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While tipping is customary for certain services in America, it is only appropriate in some situations in New Zealand. Learn when to tip here!
While tipping is customary for certain services in America, it isn't common in other places around the world - like New Zealand.
In the States, waiters and waitresses often make less then minimum wage and rely heavily on tips to make a living, but in other countries, workers are paid a better wage and so tips are often not expected or necessary.
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Restaurant workers do not work only for tips in New Zealand, so do not feel obliged to leave a tip when paying your check. If the service was excellent, leaving a 10% gratuity is more than generous and your waiter or waitress will certainly appreciate it.
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Maintaining Food Crop Diversity: An Interview with Gary Paul Nabhan
Guest author Fred Bahnson interviewed Gary Paul Nabhan, a lecturer, food and farming advocate, folklorist, and conservationist who lives and farms in the U.S. Southwest. Nabhan discusses his new book, the future of agriculture, and how 1,400-year-old Lebanese farming techniques influence his land ethic.
Tell me about your latest book, Where Our Food Comes From-Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine. You went on quite an adventure to write this.
The book is about the centers of food diversity - to remind us that although we may want to eat local, we're also indebted to farming cultures in other parts of the world, parts from which our major food crops were historically derived. Maintaining the diversity of these food crops, taking care of the hotspots of food diversity, and ensuring that the indigenous stewards of those areas maintain control of their arable lands is very, very important.
Nikolay Vavilov is one of my all-time heroes and perhaps the world's greatest plant explorer. He was born in the 1890s, and about a century ago began to visit some 64 countries to document and gather seeds from those places. He built the first international seed bank-international in the sense that people from all countries had access to it and could draw seeds from it. Knowledge about those seeds came from the farmers in the countries of origin.
Ironically, the man who taught us the most about where our food comes from starved to death in the Soviet Gulag. Stalin needed someone to scapegoat for the famine in the early 1930s that killed 3 or 4 million people. The famine resulted from yield declines that happened after the collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union.
I've thought a lot about why Vavilov's efforts failed. The political ecology of food production in Russia during that time was such that seed diversity alone could not revitalize agriculture. I think that's true today, that seed diversity alone can't make agriculture sustainable. You need diversity in the sizes of farms, diversity in the kinds of farmers we have, diversity in the scales of agricultural production, rather than just all small farms or all big factory farms.
In a totalitarian state, seed diversity isn't enough to save agriculture. And I don't mean just totalitarian states based in communism, but totalitarianism in places with capitalistic ideologies. Unless there's a good match between food justice, food equity, and food diversity, the food system won't be healthy.
Tell me about your travels to retrace Vavilov's footsteps.
I got to go back to 15 of the 64 countries that Vavilov himself had collected seeds in and see how the food diversity of those countries had changed in the intervening 75 years.
Let me first say that nearly all conservation planning, done by global conservation organizations like World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy, is focused on hotspots of biological diversity, some of which we know are in rainforest areas. These are the places most Americans hear about. But what isn't acknowledged is that many of these places, and what I witnessed in the 11 countries I visited on my trip, is that these hotspots of diversity are not necessarily wilderness landscapes. Many of them are cultural landscapes as well. They are places where indigenous people either manage wild vegetation that has wild relatives of crops embedded in it, or the wild species are still managed and protected in cultural landscapes, cultivated landscapes, in the tilled margins, or along fencerows and hedgerows. So there's a compatibility - I wouldn't say harmony because that's a loaded term - between the wild biota and the agricultural diversity.
What struck me as I traveled from Ethiopia to Colombia to Kazakhstan to northern Italy to the Sierra Madre in Mexico is that people are active managers of biological diversity, and their traditions have helped maintain this diversity in place. If we remove the people from these areas and make these places into national parks where agriculture is not allowed or indigenous communities are evicted because they're using resources that conservationists feel should be protected, that we'll lose more than we gain. We are creating what Mark Dowie calls "conservation refugees."
I'm very concerned that Americans understand that the maintenance of diversity on this planet cannot be done by evicting people from those rich habitat areas, but by empowering them to be good stewards of that diversity as they have been in the past.
Talk about how climate change factors into food discussions.
I prefer not to use the term "climate change," but instead to talk about "climate uncertainty." This may not be unidirectional. All places may not warm or get drier. There are quite a few variations in the effects of the global processes that it appears we're going to suffer from. Honoring that there's uncertainty is important.
But if we're trying to protect and revitalize heritage foods, with the place-based heirloom vegetables and heritage breeds of livestock, those heritage breeds will not necessarily be grown in the same places 100 years from now. One scientist, Greg Jones, predicts that 85 percent of the grape varietals in places like Napa Valley will not be able to be grown there under optimum conditions by 2050. Weather shifts will clearly scramble the relationships between place, crop genetics, and cultural traditions over the next 50 years. We need to think about our food traditions and our farming traditions in a much more dynamic way than we previously have.
What do you think will happen by 2050 if we continue on the track we're on in terms of conventional agriculture. Will it even be possible to grow the kind of vast monocultures that we currently grow?
Recently, I've been swayed by the thinking of Alan Nation, who runs a little journal for pasture-based livestock producers called The Stockman Grass Farmer. Alan says that there are economies of scale for large agriculture and large food-distribution systems, and another economy of scale for artisanal production that goes into local food systems. What's really at stake is that "agriculture-of-the-middle." We don't know which way it's going to go. We may still produce some grains on a large scale in 2050 and see them distributed extra-regionally; we still may see that the maple syrup production of Vermont is always sold outside of Vermont.
I don't think the issue has ever been "make agriculture 100-percent local." The issue is about capturing economies of scale, transparency, and traceability by increasing the quality and accessibility of foods that should be produced at a local scale and trying to improve the sustainability of the larger- and middle-scale agriculture as well. In other words, if "sustainability" - whatever that term means - is only something that small farmers care about, and we don't set standards for mid-scale and large-scale agriculture, assuming that it's just going to go away, then we're making a mistake.
I think much of the effort in innovation has been in smaller-scale agriculture to make it sustainable. Some of that may be the incubators for what is carried over to the bigger farms. At another level, some solutions to sustainability are scale-dependent. Rather than antagonizing mid-scale and large-scale agriculturalists, agricultural activists need to figure out a way to help them with problem-solving that needs to be done. I'm not endorsing large-scale feedlots or large-scale apple farms, but I'm also not so naïve to think that great agriculture is all going to be done on 50-acre farms.
But isn't there a point at which farms become too big, when they collapse under their own weight?
Yes, and that's what I mean by "economies of scale." With cereal grains, for instance, if the farm is too small you lose efficiency, both ecological and energetic. But if it's too big you also put it at risk, and part of that risk we've seen is for pests and diseases to evolve quicker than we can put resistance to those things into our crops. We're facing large-scale crop failures from Kenya to Ethiopia and into the Saudi Peninsula for wheat due to a rust epidemic because people planted just a few varieties over an enormously large scale.
My point is the same as yours - agriculture that is too big is already moving toward collapse; but it's also true that there is some optimal scale there for some kind of production, whether it's cereals or beans or something else. We shouldn't become so fundamentalist about local foods that we think they will fulfill all niches of the food system.
What I'd rather see is fair trade between regions for certain things. We think "fair trade" only applies to coffee; but we need to have fair trade apples, too. I'd like to see farmers in the Southeast swap their black-eyed peas and crowder beans with fishermen in the Pacific Northwest for their salmon.
One important point I'd like to make is that it's very important for food activists at every point of their lives to be food producers as well, on whatever scale. I don't think I could be a valid voice on these issues unless I "walked the taco," as we say in the Southwest. I'm spending this next weekend putting in an orchard of 25 fruit-tree varieties, plus crops like asparagus, rhubarb, and prickly pear. In a few more weeks I'll plant annual crops beneath those.
The point is that agricultural science and agricultural activism have become too distant from the needs of farmers and other food producers. The only way to heal the urban/rural divide that we have in this country is for more interplay, more inner-city people to be growing food on rooftops and patios, going out to work on farms during the weekend, and to have farmers in dialogue with consumers so that farmers understand why people want animal-welfare beef, or grassfed lamb, or free-range turkeys. We've broken that dialogue. Very few urban people regularly have access to knowing what farmers and ranchers are struggling with. There's been an unfortunate polarization that's happened as a result of movies like Fast Food Nation and Food, Inc. that make it sounds like consumers are the enemy of farmers and ranchers. We need those two groups in dialogue with each other rather than seeing more drift.
I'm working now with ranchers on something called "The Next Frontier." It's a coalition of farming and ranching groups in the West. We're trying to get farmers incentives for innovative stewardship practices, and for maintaining ecological services such as pollination, watershed health, and soil erosion control. With less than 1.5 percent of Americans self-identifying as farmers or ranchers, the food producers of this country will lose every policy battle in land use planning, in food safety, and other policy domains if they don't embrace dialogue with urban residents who care about the quality and health of their food.
I think more than ever before in American history, we need to heal that urban/rural divide and increase dialogue so that consumers and producers are working together toward the same goals. That means redoing our education system. Nearly every student that comes into state universities - with the exception of colleges like Warren Wilson, Berea, and Green Mountain - is told that if you want to be an educated person, you should not become a farmer. We basically educate people to get off the land instead of teaching them to be good stewards of the land.
Do you think we need more farmers?
I think we need a lot more farmers. We've broken the chain of orally transmitted traditional knowledge that's been passed down for 8,000 years among farmers. You can't learn to farm just from textbooks. Some of the mistakes I've made raising sheep are due to my not having access to my grandfather's knowledge of raising sheep. Had I had him teaching me, I probably wouldn't have made those mistakes.
How did you get interested in food as your life's work? Did that come from your Lebanese heritage?
I grew up in an extended clan of Lebanese immigrants on the Indiana dunes, on the shores of Lake Michigan about 35 miles outside Chicago. My grandfather was a fruit peddler, he had a fruit truck, and he would come home and tell us what the day had been like, whether people had bought more of one variety of plums over the other, whether they were buying bruised fruit or rejecting it, and he also exchanged fruit for fish with a bunch of Swedish fishermen along the shores of Lake Michigan.
He was adamant about the quality of fruit; he would talk about it to me when I was four-years old as if I were his business partner, saying "people just don't understand the quality of fruit anymore." I think there was this quality of food, much of it coming from only 30 miles away. That was a special thing. We seasonally moved from food to food because that was what made the year interesting.
When I went to school for college and lived in a city, I actually lost weight because I couldn't stomach the homogeneous food. Later, when I started working as an intern at the first Earth Day headquarters, then afterward began a career as an environmental scientist and activist, I was struck that food issues were not important to environmentalists. Environmental activists were more concerned about saving national parks and wilderness areas and stopping urban contamination and less about the quality of life on private lands. Fortunately, many of us started reading Aldo Leopold, who said to pay as much attention to conservation and biodiversity on private lands as you do on public lands. That really shaped my thinking.
What are some specific techniques in water harvesting and sustainable farming that you brought back from Lebanon?
I'll talk more broadly about the Middle East as a whole. They do multiple strata gardening and farming where they grow date palms and olive trees as an overstory crop, then grow more heat-sensitive fruits like apricots and peaches sheltered under that, and under that they'll grow onions, shallots, artichokes, rhubarb, and grapes and such. They often have a three- or four-tiered system on the same piece of land. In a high solar environment with a lot of heat it's very important to get the crops in the right temperature range for fruit to ripen, but it also makes very efficient use of water.
The second thing is that they use systems called ganads. These systems funnel either shallow artesian springs or catch water off slickrock and funnel them into community irrigation systems that are communally managed. Unlike the American West, it's not every man for himself trying to obtain the maximum amount of water, but is rather a community rationing of available rainfall and artesian springwaters. Some of these systems have lasted for 1,000 or even 1,400 years without salination or depletion or contamination.
Nearby, within 20 miles, you can see failed irrigation projects where international development groups have perforated the groundwater, salinized the soil, and ushered in saltwater incursion from the coast. These were multi-million dollar investments that went belly up within 20 years. Juxtapose those with the ganad systems that have been stable for 1,400 years.
On our land in southern Arizona, we're putting in an orchard of ancient desert fruits. My goal is to first increase the water-holding capacity and nutrient abundance of the soil by using terra preta, or biochar. I'm also adding pottery shards and mulch from nitrogen-fixing legume trees that naturally occur on the land, and then, like Joel Salatin says, "stacking" food resources in the same ecosystem so I'm doing a multi-strata orchard of desert-adapted foods that partition the sunlight and water rather than one crop like sugar cane sucking all the water and nutrients out of the soil. Some of the plants I've planted are there to regenerate and give back nutrients to make up for the nutrients I'm taking.
At a certain point I regret that, around 1982, we didn't go with the term regenerative agriculture but instead chose sustainable agriculture. The "S" word has become so hollow and distorted that it's allowed people to greenwash their business with it. Bob Rodale at the Rodale Institute, one of the godfathers of the organic movement, encouraged Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry and I to use the term regenerative agriculture, and I think he was right. That would have been a much better term by which to measure the success of our own stewardship practices.
Fred Bahnson is a Kellogg Food & Society fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and a contributing author for the Worldwatch Institute.Visit Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet blog to learn more about improving livelihoods through sustainable agriculture.
This article appeared in its original form on the Worldwatch blog Nourishing the Planet. For permission to republish this article, please contact Danielle Nierenberg at email@example.com.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Fabric Tuesday #46, bring it!
11 comments:
- Diary of a Flutter.Kat said...
Those are all very inspiring & gorgeous projects! I especially love the dolls quilt & bliss pillows.
- August 2, 2011 at 1:11 AM
- Jennifer said...
Wow, thanks so much for featuring my wonky star block!
- August 2, 2011 at 3:21 AM
- Dorian said...
Oh my goodness!! What a drive. Glad you all made it home safe and sound. Hope you get some rest today. Thanks for you linky Tuesdays, I enjoy them.
- August 2, 2011 at 5:27 AM
- Deanna said...
So sad I have nothing to share this week, but, no sewing. I'll just have to be inspired by others and hope for better things to come.
- August 2, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Jennifer @ Ellison Lane Quilts said...
Love Sarah and love her pillows (Cushions as she would say!)
- August 2, 2011 at 6:44 AM
- Connie said...
Everything looks beautiful! Great pillows and love the little doll quilt!
- August 2, 2011 at 7:03 AM
- LynCC said...
Whoa! That's a serious road trip! I've got three huge drives this month, but the kids are all older and very good roadies. Kudos to you for doing it with the preschoolers!!
Love the eye candy!
- August 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM
- Christie, Describe Happy said...
I'm excited I have a finish this week to share! Thanks for getting us all together!
- August 2, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- diane said...
I linked up for the first time and became a follower. Thanks, love your blog
- August 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Maureen Cracknell Handmade said...
Such pretty project, very inspiring!!!
- August 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Sarah @ FairyFace Designs said...
Thanks so much for featuring my pillows (cushions as we Irish would say, lol, thanks Jennifer!!) - thought I had commented already but it hasn't shown up!
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Question about high school
Was talking to a woman who says she walks in the highschool almost daily and I did not know you could. Then I heard there was an indoor track and a walk around the swimming pool. My kids attended there but it was over 30 years ago and I do not remember this. About 18 years ago I took swimming classes and I remember benches but do not remember anything above. Was an indoor track always there and something above the bleachers in the swimming pool or were these added??? I am truly confused and can anyone walk on the indoor track and when can they????? I attended a gun show in another town once and I remember an indoor track up high that we could walk around but it was on a day when there was no school and I enjoyed it. So do we have such things????
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The track there goes around the pool above on the next floor. It has windows to look down into the pool as you walk around. That level doesn't seem to have any function at the school so I believe it is always available.
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Unless they've moved it, the track goes around the Gym and is part of the configuration that allows indoor track meets if necessary. When I was there, a room off of the track was the weight room and that overlooked the pool.
I believe it's been there since the elementary school was originally built. As far as access, you should probably contact the school as security measures may have changed over time.
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The would-be family planning clinic bomber Paul Ross Evans was indicted today on a number of charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. He got most of the materials for his bomb at a local Wal-Mart and used his credit card for the purchase. It didn't take too much effort to solve the crime. He faces a potential sentence of life in prison. Apparently, he realized the seriousness of his little stunt while awaiting trial and he made a suicide attempt.
It might be interesting to readers to know that this event occurred in Austin Texas, the home town of the Atheist Experience. While Austin is a great place to live, we have our nuts, too.
The press has been eerily silent about the motivations of this guy. Anybody who pays the slightest bit of attention to the culture war knows that the only people who care about making trouble for family planning clinics are the hard-core Christian conservatives. I'll bet anyone that this guy had some religious indoctrination along the way. I wonder if he didn't get some of that faith-based programming while he was in prison earlier. I seriously doubt the mainstream media will look into the question, given their pro-religion bias. Believers certainly don't like to be confronted with the reality that belief (denying reality) has bad consequences. It's bad for newspaper sales.
The press has reported that the guy has no known affiliations to terrorist groups, but I think perhaps it's time we broaden the definition of terrorist groups to include some more of these religious extremists. It seems that there is some confusion about what kind of crime the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to go after. If this sort of bombing isn't an example of domestic terrorism, I don't know what is. Meanwhile, DHS is apparently charged with going after child predators, yet the leaders of the largest pedophile organization in modern history still flaunt the law, impede investigations, and roam free. Can anybody guess who they are? Perhaps it's time we stop giving religious believers a free ride in the morality department. After all, aren't they supposed to adhere to a higher standard?
Back to the Paul Ross Evans story, I can't help but point out the irony of "pro life" people trying to plot murders. "Pro life" seems to be little more than a marketing device. If you believe that human bodies are just soul traps, that souls are the essence of a person, and that it's the ultimate destiny of the soul to escape the trap, you're naturally going to de-value human life. Not surprisingly, countries with more believers also have more suicides and murders. …Oh, and higher abortion rates, too. (Too many ironies for one paragraph. That last point really calls for a separate post.) You can bet that Paul Ross Evans believes that humans have souls. He might even believe that he'll have a special place in Heaven because of his actions.
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At its core, all the hoopla about "global warming" can get boiled down to two single solutions in this country: we need to use less energy, of which driving less is a huge component. Drive less and we cut way down on pollution levels and the creation of so-called "greenhouse gases," while being able to give OPEC a much deserved boot in the rear end. That's because 70% of the oil we use on a daily basis in the U.S. goes to feed our transportation needs alone.
Now, here's the thing: most of the "driving reduction" we'll need to do must come from the non-freight side of the ledger. Our freight networks are vital linchpins to the economy, so they can't be touched by and large: and frankly, trucking's done it share and then some, with all the anti-idling laws, emission controls, and freight flow efficiency efforts being tackled today.
That's why Joe & Jane Commuter must now step up to the firing line, because they are the ones with the most predictable routes -- and they are the whole reason the term "rush hour" exists in the first place. There's no reason to drive solo anymore on these trips to and from the office -- it's highly inefficient and, frankly, we've got more than enough ingenuity available to address this issue. That's where "slugs" come in.
