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Goddess New Moon Rituals
Today we enter the energy of the New Moon. The new moon is other wise referred to as The Waxing Moon or the Dark Moon. To integrate Moon rituals into your Goddess Practice is a lovely next step. Women who honour the Goddess honour the Goddess within themselves. Before beginning a craft or practice of any kind here are some lovely guidelines for working with the New Moon.
New Moon Rituals are a time for clearing out emotional and psychic clutter, removing negativity and creating room for new beginnings. This is a great time to bring in new manifestations. This is where the Goddess is in her youthful form the Maiden.
Being women our psychic abilities are at their highest during this phase of the moon cycle. During the dark moon/new moon phase, our instincts and intuition are fully charged. This is a time for introspection and turning inward to clearing out all that does not serve.
This is the perfect time for soul searching, reflection, deep meditation and accessing our darker side. We all have dark elements within ourselves. By acknowledging all aspects of who we are we connect with our inner most power. When we stop resisting or pretending these aspects don't exist and begin to embrace all that we are we release ourselves from the holdings of darker energies. As Goddess we honour, acknowledge and release. By accepting all parts of who you are you will further build your inner confidence of self and grow your psychic, emotional and magical strength.
In new moon rituals and Goddess Craft it is very important to understand and practice the following:
There is no room for fear in Goddess Craft or magic of any kind. If you are allowing fear into the mix you smother the intention and the magic you are practicing. Intentions are a direct line to source, to Gaia, to the Goddess. When we are at peace the Goddess can receive our message clearly and assist us in bringing the intention to fruition. It is fundamental to ground your emotions, clear your mind and energy before conducting any type of ritual, casting or manifestation intention. Meditation, exercise, journalling or a lovely aromatherapy bath are all ways to clear your energy.
Practice makes perfect, the more you learn about your area of study the more confident you will become in your skills. Be open to learning from various sources, study, and experience has much as you can. Working with your magical abilities is is like any muscle, the more muscle you want to build the more practice you will be required to do. Confidence is a graceful beautiful strength. Explore your talents and develop your strengths.
–Self Control
With great power comes great responsibility. There is a lot of power in harnessing the energies of the Goddess and using them for the greater good. You need to know your own strength and strive to be in control of your power at all times. Self-discipline allows any magical change to be manifested in a smooth, controlled and beautifully strong way.
Because the energies of the New Moon are so strong when we as women work with the energies we will feel the effects immediately, thus illuminating further the emphasis on being aware, integral and on purpose. It is important we share this information with our brothers, husbands, lovers and friends. The point of Goddess craft is not to exclude the masculine as we are all equally part of this magical existence. Openly communicating with the men in your life will also build your confidence in your abilities, your personal voice and honouring the divine feminine within you. It will also provide you both the opportunity to grow your communication and practice love.
An amazing resource for New Moon Solitary practice is Diane Stein's Book Guide to Goddess Craft http://www.dianestein.net/
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(Bloomberg) -- A legal memo prepared by the IRS says tax returns must be turned over to Congress if requested, exposing disagreement within the Treasury Department, which has refused to comply with a subpoena for President Donald Trump's returns, The Washington Post reported.
The memo said that the only way out of complying with the request from House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal is for the president to take the rare step of executive privilege.
The Post said in a report published Tuesday that it could not determine who wrote the memo or who reviewed it. The agency told the Post that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and current chief counsel Michael Desmond were unfamiliar with it until the Post asked them about it. The Internal Revenue Service also said the memo was never forwarded to Treasury.
A Treasury spokesman said that no one in the agency's leadership had seen the IRS' memo and reiterated that the decision to withhold Trump's financial records was based on advice from the Justice Department.
The White House declined to comment. The Ways and Means Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the memo does say that the disclosure of tax returns to the committee "is mandatory, requiring the secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing chairs," which would mean the leaders of Ways and Means, the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The memo was prepared last fall, the Post reported, when Democrats were readying their request for six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns. The request is based on a 1924 law that says the Treasury Department "shall" turn over any individual's tax returns to Congress if requested by those congressional chairmen.
Some legal scholars have said that the request needs a legislative purpose, although the law does not state that outright. Neal told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that he needed the returns so his committee could oversee the routine annual audits conducted of every president and vice president.
After Mnuchin declined Neal's request several times, Neal issued a subpoena, which Mnuchin last week refused. Neal and other House leaders are considering their next steps.
But U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, in a related ruling involving the Trump administration's efforts to block a different committee from seeing the records of the president's accounting firm, Mazars LLC, said it was not the place of either the judicial branch or the executive branch to question Congress's stated legislative purpose.
The 10-page memo says the law "does not allow the secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met."
"The secretary's obligation to disclose return and return information would not be affected by the failure of a tax-writing committee . . . to state a reason for the request," it says, according to the Post. The "only basis the agency's refusal to comply with a committee's subpoena would be the invocation of the doctrine of executive privilege."
Trump broke with more than 40 years of presidential campaign precedent when he refused to release his tax returns in 2016. He has also refused since then, claiming they were under audit, although no law prevents Congress reviewing them while the IRS audits them.
House Democrats want to see Trump's returns to confirm the amount and source of his wealth, to see if he has any foreign entanglements that could affect his presidency, and whether he ever cheated on his taxes.
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Stocks Slightly Down for the Day (C, EK)
Major indices were down today, only barely managing to keep a multi-week gain streak going. Investors were anxious in part because Spain set lower deficit targets for itself than it had previously agreed to with European leaders, underlining the inherent ungovernability of the eurozone's fiscal policy. In corporate news, Facebook added Citigroup Inc (C) as one of its lines of credit leading up to its initial public offering. The faltering Eastman Kodak (EK), meanwhile, sold off its online photo service to competitor Shutterfly (SFLY).
Word on the Street
- Stocks were down for the day and just barely up for the week.
- The Federal Reserve extended comment time on proposed risk regulations.
- The euro is down as Spain refused to fulfill its deficit obligations.
- More than 1.3 million Americans shifted from banks to credit unions last year.
- Facebook added Citigroup Inc. (C) to its lines of credit leading up to IPO.
- Eastman Kodak Co (EK) is selling off their online photo service to Shutterfly (SFLY).
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Board Certified in the Treatment and Management of Ocular Disease. Dr. Hunt is married and has four children. He enjoys fishing in the mountains or spending time on the beach in San Diego. He grew up in Las Vegas. He has coached his son's soccer team for the last seven years and the boys recently won the Far West Regional tournament in June and went on to win the National President's Cup Championship in Indiana in July 2018.
Bachelor of Sciences: University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV | Pre-professional Biology
Medical School: Doctorate of Optometry.
Bachelor of Science in Vision Science. Honors in all clinical rotations.
Externships/Medical Training: University Chicago Hospital – Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. Chicago, IL | Emergency Ophthalmology, Retina, Glaucoma, Cornea and Contact Lenses, Pediatric Ophthalmology, and Oculoplastics.
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|Lehre, Germany: Our area is directly in the landscape, but surrounded by many bigger cities. Mountains are a one hour ride, seaside 3 hours...
On the pictures you can see me and the nature around our house.
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Animals, postcards, stamps, fridgemagnets, thimbles, snowglobes, nature, travelling, painting.
