text:
Are you currently seeking a six-figure role? An executive or leader trying to find that best career fit? Are your resume and job search skills up for the challenge? How can you perform more effectively during your interview and negotiate a top salary and benefits? If these are the types of questions you're asking yourself, CareerJoy's webinar series dedicated to six-figure job seekers is for you. Sponsored by Higherbracket.ca, this complimentary three-part series is aimed at assisting you find and land that six-figure role sooner and with less stress. Hosted by Canada's Career Coach, Alan Kearns, this series will take you through the three stages to your executive or leadership career: Knowing and Branding Yourself, Landing the Role, and Succeeding in your New Career. Attend these webinars to win great prizes that will help you in your job search!Part 3: Landing & Succeeding in Your New Role Wednesday, July 8th from 8PM to 9PM Eastern You've found and successfully interviewed for your six-figure role: now you've received a call back for a second interview and to follow up with negotiations. Congratulations! Now, what? Effective salary and benefits negotiation is a skill you can acquire. How do you negotiate the best six figure deal for you? How do you know this executive/leadership role is the right opportunity for you? When you're ready, how do you resign gracefully, on a positive note? What are some keys to landing well and succeeding in the first 90 days of your new role?
You will learn:
- The key ingredients to successful negotiation
- Getting to a final decision
- How to effectively manage multiple offers
- The importance of objective evaluation of the opportunity
- How to resign from your current role on a positive note
- Why you should request feedback in your new role
- The 9 basic guidelines to follow in your first 90 days
Led by Canada's Career Coach, Alan Kearns, join our free 1-hour Six-Figure Job Search Webinar
Alan Kearns
Alan Kearns, Canada's Career Coach and CareerJoy founder, Workopolis career expert, Chapters/Indigo Trusted Advisor and author is one of Canada's leading authorities on career issues. Having been educated as an optician, Alan himself made a career transition when he leapt into the recruitment field and founded TalentLab, a recruitment agency. Later, he recognized that professionals needunbiased advice and tools to manage their careers, and founded CareerJoy. CareerJoy is the official career services firm for alumni for a number of leading institutions, including Queen's University, University of Toronto, Athabasca University and Carleton University.
Voted one of the Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40, Alan is a regular contributor to Canadian media on the latest trends in the Canadian workforce. He is host of the country's top-rated career Podcast, CareerJoy Conversations, Alan is a highly sought after guest speaker at organizations and conferences in Canada, where he enlightens employers and employees on all topics related to professionals and their careers.
Anthony Kaul
Anthony Kaul is the founder of HigherBracket.ca, a Canadian media company, started in June 2005 by a team of veteran niche job board builders. Anthony and his team spent 4 years in the trenches helping build Hcareers.com into the world's largest hospitality board. They have turned their considerable knowledge of the online media industry and their extensive network of recruiters, authors, resume professionals, and executives into Canada's largest resource of online access to six-figure and executive job search information.
Attend these free webinars for your chance to win:
CareerJoy's Great Canadian Job Search Kit – During each webinar Alan will be giving away 10 free copies of our do-it-yourself-guide to finding and landing your next role in Canada
One CareerJoy Premium Resume Service -During each webinar Alan will be giving away 1 free Premium package, which includes a resume, cover letter, The Great Canadian Job Search Kit, and one hour of career coaching
One CareerJoy 90 Day Career Search Program – At the end of this three part series, Alan will be giving away one 90 Day Career Search Program, which includes a search strategy, resume, and cover letter as well as number of individual coaching sessions with a CareerJoy certified career coach


text:
Boil: Add shucked corn ears to enough boiling water to cover them; cook 5 to 7 minutes. If corn is cut from the cob, add to a small amount of boiling water in a saucepan, cover, cook for 4 minutes, drain and serve.
Microwave: Place up to four ears of corn still in the husk in the microwave. If the corn is husked, place in a microwave-safe dish with 2 Tablespoons of water and cover with a lid. Microwave on high 3 to 6 minutes depending on number of ears and doneness desired. For cut corn, add 1 Tablespoon of water per cup of corn to a microwave safe dish. Cook on high for 4 to 5 minutes.
Roast: Brush each ear with melted margarine and wrap in aluminum foil. Place on grill or in a preheated 350 degree oven. Roast 20 to 30 minutes, turning once.
Sauté: Add raw cut corn to a skillet with a small amount of margarine. Cook and stir over medium-high heat for 5 to 7 minutes.
❁ Canned or frozen corn cooks quickly by boiling or microwave. Just heat to serving temperature.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Manager sacked by telephone… during match!
Although perhaps answering your phone during match is a sackable offence
An amateur club from Sussex has achieved the unenviable record of becoming the first team to sack their manager by telephone during a match. Chichester City gave manager Mark Poulton the boot as he sat in the dugout watching his side leading rivals Redhill 2-1 in a Sussex Charity Cup clash.
Poulton, who picked up £200-a-week for managing the Sussex County League One outfit, got the call during the second half.
He told The Sun: "I must be the first manager in football history to receive a call during a game to say that he had been fired. I couldn't believe it. The club are a complete mess and a shambles – I'm better off out of it."
Poulton stayed until the end of the match, which Chichester eventually lost 4-2.
He explained: "During the second half I had a call from Gary Walker, one of the directors, who said he was sorry to interrupt me and then told me I'd been sacked.
"It could not have come at a worse time as one of my young players, Nathan Paxton, had just been taken to hospital after breaking his jaw, cheekbone, nose and eye socket in a collision with their keeper. But there had been a lot going on ever since I started at Chichester and I feared it might end like this."
Surely at least one Leicester manager must have been sacked in this manner?


text:
The need for better integration of science and decision making in environmental management is widely documented. In light of anticipated climate change and associated changes in demographics, land use, and water management practices, decision makers are confronted with the need to make major decisions in the face of high system complexity and uncertainty. The integration of useful and relevant scientific information is necessary and critical to enable informed decision-making.
Effective consideration of desired environmental conditions in river management decisions is difficult due to the myriad of physical, hydrological, and biological factors affecting these ecosystems; the complexity of interactions; the volume of relevant information, and substantial levels of uncertainty. Computer-based Decision Support Systems (DSS) can help integrate and communicate the scientific information and analyses supporting informed decision-making.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what decision support systems are and how they can inform designs
2. Learn how the myriad of physical, hydrological, and biological factors affecting these ecosystems
3. Comprehend the complexities of the interactions of the elements of a river and how DSS clarify the information.
General Course Information
|Pre-recorded webinar
|Chris Holmquist-Johnson, Research Hydrologist, USGS-Fort Collins Science Center; Leanne Hanson, Biologist, USGS-Fort Collins Science Center
US State Approvals
|LA CES Approved
|States: AK, AL, AR, CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NE, NH, NM, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY
|North Carolina
|New Jersey
|New York
***Each licensee is responsible for determining if this course meets the state requirements
|GA, MN, and SD
**Explanation: There is no process to get courses pre-approved in your state, but there should be no issues getting this course approved.
If not approved, we will exchange it for another course or provide a full refund.
**See explanation
Canada Provinces and Territories
|British Columbia
|Yes, per reciprocity with LA CES
|Yes, per reciprocity with LA CES


text:
We use cookies and similar technologies to deliver a more personalised experience, report on campaign effectiveness and analyse traffic to this site. To learn more please read our cookies and privacy policies. By using this site you consent to the use of cookies unless you have disabled them.
Chamois Butt'r® is the number one choice for cyclists who use a skin lubricant and chamois cream to improve riding comfort. It prevents the uncomfortable rubbing and chafing that most cyclists experience when sitting on their saddles.read more
Your Wiggle price:AU$26.33Buy Now
More information about Paceline Products Chamois Butt'r (235g)


text:
So, when I woke up this morning, I went to Bing to scan for headlines, and found that the "Sean Hannity pointed a gun at Juan Williams" story is still being prominently pushed by our media. CNN is sticking by their story, and defends its muckraking. This despite the fact that Hannitysays it never happened.
"While discussing the issue of firearms, I showed my good friend Juan Williams my unloaded firearm in a professional and safe manner for educational purposes only," Hannity said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
"Every precautionary procedure that I have been trained in since the age of 11 was followed. I've had a conceal carry permit in five states for all of my adult life. Any other interpretation of this is outright false reporting."
Of course, given the left's deep irrational fear of firearms, and given that the media is overwhelmingly to the left, such hand-wringing and hyperventilation is to be expected. But the story, is a non story. Not because Hannity, the accused denies it, but because Williams says it never happened


text:
Phillip Rivers is well on his way to breaking Dan Marino's passing record of 5,084-yards, only 7 games into the season and Rivers has already passed for 2008-yards, the only thing he needs to keep going is -- receivers.
On Sunday game versus the Patriots, the Chargers will be without wide receiver Malcolm Floyd, due to a Hamstring injury. Tight end Antonio Gates may play, but he may be at less than 100 percent because of a toe injury.
The Chargers are 2 - 4 after their latest loss to an inferior opponent on the road. The Chargers head coach Norv Turner says he is the one to blame. Turner says he likes his players and his coaching staff.
If you recall, last year at this time he gave us a lecture about his team being over-rated.
This time, he called us naive for thinking the first six weeks of the season against six less then stellar opponents was going to be a cakewalk.
This Sunday, we will see how the #26-ranked Chargers fair against the #2-ranked Pats, without receivers. Hopefully, the Chargers' running backs are ready to get some serious playing time.
Complete Coverage: San Diego Chargers SPORTS NEWSLETTER
Stay connected to what's going on in sports by signing up for our daily newsletter.


