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Sunday is my favorite day and as usual it did not disappoint.I woke up fully refreshed, energized, well-loved and in love. I spent the day before with my children and my church family at Soda Springs. The drive was peaceful, conversation was great, children were skiing, snow boarding and tubing. The air was crisp,cold and the sun was shining. The white snow glistened and goggles and sunglassed people darted the landscape and made me smile. As I looked out onto the activity of life and energy I whisper over and over the three words that bring me peace "thank you Lord". I find I say this when there is nothing to say and when there is much to say. I say these three words as a way to honor God who has provided for me and for my children. I say these words as a reminder to myself that I am blessed and that HE carries me in the wind. His Spirit lulls me to sleep and wakes me up and allows me to enjoy my children and this life that we have. Thank you Lord is my phrase, it is my mantra, it is how I continue to walk my walk as I talk the talk. I want to be a living example to my children, friends and family that the statement that I say is nothing but the truth. That statement is that if you take care of your children, God will take care of you. I not only believe it to be true I have seen that truth manifested in my life and in the lives of my children. I have been given a chance to make their lives better and I continue to work to make that happen. I have also been given a chance to write and another opportunity to have yet another secret desire of my heart fulfilled and omnipresent in my life. To know love is a beautiful thing, to feel loved is another beautiful thing, to have love is incredible. One man can do that for me. Dipped in chocolate makes anything taste better and as far as I am concerned dark chocolate is not only good to the taste it is also healthier and more nutritious to the inside of a body as well.
I spent Sunday in this mood of peace and comfortably that I have not known for some time. I woke up excited. Once at church the messages were about children and what we as parents and in particular black parents should be doing, things to remember and things to teach our children so they will be able to not only just survive but to thrive. Our children need to know that God is the beginning and the end and the be all to our all. Today I heard that my little friend of 12 is back in the hospital for another round of chemotherapy. I learned that her mom needs money to help with finances, I called her and offered to pay one of her bills until she could get back on her feet. She was hesitant, I insisted. She was thankful. I smiled. During service today the word Grace continued to come up in my heart and the words of the song by the Winans soothed me, rocked me and made me say thank you Lord. The speakers who spoke and the minister who preached all spoke about the witness that we are called to be as a present force in these troubled times. We are to be an example of what good parenting and what a good person should be and we need to walk our talk. I lounged around today with my children and with my sweetie. To be in a house filled with complete satisfaction is such a good thing. Incredible. Tonight I learned that a friend that I have not heard from in years and whose name I just spoke a few days ago as I was recounting a story about my experiences with her – out of the blue – died. I was shocked. I breathed hard, I wanted to cry. I could not. I don't know the details. I know she was loved by her boys, her husband and her parents.
We are called to be a witness. We are called to honor Him who provides all. We are called to not take anything for granted. What would happen to those left, should I or anyone pass away from this earth unexpectedly quite frankly is not known by the person leaving. We can all say the words that we should be grateful and thankful and tell the people in our lives we love them. I do that. However would that be enough for them should something happen? I don't know. I write these words because we really don't know. People come and go, as the dust blows across the Sahara dessert, our time on this earth blows away. My time and my heart will continue to say, "thank you Lord!" I thank your for three great kids, for a man who has come back to rock my soul as well as my intellect and who completes me, for a sister that is in full bloom and doing good things, for a mom who loves with all she has and whom I love and respect, for brothers who care and commit, for diva's who take my breath away and carry my heart, for aunts and uncles and cousins that sustain and uplift, for countless friends who love me for me and for a God who has ALWAYS provided. Will these words be enough for my children to help them continue to thrive? I don't know. What I do know is that one of the lessons my father said to me before he died has never left me and I hear him in my head. He said to me when I was complaining about what everybody wanted me to do in a particular situation, he said well baby girl, just listen to what they have to say/suggest, acknowledge them, shake your head say that sounds good and you will think about it, be gracious and then go out and do whatever you were going to do anyway. Wise words disguised as just a thought. Mmmmm. TheIr really is no need to belabor the point. To this day, I do this when a situation comes up that I don't agree with. I do this and respect your right to express and welcome honesty and critique with a soft edge on it when it is spoken – to me. I listen, I smile, I thank and then I make MY decision in my way and in my time. I say this to say for my children, I want them to say, thank you Lord." I want them and him to know that in these 3 words we live. In these three words we thrive. In these 3 words we glorify and carrying these words into any battle will be the weapons you need to tear down your walls of Jericho. Thank you Lord. Remember, I love you is also a pretty powerful trio of words. Mmmmm. Let the church say I love you more. (smile) Goodnight.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Daily Headlines: August 28, 2012
* Nicaragua: Investigators believe that eighteen people arrested and posing as fake Mexican journalists may be part of a 'vast network of drug criminals".
* U.S.: Will the Republican National Convention help the GOP make serious inroads into a Latino electorate that seem to mostly support President Barack Obama?
* Argentina: Mexico filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Argentina's economic "protectionist measures."
* Caribbean: According to Bahamian officials sixteen Haitian migrants who disappeared when their boat capsized are presumed to be dead.
Video Source – YouTube via Milenio
Online Sources- The Guardian, Fox News Latino, Politico.com, Reuters, MSNBC
Labels: Argentina, Bahamas, Barack Obama, Daily Headlines, drug cartels, Haiti, immigration, Latinos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Republican Party, World Trade Organization
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USS Dolphin On The Prowl
Today brings a new picture of and article about the American diesel-powered submarine USS Dolphin (AGSS 555). Returning to sea for her first long underway after the 2002 flooding and fire incident, it looks like she's ready to show HMS Gotland that there's another diesel boat ready to help out in San Diego!
Update 1826 20 Dec: Speaking of HMS Gotland, here's a new report on how they did during the Reagan Strike Group JTFEX. Excerpts:
"According to Swedish Liaison Officer Lt. Cmdr. Peter Ostbring, Gotland and her crew played a number of roles during the joint exercise, which mutually benefited the U.S. and Swedish navies by enhancing overall anti-submarine warfare (ASW) proficiencies and further strengthening the relationship between the two countries.
"Initially, [Gotland] was acting as an opposing force, and in the middle of the exercise, she acted as a green (friendly force) submarine, like a third country in a coalition doing intelligence and reconnaissance missions for the strike group," he said. "Later, she returned to being an opposing force."
Update 0630 21 Dec: Here's another article about the Dolphin.


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Anyway, the problem posed in the previous picture had an incorrect solution. Mike inadvertantly used phi instead of phi % when solving his imaginary interest inquiry.
The actual result was a loss of about 1% of 1% of your original principal, which is better than many mutual funds performed in the past year. However, you would have picked up only an imaginary nickel, rather than a few imaginary dollars.
Special thanks to "anonymous" for running the numbers. I don't have the budget for a staff of fact checkers around here. And, oddly enough, although I managed to get the correct solution out of wolframalpha after the mistake was first pointed out to me, it took about five tries to get the equation entered correctly when I wanted to write this entry. Too many divisions and parentheses!
Oh, and ....
I meant to do that.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
If You're Still Interested ...
Anyway, the problem posed in the previous picture had an incorrect solution. Mike inadvertantly used phi instead of phi % when solving his imaginary interest inquiry.
3 comments:
So would you please present the original and new equation with an explanation of the variables and the answer? Thanks!
- Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:05:00 PM
- (x, why?) said...
Is this the same Anonymous from yesterday?
You have the equation for compound interest with the four special numbers in it.
Use Google calculator with this:
pi(1+phi/100/e)^(e i)
Or on WolframAlpha, use this:
pi(1+(1+sqrt(5))/2/100/e)^(e i)
because "phi" uses a different meaning.
- Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:02:00 PM
- GregT said...
Phi on them. Brilliant recovery though, title and all.
- Friday, January 27, 2012 8:06:00 PM


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Photo Contest
Congratulations to all our Providence Zen Center members who took Precepts this Sunday!!
Didn't we have fun this past weekend? The Hae Jae party Friday night marked the end of the long 90 day Winter Kyol Che retreat and even with a little snow on the ground, you could tell that "Spring has Sprung"! All our friends were back at the Zen Center from around the world for the Buddha's Birthday Celebration on Saturday with quite a few new friends as well. There was the first bonfire of the season Saturday night, with the stars being covered and uncovered by the clouds … followed by the Sunday morning Precept Ceremony. There was a large contingent of new Dharma Brothers and Sisters who took their five precepts. It is so fun to see them in their brown kasa the first time they walk into practice!
We also have some new Dharma-Teachers-In-Training (DTIT), a few new Senior Dharma Teachers and Several DTITs that received their long robes and bowls as their training period has ended. Now they are full Dharma Teachers. Congratulations to everyone!
… so here an idea for a quick photo contest … how many pictures do you think we took all weekend? The attached photo is of our PZC family with several teachers and friends, but more photos will be posted to the photo gallery very soon …. if you couldn't make it this April, maybe you can join us for the next Sangha Weekend! We'd love to have a photo of all our PZC members …
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04/19/2011 (12:52 pm)
150ish, plus lots of video.
04/14/2011 (7:14 am)
I know you have all been waiting patiently for the results! Well, as they say on TV, Jeff appears to be the closest without going over! We took a LOT of photos that can be seen on the Kwan Um School of Zen pages as well as our own galleries here at PZC. The final count? 1258
04/07/2011 (10:57 am)
04/05/2011 (6:48 pm)
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I want to thank all of you who have been recommending to me (and to all who read this blog) to read the work of James Alison. You were right. He's an amazing thinker. I've finished Raising Abel and am now in the middle of On Being Liked.
Here's a passage I read this morning about atonement theory from On Being Liked:
My second problem with atonement theory is the perception of God which it enjoins as normative. I mean this in two senses, one obvious, and one less obvious. The obvious sense is that it involves God and his Son in some sort of consensual form of S&M--one needing the abasement of the other in order to be satisfied, and the other loving the cruel will of his father. Or another way of saying the same thing, perhaps slightly less provocatively: there is no way that the theory could work without some element of retribution, which presupposes vengeance. Well, I wonder whether this could be shown, but I suspect that over the long haul this element of necessary retaliation, stubbornly held to by many who profess our faith, has done more to contribute to atheism among ordinary people than any number of clerical scandals, and that if being a believer means believing this, then it is better to be among the non-believers...
But it is the less obvious sense in which the perception of God that the theory enjoins is a problem, which I consider more important. I suggest that what the theory does is make a process of revelation impossible. For if we follow it, it makes out that Jesus' resurrection didn't reveal anything new at all. It merely accomplished a deal whereby someone who was remote and angry remained remote and angry, but created an exception for those lucky enough to be covered with the blood of his Son. Before, God was a hurricane, and now God is still a hurricane, but Jesus has revealed that there is an eye to the hurricane, and so long as you hang in there, in the eye, you won't be destroyed. But, I want to suggest, this is not the case: Jesus' resurrection did reveal something which was new--not new to God, but new to us. Jesus revealed that God had and has nothing at all to do with violence, or death, or the order of this world. These are our problems and mask our conceptions of God, of law and order and so forth. In fact, God loved us so much that God longs for us to be free from these things so as to live for ever, with God and each other, starting now.


