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These airships are majestic as they rise to the heavens. It took a long time before the work on these giants could begin. Engineers had to be employed, a hangar built, materials procured and sponsors found. At last the day has arrived and a giant airship starts its maiden flight towards the horizon.
In this exciting game the players use their skill to try to expand their own companies. In the end they will have created an impressive fleet of airships.
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Andreas Seyfarth
Rio Grande Games, Queen, Asmodee North America
Jo Hartwig
Year: 2008
Players: 2 - 4
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 1,000 grams
All-Time Sales Rank: #176
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Design by: Andreas Seyfarth
Published by: Rio Grande Games / Queen Games
2 – 4 Players, 45 minutes
Review by: Greg J. Schloesser
My first exposure to Airships was at the Essen show several years ago. I had the pleasure of learning the game while it was still in development from designer Andreas Seyfarth. I was surprised when the game was not released the following year, as it seemed to be complete and ready to publish. The game had faded from memory by the following year, so I was equally surprised to hear it was being released by Queen Games.
The published version remains virtually unchanged from the prototype I played. To my recollection, even the cartoon-like artwork is the same. That's just fine with me, as I enjoyed the prototype and thought it was a fully developed game.
In Airships, players vie to assemble the necessary components and manpower in order to construct the most impressive fleet of zeppelins. From mechanical and physical components to engineers and captains – all are needed to help build and acquire the outstanding airships.
Lest folks misunderstand, let me clear: Airships is a dice game. This is not a deep game of economics or business management. Players will roll various dice in their attempts to acquire the desired expansions and airships. Dice come in three colors, with different value ranges on each type. Each expansion requires a certain value be met on specific dice in order to be acquired. The challenge is to assemble various combinations of components to give you the dice needed to secure the parts and ships you desire.
On his turn, a player will target a specific component from a handful of options for his ship. Each card depicts the type (engineer, commander, financier, material, hangar or engine), the specific type and number of dice to be rolled, the numerical total required to acquire the card, and the advantage obtained for securing the card. Players can roll extra dice if they have them, but can only use the indicated number to determine their success or failure. For example, an engine card might require the player to roll two white dice and obtain a total of "5" on the dice. The player can roll more than two white dice if he possesses the ability to do so, but can only use the values on two of those dice to determine if he is successful. If he is successful, the player acquires the engine, which also grants a bonus of "+1" to subsequent rolls of a white die.
Failing to successfully meet the requirements on a particular roll is not a disaster, as the player is rewarded with a consolation bonus chip. One of these chips can be used to add "1" to the value of a roll, or three chips can be surrendered to take another turn.
There are a large variety of cards available, and the benefits derived vary considerably. The challenge is to assemble a collection of cards that will give you the ability to roll multiples of the three different colored dice, and modify these rolls to your advantage.
Players may only possess one of each type of component, so if they acquire another component of the same type, they must jettison the former one. This can sometimes be a tough decision, as the benefits granted by that component will then be lost.
In addition to airship components, players can choose to obtain completed airships. These ships award the player with victory points, but some are more difficult to obtain. Usually, a player will spend numerous turns acquiring components in order to obtain the ability to roll the dice needed to pursue the acquisition of an airship. Alternatively, players can also attempt to construct portions of the granddaddy of all zeppelins – the Hindenburg. Each step is progressively more difficult to complete, but the payoff is more and more victory points. Ultimately, victory points are what win the game, but in order to obtain them, players must first spend time acquiring expansions and the bonuses they award.
An additional incentive to construct airships is that the successful player is awarded the zeppelin token, which gives that player an automatic "+1" to all future dice rolls. The next player to construct an airship confiscates the token. Once a player constructs a segment of the Hindenburg, however, that player can only lose the token if an opponent also constructs another segment of the massive airship.
The game ends when all steps of the Hindenburg are completed, or each of the four stacks of airship cards have one or fewer remaining cards. Players determine the victory by tallying the victory points listed on their airships, expansions and Hindenburg levels. In all, the game takes about 30 – 45 minutes to play to completion.
The game does have much in common with Tom Lehmann's To Court the King. The objective is to acquire cards that give you greater flexibility and increase your chances of acquiring even better cards. In a sense, it is an engine building game, but on a vastly lighter scale. While I didn't care much for To Court the King – primarily because I felt there were just too many options and modifiers – Airships appeals to me. The options and modifiers are much more manageable, and the game seems to flow much smoother. Turns are quick, yet there are some interesting choices to be made, particularly in regards to which expansions to acquire and which to jettison.
My biggest complaint is a surprising one: it is too easy to acquire desired cards. There are numerous modifiers one can apply to a dice roll, including those granted by bonus chips, the airship token, and previously acquired expansions. The ability to choose the highest values amongst numerous dice also makes the task easier. I've gone through several games with just one or two failed dice rolls; that just seems too easy. One possible suggestion is to reduce the starting number of bonus chips to one or perhaps zero, which should cause the game to begin a bit slower. However, I'm not sure a slower game is a good thing.
While I'm enjoying Airships right now, and feel it should remain popular with family or folks who are casual gamers, I'm not sure it will maintain its appeal with me for much longer. The novelty may wear-off, but that's true for many games. For now, I'm reasonably happy with the game, as are most folks to whom I've taught it. I don't think the game will rise to the lofty heights reached by the actual zeppelins, but it still have enough lift to bring it to the table often enough to keep it around for a bit longer.


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scottfischbein needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 197 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
Logo for wedding and portrait photography business. Business name is: "See Light Photography". Logo should subtly, artistically reference light, lighting, etc. Must be stylish and visually interesting, uncluttered and distinctive.
See Light Photography
UPDATE: OK, I think I've got the technology angle fairly well covered.
I'd really like to see some images that are more abstract/subtle now.
Some of the feedback I'm getting from my photographer friends and my
former clients is that the logos I'm leaning towards are too "techy"
and give away my status as a gear geek... and since my target audience
is future brides, that might not work so well. So something a bit more
elegant, less tech-oriented. I like #100 and #125 in this regard...
would be interested in seeing what others come up with. If you have any
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I am rebranding my wedding photography business. The new business name will be See Light Photography.
I try to make creative use of photographic lighting, and would like that expressed in the logo, but in a subtle way the evokes the idea of light, without hitting the viewer over the head with it. This is probably the most important, and most challenging part of the design. I want something that clearly says "Light" but without being cheesy and obvious... a light bulb MIGHT work, if done creatively, but some other ideas would be great to see - if I could think of them, I'd do it myself, but that's what I need you brilliant designers for ;)
Although I'm primarily a wedding photographer, I do other types of photography as well, so the logo shouldn't be tied to wedding photography.
There should be some distinction between the three words "See" "Light" and "Photography," and will primarily be used full color but the logo should work in color as well as B/W (please provide samples of both).
No clip art or images of lights, cameras, etc (maybe a stylized "bulb" would be OK, but nothing more obvious than that).
Another idea (take it or leave it... you're the designers...) is to have the words See and Light separated by some image that evokes lighting.
My current website is: http://www.readyforyourcloseup.com, (note: my current business name is Fischbein Photography and I'll be changing to See Light Photography, along with that domain name, after I have the logo).
- evocative of light/lighting - very important
- useable in color or B/W
- Logo will be superimposed on various photographs, so should work well
on different colored backgrounds (light/dark, etc.) and ideally have
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logo. See current website for example (ie: "Fischbein Photography" logo in upper right corner). A SINGLE version should be legible against a dark or light background, NOT two different versions (one for light, one for dark)
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Ener-G-Force: looking into the future
, December 26, 2012
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class has endured as an off-road icon for over 30 years. Is it possible that the Mercedes-Benz G-Class will still be around in 2025?
A design study from Mercedes-Benz demonstrates how the genes of the classic off-roader from 1979 may still assert themselves in the far future. It is based on the concept of a future police car developed for the Los Angeles Design Challenge, says a statement.
The Challenge looks far ahead with a quest for the "Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025". Law enforcement will have to prepare for even more crowded roads with electronically monitored and guided traffic, a much larger population and changes in human behaviour.
The new times will also call for new police vehicles. They must be able to reach any place conceivable quickly and reliably – even far away from any pavement. And they must do so in an exceptionally environmentally friendly way using alternative energy sources. Enhanced green-car characteristics and off-road capabilities will be among the fundamental virtues of a police car in 2025, it said.
As an environmentally friendly SUV, the Ener-G-Force, which Mercedes-Benz is presenting in Los Angeles as a design study, meets these requirements and would be fully capable of supporting police and emergency services in every corner of the world, said the statement.
Gorden Wagener, director of design at Mercedes-Benz Cars, said: "The Ener-G-Force is the vision of an off-roader that, while reflecting tomorrow's adventures, also invokes the genes of the Mercedes-Benz off-road icon, the G model. Modern and cool, it could also be a clue about a new beginning for the off-road design idiom of Mercedes-Benz".
The small glass areas make the police vehicle a safe cocoon for law
enforcement officers who are faced with many dangers. Emergency lights
integrated into the roof ensure attention that is impossible to ignore; the
striking front leaves no doubt as to the commanding presence of the police, and the gigantic wheels guarantee the right of way even where no way exists.
Back from the future
The concept of the Ener-G-Force for the Los Angeles Design
Challenge is pure, rendered science fiction. However, the notion of designing tomorrow's off-roader fascinated the designers at the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio in Carlsbad, California to such an extent that they evolved the vision of a police version into a civilian version and even built a 1:1-scale model, the statement said.
Like the "Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025", the shape of the civilian Ener-G-Force is modelled after the G-Class, the off-road icon whose continuous history goes all the way back to the 1970s and that to this very day still tackles the future as a stylistically and technologically advanced SUV, it said.
Like the police version, the model of the civilian Ener-G-Force is unmistakably inspired by the G-Class, which has long been considered an automotive icon.
However, it presents a radical reinterpretation of this classic that looks far into the future. Important genes such as proportions and design elements were adopted conceptually and completely redesigned and updated in a clean concept for beyond tomorrow.
Ener-G-Force Designer Hubert Lee: "Of course we wanted to take a clear step forward, but we also wanted the G's characteristic features". The Ener-G-Force has a similar profile, however with a high shoulder line and scaled-down glass areas.
While the clear design idiom of the G-Class has remained, all surfaces are designed to express intensity and tension. The meticulously executed details also are a clear indication that the Ener-G-Force is the product of modern times.
Like the G-Class, the Ener-G-Force sports a front with an expressive radiator grille that incorporates the headlamps. LEDs in the headlamps form lamp units in the shape of a G. This gives the Ener-G-Force a strong, iconic appearance and demonstrates dominance. The front indicators and position lights are mounted on top of the wings as a significant G-Class element.
Bursting with energy
The Ener-G-Force stores recycled water in tanks on the roof, and transfers it to the "hydro-tech converter," where natural and renewable resources are converted into hydrogen for operating the fuel cells. The storage units for the electricity generated in this process are housed easily accessible in the striking side skirts. The Ener-G-Force emits nothing but water, has an operating range of about 800 km and as a result truly is a green car.
Four wheel-hub motors, whose output for each individual wheel is adapted precisely to the respective terrain by high-performance electronics, provide the pulling power. A "Terra-Scan" 360-degree topography scanner on the roof permanently scans the surroundings and uses the results to adjust the spring and damping rates as well as other suspension parameters for maximum traction on the respective surface, regardless of whether it is in terrain or on the road. – TradeArabia News Service


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CAMBRIDGE — At the beginning of "The Lily's Revenge,'' a haughty figure named Time, played by Samantha Eggers with a cuckoo clock on her head and two smaller clocks on her shoulders, warns the audience that the performance they're about to see will be "much longer than advertised. It is so long you may actually forget your name. . . . This play could very well last the rest of your life!''
If truth-in-advertising regulations applied to stage dialogue, plenty of plays would begin with similar warnings. But you're not likely to look at your own timepiece very often during the four hours and 20 minutes, including several intermissions, that it takes the American Repertory Theater production of "The Lily's Revenge'' to unfold at Oberon. There's too much to see, hear, and generally absorb.
A five-act phantasmagoria written and conceived by Taylor Mac and directed with finesse by Shira Milikowsky, "The Lily's Revenge'' blends satire, music, dance, verse, film, fable, and vaudevillian hijinks into a tale of an intrepid, pure-hearted flower named Lily (Mac), battling the forces of history, culture, and social convention in its bid to marry a human.
That might make the show sound cloying, cutesy, and ham-handed, and in truth, sometimes it's all those things. More often, though, you're caught up in its sheer, gaudy, irrepressible theatricality. If Busby Berkeley had dropped acid while watching "Pee-wee's Playhouse,'' the result might have been "The Lily's Revenge.''
In a very funny sequence just before Lily uproots itself from its baby-blue pot, Mac dons a top hat and twirls a cane, every inch a prima donna. The flower envisions its life to come as a showbiz fable, complete with adulatory crowds; producers and celebrities knocking on the dressing-room door; and introspective moments in front of the makeup mirror, when the hollowness of fame stands revealed.
For all its larky antics, an unmistakable message is woven throughout the dreamlike "Lily's Revenge,'' which premiered in New York in 2009 and won an Obie Award. It comes across as an allegory about gay marriage while making a broader argument for the simple freedom to love who you want, be who you are, and control your own story.
For Lily, that means breaking free of "institutionalized narrative'' and the suffocating, pervasive force of false nostalgia for a world that never existed. These spirit-constraining qualities are represented by The Great Longing, who proclaims that the Bride Deity, well played by Davina Cohen, cannot marry a flower.
Embodied as a fuming, tyrannical theater curtain, The Great Longing is portrayed by none other than Thomas Derrah, who pulls out all the stops. One of Boston's finest actors — his solo performance in the ART's "R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe'' was a wonder to behold — Derrah trades in Bucky's bow tie and three-piece suit for pasties and a G-string as he performs a protracted striptease routine that sets some kind of record for middle-aged actor daring.
It's not the only memorable sight. Visually, "The Lily's Revenge'' is a rainbow riot of color. Somewhere, Dame Edna is seething in envy at the over-the-top garishness of Sarah Cubbage's costumes. Mac is attired in an iridescent green jumpsuit from which five white petals jut. In Act 2 — the weakest part of the show — the verse-spouting Garden Flowers wear wigs and headdresses of purple, orange, and pink, while Remo Airaldi's Master Sunflower is adorned with a crown of giant yellow petals. I got a close-up view when Airaldi walked to my seat and proceeded to painstakingly lick my forehead, not once but twice, though I don't recall asking for an encore.
But hey, audience interaction is part of the ART aesthetic at Oberon, and very much part of "The Lily's Revenge,'' even during intermission, when performers fan out through and outside the club. Anyone venturing into the Oberon men's room during the first break at the opening performance would have encountered a fast-talking performer delivering a philosophical disquisition while scribbling theories on the mirror. It's in keeping with a show that name-checks Hegel, Kant, Heidegger, and especially the poet and essayist Susan Stewart (a fictional version of whom is featured in "The Lily's Revenge,'' portrayed by Adeola Role).
The idealized vision of marriage that animates Lily is subjected to a forceful reality check in the third act. Wedded bliss proves not entirely blissful in a dream ballet by Ara Glenn-Johanson, superbly performed by Marisa Fratto, as Bride Love, and Samson Kohanski, as Groom Love. On a catwalk above the duo, Lily slows to near immobility, as if demoralized by this spectacle of the prosaic.
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Ingredients• 6 cup(s) sweet potatoes or yams, shredded
• 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 Tbs. honey
• 1 large egg
• 2 large egg whites
• 1/2 cup(s) light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/3 cup(s) walnuts, chopped
• 1 Tbs. orange juice
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 2 baking apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
1. In a large bowl, combine sweet potatoes, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, honey, egg, and egg whites and stir with a fork until mixed well.
2. Coat a large non-stick skillet with cooking spray and place over medium heat. Drop the batter by about 2 tablespoonfuls into hot pan to make several pancakes. Flatten slightly with a spatula until about 3 inches across. Cook the pancakes until golden on both sides. Transfer the pancakes to a warm large plate and keep warm. Repeat with the remaining batter, coating the skillet with cooking spray, as needed.
3. To make the topping:
In a large skillet, stir together brown sugar, walnuts, orange juice, and cinnamon. Add the apples and cook over medium-high heat, stirring, until the apples are tender and the brown sugar has melted to form a syrup. Serve with the pancakes.
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Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
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In this thoughtful, provocative work, Osho—one of the most revolutionary thinkers of our time—challenges us to question what we think we know about love and opens us to the possibility of a love that is natural, fulfilling, and free of possessiveness and jealousy.
With his characteristic wit, humor, and understanding, Osho dares us to resist the unhealthy relationship patterns we've learned from those around us, and to rediscover the meaning of love for ourselves. "By the time you are ready to explore the world of love, you are filled with so much rubbish about love that there is not much hope for you to be able to find the authentic and discard the false."
By answering the questions that so many lovers face, Osho shares new ways to love that will forever change how you relate to others, including how to:
• Love without clinging
• Let go of expectations, rules, and demands
• Free yourself from the fear of being alone
• Be fully present in your relationships
• Keep your love fresh and alive
• Become a life partner with whom someone could continue to grow and change
• Surrender your ego so you can surrender to love
Being in Love will inspire you to welcome love into your life anew and experience the joy of being truly alive by sharing it.
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Breaking Out of the Shell of the Ego
I have been always surprised by the number of people who come to me and say they are afraid of love. What is the fear of love? It is because when you really love somebody your ego starts slipping away and melting. You cannot love with the ego; the ego becomes a barrier, and when you want to drop the barrier between yourself and the other, the ego says, "This is going to be a death. Beware!"
The death of the ego is not your death; the death of the ego is really your possibility of life. The ego is just a dead crust around you, it has to be broken and thrown away. It comes into being naturally--just as a traveler collects dust on his clothes, on his body, and he has to take a bath to get rid of the dust. As we move through time, the dust of our experiences, our knowledge, of the life we have lived, of the past, collects. That dust becomes the ego. It accumulates and becomes a crust around you, which has to be broken and thrown away. One has to take a bath every day, in fact every moment, so that this crust never becomes a prison.
It will be helpful to understand where the ego comes from, to understand the roots.
A child is born and is absolutely helpless, particularly the human child. He cannot survive without others' help. Most children of the animals, the trees, the birds, can survive without the parents, can survive without a society, without a family. Even if sometimes help is needed, it is very little--a few days, at the most a few months. But a human child is so helpless that he has to depend on others for years. It is there that the root has to be sought.
Why does helplessness create the human ego? The child is helpless, he depends on others, but the ignorant mind of the child interprets this dependence as if he is the center of the whole world. The child thinks, "Whenever I cry, my mother runs immediately; whenever I am hungry, I just have to give an indication and the breast is given. Whenever I am wet, just a slight cry and somebody comes and changes my clothes." The child lives like an emperor. In fact he is absolutely helpless and dependent, and the mother and father, the family and his caretakers, are all helping him to survive. They are not dependent on the child, the child is dependent on them. But the mind of the child interprets this as if he is the center of the whole world, as if the whole world exists just for him.
And the world of the child is, of course, very small in the beginning. It consists of the mother, the caretaker, the father on the fringe--this is the child's whole world. These people love the child. And the child becomes more and more egoistic. He feels himself to be the very center of all existence, and in that way the ego is created. Through dependence and helplessness, the ego is created.
In fact the child's real situation is just the contrary from what he thinks; there is no real justification to create such an ego. But the child is absolutely ignorant, he is not capable of understanding the complexity of the thing. He cannot know that he is helpless, he thinks he is the dictator! And then for his whole life he will try to remain the dictator. He will become a Napoleon, an Alexander, an Adolf Hitler--your presidents, prime ministers, dictators, are all childish. They are trying to achieve the same thing they experienced as children; they want to be the center of the whole existence. With them the world should live and die; the whole world is their periphery and they are the center of it; the very meaning of life is hidden in them.
The child, of course, naturally finds this interpretation correct, because when the mother looks at him, in the eyes of the mother he sees that he is the significance of her life. When the father comes home, the child feels that he is the very meaning of the father's life. This lasts for three or four years--and the years at the beginning of life are the most important; never again will there be a time in a person's life with the same potential.
Psychologists say that after the first four years the child is almost complete. The whole pattern is fixed; throughout the rest of life you will repeat the same pattern in different situations. And by the seventh year the child has all his attitudes confirmed, his ego is settled. Now he moves out into the world--and then everywhere he encounters problems, millions of problems! Once you are out of the circle of the family, problems will arise--because nobody else bothers about you in the same way your mother bothered about you; nobody is as concerned about you as your father was. Instead, everywhere you find indifference, and the ego is hurt.
But now the pattern is set. Whether it hurts or not, the child cannot change the pattern--it has become the very blueprint of his being. He will play with other children and try to dominate them. He will go to school and try to dominate, to come first in his class, to become the most important student. He might believe he is superior but he finds that all the other children believe the same way. There is conflict, there are egos, there is fighting, struggle.
Then this becomes the whole story of life: there are millions of egos around you, just like yours, and everybody is trying to control, maneuver, dominate--through wealth, power, politics, knowledge, strength, lies, pretensions, hypocrisies. Even in religion and morality, everybody is trying to dominate, to show the rest of the world that "I am the center of the world."
This is the root of all problems between people. Because of this concept, you are always in conflict and struggle with somebody or other. Not that others are enemies to you--everybody else is just like you, in the same boat. The situation is the same for everybody else; they have been brought up in the same way.
There exists a certain school of psychoanalysts in the West who have proposed that unless children are brought up without their fathers and mothers, the world will never be at peace. I don't support them, because then children will never be brought up in any way! Those psychologists have something of truth in their proposal, but it is a very dangerous idea. Because if children are brought up in nurseries without fathers and mothers, without any love, with total indifference, they may not have the problems of the ego but they will have other, even more damaging and dangerous problems.
If a child is brought up in total indifference he will have no center. He will be a hotchpotch, clumsy, not knowing who he is. He will not have any identity. Afraid, scared, he will not be able to take even a single step without fear, because nobody has loved him. Of course, the ego will not be there, but without it he will have no center. He will not become a buddha; he will be just dull and crippled, always feeling afraid.
Love is needed to make you feel fearless, to make you feel that you are accepted, that you are not useless, that you cannot be discarded in the junkyard. If children are brought up in a situation where love is lacking, they will not have egos, that's true. Their life will not have so much struggle and fight. But they will not be able to stand up for themselves at all. They will be always in flight, escaping from everybody, hiding in caves in their own being. They will not be buddhas, they will not be radiant with vitality, they will not be centered, at ease, at home. They will simply be eccentric, off-center. That will not be a good situation either.
So I don't support these psychologists. Their approach would create robots, not human beings--and robots of course have no problems. Or, they may create human beings who are more like animals. There will be less anxiety, less ulcers, less cancer, but that is not worth achieving when it means that you cannot grow to a higher peak of consciousness. Instead you would be falling downward; it will be a regression. Of course, if you become an animal there will be less anguish, because there will be less consciousness. And if you become a stone, a rock, there will be no anxiety at all because there is nobody inside to feel anxious, to feel anguish. But this is not worth achieving. One has to be like a god, not like a rock. And by that I mean it to have absolute consciousness and still have no worries, no anxieties, no problems; to enjoy life like the birds, to celebrate life like birds, to sing like birds--not through regression but by growing to the optimum of consciousness.
The child gathers ego--it is natural, nothing can be done about it. One has to accept it. But later on, there is no need to keep carrying it. That ego is needed in the beginning for the child to feel that he is accepted, loved, welcomed--that he is an invited guest, not an accident. The father, the mother, the family, and the warmth around the child help him to grow strong, rooted, grounded. It is needed, the ego gives him protection--it is good, it is just like the shell of a seed. But the shell should not become the ultimate thing, otherwise the seed will die. The protection can go on too long, then it becomes a prison. The protection must remain a protection while it is needed, and when the moment comes for the hard shell of the seed to die into the earth, it should die naturally so that the seed can sprout and life can be born.
The ego is just a protective shell--the child needs it because he is helpless. The child needs it because he is weak; the child needs it because he is vulnerable and there are millions of forces all around. He needs protection, a home, a base. The whole world may be indifferent but he can always look toward home, and from there he can gather significance.
But, with significance comes the ego. The child becomes egoistic, and with this ego arise all the problems you face. This ego will not allow you to fall in love. This ego would like everybody to surrender to you; it will not allow you to surrender to anybody--and love happens only when you surrender. When you force somebody else to surrender it is hateful, destructive. It is not love. And if there is no love, your life will be without warmth, without any poetry in it. It may be prose, mathematical, logical, rational. But how can one live without poetry?
Prose is okay, rationality is okay, it is utilitarian, needed--but living just through reason and logic can never be a celebration, can never be festive. And when life is not festive, it is boring. Poetry is needed--but for poetry you need surrender. You need to throw off this ego. If you can do it, if you can put it aside even for a few moments, your life will have glimpses of the beautiful, of the divine.
Without poetry you cannot really live, you can only exist. Love is poetry. And if love is not possible, how can you be prayerful, meditative, aware? It becomes almost impossible. And without a meditative awareness, you will remain just a body; you will never become aware of the innermost soul. Only in prayerfulness, in a deep meditation and silence do you reach the peaks. That prayerful silence, that meditative awareness is the highest peak of experience--but love opens the door.
Carl Gustav Jung, after a lifetime of studying thousands of people--thousands of cases of people who were ill, psychologically crippled, psychologically confused--said that he had never come across a psychologically ill person whose real problem after the fortieth year is not spiritual. There is a rhythm in life, and in your forties a new dimension arises, the spiritual dimension. If you cannot tackle it rightly, if you don't know what to do, you will become ill, you will become restless. The whole of human growth is a continuity. If you miss one step, it becomes discontinuous. The child gathers ego--and if he never learns to put the ego aside he cannot love, cannot be at ease with anybody. The ego will be constantly in fight. You may be sitting silently, but the ego is constantly fighting, just looking out for ways to dominate, to be dictatorial, to become the ruler of the world.
This creates problems everywhere. In friendship, sex, love, in the society--everywhere you are in conflict. There is even conflict with the parents who have given this ego to you. It is rare that a son forgives his father, rare that a woman forgives her mother. It happens very rarely.
George Gurdjieff had a sentence on the wall of the room where he used to meet with people. The sentence was this: "If you are not yet at ease with your father and mother, then go away. I cannot help you." Why? Because the problem has arisen there and it has to be solved there. That's why all the old traditions say love your parents, respect your parents as deeply as possible--because the ego arises there, that is the soil. Solve it there, otherwise it will haunt you everywhere.
Psychoanalysts have also come to the conclusion that all they do is bring you back to the problems that existed between you and your parents and try to solve them somehow. If you can solve your conflict with your parents, many other conflicts will simply disappear because they are based on the same fundamental conflict.
For example, a man who is not at ease with his father cannot be at ease with the boss in the office--never, because the boss is a father figure. That small conflict with your parents continues to be reflected in all your relationships. If you are not at ease with your mother, you cannot be at ease with your wife because she will be the representative woman; you cannot be at ease with women as such, because your mother is the first woman, she is the first model of a woman. Wherever a woman is, your mother is, and a subtle relationship continues.
Ego is born in the relationship with the father and mother, and it has to be tackled there. Otherwise you will go on cutting branches and leaves of the tree, and the root remains untouched.
From the Hardcover edition.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is Love? 1
The Journey from "Me" to "We": Understanding the Nature and Nurture of Love
Beyond Dependency and Domination-Breaking Out of the Shell of the Ego 15
The Natural Stages of Life and Loving 25
The Candle of Awareness 39
Love Is a Breeze: Making the Most of Romance
Nonsense Ideas in Your Head 45
"Love Hurts" and Other Misunderstandings 65
Attraction and Opposition 89
Dropping Out of the Lonely Hearts Club 101
Soul Mates or Cell Mates? 131
Love and the Art of Non-doing 169
From Relationship to Relating-Love as a State of Being
"Love" Is a Verb 199
Couples Counseling-Insights for Living and Growing in Love 207
Only Love Remains 233
About the Author 241
OSHOL: International Meditation Resort 243
For More Information 245
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January 25, 2006
NEWTOWN — A retired Pleasant Hill Elementary School fifth-grade teacher and Wabash College graduate had heard stories all his life about the escapades of family members and other local residents.
Like most young kids Bob Quirk, 78, never thought too much about the stories until later years. The Fountain County historian recently formatted several tales into a new book.
"Real American Stories" was published in December 2005 by AuthorHouse, based at Bloomington, Ind. The book sells for $14 and can be obtained by phoning Quirk at 765-295-2604 or going to the AuthorHouse Web site at www.authorhouse.com.
A book signing is scheduled from 3-6 p.m. Jan. 31 at La Rose on Main Antique Mall, 124 W. Main St., Crawfordsville. Cost of the book is $14.
The book includes, among 43 stories, a diary of a Civil War soldier, a 15-year-old Irish boy who joined the British Merchant Marines and meets his future wife on board 14 years later on a voyage from Shanghai to London, a young woman who sailed to China in 1920 to teach school, outhouses, small town high school team that won a national high school tournament and a small town boy who became a hero at Colombine.
Quirk graduated in 1945 from Richland Township High School at Newtown. Went to Wabash College and put his college education on hold to serve in the Army for one and one-half years. He graduated with a history major in 1950 from Wabash. In the same year, he married Jeannine Peterson, Attica, on Aug. 20.
Griff Quirk, Bob's father, was born in 1895 in Ireland and served 14 years in the British Merchant Marines. His mother, Grace McKinney, was born in 1891 in the house her mother and father built near Newtown.
"I didn't think about the stories when I grew up, it was just mom and dad talking," Quirk said.
Quirk's father came to Fountain County to farm after leaving the British Merchant Marines.
"Dad didn't know much about farming but I learned more about England and Ireland from him," Quirk said.
One of the most precious archives Quirk discovered was a box of letters written by his mother when Grace went to Kuling, China, in 1919 to teacher music to British and American children.
A friend's daughter had purchased the house Quirk's mother lived in and told him a box of letters written by Grace to her mother were found in the home.
"We thought we had everything cleared out," Bob Quirk said.
The letters provided an insight, through Grace's eyes, of life in China during the early part of the 1900s.
Other stories include the Wingate state championship basketball teams, travels of his father, farming, the time 125,000 people came to Newtown for the national cornhusking championship in 1935 and a special memory of Dave Sanders, the Fountain Central graduate who saved many students from harm, but was killed during the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.
"We used to haul Dave Sanders to ball games," Quirk said.
Quirk's wife was probably the biggest influence to get her husband to write down his memories. Good friend Greg Flint suggested the book and helped organize it. Children Jeff, Jerry and Jill also had a hand with the book.
In addition to farming, Quirk added education to his career choices. He began teaching at the former Coal Creek Central High School and had been principals at Mount Zion, East Union and Waynetown schools before ending his education career at Pleasant Hill as a fifth-grade teacher.
Quirk hopes to be an example to show people the importance of writing down their memories from the stories they hear from family and friends.
"They may not think about it now but these stories will mean something to them later in life," Quirk said.


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This was billed as an all female event! It's been a while though since the last time I had the privilege of seeing Natalie Grant perform live. So when she came in for rehearsal the day before, I had no reservations about asking her if I could attend the show. She was more than happy to oblige. I drove out to Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN. It turned out to be a very moving evening.
Dare To Be is a message to all the women who attend that they have the amazing, God given ability within them to do so much with their lives. Charlotte Gambill is a Senior Associate Pastor at the Life Church, Bradford, England who meet Natalie years ago by chance in a church in California. Both have been friends ever since but have had this dream of putting a show together to inspire women to Dare To Be, well, anything they want to be or do in life – to never let anything or anyone tell them they can't do anything.
If you have yet to see Natalie perform live, you should look up the schedule in the link below (after you finish reading this of course) and try to make it out to one of these events. There's a good blend of music, speaking, and video to support the message. Natalie's songs also tie in very well and her delivery is such a pleasure to listen to. She's won several Dove awards as a leading female vocalist – well deserved!
Charlotte was a delightful speaker who tells some wonderful stories to inspire her audience and show them that there is always hope. Natalie sang some of her hits: "I Will Not be Moved", "Held", "Human", and "Alive" and the crowd loved it. Her music is energizing and her voice commands your attention.
I was so glad I stayed around till the end of the show. Natalie mentioned the last part of the show was her favorite part. She started to tell the story of a local single woman with three children who had been in a head-on collision. She had surgery after surgery and unfortunately, had to have one of her legs amputated. After all that had happened to her, she persisted through it all and never give up on her dreams. She also recently got married. Natalie called her up on stage to be recognized as an amazing example of someone who never lost hope and always moved forward. Her children and new husband were in attendance and met her up on stage. Natalie and Charlotte gave her a special bag of gifts but the biggest gift was to see the entire church on their feet clapping for this amazing woman. They were all standing together as sisters.
After the event was over, I came backstage to say goodbye to Natalie and Charlotte. I also had a chance to chat with Natalie's husband and producer Bernie Herms about Natalie's next record. I told them that I hope they can find a way, amongst both of their busy schedules to keep this event going. It was such a powerful experience and message that needs to be spread throughout our amazing planet.


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Cereal milk is my homage to steeped milk.
When I worked at wd~50, we played around infusing milk with all kinds of ingredients–grains, spices, just about anything. Some combinations worked better than others. Some were good, like sesame ice cream. Some were epic, like toast ice cream. (Imagine a perfect piece of diner toast–golden brown, crisp but not so crisp it scrapes the roof of your mouth, saturated in lightly salted butter–and now imagine that as an ice-cream flavor.)
Cereal milk, by comparison, seems almost dumb. Anyone who's ever spent a lazy Saturday morning, drowning in holey sweatpants, watching hour after hour of USA reruns knows the flavor: It's that dense, tasty, slightly sweet, kind of starchy, corny milk from the bottom of the cereal bowl.
The seed for it was planted when we were preparing for our spring-to-summer menu changeover, and the then-chef had cornbread ice cream on the mind. I probably made 10 different versions of homemade cornbread, but we couldn't get the corny flavor and guilty pleasure of piping-hot-out-of-the-oven-Jiffy-corn bread just right with my homemade versions. What we got instead were a lot of infused milk tests that all tasted like lame versions of cereal: one tasted like Kix, one like Corn Pops, one like Rice Krispies, one like Special K. They weren't what we were looking for. But, for whatever reason, I felt like I'd learned a secret: milk infusions could hit as close to home as the bottom of my cereal bowl and I happily gulped each failed corn bread milk turned cereal-flavored milk. I filed the idea away deep in the vault and got back to work.
The idea resurfaced when we were opening Ko and our dessert menu had nothing on it. And the new freezer that was supposed to hold the ice cream for that nonexistent dessert menu was on the fritz. The hype was unbearable, and I was screwed. I needed a dessert, period. A backup dessert would be nice too. And if I was smart about it, it would be one that didn't need to be frozen to be good: panna cotta fit that bill perfectly. Now, making a good panna cotta–creamy, set just enough to hold its shape but melt in your mouth–is pretty easy. But making an interesting panna cotta–that's the hard part.
I knew what I had to do. I had been training for this moment for years: do a milk infusion. I gave the cereal milk idea a shot. Bull's-eye. Everybody loved it. The funny part is that we worked backward from there. My intention was only to make a cereal milk panna cotta. But owner David Chang, pushy, pushy man that he is, forcefully reminded me on many occasions that I should, at the very least, make cereal milk into ice cream. We simplified it even further, too, to create a line of flavored cereal milk to sell at Milk Bar. We make our cereal milk with classy old Corn Flakes, but we've also been known to steep Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, and Lucky Charms. (See "Cereal Milk Variations" following the recipe.)
Regardless of whether cereal milk is the beverage for you, the technique–steeping and seasoning milk, then using that milk to make desserts–is a versatile one that exists in pastry and savory kitchens all over the world. It's a technique that's simple and totally accessible in your own home kitchen as well.
This was by no means the first recipe that came out of our kitchens, but it is far and away the most popular and what we are known best for. Drink it straight, pour it over more cereal, add it to your coffee in the morning, or turn it into panna cotta or ice cream. Cereal milk. It's a way of life.–Christina Tosi
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Yes, cereal milk. So simple. So unabashedly retro. So sinfully indulgent. And so brilliant as to belie the childlike genius of the pastry chef who conceived it. Although cereal milk may sound mundanely like what you'd pour down the drain from your seven-year-old's breakfast bowl, this incarnation is actually quite a lot more inspired than that, with a rich, sweet complexity that we'd never dreamed could be derived from a box of Corn Flakes. Or Fruity Pebbles. Or Cap'n Crunch. Or just about any cereal you crave. The sweetly steeped milk is seriously stunning just sipped on its own, though don't doubt its transformative abilities when shaken into a White Russian, whirled into ice cream, transformed into panna cotta, or in just about any other thing calling for plain old milk. And should you find yourself contemplating boxed breakfasts of yore as you sip your cereal milk, we urge you to take a twirl through The Great American Cereal Book, from which the above photo is taken. Its quirky look at iconic cereals from the past century and all manner of related factoids and ingredients, from bran flakes imbued with vitamin B1 to pastel marshmallows, make for some truly scintillating cocktail party chitchat.
Cereal Milk
- Quick Glance
- Makes about 2 1/2 cups, serves 4
- 2 3/4 cups Corn Flakes
- 3 3/4 cups cold milk, preferably whole milk
- 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1. Heat the oven to 300°F (149°C).
- 2. Spread the Corn Flakes on a parchment-lined sheet pan. Bake for 15 minutes, until lightly toasted. Let cool completely. (Toasting the Corn Flakes before steeping them deepens the flavor of the milk.)
- 3. Transfer the cooled Corn Flakes to a large pitcher. Pour the milk into the pitcher and stir vigorously. Let steep at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- 4. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve, collecting the milk in a medium bowl. The milk will drain off quickly at first, then become thicker and starchy toward the end of the straining process. Using the back of a ladle or your hand, wring the milk out of the Corn Flakes but do not force the mushy cereal through the sieve. (We compost the mushy remains or take them home to our dogs.)
- 5. Whisk the sugar and salt into the milk until fully dissolved. Taste your cereal milk after you make it. If you want it a little sweeter, don't be shy; add a little more sugar. If you want a more mellow cereal milk, add a splash of fresh milk and a pinch of salt. Store the cereal milk in a clean pitcher or glass milk jug and refrigerate for up to 1 week.
Cereal Milk Variations
- Fruity Cereal Milk
- It's got an endearing pinky-peach color and it makes killer milkshakes. Follow the recipe for Cereal Milk, substituting 2 cups Fruity Pebbles for the cornflakes; do not toast the Fruity Pebbles. After measuring the cereal, crush it with your hands to be the texture of coarse sand or gravel, then steep in the milk as above.
- Sweet Corn Cereal Milk
- This mellow-yellow milk is good straight or over cereal, and it's great poured over toasted cornbread. We use it mainly in a filling for an ice-cream pie. Follow the recipe for Cereal Milk, substituting 2 1/2 cups Cap'n Crunch for the cornflakes; do not toast the Cap'n Crunch. After measuring the cereal, crush it with your hands to be the texture of coarse sand or gravel, then steep in the milk as above.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.


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What: Boulder Arts Week
When: March 28-April 6
Where: Venues throughout Boulder
Info: A full calendar of more than 100 Boulder Arts Week events is available at boulderartsweek.org
On the surface, the cutting-edge dancers of 3rd Law Dance/Theater and the 18th century music of Johann Sebastian Bach seem to have little in common.
But for Boulder Bach Festival music director and violinist Zachary Carrettin and 3rd Law artistic director Katie Elliott, the synthesis of their artistic forms resulted in something beautiful neither could have created alone: the show "The Obstinate Pearl," which runs March 28-29 at The Dairy Center for the Arts to kick off the inaugural Boulder Arts Week, March 28-April 6.
"We really struck the pot of gold in this first collaboration with Boulder Bach Festival and 3rd Law. This is world-class artistically," says Carrettin, who believes "The Obstinate Pearl" perfectly represents Art Week's spirit of celebration and collaboration. In fact, his violin performance was sculpted and inspired by 3rd Law's dancers, and 3rd Law took choreographic inspiration from the historical background of Bach's music and even the movement of Carrettin's body as he plays.
"My physicality gets translated into choreography, and their choreography gets translated into the way I play this ancient music," he says. "All the greatest art happens when people communicate their ideas with one another and their ideas are transformed."
That same communication and inspiration will be happening on a larger scale throughout Boulder Arts Week, which includes more than 100 events and activities.
"(Boulder Arts Week) is an event that's going to build a lot of community, both within the arts community and between the arts community and the rest of Boulder," says project manager Emily Harrison. "It's about encouraging arts and art organizations to work together ... and it's about filling the major need of awareness of the arts in Boulder."
Boulder is consistently ranked nationally as an arts destination, most recently as high as eighth in the United States by the Community Foundation's Trends Report, and the organizers of the inaugural Boulder Arts Week hope to set a tradition of spotlighting the amount and quality of local artists once a year.
"The arts tend to get short shrift in this community. The city spends a lot more on open space, for instance, than it does on the arts," says Anna Salim, Boulder Arts Week steering committee member and event director for Downtown Boulder Inc.
Downtown Boulder is participating in Boulder Arts Week through its Banner Project, which enlisted 66 local students to produce 51 light-pole banners currently hanging along the Pearl Street Mall and will award a prize for the banner voted People's Choice. Other visual-arts events include Artists@Work, a series of hands-on demonstrations at Studio 1510; exhibits at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the CU Art Museum, and two evenings of "Imagine Community!: Art at the Armory" April 3-4.
The NoBo Arts District's "First Friday" on April 4 will feature special crossover events with visual artists, musicians and even poets, while eTown Hall will host its second annual "Handmade Songs," a concert of 20 high school songwriters, on April 3.
"The number of activities and events speaks for itself," Salim says. "Boulder Arts Week is not producing these events. Many were being produced anyway and are simply being included. The sheer number of things going on anyway is striking."
Most alluring on the Arts Week calendar to organizer Harrison is art happening in unexpected venues, such as the Ptarmigan String Quartet performing at McGuckin Hardware on April 5.
"There's definitely a hope that people will, whether they plan to or not, encounter art that week," Harrison says. "The hope is that they are somewhat inspired to integrate the arts into their own lives (and) to support the arts or engage with the arts."
In terms of support, the community can ensure the continuation of Boulder Arts Week in 2015 by participating in a fundraiser on April 2 at the Boulder Theater that features musician Janet Feder, as well as the premiere of the short film "The Boulder Tattoo Project."
"To bring all these artists together for one week of activities is an explosion all at once of what's happening in Boulder all the time," says Joanna Rotkin, founder and artistic director of TinHOUSE Experimental Dance Theater. Rotkin's "The Great Green," winner of the Encore Award at the 2013 Boulder International Fringe Festival, will be performed March 29 at madelife as part of the "Fringe-y Double Feature." (madelife is a 6,000-square-foot black-box theater, sound studio, collaborative workspace, gallery and store at 2000 21st St.)
"I love this idea of cross-pollinating the arts," Rotkin says. "It feels like sharing, which is to me why I do art in the first place."


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- Hiking Merit Badge Workbook expanded.
- Music Merit Badge Workbook expanded.
- Electricity Merit Badge Workbook expanded.
- Archery Merit Badge Workbook expanded.
January 2009
2009 Boy Scout Requirement Changes: The requirements for the following Merit Badges have changed:
|Automotive Maintenance
|Coin Collecting
|Emergency Preparedness
|Farm Mechanics
|Indian Lore
|Insect Study
|Landscape Architecture
In addition, the requirements for Mile Swim and Den Chief Service Award have changed.
New Eagle Resources:
- New Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project resources added including the Eagle Project Checklist and the Sample Eagle Project Ideas .
- Eagle Palms has expanded graphics, lists, and the new Eagle Palm Application 58-709.
December 2008
Medical Records:
- The new Medical Records page has everything you need for the new Physical, that replaces the old Class 1, 2, and 3.
Pinewood Derby expanded:
- The Pinewood Derby page is all new along with the Pinewood Derby Official Rules and Pinewood Derby Tips.
- Also see the new Pinewood Derby Drivers Licenses and Pinewood Derby Certificates
Languages added:
- Every page of MeritBadge.Org is now available in dozens of languages! See Languages for details.
Knots have been expanded:
- The Knot page is all new with just the 8 knots you need with animated examples plus new simplified pdf to print.
- The knot theory and terminology have been moved to Advanced Knots.
- More animated knot pages were added: Special knots, Sailing knots, and Fishing knots.
- New Cub Scout Leader Outdoor Training Articles
- BALOO - In order for a Cub Scout Pack to have a campout, at least one leader must be BALOO trained.
- Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders - To have a Webelos Den campout, at least one leader should have completed Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders.
- Basic Leader Training has been converted from a stub to a real page with everything you need.
- Other new resources have been added!
- Flag Ceremonies has been added showing basic opening and closing ceremonies a Cub Scout or Boy Scout can learn.
- Pack Meeting shows how to have great Pack Meetings and increase attendance by using the BSA program to it's fullest.
- The Positions of Responsibility have been greatly expanded with positions in Varsity Teams, Venture Crews, etc.
November 2008
- New Boy Scout Rank Workbooks added for
- Scout, Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, and Life
Webelos Badge and Webelos Arrow of Light workbooks created and links expanded
Merit Badges Earned is updated & expanded - all 12 pages now in one table. Sortable on any column, links added to every current merit badge.
Emergency Kit and First Aid Kit - Completely revised with new materials from GSS and new Emergency Preparedness book
Guide to Safe Scouting stub turned into a full article with dozens of links to chapter content
Adult Leader page created - We use some version of this term on over 150 pages but we never explained what it means.
Friends of Scouting page created with printable recourses and a list of 250 companies with matching programs.
October 2008
- Mobile/PDA interface New Mobile version of MeritBadge.Org
- Just enter m.meritbadge.org on most web enabled cell phones and iPods. Full link: http://m.meritbadge.org
- Merit Badge application - including the online printable Word DOC file version!
- Scouter Awards with a dozen new award pages added
September 2008
Key new articles included:
- Boy Scout Resident Camp - all about Boy Scout Summer Camp
- Cub Scout Resident Camp - all about Cub Scout and Webelos Resident Camp
- Cub Scout Day Camp - more fun than you can stand!
- Essentials for the Outdoors Checklists for everything from a day hike to an overnighter and more.
August 2008
2009 Boy Scout Requirement Changes Pages and Worksheets update for:
|Emergency Preparedness
|Insect Study
|Automotive Maintenance
|Landscape Architecture
|Coin Collecting
|Farm Mechanics
|Indian Lore
July 2009
Advancement Policies pages added and updated. New navbox created:
- Fast Tracks added:
- Fast Tracks for Tiger Cub Scouts (1st grade)
- Fast Tracks for Wolf Cub Scouts (2nd grade)
- Fast Tracks for Bear Cub Scouts (3rd grade)
- Fast Tracks for 4th grade Webelos Scouts - Also see: Webelos Scout Program
- Fast Tracks for 5th grade Webelos Scouts - Only for Scouts who completed the 4th grade Fast Track
- New Portals replace old menu pages
- Cub Scout Leader Portal
- Boy Scout Portal
- Varsity Scout Portal
- Venturing Portal
19 May 2008
Registration Temporarily Closed
Registration for MeritBadge.org is temporarily closed. It will be reopened ASAP.
Please note -- all prospective new members of this web site will be required to have a Meritbadge.net account. Visit MeritBadge.net for more information.
- Optimist 00:12, May 19, 2008 (EDT)
14 Apr 2008
Server Move Completed
MeritBadge.org is now on a new server... Well, sort of. This is actually the same server MeritBadge.com has been on for a long time. When we started having trouble with MeritBadge.org's web host provider, the good folks over at Mansei Design (LavaShark.com) immediately rose to the occasion. While they are not giving away their services, they are providing us with a very large discount, essentially around half what we would be charged anywhere else. Please stop by LavaShark.com and express your appreciation by giving them your business if you need their services.
Base Address Changed Back
A few months ago we decided to change MeritBadge.org's base address by moving the web site from the /wiki subdirectory directly to the root. We felt this would give the site a more professional look and feel. What we didn't understand at the time is that there are some really good reasons for keeping a complex piece of internet software in a subdirectory. These reasons became very apparent during the moving process. Because of this, we are returning MeritBadge.org's directory structure back to its original structure.
Look To The Horizon
If you hadn't noticed, our entire Merit Badge Worksheets area has been restructured as have many other pages. The site's graphics have been improved as well. Many other discussions for web site improvements have been underway and we will all be seeing the fruit's of those discussions shortly. These changes are being initiated by the sysops and several other active members of this wiki. If you like what you see, please let them know by thanking them in our discussion forum. That is also the place to discuss concerns you have about what you see or any ideas you have for improvements.
- Optimist 14:39, April 14, 2008 (EDT)
05 Feb 2008
Please help us locate and repair any broken links to Scouting.org! Thanks, --The MeritBadge.Org Staff
Message from Scouting.org webmaster
On February 4, 2008, changes will be made to the Scouting.org Web site that will require your Webmaster to update links on your Web site.
For example, the URL for the Boy Scouts program on Scouting.org has previously looked something like
- http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=by, whereas the new URL for the Boy Scouts program will be
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Links to Programs and other sections
Links to Programs and other sections (e.g., BoyScouts, Venturing, etc) should be changed to the new URL's (available below). If the webmaster is linking to a particular webpage deeper into the website than the top-level programs, they'll need to contact the National Council Webmaster (Chad Jordan) for the new URL.
- For example, links to programs/sections would be:
- BoyScouts = http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts.aspx
- CubScouts = http://www.scouting.org/cubscouts.aspx
- Venturing = http://www.scouting.org/venturing.aspx
- Commissioners = http://www.scouting.org/commissioners.aspx
- Guide to Safe Scouting = http://www.scouting.org/gss.aspx
- Scouting Safely (Health & Safety) = http://www.scouting.org/scoutingsafely.aspx
- Information Center = http://www.scouting.org/media.aspx
- Youth Protection = http://www.scouting.org/youthprotection.aspx
- Philmont = http://www.scouting.org/philmont.aspx
Links to Forms/Documents:
Many webmasters have linked directly to PDF's, Word Documents and other forms and files on Scouting.org. These links will not work after February 4 2008 and will need to be changed to ensure proper operation. A spreadsheet is available that provides a mapping of the old vs. new location of these documents (see file titled National Website File Mapping.xls). If there is any confusion about the new location of a file, a webmaster should be able to locate the new file (after February 4) using the following guidelines:
- All files are stored on Scouting.org in a webshare called "filestore" which is organized by filetype for ease of access and navigation. In other words, all PDF's are stored in a 'pdf' directory; all Word Documents are in a 'doc' directory.
- Examples:
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the NAYLE.ppt file on scouting.org.
- The old link would be "http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/supplemental/pdf/NAYLE.ppt".
- The new link would be "http://www.scouting.org/filestore/ppt/NAYLE.ppt"
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the NAYLE.ppt file on scouting.org.
- Examples:
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the latest Value of Scouting Slideshow file on scouting.org.
- The old link would be "http://www.scouting.org/media/value/11.swf".
- The new link would be "http://www.scouting.org/filestore/swf/11.swf"
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the latest Value of Scouting Slideshow file on scouting.org.
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the Venturing Marketing Guide (Bin # 25-309) on scouting.org.
- The old link would be "http://www.scouting.org/venturing/support/resources/pdf/25-309.pdf".
- The new link would be "http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/25-309.pdf"
- Assume that a webmaster has linked to the Venturing Marketing Guide (Bin # 25-309) on scouting.org.
28 Jan 2008
2008 Boy Scout Rank Requirement Changes Announced
|A detailed summary of the 2008 Boy Scout Requirement Changes are now on MeritBadgeDotOrg, including updated links for recently changed Eagle Scout Award-related forms. (Once announced, BSA Rank changes become effective immediately.)
20 Jan 2008
MyScouting portal
|Special announcement for volunteer leaders: The BSA's new, offical MyScouting portal at the National Council's website is now operational. We owe many thanks to National's webmasters who have worked so hard to get so many new and valuable features and resources up and running.


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Readers Project Jeeps - Garage ShotsPosted in Project Vehicles on March 1, 2010
We've all had our hands in a project that never seemed to get done. It doesn't matter if it is a complete frame-off restoration or the engine swap that never ends, we've all been there. Whether it was our own or a friend's, we have all felt the pain. It seems misery really does love company, or we all like seeing other Jeepers triumph. Whatever the reasoning, last time we ran a reader's rebuild story, the response was tremendous. So, we've been collecting Jeep Shots submissions that show the before, during, and finished product of your projects and we've finally got enough to run a full story. So without further ado, enjoy the triumphs of your fellow readers over the black hole that a Jeep project can become.
Singing the Blue
Ervin Paddock of Butte, Montana, did a full frame-off restoration and didn't put the body back on the Jeep until the '84 Chevy 305ci V-8 was bolted to the TH400 transmission and bolted into the frame. The power steering, hanging pedal assembly, and brake master cylinder all came from a Chevy car. The seats were grabbed from a Monte Carlo, and it's got a Chevy steering column and custom dashboard. A rear Dana 44 and front Dana 25 were grabbed from a CJ-3B which got 11-inch drums off a Wagoneer. The under-seat gas tank is augmented by a second tank out back and gives the Jeep almost double the range. Other cool features are a tilt front clip and a custom rear bumper/tire carrier.
Top of the World
Milton Bretz of Godley, Texas, sent us some pictures of his '71 Jeepster project and another five or six projects he's got floating around; he's a real glutton for punishment. Milton spent a lot of time and blew through a ton of actual film to send us a couple of hundred pictures of his Jeep. He didn't tell us how long it took him to build, he just mentioned the word "years" a few times. Now Milton's Jeep is riding on 37x12.50R17 BFG Krawlers. Even after he first put the 350ci Buick V-8 between the framerails, he went through several years of trial and error. Today the Buick V-8 is Howell-injected, DUI-ignited, and backed by a TH400 transmission bolted to a Dana 300. Power goes out to a front Dana 44 and rear Dana 60 with 4.88 gears and Detroit Lockers. Some custom fender work and a six-point rollcage round out this awesome Jeepster.
Tent Shots
While the tent itself might not look that cold, when we tell you that Clint VanNoy built this '43 GPW in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, you might get the same shivers we did. Clint bought the Jeep sight-unseen from some guy in California, had it shipped up to Alaska, and started on the frame-off. He has swapped in a 225ci Buick V-6 bored 0.030-over with a mild RV cam, aluminum intake, Offenhauser valve covers, and a Holley 390cfm carburetor. A T-90 hands off to a Spicer 18, which then goes to a front Dana 30 with an OX Locker and a rear Dana 44 with a Detroit Locker. Both axles benefit from 4.88 gears, Warn hubs, and a set of 15x10 wheels wrapped with 33-inch Super Swamper Boggers.
Iowan Pen Pal
Bruce Cockram (yes, that's his real name) of Pleasant Hill, Iowa, basically took a YJ body and frame and then bolted his '83 CJ-7 stuff to it. At least that's what he tells us. He cut the frame at the arch and added steel tube out to the rear, then lowered the body on the frame for a lower center of gravity. Power comes from an AMC 401ci V-8 with a Howell throttle-body fuel injection on it. An NP435 provides a good workout; rowing gears and a 4.3:1 Atlas II send the power out to the Rockcrusher Dana 60 front axle and shaved GM 14-bolt rear. The axles are hung from a three-link wishbone-style front suspension and a four-link double-triangulated rear suspension. The wheelbase is set at 110 inches and a full-hydraulic steering system pushes around the big 42-inch Super Swamper TSLs.
Dave's Custom
Dave Seger of Fruita, Colorado, has a ton of time into this '82 CJ-7 if the pictures are any indication. A full frame-off restoration (with the frame getting powdercoated) led to this 35-inch-Cooper mud-tire-shod specimen. The 258ci inline-six was mildly warmed up with a Clifford cam, header, and aluminum intake topped with a Howell fuel-injection. The stock T-176 and Dana 300 still handle gear splitting duties, while the front and rear Dana 44s with 4.56 gears, ARB Air Lockers, and ARB differential covers put power to the ground. A Rubicon Express 4 1/2-inch lift works with an M.O.R.E. 1-inch body lift to clear the tires, while a M.O.R.E. rear bumper and tire carrier handle spare tire duties. The rear inner wheelwells were clearanced to accept a TJ rear seat, and the full-width axles keep the tires out of the new 'wells.
Like Father, Like Sons
This is a dual-owner, father and son Jeep project. Jim is the dad and Kirt is the son. Kirt lives in Oakfield, New York, and he tells us that when he was young Jim used his FC to plow and haul wood, but thanks to the New York winters, it didn't last long. This '59 FC-150 was built to have fun with and drive every day. It has a swapped-in 225ci Buick V-6 bolted to a T-90 transmission and original Spicer 18 transfer case with a Warn Overdrive. It still has the stock axles and leaf springs with swapped-on 31x10.50s wrapped around some white spoke wheels. The bed that Kirt's son is measuring is a JayHawk dump box, just like the dump bed that used to be on Grandpa Jim's FC all those years ago.
Jimmy Sahara
When we came up with the name for this submission, we figured it would be a slam-dunk. Richard Regel's '88 Sahara has a 4.3L V-6 out of a GMC, so it makes sense. When we went back to read it, it almost sounds like a porn name. Sorry, no cheesy music or fuzzy dice here, just a solid YJ with a great engine choice. The 4.3L has been hopped up with an Edlebrock Performer aluminum intake and cam fed by a 390cfm Holley carburetor. Sanderson shorty headers get the gasses on their way and an MSD ignition system lights the spark. An SM465 is bolted to the NP231 via a Novak adapter. An electric fan with thermostatic controls hangs off the aluminum radiator. Richard built custom wood panels for the all-new Auto Meter gauges, and the project took him just under four months to finish.
Rock Zombie
Mike Linehan of San Diego, California, tells us that this '68 CJ-5 has come back from the dead twice. He bought it nearly stock, swapped in a Dana 30 front axle, and after breaking stock axle shafts and wearing out seals, broke both rear axle shafts and front hubs on the Rubicon Trail. Then he rebuilt it with a 4-inch Superlift lift kit, a shackle reversal, an SM420 transmission and it got hit by another driver making an illegal U-turn, bending the frame. Now it rides on a Throttle Down Kustoms frame with Poison Spyder tube fenders, Off Your Rocker corner guards, and a custom belly skidplate to fend off any other drivers or rocks. The Buick V-6 was rebuilt by Ed Hale with 0.040-over pistons, a Comp RV cam, Offenhauser intake with a 4bbl carburetor, a Pertronix ignition, and custom headers. The Spicer 18 transfer case still handles power splitting with the front Dana 30 benefitting from power steering and an OX Locker. Meanwhile, the Dana 44 rear has a Detroit Locker and Summers Brothers full-floater kit.
Happy Birthday!
Josh Dahl of Ocean Springs, Missouri, got a killer birthday present a couple of years ago: this restored '82 CJ-7. He and his dad got a deal on it and planned a paint job to breathe new life into it. For four straight months they worked on it to try to get it done in time for Josh to drive in on the first day of school. They missed the deadline by two weeks, but it serves duty as a daily driver. The 258ci engine still hands off power to the four-speed manual transmission and Dana 300 transfer case. The Dahls added a 2 1/2-inch Skyjacker lift, a 1-inch body lift, and a set of 33x12.50 Mickey Thompson Baja Claws for the stance, as well as a healthy dose of blue paint for just the right look.
Steal CJ
Taking one of the better pages from the Jp magazine play book, Charles Brown of Decataur, Texas, found an '83 CJ-7 with an engine and transmission swap already done. Then he bought it. Taking one of the other pages from the book, he then went ahead and tore it apart anyway. The previously swapped-in 4.3L Chevy V-6 bolted to a 700R4 and NP231 were retained. The axles were also sourced from a YJ, with a Dana 30 in the front and a Dana 35 in the rear. A 3-inch lift clears the 33-inch Dunlop mud tires on 15x10 aluminum Eagle wheels. Charles wanted a Jeep that could play somewhat hard, but look good doing it, so he tore the Jeep apart to paint it, and that's where most of his money is spent. All said and done, he's into the Jeep for under $5,000.
Send Us Pics!
If you want to see your project in the next Garage Shots, make sure to take a before, during, and after picture and send them in. Be sure to include the specs on the components and parts you used to build the Jeep (even if they were stock). You can send them in to email@example.com or snail mail them to Jp magazine c/o Garage Shots at 831 S. Douglas St., El Segundo, CA, 90245.