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Monday, September 24, 2007
Ran a Half-Marathon PW Yesterday!
I ran a 1:39 PW yesterday at the Newport Liberty Half-Marathon! A PB or PR is a "personal best" or "personal record". My run yesterday was a "personal worst" - I ran 1:21 last year there. It is because of these Achilles tendons and this lingering plantar fasciitis. I knew it would be slow, but it is still difficult to let all those people be in front of me, especially when I wasn't even breathing hard. When I am finished my runs lately, it feels like I was beat up for an hour. This is not good - kind of like aversive conditioning. I am wondering if I should just take an entire week off and ride my bike and swim instead of running. Would that put me any farther behind in so-called training for the NYC Marathon that is 6 weeks away?
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Newton Shoes
...So what has Newton (newtonrunning.com) done? The shoes feature rubber lugs -- called "actuators" -- that extend a quarter inch or so from the base of the forefoot region on the sole to mimic a barefoot running style, attempting to promote a more efficient and natural running technique. According to the company, the design minimizes detrimental heel-striking, promotes forefoot striking, increases speed, and prevents injury with some runners.If they were about $100 less, I might try a pair.
There's also a claim that the actuators rebound you into each new stride -- contracting on impact, absorbing energy, then springing you forward in a fit of, well, Newtonian physics.
In addition, the shoes are fairly lightweight -- the Gravity model I tested are about 11 ounces per foot -- and they have a mushy, dead-feeling heel, further egging you to strike on your forefoot.
Did I mention they cost $175 a pair?...
Ben Underwood is Blind
And I am pretty sure he walks barefoot -
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Registered for Newport Liberty
My PF is still painful, especially when I run faster than about 8:30 per mile. Slower running is more tolerable. And every day that I run is a little different, pain-wise. Ice seems to help a lot, and the pain seems to respond to regular strength generic ibuprofen better than it does to Advil. Tylenol 8-Hour seems to give me the runs - ironically sometimes in the middle of a run.
I tried to run 13 miles on Saturday, but wound up running only 11, and the PF hurt for the second half of the run. This means the NLHM will be my longest run since the Escarpment Trail Run, back in July. Today I ran a double, 2 in the AM and 5 in the PM. I had pain in the morning and just a little in the afternoon. Morning run on road in trainers, and afternoon mostly on the towpath in XC shoes. I ran 42 miles the week ending September 9th. This past week I ran 46. I am hoping to continue to rehab and increase miles so I can run a comfortable NYC marathon. The half-marathon on Sunday will only be a long run.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Mr. Little and I envisioned a small plane, perhaps a single engine prop plane with a mechanical problem, flying accidentally into the WTC. It had happend before to the Empire State Building.
By the end of first period, 9:45 AM, the buzz was building, however. Televisions were on in some classrooms and people were watching the live action of the burning, and the second plane hitting the second tower. Then the endless repitition, the horrified reporters and observers, the unbelivable events were unfolding for everyone who had a working television feed or Internet connection.
We walked out the back side of the building that faces towards New York City and could see the smoke.
It was horrible and sad. It was hard to react. Many students, even though they were 14-19 years old, just went about their business and didn't fully understand. Actually, none of us fully understood. How could we. We all just watched and listened and hoped we could remain safe and untouched.
And I ran that day with my son on his bicycle next to me. I talked to him about what had happened in New York City on that day. He was only 7 years old, but he had heard about it and seen some on TV after my wife and I arrived home.
In retrospect that run was a turning point in his life more than mine. Because I knew the pre-9/11 world much better than he could know it. He has lived almost half of his life now in this world that continues to behave under the influence of 9/11. He is developing the major characteristics of his personality in this world.
My run that day with my son was the balm that made me able to cope with the horror of September 11, 2001. My running is a comfort that unites my life every day. It is a constant that I can depend on. Each run forms a whole, like a string of pearls, that extends back to the "old world" of peace; of high school, through these events, into today, and into the future.
I am going to try to get my 13 year-old son to go for a run with me today and talk to him about that other run in September of 2001. I wonder if he would remember it. But he won't come with me, and I won't force him, because he will have some homework to do, some online games to play, some dinner to eat before his 6 PM soccer practice.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
They're Almost Getting It
Many athletic shoes now have too much cushion, gels or air soles that can weaken the foot muscles, especially when worn all day long for fashion as well as exercise, Stoxen said.
"A shoe needs to be supportive to allow for athletic performance, but it needs to allow the foot to move the way it was designed to move," he said. "The modern day 'foot binding' is the shoe. We have all kinds of shoes that alter the natural movement of the foot."
Stoxen cites interviews with African runners, who often practice barefoot and frequently perform exceedingly well in marathons. He recounts the story of Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, who set a new world record and won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympic marathon while running barefoot over cobblestones in Rome. Bikila won gold again four years later in Tokyo, despite recovering from an appendectomy he underwent a little more than five weeks earlier.
The new "barefoot" shoe will strengthen rather than weaken the natural spring mechanism of the foot, said Dan Weiss, director of marketing and product planning for the Converse Performance Team in Japan.
"Basically the foot has all the parts needed to perform," Weiss said. "A barefoot athletic shoe will allow the foot to continue to strengthen this performance mechanism and thus improve the overall endurance and strength of the foot, which is where most movement begins. -- By aligning the foot correctly and giving the support only where needed, this shoe will allow the foot to strengthen those muscles and ligaments that support the arch and give you the spring to react. With this stronger framework and correctly functioning spring mechanism, players will have quicker reactions and be able to avoid those common roll-over sprains."
Thursday, September 06, 2007
High Heels and Pumps
The ensuing discussion focused on the difference between high-heels and pumps, rather than on running shoe design. Darn, I usually hate when things go off on unexpected tangents.... But not this time. Because of course the Internet had the answer!
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source pump 2 (pŭmp) Pronunciation Key n. A woman's shoe that has medium or high heels and no fastenings.
Anwers.com, about High Heels - here is a snip (but visit the link for a great pic ;) ----->>>>
High-heeled shoes are shoes which raise the heel of the wearer's foot toes. When both the heel and the toes are raised equal amounts, as in a platform shoe , it is generally not considered to be a "high-heel." This tends to give the illusion of longer and more sleder legs. High-heels come in a wide variety of styles, and the heels are found in many different shapes, including stiletto, block, tapered, blade, and wedge. significantly higher than the
While high heels today are mostly associated with female shoe styles, and the term high heeled shoe is generally understood to mean styles of spike-heeled footwear almost exclusively worn by women, there are numerous shoe designs worn by both genders which have elevated heels, including cowboy boots and cuban heels. According to high fashion shoe websites like Jimmy Choo and Gucci, a "low heel" is considered less than 2.5", while 2.5" to 3.5" heels are considered "mid heels," and anything over 3.5" is considered a "high heel" [citation needed].


