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Spalon Montage Location and Stylist: Woodbury – Jackie
Years on team: Rookie
Hometown: Prescott, WI
Education: University of St. Thomas
Occupation: Student
First Job: My first job was as a dance teacher at Stella Dance and Pilates Studio.
Dance Background: I was a competitive studio dancer for ten years and competed on my varsity high school dance team for four years.
Favorite type of music: My favorite type of music is normally anything, but lately I've been really into country!
Favorite phone app: My new obsession is Vine!
Celebrity crush: My celebrity crush is definitely Sean Lowe from The Bachelor.
Junk food weakness: My junk food weakness is any kind of M&Ms!!
I've always wanted to: I've always wanted to be a backup dancer for a famous singer. How cool would that be to travel with them on their tours?!
One place I would love to travel to: One place I would love to visit is the Dominican Republic. It sounds like a great place to vacation to!
Off the field, I spend my free time: I love spending my free time with my family, helping choreograph for my old studio and dance team, babysitting, and goofing off with my friends. :)
Best beauty secret: A favorite beauty secret of mine is always wearing primer under your makeup. It helps keep your makeup looking fresh all day long!
Favorite thing to do in Mpls: I love going to sporting events, like the Vikings and Twins games!
Favorite restaurant in Mpls: I love going to The Melting Pot! It's amazing food and a really fun time!
My hidden talent is: I can play the piano, speak a Norwegian table prayer, and ride my bike with no hands! ;)
One thing I wish I was great at: One thing I wish I was great at will always be singing. I will only sing when I'm alone in my car!
Dream job: My dream job is being a Sports Broadcaster for ESPN. Hopefully covering all the Super Bowl wins from the Minnesota Vikings!!
Greatest achievement: My dream has always been to make the MVC, and I achieved that!
Best thing about being an MVC: The best thing about being an MVC is cheering with 34 other amazing women, being able to meet so many different people in the community, and cheering for the BEST team in the NFL!!!


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Air-fuel Requirement in SI Engines
The spark-ignition automobile engines run on a mixture of gasoline and air. The amount of mixture the engine can take in depends upon following major factors:
(i) Engine displacement.
(ii) Maximum revolution per minute (rpm) of engine. (Hi) Carburettor air flow capacity.
(iu) Volumetric efficiency of engine.
There is a direct relationship between an engine's air flow and it's fuel requirement. This relationship is called the air-fuel ratio.
Air-fuel Ratios
The air-fuel ratio is the proportions by weight of air and gasoline mixed by the carburettor as required for combustion by the engine. This ratio is extremely important for an engine because there are limits to how rich (with more fuel) or how lean (with less fuel) it can be, and still remain fully combustible for efficient firing. The mixtures with which the engine can operate range from 8:1 to 18.5:1 i.e. from 8 kg of air/kg of fuel to 18.5 kg of air/kg of fuel. Richer or leaner air-fuel ratio limit causes the engine to misfire, or simply refuse to run at all.
Stoichiometric Air-Fuel Ratio
The ideal mixture or ratio at which all the fuels blend with all of the oxygen in the air and be completely burned is called the stoichiometric ratio, a chemically perfect combination. In theory, an air fuel ratio of about 14.7:1 i.e. 14.7 kg of air/kg of gasoline produce this ratio, but the exact ratio at which perfect mixture and complete combustion take place depends on the molecular structure of gasoline, which can vary somewhat.
Engine Air-fuel Ratios
An automobile SI engine, as indicated above, works with the air-fuel mixture ranging from 8:1 to 18.5:1. But the ideal ratio would be one that provides both the maximum power and the best economy, while producing the least emissions. But such a ratio does not exist because the fuel requirements of an engine vary widely depending upon temperature, load, and speed conditions. The best fuel economy is obtained with a 15:1 to 16:1 ratio, while maximum power output is achieved with a 12.5:1 to 13.5:1 ratio. A rich mixture in the order of 11:1 is required for idle heavy load, and high-speed conditions. A lean mixture is required for normal cruising and light load conditions. Figure 9.36 represents the characteristic curves showing the effect of mixture ratio on efficiency and fuel consumption.
Fig. 9.36. Effect of air-fuel ratio on efficiency and fuel consumption.
Practically for complete combustion, through mixing of the fuel in excess air (to a limited extent above that of the ideal condition) is needed. Lean mixtures are used to obtain best economy through minimum fuel consumption whereas rich mixtures used to suppress combustion knock and to obtain maximum power from the engine. However, improper distribution of mixture to each cylinder and imperfect/incomplete vaporization of fuel in air necessitates the use of rich mixture to obtain maximum power output. A rich mixture is also required to overcome the effect of dilution of incoming mixture due to entrapped exhaust gases in the cylinder and of air leakage because of the high vacuum in the manifold, under idling or no-load condition. Maximum power is desired at full load while best economy is expected at part throttle conditions. Thus required air fuel ratios result from maximum economy to maximum power. The carburettor must be able to vary the air-fuel ratio quickly to provide the best possible mixture for the engine's requirements at a given moment.
The best air-fuel ratio for one engine may not be the best ratio for another, even when the two engines are of the same size and design. To accurately determine the best mixture, the engine should be run on a dynamometer to measure speed, load and power requirements for all types of driving conditions.
With a slightly rich mixture, the combustion flame travels faster and conversely with a slightly weak mixture, the flame travel becomes slower. If a very rich mixture is used then some "neat" petrol enters cylinder, washes away lubricant from cylinder walls and gets past piston
to contaminate engine oil. A very sooty deposit occurs in the combustion chamber. On the other hand, if an engine runs on an excessively weak mixture, then overheating particularly of such parts as valves, pistons and spark plugs occurs. This causes detonation and pre-ignition together or separately.
The approximate proportions of air to petrol (by weight) suitable for the different operating conditions are indicated below:
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It makes no difference if an engine is carburetted or fuel injected, the engine still needs the same air-fuel mixture ratios.

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The Low-Latency Imperative: How Fast Is Fast Enough?
When evaluating latency, it's vital to consider all of the contributing factors, including the trade logic (the code that runs matching engines and algorithms), the speed of calculation hardware, the speed of telecom switch hardware, the quality and number of connections, and the distance between network nodes, according to Kevin McPartland, analyst at TABB Group. The industry as a whole is rapidly approaching the point where, "The code is so tight, hardware improvements are the main thing that will increase the overall efficiency of the operation," McPartland says.
Enter vendors such as Blade Network Technologies (telecom hardware), Equinix (colocation hosting) and Nvidia (gaming graphics cards re-tasked to calculate derivatives). Each of these technology providers is feverishly trying to reduce the latency of its layer in the stack.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Blade Network Technologies makes a 10 GB switch that connects feed handlers, algorithm boxes and matching engines at colocation centers, where firms have increasingly found it useful to situate their machines across the hallway from their counterparties, even if their offices and trading staff are on opposite sides of the globe. By merging routers with switches, Blade has eliminated a layer that previously added precious microseconds to a round trip, explains David Iles, Blade Network Technologies' director of product management.
"We are providing sub-700 nanoseconds of latency, port to port," Iles asserts. "We are also deterministic. You don't want stale market data getting to devices. It has to take the same time to get from Port 1 to Port 24 as it does from Port 1 to Port 2."
