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Karen Francis
May 15th, 2019
I like most of the products from Fine Art America. However, I think this product should be called a "sheet" rather than a Tapestry because I think of a tapestry as being woven and having some weight to it. The image is ok but somewhat blurred. This product might come in handy for tv production backgrounds with alternate images especially if the image is carried to the utmost edges.
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Just thinking about cooler weather swooping in and the September music line-up in St. Johns County has me giddy. Stevie Nicks, Citizen Cope, Ben Sollee and Blondie - to name a few. The only problem is that there's some overlapping and unless I can clone myself in the coming weeks, I'll have to miss a show or two.
The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is completely bonkers in September. Slated for the stage includes a Grammy Award-winning pop rock trio from San Francisco (Train), a young country star playing two nights (Brantley Gilbert) and a Scottish singer and flautist who led legendary band Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson).
Not to mention a couple of the most iconic and badass chicks the music industry has ever seen (Debbie Harry of Blondie and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac) and a British vocalist who came to popularity in the '60s for his gritty voice and Beatles' covers (Joe Cocker).
This brings us to September music events at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. The indoor venue will host a laid-back singer-songwriter who fuses soul, blues and rock (Citizen Cope) and the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble III, as well as an American cellist and singer known for his genre-bending songwriting (Ben Sollee) and a Japanese jazz keyboardist and composer (Keiko Matsui).
After a brief summer hiatus, the Original Café Eleven is back with shows scheduled through December. Though nothing (as of yet) is on the books for September, Against Me! is to perform on the last day of August and then Swamp Cabbage in mid-October. I'm just happy to have an old friend back - an old friend who lives down the street and stays stocked with delicious local microbrews.


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Since 1922 the vocation of Valrhona has been to create exceptional gourmet chocolate, while respecting the artisan's know-how and fine French taste. Dedicated to quality, Valrhona selects and purchases its cocoa beans directly from choice plantations, thus securing an exclusive supply of Grand Crus from South America, the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. Valrhona was one of the first chocolatiers to describe their chocolate in a similar fashion to wine with the labelling of such creations as grand cru, single origin, single estate and even vintage chocolate. Valrhona is regarded as being amongst the best of the few french chocolate makers today creating their chocolate from bean to bar (cacaofevier). Read more about Valrhona.
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Valrhona - a reputation for quality
Valrhona was one of the first fine chocolate makers to penetrate the UK market with its high quality chocolate, particularly aimed at the professional trade with it's range of couvertures, perfected for pastry chefs. Fine chocolate up until this point was almost unheard of in the UK and certainly not readably available on the high street. During its growing popularity Valrhona launched many new products appealing to non professionals and today has a wide range of fine chocolates and a long-standing reputation for quality.
A French chocolate
Valrhona is a French chocolate manufacturer based in the small town of Tain L'Hermitage in Hermitage, a wine-growing district near Lyon. The company was founded in 1922 by Monsieur Guironnet, an enterprising French pastry chef from the Rhône valley who opened La Chocolaterie du Vivarais, his first chocolate factory.
History of Valrhona
In 1939 messieurs Bourget and Gonnet bought Guironnet's chocolate factory on his death and renamed it Etablissements Gonnet, after Albert Gonnet, master confectioner and the company's new director. He is quickly joined by his son-in-law, Louis Gelet and then by Guy de Loisy, son in law of Bourgeat.
- The company was renamed Gonnet-deLoisy after the death of Albert Gonnet.
- The trademark of Valrhona was first adopted at the beginning of the 1960's
- In 1975 Luois Gelet retired and Guy de Loisy is succeeded by his son, Oliver.
- In 1984 the company was bought by a family-owned French group.
- From 1985 – 1988 the company launched the "carres" in their black box and the Equicnoxe.
Valrhona today
Each year Valrhona created new chocolates and particularly couvertures, the main part of Valrhona's business to the professional industry.
Valrhona is today one of the leading producers of high-quality chocolate in the world with 5 subsidiaries and 60 local distributors across the globe.. The company also maintains the Ecole du Grand Chocolat, a school for professional chefs with a focus on chocolate-based dishes and pastries. To make superior chocolate, only the best cocoa will do.
For many years:
- Valrhona has been working to seek out, identify and select the best varieties of cocoa tree in all the regions of the world.
- Building partnerships with planters in carefully selected cocoa-producing countries.
- Creating new plantations where it grows rare species - some of which were in danger of extinction.
The Way it Works
In a space of two years Valrhon's buyer can review around 80 cocoa plantations in 22 countries. Working direct with producers rather than dealing with wholesale markets and dealers. Working direct with the growers also ensures quality and maintains checks on growing conditions and methods of harvesting, fermenting and drying of the cocoa.
From the plantation to Valrhona
The cocoa beans, once dried, should be stored on the plantation for a limited time only. The beans are examined before shipment to Valrhona and properly packed into appropriate ventilated containers.
Upon arrival at Valrhona's factory, the cocoa beans receive a painstaking inspection for the following purposes:
- Detect off-odours and eventual off-flavours
- Check for the presence of foreign bodies
- To verify the moisture content
- Ensure all Valrhona's specifications have been met
- Once in storage the jute sacks of cocoa beans are probed with a sampling iron to extract sufficient beans for a triple qualitative analysis:
- A certain number of beans are cut-test in search of specific faults such as mould or insect damage, evidence of germination, excessive flatness.
- A percentage of hole beans are roasted and smelled.
- A small quantity of roasted beans are made up as chocolate tasting-sample for the in-house experts of Valrhona's "cacaotheque", who judge each single-origin specimen for both flavour and conformity to the standard expected from the cocoa of the designated source.
On the basis of these three criteria will be decided the acceptability- or not- of each consignment of cocoa beans to Valrhona.
The storage of accepted shipments of cocoa beans are then held under clean, dry, insect free conditions at a temperature of about 16ºC. They are classified by flavour.
Valrhona chocolates
Valrhona today produce an extensive range of superior quality chocolates from their retail range of vintage and single origin chocolate bars through to bonbons and chocolate specialities including their equally impressive food service products such as their world famous couvertures, fillings and chocolate decorations. As with most top end chocolatiers, Valrhona does not introduce a great deal of new chocolate for the seasons such as Christmas or Easter as this market is mainly focused on lower priced novelties and trends. Valrhona could never be described as a fashionable company although their sleek packaging and high finish of presentation certainly make an impression on anyone lucky enough to receive Valrhona chocolates as a gift. Valrhona's designer look is an added bonus for what is essentially a case of quality over quantity.
Another French chocolate maker of equal, superior quality you may be interested would be Michel Cluizel >


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It seems that this was going around as early as 2010, now three years later the FDA is still determining that walnuts need to be prescribed by a doctor since they have health benefits for the body which need a clear written instruction on how many you can have and at what time etc….. "Additionally, your walnut products are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes. Thus, your walnut products are also misbranded under section 502(f)(1) of the Act, in that the labeling for these drugs fails to bear adequate directions for use [21 U.S.C. § 352(f)(1)]."
