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David Hemmings looks terrible. He's got mud all over his clothes after a fight in a field with Ray Winstone. (Memo: Never fight Ray Winstone. You'll lose.) His face is a ruin of shuddering jowls and too many pints, lashed by a North Sea squall. His eyebrows flourish wildly like Denis Healey's.
He, Tom Courtenay, Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone have just thrown Michael Caine's ashes into the sea. This is the end of the journey in Fred Schepisi's intelligent and moving adaptation of Last Orders, Graham Swift's Booker-winning novel. Behind the quartet of wind-buffeted English acting talent, the Margate skyline sits prosaically. Hemmings suggests pints all round. A flurry of old men's car coats heads to the pub. Credits roll.
How did Hemmings come to this pass? Once, after all, he was the tousle-haired 1960s swinger, cruising in a convertible through swinging London in Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni's still-trenchant analysis of alienated modern society. In that film, he played a fashion photographer obsessively snapping sexpot models Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Birkin until - in an unwitting parody of post-coital exhaustion - he dropped his camera to the floor, all creativity spent. As a result of this performance, Hemmings became an epoch-defining icon. So much so that when Mike Myers was creating Austin Powers, that comedic cocktail of the swinging 60s, he threw one part Hemmings and one part James Bond into the shaker, along with a set of misshapen yellow choppers and ugly specs.
Gorgeous, pouting Terence Stamp wanted to star in Blow-Up but David Hemmings beat him to it. Hemmings as a result became the last word in grooviness.
But that was 35 years ago. People don't say "groovy" any more and, even if they did, they wouldn't say it of David Hemmings. What became of him? "People thought I was dead," he says. "But I wasn't. I was just directing the A-Team."
We're sitting in a cafe in the twee part of London's Battersea and Hemmings - while retaining the eyebrow homage to Denis Healey that is his choice in a free society - is anything but the ruin he was in Last Orders. Florid and dapper, with a folded hankie in his breast pocket and tonic water at his elbow, he has an actorly roar inflected with smokers' phlegm. He speaks ill of nobody (even his ex-wives) and, when he likes a word, uses it three times. He takes a fancy to my shorthand notes, a rare event in a journalist's career. "That," he roars, "is really, really, really cool. I am unbelievably impressed."
Hemmings turned 60 last month but, far from settling into obscurity, he's having a big-screen renaissance after an absence of nearly 20 years. It started two years ago, when a friend suggested him to Ridley Scott for a part in Gladiator. There he was on screen, a trembling wreath of jowls, toga and laurel leaves, as Cassius, the Coliseum's fight MC. "People saw me in Gladiator and said, 'He's still alive. Good Lord!' All of a sudden I've done eight pictures in the last 16 months. I probably won't do another until I'm 70. If I live that long." After Gladiator, his name appeared a long way down the cast list in Tony Scott's Spy Game. But it is higher up in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York.
From the sublime to Vinnie Jones. In Mean Machine, Hemmings plays a prison governor and Jones plays a former England footballer, doing time for taking a bung , who organises a football team to play against the screws. "Now I'm thought of as a 60-year-old character actor. People think, 'He'll do for that.' I'm very, very, very proud of that."
But of all Hemmings's recent films, it's Last Orders that will be critically feted. Swift's very English appropriation of the story of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying was structurally ill-suited to be made into a film, but Schepisi makes it work with a series of flashbacks that pit the narrative of a journey to lay a friend to rest. Four men travel from Peckham to Margate in a Mercedes with Michael Caine's remains in an urn. Ray Winstone is at the wheel, Tom Courtenay in the passenger seat, Bob Hoskins back right, Hemmings back left. For 90-odd minutes they cry, they laugh, they fight, they sully the cream upholstery.
"I play Lenny, the stirrer," says Hemmings. "He takes out his wooden spoon all the way to Margate, stirring up the lives of all the other characters. Hopefully Lenny will come out as pathetic, weedy, but rather loveable. Women will want to love him." It's a fanciful hope, but Hemmings's performance is nonetheless excellent, filled with the third-age rage that should by rights earn him a part in a film adaptation of Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils. "We had some really exotic locations like the Dartford tunnel and Margate pier, and all of those locations that really inspire an actor. Good Lord!"
It's been a long journey from groovy to Margate pier. How does it feel to be remembered chiefly for a film that you made at the beginning of your career? "You mean Blow-Up? Well, that wasn't at the start, more like the middle. It was my 48th film. I started when I was 12, in a film called Five Clues to Fortune or The Treasure of Woburn Abbey." Still, it's the 1960s that everybody asks him about. Did they swing for you? "Good Lord, no. They were a work ing period. The swinging 60s in London was really media hype. Nothing more than. It was just that National Service had been abolished, which meant teenagers had income to dispose of and they didn't want to save because of the threat of the Bomb. If there was any movement in the 60s relative to quote swinging unquote, it was in Los Angeles, where I lived for years.
"Once, Dennis Hopper and I proposed this wonderful exhibition called A Los Angeles Primer. We took two coaches of dignitaries from the Ferris-Pace gallery in La Cieneca to Malibu and back. On the way, Dennis got out of the front coach and signed the Beverly Hilton and the Beverly Hills hotel. At Malibu, he went into the water and signed a wave. And then the coaches were driven back to the gallery where, behind a huge screen, the Mamas and Papas played California Dreamin' constantly. Cards were given to the dignitaries saying, 'You are the art of Los Angeles. Look at each other carefully.' Blank walls all around the gallery, of course, just music playing. That was the exhibition. And that was the swinging 60s."
Did that really happen? "If you wanted to report that we did, Dennis would back me up." The answer to the question seems to be no.
But the 60s were mostly a blur of work - he was Captain Nolan in The Charge of the Light Brigade, Dildano in Barbarella, Bob in Only When I Larf, Mordred in Camelot, the eponymous king in Alfred the Great. By the 70s, he was also a director. His Running Scared was a critically hailed box-office disaster made under the influence of his maestro, Antonioni.
"I think it's a beautiful movie. It was seen by absolutely nobody. The one thing that was impressed upon me was that if you put the camera in one place or in another, it tells the story in a different way. That made me a very cold director. I was always more interested in the visual content of the frame rather than with the individuals within it. I don't think that's a good thing for a director, unless you're Antonioni. And I'm not."
He also made Just a Gigolo, which was disliked by all but one man. "I love Just a Gigolo, actually. I really, really, really do. But I think I'm the only person who does. I think Kim Novak is brilliant. I think Bowie is brilliant. David doesn't like it, but he's mistaken. It's not a very refined movie, I would confess that."
But if Just a Gigolo wasn't refined, what of his later output as a TV director? Would Antonioni have dug Mr T? "I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the A-Team, Magnum PI or Murder She Wrote or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it. I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around. The A-Team was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. But after 10 years in that game, the work becomes too hard and you become facile."
Would he like to direct movies now? "Never say never, but I will never direct again. I'm back from America, and I think the time has come to say that all those wonderful Malibu parties are behind me. I have no ambitions, except to paint. I live in a market town in a mill house with the river running both sides and Somerfield's car park only a loose nine iron away, and I really, really, really love it."
Mean Machine is out on December 26, Last Orders on January 11, and Gangs of New York on February 15. And with that he gets up and heads off to his country home with his third wife. He looks very, very, very happy.