Technologies such as this tend to live side by side in colocation centers run by companies such as Foster City, Calif.-based Equinix. Here, the issue is bandwidth and energy efficiency, both of which are major cost contributors in the low-latency race. Trading firms are increasingly opting for colocation rather than running expensive, high-throughput dedicated fiber from their offices to the marketplace.
"We have a customer in Greenwich, Conn.," relates John Knuff, general manager, global financial markets, at Equinix. "They were spending about $20,000 a month to get trades to New York. They moved a couple of cabinets in with us. It's $3,000 to 5,000 a month for a cabinet, and $200 to $300 for the cross-connects. They essentially offset the cost of their colocation by getting rid of the network costs back to their office, which had no economic or competitive advantage."
Think Fast(er)
An equally important question pervades the minds of traders: Once you're satisfied with the turnaround time to your market, how do you maximize the value of time between transactions? That question interested Tobias Preis, managing director of Artemis Capital Asset Management of Holzheim, Germany, to such a degree that he became one of the first customers of Nvidia's graphical processing unit (GPU), a processor that has 480 cores, compared to the typical four- to 12-core CPU.
The GPU originally was developed to render high-resolution details for computer games. Preis, also a computational physicist, uses the GPU to calculate time series for the DAX-index futures algorithms that he deploys on Eurex.
"The increases in speed represented by the GPU are many times faster than the reductions in latency by the exchanges," according to Preis, who says he gets by on 100 milliseconds to 150 milliseconds of average latency to Eurex. "We can now perform parallel-computing calculations that used to take one minute in one second."
Where will low latency be in a year? Many market participants say they won't be surprised if the discussion is about nanoseconds in a year. "I know we will break the 100 microsecond barrier," NYSE's Rubinow says. Beyond that figure, it becomes enormously expensive to add each zero behind the decimal point, he notes.
Despite the excitement over low latency and the extreme competitiveness of financial firms and the vendors that serve them, it's important to keep a clear head about the need for speed, adds Adam Afshar, president of program trading at Atlanta-based Hyde Park Global Investments, which is 100 percent automated and has no manual traders.
"High frequency is just a method for implementing a strategy — it is not the strategy itself," says Afshar. He notes approvingly that the decreasing cost of technology means that a $10 million investment in technology allows a smaller firm to rival the speed of the biggest banks on Wall Street.
But the key to success in the marketplace, according to Afshar, is adaptability, and that still comes from human ingenuity. For Afshar, going forward, the more interesting question is not "How fast can you hit the market?" but, "What do you do with that speed?"
"The bottom line," he says, "is your adaptability to the non-linearity of markets."


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No James!!!
And I dont think I connect with u, on an intellectual level either.
Does anybody know, when Elnaz birthday is?
I want to wish her a big happy birthday, when hers comes, because it is sweet, that she remembered mine.
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YES! Do you find that you like a particular set of men and women for their race before anything else that we would consider important? Think about it, we all have friends or family members that openly admit to only dating (insert race) girls, or (insert race) guys. These beloved members of our fellowship do not see anything wrong with their desire but for anyone hearing them and observing the pattern it is looked upon as a major problem.
Members of minority groups who participate in this are given derogatory names, the man or woman that may have dated back to back members of another race are accused for having a "fetish", wanting to be that other race and a number of other basic accusations. People get defensive, they say in one breath that they are all for "loving who you love" but then say that they feel slighted if a prominent (read: rich and successful) member of their group "steps out". It becomes a self-conscious struggle for the supposed fetishist and even more so for the guy or gal that happens to have a type.
What Exactly Is The Problem?
There is a huge difference between a person who puts down the members of his/her race in order to prop the ones they fetishize and the person that happens to date across racial lines. The problem between these two drastically different people is that the latter is normally made to feel the wrath of those that lump them together with the former. We mix in the color-blind with the damaged and seeking because like all prejudices it is so much easier to generalize than it is to treat people individually.
Does all of this mean that we should act like the 1980's and hide our white, black, or multiracial boyfriends/girlfriends? Is the painful realization that you do fetishize a particular race a shame that should be covered up instead of admitting to when called out? How about, it's nobody's business but your own? I don't think anyone should be put down for liking and/or loving someone else. At the same time I don't think the fetishist should shout it out to the world that the person's race is so awesome.
What is so glorious about a race–something we don't choose or can change–that you have to announce how great it is for you to date and have sex with? This is normally the question I ask of the guys who (as an example) make it their life's goal to bang an Asian woman because of their obsession with Asian things. It is also the question I ask of black men who see pale skin and bright hair as a symbol of status and success. I am not knocking them for liking these women, but if they brag about it then I see that as a major problem.
I often wonder how the women and men that are targeted for being in the right racial group feel when they finally realize. Do they care, or is it somehow endearing to be chosen for something that goes beyond intelligence, looks and personality. I know it's a silly question, but considering the fact that many of these men and women who fetishize race brag about it… is it really a bad question?
I don't believe that having a type is wrong, some of us like skinny women, and some of us like curvy women. A body type is no easier to change than a person's race is, but just like our lust for a naturally slender woman is nothing to brag about, neither is a preference for black men with dreads. I have run into many people throughout my lifetime that push for a particular woman in a particular race to love. The ones that stood out were the ones who made us all very aware of it–verbally–but I cannot recall many of the ones who kept it quiet.
Keep your fetishes to yourself.See some words or phrases that you don't understand? Check out The Dragon's Lexicon.


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A case for Data Science + Open Data
Carey Anne Nadeau is the Founder & CEO of Open Data Nation (opendatanation.com) and created FIVAR (fivar.org). Before founding Open Data Nation, Nadeau worked for the past decade doing quantitative research and analysis using open data at the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute. Nadeau's work has received multiple awards, including the O. Robert Simha prize for most outstanding contribution to planning at MIT. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, among others. Nadeau holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Public Policy from The George Washington University. In October 2015, I was at an outdoor bar and restaurant when I got bitten by a rat that ran over my foot. The…
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Author Notes: Oven roasting allows root vegetables' natural sugars to caramelize and makes them extra tasty to enjoy while warm or at room temperature. Almost all vegetables can be roasted. Vegetables like carrots, potato, pumpkin, sweet potato, zucchini, bell peppers, eggplant, and onions have a lovely sweet taste when roasted. Many vegetables are good for roasting: turnips, beets, fennel, parsnip, asparagus to add earthy flavour to recipes. The secret for perfect roasted vegetables: a nice and hot oven to put the vegetables in! —createpink.com
Serves 6
- 2 carrots
- 2 beets
- 2 bell peppers (red and yellow)
- 4 potatoes
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons mustard
- 2 tablespoons chilli soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 3 onions
- While the oven preheats, prep the vegetables. Wash and remove any blemishes, removing skins if appropriate.
- Then cut the vegetables into pieces roughly the same size. Just remember: the smaller the pieces, the quicker the vegetables will roast.
- Either in the roasting pan or a large bowl, toss vegetables with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mustard, garlic powder and chilli soy sauce.
- Toss them well and then spread the coated veggies onto a baking sheet and bake at 400º for 30 minutes until they are just tender.
- About halfway through the roasting time, give the pan a good shake or use a spatula to turn the vegetables to move them around a bit to brown evenly. Remove from oven, arrange on a platter and serve.
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Chief reporter Chris Owen answers some of the questions being asked by fans
Q What does 'going into administration' mean?
