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Hi everyone, my name is Nick, and I'm here today to deliver to you my Faith Statement, or "Credo." It's been a long road to get to this point, and there were quite a few potholes along the way, but, honestly, unless Bull Valley finally opens their eyes, it's going to stay that way.
So, anyway, as I said, I'm here to deliver my Credo. To start off, I don't believe in a god. I actually enjoy Mr. George Carlin's take on Religion. I believe he said something along the lines of-and I quote-"I decided, instead of worshiping a god, to worship the sun. And just like that, overnight – well, not actually overnight because you can't see the sun at night- but first thing the next morning, I became a sun worshiper" End of quote. Carlin worships the sun because, as he states later in the skit, it's something he can see, therefore he knows it exists.
I believe that we should follow the Golden Rule, you know; "Do unto others as they shalt do unto you", and that the seven UU principles are a good moral code to live by. I think that Logic should be able to tell us what to do, right from wrong, most of the time. The rest of the time, just go with your gut.
I don't know what happens after we die, I honestly don't want to know, and I guess I'll have to wait to find out.
I'd like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you who have helped me on this journey, Sue, M.E., Misha, Michelle, and especially Tom Tipton, my mentor, who gave up hours of his time to sit and talk with me.
To close this up, I'd like to thank each and every one of you who have interacted with me as I take this journey into adulthood, because all of you have, in some way, influenced my decisions. Thank you.


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From arriving in Mumbai with no money at all to adopting a girls' school, Ms. Nisha Malawat's career has been one long fight to ensure a bright future for lesser-privileged children.
I, Mrs. Nisha Malawat am a crusader in any situation. India has 440 million children. That's more than the entire population of North America (USA, Mexico and Canada put together). Every fifth child in the world is Indian. 40% of under the age of 5 years is malnourished. 50% of children do not attend school regularly. Many children do not attend school because they and their families are not aware of the importance of education and because they cannot afford education for their child.I arrived in Mumbai with an empty pocket and lived like a poor child. I have myself undergone the turmoil of poverty. As I was well-educated, I saw the challenges of many other children around me. I immediately decided to spend my life selflessly for the future of these kids. I used my intelligence and prepared case studies, power point presentations and emotional discourses to collect donations from the well-endowed community. I was bound to succeed as my intention was selfless and helping the poor children regain their childhood. I started by installing a portable classroom in Ambujwadi, Malwani slum. To my surprise, many children were initially admitted for pre-school education and exposure. I thereafter appointed teachers to educate them with Basic English and exposed them to the surroundings of heritage in Mumbai and other places. To make them interested in social life and interaction, I also took them to various places on picnics. As a result, I have established three such centres in three slums. I have also adopted Diamond Girl's High School at Malegaon, Nasik, to formally educate 1200 girls. My research of poor children in the slums has convinced me to recognize two reasons for their lack of childhood, education, and exposure as well as the unavailability of funds for the schooling of their children. As a result, the children while away their time in unproductive activities and lose all interest in education. To counter this situation, I studied that pre-school education and exposure to poor children will definitely motivate them to attend school.I have set upon changing this dire situation which undermines and even destroys the future generation of the nation. To me, the first priority is children as they are the future generation. They will lead the society, community, and nation. If they are brought up with all modern methodology and technology, they can strive to become competent, law abiding citizens. Moreover, there are thousands of ill children in the slums, suffering from major illness like cardiac or neurological disease. Some of these children are competent enough to become leaders in community and society. The illness of such children requires open heart surgeries or other major diseases. Being underprivileged, they cannot afford the surgeries and treatments. I promptly and meticulously support these poor children with operations in various hospitals and take care of them after the operation. So far through Abhilasha Foundation, I have been successful in supporting more than 82 poor children with major surgeries. This is the intensive work I do with children. Besides children, I create awareness with the underprivileged women in slums. To empower them and ensure that they have a say in the future of the families and children, I strongly believe that they should generate income in one way or the other. I regularly hold meetings of such women in slums to emphasize need of working. I have established such portable rooms in the slums and provide them with assembly lines of small equipment, jewellery etc. to enable them to work and earn near their homes. In future, I also have selfless ambitions of establishing an orphanage, a formal school and senior citizen's home. I have increased fundraising by attracting foreign funds, approaching corporate and individuals in India and the online funding. I am very sure that in near future I shall be able to raise funds to fulfil my social endeavours and effectively be helpful to all.Though I have started in a small way, the pleasure I get when I see the faces of children and women who are set upon a progressive life is tremendous. In my life, no other pleasure matches the pleasure of helping them. I and my NGO, Abhilasha Foundation, has set upon giving new lives to the poor children and to ensure that they embark upon a progressive career.
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Job recruiting in Silicon Valley is broken, and these guys are trying to fix it
When Riviera Partners recruiting firm asked serial entrepreneur and Y Combinator grad Michael Ellison to join the company, he gave them a list of demands a mile long. They would need to fund a non-profit in the education sector, shift their marketing and branding strategy, and change their relationship with entrepreneurs. After he sent his requirements he assumed he'd never hear from Riviera again. "I was requesting a lot that was not traditional for a recruiting firm," Ellison says.
But much to his surprise, the very next day Riviera CEO John Simonelli invited Ellison to the firm's new offices and welcomed him to the team. Riviera wanted big changes, and Simonelli thought Ellison had the right vision to help.
Technical recruiting has been disrupted by the Web just like other industries. LinkedIn has made talent recruiting more competitive, by giving everyone access to a pool of applicants. At the same time, recruiting firms annoy the hell out of developers by cold-calling them. As a result, many headhunters don't have a great rap with the industry talent they're supposed to be placing. "We would go so far as to say recruiting is broken," Riviera's Simonelli says. "My characterization is that recruiting spends too much time focusing on the recruiter."