In other documents eating Frito Lays potato chips is a much healthier choice according to the FDA!?
Diamond Food Inc. 2/22/10
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
|College Park, MD 20740
Michael J Mendes, President and Chief Executive
Diamond Food, Inc.
1050 S. Diamond St.
Stockton, California 95201
Re: CFSAN-OC-10-11
Dear Mr. Mendes:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the label for your "Diamond of California Shelled Walnuts" products and your website at http://www.diamondnuts.com. Based on our review, we have concluded that your walnut products are in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the applicable regulations in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR). You can find copies of the Act and these regulations through links in FDA's home page at http://www.fda.gov.
Based on claims made on your firm's website, we have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease. The following are examples of the claims made on your firm's website under the heading of a web page stating "OMEGA-3s … Every time you munch a few walnuts, you're doing your body a big favor.":
• "Studies indicate that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts may help lower cholesterol; protect against heart disease, stroke and some cancers; ease arthritis and other inflammatory diseases; and even fight depression and other mental illnesses."
• "[O]mega-3 fatty acids inhibit the tumor growth that is promoted by the acids found in other fats … "
• "[I]n treating major depression, for example, omega-3s seem to work by making it easier for brain cell receptors to process mood-related signals from neighboring neurons."
• "The omega-3s found in fish oil are thought to be responsible for the significantly lower incidence of breast cancer in Japanese women as compared to women in the United States."
Because of these intended uses, your walnut products are drugs within the meaning of section 201 (g)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(B)]. Your walnut products are also new drugs under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(p)] because they are not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced conditions. Therefore, under section 505(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 355(a)], they may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application. Additionally, your walnut products are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes. Thus, your walnut products are also misbranded under section 502(f)(1) of the Act, in that the labeling for these drugs fails to bear adequate directions for use [21 U.S.C. § 352(f)(1)].
Your walnut products are also misbranded under section 403(r)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 343(r)(1)(B)] because your firm's website also contains several additional unauthorized health claims. The following are examples of the claims made on your firm's website:
• "Studies have also shown that omega-3s may lower the risk of stroke …"
• "[T]here's good evidence that omega-3s can increase HDL (good cholesterol), further reducing the risk of stroke and heart disease."
Product Label
Further, your "Diamond of California Shelled Walnut" product is misbranded under section 403(r)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 343(r)(1)(B)] in that your product bears health claims that are not authorized by the FDA. The front and back of your product label bears the phrase "OMEGA 3 2.5 g per serving." Within the context of this label, the heart symbols adjacent to information about the amount of omega-3 in the product, constitute implied health claims about consumption of omega-3 and a reduced risk of coronary heart disease [21 CFR 101. 14(a)].
The back of your product label also bears the following statement: "The omega-3 in walnuts can help you get the proper balance of fatty acids your body needs for promoting and maintaining heart health. In fact, according to the Food and Drug Administration, supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1.5 oz of walnuts per day, as part of a low saturated fat and low cholesterol diet, and not resulting in increased caloric intake, may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Please refer to nutrition information for fat content and other details about the nutritional profile of walnuts." Although FDA exercises enforcement discretion over the last two sentences of this statement, which meet the criteria for a qualified health claim for walnuts and coronary heart disease, the last two sentences read in conjunction with the first sentence makes the entire statement an unauthorized health claim.
The statement suggests that the evidence supporting a relationship between walnuts and coronary heart disease is related to the omega-3 fatty acid content of walnuts. There is not sufficient evidence to identify a biologically active substance in walnuts that reduces the risk of CHD. Therefore, the above statement is an unauthorized health claim. This letter is not intended to be an inclusive review of your products and their labeling. It is your responsibility to ensure that all of your products comply with the Act and its implementing regulations.
You should take prompt action to correct these violations. Failure to do so may result in regulatory action without further notice. Such action may include, but is not limited to, seizure or injunction.
Please respond in writing within 15 working days from your receipt of this letter. Your response should outline the specific actions you are taking to correct these violations and to prevent similar violations. You should include in your response documentation such as revised labels or other useful information that would assist us in evaluating your corrections. If you cannot complete all corrections before you respond, we expect that you will explain the reason for the delay and state when you will correct any remaining violations.
Your response should be directed to Latasha Robinson, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, Office of Compliance (HFS-608), Division of Enforcement, College Park, Maryland 20740-3835. If you have any questions, you may contact Ms. Robinson at 301-436-1890.
Roberta Wagner
Office of Compliance
Center for Food Safety
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The first round of the four-game series between the Yale University baseball team and its Harvard rivals was dominated by two stellar pitching performances. Unfortunately for Yale, that only resulted in one win as it tried to increase its lead in the race for the Red Rolfe Division championship and a berth in the Ivy League Championship series.
Yale gained a little cushion in the Rolfe Division race in the opening game of Friday's doubleheader behind the pitching of senior Vinny Lally, but the Bulldogs gave that extra cushion back when they dropped the second game.
Lally threw a complete-game, one-hit shutout in leading Yale to a 3-0 win over Harvard in the first game of Friday's doubleheader at O'Donnell Field on the campus of Harvard University. Max Perlman was just as dominant as he struck out 10 Yale batters in a four-hit, 1-0 shutout win to help Harvard salvage a split of the twin bill.
With the split, Yale moved to 21-14 overall, 9-5 in Ivy League play. The first-place Bulldogs maintained a two-game lead over Dartmouth and Brown in the race for the Red Rolfe Division crown. Brown and Dartmouth are scheduled to play a four-game series on Sunday and Monday at Dartmouth.
A fourth-inning single by Marcus Way was the only hit allowed by Lally, who was brilliant in his fourth complete game of the season. Lally faced 23 batters, two more than the seven-inning minimum. He struck out nine Harvard batters, raising his Ivy League-leading total to 65 strikeouts.
Yale scored three runs in the first inning, which was more than enough support for Lally. Ryan Brenner put Yale on the scoreboard when he drove in a run with a bases-loaded walk. Jacob Hunter drove in a pair of unearned runs with the bases loaded when he reached on a throwing error that allowed Trey Rallis and Andy Megee to score the second and third runs of the inning to put Yale on top 3-0.
Senior Brook Hart was nearly as brilliant as Lally in Game 2, but he couldn't match Harvard's Max Perlman, who struck out 10 Bulldogs in a four-hit shutout.
Hart scattered six hits and allowed only one unearned run, striking out five and walking only one.
The Crimson scored the game's only run in the bottom of the fifth inning when Dillon O'Neill singled with one out and went to third thanks to an error on the next play. He then scored when Jake McGuiggan drove him home on a sacrifice squeeze bunt play.
The Bulldogs never really had a chance to tie the game. Perlman held Yale without a hit over the final five innings.