A It will mean that Pompey will stop wracking up bills and sliding further into debt. Simply, it protects a company from being wound-up/liquidated (going out of existence) and means the people it owes money to will get a proportion of their money back, rather than nothing.
Q Why does the club favour this option?
A Pompey were issued with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs on January 3 over unpaid tax and they were due at the Royal Courts of Justice next Monday<FEB 20> for that hearing.
The club pre-empted this by applying to go into administration. A company in administration cannot be wound up.
Q ...and 'winding up' means?
A If they were wound up, Pompey would cease to exist. There would be no games, no team, and Fratton Park would be empty.
Q Will HMRC oppose the club going into administration?
A It is likely that HMRC will oppose it because the tax man would rather try to get all its money back than only a proportion. If Pompey was liquidated, all its assets would be sold off and HMRC would hope there'd be enough left to cover its tax bill.
Q Given there are objections to Andrew Andronikou becoming the club's administrator what powers does the court have?
A UHY Hacker Young, which Andrew Andronikou works for, is Balram Chainrai's preferred firm to oversee the administration, but other creditors have the right to oppose this and suggest another firm comes in. The court has the power to grant this change.
Q If another firm is appointed administrators, will UHY Hacker Young still be hanging around Fratton Park?
A No. UHY will still be in charge of the administration of Convers Sports Initiatives (Pompey's former parent company), and as such would have to deal with the administrators of Pompey because the club owes CSI money. They would not have anything to do with the club itself.
Q If the administration application goes through when do they lose 10 points?
A Straight away.
Q Who's the judge?
A The Hon Mr Justice Norris. Sir Alastair Hubert Norris has been a High Court judge in the Chancery Division since 2007 - the year he was knighted. His favourite pastime is sailing.


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N64 | Submitted by Articuno ButterNuggets of Wisdom
To get some nuggets of wisdom from the Battle Tanx team, first make your way to the Arizona truck stop. It's about the third stage in one player mode. Get some guided missiles and go back to about where you started the stage. Control a guided missile to the dessert that should be to your left. You should see a white car, hit it. There you go! Little mesages should scroll at the bottom of the screen
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Messi says Argentina fans more fired up
Buenos Aires: Argentinean football star Lionel Messi says fans of his country`s national team are more enthusiastic than ever before, snapping up all the tickets to the team`s Friday match against Venezuela in the capital Buenos Aires.
"I have noticed the change not just towards me, but also towards the entire Argentinean team. Today, the fans are more fired up than before, it`s great. We have to all be united to attain what we want," Messi was quoted as saying.
The capital`s River Plate Monumental Stadium was sold out, selling tickets worth almost $2.2 million.
The game will mark the 11th day of South American qualification rounds in the leading up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, with Argentina currently in the lead with 20 points.
Messi said "…beating Venezuela will be difficult like all the rest, they're an organised team and when they have the ball, they can be dangerous."
But, Argentina have the home-team advantage, stressed Messi, saying, "We`re from here and we are going to play as we always do, we`ll go out looking for the win, trying to keep the ball, do what we have been doing until now."
After Friday`s game against Venezuela, Argentina go up against Bolivia next Tuesday in La Paz.
Messi, who plays forward for Barcelona, said "winning the two matches would be an important step towards the World Cup."
Asked about the special challenge of playing in La Paz, one of the world`s highest cities at an altitude of 3,600 metres, Messi recalled an April 2009 game there, when Argentina led by Diego Maradona lost to Bolivia 1-6 in qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"It was a very tough blow to those of us who were there and we would like to change the image we left behind," he said. "I have only played there once and it`s terrible, you make a single play and you never recover. But there are teams that have won over there and we are going to try to do it."


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I'd like to see her come back next year serving drinks at one of Lisa's restaurants.
I'd like to see her come back next year serving drinks at one of Lisa's restaurants.
Not to drone on about this woman but I just found this...
Real Housewife Taylor Armstrong Tells All. Or Does She? - The Daily Beast
The thing is, if she were telling the truth, the full truth, there would be NO discrepancies.
I can't (nor can anyone) say whether or not Russell abused Taylor (or if she abused HIM - Oklahoma'd his a$$ perhaps - or both). We can't know. And as the article pointed out, there were no 911 calls, no police reports, nothing. If she WAS abused by Russell and never reported it, then she should just shut up because she didn't do anything about it. If she WASN'T abused by Russell, then she should just shut up because she's lying about her dead husband and the father of her child.
Either way, she should just shut up! I'm tired of her whining.
If I were a betting person, I put money on them both hammering each other (verbally and/or otherwise) as they slithered up the social ladder in Beverly Hills.
To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; to return good for evil is Divine - Alistair Begg
Thx for the link, Jex. I read the whole darn thing. Seems no one at all believes ShanaHughesFordTaylorArmstrong is telling the whole truth- not her castmates, reporting sources, good friends of Russell, his relatives, HW fans, nobody. Including me. She probably was abused, verbally and physically; but she lies about so much of her life, it's a fat fuzzy gray line between truth and fabrication, and she's wallowing in the gray shallows.
I am not buying what she's selling... Interesting that a friend of Russell's, interviewed for the article, thinks her future is finding a man with money- apparently that's what she's known for.
"Not my circus. Not my monkeys"
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But I dont want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you cant help that," said the Cat: "were all mad here.
I have not walked a mile in Taylors shoes but I can imagine how alone she must feel with people always looking at her sideways and insisting she can't be abused because she is a liar. As if that is some sort of protection against life ils.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm sure living with Russell was not a walk in the park but I'm not so sure she was "abused" like she claims. Just doesn't make sense...first she has a black eye from him, then admits there's no outward evidence of this....as someone said, cosmetic surgery can cause bruising and so can makeup create it. And if I was having the serious problem she had with her eye, I wouldn't be out partying. I'd be home with a bandage on my eye, carefully taking care of it to prevent further damage. And how come it took so long for her doctor to fix it?? You'd think it would require immediate attention...at least, it would to me, to preserve my eyesight.
Darn it! I really meant to not talk more about Taylor and I totally blew it but the discepancies in her stories drive me mad.
I'm still behind on catching up with the reunions so have just seen part of the first one. When they were showing clips of the "girls" in the beginning, did anyone else notice the one of Taylor, in what seemed like a theater, laughing with her mouth open? That is the hugest mouth I've ever seen! - not her lips but her mouth. Reminded me of Jonah and the Whale.
well in the court documents that the previous mrs armstong filed. Russell beat,pushed,spit on her and slapped her around while she was pregnant. So a man that would do that is no saint. I highly doubt he just stopped this habit on a dime.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That is when I stopped believeing her 100%!
I also do not believe the part when she said she put her dislocated jaw back into place with the assistance of a toilet. Notice how it went from a broken jaw to a dislocated jaw??? My son once dislocated his shoulder playing sports. Even with pain medication, 2 doctors & a nurse he was still in pain. Dr Taylor healed herself without any pain meds or assiatance. I also now think the black eye was either Kennedy or another round of plastic surgery.
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Yes, for one glorious afternoon, UTSA students, alumni and bandwagoners (me) flooded the Alamodome and it's surroundings for the school's inaugural football game. It was a true citywide celebration with more than 50,000 people packing the dome for a sporting event that was ours.
I'm here to remind you, there are still five games left in the season!
