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The return of the wayward (prodigal) son reveals both the mercy of the Father and the lack of ability for the "stay at home" son to enjoy the gift of his father's love. His motive for staying at home and keeping the rules was revealed in his lack of willingness to celebrate his brothers return. He was so certain that he had earned the father's love and deserved his father's reward by his own behavior, that he was unable to join the celebration. (Luke 15)
This story is repeated daily within our Christian culture. There are multitudes of sons (and daughters) that are watching the party through a window, judging both the younger brother and the mercyful father. Deceived by merit-badge thinking, they remain just outside the celebration of God's Presence.
The Pharisee thanked God he was not like other men, but the tax collector cried out for mercy. In spite of the Pharisee's loyalty he missed the point. The tax collector knew he was a sinner, openly acknowleged it and asked for mercy; strangly he is the one that Jesus declares is "right with God." (Luke 18).
These two stories reveal the "unconditional love" of God. In both instances we realize that the mercy of God is free and undeserved. Jesus confronted the merit-badge thinking of His culture. He confronted the self-righteousness of the Pharisees and the bitterness of the stay at home brother. Jesus came into this culture of good people are rewarded and bad people are punished; and revealed the Father's love. Today you can ask any child and he will tell you only the good little boy gets ice cream. Right? No that is the very merit-based mentality of this world. That is the "thinking" of the culture of fallen humanity.
Christ came confronting this system. However, most of Christianity has missed the point and in the end have groomed lots of Pharisees and elder brothers.
Only after we have experienced the Unmerited Merciful Father, only after we have been embraced and clothed in unconditional love are we set free from the mentality of merit-badge thinking. Only then can we begin the process of true transformation. Transformation, as Paul says, (Romans 12:2) is the fruit of a renewed mind. A mind that does not follow the ways of merit, but is swept up in the mercy of God's Love. A mind that does not live in fear of God but by faith in His mercy and grace.
Jesus came inviting humanity home. Home to the unmerited favor of the Father. Home where our transformation would begin and our identity revealed as we continued to live in His Presence.
Over the years I have realized that it is scary to let go of one's faith in self and to trust completely in God's grace and guidance. It is easier to think that God rewards us on the basis of our own merit, to believe that we are not like other men. We however are all in need of his ongoing mercy.
To allow the old nature, the old man, the Pharisee within and the elder brother, die; is unnerving !
There is an authentic spirit-led Christianity that follows the inner voice of Grace into the fullness of dependency upon the Father's love and not upon one's own ability to prove his or her worth. To receive His daily assistance and to be shaped and formed by His love is the freedom that Christ came to bestow upon each of us.
Many others before me have written tirelessly about the death of the false self and the birth of the true self. Lately I've been compeled to echo those who have traveled before. Jesus came to invite us into this culture of grace and freedom. Jesus came to put to death the merit-based program of the Pharisee. Jesus came to bring us home into the Presence of the Unconditional Love of a never changing Father.
We can move out of the frustration into the celebration by simply accepting the goodness, the generosity, the gift of God's grace on a daily basis.
Come home to His Embrace!


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After five years in operation on Fulton Street, Barrel Head Brewhouse is ready to expand.
The San Francisco brewpub and restaurant has had its eye on the 5,000-square-foot space at 823 Clement St. — formerly the home of Pizza Orgasmica's Richmond District outpost — for at least a couple years as a possible second location. Now, with the help of a Wefunder fundraiser, they're finally building out the space.
"As with anything in San Francisco, it took a lot of time to do the demo and clear it out," said Mickey Healy, Barrel Head's social media and marketing director. To boot, the space needed to be seismically retrofitted and the plumbing system had to be updated. But now, after all the construction permits came through, they're finally working on putting the new brewpub together.
RELATED: Barrel Head among 11 Bay Area winners at World Beer Cup, the 'Olympics of beer'
The name of it, Lost Marbles, is in large part a nod to a 1991 Robin Williams classic: "Hook."
"If you've ever seen the movie 'Hook,' you know Tootles losing his marbles," Healy said. "The idea [was] that we must have lost our marbles to be opening a second bar in San Francisco so soon after opening Barrel Head."
Still, the opportunity was too good to pass up. The building owners had actually approached Barrel Head about the prospect of opening another location in the Richmond, and as brewery staffers had noted, "Clement Street has so much opportunity."
There's no set timeline for an opening date just yet, but the brewery is already discussing certain aspects of the bar. The menu will be made up of small plates, or possibly some kind of twist on chicken wings and french fries. Another conversation: the space's ambiance.
"It's going to be more of a bar atmosphere [than Barrel Head]," Healy says. "We're thinking of bringing in pinball or Skee-Ball or some kind of game. We were all big fans of the Buckshot when it was open so we're trying to bring in a bit of that."
RELATED: Barrel Head Brewhouse opens on Fulton
As for the beer, there will be a lot of it, some of which will be brewed on an in-house brewing system. Healy's hoping for some experimental beers, but it's still too early to say what might wind up on the draft board.
"[Opening] is still probably a ways away," she adds, but there's at least one important thing that's already prepped: "We've got our social media accounts going."
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Mineral Wells senior catcher Reagan Patterson swatted a home run and a double while driving in three runs to lead the Lady Rams to a 9-2 victory over the Stephenville Honeybees Tuesday night at Kessler Field.
Patterson led an 11-hit Lady Rams' attack.
Also producing a pair of hits each were senior second baseman Chandler Ortiz, sophomore third baseman Hope Patterson, junior outfielder Makayla Nance and junior Anjelica Trevino.
Sophomore pitcher Allie Stephens earned the win in the circle, allowing two runs n three hits with four walks and four strikeouts in six innings.
Freshman Kelsey Keeton came on in relief in the seven, allowing a walk but also striking out the side.
The Honeybees led 2-1 after 4 1/2 innings before the Lady Rams scored three runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 4-2 lead.
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Works Wanted
We are actively purchasing American and European paintings and drawings from the 19th and 20th Century. We are particularly interested in the following:
- Important women painters (or important paintings by 2nd or 3d tier women) particularly Lilian W. Hale, Ellen D. Hale, Laura C. Hills, Theresa Bernstein, Gretchen Rogers, Rosamond Smith Bouve, Cecilia Beaux, Gertrude Fiske, Jane Peterson.
- Artists painting in New England (subject matter) from Twachtman, Metcalf, etc. to G.L. Noyes, and Frederick Mulhaupt.
- Boston School artists and subjects, especially E. C. Tarbell, Frank Benson, Joseph DeCamp, W. M. Paxton etc.
