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One of the fifteen exquisite chromolithographs produced from pastel works by French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, for The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings published in 1882. After a somehwat disatrous foray into entomology (he accidentally introduced the highly destructive European Gyspy moth onto North American soil), Trouvelot turned to illustrating the heavens and was invited onto the staff of the Harvard College Observatory when the then director Joseph Winlock saw the quality of his illustrations, and in 1875 he was invited to use the U. S. Naval Observatory's 26-inch refractor for a year. As well as his illustrations, Trouvelot also published some 50 scientific papers, and was credited with discovering "veiled spots" on the Sun in 1875. (Image source: New York Public Library)
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Museum quality Giclee print printed using archival inks on premium fine art paper — 100% cotton, finely textured, and acid-free archival substrates purposefully chosen for optimal historical art reproduction. Orders for US and Canada will be printed on LexJet Sunset Textured Fine Art Paper (310gsm); Australian orders on Hahnemühle's Photo Rag (188gsm); and all other orders on St Cuthbert Mill's Somerset Enhanced Velvet (255gsm).
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If you are looking for a really modern look in your home, then PURE Cell Honeycomb blinds could be just what you need. Sleek in design, practical and beneficial, these pleated blinds work best when combined with plantation shutters.
Venetian blinds and shutters are incredibly popular due to their contemporary design, but can still let in a small amount of light on brighter days. Perfect if you want to block out light more fully, honeycomb blinds are made with just one piece of fabric, instead of slats or louvres.
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Without a doubt, one of the biggest developments in the MCAD world in the past few years has been 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing). Until relatively recently, though, the cost of the 3D printing machines was cost prohibitive for all but large companies. To a large extent, costs have been plummeting, but there are machines that cost more than a million dollars. However, that is changing with the advent of relatively low-cost desktop 3D printers.
3D printers sound cool, and to a large extent they are. But, before running out to buy one, there are a few things to keep in mind. Currently, a machine will set you back $500 to $5,000, plus $40 to $100 for a roll of plastic filament (think Weed Wacker) for producing parts. Also keep in mind that producing one small object could take hours, and end up costing much more than buying it. Don't forget, too, that you need some technical know-how to make it all work, including how to create a solid model with a CAD tool. As I have maintained for some time, with all the online 3D printing services that are available, why buy when you can rent. Check out my blog post on this sentiment from last year entitled, "3D Printing Goes Retail: Why Buy When You Can Rent?"
Being the smiling skeptic that I am, I also wrote a blog entitled "Is 3D Printing Really A Miracle?" My short answers are "Yes" and "No."
That's why I have said that the first low-cost devices were more fun than functional, and appealed to DIYers, hobbyists, and early adopters. All that is changing as the technology matures, prices come down, more materials become available, and part quality vastly improves.
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A Igreja Matriz Cristo Rei, edificada em estilo gótico moderno, foi inaugurada em 14 de novembro de 1954, levando cinco anos para ser construída. Seu interior possui um vão de 40 metros de altura e 03 altares. Numa das naves laterais está localizada a "fonte de água benta", onde simbolicamente dois anjos seguram a pia sobre a qual está a torneira com a "água benta". A obra foi realizada em tijolo e revestida de cimento com pigmentação amarela pelo escultor alemão Alfredo Staege. As janelas são vitrais com ornamentos de brocados e suas colunas são espigões subindo ao espaço. Para visitação, ligar com antecedência.
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Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.


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By Colin Park ' About forty years ago a young accountant working at a banana plantation in Central America was sent out around the railroad sidings to account for freight cars, which were in short supply. The list he brought back was neatly prepared and thorough. But in drawing it up, he had failed to think about and call attention to an alternative use for a box-car sitting at the end of a line, loaded with dynamite to be used on a construction project. "For a few pesos," said his boss, "a hut thatched with banana leaves could be thrown up to store the dynamite, and that box-car could be back hauling bananas." Several years later the accountant, now on our staff and with this lesson firmly lodged in his memory, went out on the audit of a chemical company. When he found a tank-car standing in a corner of the plant and learned that its contents were withdrawn only occasionally, he quickly suggested constructing a storage tank at the site so that the tank-car could be released for other services. Unfortunately for his idea, he was told rather scathingly that the demurrage on the tank-car was only $2 or $3 a day, and to build a tank for the corrosive liquid it held would cost $20,000. It might surprise some of our readers to learn that the accountant in this melancholy tale not only continued his career with the Firm but progressed to become a partner in charge of one of our larger offices. Quite evidently, he had learned from this experience and others with happier endings that constructive services develop naturally out of auditing services; that they depend on experience and thinking things through; and that you can't win them all. One thing he didn't have to learn was enthusiasm, and it was very early in the game that he realized that constructive service is fundamental to and as old as auditing itself. A Systematic Approach In 1959 Mr. Queenan asked Richard H. Grosse of Pittsburgh to work with Philip J. Sandmaier, Jr., who was then in the Executive Office, on plans for the next principals' meeting which would be devoted almost in its entirety to the theme, "A Constructive Approach to Client Services"—since contracted to Constructive Services. The reason for the emphasis was not to foster a new line of service—it was not new—but to recognize how changes in the times have affected the approach. One change, for example, lies in the shorter time that new accountants are out in the field before they are charged with running audits. This is possible because today's more selective college education gives would-be CPAs a better preparation than ever before. But it is this very field experience that counts the most in developing a man's instinct for rendering constructive service. So we have to plan to make the most of this shortened time. Another change lies in the tremendous increase in the number of things auditors have to know about—a much greater body of tax rules, procedures of the SEC and regulations of other government agencies, plus an ever-increasing common body of accountancy knowledge. All these things may have to be dealt with in buttoning-down an audit. But everything is not buttoned down unless you can look back and say to yourself "I brought to the client's attention every idea I thought might be useful to him—I squeezed out every last bit of information for his benefit." The benefits can be substantial. In the case of a consumer finance company our senior accountant suggested closer analysis of the need for operating cash in each of 200 branch offices. As a result of this suggestion, the company found it was possible to transfer $4,000,000 excess cash to the home office for reinvestment. This is 4
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AMERICUS - Georgia Southwestern split with King University Tuesday afternoon in a pair of low-scoring contests highlighted by strong pitching efforts.
Game 1:GSW 3, King 1
GSW starting pitcher Allison Pastor (8-6) had a strong day on the mound as the junior threw a complete game allowing one run off a five hits with five strikeouts.
Southwestern lit up the scoreboard first as Mason Moreland stole home to give GSW the early advantage.
King tied up the contest in their half of the third inning but the Lady Hurricanes were quick to answer in the bottom half of the third when Moreland scored off a sacrifice fly by Nellie Moore.
The Blue and Gold cushioned their lead in the sixth inning when an Avery Purser RBI-double scored Moore as GSW went on to claim victory in the first game of the doubleheader, 3-1.
King's Morgan White (4-7) took the loss for the Lady Tornado as the freshman tossed four innings giving up two runs off five hits with four walks.
