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one thinks of Dard Hunter the word "paper" usually comes to mind first.
He was in many respects the king of American papermaking. He authored
over fifteen books on the subject and single-handedly revived the art of
handmade papermaking in America.
Prior to his
obsession with paper Hunter spent his time as a printer and graphic
artist. His began his career working for the famed Roycroft Press in
East Aurora, New York. Under the tutelage of Elbert Hubbard, Hunter
immersed himself in the Arts & Crafts style that permeated the
design aesthetic of the press and he emerged as "one of America's most
influential graphic artists of the twentieth century."
Thanks to a new monograph, Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works,
authored by Lawrence Kreisman and conceived and produced in
collaboration with Dard Hunter III, the artist's grandson, we now have a
comprehensive look at Hunter's graphic output.
The book features more than eighty of his designs for book covers and title
pages, booklets, bookplates, brochures, letterheads, and stained glass
windows. It also includes Hunter's 1904 newspaper article about the Roycroft community, and Hunter's complete pamphlet text, Make Arts-and-Crafts Things at Your Home (Roycroft Press, 1909).
We are pleased to offer a limited number of copies signed by the author.
of note, Kreisman will kick off the book's publication with a lecture
at the Seattle Public Library on April 18th. The event is co-sponsored
by The Book Club of Washington and the Book Arts Guild. Details here

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Council Calls for Local Watershed Reps
Environment Waikato is calling for nominations for five local landowner and community representatives on its new River and Catchment Liaison Subcommittees.
Environment Waikato is calling for nominations for five local landowner and community representatives on its new River and Catchment Liaison Subcommittees.
Environment Waikato has appointed two new biosecurity advisory subcommittees for the Region for the next three years.
Environment Waikato has set a rate for Project Watershed, its river management, soil conservation and flood protection policy for the Waikato and Waipa river catchments.
Regional ratepayers will have an increase of 9.59 percent in their general rate after rates were struck by Environment Waikato today.
More than 75 people are gathering in Hamilton on Friday to examine in detail what happened in last month's "weather bomb".
The Waikato's famous geothermal features are at risk from land use practices such as farming and forestry, last week's Environment Waikato Environment Committee heard.
Environment Waikato's Flood Response Team is hoping for a let-up in the rain this weekend as an uncertain forecast keeps them on alert.
Proposed new controls on owning ferrets don't go far enough, Environment Waikato's Biosecurity Committee says.
Eradicating the lake weed egeria from Lake Taupo is not possible, but efforts will continue to control its spread and raise public awareness, this week's Environment Waikato Biosecurity Committee heard.
Subject to legal advice, Environment Waikato is to prosecute Huntly Quarry Ltd for allegedly discharging non-complying stormwater from its site next to State Highway 1 at Huntly.
Environment Waikato's Biosecurity Committee wants infestations of alligator weed in the north Waikato to be hit harder as new sites emerge.
Heavy rain over several hours today has caused localised problems at Mercer and over the Coromandel Peninsula.
Environment Waikato is likely to grant $12,000 towards an enhancement project for the Hakanoa Walkway near Huntly.
Environment Waikato's Environment Committee has recommended granting $40,000 towards the purchase of land near the Miranda Shorebird Centre for a wetland habitat.
The Waikato and Waipa River Flood Scheme is performing as designed, as the Region prepares for more rain over the next two days.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against Environment Waikato's Piako River Rating Scheme.
Slightly more water will be moved through the middle of the Waikato River overnight to make the most of a brief break in the bad weather before more rain tomorrow.
Environment Waikato is making the most of a brief break in the bad weather to assess the flooding throughout the Waikato and Waipa river systems.
Environment Waikato is looking for a recycling solution to the large dump of old tyres in Te Rapa.
Proposed changes to the driver licensing rules are likely to hit older rural drivers, according to Environment Waikato's Regional Land Transport Committee.


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You almost can't avoid the swelling chorus urging you to to use alternative fuels in your mowers, trimmers, and other maintenance equipment: "Go green! Eco is where it's at! Green is the new gold!"
Seldom has an industry movement gained importance so quickly. Take the test yourself. Type the phrase "eco-green" into your favorite search engine. Twenty years ago, that search might have drawn a blank. Today, it will return upwards of three million hits.
Alternative fuels are out there. Propane. Compressed natural gas. Biodiesel. electricity. even fuel cells. every major manufacturer, from Dixie Chopper to exmark to Hustler, offers equipment that isn't powered by gasoline.
One company that has been very active in pioneering the use of alternative fuels is Dixie Chopper in Coatesville, Indiana. Simon Wilson, president of Dixie Chopper, says his company currently sells riding mowers with biodiesel, compressed natural gas, and propane capabilities, and that they're actively working on electric prototypes. In addition to the leading brand names, new firms are also getting into the business.
Some landscape contractors have gone all-in on alternative fuels, others are experimenting, while still others—including big industry players—are less enthusiastic.
Is green really the new gold? Does it make sense for your firm to move into greener power pastures? If you're already using alternative fuel resources, does it pay to continue? The answer is a definitive, "It depends." This article gives suggestions about how to make that decision.
For Richard White of Good Green Neighbors, a landscape company in Portland, Oregon, the decision to go green was driven by a fierce environmentalism that's shared by many in his community. White, 34, has been running Good Green Neighbors for almost a decade. He has modified every piece of his equipment to run on either propane or electricity provided by a portable propane generator. He also uses a battery-operated chainsaw.
"Eight years ago," White relates, "I started paying attention to the environmental information. I read how one gas mower, running for an hour, creates as much hydrocarbon pollution as eight cars driven on the highway for eight hours. That shocked me. Then I saw hospitals, where people are treated for cancer, having their lawns cut with gas mowers. I mean, that's like a cancer factory! I wanted to find a cleaner way."
eight years ago, the alternative fuels industry was in its infancy. White explored moving to mowers powered by biodiesel—that mix of diesel fuel and long-chain alkylesters derived from soybeans or other plants. He loves diesel engines for their power and longevity. That said, he found that biodiesel wasn't right for him. "I found the engines more powerful than the decks I was using. Plus, it was hard to find a shop willing to work on them."
White admits he found his way to propane by accident. "I was just surfing around the Internet, and read something about propane. It looked interesting, but things were so new at the time that I had to figure out how to do a conversion on my own," he recalls. "I found a company in Georgia that was running propane-powered gym-floor buffing equipment, because they couldn't use gasoline indoors. I got a conversion kit from them, figured out how to make it work with my mowers, and never looked back. Propane is easy, clean, and cheap."
Unbeknownst to White, a landscape contractor halfway across the country was contacting the same Georgia company. Eric Hansen, CEO of Competitive Lawn Service, Downer's Grove, Illinois, had a company that burned 35,000 gallons of gasoline a year in its mowers and vehicles—an enormous annual fuel bill. He'd been intrigued by news that Dixie Chopper had unveiled a new propane-powered riding mower. Hansen already had a large fleet of riders and standers.
Hansen's motivation was as much economic as it was environmental. Propane runs 40 cents a gallon less than regular gasoline, according to the united States Department of energy's quarterly "Clean Cities Alternative Fuel Price Report." If he could make the conversion, he was looking at substantial fuel savings.
"I looked at compressed natural gas (CNG), too," Hansen explains, "which costs half of what even propane costs. If I could make it work, that would have been the way to go. What I learned was that the problem with CNG isn't as much powering the equipment as it was fueling up in the first place."
