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Defoe evens for Toronto with late PK
TORONTO -- Jermain Defoe's 63rd-minute penalty kick lifted Toronto FC into a 1-1 tie with the Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday night.
The goal was Defoe's third in two games and 11th in 13 MLS outings.
Vancouver (6-4-8) took a 1-0 lead on Darren Mattocks' goal in the 50th minute after former Toronto FC midfielder Matias Laba pounced on a loose touch by striker Luke Moore near the halfway line.
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Laba drove forward, and two passes later, Russell Teibert raked a cross across the box that eluded three defenders before Mattocks tapped in his third goal of the season.
Toronto (7-5-4) struck back after Brazilian winger Jackson went down in the box following contact with Nigel Reo-Coker. The English midfielder and Vancouver bench were incensed at referee Allen Chapman's call.
Defoe then calmly beat goalie David Ousted for the goal.
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Verbania - Sestriere
Celebrating Sestriere's centenary
Today, the race heads back through Turin and out into the western mountains for its final climbing test. It's surprising it's taken six years for the Colle delle Finestre to reappear at the Giro, given the gripping action it saw in 2005 when Paolo Savoldelli came close to losing the maglia rosa as José Rujano and Gilberto Simoni joined forces against him. Let's hope for something equally enthralling. The race then climbs to Sestriere, which first appeared on the Giro route 100 years ago. This final summit finish offers a chance for a late shake-up of the overall order and may even deliver a new leader.
Distance: 242km
Highest point: 2,178m Category: Mountain stage
Moser says...
"Savoldelli won the Giro here in 2005 and it was an amazing day. Nothing will happen for 200km, then it'll all go on Finestre. If it rains, they'll be sloshing about all over the place and the Giro could be won on the descent before they go back up to Sestriere."
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Image ©: RCS Sport
Profile - Final kilometres
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I can hardly believe the words below are real.....
Two years ago I was plodding away in our little coastal village of 1000 people here in faraway Australia, with the spark of a bigger dream beginning to burn more brightly in my mind.
Portland artist Dory Kanter started it for me with her very cool book Art Escapes which I purchased probably around 2006. Filled with fun exercises it also opened up the possibility for me of a life in which I got to travel the world, exploring, learning and inspiring others to shine their brightest creative selves!
Flora Bowley made the possibility even more REAL when she came to stay with our family in April 2011 to run her awesome Bloom True workshop here in Jervis Bay.
SOMETHING BIG SHIFTED for me during this time and continues to move and morph as I sit here in my sunroom, lorikeets chirping in the backyard, contemplating the past 5 months of teaching and travelling solo in the U.S and what an incredible, humbling, life affirming experience it has been to share creative space with so many amazing, wonderful people in California, CT, NY, NJ, N. Carolina, Texas and Florida.....
Next year I am excited to return to the US AND to be teaching here in Australia as well!
Originally I was going to come to the States for just one month in 2013 but when my beautiful friend Erin Faith Hall invited me to stretch my visit out a bit to come teach at her Call of the Wild Soul Retreat there was nothing else to do but say a loud, resounding YES!!!!
One look at the company I'll be in AND the vision of the founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and I was bursting out of my skin with excitement...
THIS IS DEFINITELY MY BIG DREAM UNFOLDING and I feel soooooooo GRATEFUL!
How I would love for you to come share the experience with me
Come on over and have a read at the beautiful offerings we are preparing for you xoxo
Join Teesha Moore, Tracy Verdugo, Madelyn Mulvaney,
Alena Hennessy and Erin Faith Allen
November 7 – 10, 2013
in Petaluma, California
at EarthRise Retreat Center, Institute of Noetic Sciences.
We collectively emphasize connectedness, community, open hearts, and courageous exploring through our art. This retreat is a cocoon of safe and intuitive creativity, self-empowerment, and fun … while being nurtured in the majesty of the land once nurtured by the Miwok tribe.
How EarthRise Retreat Center Began: It was literally conceived in outer space. Dr. Mitchell was on Apollo 14's mission to the moon. From the EarthRise website: "On the trip home Dr. Mitchell sat in the window seat of the cramped cabin of the space capsule. As he saw Earth floating freely in the vastness of space, Dr. Mitchell was engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness—an epiphany. In Dr. Mitchell's own words: 'The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident based on random processes . . . The knowledge came to me directly.' Dr Mitchell returned to Earth and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences – derived from the Greek word nous, meaning "intuitive ways of knowing."
here is what I will be teaching :)
Laced between the fragments of our own unique narrative is the thread of humanity which stretches wide in all directions; past, present and future, encompassing and informing both our inner and our outer worlds.
Drawing upon the wisdom of our ancestors and the indigenous keepers of the land, the inspiration of our peers and the dreams of our future selves we will paint the story of this sacred journey. On a large canvas we will explore new and non-threatening ways to make art, learn to be inspired in every moment and realize that there are no mistakes in the creative process, only opportunities to learn and grow! We will spend our time creating our paintings and mixed media pieces spontaneously and intuitively, with no expectations, a wholehearted approach and an open mind!


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- Website: koromiko.com
Store History
- Founded: August 2013
- Founded by: Tracey George
- Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Koromiko is an online design store that was founded in 2013 by Tracey George, a New Zealander now living in Dallas, Texas. The idea for the shop was to support and promote independent designers producing handmade, authentically sustainable craft and design objects. Their collection includes primarily American designers, along with a few carefully selected international artisans.
Name/Title: Tracey George / Founder
Launch date: August 2013
Inspiration for opening: I was looking for a place to shop where everything was handmade and there was transparency in where the goods came from. I wanted to feel connected to the objects I bought for my own home and as gifts for others. I wanted to find a shop that supported American and international artisans, that was a curated collection of inspired homewares and gifts. I couldn't find anything like that locally, so decided to open my own shop!
Merchandise source: American and international artisans, makers and designers who produce their goods by hand in small batch runs.
Best selling item: Geometric coasters
Your favorite item: The pine needle baskets. I love weaving, and I love that these are made solely from pine needles, no thread or glue.
Favorite store (other than your own): I love to support local, neighborhood shops, but big box stores will always be there, so I really applaud West Elm for their recent $35 million commitment to supporting artisans and supply chain transparency.


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From Parameters, Spring 1996, pp. 32-42. .
More than ever, a sense of vision is required for senior leaders and policymakers to estimate the intangible forces at work in the environment within which the United States will have to function into the 21st century. When archetypal energies such as warrior and shaman explode into reality in a chaotic world, leaders and policymakers have the responsibility to analyze and evaluate their meaning and recommend appropriate courses of action for the country to follow, thereby offsetting the onslaught of these forces. John Ruskin, 19th-century poet, provides a suitable epigram for leaders when he talks about "seeing":
Hundreds of people can talkThis article seeks to provide insights into a complex environment for those charged with the nation's safekeeping. Sometimes called low-intensity conflict, now often grouped with less violent peace operations, activities in that environment are best approached through an appreciation of the vital roles that human culture and the concept of time play in examining, for example, the decline of the nation-state.
For One who can think
But thousands can think
For One who can see.
To see clearly
Is poetry,
And Religion,
All in One.[1]
The Decline of the Nation-State
The question of the decline of the Western nation-state is moving to the forefront of national strategic consciousness. As the repository of social and political values, the nation-state represents symbolically the evolution of Western political philosophy and civilization from 5th-century Greece. The idea of the decay of the nation-state as an organizing principle challenges the values around which government is formed, and within which the Department of Defense must operate. However, the categories of thought belonging to the nation-state's politics, economics, and military structures are no longer sufficient to address the myriad possibilities of conflict described as "complex" in current National Intelligence Estimates. New language is needed to give meaning to cultural factors which have been hitherto overlooked, but which contain the key to American success in the low-intensity conflict environment.
New language is already appearing in attempts to give meaning to conflict. For example, the increasing use of "warrior," which more adequately describes the "fighter" at the primal level, is pre-military and, as such, belongs to the archaic world. Warrior is therefore an appropriate description of group or clan members whose end is combat in support of their leader. Terms such as "tribal" and "primitive" also are used in an attempt to describe warfare in places like Somalia. While problematic, this language attempts to define and clarify that intangible quality of conflict embedded in the culture itself, where fluidity reigns and where there is no order of battle in the conventional Western sense.
The United States will have to function in increasingly complex emergencies into the 21st century. For example, internal conflict may combine simultaneously with drought and natural or technological disasters to produce displaced persons or refugees. Such challenges stress not only military force structure and command and control, but also the vision of American leaders. Each emergency or conflict is likely to be different, providing little opportunity for developing standard approaches to either.