Game 2: King 2, GSW 0
King recovered in the second game as starting pitcher Hannah Light was simply lights out throwing a two-hit gem as the junior shut out Georgia Southwestern to earn the Lady Tornado a split on the day.
Neither team dented the scoreboard through the first five innings as Light and starting GSW pitcher Ashley Cavender battled it out on the mound.
Heading into the sixth inning, the two pitchers were in the midst of a pitchers' duel giving up a combined three hits.
King broke the stalemate in the top of the sixth inning when Cassie Ringstaff stole home to put the Lady Tornado on the board.
King added to their slim lead in the top of the seventh inning off a lead-off home run by Macy Shupe.
In the home half of the seventh, the Lady Hurricanes went three up-three down as King split the doubleheader with the shutout-victory, 2-0.
Cavender (5-7) pitched seven innings giving up two runs off four hits and striking out three on the losing effort.
Light (8-9) gave up no runs off a pair of hits while striking out three Lady 'Canes.
With the split, Southwestern completed their six-game homestand and will return to action Thursday as the Lady Hurricanes travel to the state of South Carolina for a doubleheader contest against Anderson starting at 3 p.m.


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The vast majority of users on Xbox One are considered "good" according to Microsoft, but others can be considered "Needs Work" or get the label "Avoid Me" -- and they're getting warnings starting this month.
Microsoft plans to start notifying Xbox One users of these labels: the green "Good", the yellowish "Needs Work" and the red "Avoid Me" -- that have been placed upon them by other players, according to the Xbox Wire blog. It's all about creating a more friendly environment for all, it says.
- "Good Players" – The majority of gamers will fall into this level. As we've said before, we have plans to introduce rewards for good behavior and look forward to sharing more in the future!
- Warnings for "Needs Work" – Beginning this month, some players will start receiving reputation warnings as their reputations drop due to feedback from the community. The purpose of these communications is to remind players about their effect on the community and encourage them to have more positive interactions. These warnings are based on community feedback collected since Xbox One launched.
- Penalties for "Avoid Me" – If players do not heed warnings and continue to have a negative impact on other players and the Xbox Live community, they will begin to experience penalties. For example, people with an "Avoid Me" rating will have reduced matchmaking pairings and may be unable to use certain privileges such as Twitch broadcasting.
The post is very clear about saying this isn't all about slapping hands and shaming, but about matching people with the right players. (Xbox is very clear that the policy can't be used by vindictive gamers who want to hurt better-skilled players, nor is the algorithm based on a few weeks' activity.) Besides, does anyone really want to play a game, virtually or in real life, with a jerkface?


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General purpose cleaners should be effective for most purposes and can remove 99% of germs.
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Hydrogen-peroxide products do not contain carcinogens, asthma-causing chemicals (like bleach or quaternary ammonium compounds), or alkyl phenol ethoxylates (which break down into toxic byproducts). It is readily biodegradable.
Concentrated products are environmentally preferred due to savings in fuel during shipping. Dilution systems built into the packaging prevent users from becoming exposed to concentrated chemicals. When a cleaner is diluted incorrectly or too strongly, it doesn't clean as well wastes product.
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Why Go Green
Green cleaners on this site:
- Have safer ingredients. Cleaning products often contain a variety of hazardous ingredients, including quaternary ammonium compounds, alkylphenol ethoxylates, 2-butoxyethanol, glycol ethers, and ethanolamine. These pose health hazards to workers and building occupants, as well as environmental hazards downstream.
- Reduce waste, by emphasizing recycled and/or recyclable packaging.
- Are sold as concentrates whenever possible, which means that shipping weight is 1/64 – 1/256 that of ready to use products - dramatically reducing fuel requirements for shipping.
- Often use dilution systems to prevent exposure to concentrated products.
- Cost roughly equivalent to conventional products (see our report).
Criteria for General Purpose Cleaners
Use general purpose cleaners certified under Green Seal GS-37.
The Department of the Environment may conduct its own review of specific products that are not formally certified by Green Seal or Ecologo, to determine whether those products substantially meet the standards established for the various categories of certification, and on that basis allow the use of those products.
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The Real Cost of Institutional Green Cleaning (2009) Report by SF Environment includes a cost survey of conventional vs. green cleaning products. Costs were roughly equivalent for most product categories. Costs of ready-to-use products averaged 15 times higher than concentrates; aerosols averaged 27 times higher.
Guide for City Staff
City Custodians:
- Are required to buy these cleaners (if needed):
- Post the City department green cleaning checklist/poster.
- Post tips (for microfibers, disinfecting, dusting, polishing, floor care, kitchens, restrooms) and watch custodial green cleaning training videos in English, Cantonese, and Spanish made by SF Environment.
- Disinfectants are only important for surfaces like doorknobs.
- Switch to microfiber mops and cloths, which can prevent injuries because there's no need for heavy mop buckets.
- Install closed-loop dilution systems (if possible) to prevent employee exposure to hazardous concentrates.
Non-custodial City Staff:
- Try microfiber cloths, which can get rid of 99% of bacteria with plain water.
- Get discounted consumer general purpose cleaners, disinfectants, dish soaps, hand sanitizers.
- Make cleaners (air fresheners, oven cleaners, mold and mildew remover, wood furniture polish) with things like baking soda, castille soap, or lemon juice.
- See other safer consumer products at GoodGuide.
Recycling Instructions
It's illegal to trash cleaners (and other chemicals, electronics, lighting, metal, paints). So do one of the following:
- Use what you already have.
- Give them to someone who needs them.
- Legally and safely dispose them. Post this recycling poster above each trash bin. Then get a pick up.
Citywide Contract
See discounted prices in the most recent Janitorial Cleaners Contract Award.
Guide for Small Businesses & Homes
- Try microfiber mops and cloths, which can get rid of 99% of bacteria with plain water.
- Make your own cleaners from common materials like baking soda, castille soap, or lemon juice.
- See consumer products on GoodGuide.
- Use disinfectants sparingly. The most important surfaces are doorknobs.
- Choose ready-to-use, peroxide- or citric acid-based disinfectants. Avoid disinfectants that list hypochlorites or quaternary ammonium compounds as ingredients (e.g., ammonium chloride).
- Small businesses can save money by switching to industrial/institutional cleaners. Ready-to-use products are 15 times more expensive than concentrates.
- Custodial companies that are SF Green Businesses should watch custodial green cleaning training videos in English, Cantonese, and Spanish and consider posting Custodial Green Cleaning Tips (available in Spanish and Chinese) by SF Environment.
- Legally and safely dispose of cleaners (and other chemicals, electronics, lighting, metal, paints) in the San Francisco Bay Area or rest of the U.S.
Guide for Large Organizations
- Post the Custodial Green Cleaning Checklist/Poster and Tips (available in Spanish and Chinese).
- Watch custodial green cleaning training videos in English, Cantonese, and Spanish made by SF Environment.
- When creating contracts, paste specifications from the Criteria section above.
- Try microfiber mops and cloths, which can get rid of 99% of bacteria with plain water.