Since Competitive Lawn Service runs dozens of mowers and several trucks, getting all these vehicles to a public CNG refueling station wasn't feasible. "To build a CNG storage facility of our own would have cost a half million dollars," Hansen says. "That was out of the question."
As an experiment, Hansen began by converting three Wright standers to propane. That first year, those standers used 500 gallons of propane. The experiment worked so well that Hansen kept retrofitting. In 2011, he estimates that propane accounted for two-thirds of his fuel use.
He has built a propane pump and storage container—for which he got a 60 percent federal tax credit for infrastructure investment—and just bought three propane-powered Ford F Series trucks. The only area where he's been slow to convert is with trimmers and blowers. He's waiting for suppliers to improve battery technology. That equipment, he underscores, burns so little fuel that cost impact is minimal.
With all these apparent pluses, alternative fuels have not yet gone mainstream.
Kujawa enterprises in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, is taking a wait-and-see approach, according to company president Chris Kujawa. "Those mowers are not mainstream enough yet," Kujawa avows. "Not enough for us."
For Kujawa, the uncertainty is the biggest negative factor. "There's too much we don't know about yet. We don't know the hassle factor of fueling once they're in a fleet. We don't know the nuts and bolts of fuel transport. We don't know the drag coefficient when you're cutting tall grass. I know there are companies using alternative fuels. God bless 'em if they're successful, but we're not ready to make the change."
Both environmentalism and economics are good reasons to switch to alternative fuels. Differentiating yourself in a competitive market is another, particularly when you're just breaking into the business, or going out on your own after years of working for someone else.
Florida brothers Jeremy and Jared Phillips worked for a landscape contractor for years before opting to start their own enterprise, evoscape. They live in Orlando, a highly competitive market. Jeremy acknowledges the realities of a startup when the consumer has many options. "We knew the business well enough to understand that we knew we couldn't do the same old thing. We'd be just another landscape maintenance company."
The Phillips brothers' solution was to go green, and make sure everyone knew it. evoscape is green everything. Mowers, trimmers, clippers, you name it. Nothing runs on gas.
The brothers are off to a good start. They've added two more crew members to share the workload. One of the keys to the company's early success is the quirky, 35 mile-an-hour top-speed electric vehicle and trailer combination they use to get to and from local jobs. Manufactured by Chrysler and appealingly goofy looking, the "EVO-1"—as the brothers call it—and the solar-panel-equipped trailer it pulls, gives evoscape street credibility. The solar panels allow for equipment battery recharging through the workday. The EVO-1 isn't highway-rated, but serves as a 24/7 rolling advertisement anyway. Phillips has recently added a propane-powered van as well.
Fort Collins, Colorado-based landscape contracting franchisor Clean Air Lawn Care sees major opportunity in the startup arena. The company provides a national brand for franchisees that operates with 100 percent alternative fuels. According to Nate Weigel, national sales manager, Clean Air has 32 franchisees; six came on board in calendar 2011, and one already in 2012. Clean Air mowers are mostly electric, with a few biodiesel riders. "We think electric is more sustainable, and more environmentally suitable, than the other alternative fuel options," says Weigel.
Like evoscape's EVO-1, Clean Air trucks are topped by solar panels, so battery-operated mowers and trimmers can be recharged on the job. The trucks run on gas, but Clean Air tracks mileage and purchases carbon offsets so the firm can claim carbon-neutrality.
Weigel points to another reason that a company may want to move to alternative fuel: the interest of some commercial accounts in going green. "Large corporations are looking to reduce greenhouse gases. A green landscape service provider helps them reach that goal."
Hansen isn't as sure that a commercial account is going to be more environmentally conscious than bottom line conscious. In his experience, residential customers, multifamily accounts, and even municipalities are stretched so thin financially, that cost trumps hydrocarbons. unless "g-r-e-e-n" spells "less expensive," he thinks—with one significant exception—that these accounts are likely to be unmoved.
Here's the exception: companies that manufacture products in their factories. Hansen has seen real success with marketing low-hydrocarbon services to companies with factories. "They're being scrutinized, so by awarding a maintenance contract to a "green" contractor, they can say they are helping reduce hydrocarbons. There are similar opportunities with LeeD-certified buildings, which get extra points for green maintenance."
Howard Mees, vice president of equipment and operations at Valley- Crest in Calabasas, California, buys mowers in large quantities for that mega-firm. So far, he's not jumping into alternative fuel equipment in any meaningful way.
"Right now, for us, alternative fuel mowers are customer driven," Mees explains. "That is, if a customer wants us to use alternative fuel mowers, because they're a LEED building or have environmental concerns, we'll be responsive—we own a few. Otherwise, I'm not yet convinced."
Mees is dubious that the cost of ownership of alternative fuel mowers is superior to that of gas machines. "We're not going to retrofit, like some smaller outfits might. We buy new equipment. If we're buying new equipment, we're comparing, say, a propane mower to one of the new fuel-injected gas mowers. Meanwhile, it takes more propane than gasoline, gallon for gallon, to cut the same lawn. Besides, the new fuel-injected engines can substantially reduce fuel costs. " Moreover, ValleyCrest operates from leased, as opposed to owned, physical plants and properties. It's harder to justify the creation of infrastructure for a propane or natural gas storage-and-fueling facility on a leased property that will eventually be returned to the owner.
Mees acknowledges that even though alternative fuel mowers have gained an important foothold in the marketplace, "ValleyCrest will wait until the technology is more stable, and all the kinks and bugs are worked out."
Whether you're using them or not, it's indisputable that alternative fuel mowers and technology continue to improve. The industry has come a long way from the days when Hansen and White were reverse engineering floor-buffing machines.
The electrical sector, particularly, has seen big progress. In 2008, Hustler introduced the zeon, a riding zero-turning-radius electric mower. This year, Mean Green Products in Okeana, Ohio, took the concept a step further, with a ZT riding mower that has a removable, interchangeable, and rechargeable battery pack.
"The pack runs the mower for two hours," declares company president Joe Conrad. "When it starts to run low, you'll feel the diminution in power. At very low battery power, the cutting blades shut down, with enough reserve juice for the operator to drive the mower a mile back to the truck."
Then, it's battery swap-out time. In a three-minute operation, using a special dolly that functions like a mini forklift, the operator slides out the dead battery pack and slides in one that's fully charged.
Green innovation is not limited to mowers. Core Outdoor Power, of Ronan, Montana, is bringing out a line of trimmers and hedges with a power pack that features slip-in, slip-out lithium ion batteries that they like to call power cells, and an innovative electric engine that weighs less than half of conventional engines.
With a field life of an hour, and a one-hour recharge time, a crew needs just two cells to get through the day. Company president Lincoln Jore says the combination of the lightweight engine with the removable power cell creates a technology that someday can be employed in commercial electric riding mowers.
Green innovation is being done at the lowest levels—in garages instead of R&D labs. Dan Delventhal, who runs MowGreen US, in Fairfield, Connecticut, experimented for years with the conversion of a self-propelled 22" mower to hydrogen power.
"We got it done, and learned a ton along the way," Delventhal reports. "But it was just too expensive at the time to make a go of it. I believe that will change in the years to come."