text:
Cacophonous consumption.
Commercial messages have become so ubiquitous we often tend to relegate them to the background or zone them out completely. To illustrate this, architect and urban researcher Pasi Kolhonen takes city scenes and blanks out the non-advertising content, revealing just the logo-plastered splendor of our everyday surroundings.
1 comment:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Jersey Boards Sunset Swallowtail Longboard, Multicolor
$84.99 $99.99
Featuring an elongated 40-in. deck and swallowtail design, this Jersey Boards surfboard shape inspired longboard is ready to surf the streets. Full coverage raised deck grip Wheel wells Reverse kingpin, cast aluminum bayonne trucks High rebound cast urethane wheels Abec 7 sealed precision bearings Board size: 40"L x 9.5"W Wheels: 70 x51 mm, 78a durometer soft wheels Trucks: 9-in. with 86a durometer bushings Ages 10 years & up Maximum weight capacity: 170 lbs Nylon deck Imported Manufacturer's 30-day limited warranty For warranty information please click here Size: Onesize. Color: Multicolor. Gender: Unisex.
Browse all deals at Kohl's
See more in Skateboarding & Skateboarding Parts
* This offer may contain time-sensitive information and offers. Please check with Kohl's to confirm actual price & availability.
Please enter your name
- Be the first to comment!
1 location
301 S. Geneva Ave.
301 S. Geneva Ave.
Joplin, MO 64801


text:
Delete opt folder?
qwer777 29 Jan 2012 06:44
My Asus RT-N16 with the latest tomato was working fine until I rebooted earlier. I had followed [tomatousb.org/tut:how-to-set-up-nas-optware-etc-for-total-noobs this] guide, and had been mounting my drive on opt. All of a sudden now, there is an opt folder, and I cant mount my drive there anymore. Any way I can fix this?
Unfold Delete opt folder? by qwer777, 29 Jan 2012 06:44


text:
No products
Can not find your desired Puppet Mitten? Contact us and we will make it for you as.
Direct manipulation, the hand behind the sleeve and then all the fingers on the top cut and the big toe on the bottom pit, thus moving mouth is achieved is introduced. Suitable for small and large hands, right or left.


text:
How to remove human urine stains from a toilet seat
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
Human urine stains can be a regular occurrence on your toilet seat. Quick clean-up helps prevent staining and odour, but urine that lingers on the seat can end up creating a smelly stain.
In addition to removing the stain completely, it's important to remove the odour-causing bacteria, so the toilet seat doesn't smell dirty even after it's been cleaned.
Mix 1/4 cup white vinegar and 1/4 cup baking soda in a bowl to make a foamy paste. Vinegar and baking soda will foam when combined; this is normal and safe.
Dip an old toothbrush into your vinegar and baking soda paste, and scrub the urine stains on your toilet seat. Rinse the toothbrush with water, and scrub more paste into the surface of your toilet seat. Allow the paste to sit on the toilet for 10 minutes. Baking soda and vinegar make a natural scouring cleanser that removes stains and deodorises the surface.
Wet a clean cloth with water and wipe the vinegar and baking soda paste off your toilet seat. Dry the seat with a clean, dry cloth.
Cover the stained area of your toilet seat with a pet odour neutraliser. Allow the neutraliser to remain on the surface for 20 minutes before rinsing off with water. Pet odour neutraliser has enzymes that break down and absorb odour-causing bacteria from urine.
- Keep a bottle of undiluted white vinegar on hand to spray the toilet seat after mishaps. This will get rid of the odour and remove the stain before it sets.
- Use hydrogen peroxide or bleach on light-coloured toilet seats.
- Purchase a potty seat that sits on top of your toilet seat for use during potty training.
- Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images


text:
Lexus RC F News
- Messages
- 30
- Reactions
- 0
The J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Study, a two-decade look at the problems in cars and trucks after three years of ownership, has been a glass half-full/half-empty exercise for a few years now. If you're an optimist, you'd say the list of most-reported faults ? led by bad Bluetooth connections and poor understanding of voice commands ? are the very definition of #firstworldproblems.
But this year survey contends those problems are becoming a defining part of owning a vehicle in the 21st century, and will be the difference between a car owner who comes back for more and one who decides to pair their smartphones with another brand.
"At the three-year point, many owners are thinking about replacing their vehicles, and we find that how they feel about their current vehicle's quality and dependability impacts their intent to consider purchasing the same brand again," said Renee Stephens, vice president of U.S. automotive at J.D. Power.
Speaking of brands, the results in the J.D. Power survey of 34,000 owners about problems in the past year with their 2012 model-year vehicles tracks the results from Tuesday's Consumer Reports survey. Lexus leads J.D. Power's results for the fourth year in a row, scoring 89 reported problems per 100 vehicles, followed by Buick, Toyota, Cadillac and Honda. At the bottom of the 34 brands rated: Fiat, with 273 problems per 100 cars, trailed by Land Rover (258) and Jeep (197).
The most improved brands? Scion, Ram and Mitsubishi, which all now rank above the industry average of 147 problems per 100. J.D. Power says that six of the top 10 problems reported by owners were design issues ? things like a lack of USB ports ? that couldn't be fixed without a redesigned vehicle. (Already, 15 percent of new buyers cite a lack of technology as a reason to not buy a car ? which is why car ads are suddenly talking about how easy you can find USB ports in the rear of vehicles like the Nissan Murano.) We'll have to wait three years to see if that's enough to satisfy the thoroughly modern car shopper.


text:
Patient Lounge
• Sleep is a physical and mental resting state in which a person becomes relatively inactive and unaware of the environment.
• Normal sleep is characterized by a decrease in body temperature, blood pressure, breathing rate and most other body functions but the brain remains active.
• Wakefulness is a state of awareness in which the individual is conscious of his/her surrounding environment and is able to react with it.
Sleep Cycle
Sleep is characterized by two distinct states, non-REM sleep and REM sleep that alternate in 90 to 110-minute cycles. A normal sleep pattern has 4-5 cycles throughout the night. Non-REM sleep consists of four stages that range from light dozing to deep sleep. Approximately 75% of night's sleep is spent in non-REM sleep.
Stage 1 Sleep
is a transition period from wakefulness to sleep. It is characterized by slow rolling eye movements, otherwise known as the "dozing" stage. Approximately 5% of the the total night's sleep should be spent in Stage 1.
Stage 2 Sleep
is characterized by a lack of eye movements. Brain waves become larger. Defined on PSG with sleep spindles and K-complexes. Approximately 45% of the total night's sleep time is spent in Stage 2 of non-REM sleep. This stage is often considered the official onset of consolidated sleep. Eye movements stop and brain waves become larger. Stage 2 Sleep is graphically defined with two distinct brain wave forms called sleep spindles and K-complexes. A sleep spindle is a pattern of EEG waves, consisting of a burst of 11 to 15 hertz waves that last for .5 to 1.5 seconds. A K-complex is high voltage EEG activity that consists of a sharp downward component followed by a slower upward component and lasts more than .5 second.
Stage 3 and Stage 4 or Delta Sleep
Stage 2 sleep evolves into "Delta" sleep or "slow wave" sleep in approximately 10-20 minutes and may last 15-30 minutes. It is called "slow wave" sleep because brain activity slows down dramatically from the "theta" rhythm of stage 2 to a much slower rhythm of 1 to 2 cycles per second called "delta" and the height or amplitude of the waves increases dramatically. In most adults these two stages are completed within the first two 90 minute sleep cycles or within the first three hours of sleep. Contrary to popular belief, it is delta sleep that a sleep deprived person's brain craves the first and foremost. In children unwakeable or "dead asleep" during most of the night.
Stage 5 Sleep
REM (Rapid Eye Movement Sleep) is a very active stage of sleep. Most dreaming takes place during REM sleep which is why you lose muscle tone in REM (so you don't act out your dreams). REM sleep composes about 20 – 25% of the sleep cycle in normal adults. REM sleep is characterized by:


text:
Youngpro from TeamAU is yet again proving to be unstoppable with relentless global world record pursuit.
PCMARK Vantage has seen new heights with a 45,669 points set a couple of days ago with a GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 rev2.0 which is one of his favourite boards rivalling even the great UD9. Both boards use the new Unlocked Power PWM which is one of the key features extreme overclockers require for world record overclocking performance.