The question of the decline of the nation-state, therefore, provokes a requirement for new thinking among leaders about the history of civilizations. The Western nation-state, for example, with its emphasis on logic and the rational, contrasts with Asian states where the seemingly irrational often dominates, and where standards of law and religion are different. In the West the individual dominates as master of ceremonies in affairs, but in the East the individual is more often a junior partner. Senior American leaders must use existing scholarship to peer into the nature of conflict within non-Western states.
To understand Bosnia-Herzegovina and Chechnya, leaders and followers alike will have to appreciate the subtle presence of the major civilizations. Countries will become more meaningfully grouped according to their culture and civilization, says Samuel Huntington, and not their political or economic development. No longer is there a First, Second, or Third World presided over by elites from Oxford and the Sorbonne, but a fragmentation of states guided, in part, by their own nationalism and sense of cultural identity.[2] In all of this, human culture is the neglected factor.
Culture: The Neglected Factor
Firepower may achieve temporary battlefield superiority in low-intensity conflict, but it will not necessarily contribute significantly to conflict resolution. Current planning for such conflict continues to emphasize military factors, but it omits the problem of culture. Arguments over Pearl Harbor and the Smithsonian controversy over the Enola Gay at the time of the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still color discussions in service schools. However, the problem of human culture is seldom approached from a scholarly perspective in these classrooms, and world religions are often not taught at all, except in the context of area studies.
Understanding culture may help to answer important military and civil questions such as the will of the enemy to fight, the determination of resistance groups to persevere, or the willingness of the populace to support insurgents or warlords. Culture, comprised of all that is vague and intangible, is not generally integrated into strategic planning except at the most superficial level. It appears increasingly in scholarly work, however, on problems associated with emerging nations.
One useful model for discussing human culture is philosopher Ernst Cassirer's "Circle of Humanity," as described in his Essay on Man.[3] Cassirer's "circle" has six categories: science, language, history, religion, art, and myth. These categories are briefly analyzed below in the context of this article. Their symbolic importance--the subject for a different paper--is not discussed here.
When US leaders assess the Third World, their frame of reference is frequently not the Third World itself but the United States, with its vastly superior industrial and military might. Such a view ignores the level of science available to the largest number of people in a country such as Somalia, where a broader level of simple, even primitive, technology may be used by indigenous forces in place of sophisticated weaponry. It takes little talent or training to sharpen a stick and place it in the ground as a booby-trap. When assessing the category of science in the LIC environment, the degree to which levels of development match ability should not be overlooked.
A recent advertisement by a leading US company dealing in military technology depicts a high-tech American soldier standing at the summit of a mountain, symbolically the pinnacle of scientific achievement. Below him in the spirit and style of Josef Brandt's painting Ein Gefecht, a medieval battle scene flourishes with knights in armor clashing with saber and lance. These contrasting images show what awaits America's best into the 21st century, where the primitive reality of low-intensity wars will be contrasted with the achievements of technology. In wars of attrition such as Vietnam, willpower and dedication may offset high science, brutally reminding the modern soldier that mythology lies at the root of scientific achievement.
Most people consider language chiefly in practical terms, as the ability to communicate with one's counterpart. Other factors however, may also be present. Cultures with highly developed languages are capable of expressing themselves in the complex terms necessary for social development. In primitive societies language requires "an other," a face-to-face communication with some other human being, in order for the transmission of ideas to occur. Oral tradition binds the group to a certain level of development beyond which it cannot go without the written word.
Language is also necessary for consciousness. The more conscious a people, the more the symbols embodied in their language can be expressed and transmitted. Therefore, ideas such as God, healer, and warrior-king remain subliminal to primitive peoples, and are encased in ritual and secrecy. Their release requires the movement to consciousness which comes when the oral umbilicus is cut. Thus, when primitives reveal their secret feelings to outsiders, they sometimes do so with the fear that any demeaning of that particular feeling or symbol will result in its disappearance, and the tribe or clan will be damaged permanently.
Leaders and policymakers do not always realize that history is not written everywhere as it is in the West. The rational Western quest for the accurate transmission of passing events has not always been the sole motivation of historians everywhere, as will be seen later in the case of China. One must be aware of differing cultural approaches to the place of man in relation to the cosmos--and to the Emperor. Without such an appreciation, accurate intelligence evaluations of source reporting are impossible. This, in turn, may lead to faulty findings being presented to policymakers based on a skewed interpretation of events.
Rational theories of political history come from the Greeks, who pioneered logical thought and a view of history based on new insights and facts. Today, government leaders face a world where all the different ways of thinking are expressed in varied languages and customs which are culturally represented in the nation's capital itself. There is a "history without walls," just as Andre Malraux suggests there is a "museum without walls," where the art of all cultures is made available in a way never before imagined. The exposure of modern man to an overwhelming presentation of world symbols requires a discriminating study of human culture so as to understand the meaning of history.
Religion has its force in the essential mystery of the religious experience in all cultures. Islam, identified by some as being on a collision course with the West, combines government and religion, where the US secularist tradition separates church and state. US leaders, for example, may be surprised that Muslims worldwide express solidarity with Islam, even if this trend is gradual or almost imperceptible. To miss this point is to underestimate the diverse power of this faith in all its dimensions. Simply estimating the Order of Battle of Islamic militants, or understanding the modus operandi of Muslim-oriented terrorist groups, are surface factors alongside the diverse power of the religion itself.
It is no accident that the political geometry of Indian thought is rooted in the religious mandala. Heinrich Zimmer explains in his Philosophies of India how the principal Hindu formula of alliances and coalitions is expressed in a series of concentric circles of natural friends and enemies.[4] When asked what the closest circle to the king represents, US military students frequently respond with "friends." To the Western mind, one surrounds oneself with friends as a line of first warning against impending danger. Not so in Zimmer's analysis. In the Hindu scheme, the first circle is always composed of enemies who are his immediate neighbors ready to pounce and assume power.
"Study art, history, and philosophy," says the fictional character Jean-Luc Picard to the young ensign sweating his Star Fleet exams, "then all of this will mean something to you."[5] In the world of intelligence collection and analysis, art as a category of culture is often dismissed, seen only in the context of the decorative arts. In the story of mankind, however, art reveals the unfolding of the symbol in graphic form, often indicating the values of a people. In creating a work of culture, the artist becomes an instrument of a transcendent power.[6]
For the policymaker studying Northern Ireland, an inquiry into the history of the murals and slogans on Belfast's walls may reveal much about the story of struggle there. In Latin America, too, are painted the feelings of the group in conflict with authorities. Here, the god figure is often portrayed as an Indian or a peasant, symbolic of the inner struggle felt by the group. Similarly, the image of the "Shining Path" (Sendero Luminoso) symbolizes that which shows the way. In Tiananmen Square, the Liberty figure created by students has a Western outward appearance, except to the trained art historian who is able to discern its Chinese qualities.
Myth is expressed in the age-old stories of the hero, the mother, and the wise old man. The archetypes are psychological constellations which carry great power; they contain supernatural and fanciful beings and are therefore non-theoretical, defying standard Western categories of thought. Mythical thinking is in opposition to theoretical thinking, the product of the rational and more advanced civilizations.
Myth expresses itself in sentiment, meaning that primitive peoples "feel" things rather than "think" them. Weather, magic, or the words of a tribal leader may make the individual feel the energy of those mythical great stories in his own particular tribal culture. This brings great force and direction to the individual and may account for tremendous prowess on the battlefield, even in the face of superior firepower or numerical odds. People often fight according to the strength of the myth active in them.
Paradigms such as Ernst Cassirer's "Circle of Humanity" hold insights for leaders and policymakers concerned with the low-intensity conflict environment, where classical models of Western warfare and rational parallels with the ideal of democracy may not exist. The other prerequisite for understanding low-intensity conflict is an appreciation of the problem of time in relation to human culture.
A Matter of Time[7]
Battlefield assessments include the question, "When will the enemy attack?" At a deeper level, however, lies a more profound problem of time which affects the successful operation of US foreign policy from Iran to the Philippines: the ways in which concepts of time in other cultures affect the approach to all life, including military conflict. The problem of time is nowhere more appropriate for discussion than in Asia, where the United States suffered its most traumatic decades in recent history, facing an enemy which appeared militarily inferior in almost every way. While American soldiers in Vietnam spoke of the enemy's apparent patience and willingness to sacrifice today's battle for tomorrow's victory, the factor of time was considered only superficially at the strategic level, to address the question of when the conflict could be brought to a close under conditions favorable to the United States.
In the West, time is quantitative; it is measured in units that reflect the march of progress in Western culture, providing durations within which humankind can work and develop in the outer world. F. S. C. Northrop, in The Meeting of East and West, sees the West as proceeding along a theoretic continuum and the East along an aesthetic continuum.[8] For Northrop, East and West could mutually benefit each other in an exchange where West would go East to participate in the intuitive and contemplative dimension of life, and East would go West to acquire science and technology and politics, which are more theoretically grounded.