Of the Bulldogs' four hits in the game, Ryan Brenner had two of them in three at-bats. Rallis and Cam Squires had the other two hits for Yale.
Squires had two hits in four at-bats in the opening game. Hunter went 1-for-3 with an RBI, while Gant Elmore also went 1-for-3.
The two teams will skip a day to wait out the rainy forecast before meeting again for another doubleheader on Sunday, which is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity


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Twitter has released their annual "Year on Twitter" collection of the hottest trends, topics, and people across five different categories.
President Obama's tweet, "Four more years," was Twitter's Golden Tweet of 2012, earning more retweets than any other. Obama's November 6 celebratory tweet after winning the election had over 810,000 retweets and was marked a favorite by more than 300,000 Twitter users.
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- Super Bowl, 13.7 million tweets
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A while back, my photonovels were supposed to be hosted here, and even a link to them on the front page. That idea apparently fell through (and I'm disappointed, but ok with it).
This is very cool... again, why this is the #1 site around as far as I am concerned. I understand that it may not come to fruition, but the mere possibility is awesome.
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My son is 8 years old - in grade 3 - a bright kid that likes to learn but as a normal 8 year old boy doesn't like to sit still, work or have a schedule! He is on an ecclectic program of mixed curricula (Abeka LA, Math U See, Apologia Science, Wordly Wise, and social studies reading, Rosetta Stone French). He really wants to add computer programming and has comitted to show me that he has room in his schedule for it (if so we'll add it in January). Our philosophy is mainly Charlotte Mason (I also read extensively to him). His day lasts from 9 am to 2:30ish with a morning break and lunch break. He receives rewards for each subject that he completes with a good attitude and work ethic (we keep track of points which convert to books, or money)
He is extremely emotional - he cries at every little thing; gets angry and hurt feelings if I don't listen to him "explain" how the book/computer is wrong (and won't listen to me until he has exhausted his ideas!). When things don't go perfectly he gets angry and has the "everything is just stupid" attitude. Once on the emotional path he doesn't seem to be able to get off it and blames me, his sister or anything around him for his feelings.
I've tried sending him to his room to calm down (and let me calm down). Admittedly, I am not always helpful. I find it difficult not to match his snarly attitude with my own!
This year, however (in our big 3 days) I have been calm, relaxed and haven't lost my professional attitude (yet). I have done very little except schooling so I'm not irritated by interruptions. I'm doing all I know how to do to do my part. I just don't know what to do with him!
I'm am ready to just send him to public school come what may! I know that in school he'll listen better and now exhibit his feelings the way he does with me (and that he'll be teased mercilessly for crying if he does!). I am just afraid that maybe I'm to blame. He's speaking the way he's learned and I have no one to blame but me - I'm the one who teaches him!
Any advice? Help? Encouragement? Experience in this area?
Need Help!!! I'm ready to quit!!
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hi, hang out there...
First, you sound like a very dedicated mother. So being judicial on yourself is really not the right thing, as its simply not true. You are doing great by not following your kid's moods.
As for public school vs homeschool, what does he think of it? although i'm pretty much against conventional ed. if that's is wish of heart - maybe you should consider it. tells us some more about him...
for now, i'm sending you my honest greetings and wish that things will be naturally solved to your satisfaction...
As for public school vs homeschool, what does he think of it? although i'm pretty much against conventional ed. if that's is wish of heart - maybe you should consider it. tells us some more about him...
for now, i'm sending you my honest greetings and wish that things will be naturally solved to your satisfaction...
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Real Burden
One of the greatest lessons I'm learning in this life, is to be aware of the truth of what's happening in my world from moment to moment. This is only possible when I really listen to what people are saying combined with how I react to it. I have a tendency to try to manipulate a situation (with humor, bravado & sarcasm) so that the perceived future outcome is positive, for me. When I break the rules I lose touch with the other persons need to be heard or understood. My ego and need to appear a certain way becomes more important than the truth of the moment. In other words, I'm trying to appear to be something or someone that I'm not. And at the same time I'm denying others to be connected to their truth in that moment.
This leads me to Law # 6 of the 11 Laws of Health & Fitness...Reality. Reality is that thing that is happening to you right now. Reality is that feeling in your gut and that state of your mind before, during and after everything you do. Reality is the truth of every moment, not the manipulated or fantasy versions we put out there for others to see. Being real requires letting all of your defenses down. Exposing yourself to the truth of who you are right now. If you can do that simple thing, you can remove many of life's burdens. One way to practice this is to risk bearing your own burdens. My friend Scott Fifer lives by this philosophy. The man never complains or tries to manipulate a situation. He is honest and fair and clear and he never focuses on the problem. He gathers information and plows ahead.
*Risk bearing your own burdens. The weight of your problems is determined by how much you fear them. But the only weight any fear can have is determined by how much you try to push it away. Risk not "sharing" (pissing, moaning, blaming & complaining) your burdens. Stop pushing them on others. The less you burden other people (especially loved ones) with your problems, the less of a burden they'll be for you. Letting your defences down while at the same time learning to focus on answers and solutions is the key to becoming clear, productive and real.
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- AlfaSunshine said...
hmmm....dunno if I can live up to this one or agree completely. I kinda live for denial and fantasy in my personal life. I'm not tooo big of a pisser and moaner I don't think. I'm a little too simple minded to be anything but honest, so I am commenting because I want you to know that I do read your blog. I may not get this one but I must say it is a good one just the same. I know quite a few people who focus on problems instead of solutions. Dunno if they read your blog, but I will find out. I guess my question is what about the old addage that says somehting like a burden shared is halved? Sometimes I think when I am listening to my friends delimas that is what being a friend is.
- RickW23 said...
I think I understand what is being said...
From my own experience, I tend to be a bit of an optimist. A 'glass half full' kind of person. Sometimes my realities a bias towards whatever reality I HOPED for myself. Sometimes, your view of reality is murky and the truth is that it isn't as clear and perfect as you thought. Those falsehoods cannot be good for your overall life success. If you want to succeed, you must remain positive, but you also have to be real. There is sometimes a fine line between the two of those.
Maybe I see Tony's point because we are both Cancers and born on July 2nd. But I think I captured what he was saying to me.
- absmom said...
I like this post.
I like food for thought.
I like clarity. and honest evaluations...
I don't think it's a matter of not "burdening" others with your problems though- I think it's more of an issue of not taking things (yourself) quite so seriously- not always thinking that what's going on that you don't like or agree with isn't necessarily a problem or a burden- it's just something you don't necessarily like or agree with!!
That of course is not to say many people aren't without problems or burdens but I suspect that what some people consider issues/problems are often a far cry from what a real burden or issue might be...often a matter of perspective. It might be fair to say that we must walk a mile in another man's shoes to understand his journey.
A little empathy is a good thing.
- Mary Mc said...