If the IT recruiting industry is to survive the cultural shifts, Ellison and Simonelli think it has to take a more holistic approach to the market. Riviera's decided to start by supporting developers over the long term -- not just during the job search process. The firm is trying to become long term career consultants to engineers.
Riviera's latest experiment in disrupting the recruiting industry is a partnership with teaching startup Code Path to give free bootcamp classes in Android and iOS to mid-level engineers. The first class kicked off last week, hosted in Riviera's offices.
The program itself isn't a particularly revolutionary idea. Coding bootcamps are en vogue internally at tech companies -- just see the hype around the new Twitter University. But it's certainly a unique step for a headhunting company.
By sponsoring students' tuitions, Riviera is building a holistic approach to recruiting -- one that focuses on giving back to the engineering community. The hope is that doing so will be better both for the ecosystem and for Riviera's brand. It's akin to the "consumer first" approach of many Web 2.0 startups.
Of course, the firm is banking it will make money later by placing some of the mid-level engineers in new jobs. Riviera's in a unique position to make a coding bootcamp come full circle, since it has connections with the very startups and companies that will be looking to hire mid-level developers with the right skill sets.
That said, engineers accepted into the program won't be required to let Riviera place them. "The mobile bootcamp is the culmination of...exploring new ways to essentially drive the sector higher," Simonelli says. "Because obviously to the extent there's more people with more skills, that's to everyone's benefit."
The Code Path bootcamp will address one of the biggest problems mid level developers face: not knowing new coding trends like iOS and Android. As a result, they get overlooked for jobs they might be interested in.
Code Path co-founder Tim Lee said he faced the painful experience of hiring in his last startup. "I realized that one of the reasons hiring is so hard is because of the risk it entails... There was tons of resumes I was frankly not even accessing -- literally tens of thousands of engineers that I don't feel like I can take a risk on, because they're working on something so different from what our platform is built on."
There are plenty of other bootcamps out there capitalizing on this problem, like App Academy or Hack Reactor, but for the most part they charge a whopping 10-20K tuition for classes. When Lee started Code Path, he had a very personal reason for wanting to offer education for free to engineers. "I'm in my 30s now, and me and my wife will be paying back student loans until we're dead," Lee says.
Unfortunately for engineers, competition to get into the program is stiffer than Ivy league acceptance. Code Path got 350 applications for the first class and only accepted 17. Plus, the bootcamp is still in its experimental phase. "The first class started last week," Simonelli pointed out. "So we have a long way to go before this proves itself out."
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Treasures in Heaven
Matthew 6:19-24
19 'Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust* consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust* consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Today's Lectionary Readings contain this reading which has personal resonance from a time when we returned to the United States for a mere ten months, an interlude between time in the Middle East and time in Germany.
While we were living in the Middle East, Tunisia (you could argue that is Africa, not the Middle East, and I would respond "it is both") and Jordan, we often heard from family members and friends how afraid they were for us, with all the violence in the Middle East. Yes, we were robbed a couple times in the Middle East, but I mostly felt safe. When we were robbed, it was by people who were desperately poor. That they stole was stuff that could be converted to cash to feed their families. I didn't fear personal violence, except, of course, for terrorism, of being targeted randomly, as an American.
It was when we moved to Fort Leavenworth that I found myself awakening at night when I would hear things and nudge AdventureMan and say "I hear something!" He was always patient with me, getting up, grabbing a baseball bat and checking (so brave!) only to come back and say "there was nothing, all is well."
Mostly, I worried about the carpets. We had acquired an addiction, a love of woven and flat woven carpets. We bought regularly in Damascus, where Iranians departing after the overthrow of the Shah were selling them to raise enough money to establish residence elsewhere. Each piece was unique, and lovely, except for one. AdventureMan was so careful about the carpets that he didn't want to put one in the dining room, so I bought one that was beautiful but not special and said "this is MY carpet, and it is for the dining room."
I still love this carpet; I love it in spite of the 5″ by 5″ repair which was carefully concealed by magic marker ink and only showed up years later when we had the carpet cleaned. It's a Mashad, not so finely woven, but still beautiful and unique, and it is perfect under the dining room table except we don't even use our dining room table but rarely; the dining room is now our study hall and home work room. The carpet below is not my carpet, it is like my carpet but not my carpet. It represents my carpet 🙂
But I worried about thieves coming and stealing our beautiful carpets, until this scripture appeared one Sunday morning in the Fort Leavenworth chapel and my ears were open to its relevance to me.
Especially the part about thieves. And moths. Could it be any more pointed, any more aimed directly at me and at my worries?
I started sleeping a lot better.
As much as we love them, they are only carpets, only things in the greater scheme of things. We find that in the summer time, we don't even keep them on the floors, we have them stacked in closets, or on chairs, so that the cool tile floors can be cleaned without picking them up all the time. So much for earthly treasures.
Happy Thirteen Years of Blogging to Me! Have Some Cake!
I found some incredibly elaborate cakes to serve you this year to celebrate becoming a teen-age blogger (which is to say, I've been doing this for thirteen years.)
For several years, I considered closing down this blog. I'm so glad I never acted on it. I still get so much joy on my trips taking photos of our hotels, sights, adventures and sharing maps and travel ideas with you.
There are actually trips I've forgotten I've taken. When my husband reads my travel tales, he says "Oh! You have so much fun, you and that guy you travel with. I wish it were me!"
It IS him. He just forgets. He loves reading about our trips as much as I do.
I'm not very good at being settled down. Part of growing up – I guess – is learning to accept the inevitable. I still yearn for unexpected challenges of living in foreign locations, other ways of thinking, and the smells and sights and sounds of places I have never been before.