- Newburyport related material and/or works by artists associated with this area (Laura Hills, J. Appleton Brown, A.T. Bricher, C.H. Davis, Dennis Bunker, M.J. Heade, Agnes Brown)
- Still life paintings and florals, especially Hermann Dudley Murphy, Laura Coombs Hills, and Wilton Lockwood. Can be early 19th century or later.
- 19th century European paintings especially French Barbizon, Spanish, Italian, German and Austrian.
Below are some specific artists we are looking for:
Agnes Abbot
Ruth Anderson
Edward Barnard
Gerrit Benneker
Frank Benson
Theresa Bernstein
Emil Bistram
Charles Burchfield
Rosamond Smith Bouve
William Bradford
John Leslie Breck
Alfred T. Bricher
Agnes Brown
John Appleton Brown
George De Forest Brush
Dennis Bunker
Harrison Cady
Emile Carlsen
Dines Carlsen
Anne Ramsdell Congdon
C.H. Davis
Joseph DeCamp
M.F. DeHaas
Arthur Dove
Arthur Wesley Dow
Thomas Eakins
L.D. Eldred
John Joseph Enneking
Walter Farndon
Gertrude Fiske
S.L. Gerry
Charles Henry Gifford
Sanford R. Gifford
Abbott Fuller Graves
CEL Green
|Ellen Day Hale
Lilian Westcott Hale
Philip Hale
EWD Hamilton
Marsden Hartley
Mary B. Hazelton
Martin Johnson Heade
C.H. Heberer
Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Laura Coombs Hills
Charles Hoffbauer
George Inness
Rockwell Kent
Augustus Koopman
Fitz Henry Lane
Blanch Lazzell
Harry Leith-Ross
Wilton Lockwood
Ernest Longfellow
Luigi Lucioni
Edward M. Manigault
Willard Metcalf
Charles Herbert Moore
Frederick Mulhaupt
Nellie Littlehall Murphy
Hermann Dudley Murphy
Henry Roderick Newman
WE Norton
G.L. Noyes
Georgia O'Keeffe
Marie Danforth Page
Margaret Patterson
Elizabeth Paxton
William Paxton
Lilla Cabot Perry
|Bertha Perrie
Carl Peters
Jane Peterson
William Lamb Picknell
C.A. Platt
Arthur Quartley
Elizabeth Roberts
Theodore Robinson
Gretchen Rogers
Robert Salmon
Birger Sandzen
John Singer Sargent
William Schumaker
Henriette Shore
Joseph Lindon Smith
Alice Ruggles Sohier
Joseph Solman
Lucy Stanton
Edmund Tarbell
Abbot Thayer
Leslie Prince Thompson
Gertrude Tonsberg
George Tooker
Virginia True
Ross Turner
John Twachtman
Harry A. Vincent
Jacob Wagner
David Walkley
Agnes Weinrich
Theodore Wendel
Irving Wiles
Mabel Woodward
Marguerite Zorach
William Zorach
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I'm pleased to announce that my new book, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico will be published by Bold Type Press on September 10th, 2019. The book is a historical overview of Puerto Rico's colonial relationship with the U.S. including a detailed explanation of the accumulation of the island's $72 billion […]Read more
Feminists and LGBTQ Activists Are Leading the Insurrection in Puerto Rico
Originally published in The Nation August 2, 2019 On July 26, still giddy after the massive mobilization of Puerto Ricans that played a major role in forcing Governor Ricardo Rosselló to resign, plena musician Tito Matos and street-theater activist/music video director Israel Lugo were in the Hato Rey business district of San Juan, walking together […]Read more
It's About More Than Ricky
What has happened on the streets of old San Juan and the distant west coast and mountain towns of Puerto Rico has been stunning, a hauntingly beautiful display of people power — a full-on awakening augured by the decades-invoked "Despierta Boricua" slogan, one that allows islanders to say things like "ya no es el mismo […]Read more
Why Half a Million Puerto Ricans Are Protesting in the Streets
This week has been unlike any other in Puerto Rican history. An estimated 500,000 demonstrators filled Old San Juan's cobblestone streets on Wednesday to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló. He has lost public confidence because of mounting scandals in his government and damning revelations from a leaked trove of private chats, published on […]Read more
'When They See Us' is a reminder of the racial hysteria that gripped NYC in the 1990s — and that still lingers
A little over 20 minutes into Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us," her new Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five case, the actress Felicity Huffman, who portrays prosecutor Linda Fairstein, captures the racial flash point that defined 1989 New York. "To think we were going to release these animals to family court," she says […]Read more
Blackface Has Been Shunned in the U.S.; Brownface Deserves the Same Scrutiny
When comedic actress Yeka Rosales physically transformed into Yalitza Aparicio, the Oscar-nominated star of "Roma," to promote her show on the Mexican network Televisa, she gave us a glimpse into one of Latin America's best-kept secrets: a deep and abiding racism. In images she posted on Instagram last month, Rosales donned a wig of straight […]Read more
What It Means To Be 'Latinx' and What That Means for America
By Julian Castro Nov. 14, 2018 LATINX The New Force in American Politics and Culture By Ed Morales 368 pp. Verso. $24.95. In September, just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary recognized the word "Latinx," which it defines as "of, relating to or marked by Latin American heritage — used as a […]Read more


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Friday, July 20, 2018 / 11:36 am
The New Girl In School
Discussing the new season of Suits with the press, Katherine Heigl opened up to Access about how nervous she was to join a cast who all knew each other like family and had been working together for many years. However, she revealed that she need not have been concerned, as her co-stars had totally embraced the "new girl in school".
Friday, July 13, 2018 / 1:40 pm
Today With Kathie Lee & Hoda
Visiting the Today Show With Kathie Lee and Hoda, Katherine Heigl sat down to chat with the hosts about the upcoming season of Suits and motherhood.
Monday, May 22, 2017 / 5:41 am
25 Things You Don't Know
Katherine Heigl sat down with US Weekly for their regular "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" feature, which appeared in the May 1st edition of the magazine. Find out what she revealed to readers!
Friday, April 28, 2017 / 1:59 pm
Catching Up With Rachael
Rachael Ray caught up with Katherine Heigl on the Monday, April 24, episode of The Rachael Ray Show, when she dropped by the studio to talk about her new thriller Unforgettable.
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Author: Elizabeth George
Genre: World War II, Espionage, Mystery
An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey's wealthiest inhabitants & its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum honoring those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II. It is from this period that his murderer may well have come. But there are others on Guernsey who want Buy Brouard dead. As forensic scientist Simon St. James & his wife, Deborah, soon discover, seemingly everyone on the history-haunted island has something to hide. & behind all the lies & albis, a killer is lurking.