This aesthetic expresses itself as quality rather than quantity in the East, where time is not measured in hours and minutes, but has a feeling of unlimited continuity, an unraveling. In such an atmosphere birth and death, for example, are not an absolute beginning and end. This qualitative characteristic has its roots in cosmic time, where the place of the individual is different than in Western "ego-time." In the East the individual plays junior partner in cosmic events; in the West, he assumes the role of master of ceremonies.
In this regard, consider the culture of India. In general, Indian philosophy has seen time as moving endlessly through various cycles,[9] with each cycle being created by Brahman, the impersonal god and highest reality of the Upanishads. In his Philosophies of India, Heinrich Zimmer describes time as follows:
Past, present, and future belong to transitory beings. Time is a becoming and vanishing, the background and element of the transient, the very frame and content of the floating processes of the psyche and its changing perishable objects of experience.[10]Time, then, is a primordial archetype and is seen as cyclical, an idea which has dominated Indian thought. In her Time, Rhythm, and Repose, Marie-Louise von Franz summarizes the Indian cyclic notion of time:
The primary unit of time is the yuga, or age (1,080,000 years). . . . A complete cycle, or mahayuga, consists of four such yugas. . . . One mahayuga or great year consists of 12,000 "divine" years, each comprising 360 ordinary years. Thousands of such mahayugas constitute a kalpa ("form").[11]The kalpa is also known as an Aeon and is the duration of time which elapses between the origin and destruction of a world system. Again, a feeling of timelessness prevails, and reflects Northrop's aesthetic continuum. Edward Conze, in his Buddhism: Its Essence and Development, described an Aeon in this way:
Suppose there is a mountain, of very hard rock, much bigger than the Himalayas; and suppose that a man, with a piece of the very finest cloth of Benares, once every century should touch that mountain every so slightly--then the time it would take him to wear away the entire mountain would be about the time of an Aeon.[12]These descriptions exemplify the archaic basis and enduring quality of Indian time, and its sharp contrast to modern Western time.
In terms of low-intensity conflict, people from cultures permeated by cosmic time may behave differently than those from Western culture. For example, the individual's readiness to sacrifice himself in action or, conversely, to go to extreme lengths not to participate in the taking of life may appear odd to the Westerner. The United States must be prepared to encounter such paradoxes in cultures where cosmic time prevails. Mission success cannot be achieved if differing concepts of time are ignored.
In China, the other great contributor to the larger culture of Asia, time is also expressed in a manner inseparable from ritual, divination, and everyday life. The Chinese have historically maintained a strong sense of continuity expressed in a close parallel between the life of the individual and the cosmos, where order and balance prevail in a constant search for harmony. Early divination developed partially as a need to maintain the proper relationship between man and nature, and the I-Ching (Book of Changes) extends its influence into modern times, as seen in graduation speeches by the leadership of the Whampoa military academy in 1946, where students were reminded that they should live according to the oracle.
In another example, Deng Xiaoping, reflecting China's fluid sense of time, addressed US sanctions toward China by saying: "If you want China to beg, it cannot be arranged. Even if extended 100 years the Chinese people will not beg for the lifting of sanctions."[13] Deng's 100 years would not be a unit of time commonly used by a Western leader, where the emphasis would be on achievement in one's own lifetime. Deng reflects Chinese classical tradition as seen in, for example, Mencius, who saw China as proceeding in cycles of 500 years. Even this duration is small when compared with cosmic time.
Historical time is also treated differently in China than in the West. The Western historian seeks to record events accurately and objectively so that in posterity lessons may be derived from his efforts. In traditional China, however, the recounting of past events may be altered without hesitation when the need arises. The Chinese also have historically regarded the writing of their predecessors as having unquestionable authority. Confucius tell us, "I do not invent, but merely transmit. . . . I believe in and love antiquity."[14] The timeless quality in Chinese thought is exemplified most profoundly in Lao Tzu's, Tao Teh Ch'ing (6 B.C.), where the Tao ("Way") is nameless, external, immutable, and infinite, a fundamental unity present in the universe which operates outside of space and time.
India and China have in common a view of time as unraveling like a ball of twine rolled across a table top. In the Arab world a similar feeling exists, but there the table top is the desert of the Arabian Peninsula--birthplace of Islam.
T. E. Lawrence, in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, credited the desert as an insulating factor in preserving Arab morals and politics, and remarked on its influence on religion and time. The Bedouin, for example, in his collective mentality, could not conceive of anything not being God, not involved with the manna of God. "Being," said Lawrence, was simply "the egg of all activity, with nature and matter just a glass reflecting him."[15] In terms of time, there is a constant "everydayness" because the Arab would not conceive of anything which was or was not God.[16] God was "their eating and their fighting and their lusting, the commonest of their thoughts, their familiar resource and companion."[17] In this way God was time, as nothing was outside of the notion of God. Time, as Einstein has pointed out, is not absolute, but relative to one's conceptions. For the Arab, the vast and shifting nature of the desert symbolizes oneness with God and a rhythm opposite that of the West and its conception of time.
Time in Arab music is expressed in the individuality of the performer, who demonstrates a higher originality than his Western counterpart, according to Jacques Berque in The Arab: Their History and Future. He describes how the Arab may:
step aside from the orchestra and improvise for an hour or even two. It was thus, they say, that the future star, Abd al-Wahhab first shone. . . . He began to improvise, to modulate in that manner which disconcerts the Western listener, but which brought the singer his force.[18]To perform this way one must be, in a sense, "outside of time." This disregard for time is also seen in a lesser need to keep appointments, or to rendezvous at meetings and conferences. Raphael Patai, in The Arab Mind, cited an example of how an important meeting may close hours or days behind schedule, and how nothing may be accomplished in the Western sense:
[A committee] would reach a deadlock; it would refer the issue to the Foreign Ministers to decide on it; a deadlock would be reached here also; and the issue would be referred to the Prime Ministers; these, in turn, because of their inability to reach a decision, would refer the decision to the Summit Conference. By the time the issue is finally resolved it is too late, and the conference eventually comes out with a unanimous general decision which--more often than not--would not be implemented by the member states.[19]Time, then, in the Arab culture carries the vacuousness of the Indian yuga, for as the Holy Quran tells us:
He rules [all] affairsFrom the heavens,Time, measured on the plane of this life, does not equal time on the spiritual plane, where the "twinkling of an eye . . . will be seen as a thousand years."[21]
To the earth: in the end
Will [all affairs] go up
To Him, on a Day,
The space whereof will be
As a thousand years
Of your reckoning.[20]
One attempt to explain the operation of time in non-Western cultures is recorded in C. G. Jung's theory of "Synchronicity," which incorporates the phenomenon of coincidence. This is important as it relates to human action, and may account for decisions that appear as irrational to the West.
Broadly speaking, Synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence as opposed to simply a coincidence; the former suggests connections that are beyond our immediate and limited knowledge. The following example illustrates the difference between coincidence and meaningful coincidence:
The sense of vision called for in the introduction to this article is derivative of the Buddha's wisdom eye (prajnacaksus), and the third eye of Siva that gives the unifying vision. To see to the heart of the matter in any particular low-intensity conflict is, more than ever, required of senior leadership and policymakers charged with the responsibilities of guiding the nation with skill and care.
Unfortunately, philosophers of culture, cultural anthropologists, and others are frequently overlooked as indirect contributors to strategy and policy formulation. Their insights into the ways of being of other peoples are invaluable for the long-range forecasting and prediction required for foreign policy vision. This article does not suggest that leaders should attempt to cover the vast intellectual ground of culture and time themselves, but that such an appreciation is fundamentally relevant to the times in which we live when the survival of Western institutions in their current form may be in question. It is also fundamental to problems one can encounter in failed or failing states, where the military instrument does not necessarily prevail.
1. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds., Liberty Edition: The Works of John Ruskin (London: George Allen, 1909-1910), V, 533. See also Harold Bloom, ed., Modern Critical Views: John Ruskin (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986), p. 51.
2. Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" A Foreign Affairs Reader (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993), pp. 23, 27.
3. Ernst Cassirer, Essay on Man (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1944), p. 68.
4. Heinrich Zimmer, Philosophies of India (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956), pp. 113-18.
5. Lines spoken by Patrick Stewart in his role as Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," shown on television station WDCA, Washington, D.C., 30 January, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
6. Marian L Pauson, Jung The Philosopher: Essays in Jungian Thought (Bern: Peter Lang, 1988), p.54.
7. Originally published as, "Low Intensity Conflict in Asia: A Matter of Time," The Journal of Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement, 3 (Summer 1994).