I definitely agree that different kinds of encouragement need to be used depending on who you're working with. I find the same things are true when I work with patients at work (I'm a nurse for mothers and their new babies).
It is sometimes quite difficult to really listen to people so you can understand their needs and then help them instead of reacting in a manner that benefits you rather than the person you're wanting to help. It sounds like you are really tuning into this, which helps to explain why you have such great success as a coach, trainer, and motivator.
Reality is a hard concept to focus on. Everyone likes to live in their own dream world. It's difficult to tune in to the truth and then face it, but that's necesssary if a person really wants to improve to the best of their ability. Focusing on the positive (solutions and not the problem) is really the key to success.
Great post, Tony! :-)
Mary Mc
- Mary Cecy said...
Once again... good post. I really understand. We make so many excuses for ourselves to do something that only comes naturally for others. You are good at listening and sharing what you know. You are a coach, a friend, a psychologist, a nutritionist, a son, a brother, an uncle, a caretaker and a "father" to many others. Most of all you do things from the heart. It is so wonderful to see how much you put yourself out there. It is hard to be in the customer service business. It is not easy. You hear the same questions, you give the same answers. Sometimes deliver in different ways as we all learn differently.
You give a lot of yourself and I know how happy it makes you to see others achieve success. Making it and keeping it real is very hard for many. Once you spend a little bit of time with you, it seems effortless and so easy... I sometimes wonder: Why we fight the systems so much? It is there and it has work for so many others. It is all about faith. Faith in what you are doing. Getting over the fears and just taking things, embracing them and doing what we can with what we have.
Choices are good with the reality you talk so much about. It is not easy to not share. I would never want to be a burden on others but I know how important it is to share to be able to help. It is hard yet so rewarding.
Thanks and I appreciate all you have done for me and for so many others.
XO peace
- Anonymous said...
Destiny here.... you don't know me.. but i wanted to respond to this blog... (through lauren/alfa/nubia)
Burdens........ touchy subject... i'm not too sure if i understand all of what you were saying.. and thats just cuz i don't get to talk to you like others do...
dusteknee: I may just be going off the deep end here and talking out of my arse, but..... you've made these ppl
what they are Tony. You've put yourself out there and given so much that they come to expect it. Not everyone can be 100% all the time. It's human to fail. Maybe not all the time, but human enough. If you don't feel like taking on the burden one day then DON'T. Your family of BB'ers should understand that. But, you can't keep doing it if your heart and body are telling you NO, because then it just becomes a pain in the ARSE! No one wants you to go down that road.
dusteknee: I do a lot of complaining. (about life, love, happiness, health) and since you have made these ppl what they are, it comes easy to complain-- because they listen so well and care so much.
But, I also give that back two-fold. I am there for my friends and don't think that its a b!tch session. When they call on me for help, it makes me feel special.
dusteknee: So, to answer your post Tony~~ Suck it up! Work it up! Live it up! and keep your head up! Get intimate baby! lol
I know, who the he!! is this Destiny? Come now Tony. Remember the name..... You'll be looking for me in due time.... ((((((((((((((((((TonyHorton))))))))))))))))))))
Hey... i think i missed my calling... there's no one that can understand this mess.... lol
- Neeeena said...
I love Scott Fifer.
- longin2bslim said...
Hi Tony,
This is my first time reading any of your blogs, and of course my first time responding. Today is 2 day of Power 90. This blog came at the right time for me!
Today I did cardio 1 & 2 for the first time, and when I finished, I cried! Why did I cry? Reality set in. I realized that I was overweight, unhappy, and out of shape. The truth hurts! Today I realized the truth. I did not believe I let myself get to this point, and it all hit me hard.
Reading what you wrote, helped me because I'm constantly pissing, moaning, blaming & complaining over my weight to my husband, but yet never doing anything about it. I need to stop complaining and start doing. It was me who got me into this mess, and I have to get myself out. End of story! I need to do this time what I have set out to do many times. I need to complete power 90 so that the reality of being overweight will not continue to bring me down.
For everyone that seem to be having a hard time trying to understand what Tony is trying to say, I do understand! Its not that we can't share in one another's burdens, but it comes to a point when we complain about our situations, and in doing so it helps us to make excuses for our problems. Sometimes it makes one live in denial. I don't know about you, but I want to be able to see clearly, and find solutions to my problems. I think what Tony is trying to say is taking responsibility, and control, of your problem, and fix it! No one else can fix it for you!
Thanks Tony!!!
- Ellen said...
I've been learning through folks like Tony Horton, Dr. Wayne Dyer
and Don Miguel Ruiz is that: 1. Look at everything that comes into your life with gratitude - it's manifests itself for some reason.
2. The more you condemn something, or complain about it - the more of it you attract into your life.
3. Be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personal, don't make assumptions and always do your best.
And from Monty Python I've learned..... always look at the bright side of life.... :) (couldn't resist!)
- supermel said...
PMA - positive mental attitude!!! Mel from Santa Monica. You have a choice every morning, how are you going to live your day? How are you going to react? Listen to yourself, your heart. I know what I want, I know I want to live healthy, block out the static, be true to you! thanks tony. Hugs, Mel
- Anonymous said...
While I absolutely appreciate this post and may have an alternate interpretation that does not coincide with your intentions, I don't agree completely with all the aspects you covered in this article. I believe that if a person wants to "Get Real", part of that includes complaining or sharing some of your problems, concerns, stresses with close love ones from time to time. I do think that bearing your burdens and coming to terms with them is important, and yes most burdens are easily handled but there are some that need to be shared for health and "being real" sake. A personal example for me is that I used to follow this model exactly: I kept all my complaints to myself, all my stresses, my blaming, and I was constantly doing and focusing on my goals. During this period of taking on responsibility and not "burdening" other people with my negative emotions/complaints, little did I realize I developed an eating disorder and felt like mostly a shell of myself, and never truly like the messy real emotional being God made me. Luckily, through some kick ass psychologists kicking my ass I really learned what "being real" was all about. This included complaining every now and then, telling people how you feel-even when it's negative. It's hard to feel completely connected to someone who never complains, because face it-they seem inhuman and not in a good way. In my experiences and through multiple psychologists I've learned that not sharing your negative feelings (even blame, shame, complaints, etc) is just a way to not allow yourself to be truly raw/real and vulnerable, it is ultimately a means of controlling who you really are-to the point of losing yourself even. It's a defense, it's a wall. Now taking responsibility for reality is great, and limiting the small things we complain about is not a bad idea..but every now and then bad things happen and sharing it can help us see the picture and find solutions, allow more chances for connections, and release some natural human negativity. Negative emotions are not burdens, they are reality. Reality is bright and it is also dark. Now if you're ALWAYS negative then you might need to cut back and evaluate why that might be. But I feel MODERATION of all emotions is the most real and human a person can be. AND as I've learned personally and through the provacative teachings from multiple psychologists the HEALTHIEST way to be emotionally.