There are plenty of options if you want to go green. Hansen points out how landscape contractors are besieged by information clutter on the subject. "You hear, 'Go green, go green!' One person is touting CNG, another biodiesel, another propane, another electric. It makes the contractor want to throw up his hands and stick with what he's got.'" Sticking with what you've got is an option. It might even be a good option. But if environmentalism is a strong selling point in your market, or if a retrofit makes sense, or you're cracking into a market and want to differentiate yourself from the competition, or you've got potential accounts who are watching their hydrocarbons, it might be time for you to switch to alternative fuels, at least in part.
For you, green could be the new gold.


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Hillsboro, OR
Event Center, Modern
Starting from $3,201 to $5,030 for 50 guests
NW Events and Environments is an event venue unlike any other in the Portland, Oregon metro area. With 30,000 square feet and three banquet rooms, your wedding will have all of the amenities needed for a successful and memorable day. This venue offers full production and lighting, rentals, catering...
McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse
Hillsboro, OR
Historic/Landmark Building, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Vintage/Rustic
Starting from $14,025 to $20,655 for 50 guests
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Meriwether National Golf Club
Hillsboro, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Golf Course, Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $1,620 to $6,600 for 50 guests
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Woodland Pond Pavilion
Hillsboro, OR
Park/Garden, Outdoor
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Hillsboro, OR
Event Center, Community Center
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Hillsboro, OR
Park/Garden, Outdoor
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River House at Rood Bridge Park
Hillsboro, OR
Ocean/Waterfront View, Outdoor
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Walters Cultural Arts Center
Hillsboro, OR
Event Center, Outdoor
Starting from $2,853 to $5,122 for 50 guests
For a special day infused with the spirit of creativity and culture, consider the Walters Cultural Arts Center for your wedding day! With its classic red-stone architecture, stained glass features, custom woodwork ceiling arches, concert-quality sound system, and fine art gallery, the Walters is one...
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The Jupiter NEXT
Portland, OR
Hotel/Resort, Park/Garden, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Outdoor, Modern
Starting from $5,701 to $6,266 for 50 guests
At the intersection of rich outdoor lushness and modern industrialism, you'll find Jupiter Next, a sleek contemporary hotel with a ballroom unlike any other you've seen! Floor-to-ceiling windows surrounding this 3000 square feet of space lend an air of drama as natural light floods into the ballroom...
Lakeside Gardens
Portland, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Park/Garden, Ocean/Waterfront View, Outdoor
Starting from $5,442 to $8,994 for 50 guests
Lakeside Gardens blends tall cedars, weeping willows, fountains, gazebos and lakes surrounded by a garden paradise. Swans glide across the water as a waterfall gently cascades into the lake. It's a place of magical beauty and perfect for your wedding. Evenings at Lakeside Gardens are gorgeous year r...
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Museum/Gallery, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $6,423 to $8,448 for 50 guests
Your wedding is a work of art. Honor it at the Portland Art Museum. - Located in the heart of Portland's downtown Park Blocks. - Over 19,000 square feet of indoor event space including two giant, historic ballrooms filled with century old works of art. - A spacious, 11,000 square foot outdoor eve...
Sunriver Resort
Sunriver, OR
Hotel/Resort, Golf Course, Outdoor
Starting from $9,844 to $11,723 for 50 guests
Nestled in the Pacific Northwest among the towering Cascade Mountains, no wedding venue in the world captures the grandeur of the high desert quite like Sunriver Resort. Surround yourselves, and your guests, with elegance and privacy under brilliant clear skies, and views that go on forever. Whether...
Zenith Vineyard
Salem, OR
Winery/Vineyard/Brewery, Mansion, Private Estate, Barn/Farm/Ranch, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $3,508 to $12,258 for 50 guests
Nestled among the picturesque undulating hills of Zenith Vineyard, the Zenith Vineyard event facility is designed to deliver the meticulous attention to detail of the finest hotels with the unsurpassed beauty of a vineyard setting. Whether you are hosting an intimate gathering of 15 people or a gala...
SeaWinds Estate
Bandon, OR
Mansion, Private Estate, Park/Garden, Ocean/Waterfront View, Beach, Mountain
Starting from $4,875 to $7,255 for 50 guests
Let the coastal beauty of Oregon set a breathtaking backdrop for your wedding! There is not another venue like SeaWinds Estate anywhere in the United States. 72 acres of direct Pacific oceanfront beckons. Intense privacy and natural splendor await. As you approach SeaWinds Estate, you'll meander...
Hyatt Regency Portland
Portland, OR
Hotel/Resort, Event Center, City/Skyline View, Ballrooms
The Hyatt Regency Portland is located in the city's Lloyd District, offering a sleek, contemporary oasis for a weekend of celebration. It is conveniently located near many local food and drink spots, making it easy to step out for a night on the town. You can cross the Willamette River and wander th...
Chinook Winds Casino
Lincoln City, OR
Hotel/Resort, Golf Course, Ocean/Waterfront View, Beach, Ballrooms
Starting from $3,950 to $5,020 for 50 guests
Chinook Winds Casino Resort offers a convenient beachfront location with flexible event space, upscale dining, and professional staff that will help make your wedding day unforgettable. Walk down a sandy aisle dotted with flower petals and pledge your eternal love in the resort's private beachfront ...
Mt. Hood Meadows
Mt Hood, OR
Hotel/Resort, Mountain, Outdoor
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NW Meetings & Events Magazine voted Mt. Hood Meadows Oregon's Best Resort & Attraction. Envision exchanging vows in front of a cozy fireplace, or out on the slopes amidst evergreen trees and stunning mountain views. Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort offers an all-inclusive experience including gorgeous ve...
Cooper Spur Mountain Resort
Mt Hood, OR
Hotel/Resort, Mountain, Outdoor
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High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Museum/Gallery, Outdoor, Modern
Starting from $4,023 to $6,023 for 50 guests
Set on 135 acres of wooded beauty, High Desert Museum offers an elevated definition of rustic elegance for your wedding celebrations. Wood, stone, and glass lend an air of grounded sophistication, while the fine art and priceless artifacts offer an intriguing contrast to the wildlife. From stately e...
The Highcliffe Grand Ballroom
Oregon City, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Historic/Landmark Building, Event Center, Ballrooms, Vintage/Rustic
Starting from $2,880 to $8,005 for 50 guests
Rooted east of the Willamette River on 7th Street in Oregon City, the Highcliffe Pub & Eatery presents brides and grooms a sensational space to share vows in front of loved ones. Positioned south of Portland, this historical venue is surrounded by modern establishments and stands out as a special sp...
Rivershore Bar and Grill
Oregon City, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant
Starting from $1,132 to $2,519 for 50 guests
The Rivershore Bar and Grill offers an intimate and relaxed space for a wedding ceremony and reception perfect to share with your closest family and friends. Located on the banks of the Willamette River, the Rivershore Bar and Grill has gorgeous views and delicious food sure to make your wedding the...
Embassy Suites - Portland Airport
Portland, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Hotel/Resort, Ballrooms
Starting from $2,853 to $7,164 for 50 guests
Celebrate your love with a custom wedding celebration at Embassy Suites Portland Airport. Picture your perfect day, whether it's an intimate gathering or an extravagant affair, this Portland hotel can make your wedding dreams come true. When you reserve your wedding date at Embassy Suites Portland A...
