by the Consulate of Mexico in Kansas City, the Latino Writers Collective, and the Kansas City Museum.


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Multifactor Authentication
Multifactor Authentication
Multifactor Authentication is a second layer of security for your William Paterson account. After typing in your password, you will need a second form of authentication (a call, text, 6-digit code, or push notification) to log in and prove that it's really you logging into your account. Without two-factor, anyone with your username and password could log into your account. With two-factor, only you will be able to log in because you need to use your phone to approve logins.
Multifactor Authentication (MFA or Two Factor Authentication) is already required for William Paterson University VPN Access, and is now being implemented for WPconnect, email and additional WP services. WPUNJ's Duo multifactor authentication application will provide an extra layer of security to ensure that only you login to your account.
What is Duo Multifactor Authentication?
Duo is a Multifactor Authentication product that the university is implementing to secure our WP accounts. William Paterson University started using Duo in 2016 for all VPN users. The Duo App is available for use on smartphones to authenticate using a Push notification or a Passcode. Duo also the product used to authenticate clients via phone call or text message passcodes.
Why is William Paterson requiring multifactor authentication?
Universities and other education institutions have encountered a significant increase in phishing and other online attacks in attempt to compromise accounts for financial gain. As passwords alone no longer ensure account security, the university will be implementing multifactor authentication to protect individual accounts and improve the university's overall online security. Similar to forms of multifactor authentication in use by online banking, shopping, social media, and personal email account sites, WPUNJ's Duo multifactor authentication application will provide an extra layer of security to ensure that only you login to your account.
How does Multifactor Authentication work?
After your password is entered, the MFA logon procedure will prompt you to validate your login by choosing a notification through the Duo Mobile smartphone app, a phone call, or a text message in order to complete the login.
What Multifactor Authentication methods can I utilize?
You can choose to receive a Push notification on your iOS or Android device, a text message, or a phone call.
What services require Multifactor Authentication?
WPconnect, Office365, Email, and other WP online services will now require you to use Multifactor Authentication. You may be prompted to log in when setting up email thru Outlook on your computer, you may need to remove and add your email account on your mobile device or obtain the Outlook App for your device.
There is an optional check box on the login screen to remember your device for 4 hours. You can also set your account to automatically send your default device a Push notification.
How do I register my phone number?
Information Technology has prepopulated the Duo system with cell phone, office phone, or home phone information based on phone information available in the university's Banner system. You can add, edit, and remove devices or phones through the Duo Device Management Portal available in WPconnect through Duo icon located in the Apps menu.
How do I download and associate the Duo App to my account?
Visit your App Store and download the Duo App. Once you have the App, visit the DUO Device Management Portal to
What happens if I get a new smartphone?
Not a problem! If you change mobile devices, or if your Duo App becomes disassociated with your account you will need to reactivate your App. Use the passcode authentication method, or use a secondary device, to authenticate to WPconnect and visit the DUO Device Management Portal to reactivate your Duo App on your new device.
What happens if I don't have access to my primary device or I forget or lose my mobile phone?
Information Technology has pre-populated several phone numbers into your Duo settings, and you should review and update them. Adding additional numbers provides you with the option to validate your login on multiple numbers. Additionally, the Helpdesk has the ability to provide a one-time bypass code over the phone (additional information will be required to verify your identity). Call our Helpdesk at 973-720-4357 for assistance.
Authentication and Software
Duo App for Mobile Devices
"Duo Mobile" can be downloaded from either the Apple App Store or the GooglePlay Store.
|iPhone Duo Application
|Android Duo Application
|Download the Duo Mobile App
If you change mobile devices, or if your Duo App becomes disassociated with your account you will need to reactivate your App.
Duo Mobile App Support Documentation
For more information on the Duo Mobile Applications please see the Duo Support Documentation -
- iOS devices (iPhone and iPad)
- Android devices
- Windows Phone **Please note that as of January 1, 2019, Duo will no longer support the Duo App on Windows Phones.**
Duo Mobile App Push Troubleshooting
If you have authorized your Duo Application, but you are not recieveing a notification on your phone, you may have disabled notifications for the Duo App on your phone.
Additionally if you have changed mobile devices, or if your Duo App is still not working, please use the Passcode option to send a text message and visit the DUO Device Management Portal on WPconnect to reactivate your App.
Duo Multifactor for Landline and other Mobile Devices
If you are unable to utilize the Mobile App, you will still be able to register a Generic Mobile phone number to receive text message passcodes or phone calls, or a Landline to receive calls. These devices are registered and managed through WPconnect.
==DUO Device Management Portal on WPconnect==
To manage your multifactor authentication devices you will need to visit the DUO Device Management Portal through WPconnect. The DUO Device Management Portal is listed as Duo under Applications. You can Add or Remove devices from this portal. Mobile devices, both cellphones and tablets, as well as Landline phone numbers can be added for Authentication. Additional documentation can be found on the DUO guide as well.
Manage Devices
To manage your devices you must first authenticate against one of you existing devices. Click one of the green icons to start the process and follow the on-screen prompts.
From My Settings & Devices you can add a device or remove an old device, or select a device to automatically send a push notification to upon login.
Reactivating the Duo App
From Device Options you can Reactivate your Duo Application (if you have a new mobile device), or change the description of you device.
Add a new a device
When adding a new device, you will be asked for the device type, Mobile Phone, Tablet, or Landline. Please provide the phone number and device type for mobile devices. Download the Duo App for your smart phone, and scan the QR code provided on the screen to associate the App to your account.
Logging in to WPconnect
After you have logged in to the "Shibboleth" login page, you will be redirected to the Multifactor Authentication page for Duo.
This page will allow you to select the Device you would like to use for Authentication. You can enroll multiple phone numbers or mobile device including tablets.
'''Note: There is an option on the login screen to remember your device by using the "Remember me for 4 hours" option if you do not want to be prompted everytime you log in to WPconnect'''
The suggested method of Multifactor authentication is to use Duo Push which utilizes the Duo Mobile Application on your mobile phone or tablet.
Additionally, you can select to receive a phone call and acknowledge you login by pressing any key, or by using a Passcode that you generate using the Duo Mobile Application or by receiving a text message.
Account Lockout
Please note that your account will be locked out after a number of authentication failures. Please submit a ticket, or calling 973-720-4357 to have your account unlocked.
Email and Multifactor Authentication
Please note you may need to reconfigure email on mobile devices once you have moved to using Multifactor Authentication
Office 365 Login
- Provide your full email address at the Microsoft Login Page
- On the WP Login page, for Office 365, use your full email address and WP password
- Select the device you would like to use for Multifactor Authentication
- Authorize Multifactor Authentication
- If you are using your own computer you may select Yes to stay logged in. Please note that this will keep your Office 365 connection open and you will not be prompted for your user name and password or Multifactor Authentication method for an extended period of time. Select No if you are using a shared computer or someone elses machine.
- Outlook may prompt you to login using the same Office 365 login screen.
Apple Mail
Apple Mail is supported on 10.14, Mojave. Older versions of Apple Mail do not support Microsoft Modern Authentication and Multifactor Authentication.
When configuring your email, you will be prompted to log in, with the same orange login screen that appears when using Office 365.
Email on Smartphones
The Outlook App for both iOS and Android devices allows access to your Email, Calendars and Contacts in one convient App.
iOS users, using the Apple Mail App, will need to remove the email account and re-add the account to their devices. Instructions on adding Email to iOS devices can be found here.
Android users, please note that the native android mail client is not compatible with Microsoft Modern Authentication. Please download the Outlook App for Android.
Additional VPN Authentication for Cisco Any Connect Client
Multifactor Authentication is required for William Paterson University VPN Access. If you require access to VPN, please request access using the ticket type Account -> VPN Access.
Using VPN with Multifactor Authentication
- After you have set up your account, you will continue to use the Cisco AnyConnect client as you have in the past.
- When you provide your login credentials you will now be provided with a secondary authentication box. You can then either use an app on your android (or iphone) to generate a key OR type "push" in the secondary authentication box. Using "push" will send a notification to the app on your phone. (Using "sms" will initiate a text with an authentication key that will expire after one hour, or "phone" if you have signed up for a phone call.)
Second Password Field
The following is utilized when using the Cisco Any Connect Client for VPN. The second password field is where you define the method of multifactor authentication you will be utilizing.
|Authentication Method
|Second Password
|Duo App Push Verification
|(See image 1. below)
|Duo App to Generate Authentication Code
|Enter Code displayed in App
|(See image 2. below)
|Text Message
|(You will receive a text message with a key that will expire after one hour)
|Phone Call
|(If you have registered multiple phone numbers, enter phone1, phone2, as needed)
|1. Authorizing access through the Duo App
|2. Generating a Key in the Duo App