We have a great trip coming up. We've been reading Martin Walker's Bruno: Chief of Police series. We are going to Bordeaux for a week of exploring some of our favorite wines, and then drive to the Dordogne and Auvergne for some great Autumn eats. My husband wants to explore some defenses for castles along the Dordogne and Vezere, I want to explore the land of Eleanor of Aquitaine (an amazing woman) and we both want to visit and honor the sites where some of the bravest men and women of the Resistance in WWII took great personal risks to expel the Germans and secure France for the French many died for France in their efforts.
Thus the elaborate cakes, to celebrate thirteen years, and to celebrate life and all we have yet to experience.
If you'll hold out your glass, we will pour you something special 🙂
Thank you for hanging in there all these years.
More to follow 🙂
Bozeman Yellowstone Airport
How often does an airport rate a blog entry? From the moment we landed in Bozeman to begin our trip, I was itching to take photos and show you what a beautiful job they have done positioning the Bozeman airport as the entry to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.
First, the airport is structured to look like a high-end game lodge. They have high ceilings, a huge stone fireplace, several sculptures and pieces (probably reproductions, but hey) from the Museum of the Rockies. I LOVE this airport.
I love the bobcat jumping off the ledge of the fireplace 🙂
And a last view of the mountains, from the airport.
Glacier National Park: Traveler's Rest
So we are having this perfect day, this glorious day. Mountains, sun, lakes, Spring, bear, isn't this a grand life?
Well, like every life, it has its moments. We find a perfectly average place to eat; it really looks promising and then everything we order is like pulled out of the freezer kind of stuff, not awful, just not what we would ever choose if we had known. In East Glacier, however, the season has not really started yet and a lot of places just haven't opened yet.
Then, we are ready to get settled. I know where we will be staying is near Saint Mary, and I have directions. We keep following the directions, but it isn't working. I call the B&B and tell her I am at the gas station by the gift shop and she gives me more directions, and we follow them and something is just not right.
AdventureMan is getting frustrated, I am feeling stressed and incompetent, so I call again, and somehow, this time, we discover that I am in the wrong place, about 30 minutes from the right place, which is East Glacier Village, or just outside.
Whew. Crisis averted. We get back on the road and shortly we see where we need to be.
These are some of the nicest cabins I have ever seen. They feel spacious on the inside, and are beautifully done. You can see East Glacier Village and the train depot from our porch. And the mountains.
We go into East Glacier Village to pick up some milk for our cereal in the morning, and we see the Two Medicine Grill, which seems to have fresh pie. We can't resist fresh pie.
As we are leaving, I point out to AdventureMan the Railway Depot across the street. He said no it wasn't. I was stunned. Sometimes this happens, and he is very adamant, and so sure that I doubt myself, but not this time. And then . . . then he did it. He said "Do you have a minute?" I held my breath so I wouldn't laugh out loud. "Sure," I said agreeably. So he turned the car around and zipped up and pulled into the terminal. "THIS is not the Depot!" he crowed. (Looking right at the sign that said Train Depot.) I just looked at him in amazement, and laughing, until he looked again and then he started laughing too. It was one of the best moments of the trip, and we howled with laughter all the way back to the cabin, where we sat on our balcony, looking out at the mountains, and ate our pies.
He had peach. I had cherry.
Glacier National Park: Many Glacier
We have to take the long way around to get up to the Many Glacier entrance, back through East Glacier Village to Browning, then up to Saint Mary, but no problem, because we've rented a cabin in the Saint Mary area. Going through Browning, we see tee-pees, just alongside the road:
This ride is just gorgeous, but it is not a great road. It isn't a terrible road, but it is not paved, and from time to time there are serious potholes. There isn't a lot of traffic, so we are not inconvenienced, it's just we haven't been on a road like this since maybe Africa.
Along the way, we see something we haven't seen before, a Mama Black Bear but with only one cub. The cub looks older, maybe one year old, and life must be easier for the Mama than if she were trying to feed two cubs.
It was just us and one other couple. This was heaven.
Now I want to show you how the same scene looked in Hayden Valley, in Yellowstone:
It's horrible. This was the Mama Bear and her two cubs trying to feed while people are scrambling to get their attention and photograph them.
Bear watching on the way to Many Glacier was relaxed – for her and for us.
Many Glacier Lodge
We want to come back and stay here. (Many Glacier Lodge is not open until around Mid-June) What joy, to wake up in the morning to all this beauty.
Glacier National Park: Two Medicine
Those of you who have known me since 2006, when Here There and Everywhere started, know that I am a religious woman, so what I am about to say won't bother you. If discussions of a spiritual nature distress or annoy you, just skip down to the photos.
This journey, through Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks has been one of the most profoundly spiritual journeys I have ever taken. I can understand why our First Nation people consider these places holy ground. There is a majesty, and a grandeur, and a reminder that I am a very small piece of a very large and complex creation.
The temperatures are in the 80's, but roads are still closed and you have to go around.
I loved this write-up, and of course we had to take this hike. I didn't hike to the top of the falls, but I am happy we did the hike to the view point. As an interesting aside, these falls were roaring. I've seen other photos of this falls that show it is actually two falls. In the spring, when the melt swells the flow, you can't see the two, but when the upper fall diminishes, you can see the larger, lower fall.
Running Bear and Running Eagle 🙂
The General Store at Two Medicine Lake
Picnickers at the Lake
From West Glacier National Park to Glacier Park Lodge the Long Way
We have yet to drive the complete Going-to-the-Sun road, and we know it just isn't in the cards this trip, even with the heat wave (temperatures are in the 80's F.) it just makes avalanches less predictable. The road is closed.
So we have to go around, and the going around is beautiful. The map below is from Google Maps.
From East Glacier Park Village, we will be able to take Two Medicine Road. In the old days, this WAS the road into the park, and it is beautiful. (Don't worry, I intend to balance all this navigation with a lot of photos.)