You have a room with a desk, chair, bed for two persons, cupboard and can use anything and anytime you like from our apartment.
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It's been two months now, living at the hospital. My daughter has spent the first two months of her life in intensive care, surrounding by the beep of heart monitors and the clinical decor of a sterile room. In between the bustle of nurses and pediatricians, I've been struck by how much I never realized about living life this way, despite the friends we've had confront similar situations.
I never realized how tired I would get, how watching someone you love struggle to grow could chafe at you like a bad pair of shoes, leaving you raw and blistered without your even noticing. I never realized the anger and frustration I would feel, the way even a good report could make you want to yell because it wasn't the report you wanted – the news that she was coming home. I never realized how wrong the world could feel, when the question "how are you?" could never honestly be answered with "fine," when a successful day is one you survive with your faith and hope intact.
I never realized any of this, and yet there's something familiar about it all. It's common in these situations for people to say "I can't imagine what you're going through." This is in some sense true, of course, and is meant as a gesture of compassion. Yet the fact is that, for all these last few months have felt like repeated kicks in the teeth, they've only served as an acute reminder of the dull ache I've always had in my jaw. The weariness and frustration and wrongness have all become painfully acute these last two months, but they've always been there.
Tragedy isn't a break from the usual business of life. We're always up to our necks in a broken world; it's just that sometimes the brokenness sloshes over our heads, rushing into our noses and making us choke. For fear of confronting the frailty of our peace we distract ourselves with the glitz and hustle of this fractured world. But the waters of life are not to be ignored, and the waves that smack us in the face are reminders of our fallen estate.
The reality of this world as Scripture presents it to us is not a pretty picture. The bible consistently forces us to remove the blinkers and open our eyes. It shows us a world where tyrants triumph, innocents die, good men do terrible things and bad men often escape justice. Creation might be good, men might bear God's image, but this goodness and this likeness are fractured into pieces by the fall, and we often get cut on the sharp edges.
This picture has little appeal to a people in love with Kincaid paintings and stylized movies, where everything is pastoral beauty and everyone is airbrushed. Yet it is precisely this picture which we need to see. In the gospel, God goes to war with this broken world, not to destroy it but to put it back together again, even though that's the last thing it desires. It is the great strategy of the prince of this world to keep us from joining this fight, not by defeating us, but by making us fall in love too much with the way things are and keeping us from dreaming of how they will be. The Christian response should start not with a happy lie, but with a broken heart.
I'll be damned if I ever accept life at the hospital as the way things ought to be. As much as some would like to talk about a "new normal," as if a few adjustments in perspective could make everything better, I'll never believe it. Children should not be struggling to breath. They should not have wires tangled around their little bodies. Nothing is okay about it; nothing is quite right here. Yet this isn't an expression of despair. Instead, it's to hope for healing, for redemption.
Redemption is what the Bible holds out to us in the midst of a world ravaged by the effects of sin. Redemption from our guilt, from our bondage, from our sin-sick hearts and broken bodies. We aren't called to be Buddhists; we aren't meant to deny the dissatisfaction in our souls. This world is a hospital, a place for the sick and dying. Nothing is quite right here. It is only when we realize this truth that we can begin to grasp the hope of a better world, a world of life and health and peace. It is only when we realize we are deeply wounded that we can endure the cure.


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You see to the right of this page the winner of an impromptu contest between a bunch of us, that of constructing the best toilet.
This winning entry is one we have used ever since. The instructions on how to make it sounds weird, but it is the best solution we have found to combine wilderness with (somewhat) the comforts of home.
What you will need:
- 1 toilet seat, the cheapest one you can find, usually about 5 or 10 dollars.
- 1 roll duct tape
- a folding camp chair, the webbing of which has already been removed
- 2 sections of 2″x 4″, about 5 feet long poles, or 2 five-foot-long sections of tree branch about 2″ thick.
- 1 fully compostable garbage bag.
- a shovel
- a mattock (optional)
- 1-2 tarps
- several bungee cords.
- 1 section of log
- a plastic toilet roll container with lid.
- 1 roll compostable toilet paper.
- 1 small spade
How to put it all together:
- Duct tape toilet seat to the back bar of the chair where the seat and the back meet. Next, put two long strips of duct tape from that join up and over the back of the chair, as pictured.
- Duct tape "feet" of chair to the two five-foot sections of wood so that they will straddle the hole you are about to dig.
- Select spot for chair at least 100 yards away from any water source, preferably in the middle of a stand of at least three saplings or small trees, and dig a hole as deeply as possible (at least 3 feet deep), breaking the ground with the mattock if need be. (The mattock is a pain to take along but the first time I used it I knew I needed to have it with me whenever I went camping.) Leave the dug-up soil in a tidy pile beside the hole.
- Take compostable garbage bag and cut the bottom off, leaving you with a tube of compostable plastic.
- Use several small squares of duct tape and "tape" the tube to the underside of the seat part of the toilet seat, then position the chair over the hole, shaking the bag out so it hangs down into it; this protects the back of your legs against your own pee should a wicked wind kick up.
- Up-end log section to use as a small end table and place handily beside the chair so that your toilet paper is within reach.
- Leave small spade with the pile of dug-up earth. A shovelful of earth into the hole to cover over poop keeps the smell down wonderfully. (Never, ever throw anything into the hole that is not compostable, including sanitary napkins and tampons. Pack such items home in a small personal garbage bag).
- Finally, use the tarps to wrap around saplings or trees that may surround your toilet. Use the bungee cords (or twine if you prefer) to attach the tarp to the trees.
Packing Up:
When you get ready to go back home simply detach the compostable plastic bag from the duct tape and let fall into the hole, then bury. Use a pen knife to remove the seat from the chair, pack all duct tape out of the camping area with the rest of the garbage to take home, wipe the seat down with a little hydrogen peroxide and put the seat and the chair into a clean garbage bag to pack into car. That way you can leave it in the bag and pack it away with the camping gear for the next time you go camping!
Take along a bottle of biodegradable, non-toxic waste treatment for outdoor toilets. It is an even better way to keep odor at bay. We use the earth all the time, and now and then add a little waste treatment to the pit. Be sure that it is biodegradable and non-toxic, though–the last thing you want to do is add chemicals to nature. Try to leave as little a footprint as possible at your campsite, even if it is one others use regularly.


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"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another." Job 19:25-27a ESV
This is the truth that instills hope in every believer's heart. The infinite truth, that Christ died for our sins and was buried — but the grave could not hold Him. He arose, triumphant over sin and death, and lives forevermore on high! The heavenly truth, that we will see Him again — live with Him in unbroken fellowship in the place He is preparing for us. This is the glorious truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, hand-lettered and ready to place wherever you want!
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Why hasn't someone thought of this before? Raising funds for typhoon victims by teaching people how to kick butt.
Tonight, Ryer Martial Arts Academy, in Oakland, is hosting an Intro to Filipino Martial Arts Workshop.
The class will be taught by Master Zach Whitson, who is a student of Grandmaster Cacoy Canete, a Filipino working in the relief effort overseas. The two are pictured. Whitson is founder of the Counterpoint Tactical System affiliate of martial-arts studios.
The workshop is open to anyone 13 and up.