- Install closed-loop dilution systems to prevent employee exposure to hazardous concentrates.
- Legally and safely dispose of cleaners (and other chemicals, electronics, lighting, metal, paints) in the San Francisco Bay Area or rest of the U.S.


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It's called Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries... Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
60% out of 100 is 60, so if you tried to woo someone 100 times it will work every time 60 times out of that 100. *Citation Needed*


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- Life After P90X, Part II: Creating Hybrid Programs
- Keep Challenging Your Muscles and Getting Extreme Results!
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Trainer Tip: Strength and power start at the core.
Your core strength, which comes from your abdomen, back, and trunk, is the center for most of your power, agility, and balance. That's why we bust out the crunches, lunges, and squats. Strengthen the core and you've got a lot more 'umph' to rock out the outer, sport-specific muscles.
Tony Horton
Life After P90X, Part II: Creating Hybrid ProgramsBy Steve Edwards
Whoever coined the phrase "variety is the spice of life" probably wasn't a fitness trainer, but they could have been. Scientifically speaking, variety is one of the most important aspects of fitness. No matter how intricate your training program, if you do it the same way all the time, your body will stop responding to it. This is why despite the fact that P90X is one of the most unique and varied home fitness programs ever created, we continue to add wrinkles to it. Even then, Tony Horton is still only one person. By combining various trainers' fitness programs, you can create an intricate web of muscle-confusing possibilities and make it virtually impossible for your training program to go stale.
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as tossing all your home workout videos into a basket and grabbing one each morning. There's a right way and a wrong way to construct a hybrid training program. But you also don't need a degree in exercise physiology to figure it out. Creating hybrid training programs only requires that you understand why the individual programs you're combining work the way they do. Once you're hip to a program's structure, it's a fairly straightforward process to mix and match workouts.
Step 1: Choosing similar programs
It should be obvious that the programs you're mixing should have similar intensity levels. INSANITY® and Sweatin' to the Oldies aren't likely to play to the same crowd. The only time you may want to combine programs that are on different levels is if you're working on something new. An X grad who can't dance would choose a basic dance class if learning to dance were the objective. A high/low combination is preferable on many athletic levels, but only if the low-level program is something that you're not good at. Using Beachbody® programs, I present a few examples:
Power 90® + Slim in 6®
P90X + Power 90
INSANITY + Kathy Smith's Project:YOU! Type 2®
Good high/low combos
P90X + Hip Hop Abs®
INSANITY + Yoga Booty Ballet® Classic
INSANITY + ChaLEAN Extreme®
The first two good high/low combos would only make sense if you were bad at dancing or yoga and had the desire to improve. The third would be a good combo for someone who was very cardio-fit but wanted to gain some muscle and was new to lifting weights.
Step 2: Isolating each program's elements
Once you've chosen the programs you want to combine, the next step is to isolate each program's elements from a physiology perspective. The most basic difference is whether the workouts are cardio, resistance, or recovery based. The time required to recover from similar workouts is the key to identifying them.
Entry-level programs tend to be more simply structured. Power 90 includes Sculpt Circuit 1-4 (resistance workouts), Sweat Cardio 1-4 (cardio workouts), and a stretch (recovery) workout. However, entry-level programs also sometimes combine different training elements in the same workout. Slim in 6 has cardio and resistance in each workout. When this occurs, you'll often want to abridge workouts in hybrid programs. For example, you can drop the band movements at the end of Slim in 6 if you're combining it with a resistance-based program like Power 90.
Graduate programs often have workouts that target higher degrees of muscle breakdown, which requires more rest between similar workouts. Plyometric training, for example, shouldn't be done as often as standard cardio. The P90X resistance workouts are only designed to be done once a week as opposed to the Power 90 resistance workouts, which you do three times per week. Always consider a workout's intensity before adding it to your schedule. Creating a "harder" schedule is not necessarily better. If something isn't on the original schedule more than once per week, there's probably a reason you don't want to schedule it more often.
Step 3: Understanding the styles of training schedules you're combining
Power 90 uses a pretty standard training schedule. You do cardio one day and resistance the next. The schedule works by adding speed, resistance, and intensity over the course of the program. Slim in 6 uses something called Slim Training®, which is a progressive-overload style of training that's only designed to be done for short periods between breaks. Daily intensity is reduced so that you can repeat a similar workout within 24 hours. This format lessens the amount of muscle you're able to build but induces metabolic changes that lead to quick fitness increases. On a more advanced level, P90X follows the standard approach that Power 90 follows whereas INSANITY follows the Slim Training model.
Step 4: Setting a goal
You can't make a plan without an objective. People try it all the time, but these programs can seem muddled and may often lead to overtraining if you don't have an objective. The most common mistake when designing programs is making them too hard. This is usually done for a noble reason; people are simply interested in whether they can do it and want to push themselves. They often can, for a while. But the haphazard "more must be better" approach leads to overtraining every time.
Tangible goals are gains in size, gains in strength, increases in various areas of fitness, reductions in body fat, and looking different. I don't consider weight loss a tangible goal unless it's for a strength-to-weight-ratio sport. I know that probably most of you target it, but your goal should be body-composition change and not weight loss. If your ideal body is slimmer than your current body, you will lose weight. But focusing on weight numbers and not training improvements is what causes most people to sabotage their programs before they have a chance to work their magic.
Step 5: Are you ready for your program?
The second big mistake people make when designing hybrid plans is not being physically ready. This is also usually due to the "more must be better" mindset. People often get impatient and create a hybrid before they've finished their original programs. In most cases, this is a huge mistake.
Our programs are designed to work over a period of time. Slim Training programs are designed for the biggest changes to happen in the latter stages, usually in weeks 6 to 8. P90X's schedule attempts to create a peak at around week 12. Cutting these programs short to "make them better" will almost always make them worse because you don't allow the physiological adaptation to progress into a mastery phase before you move into a new period of adaptation.
Here's the litmus test. Before you sit down to sketch out a hybrid program, ask yourself if you've mastered the programs you're going to mix. If you haven't, you'll be better off doing the individual programs first. Hybrid programs are not better. They are next-level, which only applies if you've reached the first level before you begin.
There's one exception to this and that's training for a sport or an upcoming event. There are times when you'll want to mix and abridge programs before you're ready, but that's a different subject. Check out the articles on customizing P90X to learn about sports-specific training using P90X.
Step 6: Designing your program
Rather than try to cover every variable, I'll use some examples of P90X/INSANITY hybrids and point out some of my logic.
Example 1
Block 1
- Day 1: Chest & Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2: Plyometric Cardio Circuit (INSANITY workout)
- Day 3: Shoulders & Arms, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4: Yoga X
- Day 5: Legs & Back
- Day 6: Pure Cardio & Abs (INSANITY workout)
- Day 7: X Stretch
Recovery Week
- Day 1: Core Cardio & Balance (INSANITY workout)
- Day 2: Core Synergistics
- Day 3: Cardio Recovery (INSANITY workout)
- Day 4: Yoga X
- Day 5: Pure Cardio & Abs
- Day 6: Cardio Recovery
- Day 7: X Stretch
This is P90X classic with INSANITY as a substitute for the cardio workouts. The recovery week is very cardio-oriented. Subsequent blocks would follow the P90X classic schedule and increase the difficultly of the INSANITY workouts. A program structured like this would offer similar benefits to those of P90X classic. The more difficult cardio workouts would make this program optimal for anyone who feels as though they've mastered P90X.