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Finding bright spots amid Angels' struggles
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Silver linings are tough to find these days. The Angels keep looking for them, but all they see are mounting losses.
They don't have Mike Trout, who sat for a third consecutive game because of a right hamstring injury. They don't have Albert Pujols, whose foot injury has knocked him out for the rest of the season. Second baseman Howie Kendrick still isn't ready to come off the disabled list.
No silver linings there.
And then there was this: a 3-1 loss Wednesday to the Cleveland Indians, who swept the three-game series at Angel Stadium and sent the Angels off on a nine-game road trip with a four-game losing streak.
It goes beyond that. The Angels dropped five of six games on their home stand and now have lost 9 of 11 and 13 of 17 since Aug. 4. They were outscored by the Indians 12-4 in the series.
It hurts not having Trout, who is their offensive catalyst, but as manager Mike Scioscia said afterward, "It's a lot of guys – Mike, Albert, Howie. … Right now we're thin. Guys are playing hard."
Dig deeply for silver linings and this is what you find:
— Trout will test his tight right hamstring Friday in Seattle before the Angels open a three-game series against the Mariners. If he improves by then, he'll be back in the lineup.
"He's going to have an aggressive on workout Friday," Scioscia said. "We'll be able to gauge where he is a lot better. He's getting better. They're planning on him running the bases on Friday."
— Wednesday's starter, Jerome Williams, had a positive performance but still couldn't pick up a win. He gave up a leadoff triple to Michael Bourn in the third inning followed by a home run by Nick Swisher, then retired 12 of the next 13 batters.
Williams, whose record fell to 5-10, hasn't won since June 12. He has dropped eight decisions in a row, and the Angels have lost each of his past eight starts.
"I've just got to perform better," he said. "I put a lot of pressure on myself because I'm not doing the things I needed to do like I did early in the year executing pitches and stuff. Hopefully, this is a stepping stone for me so I can keep going forward."
— Peter Bourjos, hitless in 20 at-bats since coming off the disabled list Friday, had a bunt single and a ground single to center in his final two plate appearances. Bourjos said he is still playing with discomfort from a fractured right wrist and that offseason surgery remains an option.
"Pete is a little frustrated since he came back," Scioscia said. "He's hit some balls hard. He'll get into the flow."
More than anything, the Angels will need their pitching to carry them as long as they remain hobbled by injuries. But pitching has been unreliable virtually the entire season, and there is little doubt that's where their offseason focus will be.
"You're only as good as your pitching," Scioscia said. "Our pitching is not at the level it needs to be, and we're finding that out. I don't think there's any head scratching about what's going on.
"It's very easy to diagnose. I think the issue is going to be fixing it. I know that's where everyone's attention is.""

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Once Upon A Time, "Manhattan" S2 E14
Fairytale flashback.
As Rumple jollily enters his humble abode (limp-free), he might as well be saying "Honey, I'm home" Rumple and
wife Milah speak what sounds like
gibberish for most of this scene. But if you listen closely, you can hear
some key words like "Ogre Wars" "coward" and father." Basically, Rumple's
going off to fight and totally not be a coward like his father apparently
was. Milah tells him to go fight bravely, and they'll be able to fulfill
their dream of having a family.
When Rumple, rumplily reports for duty at his rather Game of Thrones looking camp, he's ordered to stand guard in front of a cloaked cage with a prisoner who can "help them turn the tides against the ogres". Two seconds into guarding, Rumple uncovers the cage after the prisoner calls his name, revealing a Seer, a girl with huge scars/stitch things instead of eyes and terrible CGI placed eyes on her hands. No wonder she was covered, yeesh. Get that off my screens. The Seer tells him that Milah is with child, a boy, but Rumple's actions "will leave him fatherless."
At first, Rumple doesn't believe her, but when Ugo Seer's other vision that the troops will ride into war on cows (which refers to the saddles). Rumple's conflicted, but decides that he doesn't want his son to grow up fatherless like he did, so he avoids fighting by
taking an arrow to the knee by
smashing his own foot. His limp must have stalled his journey home about
9 months because when he returns. Milah has already had the baby.
Somehow, everyone knows what Rumple did, including Milah, who tells Rumple it
would have been better for him to have died in battle and that now instead of
growing up fatherless, baby boy Baelfire will now live with the shame of being
the son of a coward, a fate far worse.
|Rumple really likes that new baby smell
Henry, Rumple, and Emma get out of a taxi in front of Bae's place in the city. For some reason Henry was the one riding shotgun. They buzz his apartment, and Emma, over the speaker, pretends to be a UPS delivery person. Naturally, Bae assumes that it must be his father looking for him, so he jumps down the fire escape and starts running. Emma jumps into pursuit (commence brief chase seen full of fun jumping) and after an A+ tackle, Emma, unlike the audience, is shocked to see none other than her baby daddy Neal. But instead of saying "OMG" or even "Neal?," Emma's first reaction to seeing him after a decade is a weirdly calm, "No…" The two exchange "What are you doing here"s and Neal moves their conversation to a bar where Emma continues her freak-out. Neal claims he didn't know who Emma was when he met her and that he has been spending his life on the run to "get away from all that crap." Emma tells him how heartbroken and betrayed she was and Neal explains that August came to him, revealed he knew Neal was Baelfire, and told him to leave Emma, who's all like "You let me go to prison because Pinocchio told you to?" Neal says maybe fate brought them together, but Emma, in an act of defiance, rips off the keychain he gave her, which she's been totally wearing this whole time, and gives it back to him, failing to mention anything about Henry.
Meanwhile, Henry awkwardly holds a hot dog that Rumple/Gold bought him, while he naively tells Gold that all that matters is that Gold is here now and wants Bae back. I was half expecting the hot dog vendor to come over and tell him he needs to actually pay for that.
|How am I supposed to hold this thing?