While everyone is expecting a drop off, there are still home games to be played. The $12 tickets (plus tax) are still available, and according to the UTSA ticket office, are available at field-level at the north end zone, and at the 300 level (nose bleeds) on the home side. (BTW, I sat in the lower nose bleeds for the opener, and the seats were fantastic.)
Tickets can be obtained by calling (210) 458-UTSA(8872), at Ticketmaster or at the Alamodome box office.
As for the pre-game activites, the tailgating-ish event at Sunset Station returns for all home games. Gates open around 9 a.m. and goes until kickoff. The Spirit Walk, when the team and band members make their way through Sunset Station to the Alamodome, will be a regular occurrence and begins around 10:30 a.m., if not a little later, according to the alumni office.
The alumni association will not hold another all-out pep rally until homecoming. For this week, there will be a barge packed with cheerleaders and band members, floating around the River Walk Friday around 6:15 p.m., and ending at the Grand Hyatt.
Also, VIA's Park and Ride will continue for all home games, from Crossroads (Wonderland of the Americas), the Madla Transit Center and the UTSA 1604 Campus (at parking Lot 5).
Rest of the schedule:
• 1 p.m. Saturday, McMurry
• 1 p.m. Sept. 24, Bacone
• 1 p.m. Oct. 8, South Alabama
• 1 p.m. Oct. 29, George State
• 1 p.m. Nov. 19, Minot State
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Rocky Mounts Crit
We had our first race of the season today...the RM Izze Crit in lovely Lousiville CO. I swung by the event today to chip in where I could and snapped some pics where I could. The conditions were great through the Open 35's and 3's when the torrent came down and the temps dropped.
The RM crew did such a fabulous job. I was proud. Everything was humming and racers seemed stoked. I made it a point to poke about and ask folks about their race and how they liked the course and everyone seemed fairly stoked.
Some pics:
Oh, and white sex arrived
And coming back from my trip, my white sex arrived. Genius. I am such and uber-frickin-geek for the Euro trash I just can't explain it. I am a slut for white sidis.
There and back
Made it back! I am back in the Republic and happy that the week from hell is done. People often say to me "you must be SO lucky to travel!" I am my own worst enemy. I'm good at what I do, I love it in fact and love expressing passion for technology to all kinds of people around the world and have been blessed to see literally all reaches of the globe from Brazil to teh Far East to Eastern Europe. But secretly as soon as I take off on the plane towards my destination it becomes a countdown of minutes until I get back to see my beautiful wife and boys. I mak a game out of it in my head to help me stay focused by counting the days down. I can't imagine what a soldier (kid) in Iraq does to pass that kind of time.
This trip was tight. Lots of meetings between two cities (London and Amsterdam) so in all sincerity I get to do nothing for myself for a week. Nothing. I'd love to pack a bike but it just ain't happening. Maybe next time... The Amsterdam leg was packed but I got to see the country side via car window when going to visit some cool companies in the out lying regions of Holland (and while staring out of the window watching a boat load of mini pelotons of local club cyclists roaming about making me salivate...and then the salivation turns to semi-depression of how much work I have to do to re up the fitness when I get back). When I got to Amsterdam for meetings, we hit this vantage point in the City out of the train station where my bud snapped this pic with his camera phone (thus the shitty quality). It is tough to see but acres and acres of classic Amsterdam townie bikes that look like a bad weed control problem. It was hilarious. Behind me as far as the eye can see are just klunky steel bikes piled up on each other. As is customary in the City, you may seriously not find your bike when you get back from whatever it was you were doing....so you grab another one. There are 7 million people in Holland with more than 18 million bikes there. Sweet. In Amsterdam alone there are something like 1 million bikes dredged from the canals of the City each year...discarded by people who steal them, ride to their destination and then hurl them into the canals.
So I am back home (still sick...I won't bore you) and amped to be with the fam. My boys stayed up late to watch their daddy come through the door and i got this grin that I couldn't wipe off when they came running full steam at me, tackled....and then of course proceed to interrogate me for special presents I may have brought home for them from these far away places.
The RM Crit is this weekend. No racing (again) for me but I need to try and get down and support but I am like a mental void at the moment. Couch and the other team managers really pulled it together and make this race hum logistically. This is why I love being on this team but I got the hall pass for this race 'cause the fellas know my situation at the moment.
My training program ramps up this coming week so I need to square away the health issues so I can start moving towards the Fall with a good first (and healthy) step. I'm working with a guy (and friend) here in town who knowns my exact situation intimately and is intrigued with it and has a unique plan to help me remain competitive and try and do something special later this year. All his PhD's and studies on science and training aside, and teh pros he works/worked with, it is his ability to not look at me as a vanilla athlete and apply teh same plan which is so cool. He knows that my life is not that of a 21 year old who can eat/train/sleep and I have commitments (like traveling) and knows how to apply a unique and achievable formula to situations like mine. Yeah, yeah, things like periodization, watts, kilojoules, etc etc play into it, but so do things like stress reduction (and I'm not just talking about being 'zen' an doing yoga to reduce life stress....but how to avoid over compensating on the training side and gradually ramp up to reduce the stress on body and mind in addition to a solid 'sleep' plan! RAD! For me, my training for years (when I start getting to the cross season) has been like turning the power on the stereo, then just JAMMING the volume from 0 to "11" and nearly blowing the speakers. Interestingly, I've been able to quickly ramp and peak like this for a few seasons and win some races but it's no good and the body and mind are not there any more to do that. It's been good for the head a bit to know I have someone like him in my corner and eases the stress a bit to try and figure out how to ramp up for the periods I need to have the engine humming at.
Back home and moving forward. Life is good.
Bloody 'ell
The weekend was epic. No Deer Trail for me as I am now in the bloody UK on business and my kinders and lady needed my participation way more than my homies at Deer Trail. Talked to Lauren C (friend from SF and new to Boulder) and she says "...I'm going on a business strip too! Where are you going? I need to go to Provence and I packed my bike so I could try the Vontoux." You can take your Vontoux...Whatever.
Saturday was sweet. 4 hours of pure bliss and solo tempo, smiling in the sun. It felt good to just roll and not have to attack, be attacked or generally get myself into a state of bother...a.s Liggett says. The steady tempo over 70 miles did just a s much.
Gonna work like a dog all week from morning to midnight here. Gonna sneak in runs when I can but the schedule is mad. Beautiful weather here too. Global warming? It's supposed to be pissing rain over here at this time.
Rad pre war CX photos and commentary
We are wussies compared to these hard men.
Heavy breathing....
Interesting vid of some dude in the cyclosportiv event before the Ronde. Shows the brutality of the Kopp.
Yeti CX
Yeti is releasing their production CX frame this July. My team mate Boups has the original pre-production version of this bike that I believe FTW created. Honestly thugh, it may be another one of their stellar welders.
The specs on this are interesting. The CX-specific details 'appear' to be there in terms of top mounted cables, ample clearance on the chain stays to balance large (e.g. 34) sized tires and a single chain ring application with dual guards. This is the bane of many a frame builder's existence. For my tastes, the effective top tube length is too small. I am not a person in the camp of CX bikes being a 1/2 cm or so smaller than your road bike frame. Geometry aside, I do not want to be crawling all over my CX bike nor do I want my stem too long to compensate and totally tweak with the steering. I experienced this with my Felt and my Scott production frames and why I needed to dip outside of the production world to have mine custom manufactured to my road bike effective specs.