Now let's take a look at how we'd design a lean schedule using these two programs.
Example 2
Block 1
- Day 1: Core Synergistics
- Day 2: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
- Day 3: Cardio Power & Resistance (INSANITY workout)
- Day 4: Yoga X
- Day 5: Core Synergistics
- Day 6: Pure Cardio & Abs
- Day 7: X Stretch
Recovery Week
- Day 1: Legs & Back
- Day 2: Core Cardio & Balance
- Day 3: Shoulders & Arms, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4: Core Cardio & Balance
- Day 5: Chest & Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6: Cardio Recovery
- Day 7: X Stretch
I set this up assuming people wanted to keep some of the gains they'd made during P90X classic but wanted to improve their cardio fitness. Over the course of this program, I would increase the INSANITY intensity and end up dropping the second Core Synergistics workout of the week in favor of another hard INSANITY workout. During the scope of INSANITY-style cardio, purely resistance-based workouts would act as recovery for the systems being worn down, even though a lot of muscular breakdown would still occur. If I had little interest in maintaining muscle mass gained during P90X, I would change the recovery week to something more traditional by doing more steady-state cardio (no max intervals), stretching, yoga, and lighter resistance training. Like this:
Recovery Week
- Day 1: Cardio Recovery
- Day 2: Core Cardio & Balance
- Day 3: Yoga X
- Day 4: Core Cardio & Balance
- Day 5: Core Synergistics
- Day 6: Cardio Recovery
- Day 7: X Stretch
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8th Law of Exercise: Sleep (and Stress)By Tony Horton
Stressed out, sleep-deprived people don't eat right and don't exercise regularly. Stress depletes your energy, strength, and desire, while poor sleep habits affect your moods and immune function, along with your cognitive and motor performance. Burning the candle at both ends makes it impossible to be fit and healthy.
Do you realize that if you took the fear and anxiety out of every "stressful" situation in life, the end result of that situation would greatly improve? You can panic and freak out all you want, but time will still pass and life will happen, whether you stress out about it or not. So why not choose patience or curiosity? Patience is a virtue, and who wouldn't want to be virtuous in a stressful situation? To be curious means asking the right questions to help find solutions. When does fear, worry, or anxiety ever help a situation? Stress occurs when we are incapable of moving through a situation logically, peacefully, positively, productively, and gracefully. It take a lot of energy to be stressed out. Allowing stress to overtake you means you're having a tough time dealing with reality. Don't let stress get your goat. Stand up, take a deep breath, and see if you can deal with reality under pressure. I like the parable about the 10 people standing in line at a bank. Three robbers come storming in—screaming, yelling, and waving guns around. They terrorize the place and steal everyone's jewelry and money. What's the moral of the story? Ten people experiencing the same event will have very different reactions to it. Some will never recover, while others will have a crazy story to tell at cocktail parties. How do you respond to the events in your life?
I like Byron Katie's 3 Kinds of Business Theory:
- God's Business. The things that happen in this world that are out of my control.
- Their Business. The choices other people make based on their life experiences so far.
- My Business. The choices I make that shape my life.
Don't waste your time on gossip, ridicule, envy, self-pity, anger, guilt, arrogance, impatience, regret, manipulation, jealousy, fear, worry, and anxiety. It's too stressful, and it destroys the energy you need to stay healthy and fit. If you choose understanding, truth, clarity, patience, devotion, gratitude, acceptance, wisdom, and forgiveness, you will have peace of mind and all the energy in the world to do whatever you want.
Sleep does more than make you feel rested. Two recent studies with healthy volunteers demonstrated suppression of immunological function in participants after one night of modest sleep deprivation. The activity of certain white blood cells and the production of chemicals essential for immune system performance significantly decreased. After a good night's sleep, most immune functions went back to baseline levels. About 40 percent of adults experience sleepiness that interferes with daily activities. Most U.S. adults get less than 7 hours of sleep per night during the workweek, while research has determined that certain parameters of immune function are enhanced by more than 7 hours of sleep.
Another study showed that the leading cause of traffic accidents in this country is NOT alcohol but sleep deprivation. If you don't have enough energy to stay awake to drive your car, how will you have enough energy for a 6-day-a-week workout plan? We're not sleeping enough hours, and the limited time we spend trying to sleep is filled with so much mind chatter that we never get the rest we need.
My Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary defines sleep as follows: the natural periodic suspension of consciousness during which the powers of the body are restored. In the Taoist philosophy, there's a belief in yin and yang energies. These are opposing energies that create balance. Exercise is yang energy. Sleep and rest are yin energy. There must be proper balance between vim and vigor (yang) and inward calm (yin). If you don't get enough sound sleep, your body will NOT receive the proper restoration it needs to complete or succeed with any fitness program. So TiVo® American Idol and go to bed!
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Add wheat germ to yogurt and stir to combine well. Top with strawberry and banana slices, then sprinkle with shredded coconut for a delicious garnish and added texture. If you crave extra sweetness, add honey. Serves 1.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
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"I'm not optimistic. I'm not even hopeful," Rep. Jim Moran, whose Virginia district includes the Pentagon itself, told POLITICO. "In the next three months, six months, I think only bad things can happen. I think the president gave up his leverage, and I think this is going to be a very trying time for the country."
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His Virginia colleague, Rep. Gerry Connolly, said defense cuts have been a significant concern for the Beltway delegation since last summer, when deep, across-the-board sequestration cuts started to look more likely.
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Defense budget analyses show that as many as 200,000 jobs could be lost in Virginia, and about 100,000 are at risk in Maryland, Moran said.
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By Ben Brewcat
Ah, mead. Just as honey is one of nature's truly remarkable substances, so is its fermented product: mead. Mead is thought to be the oldest beverage fermented by humankind, and it makes sense; all honey needs to become mead is dilution with water and some yeast, which is literally everywhere. The consumption of some diluted honey by an early human, slightly foaming with the magic of fermentation, would have caused the now well-known "say, that's good!" Somewhat later, after some particularly enthusiastic dancing or storytelling, an enterprising soul decided that arranging to have this stuff around more often would definitely be a good thing!
Many human cultures learned to harvest honey, and as apiculture advanced, mead followed. Mead has been with us a long time, and is now enjoying a resurgence in production (both commercial and home-based) and in appreciation. From the dim past to the Greek gods on Olympus to Beowulf, mead has earned a special place in our imagination. Words such as "medicine" and "honeymoon" derive from mead. I hope that this introduction inspires you to explore this remarkable beverage and, in making your first or your hundredth batch, to participate in the history (and future!) of human's relationship with this wonderful honey product.