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I have been surviving the last few weeks of feeling swamped. School has been extremely busy. I am now coaching my son's soccer team a couple evenings a week and I still train folks at the gym. I have plans to complete my newest Zion route (I equipped it during spring break but did not have a chance to climb it free due to poor weather.) I will be attempting another Zion first in June with Andy Raether (it will be a doozy if we can accomplish it).
I am also trying to send a route that I established and I nearly sent last fall (but had to stop trying due to the winter temperatures). I have one more big wall free route to establish this summer before I will feel like I have actually accomplished anything this year.
So far, I have
- freed a new 5.13 finger crack (just days before new year),
- established a 1100ft 5.11 or 5.12+ on the Unaweep Wall (depending whether or not you choose the hard variation) Wintertime Joy is the name.
- established a 1000ft 5.12 in Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park
- taught a ton of great people how to build anchors at the Red Rock Rendezvous
Other goals for the year are to
- free my route in Unweep called the Infinity Round 5.14
- establish another long route near Ouray, Colorado
- teach at the Arcteryx Climbing Festival in Vancouver, Canada
- make one more trip to a destination unknown…
Let's get it together and get it done!


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This is my favorite style of Night Horrors book, not only does it provide sample antagonists, it actually provides some writing space to expanding the antagonists and even adds a new type of antagonist beyond what was in the Beast core book. Sadly the art isn't as interesting as it could be, the majority of the antagonists appearing as humans in fairly typical modern garb, there isn't anything stunningly ugly either.
I was especially eager to see this book coming. While unlike many people, I actually liked Beast the Primordial, I do agree it's not without its flaws, in particular regarding the antagonist section: while awesome as a crossover book, this game has very little to stand of its own, Heroes being the only type of villains, and being kinda underdevelopped. So I really was hoping for a new book to flesh them out, speak of the briefly mentioned "good" Heroes, and maybe even adding a new type of antagonist. Conquering Heroes did all of these things.
This book really does a great job at developping the Heroes, giving them a bit more depth and nuance: we even get a few sample ones with a decent Integrity score, showing not all of them are narcisstic egomaniacs (though we still get some of those). We get a variety of characters, and all of them have distinctive personnalities, methods and motivations, which really make some of them memorable. We even get some connecting to Hunters and Mages, creating ties to the other gamelines.
Not only that, but the book actually provides a new type of antagonists in the form of the Insatiable, which basically serve as an eviller counterpart to the Beasts. Now, some might feel like they are flat antagonists, but I think they offer a nice alternative to Heroes, and make for a good foil to prove Beasts aren't the worse evil in the setting.
Overall, a good addition to the main book. I highly recommand it.
The first full-sized sourcebook for Beast: the Primordial (after a solid Ready-made characters one), Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes is a collection of antagonists, but in classic Night Horrors fashion offers detailed, interesting elements for all of them. The book is divided in three parts: first Heroes, the titular characters who hunt Beasts (and are NOT Hunters, as a sidebar reminds us). Then Beasts, most of which have experienced the Inheritance (three types of transformation which usually turn into a Beast into something more suitable for NPCs). And finally, something entirely new - the Insatiables, a new type of creatures who hunt Beasts themselves. Each chapter is made of unique examples, all with interesting backstories and different approaches. A couple of new Heroic Gifts, Numina, and entirely new powers for the Insatiables can be found in there as well.
Beast being a new game, and one in which there is considerable freedom to create characters and antagonists, any new material helps and those many examples serve to enrich the game. I found the Heroes chapter offered different methods for them to hunt Beast, the Beast chapter made the Inheritances clearer, and the Insatiable offered an important new part of the Beast setting. Overall an excellent book which I can only recommend if you found Beast interesting.
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KNOXVILLE, TN- Former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer has been named the 2017 recipient of the Neyland Trophy. Longtime North Carolina play-by-play announcer Woody Durham is this year's recipient of the Lindsey Nelson Broadcasting Award.
The award presentation will be held Saturday, April 22, at the East Tennessee Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame brunch at The Foundry in Knoxville at 10 a.m. ET.
Beamer and Durham will also be honored on the field later that afternoon in pregame ceremonies before Tennessee's annual DISH Orange & White Game.
Beamer spent 35 seasons as a collegiate head coach, including 29 seasons at Virginia Tech before retiring at the conclusion of the 2015 season. He also served as head coach at Murray State from 1981-86. He finished his time at Virginia Tech with 238 wins and was the winningest active coach in FBS at the time of his retirement.
A native of Mt. Airy, North Carolina, Beamer led the Hokies to unprecedented success with 23 consecutive bowl appearances, four ACC titles, five ACC Coastal Division crowns, three BIG EAST Conference titles, six BCS appearances, two "major" bowl victories and an appearance in the national championship game. Under Beamer's guidance, the Hokies finished in the top 20 in 16 of his last 23 seasons, including four top-10 finishes during his final 12 years. He took the Hokies to the 1999 national championship game and garnered eight national coach of the year awards for the accomplishment.
Beamer was appointed to the College Football Playoff selection committee in 2017. He was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 and was voted the Coach of the Decade in the BIG EAST Conference in 2000. In April 2004, Beamer was presented with a Humanitarian Award by the National Conference for Community and Justice for his contributions to fostering justice, equity and community in the Roanoke Valley.
Beamer started three years at cornerback for the Hokies and later earned his master's degree from Radford in 1972. Beamer and his wife, Cheryl Oakley, have two children, Shane and Casey, and two granddaughters and one grandson.
Durham served as the play-by-play announcer on more than 1,800 football and men's basketball broadcasts on the Tar Heel Sports Network. During his career, Durham called 23 Tar Heel football bowl games, 13 men's basketball Final Fours and six national championship games, including the NCAA title-winning seasons in 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009.
Durham called North Carolina games for six head coaches in football (Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Mack Brown, Carl Torbush, John Bunting and Butch Davis) and four head coaches in men's basketball (Dean Smith, Bill Guthridge, Matt Doherty and Roy Williams). He worked with directors of athletics Homer Rice, Bill Cobey, John Swofford and Dick Baddour.
A 1963 graduate of North Carolina, Durham is a 13-time recipient of the North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year Award. He is a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, the North Carolina Broadcasters Hall of Fame, the Stanly County Sports Hall of Fame and the Mebane Sports Hall of Fame.
Durham was born in 1941 in Mebane and grew up in Albemarle. He was sports director at WUNC while attending Carolina, sports director at WFMY-TV in Greensboro from 1963-77 and at WPTF-TV in Raleigh from 1977-1981. Since 1981, he worked for the Tar Heel Sports Network with VilCom Inc. of Chapel Hill and Learfield Communications Inc. of Jefferson City, Mo.