Again, I do appreciate your thoughts and I am still in the process of contemplating them completely.Just had a few questions and disagreements as I read your entry. Thought I'd share them.
Best wishes!


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The past few years, EMI Nashville recording artist Dierks Bentley has become one of the hottest stars in country music. With four Number One singles in 2006 alone, Bentley has joined the ranks of Tim McGraw, George Strait and Alan Jackson in country music stature, and he's done it practically overnight. No stranger to hard work and touring, Bentley deserves all of that success and then some, and recently he took a few minutes to chat with us about that success and what is in store for 2007 and beyond.
Bullz-Eye: Did you get to check out our site?
Dierks Bentley: I did check it out. It's very cool, man!
BE: Thanks!
DB: You guys get a lot of views and I'm glad to be a part of it, so thank you.
BE: Yeah cool! Did you get distracted by all the women on it?
DB: (laughs) Kind of reminds me a little of Maxim or something, which I think is cool.
BE: So, the last few years have seen you progress quite a bit as an artist, and you're now recognized as one of the stars among George Strait and Tim McGraw. Did you ever think you'd come so far so fast?
DB: It hasn't felt that fast to me. I moved to Nashville when I was 19, and I'm 31 now. So it kind of feels like it's been a long trek, but I got a record deal in 2001 and since then I've been touring kind of nonstop. It feels like all the groundwork, all the homework I did playing bars and clubs back in Nashville has kind of paid off. We kind of came out of the gate knowing what we were trying to do and what we wanted to accomplish musically, and it's all gone really well since then.
BE: And I noticed you have a grueling tour schedule that's more typical of a rock band.
DB: Yeah, that's kind of the approach we took. We definitely tour more then anyone else back in Nashville.
BE: Is that your choice or the label's choice?
DB: It's my choice. I've been waiting a long time to get out here and do this. We started the radio tour back in January of 2003 just kind of going and visiting radio stations, and taking the new song (to radio) and it started turning into a couple of gigs as the song went up the charts and all of a sudden a lot of gig offers came in. And I took every one of them. There's a lot of stuff that comes with playing music for a living, but the part that I love is being onstage. The hour and a half is where I live. That's why we're out here playing so much. And that's how we're building up our fan base, our real core fan base, through touring and not through TV and not through…
BE: …through radio as much?
DB: Yeah, well country radio is huge. We're just backing up the airplay we get with country radio through live shows and hanging out with the fans before the show and hanging out after the show. Just building it up, one town at a time.
BE: Unlike a lot of great country music singers, you write your own material. Do you think telling your own stories helps to convey the messages in your songs?
DB: For me it does. The guys who I really look up to, like George Strait, he doesn't write his stuff. But I think people almost write songs for George. Everyone knows him so well, that it sounds like he wrote the stuff that he does when he's singing. There's a lot of stuff that comes out of Nashville where you can really tell the person that's singing the song really is disconnected from the actual song itself. For me it's just, you know, I try to be a songwriter first and foremost and I certainly know that when I'm onstage singing a song that I wrote, and there is an obvious connection. Our audience can probably feel a song better then they would if I was singing a song that I didn't write just because of that.
BE: Okay.
DB: If that makes any sense. That's the long way around it. I'm not sure what I said there, dude. It's pretty early in the morning for me.
BE: (laughs) That's cool. And I noticed you have a lot of the same co-writers on your stuff.
DB: Yeah.
BE: Does your label or management always trying to get you to co-write with guys like Craig Wiseman or Rivers Rutherford?
DB: I'd like to write with those guys myself, just because they're friends of mine. I've been in Nashville for a long time and have known those guys for a long time. For me, there's a long list of guys who I'd love to write with, starting with Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller and Tim O'Brien. A lot of the alt, indie, country, folk guys would be on my list before Rivers or Craig Wiseman just because I love what they do. But for me, the problem is I tour so much. Right before I called you, I was sitting here working on a song in the back lounge. When I do get time off, I'm probably going to take it to just to write with Brett (Beavers, Bentley's producer and co-writer), just because he's one of my best friends and we just connect. I kind of trust him with the song to steer it in the right direction. And we know each other and we like the same kind of music, so it's just fun. We have a good time hanging out, so I kind of lean toward a core group of guys to write with. But hopefully one day there will come a time when I take some time off the road to get a chance to experiment and write with some of those guys. Rodney Crowell, Radney Foster, Marty Stewart – those are some guys I would really just love to spend some time with.
BE: I'm a publicist too and we're doing tour press for Dualtone, so we work with Radney and Guy Clark.
DB: That whole label is great. Great label and great guys and they have great artists on that label. Radney's great and I'd love to get a chance to write with him sometime. He's incredible.
BE: I noticed you come from a non-musical family. How did they feel initially about your move to Nashville?
DB: You know, kind of skeptical about it. They knew that the dream burns like it did for me, the passion or whatever…and it was all I could think about. There's no other way to come to Nashville. All I thought about was country music, and I wanted to get a chance to sing and play and be a part of it. And so they were always semi-supportive. They always wanted to know what Plan B was. I don't think they liked it when I told them that when you have a Plan B, Plan B turns into Plan A. So on purpose I was making sure I didn't have a Plan B.
BE: Good for you.
DB: Thanks, man!
BE: Long Trip Alone is considered to show your maturation process as a person and as an artist. Was it a conscious effort when you wrote the material or did it just happen that way?
DB: I think it just kind of happened that way. I think in my mind there is always a push ahead with the live show and push ahead to take it somewhere new. I'm not content just to put out an album that sounds like the record before. I was trying to move forward in that direction and I think with this record some stuff came out, you know, in songwriting. I've been on t he road for the last four years straight. So when you sit on the front seat of a bus that long, you really think about a lot of heavy things at times. And a song like "Long Trip Alone" is more of a prayer than a song to me. Some stuff came out that is kind of bigger sounding and with bigger messages. We've kept it in line with some songs that are definitely honky-tonk, beer joint stompers. But there's definitely some big songs on this record.
BE: "Every Mile a Memory" was the first single, right?
DB: Yes.
BE: And it hit Number One a couple of weeks ago?
DB: It did. It went Number One about three or four weeks ago.
BE: And is that your first Number One?
DB: Actually I had three Number Ones this year.
BE: Oh, okay!
DB: Only singer in Nashville to have three Number Ones in one year. But the fourth one I had overall, so yeah, I guess it's been a pretty big year.
BE: That's awesome.
DB: Somebody just sent me an e-mail yesterday saying that I was the only one to have four Number Ones this year, so that's pretty cool.
BE: That's awesome. And you recently got married?
DB: Yeah, I got married almost a year ago.
BE: So what's the longest stretch of time you've been away from your wife while touring?
DB: Longest stretch I've been away? Two or three weeks I guess.
BE: Has it been hard?
