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DUELING REVIEWS: Hard Truths by Alex Whitehall
Author: Alex Whitehall
Book: Hard Truths
Page/Word Count: 248, 65K words
Categories: Gay Romance, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Cover Artist: L.C. Chase
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He can't have the family he wants, but he may get the love he deserves….
Isaac didn't expect to find love at his family's Christmas dinner, but that was before he met his sister's new fake boyfriend. Tall, muscular, and tattooed, Logan is what Isaac would love in a partner — and also everything his parents would hate in one. Not that they know Isaac's gay.
That doesn't stop him from dating Logan — unbeknownst to his parents, and with his sister's approval after she fake dumps him. The pair dive into a whirlwind romance of motorcycle rides, cheesy puns, and hot sex. They meet each other's friends and fill their time with happiness and laughter. It's all perfect.
Until Isaac suggests they move in together, and Logan asks Isaac to come out to his parents. Isaac wants to, but he's scared; he doesn't want to lose his family. Unfortunately, he can't see that his real family has been right beside him all along.
4✨s – Alex Whitehall is a new-to-me author and I was impressed with this story. I love a book that challenges me to think past my own preconceived notions of how characters "ought" to act. With a character driven plot, the protagonists become authentic, demonstrating human foibles and frailties. The opening of the story sets the background when Logan poses as Sue's boyfriend at Christmas with her and Issac's family. The parents are stereotypes, the mother nagging her children for grandchildren, obsequiously following and defending the father. He's nearly a caricature of a working-class man's man, narrow-minded, homophobic and bigoted. Yet Isaac is still fearful of losing them and their parental love, to the point of suppressing his opinions and hiding his sexuality. Dating Alex eventually forces the issue with rather disastrous results.
The story is entirely in Isaac's POV but Logan's characterization came through well, as did those of Isaac's friends. Logan's circle of friends are less defined but Isaac's reactions to them offer insight to the insecurities behind his later thoughts and actions. With Logan and his friends Isaac comes across as the funny guy, spouting cheesy puns and appearing quite easy going. In his thoughts, he's rather distrustful, almost paranoid about the true feelings and intentions of people around him. Logan is more empathetic in many ways but how he handled Isaac's later fears of coming out gave a bad impression. There is a crisis of misunderstandings that I don't always enjoy seeing but in this case, it resonates because the characters and circumstances warrant it. The romantic element is not overtaken by drama though and they are a strongly connected couple. All the best parts of a developing relationship get more than enough page time, offer good feelings and sexy scenes are balanced well.
I had to keep perspective when my knee-jerk reaction to Logan and Isaac's responses to conflicts was to dislike them or be angry. It would have been easy to dismiss them and the plot as simply unlikable but then I considered earlier revelations and recognized bits of myself and my own life. Isaac's doubts and misgivings appeared kind of justifiable in light of his family. Living with fear for so long that people supposed to love you can't be trusted for support, how confident are you going to be about anyone? Isaac and Logan behave realistically, humanly, not idealized or sanitized to wrap things up with an easy fix. The efforts put into mending differences made the happy ending more believable. While it really isn't a heavy read, it's not one to take too lightly either, in my opinion. I'm quite pleased to recommend this one. #NetGalley #HardTruths
4✨s – This is my first read from Alex Whitehall and I will absolutely be coming back for more. Hard Truths introduces us to Isaac, a gay man who is not out to his parents, and Logan, the man who showed up as Isaac's sister's fake boyfriend for Christmas at their parents. Even more unexpected than Logan's arrival is the spark and connection that is instant for both men. Upon meeting up once back home, the two men grow closer quickly and have more in common than initially believed. However, Isaac's secret from his parents starts to come between them as their relationship progresses. I really enjoyed this story about Isaac and Logan. Both MC's draw us in, have their own insecurities but have worked to become strong, independent men. The physical descriptions definitely enhance the enjoyment as you imagine these two men coming together. Whilst there are many serious moments for the two men and with the people around them, they know how to laugh together as well, bringing a smile to your face as you're reading their story. The thing coming between the two is a struggle for Isaac as to him, family is blood and he doesn't want to lose his parents when he comes out to them. Maybe he needs to learn that you can choose you're family in those around you. We have quite a few different secondary characters enhancing the story and helping our MC in growing and moving forward, though not all are good experiences. Isaac's sister plays a vital role in his life and is very important to the story and the guy's relationship, there for Isaac when he needs her most. The pacing of the story works really well. We don't spend time on every single moment of the blossoming relationship but take time at the important ones. Alex's writing draws you into Isaac's life and carries you right along with him as he's experiencing this relationship with Logan and every bump along the way. I definitely recommend this book. Not necessarily a coming of age book as the men are slightly older but coming out to parents is a big deal and Isaac's is one he won't ever forget. I received an ARC from NetGalley and am happily giving a review.
About Alex Whitehall:
If there are two types of people in the world, Alex Whitehall probably isn't one of them, despite being a person. Their favorite pastimes include reading, horseback riding, sleeping, watching geek-tastic television, knitting, eating, and running. And wasting time on the internet. And spending glorious evenings laughing with friends.
While Alex prefers sleeping over doing anything else (except maybe eating), sometimes they emerge from the cave to be social and to hunt for food at the local market. They can be found blogging, reading, and tending after their aloe plants.
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Brown Rice Recipe Dishes That are Delectable and Mouth-watering
Brown rice is very healthy. That is why many health conscious people are using it instead of the normal polished rice. This article gives you a few recipes that are delectable and mouth-watering.
Anju Shandilya
Last Updated: Jul 14, 2017
Brown Rice with Pecans
- Brown rice, 3 cups
- Beef broth, 2 cups
- Worcestershire sauce, 1 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil, 1 tbsp.
- Celery, 4 ribs (chopped)
- Onion, 1 (chopped)
- Green onion, 2 (chopped)
- Pecans, 2 cups (toasted)
- Water, 6 cups
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Mix the broth, Worcestershire sauce, and water to obtain six cups of liquid. Boil this liquid in a large pot add the rice. Cover the pot and cook for about 40 minutes till the rice is tender.
- In a large skillet, heat the oil and add the celery and onions. Cook till the onions turn golden brown in color.
- Add the pecans and toss the skillet until the mixture is evenly mixed.
- When the rice cooks completely, add the onions, pecans and celery mixture to it and mix well along with the salt and pepper as per taste.
- Butter or margarine can also be added for additional taste.
- Serve hot!
Brown Rice with Mushrooms
- Brown rice, 1 cup
- Fresh mushrooms, 16 oz. (sliced)
- Almonds, 1 cup (slivered and blanched)
- Butter, 3 tbsp.
- Pimento, ½ cup (chopped)
- Water, 3 cups
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Melt the butter in a medium-sized saucepan. Sauté the mushrooms and the almonds until they turn golden brown in color.
- Add all the remaining ingredients and cover the pan. Reduce the heat after the water starts boiling and simmer for 45 minutes until the rice is tender.