text:
Thursday nights are the new Saturday nights in Maugerville, NB, where people gather to act out a ritual dance at an auctioneer's warehouse-all with the hope of going home lucky.
Early one evening in late summer, just as the mosquitoes begin rising from marshes along the banks of the St. John River, we park our cars and pickups six rows deep in the dirt lot, two deep on the lawn, and shoulder to shoulder all the way out to the highway. We have come from points up and down the valley to a warehouse in the community of Maugerville, on the outskirts of Fredericton, to take part in what has become a weekly ritual in these parts: Mark Sloat's Thursday night public auction.
There's a buzz of excitement in the air - we're all here on a treasure hunt of sorts. Most of us don't know exactly what we're looking for, but we have faith the auction will help us find it.
Inside, the set up is always the same: stacking chairs in rows in the centre; hotdogs, hamburgers, doughnuts, tea and coffee in the canteen at the back. The regulars sit in the front; women are knitting on their laps, men snacking from their lunch boxes. At the counter by the door Cheryl Edney, Sloat's longtime colleague, hands out the catalogue sheet and yellow numbered bidding cards.
Serious bidders find seats in the back rows, stand on the sides, or roam the room restlessly, inspecting various lots, taking care not to draw attention to the items they want to buy. In fact, they often inspect with greatest care the items they are least interested in buying. I am not a serious bidder, although I would like to be, so I join the restless set on an inspection tour, trying not to look too interested in the L.L. Bean fly rod I find leaning against the back wall.
My problem as a bidder has been hesitation in the heat of the moment. Hesitate even for half a second and rival bidders stay in too long, thinking your resolve is weak. On this night, however, I have a wily veteran beside me. For Patricia Williams, the auction is her "Saturday night out." She is here almost every week, moving through the crowd in a floppy, broad-brimmed hat. She has a table at the Sunday flea market in Fredericton and is a bargain hunter, hoping to find someone else's treasure.
"If it's sold here, it's not forgotten," she says. "Here, somebody else gets to take it home and enjoy it."
Williams knows that hesitation is my Achilles heel. Acting as my coach, she tells me to get a number in my head, bid hard till I reach it and then get out. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
Shortly before 6 p.m., Mark Sloat enters the room and begins working the crowd, chatting with the regulars, welcoming newcomers. He is 44 years old, has short brown hair and is dressed casually in khakis and a golf shirt. His ancient form of commerce is a remarkably efficient way of buying and selling-he completes about 100 sales an hour. There are no returns. It's up to the buyers to inspect items before bidding, although Sloat is careful to point out the cabinet door that sticks, the old kitchen table "with some age on it" that needs refinishing.
Along with its efficiency, the auction is as honest as the day is long. The people who assemble on any given evening determine the market value of each item. Over time we find great buys, and sometimes pay too much for things we really want. Our house is filled with items of both kinds: we have a Leonardo daVinci reproduction in an old ornate frame that I bought for $175; we also have a $15 "like new" recliner in the living room.
There are many fine auctioneers in eastern Canada and New England, but few stage a weekly general sale. Sloat auctions cars, farm equipment, antiques, art, china and collectables, and that's often just in the first hour. The event draws together people from all walks of life: antique dealers and farmers, art collectors and flea market vendors, book collectors and tradesmen. For a time, we are all dancing together to the auctioneer's song.
On this evening, there are 419 lots, arranged in order around the front and sides of the room. On one side I find fuel cans and light bulbs, fishing flies and a motorcycle pocket watch, Royal Doulton figurines and baseball cards, a Maytag washer and Husqvarna chainsaw.
Along the front toward the auctioneer's podium there's a blueberry rake, a coil of rope and a church pew, a broad axe and trumpet, a Hardy Perfect fly reel and a history of the Miramichi Fish and Game Club.
Down the other side I find a cheque writer and a washstand, a bear trap and two Boy Scout hats, an old highback rocker and a new La-Z-Boy recliner, a Cornwall ornate pump organ and a Crown Staffordshire pedestal cake plate - and an L.L. Bean fly rod and case.
If you can't find something you could use in this room, you need to check your pulse.
At 6 p.m., Sloat turns on his microphone, welcomes the crowd and lays out the rules: it's an unreserved auction and therefore everything will be sold; all items must be removed from the building by noon the following day. He will perform for the next four hours without a break, and he will hold this crowd's attention with his voice that he trained when he quit his managerial day job at Zellers to attend the Southwestern Ontario School of Auctioneering.
After graduation, he worked full-time for Cameron Industrial Inc., a company specializing in industrial auctions. In 1993, Cameron started holding weekly auctions as a way to generate cash flow between industrial sales and four years later, Sloat bought the company. Now, the weekly auctions are his main business. In recent months he has landed some of the most valuable estate sales in New Brunswick, selling fine original art and antiques for tens of thousands of dollars, taking international bids on the phone.
Sloat launches into his cadence, "OK, here we go, item number one, a box of ceramic figures, lots of good pieces in there, what do you say, $20 for the little box of ceramic, 20, 20, 20, $10 for the box. . ."
"You want to get a sort of a beat going," Sloat says. "You're singing but you're not singing. This helps create some excitement in the room.
Trevor Smith is standing to the right of the podium. He operates a small antique shop and the auction is his main source of inventory. He says the sound of Sloat's voice is the draw. I look down the front row. People are tapping their toes to the rhythm.
"What do you say, $10, we've got 10, now 15, we've got 15 in three places, you're all out, 20. . ."
Smith would rather come here than go to the movies. "Every week there's something exciting," he says. Last week he purchased a "box of miscellaneous," a favourite buy for bargain hunters. He bought the box for a china teacup that turned out to be cracked. But when he dug to the bottom he found a new portable vacuum cleaner and a salad chopper.
"It happens regularly," Smith says. "It's the story of auctions."
Sloat is hitting his stride. The items are arranged so that the first are just warm-up sales to get the audience used to the sound of his voice. The most valuable pieces are sold in the middle of the evening, the bargains at the end. It's all about energy and pace, and the standard auctioneer jokes.
On a cracked porcelain mixing bowl: "A nice item for a high shelf."
On an end table with a cracked leg: "Good from afar, but far from good."
On the commode: "You'll need that. It's a long drive home."
Sloat works the room with his voice, eyes-and intuition. Serious bidders communicate with him using almost imperceptible nods and shakes of the head.
"Once you've been doing it long enough, you can be looking in the totally opposite direction, you can feel it in the air and you turn around and make eye contact with someone and know they want to bid," he says.
Gary Price and Roy Bowmaster are standing on opposite sides of the room, picking up items without breaking a sweat. Price, 58, a retired CP rail conductor, and Bowmaster, 73, a retired cattle rancher and heavy equipment operator, are best friends.
Early that morning they loaded Price's 1985 Chevrolet pickup with its black and white camper and drove the back roads from Perth Andover to Fredericton, a three-and-a-half-hour drive south through the river valley if you're in a hurry, which they weren't.
"There's some beautiful communities along the back roads," Price says. "Today was perfect." A light breeze was blowing when they parked underneath a stand of sugar maples. They broke out the camp stove and fried steak, mushrooms, potatoes; they boiled tea and had doughnuts for dessert. They arrived in Maugerville about 4:30 p.m., with lots of time to inspect the items and boil another pot of tea on the tailgate.
"You never know what you're going to see," Bowmaster says. "He's a real good auctioneer. If it calls for a joke, he puts it in there."
"He's one of the best," says Price. "I've been going to auctions all my life on both sides of the border. I've never seen an auctioneer like Mark."
During the course of the evening they purchase an old lariat that was once used for roping cattle ($35), a set of cast iron corn bread pans ($15), some hand-painted dishes ($10) and two old wood planes that were once used to make moulding ($20).
Outside the big bay door, Tim MacAfee is sitting with friends on handmade wooden lawn furniture (it will sell later in the evening), eating hotdogs and drinking coffee. He collects pottery, old stoneware and earthenware. "We're all custodians of things" he says. "We'll pass them on to the next generation. We are doing a service to society." The group on the bench laughs.
Late in the evening, I move on the L.L. Bean fly rod I've been watching. I put the number $50 in my head. Patricia Williams tells me to get into the bidding at about half that number. Start too low and I'll bring too much company along for the ride. Bidding is competitive and some people buy things at auctions they never intended to buy (we've all done this), getting in at the bargain level and then forgetting to drop out.
I'm in at $25. I make good eye contact with Sloat. No hesitation this time. And then about a minute later I'm the owner of the rod, for $55, plus tax and a 10 per cent buyer's fee.
Half an hour later, the last item sells and the curtain falls. In the parking lot, Price and Bowmaster are loading the old truck for the trip back up the river valley. MacAfee is walking out to his car with an armload of bread pans, an electric griddle and a stoneware crock. Another man is carrying an old cream can and a bag of golf clubs.
Every week little pieces of Atlantic Canadian history are dispersed back into the community. These are all local estates that are being auctioned off and, rather than the collections being trucked off to another part of the country, they remain in the community. Each piece has a story, and there's a sense that the auction of an estate is the beginning of a new chapter instead of an ending.
I toss my new fly rod into the back seat, ease the car off the grass and turn onto the highway. The city lights reflect off the river as the auction dancers drift off into the darkness of the night.


text:
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Micro Breakfast Amuse Bouche
In essence, this is to create a mouthful of morning goodness in a spoonful, to be effectively used as a mouth amuser.
To prepare, just use the same components for the gourmet breakfast. Make a portion of scrambled eggs enough for 2 persons.
Instead of panchetta, use normal bacon and fry them in a pan to bring out the flavors. Dice them very small so they can fit into a spoon later.
Saute some mushrooms and tomatoes as well. Equally, dice them into very small portions before you put them in the pan. Season them with pepper only as the bacon will have enough of the savoriness for a spoonful!
Finally, make a toast and cut into small square pieces, small enough to fit into the spoon (one piece per spoon). To plate, put the toast first, followed by a teaspoon full of scrambled eggs (garnished with some green onions first if you like), then the mushroom, tomatoes and the bacon right on top.
It should look similar to the picture here, but for this occasion, I did add some leeks to the bacon for extra flavoring. It should taste like breakfast in a mouthful!
Silverised by Ian Low at 6:53 AM
Category: Recipes
6 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Your recipes look delicious!! Thanks for stopping by my blog -- cool to meet fellow bloggers from around the globe! :) Happy cooking!ReplyDelete
Thanks! really appreciate your comments! Come back often for more great recipes, and likewise i will be going yrs pretty often from now!ReplyDelete
What a great idea! I love little spoonfuls to tempt your palate...ReplyDelete
Thanks for dropping by! love your tasty trials site ... and you are a wonderful cook just by lookin at yr recipes, professionally trained or not :)ReplyDelete
What a great idea to serve breakfast like this!ReplyDelete
Thanks! I am always trying to find new ways to present familiar foods in different settings ... :)ReplyDelete
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The Furphy Museum Collection
The Furphy Museum is the only one of its kind. It is an authentic exhibition tracing the 150 year journey of Furphy engineering, the five generations of the Furphy family and the significance of the Furphy legend in our history.
The most distinctive product to carry the Furphy brand would be the farm water cart. Conceived as a dedicated implement for water transportation, the water cart found a ready market upon its creation in the 1880's.
However the Furphy Museum is dedicated to more than the iconic water cart, exploring 150 years of history from the beginning when John Furphy started out with a blacksmith and wheelwright business in 1864.
The Furphy business continues today in Shepparton with 5th generation descendants Adam Furphy, Managing Director of J. Furphy & Sons and Sam Furphy Managing Director of the Furphy Foundry.


text:
Rawkin' Welcome Week 2011
For those about to "RAWK," we salute you!
Get ready to "rawk" the campus with the annual Rawkin' Welcome Week celebration, August 19-28.
Rawkin' Welcome Week 2011 is a series of programs and events designed to welcome and acclimate new students to the UNCG community. It is a fantastic opportunity for new freshmen, transfer and adult students to meet current students, faculty, and staff as we start a new academic year. A few of the programs and events planned for the week include the Party like a RAWKstar dance party, Spartan Service Day, Freshman Summer Reading Project, out-of-state student reception, The Chancellor's New Student Convocation, and Charlie's Block Party with games and music, featuring a pep rally with UNCG Cheerleading and Dance teams. Our campus will round out the week with the men's and women's soccer games, vs. Duke and Wake Forest, respectively. (See more athletic events.)
You're invited and encouraged to come out and meet our newest Spartans. For more information, contact either the Office of New Student & Spartan Family Programs or Campus Activities & Programs. For a full schedule of events, visit orientation.uncg.edu/programs/welcomeweek.