Emma returns to them, and even though she was gone long enough to have a life-changing conversation at a bar, she tells them she lost him. Consequently, Rumple rumples his way into his son's apartment, where he plans on waiting for his son. He quickly realizes Emma is lying and starts to threaten her. But before he can get too violent, Neal/Bae emerges at the perfect time, although, without magic, I'm pretty sure Emma could take Rumple. Henry comes out too and asks his mom what's going on. Funny, sometimes he calls her Emma, sometimes he calls her mom. I guess the writers knew this situation required him to call her the latter. While everyone's putting the pieces together, Neal asks Henry how old he is, and before Emma can rush him out, he annoyingly shrieks, (and I mean shrieks) "ELEVEN." Henry's first instinct upon learning his father is alive is to rush out the window. Hey, I guess it runs in the family. But at least he stays on the fire escape.
Emma follows him and tries to justify her lying to him, but Henry says the coldest thing he can think of: "You're just like Regina, she always lied to me too." Emma responds "
OMG, IT WAS ONE TIME." gazes sadly.
Rumple admits he made mistakes, but wants to make it up to his son by turning him back into a 14-year-old, which is just about the weirdest thing ever. Obviously, Neal rejects this and delivers a line he's been working on for decades: "Now I'm letting you go." Zing!
Neal's ready to go meet Henry (meet meet), but before he goes out, Emma tells him not to break Henry's heart. Neal's like
"that doesn't really make sense here." "Pshh
already broke your heart." "Yea, okay."
Meanwhile, in Storybrooke,
Snow and Charming giggle like school girls over the revelation that Rumple is Henry's Grandrumple.
Regina, Cora, and Hook play Three's Company. Cora and Regina argue about who's going to be the blonde one for a bit. Cora and Regina won't go after Rumple because they won't have any magic outside Storybrooke, although Hook says he doesn't need any to kill him. Instead, the mother-daughter duo plans on finding Rumple's dagger. Regina goes to Belle's hospital room and unnecessarily uses magic to take a piece of paper with a Dewey Decimal clue that leads them to the library and a treasure map. There, Cora knocks out Hook because he is no John Ritter. Cora plans on using the sword to make Rumple kill Emma, Charming, and Snow, leaving Henry to a "blameless" Regina. Cause you know, if that were to happen, it's not like Henry would mourn or slump into depression or anything. Just buy him a Cinnabon.
Elsewhere, outsider Greg took a video of Regina doing magic and is sending it to Her, who I am still assuming is Ann Veal.
Back in Fairytale land future past, a wifeless and son-less Rumple Dark One finds the Seer and demands to know how to find his son. She tricks him into taking his power, but she's still ugly. He learns that a boy will lead him to Bae, but that the boy will be his undoing, to which Rumple responds, "Then I'll just have to kill him"
Cut to Rumple mysteriously glaring at Henry.
So how exactly is Neal/Bae not an old man? He came here years before Emma was even born and on his own accord, without Regina's curse. So all those years plus the 28 years should make him an oldee. Did he just reach his peak and stop aging? Is that going to happen to Emma and August?


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I purchased an antique copy of Pinocchio, the children's classic story that was later made into a classic Walt Disney film, at our local library today for $1.00. I brought it home and started doing some research on the book. Here are a few things that I found out about this particular book, and Pinocchio in general.
The book was published in 1940 by Rand McNally & Company out of Chicago, Illinois. Coincidentally, this is the same year that the Walt Disney classic animated film was also released. The book is one of a series of books that Rand McNally & Company released as part of the "Windermere Series" of children's classics. This series was published, and I am just guessing from similar books that I have read about today, from 1916 to 1940. This would be one of the later books of that series.
Continue reading Book Find: Pinocchio, The Story of a Puppet by C. Collodi; Illustrated by Esther Friend


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"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth." –Ptolemy
As regular readers here will know, earlier this month I went to Glacier National Park, meeting up with an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in a few years. What you may not have known is that Rich is not just into photography, but he's recently taken an interest in astrophotography, which I started noticing when he started sending me photos like this.
It turned out that this photo wasn't even taken with a tripod; he put the camera on the dash of his car! You can make out the Big Dipper and the orange giant, Arcturus, see that the second star from the end of the handle is actually a binary (Mizar/Alcor), and see the great Coma star cluster, in Coma Berenices, down near the bottom of the photo. That was back in April, and while I was excited to share the sights through my mounted binoculars with Rich, he came up with something to share with all of you. Take a look at this wonderful guest post on DIY astrophotography, along with just a few comments (in italics) from me.
Greetings Starts with a Bang Readers! I hope you have enjoyed this blog as much as I have over the years, and that it has inspired you to dig deeper while exploring our amazing and beautiful universe. Ethan has graciously given the keyboard and mouse over to me to share how his blog (and friendship) has inspired me.
Being a scientist, I am very driven to investigate and understand how the things around me work. One of the best parts of this blog over the years has been the great images that are used to illustrate the various topics. These images inspired me to try taking photographs of the starry sky myself. However, my budget is nowhere near that of NASA's, so I needed to know how to take good astrophotos but with a limited budget.
First and foremost, I needed a camera with the ability to take long exposures, typically 60 seconds or more. There are plenty of DSLR models with this capability, but this is a budgeted project. Currently, I have a Canon SX220HS. This camera has served me well for taking photos of nature while hiking, but the longest the camera would expose the CCD is 15 seconds. Searching the internet, I came across the Canon Hack Development Kit. Please don't let 'hack' scare you, this is software written for Canon cameras that expands what you can do with them. After reading about this software, I decided to give it a shot. I messed with the settings and found that I could set the shutter speed up to 2048 seconds long. That's over 30 MINUTES of exposure on a camera that cost around $350 when it was new with a free software upgrade. SCORE!
This is the small point-and-shoot camera that I had been using on my hikes to take photos.
Next, I knew I was going to need something to keep the camera steady and allow me to aim at the part of the sky I wanted to photograph. I settled on Joby Gorillapod. This is a very light weight tripod that I could also take with me into the wildness.
With these in hand, I excitedly headed to the nearby Rocky Mountains to give astrophotography a shot. What I got was surprisingly good!
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Mt. Sherman in Colorado as the moon was rising. The Big Dipper is on the left side, and Polaris (North Star) can be found by following the lower edge of the Big Dipper up and to the right to the first bright star.
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Mt. Sherman in Colorado as the moon was rising. This is a photo showing the Milky Way on the left side with the mountains in the foreground.
Ethan's note: this is only possible under sufficiently dark skies. Good astrophotos can be taken in locations that are below 5 or so on the Bortle Scale, shown below. For what it's worth, a full Moon can turn a perfectly dark sky into an "8" in no time.