They have some interesting bellowing/curving of the top tube for what they say is shouldering comfort. I hope, based upon the various frame sizes, that they had small medium and large people actually port the bike in traditional/dutch (arm UNDER the down tube) and 'Belgian' style (arm AROUND the head tube) and ensure that the bevel in the tube rests comfortably in all positions.
The frame looks hot as all Yeti's do. Glad to see a great American producer adding a CX frame to their production line.
Go HERE for the deets.
Veek-toire (con't)
Monday and I'm feeling slightly better. The house has turned back into the 'Hot Zone'. Again, the TTT effort essentially was like battery acid to my immune system. I clearly was not ready to go at that level of depth after being sick the way I was two weeks before. I've GOT to accept that being a young family with kids who are dragging things home and getting their little immunities sured up is just what it is. Or, I can order a boy in the bubble outfit from eBay and wear that around the house.
Anywhoo, Saturday was awesome! The Haystack TTT (they wrongly put in my team mate G Pent in the results in lieu of me...) was great as well as witnessing my wife in her first race in the SW4's. She rocked it. I was so proud.
We drilled it well and flowed very nicely Saturday. Early season rides out to Carter Lake were essentially like training grounds for the TTT. We go out essentially for 70 mile TTT's (sans all that time trail crap on the bikes) and beat the crap out of each other. On Saturday, Couch and I floored it extremely hard on the first 1/2 of the 13.6 mile course to shield our 3 ringers we needed to get to the line but Neal H was on fire the whole way. His strength and that of Boup's is crazy. They pulled fiercely the whole way. Boups will (no kidding) go from Cat 4 to 2 this year. His power output needed to be checked in order to not imbalance the rest of us. All that HP. Nuts.
Longman put his head down in the remaining k's and got it done with Neal and Boups at the line to ensure the first 5 wheels across were right there with each other. Amazing digging into the suitcase of courage for that Englishman.
My lady as mentioned above went out and threw down on Saturday as well in the ITT. She did so GREAT! No TT bars, Zipp wheels, aero helmets. Just her IF and some Gu. She came across the line like she could have gone another 20K. Amazing. I will look at this picture above often to remind me of why I bike let alone race. Her entry form in hand, just amped to go mix it up. That is what it is all about.
We took the SM3 TTT today at Haystack. More later as I am shattered, back in the sick hole, and waiting for pics.
The people you meet....
Whoever you are, I think you are my long lost sibling. Or, at a minimum, you enjoy potty humor as much as I do. Check out this Google query this guy (unless you're a rad chick who is searching for Boonen crapping his pants). There is hope on t his earth and people like us will join hands, talk poop, and laugh until we heal.


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David N. Welton writes:
Of course, you can choose how much alcohol to consume. Plenty of things that are regulated are regulated because they are, indeed, present in small undetectable quantities and you consume them whether you like it or not if you're not made aware of it. This could perhaps be described as 'information asymmetry', another thing that you economists might talk about more to connect with the public's anti-market bias.
Posted February 12, 2008 4:21 PM
Lee writes:
I just came across this idea in a book the Overcoming Bias bloggers are always pushing, Probability Theory by E.T. Jaynes. In the preface he writes:
A common error, when judging the effects of radioactivity or the toxicity of some sub-stance, is to assume a linear response model without threshold (i.e. without a dose rate belowwhich there is no ill effect). Presumably there is no threshold effect for cumulative poisonslike heavy metal ions (mercury, lead), which are eliminated only very slowly, if at all. Butfor virtually every organic substance (such as saccharin or cyclamates), the existence of afinite metabolic rate means that there must exist a finite threshold dose rate, below whichthe substance is decomposed, eliminated, or chemically altered so rapidly that it causes noill effects...
His writing has a lot of vigor. You can read the whole thing online here in html.
Posted February 12, 2008 5:04 PM
Mr. Science writes:
I am a cancer researcher, and I can assure you that continuous exposure to small doses of a carcinogen will lead to cancer. Carcinogens are mutagens, ie, substances that change your DNA, often fairly randomly. Most of the damage is repaired, and if some gets past the repair systems then it is often a non-dangerous change. However, if you mutate randomly over time you will eventually take out enough proto-oncogenes or tumor suppressors to cause a cell to become cancerous. This takes a long time, and it is a cumulative process, which is why cancer rates increase with age. As such, substances that cause a minor increase in the mutation rate have an effect directly related to the period of exposure. Comparisons to alcohol or other acute poisons is either ignorant or disingenuous.
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Dr. T writes:
The only people who espoused the linear response toxicology theories were dishonest toxicologists and pseudo-environmental (we hate progress) groups. We physicians know from pharmacological studies that all compounds have thresholds for effects (good effects, side effects, and fatal effects all have different mean thresholds with moderate to huge variations between persons). There are a few stupid physicians who believe that even minute amounts of a carcinogen can cause cancer, but their believe is not based on medical or scientific evidence. These are the same stupid physicians who believe that magnetic fields around power lines cause leukemias and that cell phones cause brain cancer. Like most professions, we have our share of bad apples.
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I hear nutmeg and cough-syrup have very non-linear effects.
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Rear Admiral Voreqe Bainimarama officially launches his party name at the My Suva Picnic Park last Sunday.
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THE owner of Island Buses Limited, Vijendra Kewal, has clarified that Prime Minister Rear Admiral Voreqe Bainimarama has hired one of his buses to campaign for the election.
Mr Kewal said Rear Admiral Bainimarama was paying the company for hiring the bus although he refused to disclose the cost.
"The bus is only hired by him — he has charted the bus. The charge, I cannot disclose. Certain customers are treated with confidentiality," he said.
Mr Kewal confirmed the bus had been charted for five days — three days on Viti Levu and two days on Vanua Levu.
"But it might be kept for long as he might not be able to fulfil his commitments in two or three days, so he can use it for another three days.
"The PM can keep the bus as long as I get my money."
He said the paint on the bus would change after the PM returned the bus.
Rear Admiral Bainimarama launched the campaign bus at the My Suva Picnic Park last Sunday after launching the name of his proposed political party — Fiji First.
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Humbug Holiday for Retail?
Alright, earnings season makes its official kickoff tonight and if you ask me the market might be getting cold feet ahead of it. That's understandable because in the lead-up to the quarterly influx of earnings reports we're getting a few yellow flags out of consumer companies:
• Sears (SHLD) is feeling the heat, having updated its 4Q (fiscal quarter ending February 3rd) expectations. They see comparable sales down 1.8% year over year for the first nine weeks of the quarter, driven by weak consumer electronics. Yet, even excluding electronics the company still sees a sales decline of 0.2%. Concurrently, CEO D'Ambrosio is unexpectedly stepping down due to family issues.
• And there's more out of the big box retail industry, with a new strategy announced by Target (TGT).Target had already shown their December sales to be flat year over year which of course isn't ideal. And to make up for some sales softness, they now say they'll match prices from online retailers (Amazon (AMZN) comes to mind) year round. Certainly there's a growing contingent of shoppers that peruse the aisles at brick and mortar shops before turning around and buying the same product cheaper online. So, as we have been suspecting sales volume for the latest holiday season may have come at the expense of margins as retailers compete on prices.
• We also got a sales warning out of Gamestop (GME). To be fair, I don't think there have been big expectations for the games market as sales have struggled over the past year; however, a dose of big titles to round out the year may have raised hopes. Gamestop now projects holiday sales of $2.88 billion, down 4.6% over 2011, along with EPS guidance at the lower end of their previous estimates and the stock is taking a hit.