Filipino martial arts is known for its heritage of stick fighting, as pictured, as well as other weaponry.
"This workshop will be a wonderful way to help the Filipino people in this time of great need as well as immerse yourself into the martial history and warrior culture of the Philippines," says Ryer Academy owner Joshua Ryer in a statement.
Similar fund-raising workshops are being held at martial-arts studios in several other cities across the U.S.
Ryer Martial Arts Academy is located at 5440 Centre Ave. Learn more at www.ryeracademy.com.
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Slip a five-liter keg of your favorite brew into this Countertop Beer Cooler and Tap, and satisfy that beer jones in style. The thing even has an LED showing adjustable temperature. It has another advantage over some of the other countertop taps we've seen, too, because it lets you take it on the road or on the boat with its included AC/DC power adapter.
There's no pesky pumping necessary, either, because it uses CO2 cartridges, and you can even adjust the CO2 content with a pressure gauge. If it works as advertised, it can keep that beer nice and cold all the way down to 37°.
Sure beats the hell out of those beer bongs the guys have been trying to convince me to quaff. I especially like the window that lets you see that keg nestled inside, staying frosty cool and awaiting the consumption of its frothy contents. Available at the end of this month, pick one up for that Labor Day bash for $299.95


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When I observe the evolution both Genders have experienced in the past few years- I see Men lagging behind. Do not take me wrong but really, this is what I see from my end.
Did anyone hear any man gaining superpowers after becoming a Father? But I am sure you must have heard many women talking about acquiring Superpowers after becoming Mothers.
This is where we go wrong. We always set too-high, unrealistic expectations from Self.
Why we always strive to be the best, to be in the good books of all, to be that ideal Daughter, Daughter-in-law, Wife, and Mother?
This is not something Men did but we did this to ourselves. But man, do we have an option?
No. When responsibilities get piled up and workload gets doubled or tripled, we started feeling like a torchbearer and end up overburdening ourselves.
What happens at the end of the day, is cribbing or nagging or yelling at Kids. Now you know why we Women suffer more form mood swings or anxiety or self-pity?
The problem lies with the upbringing. We do it differently when it comes to Girls and Boys. Why? Because we are hard-wired with our traditions and customs and stereotypes. And if someone tries to question them, they get criticism from everyone.
I agree the basic difference lies in the genetics but rather than bridging the gap, we reinforced it with passing time.
We always lecture our Girls to learn the skills in the name of Marriage. We tell them that the responsibility of a successful marriage lies all on their shoulders. We have set different gender roles in society.
I accept the fact that when these rules were set, the time was different. Women were only restricted to Home to do household work and it was only Men who took the responsibility for outside work. But Now nothing remains same. Both spend equal time outside Home. Both have to deal with people. Both are contributing to the financial needs of Home. Both need their personal space.
Is there still a need to follow these outdated rules? Is there a need to define gender roles in society?
This only ends up disrupting the Marital Life and ends up stressing the couples. We need to break the rules and rather take up the responsibilities as per time and work allows.
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The World Water Week event will take place in Stockholm Sweden between August 31 and September 5, 2014. Each year the World Water Week addresses a particular theme to enable a deeper examination of a specific water-related topic. This year's theme is "Energy and Water." While not all events during the week relate to the overall theme, the workshops driven by the Scientific Programme Committee and many seminars and side events focus on various aspects of the theme.
This event has been the annual focal point for the globe's water issues since 1991. The World Water Week is hosted and organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
Every year, SIWI provides a platform for over 200 collaborating organizations to convene events at the World Water Week. In addition, individuals from around the globe present their findings at the scientific workshops.
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World Water Week 2013: Water Cooperation - Building Partnerships
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News From District Ranger Kevin Warner
(July 11, 2015)
It has been quite a while since I last sent out an update to the community about happenings related to the Cave Creek Canyon Sustainable Recreation efforts that were initially kicked off in response to the flooding last September. I apologize for the long span of time in-between updates and the correspondingly long e-mail update here, we have had a busy spring/summer here on the Ranger District with a great youth based watershed project in the southern end of the Chiricahuas, two good sized fires in the Peloncillos, plus a bunch of other great activities. It is good to be busy!
Now, I will outline a few of the developments since last time that I sent out an update and I hope that it will not be so long until the next one. Please pay special attention to the last bullet as it talks about future planning efforts.
· Sunny Flat, Stewart, and Rustler Park Campgrounds were re-opened March 27. Sunny Flat and Stewart saw good public use for a few months and now have dropped off for the hotter summer months. With the monsoons upon us we will be monitoring the weather forecasts closely and may need to temporarily close Sunny Flat and Stewart throughout the rainy season to better ensure a safe public recreation experience.
· The South Fork Road has remained closed to vehicular travel since September. Like many recreation based issues I have been receiving unsolicited reports from users of the area, some love the peace and quiet of the walk along the road (and of course the birds that they see), and others are frustrated with the extra walk that is now required to get further up into the South Fork drainage. I am taking them all into consideration as we work to come up with a long-term solution.
· The road repairs in the canyon as well as other areas in the Chiricahuas are currently still on schedule to begin in early to mid-September and last for 3-4 months. At times this will require up to 30 minute delays on the main road, but the contractor will try to keep them to a minimum. Later in the project the main road over Onion saddle and the road to Rustler Park will be totally closed to traffic for an unspecified amount of time, but most likely it will take 1-3 weeks. This will be timed to have the least impact to residents, tourists, recreationists, and hunters and at the same time we recognize that it is an inconvenience.
· The team of individuals that agreed to work on volunteer coordination met on April 4th and put together a collaborative plan with both the Forest Service and the community working together to attract more volunteers for the Visitor Center and as camp hosts. Since putting this plan into action we have been able to staff the Visitor Center seven days a week for much of the time and we have had only a short lapse in camp hosts. We have been receiving many more volunteer inquiries than we have in the past, so please continue to encourage others to put in their application at the volunteer.gov website https://www.volunteer.gov/ Thanks to everyone that has helped in this effort, and special thanks to all the volunteers that have chosen to spend their personal time volunteering for the betterment of public land management!
· The South Fork Trailhead has become more of a challenge than originally imagined. On March 31st we conducted a field trip to discuss different options for relocating the trailhead. The options included two locations just upstream of the recreation residence cabins, one location at the junction with the main road (current location of the road gate), and one location in-between. While there was not 100% group consensus it was generally agreed that the location in-between appeared to be the most sustainable long-term and had good potential to provide appropriate public service/access. There were some assumptions that went along with the in-between option, including a trail paralleling the road that would be friendly to those with disabilities, some road work being completed for access to the cabins, and the same trailhead amenities would constructed in the future. Unfortunately the Federal Highways Administration (entity funding the road repairs) later determined that they could not assist the Forest Service with construction of the trailhead at the preferred location. The current plan is to have the Federal Highways Administration reconstruct the South Fork Road to a point just upstream of the recreation residence cabins and create a small vehicular turnaround, but not a trailhead. This action will be completed as part of the overall road reconstruction contract beginning in September, and after the turnaround is completed I will then determine if the turnaround is adequate to allow vehicles to that point in the short-term. We will be addressing the issue of the South Fork trailhead relocation in the larger discussion around recreation in Cave Creek Canyon that is the focus of the last bullet in this long line of updates.