text:
Four Coaching Sessions This Summer
Would you like to take part in a coaching course aimed at orienteers who are roughly at TD4/5 (light green/green) level?
1. Saturday 13 July 10.30 Telegraph Woods
2. Sunday 21 July 10.30 Salisbury Trench, New Forest
3. Saturday 27 July 10.30 Hampton Ridge, New Forest
4.Saturday 17 August 10.30 Hampton Ridge, New Forest
Please let me know if you are interested in participating in this series of coaching activities. Ideally you would be able to attend all sessions but if not, hopefully you will be able to attend 2 or 3 of the sessions. By attending you will also be helping me achieve my Level 2 Coaching Award. You can mail me on clerks [at] tiscali.co.uk for further information or to sign up. Please do sign up in advance so that I can be sure of numbers and maps required. There is an upper limit of 8 participants due to us using the forest in the summer months.
Helen Wheelwright
- Log in to post comments


text:
A new Napa talent, with an eye for the past
The Rossi ranch's 52 acres, a treasure trove tucked into the last notch of Rutherford before it becomes St. Helena, is a fine place to consider the long view of Napa Valley.
It contains Cabernet Sauvignon, as well it should considering the ZIP code. But there's also a half-acre patch of dry-farmed Riesling vines dating to the 1960s, and some 4-year-old plantings of Charbono and Carignane, grapes that once held sway in Napa rather than the asterisks they have become.
There's even a small patch of old head-trained Valdiguié - the grape once known as Napa Gamay, as California's facsimile for Beaujolais - that has somehow survived since its planting in 1959 and 1968.
This piece of ground is worth noting not simply because it has endured in a corner where far more money could be made with modern-trellised Cabernet, but also because of its current guardians: John Williams, the founder of Frog's Leap, and his son, Rory, both of whom live on the property.
For his day job, Rory Williams has been doing vineyard work for Frog's Leap since 2012, and also works in the lab at Tres Sabores, the winery owned by his mother, Julie Johnson.
But what brings us to Rossi today is his own young label, Calder. In part it is "a way for me to make wines my parents don't make," says Rory Williams, 29. But, it's also a meditation on what Napa has done well in the past.
That includes dry Riesling quite literally from his home turf, and a Charbono made up to now from Elmer Meyer's vineyard in Calistoga.
The Riesling grapes once went into Frog's Leap's Leapfrogmilch blend. But the grape itself has a long history in Napa, even if the climate might not be ideal.
In the 19th century, German immigrants and others considered it the most noble choice for white wine; hundreds of acres once were planted in Rutherford alone, compared with 133 in Napa County today.
Rory Williams makes a dry version that combines old-fashioned cold fermentation in steel with new notions, including several hours soaking the grapes on their skin to build texture.
As for Charbono, it musters on in a few plantings, mostly in Calistoga; just 52 acres remain in Napa, and 88 across the state. Yet at one time, the grape made some of the valley's most cherished wines.
Indeed, while Williams fell for the rough-and-tumble variety while in Argentina, it was a bottle of 1964 Inglenook Charbono, the last vintage from Inglenook's influential proprietor John Daniel, he shared with his father that prompted him to plant the grape at Rossi in 2009. His first harvest came last fall.
"There's got to be an ornery person behind every old vine in Napa," Rory Williams says, "because the pressure is enormous to go and plant Cabernet."
Indeed, Rossi is a meditation on how Napa used to be, before the economics of success made it virtually impossible not to do the obvious thing.
"The truth of the matter is that there are places in Napa that are the best places to grow Cabernet Sauvignon in the world," John Williams says. "But that only represents 10 percent of our acreage."
The old Riesling and Valdiguié underscore that point. But even the Cabernet here is planted on a spread V-shaped trellis - less efficient than the modern vertical choices, but one that Frog's Leap has stuck with in order to achieve the more modest ripeness levels for which it's known.
The land itself makes that point as well. The Rachel Rossi winery located on the vineyard site began operating in 1907; much of the old facility, down to the remnants of a rusticating old basket press, is virtually untouched from its final vintages in the late 1940s.
As the years passed, Rachel's daughter, Louise Rossi, maintained the vines and stubbornly defended them against Napa's march of progress. Rory Williams says that when visitors came by and asked whether she might sell - thinking the site might be more efficiently replanted in Cabernet - she would politely listen, take their names and then call her attorney to make sure they would never be offered the property. That was lucky for the Williams family, which visited Rossi often.
"Instead of going to church, we'd go to visit Louise," Rory Williams says. "That was our form of religion."
While family connections are traded as currency in Napa, Rory Williams' work in the fields sends a notable message about his willingness to earn his peerage, so to speak.
Having grown up on his mother's vineyard and driving forklifts in the cellar, he attended St. John's College and apprenticed in Barolo, Argentina and Burgundy. He followed that by studying human olfaction and flavor science at Cornell, which gave him a solid laboratory background.
He's intent on keeping his work with Calder quite apart from his family's notable legacy.
"I would prefer to make mistakes, and learn about making wine, on my own dime," he says. "I'm my dad's worst critic. And he's my worst critic."
From the notebook
The Calder wines are made in relatively small quantities. They can be found primarily in restaurants and at www.calderwine.com.
2013 Calder Napa Valley Dry Riesling ($20, 12.2% alcohol): To be released later this year. Williams' work with texture gives a magnitude to the grape grown in a warmer spot - ripe quince matched with a savory celery and wintergreen side.
2011 Calder Napa Valley Charbono ($28, 12.1%): Charming and showing a finessed balance of the grape's rowdy, smoky rusticity with a fresh salted-plum aspect.
Jon Bonné is The San Francisco Chronicle's wine editor. Find more of his coverage at sfgate.com/wine. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @jbonne


text:
by Gabrielle Moore
Sex games can be as easy or as complicated as you want them to be. There are
those where you just whip out a sex game board and be done with it in a few
minutes – nothing wrong with that! – but there are also those that take some
time in its execution.
Your sex life should never be a routine. That's why it's important to engage in BOTH simple and more complex sex games. One benefit of the latter is that the longer you delay actual lovemaking, the hotter you guys are by that time!
12 Nights of Passion
This sex game is designed for super extended foreplay. The goal is to reach the 12th night without having intercourse, making the 12th night one of intense passion. Here's a sample outline you can use.
Beware: before you DO have intercourse, you must be ready to pay up for all the expectancy that you created! To know how to give her the best orgasms of her life, go to our site!!
1st night – Have a romantic dinner either at home or at a fancy restaurant. While dining, play footsie and/or indulge in a little bit of groping underneath the table.
2nd night - Sprinkle red roses in bed, light some candles and play some soft music, and then just cuddle each other till you sleep.
3rd night – Play strip poker and once all your or your partner's clothes are off, engage in a little dry rubbing, but that's it! Don't engage in having sex.
4th night – Play "silent dirty words". Get a pen and blank sheet of paper each. Write a dirty word or phrase on the piece of paper, tear it off and hand it to your lover. Your lover reads it and then drops it in a bowl. Now it's her turn to write another dirty word or phrase and hand it off to you. Do not talk in between this exercise. Just write, show the words and that's it. The 'loser' is the one who runs out of dirty words first. (You will notice that at the end of this exercise, you guys have just collected a bowl of dirty phrases you can use for a future game!) After the game has ended, laugh it off, have a bowl of ice cream or something and go to bed.
5th night – Play sexy twister. Take out the twister mat or board and play a traditional game of twister… naked.
6th night – It's the sixth day, give yourselves a little bit of reprieve by engaging in some hot oral sex. You can bring each other to a climax but do NOT engage in intercourse.
IMPORTANT: While engaging in oral sex, make sure to avoid the most common mistakes. Learn the proper techniques to satisfy your lover! Go to our site...
7th night – "Accidentally" leave out some adult-rated reading material for your lover to see and glance over. Make sure the erotica is hot enough to really bring about lust in your partner. When she asks you about it, feign innocence!
8th night – Give each other a sexual massage. Be naughty and daring but do not engage in lovemaking. You can engage in oral pleasure but not to the point of bringing on a climax.
9th night – Give your partner a call at an odd hour of the day, say 2 PM or whenever she least expects it, and engage in some phone sex. Don't go too far; just get each other excited. After that, say you probably dialed the wrong number and hang up, or change your voice to 'normal' and simply say "love you honey, see you tonight for dinner" and then hang up.
10th night – Go online together tonight and preview a few adult-rated literotica.
11th night – Send naughty messages to your lover all throughout the day! Send a sex joke via SMS, email a long and dirty joke, and others. By the time you see each other tonight, pretend like nothing happened!
12th night – Shoot a short erotic video of yourself. Don't go all the way. Instead, at the end of the video, look into the camera and tell your lover where you should meet tonight. It can be a hotel room, motel room or your own bedroom but fancily dressed up. The minute your lover enters the location you indicated on the video, do not engage in foreplay whatsoever! After all these days, you're pent up passions will be enough for one of the hottest moments of your life!
The 12 Nights of Passion is designed to bring about so many things in your relationship. It's a sex game of creativity and control. But its real goal is to make each day one of heightened sexual pleasure and longing for each other. Can you imagine how you guys will come together by the 12th night after all that waiting and sexual highs and lows?!? Give this extended sex game a try and be sure to do it more than once a year!
To learn a lot more about games and tips to satisfy your lover in bed, go to our site!!