Durham worked with head coaches and assistant coaches from all of UNC's sports on Rams Club tours and as master of ceremonies at many other speaking engagements.
With his wife of 53 years, Jean, Durham's broadcast career spanned the collegiate playing days of football players such as such as Paul Miller, Mike Voight, Amos Lawrence, Kelvin Bryant, Lawrence Taylor, Harris Barton, Natrone Means, Jason Stanicek, Leon Johnson, Greg Ellis, Dre' Bly, Julius Peppers, Darian Durant, Hakeem Nicks and T.J. Yates. In basketball, Durham called games for 26 different Tar Heels whose jerseys hang in the Smith Center rafters, including National
Players of the Year Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Kenny Smith, Jerry Stackhouse, Antawn Jamison, Sean May and Tyler Hansbrough.
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Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night) (Nicholas Errèra)
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MovieScore Media just released French composer Nicolas Errèra's gripping and highly emotional action adventure score Shaolin – here's our second project with Nicolas and an interesting one in that it shows a different side of the composer.
This is an urban, intense but equally emotional score for the French action thriller which stars Tomer Sisley, Joey Starr and Julien Boisselier in a story about a drug heist that goes wrong. The soundtrack album plays a little like a French version ofHeat, with the orchestral/electronic score being joined by a handful of electronica tracks – dark and hard-hitting deep house numbers by Ionic Benton and Valgun.
The release of the album co-incides with the film's premiere in France and Belgium on November 16.
MMD0015 • NUIT BLANCHE (SLEEPLESS NIGHT) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by NICOLAS ERRÈRA
Release date: November 22, 2011
1 Sleepless Night: Main Title 3.46
2 Crime Scene 1.40
3 Raw Simplicity (Ionic Benton) 8.20
4 Restroom Trap 1.41
5 Super Tits (Valgun) 5.12
6 Flour in the Kitchen 1.32
7 Elecrock 3.14
8 Tic Tac 1.58
9 Bangladesch (Ionic Benton) 10.30
10 Separation 2.01
11 Pop the Shot (Valgun) 5.10
12 Hallucination 3.40
13 Stairwell 1.32
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Murderball. This is perhaps the most intriguing movie title I have run across in a long time, though you might be surprised at the content of this particular flick.
The documentary followed the trials and tribulations of the U.S. Men's Wheelchair Rugby Team, who are in cutthroat competition with their archrivals, the Canadian National Team. These are not shy, retiring wallflowers, but aggressive and skilled athletes who do want to "murder" their opponents. I showed the film to a small group of students and university instructors on December 10th at the U.S. Embassy's weekly movie night at the American Library at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. We chose to show the critically acclaimed Murderball as part of our activities in celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
The United Nations designated December 3rd as International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 1981 to promote respect for the rights of persons with disabilities, increase our understanding of disabilities and encourage inclusion of persons with disabilities, emphasizing the political, economic and social gains to be made through such inclusiveness. This is an issue that's near and dear to me, largely I think because I grew up with an uncle who was developmentally challenged. I was always fascinated by my uncle, who was an extremely nice guy and, I remember, a huge sports fan, who would spend hours watching baseball and football games, carefully jotting down statistics for his favorite teams.
I should mention that we were happy to see many individuals throughout Ukraine taking notice of this important day. On December 3rd, for example, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Kirovograd gave a presentation on the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), a law that came into effect 45 years after the death of US President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (FDR), arguably the most famous disabled American. Despite having contracted polio as an adult, he was rarely photographed in his wheelchair during his lifetime. Worrying about public perceptions of an elected official with a disability in less enlightened times, he sadly felt it important to conceal his disability throughout his presidency. Roosevelt did, however, help found the charitable organization for the disabled known today as The March of Dimes. And in Washington DC, the FDR Memorial was the first such site to be designed as wheelchair-friendly destination for visitors to our capital.
Other Embassy activities related to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities also involved film. One diplomat from the Embassy showed Autism The Musical at School #168, one of the three schools in Kyiv that practices inclusive education. This movie, first screened in Ukraine as part of the U.S. Embassy's American Documentary Showcase during the 40th Annual Molodist Film Festival in late October, shows the herculean efforts of an American mother who decides to gather together young children with autism, including her son, whom she had adopted from Russia, to write and perform a musical about bullying in school.) Additionally, on November 30, the Window on America Center in Poltava screened and discussed Rear Window, a movie about a paralyzed architect and starring disabled American actor Christopher Reeve, famous for his role as Superman before a horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed.
In Ukraine, I am proud to say, the US Embassy has a rich history of championing the rights of the disabled. We sent a Ukrainian TV crew to the US last summer to work on a documentary on the disabled in America. During their travels, they were fortunately able to visit Oregon, where some of the disabled Ukrainian students in our "flagship" youth education exchanges – the yearlong Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) – were taking part in an orientation camp. The camp gives the kids a chance to bond and build up their confidence before heading off to their host American families and to meet their new classmates in a typical American high school. Over 25 disabled and special needs students from Ukraine have taken part in FLEX since 1992. We are all eager to see the documentaries – which we understand will also look at the good work of NGOs here in Ukraine – that we hope will be aired sometime in the new year.
We have a number of other initiatives aimed at helping the disabled of Ukraine:
The Embassy has established three Library Electronic Access Program (LEAP) centers in Ukraine that provide free internet access to the blind – in Kyiv, Kherson and Rivne – complete with special devices to "read" what's on the screen and printers that print materials in Braille. In December 2009, Embassy staff visited the special LEAP center in Kyiv and hosted an internet discussion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities that involved people in 10 cities.
The Embassy 's Democracy Commission (DemCom) has also supported a number of NGOs working for the rights of the disabled with funds from our Democracy Grants Program including developing materials in Braille to help the blind and visually impaired understand their rights as voters in the January and February presidential elections. Along the same lines, a blind Kharkiv-based journalist produced an audio book containing information about electoral rights, new election legislation and candidates' electoral platforms. I got to meet this journalist and one of the NGOs in Kharkiv last year. What an impressive bunch!
We have two American professors who are experts on Special Education at Ukrainian universities this semester — one in Lviv at Ukrainian Catholic University and the other (focusing specifically on education of the Deaf) in Luhansk at Volodymr Dahl Eastern Ukrainian State University — under the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Scholars Program. (The Fulbright Program in Ukraine sends about 50 Ukrainian students, young faculty and scholars to the U.S. each year, and approximately 25 Americans come to Ukraine. More information: English, Ukrainian)
Over the years, we have sent a number of representatives of Ukrainian NGOs to the U.S. on short-term professional study tours — usually under the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program and USAID's Community Connections — to focus on the issue of the rights of the disabled, most recently in autumn 2009. More information: English, Ukrainian.