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Several athletes from Gym Like This! qualified during their respective state competitions to compete in the Region 8 Championships last month. Region 8 includes Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Gym Like This! athletes included Peyton Gaillard (Level 7), Sammy Peitz (Level 7), Bridget Bourque (Level 8), Chanya Earle (Level 9) and Emory Gawlik (Level 10).
Regional competition for Levels 7 and 8 was held during the weekend of April 18 in Mobile, Ala. Sammy Peitz of West Palm Beach placed second on vault with a 9.525, second on floor with a 9.55 and seventh on bars with a 9.4, finishing with a total score of 37.025. Peyton Gaillard of Jupiter won sixth place on beam with a 9.475. She also scored 9.4 on vault, 9.05 on bars, 9.425 on floor, and placed twelfth all-around with a total score of 37.350. Bridget Bourque of Palm Beach Gardens took home third on floor with a 9.45, sixth on bars with a 9.45, eighth on vault with an 8.9 and came in tenth place all-around with a total score of 36.625.
The Region 8 Championships for Levels 9 and 10 took place in Bradenton during the weekend of April 18. Chayna Earle of Riviera Beach came in sixth on floor with a 9.25, ninth on vault with a 9.25, ninth on beam with a 9.025, and scored a 9.025 on bars. She placed sixth all-around with a 36.550, securing a spot in the Eastern National Championships. Palm Beach Gardens resident Emory Gawlik finished out her Junior Olympics gymnastics career with her best Level 10 competition performance. She scored a 9.2 on vault, 9.15 on bars, 9.125 on beam and 9.4 on floor, giving her a total score of 36.875.
The Level 9 Eastern National Championships, featuring 448 of the top gymnasts from Regions 5-8, took place in Kissimmee on the weekend of May 9. The Western National Championships, which includes Regions 1-4, took place the same weekend in Spokane, Wash. Numerous gymnasts from these competitions have gone on to make the U.S. National Team and/or compete in collegiate gymnastics.
At Easterns, Chanya Earle was awarded fourth place on floor with a 9.275 and ninth on beam with a 9.1. She also scored 9.3 on vault and finished with a total score of 36.3. Her Region 8 team captured first place in the team competition.
Gym Like This! is coached by head coach Doug Neiman and assistants Stephanie Ovdiyenko and Krystal Lee.
The GLT! compulsory team is preparing for its competitive season, which begins in late August. For information, visit www.gymlikethis.com or call 561-842-8488.

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The Melni Modular is a revolutionary new take on the standard terminal block. It offers the flexibility that the standard terminals can't match. You choose the number, size, and even the angle of the connections that you want to make. The Modular Connector will be available Spring 2018.
- Variety of installations: The Melni Modular system can be put together and used in a variety of ways that are sure to be popular with linemen and electricians.
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Two parameters to set if your husband has a close female friendship.
If you are in a relationship with someone who has a close friend of the opposite sex, you might be grappling with this gnawing question.
Of course, you want your mate to have friends and people in his or her life to count on in addition to you. At the same time, nobody wants to be taken for a fool. You might feel like you have to stay on alert. What if your partner's friend has ulterior motives? What if there are yet to be realized romantic feelings between your mate and this friend?
The question in many people's minds is how possible it really is for two people of the opposite sex to be just friends. Is this just a situation fated to lead to betrayal and hurt?
If you are jealous of your partner's friend, you are probably feeling confusion and you might even be torn up inside. Your jealous feelings are likely adding to the discord between yourself and your partner. He or she may seem defensive and impatient if you've voiced your concerns about the friendship.
Even if you haven't communicated your worries to your partner, your inner jealousy and fears are probably contributing to a wall between the two of you. Either way, you and your partner are not moving closer together, you are being driven apart.
So, can they be just friends? We believe that, yes, it is possible, and it happens all of the time. With honesty, openness and clarity, this type of friendship can and does occur.
If you think about your own life, there are probably many people you interact with and whom you call friends who are members of the opposite sex. You can laugh, have fun, even hang out and just have a cup of coffee together AND not cross the line.
As you probably know, there are some people with whom you feel a natural camaraderie. It's enjoyable to be with these particular people and you value the relationship you have with them. At the same time, the relationship does not reach an intensity or intimacy that you have in your love relationship or marriage.
You just don't feel the same way about these people as you do about your mate. However, emotional affairs and relationships are very real and can wreak havoc on a relationship. This makes the whole issue a little less clear in some cases.
If you notice that you'd rather spend time with your friend, and that you are meeting needs with this friend that you feel are lacking in your love relationship, it's probably time to take a step back and re-evaluate what's going on. Here's how.
1. Be clear within yourself and with your partner.
You can blame your partner, your friend, or even yourself. But let's face it: Blame and judgment are probably not going to help you release your jealous fears and, instead, concentrate on connecting more closely with your love.
It's essential that each of you involved be very honest and clear within your own selves. What are your feelings about your partner and about the friend? Again, set aside blame and adopt an attitude of curiosity.
While it is not advisable for you to approach your partner's friend to inquire about his or her feelings, it can be extremely helpful for you to encourage your mate to share how he or she feels about this friend with you. You might make an agreement with your partner that you will only listen to try to understand the friendship and that you are not accusing him or her of any wrongdoing.
The goal here is to foster a sense of openness and clarity about the friendship, as well as your love relationship. From that point, you can both make decisions about the next step. With more information and an environment of honesty, you might choose to let go of your jealous habit.
2. Keep moving closer together.
As you begin to talk more openly and honestly with one another, you and your partner might realize that some of the needs you have are not being met within your relationship. You can now begin to create ways those needs can be met.
Perhaps your partner is very athletic and you are not very interested in sports. His or her friend of the opposite sex is someone with whom your partner can share sports. Maybe they play on the same soccer team together.
You and your mate might decide that it feels acceptable to both of you for him or her to meet this need to share sports with the friend. Or you could come up with some ways that you can also share in his or her love of sports. You might attend more of the soccer matches he or she plays in, for example.
The ultimate intention here is for you and your partner to connect more and move closer together. This isn't about intensifying some sort of competition between your partner's friend and yourself; it's about keeping the communication open and honest and making sure that you both are having your needs met within your relationship.
When you acknowledge that it is possible for men and women to be just friends, you are on your way to letting go of jealousy. If doubts arise, ask yourself if the belief that your partner's opposite sex friendship will inevitably turn into something more serves you or your relationship.
From there, keeping it honest, clear and open is a path that can take you to the connected, closeness you desire with your mate.
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John The Ninja recently conducted an interview with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES frontman Mike Muir.
On former SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo being part of the current SUICIDAL TENDENCIES touring lineup:
Muir: "Well, I think there's two parts. One, there's obviously… there's a name, so people were excited. Initially, obviously, people said, 'Oh, wow! Actually, I can see that.' The other is when you actually see it and you hear it. And there's a lot of times when people quote-unquote get together and it's for fun and they don't take it serious. The thing about Dave is he's very serious. It's not for me to quote him, but he loves the band. So he goes, 'I love the music,' and you see that when he's playing. I can't fake what I do; he can't fake what he does. He's up there and just doing his thing. And it sounds so good, and it's so fun. I mean, that's one of the things with this tour [the recently completed North American run with MEGADETH]; it's just refreshing that it's, like, 'Bam!' We just do it. And every night, there's the people that obviously are anticipating it; there's the people that are excited about it; the people that are, like, 'Okay. I'm gonna check it out.' And still to this day, some people don't know. Even yesterday, I went out in the crowd afterwards, and someone was, like, 'Man, your drummer is amazing!' And I said, 'Yeah. Dave Lombardo.' 'Yeah, I know Dave Lombardo. That was Dave Lombardo?' I mean, it was a big place and they are in the very back and you can't really see it.
"It's been great. It works. He's a great person. So it's just been a lot of fun. And it definitely does add an intensity. I mean, going years back, I've always known, obviously, SLAYER and Dave, and I've always kind of said, 'Wow! If we had someone like Dave playing [with us].' You know, you do those little things sometimes in your head. And now we actually do."
On how the latest SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, 2013's "13", was received:
Muir: "Well, I think for us, there was just a lot of issues. The record… I mean, we still go out there now and there's people that don't know that we've put out a record, because we didn't promote it and do all those types of things and stuff like that. I think one of the most difficult things about it is we were recording songs — so many songs from so much time — and then trying to put songs together that were recorded at completely different times with different people and trying to get other people to play on it [so] that their feelings aren't hurt and this and that. It gets away from what music is, to a certain degree. I think it's one of those ones that you go back, and if I had to do it over again, I think I would have done it the way that we've traditionally done records. We do it when we love it, and we love it. And it's, like, 'Okay, we've gotta re-record it now for this person or that person,' I think, was probably a mistake. Not that it made it not as good or something like that, but we just spent so much time trying to make other people happy rather than just keeping that time on making it so that we loved it and stuff. Most of the time was spent on the wrong reasons, I think."
Lombardo recently told Metal Wani about ST's forthcoming album, for which he laid down the drum tracks: "I think it's very typical and very traditional SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. It's that style. It's Mike Muir and he was a very special style in which he writes his music and his lyrics and his structures. And I love it; I love it. It takes me back to how it all started, which was that punk attitude. I'm very happy to be a part of his organization. I feel very welcomed. I feel very much appreciated, and there's a lot of respect amongst the musicians, and camaraderie. We have a really good time together. We hang out as a band, which is important; I feel it's very important."