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A local pediatric doctor helped transport Haitian teen Kenson Jean to Pittsburgh for emergency cancer treatment this weekend.
Dr. Mark Sangimino of Allegheny General Hospital examined the child in a field hospital outside the Port-au-Prince airport, before overcoming many bureaucratic obstacles to fly him to Pennsylvania.
He says the plane was leaving at seven o'clock, with or without the doctor and child.
"It took me almost 45 minutes to determine that the boy wasn't even there. I ran to the airport trying to figure out where he was, and he was still back at the tent community because the medical director there didn't think there was any hope," says Sangimino.
"We got caught right up to the point of seven o'clock."
Sangimino says the first medical step is surgical reconstruction of the 15-year-old's swollen left leg, which is stricken with bone cancer. He says after that, chemotherapy is likely.
The orthopedic doctor says although it was a miracle to bring Jean to Pittsburgh, there were many other children in similar situations that should also have come.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Local MD Brings Haitian Cancer Patient to Pgh.
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Steve Jobs' death in 2011 was met with a massive outpour of public grief, but the emotion on display didn't fit the man who passed. Jobs, for his outsized personality while he was promoting Apple, was fiercely private. Taking an approach inspired by Citizen Kane, Gibney starts his film at the mogul's passing, and works backwards through interviews and archival footage to get a sense of the man behind the smokescreen.
The film jumps around chronologically, tackling the early Apple years; NeXT; and the launches of the iPod, iPhone and iPad. It bears repeating that Jobs didn't personally design or engineer the famous items so closely associated with his name. The truth is that a lot of talented people surrounded Jobs, and he drove them to their limits. Apple is not represented in Gibney's film, but there is a good deal of interviews with those who worked with Jobs along with his friends and family, and the background information is revealing. The Steve Jobs who faced legal issues is certainly not the one we remember fondly.
Steve Jobs wasn't a perfect man, certainly, few are, but Gibney isn't interested in hagiography. At first The Man in the Machine gives the audience a lot of the personable Jobs that he presented himself as for years, then the darker side comes out. "Think different" was Jobs' method of creating a link between Apple and the noble ideals of icons like Martin Luther King Jr., and it worked really well. However, Apple didn't use "think different" to contribute to more moral business practices. The workers at Foxconn who make iPhones and iPods certainly don't have the luxury of using the products they spend all day building.
Gibney's documentary expands beyond Jobs--sometimes to its detriment--but the larger Silicon Valley scene that Jobs inspired, and the grime behind his technological benchmarks are integral to his legacy. Jobs was a master of branding: he created a narrative where customers bought not just a machine, but a reflection of themselves they could pour their identity into. The love story between Apple fanatics and their products is what Jobs is remembered for, but Gibney posits that we're all still buying into a myth. That Gibney himself can't explain why he owns an iPhone is cause for concern.
Gibney loses sight of Jobs in the wide scope of the documentary, but perhaps it is impossible to understand a man made up of so many contradictions. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine isn't a hit-job by any means, but it does encourage viewers to "think differently" about the man so widely revered.


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Order in which Batgirl Bat-Traps Are Believed to have been Filmed
It has been pointed out by Richard Ranke that the episodes were not filmed in the order that they were shown. Here, according to
The Official Batman Batbook
, is the order in which the episodes were produced and hence, perhaps, the true chronological order of the Batgirl Bat-Traps:
Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
The Sport of Penguins/A Horse of Another Color
The Ogg Couple/The Ogg and I/How to Hatch a Dinosaur
Forced to Perform the Cossack Saber Dance
Dunked in Frozen Caviar
Eggsposed to Tear Gas
Captured at Sword-Edge by Egghead
Ring Around the Riddler
Thrown in the Steam Room
The Wail of the Siren
episode guide says that
The Wail of the Siren
was written and filmed before
Ring Around the Riddler.
The Unkindest Tut of All
Louie the Lilac
The Londinium Larcenies/The Foggiest Notion/The Bloody Tower
Paralyzed and Chained in a Dungeon
Surf's Up! Joker's Under!
The Funny Feline Felonies/The Joke's on Catwoman
Bound by the Cat's Whiskers
Catwoman's Dressed to Kill
Strapped to the Pattern Cutter
Louie's Lethal Lilac Time
Tranced inside an Oil Vat
Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club
Tied in a Siamese Human Knot
The Joker's Flying Saucer
Strapped to Joker's Rocket
Penguin's Clean Sweep
Exposed to Umbrella Gas
The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra
Zapped by the Alvino Ray Gun
The Great Escape/The Great Train Robbery
Subjected to Fear Gas
I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle
Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires
Placed in a Persimmon Pressurizer
Back to the Batgirl Bat-Trap


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Dan Curtin – Galaxies Merging EP
Here's some straight techno from Dan Curtin, who's been around techno since 1992.
Galaxies Merging is quite a claim for your opening track. And it doesn't disappoint. There's beats to the forefront and synths of an epic scale that build and build. Mind Sweep offers a bit more by way of synth action to give something that veers back into house territory via Chicago. The final track, To Modify, offers a bit of spacey bloopiness. The only choker here is the shortness of the clips, for which apologies.
Blurb: Following Dan Curtin's superb remix of D-Knox 'Out There' in the summer of 2015, EPMMusic welcomes the return of this Metamorphic Recordings legend for his own full-length EP. Dan's impressive discography dates back to '92 when his first releases on Detroit's 33RPM Records and Belgium's Buzz motivated him to launch his own Metamorphic Recordings. A continuous stream of releases also followed on big players like Peacefrog, Strictly Rhythm, Sublime and SomaRecords. In 2003 Dan's move to Berlin triggered a string of new releases on labels such as Bass Culture, Holic Trax and Saved. Over 70 singles and 9 albums later, Dan is just as innovative as ever whether recording under his own name or one of his many aliases such as Purveyors of Fine Funk. Dan's prolific output shows no sign of abating and he recently announced the re-launch of Metamorphic.


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Today is the 7th day of Ramadhan..and totally love Ramadan this year, because i have so many incident happening in my life and that make me thougher each and everyday.
And this is the first year that my Daughter fasting at the age of 8. And she do it well. Even she doesn' really know what the purpose of Fasting is..haa!..she tought it is for loosing her weight. What a kid.
But I am happy that she is enjoying the fasting. Good Gal.
Here are the layout I made..so little quantity..:)..sorry my bad...I nap too much
This is My Boy, took the picture when he is 9 years. He is a shy boy..till now
Material I am using : Paper from Studio Calico Classic then I spread white acrylic paint as an accent and spray into a masking number, Glitz ephmera, Tim's Film Strip, G45 metal flower, Tim Holtz Adage tickets, MME Brads. AC thickers
My girl in this picture she is 2 years old. So precious moment
I do scraplift the layout idea from Prima...because I like it.
Here I am using the paper from Studio Calico Clasic woodgrain, I spray it and put a little splatter, I am using 2 paper here. the bottom part is the basic solid paper which I also spray it in blue color. Lots of embellishement i am using
I love Red...and it is work very well. Should I mention what type of material I am using...hehee...I am tired and little sleepy so I leave it this way..less info made you fee
The BFF moment..my daughter and two best friend at the neigborhood
The vintage layout for three little girl, they were all family


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I was planning on doing a Linkfest for the next series of posts, but almost each one turned out to be worthy of it's own post.
So here you go starting with the first one:
RE: Vista (GUI Mods)
The ITsVISTA Web Links for August 4th, 2007 contained two interesting items:
The first link allows scaling of the Vista taskbar in Original, Medium, or Small sizes. No word if "Extra Crispy" will be following.
The second link is for you Windows 2000 die-hards who just can't leave the "Classic" style of Windows behind. The neat thing of this one is that it does preserve Vista Aero's Transparency, Flip3D, and Live thumbnails.
Definitely not for everyone, and you will have to load some "helper" files as well to make the thins work.
Anytime I got an XP system, I would convert it over to the "Classic" style until I found the Zune XP theme. I actually like the Vista themes and while I don't use Vista every day, it is a pleasing interface to work in.