· In mid-April the community came out in force to help maintain and reconstruct the Nature Trail. Thanks to all the hard work put in by many volunteers that day the Nature Trail is again in good shape. THANKS!
· As you should recall, getting the campgrounds open to the public is only a short-term fix until we can create a long-term solution to providing the public a safe camping experience in the Cave Creek Canyon Recreation Area. It is now time to embark on the long-term recreation planning effort that was discussed in the public meeting back in February. This planning effort will include discussions around developed camping, developed day use, the South Fork trailhead and other potential recreational opportunities in the Cave Creek Recreation Area. I have a list of approximately 15 individuals who indicated that they would be willing to participate as part of a team in this planning effort and I will be reaching out to those individuals shortly to confirm that they are still interested. This effort will most likely include meetings on a monthly basis for a while and potentially some research work to be done outside of the meetings. At certain intervals along the process the long-term recreation planning team will provide information to the rest of the interested public that is not directly involved as part of the team. If there is anyone who was not at the February public meeting that believes that they would like to be part of this long-term recreation planning team, please contact me via e-mail or phone call by July 20 so that I can get you included.
I know that I did not mention some other great projects going on in the area that were not specifically tied to the Sustainable Recreation Efforts, but please let me express my sincere appreciation to the Friends of Cave Creek Canyon and the Sierra Club for a couple of volunteer projects that have taken place recently involving young people from Tucson. Thanks to everyone.
Trail and Spring Update
Zac Ribbing and a volunteer trail crew did a great deal of clearing of some of the upper trails during the week beginning September 19th. The Crest is clear from Rustler to Sentinel. A lot of good work was done on Upper Bootlegger, Crest 270b (Chiricahua saddle to Junction saddle), 270d (Chiricahua saddle to Aspen saddle), and Fly peak is clear on both sides to the peak. 270b still needs some work but they managed to get some of the biggest problem trees cleared.
If you know of a section of trail that needs work, particularly if it's a recent development, Zac would like to hear from you with the details. Zac's contact information is:
Zac Ribbing
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Douglas District:
Springs –
All springs encountered have been flowing great this year. Expect to find normal to above normal flows at the springs in the mountains as we come into the fall.
Trails –
Many trails have been getting long needed maintenance this year and should continue improving throughout 2011. Work has been, and will continue to be focused in the Chiricahuas. The following will cover work accomplished, and projected areas of work into the spring of 2011. Most of the work to come will be funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) contracted through various conservation corps*, as well as from our dedicated volunteers.
#228 Raspberry Ridge – Lower end of trail was cleared last fall and upper end should be cleared in early September 2010. Work done with CREC* funded by State grant and ARRA, entire 4.6 miles when complete.
#243 South Fork – About the first 4 miles of this trail is in great shape due to many local volunteers, and fire crews in the area during the Horseshoe fire. The trail should see more work in the future with local volunteers (Portal area and Sierra Club).
#246 Snowshed – Lower end maintained by ACE* funded by State grants. Upper end, above Pine park, maintained by CREC funded by ARRA. The upper end of the trail still needs lots of work. It is now cleared of down trees and brush so one can at least find the trail much easier compared to recent years. More work will be aimed at maintaining this trail to complete the entire 10 miles of trail.
#247 Booger spring trail – This short trail (0.2 miles) was cleared with help from local volunteers and the Sierra Club in June.
#248 Greenhouse – This trail was maintained by CREC up to the "Cima Barn" funded by ARRA (4.0 miles). In addition the trail from the "barn" to the Crest trail junction was maintained by the Sierra Club.
#252 Jhus – This 1.1 mile trail was cleared by local volunteers in May/June.
#257 Bootlegger – The upper 0.7 miles of this trail was cleared from the junction of the Crest to the junction of the Rock Creek trail by local volunteers in June.
#270 Crest – The trail was cleared with help from local volunteers and Sierra club. The section of trail from Rustler to Aspen saddle (just past Chiricahua Peak) was maintained in June totaling 6.5 miles. More work is planned to get the trail cleared out to Monte Vista in September with ARRA funding a CREC crew. Also local volunteers may be able to clear out some of the trail past Aspen saddle in mid September.
#270a Chiricahua Peak – this 0.7 mile trail was maintained with the Sierra Club in June.
#275 Rattlesnake – This 4 mile trail was maintained with lots of help from a wide mix of local volunteers over the past year. Many volunteers came from the Tucson area and Portal area to make this possible.
#277 Middlemarch – This 2.3 mile trail located in the Dragoon range was brushed and cleared out by ACE in the early part of the year funded by a grant from the State.
#279 Cochise – This 5 mile trail in the Dragoons was maintained by ACE in the spring. Due to time constraints they could not get to all the maintenance needs from the "divide" to the end of the trail on the west side of the range. This would account for 1.5 miles of trail that still needs maintenance. Past work was funded by a grant from the State. At this time no work is planned on the last 1.5 miles of this trail.
#280 Silver Peak – maintained by CREC in the spring this 4.6 mile trail still needs work to the upper end of the trail and to sections in the middle to improve the out slope of the tread. Funding for this was provide by ARRA and will most likely see more work in 2011 using ARRA.
#333 Bear Wallow spring trail – This 1.0 mile trail was maintained with help from local volunteers and Sierra Club in June.
#334 Centella – This 1.9 mile trail was maintained with help from local volunteers and Sierra Club in June.
#337 Fly Peak – The first 0.7 miles of this trail has been maintained from the "Fly Peak junction" on the Crest trail. Sierra Club and local volunteers helped maintain this trail in June. More work may be accomplished in mid September with help from volunteers to get this completed.
Other plans for Chiricahua trails in 2010-2011:**
- NYC to work on trails in the Pine Canyon area and Witch Ridge area in 2011.
- Sign repairs with help from local pack stock to haul materials into the back country.
- Display map for office and Portal visitor center with color coded trail conditions that can easily be understood and updated. This map will not be for public purchase, its purpose will be for providing locals, fellow employees, volunteers and public with the most current information possible at a glance.
Nogales District:
All of the springs encountered have been doing well this year. The big news this year is Sprung and Bellow spring are running well again.
Trails –
Many of the main trails got cleared this spring to clear the mess of down trees from the heavy snow and high winds we had over the winter. The big news in trails here is the completion of the Arizona Trail from Oak tree canyon to the northern Forest boundary line in the Santa Ritas. Also this year the Arizona trail was officially designated as a National Recreation Trail.
#67 Gardner Canyon – Lower end of trail from trail head to Walker Basin trail junction was cleared by fire crews this spring accessing the Walker fire.
#77 Vault Mine trail- was cleared by CREC funded by a combination of State grants and ARRA.
#88 Madera Nature – Local volunteers in the Green Valley Hiking club cleaned portions of this trail in the spring.
#134 Super – This trail was cleared by CREC, funded by a combination of State grants and ARRA.
#136 Walker Basin – Trail was maintained by fire crews this spring after the Walker fire.
#140 Agua Caliente – This trail was cleared from Josephine saddle to Vault mine by CREC, funded by a combination of State grants and ARRA.
#144 Crest – Trail cleared by CREC, funded by a combination of State grants and ARRA.