Rocky Butte Summit
Portland, OR
Starting from $1,560 to $2,610 for 50 guests
Located in Northeast Portland, Joseph Wood Hill Park at Rocky Butte Summit is a historical venue with breathtaking landscape views around the Porland metropolitan area. You will be stunned by the 2.38 acre park surrounded by charming, rustic rock walls and lampposts. Acquired in 1988, the park is a ...
Bush Pasture Park Rose Garden Gazebo
Salem, OR
Starting from $170 to $170 for 50 guests
The lush Willamette River Valley boasts a Mediterranean climate and is the heart of the state of Oregon. At the center of this fertile land is the city of Salem. The city of Salem offers a wide array of restaurants, hotels, and parks that will appeal to your interests and provide the perfect base fo...
Mt. Tabor Summit
Portland, OR
Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $1,636 to $2,686 for 50 guests
For the adventurous couple, host your outdoor wedding at Mt. Tabor Summit, a huge dormant volcano. The summit is a grassy oval space, perfect to put up a flower covered awning for your wedding ceremony, or a huge tent for your reception. The park staff will help you create the wedding of your dreams...
McMenamins Grand Lodge
Forest Grove, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Historic/Landmark Building, Hotel/Resort, Outdoor
Starting from $8,025 to $10,902 for 50 guests
Located on the Northern edge of wine country, McMenamins Grand Lodge is the perfect all-inclusive site for your wedding to remember. Set in Forest Grove on 13 acres of beautiful gardens and sweeping lawns, this majestic architecture was originally built as a Masonic Lodge. The wine-country location,...
The Little Church
Portland, OR
Starting from $2,260 to $3,404 for 50 guests
Tucked away on the corner of NE Summer and NE 23rd Avenue in Portland, the Little Church offers a uniquely quaint space for hosting your intimate nuptials! Located right in the famous Alberta Art District one block north from the main strip, this cute hideaway right in the middle of the big city pro...
Barton Park Pavillion
Boring, OR
Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $1,250 to $3,587 for 50 guests
In the heart of Oregon, Barton Park awaits to bring to life the outdoor wedding of your dreams. Dramatic, imposing yet entirely romantic, it is the region's most popular park destinations for a good reason. Located right on the Clackamas River, Barton Park is surrounded by miles of lush greenery and...
Salem Convention Center
Salem, OR
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Hotel/Resort, Event Center, Community Center, Ballrooms
Starting from $2,247 to $4,784 for 50 guests
Ask about our July & August wedding specials! Make it a magical and impressive affair when you host your wedding celebration at Salem Convention Center. This beautiful and flexible space easily conforms to fit your wedding dreams, regardless of if you're having an opulent soiree of 800 or an inti...
Hoyt Arboretum
Portland, OR
Starting from $801 to $1,851 for 50 guests
Situated only a few miles from downtown Portland, the Hoyt Arboretum offers one of the most exceptional outdoor wedding venues in the area! Established in the late 1920's as a conservation effort, this 189-acre patch of land boasts stately mature trees, flourishing flowers, and even endangered plant...
The Oaks Pioneer Church
Portland, OR
Starting from $1,250 to $1,250 for 50 guests
Oaks Pioneer Church, originally St. John's Episcopal Church, was built in 1851 and moved to the edge of Sellwood Park in 1961. It has been carefully and lovingly restored by the Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League and is now listed as a Portland Historical Landmark and in the National Register of H...
Rock Creek Country Club
Portland, OR
Golf Course, Outdoor
Starting from $5,200 to $5,860 for 50 guests
Boasting a reputation as one of the premiere golf courses in the Northwest, Rock Creek Country Club offers a singular club experience that perfectly intertwines rustic charm with classic elegance. The club was originally established in Portland in the late 1950's, making them very experienced hosts ...
Rivertide Suites
Seaside, OR
Hotel/Resort, Outdoor
Starting from $2,785 to $7,605 for 50 guests
When you start your happily ever after at Rivertide Suites Hotel, you will discover upscale accommodations in a beautiful riverside setting. Ideally situated on the Northern Oregon Coast along the shimmering Necanicum River, the seaside hotel is within walking distance of the area's finest beaches, ...
McMenamins Edgefield
Troutdale, OR
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There is no surviving artefacts or descriptions of Jewish shoes from the period of the early Bible (Nahshon 2008 p2). However footwear does hold an important significance to early Israelites. According to the Scriptures, God gave man a 'coat of skins' to wear.
"...Unto Adam and also unto his wife did the Lord God make clothes of skin and clothe them..." (Genesis 21:3). Once the Hebrews acquired the art of tanning they used thick hide for sandals. The Biblical sandal was either leather or wooden footboards held to the foot with finer leather thongs Nahshon (2008).
The lyric in the Song of Songs (circa 900 BCE ) confirms sandals were worn by the high born.
"How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman's hands." (Song of Songs 7:1).
One of the earliest known depictions appears on the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (circa 841 BCE) and depicts Jehu (son of Omri) bringing a tribute the Assyrian king. Jehu is prostrating himself in homage and is depicted wearing up-turned pointed shoes. These were fashionable with Assyrian royal families and may not be representative of ordinary shoes worn by Jews.
By the 8th century BCE concerns were expressed by elders as to the irreverence of decorated elevated sandals worn by young women. (Isaiah 3 16-20).
Later during the period of captivation in Egypt, Jewish slaves were taught the craft of Egyptian sandal making and took the trade with them. The fleeing slaves were wore sandals (Ex 12:11).
"This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD."
According to the Holy Scriptures Moses wore shoes when he approached the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:5).
"Remove your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground."
This was repeated again, at the confirmation of Joshua as the new Moses.
'And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot: for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.'
Josh 5:15
Possibly the first shoe miracle to be described was n Deuteronomy 29:15
"During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet."
Hence forth footwear and bare feet took on major symbolic significance in the Jewish religion. These are seen in the Torah , (Laws of Moses) and the Shulchan Aruch, (Code of Jewish law) which was written in the 16th century. Every day event were to be seen as something to worship the glory of God including putting on sandals. The Jewish laws prescribed the order in which you put them on. The right went on first followed by the left. (Shulchan Aruch/Orach Chaim 2:4). The left shoe was to be tied firs and the whole process reversed when taking the shoes off (Shulchan Aruch/Orach Chaim 2:5). It is thought this custom was based on the belief the right side was more important than the left and subsequently the right foot should not remain uncovered while the left was covered. Shoes were tied from the left because knotted teffilin was worn on the left arm. This refers to the children of Israel being out of Egypt as an act of God. When walking outdoors, Jews were required to cover the entire body including their feet (Shulchan Aruch/Orach Chaim 2:6). By the end of the first century CE shoes were considered an item of sensuousness, comfort, luxury and pleasure. Rabbi Akiva (ca.50–ca.135 CE) instructed his son Joshua not to go barefoot.
In the Talmud (200CE – 500 CE) (Shabbat 129a) it declared "A person should sell the roof beams of his house to buy shoes for his feet, " which if taken literally would again underline the importance of footwear in the Holy Land. Scholars and thise well versed in Jewish Law (Talmid Chacham) were never to go out wearing shabby or worn out shoes. Much later the Kabbalists considered the body as "the shoe of the soul," to protect it during its journey in the physical world.
According to Nahshon (2008) the primodial connection of the naked or semi naked foot to the land became an important element of Israel's Zionist pioneer culture. Walking barefoot symbolically intimated one of three states: the lack of social status, an act of humility, or reference to the Divine. A common punishment or judgment was being forced to go without shoes.