Making Mead
At its most basic, mead has three ingredients: honey, water, and yeast. Meadmaking has some similarities to winemaking or beer brewing, and some differences. We'll talk briefly about equipment, ingredients and techniques, and encourage you to use the discussion forum to get ideas and your questions answered.
Basic Equipment: Check your yellow pages for a local home winemaking or home brewing shop. Many good online sources exist as well for those who don't have access to a good shop, but a relationship with a shop is great because they are available to answer questions, and can provide last-minute equipment and ingredients. A basic meadmaking equipment kit (for five gallons) can usually be found for $75 to $125 (U.S.), and should include the following:
- A plastic fermenting bucket of 6 to 8 gallons, with an airtight-fitting lid and a hole for the airlock (a 6.5-gallon carboy may be used as well, unless you plan on using whole fruit)
- A five-gallon glass carboy with a stopper and airlock
- Racking cane and siphon tubing
- Hydrometer and sample jar
- Floating thermometer (if you wish to pasteurize)
- Bottle filler
- Bottle capper (beer bottles) or corker (wine bottles). Corkers are sometimes available for rent at shops or through winemaking clubs.
Also helpful are an angled brush for the carboy, a large stockpot, stirring spoon, and a large plastic funnel that fits in the neck of the carboy. A cool doodad if you'll be doing this much is a jet bottle washer for rinsing out bottles and the carboy quickly and easily.
Advanced equipment could include an acid titration kit, a siphon starter, carboy thermometer strips, sulfite titration ampoules, etc. It's definitely worth noting that good technique, quality ingredients and time are what make good mead, not fancy equipment!
We've come a long way since those first days of wild yeasts and bacteria. Contamination causes off-flavors, poor stability, aesthetic problems, and can totally ruin a mead. Good sanitation practice and the use of pure strains of yeast are key to quality mead. You'll sanitize ALL equipment that comes into contact with the must (unfermented mead) and the mead during its life, including the fermenters, siphon equipment, airlock, bottles and caps, spoon, everything. Two ounces of unscented bleach in five gallons of water is a cheap and very effective sanitizer, but should be rinsed thoroughly before using. Ten minutes contact time is sufficient. Don't let bleach solution soak too long on stainless steel! It will pit and eat it, potentially ruining a nice (and expensive) piece of equipment. Other preparations, such as Iodophor or Star-San, are also easy to use and effective, and don't require rinsing.
One important point regarding sanitation has to do with siphoning: don't use your mouth to start a siphon! Our mouths are full of nasty bugs that can contaminate a mead in no time flat. Sanitize the racking cane and put it in the vessel you're siphoning from. With clean hands, take your sanitized siphon tube and coil it in one hand. Fill the tube with water from the tap and plug the end with your thumb. Attach the other end to the cane, lower the thumbed end to the receiving vessel, and let go. The weight of the water will start a sanitary siphon! If you're siphoning a small batch, like a one-gallon jug, you can run off the water into a slop bucket and then divert the flow to the fermenter when the mead is flowing.
The sanitation of must is a subject of some discussion among meadmakers. The good news is that lots of folks do it different ways, or not at all, and lots of folks make great meads. The goal is to have only your yeast making alcohol and flavors and aromas in your mead and NOT the "bad guys". There are four main approaches:
- Boiling the diluted must. This guarantees that the must is sterile, and helps the mead clear more quickly. It allows you to skim off protein scum that forms during the boil. The downside is that it drives off the most volatile, delicate aromas that give a good mead some of its complexity.
- Pasteurizing the must. By holding the honey mixture to 145 F for 10 minutes you will kill most of the bad guys, while damaging the honey a lot less than boiling. Many meadmakers use this compromise.
- Sulfiting. Sulfites, often in the form of Campden tablets, release gas when mixed in liquid. The dissolved gas kills bugs in the liquid, and then dissipates over twenty-four hours, leaving a sterile must to add your yeast to. Sulfites are used in the production of virtually all wines, both to sanitize the pulped grapes without having to boil them (ruining the wine) and as a potent antioxidant during racking and storage. Properly used, sulfites can be very effective. In many commercial wines, especially white wines, sulfites are enthusiastically overused which can cause problems. Some people, a few percent, are sensitive to sulfites. If you get headaches from red wines but not whites, you're likely reacting to another component and not to sulfites. Some people feel that sulfites are objectionable and wouldn't touch them with the end of a compost rake, and some use them judiciously: both paths can lead to wonderful mead.
- Not sanitizing must at all. With good attention to sanitizing your equipment and adding a strong pitch of yeast to ferment, you can count on your yeast to out-compete the bad guys. Some strains of yeast actually have a "killer factor" that helps it dominate a must quickly. Healthy yeast, and lots of it, are keys to this method.
For most first-time meadmakers, it's usual to recommend the pasteurizing or the "nothing" methods for their simplicity; pasteurizing is probably the most common and consistent, until you're ready to experiment.
The topic of honeys for meadmaking is broad and, since many of the readers here are familiar with honeys, will not be delved into in great depth in this discussion. Generally speaking, stronger-flavored honeys will contribute their character more assertively to the mead, especially after sweetness ferments out. Eucalyptus honey, for example, can be challenging to make an enjoyable mead from. Honeys that have not been subjected to extensive filtering, heating, pasteurization and other processes tend to make higher-quality meads. Granulated honey is usually fine, unless it has begun to ferment because of the higher moisture content of the non-granulated aspects. Using a single variety of honey to make mead allows the meadmaker to understand what character that particular variety contributes to the mead, while blending varieties can allow one to include complementary flavors for interest or balance. Blending finished meads before bottling usually gives greater control over a finished mead's character.
The importance of water used in meadmaking has not been extensively described, but some commonsense guidelines apply. Most municipal water supplies are sanitary and fine for meadmaking, though the mead will certainly benefit from removal of chlorine and chloramines either through carbon filtration or the addition of tiny amounts of sulfite (one campden tablet in 20 gallons), changing the chlorine compounds to innocuous, even helpful, sulfates and chloride ions.
Another recommendation is to avoid using distilled water. Though its purity is touted loudly on the label, the total absence of minerals will make the yeast struggle to perform well. They, like we, depend on trace minerals and other compounds to be healthy; even very soft municipal waters will have helpful "impurities" the yeast need like magnesium. More subject to preference is the use of very hard waters. Hard water has a dry sensation, and can taste quite good on its own. In fact, many bottled waters are just distilled water with some salts, calcium sulfate or other "hardeners" added for taste. If you feel that hardness is complementary to your mead, go for it! Note that it's easy to add hardness to soft water but much harder to reduce hardness.
Basically, if your water tastes good to you, use it!
