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Dave Materna for President
My upstairs neighbor Dave is running for President of the United States of America. Please lend him your support. Thank you.
My upstairs neighbor Dave is running for President of the United States of America. Please lend him your support. Thank you.
Posted by Brad Warner at 8:07 AM
How about Dave Materna for dog catcher?
Or Dave Materna for the unbalanced
state of the ANS through overload
of the nicotinic cholinergic
" Anonymous said...
This is just torture Brad!
This blog is so disjointed now."
Jump in brother. We are waiting
for your tortured words.
Dave seems like he has a better grasp of the issues than the other candidates..
CAPTCHA : conale : I kid you not
Dave Materna teaches first year
English to Americans at the
University of Akron. I feel bad
for him, but not enough to send
any money. Poor fucking guy.
Anagrams for "Dave Materna":
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Mate And Rave
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Mad Raven Tea
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All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
Yeah...that's getting reposted on Facebook.
The smallest good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions.
Why not? He's as qualified as the talent that's out there at the moment.
President? Dog-catcher?
Both definitely involve
deep doo-doo.
Dave Materna on foreign policy.
That is all.
Of course I've never heard of Dave Materna, which automatically gives him a huge advantage over all the potential republican candidates thus far.
Convert that to Euro, please...
Captcha: "haulaser"
If Dave Materna is a psychopath,
then he's certainly qualified
to be a US President. Give him
your ear.
I did watch the video of Paterno pitching... good luck, Dave, at least you're famous now.
Then I watched Brad with David Chadwick. Lively, thanks, Brad. I'll be in Sebastopol in December, I don't know if David is still there. Also love to run into Issho Fujita, saw him at Sonoma Mountain talking about the stretches in zazen very intelligently, he's got some videos. His emphasis was on two stretches, sit bones and ilio-sacral ligaments (forward and back), although he didn't name the ligaments. He spoke of how people put their hands on their heads when they are trying to think of something, or put their hands together like prayer when they are hoping for something; he said, what is the mind of zazen? Love that!
I find it helpful to think of three stretches connected with the sacrum, but somedays it's not helpful to think; I'm sure everyone can relate to that!
had a comment on the last blog entry that disappeared entirely, though I swear there was nothing offensive in it. Maybe I should be thankful. Thanks for attracting interesting people, Brad, and happy T-day.
This particular thread is by far the greatest I've ever seen on Bradley's blog. Keep up the good work, fellow poseurs...
Shunryu Suzuki:
" When I am in bed, my bed is my friend. There is no Buddha, or no Buddhism, or no zazen. If, you know, you ask me, "What is zazen?" you know, my answer will be, "To sit on black cushion is zazen," or "To walk with my feet is my zazen." To stay at this moment on this place is my zazen. There is no other zazen"
here's the attribution on that wonderful quote Fred served up:
Suzuki Roshi Transcripts- Monday, July 6th, 1970
And in case the html doesn't work, here's the link longhand:
And a favorite of mine from Kobun, it's on the Jikoji site under Aspects of Sitting Meditation- Shikan Taza":
Sitting shikan taza is the place itself, and things. The dynamics of all Buddhas are in it. When you sit, the cushion sits with you. If you wear glasses, the glasses sit with you. Clothing sits with you. House sits with you. People who are moving around outside all sit with you. They don't take the sitting posture!
And for An3drew (did I get that right?), in my own words:
Dogen said: "To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self."
Simply by being where we are, we can come to forget the self. The sense of place engenders an ability to feel, and each thing we feel enters into the sense of place- even before we know it.
This being where we are with each thing, even before we know it, is shikantaza."
Seems like I have to be logged into my Google account before I post a comment here, or the comment is lost- anybody else having that experience?
Dave Materna will get you nowhere.
when are you going to post more talks at the podcast page ??
Comment moderation has ruined this comments section.
You either take the good with the bad or you end up with this dessicated pile of crap.
No more zazen or presidents are necessary!
Now that we have the GOD HELMET!!!
Can't support him, I live in the UK! Dude, what a blog post, come on, Zen or whatever but still, sheesh! Cypress tree in the courtyard and all that.
I'm a big fan of badgers, please do all you can to help them. Also My Sad Captains, some groovy toons. Rock on.
Only $659 for the God Helmet. It's
cheaper than Genpo and safer than acid.
But it isn't turning the light inward.
"When I am in bed, my bed is my friend. There is no Buddha, or no Buddhism, or no zazen. If, you know, you ask me, "What is zazen?" you know, my answer will be, "To sit on black cushion is zazen," or "To walk with my feet is my zazen."
To stay at this moment on this place is my zazen. There is no other zazen"
There is also the zazen of smoking a cigarette and pretending to run for president.
I love comment moderation. keep it up and this section becomes something useful, go back to letting anonymous douchebags shit all over it and it becomes just another internet cesspool.
[Hi HCZ Moderator - herewith revised version of previous similar post. Please post this one instead. Thanks.]
Hi Brad,
I guess you're back in the USA now? Thanks for coming. I hope you're fully recovered from the touring sickness.
What you had here was a kind of forum. The only open-to-all, immediate-feedback forum where a cheeky, free-thinking, authority-questioning truth-seeker could vent his/her spleen along with more orthodox Buddhistic types and others, and maybe even find something out. You may not have been proud of it, but others appreciated it and even admired you for it. Now you've got a slow, dull, bog-standard occasional-moderated-comment* blog comment section.
It is your blog and you can do what you want with it. But, imo, if you carry on with moderation as it is now, you'll have killed something that was entertaining and educational, unique and worthwhile in the perhaps not-completely-useless world of internet Buddhism. Maybe that's the idea?
*Are you suddenly having to moderate away lots of truly horribly unacceptable comments?
Are you suddenly having to moderate away lots of truly horribly unacceptable comments?
Not so many. And I let most of that garbage through anyway. (See previous posting for evidence)
I'm just fed up with this forum being hijacked. I do not know any other way to prevent this than by moderating the comments.
You can see the blog killing in one
of 2 ways.
1. As a reaction to Jundo's posting
which is attachment on Brad's part.
2. As a service to posters here to
get beyond their/my attachment to
words and ideas.
It's all just anyway.
Im with Jarley, sorry 108. I didn't see the "freewheeling cheeky" expression , I saw a lot of adults throwing monkey poop around and doing their level best to make the comment section completely useless. They very often succeeded. It was like trying to have a discussion with a stranger in a room full of screaming morons.