These aren't necessarily tell-tale signs that 4Q earnings season is going to be a rough one, but going into it these few yellow flags won't help what's already a jittery mood. As we know, concern of the Fiscal Cliff weighed on consumer sentiment last month and fortunately we escaped the broad tax increases on everybody (minus the "rich"). Even so, we did get the less-reported payroll tax cut expiration worth 2% of one's income (that's roughly $1,000 for an average taxpayer) and consumers may continue to second-guess discretionary purchases going through the beginning parts of this year.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
It's been an incredible seven years for Uncorked Events. We've tried thousands of wines together at over 80 sold-out events. To kick off year eight in style, please join us for our one-of-a-kind seventh anniversary party.
The theme is 'Best of the Best' and you will have the chance to try a vast array of our favorite wines from the last seven years in one evening. Virtually every wine will be 90pt + rated, with many small production, hard to find gems.
And again this year, the tasting not only takes place at a prime outdoor location, it also coincides with the summer solstice (technically the next day, but you get the picture), with natural light all the way till the 9pm finish.
The mix of wines will be exceptional with ultra boutique wineries, cult classics, top importers and luxury distributors all pouring. You'll have the opportunity to taste over 150 wines from every corner of the globe.
A sampling of this year's wines (wineries subject to change):
California: Pride Mountain, Fisher Vineyards, Fort Ross, Siduri, Joseph Phelps, Howell Mountain Vineyards, Roederer Estate, Long Meadow Ranch, Novy, Hess Collection, MacPhail, Tablas Creek, VIE, Valdez, Andrew Murray, Atalon, The Winery SF
Oregon & Washington: Argyle, Penner Ash, Ponzi, Stoller, Andrew Rich
France: Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Domaine Ott, M. Chapoutier, Perrin, Delamotte, Vincent Girardin, Delas Freres, Chateau de Beaucastel, Perrin & Fils, Olivier Leflaive
Italy: Ornellaia, Gaja, Ca' Bianca, Ruffino, Pio Cesare, Santi, Cavicchioli, Cusumano
Spain & Portugal: Marques de Caceres, Pesquera, Beronia, O.Fournier, Broadbent Selections, Warres
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South Africa: Neil Ellis, Meerlust, Protea, Warwick Estate
Lebanon: Chateau Musar
We'll also have a Craft Beer Garden with over 25 brews from local favorites to rare Belgians for those that prefer the suds - or for rehydration after a lot of wine.
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By Ginger Lumpkin
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:00 PM
Some time ago, I received a phone call from a lady named Shannon. She'd found my vehicle registration lying in her front yard, six miles from my house. Earlier in the day, I had spilled my purse in a friend's front yard, and papers flew everywhere. Apparently, I didn't track them all down.
As I hung up the phone hubby asked, "What did you lose now?"
You've heard that old saying, "You'd lose your head if it wasn't attached to your body?" I would also lose my arms and legs if they weren't attached to my torso. Seems the only thing I can't lose is weight. At least not permanently.
I probably spend twenty percent of my waking hours looking for lost items. I try to stay organized, but it's a futile effort. I've had this problem since childhood. I remember my mother standing in the middle of my bedroom, exasperated, "Your clarinet has to be here somewhere!"
As I see it, there are two reasons for losing things. One: the item has been inadvertently misplaced (or perhaps the wind has blown it into someone else's yard).
Two: you put it in a safe place, but then you forget the location of the "safe" place.
The latter happens to me about 25 percent of the time. The other 75 percent of the time hubby says I'm just careless. I prefer to say distracted.
Our newly installed back door came with three keys. Hubby attached one to his keychain, handed the second one to me, and tossed the third one into the field since I would lose it anyway.
Keys are my downfall. Sometimes, they get lost and don't show up until a week or two later. Several summers ago, I borrowed hubby's keys because mine were on an extended mystery vacation. Apparently, while shopping, I laid his keys down somewhere in the store.
When I got in the car I looked everywhere! Emptied my purse, double checked my pockets, looked in all the grocery sacks. No keys. I went back into the store, retraced my steps and double checked with the clerk. No keys. I sat in the car and prayed, "Dear God, I know you care about the little things in our lives. Please, help me find these keys. If I don't find them, I can't get home and my husband can't come to get me because that was our last set. I know you hate murder, but that is what will to happen to me when he finds out what I've done!"
A moment later, God inspired me to dismantle the console of the car. As I snapped the pieces off, I saw a glint of metal in the sunlight. I dug under the edge of the plastic and pulled out MY keys!!! I promptly thanked the Lord and headed home.
When I arrived, hubby was busy working in the yard. I stepped out of the car, held up my keys and enthused, "Look what I found!"
Hubby held out his upturned palm and said, "Great. You can give mine back to me now."
Uh oh.
When I told him that his keys were missing, he stared in disbelief. I figured this was not a good time to share my excitement over the answered prayer.
What happened next can only be described as mad genius. Without saying a word, he took my keys and headed to the basement.
As I was putting away groceries, I listened to the sounds of sawing, hammering, and drilling punctuated with an occasional snort. Twenty minutes later hubby reappeared, proudly dangling a 2"x 6" block of wood with a heavy gauge chain screwed into it. Attached to the end of the chain were my keys.
Now it was my turn to stare in disbelief!
He made it quite clear that I was not to try dismantling my new handcrafted keychain, and for the next several months I never lost my keys. No matter where I left them they were always easily visible.
Eventually the keys came unscrewed from the wood, but I kept the chain attached. It was a nice reminder that God and my husband care about the little things in my life. And so do the neighbors of friends who live six miles away.
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As such, it runs on sound business principles: brand building, competition, promotion, strategic alliances. The saint business is a perfect example of promotion and brand building: it gets enormous free publicity (that money cannot buy) for the overall Vatican brand, and by positioning a particular individual forcefully, it allows for brand extension/new product development, opening up new customer bases.
The current Pope understands this basic fact. His is clearly a keen business brain. He also believes more is better, for he has manufactured more saints in his tenure than all his many predecessors put together! So much so that an 85-year-old Italian cardinal, Silvio Oddi, was moved to criticize what he called the 'saint factory' in his memoirs. (http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news-old/4-96/es4-14-96.html )
Between 1978 and 1999, the Pope created (http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vatican4.htm ) 283 saints plus 819 beatifications, a near-world record already. As of now, he has improved this to 477 saints plus 1,318 beatifications, 'more indeed than all previous Popes combined'! ('Pope turns Vatican into saint factory,' Indian Express/Reuters, October 14, 2003). An astonishing record!
Some of his most dubious choices: Friar Savanarola, who terrorized people during the Inquisition, and who was hanged to death 'on account of the enormous crimes of which [he] had been convicted'( http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13490a.htm ); and Josemaria de Balaguer, founder of the shadowy Opus Dei group that leads the Vatican's most reactionary culture war agendas, including opposing birth control, and which reports directly to the Pope.
This Pope is much more than the average godman, obviously, for he has also pulverized the opposition: he practically did a hostile takeover of his main competition, Marxism, or at the very least decimated it, some say partly by forming a tactical alliance with the CIA. Even Rupert Murdoch would be impressed.