Most musts of just honey and water lack nutrients the yeast need. If fruits are added to the must, many of these deficits are ameliorated by the fruit, which contributes nitrogen. Most winemaking suppliers can provide a balanced nutrient in a powder form that is added when the yeast is added (called "pitching"). You'll also sometimes see "energizer" offered. The labeling of these products can be confusing, as there isn't a widely accepted standard for what they mean. Many nutrients are centrifuged yeast cells; some also contain minerals and B-vitamins and other components. Generally an energizer is a source of nitrogen, either in the form of DAP (diammonium phosphate) or other formulations. One could think of "nutrient" as a healthy breakfast, giving needed building blocks for the day's work. The "energizer" could then, to follow our analogy, be a strong cup of coffee to get you started or over a difficult hump. Be sure to use these products as directed by the manufacturer, not adding a set amount because the recipe calls for it. The person who made the recipe may have used a different source for nutrient or energizer that was twice (or half) the strength of yours!
Many meads will benefit from a modest addition of some form of nutrient, and "traditional" meads with just honey may benefit from both nutrient and energizer. High-gravity meads especially will get started more reliably with some help. The risk of not using them is a slow, sluggish fermentation that may not go to completion, even after a good start of healthy yeast. The risk of overusing them is off-flavors which can seriously detract from a mead. Energizer is also used to re-start a sluggish or stuck ferment, though it's a lot easier to start a mead off strong than to fix it later.
Like so many things in meadmaking, opinions vary on the importance (and the need for) of nutrients and energizers. It's pretty well accepted that the nutrients at least are usually beneficial unless those needs are otherwise met, usually by the addition of fruit.
Without yeast, it's just honey water. Yeast is single-celled remarkable organisms that eat sugars and excrete alcohol, CO2, and a lot of flavor compounds that make it into the mead. Selecting the yeast is at least as important as the other ingredients, since yeast control and influence the alcohol, flavor, and even color of the mead (pretty much everything). Pick a yeast to get the alcohol content you're looking for, which in turn determines how much sugar is left in the mead to taste as sweetness, and one whose flavors complement the mead you want.
Mead and wine recipes use to recommend champagne yeast no matter what you were making because it was readily available, hearty and alcohol tolerant. It will make a dry, alcoholic mead, but there are more choices today that allow more leeway in recipe development. Dry wine yeasts are of high quality and readily available from such manufacturers as Lalvin and Red Star. Liquid cultures (such as White Labs and Wyeast) are more expensive and must be kept refrigerated, but can offer even more variety. Bread yeast, occasionally seen in "country wine" recipes from great-grandparents, usually does not make great mead. It's possible, but bread yeasts have been selected for CO2 production and speed, not for flavor or flocculation (the ability of yeast to drop out of the mead after they've worked their magic).
See the Yeast Section (in progress) for some strains' descriptors.
Acids and Tannins.
Acid complements sweetness and prevents it from being too cloying, giving the taste a "zing". A sweet mead will often have more complexity and drinkability with some acid added. A dry mead, on the other hand, can easily get puckery with too much acid (not balanced by sweetness). Acid comes in different forms. The most widely used in mead (and wine) making are citric (from citrus fruits like lemon), malic (the principal acid in apples) and tartaric (the principal acid in grapes). Each has its own flavor. Usually meadmakers will use a blend of these acids in a convenient powder. Though many recipes call for adding a certain amount of acid from the start, many meadmakers find that fermentations progress more reliably if the acid is added later during the conditioning phase. This also allows the acid to be added to taste until the mead is balanced, rather than the "shotgun" approach.
Tannins can be used in a similar manner. They are astringent and add to the storage-ability and complexity of mead, and can also help balance sweetness. If you've ever sucked on a teabag or chewed a grape skin, that's tannin you tasted. When tasting mead, acids will be perceived on the sides (sour) and back (bitter) of the tongue, while tannins are felt on the roof of the mouth as a drying kind of roughness. Tannins are one of the reasons that red wines are aged more, to allow the tannins from the grape skins to mellow and join the wine more fully. They can thus add to a mead's aging potential and complexity, but can easily be overdone. Like acids, tannins can be added to taste but they do fade somewhat with (and benefit from) aging.
There are lots of good resources on the web for mead recipes, and lots of questionable ones too. Like everything else on the web (or anywhere for that matter), remember that just because it's written down doesn't mean the person who wrote it knew what they were talking about. Check around! Knowing some basics like those presented here will help you choose and adapt recipes so you'll enjoy your meads and create recipes you'll hopefully pass on to others.
Many meadmakers use pounds of honey per gallon of water as a starting point. Two pounds per gallon will be very dry, three can be more medium, four will be very sweet and alcoholic. The more honey the more potential alcohol (to a point). If there's more sugar than the yeast can convert to alcohol before giving up (determined by the strain you use and yeast health), there will be sweetness in the finished mead. Thus, designing a recipe can start with: how much alcohol do I want? Meads with less than about 9% alcohol may keep poorly, and really huge meads over 18% can take years to mellow out if they ever do. Many meads fall between about 10% and 13-14%, though there are a lot of meads outside that range!
The following chart describes the relation between gravity as measured by your hydrometer and potential alcohol:
One pound of honey, dissolved in water to make one gallon of must, will yield about 1.036 depending on moisture content. So let's say that you want a five-gallon, 11%, dry mead. From the chart above, you'll need a starting gravity of about 1.078. A little math: 78 "gravity points" (truncate the one-point part), times five gallons of must, means you'll need about 390 points of "total sugars" starting out. If honey gives 36 points per pound per gallon, take 390 divided by 36, and you'll need 10.75 lbs honey (rounding for convenience is a meadmaker's friend!) plus water to make five gallons. See how that works?
Let's try a three-gallon, 14% alcohol, semi-sweet mead. We'll choose a yeast that is alcohol tolerant to 14%, and start with enough sugars to leave (theoretically) about two percent's worth of unfermented sweetness. Several strains would be good for this; let's say we'll use Lalvin's D-47 Cotes-dú-Rhone for its aromatic and fruity notes. Again consulting the potential alcohol chart, finding 16% (minus the 14% the yeast should consume leaves 2% for us to taste, a semi-sweet level) means we'll need to start at 1.103 or so. Mazers, start your calculators! 104 (starting gravity minus the "1." part) times three gallons = 312 total gravity points. 312 divided by 36 p.p.g. for honey means we'll need eight and two-thirds pounds plus enough water to make three gallons. Slick!
This procedure will hold for any mead you'll want to make. Note that the yeast do not read the same books we do, and do not always perform the way we want. However, if they've been treated well we can usually count on them to get us near their published tolerance level. High-alcohol or high-gravity musts, or musts with a lot of acids, can inhibit them from reaching that level and they'll give up prematurely. Preparing a nutritious starter to propagate the yeast and providing adequate nutrients will help them do their best.
Basic procedure
Following a recipe or making your own, the procedure will be pretty similar. You'll prepare and sanitize all equipment as described above. Dissolve your honey into the water, using the must preparation method of your choice (none, pasteurization, boiling, sulfiting). Add nutrient and energizer if you're using them. Pour this mixture into the sanitized fermenter and mix well. Take a hydrometer reading at this point. If you're using dry yeast, rehydrate it by sprinkling the yeast into a glass of warm (100-degree) water (not juice or must) and letting it sit covered for five minutes, then stir gently before adding to the room-temperature must. Aerate the must by splashing it around or stirring vigorously with a sanitized spoon. Affix the airlock, 1/3 full of water, to the fermenter and keep between 65 and 75 degrees F.
