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Rooibos is also known as Red Bush or Red Tea. The ultimate chocolate and rooibos experience. Rich, creamy Belgian chocolate with smooth, satisfying rooibos. A great herbal tea iced or hot.
uxury Ingredients: Rooibos, Cacao bean pieces, Calendula petals, Natural flavors (Organic Compliant).
Made with all natural flavorings.
Naturally caffeine free
Country of Origin: South Africa
Region: Cedarburg
Shipping Port: Cape Town
Grade: Choice Grade #1
Altitude: 1500 - 2500 ft. above sea level
Manufacture Type: Fermentation turns the leaves from green to deep red and gives a slightly sweet note
Cup Characteristics: Velvety chocolate smoothness with decadent notes of truffle melting in your mouth. Excellent combination of cacao and rooibos
Infusion: Reddish orange to full color (depends on brewing time and quantity used)
Ingredients: Luxury rooibos, Calendula Petals, Cacao bean pieces, Natural Flavors
There is an old saying that goes: You know your diet is in trouble when you count your blessings and chocolate is always the first one. Well, thanks to this wonderful herbal tea that no longer has to be the case. Why? The answer is simple. Rooibos, the base of the blend, is fat free! Grown in the Cedarberg district of South Africa, the Rooibos plant (Latin: Aspalathus linearis) - in English literally Red Bush - produces a tea that is incredibly high in vitamins and minerals (see our chart below). Proponents of the tea claim that it can ease headaches and soothe bodily tension. Best of all, it contains no caffeine.
OK, OK, you're probably thinking. But what about the chocolate? The Belgian chocolate to be precise? Good questions. As the name would suggest, we've blended this wonderfully smooth Rooibos with the all-natural flavoring of Belgian chocolate, a product as synonymous with Belgium as waffles. The tiny country produces 172,000 tons of chocolate per year and has 2130 chocolate shops within her borders they know chocolate. In fact, the country is so well known for its chocolate that it gets first dibs on all cocoa exports from the entire continent of Africa. We figured that if you're going to blend anything, much less chocolate, to a top quality Rooibos, it better be the best. Brew yourself a pot today and satisfy your chocoholic cravings without upsetting your grand dietary intentions! We think our decision speaks for itself.
200 ml (about 7 ounces) of brewed Rooibos contains the following nutrients:
|Function in the Body
|per 200 ml
|Iron (Fe)
|Essential for transport of oxygen in the blood
|0.07 mg
|Potassium (K)
|Assists certain metabolic functions
|7.12 mg
|Calcium (Ca)
|Necessary for strong teeth and bones
|1.09 mg
|Copper (Cu)
|Assists certain metabolic processes
|0.07 mg
|Zinc (Zn)
|Necessary for normal growth and development of healthy skin
|0.04 mg
|Magnesium (Mg)
|Assists a healthy nervous system and other metabolic processes
|1.57 mg
|Necessary for strong teeth and bones
|0.22 mg
|Manganese (Mn)
|Assists metabolic processes and bone growth and development
|0.04 mg
|Necessary for fluid and acid-base balance
|6.16 mg
Hot tea brewing method: Bring freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1 teaspoon of Rooibos for each cup into the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the pot, cover and let steep for 3-7 minutes. Pour into your cup; add milk and sugar to taste.
Iced tea brewing method (to make 1 liter/quart): Place 6 teaspoons of Rooibos into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the Rooibos. Steep for 5 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the Rooibos into the serving pitcher straining the leaves. Add ice and top-up with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste.


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After shifting his focus from ecology to photography, Canon Ambassador Christian Ziegler has become a celebrated photojournalist specialising in natural history and science-related topics.
A tropical ecologist turned nature photojournalist, Christian Ziegler has combined his two passions of photography and science to create an internationally-reaching reputation for producing engaging images rich in informed narrative, to highlight species and ecosystems under threat. "Most of the species that I photograph are endangered," says the German photographer. "We are at a tipping point in human history where we are over-stretching our natural environment and driving our fellow species to extinction. I hope my photography can make more people aware of this."

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LED DB Mast Luminaire Callisto SC 50Back to Overview
DB Model 339-M - with two single-chip module
Product Description and Application
This LED luminaire has been designed as mast luminaire for the illumination of track fields and railway platforms. By flexible adjustment of the mounting fixture versatile applications as side-mounted or as top-mounted luminaire are possible.
Pay attention to the quality and efficacy of the product. Having an optimised luminous intensity distribution, the quantity of luminaires can be reduced due to larger luminaire spacing. The luminaires are equipped with highly efficient LED modules - supplying nominally 135 lm/W at 4,000 K.
Recommended pole height: 4 - 8 metres
Model and Performance Variants
|Wattage / output*
|18 to 40 Watt
|Single-chip module
|From 1,818 to 4,040 lumen
*effective 101 lm/Watt at 4,000 K
|Colour temperature
|Light distribution
|Combined side-/top-mounting with -15° to +30° inclination adjustment
Design - Technical Specifications
|Dimensions l x w x h [mm]
|Weight [kg]
|640 x 183 x 79
Design, material and mounting
- Enclosure of non-corroding aluminium profile
- High-quality powder coating acc. DB 703 (graphite), on request all RAL colours
- Side- / top-mounting with -15° to +30° inclination adjustment
- Direct mounting on the pole without additional work, connecting cable pre-assembled (optionally)
- External screw connections of high-grade steel
- Use of heat conducting paste (alternatively heat conducting foil)
- Integrated pressure compensation valve
- Degree of enclosure protection: IP 65
Lighting technology
- LED-single-chip module
- Colour temperatures: neutral white (4,000 K)
- Light distribution: asymmetrical
- Service life single-chip-LED: 50,000 h – L90, B10
Electrical design
- Voltage 195-265 V / 50 Hz
- LED module and electronic ballast separately removable and plug-connected
- Electronic constant current LED ballast, efficiency 93 %
- Power supply interference-suppressed acc. DIN EN 61000-6-3/-4, EN 55011, EN 55022 CI. B, PFC corrected
- Protection class II acc. to VDE 0140 (DIN EN 61140)
- Power supply degree of enclosure protection IP 65
- Standard connection by means of Wieland plugs series ST18
- Overvoltage protection 4 kV (optionally 10 kV, external module)
- ENEC 05 tested and approved
- Wired ready for operation acc. to EN 60598
- Optionally, equipped with a telemanagement system
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A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.[1] The term is a truncation of the term "liberal profession", which is, in turn, an Anglicization of the French term "profession libérale". Originally borrowed by English users in the 19th century, it has been re-borrowed by international users from the late 20th, though the (upper-middle) class overtones of the term do not seem to survive retranslation: "liberal professions" are, according to the European Union's Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications (2005/36/EC) "those practiced on the basis of relevant professional qualifications in a personal, responsible and professionally independent capacity by those providing intellectual and conceptual services in the interest of the client and the public".
Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law [2] [3] – the so-called "learned professions".[4]
Major milestones which may mark an occupation being identified as a profession include:[3]
- an occupation becomes a full-time occupation
- the establishment of a training school
- the establishment of a university school
- the establishment of a local association
- the establishment of a national association
- the introduction of codes of professional ethics
- the establishment of state licensing laws
Applying these milestones to the historical sequence of development in the United States shows surveying achieving professional status first (note that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln all worked as land surveyors before entering politics), followed by medicine, actuarial science, law, dentistry, civil engineering, logistics, architecture and accounting.[5]
With the rise of technology and occupational specialization in the 19th century, other bodies began to claim professional status: pharmacy, veterinary medicine, psychology, nursing, teaching, librarianship, optometry and social work, each of which could claim, using these milestones, to have become professions by 1900.[6]
Just as some professions rise in status and power through various stages, others may decline. Disciplines formalized more recently, such as architecture, now have equally long periods of study associated with them.[7]
Although professions may enjoy relatively high status and public prestige, not all professionals earn high salaries, and even within specific professions there exist significant inequalities of compensation; in law, for example, a corporate/insurance defense lawyer working on a billable-hour basis may earn several times what a prosecutor or public defender earns.