With longer exposures, however, I noticed something funny…the stars were no longer points, but arcs of light. I laughed at myself when I got home and checked my photos and I realized, "Duh! Earth spins!"
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Mt. Sherman in Colorado as the moon was rising. This is a photo showing the Big Dipper and Polaris.
This isn't to say you can't take great astrophotos while Earth spins us merrily around and around…
This was taken at approx. 9pm near Glacier National Park. This is a photo showing the Big Dipper and Polaris.
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Glacier National Park. This is a photo showing the Big Dipper and Polaris.
Ethan's note: on this night — the same day we hiked to Grinnell Glacier, Tuesday, September 4th — while Rich was taking and perfecting these astrophotos, I had set up my binoculars and was manually finding some of the great sights visible with dark skies. While I didn't photograph them, I have found visually comparable photos of some of the most stunning ones, which I'll share.
You'll notice in these photos that all the stars appear to be rotating around Polaris. This is because Earth's rotational pole VERY nearly points directly at this star. For readers living south of the equator, you have The Southern Cross. Since Earth's rotational axes point at these stars and they don't move across the sky during the night, explorers in antiquity used them for navigational aids.
At this point you might say, "Mission accomplished!" For me, I wanted to know what it would take to account for Earth's rotation and be able to take photos of any part of the sky for as long as I might like. (Or at least till finished drinking my beer that evening.) Back to research. I found several star tracking mounts to buy, but all cost several hundred dollars. Then I came across this webpage by Gary Seronik. A star tracking platform I could build myself!? Cool! (And cheaper to boot!)
Ethan's note: for any college student in search of a reasonable advanced/electronics lab project, this is an excellent one to propose to your professor!
So following Gary's plans…
Step 1: Buy ½" birch plywood and make templates. The plywood cost about $9 at Lowes. As best I could tell, you could probably make 4 platforms from the piece I bought.
Step 2: Find a buddy with a jig saw or band saw to cut the pieces out for you. Cost: Beer with a friend. I also sanded down the pieces to clean them up.
Step 3: Buy a ball-head camera mount and the various electronics parts you need. The ball-head mount cost $40, but is pretty nice. You can find cheaper ones for half this price. The various electronic parts cost $50 including the motor used to drive the top platform.Instead of using a 3 V DC motor, I was only able to buy a 6 V model. I had a friend check the electronics due to my swap. Gary's webpage uses two 0.1 μF capacitors in the circuit to control the drive motor, but my friend suggested a 1.0 μF for the capacitor labeled C2. There's also a very handy webpage that will show you what resistors you'll need if you use a motor requiring a different voltage.
Step 4: Construct the electronic control box. This is a bit fancy, but I wanted something with a switch and a quick disconnect for the drive motor. I also chopped off the unused portions of the circuit board to make it fit into the project box.
Step 5: Assemble the drive parts. The piece of threaded brass stock is bent to a specific radius. I used MS PowerPoint to print a circle with this radius and bent it by hand. The large output cog has a sleeve nut.
Ethan's note: you do NOT need to create a circle by using MS Powerpoint and a printer; a simple, analog compass will work just as well.
Close Up: This shows the output cog with the sleeve nut stick out slightly. The sleeve nut is held by the cog's worm screw to drive the top platform up.
This is the fully assembled platform. At this point I connected the control box and used the stopwatch function on my cell phone to time the speed of the output cog. This needs to be as close as possible to 1 rpm.
Ethan's note: Rich wound up using a variable voltage resistor that is tunable by hand. This is essential, as the rate of your platform's rotation and the requirements of the electronics will vary slightly based on environmental conditions such as temperature.
After testing and adjusting the platform I disassembled it and varnished the wood to make it look good and protect the wood against the weather.
In the end, how did all this hard work turn out? After getting the platform setup with my camera on top and the whole thing pointed at Polaris, the proof is in the photos…
Attempt #1: This was just a random part of the sky with the Milky Way. You can see that the results are much better, especially considering the exposure is twice as long as my earlier shots that had star trails. My aim of the platform's axis at Polaris isn't quite right since you can see some trailing.
Ethan's note: aiming directly at Polaris is an amazing way to go, as Polaris is less than 1 degree from true north. However, it is not directly located at the north celestial pole, and so arbitrarily long exposures will still exhibit some trailing. It will appear more severe, for what it's worth, the farther away from the pole star you point your camera.
After some aim adjustments: This was taken at approx. 9pm near Glacier National Park. This is (a portion of) the constellation Cassiopeia on the left side of the photo. NO MORE TRAILS!!
Ethan's note: While Rich was photographing Cassiopeia, I managed to locate the double cluster in Perseus, which looked a lot like this through binoculars.
Still, it isn't as spectacular as it could've been; here's what the double cluster looks like through a truly professional telescope!
Enough of my intrusion; back to Rich.
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Glacier National Park. This is a photo of the star Arcturus. This star is a K-type orange giant star. Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
Ethan's note: Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern half of the skies and #4 overall, but the other three are all visible from many places in the Northern Hemisphere during certain times of the year.
This was taken at approx. 10pm near Glacier National Park. The bright blue star in the middle of this photo is Altair. This star is an A-type main sequence star and part of the 'Summer Triangle.'
Ethan's note: for the first time, I was able to observe Albireo through my binoculars, getting clear, dark summer skies!
Although I had no spikes in my image, the separation between the yellow and (slightly dimmer) blue companion stars was clear, despite having just 20x magnification on the binoculars!
Lastly, this photo looks very strange and green for a reason. While I was on vacation at Glacier National Park this summer AND while I just happened to be snapping a photo of the stars to the north there happened to be an Aurora Borealis!!! This was taken at approx. 11pm near Glacier National Park.
Ethan's note: The Moon had just come up over the horizon and I — freezing cold after hours in the dark at altitude — had retreated into my tent. Rich suddenly asked, "Hey, Ethan?" "Yes?" "What does the Aurora Borealis look like?" "Uhh… it's green, it shimmers, and it should be located towards the north." "I think we have the Northern lights tonight."
Little did I know that 4 days earlier, on August 31st, a coronal mass ejection set the stage for the first Aurora Borealis of my life. Faint, blurry and fast-moving, it was still nonetheless spectacular!