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The Story of Garabandal
On June 18, 1961, four girls, Conchita Gonzalez (12), Mari Cruz Gonzalez (11) Jacinta Gonzalez (12), and Mari Loli Mazon (12) were playing on the outskirts of the village when they heard a sound like thunder.
Suddenly, there stood before them a radiant angel. He said nothing and soon vanished. Pale and visibly shaken, they ran to the village church and told of the apparition.
Over the next few days, the girls continued to see the angel. On July 1st he spoke: "Do you know why I have come? It is to announce to you that tomorrow the Blessed Virgin will appear to you as Our Lady of Mount Carmel." Read More »


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Wednesday, 19 April 2017
7 Marketing Mistakes You Don't Want To Make
Botch #1: Relying on referrals or verbal. When you rely on upon verbal, you permit go betweens to control your stream of forthcoming new clients. You may have conveyed an unrivaled item at a remarkable cost yet in the event that no is discussing it, the money enroll rapidly quits ringing.
The arrangement? Ensure you have a showcasing program focused at achieving your most craved client. At that point create a message that is pertinent and significant and convey it reliably.
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The arrangement? Fight the temptation to "test it out" and focus on an arrangement that will convey your message for a long time, week after week. Purchasers and B2B purchasers alike are occupied, assaulted with messages and will overlook you unless you are reliable.
Botch #3: Competing on low cost. When you bring down costs to draw in new clients, you are pulling in the scavengers. You've heard this before - nobody needs to overpay however few are solely cost driven. To aggravate matters, cost just purchasers will drop you once you endeavor to get a honest cost.
The arrangement? Contend on your mastery and esteem.
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The arrangement? Burrow profound and find what are you okay at. Make that your position and yell it from the housetops. On the off chance that your specialty is now overwhelmed by a contender, make another class for yourself. At that point advance the classification so prospects consider you to be first in that new region.
Botch #6: Not making advertising a need. For most publicists, welcome clients and working with their staff is their most noteworthy need. At the point when things get occupied with, advertising endeavors get racked in light of the fact that they're taking a shot at everything else. There's a false expectation that force will pull in new business long into what's to come. Be that as it may, when they cut their showcasing endeavors, they move into impartial, dormancy assumes control and things grind to a halt.
The arrangement? Make advertising a need and fight the temptation to close it down when things are going great. Keep your program in apparatus so you generally pull in a progressing stream of new clients.
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