text:
The Believers – Chapter 13
Ilyana had plenty of time to plan her entry into Carved Rock. She jogged over the crest of the hill at the edge of the west road, and stopped 10 or so meters from the last of the trees. She would be spotted at this distance. She bent over forward, pretending to catch her breath, then stretching her arms upward. Then she dropped them back to her sides and began jogging again. She had plenty of strength left, but she had to appear worn out from running all the way from Silverlake.
The truth was that she had done precisely that. But she felt she could run the distance again without a break. Except maybe for food. She could not remember such a strong craving for meat in her life. She'd have plenty soon enough. When she was half-way to the village, she saw a rider approaching the opposite gate. The rider reached the village about 5 minutes before she did. As she reached the gate, she could see that the rider had been Cheszalt, and he was now crossing the village, approaching the west gate to see who was coming in on foot.
She faked a bit of a stagger as she crossed the threshold of the gate, then doubled over for a moment before stretching her arms upward again. She'd been taught to let her lungs expand at a time like this, to help her body absorb more air from her breath. Then she doubled over again as two of her brothers, standing guard, approached her.
She must have been a sorry sight. She hadn't bathed since the assault force had left this village. Her clothes still had blood on them from the fight, and were torn in many places. No one would notice the scratches on the lower pants-leg where the Turned had grabbed her, not among all the other stains and tears. But above all, she thought she must have a terrible smell about her. The sweat of running was no stranger to her, but it had been days, and the air had been heavy. Even under the canopy of trees for most of the trip, it had been terribly hot. She should have passed out at least twice from heat exhaustion… but she hadn't even gotten light-headed.
"Water," she croaked, as they came near. One immediately thrust a water skin toward her. She took a quick drink, then poured the rest of it over her head, soaking her hair and her tunic instantly. The two brothers nearest her smiled, and handed her another water skin, which she quickly drained.
Cheszalt was near her by that point. She straightened, then bowed respectfully. He took another step toward her, and took her hand. "Sister, you return from Silverlake."
She nodded. "I barely escaped alive, master." She made a small show of catching her breath, then controlling it, as she'd been taught. "It was chaos. Our attack was met by a force from Carter's Hill. They were mounted, and carried spears. There were just too many of them." She paused again, looking intently at him for a sign- if he doubted her, it didn't show in his eyes.
"Go on, sister," he eventually said. He turned to one of the others nearby. "Bring our sister a chair," he said, gently, and almost immediately a stool appeared beside her. She nodded gratefully at the brother who had presented it, and sank heavily onto it.
Brother, she thought for a moment. Are these people still my brothers and sisters?
"So even mounted, how did they outmatch our force?" Cheszalt asked, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"It was more or less matched at first, master. The older fighters were able to counter their spear charge, but most of the younger ones were run down and killed early on. After that, they kept their distance and used arrows. They wore us down." This, too, had been the subject of much of her thought during her return journey. Skilled archers were one of the few things the Order was weak against.
Cheszalt lowered his head. "You were able to escape?"
She nodded, keeping her eyes down. "Tasia's last instructions to me. After the initial charge, she instructed me to return here to report. She knew you would need word of what happened."
"No one else has returned."
Ilyana let her shoulders slump a little more. Then she lifted her head. This is the important part, she thought with a sigh.
"There's more, master. In the village we staged from, I heard rumors from the eastern side of Carter's Hill. They say that a new city is being built, larger than Carter's Hill is now, and all out of cement blocks. They say this outer wall will be impossible to break. I don't know if we'll be able to strike back at them if we allow it to be completed."
She saw something behind his eyes click. The trap was set, and Cheszalt was about to take the bait.
Amusing enough, Marlena thought, that she would find him in Red Hill, close to the place where so much of the current madness had begun. Many of the grapes on the western side of the village were being harvested now, and the village itself was nearly empty. She stepped into the small inn, scanned the room, and then moved toward the back corner. Her old friend, and fellow Immune, Katrick, saw her approach, and smiled up at her when she arrived across from him.
"Good to see you again," he said, quietly. She took a chair across from him. "You're not drinking today?"
She shook her head. "Nope. Just came here looking for you."
His eyebrows rose. "Well, I'm not terribly busy right now," he said, a bit sarcastically.
She nodded. "I heard that Carter's Hill clamped down on people leaving. Did they catch any of the guides?"
"No, but it was working out so well," he said, frustration entering his voice. He took another drink of his ale. "Seeing the looks on those people's faces… I tell you what, I've never felt so good. There's so many people that have a better chance at life now. And every one of them was grateful to us- every one of them will speak up for the Immune for the rest of their days. Nothing we could have done to change people's minds has ever come close to it. But I guess Carter's Hill had to catch on sooner or later. I just wish it had been later," he shrugged.
"Too successful. Well, if you and the other guides aren't doing anything else these days, I'd like to ask your help again."
"Sure. What'cha need?"
"Basically the same thing you were doing before- helping people- but, as Xeren used to say, more direct action."
Katrick's eyes narrowed. He knew what Xeren usually meant when she used those words, but he also knew that Marlena opposed that sort of thing completely. "I thought Xeren had changed her ways. Isn't she working with you now?"
"She is. And she's behind a lot of this. What I need from you, and anyone else who will help, is going to sound preposterous at first, so please give me time to finish explaining."
"Allright," he said, finishing his drink.
"Help to defend the fences at Carter's Hill."
Katrick choked so hard that he spat the whole mouthful of ale at the wall.
The armorer's workshop in Silverlake was considerably bigger than the one he'd grown up working in, but with as many people as were working in this one, it didn't seem so. Jameson turned the piece of steel over on the anvil to get a look at the outside curves, then returned it to a good spot to hammer on it. He had taken to using heavier hammers, even though he couldn't feel the difference while working. And though he was the youngest- and the smallest- man in the shop, the others had quickly come to respect his growing skill. Even more, they respected the fact that he didn't tire. He had been given all the heavy pieces to work on, since he could use the heavier hammers for hours without even stopping to take a breath. He didn't mind doing the rough shaping work, and leaving the finishing work to the others. He'd grown comfortable with his gift.
There were seven other men at work around him. One of them, just older than Jameson, had been at work cutting out the rough shapes from sheet steel and smoothing the edges with a file. Another was working on the chest- and back-plates. The forge fire was cluttered with pieces competing for the heat.
No one else here knew why all this armor was being made. Many guesses had been spoken, but none had come close. If Jameson had told them, they probably would have set down their tools and walked out of the shop. He smiled at the thought. The large city to the southeast had been a distant, but very real, threat to the people here for many years. It had become much more urgent last summer, when they had begun annexing nearby villages.
Hopefully the near future would work out as well as he hoped. He could already see the difference in the eyes of the villagers. They were cautious around him, but accepting. When he'd arrived, it hadn't been like that at all. They'd insisted that he and Marlena stay out with the carriages. At least the other smiths had begun to treat him as an equal, having seen him at work. They certainly appreciated him taking the heavy hammering off their shoulders.
Only one of the village council knew who he was, but that was for the better. He met with them in the midst of the field, in one of the paths between a patch of beans on one side and corn on the other. They stood in a rough semi-circle, the seven of them facing him. The village's head blacksmith had heard Joshua's idea the evening before, and had guessed that the others would agree to it. He nodded his encouragement, and Joshua began to speak.
"Carter's Hill is about to undergo a dramatic change, and I want you all to think about the contract you have with its leadership." He wasted no time getting to the point. "In particular, I want you to think about why it is you entered into this agreement, and what you expect to receive from it."
One of the councilors snickered. "We agreed to their contract because we knew they'd send soldiers to attack us if we didn't. As far as what we expect to receive, well, we have the new wall, but aside from that, all we have to show for it is our lives." The others agreed, smiling cynically at the speaker's response.
Joshua nodded. "The main reason they wanted to send soldiers here wasn't to defend you, of course. I'm sure you all know that. They wanted their own soldiers to be inside this wall before it was complete." He gestured back toward the wall behind him. "Now, they won't have to worry about breaking the wall down if they need to take control of your village. They really don't have a reason for feeling the need to do this, though."
"Now, I want you to think about the sort of deal you and the other villages surrounding Carter's Hill would have if you had made the rules. I don't want you to answer immediately, but I want you to think about it and discuss it. Soon there will come a time when the city will have need of your help. The people who live there will need your help and support."
He paused for a moment. "You are the first village I've spoken to about what is coming. I'm headed to Riverbend and Bluefield next. We'll be needing help from all of you. I'm not entirely sure how things are going to work out, but we will probably need your help for a long time to come. And in return… well, I believe we can come to an agreement that will be quite profitable to you, as well. Especially to you," he said, directing his attention at the master smith. He hadn't shared this part yet. He hadn't believed it when Xeren had told him, and wasn't certain that she had believed it either.
The villagers had an even harder time believing it. But, as Xeren had told him, it was just too good a chance to pass up. They agreed to the idea, and to support the plan, but many details had to be worked out. Joshua had expected that. As he left town that afternoon, riding toward Riverbend, he wondered if they'd have believed him if they'd known who he was.
The caravan was about half of the way to Tarense when Jacob McCandles and David Jennings returned. On horseback, it was a fairly short journey, but the carriages moved much slower. They'd stopped at two villages on the way, but hadn't done much trading. Marlena rode alongside Lincoln's place on his carriage, discussing what had happened and what as coming, and the other two riders formed up on the other side of the team of horses leading the caravan.
For a moment, no one spoke, but from the grins on the men's faces, things had gone well.
"Don't make us wait for it," Lincoln prodded them.
"Garth Gretson said he'd come down with the team. Catherine Foreman might be coming down as well." Jacob tried hard to speak slowly, but was very excited.
Lincoln whistled quietly. Gretson and Foreman were the two people in Tarense who made things happen. Garth Gretson was the grand-son of the man and woman who had discovered the iron mine that Tarense had been built on, and he was still the most skilled and knowledgeable miner in the city. Catherine Foreman was essentially a blacksmith, but had taken her craft a step further. She had created a waterwheel-powered blacksmith shop with larger, heavier tools that could make much more complicated pieces and tools. Most of the flame weapons that kept the Turned out of the villages scattered around the continent had been built by her and her workers. Marlena knew her fairly well, having scoured many of the ancient cities for books on working metals and making tools for her and her workers.
It had been expected for these two to become involved, but Lincoln at least had presumed they'd send down assistants to see the re-discovered mine outside of Red Hill. Appearing personally was something no one had seen coming.
"They'll need a few days to get things settled, but they plan to meet in Red Hill in about a week. Will that be enough time…" David's voice deliberately trailed off. He knew just enough about what was happening to know that he didn't know very much.
Marlena nodded. "It should. I should turn around and head back there." She handed her horse's reigns over to Lincoln, who tied them to a cord attached to his own carriage. She dismounted, then jogged past the rest of the carriages and headed back down the road they'd come from.
Lincoln shook his head, smiling, as he returned his attention to the road ahead of him. Jacob and David watched her for a moment longer, then looked over to Lincoln, confused.
"Is she the one putting all this together?" David asked.
Lincoln shook his head. "If I told you whose idea this was, you'd fall off your horse."
Xeren had overlooked Carter's Hill from this position before. She'd actually found several good observation points in the forests around the city. It made sense to study your enemy, she thought to herself. And so again, she looked down on the north-eastern part of the over-large city. Her perspective on the people on the opposite side of town – to the west and south-west – was different. Joshua had made her see a lot of things differently, she realized.
And now she was plotting an attack on his family. She shook her head, nearly overwhelmed by how strange her life had gotten. Symon would get a good laugh out of this, she knew. In a way, she looked forward to seeing his reaction.
And there it was, just as he'd said. An overlarge stable building, and not four meters away were the two buildings that the ruling family used for official business. She could see the stable doors were open, and thought she could see people moving in and out. Perhaps carrying things. They were indeed packing their belongings. Her lips pressed together, the anger rising in the pit of her stomach again.
There was a time when she had set the Turned upon people who didn't deserve it. She had thought at the time that she was choosing the lesser of two evils. She had been able to blame it on the ruling family whose servants she was now watching.
She could easily pick out three spots from here. It would be simple to get close to the fence once the Turned came out. It had taken a lot of reading and planning to figure out how to make it work, and she still worried about having to get close enough to the fence the following afternoon. There were four stands of corn close enough to the wall. She and her companions could creep up easily enough. Workers would be leaving these fields alone the following day, and hopefully no one would notice the cords trailing across the dirt in the space between the fence and the rough fences in front of the crops.
The daily training was wearing Laris out. She and the other twelve fighters from Hammerhand were almost finished, and in another two weeks they could go back home. She had seen the finished wall before she'd left for her training, and it seemed odd to her that the leadership of Carter's Hill deemed it necessary for her and her friends to train so hard when they had such a superior wall. Well, the gate can be broken down, they had said. There was always a danger that the Turned would get inside, and the defenders had to be ready to keep them out by force.
She dropped her axe on her cot, then dropped herself in the wooden chair across the room from it. Her quarters were small, but at least they were private. She'd seen the barracks that the new soldiers would be quartered in when they joined up. At least she had her own room, small as it was.
There was a knock on her door. Grumbling a little as she stood, the muscles in her legs protesting, she walked to the door and opened it. The face that greeted her held a wide smile and gentle brown eyes that she'd recognize anywhere.
"Lance!" she embraced her brother firmly, then stepped back to give him space to speak.
"Hello, sister. The village council sent me with a message for you." He looked up and down the short corridor, then motioned with his head that they should go inside and close the door. She sat on the bed, and he slowly sat in the chair across from her.
"Soon, something is going to happen here. I don't know what, but the soldiers who have been training you, and the people from the other villages, are probably going to call you and the others into the wealthy part of town." He paused for a moment. "You need to ignore that order."
She looked at him, a little cock-eyed. "Maybe it's because I'm worn out from training, but I don't think I understand."
"Just remember that when they call you into the wealthy section, you need to stay here, and protect the people in this section. They're going to need it."