Speaking of media barons, the Pope handles the mass media brilliantly. In India, many Catholic priests regularly join journalism school. Result? News hurtful to the Catholic image, for example the widespread sex and pedophilia scandals in the US or the indictment of Catholic nuns for crimes against humanity in Rwanda are hardly mentioned in the Indian media.
Terrific image management, really. Top ad agencies couldn't possibly do any better.
I have for years thought of religion as equivalent to the marketing of soap powder, but the Vatican is especially clever at it. I think it has something to do with the so-called Enlightenment in Europe. After the Vatican lost its brute-force hold on the people of Europe (and not coincidentally, they began thereafter to make intellectual progress), it was forced to market itself as a kinder and gentler version of what it was before.
But the Vatican now faces savvy American competition: charismatic evangelists like Mormons, Pentecostals and Baptists. They are making inroads into Catholic strongholds such as Latin America. In a statement pregnant with unintended irony, the Pope complained that they were 'preying upon his flock like wolves' (Houston Chronicle, October 13, 1992). This, when the godman himself traveled to India and declared boldly that all of Asia was going to be colonized by his sect in this millennium. Good for the goose, etc.?
The Vatican utilizes its vast infrastructure, money power, and network of propaganda contacts in such subtle ways that its victims almost never recognize they are being taken for a ride. Interestingly enough, it was through a damning Malayalam short story that I read years ago that I first understood the subtleties of the saint business.
That short story was Vazhthappetta Kochappi (The Beatified Kochappi), written, if I am not mistaken, by lapsed Catholic Ponkunnam Varki, who often got into trouble with the faithful for letting the cat out of the bag, so to speak. The 'beatified' refers to the state just before sainthood is conferred, the waiting period. It is the story of one Kochappi who, based on certain alleged miracles, is beatified and on the high road to sainthood.
Kochappi is one of those wild eyed religious madmen, who go around shouting, "Repent, ye sinners! For the end is nigh!", and "Ye children of serpents, ye shall fry in hell," or words to that effect, in this case in Malayalam. The locals tolerate this eccentric.
Then one day, Kochappi dies; and thereafter, miracles take place regularly at his grave. The blind begin to see; lepers are cured; the lame start to walk; infertile couples return bearing gurgling babies. The usual media limelight. Kochappi's case is referred to the Vatican, and he is, like M Teresa, fast tracked. He gets beatified.
The pilgrim traffic is tremendous; tens of thousands come every week; and hoteliers, restaurateurs and vendors of mementos in the vicinity enjoy their windfall. Apparently the way to get the great man's blessings is to consume daily a little soil from around his grave. There is great demand for the soil at Rs 100 per scoop, and every night many loads of earth are trucked in to replenish what is removed during the day by the pious. Local landowners make a nice living out of their value added soil. All's well with the world.
And then one night, horror of horrors, Kochappi reappears, with his trademark, "Ye children of serpents!" Apparently, he, the-about-to-be-sainted one, had not died, but just wandered off somewhere.
Now ask yourself, what's a businessman to do? Faced with the wholly unwelcome prospect of losing considerable revenue, not to mention prestige, the good folks there (including, if I remember right, the padres and other godmen) do what every self respecting capitalist would do: they beat Kochappi to death and bury him without further ado!
This cutting story, in my opinion, exposes the humbug of the religion business better than anything else I have ever read. I have looked at saints with skepticism ever since.
That skepticism has been bolstered by the facts around three of the saints manufactured in India (for some reason, they are all white people, and not mere brown locals):
There is considerable mystery surrounding the Apostle St Thomas. The conventional story that the faithful believe is that he arrived in Kerala in 52 CE, converted seven Namboothiri Brahmins, and set up a number of churches. Then he went to Madras, where he is said to have been killed with a spear by Brahmins near St Thomas Mount. His skeleton was 'discovered' in 1523 CE in a tomb on the premises of the Kapaleeshwar temple, along with the spearhead that had allegedly killed him.
There are only a few things wrong this story:
The plain truth appears to be that the St Thomas tale was concocted in order to give Christianity in India the impression of being very old and practically native. This would have been a tactic in conversion attempts, another tactic being the demolition of Hindu temples and the building of churches over them. The ancient Kapaleeshwar temple itself was demolished circa 1550 CE and converted to the San Thome Basilica (yes, dedicated to the same St Thomas) by the Portuguese.
Now, on to the good deeds of St Francis Xavier. Here is an extract from The Empire of the Soul by Paul William Roberts (Harper Collins, 1999):
'Xavier embodies and exemplifies the bewildering contradictions of [the Jesuits]. The Goans of the time saw the best side of Xavier in what little of him they saw. They knew nothing of the part he had played in Portugal's Inquisition, nor did they know he had pleaded with his monarch, Dom Joao, to 'order the establishment of the Inquisition in Goa.' Most of Xavier's mass conversions --�during which he Christianized entire villages in a stroke --�were performed in Kerala."
'Set up as a kind of tribunal, the Inquisition was headed up by a judge dispatched from Portugal� The palace in which these holy terrorists ensconced themselves was known locally as Vodlem Gor --�the Big House. It became a symbol of fear. Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in front of their parents, whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sure they missed nothing. Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person could remain conscious even when all that remained was a torso and head. Male genitals were removed and burned in front of wives, breasts hacked off and vaginas penetrated by swords while husbands were forced to watch.'
'So notorious was the Inquisition in Portuguese India that word of its horrors even reached home. The archbishop of Evora, in Portugal, eventually wrote, "If everywhere the Inquisition was an infamous court, the infamy, however base, however vile, however corrupt and determined by worldly interests, it was never more so than in Goa." And it went on for two hundred years.'
In Xavier's 'defense', Roberts says, 'Xavier was undoubtedly not the only one to request the Inquisition -- and he didn't live long enough to help supervise the fun himself.' Small mercies, indeed.
And finally, to our heroine M Teresa. Now MT, it appears, was an ordinary, garden variety missionary godwoman prone to uttering pious homilies. The good citizens of Calcutta welcomed her when she showed up there and announced her intention to do 'good works,' whatever that meant.
MT toiled in well-deserved obscurity for years until she got a huge lucky break. Malcolm Muggeridge, a British newspaperman who got religion in his old age, stumbled upon her and induced the BBC to do a feature on her. The rest, as they say, is history. Christopher Hitchens recounts her rise and rise in his savagely witty The Ghoul of Calcutta (http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Teresa/hitchens_nov1992.html ), quoting Dante, that 'The Pope is still fornicating with the Emperor,' that is, ostentatious religiosity flirting with secular power.
There's a lot of fascinating stuff out there that is ignored amidst the unrelenting hagiography. For instance, an interview with Hitchens after MT's death (http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Teresa/hitchens_interview.html ), and a review of Hitchens' The Missionary Position (http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/august96/hakeem.html ). Hitchens summarizes the real MT as 'a religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer and an accomplice of worldly secular powers.' By the miracle of propaganda, this scheming godwoman has now been elevated to the rarefied realms of sainthood.
Lest you think Hitchens is on a monomaniacal trip to besmirch a poor old woman, here is an article by Sunanda K Datta Ray (http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Teresa/sunanda_dattaray.html ) and finally, a review of� Aroup Chatterjee's 'Mother Teresa: the Final Verdict,' a rather comprehensive report (http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Jarts/teresa.html ).