#145 Florida – Lower end of trail was maintained by Wilmont State Fire crew. They also helped install the new gate on the fence line close to the Florida Work Center.
#149 Cave Canyon – Trail cleared by Wilmont State Fire crew.
#372 Old Baldy – Trail cleared by CREC, funded by a combination of State grants and ARRA.
# Carrie Nation Mine trail – Cleared by volunteers from the Green Valley Hiking club in early spring.
Other Plans for 2010-2011:**
- Wilmont State Fire crew to work on Gardner, Florida and others as needed.
- ARRA funds to work on Florida, Sawmill and upper reaches of Gardner.
Sierra Vista District:
Springs –
All springs and seeps encountered this year have been doing well. Expect to find normal to above normal flows at the springs and seeps this fall.
Trails -
Several of the trails have been receiving maintenance work this year on the east side of the Huachuca range. Expect to see more trail maintenance this fall as well as a large trash clean up effort in the Miller Peak Wilderness.
#102 Reef Townsite loop – This trail was brushed and cleaned by Scout Troop 444 this month. In the near future we would like to add some more signage to clarify some of the trail locations as well as fix existing signage.
#104 Lutz Canyon – Trail was maintained by CREC funded by ARRA early in the year. The crew was able to make good improvements to the trail above the old mine equipment site a couple miles up the trail. This trail still needs some work to the very upper reaches of the trail where it junctions with the Crest trail. This leaves less than a mile of trail work to go to complete this trail. This could be completed with a crew in October, however this would be the last task on there already full list of trails to maintain.
#106 Miller Canyon – Trail was maintained by CREC funded by ARRA early in the year. The crew was able to clear up the canyon about 2.5 miles or so. There is still a hand full of down trees in the last mile to Bathtub spring, however for hiker this should not be a problem. Another crew planned for October may be able to finish this trail.
#110 Ida Canyon – Trail was maintained by CREC, funded by ARRA early in the year. The crew maintained the trail from the Wilderness boundary to Bear spring. This leaves a short section of about a half mile from Bear spring to the junction of the Crest trail that was not worked. However this trail should be in fair shape, although there may be some down trees making it difficult for horses to navigate.
#111 Hunter Canyon – This 1.1 mile trail was maintained from Miller canyon to Hunter canyon by CREC, funded by ARRA. The crew was able to make some good improvements to the trail as well as repairing and replacing all needed signs.
#112 Oversite Canyon – This 2.5 mile trail was maintained about a mile and a half up from the end of the road. Work was accomplished by CREC, funded by ARRA. This trail is still in need of a lot of work in the upper reaches of the trail to junction with the Crest trail. It is not recommended to use this trail if you are not familiar with the area as there are many user made spur trails in the upper reaches of the trail. More maintenance will come, but most likely not until fall of 2011.
#122 Hamburg – Trail was cleared of downfall early in the year up to the junction with Pat Scott Canyon and Wisconsin Canyon.
#123 Pat Scott Canyon – Trail was cleared from the junction of Wisconsin up about a mile. This trail still has maintenance needs to clear it up to the junction of the Crest trail. Hikers would be okay to hike the trail but horses would have a difficult time navigating the trail. Horse riders would be better off using the trail up Wisconsin Canyon as it was in much better condition as of this spring.
#124 Clark Spring – This 1.6 mile trail was cleared by ACE and CREC, funded by a combination of ARRA and state grant funding. Also some brushing was accomplished by a local scout as an Eagle scout project. This work all took place in the late fall and early spring.
#125 Arizona trail (Scotia Canyon/East of Canelo Segment) – A short reroute of the trail near the road crossing of Scotia Canyon by the Arizona Trail Association (ATA) made this area of the trail much easier to hike. The work was done with volunteers from the ATA members in the local area. This reroute moved the trail off of a large hill that was heavily eroded due to road water run off and put it on a much nicer line on an old road bed in Scotia canyon. With the addition of new signs one should have no question where the trail is now.
#126 Old Sawmill Spring – This 0.7 mile trail was maintained by Scout Troop 444 in the spring.
Plans for Fall and 2011:**
- Heavy trash clean up project in the Miller Peak Wilderness
- Trail maintenance to Crest, Pat Scott, Miller Canyon, and Carr Peak trail.
- Extend Perimeter Trail from Carr Canyon to Ramsey Canyon. This short segment has many hurdles to cover as it passes over not just Forest Service land but State land and Nature Conservancy property. All parties must have proper clearances as well as addressed concerns of private landowners who still have property within the boundary of the Nature Conservancy.
- Trail maintenance to Guindani trail in the Whetstones.
*CREC = Coconino Rural Environment Corps
*ACE = American Conservation Experience
*SCC = Southwest Conservation Corps
*NYC = Northwest Youth Corps
** Please note- this is not a complete list of upcoming work plans, this is merely a list of projects in the near future that have the most realistic plans to compete at this given time.
Information provided by Zac Ribbing (Trails/Wilderness)


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Our Culture
Brook Farmers are contributors rather than consumers. We consider it a privilege to serve others by building relationships of trust and by fostering a sense of connection and compassion.
Our Values
We believe animals should have equal rights as humans. As such, our role is to honor and respect them, and acknowledge that we are responsible for their wellbeing. Animals belong to the interconnected whole of which we are all a part. If I injure you - or any living thing, - I injure myself. At Brook Farm, our goal is to find communion with other beings through relationships of service to people, pets, and the planet.
We deliver excellence by caring and connecting with others. To do so requires us look beyond artificial barriers in order to be as inclusive as possible. To work with precision is to see the whole picture, and to always be committed to learning something new.
We are responsible for setting an example for each other and for future generations. We must be conscious of our impact, both socially and environmentally, and seek to leave this place better than we found it. To do so requires that we build peace through community involvement and by being socially responsible, to make peace through nonviolent leadership, and to share our story with others so that they may do the same.
Equity & Inclusion
An inclusive workforce begins with employers who value equity and diversity. We gladly prioritize applicants from backgrounds typically underrepresented in veterinary medicine when hiring. Team members receive formal training on the importance of equity and on how to implement inclusive practices. Our fair compensation policies close the wage gap by ensuring equal pay for equal work. We have also implemented many of the practices recommended by Out & Equal Workplace Associates, such as: gender neutral bathroom and policy language, health insurance that includes domestic/same-sex partners, comprehensive and inclusive harassment policies, screening our major suppliers for minority- and LGBT-friendly practices, and by being proud members of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Professional Development
Ongoing professional development is essential to life at Brook Farm. Our Practice Development Coordinator works with each employee to help them actualize their full potential by identifying goals and training to help them advance. Each team member also has access to graduate-level Continuing Education courses led by the world's leading veterinary experts. Our partnerships with local and national veterinary schools also makes Brook Farm a great place to begin your career: our internship training program equips individuals new to the industry with the tools and skills necessary for future success.
Brook Farm also recognizes the importance of building a healthy workplace. The challenge of achieving professional wellbeing is widely recognized as a critical issue within the veterinary profession as mental health issues, such as depression, career burnout, compassion fatigue, and suicide, have become an increasingly concerning problem. We engage in an open dialogue about mental health and share strategies for self-care. These programs reflect best practices recommended by AAHA's Healthy Workplace Culture Initiative and the Center for Workplace Health.