text:
Winnipeg, April 16, 2004 - With just over a month to go before their biggest tournament in four years, the Canadian National Men's Volleyball Team is slowly beginning to regroup, preparing for their anticipated last chance Olympic Qualifier in Japan, May 22 - 30.
This weekend senior team veterans, along with a mix of A-2 and developmental players, will begin to arrive in Winnipeg, hitting the courts with the coaching staff starting Monday. "We start our preparations with a great deal of excitement, knowing that the task ahead of us is something that we all want very badly. Ideally we would have liked to have everyone here sooner and prepare without rushing," stated National Team Head Coach Stelio DeRocco.
"With so many of our senior players missing to start our preparations for Japan (due to their various professional league playoffs), we will be bringing in athletes that we feel can help us prepare and emulate some of the characteristics of players and teams we will be facing in Japan."
Players that will be in Winnipeg by early next week include; Senior team veterans Scott Koskie, Steve Brinkman and Lucas Snider, National A-2 Team players Marc Arseneau, Josh Muise and Peter Turpin, CIS standouts and former National Junior Team players Leo Carroll, Nicholas Cundy, Jeff Weiler, Brock Davidiuk and Dallas Soonias.
Returning veterans expected in late April include Paul Duerden, Ross Ballard, Chris Wolfenden, Brett Youngberg and Pascal Cardinal. Not arriving until early May are Murray Grapentine, Sebastien Ruette, Terry Martin, Doug Bruce, and Fred Winters. Former captain and twelve year veteran Jason Haldane's status is uncertain for the qualifier due to a stress fracture in his foot.
The Japan Olympic Qualifying tournament will consist of eight teams, in what also doubles as the Asia Zone Continental Olympic Qualification tournament. Only the winning team along with the highest placing Asian Team will be awarded two of the four remaining Athens Olympic berths.


text:
In the New Look, your home page shows you a feed of all tasks assigned to your practice. Depending on your permissions, you may not be able to act on all of these. Items you are able to act on are indicated with gray circle around the dropdown arrow.
To filter your feed to show only those items, simply check the box next to "Show Only My Items". Your feed will now reflect only tasks you have the ability to address.


text:
The Definitive, Canonical, Digital Discography & YouTube Guide
Official Albums | Collections | UnOfficial: 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s | 2000s | For Sale | Links | DVDs | Book
The 1980s List!
(The Unofficial releases)
A Note About Copyright
The 'unofficial' discs above were made and sold by Neville Judd for 'Jackdaw' the UK fan club; they are usually issued on blank CDs, with only a paper list of tracks, in a clear envelope. But that is Neville's right; he has an arrangement to reproduce and sell the discs.
If you purchase a disc, you do not have the right to copy it and sell the copies. You can, of course, sell your legally acquired disc.
I hope that all makes sense - because it is important!
|11 January 2020 | | | Privacy | Sitemap


text:
The U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Wednesday visited Camp Lejeune, where he held a closed discussion with female Marines on what their military experience has been like.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Wednesday visited Camp Lejeune, where he held a closed discussion with female Marines on what their military experience has been like.
Hagel took a tour of an urban warfare training facility aboard Camp Geiger as 183 students from the School of Infantry East demonstrated tactics, techniques and procedures.
After the training, Hagel met with more than a dozen female Marines of various ranks for a closed discussion on the opening of combat roles to women. The group also talked about the sexual assault and sexual harassment problem military branches are facing, said a female Marine who participated. The female Marineswere given anonymity to facilitate an open and honest conversation, according to military officials.
�He wanted to hear exactly what female Marines thought,� said the female Marine. �My personal opinion is that (integration) is moving too fast � this is a great opportunity, but a standard must be set that everyone has to meet � moving too quickly is going to cause harm.�
On June 18, the individual branches of the armed forces released their implementation plans for integrating females into combat roles that are presently off limits. The Marine Corps has identified 70,000 billets that were closed to the assignment of women due to the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule. The deadline for implementation is Jan. 1, 2016.
Holly Wingler, a female Marine veteran of Iraq who did not attend Wednesday�s discussion, said women in combat is the worst decision the military could make.
�Women can do it, but it doesn�t mean they should,� said Wingler, a former combat engineer. �Human nature is for a man to protect a female. I see that causing a problem with mission accomplishment.�
Besides it being a logistical nightmare, Wingler said that men will slow down and hesitate to make sure a woman is OK before he will do so for a man.
�Hesitation gets people killed in combat,� Wingler said. �Some women want to prove they are good enough, but they�ve already done more than 98-percent of the population just by serving. And for those that forgot � being a female in the military isn�t about doing a man�s job. It�s about serving your country.�
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said Hagel�s visit Wednesday was a �listening tour.�
�He wants to hear directly from female Marines on what life in the military is like and what the rewards and challenges are,� Little said.
Due to time restrictions, Hagel did not talk to media present at the event.
Prior to visiting Camp Geiger, Hagel toured Marine Special Operations Command at Stone Bay during his U.S. tour of military installations.
Hagel returns to Washington D.C. today.
Contact Daily News Military Reporter Thomas Brennan at 910-219-8453 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ thomasjbrennan.


text:
Pinecrest GardensGardens Home Menu
South Motors Fine Arts Festival
Saturday and Sunday, January 23 - 24, 2021
From 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Come to one of Florida's premiere juried art shows, our 18th Annual Fine Arts Festival, and enjoy a day surrounded by spectacular visual arts in the most lush and luxurious setting. Amongst a generous representation of the best artists and artisans from the US and abroad; you will find the perfect piece of art for your home that includes painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography, or peruse a selection of original handcrafted jewelry or wearable art for yourself or significant other. Additionally there is always a great selection of delicious food, live music and other activities for the entire family. Join us at the most beautiful art show amongst the winding paths and exotic foliage in this magical botanical garden.
There will be off-premise parking at Christ the King Church and Palmetto Senior High, with free shuttle service to and from Pinecrest Gardens.