There you have it! Starting with a bang, and ending with the knowledge and skills to take pretty good astrophotos all inspired by what you already read on a regular basis. Remember to always be curious about even the simplest things around you, and never be afraid to ask questions. Our universe is an amazing place; you just have to get out there and explore it!
Thanks to Ethan for giving me chance to share what I have learn from his blog and what it has inspired me to do. I hope everyone reading this blog is similarly inspired.
One more note: I was able to spot and see the Andromeda galaxy through binoculars for the first time. It looked somewhat like this (although less pixelated).
After that, Rich gave me the old platform he built, and challenged me to an astrophotography challenge, which is like challenging a paper tiger to a fight.
If you accept my challenge from Facebook
I have challenged Ethan to a contest to see who can take the best astrophoto of the Milky Way's closest spiral galaxy neighbor, Andromeda, using one of these platforms. (I built a second one for myself.) Stay tuned in the future to see the results and vote on whose photo you think is the best!
Thanks to Rich for an outstanding and incredibly informative guest post, and I hope this inspires at least one among you out there to try it yourself! I'll get the best Andromeda I can and show you the results, but in the meantime, enjoy the Universe for yourself!!


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1. You still need to pay your tax for the money you won, so it is recommended to find out what you have to pay and pay it.
2. If you have any debts, student loan or mortgage, pay them.
3. You need basic control over your emotional state, in order to understand your comfort zone and your limits. If you buy shares, for example, and the price goes down, will you sell? Or will you buy more? Are you prone to make impulsive decisions? You need safeguards and restraint in order to not spend it all in the next few years? Do you feel tempted if someone come to you with a investment with a 25-75% annual return (this is too god to be true, you know that, right) ?
4. Keep your identity and lifestyle the same if possible, maintain a low profile, and a need to know basis. You can tell to your wife, and your kids, maybe. If word goes by, a lot of people will come to you with real or not so real problems, asking for financial help. It is better to remain anonymous and support the causes that are important for you.
5. Priorities, goals and values. Do you want to live in another country, or countries? Do you want to still keep your work or stop doing it? Do you want to have another career that you always dreamed off, but you did not have the time and the money to follow it? Do you want to spend more time with your family? To travel around the world? To buy another house or car? Your partner have the same priorities like you or you need to compromise?
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The party met with their contact, Leonard Kittle, the blacksmith in the town of Cooper's Cross. While looking for employment they were refered to Samil, a townsman. He was supposed to cover the watch on the Farhold, but arrived to find it occupied by goblins. He employed the party to clear the place out for 150 gold pieces.
The party suprised the goblins and killed all but one of the occupiers. The surviving goblin returned for reinforcements but planted the seed of fear among his fellows. Upon arriving at the Farhold, the goblins decided on a parley to guage the strength of the party. After talking to Stillheart, they decided Farhold was safest in the possession of the party and that the looting would probably safest and most plentiful elsewhere.
After being relieved of the post by town's militia, the party went to the local tavern to celebrate the victory. They sponsored an impromptu drinking contest which was just barely won by Soloman Nightblade, the party's laconic swordsman.
The next morning, the party met Ana Singer who asked them to help her father. They helped her and her mother determine that their pear orchard had been cursed. They then went up to help Silas deal with the attacks upon his sheep flock. They sent Silas and Maddigan with the sheep down to the barn and laid in wait for the attackers. After the fog settled in, the goblins who came to poach the sheep stumbled into the party and a big fight ensued. The party was victorious.
While the larger group at the top of the hill was fending off the main body of the goblins, Silas and Maddigan fought a smaller group who came to the farmhouse and attempted to burn the barn.
When we play again we will begin at daybreak on the 7th, with the party awaking from a much needed rest, reuniting, and looking for clues among the slain as to why the goblins were there.


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I have seen husbands who are looking for a good result in their marriage, act and talk in ways that give them the exact opposite results they were after. Parents, employees, young people and most all of us, end up doing this at times. Getting better results is possible for us. We have to be a little more intentional. We have to be a little more aware and alert if we are going to get the better results. I love the Parable of the Sower that Jesus taught us. The seed is designed to get good results. It is full of potential. There are some threats to its potential but that shouldn't be our focus. We can't play defense all the time and get good results. We can't operate out of fear and negativity and get good results. If we can just get the seed planted in good soil it will produce amazing results. It can produce a little, a lot, or a huge bumper crop! It is really pretty easy. The seed is God's Word and it has amazing potential to produce results we want in our life. The ground is our life or our heart. We get to choose what kind of soil God's Word gets planted in. Pull the weeds out of your heart, don't allow just anything to grow there. Dislodge the rocks and remove them; let go and forgive. Be more intentional about taking care of your soil and getting the good seed in there. Then watch the results you love come shooting up out of your life and your world. Make sure to do the things that will give you the results you really want.
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Insurance Commissioner Jones Announces Arrests of Inland Empire Business Owners and Employee for Insurance Fraud
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Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that Steven Manchester, 50, Bob Roberts Jr., 51, and Heather Reavis, 40, have been arrested on multiple felony counts including conspiracy, forgery and grand theft in a scheme to defraud mortgage companies. Search warrants were served yesterday at three Inland Empire and two Orange County locations. The three suspects were principals of the Rancho Cucamonga and Tustin franchise of ServiceMaster, a restoration, clean-up and construction business that is commonly hired following an insured property loss.
It is estimated that the ring perpetrated over $10,000,000 in forgeries and over $100,000 in Insurance Fraud. All three suspects were booked into the San Bernardino County Jail and are awaiting arraignment. Bail has been set at $1,000,000 for each suspect.
"This case exhibits a willful and flagrant disregard for the law and an abuse of the insurance system," said Commissioner Jones. "Let this stand as a warning to those who think they can get away with it, my Department will investigate."
The principal owners, Manchester and Roberts Jr., along with the Controller, Reavis, of the franchise company SCMS Inc., dba ServiceMaster-Rancho Cucamonga & ServiceMaster-Tustin, have been involved in an insurance fraud scheme in which they have fraudulently endorsed mortgage companies' banking information on the back of the checks issued for work allegedly completed by their company. Additional charges were filed because evidence revealed that ServiceMaster had not rendered all services they had billed for or were contracted to complete during the restoration of an insured's residence after a property loss.
The Fraud Division of the California Department of Insurance (CDI) received assistance during this investigation from the National Insurance Crime Bureau and the Contractor's State Licensing Board. Also providing assistance were the victims' insurance companies, including: Mercury Insurance Company, Farmers Insurance Company, State Farm Insurance Company, Hartford Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual, California Casualty, Balboa Insurance Company, Century National, Pacific Specialty, and Traveler's Insurance Company. Additionally, CDI received a great deal of help from the victims' financial institutions, including: Schools First Federal Credit Union, Wells Fargo Bank, First Franklin Financial Corporation, Countrywide, VISTERRA Credit Union, HSBC Finance Corporation, and INDYMAC Mortgage Services.
If you have any questions, please contact Sgt. Joe Chavez at the CDI Fraud Division-Inland Empire Regional Office at (909) 919-2200 or San Bernardino County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Michael Fermin at (909) 891-3346.
The California Department of Insurance, established in 1868, is the largest consumer protection agency in California. Insurers collect $310 billion in premiums annually in California. Since 2011 the California Department of Insurance received more than 1,000,000 calls from consumers and helped recover over $469 million in claims and premiums. Please visit the Department of Insurance website at www.insurance.ca.gov. Non-media inquiries should be directed to the Consumer Hotline at 800.927.4357. Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD), please dial 800.482.4833.


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Article about AIMM and USS Orleck in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Yes, AIMM is considering adding a destroyer to the museum. This is not something we sought out, people associated with USS Orleck (DD-886) contacted us. The pertinent facts are:
- USS Orleck has a very active foundation and support network of over 1,500 people
- The foundation will pay for all moving costs to get Orleck here
- The foundation will pay for the maintenance of Orleck once she is here. This is money that will go directly into the NLR economy (for paint and other supplies) that would not otherwise come to NLR.
- Addition of Orleck will allow NLR to compete for additional military reunions and conventions and she will bring in additional tourists who will eat in local restaurants and stay in local hotels. These are visitors who would not otherwise come to to central Arkansas.
Destroyer a prospect for NLR museumBy Jake Sandlin
LITTLE ROCK — North Little Rock's maritime museum is studying the addition of a 390-foot-long destroyer to its site on the Arkansas River at no initial cost, the museum's director said Wednesday.
Ship preservationists have been looking for a new home for the USS Orleck since the sale last summer of the Levingston Island property in Orange, Texas, where it had been since December 2006.
The buyers gave the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation that owns the Orleck until this month to move it.
"Basically I'm just doing our cost analysis if it gets here and what it's going to cost us [to maintain]," said Greg Zonner,director of North Little Rock's Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, 120 Riverfront Drive. "For us, it [the proposal] is just kind of sitting there. We haven't said yea or nay."
The Orleck would join the USS Razorback submarine at the on-river museum just east of the Main Street Bridge. But its arrival would hinge on the feasibility of towing such a large vessel up the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.
"They think they can do it," Zonner said, referring to a group associated with the Orleck's preservation and fundraising. "We're not really pursuing it. I basically told them if it costs us anything, we couldn't do it."
Bob Orleck of Randolph, Vt., executive director and treasurer of the USS Orleck Association, confirmed that North Little Rock is being seriously considered for the destroyer.
"We're working toward the goal of getting her up there," said Orleck, a nephew of Lt. Joseph Orleck, for whom the ship is named. "We're hopeful that it's a perfect fit for the ship."
The association has about 1,500 members, said Orleck, who served on the Gearing Class destroyer. He is also president of the Orleck's nonprofit Education Preservation and Information Corp., which promotes reunions, fundraising and news about the Orleck.
"Our group would provide not only financial support for the ship but also would help in providing a great deal of volunteer effort, not only to help with the Orleck but with any ships at the [North Little Rock] museum," Orleck said.
Zonner said the Orleck association contacted him about relocating the ship to North Little Rock and he at first turned it down.
"I said, 'Gee, guys, first I don't think you can get [the Orleck] up here, and secondly we don't have the money to do it,'" Zonner recalled. "They came back and said, "We think we can get it there. And can you take it if we pay all the expenses in getting it there?'"
The museum is still trying to add the tugboat Hoga that survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and is now part of the Navy's inactive fleet at Suisun Bay near San Francisco. North Little Rock obtained title to it in2005, but it could cost the city a minimum $400,000 to transport the Hoga from California.
When North Little Rock got the Razorback submarine from Turkey in 2004, the draft of the submarine - or how much water depth is needed for a vessel to float - wasn't sufficient in shallow parts of the Arkansas River, and the craft was held in Rosedale, Miss., for more than two weeks. The submarine draft was as much as 14 feet; the river's channel was mostly between 10 and 12 feet deep.
Barges were eventually employed to lift the sub higher in the river to finish its journey.
Zonner said he's been told the destroyer drafts about 13 feet now but could get close to 10 feet "after they basically empty her out."
"They seem to think they can do it," he said.
Orleck called the movement upriver "very do-able."
"It takes an awful lot of smart people, but they will be able to do it from what I hear," Orleck said.
Where the destroyer would be placed along the river is another question. The museum would likely pull away the two barges moored on the river and put the 390-foot destroyer next to the 311-foot Razorback.
A distance of 427 feet lies between the Junction Bridge that crosses over the river and the end of the Patriot tugboat, used by the Arkansas Queen Riverboat operation alongside the museum. That's enough room for the Orleck, Zonner said.
"Theoretically, it should fit," Zonner said. "But we're still a long way from it going there."
If the already-renovated barges had to be moved from the museum site, they could be moved upriver near Burns Park for small groups to rent, said Bob Rhoads, the city's parks and recreation director.
"I really haven't looked at the costs," Rhoads said, adding that he was told of the possibility only last week. "It could be a similar situation for our rentals to smaller groups at like the [park's] hospitality house or pavilions. That's one way I look at it."
The Orleck, built in Orange, Texas, and commissioned during World War II, served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. As it did with the Razorback submarine, the U.S. Navy sold the Orleck to Turkey after it was decommissioned in 1982. It made a return in 2000 to Orange after being decommissioned from the Turkish navy in 1998.
After Hurricane Rita tore the Orleck and other vessels from their moorings at Ochiltree-Inman Park in September 2005, severely damaging the Orleck, the ship was moved for repairs. Once completed, the ship relocated to Levingston Island the next year.This article was published Thursday, March 6, 2008.


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"All players begin as a young Ego, defined in the game as the Personality aspect of a human being; a lower reflection of a Higher Self, who is a reflection of the Soul. It is the Soul's intention that the Higher Self and the Personality Ego work together to gain experience and ascend the Tree of Life, so together you must tread the great Wheel of Life and Death.
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We set out to create a game that incorporated this magic in a non-combative manner. Instead, players are asked to solve real-life issues using not only their Archetypal Powers, but also their love, compassion, creativity and a knowledge of the Universal Laws to achieve their results.
We hope that players will learn more about their own Etheric Centers (Chakras) and the Seven Rays that serve as the Creator's primary tools for creating, maintaining and dissolving the universe. Players will be introduced to elements of Esoteric Psychology, Spiritual Alchemy, alternative History, Secret Societies and other rare knowledge that has been hidden from the masses for millenia.
We hope that friends and family can use this game to grow closer to one another and to explore the motivations and thought processes that underlie our choices and actions, for this is the true magic of the game!
Thank you for your interest in The PATH of INITIATION. We would like to make it clear that we are not attempting to make this game financially profitable. The prices listed below are the 'at-cost' rates charged by the manufacturer (www.TheGameCrafter.com) and we do not make a profit on sales.
Our goal is simply to get the game into people's hands because we believe in its divine potential.
After creating the Deluxe Edition, we found that the price was prohibitive and scaled back some of the extras for the Standard Edition, such as the linen texture on the cards. We also used card-stock game mats instead of the thick game boards, omitted the Higher Self Handbook and half of the Wisdom Teaching cards for the Standard Edition. Everything is available as a free PDF download as well. Therefore, we have created 3 versions of the game: Deluxe, Standard and the Free PDF version.
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~Wheel of Life (Two-sided deluxe Gameboard)
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~Avatars, Soul-Stones, Dice and velvet Bag.
~The Book of Knowledge (40 pages)
~Archetype Cards (7)
~Life Lesson Cards (40)
~Wisdom Teaching Cards
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~Wheel of Life (Two-sided Game Mat)
~Tree of Life (Two-sided Game Mat)
~Character Sheets (Pad of 40 two-sided sheets)
~Avatars, Soul-Stones, Dice and velvet Bag.
We intend to market the game to Spiritual and religious groups around the world via social media but we feel like the price to produce the game is much too high. While we welcome benefactors, investors and partners in this endeavor, we are also considering a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce a high enough quantity to qualify for a discounted price per game.
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Words: Stefan Weitnauer
Photos: Klaus Polzer
Today was the official start of the Almdudler Nine Knights 2010 presented by Fiat, and it started off with a bang. The riders took off from Oberstdorf with an early cable car up to the Nebelhorn at 7am and enjoyed their first session on Nico Zacek's castle in the beautiful morning light. The mood amongst the riders was accordingly mellow.
Nico Zacek
The photographers appreciated the great selection of style tricks as much as the sunbeams leaking through the picturesque clouds. Notables included local hero Xavier Gehring with effortless cork 9 tail grabs and japans, Bene Mayr with cork 7's and 9's, Markus Eder and Nico Zacek with shifty 9's and Luggi Brucic, who seemed like he was having the most fun out of anyone with a great variety of tricks.
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Luggi Brucic
The session didn't last too long however. The wind picked up quickly, cooling down the session before it heated up trick-wise. A few people knuckled on the still icy table as the speed was pretty unpredictable coming down the sheltered in-run. Before somebody got hurt, Nico decided to stop the session. It wouldn't have gone for long anyway. The wind brought in clouds and in the afternoon it even started to rain down in the village. At least this gives all the riders enough time to prepare for the welcome dinner tonight in typical Bavarian outfits. For tomorrow morning, the weather forecast is not too promising either, so nobody needs to hold back. Stay tuned for more coverage on Nine Knights tomorrow, when the skies will be clearing in the afternoon as promised.
Check out http://www.nineknights.com for more news and photos.


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Our Articles of Incorporation state that a commitment to social action and service to others is an integral part of our community. Quietly, many of our members, facilitators and teachers have been volunteering their time in myriad ways both inside ATS and out. As we talk to these individuals we are amazed by their generosity and compassion and it is our intention to feature their work on this page with the hope that we can make it easier for sangha members to get involved.
We have a broad and diverse community with different interests and skills and we invite you to join us in our commitment to ease suffering and bring compassion wherever we can. We would also love to hear about what you're doing or would like to do. Let us know and then we'll see if we can build a network to help each other help.
What's Happening Right Now!
Insight on the Inside: Sangha members with at least one year's practice become pen pals for prisoners who write to Against the Stream looking for support with the meditation and dharma practice. For information on this project, or to volunteer, please visit Insight on the Inside.
Others in the Sangha: Many members of our community are volunteering their time or creating ways to be of service. Take a moment to read about what they're doing and maybe it's something you'd like to be involved with as well. Don't just sit there, do something.
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A Fundraiser for Abigail and Joshua Osborne
Aloha, my name is Noelani. My cousins Abigail and Joshua Osborne were in a very tragic boating accident this past week. They were working aboard the Miss Destinee vessel this summer in Kodiak, Alaska. On Thursday, the 29th of June, the boat capsized. I made this go fund me account in hopes that we can raise the funds to lay them both to rest and in giving both Joshua & Abigail a proper burial. We'd like to thank you all so much for all the love and prayers. Your support has helped us during this difficult time. We appreciate each and everyone one of you that hold Joshua and Abigail in your hearts. Click here to reach the fundraiser page @ gofundme.com 20:27


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Welcome back dear readers , happy to be in my bed and just relax after a full week . After been sick for almost 2 weeks I'm finally better and I thought it was time for a detox for my body & mind ; that means lots of fruits , salads and nothing fried or too sweet // wish me luck !
I'm on my 3rd day and i'm feeling Fan-tas-tic ! & next week i'll include swimming classes , that i missed so much ( happy kid *smile*) .
I'll make a special post about the results in the future , till then you can #follow me day by day on instagram .
So besides the food and exercises I also take care of what i pun on my body also.
This is what i use for cleaning my skin & eyes , love how easy all my make up wipes off my face with the new Micellar Cleansing Water from +Garnier Skin Care . For my eyes i use this 2 guys that makes magic and did i tell you that they are 100 % bio ? How great is that , for more info of this two you can read here .
I had a pleasent surprise after using them and guess what they are still my fave . The first is a face scrub that i use twice a week and the second is a exfoliating mask with caviar , hmm it even sounds yummy !
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oil and vinegar over the keyboard
I´ve a little problem. 2 days ago I threw my salad over the keyboard of my macbook 13 inch unibody late 2009. It was on while it happened.
I tried to clean it (I just took off the letters and so on), but when I try to turn it on it just comes the white screen with the apple logo. It loads for a few seconds and than it turns down.
Is there any possibility to repair it? what can I do? Unfortunately it was oil and vinegar...should I wait a couple a days or is it already late to do anything?
Thanks in advance.
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Talk:Pittsburgh/Strip District
Hi, there seems to be a little back-and-forth on this page. I've been reorganizing it to fit better with our Manual of style and article templates. You may also want to take a look at how other city/districts have been done such as San Francisco and London. Feel free to ask if you have any questions, and thank you for your contributions! Majnoona 01:42, 26 Mar 2004 (EST)
Are Primanti Brothers at 46 18th Street in the Strip District? The details about them on thePittsburgh page should be given here instead. -- Huttite 03:06, 27 Mar 2004 (EST)
The original restaurant is in the strip district but the one on 18th street is in the South side-a satellite. There are others as well. William M Goetsch 22:19, 15 Apr 2004 (EDT)


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Former Film Production student receives accolades
Carlo Guillermo Proto's feature-length documentary, RESURRECTING HASSAN, received The Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature at HOT DOCS 2017 and Best Canadian Documentary Prize at International Film Festival Les Percéides 2017. It also was the Grand Prize winner for Best Canadian Feature and Student Award at RIDM 2016.
About the film:
A film by Carlo Guillermo Proto
With a tenacious passion, the Harting family makes a living singing acappella ballads in the Montreal metro. This blind family of three are still haunted by the tragic death of the only sighted member, Hassan, who tragically drowned at the age of six. For the Hartings, Hassan's resurrection is their only hope to reunite their family.


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Car washes are an Eastside tradition. When someone falls on hard times -- loses a job, suffers an illness, needs to make a family member's bail or pay for an unexpected burial -- neighbors hold a car wash.
Homeboy Industries, the internationally admired gang-intervention program founded by Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest, in Boyle Heights more than 20 years ago, is about as good a neighbor to all of L.A. as you're likely to find, and the unapologetic goal of this column is to convince you to go to its website -- www.homeboy-industries.org -- to participate in its virtual car wash.
Here's why: Homeboy is one of Los Angeles' civic treasures because it's not only an institution that lives in constant attention to the better angels of our nature, but one that works. By any objective measure, it is a phenomenally successful operation in a field in which successes are scant and hard-won. From a storefront on 1st Street in one of the city's toughest and most violent neighborhoods, Homeboy has grown into a nondenominational, nonprofit service agency headquartered in its own building near Union Station, just north of downtown. It serves more than 8,000 young men and women who formerly belonged to more than 700 gangs. They work in its popular bakery and cafe, or in landscaping, solar power and other industries; they get counseling on legal, psychological and addiction issues; there's academic tutoring, and, if they choose, they even have their gang tattoos removed. The program helps them find employment in private industries whose executives share Boyle's belief that the best social program is a good job.
Unfortunately, Homeboy Industries is being overwhelmed by the tsunami of need washing across our country. As the demands for its services rise, state financing and much of the private foundation philanthropy on which the organization relies have dried up. Though the bakery and cafe bring in a phenomenal $2.5 million annually, $7.3 million has to be raised from other sources. Earlier this year, when money from Sacramento evaporated and the foundations began walking away from their pledges, Homeboy found itself with a $1.3-million shortfall. The city of Los Angeles promised to make $500,000 available as payment for services. The money was to come in monthly increments, starting July 1.
That date came and went without a word from City Hall, let alone a check. Friday, I asked Jeff Carr, who runs L.A.'s gang-intervention efforts for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, what had happened to the promised funds? He explained that the city intended to pass along $500,000 in federal aid previously earmarked for Boyle Heights, but had discovered the account was $160,000 short. The mayor's office is trying to scrape the rest of that money together, and then must get federal Department of Justice and City Council approval to allocate it to Homeboy.
Carr said he was "confident the money will come, but it may not happen until September." He admitted that "the cash-flow problems this creates for Homeboy are not a small matter" and attributed the delay to the "glacial pace of government."
In the meantime, Carr said, the city plans to spend $200,000 buying T-shirts and polo shirts from Homeboy's silk-screening business for the Summer Nights Lights programs in municipal parks. On July 27, Villaraigosa has a private meeting scheduled with Boyle, after which, Carr says, the mayor will start working the phones trying to drum up major donors to help Homeboy through until fall.
In the meantime, there's the virtual car wash. If you go to www.homeboy-industries.org, you'll find a charming short video featuring Martin Sheen and other actors as well as Angelenos from all walks of life who've already given. (Boyle hopes visitors will download the video and spread it around.) One of the most surprising faces is the LAPD's chief of detectives, Charlie Beck; the pre-Bill Bratton department regarded Boyle with suspicious hostility.
Why is Beck participating? "I'm not a religious guy," he said, "but I really respect Father Boyle and the work they do at Homeboy. We may differ on individuals or cases once in a while, but their overall goal is so purely good, how can you not support them? Whether you agree with Father Boyle or not, he's got skin in the game."
Amen. So make a contribution online or mail your check to 130 W. Bruno St., L.A. 90012. Trade a virtual car wash for the real feeling of doing the right thing.


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revealed some fascinating insight into the story behind the story.
"I got this invitation from the CBC to write something about the question that everybody was asking in Canada - What does Quebec want?" He started working on the text but it was not coming together.
"And I phoned back on Friday to tell CBC that I could not do it. They said they had a time slot booked for Monday so 'Write whatever you want and it will be OK.' "Suddenly I got an idea ... to write about some experience when I was kid about hockey. No philosophy, not thinking about hockey as a religion, just write the thing as it was. "It was written very quickly. It was translated into English by Sheila Fischman, who did an incredible job.
"By Sunday afternoon, we were sitting in the CBC studio in Montreal recording. Sheila was in front of me and she was my tutor in English. There were some words that were hard for me to pronounce in English like M-O-T-H-S."
Here's the full article.
For those not familiar with The Hockey Sweater, be sure to watch this:
January 19, 2014
The Story Behind The Hockey Sweater
Posted by Joe Pelletier at 12:26 am
Labels: Roch Carrier, The Hockey Sweater
1 comment:
- Stéphane Dumas said...
I guess it's a good moment to mention a parody of "The Sweater" I saw on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-k4Wzj8bso
- 8:08 am
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