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We encourage all staff members to get involved in the community by volunteering. We offer a variety of opportunities throughout the year and work with local nonprofits to lend a hand whenever possible. We also establish specific volunteer increase targets with each employee. Our staff also takes pleasure in being involved with opportunities to serve youth: we host over 50 children at our Veterinary Summer Camp, participate with the Putnam County 4H Program, and visit local libraries as often as we can.
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The Final Frontier? No, just the 90s Star Trek CCG
After more than a decade in the attic, we decided to give the old Star Trek: The Next Generation collectible card game a try. Ed's in town this weekend (pictured below in his "Nerd Herd" t-shirt from the TV series Chuck) and he decided we should tackle the game again after all these years. After procrastinating for hours, we finally cracked the decks sometime after midnight. Needless to say, this is not a game you can simply jump right into without reviewing the rules closely. I cleaned Ed's clock (or Romulan Outpost in this case) and we called it quits after one game.
Below is Ed building his inferior Romulan/Klingon deck.
Here I am trying to remember the rules after something like 14 years. I suppose we could have bothered to read them before playing, but that would have taken all the fun out of it. And we discovered we're getting too old to sit on the floor for very long.
Finally, in going through my old cards we re-affirmed how insanely geeky I really am. We came across two custom cards I produced myself for the game. Check them out below. I color-copied images, then literally cut-and-pasted them together. Also, it appears I used my old Commodore 64 dot matrix printer for the text boxes. How frikkin' hilarious! I'm such a dork! As Ed has pointed out, he proclaimed my dorkiness long before these cards were stumbled upon.
Live long and geek out!
9 Responses to "The Final Frontier? No, just the 90s Star Trek CCG"
Ed Says:
At least I got my revenge in Trivial Pursuit Silver Screen Edition. And you remember that old Klingon proverb, right?
"Revenge is a dish best served cold in the form of Trivial Pursuit."
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Shag Says:
See… the truth is that it was 3am when we were playing Trivial Pursuit. Ed was getting tired and I felt really bad about DEMOLISHING him in the Star Trek CCG. So I let him win the Trivial Pursuit game. Yup… that's why he won. It had nothing to do with the fact that I couldn't answer ANY of those darn questions.
Parrotzilla Says:
Dang, I have a ton of those cards at home. right next to the magic: The gathering cards. Sigh….
We played it a couple of times before we got tired of it.
Kaiser The Great Says:
I love those cards! I only played the game a few times (and it was cool too) but I liked collecting the cards anyway. I was working at a comic shop at the time and we'd hold midnight tournaments for the latest and greatest of that weeks worth of tournaments. It was fun. 'Course, then Star Wars CCG took over…
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ED: I was working at a comic shop at the time and we'd hold midnight tournaments for the latest and greatest of that week [and Star Trek got a couple week]s worth of tournaments.
Ox Says:
I believe these cards to be valuable in a non-monetary way. I recently (2/2010) also started to rethink the fact I had these card merely collecting dust, all the while being an avid gamer. I realized that I had poor chance of finding any other gamers who had enough cards for a deck, so I gave up the idea of only building one deck. So I used the cards to develop my own modified version of the game, combining the "bright ideas" of the Warp Speed rules and the Sealed Decks modified gameplay, from back in the day. So, I built two identical decks for basic playability, with interchangable options for players who learn my modified game and want to use rares.
If anyone wants to discuss this or sell me their old collection, firstname.lastname@example.com
Austin Says:
Saw this through google looking for something else. Honestly, the game is not dead. There are a lot of Star Trek CCG players out there who play regularly. Check out Trekcc.org for the Player's Committee who are working hard to keep the First Edition and Second Edition of the game alive with new cards, support, etc.
David Says:
Hey i stumbled across this site and think its awesome you guys played the CCG game again, I too play it from time to time to this day and I am 30 lol and i even still make my own custom cards still, its such a fun game and a wonderful ever expanding universe. Long live Star Trek!!!


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As promised in my revelation last week, the usual gang of idiots over at MAD Magazine have allowed me to exclusively unveil to Huffington Post readers (and the world) who the dumbest person of 2008 is. And for the magazine that employs someone as preposterously stupid as Alfred E. Neuman to say that someone is the dumbest person of the year, it means something.
But their choice really can't come as any surprise. so, without further ado, here she is. The dumbest person of 2008:
I doubt there are many who could conceivably argue with their choice. And if there's one thing the guys at MAD are experts in, it's dumb. (Though I think if they'd have waited just a little longer, the Governor of Illinois might have found his way on the list....)
For the completed list, be sure to check out the issue of MAD that hits stands December 16th.
(Bryan Young is the producer of Killer at Large and writes about geek issues on Big Shiny Robot!)


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MASHPEE - Rachel M. Buder, age 90, of Mashpee, MA was born in Putnam, Connecticut, the third of eight children born to Edward and Antoinette Bourgeois. She passed away on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at Martha's Vineyard Hospital, surrounded by her family after a courageous, ten year battle with lung cancer.
She is survived by her son, Deacon Karl G. Buder and his wife Lynn of Vineyard Haven, MA, two grandsons, Alexander G. Buder II and his wife Kelsey, of San Diego, CA and Hans D. Buder and his wife Meghan of Carmel, CA and one great grandson, Elliott J. Buder, of San Diego, CA, two sisters, Elaine Belsey of California, Cecile Bourgeois of Rhode Island and two brothers, Henry Bourgeois of Connecticut and David Bourgeois of Georgia and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, three siblings and her husband of 54 years, Alexander G. Buder I.
Rachel was employed until her retirement by the State of Connecticut as a nurse in an inpatient facility for special needs adults. She drove and lived independently until recently, when she moved to live with her family on Martha's Vineyard. Her pride and joy was her home and her yard and gardens, which she maintained in a meticulous manner. Rare was the day when she didn't have a home project in motion. Within six weeks of her death, she was working to repair a concrete apron in her driveway.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Christ the King Parish in Mashpee at 11:30am on Monday, September 17th by Fr. Michael Nagle, the Pastor of Good Shepherd Parish on Martha's Vineyard, who is a friend of the Buder family. Burial will be at a later date at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne beside her husband. Donations in her honor may be made to Marianapolis Preparatory School, Chase Road, Thompson, Connecticut, which her son and several family members attended.


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The 10th Intergovernmental Oceanographic Sub-Commission (IOC) of UNESCO for the Western Pasific (WESTPAC) International Scientific Conference
17-20 April 2017: Qingdao, China
The Western Pacific and its adjacent regions are of vast economic and social importance. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Sub-Commission (IOC) for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) is committed to promoting international cooperation aimed at generating and advancing ocean knowledge for marine environmental protection, ocean governance, and sustainable development of marine and coastal resources.
In line with United Nations Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 10th IOC WESTPAC International Scientific Conference on "Advancing Ocean Knowledge, Fostering Sustainable Development: From the Indo-Pacific to the Globe" took place in Qingdao.