Let me explain: I've commuted from various points within the Northern Viriginia suburbs into Washington, D.C. and other locations most of my life -- even did it to go to high school -- by almost every mode available: walking, bicycling, bus, subway, commuter train and (yes) driving. Today, I telecommute by working from a home office, and while that's been the best option for me, out of all my experiences, many workers can't do it. That's why "slugging" may prove to be the most efficient and cheapest way to get to and from the office -- a local term that means "ride sharing" everywhere else in the U.S.
Here's how it works: you pull into a giant parking lot, park your car, and get in line. Drivers pull up and announce where they are going -- the Pentagon, 14th and Constitution, etc. -- and then several people climb in with them. This enables the driver to use High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes and scream into downtown in 30 minutes as opposed to an hour or more crawling along on the traffic-choked local roads and highways. I know, I know: violates the big rule mom always taught you ("Don't take rides from strangers") but it works, and works well.
I slugged for almost two years in the late 90s and it worked like a charm. I almost got stranded only once in all that time, whereas I suffered delays by subway and train every week -- and getting to PAY for those delays in the process, mind you. This isn't to say "slugging" is perfect, not by any means. But it's a far simpler solution than building miles of high-cost rail lines or adding more lanes -- with our tax dollars, I might add -- and it gets lots of cars off the road at peak times, just when you need to reduce traffic volumes.
"Slugging" also opens a window on the human experience -- a strange window at times (one I;ve wanted to nail shut more than once, I'll admit), but a good one, too. A veteran slug would always take aside a new face to gently explain the "rules" of slugging -- because, as a slug, you are the lowest form of commuting life. Slugs aren't allowed to initiate conversation with drivers, nor can they voice an opinion about the radio station/music selection/etc. Drivers don't ever make side trips, either, to drop you off at a gas station so you can pick up your car, for instance.
Yet these harsh rules obscure the gallantry among slugs and drivers. For example, a pregnant woman is always passed up to the front on the line and a woman is never allowed to be the last one in line, left alone, day or night -- a male slug must stay with her until she gets a ride, or, if stranded, accompany her to public transportation. Though only three riders are necessary to qualify for HOV status, many drivers filled up their cars as much as possible. One woman at the wheel of an airport transport van (God bless you wherever you are!) would always take 15 riders or more if needed. Many drivers that stayed at work late made it a practice to "sweep" pick-up points in the city at night after HOV restrctions were lifted, just to make sure no slugs were left stranded.
There is also, sadly, the downside to slugging. Like the Mercedes Benz driver who plunged along at 100 mph one day, while checking his email. Another used to turn the A/C on full blast for a minute, then off for 10, creating a horrible sauna/ice box ecosystem in her car that gave me a migraine. Some drivers dropped the F-bomb and other profanity without a second thought -- one did it while listening to evangelical preaching on the radio, if you can believe it (I rode with him twice -- yikes!). Slugs passed the word on such drivers, gradually "freezing" them out of riders.
Then there's just the plain strange. One driver of a grey Chevrolet Impala tried to enlist my aid in freeing the Aliens our government held at Hanger 18 out in Area 51. "We need to release them before their brethren invade our planet," he implored me. (I passed the word FAST on this guy).
Still, despite the ups and downs, slugging worked -- despite rain, snow, holidays, you name it, I always got a ride close to where I need to go while my commuting costs dropped to near zero. You can't beat that combination -- and it helped reduce emission levels, traffic volume, and energy consumption all in one fell swoop.


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I'm just thinking the nicknames the kid will get - in any school. Probably Hell-boy, among others.
Didn't the Church used to have bishops named Lucifer?
What would be really funny is if someone's last name was Iscariot and they named their kid Judas (another Christian name).
Aye - hence the connection with Hel, who was the Germanic equivalent of the Celtic Briga. The connection with the Grave was simply that when one died, one went to 'the bright place', 'Hel's dominion'. Hence - Hell, not as in the Dantesque place with sulfur and fires, but the Northwest European place of the dead (the bright land >across/under > the waves/the earth.)
It'd be funny because of the reaction that it'd get, because people get so hung up on names.
Wow, there is a Jude in the Bible? I didn't know that! And yet, while Jude isn't an uncommon name, I've yet to hear of someone called Judas, at least as the name that they use in public. Regarding name changes, I asked for the name changes because I didn't want to misrepresent myself, not because I suddenly took issue with the name changes. I have flirted with the idea of asking for another name change, because I don't want the current name to give the false impression that I'm Orthodox, but I figured that I've had enough changes. Though I only remember two name changes (slave of christ was never a user name, as far as I can remember; it was a log in name, which no one ever saw until people saw it in the tags section).
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I do not like the name Satan, or Hell and would find it very dificault to have to deal with someone with these names. But thats MY problerm.I must treat Mr.Smith the same as Mr. Hell.
Exactly. Unfortunately, I have the same trouble. I must learn to see all people through the eyes of Christ. Not easy when it seems I'm less like him each day.I thoroughly enjoyed your post. Lots of great thoughts there.
It really helps to at least superficially understand the particular cultural and linguistic connotations associated with a particular surname, in these instances. Off the top of my head, I can't remember the Slavonic word that is used to translate the Hebrew "Satan", but I'm sure it's not remotely related to the surname of hockey player Miroslav Šatan (again, I don't know what the etymology is of the surname Šatan but I'd bet my car that it has nothing to do with The Enemy).
This "controversay" reminds me of a letter I once read on EWTN's site to one of the priests who ran one of the Q&A forums about whether or not the writer should avoid people with goatees because The Enemy is usually depicted wearing one.
(Indians and other very black skinned "non" African peoples fair out much better than people who may even be lighter in skin color but are of African heritage).
If it would not offend you, I think I want to roll my eyes over that one.... or maybe get a 'logo-shaped dent' in my forehead from thumping it on my keyboard. Good gravy!Ebor
It's a very Human thing unfortunately to put down those who are not like oneself.
Very true. We must learn, though, that no one is not like oneself, for we are all the image and likeness of God. I speak first to myself, here--this is something I am still learning.
I've imagined that Lucifer ("Light-bearer") is a name like that of Tolkien's Melkor. In Quenya it means "He Who Arises in Might," but he later received the name Morgoth, which means "Dark Enemy" in Sindarin. Satan means "Adversary." So the original name is not necessarily bad.