A profession arises when any trade or occupation transforms itself through "the development of formal qualifications based upon education, apprenticeship, and examinations, the emergence of regulatory bodies with powers to admit and discipline members, and some degree of monopoly rights."[8]
Originally, any regulation of the professions was self-regulation through bodies such as the College of Physicians or the Inns of Court. With the growing role of government, statutory bodies have increasingly taken on this role, their members being appointed either by the profession or (increasingly) by government. Proposals for the introduction or enhancement of statutory regulation may be welcomed by a profession as protecting clients and enhancing its quality and reputation, or as restricting access to the profession and hence enabling higher fees to be charged. It may be resisted as limiting the members' freedom to innovate or to practice as in their professional judgement they consider best.
An example was in 2008, when the British government proposed wide statutory regulation of psychologists. The inspiration for the change was a number of problems in the psychotherapy field, but there are various kinds of psychologist including many who have no clinical role and where the case for regulation was not so clear. Work psychology brought especial disagreement, with the British Psychological Society favoring statutory regulation of "occupational psychologists" and the Association of Business Psychologists resisting the statutory regulation of "business psychologists" – descriptions of professional activity which it may not be easy to distinguish.
Besides regulating access to a profession, professional bodies may set examinations of competence and enforce adherence to an ethical code. There may be several such bodies for one profession in a single country, an example being the accountancy bodies of the United Kingdom (ACCA, CAI, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW and ICAS), all of which have been given a Royal Charter, although their members are not necessarily considered to hold equivalent qualifications, and which operate alongside further bodies (AAPA, IFA, CPAA). Another example of a regulatory body that governs a profession is the Hong Kong Professional Teachers Union, which governs the conduct, rights, obligations and duties of salaried teachers working in educational institutions in Hong Kong.
Typically, individuals are required by law to be qualified by a local professional body before they are permitted to practice in that profession. However, in some countries, individuals may not be required by law to be qualified by such a professional body in order to practice, as is the case for accountancy in the United Kingdom (except for auditing and insolvency work which legally require qualification by a professional body). In such cases, qualification by the professional bodies is effectively still considered a prerequisite to practice as most employers and clients stipulate that the individual hold such qualifications before hiring their services. For example, in order to become a fully qualified teaching professional in Hong Kong working in a state or government-funded school, one needs to have successfully completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Education ("PGDE") or a bachelor's degree in Education ("BEd") at an approved tertiary educational institution or university. This requirement is set out by the Educational Department Bureau of Hong Kong, which is the governmental department that governs the Hong Kong education sector.
Professions tend to be autonomous, which means they have a high degree of control of their own affairs: "professionals are autonomous insofar as they can make independent judgments about their work".[9] This usually means "the freedom to exercise their professional judgement."[10]
However, it also has other meanings. "Professional autonomy is often described as a claim of professionals that has to serve primarily their own interests...this professional autonomy can only be maintained if members of the profession subject their activities and decisions to a critical evaluation by other members of the profession "[11] The concept of autonomy can therefore be seen to embrace not only judgement, but also self-interest and a continuous process of critical evaluation of ethics and procedures from within the profession itself.
One major implication of professional autonomy is the traditional ban on corporate practice of the professions, especially accounting, architecture, medicine, and law. This means that in many jurisdictions, these professionals cannot do business through regular for-profit corporations and raise capital rapidly through initial public offerings or flotations. Instead, if they wish to practice collectively they must form special business entities such as partnerships or professional corporations, which feature (1) reduced protection against liability for professional negligence and (2) severe limitations or outright prohibitions on ownership by non-professionals. The obvious implication of this is that all equity owners of the professional business entity must be professionals themselves. This avoids the possibility of a non-professional owner of the firm telling a professional how to do his or her job and thereby protects professional autonomy. The idea is that the only non-professional person who should be telling the professional what to do is the client; in other words, professional autonomy preserves the integrity of the two-party professional-client relationship. But because professional business entities are effectively locked out of the stock market, they tend to grow relatively slowly compared to public corporations.
Status and prestige
Professions enjoy a high social status, regard and esteem conferred upon them by society.[12][13] This high esteem arises primarily from the higher social function of their work, which is regarded as vital to society as a whole and thus of having a special and valuable nature. All professions involve technical, specialized and highly skilled work often referred to as "professional expertise."[14] Training for this work involves obtaining degrees and professional qualifications (see Licensure) without which entry to the profession is barred (occupational closure). Updating skills through continuing education is required through training.
All professions have power.[15] This power is used to control its own members, and also its area of expertise and interests. A profession tends to dominate, police and protect its area of expertise and the conduct of its members, and exercises a dominating influence over its entire field which means that professions can act monopolist,[16] rebuffing competition from ancillary trades and occupations, as well as subordinating and controlling lesser but related trades.[17] A profession is characterized by the power and high prestige it has in society as a whole. It is the power, prestige and value that society confers upon a profession that more clearly defines it. The power of professions has led to them being referred to as conspiracies against the laity. On the other hand, professionals acquire some of their power and authority in organizations from their expertise and knowledge. As such they can bend rules, reduce bureaucratic inertia and increase problem solving and adaptability.[18]
There is considerable agreement about defining the characteristic features of a profession. They have a "professional association, cognitive base, institutionalized training, licensing, work autonomy, colleague control... (and) code of ethics",[19] to which Larson then also adds, "high standards of professional and intellectual excellence," (Larson, p. 221) that "professions are occupations with special power and prestige", (Larson, p.x) and that they comprise "an exclusive elite group," (Larson, p. 20) in all societies. Members of a profession have also been defined as "workers whose qualities of detachment, autonomy, and group allegiance are more extensive than those found among other groups...their attributes include a high degree of systematic knowledge; strong community orientation and loyalty; self-regulation; and a system of rewards defined and administered by the community of workers."[20]
A profession has been further defined as: "a special type of occupation...(possessing) corporate solidarity...prolonged specialized training in a body of abstract knowledge, and a collectivity or service orientation...a vocational sub-culture which comprises implicit codes of behavior, generates an esprit de corps among members of the same profession, and ensures them certain occupational advantages...(also) bureaucratic structures and monopolistic privileges to perform certain types of work...professional literature, legislation, etc." [21]
See also
- Professional
- First professional degree
- Professional body
- Professional boundaries
- Professional class
- Professional development
- Professional responsibility
- Professional ethics
- Professionalization
- Semiprofession
- Centre for the Study of Professions
- List of professions
- ↑ New Statesman, 21 April 1917, article by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb quoted with approval at paragraph 123 of a report by the UK Competition Commission, dated 8 November 1977, entitled Architects Services (in Chapter 7).
- ↑ Popat, Nitin. "Introduction to Accounting". Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- 1 2 Perks, R.W.(1993): Accounting and Society. Chapman & Hall (London); ISBN 0-412-47330-5. p.2.
- ↑ See for example:
Fisher, Redwood, ed. (August 1846). "Statistics of the State of New-York". Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record. R. Fisher. 3 (3): 234. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
[...] the three learned professions of divinity, law, and medicine [...]
- ↑ Perks, p.3.
- ↑ Buckley, J.W. & Buckley, M.H. (1974): The Accounting Profession. Melville, Los Angeles. Quoted by Perks, p.4.
- ↑ Ideas and Beliefs in Architecture and Industrial design: How attitudes, orientations and underlying assumptions shape the built environment. Oslo School of Architecture and Design. ISBN 82-547-0174-1.
- ↑ Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley, The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, London: Harper-Collins, 1999, p.689.
- ↑ Bayles, Michael D. Professional Ethics. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1981.
- ↑ "The World Medical Association Declaration of Madrid on Professional Autonomy and Self-Regulation", 1987. Revised in France in 2005, rescinded and archived in India in 2009, and rewritten and adopted in India in 2009 as "WMA Declaration of Madrid on Professionally-led Regulation"
- ↑ "Hoogland J. & Jochemsen H., ''Professional Autonomy and the Normative Structure of Medical Practice,'' Theoretical Medicine, 21.5, September 2000, pp.457-475". Ingentaconnect.com. 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ↑ "Ron Tinsley & James C Hardy, ''Faculty Pressures and Professional Self-Esteem: Life in Texas Teacher Education.''" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ↑ "Royal College of Pathologists, ''The role of the College and benefits of membership,'' 16 Dec 2005". Rcpath.org. 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ↑ P. C. S. Lian & A. W. Laing, The role of professional expertise in the purchasing of health services, Health Services Management Research, 17.2, 1 May 2004, pp.110-120.