DB: Yeah, it's tough. We'd like to keep it more in the everyday range with seeing each other, but there are times, like right now, when I'm on a west coast run, that makes it difficult. We try to keep it no more than four days at the most but it's hard sometimes to do that.
BE: I guess it's not like the days when Bon Jovi would go out on tour for a year and a half straight.
DB: Oh, yeah. I guarantee Bon Jovi, maybe back in their day, did that. But I've got a record that's pretty good. We did 25 shows in 25 days. And actually the girl who put together our tour, her husband holds the Guinness Book of World Records for gigs. They did 352 gigs one year. We tour a lot. There were times when I opened up for George Strait, we'd go play a show with George in front of 25,000 people, and when our set was done we'd go play a frat house for three hours, just for the hell of it. As far as Nashville goes, there is no one that tours as hard as us. We've been gone literally for four years straight. We've had breaks here and there but nothing more than two or three days off at a time.
BE: Cool.
DB: When I made this last record, I took ten days off, and that was it. I did all the work on the road, all the production. Everything was done out here. And I went back to Nashville and got in the studio and already had it mapped out and had my fingers crossed for a little magic, a little luck.
BE: Yeah, it came out great, dude, by the way. I love the record.
DB: Thanks, man. I think there is something to the chaos of making a record that way. You don't have time to over-think it. You plan it all out here and then you get in the studio and you're confident enough in the prep work you've done to allow the players and musicians to be creative and let them go somewhere with it. But you know where the foundation is if you have to go back to it.
BE: So what is the songwriting process like for you? Do you do the lyrics or music first?
DB: For me, I'd have to say that lyrics come in the form of a melody. But when I play guitar, I'm not playing chords and stuff that give me melodic ideas. I pretty much hear the words with the melody and try to put them down in the basic form. A lot of times I'll avoid the guitar altogether and sing into a tape recorder so I don't mess up the melody by playing a big G-chord on it when that's the only chord I can play.
BE: Right.
DB: So I try to stay away from that. So yeah, probably the words come first.
BE: Okay. And we're doing a feature…all the writers for Bull-Eye are doing our top albums for the year. Can you give me your top three for 2006?
DB: Any genre?
BE: Yeah.
DB: The Killers. That record is great. George Strait's new album and Alan Jackson's new one are both great as well.
BE: How about top three movies?
DB: "Borat." That was great. I think his TV show is almost funnier, but the movie was great. Oh, gosh. What else have I seen this year? I mean we live on a bus, we watch a lot of movies. I watch "Tombstone," like, once a week. I would have loved to have seen "Tenacious D in 'The Pick of Destiny'" if I had the chance, but I haven't yet.
BE: What about touring plans for 2007?
DB: Right now, the name of this tour is the Locked and Loaded tour. And we're headed to Vegas on December 8, then taking a week off to go Hawaii. We're going to watch U2 play with Pearl Jam in Hawaii, which will be awesome.
BE: Oh, cool!
DB: Yeah. Pearl Jam's last record was a good one, too. We're going to go watch them play and then we go up to Canada (on) January 5 to tour some more. It's a good time to go to Canada, by the way.
BE: Yeah! (laughs) It's going to be a little chilly.
DB: (laughs) Yeah, the Locked and Loaded Canada tour, that goes on till the end of January. Then we go straight from that to the tour I call the High Times and Hangovers tour. This is our third year of doing it. We go play nothing but the smallest bars, nothing over 800 seats.
BE: That's cool!
DB: We're out with a band called Crossed Canadian Ragweed on that tour, a bunch of guys from Texas that are good friends of mine. And then as soon as that tour ends, we go back out on the spring portion of that Locked and Loaded tour and that ends in May. And in May I'm going to take two weeks off to work on a record. Then at the end of May we'll go back to doing a lot of summer stuff, fairs and festivals, and then start a new headlining tour again in the fall.
BE: That sounds good!
DB: Yeah, we're busy!
BE: Do you have any funny stories from the road at all?
DB: Man, something happens everyday that's either gross or weird. Yesterday the bass player for Miranda Lambert was walking up the stairs and they're attached to the stage and the stairs gave way. Man, he sliced his pinky open so bad! It hurts just to think about it! But, man, just crazy stuff you see people doing every night. I mean obviously you get stuff, girls toss stuff up on the stage, certain clothing items which is, you know, all part of the job.
BE: (laughs) Right.
DB: It's a high-risk job, you know, having to watch stuff flying at you.
BE: Sure. Oh that reminds me. Are you able to go out in Nashville at all or do mobbed if you go out anywhere?
On a jilted fan who was denied a kiss: "She got really mad. She had been drinking. And halfway though the show, I looked over, and there she is, about one section up on the left, standing up, giving me the bird with both fingers. Everyone around her is just going crazy."DB: No. I'm so low-key. I don't have tour managers and people hanging all around me. When we go out it is very low-key and just easy. Nashville is such a great town, too. No one mobs me. But the weirdest thing that's happened recently was when there was a woman that came through our meet-and-greet line one time, and she got really mad at me for some reason. She wanted me to kiss her or something. I was like, "You can't do that." She got really mad. She had been drinking. And halfway though the show, I looked over, and there she is, about one section up on the left, standing up, giving me the bird with both fingers. Everyone around her is just going crazy. (laughs) So I jumped offstage, during the middle of a song, jumped offstage and ran up to her and was laughing so hard. It was almost, like, complimentary; because you always have people screaming and shouting, but I've never had someone just flick me off with so much anger. It kind of worked out well because the song I was singing at the time was a kiss-off song called "So So Long." And I got the crowed really involved in it, and as soon as I was done singing, the whole place was booing her. Security had to escort her out. It was pretty wild.
BE: How did she react to that?
DB: Oh, man. She was angry. Drunk and angry, you know.
BE: That's hilarious.
DB: And we played last night in Idaho, and it was the record for the fastest someone started a fight and got kicked out. They love to fight up in Montana and Idaho. But within the first verse of the first song, three security guards were wrestling this huge guy to the ground and kicking him out. After that song, I had to tell the crowd, "You'll always have a place in our hearts because I'll remember this place as the fastest anyone has ever gotten kicked out of one of our shows."
BE: That's great.
DB: It's something every night.
BE: What kind of hobbies do you have outside of music?
DB: I have a Harley Davidson. I love riding motorcycles, and just being on the lake. When I have a day off and I can be out on the water somewhere, that's my hobby.
BE: What is your favorite place to eat on the road?
DB: Probably some good Mexican food. Local stuff is the best.
BE: And where have you had the best Mexican?
DB: Well I'm from Arizona, so I have Mexican every time I go back home. This little place called Los Olivos is probably still my favorite Mexican food.
BE: Well, that's about all I got. You have anything else you want to plug?
DB: You know, we've got a live DVD coming out February 6, a show we did at the Fillmore in Denver. And that's something we're working really hard on right now. I think that's about it.