The forum provided essential opportunity in the region for marine scientists, ocean institutions and nations to advance marine knowledge, catalyze multi- and cross-disciplinary collaborations to address challenges faced in the region, including achieving the SDGs – with particular emphasis on Goal 14 i.e. conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
The event focused on four main sub-themes i.e. (i) Understanding ocean processes and climate in the Indo-Pacific, (ii) Ensuring marine biodiversity, food safety and security, (iii) Maintenance of ocean health, and (iv) Enhancing knowledge of cross-cutting and emerging issues.
Cheryl Rita Kaur, Head of the Centre for Coastal and Marine Environment MIMA, who is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), University Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) contributed in collaboration with scientists from the University on two main areas presented at the forum. These included on the topic of 'marine spatial planning' at the "Session on Ocean Science, Policy and Governance" and 'fisheries governance' at the Session on "Ensuring Marine Biodiversity, Food Safety and Security".
MIMA is proud to be part of this collaboration and will continue to support high impact researches in marine science by integrating expertise from within and outside with higher institutions and centre of excellence in promoting sustainable ocean governance through science and policy integration.


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where F: R^n --> R^n, l and u are vectors of dimension n.
Non-existent lower and upper bounds, i.e.
entries of l and u equal to minus o plus infinity, are allowed.
The algorithm is a globally convergent procedure that combines Newton method and an elliptical trust-region approach. The elliptical trust-region is defined employing a scaling diagonal matrix D
and the trust-region subproblem is approximately solved by the dogleg method. Only strictly feasible iterates are generated.
Various input/output options are provided, and we refer to the code itself for further documentation.
Stefania Bellavia mailto:email@example.com
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STRSCNE code has non-commercial purposes. We assume no
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If you use this code, the authors would appreciate your acknowledging having done so in the reports, publications, theses, etc., resulting from their use.
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STRSCNE: A Scaled Trust Region Solver for Constrained Nonlinear Equations,
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John Derbyshire cites (with great approval) this sentence from Oscar Wilde:
I have never come across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
(I'd prefer to see the same point made less moralistically.)
Over at InsideOut they prefer lifelong homo pedophiles to those annoying 'moralistic' scolds any day of the week- http://t.co/l55cOenLXg
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The Broad is a new contemporary art museum that named after their founders, philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. It is home to 2,000 works of art collected over 50 years by Eli and Edythe. The collection is one of the world's most prominent collections of post-war and contemporary artworks of art. They include in-depth representations by influential contemporary artists, which include Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, Kara Walker and Alexander Calder. You can browse the works of art by artist last name.
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God is calling me to go in a slightly new direction in my faith. I am a born again follower of Jesus Christ and I believe that the Word, from Genesis to Revelations is the true Word of God. However, I have begun to study the Messianic teachings and to read a Jewish Bible, called The… Continue reading The Aleinu Prayer
Needlework to Relax
Years ago my grandmother taught me crochet. I have also learned to knit. For some years I stopped doing it but have now picked it back up again in order to calm my stress. Thank God it is working!! I created a blog that is just about needlework and I also share how it helps… Continue reading Needlework to Relax
Before Marriage and Kids I Sang Jazz
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My Struggle with Idris and Other Sexy Baby Daddies
A few days ago, I made a post expressing my thoughts on Idris Elba winning People's Sexiest Man Alive. First let me say, that I totally feel he should have won. The man is beautiful on so many levels and for a chocolate man to win this is HUGE, and that's all I will say… Continue reading My Struggle with Idris and Other Sexy Baby Daddies
Anti-Abortion vs. ProLife
A while back I made a post that was pretty harsh I believe and I thought it would be a good idea to explain myself. The post said,"The ProLife movement is a hoax..." When I look at the movement and how so many conservatives are willing to sacrifice so much just for this one thing,… Continue reading Anti-Abortion vs. ProLife
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On the same day, we all found ourselves "attending" 2 funerals that brought to the forefront the scarring racism has brought into this country. Instead of us being able to just sort of relish in the fact that the 2 funerals actually revealed some of the healing that has taken place, we found ourselves bombarded… Continue reading Two Funerals
7 Lessons Learned from Starting a Business
I am coming up on my 4th anniversary of the school I founded called The Living Water School. This summer (we are closed from June until September) I did something a little different. I spent a great deal of my time, staying home, working in my yard, reading, praying, thinking, playing with my dogs, playing… Continue reading 7 Lessons Learned from Starting a Business
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The grant pot is up to £10,000 and this is the first time since the Shape Mendip Lottery was launched in 2017, that this money has been available.
The closing date for bids is 5pm on 28 February 2019.
The application form, guidance and grant criteria can be found at http://www.mendip.gov.uk/communityfund
Completed applications should be emailed to [email protected] or posted to:
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Awards ceremony - 7 March 2019
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Brazil Planners
At Brazil Planners, we provide exclusive services for international tour operators, travel agencies and incentive agents. We are here to ensure that your group's incentive travel experience in Brazil is a resounding success!
Brazil Planners operates across popular incentive destinations in Brazil, such as Rio de Janeiro, Iguaçu Falls, the Amazon, São Paulo, Salvador and Praia do Forte. Within these locations, we constantly seek out new activities, amazing venues and fresh accommodation options, so that we can offer creative incentives and team building events, while simultaneously maintaining excellent quality operations. We also personalize experiences in up-and- coming cultural and
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These cat rainbow laser cut earrings make the purrfect gift for a cat lover.
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Friendship is born in that moment when one person says to another,
"What? You too? I thought that no one but myself...."
~CS Lewis
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Truly...friends are the best gifts!!!
I want my photography to highlight this red thread – this connection between people, who at one time or another, in one circumstance or another, have met. It may be children, grown-ups, friends, families, parents with their kids, lovers, even newborn babies. The red thread is there and its strength and flexibility are amazing.
My approach to photographing your wedding, family or children is to capture the connections and relationships in a photojournalistic style. Catching your family and friends in real-life settings, creating images that evoke love and laughter, and provide photographs that can be treasured by all who are, and will be, connected to you.


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"Stay At Home Moms With This Many Kids Are The Happiest, the results of this first-of-its-kind survey may surprise you"
A recent survey confirms what I already knew to be true, "stay at home moms" with four or more children are the happiest. It isn't surprising that children bring more happiness, but the world just can't accept this simple truth, children are a blessing.
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The baseball team at Stony Brook University won't be able to travel to Mississippi next month for a three-game series with Southern Miss. But it's not the weather keeping them home – it's New York's governor.
Governor Mario Cuomo has banned all non-essential travel to Mississippi because of the Magnolia State's "religious freedom law" – which is formally known as the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act (HB 1523). It took effect in October.
Tim Wildmon, president of Mississippi-based American Family Association, says the Stony Brook Seawolves will miss out on the chance of some warmer weather baseball against a quality opponent. The three-game series was scheduled to take place in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, between February 23 and 25.
"What usually happens during college baseball season is that teams from the North come south so they can play baseball in February," he tells OneNewsNow, "and it's oftentimes difficult to play baseball in February, even in the South."
Mississippi's law protects people from discrimination who, because of their faith, believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman, that sex should be reserved for marriage, and that one's gender is set at birth.
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Last night in St. Mark's Lutheran Church, American Bach Soloists (ABS) began the Festival portion of its 2016 Festival & Academy. This year's theme is An Italian Journey, focusing on both major Italian composers prior to 1750 and those composers who made special trips to learn more about the making of music in Italy. Last night's concert was evenly divided by two of those composers, one from each category. The Italian was Antonio Vivaldi; and the "visitor" was George Frideric Handel.