- ↑ Terence Johnson, Professions and Power, London: Heinemann, 1972.
- ↑ Gerald Larkin, Occupational Monopoly and Modern Medicine, London: Tavistock, 1983.
- ↑ Peter E. S. Freund and Meredith B. McGuire. Health, Illness, and the Social Body: A Critical Sociology, New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall, 1995, p.211.
- ↑ Guy Benveniste (1987). Professionalizing the Organization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- ↑ Magali Sarfatti Larson, The Rise of Professionalism: a Sociological Analysis, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1978, p. 208
- ↑ Joanne Brown, The Definition of a Profession: the Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 19
- ↑ J A Jackson, Professions and Professionalization: Volume 3, Sociological Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 23–24
Further reading
- Penelope J. Corfield, Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850, Routledge, London, 1995.
- Yves Dezalay and David Sugarman, Professional Competition and Professional Power, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0-203-97721-1.
- Eliot Freidson, Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, ISBN 0-226-26225-1.
- Joseph M. Jacob, Doctors and Rules: A Sociology of Professional Values, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick and London, 1999.
- Jonathan Montgomery, "Medicine, Accountability, and Professionalism", Journal of Law and Society, vol. 16 (3): pp. 319–339.
- Georges Romme, The Quest for Professionalism: The Case of Management and Entrepreneurship, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016.


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The Grand Canyon is first established as a forest preserve by presidential proclamation.
On September 17, the first passengers arrive at the Grand Canyon South Rim aboard the train from Williams, Arizona.
Designed by architect Francis W. Wilson of Santa Barbara, California, the historic hotel was built with 22 guestrooms and 10 employee quarters for the legendary 'Harvey Girls' on the second floor.
Grand Canyon National Park is established by an act of Congress on February 26.
A good road into Grand Canyon National Park is built, making travel to the rim easier than ever before.
The Santa Fe Railway completes a two-story addition to the Fray Marcos Hotel of 21 rooms.
Diesel locomotives begin traveling the Grand Canyon line.
Last steam train travels the route to the Grand Canyon. The more economical diesel locomotives replace the classic steam locomotives.
Retired by the Santa Fe in 1954, the Fray Marcos Hotel remained closed to the public although the depot continued to service the East-West mainline and Williams-Grand Canyon train traffic.
In July, three passengers travel the last regularly scheduled train service to the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon Depot closes nearly a year following the discontinuation of passenger service (May).
United States Congress passes an act to expand the Grand Canyon National Park.
On December 30th, Williams' downtown business district achieves listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Santa Fe maintenance crews and the field engineer abandon the Williams train station facility for good.
On January 10th, Max and Thelma Biegert announced redevelopment of the railway route to the Grand Canyon and the rehabilitation of the historic Fray Marcos Hotel and Williams Depot. On September 17th, the Williams Depot re-opens under Grand Canyon Railway's ownership.
Reconditioning of two vintage 1906 and 1910 steam locomotives take place; each locomotive requires 8,000 to 10,000 hours to rebuild. The Grand Canyon Depot re-opens to welcome Grand Canyon Railway's trains in July.
Grand Canyon Railway carries more than 105,000 passengers per year, which reduces automobile traffic to the South Rim by approximately 40,000 cars.
The modern-day Grand Canyon Railway Hotel (built to resemble the historic Fray Marcos Hotel) opens its doors. The Railway begins daily passenger service and re-introduces vintage diesel locomotives to the Grand Canyon line.
Steam locomotive No. 4960 makes its first run on the Grand Canyon line after being fully restored. The restoration required more than $1.5 million and 80,000 man-hours.
Grand Canyon Railway placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Grand Canyon Railway completes a 107-room addition to the Hotel in February. Also added at this time are the pool and hot tub.
Grand Canyon Railway begins running a special Polar Express train to the "North Pole" during the holidays.
The Grand Canyon Depot restoration project is complete.
In March, the third addition to the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel is complete. The addition adds 92 standard rooms and 10 luxury suites. Steam locomotive No. 29 rides the Grand Canyon Railway line after an extensive restoration involving $1 million and 26,000 man-hours. Grand Canyon Railway carries more than 225,000 passengers per year, which reduces automobile traffic to the South Rim by 10 percent.
Xanterra Travel Collection® takes ownership of Grand Canyon Railway.
The historic Williams Depot celebrates its 100-year anniversary.
The Grand Canyon Railway converts to an all-diesel fleet of locomotives, aligning the company with Xanterra's commitment to the environment.
As a result of popular demand, Grand Canyon Railway reinstates limited steam operations at the Williams Depot. After converting locomotive No. 4960 to run purely on waste vegetable oil (WVO), the Railway begins conducting steam trips on its special event train dubbed the "Cataract Creek Rambler".
The Grand Canyon Railway Hotel upgrades several of its Standard rooms to a new Deluxe room type. This adds features such as LCD televisions, micro-refrigerators, and more. The Rail Baron Suite also saw extensive upgrades which included new carpet, paint, furniture, appliances and more.
The Grand Canyon Railway Hotel renovates its famous Spenser's Pub, adding a full kitchen and expanded menu selection.
A new class of service – The Christmas Eve Limited – was added to the overwhelmingly popular The Polar Express train. The Christmas Eve Limited is only available one night per year – Christmas Eve – and provides guests with features not available on The Polar Express.
The Grand Canyon Depot celebrates its 100-year anniversary.
Accommodations include in-room refrigerator and microwave, updated bathroom amenities, and stylish furnishings.
Grand Canyon Railway celebrates the 100th birthday of the National Park Service with a special steam doubleheader.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Grand Canyon National Park, the main dining facility is renamed in honor of our company's founder, Fred Harvey.
Since 1901 the Grand Canyon Railway has enchanted millions of people from all over the world. From its yesteryears of transporting ore to our present-day journeys to the canyon with the help of authentic characters who bring the Old West to life, the story of our railway is almost as dramatic as the spectacular surroundings.
The train—whose fate seemed sealed when it was shut down back in 1968 due to the popularity of automobiles—is now responsible for keeping approximately 50,000 cars outside of a national treasure. By traveling aboard Grand Canyon Railway you are not only part of history in the making, you are also doing your part to help preserve the pristine, incredible beauty of Grand Canyon National Park.
Back in the late 1800s, the Grand Canyon was a far-off distant land. Only the most adventurous of explorers could rough the elements to see it at its remote location in northern Arizona, which was still a territory at the time. But Americans were on the move and going west. American ingenuity was hard at work in the form of the railroads, being built and tying the nation together.
Initially, the main line west was built from Chicago to Los Angeles and it passed through Williams, Arizona. The Railroad was originally built to transport ore in the Wild West from the Anita mines, 45 miles north of Williams, in the late 1800s. Buckey O'Neill, sheriff of Yavapi County, mayor of Prescott, prospector, promoter and later one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, realized money could be made in the mines. He traveled east to gain the support and investment. O'Neill gained the support of Thomas Lombard from the investment firm of Lombard, Goode and Company in New York. Together they entered conversations with the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad.
To help gain the interest of the Santa Fe, O'Neill sent ore samples of gold saying he had mined the samples from the Grand Canyon. In the same letter, however, O'Neill also recognized the potential for tourism so he spoke to the natural beauty of the region and the canyon. O'Neill continued to flirt with the Santa Fe through the years seeking their investment. He also tried to get local investors, which he did, and in 1897 the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad Company was incorporated. Development of the tracks north from Williams began. O'Neill would not see its completion. He left to fight in the Spanish American War behind Colonel Theodore Roosevelt where he died in 1898.
The railroad changed management and consolidated numerous times in the early year. Finally, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway took over and completed the track to Grand Canyon in 1901. The company could make a return on its investment through tourism because the lure of ore and mining proved to be unsustainable. The $3.95 train ride would replace the $15.00 eight-hour stagecoach ride from Flagstaff, allowing visitors to gaze upon what Teddy Roosevelt said, "Every American should see." The 65 miles of track the iron horse traveled became the lifeline to Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon Railway made its first journey to the Grand Canyon on September 17, 1901. And since that time, notable passengers to ride the Grand Canyon Railway include Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, William Howard Taft, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates.