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People Puzzle
The names of 20 prominent people are hidden in the maze of letters. How many can you find by consulting the brief clues? The names read forward, backward, up, down or diagonally, are always in a straight line and never skip letters. We have started you off by circling TENG, the answer to 1 in the diagram. The names may overlap and letters may be used more than once, but not all of the letters will be used. Super PEOPLE sleuths should be able to identify 15 or more names. Answers in next week's issue.
1. East meets West
2. Sixty Minuteman
3. Lights up Gabriel's life
4. Innocent wifemistress
5. PM Greenwich time
6. King of the Gypsies
7. Loves labor's labor
8. Well-read raven
9. Viced out
10. NBC's strict speaker
11. Fired firebrand
12. Cabinet smoke-ender
13. Alone star
14. Mike on the yard
15. Inflation deflator
16. Brooke's other mother
17. Johnny clown lately
18. Federal Reservist
19. A real American queen
20. H-bomb pappy


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Initial Spending Budget
Developing an initial spending budget using the Actuarial Approach is a two-step process:
- The first step in the process is to determine the total present value of the assets you have to spend. This present value includes your current liquid assets, the present value of your Social Security benefits, the present value of your defined benefit plan benefits, the present value of any annuity income you may have, the present value of non-liquid assets you may own that you plan to sell in the future, the present value of rental income from properties you may own, the present value of future wages you may earn, etc.
- The second step in the process is to determine how you want to spread this total present value of assets over your expected payout period.
- if you decide to spread the total present value of your assets, less Desired amount of savings remaining at death (input in row 33), over
- the Expected payout period (input in row 29), based on the assumption that future spending budgets will increase each year by the Annual desired increase in future budget amounts percentage (input in row 31).
- assuming all the assumptions input in the spreadsheet (including the mortality assumption) are exactly realized (and unchanged), and
- your actual spending exactly matches your spending budget each year.
We also know that not all of your future expenses are likely to increase at the same rate, which is why we added the Budget by Expense-Type Tab to the spreadsheet. This tab gives you the ability to spread the present value of your assets (which is also equal to the present value of your future spending budgets) between five different types of expense:
- long-term care
- unexpected
- essential non-health (ENH)
- essential health (EH)
- non-essential (NE)
- essential non-health (ENH)
- essential health (EH)
- non-essential (NE)
Planning for Constant vs. Decreasing Real-Dollar Spending
And the foregoing brings us to the inspiration for today's post (with my apologies for taking so long to get here).
Three of retirement researcher Wade Pfau's recent articles,
- Retirement Spending Increases and Decreases Over Time
- What Is the "Retirement Spending Smile?"
- What Is Age Banding And What Does It Mean For Retirees?
While I agree that non-essential expenses are likely to decrease in real dollars as we age in retirement, I also agree with Dr. Pfau that other types of expenses in retirement are likely to remain constant in real dollars or even increase. It is for this reason that I recommended different rates of assumed increases for
- essential non-health (ENH) expenses,
- essential health (EH) expenses and
- non-essential (NE) expenses
It is important to note, however, that if we assume:
- essential non-health (ENH) expenses will increase with inflation in the future,
- essential health (EH) expenses will increase faster than general inflation and
- non-essential (NE) expenses will increase at a rate less than inflation,
The larger the portion of the spending budget that is represented by non-essential expenses (using different rates of assumed increases for essential non-health (ENH) expenses, essential health (EH) expenses and non-essential (NE) expenses), the greater the annual decrease expected in future real-dollar total spending budgets.
Examples using James and Michael
Let's take a look at two different retirees to illustrate this point. Both James and Michael are:
- 65-year old males
- with $20,000 annual Social Security benefits,
- a $10,000 annual pension benefit,
- no other sources of retirement income and
- no bequest motive.
- James has accumulated savings of $500,000 and
- Michael has accumulated savings of $1,000,000.
- 4.5% discount rate
- 2.5% inflation
- expected retirement period equal to age 95 minus attained age or life expectancy if greater.
- $1,129,966 for James, and
- $500,000 higher, or $1,629,966 for Michael's.
- $49,156 for James
- $70,907 for Michael.
Examples Using Budget by Expense-Type Tab
Both James and Michael have determined their expenses as:
- essential non-health (ENH) expenses for the upcoming year are $30,000
- essential health (EH) expenses are $7,000
- essential non-health (ENH) expenses will increase by inflation in the future (2.5% as stated above)
- essential health (EH) expenses will increase by inflation (2.5%) plus 1.5%, or 4.0%
- non-essential (NE) expenses will remain constant in nominal dollars
If instead of planning for constant real-dollar spending, these retirees use the Budget by Expense-Type Tab of the spreadsheet and the increase assumptions for each budget expense type discussed above,
- James will develop a total spending budget for this year of $51,351 (or about 4.5% greater than his constant dollar spending budget), while
- Michael's total spending budget would be $80,725, (or about 13.8% higher than his constant dollar spending budget).
The following two charts illustrate this concept by showing expected real-dollar budget components and total spending budgets for the two retirees by age, if all assumptions are realized.
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It is important to note that we show expected budget components and totals only until age 90. This is because real-dollar spending budgets developed as the sum of these three budget components under the Actuarial Approach are expected to decrease significantly once the retiree's current age plus life expectancy starts to exceed age 95. At that time, however, the retiree presumably has long-term care and unexpected expense reserves to dip into.
Over the 25-year period from age 65 to age 90, James' expected total real-dollar spending budget decreases by about .25% per year, while Michael's total real-dollar spending budget decreases by about 1% per year. Thus, the results for Michael are very close to the results for the average retiree with initial income of $100,000 noted by David Blanchett. However, it is important to look at your own situation to determine what is appropriate for you.