Map into Many Glacier and Road-to-the-Sun from East Entrance at St. Mary:
What is very cool is that these maps are free, online, at My Yellowstone Park.
You know we have a preference for having the road all to ourself, so an early departure – not too early, like 7:00 a.m. – gets us what we want. Google Maps tells us it will only take an hour and 19 minutes, but we are big on the experience, and we stop often, and it takes us a little longer.
The first thing we see coming into East Glacier Park Village is a gorgeous lodge, the Glacier Park Lodge. When I tried to book it, it said it would not be open when we visited and it wasn't open, but . . . the people working to get it open were very kind, and a ranger showed us through the beautiful old hotel. It has huge timbers holding up the lobby, and a beautiful skylight in the roof so it all feels bright and airy and open. This place is gorgeous.
This hotel is one of the classic lodges, built to bring visitors to see these amazing sights in a time when there were no super highways, but there were trains. Just across from the hotel is the AmTrak stop.
There is a large golf course, many activities, a famous dining room, and best of all, it is located at the entrance to Two Medicine.
Kalispell Farmer's Market, Glacier NP Apgar and Avalanche Creek
In our hotel, they give us an information sheet when we check in:
I had a tick once. It totally creeped me out. The news has it that ticks are now spreading Rocky Mountain fever. You can hike, but you have to be really covered up.
There is also, in the local paper, an ad for the Kalispell Farmer's Market. I am such a sucker for a farmer's market, and AdventureMan is a good sport, so off we go.
We spent quite a bit of time at this booth because having come through the Lake Flathead Orchard area, I have a yearning for cherries. I look for them everywhere. It is not the season, but I am wishing for some cherries. These people are growing cherries, and bottling cherry juice, which we bought. It was wonderful. We drank it like wine, and it reminded us of wine, and we also thought it would be good with champagne, like a Kir Royale, or a Samburu Sunset.
Glacier National Park is just minutes away; we are there by ten in the morning. I am posting this sign because we were constantly in and out of the park, a luxury we can afford thanks to our Senior Passes to all the National Parks which we bought when we turned 62 for $10 (or maybe $20, I can't remember.). They are now $80, and if you love the national parks the way we do, and like the freedom of being able to travel freely in and out, these passes are worth every penny.
Today we head into Apgar, where many people stay, and especially we see a lot of campers. AdventureMan wants to go on that hike at Avalanche Creek up to Cedar Trails, and we are told he can rent bear spray in Apgar.
This is the Lake Hotel, in Apgar, not the Lake McDonald Lodge. This is more motel-like.
And wait until you see the view:
These are the recycle and bear-proof trash bins. Both are taken very seriously.
We take Camas Road, which goes off to the northwest from Apgar, and we go high into the hills, where I find just about the only mosquitos I've experienced on the entire trip. That is really something, because mosquitos are very fond of me, so it turns out that this is not he best drive for me.
I did get out to take a couple photos, one of which is below. This is a patch of blueberries, the kind of patch where my sister and I and our friends would pick blueberries. We would move from patch to patch, but . . . you can see how easy it would be to be surprised by a bear, who loves blueberries as much as we do.
We drive back along the river, to the McDonald Lake Lodge, and have a lovely lunch in the lounge. I have the Penn Cove Mussels, in a silky sauce laced with saffron, and my husband has that wonderful charcuterie board again. I totally love that they have Ginger Beer. This isn't the kind I love the best, with ginger sludge and pieces in it, but it has bite.
We head back to Avalanche Creek, AdventureMan takes a hike, I stay in the car and start writing notes to remind myself of things I want to remember when I start writing up the trip for the blog.
AdventureMan always laughs when he reads my trips in Here, There and Everywhere. He says "I want to go with you! You have so much fun!" I remind him that he was with me. What we really enjoy is going back several years later and reading about our trips. There are details we've forgotten, things we are glad to remember.
(My favorite trip is December 2007, because we love Damascus so much, and the Damascus we love barely exists anymore.)
We gas up so we can get an early start in the morning, and I see this sign.
We eat at the Three Forks Grill in Columbia Falls. It has a great rating on Trip Advisor. Sometimes we just order the wrong thing. It was a nice place, we just can't remember what we ate.
This was the perfect way to end our day, along with the cherry juice from Flathead Lake. AdventureMan had the blueberry pie, and I had the cherry cobbler, bought at the Kalispell Farmer's Market and waiting for us in our little refrigerator. Heaven.
Wonderful way to end the day.
Glacier National Park: Lake McDonald Lodge and Going-to-the-Sun-Road
We settle our bags in our hotel, and as soon as we can, we head into Glacier National Park, west entrance and hurry to Going-to-the-Sun-Road. We know it is early in the season and the road may not be open, but when we got to Avalanche Creek we learn that there was an avalanche just days ago and two bicyclists were trapped several hours while rescuers tried to get them out. You can walk or bike farther beyond the gate closing the road, but you can't drive.
Meanwhile, there is much to see, but it is very very hazy. We keep thinking it will burn off, and it doesn't. Later we learn that there is a huge grass fire in Alberta, across the Canadian border, and the smoke has all blown south. It is a little hard to breathe.
Nonetheless, this place is gorgeous. This river is the color of old glass bottles, and it is swollen with snow run-off. I would not want to raft on this river at this time of year, it is too unpredictable.
At Avalanche Creek, AdventureMan took a short walk in the woods, while I walked on the road. Guess which one of us spotted wildlife? I was taking photos of Avalanche Creek when a deer walked right in front of me and settled down in a little grove of trees.
In Glacier National Park, even more than in Yellowstone, there are warnings about bear everywhere, and there are all kinds of kiosks selling bear repellent.