I imagine that was exactly what Tolkien had in mind when he created Morgoth. Keep in mind, though, that Tolkien never wrote in allegory--he hated it
Do you know about how different tribes of Native Americans have been treated? Or some of the history of life on some of the Reservations? The "Trail of Tears", "Wounded Knee" or the "Baker/Marias Massacre"? There's plenty of unfair and cruel treatment to go around when there is any kind of group that is different in some way from another. It's a very Human thing unfortunately to put down those who are not like oneself. A link to information on the "Baker/Marias Massacre" http://www.dickshovel.com/parts.htmlEbor
Last night I was watching J.J. Putz pitch in the All-Star Game. Can you imagine having a surname like that in middle school?
It is a Godless and cruel nature that harbors frustration and intolorence for others just because they have a name like "Hell" or "Hitler" or any other label such as being a "black person" or "white person". If this describes what you call "humans" than you have put a real point to task which I would like to entertain slightly.....
Humans are the most fragile living element on earth (a little too cold or little to hot...bang! dead).
So to me saying "we are only human" is not a reason at all.
Being Human is know excuse for sin and Godlessness.
The name "Hell" is not the problem at all.
George said: Strange (and ironic) coming from someone who has changed his user name three times on this forum. Justin said: ...I only remember two name changes...
There is actually a St. Lucifer : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucifer
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The New York Times ran an article last week on Ethan Nicholas, the guy who built iShoot, an app that has generated $800,000 in sales in five months. Take a look at how his sales progressed:
After the project was finished, Mr. Nicholas sent it to Apple for approval, quickly granted, and iShoot was released into the online Apple store on Oct. 19.
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The second day, his portion of the day's sales was about $2,000.
On the third day, the figure slid down to $50, where it hovered for the next several weeks. That's nothing to sneeze at, but I wondered if we could do better, Mr. Nicholas said.
In January, he released a free version of the game with fewer features, hoping to spark sales of the paid version. It worked: iShoot Lite has been downloaded more than 2 million times, and many people have upgraded to the paid version, which now costs $2.99. On its peak day " Jan. 11 " iShoot sold nearly 17,000 copies, which meant a $35,000 day's take for Mr. Nicholas.
Obviously, this is an extreme example of what can happen financially for app developers, but I do think that some comparisons can be made to musicians looking to generate interest in their music online. My friend John Snyder, who runs Artists House Music, once told me the curse of the developing artist is anonymity, not piracy. I do believe that some form of free makes sense for most artists; be it a download card distributed at live shows, select music available for free on your site (perhaps in exchange for an email address), live shows for download, etc.
Traditional one-size-fits-all physical retailers are failing " Virgin, Transworld, and Borders have all either closed up shop in the US, drastically cut back on music floor space, or are taking massive financial hits. I think a large part of the future of sales in the music business is online direct to fan relationships (with supporting offline components), where artists cultivate more extensive relationships with their fans, and in the process more effectively monetize traditional and non-traditional sales options. I think some part of free works to engage your existing fanbase, as well as turn casual fans into hard-core supporters.
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Stephen Waxman exemplifies the bridge between basic research and clinical medicine. He is the Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology at Yale University. He served as Chairman of Neurology at Yale from 1986 until 2009. He founded and is Director of the Neuroscience & Regeneration Research Center at Yale. He also holds an appointment as Visiting Professor at University College London. Prior to moving to Yale, Dr. Waxman worked at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
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Dr. Waxman's research has defined the ion channel architecture of nerve fibers, and demonstrated its importance for axonal conduction (Science, 1985). He demonstrated increased expression of sodium channels in demyelinated axons (Science, 1982), identified the channel isoforms responsible for this remarkable neuronal plasticity which supports remission in multiple sclerosis (PNAS, 2004), and delineated the roles of sodium channels in axonal degeneration (PNAS, 1993). He has made pivotal discoveries that explain pain after nerve injury. Most recently, in translational leaps from laboratory to humans, he carried out molecule-to-man studies combining molecular genetics, molecular biology, and biophysics to demonstrate the contribution of ion channels to human pain (Trends in Molec.Med, 2005; PNAS, 2006), led an international coalition that identified sodium channel mutations as causes of peripheral neuropathy (PNAS, 2012) and has used atomic-level modeling to advance pharmacogenomics (Nature Comm., 2012). A new class of pain medications without central side-effects or addictive potential, based on his work, is currently in clinical trials.
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W.I. McDonald Award, British Multiple Sclerosis Society (2009)
William S Middleton Award (highest scientific honor of the Dept of Veterans Affairs, presented at Ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol). (2009)
Annual Review Prize, The Physiological Society (Premier Award of the Society previous awardees include J.C. Eccles, A.F. Huxley, A.L. Hodgkin) (2009)
Honorary Member, Association of British Neurologists (2005)
Reingold Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (2004)
Dystel Prize for Research on Multiple Sclerosis, awarded jointly by the American Academy of Neurology and the Natl MS Society (2000)
Wartenberg Award, American Academy of Neurology (1999)
Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of Neurology, London (1999)
Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1996)
Listed in The Best Doctors in America (1994)
Member, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (1993)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Albert Einstein College of MedicineAlbert Einstein Coll. of Med. (1991)
Fellow, Royal Society of MedicineRoyal Society of Medicine, London (1991)
Established Investigator, National Multiple Sclerosis Society National MS Society (1987)
Research Career Development Award, NINCDS NIH (1976)
Trygve Tuve Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Biomedical Sciences, NIH NIH (1973)
PROPANE Neuropathy Genomics Project Italy (2012)
We are the molecular neurobiology/functional genomics arm of an international project, funded by the EU, examining the genetic basis and molecular pathophysiology of painful peripheral neuropathies.
CRS Injury and Repair London, United Kingdom (2008)
International Health Yale School of Medicine Yale-London collaboration in CNS injury and repair. This is a formal collaboration established by Dr. Waxman involving research on injured nervous system which takes the form of an exchange of trainees and faculty.
International Pain Genomics Consortium Netherlands (2008)
Our laboratory is the hub for studies on rare families, from throughout the world, with mutations of ion channels that produce a pain phenotype. We have major collaborations with University of Radboud, Netherlands; University of Maastrich, Netherlands; and Beijing University
Editor, Journal of Physiology United Kingdom (2005 - 2012)
Editor, Journal of Physiology
Visiting Professor of Anatomy, Biology, and Clinical Neurology, University College London (1998)
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Oh to be young and stupid and the owner of a brand new Ford Mustang GT. This young swiss man experienced the full force of his 5.0-liter pony car when he accidentally drove his off the third floor of a Swiss parking garage.
Exactly how this happened is unclear, but how he managed to survive such a fall is a little more obvious. See the rack of motorcycles and mopeds? A wonderful way to break your fall. More photos on BangShift, Autoholics and Mustang Evolution if you can stand them.


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We pitched Derrick and Matan. They were polite and attentive during the meeting. I received a follow within two days from Matan expressing gratitude for coming in but they were going to pass which he then explained why. All points were reasonable. A few weeks later Matan sent me an email containing some information he thought would be helpful, which it was. Derrick also followed up with me afterwards. While it is disappointing they did not invest, I would definitely suggest giving them a try if you are in the cleantech space.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Making Marriage Magnify the Mystery
Today's message is a continuation of Pastor Keith's series entitled Offensive Christianity.
"A Christian husband and wife… who have a willingness to walk the way forward by recognizing the worth of each other, and by using their words to help and heal, will be a weighty witness of the Gospel, helping to win the lost to Christ's love."
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- Resurrection's Transformation
- Pro-Life Christian, Pro-Death Culture
- The Communion of Poverty & Prosperity
- The Offensive Gospel
- Purchasing the Potter's Field
- Busied by the Father's Business
- Resurrection's Rewards
- Shining Life into Death's Darkness
- Prosecuting the Pro-Death Culture
- Judgment & Justice Junction
- This Day & That Day
- The Offended Christian
- The Dichotomy of Poverty & Prosperity
- Resurrection's Transportation
- Resurrection's Triumph
- Resurrection's Therefore
- Contending for the Faith
- How To Be A Godly Husband
- Sexuality: Sweep Ya Porch Before Ya Preach!
- Stern Rebuke of the Sexual Revolution
- Deadly Desire vs Delightful Design
- Making Marriage Magnify the Mystery
- The Duties of a Godly Wife
- From Slave to Son
- Don't Be A Demas!
- Moving Forward, Not Sliding Back
- God's Glory Is Our Story
- Casting the Vision
- Common Ground
- You Can Run But You Can't Hide!
- Come To The Well
- Well Diggers
- Well Diggers, part 2
- Who's Building Your House?
- The Promises of Pain
- God's Manifold Grace
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Veterans Affairs
Contact InformationEric Farina, Director of Veteran's Affairs
Roosevelt Hall, Room 109
Office for Veteran's Services
The office of Veterans Services will help the applicant navigate the admissions, registration and financial aid process. This office, located in Roosevelt Hall room 109, is the primary point of contact for all veteran and reservist applicants interested in attending Farmingdale State College.
The veterans club meets on Tuesdays during the fall and spring semesters in the Veterans lounge. Feel free to access the Veterans club facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/FarmingdaleVeteransClub?fref=ts
As a Veterans and Military friendly school, Farmingdale State College takes pride in its compliance with President Obama's Principles of Excellence as outlined in Executive Order 13607.
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Step 1. Apply Now to Farmingdale State College and follow the instructions. You will need to pay a non-refundable $50 application fee. You will need to provide direct deposit information at the time of application. For any admissions related questions contact firstname.lastname@example.com Immediately after you submit your SUNY application, apply for GI Bill benefits at VONAPP (online veterans Application).
In several weeks you will receive a Certificate of Eligibility from the VA stating what percentage of benefits to which you are entitled.
Step 2. All veterans should apply for Financial Aid . If you apply for FAFSA you may get more aid than you think. However, this could take up to eight weeks so apply as soon as possible.
Step 3. All veterans go to Student Accounts well before the payment deadline and let them know what percentage of benefits you are entitled to. Student Accounts is located in Laffin Hall room 226. If you get less than 100% of GI Bill benefits and you are an OIF/OEF vet, you can fill in the gap for tuition with the NY state VTA. They will not pay the BAH difference though.
Step 4. After acceptance to the school bring your VA Certificate of Eligibility, which authorizes you to receive benefits, to the Registrar's office Certifying Official. Then fill out a Blue card with the classes you want to take and submit it to the Registrar.
Step 4A. If you are a transfer student who previously used the GI Bill, log onto www.vets.gov and fill out a VA form 22-1995.
Step 5. The first time recipient should receive their benefits in six to eight weeks. Continuing students should receive their benefits within a week to ten days from certification. You must take 12 credits or more to receive your full benefits, including tuition, fees and your housing allowance.
Veterans of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps may obtain their military transcripts through the Joint Service Transcripts from the Department of Defense at Jst.doded.mil/smart/signin.do. Air Force veterans must contact the Community College of the Air Force(CCAF) at Maxwell AFB, Alabama
If you are a vet of OIF/OEF you are entitled to the NY State Veterans Tuition Award (VTA). The VTA will cover 98% of your tuition only (Not BAH Payments) for 4 yrs of undergrad and 3 yrs of grad school. Visit the Veterans Tuition Awards page for more information. You must be in a matriculating program though. The GI Bill will pick up the other 2% of tuition as well as fees+book stipend+BAH. If you are not an overseas vet, the VA urges you to apply for Financial Aid.
Furthermore, visit the VA's vocational rehabilitation program site. It is designed to help veterans with service-connected disabilities become employed, maintain employment or achieve independence in daily living.
If you are a member in good standing of the reserve components of the Marines, Navy or Coast Guard, you will be eligible for state aid for tuition through the NY State Naval Militia. You will also be able to utilize CHAPTER 1606 of the GO Bill simultaneously. For more information call the veterans office or go to http://dmna.ny.gov/nynm/?id=education
Members of the New York Army and Air National Guard are entitled to the same benefits under the Recruit Incentive Retention Program (RIRP). Follow the link to get more information. http://dmna.ny.gov/education/?page=rirp
If you are in the reserves or National Guard and are called to active duty, in order to incur no financial liability, you must do the following, if the mobilization occurs after the first week of classes.
Obtain a Semester course withdrawal form from the Registrar's office and give it to your curriculum advisor for signature if you are matriculated in a program in addition to a Course withdrawal form for EACH course for which you are registered. Return these two completed forms to the Certifying Official in the located in the Registrar's Office in Laffin 225 along with a copy of your Mobilization orders.
If you are absent for only one semester no official notice is required upon your return. If you are absent for more than one semester you must apply for readmission. Please contact admissions at 631-420-2200 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Intent to enroll fee waived
- Vehicle parking fee waived
- Orientation fee waived
- Housing deposit waived
- Fitness center fee waived
- Priority room reservation
- Health and wellness center free (except for lab tests)
We are committed to helping our nation's veterans receive the benefits they have earned through their service.
- Financial Aid: Laurie Lundberg, email@example.com, 631-420-2578
- Career Development Center: Dolores Ciaccio, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Disability Services: Malka Edelman, email@example.com
- Admission liaison : Ryan Neary, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Student Success Center: Marguerite D'Aloisio, firstname.lastname@example.com, 631-420–2480
- The Tutoring Center: Ruth Sarianis, email@example.com, 631-420-2066
- On-Campus Housing: Amanda Cataldo, email@example.com, 631-420-2010
- Dean of Students: firstname.lastname@example.com
- EOC (Educational Opportunity Center): Dave Groden, firstname.lastname@example.com, 631-420-2502
Buffalo VA Regional Office (mailing address for filing GI Bill Claims)
130 South Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo NY 14202
Tel: 1-888-442-4551
New York State Division of Veterans Affairs
Bureau of Veterans Education
5 Empire State Plaza, 28th floor
Albany, NY 12223-1551
Tel: 518-474-7606
Nassau County Veterans Service Agency
1425 Old Country Rd, Building H
Plainview, NY 11803
Tel: 516-572-8452
Suffolk County Veterans Service Agency
H. Lee Dennison Executive Office Building
100 Veterans Memorial Highway
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Tel: 631-853-VETS
- GI Bill - www.gibill.va.gov
- NYS Division of Veteran's Affairs - http://veterans.ny.gov/
- www.va.gov - Information regarding VA Health Care System or you can call toll free at (877) 222-VETS
- www.oefoif.va.gov - Information for returning service members
- www.military.com - Translating your military skills is critical to get the job you want. Convert your resume into "civilian" language.
- www.AccreditedOnlinecolleges.org - AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.
The Soldiers Project is a community based FREE and CONFIDENTIAL mental health service providing personalized care to veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq and their families. To receive a consultation call 516-284-7531 or e-mail them at firstname.lastname@example.com
To fill in the gaps that might exist in the area of social services for veterans and families, the United Veterans Beacon House http://www.uvbh.com/ and Suffolk County United Veterans http://www.scuv.org/ provide a host of services on a personal level.
As a partner with veterans in the Long Island region, Northwell Health Care system
is offering a link to veterans with the NS-LIJ community of hospitals in all aspects
of employment. Opportunities range from Health care to security to personnel to IT
specialties. They now have an email address where interested veterans can send their
resumes directly. The address is: email@example.com. This is for veterans only!
Her contact info is:
North Shore-LIJ
1991 Marcus Ave, Suite 310
Lake Success, NY 11042
PSEG Long Island values the work ethics and technical skills learned through your military experience. We want you to consider a rewarding career with PSEG Long Island. Please visit us at our website www.pseg.com/careers and be sure to search jobs by key word PSEGLI. Discover the broad range of opportunities available to you here at PSEG Long Island—and here in a state that is a great place to work, live and play. Your point of contact is Heidi Brown Training and Staff Support Clerk. PSEG is proud to be an EEO/AA employer, including race, gender, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
The goal of the Mesothelioma Veterans Center is to reach veterans and their families who have been affected by mesothelioma in the military and connect them to their website which offers free veteran specific resources and support. 1/3 of all mesothelioma patients are veterans. The reason this cancer targets so many veterans is because of the prevalence of asbestos use in the military in the past. They are trying to spread awareness to veterans and their families.
The Recovery Village
Recovery Village, an organization with locations across the country, dedicated to helping those struggling with substance abuse into recovery.
Eric Farina, Director of Veteran's Affairs
Roosevelt Hall, Room 109
Eric Farina is the Director of Veteran's Services at Farmingdale State College. His office is in Roosevelt Hall room 109. Eric was a public school teacher for eight years in Atlanta before returning to Long Island. He has taught as an adjunct professor in history at Suffolk Community College's Ammerman campus in Selden. He holds a BA in history from Long Island University and an MA in military history from American Public University. He has a total of thirteen years military service in all components of the US Army: Active, Reserve, National Guard and The Active Guard-Reserve program. In his current position he serves as an infantry squad leader in Bravo company, 69th Infantry.


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Former teammates competed on the track. Others were throwing the shot put for the first time since high school graduation. Last year, Blue Knight track coach Matt Shea decided to gather some of his old teammates to compete on the high school track as a sort of make-shift alumni track meet.
They had a cook-out. They shared some laughs as former jumpers tried to sprint and distance runners tried to throw. They raised some money to donate to the high school teams, and they had a little fun.
It was so much fun that Shea decided to grow the event in 2013. He's expanded the number of events. He's opened up the competition, and he's increased the number of competitions. For most track and field athletes, competition ends at graduation. Sure, distance runners have road races, but how about the rest?
Shea said that the 2013 Southington Alumni Track & Field Meet Series might be just what the doctor ordered.
"I see all these people running 5K and 10K events, but I was a sprinter in high school. There weren't any events for those people that still like to train but don't like to do those longer events," he said. "This state has a lot of people that have done track, and I'm sure that some of them still want to see how well they can do. Can they still run the times that they used to? Do they want to know their times in the 100m or their distance in the javelin? It's a cool event, and it's something that I always wanted to run."
The series will include three different competitions on Sunday, July 21, Thursday, Aug. 1, and Tuesday, Aug. 13. All three meets will be held on the Southington High School complex with check-in at 5:30 p.m. for the weekday meets and at 9:30 a.m. for the Sunday competition.
"We're trying to make it kid-friendly so you can come down here with your family to see mom or dad run," said Shea. "We're trying to make it a nice all-day event for everybody. We'll have the concessions set up. We'll have food and drinks. We'll have electronic timing, and we'll be donating the profits to the high school track teams."
Pre-registration is already underway with forms available at the high school's athletic website (www.SouthingtonSports.com). Pre-registration is $10. On-site registration is $15, and pre-registration for multiple meets has an additional discount.
Entrants are able to compete in three open events and one relay. Track events will include the 4×800 relay, the 50m dash, the 50m hurdles, the 1600m, 100m, 200m, 800m, 400m, 3200m, and the 4x100m relay. The field events will include the long jump, high jump, discus, and shot put.
Relays will be open to mens teams, womens teams, and coed squads. Shea is considering other events at the final meet if there's an interest. He's considering things like team field events, medley relays, or unique relays.
"We'll have some college athletes running, but we're hoping to get some of the recreational crowd as well," said Shea. "We're going to do everything except the pole vault, so we're hoping to attract those guys that used to throw in high school or college. Maybe they're even stronger than they were in high school, so they want to try throwing for the first time. Maybe they just want to do it again or show their kids. We're trying to structure this thing as a fun event. It's a new way to have some fun and compete."