Brown Rice with Creamy Chicken
- Brown rice, 1 cup (per can of soup)
- Chicken tenders, 3 (per person)
- Cream of mushroom soup, 1 can (for 3 people)
- Mrs. Grass Onion Soup Mix, 1 (per each can of soup)
- Broccoli florets, as desired
- Olive oil, 1 tbsp.
- Whole thyme, 1 tbsp. (crushed)
- Red pepper, 1 (diced)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Empty the can of soup in to a measuring mug and add the water so that it equals two and a half cups.
- Heat the oil in a saucepan and add the rice until it starts to crackle. Ensure that it does not turn brown.
- Mix all the soups with the required water. Add any herbs or seasonings as per your taste.
- Mix all the ingredients except the rice and in a crock pot and cook on a high flame for 5 hours. Add the vegetables during the last half hour.
Brown Rice with Creamy Chicken
- Brown rice, ½ cup
- Dried cranberries, ⅓ cup
- Sugar, ¼ cup
- Light coconut milk, 1 can
- Nonfat milk, 1 cup
- Liquid egg substitute, ½ cup
- Almond extract, 1 tsp.
- Sliced bananas, 2
- Spray a slow cooker stoneware with a nonstick cooking spray.
- In a medium-sized crock pot stir the brown rice, cranberries, and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the coconut milk, nonfat milk, along with the egg substitute and almond extract.
- Pour the rice mixture over this and cook for four to five hours.
- Serve with sliced bananas. This pudding will serve 6 people.

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There are different types of thought, not all of which fit easily with a notion of inner speech and which relate to internalised speech in different ways.The other day on the plane I thought:"That attractive woman opposite me is picking at the bobbling on her jumper; I often do that; she looks quite style conscious, perhaps she knows if picking the bobbling off will improve or spoil the look of the jumper in the long term; perhaps I could ask her and so pass the journey in an enjoyably flirty manner." (Of course I didn't.)I thought all of this in an instant and without language as a mediating (formational?) tool and would suggest that such a thought would be possible to those "without language" (I know this is dangerous ground, but it's an idea worth pursuing...).At other times I do have extended periods of inner discourse (though I often mutter it out loud, much to the embarrassment of my wife and kids). On these occasions language and meaning arise together and I am very aware of stress patterns etc. (as I am now as I think and write this almost simultaneously). But this is only one form of thought and one relation between thought and language.To put the problem in a nutshell, is anyone suggesting that those born deaf do not think or that they think in signing? To repeat a question from yesterdebate, did Helen Keller not think until she "had language"? Or were her thought processes some kind of language, which developed and altered her way of thinking? Might (some forms of) thought then be internalised interaction but not necessarily "linguistic"?Alternatively, do higher primates think? Or does simply being aware of being afraid, without naming the emotion, count as thought?
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[1] As the quote makes plain, what Bartlett thought was language: a mental projection of meaning, and so, by definition, would not be possible for those "without language".
[2] The notion that language can "arise" without meaning is nonsensical.
[3] Signers mentally project the ideas of language, just like any other meaners.
[4] If SFL is any guide, our fellow higher primates, as Sensers, are Mediums of the four general kinds of mental process: perception, emotion, desideration and cognition, though what they project through desideration and cognition are not the ideas of language — unless, like Kanzi, they are language users. They do use protolanguage though, which means the distinctions of their inner domain of experience, cognition and desideration, are cross-coupled with the distinctions of their outer domain of experience, intersubjective and objective, yielding the four microfunctions.


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Home > Injuries > Ankle Sprain
What Is an Ankle Sprain?
The most common of all ankle injuries, an ankle sprain occurs when the ligaments surrounding the ankle joint are stretched beyond their ability to withstand the force and end up tearing. The tear can be minor or major and the recovery time generally depends on the degree of the sprain.
What Causes Ankle Sprains?
The most common cause of an ankle sprain is applying weight to the foot when it is either inverted or everted position. Commonly, this happens while running or jumping on an uneven surface. The foot rolls in (inversion) or out (eversion) and the ligaments are stretched. Occasionally a loud "snap" or "pop" is heard at the time of the sprain. This is usually followed by pain and swelling of the ankle. This type of sprain, while sometimes due to a lack of lower limb strength, endurance or flexibility, is also often the result of a lack of balance or proprioception, to be exact.
Ankle Sprain Severity
Ankle sprains are generally classified by the degree of severity. These include:
- Grade I - stretch and/or minor tear of the ligament without laxity (loosening).
- Grade II - tear of ligament plus some laxity.
- Grade III - complete tear of the affected ligament (very loose).
Treating Ankle Sprains
For immediate relief, you can use the R.I.C.E. treatment plan. Rest, ice, compression and elevation. While there is general agreement that the best approach to an ankle sprain is immediate rest, there is some conflicting advice about what comes next. Many experts still believe ice, compression and elevation help healing, but some are questioning this approach. Until definitive answers are available, the following approach is still the most widely recommended.
- Rest. Avoid weight bearing for 24 hours or longer for a severe sprain.
- Ice. Apply ice (bagged, crushed ice wrapped in a thin towel) to the ankle joint. To avoid frostbite, ice should not be left on the area longer than 20 minutes at a time. Ice 20 minutes every 2 hours for the first 24 hours to control swelling.
- Compression. Wrap the ankle with an elastic bandage (start at the toes and wrap up to the calf) to help prevent swelling and edema.
- Elevation. Raise the ankle above the hip or heart to reduce swelling.
- If swelling doesn't subside in 48 to 72 hours, seek medical treatment for a complete evaluation.
- If unable to weight bear within 48 hours, seek medical treatment
Ankle Sprain Rehab Exercises
After the initial 24 - 48 hours of rest and icing, you slowly begin weight bearing over several days as tolerated. Continue using crutches to avoid full weight bearing during this phase. Gradually progressing to full weight bearing as tolerated. Try to use a normal heel-toe gait when you do start weight bearing. Continue using an ankle brace to protect the joint from re-injury. Rehabilitation exercises should be begun as soon as tolerated, without pain. Range of motion (ROM) exercises should be begun early in the course of treatment. One simple ROM exercise is to draw the letters of the alphabet with your toes. Gradual progression to other weight bearing exercises should follow shortly after.Any ankle injury that does not respond to treatment in 1-2 weeks may be more serious. Always consult a physician for a thorough evaluation and diagnosis.
Learn more: http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/ankle/a/ankle2.htm


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The Boros Collection
In search of more inspiration I visited the Boros Collection last week. An exhibition space (spanning 3000 square meters spread over 80 rooms) showcased contemporary art from artists from all over the world in one of Berlin's overground bunkers. And let me tell you, this was not 'just a bunker'... but a railway bunker turned air-raid shelter turned prison turned warehouse turned dark techno/fetish club turned erotic trade fair turned art space (and Boros' penthouse). If only these walls could talk... I would probably walk away with a lot more than inspiration (read: freaky stories).