The story of Handel's visit to Italy is, to say the least, fascinating. In 1702 the seventeen-year-old Handel began the study of law at the University of Halle; but, while there, he earned a one-year appointment as a church organist. By 1703 Handel abandoned his law studies to accept a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. At the age of nineteen, he wrote his first opera, Almira, which was performed in Hamburg in 1705. At least one member of the Medici family (scholars still argue over which and how many) invited Handel to visit Italy. Handel accepted the invitation as an opportunity to learn more about Italian music, particularly with regard to vocal writing for the opera.
Unfortunately, Handel arrived in Rome during a period when papal decrees had closed the public theaters and banned the performance of opera. Thus, the refinement of his skills in writing vocal music were confined to liturgical music and oratorios on sacred themes. However, he also wrote pastoral cantatas for musical gatherings in the palaces of three cardinals, Pietro Ottoboni, Benedetto Pamphill, and Carlo Colonna. The last of these invited him to compose music for the Carmelite order at Santa Maria di Monte Santo to be performed at the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The result was the HWV 232 setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus (the Lord said). This was probably intended for a Vespers service, since the Psalm setting concludes with the "Gloria Patri" of the Trinitarian doxology ("Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; and for generations of generations. Amen."). Fortuitously, the choice of Psalm provided Handel with the perfect opportunity to exercise his operatic chops. What the Lord is saying in this Psalm amounts to a no-holds-barred blood-and-guts account of what he will do to those who oppose him. By the time Handel had reached "he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries," he was clearly reveling in a variety of rhetorical devices to illustrate every vengeful word.
Last night the American Bach Choir joined the ABS instrumentalists for as vivid an account of this "operatic sacred music" as one could anticipate. Contributing vocal soloists were sopranos Mary Wilson and Clara Rottsolk, alto Judith Malafronte, tenor Kyle Stegall, and baritone William Sharp. The conducting by ABS Music Director Jeffrey Thomas provided a crisp account of both the text and the interplay of a string section that included two separate parts for both violins and violas. This was a reading that captured all of the dramatic skills that Handel had hoped to cultivate while in Italy, and it made for a vigorous conclusion to a splendid evening.
HWV 232 was preceded by the HWV 240 motet Saeviat tellus inter rigores (let the earth rage amid austerities), an anonymous text in praise of the Carmelite order. This could have been included as an alternative for a hymn in a Vespers service at Santa Maria di Monte Santo. However, Handel scored his setting of the text for soprano and an ensemble that included two oboes along with the strings and continuo. It is unclear whether the Carmelites would have had such resources at their disposal, not to mention a vocalist to meet the virtuosic challenges of the soprano line (yet another example of Handel honing his operatic skills "by other means"). (Also, the motet does not concluded with a "Gloria Patri.") Fortunately, Wilson was up to the demands of every one of Handel's virtuosic twists, turns, and leaps into the highest register; and she was well matched by the oboe work of Debra Nagy and Stephen Bard. The Handel half of the program began with the HWV 238 Nisi Dominus (except the Lord), a setting of Psalm 127, which, because of its "Gloria Patri" conclusion, more likely could have been part of a Carmelite Vespers service.
The first half of the program was devoted to works that Vivaldi probably composed after Handel had moved on from his visit to Italy, most likely between 1713 and 1720. The major work was the D major setting of the Gloria text from the Mass, using energetic passages for oboe (Nagy) and trumpet (John Thiessen) to capture the laudatory spirit of the text. In contrast to Handel's use of moderately long sections for setting entire Psalm verses or stanzas of a hymn, Vivaldi tended to work in shorter segments on a phrase-by-phrase basis. The result is an account of the Mass text that goes by at an almost rapid clip, as if the joyous spirit of the text can barely keep up with itself. A somewhat more relaxed setting could be found in the Salve Regina antiphon that opening last night's concert. This again featured Wilson's impeccable soprano singing, this time frequently in dialog with a solo violin performed by Elizabeth Blumenstock. In many respects the Salve Regina almost amounted to one of Vivaldi's concertos, coupling the violin with a soprano rather than another violin. It was the sort of composition that made it easy to understand why Johann Sebastian Bach should have taken such a great interest in Vivaldi's music.


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Fennel is often classified as both an herb and a vegetable and can be used in many ways in the kitchen. It's also a popular plant among herbalists and has been used for thousands of years as a natural remedy, most commonly for digestive problems.
Fennel has a wonderful anise flavor that works well in both savory and sweet recipes. It's a popular ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine. The bulbs are commonly roasted or grilled or added, raw, to salads, and the feathery fronds can be added to salads and soups to impart a more delicate fennel flavor.
There are two types of fennel that you may want to grow in your garden, depending on how you plan to use it. 'Florence Fennel' is used more like a vegetable and is grown for its bulbous stem. 'Herb fennel,' doesn't produce much of a bulb, and it is typically grown for its foliage and used as an herb.
Where to Grow It
Fennel should be grown in full sun, in fertile, well-drained soil. It should not be planted in the same area as dill or coriander because they will cross-pollinate easily and seed production will be reduced. Fennel self-sows easily, so it's likely that if you plant it once, you'll see fennel popping up in your garden each spring thereafter.
Fennel is a perennial but is grown as an annual in northern climates. Treat it as an annual if winter temperatures in your area regularly fall below fifteen degrees Fahrenheit.
You can also easily grow fennel in containers. Just be sure to plant in containers that are at least ten inches deep.
Fennel can grow up to five feet tall, depending on which variety you're growing. Be sure to take its eventual size into account at planting time so it doesn't shade the rest of your vegetables. Also, it can inhibit the growth of tomatoes and beans, according to several sources, so you may want to avoid planting them near either of those crops.
You can direct sow fennel seeds in your garden near your last spring frost date. Seeds should be planted ten to twelve inches apart and will germinate in eight to twelve days. You can also sow the seeds indoors, under lights, about four weeks before your last frost date, then harden them off and transplant them into your garden.
Fennel is quite easy to grow. Water deeply and regularly, but don't overwater or the plants will rot. Fennel does not need to be fertilized during the growing season.
Problems and Pests
Fennel rarely suffers from any problems. Aphids can sometimes be an issue.
You can harvest fennel leaves as needed for fresh use. The seeds can be harvested when ripe, in late summer or early fall. The easiest way to harvest fennel seeds is to shake the seed heads over a sheet or tarp to collect the seeds. Let the seeds dry well before storing them in a cool, dark place.
Florence fennel can be harvested as soon as the base of the stem becomes swollen. Pull plants up as needed, and harvest any that are left in the ground at the end of the season before the first fall frost.
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This is the type of fennel to grow if you want to harvest the bulbous stems to use as a vegetable. The leaves and seeds of this variety are also edible, so you get three uses in one plant.
- Solaris produces large semi-flat bulbs that are resistant to bolting.
- Zefa fino is ready for harvest in 80 days, bolt resistant and very large.
- Orion is ready to harvest in 80 days and has large, thick, rounded bulbs with a crisp texture.
Herb Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
- Green (Foeniculum vulgare Dulce)
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