Last year's competition was marketed just to Southington High School alumni, but Shea has opened the meet to anyone who's interested in competing. It's a chance to compete on a state-of-the-art facility in Southington's brand new turf complex, and he hopes to create an annual event for the community which will benefit the high school teams.
"We're really looking to expand this thing, so we're going to open it up to anybody that wants to compete," he said. "We want to get as many people as possible to support our program and have some fun. We'd love to see a rival that we used to compete against in high school, a former high school athlete, or someone who wants to compete."


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With the Stanley Cup finals kicking off Wednesday, here is your primer for the Los Angeles Kings vs. the New Jersey Devils broken down in 10 easy steps.
10. Flare for the dramatics
Both the Kings and the Devils advanced to the finals in dramatic fashion. The Devils put away their rival New York Rangers in overtime of Game 6 after blowing a 2-0 lead and being dominated the later part of the game when rookie Adam Henrique stuffed home a rebound.
The Kings put away the Phoenix Coyotes in five games when Dustin Penner put a shot past Mike Smith seconds after Dustin Brown's hit on Michal Rozsival in overtime to send the Kings to the finals for the first time since 1993.
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Penner's goal:
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9. Unlikely finals
The Kings, the Western Conference's eighth seed, just made the playoffs after struggling in the regular season. Their offense was anemic and rode the back of goaltender Jonathan Quick's breakout season. In the first round, the Kings disposed of the No. 1 seed Vancouver Canucks in dominating fashion in just five games. In the second round, they swept another regular-season juggernaut in the St. Louis Blues before putting down the Coyotes in the Western Conference finals. For the Kings, their offense came alive at the right time as their top-six forwards finally clicked in the postseason to combine with Quick's stellar goaltending.
The Devils, another unlikely finalist, came in as the No. 6 seed and beat the pesky Florida Panthers in seven games in the first round. A disciplined Devils team frustrated the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round sending home the East's fifth seed ,who dominated the star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round, in five games. In the Eastern Conference finals, the Devils upset the East's No. 1 seed in the rival New York Rangers. Eighteen years ago the Rangers beat the Devils in dramatic fashion in the Eastern finals en route to advancing and winning the Stanley Cup in 1994. This time, the Devils were able to beat the Rangers in six and advance to the finals. The Devils fourth line was dominant that series and the Rangers goal-scoring woes continued.
8. Martin Brodeur's legacy
Martin Brodeur has done it all and won it all. Brodeur is the NHL's all-time leader in regular season wins and has won three Stanley Cups ( all with the Devils) and two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada. He is also a four-time winner of the Vezina Trophy for league's best goalie.
7. American made
The Kings are captained by American Dustin Brown (a native of upstate New York) , who may serve as Team USA's captain in the next Olympics. Brown is everything you'd want in a captain. The gritty forward leads by example with his huge hits and timely goals. He was rumored to be on the trading block as the Kings stumbled into the postseason, but Brown has elevated his game in the playoffs with 16 points off seven goals and nine assists, three of those tallies being game winners.
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Team USA may also look to the Kings' net for the future as American Jonathan Quick leads the playoffs in wins (13), save percentage (.946) and goals-against average (1.54) after having a statistically similar brilliant regular season.
6. Deal with the Devil
Sniper Ilya Kovalchuk was traded from the then-Atlanta Thrashers to the Devils in 2010. In the offseason, he signed a monster 15-year, $100 million deal that will keep him in Newark forever. The length of the deal broke the record for the longest contract in NHL history, and was criticized for circumventing the league's salary cap. Kovalchuk has delivered for New Jersey by leading the postseason in scoring with 18 points off seven goals and 11 assists.
5. Hottest ticket in town
With the Lakers out of the NBA playoffs, the Kings are the "in" thing to do in L.A. again. Not since Wayne Gretzky put Los Angeles on the hockey map, and the entire Sun Belt region of the United States, has L.A. been so hockey crazy. Celeb sightings have gone up as Tom Hanks, Kobe Bryant, Steven Tyler, Steve Carell , Justin Bieber, Kristen Bell, Will Ferrell , David Beckham and many more have been sighted at the Staples Center for the playoffs.
4. L.A. story
Mike Richards and Jeff Carter were the Flyers biggest stars when they were both traded in separate deals last summer as part of Philly's revamp. Rumored to be dealt for their off-ice partying, they were still fan favorites in Philly and proven playoff performers. Richards, who was the Flyers captain, is one of the best two-way forwards in the game and struggled at first when he was traded to the Kings.
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Carter was dealt twice this season; first to Columbus and then to Los Angeles. Carter too had a slow start, but both ex-Flyers are a big reason the Kings are in the finals. Carter is looking like the goal-scorer L.A. so desperately needed when trading for him. Richards ,who plays a similar style to Kings captain Dustin Brown, has been a force this playoffs and was an absolute beast in the series against the Canucks.
3. Cup legacy
The New Jersey Devils have won the Cup three times (1995, 2000 and 2003). The Los Angeles Kings have never won the Stanley Cup.
2. Playoff MVPs
The Conn Smythe trophy is given for the playoff MVP. Early candidates are Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick for Los Angeles, while Ilya Kovachuk and captain Zach Parise are favorites for New Jersey.
1. Who will win?
You'd have to think one of these team's dream season will come crashing down to earth sometime, right? The Kings have lost just twice the entire playoffs, while the Devils pulled off upsets of Philadelphia and New York to get to the big show. Will luck run out for the Devils or Kings? Or maybe it really isn't luck and the Kings are for real and the Devils deserve their role representing the Eastern Conference.
Both teams are riding huge waves of momentum. The Devils put out four solid lines on offense, a decent defense and a legend in net. The Kings are deep on defense, have the game's best young goalie in net and have a group of top-six forwards who are on fire. In the end, the Kings won't be stopped. Expect Los Angeles to win its first Stanley Cup by beating New Jersey in five games.


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VMware has decided to spin-out the Continuent software offering (VMware Continuent for Clustering and an open source-based VMware Continuent for Replication) into an independent company, Continuent. Continuent will continue to offer support for existing customers and continue to invest in additional technology offerings.
As part of our refocused cloud strategy, VMware is no longer pursuing a database-as-a-service offering for vCloud Air. VMware will focus its vCloud Air efforts, as a component of VMware's overall cloud strategy, on the targeted use-cases (data center extension, data center replacement and disaster recovery) that make vCloud Air appealing.
VMware is committed to making sure this transition is smooth and existing Continuent customers are not negatively impacted.