It was definitely an interesting exhibition to visit, although I mostly felt drawn to the industrial vibes and concrete-everything of the bunker rather than the, sometimes really odd, pieces of art... and "art". I feel like I never really play by the rules when I look at art (the low marks in high school on my art interpretations always confirmed that feeling); for me it's all about translating what I see into something I know rather than interpreting the meaning or emotion behind a piece of art. Especially when it's very surreal and abstract. I look at textures, structures, colours and translate that into inspiration for creating new looks or interior styling.
First up: creating a room with the sole purpose of having enough popcorn to roll around in it!
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outdoors and indoors.Air pollution has always been a hot topic -- especially for people living close to industrial complexes and in urban environments -- and if the turnout at a recent public comment session is anything to go by, then it will be an important issue for many years to come.
Several hundred people came together in Philadelphia last week to share their expertise, opinions, experiences and concerns about coal plant pollution in a meeting with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The people who testified included environmentalists, physicians, mothers and fishermen, among others. Worried about emissions of mercury, arsenic, nickel, chromium and acid gases, they urged EPA to update the standards that limit the amount of air pollution that coal-fired plants can release into the atmosphere.
Mercury, for example, builds up in ocean and freshwater fish and can be highly toxic for people who eat them.
"Young children are uniquely vulnerable to the toxic effects of environmental poisons such as mercury and arsenic," said Dr. Kevin Osterhoudt, medical director of the poison control center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in an article from AP. "These compounds are especially dangerous to the developing brain and nervous system."
Opponents to new standards argue that the costs would force some plants to shut down and electricity prices to rise.
According to the article, the regulations would require power plants to install technologies that would limit the emissions, resulting in what the EPA said would be a 91 percent reduction of the mercury in burned coal from being released into the air.
The rules would also further limit other pollutants, including particles such as dust, dirt and other fragments associated with a variety of respiratory ailments.
EPA researchers estimate that the proposed emission limits would annually prevent up to 17,000 premature deaths, 11,000 nonfatal heart attacks, 12,200 hospital and emergency room visits and 120,000 asthma attacks. The updated standards would give coal-fired facilities up to four years to reach compliance.
If you are concerned about this subject, you can voice your opinion in writing. The EPA will accept written comments from the public until July 5.
Source: Associated Press
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While industrial pollution is still being debated, businesses and workers can take simple steps to make sure they breathe the purest air possible indoors - after all, we spend more than 90 percent of our time in enclosed spaces.
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One thing I have always felt passionate about is traveling. I love meeting new people, seeing new places, and learning new things. After telling people all of this, most seem surprised that I've never been out of the country (besides Canada when I was traveling to Boston). If you've read the title to this post you already know that I finally went international. Yay! I was lucky enough to be invited to a friend's timeshare with her family and another friend for a week. This timeshare is on Paradise Island, home to Atlantis. I feel totally blessed to have experienced some new culture and create memories that will last a lifetime.
I was there for just over a week, and I came home today. We spent many days relaxing on the lazy river, laying out in the sun, swimming in the pools/ocean, and taking on the waterslides. It was incredibly hot there, and, other than raining for less than five minutes one day, the weather was near perfect for vacation. Now, I could sit here and go through every day to tell you what we did and bore you to death, but I will highlight some things to definitely do (in my opinion) if you ever visit Paradise Island or the Atlantis resort. Also, I will tell you what my favorite parts of the vacation were.
- Explore as much or all of the Atlantis resort as possible (it is so amazing)
- Really look at all the architect of the awesome place
- Go on every water slide at the park
- Walk through the tunnels inside Atlantis to explore the giant aquariums
- Go on the Lazy River multiple times
- Go to the candy store in the Atlantis Marina Village
- Walk through Marina Village and shop
- Try Rum Cake
- Go on an excursion away from Atlantis (perhaps one on a boat)
- Go into Nassau for the Straw Market
- Watch a sunset from the beach
- Shop away from Atlantis/Dine outside of the resort
- The Parade in Marina Village
- The Lazy River
- Breakfast at Margaritaville
- Laying by the pool(s)
- Swimming in the ocean
- Walking through the aquariums
- Exploring/taking fun pictures around the resort
- Boat Excursion***
- Enjoying the people around me
** The boat excursion we chose was well worth what we paid. As a party of 6 we chose a smaller company that has a smaller fishing/speedboat manned by one guy. You tell the captain what you want to do for the time and he takes you to do it. We ended up snorkeling, swimming with sea turtles, and deep sea fishing. SO WORTH IT!!
Overall, the trip was on the pricer side (as all vacations are), yet I wouldn't have wanted to spend my first major international trip any other way. I suggest wearing lots of sunscreens if you ever visit and to check out some of my "must do's". Hopefully, I will upload some of my GoPro videos soon but for now here are some pictures.
–Krystal, with a "K"


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This is my book blog, where I review books I read as part of Cannonball Read 11, where participants compete to be the first to reach 52. We also try to get people excited about books and reading, and make money for cancer charities. Just after Christmas 2016, my cousin died of lung cancer and in early 2017, my godfather also passed away. I'm balancing being the mother of a little boy with my job as a teacher, but hope to manage my goal of 104 books by the end of the year. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
#CBR8 Book 61: "Dirty" by Kylie Scott
Rating: 3 stars
Lydia Green is sent a video of her fiancee making out (and more) with his best friend/best man shortly before she's supposed to walk down the isle. Utterly humiliated, she leaves her phone on the bed and does the only thing she can think of, run away. Even in full bridal gear, she manages to hoist herself over the very tall fence at the back of the property and climbs in the open window of the house next door. Fairly banged up and utterly devastated, she collapses in the bathtub and bursts into tears.
Vaughn Hewson's career is currently fairly dead, after his band broke up. He's back in his home town, trying to put his parents' home on the market, before trying to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. He certainly wasn't expecting to find a crying bride in his bathtub, or having to deal with the ensuing drama when the groom's furious family come knocking on the door to figure out why she ran away from the wedding.
Vaughn offers Lydia a place to stay for a few days, until she can get a semblance of order back in her life. Vaughn's sister, who is running a bar with a couple of friends, offers both Vaughn and Lydia jobs while they make up their minds about what they want to do next, and how they feel about each other.
I read the first three books in Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series, but never really felt like going back and reading the fourth one, where apparently Vaughn is introduced. His back story is not really necessary to understand this book, which is clearly going to centre around the Dive Bar, that Vaughn's sister and her friends run. There's a whole bunch of supporting characters introduced, who will clearly be the protagonists of upcoming novels. I will be deeply surprised if Vaughn's sister, currently estranged from her husband and (SPOILER!) accidentally pregnant with another man's child, doesn't reconcile with said husband in one of the future books.