Like it or not, when there are no consequences most people seem to devolve to their basest form.
As far a "censorship" goes, editing out people just being abusive and writing 432 lines of vertical text doesn't stop anyone from expressing an honest opinion, it just keeps the folks who didn't get hugged enough as kids out of everyone's face.
The stuff is mind candy for the zen
flavoured ego. Entertainment
doesn't help you drop the mind-body
Although you sit with no goal,
posting on a blog won't take you
on the path past the Buddha.
So thank you Brad.
And I let most of that garbage through anyway.
Well quite.
I did google "How to block blogger user" (if that's what you want) and found this:
...if you haven't found it already. Dunno if it works. Maybe a tech-savvy chum can help you?
Sorry Brad, seems that code is outdated. Someone out there's gotta know something!
"I thought the over-the-top-ness of my comments would be evidence enough that they were not intended to be taken at face value. I've learned this is often not the case. So you may have noticed I've been toning things down in general recently."
Hi Brad. Yeah, I have noticed that.. I'd go back to your irascible old ways if I were you. Now you come across as petulant more than anything else. When you were being sarcastic some of us got the joke and some didn't. But most took it as a cue as how to interact with you. It was polarizing and stirred things up but drew many interesting comments. It did piss a lot of people off but fuck em if they can't take a joke.. Speaking of jokes, you told the one fellow off by saying that is Mom is amateurish. Shouldn't you have said that his Mom was professional if going for.. Never mind, doesn't matter. Anyway, I hope you remove the comment moderation. Your first instinct was the best one in regards to that I'd say. The blog works best as a street fight interspersed with thoughtful Bootyist angst IMO.
CAPTCHA : droting : I kid you not
Hi Fred,
You do quite a bit of posting yourself. Cool. So I wonder if you believe entertainment helps you drop the mind-body? Or if you believe posting on a blog will take you on the path past the Buddha? Apparently not.
Yes, it's just a blog. I don't think anyone's in any doubt about that. But it might play a small part in helping some of us discover who we are. Depends whether you're listening and who/what you're listening to, imo.
Re "a service to posters here to get beyond their/my attachment to words and ideas" - well yeah, maybe. Gudo has said he doesn't use the kyosaku as it's better to wake yourself up than have someone do it for you. I think that works better.
Hi Jim T Cobra/Jarley
Some like the blog better with moderation. Different opinions; very cool. But as for getting rid of the occasional yards and yards of truly daft stuff - it can be deleted when Brad gets here. It doesn't happen often enough to pay the price some of us feel is being paid.
But yeah...whatever, innit.
108 said:
"Yes, it's just a blog. I don't think anyone's in any doubt about that. But it might play a small part in helping some of us discover who we are. Depends whether you're listening and who/what you're listening to, imo."
You and already know who we are.
It's a question of not indulging
in street fighting with a Buddhist
It's pointless to know something if
you lack the self discipline to
live it.
Zen candy is no candy.
Of late, I'm sticking to 2 meals (break Fast and dinner [lunch]) and maintaining a very SLOW weight loss.
I have 25 pounds to go to reach my 190# goal - what I weighed when Armstrong did or didn't set foot on the moon. I was a Seasonal Ranger HERE during college (summer break). My dad and his brother did the rock work you see in the photo.
I was here at the time!
I was raised 3 miles from where the City of San Francisco was buried in snow.
I like the idea of just removing the offending comments AFTER they're posted, whenever Brad or the moderator gets around to it.
I think the offenders will still mostly be discouraged by this deletion, and the non-offenders will be able to correspond in real time.
I think having a very open space is great, but allowing one or two quacks to simply spam the comments section with virtually unreadable gobbledygook is not cool. Neither is building a protective wall that makes posting at all difficult and cumbersome, and where having a linear conversation becomes almost impossible.
So it seems to me the best compromise is post-hoc deletion of offensive and/or spammy comments.
As to the main hijacker that Brad is worried about--let's just say that he will never stop hounding Brad anyway. And ruining your comment section over him would be a darn shame.
Does Dave Materna
know some people who
know how to get
things done?
As President, would Dave Materna
implement the comment moderation
policy of post-hoc deletion
as suggested by
That might be worth four dollars.
"To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." "It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
Ray Bradbury
BTW Fahrenheit 451 came out on e-book today.
TRICYCLE Interviewer Philip Ryan said:
"Your blog is one of the most vibrant, active Buddhist blogs anywhere."
Why not keep it that way? Turn off the comment moderation, Captain.
People are always worrying about how this person will affect that person with their unrelenting ignorant behavior rather than just accepting that some people might be going through some things in their lives from which they might emerge but for right now they are flaming assholes.
If you are going to try and protect every person from every ignorant unkind word they might hear you are really not protecting them at all.
At one time I loved this place and the variety of voices you could hear here. I loved Brad's attitude of just letting people say and do whatever they might because that is the way people are. That is not to say that things never got ugly or that some people, being desperate for attention, took advantage of of the situation and tried to overwhelm the rest with whatever they thought was important or real zen-like. But even when things were at their weirdest and meanest here, the good always outweighed the bad. It always did.
Because there is really no distinction there. It's what you think you see. It's only what you react to. It's what you imagine you are yourself that gets under your skin.
That guy that got under Brad's skin, Brad is now reacting to him by becoming like him. Hopefully this is all temporary because one of that guy is enough.. I never imagined that is how this would play out but life is full of turns, innit.
CAPTCHA : sellu : I kid you not
He looks like the majority of the others, just he hasn't the money
Iknow Dave Materna.We were together when he lived in Atlanta. He's one of the funniest and craziest people I know, so he is uniquely qualified to hold the office of president of the United States. The fact that he is the cigarette-smokingest person I know is just a random fact apropos of absolutely nothing, but it's true.He's mental and he's punk rock. I love Materna, but I think you should know that his real name is Gopee Bonehead. No, really, that is his name. Don't even bother calling him Dave Materna, he seems to prefer Gopee Bonehead. Just ask him sometime. I'd vote for him.


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Malta [1] is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea that lies south of the island of Sicily, Italy. The country is an archipelago, with only the three largest islands (Malta, Għawdex or Gozo, and Kemmuna or Comino) being inhabited.
History To Learn
Although small, Malta has a vast and rich history, with evidence for habitation going back to the Neolithic era (4th millennium B.C.). The country boasts some of the world's most ancient standing buildings (the Neolithic temples), and its strategic location and good harbours in the middle of the Mediterannean have attracted Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Crusaders, the French and finally the British, with the colonial period lasting until 1964.
The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights Hospitallers and Knights of Malta, took over sovereign control of Malta in 1530, and by 1533 the Order had built a hospital at Birgu (one of the Three Cities) to care for the sick. In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, mounted a great siege of Malta with a fleet of 180 ships and a landing force of 30,000 men. In response the Order, with only 8,000 defenders, drove the Ottoman Turks away after a hard siege of several months. After this siege, the Order founded the city of Valletta on a peninsula, and fortified it with massive stone walls, which even withstood heavy bombing during the Second World War. By 1575 the Order had built a new large hospital known as the Grand Hospital or Sacred Infirmary in order to continue with its primary mission of caring for the sick.
In 1798, the French under Napoleon took the island on 12 June, without resistance, when the Grand Master of the Order capitulated after deciding that the island could not be defended against the opposing French naval force. French rule lasted a little over 2 years, until they surrendered to the British Royal Navy, under Admiral Nelson's command, in September 1800.
Great Britain formally acquired possession of Malta in 1814. The island staunchly supported the UK through both World Wars.
The island was awarded the George Cross for its heroic resistance during the Second World War. An image of the cross is displayed on the flag.
Malta remained in the Commonwealth of Nations when it became independent from Great Britain in 1964. It is still a member.
A decade later Malta became a republic. Since about the mid-1980s, the island has become a freight trans-shipment point, financial centre and tourist destination.
Malta gained European Union membership in May 2004.
Malta's climate is influenced by the Mediterranean Sea and is similar to other Mediterranean climates. Winters are wet and windy. Summers are virtually guaranteed to be dry and hot.
Mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains, with a coastline that has many coastal cliffs and numerous bays that provide good harbors.
Other destinations
Get in
Malta is a member of the Schengen Agreement.
There are no border controls between countries that have signed and implemented this treaty - the European Union (except Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania and the United Kingdom), Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Likewise, a visa granted for any Schengen member is valid in all other countries that have signed and implemented the treaty. But be careful: not all EU members have signed the Schengen treaty, and not all Schengen members are part of the European Union. This means that there may be spot customs checks but no immigration checks (travelling within Schengen but to/from a non-EU country) or you may have to clear immigration but not customs (travelling within the EU but to/from a non-Schengen country).
Please see the article Travel in the Schengen Zone for more information about how the scheme works and what entry requirements are.
Visitors from outside the EU, including Americans, must fill out a landing card, available on board some arriving flights (sometimes) or in the entrance hall of the airport from the small box between the customs agents.
By plane
Malta's own national carrier, Air Malta [2], has regular connections to many European, North African and Middle Eastern centres.
Ryanair [3] flies to/from London Luton, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Dublin, Madrid, Marseille, Trapani, Bristol, Pisa, Kaunas, Krakow, Stockholm (Skavsta), Malmö, Seville, Valencia, Venice (Treviso), Wroclaw, Girona, Birmingham and Bari.
Easyjet [4] flies to/from Belfast, Newcastle, Rome, Milan Malpensa and London Gatwick.
Malta's international Airport [5] is located at Gudja.
By boat
There are frequent fast ferries to the Sicilian port of Catania (3 hours) and Pozzallo, Italy (90 minutes), but the seas can be turbulent with a heavy swell if it's windy. Usually the trip takes around twice as long on large passenger ships, but fares are lot cheaper, which makes it ideal for drivers of cars, trucks, or campers. Other destinations include Livorno, Salerno, Rome (Civitavecchia), Palermo, Genoa and Tunis. However, discount airlines like Ryanair can be more convenient and the prices of their flights are often comparable to the cost of a boat trip.
Get around
By bus
Until July 2011, one of Malta's joys (at least in small doses) was the wonderfully antiquated public bus system, consisting mainly of 1950s-era exports from Britain usually kitted up with more chintz than a Christmas tree plus icons of every saint in the Bible and then some. Fares were very cheap and even the longest ride across the island cost less than €1.30. The only catch was that almost all buses radiated out from Valletta, so you might have had to detour back to the capital to reach your next destination.
On 3rd July 2011 Arriva took over the bus service in Malta, offering a safer and more comfortable bus service. After more than a month of delayed and missing services, the new bus system is finally finding its feet. The bus system is very easy to use and prices are low. The Arriva website for the timetables and routes is here: [6].
A list of the routes from Valletta to around Malta can be found here: [7]
A summary of the network on a "London Underground" style diagram can be found here: [8].
Another bus option is to use the City Sightseeing guided bus tour. It offers three routes plus one ferry cruise. Check their website for more information: [9]. Another company that offers sightseeing tours is Malta Sightseeing: [10]
By taxi
Malta's white taxis are the ones you can pick you up off the street. They have meters that are uniformly ignored, figure on €15 for short hops and not much more than €35 for a trip across the island. There are now Gov't approved fares for taxis from the airport ranging from €10 to 30.
For cheaper airport transfers and local taxis try using one of the local "Black cab" taxi firms such as Malta Taxi by Sean Taxi Service [11], Peppin Transport (Cheaper Online Prices) [12], Malta Airport Cabs [13], Malta Taxi Online [14] with a high quality of Service allow you to book on line from UK or Malta Car Bookers [15] or Malta airport transfers. Their rates are normally lower than white taxis but their services must be prebooked (at least fifteen minutes' notice).
If you would like a taxi tour, it is a good idea to book it in advance with an agreed price and arrange to be picked up from your hotel or apartment. The tours are best kept short, around 3 to 4 hours should do it. In a car you will be able to cover Mdina, Rabat, Mosta, Valletta and the Blue Grotto. However, some people say that when visiting historical sights it is best to also hire a licensed tourist guide (who will wear their license while on tour) and accuse taxi drivers of often giving inaccurate information.
By car
Renting a car in Malta is a fine way to see the country, since it's cheap and driving conditions have improved greatly in the last ten years. Having your own car allows you to make a lot more of your trip and discover the many hidden charms these small islands have to offer.
There is GPS coverage of the Island by popular brands, however do check with your rental company as to whether they make this available to you or not. Popular opinion states that the GPS mapping of Malta isn't altogether that accurate, where certain routes planned on the GPS, will send you up one way streets without warning, best to use common sense in conjunction with this technology. Also the Maltese can be a very friendly bunch of people when giving directions are concerned.
By ferry
There is the regular ferry service [16] between Ċirkewwa on Malta and Mġarr on Gozo, it goes every 45 minutes in the summer and almost as often in the winter. You buy a return ticket at the Gozo end for about €4.70 (no ticket required in Malta). There are also irregular services to Comino.
By seaplane
Regular flights between Valletta Grand Harbour and Mgarr by Harbourair [17] started recently. There is also a planned service to Sicily. The company also offers scenic flights for around 90EUR that take 30 min and provide beautiful views of the Maltese islands. Flights start in Valletta's grand harbor. Check-in and ticket office is at the sea passenger terminal, on the very end of the "Valletta waterfront", behind the cruise ship terminals.
By helicopter
Scheduled helicopter service between Malta and Gozo has been terminated.
By bike
Renting a bike in Malta is not a very common and popular practice but it doesn't cost much, and offers enough flexibility to explore. Bicycle rental shops are present all over the island but it is always better to book them from beforehand via their websites so as not to be disappointed.
Cycling is an orginal and fun way of discovering Malta and Gozo, known for their very small size. It is a good idea to cycle on the West of Malta, in the areas of Dingli Cliffs and Fomm ir-Rih as they are far from congested cities and offer a pleasant view.
It should be known however that most roads in Malta are dangerous for cyclists; most Maltese motorists are not friendly towards cyclists and there are no bicycle lanes. It is best to stick to country roads making sure to rent mountain bikes as country roads can get bumpy and uncomfortable for city bikes. In summer, do not go cycling between the hours of 11 am to 4 pm as the heat is unbearable.
By charter boat
The boat charter industry has grown considerably in Malta over the last few years. Malta's favourable tax regime for commercial yachting and its central location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea has meant that large, famous charter yachts - such as the Maltese Falcon - and a whole range of small and midsized yachts are now available for day and week charters. The Grand Harbour Marina has become the principal centre for bareboating (self-hire yacht chartering). It is the headquarter of such companies as The Sunseeker Experience [18], Yachthelp [19] and Navimerian Malta Yacht Charters [20].
By walking
Valletta is relatively small and very safe for walking - as are both Mdina and Birgu, other old cities of Malta. A bus tour or car hire is more recommended for Gozo though.
The official languages are Maltese and English. Italian is widely understood and spoken. Some people have basic French, but few people can speak fluent French in Malta. By law, all official documents in Malta are in Maltese and English and many radio stations broadcast in both languages. Virtually all Maltese citizens speak English fluently.
Maltese is a Semitic language, though it has borrowed a substantial amount of vocabulary from the Romance languages (particularly Italian). The closest living relative of Maltese is Arabic, particularly the dialect spoken in North Africa known as Maghrebi Arabic (spoken in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria) though Maltese is written in the Latin alphabet instead of the Arabic script. Maltese is also more distantly related to Hebrew and Amharic, so if you speak any of these three languages, you'll recognise some similarities. It also has substantial English elements in it. Knowing a few phrases in Maltese may be useful. See the Maltese phrasebook for details.
Transportation costs are much cheaper by European standards. Food costs are very reasonable. Having a Maltese size pizza in a decent restaurant costs around €6.50.
The ancient capital of Mdina, also known as the Silent City, rests at a high point in the heart of the island. Surrounded by the scenic town of Rabat, this fortress is one of Malta's finest jewels, boasting architecture, history and a quality cup of coffee with a splendid view. Mdina gets very peaceful and romantic in the evenings when the day trippers leave.
Valletta is similar in that it boasts a rich history, only being the modern capital, it is very much alive and much more modern, serving as both a shopping area during the day and offering an array of museums and cultural sites. Of particular note is St John's Co-Cathedral, built by one of the earlier Grandmasters of the Knights Hospitaller. It contains the various chapels of the Knights' langues, with Caravaggio paintings, tapestries and various relics of immense value to the Maltese heritage. The very floors of the Cathedral are the tombs of the most famous knights of the Order of St John, and a crypt, though off-limits to tourists, hosts the bodies of some of the most illustrious of Grandmasters, including the city's founder, Jean de Valette.
Must see attractions include the Unesco World Heritage sites such as the Hypogeum and the megalithic temples that can be admired on both Gozo and Malta and are the oldest in the world!
In Gozo, a rural atmosphere is predominant. Billy Connolly purchased a home in Gozo several years ago, owing to the island's quiet and relaxing nature. Visitors will be interested in taking a look at the impressive geographical feature of the Inland Sea, carved out by the Mediterranean. One is also obliged to visit the Citadel, Gozo's version of Mdina. Gozo is situated 5km north west of Malta and can be reached by a 25 minute crossing from Cirkewwa, the harbour of Malta.
For a look into more traditional Maltese life, the seldom seen south of Malta is a possible option for visitation. Townships like Ghaxaq often escape public notice, but some of the island's finest churches lie in the south. The many churches of Malta are testaments to the style and design of their times. Many towns in the north were stripped of their culture due to rapid urbanisation, but this has been felt less in the south of Malta.
If you visit Malta in summer, be sure you visit one of the town/village feast. Every town or village has at least one feast dedicated to a saint. The feast usually lasts for one week (in most cases from Monday to Sunday), with its peak being usually on Saturday. During this week, the village or town will be decorated with several ornaments and work of arts such as statues, lights and paintings on tapestry. In most cases, the feast would also be furnished with fireworks, both air and ground (which are quite spectacular and rather unique to Malta). In most cases, the ground fireworks are presented the day before the actual feast day late at night. There are differences between one village feast and another, and some are more attractive and more famous than others. Some of the most famous feasts are those of Our Lady of the Lily in Mqabba (third Sunday of June), Saint Philip in Zebbug (second Sunday of June), Mount Carmel in Zurrieq (Sunday before the last of July), Saint Mary of Imqabba, Qrendi, and Ghaxaq (on the 15th of August), Saint Catherine of Zurrieq (first Sunday of September) and the Nativity of Our Lady in Naxxar (on the 8th of September).
During the month of April, a fireworks contest occurs in the Valletta/Floriana area, where different fireworks factories compete with eachother exhibiting their finest works both ground fireworks and air fireworks. It is spectacular and above all its free to attend to.
Quite a few wine festivals are organized during summer, two of which are organized in Valletta and one in Qormi. It is a great experience to taste several Maltese wines at very cheap prices. (In the Qormi festival (September) and Delicata winefestival (August), you buy a 10 euro cup, and you can drink as much as you like; in the Marsovine winefestival (July), you buy a cup and 14 tokens for 10 euros). A beer festival (July-August) is also organized in Ta' Qali.
Finally, Malta's megalithic temples are the oldest free-standing structures on Earth, and one should not forget to take walks in the countryside. The most popular tourist destinations of Sliema and St. Julians probably have the least to offer as regards a taste of Malta, though they continue to be the most frequented. They are the most modern of locations, with most old buildings having been knocked down due to the monstrous construction industry fuelling the economy. Malta's main nightlife area can be found here, especially in Paceville.
Sample the local delicacies. In Summer, the island is perfect for water sports and beach activities. The island has been described as an open-air museum by some; one is unlikely to run out of things to see during a visit to Malta. Each township has its own unique sights to offer if one pays close enough attention. Hiking in the countryside offers a taste of rural Malta, especially if trekking along the coast of Gozo. Sailing is a wonderful option, as Malta boasts an impressive array of caves, scenic sunsets, and other views.
There are a number of great annual festivals worth attending [21].
Valletta Carnival - February/March. Malta Carnival national activities will be held in Valletta and Floriana. Dance and costume competitions will take place in the capital and Floriana followed by defiles which include triumphal floats, bands, grotesque masks and lots of dance. Malta Carnival is an unforgettable experience of fun, colour, art and merriment. The most popular carnival event amongst young adults takes place in Nadur in Gozo.
Għanafest - Malta Mediterranean Folk Music Festival [22] - June. The Malta Mediterranean Folk Music Festival is a fabulous 3-day event of Mediterranean folk music, including Maltese folksongs (għana), Maltese songwriters and folk ensembles, together with guest folk musicians from neighbouring Mediterranean countries. Għanafest also hosts a series of workshops on traditional instruments and a special programme for children, and is complemented by traditional Maltese food and the marvelous surroundings of the Argotti Botanical Gardens in Floriana.
Malta is a great place to dive, with it being possible to dive all year around. The water temperature varies from a cool 14°C in February/March to warm 26°C in August. The visibility of water is generally high, making it a good place to learn diving as well.
The dive sites are located close to shore. Consequently, most dives start there, making everything easier and cheaper. The dive sites include rocky reefs, some wrecks and cave diving (especially interesting is the dive in the Inland Sea in Gozo). There will tend to be more marine life during the warmer months, when you can hope to see tuna, octopus, moray eels, seahorses, fire worms, soft coral along with the usual sea grass and underwater ridges.
Christmas in Malta
Christmas is a largely religious affair on the Maltese islands. This is due to the fact that most Maltese people are Catholics. During the festive season, various Christmas cribs, or Presepji, as they're called in Maltese, can be seen on display in churches, shopping centres, etc.
The Maltese people have many Christmas customs that are unique to the island. A very popular traditional Christmas dessert is Qaghaq ta' l-Ghasel. These are light pastry rings filled with honey.
By Boat
International Charter Group:[28]. Yacht charter and sailing, one of the worlds largest yacht charter companies, can take care of all charter requirements, from bareboat to crewed in Malta. Operating from nine offices worldwide (USA, Spain, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Caribbean, Honk Kong and Dubai).
Malta has the euro (€) as its sole currency along with 24 other countries that use this common European money. These 24 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain (official euro members which are all European Union member states) as well as Andorra, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and the Vatican which use it without having a say in eurozone affairs and without being European Union members. Together, these countries have a population of more than 330 million.
One euro is divided into 100 cents. While each official euro member (as well as Monaco, San Marino and Vatican) issues its own coins with a unique obverse, the reverse, as well as all bank notes, look the same throughout the eurozone. Every coin is legal tender in any of the eurozone countries.
Distinctly Maltese cuisine is hard to find but does exist. The food eaten draws its influences from Italian cuisine. Most restaurants in resort areas like Sliema cater largely to British tourists, offering pub grub like meat and three veg or bangers and mash, and you have to go a little out of the way to find 'real' Maltese food. One of the island's specialities is rabbit (fenek), and small savoury pastries known as pastizzi are also ubiquitous.
The Maltese celebratory meal is fenkata, a feast of rabbit, marinated overnight in wine and bay leaves. The first course is usually spaghetti in rabbit sauce, followed by the rabbit meat stewed or fried (with or without gravy). Look out for specialist fenkata restaurants, such as Ta L'Ingliz in Mgarr.
True Maltese food is quite humble in nature, and rather fish and vegetable based -- the kind of food that would have been available to a poor farmer, fisherman, or mason. Thus one would find staples like soppa ta' l-armla (widow's soup) which is basically a coarse mash of whatever vegetables are in season, cooked in a thick tomato stock. Then there's arjoli which is a julienne of vegetables, spiced up and oiled, and to which are added butter beans, a puree made from broadbeans and herbs called bigilla, and whatever other delicacies are available, like Maltese sausage (a confection of spicy minced pork,coriander seeds, garlic and parsley, wrapped in a hog casing) or ġbejniet (simple cheeselets made from goats' or sheep milk and rennet, served either fresh, dried or peppered).
Maltese sausage is incredibly versatile and delicious. It can be eaten raw (the pork is salted despite appearances), dried, or roasted. A good plan is to try it as part of a Maltese platter, increasingly available in tourist restaurants. Sun dried tomatoes and bigilla with water biscuits are also excellent. Towards the end of summer one can have one's fill of fried lampuki (dolphin fish) in tomato and caper sauce.
One must also try to have a bite of ħobż biż-żejt, which is leavened Maltese bread, cut into thick chunks, or else baked unleavened ftira, and served drenched in olive oil. The bread is then spread with a thick layer of strong tomato paste, and topped (or filled) with olives, tuna, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, and the optional arjoli (which in its simpler form is called ġardiniera).
A typical soft drink that originated in Malta is Kinnie, a non-alcoholic fizzy drink made from bitter oranges (called "Chinotto orange") and slightly reminiscent of Martini.
The local beer is called Cisk (pronounced "Chisk") and, for a premium lager (4.2% by volume), it is very reasonably priced by UK standards. It has a uniquely sweeter taste than most European lagers and is well worth trying. Other local beers, produced by the same company which brews Cisk, are Blue Label Ale, Hopleaf, 1565, Lacto ("milk stout"), and Shandy (a typical British mixture pre-mixture of equal measures of lager and 7-UP). Other beers have been produced in Malta in direct competition with Cisk such as '1565' brewed and bottled in the Lowenbrau brewery in Malta. Since late 2006 another beer produced by a different company was released in the market called "Caqnu". A lot of beers are also imported from other countries or brewed under license in Malta, such as Carlsberg, Lowenbrau, SKOL, Bavaria, Guinness, Murphy's stout and ale, Kilkenny, John Smith's, Budweiser, Becks, Heineken, Efes, and many more.
Malta has two indigenous grape varieties, Girgentina and Ġellewza, although most Maltese wine is made from various imported vines. Maltese wines directly derived from grapes are generally of a good quality, Marsovin [29] and Delicata [30] being prominent examples, and inexpensive, as little as 60-95ct per bottle. Both wineries have also premium wines which have won various international medals There are also many amateurs who make wine in their free time and sometimes this can be found in local shops and restaurants, especially in the Mgarr and Siġġiewi area. Premium wines such as Meridiana [31] are an excellent example of the dedication that can be found with local vineyards.
The main Maltese night life district is Paceville (pronounced "pach-a-vil"), just north of St. Julian's. Young Maltese (as young as high school-age) come from all over the island to let their hair down, hence it gets very busy here, especially on weekends (also somewhat on Wednesdays, for midweek drinking sessions). Almost all the bars and clubs have free entry so you can wander from venue to venue until you find something that suits you. The bustling atmosphere, cheap drinks, and lack of cover charges makes Paceville well worth a visit. The nightlife crowd becomes slightly older after about midnight, when most of the youngsters catch buses back to their towns to meet curfew. Paceville is still going strong until the early hours of the morning, especially on the weekends.
Interestingly it does not rain much on Malta and almost all of the drinking water is obtained from the sea via large desalination plants on the west of the island or from the underground aquifer.
Malta has promoted itself successfully as an entirely bi-lingual nation for Maltese and English. It counts for many educational institutes in the rest of the world as a country where English is the first language and they therefore will often even subsidize students to go there to learn it. The vast majority of Maltese citizens speak English to a very high standard.
For foreigners work is unfortunately often very hard to find, the Maltese are rather insular and figures show that even in the tourist sector they are very reluctant to hire people not from the island. There is a sense that since joining the EU there is more willingness to hire professionals from abroad as the business sector diversifies.
Stay safe
Malta is generally considered safe. However, visitors to Paceville at night should exercise caution. There are repeated incidents of alcohol and drug fueled violence there, and police presence is negligible.
Due to Malta being a major Mediterranean port, sailors with shore leave tend to become quite rowdy after long voyages, as well as with the advent of low cost air travel coming to Malta has brought an influx of teens from across Europe enjoying short cheap weekend breaks in the sun.
Stay healthy
The main health risk in Malta is the fierce sun in the summer, which can scorch unsuspecting tourists. Apply sunblock liberally.
For ambulance, fire or police dial 112. The main hospitals are Mater Dei Telephone: (+356) 2545 0000 and Gozo General Hospital in Gozo, tel. 2156 1600. For a complete list of government hospital services visit [32].
The country has three mobile phone networks available: Vodafone, Go Mobile, and Melita Mobile. Due to international agreements with providers across the globe, Vodafone, GO and Melita are sure to be apart of your carriers roaming plan.
Internet cafés and wi-fi zones are quite abundant with connection rates peaking at 30mbps.

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Former HACC VP charged with stealing more than $220K from college
Former Harrisburg Area Community College executive vice president Nancy Rockey has admitted to stealing approximately $228,000 from the college, according to charges filed today.
Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said in a news release that in February 2012, HACC officials became aware of improper expenditures Rockey had incurred, including some on her college-issued credit card, between 2007 and 2012. An audit was completed and showed that Rockey had taken $228,000 in funds from HACC.
Rockey's attorney, Adam Klein of Smigel, Anderson & Sacks LLP, said she "is very remorseful over what occurred; she plans on taking full responsibility for what occurred and has nothing but sincere apologies to the HACC community. She has served 31 years with HACC, and has raised tens of millions of dollars on its behalf, and this is a very sad day for her."
Rockey, 54, of Lower Paxton Township, has been charged with one third-degree felony count of theft by unlawful taking. She was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Barbara Pianka and released on $250,000 unsecured bail, with a requirement that she surrender her passport and not leave the state pending disposition of her case. Rockey also waived her right to a preliminary hearing.
"Stealing funds from an institution as important as HACC is to this community is reprehensible," Marsico said. He thanked administrators from HACC for their cooperation throughout the investigation and their referral of this matter to law enforcement.
"As a result of the internal investigation launched in February 2012, the college has put additional checks and balances into place for the use of college-issued credit cards," HACC president John J. "Ski" Sygielski said in a news release. "I, the HACC Board of Trustees and the HACC Foundation Board of Directors will continue to be vigilant in fiscal matters to ensure all funds are utilized in a financially responsible, ethical and open manner."
Timothy Sandoe, chairman of the HACC Board of Trustees, said the trustees are "confident in Dr. Ski's ability to move forward with honesty and integrity. The way Dr. Ski and his cabinet handled this matter is indicative of the expectations we expressed when we hired him in July 2011. There was no hesitation on his part as to the action the college needed to take on behalf of our board, students, donors and the entire HACC community."
"I pledge to be as open and transparent about this process as possible within legal restraints," Sygielski said. "As a public institution funded by federal, state and local funding and supported by private donors, HACC has a responsibility to be transparent in its financial practices. Although this situation is challenging for the HACC community, the safeguards are in place to prevent something like this from happening again."
The complaint said a personal expenditure of $4,000 was made on Rockey's college-issued credit card in February 2012.
"When confronted about this expenditure, Rockey admitted making the purchase and agreed to reimburse the college, which she did," the complaint said. "On Feb. 28, 2012, additional expenditures were discovered."
The complaint said a three-year audit showed multiple unauthorized expenditures in excess of $200,000, including gift cards for Amazon.com and Target and "large amounts" of textbooks that never appeared in the bookstore, were never distributed to staff or faculty or never showed up at various HACC continuing education venues. An additional audit for 2007 and 2008 showed more fraudulent charges or purchases.
HACC officials found that all of the textbook purchases were fraudulent, and that the actual expenditures were for Rockey's personal expenditures, including "power and light bills," Verizon Wireless and an iPad, the complaint said.
The complaint said several executives from HACC met investigators on July 2 and advised them of the allegedly fraudulent purchases. It said Rockey admitted to the thefts in an interview Dec. 5.
Click here to read the court documents.
Editor's note: This item has been modified from its previous version to include comments from Rockey's attorney, HACC President John J. "Ski" Sygielski and Timothy Sandoe, chairman of the HACC Board of Trustees.


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'Hit list' is no laughing matter to police, school officials. TCSD superintendent says no serious threats have been made
Last week's shooting at Taft Union High School that left one young man in critical condition and another facing a long jail term is no laughing matter.
You would think everyone understands that
Unfortunately, some young people are having to learn the hard way.
Several Lincoln Junior High students have made joking references to hits lists, Taft City School Superintendent Ron Bryant said,.
That had led to Taft Police officers visiting their homes and talking to their parents and at least one student was suspended.
That student did not say his threat was a joke until he got caught, Bryant said.
Every "hit list" reference has been checked out thoroughly and none are serious, Bryant emphasized.
"There wasn't a threat that turned out to be serious," Bryant said.
The district is going to send parents a letter warning them – and their children - that all threats will be taken seriously and could lead to suspension or expulsion.
Every report they get is checked out, with school resource officer Moises Martinez taking the lead.
"The officer is actually visiting homes and talking with the kids and their parents," Bryant said.
On concerned parent contacted the Taft Midway Driller concerning the reports of hits lists. He said he was thinking of keeping his daughter out of school until he was assured by the district that none of the threats had checked out.
Even a mention of "hit lists" or anything the could be a threat lands students in trouble.
Bryant said three boys joking about it ended up in the office and one was in tears when they found out how much trouble they faced.
Bryant said the shooting at Taft High resulted in a lockdown of all Taft City Schools on Thursday when the event occurred.
The TCSD reopened all campuses on Friday, but the attendance was only about 60 percent. Part of the high absentee rate is attributable to the high school being closed too, since many TCSD students have sibling that attend that school.
Bryant said the district will be looking at all security measures in the wake of the shooting, and also working on emergency response plans.
The district will be doing a debriefing next week to see what worked and what didn't work during the shooting and immediate aftermath when the district was trying to get kids released to parents when the schools closed.


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Non-empty list
From HaskellWiki
NullPointerException in Java. These errors occur because the true domain of the function is smaller than the function's type suggests. For example, the type of
It must be emphasized that we can eliminate head-of-empty-list errors now, without any modification to the Haskell type system, without developing any new tool. In fact, it is possible in Haskell98! The same technique applies to OCaml and even Java and C++. The only required advancement is in our thinking and programming style.
Maybe, you are also interested in advocacy of this style.
1 Safe list functions
Here's the 0th approximation of the advocated approach:
{-# Haskell98! #-} -- Safe list functions module NList (FullList, fromFL, indeedFL, decon, head, tail, Listable (..) ) where import Prelude hiding (head, tail) newtype FullList a = FullList [a] -- data constructor is not exported! fromFL (FullList x) = x -- Injection into general lists -- The following is an analogue of `maybe' indeedFL :: [a] -> w -> (FullList a -> w) -> w indeedFL x on_empty on_full | null x = on_empty | otherwise = on_full $ FullList x -- A possible alternative, with an extra Maybe tagging -- indeedFL :: [a] -> Maybe (FullList a) -- A more direct analogue of `maybe', for lists decon :: [a] -> w -> (a -> [a] -> w) -> w decon [] on_empty on_full = on_empty decon (h:t) on_empty on_full = on_full h t -- The following are _total_ functions -- They are guaranteed to be safe, and so we could have used -- unsafeHead# and unsafeTail# if GHC provides though... head :: FullList a -> a head (FullList (x:_)) = x tail :: FullList a -> [a] tail (FullList (_:x)) = x -- Mapping over a non-empty list gives a non-empty list instance Functor FullList where fmap f (FullList x) = FullList $ map f x -- Adding something to a general list surely gives a non-empty list infixr 5 !: class Listable l where (!:) :: a -> l a -> FullList a instance Listable [] where (!:) h t = FullList (h:t) instance Listable FullList where (!:) h (FullList t) = FullList (h:t)
Now we can write
import NList import Prelude hiding (head, tail) safe_reverse l = loop l [] where loop l accum = indeedFL l accum $ (\l -> loop (tail l) (head l : accum)) test1 = safe_reverse [1,2,3]
As we can see, the null test is algorithmic. After we've done it, head and tail no longer need to check for null list. Those head and tail functions are total. Thus we achieve both safety and performance.
We can also write
-- Again, we are statically assured of no head [] error! test2 = head $ 1 !: 2 !: 3 !: []
I should point to Lightweight dependent typing for justification and formalization, as well as for for further, more complex examples. We can also use the approach to ensure various control properties, e.g., the yield property: a thread may not invoke `yield' while holding a lock. We can assure this property both for recursive and non-recursive locks.
If there is a surprise in this, it is in the triviality of approach. One can't help but wonder why don't we program in this style.
2 Integrating with the existing list-processing functions
Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
In addition, we have this rather nice assembly of functions which work on ordinary lists. Sadly, rewriting them all to also work on NonEmptyList or MySpecialInvariantList is a nontrivial task.
That's an excellent question. Indeed, let us assume we have a function
foo:: [a] -> [a]
(whose code, if available, we'd rather not change) and we want to write something like
\l -> [head l, head (foo l)]
\l -> indeedFL l onempty (\l -> [head l, head (foo l)])
the latter function explicitly, which keeps the typesystem simple, free of subtyping and implicit coercions. One may regard
write explicitly, in any code with more than one sort of integral numbers (e.g., Int and Integer, or Int and CInt).
If we are not sure if our function foo maps non-empty lists to non-empty lists, we really should handle the empty list case:
\l -> indeedFL l onempty $ \l -> [head l, indeedFL (foo $ fromFL l) onempty' head]
If we have a hunch that foo maps non-empty lists to non-empty lists, but we are too busy to verify it, we can write
\l -> indeedFL l onempty $ \l -> [head l, indeedFL (foo $ fromFL l) (error msg) head] where msg = "I'm quite sure foo maps non-empty lists to " ++ "non-empty lists. I'll be darned if it doesn't."
That would get the code running. Possibly at some future date (during the code review?) I'll be called to justify my hunch, to whatever degree of formality (informal argument, formal proof) required by the policies in effect. If I fail at this justification, I'd better think what to do if the result of foo is really the empty list. If I succeed, I'd be given permission to update the module NList with the following definition
nfoo (FullList x) = FullList $ foo x
after which I could write
\l -> indeedFL l onempty (\l -> [head l, head (nfoo l)])
with no extra empty list checks.
Excerpted from the discussion on Haskell-Cafe, November 2006.
3 Reliable and simple approach
The above approach requires a trusted kernel of functions that assert the non-emptiness of lists. However, when implementing the kernel, and even more when you extend or alter it, you may make mistakes. The best approach to avoid even this, is to make the non-emptiness explicit in the type from the beginning:
type NonEmptyList a = (a, [a])
The first member of the pair represents the first element in the non-empty list. Now the compiler can test non-emptiness for you and you cannot cheat anymore.
This approach is extended in the non-empty package such that you can add more leading elements. That is, you can define lists with at least two or three or more elements. You can even define lists that allow for a given set of admissible list lengths. A unified interface to all these variants is provided by standard type classes like Functor, Foldable, Traversable and some custom classes. All that is achieved with Haskell 98!
4 Packages
These packages implement non-empty lists:
- NonEmpty
- NonEmptyList
- Cardinality
- non-empty
- semigroups
- mono-traversable (Data.MinLen)


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Henry Hank wrote: For the Pens to have any chance, they must stay out of the box.
Rylan wrote:7 defensemen the rest of the way. I think that is a good start.
bh wrote:NHL.com is so cheesy
Staal Tactic
Steve wrote:What did I miss?
Steve wrote:What did I miss?
GDR wrote:Grossman might be concussed - apparently on a hit by Kennedy (don't recall it).
shafnutz05 wrote:I am not getting confident AT ALL going into tomorrow. That being said, just happy I can go to work tomorrow with a smile on my face.
duke66 wrote:who starts game #5 for philly. both blow chunks, but bob has his CEC record?
shafnutz05 wrote:I am not getting confident AT ALL going into tomorrow. That being said, just happy I can go to work tomorrow with a smile on my face.
Henry Hank wrote:Yeah. It's at least nice to feel good about something in this series. I just wish they hadn't gotten themselves in this hole. I think if the Pens can take game five, then things might really start falling into place for them but it's going to be very tough. Philly is a good team and you figure they're going to come out with a strong performance Friday. I hope all this scoring doesn't reinforce in the Pens' minds that playing run and gun is the way to go for them.
jwest21 wrote:Did anyone figure out what the heck Bryz said after his interview on FSN?? Sounded like "de KATES"
Steve wrote:How often does a team score three power play goals in the first period, and lose by seven goals?
I've been shocked after every game of this series lol...
columbia wrote:That was pretty fun to watch, but I will not yet allow myself to get emotionally pulled in, unless this goes to 7.
Too much heartbreak in the last week.
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HUMMELSTOWN — After establishing a 12-point lead at the half, the Greencastle-Antrim girls basketball team withstood a late rally by Carlisle to earn a 62-56 victory over Carlisle in Friday's consolation game of the Lower Dauphin Christmas Tournament.
Paced by Katie Gelsinger's career-high 24 points the Blue Devils remained in control throughout, despite Carlisle cutting the deficit to four in the second half.
"Katie showed some of the best post moves I've seen from her tonight," G-A head coach Mike Rhine said of his sophomore inside presence. "She was decisive and really stepped up for us."
Chloe Hoover also handled her share of the workload, finishing with 18 points in the win, including a trio of makes from beyond the arc.
The contributions continued down the stretch, with Jane Herman sinking all four of her attempts from the free throw line to seal the victory in the closing moments of regulation.
"Jane bailed us out in crunch time," Rhine said. "We had missed a couple free throws that would have iced the game earlier, then Jane was fouled twice and made all four of her free throws to seal it."
Meghan Hirneisen added eight points for the Blue Devils while Herman finished with six.
Megan Bisker led Carlisle with 18 points followed by 12 from Bryanna Youtzy.
G-A (4-4) will return to Mid-Penn Colonial Division action next Friday at home against James Buchanan.


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For all you folks wanting further evidence that Brad Warner is, indeed, The Porno Buddhist (I need to trademark that, it could make a good book title some day) and deserves to be made a laughing stock throughout all Buddhism, here is a photo from last night's big Suicide Girls bash on behalf of PETA 2. Yes, it's PETA 2 and not PETA. Don't ask me the difference because I don't know. I'm crap with names. But here's what my Zen-addled mind can cough up. The woman in red who I've got my arm around is Arabia, just behind her dressed in black is Aspen, who regularly attends our Zazen classes in Santa Monica and the woman whose left eye and left shoulder appear on the far left is Sam, another attendee of the Saturday Zazen things.
The party was loud. And I didn't stay too long because Aspen was my ride up there and needed to work the next day. This was fine by me since I'm not a late night dude anyway. I had fun for the hour or so I was out at the Roxy. But I just don't have the whole party animal thing going. So an hour was plenty. Sam was part of the fashion show, which consisted mainly of lingerie and fake fur. But no fake fur lingerie, which would have been interesting. My friend Cake was also part of the fashion show. But, sadly, I wasn't able to flag her down before we left. Cake, if you're reading this, no offense was intended.
I want to write something profound. But maybe not tonight. So just enjoy the picture and make up your own story about what went on before and after it was taken.


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This post is part of a series titled, "Homeschool Q&A." The series features questions we've received from parents on a variety of topics–and the answers!
Q. In order to attend the many Homeschool Day events planned by HEAV, do you need to have an HEAV membership card to show you are a member and a homeschooler?
A. You are not required to present a membership card, and all are welcome to come to our Homeschool Day events–members and non-members alike!
Of course, we appreciate our members' support–it makes these events possible–but HEAV provides museum trips and historical site visits as a service to all homeschoolers and potential homeschool families.
Come on out and join us! HEAV Homeschool Day events provide a great opportunity to have an educational outing–usually at reduced prices–and to meet other homeschooling families!


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Teresita CochranAlumni, Class of 2005
Teresita worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer at a non-profit community development organization in St. Louis, MO. She comes from a multi-ethnic background and is very influenced by her parent's activism and upbringing. She found the arts necessary for her own self-expression and communication and wants to further explore her ideas here.