Over the years, the Santa Fe also built many of the structures that now grace the South Rim. After all, if they were going to start bringing people in large numbers, they had to have a way to accommodate and feed them. When the train first arrived in 1901, tent camps were found along the rim. The Santa Fe approached the development with engineering skills and technology of the times that made a wonderful contribution still evident today. In 1904, the railroad hired the Fred Harvey Company to manage the hotels and restaurants at the Grand Canyon for the Santa Fe, and in 1905, Santa Fe built its flagship hotel, the El Tovar, which became the finest lodging at the rim and arguably in the Southwest at the time.
The railroad, in a most progressive move for the times, hired Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, a woman, to design many of the buildings that have become part of the signature of Grand Canyon National Park. Her distinctive touch stamped an indelible imprint the building at the Grand Canyon with her version of a natural style of Pueblo Indian architecture. Colter is responsible for such landmarks as the Hopi House, Lookout Studio, Bright Angel Lodge, Desert View Watchtower, and Hermit's Rest.
All supplies used in the construction of Grand Canyon Village came to Northern Arizona aboard the train. The train also brought all water to the Grand Canyon until 1926. Supplies were not the only things carried in trains. Ranching and lumber were the primary industries of the early 1900s. Ranchers and lumberjacks contracted with the Grand Canyon Railway to transport their stock. The Railway shared the countryside with its neighbors forming a unique bond. Cowboys, lumberjacks and shepherds alike felt a little better and closer to civilization just being able to hear the train or see its lights off in the distance.
Grand Canyon Railway stopped service to Grand Canyon in 1968 after ridership declined due to the rise in popularity of automobile travel. The Interstate highway system had been completed and people fell in love with "the road trip." The train had been a source of regional pride, a symbol of man's spirit of conquest and a sense of harmony with nature. Interstate highways were built paralleling the railroad, and silently replaced virgin landscapes privileged only to the train with billboards and gas stations.
The Railway was reopened for passenger service on September 17, 1989, by entrepreneurs Max and Thelma Biegert—88 years to the day of the first passenger train to the Grand Canyon. "Bringing the Grand Canyon line back to life really came down to the eleventh hour," explained then Williams Marshal John Moore. "As Grand Canyon Railway was working on getting the final paper-work complete, a corporation which made a failed attempt to restore the Grand Canyon line, had begun tearing it up for salvage materials. If it hadn't been for Grand Canyon Railway, train service to the Grand Canyon would have been permanently lost."
In 1989, Grand Canyon Railway put a stop to the salvage work and began a detailed restoration process. The decaying tracks were rebuilt, the historic depots at both ends of the line were restored, and after 21 years, passenger service once again returned to Grand Canyon National Park.
"Max Biegert and his wife Thelma brought an important piece of Arizona history back to life. We have them to thank for the opportunity to travel just as those first passengers did in 1901 to the canyon so appropriately named Grand," said Railroad Historian Al Richmond.
Today, Grand Canyon Railway provides a historic and fun journey to the canyon with the help of authentic western characters who bring the Old West to life. Moreover, the train whose fate seemed sealed when it was shut down due to the popularity of automobiles, is now responsible for keeping approximately 50,000 cars outside of the national treasure.
Explains Jeff D'Arpa, Grand Canyon Railway General Manager, "By traveling aboard Grand Canyon Railway you are not only experiencing an entertaining and historic journey, but you are also doing your part to help preserve the pristine beauty of the Grand Canyon."


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Smithfield Virginia's Perfect Destination
Smithfield, Virginia is a quaint river-port town with a rich history. Stepping into the Historic District is, in essence, stepping into a time gone by where the charm of a simpler world awaits. In the heart of historic Smithfield on the banks of the Pagan River sits Smithfield Station, offering guests a superb spot to enjoy the solitude of this river-port town. This one-of-a-kind waterfront inn combines fine amenities, unique conference space, on-site dining and a fully equipped marina all within walking distance to art galleries, specialty shops, historic attractions and a diverse array of dining options.


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The only real monk is the one who perseveres in the monastery until death.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
An old painting of mine...
In the style of Botero.
I painted this image of a nun about 10 years ago. It was my homage to Botero and I named it for a wonderful sister I knew. She was a beautiful nun who gained some weight as she got older, and her hair turned completely grey. She was an exuberant personality, and full of fun, and most importantly, genuine charity. Some people felt I was insulting her with this "portrait" - but I was really just having fun. Sister acted as if she was flattered I had attempted to paint her, and more importantly, she laughed very hard at the caricature - as well as the indignation other people expressed because of it. (Their indignation revealed a great deal about their true feelings.) The painting is framed much like a Dutch master's - big, heavy, and dark; it is in a private collection.
I finished a piece today - it is too large to scan - it is called: "The Apotheosis of Fr. X" It is very fun. (What comes after X? Y do you ask? LOL!)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Clerics in art.
I like to paint clerics... priests. I am working on image(s) of two priests... a cleric and a monastic... I'm trying to capture... to document their pesonality. I will complete the priest first. Then the monk.
Making art...
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Belief in progress and growing economic prosperity were central aspects of the American way of life around 1950.
Everything seemed possible, and people strove to be modern. With the aim of bringing modern design into American homes, George Nelson conceived a wide array of everyday objects: lamps, clocks and other domestic accessories. Up until the 1970s, the Nelson office created many different items for the home, including the Bubble Lamps and the Ball Clock, which became icons of mid-century modern design.The Desk Clocks are available in a diverse range of shapes and materials. Equipped with high-quality quartz movements, they continue to offer a refreshing alternative to conventional clocks.
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George Nelson, born 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut (USA), studied architecture at Yale University. A fellowship enabled him to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1932 to 1934. In Europe, he became acquainted with the major architectural works and leading protagonists of modernism.
In 1957, Vitra founder Willi Fehlbaum signed his first licence agreement with Herman Miller to produce furniture for the European market. During the ensuing decades of the collaboration with Vitra, a close friendship evolved between George Nelson and Rolf Fehlbaum, who later said about Nelson: 'No other prominent designer spoke as intelligently or wrote as coherently about design'. Nelson expressed his thoughts on design topics in numerous articles and eleven books;
Swiss manufacturer Vitra's collections of furniture and lighting bring together the colour, culture and sophistication of the world's most prominent designers.


text: A new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their master boot record (MBR) and displays a message asking users for money, according to security researchers from Trend Micro."Based on our analysis, this malware copies the original MBR and overwrites it with its own malicious code," said Cris Pantanilla, a threat response engineer at Trend Micro, in a blog post on Thursday. "Right after performing this routine, it automatically restarts the system for the infection take effect."The MBR is a piece of code that resides in the first sectors of the hard drive and starts the boot loader. The boot loader then loads the OS.Instead of starting the Windows boot loader, the rogue MBR installed by the new ransomware displays a message that asks users to deposit a sum of money into a particular account via an online payment service called QIWI, in order to receive an unlock code for their computers."This code will supposedly resume operating system to load and remove the infection," Pantanilla said. "When the unlock code is used, the MBR routine is removed."As the name implies, ransomware applications hold something belonging to the victim in ransom until they pay a sum of money. This type of malware is considered the next step in the evolution of scareware, malicious programs that scare users into paying money.The majority of ransomware applications disable important system functionality or encrypt documents and pictures, but this is the first ransomware program that Trend Micro researchers have seen replacing the MBR to prevent the system from starting.This represents a serious escalation in ransomware techniques. While users can still run security tools to clean their systems of traditional ransomware applications and even recover some files, if Windows doesn't start at all, like in this case, the remediation procedure becomes much more difficult.Repairing the MBR is no trivial matter and usually requires booting from the Windows installation disk, getting into the recovery command console and typing special commands.Ransomware infections are typically more common throughout Eastern Europe and South America, but this type of malware is slowly gaining traction in other regions of the world as well. Some variants that impersonate law enforcement agencies and ask victims to pay fictitious fines have recently been detected in Western Europe."Though overshadowed by other more newsworthy threats, ransomware attacks are definitely not out of picture. In fact, this threat appears to be flourishing, as evidenced by the growth of ransomware infections in other parts of Europe," Pantanilla said.