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SaGa Frontier 3DS remake. Re-implemented Fuse quest. Re-add Blue's original ending. Plus some new (character unique?) sidequests to make up for the other cut content (which really needed to have been cut, judging by the Ultimania guide).Also 3DS remakes/ports of SD2 through Legend of Mana, with various AI, balance, and bug fixes, because seriously those games were buggy as hell (especially 2 and 3 (emphasis on the 3)).Elemental Gimmick Gear 3DS port. Because EGG is really good and like nobody ever played it and that's toooo bad :(I'd be tempted to say an expanded version of Chrono Cross (with battle speed ups. Seriously why were Square's games locked at like 20 FPS????) with extra sidequests for the characters, but Square would probably do something peculiar like make Schala evil like in the CTDS remake (What even WAS the impetus for that?). 3DS/PSP/PC translation of motherfucking Sega goddamn Ages Phantasy fucking Star 2 fucking remake SHIT.Minstrel Song-esque remakes of Romancing Saga 2 and 3, because Minstrel Song was a beautiful lady and I want to merry her. also I think Soul Blazer should come standard with every new console released, sort of like how Dinwows comes with Solitaira.
Speaking of 3D-RPGs though, Skies of Arcadia would be awesome. It's gotten so rare over the years, I'd just love to see it return. I mean - pirates. In the sky.
Secret of Mana on the 3DS. Add in online co-op and have the touch screen be used for settings, inventory, equipment, and magic for seamless multiplayer gameplay (not having to pull up menus to cast spells or change weapons would be great).
Quote from: Streen on December 09, 2012, 08:31:10 AMSpeaking of 3D-RPGs though, Skies of Arcadia would be awesome. It's gotten so rare over the years, I'd just love to see it return. I mean - pirates. In the sky.If I remember correctly, Sega did announce they're re-releasing Skies in HD.
NO BESTHESDA'S WRITERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH FALLOUT 1 OR 2 Sorry, I went temporarily insane. I love Fallout 1 and 2, and I liked Fallout 3 a lot, but I don't think Besthesda's engine is in any way equipped to handle the awesomeness that is F1/2.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric resigned on Monday following allegations he behaved in an inappropriate way with priests, and said he would not take part in the election of Pope Benedict's replacement.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien said he had tendered his resignation some months ago, ahead of his 75th birthday in March and because he was suffering from "indifferent health".
The Vatican said the pope, who steps down on Thursday, had accepted O'Brien's resignation as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh.
O'Brien, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has been reported to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behavior stretching back 30 years, according to Britain's Observer newspaper.
The cardinal, who last week advocated allowing Catholic priests to marry as many found it difficult to cope with celibacy, rejected the allegations and was seeking legal advice, his spokesman said.1
"Looking back over my years of ministry: For any good I have been able to do, I thank God. For any failures, I apologize to all whom I have offended," O'Brien said in a statement, which made no reference to the recent allegations.
He said he would not attend the election next month of a new pope, saying: "I do not wish media attention in Rome to be focused on me - but rather on Pope Benedict XVI and on his successor."
The Observer, which gave little detail on the claims, said three priests and a former priest, from a Scottish diocese, had complained over incidents dating back to 1980.
One said the cardinal formed an "inappropriate relationship" with him while another complained of unwanted behavior by O'Brien after a late-night drinking session.
Last year, O'Brien's comments labeling gay marriage a "grotesque subversion" landed him with a "Bigot of the Year" award from British gay rights group Stonewall.
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July 22, 2012
"At the time of independence from Spain, the landlords attacked them until they were nearly exterminated. In the 1920s, indigenous leader Quintín Lame launched a struggle for control over ancestral territories, mobilizing indigenous peoples throughout the northern regions of Cauca and Huila and southern Tolima. Their uprisings were put down, but it was in this context that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was born."
By: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro
Originally published in El Espectador on July 18, 2012
"Muchos Indios" (lit: "Many Indians") is how a website recently titled a news piece about how the indigenous guard threw the National Army out of their territory in Cauca, Colombia.
In Colombia, the colloquial expression "Indian" is used as an insult, while "White" is a compliment. To be "Indian" is to be ugly, savage, invisible, exotic; indigenous communities are valued only by tourists – always and only when in traditional dress.
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As I thank you for the good-bye letter you sent me and made public, I need to recognize that there is a lot contained in your words. I will reply as I can, knowing I will not be able to do them justice. Your letter expresses a spirit that moves and inspires me to honor it on its own terms. This is why I start from the wisdom expressed in the conclusion, where you invite me to keep the friendship and gratitude and to continue without resentment and bitterness.
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Having camped outside the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) for eight days and been ignored by officials, more than 100 laid-off workers launched a wheelchair march yesterday, while some of the protesters remained at the council's headquarters to continue with their hunger strike.
The laid-off workers started marching to the New Taipei City (新北市) District Court and are to continue to the Taoyuan District Court, where most of their cases are being handled.
"We want to show them that, even though these workers may not in the best physical condition, they do not fear lawsuits filed against them by the Council of Labor Affairs and they will fight until the end," Taiwan International Workers' Association secretary-general Chen Hsiu-lien (陳秀蓮) said.
"It was the government's fault that they did not make sure that these workers' employers had prepared retirement funds for them, so the workers will not repay a penny of the money they received [from the council] 16 years ago," he added.
In the 1990s, hundreds of workers lost their jobs when several factories closed, many of them owing several months' back salaries. Unable to get their retirement payouts or salaries from their employers, the workers staged a series of demonstrations. Eventually the council proposed to give the laid-off workers retirement payments in the form of loans, and promised that it would ask their employers to repay the money.
However, the council last year began to file lawsuits against the workers, asking them to repay the loans because the council had failed to get their employers to repay the debt. This triggered a new wave of protests by the workers.
After an eight-day camp-in in front of the council, with some protesters on hunger strike, which received no response from officials, laid-off workers who were not on hunger strike and their supporters decided yesterday to start marching.
Fifty workers in wheelchairs were pushed along by 50 student volunteers, while other protesters followed behind them.
"[The workers] are just getting what they deserve and the CLA [at the time] promised that they would not have to repay the loans — there's no doubt about it, because it was even broadcast on the news at the time," said Kuo Hsun-yeh (郭璇燁), a senior student from National Taipei College of Business.
"It makes no sense that the council is breaking its promise now, and that's why I have to come and give them my support," he said.
Liu Yi-chun (柳毅群), a senior student from Tung Hai University's Department of Social Work, said he and his classmates volunteered to push the wheelchairs because they think the government should not lie.
"About 40 of us left Taichung, where our school is, at 6am this morning by bus to show our support for the workers," he said.
Before the march started, the protesters went to nearby temples to pray for help, and burned ghost money, asking the immortals to refer the "money" to CLA Minister Pan Shih-wei (潘世偉).
The marchers spent last night in Yingge District (鶯歌), New Taipei City (新北市). They plan to continue the march today to the Taoyuan District Court.