text:
Evangelicals making tracks in Hot Springs
by Leslie Newell Peacock, May 18, 2011
Hot Springs is the town where you gamble on the ponies, tread in the steps of gangsters taking the waters, and where a club on one of its most busy streets advertises "Strip Karaoke." Hot baths, massages, the pleasures of the body are part of its soul; "Prairie Home Companion" humorist Garrison Keillor called it the "loose buckle on the Bible Belt."
But there's another spring bubbling up in the so-called Spa City, one that's bringing holy water to the surface. The Tea Party is steeping its message in it; the Republicans are sipping it, the court system is awash in it. When an anti-Semitic remark was casually tossed off in a recent election, many shoulders simply shrugged.
When a Republican like Cliff Jackson, raised in the Assembly of God Church, and best known as Bill Clinton's nemesis, thinks Hot Springs is moving toward theocracy, you've got to wonder. Is he right?
Jackson believes what's happening in Hot Springs, which has a thriving evangelical community, is part of a larger movement to "usher in Jesus Christ" to take dominion over secular government, to use holy writ as overriding law — a goal not dissimilar, he said, to the Taliban's.
"Goggle-eyed" was the way Jackson described his reaction to Mayor Ruth Carney's remarks after a day spent last fall with Republican theologian David Barton. Asked by a reporter from the Hot Springs Sentinel Record what she'd taken away from Barton's address to Republican elected officials, Carney, the wife of the Nazarene pastor who had invited Barton to town, said she'd learned that where the Bible had spoken, there was no need for man to create law. "Marriage was from the Bible, so when man takes it and re-creates the marriage statute, then it's against what was biblical-based," she told Hot Springs' daily newspaper. "That was just one little example of making laws to define something that has already been defined."
She was no doubt thinking of laws that allow same-sex marriage. But Jackson, in a letter to the editor of the Sentinel Record that the paper decided not to publish, wrote, "Which Biblical verses would she have us follow? Polygamy? Women as chattel? Divorce only for adultery? Gays an 'abomination'? Verses where God approves concubines? Women being silent and submissive to men? Having sex with one's daughters?"
To a reporter, he said, "I asked her who's going to do the concubinage dissolution?" Where are the ecclesiastical courts?
The answer to that last question might be at the Garland County Courthouse. More on that later.
Not a single Democrat won in Garland County's House and county races last November. It was a clean sweep, turning out, for example, incumbent state Rep. Gene Shelby, a leader in the hospital trauma system movement in 2009 who was seeking a seat in the Senate. Voters even chose a dead Republican over a living Democrat in a race for the House District 24 seat.
Elected by a wide margin to represent House District 26 — one that encompasses a part of Garland County south of Hot Springs — was Loy Mauch, an Abraham Lincoln-despising secessionist who believes the government will one day dose our water supply with lithium to lift our spirits and statin drugs to lower our cholesterol.
It was a bad year for Democrats the state and nation over, but Garland County's most conservative organizations — the Tea Party, the Watchmen, the Garland Good Government Group — are organized, active and can take a good part of the credit. Their number, some suggest, includes the many well-off retirees that move to Hot Springs and Garland County and believe they know what's best for the community, which largely parallels what's best for them personally. Or at least that's how some people see it, though they declined to be quoted. Of the conservative groups, only the Watchmen of Garland County is overtly religious. The group was founded in 2008, according to its mission statement, "for the purpose of educating the citizens of Garland County, Arkansas as to the objectiveness of the Pro-Gambling, Abortionists, and Homosexual communities in Hot Springs, Arkansas and Garland County Arkansas." Two of the founders of the Watchmen were Ken Carney, the mayor's husband and pastor of First Church of the Nazarene, and Hettie Lou Brooks, owner of Brookhill Ranch Summer Christian Camp. (As it happens, David Barton — whose vision of a Christian nation, former Gov. Mike Huckabee famously said, we should be forced to learn "at gunpoint" — sent his children to Brookhill, where every camper is "saved" at the conclusion of camp.)
The Watchmen and the Garland Good Government Group, or GGGG, flexed some muscle in 2009 when they headed up a recall of Hot Springs City Director Carroll Weatherford, who came under fire for traveling on the city's dime and other issues.
At the time, Diane Silverman was a member of the GGGG. Now she's a leader in the Garland County Tea Party, ostensibly a sectarian group. But the Tea Party now breaks bread with the Christian nation crowd, sponsoring a twice-weekly "Constitution Class" at Carney's church (also the new meeting place of the Republican Party of Garland County). The Tea Party class uses as its text "The 5,000 Year Leap," authored by the late Mormon prophet Cleon Skousen and championed by right-wing commentator Glenn Beck.
Before Beck fell in love with Skousen, the author was a forgotten Red-baiting John Bircher extremist who even the far right had dismissed as a profit-motivated kook. In "The 5,000 Year Leap," Skousen, like Barton, claims that America is, literally, God's country.
Silverman, who is Jewish, said recently that when evangelicals talk about a Christian nation, "they mean Judeo-Christian."
Maybe that's what conservatives mean. But here's what county GOP committee member Chuck Chatham wrote in a campaign letter during the special election for the House that pitted Republican Bruce Cozart against Democrat Jerry Rephan:
"The election is between Bruce Cozart (R), a pro-life, Christian who has served a number of years on the Lake Hamilton school board and Jerry Rephan (D). Jerry is a pro-abortion Jewish lawyer who specializes in 'environmental law' which means his primary clients as such were the Sierra Club and PETA, among others."
Chatham said his characterization of Rephan as a Jew was "inadvertent." But here's what Bob Driggers of the GGGG said when asked about the description of Rephan: "Well, he's Jewish, isn't he?"
That's the sort of comment you might expect in a community that opens its City Board meetings with a prayer in Christ's name and where the city's drug court, under Municipal Judge Ralph Ohm, resounds with cries of "Amen!" And "Praise Jesus!"
Judge Ohm, 58, is open, friendly, courteous and welcomes visitors to his courtroom. He is also deeply religious, decorates his office with crosses and has been told by members of the state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission that "we wish you wouldn't talk about God so much [in the courtroom]."
The JDDC looked into Ohm's court proceedings earlier this year after someone complained that the judge was pushing offenders into Christian rehabilitation programs, including one at Ohm's church, the First Church of the Nazarene — the Carneys' church. At the conclusion of its inquiry, in March, the commission wrote Ohm that it did not "find any evidence of judicial misconduct."
Ohm, who is part-time and who conducts, for no pay, the only misdemeanor drug court in the state, said he was happy to have the JDDC come to his courtroom. "If I'm doing something wrong, tell me and I'll fix it," he said.
Ohm said that he had been asking offenders "if they believed in God." The commission "asked me to wait until a defendant brought up the issue of God."
Ohm doesn't need to bring up God in his Friday drug courts, where offenders report in on their progress in rehabilitation and which he conducts without pay. It's a tent revival, with offenders (and sometimes the judge) weeping and praising God for what he's done to turn their lives around. Among the officials in the courtroom is probation officer Chris Carney, a graduate of the faith-based Teen Challenge rehab program who happens to be the son of Mayor Carney. (He was hired before his mother's run for mayor.) Only once, when this reporter visited the courtroom, did Ohm seem to solicit an offender's comments on God when, after one woman said she was a different person, he said, "You know why you're different?" It was a rhetorical question.
One offender — who had been arrested for beating up her boyfriend and whose mother told Ohm she had a drug problem — returned to court after two weeks in Potter's Clay, a faith-based program for women, with a boom box. She plugged it in and stood before the judge singing Natalie Grant's "In Better Hands." When she sang the verse "It's like the breath of Jesus is right here in this room," the courtroom erupted with shouts of "Yes!" and "Praise God!"
"It's kind of weird," Ohm said later in his office. "A lot of people in drug court are extremely talented. If somebody wants to sing, I let them."
Another offender that day told the judge that she was different because "I've got God in my life." A young man told him that God had blessed him with a new truck (his bicycle had been stolen from a church, he relayed, to much laughter from the courtroom). "God is good," he told the judge.
Their commitment is clearer in some than in others. Another man brought before the judge after he'd stolen from his father to support a hydrocodone habit told Ohm "God's got me." But he declined the judge's offer to send him to the faith-based program at The Father's House ("You're going to hear 'Jesus' until it runs out your ears," Father's House representative Brian Henry advised the man) after he learned he'd have to give up smoking.
Ohm doesn't see how giving a defendant the choice of jail or time in a faith-based rehab could be seen as promoting religion. "They are being pressured to go to rehabilitation as opposed to paying a fine, but not pressured to go to a faith-based" program. The judge is clearly passionate about getting people help turning around their lives, and he says it just so happens that there are more Christian programs than secular programs available. If people aren't interested in faith-based rehab, he said he'll offer secular programs, including Quapaw House, which is run by the state, but which he said is small and expensive. The judge stressed that only about 80 people in his caseload of thousands go to Christian programs.
A man who asked that his name not be revealed contacted the Times to say that he felt he'd been coerced into attending the outpatient Celebrate Recovery program. He tried it for two weeks, returned to court and said he didn't wish to continue because of the six-month contract it requires. He claims Ohm "got aggravated" and gave him five days in jail and a fine of $400 for public intoxication. The man — who said he was Christian and wasn't averse to religion — felt he had no choice but to continue with Celebrate Recovery.
Ohm said the defendant may have thought he was being penalized, but "that would not be true."
Ohm, who has been using faith-based programs for four years, said, "I've had great success in doing this. From my court's perspective, it's not about fining people and putting them in jail."
Ohm said there was no data on recidivism from the Christian rehab programs in Hot Springs, but he said he was seeing few repeat offenders in his courtroom. "I will see some of them again, but not many." He conceded he wouldn't see those who might end up in circuit court on felony charges. He sees misdemeanors only.
Is it possible their experience in his Friday court, with the many shouts of "Amen" and his obvious approval of faith-based programs blur for those in attendance the concept of the separation of church and state? "Anything is possible," Ohm said, adding that there would be other influences on their lives. "I believe separation of church and state is a valuable and important concept," the judge said, "but I do not believe organizations should be excluded from helping people just because they have their genesis in church."
Ohm said Friday drug and alcohol courts are his favorite days, and that his presiding over them is a "calling."
Ruth Carney, because of her remarks about the Bible and the law, the fact that she is married to pastor Ken Carney, and because of her campaign support by Hot Springs Women of Prayer, has been held up as an example of the Spa City's flirtation with so-called Christian government.
Hot Springs is run by a city manager. The mayor conducts the meetings of the City Board and has a vote, but no more power than that. She doesn't even have an office in City Hall, something she's trying to rectify.
Nevertheless, Carney, 62, has been a lightning rod since taking office in January, drawing criticism from the Sentinel Record — which Tea Baggers and the GGGG like to call the Senile Record — and fellow board members alike. In an odd move for a city booster, as one assumes the mayor to be, she criticized the city's attendance estimate at its St. Patrick's Day Parade ("The World's Shortest") as wildly overblown. She has cast the lone no vote on issues that even those aligned with her, in a gesture of conciliation and concensus, have voted for. Most recently, she made a joke on a Facebook page that she'd hired snipers to get rid of tourists that littered, were drunk and didn't pay good tips, humor that has backfired. Using a page from Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola's playbook, she's asked the Advertising and Promotion Commission to use its 3 percent hotel and restaurant tax to fund the city's parks department to free up dollars in the general fund, a suggestion it declined.
Carney, who won by a plurality, with 48 percent of the vote compared to former Mayor Mike Bush's 42 percent and recalled director Carroll Weatherford's 10 percent, acknowledges being a greenhorn.
"I'm not a politician," she said in an interview, "but I know how to be nice to people." She said she ran for mayor after attending city board meetings starting several years ago and becoming "overwhelmed at how rude [the board] was to each other and the citizens." She said Hot Springs was being run like Hazzard County, with Mayor Bush (who even supporters describe as abrasive) as "Boss" Hogg. Echoing the GGGG and the Tea Party, she says she's tired of the "good old boys" being in charge and is sympathetic to Tea Party charges that the 3 percent A and P tax is "taxation without representation."
The "good old boys," which would include the tourism industry and city managers, "don't like me. I'm new and I'm messing up the system," Carney said. As proof she offered the fact that the Hot Springs Convention Center trashed a welcome letter she wrote for the 2011 Hot Springs Guest Guide, using the A&P commission chief's instead.
Carney had been invited by CEO Steve Arrison after the fall election to write the letter for the introductory page, as Mayor Bush did the year previous, and was told she could crib what was already written or write her own. She wrote her own, citing Hot Springs attractions such as the Duck Tours and the RayLynn Theater, two businesses she says the Advertising and Promotion Commission routinely ignores in its marketing efforts. She omitted any mention of Oaklawn Park, which many would consider to be one of Hot Springs' defining attractions, and which claims to have a $200 million economic impact on the city. Carney said she didn't need to mention Oaklawn in her greeting to tourists because it was mentioned elsewhere, many times, in the guide.
Carney believes her letter didn't run because of objections to its content; Bureau CEO Steve Arrison said it didn't run because she did not get the letter to him before the print deadline. "If it was a matter of not liking her, we wouldn't have asked her" to write a letter, Arrison said.
Carney's more famous run-in with the Advertising and Promotion Commission came when the Sentinel Record, obtained and published an e-mail from the mayor to the board calling Arrison's estimate of 30,000 in attendance at the St. Patrick's Day parade "baseless" and "absurd" and saying the city should be more careful when putting out crowd estimates. The e-mail prompted an uproar and within days the City Board passed a resolution thanking the A and P Commission for the work it does to promote Hot Springs. Some 160 people turned out for the board meeting on the resolution, which was unanimously approved.
In her interview with a reporter, Carney suggested it was equally absurd to infer from her remark that she did not support tourism in Hot Springs, as some did. She then told her sniper joke, adding, "Don't put that in." Her repeat of the joke on Facebook brought a damning editorial from the Sentinel Record on May 11. "For some reason," the editorial said, "the mayor does not understand that what she says and how she presents herself reflects — good or bad — on the city and its residents." And, for some reason, the mayor decided to stoke the fires with a Facebook post, writing "I, Ruth Carney do solemnly swear to be solem [sic], never to be sarcastic, always BE SERIOUS and to love, honor and cherish TOURISM, all TOURISM INDUSTRY WORKERS, TOURISM RELATED buses, trucks, cars, people, children, conference attendees" and, later, "Did you hear! Ruth Carney LOVES Tourism! She supports it! She loves everybody in the Tourism Industry!……will this make the front page of the Sentinel Record? Probably not…they really don't care about reporting the 'truth.' Fair? Balanced? what does that mean?" If people didn't know before that Carney, who campaigned on returning civility to government, has a sarcastic streak a mile wide, they do now.
Carney has one sure ally on the board in Director Peggy Maruther. But she has alienated Director Elaine Jones, also a GGGG target, for trying to rotate her off the Advertising and Promotion Board, and has gotten flak from other board members for her desire, shared by Maruther, to let the public speak at length at meetings, whether the issue they want to address is on the agenda or not. In February, for example, Carney and Maruther were upset that a minister who wanted the city to audit Oaklawn Park had not been allowed to speak, despite the fact that the board had voted 5-2 to remove the resolution based on his request from its consent agenda as beyond the city's purview.
Carney was incensed (and other directors, too, were surprised) at another meeting when Directors Jones and Tom Daniels openly criticized Dr. Tom Robertson's nomination for the Civil Service Commission. The directors charged that Robertson bore "false witness" by bringing claims of ethics violations against them; Robertson, who did not win a position on the commission, has since sued the two for $1 million each for defamation.
Carney was furious that Robertson wasn't allowed to respond after the motion to appoint him was tabled. When the suit was filed, she complained that the city attorney had referred the suit to the Municipal League, saying she thought it was bad policy to provide insurance for what she deemed intentional misconduct on the part of the directors. Since then, Director Cynthia Keheley, who's been on the board for two and a half years, has introduced a resolution that restates board policy on limiting speakers to three minutes on issues on the agenda, and allowing the mayor to give them an extra minute to wrap up.
"I have had a concern that there has been a lack of going by the established rules … and straying off course, not being able to take care of the city's business and the agenda items," Keheley said last week. "We need to restore and return to some form of rules and regulations."
Keheley noted that Arkansas Municipal League counsel Mark Hayes had given a "wonderful" explanation of the role of the Board of Directors, the city manager, mayoral power and their ability to limit speech at a work session a week ago.
Keheley's resolution, which was tabled, also said that personal electronic devices should be silenced, and it is telling of how things are going in Hot Springs that at last week's work session a small but vocal group of citizens "thought we were banning every electronic device that God made, including medical devices," Keheley said. They protested that her resolution was "against the American way." Keheley said she merely wants cell phones silenced, which is board policy already. The only new policy her resolution would introduce, she said, is a 15-minute public comment period after board meetings.
(Keheley herself has been a target of the GGGG, which in protest of her resolution posted on its website a cartoon showing guns being pointed at her. She protested, and the cartoon was pulled down.)
Carney, who told a reporter that she felt like she was meeting with her therapist because of all the talking she was doing in the interview, said she wants people who "bash" her to "get to know me."
She spent 10 years doing missionary work in the Dominican Republic before moving to Hot Springs 15 years ago. She worked with Garland County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), which she said was "my way of getting back in the streets," and trained to be a therapeutic foster parent. She says she is not aligned with the Tea Party on all matters; when it comes to illegal immigration, for example, she is for clemency: "I would walk across the desert to save my children."
Carney said she didn't "bring Jesus, God, Christ into my campaign." She said she was stirred to anger by the disrespectful nature of the City Council and is a person who wants "to fix broken things." Asked why she didn't run sooner, she said it wasn't the right time. She did not mention that her husband was a candidate for the City Council two years ago; he was defeated by Daniel.
Does Carney believe America is a Christian nation? She paused before replying yes, "only in that it's not a Hindu nation, it's not a Jewish nation." Like Barton, she says that the separation of church and state is a Biblical concept, to keep the state from intruding into church affairs. She said hers is a "Biblical world view" that believes that "God's law is law." She quoted Barton as telling the officials, "Don't use your religious terminology. Don't turn people off. He wanted to show us how to have an influence without being obnoxious."
Carney said "I'm still discovering America." By that she meant she's finding that the political process sometimes requires that people limit their speech. But she believes that she's not the one acting out of order at meetings, but that what's happening at the meetings is out of order.
One of the things David Barton advised in his meeting with elected officials in Hot Springs — a meeting that began with a choked-up Ken Carney proclaiming that "God is favoring our county" — was that when it comes to attempts by the public to limit prayer and other religious activities, "don't trust your attorneys."
Hot Springs evangelicals — and their Tea Party and GGGG associates — don't trust anyone in charge, apparently.
Jerry Rephan, the lawyer who lost to Cozart in the special election for the House of Representatives, said it's "not the case at all" that there is growing anti-semitic sentiment in Hot Springs. During his campaign, he said, "I heard support for me and respect for the Jewish community," which has deep roots in Hot Springs. But, he added, "it's something to be cautious about."
http://www.arktimes.com/gyrobase/theyre-coming-out/Content?oid=1726778 or http://bit.ly/lp6fqV or http://tinyurl.com/6gdlhwt