'At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.'
Is 20:2
Captives went barefoot and their footwear was often taken as a trophy.
'And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them.'
2 Chron 28:15
The Jewish custom of not wearing shoes was also taken as a show of remorse, penance or mourning (Book of Isaiah 20:2). In Talmudic times both the pall bearers and the mourners went barefoot. When David was in mourning he went barefooted.
'And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and went as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot'
2 Sam 15:30
Jewish Law determined wearing leather shoes was not permitted during the period of the seven days of mourning (shiva,). For practical reason when shoes were allowed the custom was to place a little earth or pebble in the shoes to remind the wearer that they are in mourning. Jews are buried in a shroud covering the feet and the corpse id never dressed in leather shoes.
In the laws of halitzah when a married man died childless and leaving an unmarried brother, the brother was obligated to marry his widowed sister-in-law. This was called a levirate marriage and was primarily to continue the family linage.Deuteronomy (25:5-9); and Book of Ruth 3:4. If the brother in law refuses to marry the widow a ceremony involving the halitzah shoe was undertaken. The shoe worn on the right foot of the male was made from the skin of a kosher animal. It was like a moccasin made of two pieces and sown together with leather threads with long ties. The widow places her left hand on the brother in laws calf, then undoes the laces with her right hand before removing the shoe from his foot. She then throws it to the ground, and spits on the ground in front of him. The beth din then recites the formula releasing all obligations. Here the shoe is a symbol of transaction and reference is made in Biblical times to shoes and sandals being used to seal bargains.
Human beings intrinsically used their bodies (or parts there of) as physical measurement of the known universe and so it would see perfectly logical to extend this to describe all human endeavours. The idea our ancestors described the universe with reference to the human body would give credence to the argument when describing faith there would be a head of a religious order; and feet, or the foundation of followers. This would translate into concrete iconoclasts as found in talisman of faith e.g. Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro. The absence of sophisticated transport in Biblical Times required walking as the primary means to spread the Gospel. By implication this would necessitate healthy feet and encourage protection of them. No surprise, perhaps to find reference to feet and sandals became closely associated with evangelism within in the New Testament.
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A B.C. Supreme Court decision ordering Google to block a company's websites from its search engine results around the globe could have even more sweeping implications than Europe's so-called "right to be forgotten" ruling, according to Internet legal experts.
In the case of Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, the court granted an interim injunction ordering Google to block websites associated with a company selling products in contravention of court orders.
Google is appealing the decision, which was released Friday.
The verdict comes not long after a European Court of Justice ruling compelling Google and other search engines to comply with requests by people to remove links to unflattering or objectionable personal data.
But the B.C. ruling is even more precedent-setting because it covers the blocking of entire websites, not just links to particular posts. And unlike the European ruling, which includes only Europe, the B.C. decision covers all of Google's search engine activity around the world.
"I don't know if the court took into account the full potential impact of this when it issued its decision," said Tamir Israel, a lawyer with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. For example, he said the ruling opens the door to the possibility of a country blocking websites from search engine results to quash political dissent online.
"It definitely opens the door to a lot of potentially problematic impacts down the road," he explained.
Michael Geist, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and ecommerce law at the University of Ottawa, suggested that the ruling could have far-reaching implications.
"The implications are enormous since if a Canadian court has the power to limit access to information for the globe, presumably other courts would as well. While the court does not grapple with this possibility, what happens if a Russian court orders Google to remove gay and lesbian sites from its database? Or if Iran orders it (to) remove Israeli sites from the database?" he posted on his blog.
"The possibilities are endless since local rules of freedom of expression often differ from country to country. Yet the B.C. court adopts the view that it can issue an order with global effect."
The B.C. case involved Equustek Solutions, a company that makes network devices for the industrial automation industry, which claimed that Datalink Technologies Gateways Inc. and associated defendants used trade secrets to create competing products and used "bait and switch" tactics, delivering their own products when they received orders for Equustek products. The defendants were the subject of several court orders to stop selling the copied product but continued to sell online.
In her ruling, Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon wrote that: "The Court must adapt to the reality of ecommerce with its potential for abuse by those who would take the property of others and sell it through the borderless electronic web of the Internet.
"I conclude that an interim injunction should be granted compelling Google to block the defendants' websites from Google's search results worldwide.
"That order is necessary to preserve the Court's process and to ensure that the defendants cannot continue to flout the Court's orders."
Asked for its response, Google emailed a statement saying: "We're disappointed in this ruling and will appeal this decision to the British Columbia Court of Appeals, B.C.'s highest court."


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Richard Thaler's latest Economic View column.
As implausible as it may seem, here is a statement that almost everyone in Washington can agree with: Congress has self-control problems. This may just be a sign of democracy. We elect those who share our frailties. We Americans eat too much, take on too much debt, save too little and put off anything mildly unpleasant as long as possible. Psychologists and behavioral economists have studied these kinds of problems for decades. We know, for example, that children have trouble waiting even for a few minutes to get three marshmallows if they can have one now, and they find it particularly hard if they have to look at those luscious treats while waiting.
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I had read in the description that the FTF prize was a cool LED flashlight. I moved the rather large logbook that was sitting on top of everything out of the way and searched. Wait a minute.. Where was the flashlight? Oh NO!
Sure enough after opening the logbook there was one entry sitting there and quite obviously mocking me. A cacher who not only found the cache at one minute after midnight was kind enough to note it in the log. "$#&^!#$%!#$", says I. Signing the log I too noted my time of 7:24am and phrased "Missed it by that much". Oh well, you can't win them all.
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SAUSALITO – A young sea lion found last month with a gunshot wound to the face is recovering at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
Whirlybird, a young California sea lion, was found listless and unresponsive on a set of stairs leading to the beach near Corcoran Lagoon on July 2. The Marine Mammal Center sent a team to rescue it. Center veterinarians found one of the sea lion"s eyes was missing and other very cloudy. X-rays determined the sea lion had been shot in the face. Metal fragments were scattered throughout its head, and had destroyed its right eye. The left eye was damaged so severely that the sea lion, nicknamed Whirlybird, was blind in both eyes.
The animal is recovering nicely, said Jim Oswald of the Marine Mammal Center, but it won"t be able to be released back into the wild.
Whirlybird "is hanging out with another gunshot wound victim, Old Ray," Oswald said.
Old Ray returned to the Marine Mammal Center in March after he was found at Moss Landing Harbor with injuries to his right eye and mouth. Veterinarians determined the injury to his eye was the result of a gunshot wound, and that the animal was blind in the right eye with limited vision in the left. This was the second time rescuers had found the sea lion with gunshot wounds. Old Ray originally had been rescued in November 2011 and was treated for gunshot wounds before being released in December.
While center officials can"t say exactly why these sea lions were shot, such incidents are typically the result of conflicts with fishermen who are trying to protect their catch. Twenty sea lions were found dead of gunshot wounds in Northern Oregon and Southern Washington state between April and June, coinciding with the spring salmon run, according to experts.
Last year, 10 of the 545 marine mammals rescued by the Marine Mammal Center had gunshot wounds.
The Marine Mammal Center is working with representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to find a zoo or aquarium for Whirlybird to live, with the hope of being able to send Old Ray to the same place.
The two sea lions appear to get along quite well, Oswald said.
To prepare Whirlybird, workers at the Marine Mammal Center are practicing what"s called target training. This gets the marine mammal used to humans and teaches it how to respond to basic commands.
Whirlybird doesn"t appear to have any other outstanding medical issues, fortunately.
"His appetite is good," Oswald said. "He"s eating about 7 pounds of fish a day."
Oswald reminds the public to report distressed marine mammals by calling the organization at 415-289-SEAL. The organization is also seeking donations to help feed the animals they care for. Each dollar donated buys 1 pound of fish, so a donation of $10 buys one seal pup a meal. More information about the dollar-a-pound campaign can be found on the Marine Mammal Center"s website.
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The only thing people love more than Super Bowl commercials is complaining about people who only care about the commercials. Or is it complaining about those complainers? I feel like we've had this conversation before.
The beauty of the Super Bowl advertising storyline is that it gives everyone a reason to have an opinion about the big game. (Without that connection to the rest of America, football fans would just seem more creepy obsessive than they already are.) The problem is that everyone knows this, so you don't even have to buy an ad anymore to get a plug for whatever the hell you want to talk about. Your $2.5 million doesn't pay for 30 seconds of precious airtime. It pays for two weeks of p.r. in half the media outlets in this country. Why do you think companies don't even bother to save their ads for Sunday? Why waste all that hype on people taking bathroom breaks.
The best way to take advantage of this strategy is, of course, manufactured controversy. Focus on the Family is probably still pissed that CBS actually accepted their Tebow Truth Tutorial. You just can't buy the kind of outrage that a rejection would have stirred up. (Plus, that's two very large down the drain.) If only they had ManCrunch's director of marketing. Even gay dudes had never heard of that site two weeks ago. Now their name is being broadcast on FoxNews for free. That's how you do emotional blackmail!
OMG you guys ... the GoDaddy ad got banned from the Super Bowl! Again! For the fourteenth year in a row! You'd think by now they'd have figured out how network TV's standards and practices work, but I guess they're so fucking edgy they can't even control themselves. Don't worry, though! There's no nudity or anything remotely sexy in the "banned" ad, because you're not allowed to host porn on GoDaddy servers. (Selling sex is wrong, kids.)
CAPTION: "The Worst Super Bowl Commercial Of All Time"
I wonder which ad Bud Light will run? The one where the 20-something guy goes to some improbable length to secure a single 12-oz. beer or the one with the sluts? I'm on pins and needles over here.
Seriously, though. Super Bowl ads are what unite as a country. It brings football to the snobby elites and puts rich celebrities and their famous brands on the same level with average Joes just looking to enjoy their weekend. It also puts a reality show buffoon on the same level with Peyton Manning. Enjoy Coke.
Super Bowl Commercial Preview: 'The Simpsons' for Coke, GoDaddy.com, Doritos, Budweiser [ABC News]
Super Bowl Ad Controversy From Tim Tebow to Two Men Kissing [ABC News]
ManCrunch.com Denies Accusations Super Bowl Ad Was Just PR Stunt [Fox]
What To Expect From The Super Bowl Commercials [NPR]


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For me, Pure Lands are Reward Lands, created by pure vows and pure merits of the Buddha's. This is in direct opposition of Impure Lands, created by our impure karma and with flawed merits and virtues contributed by all sentient beings there. Impure Lands are part of Samsara, and of Triple Realm, this mean, every place in the universe, including other planes like heavens and hells. So for me, does not matter if we go to the end of the universe or multiverse, there is samsara too.
Pure Lands are Nirvana realms, created by the Buddha's.
When I read sutras like Vimalakirti, of purifying our own land, I take this as a mental purification, because even when we have pure minds, these lands will continue to be part of samsara, subject to birth and death. So, when we say that Maitreya will establish his pure land here on Earth, is just a better place to live, better teachings and conditions, but still part of samsara and triple realm, because this land is created by our own karma, not Buddha's vows and merits.
So, for me, Pure Lands are Reward Lands, while our Impure Lands are Defiled Lands, Transformation Lands. Buddha's come to these impure worlds to save sentient beings and to purify us.
So, for me, science can only know everything that is part of samsara and triple world, like our universe, but not nirvana realms like Pure Lands.
Interpreting all universe as part of samsara and triple world is also confirmed by Josho Adrian Cirlea, who kindle said to me:
So, taking pure lands outside of our universe, making them Sambhogakaya Realms, or Nirvana Realms, I can fully accept it and understand it better.No, we cannot go to the Pure Land by a space ship because the Pure Land is not part of the Samsara and the physical material unverse we know is part of samsara, too. Other worlds with many planets and solar systems are also part of the endless Samsara, the world of birth and death. The Pure Land is beyond Samsara, it is not samsara, its the manifestation of Amida Buddha's Enlightenment and of his wish to save all beings.


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Gerard Guss Williams (20 May 1961 – 26 September 2017; age 56) was a stuntman who worked as stunt double for Michael Dorn on the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Where Silence Has Lease" and for for actor Paul Winfield on the fifth season episode "Darmok". His one day stuntwork on 23 July 1991 on location at Bronson Canyon under stunt coordinator Dennis Madalone for "Darmok" included falls and a fight with fellow stuntman Rex Pierson. Williams is the brother of fellow stuntwoman Rita Minor.
Williams started to work in the stunt business in the late '80s with performances in films such as the drama Penitentiary III (1987, with Lane Leavitt), the comedy Satisfaction (1988, with David LeBell), the action film Action Jackson (1988, with Bobby Bass, Gary Baxley, Jophery C. Brown, Tony Brubaker, Bennie E. Moore, Jr., Paula Moody, and Julius LeFlore), the thriller Johnny Handsome (1989, with John Alden, Allan Graf, Bob Herron, Henry Kingi, Sr., and Bill McIntosh), and the Academy Award winning war drama Glory (1989).
He had featured stunt parts in the science fiction sequels Predator 2 (1990, along with Michael Papajohn) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, with Jim Palmer). Further stunt performances can be seen in the action film Marked for Death (1990), the crime drama Boyz n the Hood (1991, with Ousaun Elam and Bob Minor), the science fiction film Universal Soldier (1992, with Bob Orrison, Peewee Piemonte, Hubie Kerns, and Dana Dru Evenson), the western Posse (1993), the comedy sequel Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1993), the action sequel Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995, with Tony Brubaker, Bob Minor, Terry Jackson, and Kim Washington), the thriller Heaven's Prisoners (1996, with Jophery C. Brown, Tony Epper, Maria R. Kelly, and Manny Perry), the action film Fled (1996), the crime drama Set It Off (1996), the comedy Major League: Back to the Minors (1998, starring Scott Bakula and Corbin Bernsen), the drama Unshackled (2000), and the comedy Stuck on You (2003, with Jeff Imada and Christopher Leps).
Williams died on 26 September 2017. [1]


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Second half of the season sure to be surprise-filled
Having a strong first-half record helps, but it's no guarantee of a playoff berth
The All-Star break stands as the mythical -- though not mathematical -- halfway point of the baseball season, and if there's one thing we know at the annual midseason lull, it's that we really don't know the half of what's going to happen by the end.
Sure, there are good signs for teams hoping to gain entry into the October tournament. Yes, there are individual performances that are setting up eye-popping season totals.
But halfway there, we have a lot to learn and a lot to see -- and a lot we can't even imagine yet.