Sadly, this book wasn't all that exciting. First of all, I don't really like romances where the couple fall in love too quickly. I can't be bothered to go back and check, but we are not talking many weeks from Lydia's wedding day until she's clearly oh so very in love with Vaughn. A man so indecisive about what he wants that he actually goes off and leaves her for a while, only to come slinking back, suddenly ready to propose marriage himself. I didn't really believe in this couple much. I did like many of the supporting characters, though, and I appreciated that Lydia was described as a somewhat more full-figured woman than many you meet in romance novels. Also, there was a brief cameo from my favourite character from the Stage Dive books and he always makes everything better.
Judging a book by its cover: There's a Dirty martini in the foreground of the picture (see what they did there? Just like the book title. Much clever. So wow). There's a heavily tattooed guy in the background with what could be a band t-shirt on. I wish they'd tried to match the cover model a bit more with what the hero was supposed to look like (thin, rangy, ginger), but apparently tattooed arms will have to do. It's not a great cover, but then again, the contents of the book aren't exactly thrilling, so I guess it matches up there.
Crossposted on Cannonball Read
Labels: #CBR8, 3 stars, contemporary romance, Dirty, Dive Bar, Kylie Scott, New Adult, New to Me 16, rock stars, Women 16
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NCM Recommended New Music Fall 2009
A few things that have been floating around my ears since the last time I posted about new music. I keep coming back to this Dirty Projectors album however. It's some of the most original writing and production I've heard in a long time. Also Trentemoller's Harbour Boat Trips mix is divine late night wine sipping sex-on-wheels. Check the minimal tech man Lawrence also. Not listed is a couple of remastered albums you might want to get including Cocteau Twins 'Heaven or Las Vegas' and the The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Legacy Edition). Both sound amazing after a bump and shout from the mixing board.
• Lawrence: Until Then, Goodbye
• Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
• The Horrors: Primary Colours
• Nouvelle Vague: 3
• Mulatu Astatke / The Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information 3
• Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong
• Bronnt Industries Kapital: Hard For Justice
• The Emperor Machine: Space Beyond The Egg
• VA: Harbour Boat Trips 01 (Copenhagen By Trentemøller)
• VA: The Emperor Machine Selects
• VA: Enjoy The Silence
• VA: My Favorite Things Vol.2


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Its nearly impossible to say no to "FREE"! This app usually costs $1.99, but today we get to bring it to all you Android users for FREE! Enjoy some table hockey!! Also be sure to check out our very own The Mans Cave app in the Android market! Just click the app image below to be directed to your free app!
Go easy or go insane! Choose from multiple difficulty levels and table designs as you play a classic game of air hockey on your Android. Your finger controls the paddle, playing against the computer or a friend. For an extra challenge try Championship mode. Optimized for Android 2.1 and above. Best of Puck!
Man Cave Social Network
The Mans Cave was a concept originated long before my time. The men in my family have always had their place of solitude where men could be men and there was no questioning. I now live the city life which means the man cave has been greatly reduced in size. That brought me to create an internet based man cave where all men can join in. Whether geek, gamer, jock, fitness, brewer, BBQ-er, or just looking for a place to read about manly news, you will find a home in the Man Cave
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Free Android App of the Day!
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California firefighter entrapped and injured
A Lieutenant with Tulare County in California suffered minor burns to his hands when his patrol unit became stuck in a ditch as a vegetation fire approached. Working by himself, he attempted to knock down the fire using the pump and hose on the truck but was unsuccessful. He was transported to a hospital complaining of difficulty breathing in addition to the burn injuries.
Texas legislature considers bills to promote prescribed fire
The Texas legislature is considering two bills that would make it easier in some cases for landowners to use prescribed fire as a tool. SB 702 would establish standards for prescribed burners, as well as education and insurance for those conducting the prescribed fires. A second bill, SB 764, would limit prescribed burning liability on government-owned agricultural lands, making it easier for government agencies to use prescribed fire, even under a burn ban. Both bills passed unanimously in Senate committees.
Colorado's risk assessment tool for residents
The Colorado State Forest Service has an online tool available for residents which allows them to explore wildfire risk levels within a 1/2-mile radius of a home, or any other point of interest on the map.
Steam engine starts fires in England
A steam-powered train started three vegetation fires in North Yorkshire County on Sunday in the United Kingdom. The fires burned about 19 acres in a remote area that was difficult for firefighters to access. Some of them hitched a ride on a train from Goathland that was packed with tourists. On Tuesday the train started another fire in Beck Hole. Weather has prevented the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from conducting their usual prescribed fires along the railway.
MAFFS annual training
Two of the four military units that provide military C-130 aircraft configured to serve as air tankers are conducting their annual training, certification, and recertification. Peterson Air Force base in Colorado Springs had their's April 19-23 and Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne has chosen the week of May 5. The military Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) can help fill a need for a surge capacity when all of the privately owned contract air tankers are committed.


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mifrosoft brasília
The project had as it's starting point three main elements: white, curves, and Atos Bulcão, an undisputed symbol of the city. They are large integrated spaces, merging the color white with the colors of the company. Always taking care and delicacy in order to not stress the architecture.
typology corporate
location Brasília, GO
year 2016
area 450 m²
Dante Della Manna
Antonio Mantovani
Fábio de Bem
Nataly Marie Martins
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Just a few weeks ago, we told you about rumors that the iPhone 7 would not have a headphone jack. And now we're leaning even more strongly in the direction that those rumors are true. Otherwise, why would the Apple Store start selling some new $800 headphones?
The Audeze EL-8 Titanium Headphones were just noticed in the Apple shop. And, yes, they cost 800 big ones.
What makes the Audeze unique is that they are powered using a Lightning connector, rather than a typical audio jack. They also have a built-in amplifier to improve sound, and microphone so you can make and receive phone calls.
After recently getting slammed for releasing the ugly Smart Battery Case, Apple at least isn't taking heat for the design of these headphones. The main issue consumers are having so far is, of course, the price.
With the specs on these headphones, it really just comes down to personal preference. Here are some of the Audeze's best features:
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With a Harp & a Sword
This year marks several important anniversaries for Zora Neale Hurston '28, a preeminent writer of the Harlem Renaissance; one is the 75th anniversary of the publication of her seminal novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In honor of this and other milestones, Barnard presents essays by Associate Professor of English Monica Miller, who has a special interest in Hurston, and author-scholar Sharon Johnson '85, who examines Hurston's autobiography. Both pieces broaden our understanding of this unique American writer.
Archaeology of a Classic
Zora Neale Hurston and Their Eyes Were Watching God at 75
by Monica Miller
Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless — Alice Walker
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Though not intended only as a description of her literary ancestor Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker's definition of "womanist" in her 1983 volume of essays In Search of Our Mother's Gardens more than aptly describes Hurston, the "foremother" whose rediscovery is the partial subject of the book. In one essay, "Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View," Walker begins, "I became aware of my need of Zora Neale Hurston's work some time before I knew her work existed." This desire was first felt when Walker was just beginning her writing career, researching a short story set in the 1930s whose plot turned on the complexities of African American folklore—she was unable to locate a black "authority" on such folkways. The need came again, even more viscerally, when as a student in an African American literature class taught by a well-known black woman poet, all of the texts on the syllabus were by men. In both cases, Hurston had been mentioned casually, as an off-hand remark in the classroom and as a footnote in a textbook, belying the fact that she was the only trained black anthropologist of African American life and culture in 1930s America, as well as an award-winning writer known for the distinctiveness of her voice. These two incidents taught Walker that to be a creative black woman, from the time of Phillis Wheatley at least up until the 1980s, was too often to be in a state of frustrating uniqueness or invisibility. Dissatisfied with this lack of models, with the perceived absence of a black women's literary tradition, Walker went searching for her "mother's gardens" and found Zora Neale Hurston and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Alice Walker's rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston was an act of personal and cultural salvation. In her effort to bring Hurston's love of "the folk" and "herself," back into print at a major press, Walker did excavation work on Hurston and other writers in order to "write all the things I should have been able to read." Recovering Hurston and Their Eyes required Walker to visit many libraries, to fly to Florida, and to lie. In 1973, Walker set out to find out more about Hurston's life by going to Eatonville, Florida, Hurston's all-black hometown, the subject/setting of much of her work. In Eatonville, Walker discovered that Hurston's last years in Florida were filled with hardships. The Great Depression and World War II were difficult times for black writers who had previously been supported by a combination of white patronage, philanthropic grants, and scholarships. Although Hurston wrote steadily and traveled even as her fortunes declined, she never garnered the same recognition she had in the 1920s.
Additionally, she struggled with changing racial mores both personally and politically. The author of five novels and 50 short stories, plays, and essays published during her lifetime, Hurston died in poverty near Eatonville, isolated from her family and most of her Harlem Renaissance-era friends. Her books were all out of print. Lying to local residents that she was Hurston's niece in order to gain their trust, Walker journeyed to Florida to claim Hurston as an ancestor despite her troubles. In an act of veneration and appreciation, Walker paid the ultimate respect to Hurston on that trip—she located her unmarked grave in the snake-infested high grass of the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida, and placed a stone marker on it:
Zora Neale Hurston
'A Genius of the South'
Novelist Folklorist Anthropologist
1901 – 1960
The placement of Hurston's headstone and the story that Walker told of it in Ms. magazine in 1975 started a revolution in African American literature. The article, "Looking for Zora," introduced Hurston to a new reading audience of black people and women just after or in the midst of the civil rights and women's movements. Once passed around in photocopy by black women writers and academics in English-department hallways and at literature and black studies conferences, Their Eyes has now become a classic not just of the Harlem Renaissance, but of African American literature and literature in any language. First republished by small academic presses in the 1970s, Their Eyes and much of Hurston's other work was issued by Harper Perennial in the 1990s.Hurston's story of Janie Crawford, her struggle to love herself and believe in the creation and telling of her own story, has inspired women everywhere to trust their own voices. Their Eyes is innovative in terms of its linguistic structure and told in Janie's metaphor-rich, dynamic black vernacular—choices Hurston made to convey the complexity of black womanhood. As a literary ancestor, Their Eyes is a titan of a book; like its author, it is powerful, potent, more meaningful over time.
Walker's pilgrimage inspired others to mine the archives, to search for the people and the work we all deserved to know. "Black Women's Writing" courses now do not just begin with Hurston, but include women's writing well before and after her time. Deservedly now a primary document of black women's literature and history, Their Eyes, its author, and the story of their mutual disappearance and recovery, is, as Walker warned a "cautionary tale." In the African American tradition, we've seen and sung about too many "motherless children." At this 75th anniversary of the original publication of Their Eyes Were Watching God, let's ensure that we nurture each other and the black literary tradition by giving everyone access to what Hurston claimed as the origin of her craft and an essential part of black culture—the ability to "say my say and sing my song" regardless.
Reading Dust tracks
What Hurston's autobiography can and cannot tell us
by Sharon D. Johnson '85
This is a milestone period for Zora Neale Hurston '28. September marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of her seminal novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Lippincott, 1937); 2013 would be her 85th reunion year. The milestone that may get only a mention, if not overlooked entirely, is the 70th anniversary this year of the publication of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (Lippincott, 1942). This synchronicity of events redirects attention to Hurston, her work, and her life as she revealed it rather than as we have been conditioned to read it.
Since the 1970s, research on Hurston has in large part been a challenging, albeit necessary, fact-finding mission—a search for quantifiable data to reinsert Hurston and her work into the literary canon. Dust Tracks has been combed through for factual information about Hurston's life, but as journalist Esther Armah has said, "Facts don't convey enough of what a (life) history has been." Additionally, Debra Plant, in her book, Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Praeger, 2007) suggested that "the essential Zora defies knowing in any factual sense…the essence of life itself is ever the mystery."
Somewhere between Hurston's historical data and spiritual mystery is the whole woman. This Hurston, as revealed in her autobiography, must be examined "with a harp and a sword," so that a comfortable master narrative about her does not marginalize those experiences about which she wrote that can affect a fuller understanding of her.
Hurston recounted that her memories, dreams, and reflections were indicative of "that geography within [her]," her inner psychological process. However, her insights with regard to her dreams and visions, intuition, and initiation into Vodou/hoodoo have been reduced to curiosities, outright fabrications, or discrete anthropological exercises. Honoring Hurston's other ways of knowing requires, first, that we give them credence and, second, that we utilize other ways of knowing the texts that delve into her life experiences.
What radical shifts might occur if we approach Dust Tracks on a Road as a blank slate, detaching from existing conclusions about Hurston, and allowing the truth within the text to reveal itself? First, we might be freed of suspicion about Hurston's story. W. E. B. DuBois described autobiography as "incomplete" and "unreliable." Jung wrote about the "self-deception and downright lies" found in many autobiographical texts. Yet Hurston's autobiography seems unduly criticized in this regard. For example, inaccuracies have been noted in the autobiographies of Langston Hughes and Malcolm X, yet these texts continue to be upheld as credible must-read accounts of the respective authors' lives. Hurston's account of her life should be similarly dignified.
Second, we might gain facility with symbolic meaning, taking the lead from Hurston who studied Jung, Einstein, Freud, and spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff. The 12 visions Hurston describes in Dust Tracks take on new and revelatory meaning when read for their unconscious symbolism rather than for their presumed literal or contrived correspondence to events in her life.
We might also recognize that Hurston did not avoid race in an attempt to accommodate a broader audience, as some criticisms suggest. Hurston's African-centered posture expressed in Dust Tracks has not been thoroughly explored. There is a genealogical line Hurston intended to trace, via religion and cosmology, from Africans in America, through Haiti and Jamaica, and ultimately back to West African Yoruba and ancient Egypt. Unfortunately, her application for a 1934 Guggenheim Foundation grant to make the trip to Africa was declined.
Dust Tracks also exposes the inaccuracy of concluding that Hurston's father was the prohibiting parent. Hurston relayed her mother's encouragement to "jump at de sun," but Hurston wrote much more about conflicting messages, unfair expectations, manipulations, traumatizing upheaval—also legacies from her mother—and the burden of carrying these experiences into adulthood. A new approach to re-reading Dust Tracks on a Road would radicalize our conversations about relationships with our mothers, daughters, and other women, as well as with men, patriarchy, and power.
Jung wrote that "each of us carries the torch of knowledge only part of the way, and none is immune against error." In the aim to advance knowledge about Hurston, it may be difficult to re-enter that murky space of questioning what we thought we knew. Hurston herself knew the value hidden in this state of obscurity. We may seem to be staring at the dark, but our eyes are watching God.
Sharon D. Johnson, PhD, has written and lectured nationally on Hurston, the arts, and depth psychology. Her previous article for Barnard was "Literary Lion," a feature on Ntozake Shange '70 (Winter 2011).


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Most of the images I post are candid images of athletes. It isn't that I do not shoot action. In fact when photographing a game I shoot more action than I do candids.
But I often find game action to be boring. Everyone out at the game is shooting the action. All the lens dart back and forth across the field following the game and getting those peak action frames.
I am sure at least 5 other photographers have the same image above of the play at the plate. Yes, it is important to make these frames, they help tell the story and are often the images that are used the most.
Striving to be different is important to me, I will continue to make different action images but I find my creative outlet to be translated better to candid imagery.
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Life without aggression or aggressive being? The choice faced by any individual during his material existence.
The way from the divine beginning, stepping back into complete aggression is reality. Emanation is a religious philosophical term, meaning the transition from the divine beginning to the everyday reality, regression, the transformation of spirituality into a simpler given.
Aggression is a specifically oriented behavior aimed at eliminating the obstacles that create the physical and mental integrity of the organism. The causes of aggressive behavior can be found in innate instincts. This is a solid personal disposition, the instinct of death. Her motive is a pleasant emotional shift, which comes in the wake of aggressive behavior.
You always choose the road yourself. If you can resist the emanation, it will probably reach the state of perfect schastya. Divinity can be seen only in kindness. You can resist aggression with good, kindness fights against evil, only so you can transform evil.
Everyone is looking for the truth, but nobody knows where this truth is. You search for the truth and do not guess that it can be found only in yourself.
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Date of the Event: 13th May 2015
Sri Sri's message: If an occasion can inspire so many to do so much seva and bring so much joy, I don't mind cutting cake four times a year! I am glad I was not born on February 29th, it comes only once in four years! Any occasion, any excuse is good enough to celebrate life. The whole thing is to celebrate life. What the ancient saying goes, the entire creation is filled with bliss. Everything is born out of bliss, sustained by bliss and final goal of life is also bliss. So if there is joy and bliss in our life by celebration, by any excuse, any celebration is good enough.
Remember one thing, 'Main Tera' (I am yours), you should never forget this! And you should keep telling everyone, 'Main Tera, Main Tera'. Whomever you meet you should tell them 'Main Tera'. That will bring across the message and you will feel that the whole world is your country. Just keep smiling and the spread this joy and happiness. This is a sign of intelligence. The unintelligent spread moroseness and unhappiness. The intelligent spread happiness and a smile. And we are all intelligent here!
See we are all one. All this artificial barriers we have created amongst ourselves. This is just an illusion, it's artificial. If you look deeper you will see there is only One. There is only one substance by which everything is made and which is everything. That is the essence. There is nothing other than that One
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How do you feel about illustrations in your books? Graphs? Photos? Sketches?
If I am reading a book with a lot of characters, I appreciate a graph to help me to keep track of how everyone is connected to everyone else. I am thinking of books like One Hundred Year of Solitude and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as examples. I also appreciate photos and sketches if they help to illustrate part of a character's personality or illustrate their experiences. For example, books like The Curious Incident of Dog in the Night Time or Three Cups of Tea.
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:37PM by [beastmomma] | 2 Comments
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and maps! I love when a book shares a map.
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Yes, Care maps are crucial!
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Two years after Google and Levi's announced plans to work on smart garments, the first project of partnership finally has a release date and a price tag. The Commuter Trucker Jacket, which uses Google's Jacquard technology to turn its fabric into a gesture-controlled connected device, arrives this fall and will cost $349.
Originally unveiled at the Google I/O conference in May of last year, the Commuter comes out with a Bluetooth cuff that allows the jacket to communicate with a smartphone to give you directions, answer calls or adjust music volume, all using swipes on the jacket's fabric. You'll be able to configure which gestures work with which apps and the jacket will be easily washable after removing the Bluetooth tag. The underlying tech, created by Google's ATAP division, utilizes conductive yarns to the weave touch interactivity into any garment using standard industrial looms.
The touchpad is powered by a small rechargeable 'tag' that clips onto the inside of sleeve. The battery on the tag will last about 2 days, according to the Ivan Poupyrev, project lead for Project Jacquard at the Google, though he says he'd like to eventually increase the battery life to several days.
The jacket marks the first project from Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group to become a commercially available product (the modular smartphone initiative Project Ara was put on an indefinite hiatus last year, following the multiple delays.)
'It was a long road but what's really impressive, the entire journey, we stayed true to our vision and what we wanted to achieve,' Poupyrev says 'The jacket is going to be sold as a piece of the apparel, that was always the vision from the very beginning.'


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The plan is so simple you'll wonder why you never thought of it yourself. But once you give it a try, you will thank us a thousand times for revealing it to you. There are literally hundreds of mail order publications that will print your ad by the "letterpress" method. This means they actually set it up in type. This is the only method that an ad or a circular can be done properly and with good taste (commercial art excepted, of course).
First, pick out a good publication and determine the words per inch policy. If your offer has any merit at all, your ad is either MAIL SALE ADVERTISER or MAIL ORDER DISCOUNTER will sell for you many times over the price of the ad. This means your ad is run free. And, after your ad is published in the magazine, you merely clip it out, mail it to your printer, and presto - you have your ad or 3 x 6 circular typeset FREE - plus you have made a good profit. This means they actually set it up in type.
If you've been in mail order for more than a month...chances are you've been ripped off by one or more ad sheet printers. This report won't make you a mail-order genius but might keep you from loosing your shirt prematurely.
Have you placed your display ad in a national magazine with over 20 million readers, then waited for the orders to pour in? But the days go by and there is little or no responses?
When you have accumulated sufficient knowledge from preparing your own circulars and from co-publishing magazines and ad sheets of others, you may want to become a publisher.
The opportunities for getting free advertising for your product or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies.
There have been entire volumes written on mail order selling. For printed information, the best way to learn HOW & WHERE to advertise is to go to your newsstand and check through all the magazines carrying large numbers of classified and space ads.
Regardless of what you're trying to sell, you really can't sell it without "talking" with your prospective buyer. An in attempting to sell anything by mail, the sales letter you send out is when and how you talk to your prospect.
What is a Big Mail? If you are a total beginner to the mail order world, you will have no idea what the term means. Before I knew better, I used to think a Big Mail was just a big envelope containing some type of free samples.
This method of getting free printing is currently being used by several different mail dealers. It works! Here's the plan: Run an ad similar to this in any mail order magazine:
Most business beginners think Direct Mail means purchasing a mailing list and mailing an advertising flyer to a bunch of folks they know absolutely nothing about. This IS NOT what Direct Mail marketing is.
Here are some interesting results of a study conducted on readerships of magazine ads. Most of the stats are from Starch INRA Hopper, Inc and other studies.


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It seems self-evident that the work day runs from the time you are required to arrive at work until the time you are allowed to leave. But the U.S. Supreme Court disagrees, and workers are worse off for it.
The court ruled 9-0 on Dec. 9 that Integrity Staffing Solutions does not have to pay its warehouse employees for the time they spend waiting in line for security screenings at the end of a shift. The mandatory screenings, designed to prevent theft, can take as long as 25 minutes, according to the employees who filed the lawsuit.
Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said it did not matter that the employees were required by their employer to wait in the lines.
What matters, he said, is that the screenings are not "tied to the productive work that the employee is employed to perform."
In essence, the court is arguing that the screenings were not necessary for the workers to complete their tasks, which in this case was filling orders in the warehouses for online retailer Amazon.
That's true enough.
Integrity Staffing could have ended the screenings, and the employees still could have done their jobs, and gained almost a half-hour or so of personal time every day.
But the company chose not to, and employees had no choice but to wait in line, without compensation, if they wanted to stay employed.
The ruling is based on the 1947 Portal-to-Portal Act and a subsequent interpretation that said employers have to pay only for actions that are an "integral and indispensable part of the principal activities for which covered workmen are employed."
The Portal-to-Portal Act came in response to earlier Supreme Court decisions that required compensation for a wide array of work-related activities.
A clearer definition of the work day was needed, and under the act, time traveling to and from work or spent on other activities incidental to work was not compensable.
Employees who worked with toxic materials, for instance, were to be paid for the time it took to clean off after a shift, because being able to work safely with hazardous materials is a crucial part of the job.
In this interpretation, pay is not required for security screenings, because the screenings do not in any direct way help workers get books, toys and electronics in the right shipping container.
"Employees could skip the screenings altogether without the safety or effectiveness of their principal activities being substantially impaired," wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a concurring opinion to the court's ruling.
If that is the law, then it needs to be changed.
Ideally, what is and what is not considered part of the work day would be part of a negotiation between the company and the warehouse workers.
Ideally, the company would have some incentive to minimize the time spent in security screenings, if only to maintain worker morale.
Integrity Staffing could have hired additional security personnel, or staggered the ends of shifts.
But as long as the company does not have to pay for the screenings, it has no reason to limit the time employees have to wait. The warehouse workers have no leverage -- they either have to hand over as much as five hours per week of their own time to the company, or go without work.
That's a familiar refrain at a time when employees are increasingly unrepresented and, like the warehouse workers, low-wage and often part-time or temporary. In these cases, it's easy for employers to forget about the well-being of their employees, and the Supreme Court just made it easier.
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This is EE week at KIS middle and high schools! While we are all getting ready for adventure, KIS faculty got a head start at their inservice training. John Miller, HS English teacher and EE Coordinator, tells the story.
Some floated, some sank. Some were built for comfort, some were built for speed. Some victors emerged from the pool with their bathing suits completely dry, others were baptized in watery defeat.
In what will surely become an annual event, KIS faculty were challenged to complete the task given to tenth grade advisory students on the Spring Experiential Education trip: to design and build a seaworthy craft that will carry their team over water. The catch? Use only cardboard, tape and plastic wrap. With little more than most people might use to package their lunch, the staff had just fifty minutes to plan and build a boat to transport at least five members of their team across the width of the pool. Groups were composed of members from different age groups, departments, educational fields and areas of expertise. New staff mingled with veterans, elementary with high school, English teachers with instructors of science and art. Most didn't know one another prior to the event, but would share lasting memories just two hours later.
The boats varied in design and structure with some groups opting to build traditional canoe-like crafts. Some constructed flat boats with a surfboard design, and some lashed together closed box-shaped flotation cells in a craft that resembled children's blocky Lego projects. Groups had to coalesce behind a single vision, construct their craft and then test their idea in the KIS pool. The consequences were very real.
High School Principal Aimmie Kellar remained dry after her group finished the race. Last in the queue of her group members, she was relieved of her boating responsibilities when a teammate swamped their boat and sunk its flimsy cardboard hull into the murky depths. A sly grin came to Principal Kellar's lips as she realized that she would remain happy and dry.
Participants in the experience bonded and formed new and lasting memories. If this first experience set a tone for the year, then 2018 will be filled with challenge and adventure!
Thank you John Miller for sharing the article. Photos from KIS faculty. Also take a look at this short video of the boat building and water test.


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The Garden Tomb and the Misfortunes of an Inscription
On November 7, 1889, the Northern Christian Advocate (Syracuse, New York) published a note from an anonymous correspondent in Jerusalem: "There are strange rumors afloat about an inscription found at St. Stephen's [St. Étienne's...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986
When the Priests Trumpeted the Onset of the Sabbath
A monumental Hebrew inscription from the ancient Temple Mount recalls the signal
One of the most magnificent finds from the excavation adjacent to the Temple Mount—directed since 1968 by Professor Benjamin Mazar of the Hebrew University—is a monumental Hebrew...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1986
Why the Moabite Stone Was Blown to Pieces
Ninth-century B.C. inscription adds new dimension to Biblical account of Mesha's rebellion
F. A. Klein was an Anglican minister, born in Alsace, who came to the Holy Land as a medical missionary in the mid-1800s. Although he lived in Jerusalem, he traveled widely on both sides of the Jordan, seeking to relieve pain and win converts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1986
These three extraordinary articles began when we read a technical paper in the obscure scholarly journal Numen. Titled "The Disappearance of the God-Fearers," the paper was written by A. Thomas Kraabel, dean of Luther College in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1986
Jews and God-Fearers in the Holy City of Aphrodite
A quiet, fertile valley folded into the Mediterranean hills, clear streams, tall poplars, ancient ruins more than 1,400 years old—a picture of pastoral quiet. Twenty-five years ago...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1986
Ancient Israelite Art Sparse in Impressive Show at Met
"Treasures of the Holy Land," the Israel Museum's exhibition of nearly 200 outstanding pieces, is being shown at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 4, 1987. The exhibit is the largest and most important display of ancient...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1986
The God-Fearers: A Literary and Theological Invention
New testament scholars, both Jewish and Christian, have for years accepted the existence of a group of gentiles known as God-fearers. They were thought to be closely associated with the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1986
The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers
Reverend MacLennan and Dean Kraabel have performed a real service by questioning the view, so commonly held, that in antiquity there was a large class of gentiles, the so-called God-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1986
Ancient Gold Ring Depicts the Holy Sepulchre
A gold ring was found in 1974 in the excavations south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.a At the time, the suggestion that the ring depicted the Holy Sepulchre, or tomb of Jesus, met with considerable scholarly skepticism. The ring has never...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1986
Herod's Mighty Temple Mount
Archaeology vividly recreates bustle of pilgrims two thousand years ago
Solomon's temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. when they conquered Jerusalem. A half century later, the returning exiles, under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah, built...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1986
The Garden Tomb: Was Jesus Buried Here?