text:
Travel Period Detroit to Beijing: Travel to Beijing could commence November 7-December 7, 2016, and all travel must be completed by March 7, 2017. If you are filling up these memory cards your on-line travel journal also serves as a dumping ground to unload your images/videos so you can take much more picture with out shelling out $80 for another memory card. Even even though Southeast Asia is full of beaches, that doesn't imply you must pack two bikinis and practically nothing else. We also give extensive Emergency Evacuation and Emergency Health-related travel insurance coverage. I am 60 years old Chinese lady coming to Sydney in DECEMBER 2015.I can cook and appear right after babies. Primarily based on your motives for the check out, you require to begin seeking for the excellent travel package.
I say rent the low cost guesthouses, eat and get cool stuff from all the distinct vendors….all with a bit of caution even though of course! I dont want to travel with that " the far more nations I see the greater it is" -believed I am also ok with concentrating on unique regions and it would be wonderful to have the possibility to decide on my route when beeing in the nations.
Names like Sony, Samsung and Sanyo are synonymous with the electronics sector, making Asia a single of the ideal places to shop for higher-tech goods and solutions. When travelling as a group, dependants under 21 are not covered for free and they will be considered as 'travelling adults' in order to be covered on a group policy. With the military presently in control of the Thai government, it is best to keep away from political demonstrations – which is a recommendation for almost every nation in Asia. And really feel cost-free to e-mail me directly if you have something else far more particular you happen to be questioning about. There are excellent selections for hotels primarily based on whatever spending budget from $10 to what ever luxury you demand. Me and my companion are organizing a roughly 40 day trip about some of the price range countries in the SEA.
In key cities, in any 1 of the country's numerous huge shopping malls, there is a really unbelievable variety of cheap quick-meals, from western international brands and regional copies to Thai, Japanese and Korean gigs. The Philippines is ultra-diverse, there's one thing for pretty considerably everyone (from swimming with Whale Sharks, cheap diving and forgotten beaches to excellent surfing, even greater nightlife, hill tribes the list goes on). Not only did that very first Thailand expertise open our eyes to the fact that we could travel comfortably and inexpensively for extended periods, but it also helped us recognize that there was a globe to discover beyond Europe, our home at the time. For outdoor enthusiasts, a wonderful way to see parts of Asia is by way of bicycle tours. MetroStar Ferry makes travel to Cavite City actually fast: 40 minutes, no much more no less.
The CDC has reported thousands of confirmed Zika situations that U.S. travelers have brought back to the states with them, like far more than 800 pregnant women. The 2 week guy just wants to tube in laos and travel thailand so im guessing Nam' and cambodia would be the after new year thing. I took the ferry at its terminal in SM Mall of Asia and it departed at 11:00 AM. We reached the MetroStar Ferry terminal in Cavite City at 11:40 AM, sharp.