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Dear Committee Members,
I am grateful to the Joint Committee for agreeing
to allow the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of England and Wales to submit written
evidence on the Draft Mental
Incapacity Bill a few days after your deadline.
You will find attached our detailed comments which
focus on the provisions of the
Bill relating to health. These have been prepared
by the Linacre Centre for Healthcare
Ethics and this submission is made jointly by it
and the Catholic Bishops' Conference
of England and Wales.
Our comments inevitably focus on what are serious
shortcomings in certain provisions of the Draft Bill. But at the
outset, I would wish to state our support for the government's
intention to produce new legislation in this area, although parts
of the current Draft Bill are seriously defective. For many years
the law on mental incapacity has been vague and unsatisfactory.
There is unquestionably a need to provide a comprehensive legal
framework both in the interests of protecting persons with severe
mental incapacity, and the families who have in many cases a life
long commitment to caring for or about the health and welfare
of their mentally disabled relatives.
In the attached submission we draw attention to four
areas of concern; lack of effective safeguards against suicide
and homicide by omission; weakness in the definition of 'best
interests'; dangers in the proposed scheme for proxy decision
making; and finally dangers inherent in enforcing advance directives
in the manner proposed.
It is very much to be hoped that the deficiencies
in the Draft Bill will be rectified so that the Bill presented
to Parliament will fully and effectively achieve the purpose of
protecting those with mental incapacity.
Yours sincerely,
Archbishop Peter Smith
Chairman, Department for Christian Responsibility
and Citizenship, Bishops' Conference of England and Wales
1. We' welcome the opportunity to comment on the
Draft Mental Incapacity Bill which the Government has proposed.
In so doing, we focus on health-related issues:
we do not comment on the Draft Bill's provisions
on financial matters, which may indeed be useful in protecting
the interests of those with mental incapacity. In contrast, we
believe that the provisions of the Bill relating to health, while
these may be similarly well-intentioned, will in fact exacerbate
threats to the lives and health of mentally incapacitated people.
2. There are four points we wish to make briefly:
A. lack of effective safeguards against suicide
and homicide by omission;
B. weakness in the definition of 'best interests';
C. dangers in the proposed scheme for proxy decision
making; and
D. dangers inherent in enforcing advance directives
in the manner proposed.
A. Lack of effective safeguards against suicide
and homicide by omission
3. Existing case-law already permits patients in
a persistent vegetative state to have 'treatment' (including tube-feeding)
withheld with the aim of causing death.2 In permitting
omissions, though not actions, with a homicidal purpose, the law
has been left, in the words of one Law Lord, in a 'morally and
intellectually misshapen state' .~
The Draft Bill does nothing to reverse this
unfortunate situation; nor does it stipulate that life-sustaining
measures may not be withheld from non-P VS patients with the aim
of causing death. The Bill does not distinguish between choices
on the part of doctors, patients or proxies with the aim of causing
death and choices with the aim of
1 This Response has been prepared
by Dr Helen Watt, the Director of the Centre, in consultation
with Professor Luke Gormally, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre,
and Professor John Keown of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. For
a more detailed account of our approach to healthcare decisions
for the mentally incapacitated, see John Keown and Luke Gormally,
'Human Dignity, Autonomy and Mentally Incapacitated Persons: A
Critique of Who Decides?' [1999] 4 Web Journal of Current
Legal Issues, at www.webicli.ncl,ac.uk'1 999/issue4
and the Linacre Centre Responses to Who Decides and Making
Decisions, at www.linacre.org.
2 See Airedale NHS Trust
v Bland [1993] AC 789.
~ Bland [1993] AC
789 at 887, per Lord Mustill.
avoiding the burden of certain interventions. Rather,
in emphasising the need to respect the patient's past 'wishes
and feelings' - whatever
(it appears) they may be -the
Bill would apparently require doctors to respect advance refusals
which are suicidally motivated; i.e., where the patient's aim
was to end a life predicted to be not worth living. Indeed, the
Bill would apparently permit doctors intentionally to assist such
a suicidal refusal. Similarly, proxies who wish to end the patient's
life -whether
for the patient's sake or for their own -
will evidently have full power to do this,
on claiming this is what the patient wanted.4 It is
the doctor who seeks to override a suicidal or homicidal refusal
(and so protect the patient from death or disability) who would
seem to be made liable to criminal proceedings.
4.We would urge that treatment should in no case
be withheld with the aim of causing death: this should be a criminal
offence whatever the patient's state of health.5 It
is important to recognize that proscribing choices made with the
aim of ending life would not commit anyone to pursuing or agreeing
to medical treatment which is futile or burdensome. What needs
to be stressed here is the key distinction between aiming to end
life (albeit by omission), and not aiming to prolong life by inappropriate
B. Weakness in the definition
of 'best interests'
5. We are alarmed by the reduction of the patients'
interests to subjective 'wishes and feelings' of the patient in
clause 1.4. It is remarkable that the Draft Bill makes no mention,
in what it says about the patient's best interests, of the interest
in life and health.6 While not the only aspect of a
person's welfare, life and health is certainly one aspect, which
traditionally the medical profession has been committed to promoting.
To ask doctors to ignore the health interests of patients wherever
the patient had, in the past, some conflicting 'wish or feeling'
is to ask doctors to abandon their traditional role in caring
for incapacitated people.
C. Dangers in the proposed scheme for proxy
decision making
6. The Draft Bill gives significant powers to proxy
decision makers, and grants them
~ The Bill does contain a clause Ill. 31] on
the mistreatment or neglect of incapacitated people. However,
by defining 'best interests' of the incapacitated person solely
in relation to that person's actual or hypothetical desires [1.4],
the Bill, in conjunction with existing case-law, would appear
to allow proxies to refuse treatment with a homicidal motive,
providing the refusal is defended in terms of such desires. We
would urge that clause 1.31 proscribe any refusal of treatment
or care which is based on the aim of hastening death -
whether this aim be that of the carer, proxy
and/or the patient at an earlier time.
~ See note 4.
6 This interest was strongly
emphasised by Lord Brandon in Re F, who held that treatment
of non-competent patients was in the best interests of such patients
only if 'carried out in order either to save their lives or to
ensure improvement or prevent deterioration in their physical
or mental health' (Re F Fv WestBerkshire Health Authority and
Another [1989] 2 All ER 545, at 546.
legal status in the context of health care. There
are, however, risks in giving such powers to those not medically
qualified, who are not like doctors held accountable for medical
negligence, and who may even have a conflict of interest such
as a financial expectation on the patient's death. As presently
drafted, the Bill gives proxy decision makers power without accountability.
At the very least there needs to be a prescribed duty of care
and accountability in law for decisions taken by the donee of
a lasting power of attorney or a deputy appointed by the court.
The donee or deputy should be required to give due weight to the
patient's health interests, and not simply to his or her desires
at some earlier time. Furthermore, in the case of a dispute between
the donee or deputy and a doctor there should be reference to
a second independent medical opinion, and if the matter still
cannot be resolved, a reference to the court.
D. Dangers inherent in enforcing
advance directives in the manner proposed
7. Competent patients do, of course, have first responsibility
for their own health: a responsibility which extends a certain
way into periods of incapacity. With regard to advance refusals,
there is no objection to doctors following a refusal which is
recent, well-informed and is not suicidally motivated. However,
the same cannot be said of a refusal which is made on the basis
of inadequate information and/or has the aim of ending life. Those
who are, or have been, suicidal need to be treated in their objective
interests, not to have their lives ended out of 'respect' for
their wish that this be done. If patients, living as they do in
a society which devalues the lives of disabled people, act on
the basis that such a life would be worthless and should be curtailed,
this is not an intention which it is in their interests, or society's
interests, to respect.
8. Advance refusals will often be ill-informed: unlike
the situation with contemporaneous refusals, the person making
the advance refusal may not have been offered any information
(for example, by a doctor) on what he or she is refusing. (In
particular, those refusing 'treatment' may not realise that tube-feeding
is classed as treatment in the law.) The Bill is vague on what
is to count as an advance refusal, merely saying that such a refusal
may be expressed 'in broad terms and non-scientific language'
[1.23(2 )].7 Previous
information from the Lord Chancellor's Department suggests that
even passing oral comments by the patient could have legal force.8
(Certainly, a proxy may refuse treatment on the basis of just
such an informal statement.) While wills disposing of a person's
financial assets rightly have a strict form, it is anomalous that
advance refusals - which
may result in death or increased
~ Any legislation on advance refusals of treatment
should require that these be well-documented, witnessed to by
two witnesses without a vested interest in the estate of the patient,
based on accurate medical information and motivated otherwise
than by a desire to end one's own life. In the current Bill, a
paragraph to this effect might be inserted to replace 1.23 (2),
which is far too vague in counting as valid refusals those 'expressed
in broad terms'.
~ Making decisions: A guide for social care
professionals, p.18.
disability for the patient -
could be so vaguely specified and still be
binding on doctors. In the Bill, it seems that advance refusals
are 'valid unless proven otherwise': in practice, the onus of
proof will be on anyone who wants to treat the patient to show
that a purported refusal is not, in fact, binding. For many patients,
there will be no-one to challenge the claim that a binding refusal
has been made.9
9. In some cases, even a well-informed, non-suicidal
advance refusal should, in our view, be overridden, though this
would certainly be the exception. In particular, an advance refusal
of pain relief, hygienic care or feeding -
whether orally or by tube -should
not bind absolutely. Patients should be given a minimum level
of care, both for their own sake and for the sake of protecting
an ethic of care on the part of doctors and nurses. It needs to
be stressed that incapacitated people have objective health interests,
which doctors and nurses should be permitted to promote to a certain
basic standard. No advance directive, and no attorney or deputy,
should have the power to refuse such basic interventions in the
patient's interest. This should be stated on the face of the Bill.
September 2003
We are also concerned that it will be difficult and
time-consuming for patients who have regained capacity to cancel
an advance directive or power of attorney (see Schedule 3, Part
4, 14: 1-2). Given the life-and-death issues at stake, it should,
at the very least, be more difficult to make, than to cancel,
such arrangements. Moreover, the Bill makes no provision for patients
without capacity to show by their behaviour (signs of hunger,
distress at a treatable condition) that their wishes have changed.