First-time visitors to Jerusalem are often surprised to learn that two very different sites vie for recognition as the burial place of Jesus. One is, as its name implies, the Holy Sepulchre Church; it is located in a crowded area of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986
Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple
A few hundred yards from Damascus Gate and over the wall from the Garden Tomb, magnificent burial cave lies beneath a Dominican monastery.
Damascus Gate, the most important entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, fairly bustles with activity inside and out. Arab men in their robes and keffiyehs; Arab women in long embroidered...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986
Paper-Cuts—An Ancient Art Form Glorifies Biblical Texts
In the deft hands of Jerusalem artist Yehudit Shadur, simple sheets of paper are cut into intricate designs blending the poetic words and images of the Bible. A leading reviver of the traditional Jewish folk art of paper-cutting, Shadur...
Bible Review, Summer 1986
From Ebla to Damascus: The Archaeology of Ancient Syria
Eight thousand years in the history of ancient Syria are on display in a magnificent exhibit that is touring six American cities.a Collected under the title "From Ebla to Damascus," its objects vividly illustrate a sweep of civilizations...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1986
Tel Dan Well known from many Biblical phrases, for example, "For a voice declares from Dan, and proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim" (Jeremiah 4:15), Dan is one of the northern sources of the Jordan River. Though no trace has surfaced of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1986
Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount
It should have been the jewel in Israel's archaeological crown. In fact, Israel's excavation of the area adjacent to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, on the south and southwest sides of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1986
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Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986
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his past weekend the Hudson Berkshire was able to visit Vic Roman's Hudson Division. Vic has created a beautiful work of art with trains running through it. He wants more operation action. He wants a longer mainline. He wants easier access to staging tracks. He wants a larger and bigger layout so he has done what some of us might dream about. He built a basement addition, with a house addition above. And in a few short weeks, he will be disassembling his current layout. Above is the beautiful Albany Union Station.
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This is a post I have been meaning to do for the longest time as I get so much of my inspiration from Fashion Bloggers. I love the fact that there is such a vast selection to choose from, and unlike the magazines, they comes in all different shapes and sizes. I know social media has its pitfalls, but when looking for fashion inspiration the options are endless. Initially I was guilty of following far too many different people across all platforms, but I read a great piece of advice recently from a girl called @siuners on Instagram where she talked about "digital clear-outs" - basically unfollowing accounts you don't engage with - and that's exactly what I did (In turn, greatly decreasing the amount of time spent on social media)! I love when my followers engage with me, as it gives me an idea of the type of content you enjoy and what styles work - I must add a kicker to say that my favourite bloggers are constantly changing, so I promise to update it regularly!
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Just like to say Hi to the Shep fans, here.
Came across his show few weeks ago, via flipping through some internet radio stations and coming across him on Insomnia Theatre.
It was the episode where he was describing the Police shootout outside his Grandmother's apartment block on New Year's Eve. I was thouroughly engrossed, and dug a little deeper into the world of Shep.
Never heard of him before, but I am a firm fan now! I guess his humour translates well across borders and across generations.
Got a couple of his books on order, and downloaded an indecent amount of his stuff from archive.org.
Trying to convert others, now....
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Posted - 01/10/2011 : 10:27:08
Welcome aboard, Rob. It's great to see someone who's interested in Shep. What part of the UK are you from? Shep did plenty of stuff about England in his radio shows, often using the crappist English accent that I have ever heard
. Radio Spirits has a 4-CD set of his musings about the UK which were recorded there while he was touring England & Scotland w/the Beatles in late 1964 (he interviewed them for Playboy) that may be of interest to you:
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Posted - 01/16/2011 : 07:46:21
That CD set sounds very interesting, Joe.
I imagine Shep must have had a hell of a ride; in the eye of the Beatlemania storm. The variety of regional UK accents he would have come across would have been mind boggling, so maybe we can cut him a little slack in that department! I bet he spent more time drooling over the cars than the Beatles, though
I'm from Cardiff, Wales by the way. Just up the coast from Swansea where Dylan Thomas was born. Shep's storytelling style reminds me of Thomas at times.
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Posted - 01/18/2011 : 13:37:54
Rob: In addition to that Radio Spirits CD set, here's the WOR shows that Shep did about his UK trip:
November 2, 1964 WOR Show - Back From England, Beatles, Election Eve; Pipe dreams
November 7, 1964 Limelight Show - British Trip - On Tour With The Beatles / More On Tour With The Beatles, Army Ping-Pong
November 9, 1964 WOR Show - Brits and Americans Separate Races
Shep really didn't care too much about the Beatles, despite interviewing them for Playboy. He was much more enthuastic about the Rover 2000, which he did live ads for in his WOR shows circa 1965-1966.
So you're from Wales, Tom & Terry Jones country? I'm from Salem, Massachusetts myself.
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This week's spotlight is Sue Gong.
Sue Gong was born in Price, UT where her Dad was starting a flight school. She left there at 18 months, to move to Montana where he was running a health spa in a uranium mine. Sue's childhood continued to be filled with the adventures that accompanied those of her parents.
At 18 Sue attended BYU where she received a BA in English. She went off to Hawaii for a year and lived in Boston for another. She fulfilled a mission in Uruguary and Paraguay, and then returned to BYU where she received a masters in English. She was teaching English at BYU when she met Brian Gong who was helping with a learning and teaching seminar taught by his father. After the concluding faculty session held in Pajaro Dunes, California, Sue decided she wanted to sleep on the beach. While Brian thought she was a little crazy, he helped rustle up a sleeping bag for her and quoted to her the W.B Yeats 106-line poem, "A Prayer for My Daughter" under the full moon shining on the dark sea. That worked.
Sue and Brian were married two years later and raised Gloria Jean, Angela, Ben, and Jacob while Brian finished school in Palo Alto, Ca and worked in New Jersey, Kentucky, and New Hampshire. Sue considers New Hampshire her true home since in addition to the fact that she has lived here longer than any one place in her life., her great, great, grandfather left from here in 1832 to walk to Ohio and meet the young prophet, Joseph Smith. The Church is deep in her blood along with the New England culture that she loves.