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It's probably not surprising that mothers excel at recognizing and interpreting the moods and emotions of their infants. Although infants can't speak, mothers seem to know what their babies are thinking: they smile when their baby smiles and they frown when their baby is upset. Research suggests that the mother's ability to understand the needs of her infant is very important for establishing a secure mother-infant relationship. However, the neural mechanisms that underlie these behaviors are poorly understood. Such knowledge is crucial for understanding normal as well as abusive and neglectful mothering.
Maternal Rewards
In recent years, several studies have been carried out using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to better understand how a mother's brain responds to her own child's cues. The most recent, led by neuroscientist Lane Strathearn and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine, investigated what happens inside the brain of a mother when she looks at the facial expressions of her own infant. In the study, 28 first-time mothers were shown pictures of their seven-month old child that they had never seen before. (The pictures were taken when the mother was not present.) The pictures spanned a wide range of human emotion and included images of the child making happy, sad or neutral faces. These pictures were then matched with images of an unknown infant. The central finding was that seeing the happy face of the mother's own infant activated all of the key areas in the brain associated with reward processing. These regions include the ventral tegmental area, substantia nigra and the striatum. This finding suggests that for mothers the sight of their smiling baby is a potent reward and represents a uniquely pleasurable experience. Furthermore, this neural response was graded, so that happy faces led to more activation than neutral faces. Sad faces generated the least activation. In other words, the response of mothers in their reward areas seemed to directly mirror the emotions the infant displayed.
The argument put forth by Strathearn and colleagues is that maternal behavior is fundamentally rooted in these reward areas. Positive sensory cues from infants, such as a smiling facial expression, stimulate dopamine release and thus promote responsive maternal care. However, many questions remain. In their paper, Strathearn et al. do not discuss the significance of the orbitofrontal cortex, although its activity was clearly influenced in the experiment by seeing one's own infant's compared with an unknown infant. The importance of the orbitofrontal cortex shouldn't be too surprising, as this brain area is believed to receive ascending dopamine projections from reward areas and is critical in representing the "value" of a reward. Other studies have also demonstrated that the orbitofrontal cortex is correlated with the positive feelings of the mother, suggesting that it plays a key role in modulating maternal behavior.
Is the Smile Enough?
This study also raises a more fundamental question: is the infant smile the most important element for motivating maternal behavior? It goes without saying that the smiling face of one's own baby is highly rewarding and encourages maternal care. On the other hand, babies aren't always smiling and mothers must also learn to respond to infants in distress. In fact, a human mother's response to an infant in distress is a good indicator of how responsive she is to other infant cues. Studies also show that abusive and neglectful mothers show less empathy and more aversive feelings towards a crying infant when compared with nurturing mothers, suggesting that how a mother reacts to a baby when it's upset and not smiling is a crucial test of maternal behavior.
According to our own recent work, the orbitofrontal cortex and striatum were more activated in the brain of a mother when she looked at her own infant compared with other infants regardless of the infant's situation or mood. These brain areas also showed a greater activation when mothers were viewing their infant when he or she was crying (the distressed condition) as opposed to when he or she was happy (the play situation). This discovery makes sense, as a distressed baby might require more effort and thought as the mother must quickly identify the source of the distress and respond appropriately. Another reason to highlight the importance of the orbitofrontal cortex in guiding maternal behavior is that, in our experiment, the activity of this brain area showed a positive correlation not only with pleasurable feelings but also the anxious feelings experienced by the mother. Of course, these anxious feelings are important for maternal care, as anxiety and worry can be powerful motivators. Taken together, these findings suggest that maternal behavior is guided by elaborate and complex neural mechanisms. Although reward processing is clearly an important part of this mental process—it seems to mediate maternal love and feelings of joy—other mechanisms are required in order to explain the full range of the mother-infant relationship.
In conclusion, a smiling face of a mother's own infant is certainly rewarding and it motivates maternal care, but this is not the only motivator. We hope that in the future other aspects of maternal behavior—such as the maternal desire to protect her infant, which is a biologically essential mechanism for preservation of the species—will get investigated and explored.
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Saybrook University held its very first inauguration ceremony for a new president this past Friday. Mark Schulman, Ph.D. was inaugurated at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco's Financial District. It was an exciting day, with at least 180 in atttendance representing colleges and universities from around the country.
An academic colloquium on Humanistic Education in the 21st Century followed and was well attended. Each of our four panelists looked at the topic from their unique perspective. It was a stimulating reflection on a very important topic .
Our Distinquished Panelists were:
Eugene Taylor: Humanistic Psychology
Jim Gordon: Mind Body Medicine
Tim Weber: Leadership
Kathia Laszlo: Organizational Systems
For more about this event, see the "Message from the Director of Alumni Affairs" in the winter edition of the alumni letter, The Homepage, to be released late January or early February.


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Waltham, Massachusetts -TP Systems, a Vancouver, BC, Canada software and services firm has officially announced its expansion to the US market. The US business unit, TP Systems-USA, has strategically located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
TPS-USA will be led by industry veteran Al Lucchese. Mr. Lucchese joins TP Systems as executive vice president, responsible for establishing and managing the firm's presence in the United States. Mr. Lucchese will guide the US business unit in its start-up by establishing a local presence capable of supporting an aggressive growth plan. In addition to Lucchese's responsibilities in the US, his executive level experience will be leveraged throughout TP Systems' business in North America. Scott Ross, CEO says, "Al Lucchese has enjoyed a highly successful career leading multiple software and services organizations through varied stages of growth". Lucchese articulated, "Our focus is to make SOHEMA, TP System's Health & Human Services Case Management software a market leader in the US."
SOHEMA supports the entire case management lifecycle and allows case workers to capture performance based metrics to track program and provider success. The integrated software and services solution provides users with a powerful interconnected tool that allows for real time electronic sharing of information and coordination of services. SOHEMA is a web based Cloud application.
Mr. Lucchese is a resident of Sudbury, Massachusetts.
TP Systems is a leading provider of software and services to government, non-profit, health and human services and insurance organizations throughout North America.
TP Systems is a creative and agile firm comprising more than 150 associates and headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., who for more than 35 years have helped clients bridge the gap between technology and people through innovative solutions delivery.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Sundays In My City #59 - Year 2011
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Happy New Year! As long as we lived in Southern California I never saw the skies that clear. Wow.ReplyDelete
You inspired tomorrow's post.
wishing you a wonderful 2011 dear joanna! p.s. can i move in for a while?... ;)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!!! That is really clear for L.A.! Jeez its been really cold! I think I caught something celebrating Downtown at Midnight... hope your staying warm!ReplyDelete
Wow! Is that really Southern California??? It is the perfect weather for a new year!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, my friend. I've loved hearing about all of the wonderful things happening in your life. May you have many more!
Really, that is an unbelievable scene..not a bit of haze or smog. A perfect L. A. day and you are lucky to have that view from you home.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!!
Thank YOU, Joanna.ReplyDelete
And wow what a wonderful glorious first day to welcome the year.
I watched the Rose Parade and the day was glorious!!! Your are so right...I was wishing I was there!! I was so cold...brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year dear one
I would love to see that from our backyard! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
CJR @ The Mommy Blog
Wow, what a gorgeous backdrop! So glad the sun decided to join in on the party (smile). Happy New Year, bonny lass, may the sun continue to shine on you and yours for many more days to come. ((x))ReplyDelete
Hi Joanna,ReplyDelete
How dare you show a glorious day like that when I look out of the window at what I call a 'dirty underpants day',i.e. gloomy and dismal and damp.
Thank you for coming over to my blog and commenting,
I really like what I found here too.
btw. I do hope you have got over the fiftyphobia, just wait for the sixtysorrow!
I forgot to say Happy New Year, forgetfulness comes with old age. Something else to look forward to!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous view for sure.
That is how I see California.
Pure and clean and bright.
Especially LA!
Can't wait to see it again!
That is a gorgeous view! Happy New Year to you!ReplyDelete
Wow what an amazing view to wake up to! I love chamber of commerce days! We had 3 days of rain and 50 degrees no snow left in our yard, today bitter ass cold and snow this afternoon! Crazy Mother nature! Have a wonderful Sunday!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Joanna! And yes, I did watch the Rose Bowl Parade and think about how I wanted to go to it some year.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
I'm so jealous everytime you post a picture of the view from your back yard! And especially now that I'm looking out at snow!ReplyDelete
oh i wish i was in the land of sun & fun, somedayReplyDelete
happy new year to you too :)
gorgeous gorgeous view.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you as well, Joanna.