I grew up in Alaska. AdventureMan has heard my stories about blueberry picking so many times that he can tell the story himself, starting with "when I was a little girl growing up in Alaska, . . . " It never fails to crack me up. So, when I was a little girl growing up in Alaska and the blueberries would get ripe, my Mom would send us out to pick blueberries. We had big coffee cans hanging from string around our neck, and a stick. If we saw bear, we were supposed to beat the can with the stick and back away slowly from the bear. We were never never never to touch a cub, or to get between a cub and its mother. Those were the rules I grew up with.
There was a boy I knew who lost an eye to a bear, and had a big claw mark across his face. He was the lucky one. His friend didn't survive.
So I keep my distance. I have a healthy respect for bear, for all wildlife. This is not Disney-does-wildlife, these are bear, in springtime, and they are hungry and focused on filling their bellies. You do not want to get in their way.
I spit on bear repellent. I think it gives people false courage. It might stop a bear. It might enrage a bear. I think the best strategy is not to be alone in bear country if you can help it, especially in a remote area, and to move away slowly if you find yourself in one of those "holy shit" moments that no one could predict. And I know it's easy to say, and very very hard to know how anyone will respond to that kind of lethal threat.
Lake McDonald Lodge is lovely. It has all the features I love; huge old timbers, a three story high lobby, a huge stone fireplace, homey furnishings. I love this place:
We walk out the front door (the Lodge was built before the road was built, so the front door faces the Lake, and today you enter the Lodge through the back door) to discover there is a Lake boat cruise leaving right now, so AdventureMan buys two tickets and we scamper aboard just in time for a sundown cruise.
Can you see how hazy it is? That isn't fog, that is SMOKE!
It makes for an atmospheric photo, but . . . no visible mountains.
It is dinnertime when we return to the Lodge, and we know where we want to eat. Fortunately, it is early in the season, and we are able to snag a table without a reservation. This is the creek next to the dining room, as it empties into Lake McDonald.
This is what the Dining Room looks like. This was the best Lodge Dining we experienced. The food was exquisite and the service was experienced and sophisticated.The wait staff was really good at helping us choose wine that went with our meals.
I had a Farmer's Market salad, with smoked trout on top. It was just right for me.
My husband had a salad, and a charcuterie platter. On the platter, the meats and cheeses were all from Montana. There was smoked duck, an elk sausage, and a bison pastrami, I think. I may have gotten something mixed up.
This was one of the nicest meals we had on our trip. We thought that the lodge prices were very reasonable, too.
From Missoula to Kalispell to Coumbia Falls and Glacier National Park
Our day starts off with our divine leftovers from The Notorious Pig, and we hit the road early.
Once we leave Wye, we are on the Flathead Reservation. Things are done a little differently. There are bilingual signs, and there are special protected places for the animals to cross the highways.
This sign is not bilingual, but easily understood. AdventureMan and I are taking a short hike and he points it out. He knows I am irrational about snakes.
When we get to Polson, the road splits. The iPhone is working once again, and tells us to go up the east side of Flathead; I had thought we were going up the west side, but sometimes the phone has a better idea. This time, I think how much we might have missed – the east side is very rural, with gorgeous views of the lake and with orchard after orchard – cherry orchards!
First, we came to this beautiful Camp, Blue Bay.
It is early in the season, and there are only one or two campers, but we can see the signs that someone has been very busy preparing for the campers to come.
The Lodge is not ready for the season, but we peek in the windows; the lodge is my idea of camping 🙂
We see signs like this everywhere. Montana is working very hard to protect their lakes and rivers against an invasive mussel. All boats have to be inspected before launching. So far, this campaign may inconvenience the boaters, but the lakes and rivers have not been infested.
Sometimes I fall in love with a name – like Kalispell. We had a lot of fun in Kalispell, this day and the next day when we came back for a Farmer's Market.
This day, AdventureMan parked so I could run into City Hall in Kalispell. Two women were there, and no customers, so I asked first if there were any German restaurants, and there weren't, and then I asked where they might eat lunch and why. That started a great discussion, and then they mentioned the Split Rock, just up the street. It sounded perfect for us.
This is an old mercantile, sort of the predecessor to a much larger department store. Below is the interior of what is now a Cafe and restaurant. Their coffee smells divine.
This is what this room used to look like if you were coming in the door, a long time ago.
The special today is a French Dip Sandwich – I have a weakness for French Dip Sandwich – and this one is made of prime rib. So that is what I order. AdventureMan orders the clam chowder and half a club sandwich.
This is the best French Dip sandwich I have ever eaten. I limit the bread I eat, I limit the red meat I eat, but – not today. Today against all my better angels, I eat the whole thing. The dip is juicy and spiced, and hot. It is heaven, every bite.
This is what we had for dessert:
From Kalispell, we explored Whitefish, very picturesque. This is the old railway depot:
We get to our hotel, and we have a beautiful room. Here's the funny thing . . . I thought we were going to have a view of the mountains. What we had was a view of the roof. Mostly the underneath of the roof!
Our room is square over the lobby, and we look out on the antler chandelier. I thought maybe we should ask to be another floor up, but when I looked at the rooms from the outside, I could see that the third floor also had a view of the roof. Aargh.


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Oscar Presents
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Poet Soham Patel.
press release: Oscar Presents is pleased to welcome poets Lauren Russell, Soham Patel and Christopher J. Greggs.
About the readers:
Lauren Russell's first full-length book, What's Hanging on the Hush, came out from Ahsahta Press in 2017. Lauren is also the author of the chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2012). A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has also received support from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA / The Home School, the Rose O'Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, boundary 2, jubilat, The Brooklyn Rail, Cream City Review, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is a research assistant professor and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Soham Patel is a Kundiman fellow and an assistant editor at Fence / Fence Books and The Georgia Review. Her chapbooks include and nevermind the storm (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2013) New Weather Drafts (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and in airplane and other poems (Oxeye Press, 2018). She is the author of the full-length collections to afar from afar (@Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and ever really hear it (Subito, 2018), winner of the 2017 Subito Prize.
Christopher J. Greggs is poet, designer, and recording artist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Callaloo and Watering Hole fellow and was the recipient of the Goodman Poetry prize from the City College of New York. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as TriQuarterly, Texas Review, Great Weather for MEDIA, and the Promethean Literary Journal, among others. He is a candidate for an MFA in Poetry at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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Born: 341 BC. Died: 270 BC.
- All sensation is true, sensation is the primary source of knowledge.
- The two criteria of knowledge are a clear view and noncontradiction.
- The universe is wholly material; it consists of material and void.
- Nothing is created out of nothing, and nothing is destroyed: The universe is neither increasing nor decreasing.
- It is in the nature of human beings to pursue pleasure and avoid pain; therefore, the good or virtuous life consists in the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
- True pleasure is found in imperturbability.
- The swerve of the atoms accounts for the presence of freedom of will in an otherwise causally determined universe.
Born in Samos of Athenian parents (Neocles and Chaerestrate), Epicurus studied first with Pamphilus, a Platonist, and later on the neighbouring island of Teos with Nausiphanes. This was his first introduction to the theories of Democritus.
At the age of 18 he went to Athens to perform his military service as an Athenian citizen, with - among others - Menander.
This duty accomplished, he went to Colophon (322-310), and then on to Mytilene and Lampsacus.
In all these places he taught, and gradually developed his own philosophical system.
In 306 he returned to Athens, where he founded his famous school and laid the foundations of the Epicurean / Hedonistic system.
Epicurus tried to explain phenomena in terms of the atoms and void, an idea from Democritus. He also supported the idea of evolution and believed that the universe is infinite using the argument of Archytas. Epicurus explains perception in terms of the interaction of atoms with the sense-organs. Objects continually throw off one-atom-thick layers, like the skin peeling off of an onion. These images, or "eidola", fly through the air and bang into one's eyes, from which one learns about the properties of the objects that threw off these eidola. This explains vision. Other senses are analyzed in similar terms; e.g., the soothing action of smooth atoms on the tongue causes the sensation of sweetness.
After Epicurus' death, Epicureanism continued to flourish as a philosophical movement. Communities of Epicureans sprang up throughout the Hellenistic world; along with Stoicism, it was one of the major philosophical schools competing for people's allegiances.
Epicureanism went into decline with the rise of Christianity. His idea to explain everything mechanistically avoiding direct causes by gods was a reason that he was considered an atheist.
- On Nature
- Principal Doctrines
- To Herodutus
- To Menoecus
- To Pythocles
- Vatican Letters
- "Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little."
- "If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to [public] opinion, you will never be rich." (from "Moral Letters to Lucilius" by Seneca the Younger)
- "The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation." (from "Moral Letters to Lucilius" by Seneca the Younger)
- "Virtue consists in 1. Prudence. 2. Temperance. 3. Fortitude. 4. Justice." (from "Syllabus of the Doctrines of Epicurus" by Thomas Jefferson)


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American Idol Launch Teaser for FOX8
Two launch teaser animations I designed and animated with Leo Nguyen. We had fun crafting ideas around a central circle - the tittle of the i in "it". "it" was the centre of the script by Karen Parr and also the centre of the animation. "it" became a singer, a pie chart, a planet, and a title.


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Life After Minecraft: 5 games for the fading Minecraft fan
Although Minecraft might still be new to some of us, it does have 100 million copies in the wild, having sold over 50,000 copies per day in 2016. Even so, individual gamers do eventually lose the love for Minecraft. Often they get to the age of 12 or 13 and it feels a little bit kiddy - they want something bit more grownup and exciting (even if they rediscover the ...


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Questions remain in Eric Garner chokehold case
Were Eric Garner's civil rights violated? Will his family file a civil suit? For how long will protests continue? These are just a few of the questions that remain the day after it was announced that a grand jury decided not to indict the officer involved in Garner's death.
Garner – a 43-year-old, black, Staten Island man and father of six – died shortly after being placed in an apparent chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in July as a team of officers detained him for allegedly selling loose, un-taxed cigarettes.
According to The New York Law Journal, "[c]hokeholds have been limited by the NYPD in some form since at least 1985."
PHOTOS: New Yorkers react to grand jury decision in Eric Garner case
The incident was caught on video by a cell phone camera and broadcast nationally, fueling claims of police brutality and unfair treatment of black men by law enforcement. In the video, Garner can be heard saying "I can't breathe, I can't breathe!" Garner's death was ruled a homicide by the New York City Medical Examiner. Then, on Wednesday, the Richmond County district attorney announced that Pantaleo would not face criminal charges relating to the incident.
From New York City to Capitol Hill and beyond, reaction to the grand jury's decision was swift and severe, coming just over a week after another white police officer, Darren Wilson, escaped indictment in the August shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
RELATED: Anger flares after no indictment in Eric Garner case
Attorney General Eric Holder promised to launch a federal civil rights investigation into Garner's case – which will be led by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, the woman Obama nominated to succeed Holder as attorney general – and President Obama reiterated his pledge to personally oversee a national effort to improve the relationship between police and communities of color.
Peaceful protests erupted on the streets of New York City, Washington, D.C., Ferguson, Missouri and other major cities across America on Wednesday, with participants chanting "Hands up, don't shoot" in honor of Michael Brown and "We can't breathe" for Garner. Eighty-three arrests were made in New York City overnight, police officials confirmed Thursday. More protests are expected Thursday, and organizers are encouraging protesters to use the hashtags #ThisStopsToday and #JusticeForEricGarner across social media platforms.
By coincidence, on Thursday, Holder is expected to deliver an address from Cleveland as part of the Justice Department's community trust initiative. In another case that has garnered national attention, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – who was black – was fatally shot by a white police officer there in November.
In October, Garner's family filed a claim announcing its intention to sue the police department, the city, and several officers involved in the incident for $75 million, claiming the police acted "recklessly and negligently" in wrestling Garner to the ground and using a chokehold on him.
"I'm just tired," Garner's father Ben told msnbc Wednesday evening, standing by a group of dozens that gathered on the sidewalk where his son died. "But we got to keep going, keep marching – not just today but tomorrow."


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Kenneth J. Levine
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Michelle T. Violanti, Laura E. Miller, Ramon V. Leon
Imagined interactions are mental representations of conversations with significant others. One function they may serve is as a rehearsal for an anticipated encounter. The process by which this rehearsal occurs is investigated using Dillard's (1990) Goals-Plans-Action model and Berger's (1997) Planning Theory of Communication. A causal model is proposed for the relationships between domain knowledge, use of retroactive imagined interactions, specificity, and discrepancy of the proactive imagined interaction. This model is tested using survey data (N = 210), and additional data were collected assessing characteristics of the anticipated conversations. Results and additional analyses suggest that rehearsal occurs in many different contexts, that domain knowledge moderates the relationship between retroactivity and specificity, that specificity and valence of imagined interactions influence discrepancy, and that valence and discrepancy influence the achievement of social goals. These findings are discussed in reference to the planning and imagined interactions literatures.
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Van Kelegom, Martijn Jos, "Planning for Communication through Rehearsal Imagined Interactions. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2014.


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Made You Look: During The Rise Of Hip Hop's Most Extravagant Era, A New Star Was Born — The Video Vixen | VIXEN.
Every music video needs a leading lady, and these stars didn't come cheap.
Jasmine Washington isn't done trying to get Kirk Frost to admit to being the father of their alleged son.
According to Bossip, the former exotic dancer is willing to go to extreme measures to prove that the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star is the father, and if that means getting the authorities involved, then so be it.
Washington has reportedly been having a hard time getting Frost to take a DNA test to prove that Kannon Mekhi Washington is his son, and his unwillingness to cooperate has put a pin in her plans to move forward.
Now, Washington's attorney, Tony Mathis, is speaking out, saying they are all ready to "get the damn thing over with."
"Kirk Frost is running from taking this test," Mathis said. "He's too scared to take the test because he knows the baby is his. All he has to do is take the test. Let's get the damn thing over with."
Mathis continued, saying that if Frost does not build up the courage to take the DNA test, Washington will file a warrant against him for criminal abandonment.
"We're gonna find him," he said. "We'll alert the authorities and we're going to put a warrant out for arrest for criminal abandonment of a child."
He continued, adding that his client has been trying to provide for her son on her own, and it hasn't been easy as she has no steady source of income.
"She's struggling," he said. "She doesn't have any financial support for the child. You are dealing with a baby who has needs... If any man knows it's not his kid, he's going to be the first one to take the test. He's been running around for the last six months!"
See how the LHH: ATL cast did some good recently in the BET Breaks video, above.
(Photo from left: Jasmine Washington via Instagram, Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Every music video needs a leading lady, and these stars didn't come cheap.
We spent a year asking the biggest names in Hollywood what makes a performance Oscar-worthy. Watch as Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Barry Jenkins and more share their opinions on winning the coveted award.


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Activities > Trekking > Lamayuru - Alchi
This trek distills the very essence of Ladakh and in a short span of time, provides intensive experience of the land, its people and culture. Linking two of the oldest monasteries in Ladakh at its either end, the trail passes through dramatic desert mountainscape with vivid verdant villages tucked away into the hillsides. Highlights include the gompas at Lamayuru, Wanla, the Sumdochoon valley, inhabited by descendants of Nepalese craftsmen brought by the king of Ladakh in the 18th century renowned for their metalwrok in copper, tin and silver, and Alchi and ancient wood carvings at Sumdah Chenmo, all made in the 11th century by Rigzing Zangpo.
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Day 01: Arrive Leh and transfer to the Hotel
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Hiérarchie anatomique
Anatomie générale > Système digestif > Foie > Face viscérale > Porte du foie
The porta hepatis (transverse fissure) is a short but deep fissure, about 5 cm. long, extending transversely across the under surface of the left portion of the right lobe, nearer its posterior surface than its anterior border. It joins nearly at right angles with the left sagittal fossa, and separates the quadrate lobe in front from the caudate lobe and process behind. It transmits the portal vein, the hepatic artery and nerves, and the hepatic duct and lymphatics. The hepatic duct lies in front and to the right, the hepatic artery to the left, and the portal vein behind and between the duct and artery.


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This month I got to try out the Vegetarian Clean Fit Box. Clean Fit Boxes promise no junk, only clean fit foods. My diet consist of both being vegetarian as well as gluten free. Luckily for me all the products in the November box suited my diet restrictions. It came with an array of 5-7 samples, full size items and a monthly recipe. This month the recipe was for Pumpkin Spice Energy Balls which contained the Glean Pumpkin Flour (Full Size) that came in the box. My two favorite products were both the Glean Pumpkin Flour as I never knew it existed before this and the Artisana Organic Raw Walnut Butter. All the products were things I would like and perfectly curated for my likening. I am the type of person who buys what they like and doesn't necessarily try new products, so sampling these definitely helped me find some knew things to look out for on my next grocery shop. Clean Fit Box has 3 choices of boxes: Original, Gluten Free and Vegetarian. They come in Single, monthly and yearly subscriptions to fit everyones needs. I think this would be a great gift for yourself or a family member to get them to try new products to help them find things they might like!
Picture: (Left) Udi's Gluten Free Toast x Artisana Organic Raw Walnut Butter x Sliced Banana x Cinnamon
Picture: (Right) Pumpkin Energy Ball Recipe (In November Box) using the Glean Gluten Free Pumpkin Flour – I made the recipe my own by adding unsalted sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds to the mix.
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LEIPSIC — Fire destroyed two unoccupied buildings Monday in downtown Leipsic, but firefighters were able to save two adjoining structures.
Leipsic Fire Chief Neil Goodwin said the fire was reported about 12:01 p.m. in two buildings at 202 E. Main St.
Those buildings were destroyed. Goodwin said the buildings, constructed in the early 1900s, used to house an arcade and were being used for storage.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation by the state fire marshal, he said, but it does not appear to be suspicious.
A damage estimate has not been completed.
Firefighters kept the blaze from spreading to two adjoining buildings at 200 E. Main St., including one that houses the Uptown Market & Cafe. But two apartments sustained water damage, displacing one family.
No injuries were reported.
Firefighters cut a hole in the roof of the burning buildings and sprayed water down onto the fire, preventing it from spreading sideways, Goodwin said.
About 50 firefighters battled the blaze, including members of the Leipsic, Ottawa, Miller City, Gilboa, Bluffton, Deshler, McComb and Allen Township departments.
Assisting were the Putnam County and Leipsic emergency medical services, plus the Henry County and Hancock County emergency management agencies. Drones with thermal imaging cameras were used in battling the fire. Firefighters left the scene about 7:30 p.m.
According to Putnam County auditor's records, the burned buildings are owned by Rick and Belinda Thomas. The building at 200 E. Main St. is owned by Uptown Property Group.


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A young Alexandra immigrated with her family to Australia from Greece for a better life.
Like all immigrant children, Alexandra and her brother grew up adopting the language and culture of their new country. Their parents though, maintained most of the old ways. This caused constant conflict between them all.
Alexandra managed to avoid an arranged marriage and returned to her island home, Samos and her Yiayia (Grandmother). Here she experienced the social freedom denied her back in Australia with her parents. Life was good.
Upon her return to Australia and her parents, Alexandra had the struggle of settling into the family routine following months of absolute freedom. After her brother's wedding the pressure was on for Alexandra to be married. Eventually she gave in to her parents demands. It was not a happy marriage, and the only shining light was her son, her angel, Gabriel.
Alexandra found the strength and courage to leave her husband and begin a fresh life. It was not an easy time, but finding a job and having the support of her friends and psychologist helped tremendously. On her 30th birthday, Alexandra's closest friends presented her with a cheque to cover the cost of flights to Europe, for herself and Gabriel.
Back in Samos, Alexandra reconnected with her friends and her lover Elias. They married and had a blissful life together, and each December they would return to Australia to spend Christmas with her brother Kon and his family. When Gabriel was 18yrs, Elias lost his battle with cancer. Three years later, Gabriel died. These deaths individually devastated Alexandra, but so close together they nearly crippled her emotionally. With a quiet determination she began to rebuild her shattered life.
And so she returned to her home, Greece. There she settled into a casual job and began to enjoy life again. Then along came Alex. He had been popping in and out of her life recently, at different locations and in vastly different situations. Love blossomed, then they separated, and then they met by chance again in Australia.
Take this truly unique life journey with Alexandra. It will make you laugh, cry and dream.
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Archive for April, 2012
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Professional cooking results at home
For those of us into entertaining, there are few things that give the satisfaction of preparing the perfect meal that leaves your guests speechless. We all have the fantasy of making the perfect courses, cooked to perfection, and then basking in the admiration of our friends and loved ones. Unfortunately, at some point reality usually steps in and reminds us that very few among us possess the knowledge, experience and skills needed to make this dream really happen. However, thanks to the magic of sous vide cuisine, anyone can make this dream happen, and they can do it from the comfort and convenience of their own home. Sous vide cuisine might seem cutting edge, but the technique has been around for hundred of years. Many people have not heard of sous vide cuisine because until very recently it was the province of industrial food preparation and high end restaurants. Part of this exclusivity was the arcane nature of the cooking method. Another part of it was the expense of the necessary tools. Thankfully however, more and more companies are now offering what you need to use this cooking method, and they are offering them at far more reasonable prices.
Once you have the tools you need for great sous vide cuisine, you need the right recipes. Sometimes, finding these recipes can be harder than you would think. This is because since sous vide cuisine was exclusive to professional chefs and industrial food preparation for so long, many of the recipes are tailored for that. It can be a challenge to find a recipe that is applicable to the home chef. Thankfully, just as more and more companies are offering the tools for sous vide cuisine, more and more places are offering recipes to go along with it. So if you dream of impressing family and friends with your cooking chops, do not enroll in cooking school, look into sous vide cuisine!


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Franklin Noll, PhD, is president and chief historian of Noll Historical Consulting, LLC. Noll Historical Consulting specializes in the financial and monetary history of the US Government and the research and care of the objects stemming from that world.
Noll is a recognized authority on the history of money, Treasury securities, Civil War finance, and the US public debt. He has extensively written and spoken upon these topics, including making film and radio appearances and writing blogs for the US Treasury and Bloomberg News.
Noll began his professional life as a businessman. Coming from a small farming town in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, he received a BS in business management at Lehigh University. He then worked in the plastics industry before returning to school to study history. Earning a PhD in history at the University of Maryland, he taught history at the university level for several years, winning the Rundell Award for Teaching and being named a University of Maryland Distinguished Teacher. Noll then left academia to begin his own company.
Noll has served as the President of the Treasury Historical Association as well as the Treasurer of the Greenbelt Museum, President of the Government Securities Historical Discussion Group, and President of the Institute for Edwardian Studies. Noll has worked on several editorial boards, including EH.Net and The Federalist.
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International Committee of Money and Banking Museums
National Council on Public History
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