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Back in 1958 these were distributed at a conference held for the Chicago Air Procurement District. It was a provider of electronics parts in Chicago, located at 555 South Archer Avenue, Chicago 38 IL. Note that odd address.. yes that predates the common use of zipcodes.
At some point I'll have to write about Air Procurement Districts... since everyone seems to have forgotten.
Friday, February 06, 2015
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While I was working on Bride of the Solway, I had to do quite a lot of research about marriage in Scotland, including the inside story about Gretna Green elopements and exactly how the knot was tied. Sadly, it wasn't done by the blacksmith over his anvil. But the truth was just as outrageous in Regency eyes.
We tend to think that elopements were only to Gretna Green. They didn't have to be. The same marriage laws applied throughout Scotland. However, Gretna and villages just over the Border did make something of a business of quick and clandestine marriages. In Bride of the Solway, the marriage is arranged by 'Bishop' Lang in The King's Head in Springfield, a tiny village only a few hundred yards from the border with England. 'Bishop' Lang was a real character of the time, looking and operating much as I have described. He encouraged eloping couples to believe that they needed him to take their declarations and to issue a kind of 'marriage certificate'. In fact, the marriage was quite legal without it, but few of them would have had time to question him, especially if an irate father was close on their heels. So they took his advice, went through his 'marriage ceremony', got their certificate and – most importantly – paid Lang extremely well for his trouble.
This is what The King's Head looks like now, though you may notice one interesting change, if your eyesight is good enough. Find out more about it, and read some of the true stories about runaway marriages, and about the perils of crossing the Solway on foot, on the updated research snippets page of my website. You may be surprised to learn, as I was, that Lady Jersey, the Queen of Regency Society, had more than one Gretna skeleton in her cupboard. http://www.joannamaitland.com/research.html
Best wishes
Bride of the Solway is available, at a 25% discount until end September, from the Mills & Boon store
Also available from Amazon
Bride of the Solway is available, at a 25% discount until end September, from the Mills & Boon store
Also available from Amazon


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Oxford Gold Resort recently invited me over to their resort in Pune. The resort is perfect for a weekend away or for a day trip. It is also a perfect place for group picnics or for corporate getaways.
I saw a number of team building activities happening around and honestly, I wanted to go participate. They all looked so fun!
Getting to the place can be a little tricky, as there is a one slight left turn that you have to take to reach to the place, if you miss the left, you would have to go ahead and take a U turn later. The locals are a little confused about the whereabouts of the place even though it is quite easily accessible ( you would know what I am talking about when you get there. I still don't understand how I was not able to figure the way out myself. It is really easy. ) anyway, I suggest you turn on your GPS when you are closer to the place.
After the welcome drink, we headed to Ox Adventures, which is a two minute drive away from the resort, youll see it when you are on your way to the resort. They have a ton of things to do here, rock climbing, rappelling, horse riding, camping, bon fire facilities, hammocks, barbeque facilities. I suggest you confirm about the facilities available before you plan the trip.
"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal." ― Criss Jami, Killosophy . . . *Post an inspiration quote about rock climbing so that I can validate myself* ✔ I don't know how people do such things, I could hardly climb 2cms above the ground. This was at the @ogrpune in #Pune The place is so green and huge, a perfect weekend spot. They have a ton of adventure activities which will be perfect for Corporate events. #OGRLife #OxfordGolfResort #OXadventures #Golf #Pune #RockClimbing #quote #Inspiringquotes
We did try out hand at Golf, initially I was pathetic at it but I assume I picked up on it pretty quick.
They do facilities for you to stay the night but can also work as a one day trip.
They also offer Golf Coaching, if you want to pick up a new hobby or sport, this might just be the one for you.


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Candlemass is past, and Christmas is well and truly over, here in the UK February looks set to be its usual grey and cold self. Signs of spring are yet to emerge; if like me you long for them perhaps you need ways to get through these long dark days. So lets share a few tips for a cold and rainy/ snowy day....
1. Exercise, what do you do if you can't face getting out into the cold and damp?
I joined a fitness center but to be honest I haven't taken advantage of the membership often.
2. Food; time to comfort eat, or time to prepare your body for the coming spring/summer?
Typically at this point I'm thinking of swim suits at the lake and cutting back on portions, watching the carbs and getting some exercise. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to make a dent in my trouble spots.
3. Brainpower; do you like me need to stave off depression, if so how do you do it?
Winter is always way too long, and this year has been particularly daunting with lots of snow, bitter cold temperatures and a host of chaotic events in the church and in my family.
Typically, I don't struggle with depression often but have found that this year I really have to get out with friends and find activities which lift my spirits.
4. How about a story that lifts your spirits, is there a book or film that you return to to stave off the gloom?
Nothing in particular really stands out. The thing that keeps me going in the winter are the dogs – they are bored and constantly begging me to interact with them. Nothing better than a dancing dog, a wagging tail and a dog kiss to pick up your spirits.
5. Looking forward, do you have a favourite spring flower/ is there something that says spring is here more than anything else?
When I start to see the crocus, daffodils and johnny jump ups, it's time to take out the rake and start the outdoor gardening chores.
Bonus; post a poem/ piece of music that points to the coming spring......
I typed in "The Coming of Spring" and found this CD of dulcimer music and it made a connection to my Appalachian heritage and my Irish ancestry.
As we spring forward into summer time, here's a bright and cheerful album of traditional Irish dance music and Carolan pieces played on hammered dulcimer by Cliff Moses, on his first solo album. Not only is 'The coming of Spring' the title of one of the tracks, but it also reflects the bright and light sound of the dulcimer.
The hammered dulcimer is an unusual instrument in Irish music; it's nearest cousin would be the harp, though the strings are hit rather than plucked. Wire strings are used, and there is no damping, giving it a more bell-like tone, like the older style of Irish harp.


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The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announces the West Coast premiere of Björk Digital, an exhibition of groundbreaking digital and virtual reality (VR) video works featuring music from the artist's latest album, Vulnicura. Björk Digital will run from May 19 to June 4 at Magic Box at The Reef in downtown Los Angeles. In conjunction with Björk Digital, Björk will also make her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, performing with orchestra in a concert conducted by Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason on May 30. Tickets for the exhibition and for the concert go on sale on Monday, March 6, at 10AM PST.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Empty Mailbox
Confession time. I love Charlie Brown. Even as a child, I did. Perhaps, like many others, I felt that I could relate to him...an underdog of sorts. (No pun intended, Snoopy.) Every year I would watch Charlie look in that empty mailbox for a Christmas card, or a Valentine...and nothing. Poor Charlie. It was so sad that he could not see how special and lovable he was.
Today is Valentine's Day. For some reason, this year I am more aware than ever, of how many people out there that are feeling just like Charlie. They don't have a 'special someone' to get all "hearts and flowers" over. They feel very alone, and, like Charlie, wonder why "we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it".
Valentine's Day is all about love. We use hearts, lace and flowers to symbolize it, but in reality, those aren't exactly the correct images to use.
History tells us that Valentine was a priest who lived in the third century. He lived under the rule of Emperor Claudius the second. Claudius devised an edict that young people were not allowed to be married. He felt that soldiers fought better if they didn't have to worry about a wife and family. Valentine thought differently, and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. He was caught and imprisoned, and eventually, beaten, stoned and decapitated for the sake of his stand on Christian marriage. Just before his death, he had written a letter, that was delivered to a friend's daughter. That is where the term, "from your Valentine" came about. Hardly Hallmark material.
True love is a wonderful thing...but to believe that it is all roses and sunshine, is unrealistic. It is hard work. It is a day to day choice of loving someone despite the circumstances that surround us. True love involves sacrifice. We don't think of ourselves first. We make our choices based on what will benefit the ones we love. This applies to the person we love, our children, or even our friends.
The book of John tells us about real True Love. John 15:13 tells us, "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Sacrifice. Death. Christ gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. He loved us that much. When we feel like Charlie Brown...alone and unloved...remember that. You are unique and special and loved. Loved enough to die for.
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Astrologers' Words of Wisdom #7
We would not presume to claim we have grasped the principles of music by listening to a pop song or the theme tune from a television soap. Likewise, astrology will not yield its insights to those who simply read Sun sign columns in newspapers and then pronounce judgment on the validity of the subject as a whole. We must begin at the beginning, with a willingness to learn and experiment, and a capacity to recognize that the great minds of history for whom astrology was of primary importance - Hippocrates, Plato, Augustus, Hadrian, Ptolemy, Galen, Newton, Goethe and Jung, to name but a few - may have understood something that has eluded our present definitions of reality.And from later in the same book ~~~
No horoscope can indicate whether an individual will turn healthy self-assertiveness into violence, or imaginative self mythologizing into dangerous delusions of global dominion. Mozart's horoscope may look surprisingly like that of the school music teacher. Factors beyond the scope of astrology - heredity, environment, historical epoch - interact with individual character to produce unpredictable results.


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Sunday, December 9, 2012
How to rename the "Recycle bin"?
Do you want to change your "Recycle bin" name?...yes?, let's do it!, it's just few steps:
1 - Click on Start
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command to open the Registry Editor:
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command to open the Registry Editor:
4 - Then click on OK.
5 - Then Follow the path in the Registry Editor:
Digital Dump
8 – Click OK.
9 – Close the Registry editor and refresh the desktop.
Congratulations! Enjoy the new name of the Recycle bin .
Note: if you want restore the old name of Recycle bin just repeat the previous steps and put this code on the box instead of the new name (only for Windows XP 2003):
Saturday, August 18, 2012
How to Remove BIOS Password!
OK, there is some methods to clean BIOS password, I'll show you follow me & read carefully.
The computer motherboard there is a piece called (BIOS / CMOS ) contain information stored where the default settings for the BIOS manufacturer,and you as a user of the device or an engineer or technician want to edit some of the available settings on the BIOS (such as a password when log into the BIOS, change the date and time, boot priority from hard disk or CD, eliminate the use of certain ports such as USB port - LAN - printer port... etc) these adjustments saved in the "CMOS" and retains them even if electricity cable has been removed, but these settings disappear in 3 cases:
1 - Removing CMOS battery from Motherboard for a period of 15 to 30 minutes.
2 - The end of battery life, it has the number (CR2032) you'll find it in hardware stores or in watchmaker.
3 - Using "Jumper" to clear CMOS modifications in specific position.
When we want to disconnect the CMOS battery and remove it from motherboard or we want to deal with motherboard in general you should do the following:
1 - Unplug the power cable from the computer ( from the back of the device permanently).
2 - Unplug the screen cable which is connected with the computer (because it delivers some shipments through the screen cable to motherboard ).
3 - Separate any cable may be plugged into the device by electricity (such as printer - scanner ... etc).
4 - before you open the compute touch any external metal object ((non-computer)) to discharge static charge from your body because it may cause damage to some pieces of the device.
5 - It's strongly recommended that you wear a rubber gloves to make sure you don't transfer any shipment to device parts.
Method n°=1 ( removing the CMOS battery )
|removing CMOS battery
2 - Now remove the battery & leave it outside the motherboard for 15 - 30 minutes (and the device is disconnected from all power cables).
3 -put the battery back into the motherboard and turn-on the computer, you 'll have no BIOS password!.
Method n°=2 ( using jumper )
a jumper is a short length of conductor used to close a break in, or bypass part of, an electrical circuit.
1 -find the jumper on the motherboard, it's labeled as CLEAR, , JCMOS1, CLR, CLRPWD, PASSWD,CLEAR CMOS, PASSWORD,PWD,PSWD .
3 - when you do that turn-on the computer, you'll find that the BIOS password was cleaned.
4 - now turn-off the computer and switch the jumper to the original position.
Method n°=3 ( using software )
1 - Download the software "PC CMOS Cleaner 2.0" (official) for free.
|PC CMOS Cleaner 2.0
3 - put the CD/DVD in the drive and reboot your computer, then press any key to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
4 - the software 'll be opened, step1: try possible password for your BIOS ( you need to write them in a paper ), if it does't work click on Next for step2.
5- step 2: rest the BIOS to default status
choose "choice 1" first ( to keep date and time), if it does't work try "choice 2" , the BIOS password 'll be erased.
that was the 3 popular ways to remove BIOS password, if you need any help or question i'm here,just leave a comment!
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
How to make the "NumLock" key lighted at startup
First open the registry:
1 - Click on Start
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command :
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command :
4 - Then click on OK.
5 - Then Follow this path in the Registry Editor:
HKEY_USERS –> DEFAULT–>Control Panel –> Keyboard
Thursday, July 5, 2012
How to repair Windows Safe Mode
Hi guys!, same times the safe mode in windows corrupts by virus or mistake, after that you'll not able to boot on the safe mode, it happened to me lot of times but i repaired it by one REG file, just double-click & the safe mode 'll be repaired !.
Download the compatible REG file to your OS:
I'm here to help!.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
How to make an error message when the computer starts
Did you know that you can Make an error message, Such as the error message in windows XP In different forms and any words you want to write in this error message, Well let's start working!
First open the Notepad:
1 - Click on Start
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command :
2 - Click on Run
3 - then type this command :
4 - Then click on OK.
5 – Type this text:
msgbox "type here the text",20, "type here title"
*Replace type here the text with the text of the message.
*Replace type here title with the title of the message.
Example: will write this message:
Be careful Tom! I am watching you, so be polite!
With this title:
A private message to Tom!
msgbox "Be careful Tom! I am watching you, so be polite!",20, "A private message to Tom!"
6 – Now:
File –> Save As…
7 – Save it as:
8 – Double Click on the Output file, The message will become like this:
9 - If you want to receive this message when the computer began to run directly, just go to this folder and
paste the file (message.vbs) into it:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
* C:\ Is the disk where you installed the Windows XP.
Tip: To get a various forms of messages replaced the value
20 in one of the following values:
.I hope that you enjoy this tricks,I am here in service Just leave a comment
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
How to Change the Start Button name
Did you know that you can change the start button name to your name! Or to your desirable text! So let's say goodbye to the "START" label and welcome to something else.
There are 3 different ways lead to the same result "change the start button name"
First Way:
This is the easiest and fastest way to change the start button name by a small program called "Start Button Re-Namer"
1 – First download the program from here.
2 - Extract the file.
3 – type your desirable text in the New Label box.
4 – Click on Rename it! button, you will hear a sound like booom! the Start button name will be changed, Congratulation!.
Second Way:
this is only for advanced users, Be careful! Proceed with your own risk
This process through the Registry and Resource H@cker program.
2 – Open the Resource H@cker.
3 – Now click on File –> Open
4 –Go to the Windows folder, In the text box type explorer.exe then click on Open
5 - Expand String Table –> 37 then click on 1033
6 – You will see "start" written beside 578, so change "start" to your desirable text like "4xptricks".
7 – Click on Compile Script above.
8 – Click on File –> Save As
9 – In the step number "6" I wrote "4xptricks" so I will save as 4xptricks.exe (Replace 4xptricks by your desirable text).
10 – Now click on Start.
11 - Click on Run.
12 - then type this command :
11 - Click on Run.
12 - then type this command :
13 - Then click on OK.
14 - Then Follow the path in the Registry Editor:
HKEY_Local_Machine–> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows NT –> CurrentVersion –> Winlogon
15 – from the right side Double-Click on "shell"
16 – in the text Box I will replace explorer.exe by 4xptricks.exe (Replace 4xptricks by your desirable text).
17 – Click OK.
18 – Now Restart your computer and the Start button name will be changed!
Third Way:
this is only for advanced users, Be careful! Proceed with your own risk
This process through the DOS Editor
1 - Click on Run.
2 - then type this command :
2 - then type this command :
3 - Then click on OK.
4 – Type edit in the DOS window.
5 - from the window Choose File –> Open.
6 – You will see a text box this code "*.*" written in it, Delete the "*.*" and write explorer.exe then make X in OPEN Binare option.
7 – Click OK.
8 - many characters and Symbols will appear, Find for the word "START" (It may take a minute to find) Possible to find more than "START" landing is marked with a rose, When you find it Replace "START" with your desirable text.
9 - Click File –> Save
10 - then File –> Exit
11 - Restart your computer and the Start button name will be changed!
I hope that you have enjoyed this trick, Thanks for reading!
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So it's a peppermint cupcake with chocolate ice cream and some espresso whipped cream.
I know, personally I think that the flavor combo was weird at first, but my boyfriend told me that it would be the perfect flavor combination.
Well, it all started at the beginning of the month, when I found the Ice Cream Cupcake Roundup. I live for competition. It makes my life complete. Well, one Sunday, I went out with some friends (Alex and Macky) and I decided to get some ice cream for this competition. I bought the EXTREME! Moose tracks. It was pretty yummy and I decided to make a cupcake to go with it. A chocolate cupcake would have been TOO much while I didnt want to be too plain and go with a vanilla cupcake. Instead, I decided to ask around. I finally decided on the Sprinkle's Peppermint Cupcake. I had used the recipe as printed, but I added some extra peppermint and vanilla extract. I also subbed the regular milk with soy milk. It was light and really good.
Being OCD like I am. I tested it out with no cupcake liner = didnt work so well.
Then tested it with the cupcake liners. two at a time. That's how I baked the rest of them. I mean it was time consuming, but it was fun baking and watching Food Network at the same time.
I have finally finished the cupcakes and the ice cream part and end result of those parts had two different results. Part of them were really ice creamy like right out of the freezer, the rest of them were a soupy mess =(. But freezing them overnight in a friend's freezer since I have no room made all the difference. I decided to top these off with an espresso whipped cream from here. But I kind of ran out, and then I made some chocolate whipped cream (not pictured). Regardless, they were still pretty good.
These are my pictures...
Thanks for Dmitriy for the pictures again even though it was during finals! <3
These came out really beautifully!
This is my entry into the Ice Cream Cupcake Roundup!
<3 Nina
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Chocolate Pepperment Ice Cream Cupcakes
So it's a peppermint cupcake with chocolate ice cream and some espresso whipped cream.
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Thanks for joining the roundup! Your cupcake liners are so cute! Isn't it funny how sometimes flavor combos that you never think will work end up going great together!ReplyDelete
Oh, those weren't my cupcake liners; I just colored some of the batter green and dripped it in the batter. That's why there's different part of green.ReplyDelete
I was wondering whether it was the liners or the recipe. I love the green! these look so yummy! wow!ReplyDelete
haha yeah, just the recipe. I just dripped some green batter and it came out beautifully.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Hi, I was wondering if you have the recipe for this saved? Since it's been a while, I'm not surprised that the recipe in the link has been replaced with a different recipe, but I really want to try yours! Thanks :)ReplyDelete