Looking forward to staying connected with you here in blogland.
Happy New Year, Joanna. All the best to you and yours.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous view of the mountains. Thank you for sharing this beautiful vista.ReplyDelete
We had unusually warm weather over the past few days, but it wasn't anywhere near as gorgeous as what you had! The pictures from your yard always make me want to pack up and move to California.ReplyDelete
Happy new year to you too! What a beautiful shot of the city! Too bad those two big buildings are in there, lol. LOVE those mountains!ReplyDelete
We also had a beautiful, sunny, blue sky day with wonderful views of the mountains......with snow on the ground and temps in the teens. Not a good day for a parade here, but a beautiful day anyway.ReplyDelete
With a view like this- I would spring out of bed every morning-beautiful. Enjoy your golden day. xoReplyDelete
Wishing you a brighter and all the best of 2011 too! xoReplyDelete
What an awesome view from you back yard, Joanna. So glad the weather cleared for your New Year celebrations. Each day is different here and we enjoy the varied weather conditions thank goodness. Our New Years day was ice storm. Today is sunny. Go figure. Hugs to you and best wishes for a wonderful 2011.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous view and beautiful weather. I love days like that!!ReplyDelete
I can feel the warm sunshine from here!ReplyDelete
WOW! I never knew how captivating the backdrop in California could be in the winter!ReplyDelete
Thanks for all your posts! I love this spot!
Happy New Year, Joanna!
glad the weather cooperated for the Rose parade! Lovely photograph.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous view!!!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!!!
Wow. Can I come vacation at your place during January and February? Looks so amazingly serene.ReplyDelete
Southern California! Oh how I miss it!! Love your picture! Some of my family always go to the Rose Parade every year!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful JJ. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you, Joanna. It was a gorgeous day for us in Hawaii as well. I'm glad the tradewinds blew the smoke from the fireworks away.ReplyDelete
What a view! It's still very cold in Seattle, but the sun is shining! I'm still amazed by your view, and can think of nothing else to say!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful veiw! Since it warmed up to 8 degree's today and it was not snowing, nor was it gray and overcast but instead sunny, it has put a smile on my face too.ReplyDelete
I hope that 2011 brings you much joy, love, peace, hope, adventure, fun and lots and lots of laughter. Bless you dear woman. XX
It rained here on New Year's Day. But it beats all the snow we've been getting, and I can't do much right now anyway, so I didn't mind.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, my wonderful friend! Thank you for being such a great bloggy buddy.ReplyDelete
great view of snow where it belongs - on mountainsReplyDelete
I just found your blog. Great stuff here! Our new year's day included snow on the mountains in Phoenix, AZ!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, Joanna!! I have missed you sooooo much!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful picture!! I was able to drive my car home today. We received at least 13 inches of snow last week and my car has been stuck in town but it's home now...again...
Hope this is a wonderful year for you and yours!!
Hugs and love!!
Wow!! I just checked and I'm still in your blogroll!! I am so, very thankful and honored. You wouldn't believe how many people removed me in my absence....ReplyDelete
Thank you!!
I love you!!
My best wishes to you and your family in 2011!ReplyDelete
I think it has been a tradition for blue skies and sunshine on the Rose Parade. I can't think of too many that were not like that!
Gorgeous shots!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! wishing you the best one yet.ReplyDelete
one love.
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Here's wishing that every single day is as gorgeous as your New Year's Day.ReplyDelete
That is one beautiful day :) My Dad and step Mom live in Yucaipa and have been telling me nonstop about the rain..I hope this is the end of it!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful scene...ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 5:40 AM
Beautiful! I love Pasadena and hope that someday I can spend the holiday there and enjoy the parade up close ... Here in southeast Mich., it was balmy -- around 50 degrees on New Year's Eve, and almost as warm the next day. There was a big ball drop and rock concert in downtown Royal Oak, so we appreciated the break in the weather here. Crowds of people enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you!
Happy New Year to you and yours, may 2011 be a very prosperous year indeed.ReplyDelete
That image is out of this world. Having a view like this is dreamy to me, as Denmark is very flat. Being born at the foothill of high mountains, this image makes me very sentimental.;)
All I can say is "wow".;)
That is one spectacular photograph!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you and your family...!
What an absolutely beautiful view!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM
What a glorious view! I'm so glad the sun came out again for you. Happy New Year! Hope it's full of views like this one!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
WoW, now that's what I'm talkin' about. Enjoy the beauty of the snow without trampin' through it tryin' to get the critters fed!ReplyDelete
We had Christmas here on the Ponderosa on New Years Day and I must say we had a blast!!!
Happy New Year sweetie and may it be filled with God's best blessings!!! :o)
Wishing you and yours a very beautiful 2011, Joanna.ReplyDelete
And I hear that there was snow in the LA area recently! Just so you don't forget how winter is for the rest of the states....ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, Snarky Sister...you are one of the gifts I thought about when the ball was dropping!
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2011 at 4:54 AM
Valuable info. Lucky me I found your site by accident, I bookmarked it.ReplyDelete
Hello and Happy New Joanna! Gorgeous view! We also had beautiful weather the New Year's weekend. It was quite welcome after a couple of weeks of extremely cold weather (for Florida)!ReplyDelete
~ Tracy
Fantastic view!!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
What a view!!!! What a photo!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, JJ!!
Wow...what beauty in that picture.ReplyDelete
We are preparing for a few 20 below days here in East Texas....
Hope you have a Blessed Week...Thanks for sharing!
Now that's what I call a picture perfect view!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year to you, my friend!
wow. it looks gorgeous...happy new year jj!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 2:53 AM
You are so fortunate to have such a picture perfect view in your own back yard, stunning.ReplyDelete
Happy new year!


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University Park, PA – Maggie Lucas scored a game-high 24 points as No. 9 Penn State put together a couple of big runs in the second half to down Northwestern, 73-69, in the Big Ten opener for both teams.
Mia Nickson added a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Lady Lions (11-2, 1-0 Big Ten), who won their fifth straight game despite shooting just 29.9 percent from the floor in the contest.
Karly Roser paced Northwestern (8-6, 0-1) with 16 points and Kendall Hackney followed with 12 points and 11 rebounds as the Wildcats fell for the second time in three games.
Northwestern shot 44.6 percent in the game, but also turned the ball over 28 times, resulting in 27 points for Penn State.
Northwestern scored the first six points of the game and maintained that lead throughout the first half en route to a 38-32 advantage at the break.
But the Lady Lions opened the second half with a 16-7 run to go on top, 48-45, following Ariel Edwards' layup with just over 11 minutes left in the game.
Penn State held a one-possession lead until Alex Cohen later capped a 9-0 spurt with a shot from beyond the arc to give the Wildcats a 60-54 edge with 4:47 remaining.
The Lady Lions, however, responded with a 14-5 run to take a 68-65 advantage with less than a minute left in the game. After Lauren Douglas missed a triple on Northwestern's ensuing possession, Alex Bentley converted on a pair of foul shots for a five-point lead with 36 seconds left.
The Wildcats would get no closer than two from there as Penn State was able to close out the game at the foul line.


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Jason Derr's Article, the comments are way down on that page.
More information about theopoetics.
Jason Derr's Article, the comments are way down on that page.
More information about theopoetics.
The oft captivating Blake Huggins at (Ir)religiosity has prompted me once again. I encourage folks to go give his post "The task of the theologian: responsibility for God," a read and/or check out my thoughts on a very similar topic below.
What do we Gain with a Doctrine of God?
What do we accomplish in the development of a Doctrine of God? With ecclesiology we find ourselves left with the suggestions of worship, the role of the church, and the relationship of Church to world. With Doctrine of Humanity we investigate theological anthropology and move towards some sense of our ultimate purpose, how we might be called to be in relation to one another and the world, and potentially, the ground of a Christian ethic. What then, does Doctrine of God provide us with? I believe that the answer lies in the way of C.S. Lewis's comment that, "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." The best of our Doctrines of God provide us with a way to consider the Divine in such a manner that also allows us to make some greater sense of the world and our various experiences within it.