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Lu Ann and I celebrated 37 years of marriage in 2010, now on October 13, 2017 it will be 44 years. During the first 37 years, I had often suggested opening different businesses… such as a video rental store, a fitness gym, and others along life's road. Lu Ann always said "No" She'd say, "If we are going to open a business, it will be a Cabana bar on the beach in the Caribbean!"
Well, I'm a persistent guy, and during a day of fun in Galena, IL, I brought to light another potential business opportunity. After the day's shopping, we found ourselves at Jamie's Wine Parlor enjoying a relaxing glass of wine. The glass became a bottle and some fine conversation. As we sat there looking around, I suggested to Lu Ann that WE open a wine and beer bar in Marion, and noting the meat & cheese store across the street, I decided the pairing would be excellent! She agreed it would be a unique addition to the Marion, Cedar Rapids, Hiawatha, Robins and the Eastern Iowa region, and though she had said "No" in the past, this time she suggested I put together a business plan to see if it was feasible.
Well, after a little over a year for researching, planning, securing appropriate approvals and getting buy in from our oldest son, Josh to manage the store while we kept our day jobs, we landed on the previous site of the Flat Tire Café for the business. We realized this was the perfect setting to for a wine and beer bar, complete with book shelves to provide a wonderful display of 170 different wines. It also had a small non conventional kitchen that would allow more than just meat and cheese trays to enjoy with the wine and beer. Josh took his 15 years experience working in kitchens and bars, and fueled with his childhood interest in creating and cooking great meals, he was tasked with creating a menu for the store, his sister Lindsay suggesting cheese sandwiches would pair well with wine and beer. Sooo…
Ramsey's opened to the public on May 19, 2011, the day before the annual Marion Arts Festival.
Our Panini, Grilled Cheese, Sub Sandwich and salad menu, offers healthy and popular choosings that our customers enjoy. Combined with Josh and Danielle's creative daily specials, we continue to provide great standards with nice variety.
We found out within the first year that there are many talented local music performers looking for a place to share their passions and provide musical performances to the community. So, we added Open Mic night on Tuesday nights and live music now on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. It is amazing how often we are thanked for giving musicians a stage to perform on. (A blessing to the Ramsey family because I, Conrad, have no musical talent, but I do like to listen.)
Our fantastic staff is considered family. Jacob, Danielle, Tony, Jim, Christa, Angie, Kayliegh, Carla and our daughter, Lindsay all are heaven sent to the store providing inspiration, creativity, smiles, and laughter to our menu and our customers each and every day. We are truly blessed to have them work for us. As Christa has told me in the past, she loves working for us…not just because Conrad likes to give hugs to customers and workers when they come and leave, but because the Ramsey's care a lot for everyone that they meet!
2016 update:
The store had occupancy of 40. Lu Ann and I have asked ourselves many times over the first four years: "Why did we make our lives busier with full time day jobs and then the extra work of owning a family business?" What we have realized is that we do it because of the blessings the store brings to us through the many friendships we developed with our customers. We have become a community family and it was that family that encouraged us to expand our presence. By purchasing the whole building, which included the space a church moved out of next door in August 2015 and opening the wall to the other side of the building on October 30, 2015, we more than doubled our size and occupancy (to 97). The love, warmth and care we share and receive from the people we have met since opening the store has brought great joy to the Ramsey family's lives.
As we are loved by God, we are expected to love God's people. So stop in, get to know the family, enjoy wine, beer, music, and great conversation. We look forward to meeting you!


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Dawson Charlie
Dawson Charlie or K̲áa Goox̱ [qʰáː kuːχ] (ca. 1865 – 26 December 1908) was a Canadian Tagish/Tlingit First Nation person and one of the co-discoverers of gold at Discovery Claim that led to the Klondike Gold Rush located in the Yukon territory of Northwest Canada. He was the nephew of Keish, also known as Skookum Jim Mason, and accompanied him on his search for his aunt, Kate Carmack. He staked one of the first three claims in the Klondike, along with his uncle and George Carmack. Storyteller Angela Sidney was a niece.[1]
By 1901, Charlie had adopted the legal name of "Charles Henderson."[2] There is a conflict as to Charlie's year of birth, between the information that Charlie provided during the 1901 census and the information on his tombstone. The census indicates 1864 or 1865 as his year of birth.[2] The tombstone indicates 1866 as his year of birth.[3]
He died in Carcross, Yukon when he fell off the White Pass railway bridge.
- ^ "Dawson Charlie". Archived from the original on 2006-08-21. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ a b 1901 Census of Canada, District 206, Subdistrict f-93 (Cariboo Crossing, Yukon), at page 2, line 26, at, http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=114349&highlight=26&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Charles+Henderson (Dec. 6, 2013).
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2013-12-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (Dec. 8, 2013).
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I started as an mechanical engineer with Texas Instruments designing sensors products and optimizing manufacturing processes. After much success I was elected to the technical staff and launched several new products in the millions of units. I then moved into managing small technical teams and developed a passion for leadership. After 15 years at TI and Sensata Technologies (a spin off of TI), I started DiPaola Consulting. DiPaola Consulting quickly grew into a profitable entity and within a few years one of my largest customers, TT Electronics (> $750 Million in NR/year), asked me to join their company as VP of Global R&D (330+ staff in US, Europe, UK and Asia and a budget of > $25 million). I seized the opportunity because it was a great team and I connected with the vision knowing I could add significant value. Within the first year, we made dramatic change in R&D to drive future growth. After the new CEO took over, the company went in a new direction and I decided to return to my passion of building my business as entrepreneur.
DiPaola Consulting merges the fields of technology and leadership. Staying true my our roots, we continue to provide innovative research and development focused on electromechanical products including sensors, controls, MEMS and semiconductor products for various industries. However, at times we venture beyond that due to our core understanding of materials, design and process fundamentals. What sets us apart is our creativity, passion for engineering and attention to detail. This enables the generation of ultra reliable and high performance products that regularly go into extremely harsh and safety critical applications at low cost.
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text: WOOSTER -- Top honors at the Wayne County High School Art Exhibit were awarded to Triway High School seniors Katie Cantrell and John Hughes.Cantrell, the daughter of Gregory and Karen Cantrell of Wooster, earned the best-of-show ribbon in the two-dimensional category with an oil/acrylic painting titled "Appetite for Love." Hughes, son of Karen Graf of Wooster, took the best-of-show ribbon in the three-dimensional division with his clay sculpture titled "Like Father, Like Son." Cantrell and Hughes, students of Sherrie Dennis, Triway visual art teacher who will be retiring at the end of the school year, received gift certificates from Ron's Color Shop for art supplies.The high school exhibit included 220 paintings, drawings, sculptures, crafts, photographs, ceramics and other art works designed by high school students in eight area high schools. The exhibit is sponsored annually by Tri-County Educational Service Center, in partnership with Wayne Center for the Arts.All Wayne County high schools are invited to participate in this juried show. Judges for the exhibit were Jeanne Cremer, an artist from Wooster, and Dean Shafer, visual art teacher at Black River High School in Medina County.According to the judges, Cantrell's painting exhibited an outstanding sense of spatial relationships and excellent knowledge of color and design. The judges commented on her well-developed painting style, including a sense of drawing with the paint and the use of words or text to tell a story through the painting. They praised Hughes' creativity, craftsmanship, great attention to detail including a convincing connection between the father and son, and a good sense of weight distribution and simple manipulation of the clay. According to Shafer, "This is an excellent high school art exhibit with strong artwork in all of the categories demonstrating the outstanding abilities and talents of the student artists and high quality of teaching by the visual art teachers."Participating art teachers and schools were: Denise Robbins, Chippewa; Robin Evans-Delciappo and Starla Woodruff, Dalton; Marie Cross, Norwayne; Emily Fitch, Northwestern; Randy Robart, Rittman; Sam Sheller and Jodi Shilling, Smithville; Ronda Grimshaw, Waynedale; and Sherrie Dennis, Triway. The exhibition is sponsored by Tri-County Educational Service Center in partnership with Wayne Center for the Arts and is coordinated by Gary DeVault, Fine Arts Consultant, Tri-County ESC.Other division first-place blue-ribbon winners were Rachel Croskey, senior, Waynedale, color drawing; Joe Smakula, senior, Rittman, black and white drawing; Jen Craycraft, senior, Waynedale, watercolor painting; T.J. Colvin, sophomore, Rittman, mixed media; Melanie Smolko, sophomore, Norwayne, two-dimensional design; Jessica Coe, freshman, Triway, printmaking; Stephanie Frizell, senior, Smithville, photography; Miranda Ott, senior, Rittman, non-clay sculpture; Joanne Badertscher, senior, Waynedale, pottery; Adrienne Watts, freshman, Rittman, crafts; Courtney McCray, sophomore, Rittman, textiles; Sami Placek, senior, Rittman, stained glass; Kiera Wood, freshman, Chippewa, commercial art; and Lydia Stoller, senior, Smithville, digital/computer art.


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Figure 1 shows the black box of value in the context of innovation theory. Value sits between the innovators creation of an innovation, and the process of diffusion of innovation. I argue consumer value acts as a hurdle to diffusion (see Section 6.3, Proposition 1).
Proposition 1. Value drives consumer action. Consumers adopt new technology when they see value.
Figure 1: What is consumer value? This thesis opens the black box of consumer value.
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The amount of money you budget for the trip is important. With vacations, you can easily see what it will cost you. This type of package usually includes flight, rental vehicle, and accommodations. If you don't need a rental vehicle then that can cut out some of the cost.
It is possible to add various types of activities with vacations. They will typically be less expensive than what you would normally pay for those events on their own. Be careful not to pay for a high dollar package though that is filled with activities you won't take part in. that is just money being wasted.
Many of the providers offering such vacations allow you to pick what you want to have included in the package. Being able to customise it to include what you want to do is going to make it more valuable. You may have to select from a list of options to decide what you will have included for your travel plans.
You may have a very busy schedule so you don't want to spend hours getting your travel plans in alignment. With a package, you can set it all up at once with only one confirmation number. You also only have one place to call if you have any issues or concerns. Take the time to read the terms and conditions of such a package though so you know what it includes and what it doesn't.
Most of them don't include your meals so you will need to budget for them on top of your other spending money. There are a few options that are all inclusive but that also narrows down your freedom to explore and to go enjoy certain areas. You will have to engage in activities and eat meals only at that particular resort.
Overall Savings
Always take the time to crunch the numbers as you will be able to save overall with vacations versus buying each of the elements included separately. You can change the price of your offer by changing your accommodations. There are plenty of upgrades that allow you to get something better for just a little bit more of a cost.
If you need to go with the lowest price, select a bare bones vacations. You will still have wonderful accommodations but you won't have all of the perks. If you have a bit of money to spend though enjoy those additions. You work hard and it is time to pamper yourself with some of the items you will find here.
As you compare the offers out there, you will find a package can save you enough to allow it to fit well into your budget. Plus, you may be able to get some upgrades that you otherwise would have to pass up. It certainly doesn't hurt to look and find out what the options are for your potential travel dates.


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This year, I sent up some more candy and little toys for mom and dad to stuff the box with. As a little added addition, I copied a nice, simple version of the Christmas Story from one of my favorite kids' books (The Christmas Star), and divided it into 24 segments. I then printed it out, and punched out each segment using a tag punch. I stamped the corresponding number of each segment onto each tag, and threaded red and green ribbons through the top. Their mama can now add a little tag to each box, and as they read a new part of the Christmas story each day, they can hang up the tag on the tree, or a bulletin board, fridge, etc.
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MP Filtri launches state of the art portable particle counter
MP Filtri's next-generation LPA3 portable particle counter is now available.
The culmination of an exhaustive three-year research and development programme, the LPA3 offers a market-leading feature set, outstanding speed and accuracy, and is fully portable – enabling operators to enjoy the functionality of the lab even when out in the field.
Featuring innovative optical and photodiode technology providing complete 8-channel measurement, the new LPA3 delivers a fast and accurate comprehensive hydraulic health check – while its real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance technology safeguards machinery, enhances performance and productivity, and reduces both costs and unplanned downtime.
Designed for ease of use, the LPA3 enables first time operators to get up and running in minutes – without the need for a dedicated training programme. The machine's sophisticated functionality sets new standards in the industry but is surprisingly simple to master – saving customers time and money in training costs.
Key features and benefits of the new machine include:
- A programmable 10.1" full colour touch-screen display
- High-speed sample times up to 15 times faster than the LPA2
- Perfectly portable weighing in at just 10kg
- Greater storage capacity -results from up to 4000 tests retained in memory
- Robust and durable co-polymer body case
- Sophisticated yet simple to use software developed in-house specifically for the LPA3
- Smooth learning curve – the LPA3 can be mastered quickly without the need for formal training
- Instant results download via USB
- Proactive maintenance technology – identifying risks before they impact performance
- Online real-time monitoring
- Long-life lithium ion battery
- Optional thermal printer for an instant hard copy of results
- Slashes costs and downtime, protects machinery and rapidly pays for itself.
- Accuracy to ± 1/2 code for 4, 6, 14μm(c)
- Compatible with MP Filtri's range of bottle samplers
Not only is the LPA3 designed to thrive in a wide range of sectors and applications, the machine can
also be personalised for peak performance with operators able to tailor: sample volumes, flush sizes and the number of tests run concurrently. The LPA3 is even capable of completing the 100ml sample test in around one minute.
The LPA's new full-colour display is a highly responsive touch-screen with no need for a stylus; and features a customisable home screen which displays key performance information at-a-glance.
Designed for professionals, the new LPA3 features a comprehensive range of reporting formats, so
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Why Earn a Health Claims Examiner Diploma?
The health care industry as a whole is becoming more expansive as increasing numbers of people begin seeking regular health care. In addition, the health insurance industry tends to be quite stringent on medical billing procedures, resulting in higher demand for highly qualified, trained applicants. With these conditions, graduates with a Health Claims Examiner Diploma are assured of having abundant employment opportunities.
Career Possibilities
Health Claims Examiner Occupational Outlook and Demand
Since many health care providers expect to see a huge growth in patients seeking regular treatment and care, the outlook for graduates in this field is quite favorable.
Health Claims Examiner Salary Information
The Bureau of Labor Statistics at www.bls.gov reports that health claims examiners typically earn between $33,900 and $57,410 per year.
Degree Specifics
Coursework Requirements for Health Claims Examiners
Students take courses that will allow them to take positions in hospitals, dental offices, insurance companies and other facilities for healthcare. The student who pursues a Health Claims Examiner Diploma will likely be required to complete coursework similar to the following list of courses:
- Pharmacology
- Medical Terminology
- Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Patient Records and Information
- Health Care Reimbursement
Skills Learned for Health Claims Examiners
Health claims examiners and medical billing specialists must be very meticulous, accurate, and detail-oriented, since they work with lots of technical and medical terms. Additionally, students who earn a Health Claims Examiner Diploma must exhibit the following skills:
- Recognize and understand a wide range of medical terms
- Analyze and assign insurance codes to different medical treatments
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Whole wheat flour - ¼cup
Sourdough Starter - 1cup, unfed**
Baking powder - 2tsp
Salt - ¾tsp
Unsalted Butter - ½cup
Onion - 1 medium, thinly sliced
Green Chilies - 1~2, finely chopped
Curry Leaves - 6~8, finely chopped
Cilantro - 3tbsp, chopped
** No Sourdough -- then add another ¾cup of flour with ¼cup of cold milk or buttermilk or water and ½tsp more baking powder.
- Heat 1tbsp oil in a pan on medium-low flame, add the onions and cook for about 20~30 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. They should be nicely caramelized by this time. Transfer the onions to a bowl, cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until well chilled, at least 3 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Grease or line a baking sheet with parchment.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Work the butter into the flour until the mixture is unevenly crumbly.
- Toss in the green chilies, curry leaves, cilantro and caramelized onions. Cut in the starter until the dough becomes cohesive.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and fold it over itself 5~ times until it comes together.
- Pat it into a 1" thick disk -- use a sharp biscuit cutter to cut rounds. Pat the scraps together and cut into additional biscuits.
- Bake the biscuits for 15~18 minutes, until they're just turning golden. Remove from the oven and serve warm.


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The preview will be available May 15 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The American Water Works Assn. (AWWA) has announced that it will broadcast a complimentary online event to anyone with an AWWA login account on Tuesday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will feature a preview of AWWA's Annual Conference & Exhibition's (ACE12) online exhibit hall, and participants will learn about ACE12 session highlights.
Additionally, speakers will present updates on upcoming ACE12 sessions, including hot topics such as hexavalent chromium, the Lead & Copper Rule, nitrosamines and biological treatment, and offer a Q&A on the AWWA report "Buried No Longer: Confronting America's Water Infrastructure Challenge."
Participants who attend the preview event are also encouraged to register for ACE Online, which will begin broadcasting from the live event in Dallas on June 11 with the ACE12 Opening General Session.
To learn more about all of the scheduled ACE Online events, go to www.awwa.org/aceonlinepr.


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In Fiscal Year 2007, USCIS received a significant increase in naturalization applications (Form N-400). To address the increase, USCIS is expanding work hours and adding staff to complete these filings within our processing time goals.
If you have received a notice from USCIS that your naturalization interview has been scheduled on a Saturday, Sunday, or after traditional business hours, the notice is correct and you should appear at the scheduled time.


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Brian was born in Kerrville, Texas at Sid Peterson Hospital before moving to Robinson, Texas where he attended public school prior to attending Texas A&M University. There he majored in Chemical Engineering and Pre-Med. Before graduating he was accepted to medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio where he received his medical degree in 1985. Brian completed his medical training in Emergency Medicine at the Naval Hospital San Diego, California.
During his naval career he was Medical Officer of Destroyer Squadron Seven serving in both the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean in addition to being a staff ER physician. Brian is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and practiced in the San Antonio area from 1993 through 2005. He with a colleague in 2004 created Urgent Care & Occupational Health Centers of Texas (Boerne Urgent Care) that later expanded to a four clinic system that treated 50,000 patients a year. The company was sold to a large corporation in 2015. His experience growing up in a small town, working as a businessman and physician, and serving with an executive staff in the Navy provided him skills in leadership and management that can be applied in his position on City Council.
Brian with his wife, Cindy, whom he married at St Helena's Episcopal Church, raised their two children in downtown Boerne in their restored 1907 Victorian home after moving here in 1999. They both are co-founders of the Geneva School of Boerne and have volunteered in various organizations over the years. They love the walkability of the downtown area are often seen strolling the trails that surround their home. Brian and Cindy are eager to share the beauty of Boerne with all their family and friends and look forward to serving with others in this loving and caring community.


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If you're an atheist with aspergers or autism, this is your place... we can't talk about weird stuff without getting a look that says we've suddenly grown a second head!
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My sons are both autistic. Auron they are debating putting in a group home when he is a teenager, As a parent this is something you never want to happen. Everytime I start feeling hopless about how…Continue
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So... this discussion is completely optional... of course....But what is your "Official Diagnosis" [if you have one... cause some of us are so weird we confuse the doctors... lol]Continue
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What special interests do you have?What's your most "normal" one?Your weirdest one?Your geekiest one?Give me anything you like.Continue
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Okay... this is just for fun... just post something stupid and random about the person above you. Something like [Name Here] is going to be eaten by a chicken tomorrow... or [Name here] lost his…Continue
My favorite phrase to use to people who call me "wierd" :
"If you're 'normal', then I'm glad I'm 'weird!'"


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Tuesday Spotlight: Gemini by Catherine Peace
I'm happy to feature on this Tuesday Spotlight the upcoming Beyond Fairytale Sci-fi Romance… Gemini by Catherine Peace. I may be biased toward this book because I beta read and watched it flourish into the awesome finale that it is. I can't wait for it to release on June 16th so I can read the final version. In the meantime, I will (over-enthusiastically, I might add) give some info on the book and the author. Blurb: Being one of the Embassy's glorified treasure-seekers has its perks… Komandan Uriah Jacobs recovers ancient artifacts in exchange for more than just decent pay; he also receives guaranteed protectionRead More →


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Field Services Schedule Board - Unknown Error
Error messages can be useful but some are downright useless! This one is an example of the latter but a more useful error later led me to the solution. If you have seen the error above on loading the Schedule Board then read on for a possible solution.
I tend to ramble so below I have listed the steps I took to fix the problem and below that is the full story.
Quick Fix Steps
- Navigate to Draft Processes view in Settings > Processes.
- Assign all Processes to an enabled System Administrator user.
- Activate all relevant Processes that had been disabled for whatever reason.
- Revel in your ability to bring a CRM instance back to life!
Detailed Story
Recently there has been a need to get a better understanding of Field Services and Project Service Automation within Dynamics 365 which has kept me busy creating trials and watching videos (thank you Microsoft for giving us free trials!). Part of this research extended to the Portals capability and it was at that point things seemed to go horribly wrong.
After setting up a trial with ALL scenarios included (Sales, Customer Service, Field Services, Project Services) I then proceeded to add the Preferred Service install of a Portals trial. That went well and I got myself a nice new portal to play with, great. After a while of playing with that and the CRM I then returned to the Schedule Board to test a few things and saw the error above! Damn.
First things first, "Copy to clipboard" eh? Right, click that, what do I get?
Error: Unknown error StackTrace:
Useful. No. Really.
Next thing to try in the browse developer console so I hit F12 and a bunch of errors do appear when I refresh but nothing seemed that obvious; there was a 404 error indicating it was attempting to retrieve something on the server that no longer existed.
At this point I actually gave up and created a whole new trial from scratch and did it all over again with no demo data. However, I was referring back to the previous trial for data and in doing so I kept getting odd errors in different places including the warning below when attempting to view the Work Breakdown Structure of a Project.
Another error popped up somewhere else which mentioned a process not being activated and this got me thinking about an issue I have had before with an Action not being activated. So off to Processes I plod (Settings > Processes) and select the Draft Processes view; since this was a trial I would expect there to be no Draft processes and in fact I originally saw 187! In my re-creation here I actually have only 10 draft but it has the same effect.
First thing I did was to activate the processes but got an Access Error. The system seems to not know who I am all of a sudden, huh?
This error is actually to do with the Owner of the process rather than the current user logged in. That is a key point to remember about workflow, they usually operate in the context of the owner and so you need to be careful with ownership of workflow.
_It is always recommended to set the owner of workflows to a service account that is relevant to that process as if it happens to be a normal CRM user then when that person leaves the company and their account is disabled, bang, all processes stop working._
To fix this annoying issue, select all draft processes that are owned by the wrong user (in this case — — was the user) and assign to a relevant System Administrator account; for this I have assigned them to me.
Select all the draft processes that need to be activated (in my case all of them) and then click Activate, hopefully that should just work but you may get some errors due to issues with the workflow (usually user or team issues and data hard-coded into the steps), fix these if needed and re-activate.
Once all of the processes have been re-activated you should be good to go with Projects and the Schedule Board again, hope this has been helpful.


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Community – April 8, 2018
Posted on April 11, 2018 by admin No comments
Sermon Preached by the Reverend Peter Thompson
St. Paul's on the Green, Norwalk, CT
Second Sunday of Easter
April 8, 2018
Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31; Psalm 133
Let us pray.
Thou, who at thy first Eucharist didst pray
that all thy church might be for ever one,
grant us at every Eucharist to say
with longing heart and soul, "Thy will be done":
O may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.
When I moved into my current apartment almost three years ago, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of making friends in my building. I live in one of those trendy buildings that feels like an upgraded college dorm and is filled with people my age, and I was naïve enough to think that somehow, magically, over time, I would get to know my neighbors, simply by being in proximity to them. I had fantasies that my life would turn into an episode of Seinfeld or Friends, with a whole collection of new acquaintances entering and exiting my apartment at every time of the day and night.
Alas, this was not to be. While I love spending time with people and am naturally an extravert, I also have a strong fear of awkwardness. I might have thought that I wanted to interact with my fellow residents, but in practice I have consistently gone out of my way to avoid them. I recently noticed that I am so afraid of being alone with a stranger in an elevator, so uncomfortable with making small talk or standing in silence, that I will make a mad dash for the stairs anytime I am waiting for the elevator and see someone approaching to join me. The few times I do ride the elevator with someone else, I stare down at my phone or take comfort in knowing that my headphones are firmly entrenched in my ears. I have even been known to wear my headphones while shopping in Stew Leonard's.
In other words, I am your typical millennial. My generation has grown up with the unprecedented ability to connect with people from all over the world through the click of a button, and yet as a cohort we have proven ourselves largely incapable of connecting effectively with the people right in front of us. I have intentionally sought out a living situation that offers me a multitude of opportunities to reach out to and connect with others, but I just can't seem to do it. I could be developing relationships and living life in community, but I'm not. Instead, I'm living life on my own.
Truth be told, I don't think this problem began with millennials. Robert Putnam's famous book Bowling Alone, which documented the "collapse…of American community," was released when I was ten, four years before the founding of Facebook and seven years before the release of the first iPhone. In the nineteenth century, many of the leading thinkers in the United States glamorized the individual self at the expense of the larger community. "I celebrate myself and sing myself" Whitman proclaimed; "trust thyself," Emerson advised, "every heart vibrates to that iron string…insist on yourself…nothing brings you peace but yourself." Individualism has always been present in a country that owes its birth to a desire to be independent. So why wouldn't we, who still celebrate Independence Day two hundred and forty two years later, seek to be independent from one another?
Independence may be an undisputed American virtue, but it is not always a Christian virtue. When Thomas refuses to believe his fellow disciples' claim that Jesus has risen, he refuses to accept the prevailing narrative, to go along with the status quo. Many distinguished critics and skeptics have followed in his footsteps and contributed much good to society in their challenges to the powers-that-be. But Thomas' independence is also his Achilles' heel—the quality that gets him in trouble with Jesus.
It would be a mistake to read the story we heard this morning as an attack against rationalism or scientific thought or even doubt. Thomas errs not in his reluctance to believe in the unlikely possibility that someone might rise from the dead—after all, he is perfectly willing to accept the resurrection as soon as Jesus appears to him. Rather, Thomas errs in his failure to consider the legitimacy of others' perspectives. He stubbornly requires firsthand experience of something in order to acknowledge its truth; he does not trust what his fellow human beings, his friends, have to tell him. Jesus admonishes him to believe—not in a random fantastical story but in the testimony of good people whom he knows very well.
In the Passion narrative of John, only a chapter before the passage we heard this morning, there is a profoundly touching moment in which Jesus gives one of his disciples to his mother and his mother to the disciple. On Good Friday, the distinguished preacher Fleming Rutledge reflected on this moment as part of the traditional Seven Last Words service at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. In giving two unrelated disciples to one another, Rutledge pointed out, Jesus was creating a new family or community of believers—the community that would become the Church. At a key moment towards the end of his life, a moment in which Jesus could have been focused only on his own suffering and the death that was about to envelop him, Jesus remained intent on connecting people to one another and building community, thus demonstrating how central community was to the essence of his life and mission. If we are to follow Jesus, Rutledge claimed, we must be willing to share in community with others.
"There is no other way to be a disciple of Jesus than to be in communion with other disciples of Jesus," she said. "Why do you suppose the Lord didn't separate us out, each one, one by one, stand us up by ourselves, pronounce us each a unique individual and bid us go off and create ourselves? Why didn't he do that? He did the opposite. Instead of making us independent and self-centered, he makes us mutually interdependent and other-directed….the love that Christ enacts and commands in his followers cannot be enacted in isolation. I've heard many young people say things like 'Jesus and me—we have our own thing going on.' This is sadly lacking in understanding of what it means to be abiding in Jesus. Dorothy Day said many times, 'You can't practice love without community.'"
At the end of Rutledge's meditation, she added this: "The Church can break your heart with its sin. It's broken my heart a few times. It's so easy to dismiss the Church out of hand. Every day brings some new revelation about the awful things that have been done by the Church. It's much easier to say—as many do—'I can be a Christian without the Church.' But this is to renounce the most basic and fundamental message of Jesus in his ministry, but most of all from his cross in his death. He is giving you to me, and me to you. The disciples of Christ today, as two thousand years ago, are drawn together in mutual love of our Lord. For all its sins—which are many—the Church is still the body of Christ."
"If we say have no sin we deceive ourselves," the 1st letter of John says, "and the truth is not in us." We should name and repent for the sins of the Church, which has caused real pain over the centuries, including, I know, to many of us. The book of Acts depicts the early Church in unrealistically glowing terms—"no one claimed private ownership of any possessions…there was not a needy person among them"—but I am not sure any Christian community has ever been that perfect, even the very early Church. Almost immediately after those initial rosy verses, the book of Acts complicates the picture.
Whatever our legitimate issues with the Church, however, I think it is important for us to continue wrestling with it. Thomas did not have access to the full revelation of Jesus by himself; his fellow disciples had the additional information and experiences needed in order to complete the picture. And we do not have access to the full revelation of Jesus by ourselves as individuals; we need additional information and experiences from others in order to complete the picture; we cannot believe in Jesus alone. The rest of the Church may be wrong some of the time; the rest of the Church may be wrong a lot of the time. Even still, the rest of the Church may have something to teach us every now and then.
Almost every Sunday, we recite the words of the Nicene Creed, a foundational statement of Christian belief composed in the fourth century. We also use a smorgasbord of hymns and prayers, some of which date back hundreds of years themselves. It is not always easy to relate to the words that we say or sing; they can seem distant from us, outdated, maybe even false. But we keep on saying and singing them anyway because we suspect that, whatever their faults, they have some connection to a larger, more timeless truth, and we know that, if we relied only on our own judgment and on the assumptions and mores of our time, our vision of God—indeed, our vision of reality—would be limited, distorted, and incomplete.
I wonder if you are trying to go it alone this morning. I wonder if you are trying to talk to and decipher God all by yourself. How are you resistant to the witness of the past? How are you resistant to the witness of the present, the witness that might be sitting in the pew right in front of you or in the pew across the aisle?
I'm under no illusion that the Church is perfect—this one or any other or the Church as a whole. I'm not even sure, sometimes, that the Church is necessary. I know many people who don't go to Church and seem to be doing just fine.
But I am sure that we can't do this business of living and believing on our own—that we can't really, at the end of the day, be independent. We have to find community somewhere. So why not start here?


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After nearly 30 years on the high seas, Netscape founder Jim Clark is calling it quits. The 68-year-old billionaire is selling his two amazing sailing yachts for a combined $113 million, Forbes' Ryan Mac reports.
He wrote to Forbes in an email that he's "been around the world twice and really don't like the [Mediterranean-Caribbean] circuit. After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it."
The boats, 136-foot Hanuman and 295-foot Athena, will hit the market for $18 million and $95 million, respectively. Athena is the fourth-largest sailing yacht in the world.
Both were made by Royal Huisman, a Netherlands-based custom shipyard.
Clark told Forbes he planned to settle down in his new home in New York with his 8-month-old daughter and wife, former Australian model Kristy Hinze. He recently listed his swanky Miami penthouse for $27 million.


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gogo Kidz: Wheel Your Kids Around Without the Stroller
If strapping your kids into a car seat and wheeling them around instead of carrying them or making them walk sounds like your idea of fun, then have we got something for you. This thing, called "gogo Kidz", mates with a whole bunch of different toddler car seats to give them wheels and a handle, turning your kid's seat into a mobile unit handy for trucking around airports and maybe somewhere like the mall, instead of trucking along an extra stroller along with the car seat you need anyway.
It weighs about five pounds, making it pretty easy to haul around; as long as you don't mind hauling your kids around like luggage, you might be able to do without an extra stroller. If you're pondering going stroller-free (sort of like going car-free, in a way), you can pick these guys up at ::Baby Mine Store


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Skills are percentile based. Roll d100 equal to or under the appropriate skill rating. The only modifier is for 'hardcore' (i.e. difficult) actions, which are at 1/2 rating (rounded down).
A skill's base rating is determined by adding together two related ability scores. For example, the Shooting skill uses Dexterity and Perception. If a character's Dexterity is 11 and Perception is 13, then base Shooting is 24.
Every player can also select one 'pip' skill (well, pure humans get 2 pip skills, and certain mutations may allow a character to pick additional pip skills as well). Once a pip skill is chosen, it can't be changed. Simply add 30 points to the pip skill's base rating. In the example above, if Shooting were chosen as the character's pip skill, then the rating would be 54. In addition, each skill grants a special 'pip' bonus, available only to characters taking them as pip skills.
My guiding philosophy is simpler is better, so I'm going with a smaller list of broad skills rather than a kitchen-sink list of narrowly defined skills. I think this'll lend more flexibility and versatility to the game. So with that in mind, here's a tentative list of skills:
Shooting (Dex + Per) = All ranged/missile attacks. Pip: +1 damage to all ranged/missile attacks
Fighting (Str + Dex) = All melee/hand-to-hand attacks; Fighting can also be a stand-in for dodging (i.e. Reflex type saves). Pip: +1 damage to all melee/unarmed attacks.
Psychic (Per + Will) = Used to resist psychic mutations; perhaps also a stand-in as a general social skill. Pip: Character gets a free psychic ability; only mutants can take this as a pip skill.
Tech (Dex + Int) = Using and repairing technological devices. Pip: Character gains +1 Maximum Item Complexity.
Scavenging (Int + Per) = Finding salvageable technology, and stands-in as a general searching and awareness skill. Pip: Character starts with 10 additional pieces of salvage.
Survival (Con + Will) = Knowledge of land navigation, tracking, wasteland hazards and finding water, food and shelter in the wastelands. Pip: +5 hit points.
Stealth (Dex + Will) = Sneaking, hiding and general thieving skill. Pip: ? (not sure yet)
Resilience (Str + Con) = Resistance to physical hazards, such as radiation, disease, toxins, and a general athletics skill (swimming, climbing, etc.). Pip: Movement bonus maybe? Not sure on this one yet, either.
Well, you get the idea. I may add one or two additional skills. When adding new skills, the skill rating should be based on the scores of two different abilities, rather than multiplying a single ability by 2. This gives a less swingy distribution.
As there are no character levels in Relics & Ruins, skills improve by use. Specifically, by failing skill checks, on the theory that we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. Only problem is, in the world of Relics & Ruins, failure may kill you. 🙂 Every time a skill attempt is made during an adventure, or for an action with meaningful consequences for failure, if the skill check fails the skill's base rating improves by 1 point. It's important that GM's don't allow players to 'grind' up skills during down-time when they don't face meaningful consequences for failure – no risk, no reward, period.
I think I'll cover mutations next, but that may take a while to put together. Cheers.


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I'm doing weekly round-ups now, which will include any media I consumed for the past week, from Monday to Sunday. I'd be glad if you end up getting some recommendations but I'm only doing this as a form of a media journal (to make it easy to write reviews later on). And fine, an actual journal too. Here goes!
omg I have listened to NOTHING ELSE this week except "Second Night of Summer" from the recently released Blue Madonna album by BØRNS. I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG. I think I'll end up listening to Blue Madonna exclusively until WINNER comes back with a new song. I can love one track a week or something. The lyrics to this song and its sound, I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT.
Part-Time Idol / Temporary Idols: I ship Su-hyun and Hyun-bin SO MUCH. I really enjoyed this one and I actually reviewed it too this week so just check that out for my full thoughts on this one.
Prison Playbook / Smart Prison Living / Wise Prison Life: And it's over and I am both okay and not. The last two episodes were such emotional rollercoasters. I kept on pausing because I was scared what's going to happen and I just wanted everyone to be happy. I cried so much in these two episodes, both at the happy and sad moments. I love all of these people so so much, I already miss them. And yet they felt so real to me that even if the show ended, I feel like they're still living their lives. And yet that makes me sad too because WHY CAN'T I SEE HOW Y'ALL ARE LIVING NOW I WANNA CATCH UP. I thought what happened with uri Haerongie was well-researched and true to statistics but it still made me sob because ANDWAEEEEEE. I am now a fan of Shin Won-ho PD and I'll definitely watch the Answer Me series asap.
Hwayugi / A Korean Odyssey: These were the episodes (5&6) that made me connect with the show. Up until now, I badly yearned to connect with the show and the key to that happening was me rooting for Seon-mi's character. And now that I do, I'm so in. I felt the heartache she was experiencing, falling for someone whose feelings are fake. Trying to stop herself even though it's futile. Oh-gong was so hot and cold that I feel so bad for Sun-mi. I like where the story is going but I still think the scenes are still too choppy and that it feels like we're only going from one scene to the next. I guess the monster-of-the-week format still needs smoother and better transitions and introductions. I was also able to watch episode 7 and petty and jealous monkey is fun. HIHIHI. I want more of him falling in love with her!!
Lovesick / Scrotal Recall: I rewatched the third season with Cel and Q, because it's our tradition to watch this one together. I noticed some things I didn't when I first saw it and it was also wonderful to have people to discuss it with. I love these characters, I love this show. That ending was so fitting and so good and I just, I'm gonna miss the gang. I can see myself rewatching Lovesick every year or so.
Bromance: After watching seven episodes in almost one go, I was only able to watch one episode this past week. Prison Playbook was of course, top priority the past week, and my obsession with Part-Time Idol was consuming too, making Bromance sit on the backburner. I'm hoping to get back into it though because it's so easy to watch and I can honestly finish it quickly if I just find the time. Hahaha!
The Shape of Water (2017): I never thought Guillermo del Toro would ever write/create a romantic story and succeed at that too but HELLO HERE COMES THE SHAPE OF WATER. I only have praises for this film. The production design, the coloring/cinematography/palette, the musical score, the acting, the story, ALL WERE ACES. The symbolism and social awareness were high and there was no single prop/thing/plot that wasn't eventually used. And what's amazing is that, you don't see it coming. They didn't feel conveniently placed. The story was tight and moving and I LOVE IT I LOVE IT ALL. Chekhov's gun at its finest.
I reviewed (more like spazzed) about the Korean web drama Part-Time Idol and then I also reviewed the Japanese animated film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) in the lens I saw the movie in.