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Another subtitle could have been "the good, the bad, and the ouchy", though I'm sure someone's thought of that one before. This marathon (my second) for me was overall a success, however it does leave unfinished business, but I will start at the beginning.
The Calgary Marathon was moved this time to the Stampede grounds, had a new course, and certainly had a "bigger" feel. I'd set myself a "dream goal" of 3 hours 10 minutes, doable I thought given my time at other distances. My PB from my till now only marathon was 3:29:56, so a "minimum goal" was to beat that.
I had been careful not to have as much fibre given my experience at my first marathon. Between waking up and startline I had also gone for a CC (confidence c**p) 5 times. Though I'd forgotten to bring tylenol with me, I knew it probably wouldn't help prevent a muscle pull or anything like that.
Kudos isn't a strong enough word for Neil Zeller and this shot he took of me. It's a true "what I think I look like" photo. For my wife, there were 2 spots between the start/ finish where she would be to take my photo.
As usual I had the headcam on. I knew it would help capture the atmosphere, always great at this race. Just seconds after the horn, I felt a bump to my left, one runner's shoe having come loose.
No sooner was I past the Saddledome when a voice to my right said "Peter - a touch of the runs?" I didn't catch his name, but he said he'd heard of me through Neil.
I knew Km1 would be quick, and my plan was to dial down the pace after passing the sign. I did, but not enough, I realized, when I saw the half marathon 1:30 pace bunny just edging past me halfway through Inglewood at about km3.
It was a touch irritating to be chopped by a couple of people who didn't think I was on the inside of them on a couple of the early 90 degree bends, though kind of expected perhaps. What I didn't expect was another runner to unclog his nose in front of me twice. The first one was in the bushes to the left, then loosing his bearings he did it again a few seconds later to his right and into the middle of the road. As a precaution I jumped, then loudly said "nearly!" which he pretended not to hear. Below is the least flattering freeze frame I could come up with, this is the "ugly" I refer to at the beginning of this write up.
His shirt was white at the start of the race.
On through Bridgeland, I remember quite a few of the lady runners spitting, though safely. Still a novelty to me perhaps. I don't think I spat once in this race, which is unusual, the need usually arises at some point.
Crossing the Bow River for the second time, I caught the eye of an official photographer, who then said "come on Great Britain" in an English accent as I passed him.
Just like my first full marathon in Calgary, I knew it would get quiet after the half marathon turn-off. It was just after this that A-Chang was stationed for the first photo op. I was by this time following the guy in the hula-skirt
who was getting all my press and lens time.
The second quarter of the course was the slightly uphill section, and just when I was contemplating taking my gloves off, it clouded up and stayed that way. I was about a minute and a half ahead of schedule and managed to give up a little time.
Two things that did go right are that my feet felt comfortable throughout as I had adjusted my shoes perfectly according to my different-sized feet. The other was avoiding having to stop for a bio-break, not even needing to hold it during the race. The same can't be said for this guy, who took off from this porta-potty like he'd left a hand grenade in there. Have headcam, will capture evidence.
Just 2km later on the 14th street bridge, my right leg which had given me a little trouble in the build-up to the marathon, tightened considerably, so I stopped for a brief stretch.
A nice moment right at the end with a father carrying his son on his shoulders.
There were 3 stairs to negociate to get in under the grandstand where the food was. "Negociate" is an interesting word. Tougher than that was the "staircase to hell" in the c-train station afterwards. Anyone who has had to walk down a flight of stairs right after a marathon will know what I'm talking about. Imagine singing "ow" to the tune of the 1812 overture.
When I got out of bed the next morning, while I could stand, I had to bend at the waist to get myself going. "And we're walking.." I said to myself like some sort of aerobics dvd.
Overall then, I can't complain about slicing 9:09 off my PB. The course was quite good and fun, wouldn't have minded sharing the road with less traffic in places. A 3:10 marathon is unfinished business though. I actually registered for the California International Marathon in Sacramento on December 2 the week before this race. I have a few things to work on for that mission.
Now for the video. I should give the headcam some trial runs to steady the picture for the next races, won't bore readers with those details. Enjoy, and don't sit too close to the screen!


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There are scores of people ---just like me---who call University Book Store their stomping grounds, their mecca, for the search of the 'Holy Grail' of bookstore finds. And today I thought that I would share some of my most recent booty.
Transform Your Life through Handwriting, by Vimala Rodgers. This kit was originally priced at $29.95, now offered at a bargain price of $9.98: Inside you will find guidebook, journal, declaration of intent cards (A-Z), and two cd's. The first card that I picked at random shared this tidbit of wisdom: "There are no "shoulds" in my life; I am at peace." Now I call that lovely … and I could easily see it as the perfect gift for a young woman on her--say--15th birthday. But this not-so-young woman may give it a go too. Positive reinforcement could well be the great leveler.
William & Kate Paper Dolls, by Tom Tierney (the 'dude' in paper dolls), $9.99: Filled with pomp, royal style, and the hazy daydreams of many young girls ... of what it might be like to be queen. Okay, I probably won't purchase this, but you may be a hit if you get it for your nine year old who is already a slave to fashion. There are big to-do's ahead.
Berlitz Basic French, originally $29.95 now $14.98:
How often does the universe give you the big hint that your high school language classes just aren't cutting it ... that you wouldn't necessarily get the best service at a Parisian cafe what with the primitive accent that you've been harboring? (lol) J'adore la belle France! Oui!
And a fairly recent book, in the gardening section, called The New Terrarium, by Tovah Martin (author of some Tasha Tudor books) and photographer Kindra Clineff. $25.00.
**And as we are on the midst of our annual clearance sale some of these treasures are now half off.


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Techcrunch writes about Social Tv company Sling:
EchoStar's $380 million purchase of Sling Media once again raises the question of whether a consumer TV-device company can exist as a standalone entity. History has not been kind to such companies trying to break out from the startup field. Akimbo anyone? TiVo has also certainly seen its share of ups and downs (mostly downs). Even the attempts of larger tech companies at combining TVs and computers, such as the Apple TV or Microsoft's various efforts over the years, haven't fared any better at gaining massive consumer acceptance. The consumer-electronics giants and cable companies simply dominate this market. Given that reality, selling to EchoStar may have been Sling Media's best option.


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Types Of Publishing
For this reason, there are a lot of smaller players in the publishing business, and it isn't nearly so dominated by the majors as is the record business. There are, to be sure, megaton publishing companies such as Warner/Chappell and EMI, who have worldwide operations ad generate hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but there are bush loads of others running the gamut from a one-person show to the giants. Here's a broad-stokes view of the different types:
The 900 Pound Gorillas. These are the major companies, most of which are affiliated with a record and/or film company. Examples are Warner/Chappell, EMI, Unviersal, BMG, Sony/ATV, Famous music which is owned by Paramount Communications. Actually, the weight of these gorillas varies considerably. EMI and Warner/Chappell are clearly the 900-pounders, while Universal, BMG, and SOny are clearly 600 pounders.
Major Affiliates. There are a number of independent publishing companies, with full time staffs of professionals, whose administration is handled by a major. Quincy Jones Publishing, for example is administered by Warner/Chappell. And there are hundreds of smaller examples as well. Publisher's affiliation with a major may be for the world, or it may be for only certain territories. For instance, a publisher might be affiliated with a major for the United States and have separate sub publishing deals for the rest of the world.
Stand-alones. Stand-alones is my term borrowed from cable TV and not and industry one. I'm using it to mean a company that's not affiliated with a major, and instead does its own administrations. In other words, it collects its own money, does its own accounting's, etc. It may. however, license territories outside the United States to a major. Example stand-alones are Peer and Bug.
Writer-Publishers. Many writers keep their own publishing. Examples are well-established writers who don't need a publisher because people are constantly begging them for a song.
Just because the publishing game has a low entry price doesn't mean it's an easy gig. So you have to check out your publishing thoroughly. The difference between a good publisher and a unqualified one can mean a lot to your pocketbook. For example, a good publisher knows how much to charge for various licenses and where to look for hidden monies and foreign monies. The bad ones can lose you money just by sitting there and not doing what they're supposed to. An inexperienced publisher affiliated with a major is a quantum improvement over an unqualified publisher trying to go it alone. However, the major will not have the same incentive to take care of the independents songs as it will to take care of its own. Also, a major own tens of thousands of copyrights, so you can get shoved onto the back shelf. On the other hand, a good independent publisher affiliated with a major can often do better for you than if you signed to the major directly. If the publisher has enough clout to become a squeaky wheel on your behalf it can prevent you from getting lost in the shuffle. Hope you enjoyed this post.


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Saturday, January 28, 2006
The First Antiphon
Bless the Lord, 0 my soul: Blessed art Thou, O Lord!
Bless the Lord, 0 my soul,
and all that is within me bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, 0 my soul,
and forget not all that He hath done for thee.
Who is gracious unto all thine iniquities,
Who healeth all thine infirmities.
Who redeemeth thy life from corruption,
Who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.
Who fulfilleth thy desire with good things;
thy youth shall be renewed as the eagle's.
The Lord performeth deeds of mercy,
and executeth judgment for all them that are wronged.
He hath made His ways known unto Moses,
unto the sons of Israel the things that He hath willed.
Compassionate and merciful is the Lord,
long-suffering and plenteous in mercy;
not unto the end will He be angered,
neither unto eternity will He be wroth.
Not according to our iniquities hath He dealt with us,
neither according to our sins hath He rewarded us.
For according to the height of heaven from the earth,
the Lord hath made His mercy to prevail over them that fear Him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath He removed our iniquities from us.
Like as a father hath compassion upon his sons,
so hath the Lord had compassion upon them that fear Him;
for He knoweth whereof we are made,
He hath remembered that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as the grass;
as a flower of the field, so shall he blossom forth.
For when the wind is passed over it, then it shall be gone,
and no longer will it know the place thereof.
But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity, even unto eternity,
upon them that fear Him.
And His righteousness is upon sons of sons,
upon them that keep His testament
and remember His commandments to do them.
The Lord in heaven hath prepared His throne,
and His kingdom ruleth over all.
Bless the Lord, all ye His angels,
mighty in strength, that perform His word, to hear the voice of His words.
Bless the Lord, all ye His hosts,
His ministers that do His will.
Bless the Lord, all ye His works,
in every place of His dominion.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Bless the Lord, O my soul;
and all that is within me bless his holy name:
Blessed art Thou, O Lord!
14 comments:
- Huw Raphael said...
I greatly missed the chanting of the Psalms in the Russian style liturgy when we became Antiochian. They are not used at all in Byzantine practice - just one of the many variations in Orthodox style! I'm glad to be back in a Russian-tradition parish now.
I find the psalms to be really full of comfort and teaching and I love the community-singing of them. Hence my attraction to WRite psalmody. Most Slavic tradition parishes usually sing a shorter form of this psalm, btw, although I know ROCOR goes for the full effect.
- Saturday, January 28, 2006
- Aristibule said...
And I'm partial to the Byzantine recension 1st Antiphon, the refrains of which go:
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Savior save us.
With the Glory and Both now and ever. The verses of the Antiphon change with the feast. I guess many parishes in the USA don't do the verses.
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Ian said...
Do you chant all the verses, Michael?
We do three, with the refrain Aristibule wrote [though slightly different: we say "prayers" rather than "intercessions"]. The same for Antiphon 2: three verses and a refrain, and then St Justinian's Hymn. I agree it's a perfect way to begin: even more so with all verses.
An continued prayers for you as you approach your reception. God bless.
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Michael said...
Thanks, everyone.
The local Antiochian parish I sometimes visit uses a shorter version of this psalm as well. I didn't know that there was a variation in practice until I started visiting there. It was then that I was reminded about this blog post. I mentioned in one of the comments there that the older prayer book had over half of the antiphon "missing" (as I perceived it to be at the time), and at the time we put it down to a printing error, but it now seems that there is a difference in practice between the jurisdictions. I hadn't realised this.
The ROCOR prayer book has the full psalm as I have included it in this post, and that is the antiphon that we use on most days. On Feast Days, we use verses interspersed between the refrain Through the prayers of the Theotokos, save us, O Saviour!, which Aristibule referred to.
Ian, many thanks for your continued prayers. I'm unfamiliar with St Justinian's hymn.
At our place, this everything that precedes the Little Entrance:
-The blesing of the Kingdon
-The Great Litany
-1st ant. Psalm 102 in its entirety
-The Small Litany
-2nd ant. Psalm 145 in its entirety
-The hymn O Only-begotten Son and Word of God, who art immortal...
-Another short litany
-3rd ant. The Beatitudes
How does that compare to others?
Many thanks.
M (who is interested to learn more). x
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Ian said...
Perhaps I labelled it incorrectly; what I think is St Justinian's hymn ;-) begins "Only begotten Son and Word of God..." Perhaps I've got a wrong name!
Your list of what happens before the Great Entrance is exactly the same as our parish, except we have three verses from each of the Psalms (and, on certain Feast Days, these change).
I have been to a few Antiochian parishes where, instead of the Antiphons, they recite the refrain 3 times. [But then they have more pre-communion prayers than we do, and I like some of them.]
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Michael said...
Thanks, Ian.
You're more than probably right about the name of the hymn. I've just never known it's name before.
I like some of the communion prayers. We do or don't get the additional ones depending on who's cantoring that day.
Another thing I've noticed that I haven't seen in any prayer book or in any other church except my own parish is a practice during some of the litanies. While the deacon (or priest, in our case, as we have no deacon) sings the petition Calling to remembrance our most holy, most pure...let us commend ourselves and all our life unto Christ our God, we sing Most holy Mother of God, save us!, before responding to the petition with To thee, O Lord.
Has anybody else seen this done?
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Ian said...
We do as well, though we chant "Most Holy Theotokos, save us!"
A few of the other Antiochian parishes I've visited in Sydney and Meblbourne do as well. It's not in our Prayer Book either, but it is chanted by all. I can't recall if the Macedonian parish I visited on Nativity did this: I don't think they did.
- Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Aristibule said...
I was taught the response 'Most Holy Theotokos Save Us' - though I've noticed a little discomfort with this at some OCA and convert AOCNA parishes I've visited (where I've heard some say 'Most Holy Theotokos Intercede for Us" instead.)
Some AOCNA and GOA parishes here do the Refrains only as well - the little mission booklet has it that way (along with some settings that make me cringe.) That booklet has 'intercessions'. In Tulsa we used 'prayers' - but used Russian settings (especially at Pascha, when it was Bortniansky.)
The hymn later identified with the Emperor St. Justinian seems to have the older tradition of being written by Severus of Antioch, who is a saint for the Orientals. The name of St. Justinian being attached to it is probably an afterthought centuries later. At least, that's what I gather at this point.
In Tulsa, we always had the Gloria before the 'Blessed is the Kingdom' - as we always had Orthros (the two services blend into each other with the Gloria.) Elsewhere, it seems to just be the 'Blessed is the Kingdom' then:
The Great Ektenia
Prayer of the 1st Antiphon
1st Antiphon (Refrains)
The Little Ektenia
Prayer of the Second Antiphon
2nd Antiphon (Refrains)
Only Begotten Son
The Little Ektenia
Prayer of the Third Antiphon
Troparian of the Day (Refrains of the Third Antiphon)
Prayer of the Little Entrance
Then the Little Entrance
That is the Parish usage of the Byzantine Rite, a recension after the Typikon of the Great Church (Hagia Sophia.) The Russian Church follows the Typikon of St. Sabas (Rural Monastic or Palestinian Typikon, sometimes erroneously called the Jerusalem Typikon.) There is also the Typikon for Urban Monastics (has very limited use nowadays.) So - the differences have to do with the four basic Byzantine Typika (Cathedral, Parish, Rural Monastic, Urban Monastic.) Further differences follow the recension of various Patriarchates and national churches (such as some small differences between Greek and Antiochian usage.)
- Monday, January 30, 2006
- Ian said...
Thank you Aristible for all that fascinating history -- and modern practices! Thank you.
We too always have Matins, and I love the Gloria -- but now when I visit our Roman and Anglican brothers, the Gloria I was once used to seems now short by comparision ending at, "In the glory of God the Father. Amen." I always want the rest! ;-)
- Monday, January 30, 2006
Back in my parish church, in Romania, the chanters or the choir would sing only the first verse of the first antiphone, the second one entirely and the third one (the Beatitudes) would almost always be shortened to the last of the Beatitudes. But even when the Beatitudes are sung in their entierty, the verses set to be sung between them
(we call them "stihiri"), were always skipped.
- Monday, January 30, 2006
Hi, this is Landon. I was asking about the icon on the other blog- Our Lady of Piety, I think is what it is called. It doesn't look like comments can be left there for the time being. So if you find out where I could get an icon like that before then, feel free to e-mail me: nosepreocupeusted at msn.com. And thank you! I do appreciate it.
- Wednesday, February 01, 2006
- Ben Johnson said...
Yes, the OCA practice (derived from the Russian, naturally) is to sing "Bless the Lord, O My Soul" -- but the shorter version sung thus.
For the record, the Antiochian/Byzantine practice for the Second Antiphon is a number of verses (or not) and the Gloria Patri: the antiphon is "O Son of God Who art risen from the dead, save us who sing to Thee. Alleluia."
I've never had the pleasure of being in a parish that uses the full Psalm.
I've thankfully never been to an Antiochian parish that said, "Most Holy Theotokos, pray for us." Ari, are these by any chance Baptodox converts trying to soften the "offensive" sound of calling on the Mother of God to "save us"? This is by far the most difficult phrase to explain to visitors, esp. Protestants...not that this would in any way justify changing the Church's liturgy.
Incidentally, most OCA parishes I've been to say nothing at all at this point; even the bishop only turned toward the icon of the Theotokos to cross himself at this time. For the longest time, I assumed this was a Byzantine vs. Slavic issue. How widespread is it elsewhere in the Slavic tradition?
- Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Being a Romanian, I can tell you that our Church follows rather the Slavic tradition, than the Greek one.
So, we have a distinct "ectenie" (petition)to the Virgin, going "Most Holy God-Bearer, have mercy upon us" or "save us" (the latter being the oldest form). Now, I was quite surprised to see that in the OCA parishes I visited, this petition is dropped out, since I knew of the case of a Romanian priest in the '20s that was defrocked precisely for skipping this petition when celebrating the Liturgy.
- Wednesday, February 01, 2006
- Michael said...
New people! Welcome! Christ be with you.
Thanks all, for your comments and informative and educational repsonses. Thanks especially to my new, anonymous Romanian friend who has shared experiences. Was a priest really defrocked for omiting that? I'm surprised but pleased that the Liturgy is given that level of honour and respect.
Landon, we have a Liturgy once a fortnight so I'll ask on this Sunday. I just haven't had a chance to see anyone from church yet, but rest assured I haven't forgotten you.
Ari, I echo Ian's thanks. I need to do some parish visiting soon to pick up on some of these variations. There's a Russian (MP) parish in Manchester which is entirely Slavonic, which I may go along to on one of my "Sundays off" soon.
Ben, Baptodox! I love it! I had to explain to my housemate what the raucous laughter was all about.
- Wednesday, February 01, 2006


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Using 'Personalize Page' link or from 'Functional Administrator' responsibility, we can perform personalization.
'Personalize Page' link shows all the regions and items used in the page in hierarchical form for example as shown below:
From here, we can modify/personalize almost any items/region using 'Personalize' icon. We can modify properties such as Prompt, Rendering of item, making fields Required and others as shown below:
All the personalizations get stored in MDS (i.e. JDR_% tables) by creating a new document ID for the page. Thus any patch will modify the original document ID (standard one) and unlike forms these personalizations will not get removed.
There are not many things we can do using personalization such as changing the logic or control settings of the page. For these modifications we use extension. It is the process of making changes to the programmatic elements of an E-Business Suite form/page. It is possible to extend OA Framework-based pages either using controller extension or AM extension or by performing VO substitutions.
However, we extend controller code quite regularly. For example, we need to create a web beans programmatically on the fly in the controller code instead of declaratively, which is not possible through personalization.
To extend a controller, first we create a new class file that extends the original controller's Java class. Next, using personalization, we personalize the region to which the original controller is attached. Once in the personalization screen for the region, replace the existing controller with the newly created extended controller.
If in the extended CO class we override processRequest(), then OA Framework will invoke the overridden method in the custom class. OA Framework will not execute the method in the original controller class unless super.processRequest() is called in the extended class.
Sometimes there is requirement to display additional information on screens that display data fetched from view objects. To do this, we need to do three things:
- First, we need to create an additional field on the page using personalization.
- Then, create a new view object. This new view object extends the existing view object, which is why it inherits all the features and columns of the existing view object. This is referred to as view object extension.
- Later we create a substitution in JDeveloper; the substitution contains the directive to replace the existing view object with the new view object at runtime.
We extend entity objects to add extra validation to some fields/records. We can also extend entity objects to assign default values to the attributes. Steps for extending the entity object are similar to those for extending view objects.
In AM, Oracle seeded code initiates PL/SQL JDBC calls. Sometimes, there is a need to enhance that PL/SQL call by some additional PL/SQL calls. In such cases, we can extend the Application Module. Steps for extending the AM are similar to those of extending a view object and entity object.
For example an Application Module has following methods:
public String method1(parameters) {....}
public boolean method2(parameters) {....}
public String method3(parameters) {....
Lets say we need to raise some business event if method2 returns false. So, we will code the extended Application Module as shown below:
public boolean method2(parameters) {
Customization is the process of creating new OAF pages. While Oracle does provide tools to do this (i.e., JDeveloper 10g with OA Extension), this is the only and least supported option.


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I know it is popular to demonize Karl Rove as Bush's brain, but in fact he is merely the latest in a profession that goes at least as far back as Democrat Amos Kendall, who was Andrew Jackson's brain. And more directly, Rove's take no prisoners style can be traced through Lee Atwater, (of "Willie Horton" ad fame) to one Murray Chotiner, who was Nixon's brain..Murray Chotiner was probably the last political campaign manager who had a day job. As a political manipulator Murray claimed to have created Earl Warren, who was elected California Governor in 1942. But Murray's tactics in that campaign so alienated Warren that the Governor refused Murray's help for his 1946 re-election campaign. The politician Murray is usually credited with "creating" and the one who never broke trust with him was indeed Richard Nixon.Doctor John Lungren, personal physician to Richard Nixon, recalled a breakfast lecture he received from Murray Chotiner in 1952. Said Murray, "First, a basic truth – you must define your opponent, never let him define you. If he does you are through, pure and simple. Then you find your opponent's weakness in his record or conduct – he's too liberal, he's soft on defense, he's too weak on criminals, he's got character problems – and you move in, hitting harder and harder – with no letup. And you never give voters more than they can handle. They have their own lives. Most people can't absorb more than two or three issues during a campaign. So limit your themes, focus and refine the issues and drive them home again and again." (Healing Richard Nixon; A Doctor's Memoir 2003.)Murray was a "cigar chomping wheeler-dealer", "…a chubby lawyer…(dressed in) monogrammed white-on-white dress shirts and silk ties with jeweled stickpins. The monograms said "MMC" because…he billed himself as Murray M. Chotiner, though, in reality, he lacked a middle name." Murray was married four times, hung out with gangsters, and the L.A. Times described him as "…a brilliant, abrasive and passionate political strategist whose campaign instincts were so acute and effective that his opponents feared him as the "Machiavelli of California politics." A friend described him as a "…a very aggressive, hard driving fellow… a mechanic, a nuts and bolts man". And a future Nixon aid described Murray as "...a hardheaded exponent of the campaign philosophy that politics is war."Murray's first experience in politics came when he worked for Herbert Hoover in 1932. In 1938 he ran himself in the Republican primary for a California Assembly seat and lost. In 1942 came his work for Earl Warren, and in 1944 Murray was elected president of the California Republican Assembly. In '46 he worked for Republican Senator William Knowland, under the slogan, "We Will Not Surrender" without ever identifying to whom the Senator would not surrender to. That same year he advised Richard Nixon's first run for office against Democrat Congressman Jerry Voorhis. Both Nixon and Knowland won.Politics was still a "hobby" at this point for Murray. To earn a living he practiced law, sharing an office with his older brother, Jack. Their clients were, according to Murray, "unsavory, to say the least". Over four years - from 1949 to 1950 – the Chotiner brothers defended 249 mob clients, ranging from local bookmakers to New Orleans mobster Carlos Marcello and L.A.'s mob boss Mickey Cohen. In fact Cohen donated $5,000 to Nixon's 1946 campaign and provided free space for a "Nixon for Congress" office in one of his buildings", again according to Chotiner.There are two pronouncements usually credited to Murray Chotiner. The first is "Chotiner's Law"; "An incumbent forced to fight in a close primary election almost always loses the general election that follows." (This was the origin of Ronald Reagen's 11th Commandment – "Never speak ill of a fellow Republican"). And the second pronouncement was the professional code of conduct which Murray Chotiner lived by: "Victory is all that matters".In 1950 Murray took full control of Nixon's U.S. Senate campaign, labeling his opponent, Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, as "The Pink Lady", alleging that she was a communist sympathizer – "Pink right down to her underwear," said Murray.
Gangster Mickey Cohen threw another fund raiser for Nixon that year. Mickey later recalled, "Everyone from around here that was on the 'pad' naturally had to go. It was all gamblers from Vegas. There wasn't a legitimate person in the room.'' While introducing Nixon, Mickey announced the doors had been locked and no one could leave until $75,000 had been collected. Cohen also claimed that his support for Nixon had been ordered by "''…the proper persons from back East. '' It is assumed Mickey meant gangster kingpin Myer Lansky, but then Mickey often lied.It was Murray's advice that lead Nixon to accept the vice-presidential post from Eisenhower in 1951. And when, during the campaign, Nixon was accused of influence peddling, it was Murray who tore up Nixon's resignation telegram to Ike, and pushed him to make his famous "Checkers speech; "We did get something, a gift," confessed Nixon. "It was a little cockier spaniel dog…and our little girl Tricia, the six year old, named it Checkers….and I just want to say this,…we are going to keep it." Needless to say, even though Nixon never fully answered the questions about his favors for friends, the speech saved his career and propelled him into the vice-Presidency.Murray was there when Kennedy defeated Nixon in 1960, and when Nixon failed to win the Governorship of California in 1962. In 1968, when Nixon won the Presidency by a narrow margin, Murray was still there again, if now behind the scenes. In May of 1972, when the "Plumbers" were arrested planting "bugs" inside the Democratic Party National Headquarters in the Watergate complex, Murray Chotiner had an office directly above them. As the crises grew and began to engulf Richard Nixon's Presidency, on Thursday, January 24, 1974, Murray's Choitner's car collided with a truck in suburban Washington, D.C. Curiously the accident happened directly behind the home of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. In fact, Kennedy called for the ambulance. Murray was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and seemed on the way to a quick recovery when he developed a blood clot. A week after the accident, on Janurary 30th, he died.Nixon's office released the following statement on February 3rd, 1974; "I am profoundly saddened by the death of Murray Chotiner. For more than a quarter of a century, he was an ally in political battles, a valued counselor, and a trusted colleague. But above all, Murray Chotiner was my friend. His friendship never wavered; in periods of adversity it grew stronger. While some recoil from the label "politician," Murray was rightly proud of it because he was a professional who had the respect and admiration of those who worked with him…he will forever have my gratitude"Effective at noon on August 8, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned as President. I suspect that Murray Chotiner would have called him a quiter.
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By the time I hit the streets of Philadelphia's First Friday, things were already bustling. In these parts, the crowd hits suddenly, and it hits hard.
I staggered out of the car and looked around. What first caught my attention was not the galleries themselves, it was the clusters of artists outside of them- sitting cross legged, standing, even literally jumping and dancing.
Music from groups of street performers created coherent and then chaotic poly-rhythms, mingling with shouting from sidewalk to sidewalk, and the honking of car horns as people endlessly circled the congested streets in a desperate search for parking.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Poor Maria Rosa. I hope she didn´t get too many calls for her services; or maybe her maid services were what she described.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Kisses From Katie
18 year old Katie Davis' commitment to follow Jesus completely led her to Uganda on a short term mission trip. That trip turned into a life time commitment to bring love and hope to the Ugandan people. To begin meeting the overwhelming needs she founded the NGO Amazima (truth) that provides food and education to over 1600 children and is developing sustainable businesses so parents can support their own families. Katie also legally adopted 14 girls who had been orphaned or abandoned in the aftermath of the war torn region. She and her family are radically living tangible love.