The picture that emerges is a little less than flattering. MT makes great copy, though, for the Vatican's brand-building. Indian taxpayers paid for a grand state funeral for her, unaware that she single-handedly set back India's own brand image by ten years by projecting a picture of a prone, impoverished and criminally negligent country that needed a white missionary to help its destitute. Since both the Marxists of Calcutta and MT needed to perpetuate poverty for their own agendas, was there a little tactical alliance between the Vatican and the Marxists on this front?
There is also the question of the large amounts of money -- untold millions of dollars --�that were donated by the credulous, and which disappeared into the coffers of MT's organization, never to reappear. Or perhaps, to reappear discreetly as part of the Vatican's conversion efforts?
And then there is the small matter of the unseemly hurry to fast-track the godwoman to sainthood. It appears that the Vatican broke all its guidelines about 'miracle' verification and waiting periods in its haste to get the deed done. It took Joan of Arc 500 years to be sainted, but MT made it in six. Clearly, we are living in 'Internet time.'
Apparently the guidelines call for two genuine 'miracles.' In MT's case, here are the 'miracles:'
So if these are the Vatican's 'saints,' we must really hope we are spared the Vatican's 'sinners.' And now we understand the reason for the unseemly haste: they had better get the deed done, sealed and delivered, before further questions crop up about the 'miracles.'
After all, the Vatican is very unhappy that the Pope did not get the Nobel Prize this year. They made their complaint public, much the same way a businessman took out full page ads in American newspapers complaining that his role in the invention of the MRI had been overlooked. This must be another marketing tactic, intended to make the Nobel Committee think twice next year about awarding the prize to the Pope, thus adding a final marketing triumph to his resume before he goes on to the Great White Cathedral in the Sky.
The saint business is absolutely brilliant, whoever invented it was a marketing genius: you get enormous publicity, the gullible pay gigantic amounts of money, and you can attribute it all to selfless service. The Beatified Kochappi's friends would approve.


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Four Viewpoints on the Birth of Jesus
December 14, 2003
Scripture Reading:
The four gospel accounts of Jesus' birth.
I may be "at a loss for words", but God is not.
God was so proud of his son's birth that he used four different reporters to tell us about it.
And not only that, because God has something for everyone in Jesus, he uses his four reporters to tell us about it in strikingly different terms.
Perhaps you have heard it said that John's gospel is of universal appeal, Mark speaks to the Roman mind, Luke speaks to the Greek mind, and Matthew speaks to the Jew.
If you aren't convinced of this world-shattering news in one way, you might be in another.
God is quite versatile on his approach but quite singular in his effect.
The good news is that God entered the dangerous world of man to save him from the terrorism of the devil.
The battle is for your eternal soul – the universal man, the Roman, the Greek, the Jew.
You must receive Jesus by faith, but which approach will work best to convince you?
Is it God's own logic and wisdom that appeals best to you? Theology?
Are you one who likes to go straight to the top and dispense with the middleman?
No retail for you. You want wholesale. Better yet, you go straight to the manufacturer.
If divine argument is what you understand, then the gospel of John is for you. We just read and sang about it.
Read: John 1:1-4, 14
John opens his gospel by proclaiming that Jesus Christ is the Word of God that has come into the world.
The Word of God has been born to man.
Christ is an irrefutable argument. He is a divine reality. He is the fulfillment of all prophecy – the Word of God made flesh.
He has come as the light of truth to invade, expose, and cleanse the darkness of your soul.
The true lover of truth will find he cannot deny the truth of Christ because there is the witness of divine reason – the witness of God's infinite wisdom, the argument of God's logic.
Mark opens his gospel with a different approach.
Read: Mark 1:1-5, 7-8
Mark begins straight-away with the power of God proclaimed in prophecy.
It is about John the Baptist coming to prepare the way for Christ to be received in ministry.
John Baptist called people to repentance and forgiveness of sins, but he frames this in the power of God. He said, "After me will come one more powerful than I."
In fact, he continued to say that he was even unworthy to be compared to him.
And furthermore, John said that Jesus would come with the power of God in the Holy Spirit.
And he witnessed this power of God that audibly and visibly came upon Christ when he baptized him.
Why did Mark use the "power" approach? He was speaking to the Roman who only understood power.
The Roman needed to understand that his political and military power was incomparable to the Christ.
So, are you one who only understands something when you are face to face without recourse?
No wimpy Jesus for you. You want a man you can follow into battle – a man you can respect – a man who is proven and victorious – a man who can stand up to anything in the universe without flinching – a "no guts, no glory" kind of God.
You need a centurion named Savior. Better yet, you need an emperor who really is God.
Read: Luke 1:1-4
Luke begins his gospel with human logic. He does this because he is writing foremost to the Greek mind.
The Greeks, as you probably know, loved such things as philosophy and debate – an authoritative, humanistic approach, if you will.
So Luke draws up an orderly account of verifiable eyewitness history, tried and proven for our own certainty about Christ.
He lays it out so the Greek won't have to debate for long. These are irrefutable facts.
Are you from Missouri, the "show me" state? You will listen to Luke.
You aren't necessarily turned on by abstracts of theology or God's logic, as in John, or by abstracts of God's power, as in Mark.
You need the facts, "Just the facts, ma'am," as Sergeant Friday used to say.
But we have one more gospel, the gospel of Matthew. And this one is pointed toward the ones hardest of all to convince – God's own people, the Jews.
Why were they hard to convince? Because they thought they knew just about all there was to know about God.
Proof for them came in the form of genealogy – the "who's who" of the generations of man.
For God's own purposes he had planted in the Jew a zeal for lineage because through them would be tracked the identity of the Messiah to come.
He must be descended from Abraham, the father of the Jews.
He must be descended from David, the king of the Jews.
Read: Matthew 1:1, 17
Jesus was no illegitimate child. His mother and father were people of substance – not materially, but spiritually.
This was the perfect "fit" the Jew had been waiting for.
Are you one that needs to know where a person comes from before you listen to him seriously? To you, status and station in life matters.
After all, you can name your own ancestors back generations to the Old Country, and there are some famous people in there. You have some personal pride, you know.
Is "good breeding" a serious issue for you? You wouldn't elect a skid row bum to be president now, would you?
The Messiah can't be just anybody.
So what is the problem with the Jew?
It is like John said in his gospel (John 1:5, 10-13), the darkness has not understood the light. The world has not recognized God.
Has pride has blinded your eyes to such a degree that you think you do not need a Savior, even when God shows him to you?
But we are here to proclaim to you this day as the angels told the shepherds –
"10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:10-11 NIVUS)
And John proclaims –
"12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." (John 1:12-13 NIVUS)
So on this day when we celebrate that God was born of us, will you be born of God?
Will you receive the Christ-child this Christmas?
Has this message of children brought you to your knees as a child to receive what they have?
Do not delay. There may not come another day.
John, Mark, Luke and Matthew have given you four arguments you can't refuse: God's own logic, God's own power, man's logic, man's lineage.
What else do you need? What else are you waiting for – the sky to fall in?
God's Word says something about that too.
Come to him now and forever hold your peace and his.
The Christ-child is King!


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Invergordon 1964 / 50 Year Old / Xtra Old Particular / 70cl / 43% / Douglas Laing
A 1964 vintage Invergordon from independent bottler Douglas Laing as part of the Sovereign range of single grain whiskies. Aged for an impressive 50 years in a single refill ex-bourbon cask, this has notes of vanilla, rhubarb and apples.
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