8. F. S. C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West (New York: Collier Books, 1963), p. 375.
9. Lewis M. Hopfe, Religions of the World (5th ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1991), p. 105.
10. Zimmer, p. 450.
11. Marie-Louise von Franz, Time: Rhythm and Repose (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1978), p. 11.
12. Edward A. Conze, Buddhism: Its Essence and Development (New York: Harper & Row, 1951), p. 49.
13. Patrick E. Tyler, "China Issuing what may be Deng's Final Book," The New York Times, 4 November 1993, p. A3.
14. Wing-tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1963), p. 31.
15. T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1926), p. 41.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Jacques Berque, The Arabs: Their History and Future (New York: Praeger, 1964), p. 219, in Raphael Patai, The Arab Mind (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1973), p. 171.
19. Leila S. Kadi, Arab Summit Conferences and the Palestinian Problem (1936-1950) (1964-1966), Palestine Books No. 4 (Beirut: Research Centre, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1966), p. 189, in Patai, p. 241.
20. A. Yusef Ali, trans., The Holy Quran (Maryland: Amana Corp., 1983), n. 3634, XXXII.5, p. 1093.
21. Ibid.
22. This and subsequent references to C.G. Jung's work, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Collected Works (C.W.) second edition, 20 vols., Princeton Univ. Press. Foreword to the I-Ching, C.W. 11: 972 (592).
23. "Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle" (1955), C.W. 8: 501 (94); also Marian L Pauson, Jung the Philosopher (Bern: Peter lang, 1988), 31-43; Lucien Levy-Bruhl, How Natives Think, trans. Lilian A. Clare (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925), pp. 73-74.
24. "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales" (1948), C.W. 9,1: 209 (386).
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ROSCOE — The Roscoe Plowboys evened ther rec-ord at 2-2 in District 7-A, Division II on Friday as they shut out a winless Ranger team, 52-0, before the home crowd at Plowboy Field.One week after losing to district leader Albany 69-12, Roscoe dished out its own punishment. The Plowboys got two TD runs by Eduar-do Gallegos and one from Vincent Pantoja and Este-ban Benivamondez in rush-ing for 379 yards to Ran-ger's 28. Gallegos ran for 165 yards and Pantoja 102. Also, Cutter Davila was 15-of-25 passing for 193 yards and had TD throws to Gallegos, Benivamondez and Shelton Toliver.Ranger managed to get 90 yards through the air, but was intercepted four times by four different Ros-coe players. Coming up with intercep-tions were Benivamondez, Brant Burnett, Jesus Lean-os and Kevin Lavalais.Gallegos had scoring runs of 50 and 5 yards for Ros-coe, while Pantoja scored the first TD on a 66-yard run and Benivamondez had a 34-yard run. Toliver had a 57-yard TD pass reception, while Gallegos caught a 30-yard pass from Davila and Benivamondez had a 6-yard scoring reception.Roscoe also came up with five fumbles as Ranger turned the ball over a total of nine times in the game to just two for Roscoe, which also had its highest scoring game of the season by far.The Plowboys led 16-0 after one quarter and 38-0 at halftime, then scored their last 14 points in the third quarter with Gallegos getting the final points. Roscoe is back on the road to face Gorman this Friday.


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Fife is a county in Scotland.
The main parts of Fife are:
St Andrews
Other destinations
The major language is English, but the Fife acccent can be hard to understand.
Many people use a form of English known as 'Lallans' or Lowlands English.
Get in
===By air=== Edinburgh Airport
===By Train=== (mainline to Aberdeen) stops at Inverkeithing, Kirkcaldy and Leuchars (there is also a very good local or 'circle' service).
===By car=== M90 motorway or A92/A985/A91 trunk routes.
===By bus=== Major bus stations in Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, St Andrews and Cupar.
Get around
Roads are generally good condition and not too crowded.
Bus and rail services are excellent (the 'Fife Circular' service runs from Edinburgh Waverley to all train stations in West and Central Fife. The main line service runs to Inverkeithing in West Fife, Kirkcaldy in East Fife and Leucars in North East Fife.)
Cycle: Excellent series of cycle tracks throughout Fife. http://www.fife-cycleways.co.uk/
Foot: Cross the Kincardine, Tay or Forth Road Bridges and look for the Coastal walk http://www.fifecoastalpath.com/index.asp?cat=Home
St Andrews: home of golf and oldest university in Scotland (founded 1410)
Secret Bunker: a former underground nuclear bunker now open to the public.
East Neuk: charming fishing villages.
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery.
Falkland Palace
Adam Smith Theatre
Rothes Halls
Get on your bike and enjoy the marvellous cycle routes
Visit the county's many fine parks (Beveridge in Kirkcaldy, Pittencrieff in Dunfermline, Lochore Meadows, etc).
The Bengal Tiger Indian Restaurant at Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline, near to the park, offers excellent food, and has special half price offers every Sunday to Friday night inclusive.
Fife has many pubs: The Alpha Bar in Kirkcaldy; The Valleyfield Bar in High Valleyfield; Shardays in Lochgelly all offer a truly local experience.
Stay safe
Crime in Fife is low, and serious assaults are uncommon. As always, it makes sense to avoid badly lit areas at night, especially in large towns, even though there is a slim chance of crime. Fife is served by an excellent police service.
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Police To File Charges Against Satanists Who Performed Same-Sex Wedding At Phelps Gravesite
The group of self-proclaimed Satanists who performed a "pink wedding" ceremony on top of the grave site of the mother of Westboro founder Fred Phelps might soon face the Meridian, Mississippi police.
WTOK reports:
"Meridian Police have reached out and spoken to Mr. Arlinghaus of Magnolia Cemetery," says Captain Dean Harper of the Meridian Police Department. "We are in the process now of constructing affidavits and warrants against these individuals, and we will have them arrested as soon as we can."
A group from New York's Satanic Temple made the trip to Meridian to protest the Westboro Baptist Church. There, they performed a ritual they call Pink Mass on the grave of Catherine Johnston, the mother of Westboro founder Fred Phelps, Jr. The ceremony involved two same-sex couples kissing over her grave. They then declared Catherine Johnston a lesbian in the afterlife.
"It is an unusual crime that we haven't come across to my knowledge in awhile," says Harper. "Not only does it violate a state and city ordinance, but it also violates the moral decency of a human being."
"They are not welcome to perform disrespectful ceremonies," says Bill Arlinghaus, owner of Magnolia Cemetery. "This is the actions of a few, and I don't want to give them overly too much attention because that's really what they're trying to seek."
The activists will face charges of trespassing, malicious mischief and indecent exposure, of which police say they have enough evidence to warrant arrests.
Rose-Hill Magnolia Cemetery Association owns and operates the cemetery. It is not a publicly owned and operated cemetery. It is private, and so it is likely the charge of trespass will stand. The charges of malicious mischief and indecent exposure seem to rest on the fact that the ritual included a priest rubbing his scrotum on the tombstone. Under the Mississippi Code, malicious mischief can include injury to property. If prosecutors can persuade a jury or judge to conclude that the sanctity of the gravesite has been injured by this act, it may stick, but inasmuch as the "damage" amounts to less than $500 it would be a misdemeanor. Finally, there is no doubt that the priest's genitals were exposed, but under the Mississippi Code indecency only attaches when the act is in public (since the cemetery is private property it may not) or when others are present (as they were). This also amounts to a misdemeanor.
No one's right to freely exercise their religion was infringed. The ritual was performed. Twice. However, neither is the free exercise of one's religion a shield against prosecution. Many religions once had elements of sacrifice. Would anyone argue that practicing that religion should shield them from prosecution of murder?
Whatever happened to the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. These people were just practicing their religion. Just because you don't like their brand of religion doesn't mean you can use the government to suppress their religious expression. As far as I know, graveyards are public land and no one needs permission to be on them.
You've got to appreciate the utter irony of this line, "...but it also violates the moral decency of a human being." As if anything that the despicable WBC does has an iota of so-called 'moral decency' about it! If they should be arrested, perhaps it should be for trespassing, but as far as I know, most cemeteries are public spaces, unless they are specially owned by a particular family/clan. But the rest is merely bullsh*t bluster on the part of the police and the cemetery administrator to my mind! Until the entire obnoxious Phelps gang of haters is prosecuted for their own heinous crimes against humanity and civility, I see no point in pursuing anyone else for their supposed 'wrong-doings'! Tit for tat, I say! I actually believe that old Freddie-boy himself is a big ole closet case faggot and is merely transferring his own self-hatred onto innocents for his deep-seated desires and wants! No one screams their protests louder than those who are the most guilty!


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Time to End the Drought
It's probably been burned into your brain by now, but its hard to believe the last time the Cowboys won a playoff game was on December 28, 1996. Its really hard to imagine.
Someone asked me when the last time they won in the playoffs the other day and I said 1996, then all of a sudden it dawned on me, my son was born in 1996. My son is now a teenager and even though it seems like he was a baby only yesterday, it hurts to say that the Cowboys have not won a playoff game in his lifetime.
We've had some memorable moments and some incredible players who probably deserved to compete in the playoffs and even the Super Bowl. Some of them have, after they moved on to other teams.
This year may be the year. Its kind of a fairy tale story if you think about it. We lose our number one receiver, one of the best in the game, along with several defensive key players. There was also the tragic freak accident in Valley Ranch back in May when our practice facility collapsed. Mid-season we were having trouble both on offense and defense and many thought the team was falling apart. Just recently we had to replace a very important player because he just wasn't getting the job done.
All of these things would usually lead to the downfall of any team in any sport. But not these Cowboys.
These Cowboys have heart. They want to win, and they are making it happen.
I don't know about you but I'm really proud of these guys. They never gave up, even when the front pages reminded us of past Decembers, and now they have clinched a spot in the playoffs.
The season finale means a lot to us fans, and the players too I am sure, but no matter the outcome we will be playing beyond Week 17. We definitely seek payback for the shame they bestowed upon us. The numbers 44-6 will haunt us forever, but we need to show them how the Cowboys finish things in the grand o' state of Texas. We can't let them relive that game in any way shape or form.
With the Cowboys and Eagles both securing playoff spots, this game is personal. Yes, it can also give us the division championship title and home field advantage and those are important but I think above all its about evening the score. We have already beat the Eagles once this season, lets go for the sweep! There's something about the last game of the season, you just want to go out on top… especially when its a hated division rival.
Its time to say goodbye to the playoff drought we've sadly become accustomed to, its time to take it to the next level. And come February hopefully my son can say he's witnessed a Cowboys playoff victory!


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I get a lot of personal emails from readers, about everything from miscarriage to IVF, and by far the most common theme among them is what a big role the cost of fertility treatments plays in their decision to seek more advanced fertility care. Namely, IVF is a very costly procedure, yet it yields the highest success rates in infertility patients. Depending on your company's insurance plan, or your own health insurance, your policy may not cover in vitro fertilization or multiple embryo transfers, or your coverage can be very minimal.
Through my last company's health insurance policy, I was covered for up to four IVF procedures, with a 30 percent co-pay on everything, including the drugs. My first shipment of medications cost me $1500 out of my pocket, even with the coverage I had—I had sticker shock (it was the first of several shipments). I was grateful I had the coverage I did—at my clinic, IVF costs $11k out of pocket. I had one IVF, a canceled frozen embryo transfer, and two unsuccessful FETs while I worked at Playboy—if I didn't have any coverage, that would've amounted to about $30,000.
When my company relocated its headquarters to Los Angeles earlier this year, our fertility coverage changed without my knowledge: I was still insured through them when I was about to undergo my second FET, and found out two days before I only had a $2k allowance for fertility coverage (FETs cost $3050, which includes the pre- and post-transfer appointments but not the drugs). Since I was already in the middle of this cycle when the policy changed, I contested it—thankfully, in the end, my company did cover the cycle based on our previous plan.
I changed companies a few months after that, so my fertility coverage changed again: Now I only have one IVF or FET, covered fully, over a lifetime. One. My health benefits are great otherwise (I'm covered for unlimited IUIs), but many companies don't want to pay for fertility treatments because they're expensive, or perhaps they don't see infertility as a disease to treat, who knows.
It can be worth talking to your HR department about changing these policies. I recently learned that Illinois law requires that companies of 25 employees or more cover four IVF or FET cycles, over a lifetime, per the Illinois Department of Insurance: "Coverage for such treatments is limited to four completed oocyte retrievals per lifetime of the individual, except that two completed oocyte retrievals are covered after a live birth is achieved as a result of an artificial reproductive transfer of oocytes."
Cost being such a prohibitive factor in couples' decisions to seek more fertility help saddens me: I know too many people who've spent their life savings trying to have a baby. I've worried about this happening to us—I didn't exactly plan on spending my savings this way, but I'd do whatever it takes. This is why people have started crowdfunding to help them pay for fertility treatments, which stirred a heated debate among readers when I wrote about it in May. Then there's the cost of elective procedures like PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis), which insurance does not pay for, and can run between $5k-$7k. I think it's the future of IVF, and will become a mandatory part of the process, but few people will be able to afford it on top of all the other costs.
Has the cost of IVF, surrogacy, or other alternative methods, and/or your insurance limitations on fertility coverage, impacted your decision to keep trying to have a baby? Sometimes I think infertility is a rich man's disease to treat, but unfortunately it doesn't discriminate between household incomes.
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Agent Roger Richman had a ton of celebrity clients — James Cagney, Mae West, Maria Callas, Albert Einstein, the Marx brothers, Sigmund Freud, Gypsy Rose Lee and W.C. Fields, to name a few. Contrary to expectations, none of them were overly demanding.
"I don't have people calling me in the middle of the night saying there aren't enough red M&Ms in the Green Room," he told The Times in a 2001 interview.
The reason was simple: By the time he began advocating for them, they were long dead.
Richman, who represented the heirs of the rich and famous and fought successfully for a California law giving them the right to control the use of their loved ones' images, died Oct. 9 of complications from pneumonia, his wife, Diane Shulman, said. He was 69 and had been in failing health for some time.
The law is one way that celebrities' relatives can prevent the unauthorized tackiness that Richman rattled off so readily: Judy Garland pornographic greeting cards, John Wayne toilet tissue, supposed snippets of Marilyn Monroe's bedsheets.
"These people are the most exceptional personalities of our time," Richman told an interviewer. "They should be cherished as national treasures and not subject to abuse by being used to sell scatological products or worse."
With the 1985 California Celebrity Rights Act, Richman "left his mark on the body of law," said Los Angeles entertainment attorney Bela G. Lugosi Jr., son of the late film star known for his role as Count Dracula. "It really protects celebrities and their heirs as far as the commercial use of their names and likenesses."
Pushing for the law, Richman flew to Sacramento hearings with the sons of John Wayne, Harpo Marx, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. He persuaded Elizabeth Taylor and Burt Lancaster to make an appearance, he told the Washington Post.
To illustrate just how tasteless the unregulated market in celebrity paraphernalia could be, he brought along an assortment of offensive items — like a vial of Elvis Presley's purported sweat, with the message: "His many years of perspiration can now be your inspiration."
The coup de grace, he told Los Angeles magazine in 2004, was a sex toy, wrapped in white paper, bearing the likeness of President Reagan.
"That's what got my law passed," he said.
Similar laws have since been adopted in at least 12 other states.
In 2005, Corbis, a digital image company set up by Bill Gates, bought Richman's business. At the time he represented more than 50 "legends," as he called them and, over the years, retained as many as 14 law firms at a time to scout out cases of suspected trademark infringement.
Born on Jan. 18, 1944, and raised in the Washington, D.C., area, Richman was the son of a rabbi father and an artist mother. He graduated from Mt. Union College in Ohio in 1965 and three years later received a law degree from Vanderbilt University.
After trying his hand as a sculptor in the Spanish seaside village of Nerja, Richman worked for a few years with a cousin in the film business. He wound up in Los Angeles, licensing posters of ABBA and Brooke Shields, when representatives of W.C. Fields' estate called.
"They wanted me to be their agent," he told an interviewer. "I said, 'What agent? He's been dead for 32 years!'"
Fields' estate wanted Richman to do something about posters that had popped up featuring the comedian in diapers. At the time, nothing could be done.
But Richman stuck with it. Several years later, he got the U.S. Postal Service to pay a fee for using the actor's image on a stamp.
One key change was a California Supreme Court decision in the case of the younger Bela Lugosi who sued Universal Studios over profits made from his late father's image.
The court turned him down, but also ruled that stars who merchandised themselves while alive could pass control of such publicity to their heirs. Fields, like many stars, had sold his image far and wide.
Richman soon represented other stars' estates. In 2004, he mounted his successful celebrity rights' campaign at the state Legislature. The resulting law grants heirs their licensing rights for 70 years from the time of death.
One of his firm's biggest moneymakers was Einstein, who was perhaps the only "client" Richman had actually met. In his office, he kept a photo of himself as a baby in the arms of the great physicist. The picture was taken during a meeting between Einstein and his father, Paul Richman, who headed the Anti-Defamation League.
While licensing Einstein's image to companies such as Disney and Microsoft, Richman repeatedly turned down offers from gyms, hair-replacement businesses and others seeking to evoke laughs from the Nobel winner's image.
In 1997, he told an interviewer he had four attorneys "who work nothing else but Albert."
Revenue from the Einstein licensing ventures were directed by his estate to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Likewise, John Wayne's revenue went to the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica.
Richman represented Marilyn Monroe from 1983 to 1995, allowing her image on ads for vodka and cosmetics, as well as T-shirts and dolls.
Steve McQueen was also at the top of Richman's list, with Ford in 2001 quickly selling all 5,000 of its "Bullitt" Mustangs, special-edition models fitted with the same features as the one McQueen's character used to careen down the hills of San Francisco. McQueen died 21 years before the Bullitt hit the road.
In addition to his wife, Richman is survived by a son, Alexander Steenbakkers-Noffke, and two grandchildren.
Times staff writer David Colker contributed to this report.


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Looking for really good thermometer for home brewing
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Looking for really good thermometer for home brewing
My dad has been brewing beer for about two and half years now and we've had alot of problems with the themometers we've bought to measure the temperature in the brew pot. We had one that would beep when it reached the temperature we where shooting for, but after awhile it started giving false temperature readings. Can someone give me some good suggestions on some really good theremometers I could buy him for Christmas. Also if anyone has any good websites that sales brew pots, kegs or conicles cheaper than anyone else id be intrested in that to. Christmas is coming and I would like to buy any homebrew equipment at the cheapest price possible.
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Good thermometer
I also had one of those electronic thermometers and found the same problem after a few brewing sessions. I think the problem with them is that they are designed for meat and get fouled up by all the moisture when placed in a mash or brew kettle. Anyway my recommendation would be for a dial thermometer that you can clip to the side of a pot for measuring water/wort that you are heating and a floating thermometer for use in a mash tun. You could use the dial thermometer for both, but I like that I can leave my floating thermometer in the mash so when I open my mash tun I can quickly check the temp and close it right back up again. The advantage of dial thermometers over floating glass thermometers is that they won't break and leave broken glass in your wort. here is an example of one:
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good temp readings
I have just the traditional dial thermometer. I puchased it from my local brew store and never had a problem with it. I do not understand why you would be receiving incorrect readings. I try to stick to the acronym "KISS" (keep it simple stupid) because it seems every time I try to advance myself in technology it fails and I have to return to what works best. I use dial my thermometer to check the temp for three different readings #1 steeping, #2 boiling, #3 sparging. The boiling temp is what I use to determine the consistancy of its accuracy. When the dial reaches 212 degrees the water should be boiling. Since 212 is a constant and the dial reads this I am good. It also helps me with boil over. No one likes that part it wastes too much time in clean up and spillage. It only happened to me once now I watch the dial.
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DOVER — The city has received an application from Atlantic Parking Services to initiate a three-month trial with a valet service in the downtown area.
The police and fire departments, along with Mayor Dean Trefethen, will address safety issues and concerns and then Parking Manager Bill Simons will recommend the service to be authorized by the licensing board.
Brian Kelley, owner of Kelley's Row, said they are aiming for a Nov. 30 start date, with service running from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. He said the service is free to those dining in participating restaurants, or $10 for people choosing to use the service and entertain themselves elsewhere.
"We aren't going to pay for people's cars to be parked and go other places, but they are certainly welcome to use the service," Kelley said.
The valet company, Atlantic Parking Services, has been cleared by the city to use the loading zone in front of the Cocheco Millworks building along Central Avenue. Kelley said this address is 421 Central Ave. just outside his establishment. Clearly marked signs and a valet stand will be established in the restricted parking zone and cars will be parked in the School Street parking lot and possibly along Henry Law Avenue.
Kelley's Row, Blue Latitudes and Cartelli's are the restaurants involved in the proposal, with the Spaghetti Stain recently backing out of the deal, deciding to wait until after the trial whether to commit to the service.
"There are some expenses in this and everyone is weighing the pros and cons," Kelley said.
Each restaurant will be paying $140 for the service each week.
"This is just a litmus test. They (Atlantic Parking Services) have had a lot of success in Portsmouth and in Manchester and the bottom line for us here is, 'Are we going to be able to achieve our goal in bringing in additional business?'"
During December, Kelley said the restaurants are very busy with Christmas parties and believes the valet service will be a bonus for their customers.
"Our hopes are that the service will pay for itself," he said.
Nov. 30 target start date for downtown Dover valet service
DOVER — The city has received an application from Atlantic Parking Services to initiate a three-month trial with a valet service in the downtown area.


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North Dakota chooses to heavily invest prosperity proceeds in future of higher education
The newly elected governor of North Dakota Jack Dalrymple last week expressed his confidence in the future of the state, its students, and in the North Dakota University System by recommending an unprecedented level of investment in higher education during the next biennium.
"We are deeply appreciative of the Governor's budget plan," said Hamid Shirvani, Chancellor of the state's university system. "Clearly, this is a budget built on a thorough evaluation of state needs, a commitment to put students first, and an understanding of our vision to enhance the quality of education in North Dakota."
The Governor recommended an increase of $89 million, or 14 percent over the last biennium, in funding for higher education, which includes $6.9 million to increase the state's merit based scholarship program and needs-based scholarship program. The $89 million includes employee salary and benefit increases similar to those of other state agencies. The budget creates a $30 million matching fund for endowments. In addition, the Executive Budget includes $177 million in one-time funding for capital improvements.
Dalrymple confirmed his high regard for North Dakota's institutions and said the state should be proud of its university system. Duaine Espegard, president of the State Board of Higher Education, said that Board members and Chancellor Shirvani, who took over the helm of NDUS on July 1, have spent a great deal of time with the Governor, legislators and the citizens of North Dakota in the past six months, outlining the system's broad new vision. "The Chancellor has logged more than 15,000 miles on his vehicle and has literally shaken the hands of thousands of North Dakotans as he has traveled the state," Espegard said. "The Governor's recommendation is a vote of confidence that our system is perfectly poised to provide this growing state and its booming economy with a highly trained workforce and the leaders of tomorrow."
Rep. Bob Skarphol, R-Tioga, chairman of the state's Higher Education Committee, said Shirvani is an "incredibly visionary" leader who was hired to help shape the future of higher education in North Dakota.
Sen. Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson, North Dakota Senate Majority Leader, said "Chancellor Shirvani is building a real system of higher education and is right on the course."
Higher Education Board member Kathleen Neset said she has been pleased to hear comments of support of the university system in communities across the state, about the Chancellor's understanding of the issues and about the professionalism of the office. Neset said, "One business leader commented that just about everyone in North Dakota knows our new Chancellor's name."
In addition to meeting with more than hundreds of legislators and many business leaders across the State, Shirvani also has been visiting North Dakota high schools, encouraging students to study diligently to prepare for the wonderful opportunities that are available for their education and careers in the state. He told students that the state's population is expected to increase 20 percent by the end of this decade, and there will be 120,000 job openings. About 70 percent of those jobs will require a college education. He said it's so important that students get a good education so that they can put all of their talents to full use, and that the University System's job is to help them do that.
"I am going to work with all of your good teachers here and at the colleges and with the Governor and the legislators who support the schools through the taxes your mom and dad pay," he said. "We are going to make sure our schools and colleges are outstanding places for you to go to get your education."
Douglas C. Munski, Ph.D., faculty member of the Higher Education Board and professor of Geography at the University of North Dakota, said that "the Chancellor's succinct and articulate presentation of the essence and importance of the system's plan for the future has been key to moving folks throughout the Peace Garden State to become energized about building the best system of higher education in the country."
In less than six months, Chancellor Shirvani and his team have developed and gained support for the Pathways to Student Success plan, a visionary proposal that is designed to raise the standards of P-20 education across the state. The plan, which will be implemented in the Fall of 2014, ensures that high-school students are sufficiently prepared for the rigors of higher education through strengthened and transparent admissions standards, advances graduate and professional education and provides greater accountability for measurable results. The plan was approved in a unanimous vote of the State Board of Higher Education and has been strongly supported by legislative leadership, the media and the business community.
SBHE Vice President Kirsten Diederich said that the plan is guided by the desire to exceed the educational attainments of the best-performing states to ensure college affordability for students, families, and taxpayers and to sustain our system's educational mission through faculty who are professionally and pedagogically committed to the mission and goals of their respective institutions.
"The plan meets the needs and expectations of our state to pursue the right goals, to allocate our resources optimally and to use them efficiently, and to develop partnerships that support the economic, social, and cultural advancement of our citizens," said Grant Shaft, SBHE past president and current Board member. "It will help us cultivate an environment committed to excellence in teaching and creativity while providing a roadmap that will guide North Dakotans through an increasingly dynamic and fluid environment tied to the global economy."
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The effect of AGP settings on 3d performance comes up often, and I've always told people not to bother with tweaking AGP since it doesn't matter. But I realized I should really make sure that what I say is true. So, I've benchmarked a couple of things with AGP at 1x and 4x. I chose quake3, since it's an old standby and I've got scripts for it, and ipers, since it's very vertex-dispatch intensive (though vtxfmt fallbacks may be hurting it a lot these days and making it a less useful test). The machine was a P4 running at 1Ghz with a Radeon 64MB VIVO, with Options "AGPMode" "4" vs not in the xorg.conf. Drivers were Mesa CVS as of around 2004-11-01.
Quake3 (640x480, defaults, running demofour script from idr):
x 1x
+ 4x
| x + +|
|x x x + + +|
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 5 127.2 127.4 127.3 127.3 0.070710678
+ 5 127.7 127.9 127.8 127.82 0.083666003
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.52 +/- 0.11297
0.408484% +/- 0.0887435%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0774597)
So, there was a 0.4% improvement by going to AGP 4x. However, what about the thrashing case? I hacked the DDX to only allocate 1MB for on-card textures and re-ran the test. (Note that with the default allocation of 8MB of AGP memory, this means I've got 5MB of space for textures available).
x 1x-1M
+ 4x-1M
|x +|
|x +|
|x +|
|x +|
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 4 96.4 96.4 96.4 96.4 0
+ 4 125.3 125.4 125.4 125.375 0.05
Difference at 95.0% confidence
28.975 +/- 0.061175
30.0571% +/- 0.0634595%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0353553)
A 30% difference in a serious texture thrashing case. OK, interesting. I dropped the first run of each of them because they were clearly outliers. I can't explain why, but check the next test. I used the RADEON_GARTTEXTURING_FORCE_DISABLE environment variable to disable GART texturing and re-ran, while at the 1M on-card texture size.
x 1x-1M-noagptex
+ 4x-1M-noagptex
|x + |
|xx ++|
|xx ++|
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 5 52.2 52.3 52.2 52.24 0.054772256
+ 5 60.3 60.4 60.3 60.34 0.054772256
Difference at 95.0% confidence
8.1 +/- 0.0798822
15.5054% +/- 0.152914%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0547723)
Interestingly, these framerates are just what the outliers on the first runs of the previous test were. Perhaps we've got a bug, where the first client doesn't get AGP texturing? Odd, but possible. Anyway, with no AGP texturing, we're seeing a 15% performance improvement from increased AGP speeds, probably because textures are being uploaded to the card as hostdata blits (the texture data is written to the command ring which is in AGP space, and sent to the card that way).
How about the case of using AGP textures, with the card space being limited but AGP space being relatively large? I set Options "AGPSize" "64", giving me 61M of AGP texture space.
x 1x-1M-61Magp
+ 4x-1M-61Magp
|x +|
|x +|
|x +|
|x +|
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 4 95.4 95.4 95.4 95.4 0
+ 4 125.4 125.5 125.5 125.45 0.057735027
Difference at 95.0% confidence
30.05 +/- 0.0706388
31.499% +/- 0.0740449%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0408248)
Again, I threw out the first run of each test for being outliers. A 31% performance improvement, so I probably wasn't thrashing when I was running with AGP the first time.
Unfortunately, ipers doesn't have any reporting mechanism, and its measurement is too imprecise to say much. However, both at 1x and 4x the framerate flipped between 12.50 and 14.29 fps.
It appears that for normal usage on cards where you aren't significantly restricted in terms of local memory, 4x AGP buys you almost nothing (.4%). If you're needing to grab nearly all of your textures from AGP, it can be a performance improvement of as much as 30%, and it can improve texture upload performance to card memory sufficiently for a 15% improvement when that's made to be a bottleneck.
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Any church interested in playing in the 2012 Poteau Coed Church League this summer needs to call Billy Bond at (918) 647-1939.Entry Fee is $400 per team. Deadline for entry is June 28. There will be two divisions if enough teams enter. All teams must pay before their team will be entered into the league. The season will begin on July 9.— — —The Choctaw Country Club Church League will begin play at 5:30 p.m. Monday and will take place at the same time every Monday for eight straight weeks. It will be a three-player scramble. The league is limited to the first 18 teams. For additional information, call the pro shop (918) 647-3488 or Bobby Pickle at (918) 721-3492.— — —The Poteau Baseball Camps will be next week at Carl Albert State College's Ival Goodman Field.The camp is for ages 7-10 and will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday and Tuesday. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Monday. The camp for ages 11-15 will be 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Thursday. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday. Entry Fee is $40 per camper. For additional information, call Ryan Bowen at (580) 579-1037.— — —The Fort Smith (Ark.) Explosion will have an age 8-and-younger coach-pitch tournament and an age 10-and-younger machine-pitch tournament Saturday at Ben Geren Park.The entry fee is $100 per team, with all proceeds helping to fund the Explosion's trip to the national tournament later this summer in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. For additional information, call (479) 883-3534.— — —The second annual Duck Martin 14 Foundation PIT Camp Fundraising 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will take place June 9 at both Wister gyms. There will be eight teams in eight divisions, third-fourth grade boys, third-fourth grade girls, fifth-sixth grade boys, fifth-sixth grade girls, junior high boys, junior high girls, high school boys and high school girls.The deadline to enter is today. For additional information, call Creigh Smith at (918) 385-1043, Rodney Nobles at (918) 647-6272 or Casey Hemphill at (918) 413-2217.— — —The sixth annual Mark "Mud Duck" Sullivan Memorial Junior Golf Tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. June 11 at Choctaw Country Club.Age divisions for boys and girls will be 8 and younger, 9-11 and 12-14.Registration will be from 8 to 9 a.m. June 11.All age groups will play nine holes from age specific tees. The entry Fee is $15.For additional information or to sign up, call Choctaw Country Club at (918) 647-3488.— — —The Talihina "Gym Rat Basketball Camp" will take place June 19-21 on Chris Gillespie Court at Ray Henson Gymnasium.The camp is open to boys who will enter grades two through eight next school year. The entry fee is $40, which will include a free lunch daily in the Talihina High School cafeteria.For additional information, call Darian Dickson at (405) 779-1421.— — —The third annual Village 2 Village Golf Tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. June 23 at Wolf Ridge Golf Course.Entry fee for the four-man scramble is $280 per team. After June 16, the entry fee will increase to $320.Entry fee includes green fees, cart and a barbecue lunch. Mulligans will be available at $5 each with a limit of one per nine holes. There will be a putting contest, with the entry fee being $5 per putt or $10 for three putts. The first hole-in-one winner will win a car.For additional information, call (479) 785-3575 or go online to www.v2vClassic.com.— — —The First Serve Tennis Clinics will begin Monday in Fort Smith, Ark.The clinics are for children ages 5-16. The cost is $25. There are three weeks of clinics to choose from.For additional information, call Jane Plummer at (479) 649-8815 or go online to www.arkansasfca.org.— — —The Sam Bradford Football ProCamp presented by Chesapeake Energy and in partnership with The Oklahoman will be July 10-11 at the University of Oklahoma Intramural Fields.Bradford will be on site the entire camp to direct camp activities and provide instruction. He will be joined by a selection of the top prep and college coaches from the Norman area.The camp is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14 and focuses on the team concept and fundamentals of football.Groups will be small to ensure that each camper gets personalized instruction.Bradford, a former OU quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and current St. Louis Rams quarterback, will also give daily talks highlighting the finer points of the game of football and beyond.Each camper receives an autographed camp team photo with Bradford, camp T-shirt, goodie bag and the opportunity to win additional prizes.Spots are limited, so campers are encouraged to register early. Cost of the ProCamp is $199.Additional information and registration is available at www.sambradfordcamp.com or calling (888) 389-CAMP (2267).— — —The Boys and Girls Club of McAlester will put on a competitive baseball and softball league.It is believed sports encourages a healthy lifestyle in our youth, which is a rising concern to many.Sports also promotes high self esteem in children that will benefit them in many aspects.For additional information, call the Boys and Girls Club of McAlester Athletic Department at (918) 426-5144.— — —The Satchel Paige All-Stars Travel Baseball Team is looking for youth baseball players ages 13-14, 15-16 and 17-18 years old that would like to be a part of our 2012 Summer Travel Baseball Team that will include trips to Cincinnati, Omaha, Neb., Springfield, Mo., Orlando, Fla., and Puerto Rico.All interested players should contact Coach Mike Mayden for registration information at (773) 744-1040 or email to www.whsn.org.— — —The Holiday Island (Ark.) Rotary Club Dettwiller/Lehr Golf Tournament will take place Aug. 25-26 at Holiday Island County Club.Entry fee for each two-player team is $300, which includes both rounds of golf with golf carts, lunch both days and a reception/dinner on Aug. 25.For additional information, call Allen Huffman at (479) 981-0654 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nelson, Manning to Lead Pastor Program• January 8, 2013 Share:
Wabash College President Patrick White has announced the appointment of Dr. Derek Nelson as the new director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program. Dr. Nelson, who is a member of the Wabash College Religion Department, succeeds the founding director, Dr. Raymond Williams, and his appointment is effective January 1.
In making the announcement, President White also appointed Reverend Elizabeth "Libby" Manning as the Associate Director of the Program.
Founded in 2007 and funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program develops mid-career Indiana pastors by engaging them in substantive theological reflection on many complex social issues facing contemporary Christian congregations. It provides a teaching and learning venue for pastoral leaders that has practical significance for their lives and the well-being of the communities they serve.
"In the nationwide search that brought Derek Nelson back to the Wabash Religion Department, we discovered and appreciated the breadth of his academic, pastoral, and administrative skills," said Dean of the College Gary A. Phillips. "All three strengths will serve him, the Pastoral Leadership Program, and the College well as the next Director of the Program."
Dr. Nelson earned his bachelor's degree from Wabash College, his Master of Divinity degree from Yale, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He returned to teach religion at his alma mater in 2012 after serving on the faculty of Thiel College for six years.
"This is a special opportunity for me," Nelson said. "Raymond Williams, who founded this program, was my teacher when I was a student here. So it means a lot to me that he entrusts me to lead this program, which prepares pastors to be useful, engaged leaders in their communities."
Dr. Nelson is an historical and systematic theologian with wide-ranging interests in the study of religion and theology. His first two books deal with the doctrine of sin and a third concerns the relationship of religion and narrative theory, particularly in the genre of theological autobiography. He teaches courses in medieval and Reformation Christianity, religion and film, religion and literature, theological ethics, and various topics in Christian theology. Nelson is an ordained Lutheran pastor, and is presently at work on an intellectual biography of the 16th century theologian Martin Luther.
Reverend Manning replaces Verity Jones, who had previously served the program as its Associate Director. Manning serves Christ the Savior Lutheran Church in Fishers, Indiana, where she is the Pastor of Ministry and Maturity. She earned her bachelor's degree from Davidson College and her Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. While in seminary, she received the Auer Award as the Outstanding First Year Student and the Goethe Scholarship as the program's Outstanding Senior Student.
Reverend Manning is well suited to her work with the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program since she completed the program a year ago.
"The camaraderie that develops among the participants sharing in theological reflection with community leaders is remarkable," Manning said. "This program allows pastors to engage important issues deeply and thoughtfully, and to have this space set aside to think so carefully with such talented, caring people is an incredible opportunity."
She and Nelson agree that the program prepares pastors to be engaged in adaptive change within their parishes and, importantly, in their communities.
"Participants in this program become better pastors because of their interactions with one another and leaders shaping our communities," Manning said. "We see the parish beyond the four walls of our churches; we see our churches in a larger context and we are prepared to speak to larger issues. This program changes the role of pastors into one that is bigger, broader, and more exciting."
Participants in the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program meet on the Wabash campus 10 times over a two-year period to meet with civic, government, business, and religious leaders to discuss issues that affect local Indiana communities. The pastors learn about a range of topics, such as statewide efforts to strengthen public education, Indiana economic initiatives, government responses to property tax and other issues, the impact of immigration on local communities, and advances in medical research and their impact on health care. In addition, the pastors participate in a study tour in North America during the first year and an international study tour in the second year of the program to learn about transnational contexts.
"Derek is a recognized and respected scholar of Martin Luther and interpreter of the Christian theological tradition; he is a leading voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Community's effort to formulate theological and confessional reflection on criminal justice; and he has recently guided the Thiel College Religion Department and wider community in developing international immersion learning opportunities for students and faculty with the goal of preparing students to engage the world," added Dean Phillips.
"These rich experiences prepare him especially well to lead the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program."
Dr. Nelson said he does not expect significant changes to the program moving forward, but does want to imagine ways to engage the program's alumni. "We're trying to think about how to make good use of this network of people who have been what we call 'Wabash-ed' — people who have shared this incredible learning and growing experience. We want to find ways in which we can keep them in touch with one another and continue to nurture the relationships that started here."
Thirty-five pastors representing two cohorts have completed the program thus far, and 16 pastors are currently engaged in the two-year program. The program was established with a $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment, and a second $1.57 million grant in 2011 will continue the program through 2016.
Manning praises the program for its rigor and effectiveness. "These pastors experience something that is truly life-changing. This program requires them to forge into territories where they don't have the answers — sometimes where there are no answers. And there's a lot of anxiety that goes with that kind of experience because so often we're called to provide answers to our congregations and communities. But that's the world we're living in and this is the kind of leadership we as pastors have chosen to pursue."
For more information on the program, please visit the program's website.


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As many of you know I have been suffering with seizures and hideous brain fog, and no-one could really tell me why. I have been to TCI and numerous specialists. I have been told it is NOT epilepsy, NOT Syringomyelia, NOT CM/TCS/CCI, NOT diabetes/lupus/RA/PA/parovirus B9 and God-Knows-what-else.
But I have never been told what it IS -other than that old chestnut: "All in your head". Yeah right. Blame the victim. Apparently, my subconcious is uniquely freakin talented in it's ability to manufacture palpitations, vision disturbances, sleepiness and seizures after (certain) meals.
After yesterday, I think I am finally getting close to some real answers. I thought I woudl share with you in case anyone else has had similar stuff going on.
I went to the endocrinologist for a glucose tolerence test yesterday. this test involves you fasting for twelve hours. Then they take your blood for a starting reference, then feed you a measured amount of glucose water, and test your blood again an hour later and every hour for five hours after glucose ingestion to see how your body reacts to the sugar.
My body didn't react too well.
I started to feel nasty very shortly after drinking the stuff, but put that down to the fact that it was nasty. I almost seized, but didn't.
My blood sugar went up after the first hour, (as you would expect), but after the second hour it started to descend. They stopped the test after the third hour because my sugar had plummeted.
So I officially have reactive hypoglycemia. This is like the opposite oif diabetes. They think I am overproducing insulin, but are not sure why (EDS?). We are waiting for the rest of the bloodwork results from the lab.
Mac: Where is Dr Sam Spaghetti, neuro-endo when you need him, ey?
I will update you guys as I know more.


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Keyword modifiers are new as of version 2.02.01 (January 7th, 2007)They let you indicate that certain search directories and pattern matching scores should be engaged only when the user specifies special modifier keywords during search, using the +KEYWORD syntax.This can be extremely useful if you want to search certain directories only in special cases.For example, you might normally search only your start menu, but you want to search your "MyDocuments" folder and your "Documents and Settings" folders when the modifier "mydocs" is used.To do this, add the new directories and specify the keyword mydocs in each case.Now, to search for a file with "money" in its name, in these folders you could type: "money +mydocs" or "+mydocs money".FARR will know that in this case it should search in these two additional foldersNote that the choice of keywords is entirely up to you, you can use any strings you want for them. You can also use keyword modifiers on scoring patterns:For example, you might not normally care about search for mp3 files, but you want to be able to find them easily.So add a new score pattern of *.mp3 with a score of 3000, and use the keyword modifier mp3.Now when you type in +mp3 in your search, all mp3 files will get a huge boost in score.WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ENTRY HAS NO KEYWORDSThe default search directories and scores have no keyword modifiers. This means they apply ONLY when no keyword modifiers are specified in search string (or when one is specified but it doesn't match anything). Sometimes you want an entry to run if certain keywords are specified OR if no keywords at all are specified.ADD blank TO MATCH ON NO KEYWORD AS WELL AS THE ONES SPECIFIEDTo specify that a directory should be searched when NO keyword modifiers are specified in addition to when others are, add the special term blank as one of the space separated keywords. ADD * TO MATCH ON ANY KEYWORDYou can also specify a keyword of * to say that the entry should be used when any keywords are specified.TIPS AND TRICKSEach directory pattern or score pattern entry can have multiple keyword modifiers, separated by spaces.You don't specify the + when you are configuring an entry, but you must specify it when typing a search in the main form.Feel free to use the same keyword modifiers in multiple scoring and directory entries for maximum benefit.If you want to match on all keywords except a specific one or two, use the keyword * followed by "-KEYWORD" for keywords to reject.
Is there is a way when I start FARR with Pause/Break to make it search in the directory that I currently am(without typing the path to it...just add some alias and to make it search only there)
And what about the plugins...I just installed the program and I don't see anything in Options=>Program Options=>Settings=>Plugins and Updates=>Click to Examine and Configure PluginsThe list is always empty no matter what I try.
Then how to actually use those that are already installed(those that I see in the plugins directory when I install the program)
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