Meanwhile, the National Alliance for Workers of Closed-Off Factories rebutted a remark made by Pan in a radio interview that the laid-off workers have terminated their hunger strike and dispersed, after many of them accepted the council's discounted repayment program.


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You're never as good as your wins or as bad as your losses. That's the lesson that Coach Mike Forgione wants his Lady Knight basketball team to take out of the first week of the winter season.
Southington manhandled Bloomfield for a lopsided win on opening day, but they squandered a late lead in the conference opener on Friday.
Forgione judges the first week by the reaction of his players, and he said that they passed the test. After the win, the girls entered the postgame huddle with a pointed critique of their mistakes. After the loss, you could hear a pin drop on the ride home.
"There wasn't a sound on the bus," said Forgione. "I'm not the kind of coach that tells them they can't talk. They were upset, and that shows that they care."
It's too early to circle the wagons, and Forgione's expectations haven't wavered.
"This was a hard one. The conference schedule will get harder, so this is one we really needed," he said. "We're just trying to get better every day. We're taking it one game at a time, and it's the little things to close out games—protecting the basketball, playing good defense, boxing out, and making foul shots."
On Wednesday, Dec. 5, the Knights could do no wrong as they raced out to an early 8-0 lead. Danielle Charamut scored two of her four blocked shots in the opening minutes as Southington rallied to a 23-11 lead in the second quarter. Bloomfield switched to a full-court press to cut the lead to four points, but the Lady Knights out-scored the Warhawks, 21-4 in the third quarter and held on for a 58-33 win.
"At halftime we made some adjustments and talked about what we needed to do to get that pressure back. We wanted to attack it, and I think that the girls made some good adjustments at halftime to play a great third quarter," Forgione said. "We wanted to give a lot of pressure. We talk about getting our hands on balls. We talk about deflections and 50/50s. All those little clichés are important, and I think we did a good job with it tonight. Those things turned into layups on the other end."
Charamut paced the offense with 16 points. Maeghan Chapman scored 11 points with nine rebounds, and Stephanie O'Keefe scored 13 points with eight boards and six assists. But it was the defense that powered the win. O'Keefe had four steals. Chapman and Kaitlin Paterson had three steals apiece. Defenders combined for 17 blocks and 10 steals as they held Bloomfield to just 25 percent shooting.
All-state contender Corrine Williams was held to just 16 points with just eight points from the floor, and nobody else scored more than seven points for the Warhawks.
"We wanted to take [Williams] out of her game, and I think the girls battled," said Forgione. "We said that we'd let somebody else beat us, and we did some really good things. We did a great job running our fast break, and we were able to finish our layups."
On Friday, it started out much the same. The defense held Simsbury to just 34.1 percent shooting with 18 turnovers. The Knights opened a six-point lead at the break and led by seven with just a few minutes remaining. Then, it fell apart.
The Trojans packed the paint with a 2-3 defense, and Southington struggled down the stretch. They still clung to a one-point lead in the final minute, but a turnover and a string of foul shots tipped the scales. The Knights fell, 43-41.
"We got some good looks. We just had trouble converting," said Forgione. "We tried everything. We set screens. We tried to reverse the ball and work it inside-out. We built a lead in the third quarter, but the fourth quarter came down to protecting the basketball, playing good defense, and finishing. We just couldn't do it."
Southington scored three players in double digits with 10 points apiece. Chapman had 10 rebounds to finish with a double-double. Charamut added six steals, and O'Keefe had three assists. Paterson scored seven points, but the Knights struggled down the stretch.
"These are games that we have to have because things will get much harder with teams like Newington, NW Catholic, Farmington, Hall, and New Britain coming up," said the coach. "The bottom line is that they packed in a 2-3 zone, and we shot 16-for-50 from the field."
The girls will try to regroup this week against Plainville before entering the heart of their conference schedule the following week. Forgione hopes they learned their lessons in week one.
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Here they are, the first extrusion tests with white baking throwing clay. All in all I am pretty happy with the initial results and the design ideas for rapid prototyped clay products start flowing too :)
The first set shows some prints with a Gcode file that turns the extruder's solenoid on and off for each layer. The benefit of the pressurized extruder should be instant on/off but apparently I have to tune some parameters to get to that. Off was very instant but repressurizing took considerable time. In this example you can see various pressure settings (3,5-5 bar) and as a result the extrusion gets thicker and the restart is quicker. The clay is probably a bit to thick, it didn't work at all straight from the pack so I mixed it with some water by hand. So maybe when it is more fluid, use a smaller orifice (add short a blunt needle), run quicker and higher pressure I could get instant restarts? I am also going to try not to depressurize the syringe by closing the exhaust. I hope that when I can keep some pressure that it will be easier to find a balance.
For the next tests I just removed all the start/stop code for the solenoid in between layers and got pretty good results, I should increase the Z speed to get thinner blobs when going to the next layer. The slightly thicker squashed extrusion (back left) gives much more reliable builds.
Here you see some 'solid' object, this are various stages of a cube with sparse infill and two solid layers aborted somewhere in the print. The solid layers need some adjusting and I really should learn how to calibrate my machine, something I always run around. For all this tests I just set the layer height in Skeinforge to 1.4 mm and left the rest as is (except the amount of perimeters, infill ratio etc). In the bottom left example you see what happens if you run out of clay... A little air blast. At ths stage I got really enthusiastic about the possibilities for this mashup of old craft and new tech. This types of structures are very hard to do in traditional ceramics and we have some initial ideas with this.
Some less successful examples ;)
Lessons learned and questions unanswered so far:
- While initially enthusiastic about Zach Hoeken's pressurized syringe tool I am after two days a bit skeptic about how controllable this process is. I had to remove as much distance as possible between compressor and extruder to prevent pressure build up in the tubes. I will try soon with a separate pressure controller that I can mount close to the extruder and that is much more precise than the system build in the compressor. But what worries me more is that the flowrate is dependent on the pressure AND the mixture of the clay and so far it is hard to get that very consistent true different batches. Its a nice test bed but I think I will need to build a stepper driven tool to compare.
- We-Need-Software... And we plan working on it. Skeinforge is not very useful when you want to build single filament wall objects and when you really want all the control you can get over infill structures etc. For us this is not so much about reconstructing 3d object but about using the very form language of FDM but in different materials. What we want is a tool in which you can draw gcode lines. At the moment we are looking at a Gcode import/export plugin for Illustrator using Scriptographer. Yes, AI is not 'free' but it is what we know best. But we'll trow the plugin out for anyone to use.
- Rapman is definitely not intended for wet slurries, the design is very open. An air bubble can trow around some mud and dry clay gives lots of dust. Will need to look at a system to cover some parts ore have a closed build area. Thinking about a paper/plastic bellow around the build area.
- Object stay flexible true the build and hours after so one rapid move from the extruder can deform parts of your object.
- No idea why objects taper, shrinkage?


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