You should see signs of fermentation within two to three days, maybe a little longer of the must is cooler. The ferment should progress vigorously at first for several days to two or three weeks and then begin to slow noticeably. At this point, sanitize your siphoning equipment and carboy, and "rack" (siphon) into the carboy leaving most of the sediment behind. Try to avoid splashing or aerating the mead oxygen is now your mead's enemy for the rest of its life! Re-sanitize and affix the airlock to the carboy and finish fermenting. When you're sure it's done fermenting (the gravity as read by the hydrometer doesn't change over several weeks, and the alcohol level is what your yeast would tolerate is there's any sweetness left) and the mead is clear, you can bottle it. Sanitize your bottles, capping/corking and racking equipment and the primary fermenter, and re-rack the mead to leave the sediment behind. From the primary bucket, siphon into bottles and cap/cork. Now: forget you made it! Try to age your mead AT LEAST six months, more like a year. Boiled meads may mature somewhat more quickly, but age always benefits a well-made mead. You can't hurry love!
In Summary
This introduction has hopefully been helpful in answering some basic questions about making mead at home. It is by no means comprehensive, and there are a lot more topics that could be explored in great depth such as yeast management, still vs. sparkling meads, mead appreciation, etc. Please direct your questions to the discussion group! The more participation, from beginner and veteran alike, the more we all benefit.
Other Resources
A good reference book for beginning to intermediate meadmakers is The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm (no affiliation).
Another good resource is the Mead Lover's Digest, an email discussion forum for meadmakers.
This is an advanced, technical discussion of meadmaking.
Many meadmaking principles are similar to those for winemaking, and Jack Keller's Winemaking Page is one of the better online references for the home winemaker with lots of recipes.
And, of course, the discussion forum here at Beesource.com is where you can get lots of questions answered quickly by experienced and helpful mazers!


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In this sermon, preached yesterday at St Mary Magdalene Church on the royal estate in Sandringham in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the Archbishop of Canterbury said the future of the church is 'one of joy and hope'
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Isaiah 9:1-5, Matthew 4:23-36
The prophet Isaiah had every reason to be gloomy. His time was one of domestic failure and and foreign threat. The King was incompetent, corrupt and foolish. The Assyrians were back to their job description of sweeping down like wolves on the fold, in this case the Kingdoms to the north, and all was dark.
Yet, when all was at its darkest, when the people were reduced to the last extreme, when there was no leadership, a Deliverer was proclaimed. Hope sprang up in the people that was so strong it sustained them through exile and enslavement again and again, and became the foundation of the hope that the apostles proclaimed.
Jesus fulfilled that hope. The country was under occupation, its religious leadership often contemptuous of the mass of the people, until John the Baptist no prophet had appeared for hundreds of years (and he had been murdered), the glories of the Maccabees had gone.
And Jesus appears and goes from place to place preaching the Kingdom of God. Death was conquered, despair fled, and amidst fear and persecution the early Christians learned to live lives of purpose, hope and beauty that set the standards of goodness and virtue to this day.
But what does the church do now? Grand words do not reverse the decline of decades. A study published by the Church of England 10 days ago was clear about both growth and decline and their causes. Yet at the same time the church is full of life. Whether it is growth in church based credit unions fighting the loan sharks, the staffing of food banks, debt advice, shelters for rough sleepers, schools, hospices, being the centre of the community in rural areas and far, far more, in addition to caring for the bereaved, marrying and baptising, the church still holds communities together.
Usually unseen, churches of all sorts love and serve with vigour and passion, and while doing so are clear about their faith in Christ that motivates their action.
That motivation starts for all of us with prayer, and also for the church as a whole with a renewal of what is called Religious life. Unless we are deeply prayerful and full of love from and for Christ, we are rotary with a pointy roof. Rotary is good but we are a church. In prayer we meet Christ, we listen first (St Benedict starts his Rule with the word "listen"), and are forgiven, renewed, empowered, directed, comforted.
The Religious or monastic life has been the bedrock of the church since the fourth century. Christians living in communities, in different ways, with the aim of encouraging a closer walk with Christ, have set the pace for all Christians everywhere. This last week we have begun a Religious community at Lambeth Palace, from a Catholic religious order called Chemin Neuf. They are ecumenical and modern, traditional and disciplined, they will hold us to our commitment to prayer.
Secondly, the church must learn good disagreement. Christians will never all agree on everything, they never have. That is true for the Church of England, let alone the Anglican Communion in 145 countries. Christ does not command unanimity, but love and unity in diversity. St Paul says God reconciled us to Himself when we were his enemies.
So we must be reconciled to each other in love. The command of love, even for enemies, flowing out of God's reconciling love for us, is hard. In South Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa this coming week, my wife and I will see it at its hardest. But it is the Anglican Archbishop of the Sudan who is leading the work there, and his equivalents across the region, setting the example of courageous love. That is what has distinguished Christians across the centuries.
So as individuals and the church we need to be reconciled to God through Christ, to each other in the church, and to be reconcilers in all sorts of conflict from domestic and local to multinational. How we do that is varied and complex, but above all it is by action in the love of Christ and the power of His Spirit – not in fine words alone.
Thirdly, we must renew our confidence in proclaiming the good news of the love of Christ for every human being. Making disciples is at the heart of our mission. We must not be ashamed of talking about numbers, or of making the effort to speak of as well as show the good news of Jesus Christ.
A friend of mine who runs a thriving church in a rough area – a church which he has seen start, grow and develop especially with new believers who are young and without church background – says often "the best decision anyone can ever make is to become a disciple of Jesus Christ". It is that confidence that has meant his church is engaged in meeting needs unconditionally, is spiritually vibrant, gloriously diverse and individually challenging. The same can be true of any church in any locality.
Pope Francis wrote recently an Apostolic Exhortation on the The Joy of the Gospel, saying among much else that there is no need for Christians serving their Lord to look as though they have just come from a funeral. Collectively and individually we carry the good news that Isaiah prophesied and Jesus proclaimed. Faithful in prayer, reconciled by Christ, confident in His message, despite our failings the future of the church is one of joy and hope.


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Every so often a designer comes along with enough skill to charm editors, enough charm to seduce socialites, and enough good sense—for both hemlines and bottom lines—to make you believe he just might stay a while. In the five seasons since he launched his namesake collection, Joseph Altuzarra's carefully constructed, unabashedly body-conscious clothes have been embraced by such disparate icons as socialite Lauren Santo Domingo and pop star Rihanna. Though the Paris-born, New York–based designer interned at Marc Jacobs and landed his first real design job under Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, his most obvious influence is Tom Ford during the glam Gucci years. The result of his careful study? The sex goddess is returning to a runway near you.
It's 7 p.m. and you're having a coffee.
I'm drawing tonight, and I have a weird schedule when I draw. I end around 5 a.m. I really can't work during the day.
But it's a Friday night, and you're a 27-year-old fashion designer. Shouldn't you be out doing cocaine or something scandalous?
I'm afraid of drugs. I honestly think that with our generation—Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller—there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.
A stylist friend of mine described your clothes as "whorish."
That's funny. It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness. But, yes, the clothes are definitely for a woman, not a girl. They're in the vein of Azzedine Alaïa.
You didn't go to design school, but you're clearly educated. Does that give you an inferiority complex or a superiority complex?
When I started in fashion after studying art history at Swarthmore, I definitely had an inferiority complex, because I didn't learn about any of the technical stuff. The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
What was it like to wear one of your dresses for this shoot?
This was my first time fully putting on a dress. Drag's not really my shtick. Maybe it's the very French-Catholic thing, but I'd have to be very drunk. Still, I like how you go to Fire Island and there's an obese drag queen in a sequined bikini splashing around in the water, and it's, like: Great! No judgment!
But couldn't your clothing be accused of casting a pretty harsh judgment on women who don't have the bodies to pull it off?
[Laughs.] They're definitely a gay man's ideal of a woman, which is why I work with women—like my creative consultants, Vanessa Traina and Melanie Huynh, and my mom, who's also the CEO of Altuzarra. Because they can be like, Yeah, this dress is great, but I can't wear a bra with it.
Do you feel that the socialites who like your dresses have put you on the map?
Whether it's Lauren Santo Domingo or Mary J Blige or Carine Roitfeld, it would be dumb of me to say that famous people wearing my clothes doesn't do anything for the brand. Let me say this, though: I'm aware that many people are not wearing them because they like them but because they think it's what's hot right now. I'm comfortable with the idea that I'm the flavor of the moment and that in a couple of years people might not think I'm cool anymore.
What flavor is that?
Maybe the French-export flavor—although there are some very un-French things about me. For example, I hate cheese; it's moldy and disgusting. And I don't do bone marrow. And I don't eat oysters.
When did you become aware of the difference between clothing and fashion?
In high school. I was really unpopular, so a lot of it came from wanting to change my social status. Then I discovered Tom Ford through the Gucci advertising. It was really about image more than clothing.
Do you think it's better to have bad style or no style at all?
No style. I don't think everyone should be interested in clothing.
Are you a good dresser?
Not really. One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.
What do you feel you need to get better at?
I'm a poor communicator because I'm terrified of confrontation. I can be miserable in a relationship for months without showing anything, then very abruptly break up with the guy over the phone.
What do you think a psychiatrist might say about that?
I think it's very hard for me to feel loved.
Is it easier to feel that your clothes are loved?
Exactly. Which is probably why designers become designers.


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O my God, Thou knowest I have never desired but to love Thee alone. I seek no other glory. Thy Love has gone before me from my childhood, it has grown with my growth, and now it is an abyss the depths of which I cannot fathom. -St. Therese
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Map 1: California.
Alta, or Upper, California stretched from San Diego in the south to San Francisco in the north. From San Diego south, the region was known as Baja, or Lower, California. The peninsula south of what is today the state of California is the only section still known as Baja California and is part of Mexico.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck just off the coast of Cuba on Thursday and was felt in Florida, according to the National Earthquake Information Center.
The quake struck in the Straits of Florida, off Cuba, about 17 miles north-northwest of Corralillo at 3:57 p.m.
The quake swayed medium-rise buildings in the Cuban capital and was felt in Key West.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The temblor was centered about 107 miles east of Havana and 22 miles northeast of Marti. It struck at a depth of about 6.2 miles.
In Havana, the quake was felt clearly by workers in two 6-floor buildings that were temporarily evacuated. It appeared to last around 30 seconds.
Meanwhile, in the lower Florida Keys, some residents felt the earthquake. City of Key West officials said they could feel the shake, but no objects fell from the walls or shelves.
Becky Herrin, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman, was in her office located just outside of Key West when the room started swaying.
"I was in my office, sitting in my chair at my desk. Suddenly I felt this swaying motion. Suddenly, I heard from other offices: 'What was that? What was that?'" she said.
Herrin said the sheriff's office got calls from residents who had felt it too.
"It wouldn't surprise me if anyone's picture fell off of the wall," she said.
But it was first time in the 28 years she has lived in the Keys that she has felt tremors.
"It's not something we get here," she said.
The U.S. Geological Survey calculated the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1. (Click here for their website.)
Cuba is not as known for seismic activity as are other parts of Latin America, especially countries along the Pacific's Rim of Fire.
But a number of significant quakes have hit the island over the years, including one in 1932 that killed eight people and damaged 80 percent of the buildings in the eastern city of Santiago, according to U.S. National Geophysical Data Center records.
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This week, Start Engine will unveil the latest class of companies to emerge from its startup accelerator program.
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The presentations are like a debutante ball for high tech, with a startup showing off its potential market size and revenue stream like an elegant curtsy. And companies carry the hope that a good showing in front of business's high society might catch the eye of an investor-gentleman suitor.
A bit more than a year after four startup accelerators popped up more or less simultaneously in Los Angeles, the programs already have established a central role in tech's local culture. About 80 companies have come through the area's most active accelerators – MuckerLab, Amplify, Launchpad LA in Santa Monica and Start Engine, which recently opened up a downtown Los Angeles office in addition to its Westwood location. Many of the emerging startups have gotten investments within weeks of graduating; others have stumbled out of the gate. But beyond money, the local accelerators have helped bring credibility to a startup community yearning for respect.
"We've definitely carved out our piece of the puzzle," said Howard Marks, who manages Start Engine. "It's definitely not the only part, but accelerators are good fit for a company that can benefit from a college-type community and atmosphere."
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An accelerator is essentially a boot camp for startups, where companies can get guidance and some funding while working out the kinks of their business model. The ultimate goal is to attract investors at the course's conclusion. Unlike incubators, such as Idealab in Pasadena or Santa Monica's Science Inc. that traditionally develop business models in-house and then hire outside talent to build the companies, accelerators only accept existing startups. In return, the accelerators get a piece of equity in each business.
Generally, accelerator classes involve eight to 12 companies that work alongside each other for a few months while mentors help them develop their businesses. To the classes of entrepreneurs, that professional camaraderie has a big appeal.
"Being a CEO of a company can be a lonely job; we're known as the hardest working people in Silicon Beach," said Jerry Jao, whose startup, Retention Science, was part of MuckerLab's first class "It's nice to see other people struggle too."
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Has the euro been saved? (part 2)
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At a crunch summit in Brussels, the Germans use the "D" word for default, but François Picard's panellists still express disappointment at the slow pace of change in the way politicians run the eurozone.
- Owen FAIRCLOUGH. France 24 Business Editor (from Brussels).
- Laurence BOONE. Managing Director, Head of Developed European Economics Research. Bank of America Merrill Lynch (from London).
- Laurent PINSOLLE. Spokesman, Debout la République (from Bayonne, France).
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