Our articulations of the Divine must simultaneously be a commentary on our own condition as well as a means of hope for something more. In some sense, we run the risk of imbuing God with our own ideas, falling into Feurbach's accusation that our constructs of God are always just projections of the values we hold most dear, rendering God as nothing but an objectified and created container that holds our collective virtues. Of course, on the other side, explaining God as somehow beyond everything of this world also runs into problems as it relegates the Divine to a distant and disconnected horizon.
I do not want to locate God solely within the known world and our experience, as we can too easily define God in our image instead of vice-versa. Similarly, I am resistant to the idea that God is entirely beyond our experience as well, a God which would force an articulation of the nature of God to be greater than our experience, a wholly other God. With both of these extremes offering something to the person of faith, and with either possessing its own potential pitfalls, it behooves us to consider how we might incorporate these positions into one articulation of God and God's nature, and in so doing, explore the role and purpose of a well-crafted Doctrine of God.
Divine Resonance
If our explication of the nature of the Divine somehow places God fully beyond human access, then God becomes available only beyond life. If, conversely, it is the case that God's valency is experiential, then our models and articulations of the Divine ought to provide for this to be the case. Those who see this move as heretical often have a sense of the role of theology and doctrine of God that differs substantially from mine. While many feel as if knowing and proclaiming the redemptive truth of God is central to a Christian life, I have some significant suspicion of those who insist on their interpretation as the only valid approach, as if their sense of God is ultimate and complete. I agree with Tripp Fuller that, "in an unfinished universe it is unreasonable to think a theology is finished." What we know of God is contextual, personal, and ever capable of change. To say that God is ever changing may seem to fly in the face of the eternal nature of God, and yet I believe that there is some grounds for it, which I would like to articulate via analogy, of all things, to chemistry.
Asked what H2O is, most people will answer water. They are correct, and there is more to the story than their response. Formed the other way around, "H2O" as an answer to the question "What is water?" is not wholly correct. Imagine two molecules of water, each with two atoms of hydrogen associated to a larger atom of oxygen. What we have discovered is that even in a container of "pure" water, the reality is that a collection of H2O molecules do not remain simply a collection of H2Os. Instead, they begin to interact with one another, resulting in one of the two oxygen atoms taking a hydrogen atom from the other, an event which chemists notate as 2 H2O <–> H3O+ + OH− and refer to as the "self-ionization" of water. Essentially, even though water is H2O, that is, two hydrogen atoms and and one oxygen atom, water does not ever actually exist in a pure H2O form: it is constantly in a state of resonance, transition, and relation: that state of oscillation in process between H3O+ and OH− is what we refer to as H2O, as water. So too is God: somewhere between transcendent and immanent; personal and eternal; and any number of other seeming contradictions.
By extension then, our task as theologians is not to name God as a fixed God that is and always will be, but to describe God in a such a way that captures some of the Divine nature as it is in the process of becoming something other than what we have named it. This is not to say that God is becoming something ungodlike any more than it is to say that water is not water-like simply because we always thought it was just H2O. The function of a Doctrine of God is to provide a sketch of how it is that God is at some middle point of becoming something more than we thought it was, but not so far afield that it is unrecognizable; two molecules of water do not self-ionize into wombats: they stay water-related, just further afield than we first thought. There is enough sense of continuity between H3O+ and OH− such that it makes sense to call a mixture of those things H2O, even though what we have discovered challenges our sense of what exactly that wet stuff is.
As we scientifically name water as H2O because that is the state in between its two poles of existence, so too can we conceive of God, with the noted exception that while water "self-ionizes" into two distinct parts, each of which is qualitatively identifiable, quantifiable, and fixed, God seems to be formed of more parts than we can name. Yes Father, yes Son, yes Holy Spirit, and yes also Alpha and Omega; Love and Light; and Living Water and Word. Yes, yes, and infinite becoming yes.
The Truth of the Daily
If I ask someone to tell me what water is and they say that water is something you drink, that doesn't mean they got it wrong. Even though there are other things that we drink as well, that certainly is one of the things that water is. Too often we associate truth with abstract generality so that when someone speaks to the particulars of their experience we discount, or devalue their commentary in light of more totalizing and structural methodologies.
Understanding and/or relating to some aspect of the Divine does not entail understanding and/or relating to the entirety of God. If you ask my wife if she knows me, she is sure to say yes, and you would think nothing of it. Of course she knows me. And yet there are thoughts I think, things I see, and stories I have heard that she has no knowledge of. That doesn't mean she does not know me: it means than I am more than that which she knows. I see no reason why this should not be the case with God as well. We articulate God's qualities not to limit or ascribe finitude to that which is more than that, but as an offering and invitation to others that they might respond in kind, lending their voices to a conversation which is both the echo of ancient words and the renewal of current hope.
I see the task of a theologian as one akin to a poet's: to capture some sense of the moment in such stunning detail — by tone, image, sound, example, etc — that upon reflection, some echo of that moment is called forth in the other. In the writings of George Fox, he repeatedly called for Christians "to answer to that of God in all." As a theologian, I understand my role as an articulator of the Divine that I perceive in the world, an answering call that hopefully encourages other to do the same.


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China's Calligraphic Arts
Six major scripts have developed over the course of more than three thousand years for writing Chinese characters, and all are still used in "artistic writing" (calligraphy) today. Each of these styles of writing—oracle bone, seal, clerical, cursive, running, and standard—has distinct differences in appearance.
Characters in seal script, for example, have symmetrical structures made with thin, even lines. Clerical script is recognized by its prominent down strokes, while running script more closely resembles informal handwriting. One script builds upon the other, as seen in the progression above, where each set of characters represents the word "dragon."
Dating to the thirteenth century BCE, the earliest examples of Chinese writing are found on bones, stones, and metal artifacts of ritual or historical importance. The early emphasis on beautifully-rendered even lines in writing created by knives or a stylus was supplanted by the growing importance of brush writing during the late Bronze Age and early Imperial Period. Experimentation with brushwork and gradations of ink progressed when paper became a popular writing medium during the second century CE. This allowed brush-written calligraphy to emerge as a fully independent art form.
Although the development of major scripts was virtually complete by the fourth century, the art of calligraphy continued to evolve over the millennia. Master calligraphers with years of training and dedicated practice were recognized for their personal styles, and later generations of artists often adapted brushstrokes and designs to their own style. Through writing, carving, and reproduction by rubbing, this stylistic evolution of scripts continues to enliven Chinese calligraphy to the present day.
This feature is based on the exhibition Writing, Carving, and Rubbing: China's Calligraphic Arts, which was on view at the Freer April 4–October 25, 2009


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Who doesn't love a sweet treat? I honestly do not know a lot of folks who simply don't adore a sweet bite or two. Perhaps it might be frequent or infrequent, but there is no denying a well executed dessert is purely decadent. Several weeks ago I was contacted by Meghan from The Harvard Common Press. I was extremely flattered when she asked me if I wanted to be part of the blog tour to promote Dede Wilson's two new cookbook releases: Cake Balls and A Bakers Field Guide to Doughnuts.
Okay, maybe I might be the last person on earth who had never made a cake ball. Not sure why I had never gotten around to experimenting with this tiny bite sized ball of delightfulness. The good news is that Mehgan was kind enough to send me a copy of each book prior to the official release in September. I toyed with testing out a doughnut recipe, but I think I will save that for later. I was simply intrigued to test my hand at making my very first cake ball.
After perusing numerous times through Dede's fun filled and whimsical cake balls, I narrowed it down to the Red Velvet Cake Balls. Trust me between the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake Balls, Confetti Cake Balls, Espresso Brownie Cake Balls and the Midsilde Cake Balls, it was a tough decision. Dede features over 60 wonderful and easy cake ball recipes in her book. She defines them as "delectable & whimsical sweet spheres of goodness". I could not agree more.
I was fortunate enough to have an interview with Dede to gain her perspective on desserts, writing cookbooks along with some personal insights. Dede is a contributing editor to Bon Appetit magazine and the author of thirteen books featuring sweets, desserts and baking. Please enjoy getting to know Dede Wilson:
When did your love for cooking begin and who was your inspiration?
Both of my parents were amazing home cooks. My dad was traveling all
over the world for business and would bring home spices, condiments
and recipes. In the 60's and 70's I was eating authentic Chinese,
Indonesian and Italian. Little did I know that my palate was being
How do you come up with the ideas for your cookbooks?
Sometimes it is a flavor that inspires, like chocolate for my book
Truffles. Other times it is a trend, like my newest Cake Ball book and
doughnut book. The sweet treats themselves were inspirational.
What is your all time favorite dessert, and why?
I refuse to pick a favorite child! But I have a soft spot for dark
chocolate and I also have an emotional connection to a classic
two-crusted blueberry pie, which is what my Nana always made for me.
She used 100% Crisco in her crust and orange juice for the liquid.
Where does your knowledge about baking come from? Are you
I am self-taught. If I can do it, you can do it! I have always just
had an insatiable curiosity about food and read endlessly - and then
head to the kitchen to practice and play. Recently a friend was
telling me excitedly about reading 50 Shades of Gray. She asked me if
I had read it. I said, Um, I'm reading the cookbook Sugar Baby by
Gesine Bullock-Prado. She stared at me blankly LOL. That's what was on
my nightstand. I devour food information.
What inspired you to write your latest releases - Cake Ballsand A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts?
Doughnuts are hot right now and we knew they would fit perfectly into
the Field Guide format, so that was a no-brainer. What inspired me to
do Cake Balls is that these little spheres were staring to crop up,
but they were largely approached from a design perspective - boxed
cake, canned frosting and elaborate decoration. I wanted to put my
"flavor first" spin on them and I am thrilled with the result. I bet
you wont find a Crème Brulée Cake Ball elsewhere!
What does a typical day look like for you when you arewriting a cookbook?
GREAT question! My brain is most focused in the morning, so that is my
best writing time. I just keep writing until my brain dies, which is
usually early to mid-afternoon and then I head to the kitchen. I can
bake on auto-pilot, so I will often bake well into the evening. My
neighbors and gym pals are the happy recipients of my "practice"
With many food bloggers having aspirations of writing acookbook one day, what advice would you share that might be helpful to
help them get started?
Truth be told it was a different time in 1995 when I got my first book
contract. It is harder now; the market is much more crowded. You must
have a social media/online platform. Publishers will be looking for
ways that you can help publicize the book. You must start with
passion. What food subject are you passionate about? Dive into it,
become its most learned fan and start writing!
If you weren't authoring cookbooks, what might you be doing
I would still be baking all the time, no question. It's what keeps my
creative juices flowing, it's a stress reliever - I just love it!
But...I also show my bull terriers and it would be great to just go on
the road with the dogs! Hopefully what is around the corner is the
launch of Bakepedia.com, my start-up, which will be the leading online
baking and dessert resource. This is in the works now - there is
nothing like it.
anything else that you would like to share with my readers?
I don't mean to be preachy, but the fact of the matter is that the
great majority of email that I receive where there has been a problem
can really be sourced to the baker not following directions. Good
recipe developers write good recipes! We take pains to use specific
words and give accurate instructions. My best advice is to follow a
recipe to the letter the first time. Take notes. Maybe you want more
cinnamon? Perhaps it took 10 minutes longer to bake in your oven? Or
maybe next time you want to fold in milk chocolate chips instead of
semisweet. Make it your own! Use the recipe as a launching point...but
this only works if you make it as intended first, so that you actually
get to "know" the recipe. Happy baking!
Winner announcement: Congratulations to Camille @Growing Up Gabel for winning the Cakeballs Cookbook and Erin @Dinners, Dishes and Desserts for winning A Bakers Field Guide to Doughnuts. I will email each of you individually so I can get the details of where to send your lovely cookbooks!
CONGRATULATIONS Camille and Erin! Happy Baking!
Giveaway: (Is now closed - thank you to everyone who entered)
- Leave a comment on this post and would love to hear about your favorite Cake Ball flavor.
- Entries/Comments accepted until 9pm (PST), Friday, September 7th, 2012
- Two winners will be randomly selected and notified by email.
- This contest is open to US residents only, my apologies to my international friends!
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Red Velvet Cake Balls
Makes approximately 40 Cake Balls
2 Tablespoon + 1teaspoon sifted cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 Cup Buttermilk, room temperature
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
½ Cup butter, cut into pieces
1 ½ Cups sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon red gel food coloring
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 ½ Tablespoon butter, room temperature
½ Cup + 3 Tablespoons of Confectioner's sugar


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Amy Winehouse's Father Pens Moving Tribute to Her Lyrics on Anniversary of Her Death
It's been a year since the world lost one of her generation's most prolific singer-songwriters in Amy Winehouse. More tragically, it's been a year since Mitch Winehouse lost his beloved daughter. Tissues out!
When Amy Winehouse passed away of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, the tortured voice, the beehives, the wild winged eyeliner and even wilder tales of her behavior and substance abuse problems seemed to be all the singer left behind, but Mitch Winehouse reflects on a side of Amy the public didn't always see: a kind, sensitive soul — and a daddy's girl.
Mitch describes Amy in only the warmest and most glowing tones in a blog for The Huffington Post. "I thought a lot about Amy's relationship with music, her own and the music of other artists, while I was writing my book," Mitch said of his tome, 'Amy, My Daughter.' "Of course, I loved her voice — for me she was the greatest female vocalist of all time — but I also cherish Amy's lyrics, and the part other music played in her life as she was growing up."
Did Mitch have any particularly beloved songs? You bet." All of her lyrics were so well-observed, so pertinent, so clever," Mitch reflected. "'Frank' was always my favorite album of Amy's. To me, tracks like 'You Sent Me Flying' and 'Stronger than Me' instantly conjure up the innocence of young love. The lyrics of 'F— Me Pumps' are brilliantly funny and never fail to make me smile."
However, some of Amy's darker material is tough for Mitch to give an ear to, as he explained, "But I have always found it hard to listen to the songs Amy wrote for 'Black to Black.' That's because all of the songs on that album, apart from 'Rehab,' are about her ex-husband Blake, and all of the terrible things he put her through."
More than a memoriam for an artist gone too soon, Mitch Winehouse's remembrance is a touching, moving tribute to his little girl — whom we all miss, but none so much as her own father. Rest in peace, Amy.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Milan-Sanremo 9 Days Away
With the one day classic Milan-Sanremo just 9 days away the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico yesterday was analyzed looking ahead to the "Classicissima". This is how the Gazzetta dello Sport saw it:
"Nine days away from the Milan-Sanremo which starts on Saturday 20 March, who were the winners and losers after the first stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico? Cadel Evans and Alessandro Petacchi were definitely winners, while Mark Cavendish was a loser.
Evans, the world champion, was never out of the first twenty places in the peloton, well protected by the jersey of the American champion Hincapie. The Australian BMC rider even picked up a second of handicap time in the intermediate sprint at Rosignano-Marittimo, when the peloton was pushing to catch Grabovskyy. A sign that Cadel is feeling good.
Looking ahead to the Classicissima, there were also some very positive signals from Petacchi: he had fallen in Sardinia, and again in Monday while training, needing 5 stitches for a cut on his forehead and injuring a tibia. Especially on the climb, Ale-jet was never out of the group of the best riders.
Near the end of the stage Vincenzo Nibali also appeared at the front of the bunch, riding in support of Bennati. Mark Cavendish, however, gets a negative report. The winner of the 2009 Sanremo dropped off the peloton on the second climb up Rosignano, and his team mate Eisel had to slow down and wait for him because Mark could not keep up with his pace. His other teammates Bak and Grabsch also escorted "Cav" to the finish line: the Englishman was 4'59" behind (stage winner) Gerdemann."
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Just booked a hotel near/in San Remo so we'll be there on the Poggio along with thousands of other tifosi! We'll hope the weather is more spring-like than it's been lately too.ReplyDelete
Cav's clearly had a tough start to the year - his dental problems seem to have taken more out of him than I think anyone expected. Having said that, I've seen people saying that it might ultimately be a good thing, delaying the start of his season which might see him come into top form at the Tour de France. We'll see.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the update though! It's all Paris-Nice over here in France...
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Its been wonderful to watch Tirreno-Adriatico on the UniversalSports(dot)com website and even more wonderful to know that Milan-San Remo will be shown on Universal Sports too! Yay!ReplyDelete


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