Questions abound:
Will the Pirates break their 20-year playoff drought? Can the defending World Series champion Giants come off the mat in historic fashion to return to the playoffs? Do hot starts by the Cardinals, Braves, A's and Red Sox translate into hot finishes?
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Individually, will Miguel Cabrera be able to duplicate his Triple Crown feat of a year ago? Will Chris Davis continue to crush homers at a pace not seen in years? Will Max Scherzer or Patrick Corbin maintain their historic winning percentages?
Clearly, there's a lot left to answer.
While individual performances are fodder for our attention down the stretch, the really big and most important question remains: Who will be there in October when the postseason spotlight shines?
It sounds simple but it's true: When it comes to where teams stand at the All-Star break, the better off they are, the more likely they are to make the playoffs -- with notable exceptions on both sides.
For instance, who knew at the break a year ago that two teams sitting at or just a couple of games above .500 and out of the playoff picture would reach the postseason? But there went the A's (43-43) and the Tigers (44-42) into October, and Detroit went all the way to the World Series.
Both the Tigers and A's head into the second half of 2013 with a much more solid first half behind them, but they know that doesn't change what they have to do.
"It's 'grind it out until the end and see who's standing,'" Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "That's kind of what we did last year, and that's what you do in this business."
Of course, grinding it out from a lofty position in the standings is preferred.
In the past 10 years, including last year's debut of the 10-team postseason, only eight teams of the 82 that made the playoffs did so after being at or under .500 at the break, and only two have been below the waterline -- the 2008 Dodgers (46-49) and the '03 Twins (44-49). The '12 A's, '07 Rockies (World Series), '07 Phillies, '07 Yankees, '04 Astros and '03 Cubs were all at .500 at the break and still reached the postseason.
While many others were hovering near the break-even point, any team currently more than five games under will be doing something not done in a decade if they reach the playoffs. Still, they can take heart in the 1973 Mets, who were nine games under .500 at the break and surged to a World Series appearance.
On the flip side, things can go the other direction after the All-Star break, too. To know how that goes, you need look no further than Pittsburgh, where the Pirates are in the thick of the NL Central race for the third straight season at the break.
Let's just say they intend to do much better this time, and there's little reason to doubt that they will once their five All-Stars return to action with a nine-game cushion in the Wild Card race.
"We're pleased, but there is nobody in that clubhouse who is satisfied," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "We're in a good spot. We played hard to the finish of the first half. We'll reboot on Thursday."
Rebooting didn't go well for the Pirates the last couple of years, thanks to second-half slides. They played 15 games under .500 last year -- the steepest slide from first place since the '05 Nationals went 16-under to drop out of the playoff hunt. Before that, the '77 Cubs played 19 games under .500 in the second half to lose the National League East lead.
Certainly, the Pirates aren't the only ones to slip, and the A's and Tigers aren't the only ones to surge in the second half. Playoff positions have changed hands at least once in each league each of the past 10 years with two exceptions -- the 2008 American League and '06 NL races.
Last year, it was four teams who lost their leads after the All-Star break, and a total of 15 positions in the past five years and 32 in the past decade have changed hands between the break and the end.
For those teams hoping for a surge, the 2012 A's set a high bar by going 26 games over .500 to pass two teams and win the AL West. But even that couldn't compare to a '01 run during which the A's went an amazing 41 games (58-17) over .500 to reach the playoffs after being 44-43 and out of the mix at the break.
The Giants had a plus-20 second half to gain entry toward their 2012 title, bringing to 11 the number of teams in the past 10 years that have gone 20 games over .500 or better in the second half to jump into a postseason position.
On the other hand, you have the two teams that reached the 2006 World Series. The Cardinals went 35-39 after the All-Star break and still won the World Series. Their foe, the Tigers, went 36-38, and so it was that a pair of clubs that struggled down the stretch emerged as the last two teams standing.
So who knows exactly what's in store at the All-Star break? It's up the air, a half-written script with no ending and no telling what will happen to the characters.
Really, halfway there is just that, so the best part about the All-Star break is that it means the best part of the season is still to come.


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Welcome to the NEW American Musclecar Web Site.
This site is dedicated to the era we affectionately call the Muscle Car Era.
Between 1964 and 1974 American automobile manufacturers
designed and produced the most powerful breed of motor vehicles that the car market had
ever seen.
Unfortunately due to a blend of High insurance premiums,
sky rocketing gasoline prices and pressure from "The Man", the era lasted only a
short decade.
This site will profile one car from each year of this
decade. At present, three cars are featured. All three cars are a reflection of the best
that was offered for that year in this niche market.
You may not agree that the selected car for that year is
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As an IT officer, your focus will be on maintaining information technology for all employees in the area, and enable all departments to fulfill their duties efficiently and effectively. You'll also provide support for production staff, and technical assistance for software deployments.
More than ever mission work relies upon well built IT infrastructure. OM Canada is looking for a Systems Manager who is primarily dedicated to using acquired skills in advancing mission work.
OM Canada supports a mid-sized office team and links with a hundred other offices around the globe. The Systems Manager develops and maintains information technology in the OM Canada office, enabling all departments to fulfill their duties efficiently and effectively.
Use your technical and IT skills to help reach Afghans around the world. You will provide on-site and remote support for computer users within our team to help our Pamir ministries succeed. You will use your programming skills to build and support ministry applications (websites, follow-up systems, etc.)"
Use your mix of training talent, creative skills, IT savvy and project awareness to design interactive and engaging content to equip our people for mission, online, wherever they are in the world. Instructional Designers with eLearning experience are encouraged to apply. However, training is available for candidates with solid in-person teaching skills.
Use your mix of design talent, IT savvy and project awareness to assist missions trainers with the effective use of technology in a global teaching and learning environment. You will collaborate with cross-cultural trainers to facilitate the integration of instructional materials into a Learning Management System and provide technical support. Experienced eLearning technologists are encouraged to apply. Training is available for candidates with solid IT skills gained outside the eLearning field.
OM EAST is looking for an on-site IT support person to ensure the smooth running of their literature and media ministry's infrastructure. As you support a creative team of graphic designers, app developers and eBook programmers, you are making it possible to produce Christian media in the heart-languages of people groups around the world.
OM EAST is looking for a skilled web developer to manage and develop their eBook websites to share downloadable Christian media among people groups in hard-to-reach places. Use your skills to share the hope of Christ by making resources available in areas where there is little or no Christian literature in the local language!
Use your skills to convert powerful Christian publications into downloadable eBooks that can travel to hard-to-reach places. Share the hope of Christ by making resources available in areas where there is little or no Christian literature in the local language!
Are you good with computers and IT and willing to use these gifts in overseas mission? We need someone to keep our systems functioning properly, to help our team in areas of IT that they don't understand and to handle security of devices and information.
As our IT Administrator you'll be assisting the IT Coordinator in a multifaceted range of responsibilities. You will be managing the email network, provide MS Office help desk and other user support, provide network maintenance and support to a multinational team and system administration with Linux-server, Windows 7 and 10.


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Writing templates are widely available online. A Google search will lead you to websites that offer downloads of different templates. Some of them are even free. These prepared formats often come in predetermined categories and include sections like the title, introduction, list, and ending paragraph. All you have to do is fill up these sections depending on your chosen content.
Experience section is listed directly after the objective section in resume. This format is used when the person with sufficient work experience in similar field is applying for more superior position in other company. In this case, with such extensive experience, employer will consider that the applicant already possesses the job related skills and does not waste his time on viewing this section. Your relevant work experiences will win you the desired job.


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This weekend the Yavin IV project was officially lost. We launched from just outside Delano, MN at 4:00pm, it travelled SW for a few miles before catching the NE bound jet stream. We got a final position location around 5:30pm and it appeared it had landed in a corn field just west of the St. Croix river in Taylors Falls, MN.
A few shots of the location information we had via Loopt/Google Maps.
We searched around in the dark for about an hour and a half on our own before knocking on the closest door and then heading out into the fields with some friendly hunters and their high powered spot light. Again, nothing to be found. Not even the faint glimmer of our flashing LED beacons. Nowhere.
We gave up around 9:00 and headed back to the city. The hunters apparently spend every weekend out there, and they're keeping their eyes peeled for it and have our contact info if they find it. I checked back in on Sunday afternoon, walked around for a bit in the daylight and scanned the surrounding fields. Ran into the hunters again and they said that hadn't seen anything either. So hopefully they'll find it one of these days, or a good citizen of Taylors Falls will be wandering in the Interstate Park and stumble across it. Either way, fingers are crossed it returns one day.
Here's the last video footage of the little guy as he heads out on his last adventure.
Lastly, our estimated flight path based on the few Loopt checkins we got after launch and at the landing location. I also denoted the area searched. Click for more.


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The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday, Sept. 20, that it is awarding 79 grants totaling $143.8 million to innovative scientists across the country, including five MIT researchers. The grants bolster research that will potentially drive the biomedical field forward, and speed therapies from the bench top to the clinic.
Two of the five NIH grant recipients from MIT include EECS Department faculty members Mehmet Fatih Yanik '99, MEng '00, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Timothy Lu '03, MEng '03, PhD '08, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
The grant money comes from the NIH Common Fund, enacted into law by Congress in 2006, to specifically support innovative and risk-taking research programs. The awards are divided into three categories: the NIH Director's Pioneer, New Innovator and Transformative Research Projects awards. (Read more in the MIT News Office announcement).
M. Fatih Yanik, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and principal investigator at RLE, received the NIH Director's Pioneer Award ($4.3 Million in total), the most prestigious award given by the National Institutes of Health. Yanik is the youngest recipient. He also became the first person in NIH history to receive all top NIH awards: the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, the NIH EUREKA Award, the NIH Transformative Research Award, and now the NIH Director's Pioneer Award with work ranging from high-throughput drug discovery to neuronal tissue regeneration, and creation of living neuronal networks.
Yanik's goal in the Pioneer Project is to make patient-specific human tissues that can be clinically used for regenerative therapy of neuronal diseases, disorders, aging, and injuries. For this application, Yanik's High-Throughput Neurotechnology Group, is developing a breakthrough technology to decipher billions of combinatorial possibilities of all transcriptional factors in the human genome to reprogram human stem cells to specific transplantable tissues without any genetic modification. Yanik's lab is also working on animal studies to demonstrate successful transplantation and regrowth of human neurons in vivo.
Timothy K. Lu, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which supports promising new investigators with highly innovative projects.
Heading the Synthetic Biology Group in RLE, Lu will use the grant to continue his work in synthetic biology and nanotechnology, creating platforms for studying, manipulating and eventually treating amyloid-associated diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; and for his work on bacterial biofilms.
Tim received his undergraduate and M.Eng. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and Ph.D. from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Program. Tim has won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, Grand Prize in the National Inventor Hall of Fame's Collegiate Inventors Competition, and the Leon Reznick Memorial Prize for "outstanding performance in research" from Harvard Medical School. He has also been selected as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and a Siebel Scholar.
Congratulations Fatih and Tim!


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New segment of Texas 130 opens Oct. 24
A Central Texas toll road with an 85 mph speed limit — the highest in the country — will open to traffic Oct. 24.
And for the first two weeks driving on the toll road will be free. Drivers will have to pay starting Nov. 11, the last day the project could have opened to traffic and not be in violation of a construction contract.
"We're excited to be opening early," said Chris Lippincott, a spokesman for the SH 130 Concession Co., the company building the road.
Though most of the work on the road is complete, drivers may notice some "touch up work," like tree-planting, on the road in the first two weeks it's open, Lippincott said.
Construction of the road, which stretches from South Austin to Interstate 10 in Seguin, began in 2009. The 41-mile corridor is an extension of an existing toll road, Texas 130, which connects Georgetown to South Austin. Together, the entire section of toll road is 90 miles.
The Texas 130 toll system will be entirely automated. Drivers will either buy an electronic toll tag, or a bill will be mailed to the vehicle's registered owner.
Personal vehicles will be able to drive for about 15 cents per mile if the vehicles are outfitted with the electronic toll tag — which means it would cost about $6.17 to drive the entire extension, Lippincott said. The cost will be slightly higher for vehicles without the tag.
Commercial trucks, such as 18-wheelers, that are outfitted with the tags will pay 60 cents per mile, or $24.58 to drive the whole corridor, Lippincott said.
In all, the SH 130 Concession Co. spent about $1.4 billion on the project. That includes $100 million the company agreed to pay the Texas Department of Transportation, after the state approved the 85 mph limit for the Texas 130 extension.
The speed limit on the existing section of the toll road is 80 mph.
Those speeds have garnered praise but also raised safety concerns. Some truck drivers and trucking companies have said they can't safely drive at speeds that high. Others have raised questions about the road's route, because it ends about 30 miles outside of San Antonio's city limits.
Terri Hall, founder of the anti-toll road group Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, called the toll rates "staggering" and said drivers could spend up to $24 if they took the new and state-owned parts of the toll road roundtrip.
"That's 24 bucks to take this road 30 miles outside of your way," Hall said.
The new Texas 130 segment is the state's first public-private toll road. The state owns the road and right-of-way, but the SH 130 Concession Co., owned by Spain-based Cintra and a San Antonio company, Zachry American Infrastructure, funded the construction. The two companies also partnered on Gov. Rick Perry's ill-fated plan for a Trans-Texas Corridor.
Hall said TURF is asking people to boycott all Cintra-owned roads — a first for the advocacy group.
"Let's protest in the only language they understand, and that's with money," she said.
SH 130 will pay for the road's ongoing maintenance and operations for 50 years, according to a lease with TxDOT.
The company and the state will share the toll revenues.
"Given the infrastructure funding challenges that we face as a country, the role of the private sector is likely to increase," Lippincott said. "We feel confident that our project will provide an important example of how to deliver infrastructure that can make a difference for businesses and families."
Though the road's opening is only two weeks away, the SH 130 Concession launched a robust advertising campaign early this month.
Billboards have popped up in San Antonio, referencing both the road's speed limit and its purported convenience: "Don't just hug the road," the signs say. "Embrace it." Underneath, in white type against a red background, the sign promises, "A better way between Austin & San Antonio."


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1) Script Title: Ultimate Fade-in slideshow (v2.4)
2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...nslideshow.htm
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Hi All,
I am implementing multiple fadeshows on the same page which i have acheived with no issue, but i am wanting to have them staggered so that they are changing at different times.
They would need to display for the same duration but change at different times maybe by adding a delay before each one initialises ?
I have searched the forum and could not find anything to help,
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance