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Christmas. The Greatest Good News Ever!
Advent celebrates wonder and hope. Jesus' birth marks the beginning of the most amazing story ever recorded in history. All the events surrounding His coming are told in great detail in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. But in the gospel of John you won't find the story of Jesus' birth, no angels, no shepherds, no wise men from the East, no Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. John points to the Christ who came from the depth of eternity. He is the great Light who will break through the darkness. The Bible uses many words to proclaim Christ's coming to the world, but not one is so filled with meaning as the word "became", found in the well known text: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14a). In His birth, in His Incarnation, the Lord Jesus Christ was flesh and bones. In becoming man He did not cease to be the Eternal Word. His divine nature was not laid aside.
The Son of God did not cloak Himself with our humanity so that He merely seemed human. He did not play at being a man. Other religions also tell about the appearances of their gods and they know all kinds of fantastic tales about them, but nowhere do you find the word "became". In ancient Greek mythology gods and goddesses played at being human beings. They would come down from the lofty heights of Mount Olympus and looked just like an ordinary man or women. These so-called divine beings would have all sorts of adventures. But in due course, when the situation became a trifle sticky, they would get tired of it all, throw off the disguise, perhaps perform a miracle or two to get out of whatever difficulty had arisen, and then return to the abode of the gods. This is all mischievous fun. But it is not the incarnation. Those gods are not really human, but only appear that way. They did not undergo any real limitations, but simply disguised themselves. They did not put up with the trials and changes of normal human experiences, but were merely playing a game and doing so by their own rules. But with the child of Bethlehem, it was not a game. It was reality. Jesus, the Son of God, became flesh. He took on our human nature; He became one of us for our salvation. John is writing about a genuine incarnation. The Son of God accepted the limitations that are part of our human existence. John does not spell out what these limitations are, but his choice of words leaves his readers in no doubt about the real humanity of the Word. Jesus became one of us. He came right where we are. He took our nature upon Him. He underwent all that being human means. He linked His identity with the lowly (Matt. 25:45). "Though he was rich,... he became poor" (2 Cor. 8:9). The Lord of glory "made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness" (Phil. 2:7). Jesus was so "one with us" that He shared our thirst, our hunger, our pain. In this wicked world, He was deserted by His friends, tortured by soldiers, falsely accused, mocked by religious leaders and ridiculed as a common criminal. Jesus became flesh. This truth is the heart of Gospel.
I never get tired of hearing the Christmas story. It always amazes me. God, moved by a love beyond our understanding, sent His Son to this broken and fallen world (John 3:16). Jesus left heaven's glory for our sake! Why did Christ come? Because of our sin. But sin is not the cause of His appearance. Sin itself brings nothing but misery and death. Jesus came into the world in a body in order to make atoning sacrifice for the sins of all who believe in Him. Christmas is linked to Good Friday. From the manger in Bethlehem we travel to the cross of Calvary. The incarnation of the Son of God means that He was "in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering" (Rom. 8:3). God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. The Son of God was made sin for us, Him who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. This is the heart and soul of the Christmas event. "He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself" (Hebrews 9:26). At the cross of Christ the perfect sacrifice is performed; Jesus died in our place. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. On the basis of His sacrifice, we who we were once children of wrath have now become the children of God and can approach God the Father. It is precisely this descent that placed God's Son on that despicable cross, that reveals that there is not a man or a woman, adult or child, that the Lord cannot touch. His coming and descent, then, His life and death, distinct among all others, changed everything. Christ alone bridged the gap, the wretched alienation between God and sinners. But the greatest story ever told does not end at Calvary's cross, it goes on to point to the empty tomb. It is none other than this grief-stricken, rejected, and crucified Jesus who rose from the dead. His resurrection reveals that hatred and mock, shame and death are not the last words. The Son of God has the last word. He has conquered sin, death, and hell. John said the mysterious words, "Now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). Since the Word "became flesh" and was raised we have become different too. The Son of God became flesh. The flesh is for me as inescapable as it was for Him. But through Christ, my body will become a "new creation" (2 Cor. 5:17) as my flesh shall be raised from the dead on the last day, when the last chapter of the greatest story ends.
Why did Jesus become man? The apostle John's description of Christmas is breathtaking. "The word became flesh and we have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). This was the astounding new thing in Bethlehem. God made Himself known. He is not the hidden God for whom we are searching without results. John says, "No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made him known" (v. 18). He became man so that human beings could behold God's glory in Him. What does John mean by "the glory of the one and only Son?" We tend to look at glitter and show. We usually think of glory in terms winning a trophy in a sports event or an award given to a movie star. Public recognition and praise are important to us. Leon Morris notes that we are a little like the opera singer Jan Klepura. It is said that on one occasion he complained to his publicity agent that another singer was getting much more publicity than he was. He did not want to be robbed of glory. His agent said mildly, "The trouble is that the gentlemen of the press think that you are conceited and therefore they do not care to write about you." The singer was incredulous. He exclaimed, "Conceited? Me? The great Kleptura?" We all tend to be that way. We like to be recognized and applauded. But John says that for Jesus it is not that way. For the incarnation we are taken to Bethlehem, and the stable and the manger. Jesus worked in a carpenter's shop with its daily toil. Where do we see the glory of the incarnate Lord? He went where people needed help. Where there were sick, he healed them. Where there were hungry people, he fed them. He did not frequent the palaces of kings and governors. The glory of Jesus, therefore, is not found in His splendour, but in His humility. True glory is lowly service, and John sees that in every moment of Jesus's humble life. But the glory of Jesus is most clearly seen not in Bethlehem but on Calvary. The cross was Jesus' glory. Jesus introduced His coming death with the words, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified" (John 12:23). William Barclay comments, "Jesus did not mean by glorified what they (the disciples) meant. By glorified they meant that the subjected kingdoms of the earth would grovel before the conqueror's feet; by glorified He meant crucified". They defined glory as triumph; Jesus defined it as service. Jesus lived a life of humility, of lowliness, of rejection. And He accepted the most shameful of death. The cross was the glorious way in which God's Son brought light to people in spiritual darkness. The central point is that the death of Jesus on the cross is the supreme example of glory, not the shameful death His contemporaries thought it was.
Who can see Jesus' glory? All who believed in Him saw His glory; the unbelievers saw him, but they did not have the spiritual eyes to see, in His words and deeds, His glory. His coming in the world was a decisive moment in history. We too are forced to make a decision. John says, "To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, he gave the right to become children of God" (1:12). The Son of God who became man is not one of many ways to God, one of many possibilities. John describes Him as the one and only door, the Shepherd, the Light of the world, the only Way, the Truth, and the Life. That's why it is so crucial to proclaim the Christmas story with all its implications!
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Who is that Actor: John Carroll Lynch
Barry & Kiki crystallized the concept behind the series "Who is That Actor?" when summing up John Carrol Lynch: "ZODIAC!" "STAN FROM VOLCANO!" While they didn't much care for Body of Proof they certainly seem pleased to see a character actor fave in a role that might force them to have to learn the actor's name. Let's put it this way: I have long referred to this actor as "Melting Stan" and only googled his actual name when I decided I had to write him up for this series.
Lynch is a part of the cast from the film Volcano, which has the dubious honor of containing some of the best acting (not even being cheeky) in one of the worst movies ever. Volcano robbed Cheadle of the A-list above title credit he so richly deserves. Let's put it another way: Cheadle is to Volcano what Jones (who attempts to shepherd this hot mess) is to The Fugitive. Which means that Lynch would have had his shot at TV Dad stardom if the film's terrible special effects, bad script and embarrassing dialog, (which these actors handled like troopers) hadn't made this film complete and utter shit.
That Lynch isn't a household name and is often relegated to creepy criminals, gruff cops and hapless dads is completely a waste of his charisma and charm. What makes Volcano even more heartbreaking is it's one of the few films that demonstrated Lynch's talent and range. That said, The Good Girl showcased his comedic abilities and it's definitely one of my faves. Even in crap like Gothika, Lynch is fun to watch.


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Getting Started with WordPress
Context: If you're already using a WordPress site, it's unlikely that you'll find a lot of new information here. This is for anyone considering WordPress or just getting started with the platform. This is written for folks using WordPress rather than developers or designers creating pieces of the site.
What is WordPress?
Yeah, we're starting here.
WordPress is a CMS, or Content Management System, that was established in around 2001. WordPress is used to build a "website," however that's defined by you. A website can be a simple collection of pages, a chronological blog (defined below), a forum site, a single-page, or anything else. If built correctly, WordPress can create almost any kind of site that you can imagine. It is only limited by your creativity (and your developers acuity).
There are two flavors of WordPress, each with its own capabilities:
- WordPress.com – This is a place where you can create a site or blog using the WordPress platform. This type of site is completely free and hosted by WordPress. For these sites, you are limited by the free themes and plugins that are stored in the Repository.
- WordPress.org – This is the site that lets your download the WordPress software to create a "self-hosted" blog or website. This will require you to install your website or blog and host it on your own domain (which you will need to pay for). These sites are limited only by the capabilities of the code base (PHP and MySQL). When you hear people talking about custom themes or plugins, they're talking about this type of site.
There are a lot of similarities between the two, particularly in the back-end (or Dashboard), so a lot of this documentation will be helpful to both types of users.
What is a "blog?"
"Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all types of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common:
- A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organized into categories.
- An archive of older articles.
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- A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a "blogroll".
- One or more "feeds" like RSS, Atom or RDF files.
Some blogs may have additional features beyond these. Watch this short video for a simple explanation of what a blog is.
The Blog Content
Content is the raison d'être for any web site. Retail sites feature a catalog of products. University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty. News sites show the latest news stories. For a personal blog, you might have a bunch of observations, or reviews. Without some sort of updated content, there is little reason to visit a web site more than once.
On a blog, the content consists of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. Some blogs have multiple authors, each writing his/her own articles. Typically, blog authors compose their articles in a web-based interface, built into the blogging system itself. Some blogging systems also support the ability to use stand-alone "weblog client" software, which allows authors to write articles offline and upload them at a later time.No child pages found!


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Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future
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In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world.
Mind Set! goes beyond that—Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selects his most effective tools, 11 Mindsets, and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the twenty-first century.
Illustrated by stories about Galileo and Einstein to today's icons and rebels in business, science, and sports, Mind Set! opens your eyes to see beyond media headlines, political slogans, and personal opinions to select and judge what will form the pictures of the future.
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Reset Your Thinking and See the Future
Chapter One
Mindset #1
While many things change, most things remain constant
In a 24/7 media world, the hype is change
On August 8, 2006, Amazon.com listed 56,170 book titles under change, 11,195 titles under business change, and 2,404 titles under global change. An uncountable number of newspapers, magazines, and 24-hour news channels leave not one stone unturned, promoting the idea that everything is changing. Now, who in the world can keep up with this? No one can.
Don't bother.
Think about it: Most businesses stay in a steady state, day in and day out, year in and year out. Yes, products and markets have been altered, mostly for the better, and the tools we use have changed. But despite the avalanche of business books, business practices—the basics of buying and selling, of making a profit as a necessary condition of survival—have remained much the same during my 40 years of involvement.
Whether cell phones can display television and calls are made via the Internet, your bathtub filled by taking off your clothes, or your refrigerator opened by a rumble in your stomach, these are just other ways of doing what we do—easier, faster, farther, more, and longer—and not the substance of our lives. We go to school, get married, and have kids and send them to school, which, God knows, does not change despite the chanting for school reform. Home, family, and work are the great constants.
Life on a sugar beet farm has not changed too much since my boyhood. As ever, the seasonsdetermine the rhythm of life, although modern equipment has eased sowing and harvesting. Most of the farmers still raise chickens and keep farm animals, only the horses in my time used for transport and work are more often kept for leisure and delight. In the ups and downs of life my parents were trying to make their living, educate their children as best they could, all in the frame of their potential and with the tools of their time.
At the beginning of their 11-volume Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant say:
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from ¬people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, ¬people build homes, make love, raise their predictable children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues.
The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
The difference between what and how
Have you ever made a list of what changes or is likely to change? Hold on—not a list of how we do things, but what we do.
Returning to farming, what has changed is how agriculture is practiced. Advancement is dependent on how flexible farmers adapt their skills to new technologies and changing consumer behavior. But farmers stay what they are, farmers, although there are differences in how they farm. Some find their niche, adapting to changing demands in the market, like Chino's, whose delicate organic vegetables and fruits are flown to celebrity cooks like Wolfgang Puck in Los Angeles. Others, for various reasons, have not made it and have given up farming.
Most change is not in what we do, but how we do it. Within all the hype, the more we are able to differentiate between constants and change, the more effectively we will be able to react to new markets and profit from change. Sports are a good example.
The rules of team sports remain fairly constant—with only very small changes from time to time. The changes we do make often come from a change in the way players play their game. A well-known big change was the popularization of the modern forward pass in football by Knute Rockne in the 1920s. The goal was still to get a touchdown, but how players could get to the goal line changed.
Occasionally an individual player's style will change a game.
On the night of December 30, 1936, a crowd of more than 17,500 turned out at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City, to see Long Island University, the nation's number-one basketball team with a 43-game winning streak, oppose Stanford, the defending Pacific Coast Conference champion. Stanford ended LIU's winning streak with a 4531 victory, but something more important happened.
The crowd in fact had mostly come to see Hank Luisetti, Stanford's 6 foot 2 inch, 185-pound sophomore. He was the only player known for shooting the ball with one hand while he hung in the air, in defiance of basketball style. Everyone else was shooting the old style: two-handed set shots or hook shots. The huge publicity celebrating Luisetti's shooting style did not change that the goal was putting the ball into the basket, but it forever changed how the game was played. But not without stubborn resistance. The establishment felt it was not the right thing to do. "That's not basketball," Nat Holman, the fabled City College of New York coach, said at the time. "If my boys ever shot one-handed, I'd quit coaching."
Luisetti was voted college player of the year in 1937 and 1938. He finished second to George Mikan in the Associated Press's poll to select the best player of the first half of the twentieth century.
Hank Luisetti died on December 17, 2002, living plenty long enough to see his style perfected and embellished by the likes of Earl Monroe, Julius Erving, and, of course, Michael Jordan.
A change in techniques often opens a door to a wider potential. American track-and-field athlete Dick Fosbury literally developed a jump into a new era. Instead of leaping facing the bar and swinging first one leg and then the other over the bar, Fosbury turned just as he leaped, flinging his body backward over the bar with his back arched and his legs following, landing on his shoulders. Fosbury, a high school student in Medford, Oregon, started to high-jump using the straddle method he learned . . .Mind Set!
Reset Your Thinking and See the Future. Copyright © by John Naisbitt. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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A scene from The Hours (2002, dir. Steven Daldry), based on Virginia Woolf's life. In this scene, Leonard Woolf (Stephen Dillane) tracks down his wife Virginia (Nicole Kidman) at the train station during a period of her depression. Virginia wishes to return to London, but Leonard insists that she stay in the country.
"On Being Ill," a 1925 essay by Virginia Woolf
In this essay, published in the same year as Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia candidly...


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Kanye West makes an appearance (2:50 mark) at Nicki's Hot 97 Thanksgiving show in NYC.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy In Stores Now!… (Support real Hip-Hop)
Pink Friday in stores now as well!
Nicki Minaj Brings Out Rihanna at her Thanksgiving show In NYC
Why does Rihanna keep grabbing on Nicki Minaj's butt like that?!
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Kanye West will perform a My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy track when he makes his appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.
Reps for the event tell MTV News that the rapper, whose album was released on Monday, is set to perform "Lost in the World," a rather gloomy track that also features indie rockers Bon Iver. (No word on whether the band will join him in front of New York City's Macy's Herald Square for the show.)
MTV News has also learned that Kanye will travel along the parade route on the New York Daily News Big Apple float. "The Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and of course Macy's Herald Square, share the landscape with New York's signature taxi cabs and subway stations on the New York Daily News Big Apple float. With a giant, 30-foot inflatable apple at its core, the float perfectly represents the frenzied and bustling city," the reps added.


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Importing German Holidays in SUSE Linux Openexchange Server
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To provide users with a German holiday list for importing to their calendars:
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These packages are not sufficiently tested and have not been officially released. Use them at your own risk.
Unpack the above file locally with the command tar xvfj SLOX_HOLIDAY_DE.tar.bz2 and import it as user "cyrus" (see "Help", "Groupware settings"). After doing this, all users can import holidays via "Setup", "Groupware settings". Refer to the examples for the suitable file format. The holiday names in these files are only defined for Germany.
To create additional holiday lists that can be imported by users to their calendars, create a text file with the holidays to import. The suitable format for this file can be seen in the following sample extracts from "Deutschland.txt":
or "USA.txt":
Meaning of the columns from left to right:
|1) language
|= import language type (internal use), for private user entries =NULL
|2) country
|= country where the holidays apply or CUSTOM for private entries
|3) hdate
|= date with "YYYY-MM-DD" format
|4) userid
|= NULL for administrator imports (standard),
"user identification (UID)" for a user's private entries
|5) description
|= name of the holiday
|6) duration
|= (always "1", currently not in use)
|7) htype
|= general or private
Make sure your file contains a separate line for each holiday PER year. Separate columns with commas (without blanks). Leave no blank lines. Adhering to the given date format is also very important.
Importing Holidays to the Server:
Verify that a current backup of the mail server is available. Import the holiday lists as user "cyrus" (see "Help", "Groupware settings"). After doing this, all users will be able to import holidays via "Setup", "Groupware settings". In case of a wrong date, correct it in the file and import the file again. Alternatively, dates can also be individually selected and deselected.
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As the problems of industrial meat production — CAFOs, excessive waste and pollution, worker safety, and the overuse of antibiotics, among many others — become more evident and more dangerous to public health, consumers are turning in greater numbers to local and/or organic meats and poultry, especially those from grass-fed animals.
Small-scale farmers have begun to respond to this shift in consumption, making more grass-fed meats available to the public. But many others remain to be convinced of the profitability of pasture-based farming (though economic conditions may convert more farmers sooner rather than later). According to Gene Logsdon, author of "All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming," even small landowners with an acre or two of lawn can raise animals for their families' food consumption in a way that won't bankrupt them but will contribute to their stewardship of the land.
For nearly four decades, Logsdon has written numerous books on agricultural topics, from how-to manuals on gardening and grain-raising and orchard management to collections of essays exploring his "Contrary Farmer" ideas. Throughout this time, he has implemented his "experimental" ideas on his own modest farm in northwest Ohio, and he has gathered enough proof to stand behind his seemingly bold statements about better agricultural methods.
Yet Logsdon tempers his audacity with a willingness to reveal his own fallibility. With a twinkle in his eye, he uses humor to reveal both his own ideas and the conflicting absurdities of agriculture today.
A grazing place, how sweet the ground
Logsdon's general premise appears on page one in a simple, stunning statement: "With modern grazing methods, farm animals can get their food mostly from grazing forages, thus avoiding the current crippling expense of annual cultivation and grain harvest." The meat of the book, if you like, comes from his deft unpacking of that sentence. What are "modern" grazing methods? What animals? What forages? And what does that humble hurdle "mostly" mean for the pasture farmer?
Lest the reader be discouraged by that loaded statement, though, Logsdon reassures us all that "Anyone who knows how to establish and maintain a lawn has already learned the basics of how to establish and maintain a pasture." Those practices include selecting the appropriate plants for the climate and topography, fertilizing, and utilizing the "crops" through haymaking and rotational grazing. They also require that the farmer work with nature and adapt practices accordingly, choosing what grasses and forages work best with which animals or with which fields.
"Grass farming is brain farming," he declares, explaining that such farming practices require more big-picture thinking and less brute mechanical force to make the work successful. Because of this, he claims that pasture farming is "easier and simpler on very small acreages with very small numbers of animals" and thus suits the small-scale or "garden" farmer very well.
Everything you herd is true
After outlining the basics of pasture farming and sharing the examples of some farmers who are already finding success (including veteran Ohio farmer and founder of the restaurant chain that bears his name, Bob Evans), Logsdon distills his practical experience on every aspect of animal husbandry. What kind of fencing works best for which animals? How does one best provide water to pastured animals? What are the feed and maintenance requirements for different animals raised on grass and forages? What potential health problems arise for which animals on which kinds of pasture, and how can they be avoided or remedied?
He offers an honest assessment of pasture farming and the reaction to it, fully aware that while many farmers can accept grazing their animals at certain times of year, they still hold fast to the desire to rely on grain crops for winter feed. He suggests raising or buying less grain and using more pasture as a way to ease farmers and their herds toward more pasture farming, but he also points out that money and effort can also be saved by allowing the animals to graze the grains in the fields. Better yet, he adds (note that knowing twinkle in the eye), send the herds into the fields in rotation — sheep, then pigs, then cows, then draft horses or dry cows — to clean up the crops with less waste than would result from mechanical harvesting.
Since Logsdon raises a variety of livestock on his farm, he knows that these different herds pair up well in the use and maintenance of the pastures, too. Chickens sent into a pasture after cattle can peck apart cow pies to eat the grubs and eggs of parasites, thus breaking a cycle of infection for the cattle. Goats can clean up pesky greenery like multiflora rose, while sheep will munch away happily on poison ivy. And pigs, while unable to thrive solely on grasses as easily as other livestock, will root around for worms or tubers — not only cleaning up the garden, but plowing it for the next year.
Understanding these differences between species — and even accounting for "different personalities" within a herd or flock — reminds the farmer of the point that Logsdon "is most criticized for in agribusiness circles," which is that the "biological world, not the economic world, rules the way we produce food." Small-scale farming, when considered in competition with factory farms, does not appear profitable, but his point is that it makes more sense in broader economic and ecological terms. He skewers the altruistic expressions of food conglomerates by declaring, "America can't feed the world; only the world can feed the world… We backyarders could do it as well as agribusiness can."
To each according to his feed
Beyond outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each category of farm animal, Logsdon presents information on the different types of grasses, legumes, and grains used to feed livestock and poultry and offers suggestions for the optimal combinations based on geography, soil fertility, grazing needs, and maintenance. For example, he prefers a balance of bluegrass and white clover largely because of his success with it on his own farm but also, says the Contrary Farmer, because "seed companies can't make any money from them" since they are ever-present in nature.
Though he believes that pasture farming can work year-round, he also plants a variety of grain crops himself, including his "cover-your-ass crop" of corn, "just in case I'm wrong." Depending on the rapidity of growth in pastures and the pattern of rotation, hay may need to be cut and stored, either in haystacks in the fields or in bales tucked into the barn. And weeds? Even those have a place in his pastures, whether wanted or not, because the animals will eat various weeds (just as loony humans like myself do on occasion) for additional nutritional needs. "The first most nutritious weed, get this, is lambsquarters," he marvels. "Read it and weep."
Living in the pasture
With all these factors to consider, the novice pasture farmer might be daunted. But as Logsdon repeats throughout the book, there's always room to learn more, to experiment, to improve from year to year. "Pasture farming is luck first, then an art, and then a science," he says, recognizing that simple truth in the results on his own farm.
He makes a convincing argument for the advantages of pasture farming: less need for heavy investment in machinery or additional feed, less dependence on seed companies or off-farm grain storage, less use of fuel, and less cost. He also points out the positive effect of maintaining a more holistic approach to farming and the security found in raising animals from birth to harvest all in one place (unlike factory farming, which may ship larger animals from facility to facility before they end up in the abattoir).
Not to sound overly dramatic, but I have a vision of an agriculture that could produce good food and plenty of it from biological power alone. I am not going to reach that goal in my lifetime, but having it as a possibility inspires me to find ways to use less and less fuel and heavy machinery.
Since this attitude meshes neatly with my approach to my own most attempts at gardening, I felt privileged to meet Gene Logsdon — along with his wife Carol, his equally knowledgeable and gracious partner in farming — at the Buckeye Book Fair earlier this month. Over the past few years, Logsdon has become one of my major literary farming heroes (occupying that heady firmament with the likes of Wendell Berry) as I have devoured his essays and, more recently, his how-to books with avid interest. The first few pages of this book alone convinced me to make my way to the book fair for an autographed copy, and after a few moments of mild gushing on my part, I enjoyed a brief but satisfying conversation with both Gene and Carol about the "pleasures and promises" of farming mentioned in the book.
Will we see an immediate conversion to pasture farming throughout the country? Sadly, no, not when subsidies and market demands still favor the corporate hold on industrial meat production. But small-scale farmers, homesteaders, and hungry diners alike can take heart and learn a great deal from Logsdon's book.
Wow – this article is enough to make ME want to do some pasture farming – it makes sense to me. It WOULD be nice if more farmers or wannabes could utilize this advice and knowledge.


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The number of people driven from their homes has risen by 40% since 2013. In 2013, 33 million people had fled their homes in order to avoid war and devastation, however since then, the number has risen an extra 13 million, making the total 46 million people. The immolation of Syria was the biggest cause, but on the other side of the world, two million people fled the path of Boko Haram's pitiless offensive in Nigeria, and another 2.2 million escaped civil war in South Sudan. In this terse phrase of the Internation Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), while complied the figures, this amounte a a "quantum leap in force displacement".
Today's wars generally create far more refugees than previous conflicts. It may sound strange, but that is not necessarily bad news. After all, the biggest reason is simply that even the most volatile countries have also experienced rapid population growth. If civil war had broken out in Syria in 1970, the refugee crisis would have been a minuscule fraction of today's catastrophe. Back then, Syria had only six million people, compared with at least 20 million today.
Put simply; there are more refugees because there are more people - and, in turn, there are more people because the world has broadly succeeded in reducing infant mortality and raising life expectancy, even in the poorest countries.
The volume of migrants heading for Europe is not solely because of war and poverty. The affected countries also have many more people than in the part - partly because Europe did the right thing by, for example, eradicating smallpox and immunising children against polio. All this means that our understanding of the 'migrant crisis' will need to change. The very word 'crisis' is misleading for it implies a passing moment of danger that will eventually come to an end.
The IISS also urges 'better access for humanitarian relief in the country of conflict' so that people are not compelled to leave simply to find food and shelter. Again, some chance. The likes of Boko Haram or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) are never going to allow a free pass for aid workers in their bloodsoaked domains.
Wars will always force large numbers of people to flee. Populations are generally growing, so future conflicts will create even more refugees than today. If 46 million people are now living in camps or other sanctuaries, the conflicts of the 2020s are likely to displace still more.
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Recently named one of the "25 Angel Investors in New York You Need to Know" by AlleyWatch (10/15/14), Jeff has been a venture investor for ten years, an angel investor for five years, and an operating executive for 18 years. Jeff presently serves as Chairman of the Evaluation Committee and Treasurer of the ARC Angel Fund and is Co-Director of the Reitler Advisory Group, which provides mentoring and advisory services to early stage technology companies and venture fund administration services to general partners of micro VC funds.
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How to Make Queso Fundido. An Appetizer of Mexican Melted Cheese - Easy to Make at Home!
You might feel a little self conscious serving table guests a straight-up plate of melted cheese as an appetizer (much as they might secretly enjoy that) but host a Mexican dinner party and call that melted cheese "Queso Fundido" and you can totally get away with it!!!
This dish is unapologetically rich and when eaten in moderate to small quantities is a great starter for any south of the border dinner.
Melted cheese goes pretty well with many things, but the best combinations are as strong tasting as the cheese is rich. You want something that stands up and gets noticed beside that stringy cheese – and that requires something with guts. Mexican chorizo sausage is a perfect example, as are sautéed wild mushrooms in chili sauce. If you add anything delicate, it just gets lost inside all that cheese and the dish becomes a bit overwhelming and a lot less interesting.
Secondly, you want to try to add about as much "other ingredients" to your cheese as you add grated cheese. Adding more than 50% cheese makes the dish overly rich.
Serve this dish lava-hot alongside fresh corn tortillas, homemade corn tortilla chips, or fresh flour tortillas. I like this with a bit of spicy salsa and some sort of Mexican pickle, to further cut the richness.
Here are some basic instructions for one variation, to be used as merely a guide for your own imagination and pantry.
Chorizo and Pepper Queso Fundido (serves 4 generously as a starter)
- ¼ pound fresh Mexican chorizo sausage, removed from the casing. You can get this at any Mexican grocery. Don't confuse Mexican fresh sausage with the Spanish dried version.
- ¼ pound grated mozzarella cheese
- 1 white onion, chopped for sautéing
- 1 big green pepper (or even better, a poblano pepper)
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- A couple of big spoonfuls of your favorite hot sauce
- Salt
- Add a spoonful of vegetable oil to a heavy frying pan and heat over medium. Sautee the onions and peppers for about 5 minutes or until starting to soften.
- Toss in the garlic and stir for 30 seconds or so, and then add in your sausage meat.
- Continue frying the mixture until the sausage is cooked and the vegetables are good and softened. If the pan is getting too dry you can add in your hot sauce at any point.
- Taste for salt – it should be full flavored.
- Grab a nice looking pie plate (or other oven safe but very shallow baking dish 6-8 inches in diameter) and spread out the chorizo mixture over the bottom. Top with the grated cheese and finish the dish under a hot broiler in the oven. The dish is ready when the cheese has melted and is starting to brown.
Serve alongside your favorite variation of tortillas and with typical Mexican tableside condiments.
A very nice once in a while treat!
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@Mira, FYI Mozzarella cheese is similar to Oaxaca or Asadero cheese......why would it not make sense to use it?
I'm Mexican and I lOve queso fundidO
Love your hubs...techniques are well explained and the writing reflects your passion for food. You need to publish a cookbook!
Why would you use Mozz, an italian cheese, in a mexican recipe? That makes no sense.
This recipe looks amazing; Gonna try it this weekend.
Great Hub.
Your food articles are great! They always make me hungry. This Queso Fundido looks like a good starter for a party.
Wow, takes me back a few years to a little Mexican holiday... Do you have a recipe for 'Mole Poblano' - and for the unitiated, no i'm not talking about the small mammal.
As I'm also passionate about food, I must say that you are my favorite author now. Great article with great descriptions! Thumbs up
this looks far better then the taco mix in a package and wraps i used last night to rush my own hurried-mexican-dish. yum yum i have discovered that anything cooked in an iron skillet just comes out better.


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February 3, 2013
Harvard cheating punishment seen as fair (O'Ryan Johnson, 2/02/13, Boston Herald)
Banished from the cushy ivory tower, scores of cheating Harvard students were sentenced to six months' hard time in the real world before they can re-apply to the prestigious university.The punishment came down on 60 crimson students ordered to "withdraw" -- a forced break that can only be absolved after the ousted undergrads hold "a full-time, paid, non-academic job in a non-family situation" for at least half a year, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences Michael D. Smith wrote in an email yesterday. After that, the dean added, Harvard will consider letting the students back on campus.
First, that work is punishment. Second, that college isn't preparation for work. At best, vice versa.
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Belfast Royal Academy retained the Ulster Bank Schools' Cup with a tense three-wicket victory over RBAI on Friday.
The Academy won the trophy for the first time in their history last year and their successful retention came with less than two overs to spare and thanks to a brilliant 78 not out by Max Burton in 94 balls.
He scored virtually half the Academy's required total of 159, having come to the middle with his side in serious difficulty at 34 for 3.
None of the other batsmen managed to reach the twenties and only three claimed double figures.
Early in their innings Inst promised a higher challenge than their total of 158 off 38 of their 40 overs with a second wicket stand of 71 between Ben Mellor (41) and Matthew Lightbody (32).
The fact that the later order could not bat out their full quota of overs was to cost dearly.
RBAI – 158 all out (38.1 overs)
B Mellor 41; M Lightbody 32; B Cochrane 22.
BRA Bowling: M Wilson 7.1-32-2;D McLarnon 8-36-1; J Burton 8-37-3; F Collins 4-15-1; C Boyd 6-8-1
BRA – 159 for 7 (38.1 overs)
F Collins 18; M Burton 78
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SOUTHPORT Ramblers' Association has announced the dates for the final walks of the Sefton Coastal Path project.
The group will travel from Ainsdale station to Freshfield station tomorrow, Freshfield station to Hightown station on June 5 and Hightown station to Waterloo station on June 19.
Those wishing to attend should wear suitable clothing, walking boots and bring a drink. All walks will begin at 7pm prompt.
On Sunday the group will be in Cheshire and full details are available from Margaret Cook on 01704-574409.


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Although I am a big supporter of indie brands, I do have to say, I love this polish. Clearly Spotted is composed of small and large, circle and hexagon, black and white, matte glitters in a clear base. Try saying that 10 times fast lol.
I decided to pair this polish with Color Club Muse-ical, a dark gray creme that looks like it might be one standard deviation away from black. My final result? A mani that might be mistaken for someone's finished basement floor. LOL
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First Night, First Ruckus
Looks like the "First Night" New Year's Eve celebration in Annapolis is the first glitch of Y2K.
In case you missed it, Annapolis says it will have to charge the not-for-profit up to $35,000 to use City Hall, City Dock and city-owned facilities for the popular, non-alcohol celebration. The city says it has no choice but to jack up the reasonable rates it has charged in the past because of a new city law requiring organizers of events to pay for costs of overtime and clean-up.
In turn, First Night Annapolis has said it will take its party elsewhere. It says it can't afford the rates the city wants to charge for police overtime and other costs.
We hope things get worked out. The city ought to be a proud co-sponsor of the celebration, which features dozens of variety acts and boatloads of family fun.
It's not easy to take sides in this one. Sometimes, non-profit groups become high-handed and overly righteous in their approach. We're not accusing First Night Annapolis of anything untoward. With nearly three months to go, we hope they will remain flexible and keep the bigger picture in mind.
For its part, the city is abiding by the new law, however onerous it is.
Still, we wonder why, in four months of negotiations, some other funding mechanism hasn't been found. What about that gaudy surplus in state funds?
Speaking of money, organizers say that the event brings $1 million into the community in holiday related spending. Could some of those proceeds be tapped to lighten the burden on taxpayers?
From the beginning, we believed that the new Annapolis law requiring people to pay the city when they gather was an undemocratic idea. Along with the status of a state capital comes certain responsibilities; that's what separates Annapolis from, say, Frederick or Gaithersburg.
You trade on your cachet of being the political and decision-making center of your state. Whether you're Annapolis, Des Moines or Springfield, Ill., you and your merchants profit when people come to visit.
In a state capital, there's no room for the small-mindedness that gave rise to the new law.
Now, in the First Night impasse, we're seeing the upshot of what can happen when you tell people to ante up or stay away.
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This weekend, we finished sanding the walls and got the primer on - yay!
Now we need to pick colors and we can get things painted! At least now it looks like a wall.
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Issue 19 | Autumn/Winter 2007
He has established a world-class supplier of electronic and robotic instruments, invented a device that was successfully commercialised to speed drug research, and co-founded the award-winning science magazine Cosmos. Now Dr Alan Finkel, who received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Monash University in 1981, will take the helm as Chancellor of Monash University in 2008. He spoke to Monash Magazine about his plans for the future.
Congratulations, you are the first Monash Graduate to be appointed Chancellor. Are you surprised it took 50 years for this to happen?
Not at all. The first students from Monash University graduated in the mid 1960s, a touch over forty years ago. If one assumes that there is an unwritten law that says that a Chancellor has to be at least 50 years old, the first Monash graduates to reach this threshold would have done so in the 1990s. Thus, effectively, it has only been ten to fifteen years since the prospect of appointing a Monash graduate as Chancellor became practical. Even less if you assume an older threshold in the unwritten law.
How much has the University, and the sector for that matter, changed since you graduated?
When I started at Monash in 1971 university fees had recently been abolished. The only international students were the children of diplomats or business people on international transfer. Monash itself already had well established faculties of law, medicine, engineering, arts and others, but the trees were still small and the campus looked like it was populated with Lego blocks. Importantly, the academic staff were extremely enthusiastic about their work, although their enthusiasm for their job was dwarfed by the enthusiasm of the student representative council for political action during and at the end of the Vietnam era.
Since then the Dawkins reforms created a much larger number of universities, fees have been re-introduced in various ways, international students are a substantial and vibrant fraction of the university, compulsory student union fees have been banned and the sector is faced with continual changes to its financing. There is genuine and increasing diversity in the range of courses and course structures that are offered, opportunities for exchange study abroad are more common and research is vibrant. Are these changes all for the better? Yes and no, but most importantly as a result of some of these changes universities are now able to offer a richer variety of courses and research positions that are appropriate to our times.
What prompted you to 're-join' the Monash family?
I tend to be driven by issues and the chance to make a contribution. I spent most of my working life either living in America or running a US corporation from Melbourne, relying on a combination of frequent travel, telephone conferences and email to make my job possible. During that time, my closest associations with universities were with those that were "local" to my interests: Stanford University, University of California San Francisco and California Institute of Technology, as well as a few Australian universities with whom I had a special relationship. For example, I participated in small ways, such as academic advisory committees, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, the University of Queensland and Monash University.
Since I retired from my business interests in California approximately two years ago, I have been able to re-engage with the Melbourne community. Professor Leon Piterman, at the time the Deputy Dean of Medicine at Monash University, invited me to join the advisory board of the National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse. I knew nothing more than a casual reader of the newspapers would know about this field but I agreed nevertheless and it became a means to "re-join" the Monash family and contribute to supporting research into an obviously important problem in our society.
What do you see as the role of Monash University in the higher education sector and some of the governance issues that may be ahead?
Universities such as Monash have a responsibility to train the future sensible citizens of our society. That is, in addition to walking out with a professional or generalist degree, through their participation at university students should learn how to analyse the complex political and scientific issues of the day, they should know how to study and research issues in addition to remembering a broad range of facts, and they should know more than just what it takes to be a professional.
The university trains the future leaders who will help to solve the primary social, economic and environment issues faced by Australia. The ability of the university to provide such relevant training is made possible by the strong linkage between research and teaching.
In addition, the university can contribute to the training its prospective students receive in secondary school. For example, the rate of science participation in secondary schools has been declining steadily despite the fact that technical jobs and scientific issues in our society continue to be extremely important. Monash University can contribute to understanding the reasons for this declining participation and based on its research advise governments, educationalists and professional teaching bodies on the most suitable remedial action.
Financing this important work in the changing milieu of the higher education sector is clearly one of the biggest governance issues today and in the future, but so too is the ongoing effort to ensure the relevance and quality of our courses, to ensure that our researchers address the most pressing issues faced by our society and to ensure that governments and the population at large continue to recognise and support the role of universities in creating the high calibre and number of graduates necessary for Australia to achieve its goals.
Research is a key part of your career. How important is it that innovation, be it in any subject area -- arts law or science, continue to be encouraged at Monash University?
Innovation is the lifeblood of research and its benefits flow directly not only into the community at large but also from the research arm of the university into the education arm. In a recent talk by the president of the Indian National Science Academy, Ramesh Mashelkar, he defined innovation as "doing different things and doing them differently". It does not matter whether your field is teaching, law, science, arts or commerce, whatever you are doing you can be sure that there is a way to do it even better, and that there is a novel way that you can get there. We must all aspire to creating innovative solutions to the challenges in our lives. Great universities like Monash can and must show us by example how true this is. If Monash ever rested on its laurels it would cease to provide the stimulus that every student deserves to receive.
You spent time in the United States, commercialising research, what is your message to the current crop of researchers working on 'the next big thing'?
The first message is that anybody contemplating commercialising the results of their work must recognise that there is an enormous difference between technology and products. Consumers don't buy technology, they purchase products. Many companies in the past have been formed on the basis of a hot new technology but failed because there wasn't enough patient money available to fund them for the many years required to convert their technology into saleable products.
The second important message is that commercialisation success is most likely when the products are the result of the confluence of the passion of the researcher with the relevance of the field. If one is driven to commercialise it is essential to work in a field that is relevant to our social, economic or environmental benefit, and that is also a field in which one has sufficient passion to burn the midnight oil and dream about innovative solutions.
Is it a big step, moving from the creation and growth of a successful international neuroscience company to looking after the governance of Australia's largest university?
Universities and companies are both sophisticated organisations. They depend on their external relationships, an effective management structure and a nurturing Council (Board of Directors) to provide supportive governance and financial acuity. But most importantly, they depend on people. I always employed the most enthusiastic and best- educated people I could find and our company was amply rewarded. Monash University has excellent staff throughout the organisation and I expect that they more than anything else will make my step from corporate governance to university governance agreeable and successful.
You've booked a space flight on Virgin Galactic. Why?
This "why?" question always intrigues me because the most immediate answer that comes to mind is "Why not? Who wouldn't fly into space if they had the chance?" It turns out that for many or perhaps most people this would not be their answer so I will elaborate. I have always been fascinated by science and technology. The things that intrigued me as a child were the human body, electronic circuits and space travel. As a teenager I read everything I could about the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo manned space missions. The crisp photographs published in National Geographic and Scientific American of spacecraft floating against a blue earth and black space burned indelible memories in my mind. The possibility of being an astronaut never struck me as realistic but mine was a prepared mind nevertheless.
In October 2004, when I heard that a private company had won a prize for being the first private corporation to fly a human being into space not just once but twice within 14 days, I immediately trawled the internet looking for a way to participate. I was probably one of the first people to sign up on the Virgin Galactic website. I saw this as such a significant opportunity that I also signed up Wilson da Silva, the editor of the popular-science magazine Cosmos that Wilson and I co-founded with my wife Elizabeth and Wilson's partner Kylie Ahern.
Not only is flying into space a perfectly appropriate and desirable thing for the editor of a science magazine to do, it also captures the spirit of my approach to business. That is, there are two reasons to be in business: fun and profit. One without the other is insufficient. The same applies to education and research, although in those cases the mantra is fun and learning, or fun and outcomes, respectively.


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Utah, United States, North America
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Apr 17, 2008
and I were on a long planned trip to Arizona to capture
County Highpoints
. Dean was a climbing machine this second week of April 2008. He tagged
, and
State Highpointer
Rick who lives in Prescott, AZ. I met up with this dynamic duo to do
Browns Peak
. Rick then had to go home to keep peace on that front.
That left Dean and me to get ourselves into trouble. We drove to Apache County to attempt
Mount Baldy
the highpoint of Apache County. There are extensive road closures around the access routes for Mount Baldy for construction, so we were stymied on this one. We moved on to
Black Mesa
the highpoint for Navajo County. After tagging Black Mesa, the only logical thing we could think to do with our time was to tackle nearby Navajo Mountain. Navajo Mountain isn't in Arizona, but the trailhead is within a mile of the border, so it fit within our Arizona climbing itinerary.
After our
long hike
on Black Mesa we headed into the town of Kayenta for a meal. There isn't much to chose from here and we wound up at McDonalds. I had a salad and Dean had everything else. After dinner, we drove out to the
Navajo National Monument
because we didn't want to spend an extra $10-$15 to car camp some where on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo National Monument is only 9 miles off of Hwy 160 and the campsites are very nice. The best part is that there is NO FEE for camping. The campground roads are paved and there are nice heated restrooms. This was better than car camping in the brush somewhere.
The wind had been blowing for the last couple of days and this evening at the Navajo National Monument, it was still windy. We couldn't see Navajo Mountain from the campground because there were heavy dark clouds north of the monument obscuring the views. Elevation here is about 7,250 ft and it was kind of cold too. Just as it was getting dark, it started to snow lightly. We decided to see what the weather looked like in the morning before we fully committed to driving over to Navajo Mountain.
In the morning, it was cold but clear. Blue skies abounded and we could see Navajo Mountain in the distance north of the monument. It looked like a great day for a hike, so off we went. There is some kind of back country road network going directly from the monument to IR 16, but we decided to stay on the highways and drive the extra distance. The roads were good and we made good time. There was a short stretch of road construction just before the Utah border, but we weren't delayed there.
Navajo Mountain is a beautiful mountain that dominates the landscape for a hundred miles in all directions. It is easy to identify and I was getting excited as we approached. We easily found the turnoff for the trailhead and followed it southwest for a couple miles. My Trip Report produced by the
Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section
described this road as "poor". I have to agree even though 4WD wasn't required, high clearance was required. After passing a small radio repeater station on the left there is a wide parking area before the road heads north up the mountain towards the summit. The road definitely turns into 4WD above this parking area and it is steep and rocky. We didn't push our luck too far and finally parked in a wide spot on the road at about 7,368 ft elevation. The road above looked pretty rough with huge rocks in the roadway. This wide spot was just wide enough to get off the road and it took us a little maneuvering to turn both trucks around and get them off the road.
After parking, we donned our hiking clothes and boots and started up the road. It was cold here and we both had an extra layer and gloves on. The route is not difficult to follow because it is a big dirt road all the way to the summit with no forks or alternate routes. Dean and I took our time and were soon shedding layers and getting into a rhythm. At about 8,000 ft the road was completely blocked by a dead snag that had fallen onto the road. A couple nice size boulders had come with the tree and we would have never been able to drive beyond this blockage. It didn't block our hiking though and we were soon moving up higher on the mountain.
The trees up high are large old growth pines that are beautiful to see. Soon the steepness of the road moderated and we were traversing to the west across the face of the mountain. It is nice and scenic along this stretch and we started passing patches of snow and frozen puddles on the road. The only significant feature was that the road took a large dip towards the western end of the traverse. It is always discouraging to lose elevation when climbing a mountain. I think we measured this drop at 170 ft. Beyond this dip, the road took a couple of long uphill climbs with a switchback in the middle. These climbs were in direct sun and on a hot day it would be tough. Fortunately, it was still cool for us.
At about 9,000 ft the snow on the ground increased and it was soon more snow than road. Since the air temperature was still freezing, the snow was easy to walk on with no post holing. We continued up towards the summit and slowly but surely, the summit area came into view. When I saw the communication towers, I knew we were almost there. The summit had 2-3 ft of snow and it was cold and windy. We quickly put back on our layers that came off earlier and sought shelter on the lee side of one of the communication buildings. It had been a nice climb and we took some time and ate lunch. There are no views from the summit because it is so broad and forested. We took a few pictures and then headed down before hypothermia set in. Did I mention it was cold up there?
Dean set a wicked pace down from the summit and the snow was great to walk on. When we got lower on the mountain and the road bed started showing up again, we avoided it and walked on the snow wherever we could. About 1.5 miles from the summit and down to 9,000 ft in elevation, we stopped and took off the extra layers. It was already much warmer than the summit and the snow was all but gone. In fact the frozen puddles from earlier had melted and were clear water now. It was a pleasant hike back down to the trucks except for hiking back up that little hill.
The trucks were a welcome sight. Our hike covered 10.0 miles in 5.5 hours. With the ups and downs, the elevation gain was about 3,400 ft. If you parked further down the mountain, it would add mileage and elevation to these totals. After climbing Navajo Mountain, it was time for Dean to head north for home and I headed west. I still had a couple mountains on my list to break up the long drive back to Oregon.
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TONY List
Time Out New York wrote up a list of the "Top 100 best things we ate and drank this year." I noticed that I had been to a handful of them, wanted to try others and hadn't heard of many of them. After reading an article about someone who tried to go to all 100 of the places mentioned in the 2007 list, I decided to go on my own quest to take down the list. Restaurants that are part of the list will be entered with a number before the name of the restaurant. The following 5 items represent the locations that I had previously been to before the beginning of the quest:
1. Artichoke Basille's Pizza & Brewery
328 E 14th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue
When people think about pizza, they think about NY and Chicago. When people think about NY pizza, they think about Lombardi's and Grimaldi's. I've been to Lombardi's. I've been to Grimaldi's. I've been to Otto, John's and Patsy's and I would not hesitate for a minute to say that Artichoke is the best slice of pizza in NYC (Note: I have not tried Di Fara's which I hear serves an incredibly good slice). Artichoke serves 4 kinds of slices: (1) Margherita ($3.50) – a traditional round pizza slice made with homemade tomato sauce, fresh basil and fresh mozzarella and sliced at around 1.5x the usual size of a slice; (2) Sicilian ($3.50)– square slice with slightly burned ends that is crispy, garlicky, and represents the contender for best slice despite its size relative to the round slice; (3) Artichoke ($4.00) – a round slice topped with a creamy spinach artichoke that is rich, filling and made with clumps of cheese; (4) Crab slice ($4.00) which I have yet to try but have heard good things about.
Usually there is a line at Artichoke (20 minutes+) so whenever I pass at an off-peak time I feel slightly obliged to order a slice simply because there is no line. The place does serve beer but there are no tables and only enough room for 2-3 people to stand by the counter. They are open late and serve as a staple option for those on their way back from the bar.
2. Momofuku Noodle Bar
171 First Avenue between 10th and 11th
The restaurant deserves its own review on its own merits but for the sake of the list I will try to describe the crispy pigs' tails appetizer ($14) that is suggested. This item was not on the menu and served as a special that night but given that it is on the TONY list, I imagine that it is served often. If it has pork it in, I'm interested. If it has something unusual, I'm interested. Pig's tails? Sold. The restaurant serves a healthy appetizer portion (about 8 or so). The tails are fried and glazed with a sweet/sour sauce and are gummy in texture, very similar to oxtail. For $14 I expected a bit more and with so many other strong options at the restaurant I don't think I would order it again.
3. McSorley's Old Ale House
15 E 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue
It doesn't seem right to write up a review about McSorley's at is such a NY institution, but for those that have not yet experienced its majesty, McSorley's is the oldest bar in New York and serves only McSorley's dark ale and McSorley's light ale (Two ½ pints for $4.50). The dark ale is caramel flavored and creamy while the light is more of a pale ale. The line can get quite long and the bar very crowded so go early.
4. Indus Express
48 W 48th Street between 5th and 6th Ave
Chaat is an Indian snack food made up of potatoes, yogurt, spices, chick peas, and chilis that is normally topped with samosa pieces (samosa chaat) or fried crispy strings (papri chaat) and is served warm or cold. After searching for an Indian restaurant that served it as an appetizer, midtownlunch directed me to Taj Delhi Chat that serves generous portions for $5-6 and is spicy and filling. Indus Express serves as competition though the portions are a little smaller at Indus and the samosa chaat ($5) has more flavor at Taj. For those not willing to make the trek from their offices in the low 50's to 38th street to go to Taj, Indus Express is definitely recommended for inexpensive chaat. Additionally, Indus sells Indian sweets such as Burfi, has a buffet and a fairly nice dining area for a small fast food Indian restaurant.
5. Porchetta
110 E 7th Street between 1st and A
Porchetta has been named one of the top new places for 2008. Numerous critics and restaurant chefs have been vocal about their adoration for the porchetta (pork) sandwiches that this fast food stand sells. For me, the sandwich did not live up to the hype. Maybe I had too high expectations. Maybe it was an off night. Maybe it wasn't enough of a sample size (Full disclosure: I sampled some of my friend's sandwich). Don't get me wrong, it was a good sandwich. I just have a hard time spending $9 on a sandwich when there are a number of other great spots in the area where $9 buys more food of equal or better quality (Nicky's Vietnamese for example). I am certainly interested in returning for the platter which comes with roasted potatoes with burnt ends.
Just a quick comment should anyone want to try it for themselves. The place is quite small, with room for only about 5 people on stools so should the line be long you may be shivering in the cold for quite a bit. I would suggest taking the sandwich to nearby Tomkins Square Park to enjoy without the crowd.


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Tales of the Batman – Gene Colan, Volume One
A collection of moody noir stories. Continue reading
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Gangsta Rap Posse is best described as an Elseworlds tale in which NWA actually were a bunch of drug-dealing, ho-pimping, Uzi-toting mass murderers. Continue reading
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Ganges #4 is the Godfather Part II of comics about insomnia: the rare sequel that tops the already excellent original. Continue reading
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Republicans may just passed a massive tax break for billionaires and major corporations, however, the GOP has refused to reauthorize funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which expired on September 30th. CHIP provided healthcare for nine million low-income children and pregnant women.
How could they have missed this crucial deadline? Well, they didn't. According to Sen. Orrin Hatch (UT), they can't afford it:
But let me tell you something. We're going to do CHIP, there's no question about it in my mind. It has to be done the right way. But we—the reason CHIP is having trouble is because we don't have money anymore. We just add more and more spending and more and more spending, and you can look at the rest of the bill for the more and more spending.
According to Hatch's claim, they can't afford to help kids with cancer because the government is that broke—so what do they do? Collect less money from people who have more than they'll ever know what to do with. In fact, the bill adds as much as $1.5 trillion to the debt. In comparison, CHIP needs $15 billion to operate—1% of how much we'll be losing because of this tax plan.


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Children's Miracle Network Bowl-A-Thon
Kingpin's Alley will host the 14th Annual Children's Miracle Network Bowl-A-Thon, presented by Rite Aid Pharmacy on Friday, April 28, 2017. This bowl a thon will start at 7pm and run until 10pm. Admission is still only $20 per person. Your $20 will get you unlimited bowling and shoe rental for 3 hours. There will be food, a silent auction, and 50/50 raffles, live music, kids activities, face painting and more. This event is open to the public. Bring all of your friends, family, and co-workers and have some great fun at a small price and help support this wonderful organization. Call us today to reserve a spot or simply come in on the night of the event.
Contributions to Children's Miracle Network benefit an array of pediatric programs and services and it impacts young lives battling virtually every type of childhood illness and injury.
Since 1994, Rite Aid has been a proud sponsor of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, which raises funds for 170 children's hospitals across North America. Rite Aid associates, suppliers and customers have all worked together to raise and donate more than $65 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, making Rite Aid the organization's sixth-largest corporate partner. The money will help fund pediatric medical services, groundbreaking research and purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment that not only saves lives but also improves the lives of millions of children each year.


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BORN IN EAST L.A.: 30th Anniversary
Perhaps the funniest – as well as most cleverly subversive – comedy to be born out of a parody song, 1987's Born in East L.A. celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year, and comes to The Frida Cinema November 13th (8pm & 9:45pm) and 14th (9:30pm)! Advance tickets now available at The Frida Cinema's box office, or online by clicking here.
Written by, directed by, and starring comedy legend Cheech Marin, and based on the 1985 song he released as part of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Born in East L.A. marked Marin's first solo venture from his famed duo, as well as his feature film directorial debut. Marin plays Rudy Robles, an American-born Hispanic who finds himself accidentally caught up in a Immigration Department raid and, not having identification on him, is deported to Mexico. Stranded in Tijuana and speaking virtually no Spanish, he is reduced to working a variety of jobs for a crooked saloon owner in order to make the money to pay for his "illegal immigration" back into the United States, all while finding himself falling in love with waitress Dolores, and trying in vain to reach his family back home – notably his cousin Javier (a hilarious Paul Rodriguez), whose adventures with an ironically placed answering machine provide what might be the film's greatest belly laugh.
Marin, who in real life is custodian to a private collection of more than 700 works of Chicano art that, as was recently announced, will soon find a home at America's first arts center dedicated exclusively to Mexican-American art in Riverside CA, has been a lifelong and vocal advocate of Chicano culture and art, and while Born in East L.A. provides its fair share of effective laughs and comic set-pieces, the film doesn't hold back in its examination of a flawed and unsympathetic system, showing couples being torn apart, humans treated with cruel indignity, and the lengths, and fiscal and emotional expense, that many go through simply to reconnect with their families. In Marin's hands, the film is a laugh riot, but try not to feel goosebumps when the Neil Diamond hits…
Monday, November 13 – 8pm, 9:45pm
Tuesday, November 14 – 9:30pm


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SF State sets Sept. 29 deadline for spring 2007 undergraduate applications
Transfer students with at least 60 units, freshmen are eligible for admission
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2006 -- San Francisco State University will accept undergraduate applications for spring 2007 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 29.
Transfer students with at least 60 transferable units and first-time freshmen are eligible for admission.
The Sept. 29 deadline ensures that SF State does not admit more students than it can adequately serve, said Jo Volkert, associate vice president for enrollment planning and management.
In recent years, SF State has received record number of applications for admission, as prospective students tend to apply to multiple universities and the population of students graduating from high schools in California has risen. SF State received 43,655 applications for fall 2006, an increase of 10 percent over the previous fall.
Prospective students should apply online, at www.csumentor.edu, to receive an admissions decision more quickly.
Spring 2007 graduate applications are due by Nov. 1. However, certain graduate programs have earlier deadlines and require an additional application. For details, visit: www.sfsu.edu/~gradstdy or call the Division of Graduate Studies at (415) 338-2234.
SF State will accept fall 2007 applications beginning Oct. 1.
For more details on SF State admissions, majors and degree programs, costs, financial aid, on-campus housing and student life, visit: www.sfsu.edu/prospect, call (415) 338-2355 or send an e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Prospective students interested in on-campus housing are encouraged to submit a housing application before being admitted to SF State, as space is limited and applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. For details, call (415) 338-1067 or visit: www.sfsu.edu/~housing.
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