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Applied Energy 210 (2018) 632–642 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apenergy Identifying critical supply chains and final products: An input-output approach to exploring the energy-water-food nexus Anne Owen , Kate Scott, John Barrett Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK HIGHLIGHTS Global supply chains demonstrate complicated energy-water-food relationships. Multiregional input-output analysis maps global connectivity and resource use. Use structural path analysis to identify supply chains with high EWF resource use. Identify policy intervention points and the potential for UK food waste policy. ARTICLE I NFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Recent advances in detailed multiregional input-output databases offers new opportunities to use these en- Multiregional input-output databases vironmental accounting tools to explore the interrelationships between energy, water and food–the energy- Global value chains water-food nexus. This paper takes the UK as a case study and calculates energy, water and food consumption- Consumption-based accounting based accounts for 1997–2013. Policies, designed to reduce the environmental impact of consumption of pro- Structural path analysis ducts, can intervene at many stages in a product's whole life-time from 'cradle to gate'. We use input-output Energy-water-food nexus analysis techniques to investigate the interaction between the energy, water and
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With Loadster, you can define Capturing Rules to scan an HTTP response and capture string values to use later in your script.
A few examples of when a capturing rule might be necessary include:
These values returned from the server may be different each time you play your script, and you have no way of knowing ahead of time what values may be returned.
To create a capturing rule, click on the Plus (+…) in an HTTP step to expand the step context menu.
Loadster can capture values in several different ways. Select which type of capturing rule you want to create.
Loadster has several types of capturing rules: text capturers, regular expression capturers, and JavaScript capturers. A capturing rule can scan the entire response body, or a specific response header. It then stores the captured value in a variable of your choosing.
Text capturers are the simplest type of capturer. They scan for a string nested between two boundary strings that you specify.
Many web applications make use of HTTP 301 or 302 redirects. When a status of 301 or 302 is returned, the application
also sends a location in the
Location header. The web browser (or other HTTP client) is supposed to navigate to the URL
specified in the
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To capture text from a response header such as the
Location header, select the "Capture text from header" option.
Then enter a Capture Variable, Header Name, and optional Text Before and/or Text After to create your capturing rule.
Capture Variable is the name of the variable that should be assigned the captured value. In this example we are
capturing to a variable called UserID, which will be referenced later in the script as
From Header is the name of the HTTP header you want to scan. In this case we are capturing from the
Location header.
Text Before and Text After are optional. If they are specified, only text between them will be captured. In this
example, we are capturing the UserID that occurs in a string like
/welcome?userId=83829 so we enter
/welcome?userId= in Text Before, and leave Text After blank.
Many web applications use dynamic CSRF tokens to protect web forms from cross-site request forgery.
In a Loadster script, submitting a web form with a CSRF token will fail unless we capture the CSRF token and submit it with the form. Since the CSRF token changes every time, we must create a rule to capture it from the web form and then include it as a parameter when we submit the form.
To capture text from the response body, select "Capture text from body".
Then, enter the Capture Variable, Text Before, and Text After within the response body. Here, we are capturing
the value of a hidden HTML form input called
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${CSRF} so that the correct value
is submitted to the server each time.
You can also capture variables using regular expressions.
A regular expression (or regex) is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern. They are used in many programming languages for pattern matching and string manipulation. Loadster's regular expressions are basically JavaScript-style regular expressions.
To create a regular expression capturer in Loadster, click on the Plus (+…) within the desired HTTP step.
As with other types of capturers, you can choose to apply the regular expression to the entire response body, or a specific header.
Let's say we are scripting an ecommerce checkout flow, and the user has just submitted an order. A unique order number is generated each time, and we need to capture it.
To capture a regular expression from the response body, select the "Capture regular expression from body" option.
Capture Variable is the name of the variable that the captured value will be assigned to. Since we are capturing to a
variable called OrderNumber, we will be able to reference it later in our script as
Regular Expression is the actual expression that will be applied to the response body. The numeric order number is
represented by
(\d+), which in regular expression parlance is a numeric sequence of one or more consecutive digits.
Output Expression lets us specify exactly which portion of the expression should be captured. Since we specified
we will only be capturing the contents of the first "capturing group", nested in parentheses. In other words, we will
only be capturing the part represented by
Let's say you want to use a regular expression to capture an email address from an HTML page. It occurs in the HTML in a format like this:
Jeff Boomhauer
We can create a regular expression to capture the dynamic parts:
(.*?)
Notice that this expression actually has two capturing groups. The first capturing group matches the email address,
and the second capturing group matches the name. We can refer to these in the Output Expression as
$1 and
respectively. If we only care about the email address itself, we would use
If you want, you can use this same regular expression but change the Output Expression to capture different things:
$0 Jeff Boomhauer
$1 firstname.lastname@example.com
$2 Jeff Boomhauer
$2 <$1> Jeff Boomhauer <email@example.com>
The value represented by the Output Expression is stored in your Capture Variable (in this case
and can now be referenced later in your script.
Here are a few common patterns you can use in your regular expressions:
. any character
\d a single digit, 0-9
\w a single "word" character, a-z, A-Z, 0-9
\s a whitespace character, such as a space or a tab
You can use wildcards to represent multiple consecutive instances of the same thing:
\d* zero or more consecutive digits
\w+ one or more consecutive characters
\w+? one or more consecutive characters, non-greedy
Regular expressions are very powerful and we do not have space for an exhaustive primer here. There is an article at Mozilla that provides more background.
Loadster can parse HTML that comes back from the server, to find the value of a form input. This works best for hidden form inputs and other inputs that have a default value set by the server; it won't be helpful for fields that the users fill out themselves prior to submitting the form.
In some cases, Loadster will automatically create a form input capturer after recording a script, if it detects special form parameters like CSRF tokens and certain framework tokens (RequestVerificationToken, ViewState, etc).
A JavaScript Capturer allows even more precision than the Text Capturer and Regular Expression Capturer. This type of capturing rule allows you to create a custom JavaScript function. Your custom function will then be executed on the HTTP response to capture a value.
To add a JavaScript Capturer to a step, select "Capture with JavaScript" from the step context menu.
To capture a value with JavaScript, you must implement a custom function called
capture(). The function takes a
single argument (the response object, which encapsulates the HTTP response coming back from the server). The output of
your capture function will be assigned to whatever Capture Variable you specify.
Enter a Capture Variable and Capturing Function for the selected HTTP step. In the example below, the output will
be assigned to a variable called UserID and can be used later in the script as
In its simplest form, you could implement a "capture" function that ignores the response and returns a constant value every time.
function capture(response) {
return "abc";
Or, instead of a hardcoded value, you could also generate a value on the fly using JavaScript's
a date or timestamp, or whatever you want. The only requirement is that the function returns a string or something that
can be coerced to a string.
JavaScript can also be used to scan the HTTP response headers and extract a value.
One common pattern in web applications is the "create and redirect" flow. After a web form is submitted, the
application creates something in the database and redirects the user to a specific location to view the newly created
resource. The redirect is accomplished by sending an HTTP 302 with a
Location header that contains the URL the
browser should visit next. From a tester's standpoint, it is important to capture the URL from the
Location header so
it can be reused later in the script.
You can capture the
Location header from a response like this:
function capture(response) {
var headers = response.getHeaders();
console.log("The response has " + headers.size() + " headers");
for (var i = 0; i < headers.size(); i++) {
var header = headers.get(i);
if (header.name == "Location") {
return header.value; // this is the one we want!
return ""; // a Location header was not found
If you only need part of the
Location header, you could parse it out with JavaScript's regular expressions or
substring functions and only return the part you need.
Capturing a simple header value is also possible using Loadster's Text Capturer or Regular Expression Capturer.
The response object also makes the entire response body available to your JavaScript functions. To capture the entire response body into a variable, it's as simple as this:
function capture(response) {
return response.bodyAsString; // capture the entire response body
More likely, you will want to perform some kind of string manipulation to extract only what you need from the body:
function capture(response) {
var regex = /<title>(.*?)<\/title>/gim;
var match = regex.exec(response.bodyAsString);
// Return the match that was in parentheses
return match[1];
While much of this is also possible with Loadster's Text Capturer or Regular Expression Capturer, there are times when the response may contain multiple matches and you need custom logic to select the right one. There may also be occasions when the markup is too complex to parse with a single expression, and you need to write your own parser with JavaScript.
Many web apps return JSON responses. This is particularly true of RESTful web services and rich client applications that communicate with their back-end using JSON.
While it might be difficult to parse a JSON response with ordinary text or regular expression capturers, it is quite easy to do so using JavaScript:
// {"users": [
// {"id": 1, "fullName": "Hank Hill"},
// {"id": 2, "fullName": "Peggy Hill"},
// {"id": 3, "fullName": "Bobby Hill"}
// ]}
function capture(response) {
var json = JSON.parse(response.bodyAsString);
return json.users[2].fullName;
The example above parses a JSON response and then traverses it to capture a specific value (in this case, the full name of the 3rd user in the list, "Bobby Hill"). Naturally, you could also use loops and other JavaScript control flow if your JSON structure is more complicated.
XML is also a popular response format for web applications and web services. SOAP and XML-RPC applications in particular use a lot of XML, along with some RESTful web services.
Parsing and traversing XML in Loadster is quite easy:
// <users>
// <user id="1"><fullName>Hank Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="2"><fullName>Peggy Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="3"><fullName>Bobby Hill</fullName></user>
// </users>
function capture(response) {
var users = XML.parse(response.bodyAsString);
return users.childrenNamed("user")[2].childNamed('fullName').val; // returns "Bobby Hill"
The example above parses an XML response and then traverses it to capture the full name of the 3rd user in the list,
again named "Bobby Hill". To parse an attribute rather than an element, the
@attrib notation is used:
// <users>
// <user id="1"><fullName>Hank Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="2"><fullName>Peggy Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="3"><fullName>Bobby Hill</fullName></user>
// </users>
function capture(response) {
var users = XML.parse(response.bodyAsString);
return users.childrenNamed("user")[2].attr["id"];
You could also iterate each user using the length() method to find out how many there are:
// <users>
// <user id="1"><fullName>Hank Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="2"><fullName>Peggy Hill</fullName></user>
// <user id="3"><fullName>Bobby Hill</fullName></user>
// </users>
function capture(response) {
var xml = XML.parse(response.bodyAsString);
var users = xml.childrenNamed("user");
for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {
var user = users[i];
if (user.childNamed('fullName').val == "Bobby Hill") {
return user.attr['id']; // That's him!
return ""; // Bobby Hill not found!
Pro tip: Loadster's XML parser is based on xmldoc, a pure JavaScript XML parser. More documentation on how to use this parser is available on GitHub.
Loadster's ordinary text capturers only evaluate a single line at a time for efficiency reasons. If you need to capture a value that spans multiple lines, here is one way to do it:
function capture(response) {
var str = response.bodyAsString;
var lb = "<textarea name=\"description\">";
var rb = "</textarea>";
var startIndex = str.indexOf(lb) + lb.length;
var endIndex = str.indexOf(rb, startIndex);
return str.substring(startIndex, endIndex);
Once you capture variables, you can reuse them later in your script with the usual
${var} syntax.
Read more in Variables & Expressions.


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Amy's Rice & Peas (with butter sauce)
Deanna Norris Marini
This dish originates from the Cayman Islands and is a dietary staple there. The recipe was actually taught to my mother by her friend Amy who hails from Cayman Brac. I grew up on this dish and really love it, hope you will too.
Although this dish is entitled Rice and Peas, the "Peas" are actually Dark Red Kidney Beans as this is what they call them in the Cayman Islands.
Although this dish is entitled Rice and Peas, the "Peas" are actually Dark Red Kidney Beans as this is what they call them in the Cayman Islands.
2onions chopped
1/2 pkgred kidney beans dry,
2celery ribs chopped
1 tspdried thyme
2 Tbspdried parsley flakes
·salt and pepper to taste
1/2 tspaccent
4-5bacon strips fried crisp and crumbled
2 qtwater
1 crice
How to Make Amy's Rice & Peas (with butter sauce)
- Fry Bacon, drain on paper toweling and crumble. Saute onions and celery in bacon fat until softened. Add Thyme, Parsley, Accent, Salt and Pepper plus *2 qts. of water and *Kidney beans and bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and let cook for approx 2 hrs or until Kidney beans are softened.
- Strain and measure liquid after beans are cooked. You will need 2 1/2 cups, if needed add enough water to liquid to make 2 1/2 cups, return everything to the pot and bring to a boil, add 1 Cup Rice cover and simmer on LOW until all liquid has been absorbed.
- This dish is served with a simple butter sauce made by melting 1 stick of butter, add 1 chopped onion, 1/2 tsp. thyme and parsley flakes to taste & cook until onion is softened.
- **If you want to save time you can substitute 1 can of Dark Red Kidney beans for the dried, this will save you approx 2 hrs cooking time, and you don't have to strain and remeasure the liquid just add 2 1/2 cups water for the 1 cup rice.
About Amy's Rice & Peas (with butter sauce)
Course/Dish: Rice Sides
Main Ingredient: Rice/Grains
Regional Style: Caribbean
Dietary Needs: Wheat Free
Other Tag: Heirloom


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by artist Jim Stevens
Mammoth ivory inlaid with ebony and outlined in copper.
Inlaid in the white mammoth is a brilliant green emerald, signifying the summer solstice.
Inlaid in the black ebony is a beautiful 10pt diamond, signifying the winter solstice.
The chain and findings are 18k gold.
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By Craig Dresang, CEO, Yolo Hospice Originally published in The Davis Enterprise Over the years, I have seen many people with a terminal diagnosis say they want to fight. Their families want them to fight too. But I often wonder if they are fighting to live or fighting to not die. I think of my […]
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Yesterday, we went to Yarn And Coffee to say goodbye to the great ladies we knit with on Monday's since we have been here in Santa Fe. Wednesday, we will go to the yarn store to say goodbye to the Wednesday group. One of the ladies, Collin, does some amazing work with fabric and found objects.
Today, we went to Espanola so I could go to the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center
You can just walk in and weave a 26" x 36" rug, take classes, and shop. Some of the classes offered is Chimayo style weaving on a Rio Grande loom, Colchis embroidery for beginners, pueblo embroidery, spinning with a Navejo spindle and dying with little local natural dyes. It is my plan to come back next year to take some classes. I purchased yarn to weave a rug for my bathroom.
I saw these beautiful doors in Espanola.
We headed on to Taos so that we could finish going through the shops.
I love murals and saw this one.
Finally got my green chili cheeseburger however, it was too hot and I took most of the chili's off.
We walked around the Taos plaza looking in the shops
This bench was so out of place however I have found them all over this area of New M
Isn't this courtyard beautiful!!!!!
On Thursday, we went to Chimayo. This little town is famous for its Catholic church and the rug weaving families, Ortega and Trujillo.
The church known as, El Santuario de Chimayo, was built by a private individual in 1816. A preservationist brought it and handed it over to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1929. The church has a reputation for its healing site (believers claim that dirt from a back room can heal physical and spiritual ills). As you walk back to the dirt room, you pass hundreds of crutches hanging on the wall. The church has become known as the "Lourdes of America." Over 30,000 visitors come every year. It has become the most important Catholic pilgrimage center in the United States and is a National Historic Landmark.
In side the church (no photos allowed) are these beautifully painted wood Reredos
You can buy a plastic bag or a container to get some of the Holy dirt. I brought a container since it was same price as the plastic bag. The pamphlet that comes with the container says that suggested ways to use the Holy dirt is:
1. Bring silence to your heart and mind.
2. Humbly acknowledge your weaknesses, mistakes, sins and illnesses.
3. Tell God that you need him, his wisdom, his strength, his guidance, his forgiveness, his love and healing.
4. Share with God your wishes but also tell him to show his plan and will for you.
5. Ask for understanding and courage to face whatever God has planned for you.
5. Rub the holy dirt over the part of your body in need of healing while you invoke the named Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
The Holy Dirt is not to be eaten or to be drunk.
Jean and I went into a side chapel
Open air chapel
You can buy candles at gift shop to put here and say a prayer for love ones.
After leaving the church, I wanted to see the weavers. We went to Ortego weaving shop but they did not have anyone weaving
So we headed to the Trujillo weaving shop and was in luck. The weaving shop specializes in hand woven tapestry wool products using natural dyes, custom dyed yarns, handspun yarns, in the traditional Chimayo and Rio Grande weaving styles.
That is me in the corner trying my hand at weaving a Chimayo rug.
Back in Santa Fe, the Loretto Chapel stairs are a must see.
When the chapel was built in1878, there were no way to access the choir loft 22 feet above. Carpenters looked at the space and said that only a ladder would work because a staircase would interfere with the interior space of the small chapel.
The Sisters of the Chapel made a novena to St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. On the ninth and final day of prayer, a man appeared with a donkey and a toolbox looking for work. Months later, the elegant circular stair was completed. The carpenter disappeared without pay or thanks.
The staircase has two 360 degree turns and no visible sign of support. The staircase is built without nails, only wooden pegs and there is no visible sign of support. The staircase appears to have been built with a single piece of wood. The Navy set its engineers to determine how the staircase was built. There conclusion was that they did not know. The wood used is not even indigenous to the region. The carpenter worked alone .
The rails were added in 1897
Today, Friday, Jean and I went to Madrid, NM, an artist community with galleries lining New Mexico State Road 14, which is on the Turquoise Trail. The ending of the film, Wild Hogs (2007) starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, and Martin Lawrence was set and filmed in Madrid.
On the way to Madrid, there is art galleries and beautiful scenery .
We had lunch at The Hollar. They have an elevated mix of American comfort foods like, shrimp and grits, fried green tomatoes & burgers, amid art.
As we drove through the town, we were not sure if this was artwork in galleries or if it was peoples' homes.
Jean took a panorama of the street
Our favorite shop was Studio 18 Art in Gypsy Plaza. The owner, Sue, was working on a jacket. She said she was trying her hand in making clothes. Her speciality is Art Quilts that she has painted and sculpture mobiles. You can find her work at studio18art.com.
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We got Internet and cable back today, Hallelujah! Like I said before, I haven't really been doing a lot of trying of new recipes recently. This isn't a fancy recipe at all and probably most people make their own form of sloppy Joe's that are much more elaborate than this, but here's mine! Super simple, super fast, and with minimal ingredients. This is definitely one of my "go-to" recipes when I don't feel like cooking!
– 1 pound lean ground beef (or turkey)
– 1 small can of tomato paste
– 1 packet of McCormick Sloppy Joe seasoning
– 1 cup water
– wheat hamburger buns
– shredded cheddar cheese
Begin by browning the ground beef in a medium skillet. Drain fat and return the beef to the pan. Add the tomato paste, water, and seasoning packet to the skillet. Give the mixture a big stir and bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn the heat down and simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes. Serve on wheat hamburger buns and top with shredded cheddar cheese.
Add a side of vegetables for a balanced meal 🙂


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Fox earns fans with its own debate performances
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has emerged a winner of this raucous and impactful debate season with its sharp, detailed questioning of the candidates, not allowing itself to be distracted by the Megyn Kelly-Donald Trump feud or the candidates' increased vitriol.
More than civic exercises, the debates are television entertainment spectacles that have forced moderators to become referees as much as interrogators. After the first GOP match last summer on Fox drew 24 million viewers, the audience for only one of the 10 to follow has dipped below 12 million — on par with the top prime-time entertainment series. Thursday's debate averaged just under 17 million viewers.
Fox has used the same moderating team of Kelly, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace for all three of its debates. The network set a tough tone at the start last summer with the question from Kelly that set Trump off, confronting him about prior comments about women. Right away it dispelled the notion that the network most popular with Republicans would go easy on its candidates.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talks to moderators Megyn Kelly after a Republican presidential primary debate at Fox Theatre, Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
"Fox has been both fair and reasonable in their questions," said Todd Graham, director of debate at Southern Illinois University, who has written about the primary debates. "They have been tough on the Republicans but they have not been unfair. They have been very good in their research."
Fox's use of prepared materials has stood out, he said. On Thursday, Kelly played tapes to illustrate three instances where Trump said one thing and later contradicted himself. "You change your tune on so many things, and that has some people saying, 'What is his core?'" she said.
While Kelly isn't running for president, "she seems to be the only person able to effectively land a blow on Trump, mostly because she uses his own words against him," Time magazine's Charlotte Alter wrote.
Tweeted comic John Hodgman: "Megyn Kelly is serving revenge cold."
The extent of Fox's homework became clear when Marco Rubio and Trump began arguing about a legal case involving the Trump University educational venture. Kelly stepped in with quotes from a judicial ruling. An exasperated Trump said, "Give me a break," when Kelly read a harsh passage.
A Wallace question played out like a cleanly laid trap. After he asked for specific deficit-cutting proposals, Trump mentioned the federal education and environmental conservation departments — and Wallace had statistics ready that showed how those agencies accounted for only a small part of the federal budget.
"Mr. Trump, your numbers don't add up," Wallace said.
It was in contrast to the CNBC debate last fall, when Becky Quick couldn't back up a question when Trump challenged her premise. During a commercial break, she found what she was looking for on Trump's website.
Fox wasn't just tough on Trump. Kelly said primary results poked a hole in Ted Cruz's claim to represent true conservatives. "Hasn't your brand of conservatism been rejected by an electorate that appears to be more taken with Mr. Trump's populist message?" she asked.
Later she couldn't resist — and perhaps should have — a dig at Cruz that he couldn't be "trusted" because of a policy flip-flop. That was a play on Cruz's "Trust Ted" campaign slogan.
Besides that moment, the moderators were firm but respectful. Again, CNBC showed the wrong tone, when moderator John Harwood asked Trump if he was running "a comic-book version of a presidential campaign."
"I think Fox may have surprised some of the skeptics and some of the quote-unquote mainstream media," said Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief and a professor at George Washington University. "They came out very tough, very prepared and asked challenging questions. I think the Fox debates have been some of the best."
The high stakes are clear to the candidates. Many analysts traced poor performances by Rubio and Chris Christie in the New Hampshire primary to their unseemly exchange in the debate just prior, and Iowa voters punished Trump for skipping the second Fox debate.
That's made the debates more contentious, and it has increased pressure on moderators who need to walk the fine line of letting candidates go after each other without losing control. Kelly lectured Rubio that he couldn't be heard when he and Trump talked over each other. When another exchange devolved into "big Donald" and "little Marco" schoolyard taunts, Wallace said: "You have got to do better than this."
Baier wrapped things by making news, asking the candidates if they would commit publicly to supporting the GOP nominee if it wasn't them. It forced them to prove they were loyal Republicans — perhaps undermining the harsh criticism they had thrown at their opponents for two hours.
The debut of Netflix's Washington drama "House of Cards" Friday is no match for the real thing.
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Don River (Photo: Kevin Van Paaseen - Globe and Mail)
It's World Health Day today and on this day I can't help but reflect and remember when I first moved to Toronto 4 years ago. At the time, I had not anticipated that I would spend so much time exploring Toronto's ravines, especially the Don River. In fact, my image of Toronto was of a concrete jungle bustling with business folks and tourists. It was nice to be proven both right and wrong at the same time. Toronto is definitely a busy city but right within its boundaries it's host to a whole other type of life.
It's no secret that spending time in nature is good for a persons' overall health. In 2016, the World Health Organization released a report discussing the benefits of urban green spaces as it reduces stress, combats illness, and improves mental health. For generations we were directly connected to land and when we step back into those natural areas, it can feel like coming home. Whether hiking, biking, running, or just taking in the forest in a practice known as shirin-yoku or "forest bathing" the benefits of placing yourself in nature are a net positive.
My first step into the world of Toronto's Urban River Valleys was near the intersection of Yonge and Lawrence. I stumbled up Alexandria Muir Gardens, which happens to be the gateway to a series of parks and ravines that stretch all the way to the Danforth (and rumour has it, the Beaches). That first step into Alexander Muir Gardens led to a second step in October to Sherwood Park, bordering along Mt. Hope Cemetery, with its boardwalks and colourful autumn walks.
From Sherwood Park I discovered Sunnybrook Park, where families gather to play Frisbee and hold BBQs, parent's drop their children off for horse-riding lessons, and where mountain bikers, hikers, and runners can enter the trails and test their stamina. If you decide to follow the road you will exit at Leslie and Eglinton but choose any other path and you'll be taken on an adventure through forests, across fields, into the hills and parts of the city that only the ravine can show you.
After living in many cities that held no green spaces within easy reach, Toronto's host of urban parks, tree lined streets, and river valleys have been a blessing. It's so easy to take the ravine system for granted, to dismiss green spaces as something natural for a city to have, but in many towns and cities they can seem to be more of an afterthought. We're lucky that 1 in 4 Canadians live in close proximity to the Greenbelt and can explore its many trails by biking the Greenbelt Route or hiking the Greenbelt Walks. On World Health Day, it's important to remember that we determine the livability of our cities.
For 13 years the Greenbelt has protected the natural features that allow us to reap its health benefits and in May 2017 the Greenbelt was expanded to include 21 Urban River Valleys. By extending Greenbelt protection to river valleys from Niagara to Northumberland, urban residents have a gateway to the rural landscape of the Greenbelt like never before.
21 Urban River Valleys were included into the Greenbelt in May 2017
Our health, the health of our cities, and the health of our planet are tied together. When I moved to Toronto I didn't expect to find myself running along the Don River or its tributaries, and I certainly didn't expect it to impact my life the way that it has. I gained a new appreciation for this city and a bit of humility as I tackled the trails. On World Health Day take a step into our Urban River Valleys, choose a path, and reap the benefits of all that the Greenbelt does for us.
Veronika Kubik
-Engagement and Digital Media Assistant at Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation