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Paris: Philip Rivers needs to stay behind center
The Chargers new general manager? No clue.
The Chargers new coach? To be determined.
The Chargers new quarterback? Sorry, but we can't ring out the old, and summon someone fresh.
While the Chargers Park's spinning doors neared mach speed with Black Monday revealing numerous pink slips, one shouldn't have Philip Rivers' name on
Chargers President Dean Spanos starts his job fair this week, but at least he has a quarterback. Other teams are seeking coaches as well, but none have someone in place with Rivers' pedigree.
Did Rivers have a tough year? Absolutely as his 22 turnovers prove.
Did Rivers have a consistent pocket to seek safe harbor? Absolutely not, as his 22 turnovers prove.
The blame for Rivers' shoddy statistics can't all be plopped at the feet of his big uglies. But rare was the game when Rivers' uniform wasn't soiled, the result of an offensive line that was a weekly jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes the pieces fit; more often, they didn't.
And that led to five guys with massive extended hands, helping Rivers regain his feet.
While Spanos is busy fixing his chain of command, his commander-in-chief isn't broke. Rivers, who ran his streak to five seasons of passing for 3,500 yards and 25 touchdowns, didn't sustain amnesia and forget how to play the position.
That general manager A.J. Smith committed the sin of not supplying him with ample protection is the main reason for Rivers' regression.
But Rivers knows when you point fingers – this prep coach's son never would – three more are pointed back at you. So while Smith's roster work was baffling, Rivers was askew, too.
We can't spike his forced throws – hello, Denver -- his head-scratching decisions – hello, Tampa Bay – or him handling the football as if it was bathed in barbecue sauce.
But before throwing Rivers on the coals, look around him.
His once stellar supporting cast remains stellar. Unfortunately, Pro Bowl wide receiver Vincent Jackson plays for the Buccaneers, All-Everything running back Darren Sproles hangs in New Orleans and All-Bowling Ball Mike Tolbert is a cool cat with Carolina.
At least Rivers wasn't chased away by Smith, the man responsible for bringing him here with his gutsy trade of Eli Manning. With Rivers in place, the next Chargers coaching genius has more to work with than most.
Those saying Rivers lost something off his fastball are right. But put a radar gun on flame-thrower Justin Verlander and see how hard he heaves it from his heels.
Rivers, never the owner of a rocket arm, requires a smooth launching pad. He needs to step into his deliveries just like Spanos needs to step up and make keen hires with Smith and coach Norv Turner out.
Inside the Chargers' locker room, few players have the respect of Rivers. He's usually the first one there, among the last to leave, and he treats the third-string linebacker the same way he cozies up with future Hall of Famer Antonio Gates.
Rivers' 26 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions are off his usual standards. But stuff hits the fan without impact and role players, and Rivers' side of the ball was void of both.
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Beyoncé Was Photoshopped Into This 'The Lion King' Cast Photo Because Of Course She Was
Being Beyoncé must be hard. The whole world adores you while your back aches from carrying the entire music industry on it. We're sending her thoughts and prayers daily.
But, being a Queen means you're exceptionally busy which means you simply cannot waste time with feeble matters like posing for a promo cast photo for a blockbuster film that you're starring in with the rest of your co-stars - that happens on your own time.
As such, when this cast photo dropped a few weeks ago, people began to speculate whether Beyoncé was really there due to the space between her and co-stars John Oliver and Florence Kasumba.
And, in an appearance on Stephen Colbert, John Oliver - who plays Zazu in the film - confirmed that Beyoncé indeed wasn't there when the rest of the cast were.
"Yeah, she wasn’t there," he told Colbert.
When asked if the rest of the cast were there, Oliver said "I can’t remember, I think almost everyone else was there."
"I remember Chiwetel [Ejiofor]" - who plays Scar - . Itt was like an electrical reaction, I went 'Oh f**k!’"
"Just the future presence of Beyonce was so intimidating."
I mean the thought that we exist in the same timeline and on the same planet as Beyoncé is intimidating, so fair enough Oliver.
On top of that, Colbert asked the British Oliver if he had to choose a queen, who would he choose - Beyoncé or Queen Elizabeth II?
"If you have a choice between Beyonce and Queen Elizabeth II, is anyone, including Queen Elizabeth II, taking the second one?" he said. Correct answer, John.
TBH this entire hype leading up to this film's release, which has done very well so far btw, has been less about the film itself and more about the fact that Beyoncé is in it.
Donald Glover, who is currently in Australia for his Childish Gambino tour and plays Simba in the film, said to ET his son was more excited about the fact that Bey was in the film than his own father.
"I wasn't going to tell him that I was in it," Glover said.
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Long live the Queen.
The Lion King is in cinemas now. On top of that, Beyoncé's album accompanying the film, The Lion King: The Gift, is also out now.
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Krasovic: Falcons outclass Chargers
HOT-LANTA, INDEED
The Falcons made plays all over the field. At 36, Tony Gonzalez is still an elite pass-catching tight end. The visitor, despite having to play Monday night in Atlanta, seemed well-prepared, true to the reputation of their coach, Mike Smith. They dealt Rivers one of his worst statistical games (he had a quarterback rating of 44.1 as of late in the fourth quarter). The Falcons have reached one Super Bowl. It’s not crazy to think they’re among the contenders to get to New Orleans, especially if they continue to dominate the turnover game. The Falcons intercepted two passes and recovered two fumbles; the Chargers stole the ball once on a Cason interception.?
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Minors Report: Carmon has four hits for Eugene
Shortstop Stephen Carmon had the first four-hit game of his professional career Friday night to lead Short-Season Single-A Eugene to a 5-4 victory over Salem-Keizer in Eugene.
Carmon, the Padres 10th-round pick in June, had a double, a steal, a RBI and a run scored while raising his average to .270.
Left fielder Jeremy Baltz was 2-for-5 and catcher Dane Phillips was 1-for-1 with three walks, a run scored and a double. Third baseman River Stevens was 1-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Starting left-handed pitcher Kyle Ottoson (4.91 earned run average) allowed two runs on four hits and a walk with three strikeouts in four innings. Right-hander Matthew Shepherd (2.27 ERA) allowed a hit with two strikeouts in a scoreless inning.
Right-hander Ramon Madrid allowed a run on a hit and three walks with two strikeouts in 1 1/3 innings. He is 5-0 on the season with 11 saves and a 1.88 ERA.
Eugene is 14-11 in the second half of the Northwest League and 38-24 overall.
Around The Farm
Triple-A Tucson (47-79): Iowa 8, TUCSON 1 – RHP Chris Franklin (0-1, 23.14 ERA) gave up seven runs on seven hits and three walks in 1 1/3 innings to suffer the loss. LHP Colt Hynes (5.87 ERA) allowed one run on five hits and a walk over seven innings. SS Andy Parrino (.339) was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored. 1B Sawyer Carroll was 2-for-4 with a RBI.
Double-A San Antonio (27-26, 55-68): Springfield 5, SAN ANTONIO 1 – 3B Edinson Rincon (.280) was 2-for-3 with a homer and a walk. Starting RHP Josh Geer (5-5, 4.44 ERA) allowed five runs (three earned) on 11 hits and a walk with three strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. RHP Daniel Strange (3.21 ERA) allowed a hit in a scoreless inning.
Single-A Lake Elsinore (27-26, 63-60): Rancho Cucamonga 7, LAKE ELSINORE 2 – Starting RHP Matt Lollis (0-4, 5.73 ERA) allowed six runs on 10 hits and two walks with five strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. RF Everett Williams (.245) went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored. CF Donavan Tate (.287) was 2-for-4. LF Luis Domoromo singled in two runs.
Single-A Fort Wayne (31-22, 62-61): LANSING 5, Fort Wayne 4 – CF Travis Jankowski hit his first professional homer. SS Jace Peterson (.291) was 2-for-3 with a walk and two RBI. OF Kyle Gaedele was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored. Starting RHP James Needy (6-2, 2.12 ERA) allowed four runs on nine hits and a walk over five innings. RHP Dennis O’Grady (4.06 ERA) allowed a run on two hits with two strikeouts in two innings. RHP Daniel Cropper (3.74 ERA) allowed a hit with a strikeout in a scoreless inning.
Arizona Rookie Padres (14-32): Rangers 9, PADRES 0 – Starting RHP Walker Weickel (5.56 ERA), the 55th overall pick in the June draft, had three strikeouts while allowing two hits in two innings. RHP Michael Kelly (0-5, 7.23 ERA), the 48th overall pick in the 2011 draft, allowed seven runs (five earned) on seven hits and two walks over four innings. CF Edwin Moreno (.314) was 2-for-3 with a double. C Miguel del Castillo (.429) was 2-for-2.
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Golf notes: RB man wins $100,000 car with ace
Brian McLean’s voice was still a little scratchy Sunday evening. It had been about 30 hours since he’d strained it screaming at the top of his lungs on the golf course.
When the 43-year-old McLean scored the first hole-in-one of his life Saturday in the member-guest tournament at the Country Club of Rancho Bernardo, he didn’t go nonchalant with it. Who would if you’d won the $100,000 car of your dreams?
“I was screaming, ‘It’s in the hole! I won a car! It’s in the hole!’ ” McLean recalled. “I couldn’t believe it. I gave my dad (Don McLean) a big hug. It was unbelievable, just surreal.”
What makes it all the better is that McLean, of Rancho Bernardo, basically called his shot. He has a single-digit handicap friend who has joked that if McLean, a 25-handicapper, got his first hole-in-one before him that he’d give up the game. So McLean took a picture on his iPhone of the new Porsche 911 Cabriolet convertible — sticker price $108,000 — at CCRB’s par-3 12th hole and wrote, “I’m going to win this.”
Then McLean stepped up to the tee, hit his usual slice with a 3-iron from 170 yards, and the ball landed on the green and rolled into the hole. One of the women monitoring the hole for aces raised her arms like a referee signaling a touchdown, and that’s when McLean went crazy.
“Part of me, for a split second, was hoping that it really was in the hole because I didn’t want to look like a (jerk) for making all of that noise,” McLean said with a laugh.
McLean, whose father is a member at CCRB, is, fittingly, a self-described car nut who already has a 1995 Porsche convertible. He loves that car, but is torn between keeping it or selling it to pay the taxes he’s going to owe on the prize car.
“I’m a financial planner,” he said, “so I know what’s coming. It’s a quandary.”
One that every golfer would like to have.
City Am spots open
There are still openings in all divisions for the 2012 San Diego City Amateur, to be played July 27-29. The tournament is returning to Balboa Park this year and all divisions will play at Balboa, Torrey Pines South and Torrey Pines North.
The four divisions are men’s championship (18 and older with index of 6.0 or less), women’s championship (18 and older, 9.0 index or less), men’s senior (50 and older, 6.0 or less) and women’s senior (50 and older, 9.0 or less). The entry fee is $295, and the entry deadline was been extended to June 29.
The city has partnered with the San Diego Junior Golf Association to assist in managing this year’s event. Among the enhancements is “Blue Golf” registration via the Internet. Tournament information and entry forms are available at. The city’s golf staff also can answer questions at (858) 552-1662.
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Burch Smith debuts for Padres
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Not since Jake Peavy and Oliver Perez arrived on the scene in 2002 has a young Padres pitcher created more excitement with a mid-season promotion than Burch Smith.
The right-hander, who turned 23 on April 12, makes his major league debut Saturday against the Tampa Bay Rays under the fabric dome of Tropicana Field.
Smith is a 6-foot-4 Texan by way of the University of Oklahoma. He was the Padres 14th-round pick in the 2011 draft.
Smith is armed with a 98-mph fastball, although he usually works in the 94-96 mph range with a sinker clocked at 93. He also throws a change and a curve. And he throws them for strikes. During his short minor league career, Smith has a 5 1/4-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio – with 178 strikeouts in 162 innings.
He comes to the Padres from Double-A San Antonio where he had an organization-best 1.15 earned run average in six starts this season. In 31 1/3 innings, Smith allowed 17 hits and walked six hitters – an average of 6.6 baserunners per nine innings. Rival Texas League batters were hitting .155 against Smith.
“He’s ready for tomorrow,” Padres manager Bud Black said Friday of Smith. “He’s got a fundamentally good delivery and he repeats it. He goes after people in the strike zone. He’s got a good fastball and throws it a lot. I like that.”
Smith, who will not be activated until Saturday afternoon, flew from San Antonio to join the Padres in Florida. The most eventful part of the trip: “Hulk Hogan was on the flight,” said Smith.
As for his style:
“Fastball up-and-down, in-and-out,” said Smith. As for the sinker he learned from teammate Donn Roach: “I like using 10 to 15 times a game when I’m behind in the count.”
Smith will be the ninth player from the 2011 draft to reach the major leagues. He was the 443rd overall pick in that draft. Only Cleveland’s Cody Allen (698th) was drafted later than Smith in 2011 and has appeared in a major league game.
Nick noted
Nick Hundley isn’t denying what he said about suspended teammate Yasmani Grandal to UT San Diego columnist Kevin Acee Wednesday.
“You want to talk about a guy who is unproven and had a good couple months on steroids, go ahead,” Hundley said in a column by Acee.
But Hundley wishes more of the conversation had been included.
“I’m not denying I said it,” Hundley said Friday afternoon in the Padres clubhouse. “But there was more to what I said. That one thought is not who I am. It’s not my place to judge anybody.
“I left a message for Yas today. He and I will talk it out. But it's water under the bridge. I'm going to move on."
“I’m satisfied,” said Black. “Nick is tenured. He is one of the guys this team looks to for leadership. . "Guys look to him for leadership. And I think Yasi will as well . . . he will be better off for it.”
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All winter the beech trees hold a few leaves, reminding us of what we've lost. Even into April, as buds fatten, the old leaves hang on, pale scraps rasping in wind. From a passing car you see them, scattered through the woods like litter caught in branches. Then one day they're gone. The new leaves have split their shells and pushed the old ones off. Good riddance, we might well say. Spring has been long in coming, and we're ready to get on with it. For a few weeks as the trees unfold their wrinkled leaves we're staggered by good fortune; we wander out through fields, snuffling the loamy scent of earth warmed more deeply by the hour. We tilt our faces sunward, celebrating with e.e. cummings "the leaping greenly spirits of trees / and a blue true dream of sky." We squish mud between our toes. We press our faces into flowers. After five months of iron earth and wind-driven snow and sleet, we have earned our spring revel.
Yet some part of me holds back. To balance e.e. cummings, I need Robert Frost's warning that these trees "have it in their pent-up buds / To darken nature and be summer woods." Spring is a darkening. The shade thickens about my house; my view of the Ossipee Mountains vanishes behind the fringe of trees at the far edge of the field. The vernal pools in the woods below our field will soon be gone, as Frost observes, "not out by any brook or river, / But up by roots to bring dark foliage on." Spring enlivens us, yet from our human vantage not all resurrections are equally welcome. Our allergies awaken with the flowers, pine pollen sifts a yellow film over the furniture. Our neighborhood bear, newly tumbled from his den and hungry as well, a bear rouses the household at 3 a.m., trashing the bird feeder and terrorizing the dog. And then, in case we still thought all was perfect in paradise, the insects arrive.
If you don't live in the north woods, you won't understand what I mean by this. Vacationers who come for a week in August have little idea that the year-round folks have just survived plagues rivaling those visited on Pharaoh's Egypt. From early May to late July, the in-crowd is exoskeletal. Ticks make an early go of it: climbing to the tips of grass blades, they will hitch a ride on any passing mammal but seem to prefer me. After a half hour's walk in the field I find a dozen crawling up my legs. They hide in clothes, in sheets. I wake to the sensation of one plodding up my back, seeking a place to burrow and bloat.
Luckily, we have black flies to take our minds off the ticks. Black flies look like mouse droppings with wings. Outdoors in late May, each of us travels with his or her own swarm. Around town you see gardeners shrouded with olive drab bug-net helmets, as though ready to handle plutonium. Black flies don't sting, they bite, leaving us pocked with scabs that we tear off when scratching. The flies crawl up sleeves and noses, burrow into ears. If New Hampshire people are tight lipped, perhaps it's that black flies have taught us the cost of opening our mouths.
All nature clamors for our blood, and who can blame it? Bugs seek nothing we don't seek for ourselves: to eat before being eaten, to be fruitful and multiply. But what designing genius fashioned the mosquito? Who decided that it needed seven mouth parts no more, no less to grip and drill and pump and suck? And who developed the tag team format whereby, just as the mosquitoes tire in July, the deer flies arrive to burrow through our sun-warmed hair and chew our scalps?
There are advantages, I suppose, to living in a country under siege. For one thing, the bugs, along with the winters, keep the human population in check. Or, counting your blessings, you could say that only during bug season does your skin feel fully alive. And if, like me, you're a philosophical sort, you might welcome the bugs as a spiritual challenge, and ask what they can tell us about the place of suffering and imperfection in our lives.
All right, I admit it. I suppose it is perverse of me to go outdoors on a breezy, sunny spring morning and roll my wheelchair past wildflowers nodding in the meadow down to my quiet cabin in the woods, all so that I can shut myself up and think about suffering. Well, it's tough work, but somebody's got to do it. And perhaps my life circumstances have pushed me, more insistently than most, to consider how a flawed life can still be a full one, how broken dreams can bring us more fully awake.
Traditional religion teaches us to accept our afflictions as belonging to a larger scheme beyond mortal grasp. We're to trust the one or ones in charge. As I heard one unhappy young woman say recently, "I guess God's got his rhymes and reasons." It was late on a Friday afternoon, in the employees' lounge of a school for developmentally disabled children, and at the end of a long week a child in this woman's care had been hospitalized for seizures. It would indeed be comforting to think that the suffering of these children, with their scrambled circuits and skewed limbs, belonged to some larger dispensation of justice and mercy. But this woman did not feel comforted. Laying her head on her arms, she announced her intention to cash her paycheck, go home, and drink herself numb.
But maybe we're asking the wrong thing of God. Rhyme and reason, after all, are human values, not divine ones. Wanting human suffering to fit some divine plan is like wanting to fly an airplane above tornado wreckage and see that it spells out song lyrics or a cure for acne. At some point in life, in the face of illness, violence, accident, or injustice, each of us confronts the possibility that rhyme and reason may not be on God's agenda. This, of course, leads many people to dispense with God and religion altogether. In workshops I've led, when people explain their reasons for turning away from religion, most often I've heard them cite some instance of suffering, either global or personal: religion hasn't ended war; it doesn't explain why a boy's sister had to die of leukemia. I'm not sure how to answer such charges except to suggest that perhaps we shouldn't turn to religion for solutions and explanations of this sort. The first of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the one that our experience most easily confirms: that to be human is to suffer. God, the power that creates and sustains the universe in each moment and has given us our very lives, doesn't owe us reasons.
In the biblical tradition, no one learns this lesson more powerfully than Job. Job, you'll recall, is that cosmic schlimazel who has the misfortune of being around when God, on a sort of dare from Satan, decides to test a good man's faith. Though Job is an upright and pious man, his children are killed, his worldly goods destroyed. Job responds by tearing his clothes, shaving his head, and falling to the ground in worship, saying, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." But this doesn't satisfy Satan, who argues that Job is merely bargaining for his life. To test him further, God allows Job to be covered "from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head in loathsome sores." Job then retires to sit in the ashes, scraping his sores with a piece of broken pottery, and cursing the day he was born.
At this point Job's wife, wishing an end to her husband's suffering, urges Job to "curse God, and die."
And here Job makes the most extraordinary answer: "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?"
In these words I find a challenge that shakes me to the core. For those who dismiss traditional religion as offering a simplified and sentimental version of reality, Job offers a darker, more complex vision than those we may remember being taught in Sunday school. For those who think reason has the final say in human affairs, Job reminds us how little reason avails us when we try to understand all that befalls us. For those who are religious yet want to think of God only as the God of goodness and love, for those for whom prayer is always a turning toward the light, for those of us who seek in spiritual experience nothing but sweetness and harmony, Job offers a severer, more inclusive view. "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?" Job now knows that God is the God of good and of evil, light and darkness, sweet and bitter, harmony and discord. Hindus embody this truth in the god Shiva, who both creates and destroys. The Qur'anic phrase, La'illaha il'Allahu, teaches there is nothing that is not from God, that everything, birth and death, joy and suffering, the green spurt of youth and the slow decay of age, bread, and excrement, our sweetest singing and our cries of agony, all of it is from God.
When God finally does speak to Job, out of the whirlwind, he doesn't come to explain himself. Among the most powerful rhetorical passages in all literature, God's tongue-lashing of Job boils down to saying: "I'm God, and you're not." Before God makes his appearance, Job has eloquently argued his innocence before his friends, who assume that Job's troubles must be punishment for some wrongdoing. And even though Job is right he really is innocent once God arrives on the scene, Job sees that his arguments are worthless. In the presence of the creator of the universe, he can do nothing but fall silent and "repent in dust and ashes," surrendering all he thought most precious: his intelligence, his reputation, his righteousness, his rhymes and his reasons, his very self. In that wordless place, beyond all niggling over right and wrong, Job's surrender moves us toward a wholeness and connectedness in which all things, good and evil, are divine, all part of the sacred dance of creation. And in confronting Job's vision, in facing every day the failure of my own flesh, in facing every day the reality of suffering all around me, I have found my life's greatest spiritual challenge.
The title of this essay was inspired by a poem by Wallace Stevens. "The Poems of Our Climate" begins with the lines: "Clear water in a brilliant bowl / pink and white carnations." It's a conventional poetic image of beauty and perfection: a bowl of flowers, pure, simple, and, well, dull. The poem goes on to argue that even if one could achieve such purity and simplicity, "one would want more, one would need more," for "there would still remain the never-resting mind" calling us back from the cold purity of perfection to the hot, bitter delight of human imperfection. The poem's climactic line announces the truth at the heart of this book: "The imperfect is our paradise."
There are two ways to seek God, Stevens's poem reminds me. The first way fixes on images of beauty and perfection, shunning all that is evil and ugly. This was Plato's way. When Plato banished the poets from his ideal Republic, he did so to protect the impressionable young from depictions of ugliness and evil.. Dante's way is also the way of Job, and the way expressed by the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi when he writes:
Be a full bucket,
drawn up the dark way of a well,
then lifted out,
into the light.
I say that I'm now a seeker of this second kind, but it wasn't always so. Once I was a seeker of the first kind, on the path of beauty and perfection. In my spiritual questing through my teens and twenties, I sought transcendence, enlightenment, bliss. I learned meditation, retreated alone into the wilderness, and experimented with drugs, waiting for the transforming vision, for the voices of angels robed in fire. I sought God in the extraordinary, in things not of this world.
The summer after I finished college I took a bus to California, and after various adventures sublime and sordid, I hitchhiked to a religious commune that I knew of, in the basin and range country of eastern Nevada, a land of sagebrush and dust, jackrabbits and coyotes and rattlesnakes and antelope, a few cattle and fewer people. At the base of the Snake Range, this commune was no hippie hangout, no faddish Age of Aquarius retreat but a community founded in the 1930s by a Methodist minister's son who had spent years studying yoga with an Indian spiritual master. I spent a week at the commune, doing farm chores: I learned to pick apricots, to make a garden fence that deer couldn't jump over. I learned that before you chop a chicken's head off, you should swing the chicken by the feet to calm it down. But for much of my time there I meditated and studied, did breath work and kundalini yoga, seeking the sort of mystical, transforming experience that to me constituted the one true glamour of the spiritual life.
At the end of the week I went up into the mountains, for there above the farm the peaks of the Snake Range rose to 13,000 feet. Now it so happens that on the shoulder of the highest peak there lives a grove of bristle-cone pine trees, some of them over 5,000 years old, the oldest living things on earth. Having been a tree-worshiper from a young age, I saw a journey to these trees as a fitting end to my pilgrimage. So I got a ride up the narrow road that takes you to about 9,000 feet and then hiked in several miles until I came upon them. Perhaps you have seen them in photographs: gnarled trees, seeming almost lifeless, the bark blasted from their gray weathered trunks except for one thin lifeline that snakes up to sustain the green bottle-brush needles. These grotesque forms grow where nothing else survives; in a high place of wind and snow and stone they push up through glacial rubble with their delicate offering of green. I walked among them, in silence, while sheer walls of stone rose above me a thousand feet to jagged peaks, their crevices veined with ice. Though this was July, snowfields slumped at the shadowed base of the cliffs. Turning my back to the cliffs, I could look out across thirty miles of sagebrush valley to where the next range of peaks glittered in sunlight. If ever there was a place for transcendence, I told myself, this was it. On the tortured trunk of a tree several thousand years old, I found one sticky, golden drop of bristle-cone sap, which I plucked off and solemnly placed on my tongue, wishing for long life. And then I prepared to meditate. Settling down with my back against the ancient tree's trunk, my legs crossed, my spine erect, the sun warm on my face, a gentle breeze lifting the hair on my forearms, I closed my eyes, ready for my vision.
I waited. I waited some more. I quieted my thoughts, stilled my breath.
It began as an itch, a small one, low down on my back, something that with discipline I could ignore. I bore down, counted my breath, focused on my crown chakra. The itch had become a tickle, and moved higher on my back, disturbing my focus. I held on, projecting a cone of white light from my crown to the heavens, seeking contact. The tickle rose between my shoulder blades, becoming a torment, and I could bear it no longer: I writhed and scratched, trying to hang on to my perfect moment.
What was this thing? Was this the stirring of the kundalini energy, rising up through my chakras, heralding my enlightenment?
No. It was an ant. An ant had crawled up inside my shirt, on business known only to itself. It was stubborn and elusive, and after more violent contortions, my meditation spoiled, I removed my shirt, shook out the ant, and spent the rest of the afternoon rambling over the rocks before hiking down to the road.
I had come for a miracle. What I got was an ant.
Only now, years later, have I come to understand that the ant was the miracle.
More than in those ancient trees, more than in the mountains, more than in the vast space stretching out before me, the true nature of God was revealed to me in the humble climbing of an ant, after an intriguing smell, perhaps, or the pleasing salty taste of skin. It was the ant that returned me to the world, that called me to another way of worship, the way of all things ordinary and small, the way of all that is imperfect, the way of stubbornness and error, the way of all that is transitory and comes to grief. The ant was my messenger, calling me back to a world that in truth I had never left. As T.S. Eliot writes:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
The other day, my wife, my children, and I watched toads breeding at Bearcamp Pond. Their loud trilling drew us to the sheltered lagoon where toads slid and tumbled over one another in the shallows. Our eyes were drawn to one mating pair, the smaller male clinging to the larger female's back, out in deeper water, now sinking, now rising to the surface, now resting, now stroking their rear legs together, a languorous and lovely dance. Not for some time did we see, with a slight shift of focus, the snapping turtle just below an old giant, half boulder, half jaw, big as a hassock waiting in the depths to devour them. Who's to say where God lies?
We have all heard poems, songs, and prayers that exhort us to see God in a blade of grass, a drop of dew, a child's eyes, or the petals of a flower. Now when I hear such things I say that's too easy. Our greater challenge is to stand at the sink with your hands in the dishwater, fuming over a quarrel with your spouse, children at your back clamoring for attention, the radio blatting the bad news from Afghanistan, and to say "God is here, now, in this room, here in this dishwater, in this dirty spoon." Don't talk to me about flowers and sunshine and waterfalls: this is the ground, here, now, in all that is ordinary and imperfect, this is the ground in which life sows the seeds of our fulfillment.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Let us pray, then, that we do not shun the struggle. May we attend with mindfulness, generosity, and compassion to all that is broken in our lives. May we live fully in each flawed and too human moment, and thereby gain the victory.
Philip Simmons is a contributing editor of UU World and an associate professor at Lake Forest College. His essay collection Learning to Fall is available from the UUA Bookstore (800-215-9076). Now disabled with Lou Gehrig's disease, he lives and writes in New Hampshire.
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What is the reason behind the many man-animal conflict cases being reported at Nagarhole and Bandipur?
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Melinda Tankard Reist is under attack for campaigning against the pornification of our culture — which is feeding both violence against women and the abortion industry — and for being a pro-life feminist.
Internet blogger and psychotherapist Dr Jennifer Wilson has used her blog site to attack Tankard Reist for being “deceptive and duplicitous” in not declaring her “fundamentalist” Christian religious beliefs underpinning both her pro-life feminism and her campaign against the “so-called epidemic of ‘sexualisation’ and ‘pornification’” of children and adults.
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The attack spread from Wilson’s blog (January 10, 2012) into the mainstream media and Twitter a week later, when Tankard Reist had a legal letter sent to Wilson for saying she was a Baptist (she’s not) and for accusing her of being “deceptive and duplicitous”.
The old feminist sisterhood has come out in force to back Wilson and attack Tankard Reist.
Support on Twitter for Wilson came from Leslie Cannold, a campaigner for legalisation of abortion to birth; comedians Wil Anderson and Catherine Deveny; and Fiona Patten, leader of the Australian Sex Party and CEO of the Eros Foundation, the lobby organisation for the lucrative porn industry.
Columnist Jill Singer attacked Tankard Reist’s “perceived dangers of abortion, pornography and the sexualised images of females”, and for “running roughshod over the interests of most women with her views on abortion” (Herald Sun, Melbourne, January 18, 2012).
Feminist Anne Summers argued that you cannot be a feminist and pro-life. To be a feminist you had to be independent, be able to “support oneself financially and [have] the right to control one’s fertility” through abortion (Herald Sun, January 22, 2012).
Dr Kate Gleeson attacked Tankard Reist’s pro-life feminist record, namely, her working for former independent Tasmanian Senator Brian Harradine (The Age, Melbourne, January 24, 2012).
Why this sustained attack on Tankard Reist?
In part, Jennifer Wilson objects to Tankard Reist’s campaigning against the sexualisation and pornification of the culture.
Wilson vacillates between saying that “women are objectified by some media and by some men, and this can be detrimental to everyone”, while also saying that if you want to be a “sex worker or perform in porn”, it’s your choice.
She says that Tankard Reist has a “motley crew of feminists and middle-class moralists” as supporters.
It seems to have bypassed Wilson and her cabal of feminists that the matriarch of Australian feminists has expressed similarly strong views to Tankard Reist’s on the pornification and sexualisation of the culture.
Guess who wrote the following: “The spread of pornography into the mainstream is not, as liberal voices argue, a victory for freedom of expression but a poison in our culture — and we develop a taste for it at our peril.…
“Pornography has nothing to do with freedom of expression: it is primarily business, a ruthless impersonal industry.…
“It uses and abuses not only the boys and girls who provide the imagery, but also the fantasy-ridden sub-potent public, mostly male, that pays for its product.… As far as male sexual fantasy is concerned, there is no too far.”
No, this wasn’t written by Tankard Reist, but author of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer (“Gluttons for porn”, The Guardian, UK, September 24, 2000).
One of America’s feminist matriarchs, Gloria Steinem, has similarly attacked pornography, which she distinguishes from erotica: “Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.”
She says, “Blatant or subtle, pornography involves no equal power or mutuality. In fact, much of the tension and drama comes from the clear idea that one person is dominating the other.”
More so in the United States than in Australia, outspoken feminist groups have fought the porn industry.
Women Against Pornography (WAP) was a radical feminist activist group based in New York City and an influential force in the anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s and the 1980s. WAP faded in the 1990s as the internet made pornography universally available, but not before it was instrumental in the founding of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
Two leading figures in the US anti-porn campaigns were feminist lawyer Catherine MacKinnon (Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women’s Equality, 1988) and lesbian feminist Andrea Dworkin (Pornography: Men Possessing Women, 1991).
They defined pornography as “the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women” and argued strongly that pornography was the “institutionalisation of violence” against women.
In 1980, both MacKinnon and Dworkin appeared with Linda Boreman, who played Linda Lovelace in the pornographic film Deep Throat, when Boreman publicly stated that her ex-husband Chuck Traynor had beaten and raped her, and violently coerced her into making that and other pornographic films.
Germaine Greer says at the end of her Guardian article that, in July 2000, the UK reclassified the Deep Throat film to make the uncut versions available for sale for the first time since its release in 1972.
Ironically, the biggest issue confronting women’s health centres and shelters in Australia is violence against women.
Women’s Health Victorian (WHV) says that studies, both in Australia and overseas, consistently indicate an emphatic association between partner violence and abortion.
WHV cites the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s health as showing that women aged 22 to 27, reporting abortions either as teenagers or later in their 20s, were more than three times more likely to have been abused by a partner as those who didn’t terminate their pregnancy.
In Canberra, Melinda Tankard Reist set up a centre for pregnant women in crisis. She wrote the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion (2000).
Three of her later books against female exploitation were published by the Australian feminist publishing house, Spinifex Press. These books were Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (2006), Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (2009) and Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry (2011), the last of which she co-wrote and edited with Abigail Bray.
Yet Dr Jennifer Wilson and her allies lambaste Tankard Reist for both her stand against pornification of the culture, which is feeding both violence against women and the abortion industry, and then for being a pro-life feminist helping vulnerable, pregnant women.
Even Germaine Greer has expressed her concerns about abortion: “Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.”
In defending Tankard Reist, Miranda Devine (Herald Sun, January 22, 2012) says that Tankard Reist has never hidden her religious beliefs but, like most Australians, doesn’t wear her heart on her sleeve. Comments Tankard Reist: “I just want my work considered on its merits.”
So why have Wilson and company reserved their vitriol for Melinda Tankard Reist?
Why haven’t they vented their spleen against the likes of Greer, Steinem and many other feminists who have campaigned against the violent nature of porn and the global industry behind it?
The nature of Wilson’s statements demonstrate that she is not interested in debating with reason and civility Tankard Reist’s views on pornification of the culture, or abortion, or Christian sexual morality.
She says that her particular concern with Tankard Reist is her Christian “religious beliefs” and how they “determine her beliefs about human sexuality”.
Wilson’s view of Christian morality borders on the irrational. It’s little more than a sick parody, an exercise in anti-Christian malice.
Writes Wilson: “The followers of the doctrine of the virgin birth believe that sex filthies the human female, and renders her impure.… The boy god needed a pure vessel, unfilthied by sexual experience.
“The Virgin Mary was in fact co-opted as a dehumanised life support system for a foetus.”
Below this statement, Wilson posts a photo on her blog of two women on a street holding a banner: “If Mary [the mother of Christ] had had an abortion, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
This is a concerted attack by radical secular feminists to silence Melinda Tankard Reist in the public square on issues of fundamental importance to women, primarily because of her Christian beliefs.
Even the feisty Miss Piggy has never swung her handbag at Kermit the Frog as aggressively as our antipodean feminists have directed their vitriol at Tankard Reist.
Long live our ageless Miss Piggy. Long may she share the love.
Patrick J. Byrne is vice-president of the National Civic Council. This online article is an extended version of an article that appeared in the printed version
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Senior Travel
Costa Rica is an ideal destination for people who want to make the most of their retirement. With a little planning, retired tourists can experience everything this amazing country has to offer.
Cultural etiquette
In Costa Rica, seniors are often respectfully referred to as “ciudadanos de oro,” which translates to “golden citizens.” As this moniker suggests, older people are often treated with great respect, so seniors traveling through Costa Rica can expect to enjoy this particular privilege whether they’re touring the museums of San Jose or exploring the country’s beautiful landscapes. In addition, many of the country’s most popular destinations and attractions offer senior discounts, so keep your eyes peeled for generous money-saving promotions.
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Many tour companies cater to seniors and offer tours and excursions with older individuals in mind. In fact, many activities in Costa Rica are ideal for older travelers, including chartered cruises, guided tours of Costa Rica’s 26 national parks and wildlife refuges, and, of course, lounging on the country’s stunning beaches. With unparalleled natural diversity, Costa Rica is also the perfect destination for birdwatchers, and many of these nature tours focus on the amazing wildlife of the Costa Rican countryside. Amateur ornithologists will be in their element here, and several areas boast an incredible variety of bird life that has to be seen to be believed, such as Los Quetzales National Park, home of the resplendent quetzal.
Even seniors who want to soar above the rainforest on a canopy tour won’t be disappointed. In addition to Costa Rica’s famous canopy zipline tours, some wildlife reserves offer special tram car tours of these magnificent nature reserves, enabling seniors to see the jungle from a bird’s eye view in comfort.
Travel tips for seniors
One of the best things about being retired is you can be a lot more flexible with your travel plans. This can often mean great savings, especially if you are free to travel in either May or November, as this is the turning point between the high and green seasons, and prices can be a lot cheaper as a result.
As the adage goes, “He who travels lightest travels farthest,” and this most definitely applies to seniors. Resist the temptation to pack everything including the kitchen sink and instead pack one or two bags. If possible, opt for a suitcase with wheels, as this will make navigating the airport a lot easier. Remember – the less you pack, the less you have to carry around with you! However, when packing for a Costa Rica vacation, remember to bring important items like a light raincoat, sunscreen, insect repellent, comfortable walking shoes and pants and a sweatshirt for cooler nights.
Something else to bear in mind is that although many pharmacies in larger cities have English-speaking staff, they may not carry your particular brand of medication, if you’re taking any. Be sure to notify your primary care physician before you travel and bring an adequate supply of prescription drugs with you. Also make a note of the generic names of any medicines you’re taking, just in case you have to refill at a Costa Rican pharmacy.
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The Town of Vail Public Library will host a living history presentation featuring “Otto Mears” with Steve Lee.
Otto Mears (1840-1931), a Russian immigrant, was one of the most influential men in the pioneering era of Colorado.
Orphaned at age three, and living on his own from the age of eleven, he came to the Colorado Territory in 1865. He built toll roads and railroads where none existed in the steepest parts of the Rocky Mountains, thus opening up the vast riches of Colorado’s high country to exploration and development. He was a witness at the trial of Alfred Packer, he helped design the Colorado State Capitol building, and was a power to contend with in Colorado politics for fifty years. His place in Colorado’s history is immortalized in stained glass in the state senate chambers.
Steve Lee taught sixth grade for thirty-two years, often through the use of stories. Now, he is able to devote more time to the art of telling stories that teach. Steve works at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado, where he provides educational programs. Steve and Otto share similar physical characteristics and ethnicity, further cementing the connection Steve feels to this early Colorado pioneer.
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College application process has Mount Si seniors waiting for answers
SNOQUALMIE - Good news from Arkansas came last month for Mount Si High School senior Chenoa Hames.
It was an acceptance letter to Harding University, a small, private institution in Searcy, Ark. It was the first choice for Hames, who has plans to become a psychiatrist. She was confident she would be accepted, but the weeks that led up to last month's letter were still filled with uncertainties and anticipation.
"It was a relief," Hames said.
Many seniors at Mount Si are still hoping for a similar letter. Mount Si High School Counseling Center Secretary Lia Swanson estimated that about 48 percent of Mount Si's seniors applied to four-year colleges and universities and another 30 percent applied to two-year colleges.
According to the National Commission on the High School Senior Year, recent economic and employment demands now require all U.S. students to take at least two additional years of formal education and training after high school to compete in the job market. The commission estimates that more than 70 percent of today's graduates continue on to post-secondary education, making the college application process a competitive endeavor.
"We encourage the kids to look at furthering their education, no matter what form it takes," said Mount Si High School Career Specialist Diane Greer. "We hear over and over again how important skills, as well as education, are."
Most of the Mount Si students applying had spent their junior year taking tests and inquiring about academic programs. They also tried to look like academic superstars to admission officers, taking on a barrage of tough classes.
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LaGRANGE — Mr. Richard W. “Dick” Hood III, 72, of LaGrange died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at Columbus Specialty Hospital in Columbus.
Funeral services for Mr. Hood will be held Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 11 a.m. from the graveside at Marseilles Cemetery in West Point. Officiating will be Pastor Wayne Hester and the Rev. Jerry Ledbetter.
McCarthy Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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This is a brief re-cap of the video “Story of Solutions”
This video is 9:06 in length, that’s 9 minutes and 6 seconds. It was released in October, 2013.
I previously enjoyed the Story of Stuff video by the same group.
This video explains how we are playing the wrong economic game in focusing on more rathe than better. This focus on more creates many of the problems we face as a species on this planet including income inequality, poverty, famine, climate change, loss of biodiversity and much more.
If, instead, we focused on better as an economic goal, many of those problems would go away. By rewarding improvement of what we already have rather than creating more stuff and eliminating planned obsolescence and disposable products in favor of reusing, refactoring, and recycling over waste, we could go a long way to mitigating our huge human footprint on the natural world.
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Following a shooting in the community of Frederiksted, on St. Croix, that left firefighter Rhydel Robinson hospitalized, the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the neighborhood made a contribution toward his medical expenses.
According to the Virgin Islands Police Department’s (V.I.P.D.) Public Information Officer, Glen Dratte, six individuals, including fire fighter Rhydel Robinson, were injured as a result of the shooting. It was noted that the perpetrator appeared unconcerned about the number of vulnerable civilians present.
The SDA Church is well-known for opening its doors to persons in need and for recognizing some unsung heroes in the community, such as police officers, Emergency Room (ER) staff, 911-operators, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) and firefighters. The pastor of the Faith Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Wynfield Ambrose, said, “Although there was no loss of life, the church was happy to contribute to the needs of the fire service. Robinson was severely injured during the incident [and is] suffering. It’s who we are - we are so pleased that our church and members can move into action in order to assist the people of the community. We want to continue supporting their effort and pray that their families will feel the love we share.”
The local fire chief and firefighters, on duty, accepted a $500-check, on behalf of the injured firefighter. The Chief responded, “We are delighted at your generosity. We are thankful to the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for their contribution and believe that it will help in taking care of his medical bills.”
The Faith SDA Church has been intentional about making a positive difference through initiatives such as adopting the community’s fire station. During the year the church donated fruit baskets and care packages to the firefighters. The assistance rendered to the injured firefighter was an effort by the church’s Youth Department to express gratitude, as Pastor Ambrose shared, “Our donation to the injured firefighter is another way of showing our appreciation to those who care. We wanted to do more by making a difference in our Frederiksted community. Therefore, we made the decision to make a financial contribution in the amount of five hundred dollars to help with the medical expenses of firefighter Rhydel Robinson. In the midst of all the violence and insecurity, let’s continue to bring rays of sunshine to our communities.”
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The NSW Society of Labor Lawyers today condemned actions by the Federal Government this week to further restrict the ability of asylum seekers to access protection in Australia.
On Tuesday, Minister Scott Morrison responded to a decision by Labor and the Greens to block the introduction of Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs), by issuing a legal directive that no further protection visas would be granted until next financial year.
President of NSW Labor Lawyers, Hannah Quadrio said the Government was taking out its frustration on the most vulnerable people in our community.
“This is a cruel move to punish asylum seekers for political gain. The people affected are already in our community. Many have arrived by plane. There is no deterrent value in this action.
“This is directed at the Labor Party – but it’s not Labor it hurts. It hurts asylum seekers in our community – who are left in legal limbo and without any work rights, ” said Ms Quadrio
On Thursday, Minister Scott Morrison went further, introducing legislation to repeal the complementary protection regime. Under this regime, asylum seekers who do not meet the Convention definition of a “refugee”, but cannot be returned home for another reason, are also able to receive permanent protection.
“Australia has non-return obligations under a number of human rights conventions, and the complementary protection regime has helped ensure compliance with those conventions.
“Before the complementary protection regime being introduced, it was the Minister himself, who had personal responsibility for ensuring Australia met its non-return obligations. For example, that Australia did not send someone home to face the death-penalty, or torture. The Minister was asked to exercise his discretion, at the very end of the process, once someone had applied for refugee protection and been rejected.
“The complementary protection regime has been a more efficient, more focused, more transparent, and more reliable way of ensuring non-return obligations are not breached. It sees refugee claims and complementary protection claims considered at the same time, in the same departmental process. Decisions on complementary protection and refugee protection can both be reviewed by the RRT.
“It is unbelievable, and frightening, that the Minister would choose to put that burden of deciding whether someone is being sent home to face significant harm, solely on himself,” said Ms Quadrio
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Before I was allowed to see the world famous Saihoji moss garden on the outskirts of Kyoto, I was instructed by a Buddhist monk to sit on the floor at a writing desk in the temple and use an ink-brush to copy a page of script.
As I dutifully traced the complex set of Japanese characters, the monk chanted the text.
I was not alone doing this exercise. The 40 people accompanied me to Japan to see beautiful gardens were also sitting cross-legged in the room and inking in the letters as diligently as they could.
It took about 15 minutes, then we were free to don the shoes we left outside and walk into the garden.
And what a beautiful reward it was. Saihoji is a serene, green, unique treasure of a garden that dates back to the 14th century, with 120 kinds of moss that carpet an enchanted woodland oasis, creating one of the most peaceful, transcendent landscapes I have ever seen.
When the sun peeked out from behind clouds, the garden was lifted to yet another dimension of loveliness and was transformed by bright shafts of sunlight streaking through the soft green leaves of palmatum maples and turned into an even more picturesque gem.
My goal in going to Japan was to see the great gardens that I had so often read about.
I thought my education as a garden writer was significantly incomplete without first-hand experience of these gardens. It is one thing to see pictures in a book or magazine, quite another to stand in a classical Japanese garden in Japan itself.
My horticultural pilgrimage of discovery began in Tokyo and continued to Takayama and Kanazawa and on to Kyoto, Osaka and Nara.
In Tokyo, my first garden encounter was with the deeper values of Shintoism in the woodland garden at the Meiji Shrine. It was here where I got to understand in a much more profound way the Japanese way of thinking about landscape, and their approach to garden-making.
Rocks and trees are honoured and recognized as spiritual forces and the landscape is approached with respect and humility.
The idea that the ground itself and rocks and trees were owners and inhabitants of a site long before people came on the scene is deeply entrenched in Japanese consciousness.
It is this reverence and sense of sacredness that permeates Japanese garden-making. It was a good lesson to get at the start.
In Tokyo, I strolled in the 17th century Hama-rikyu garden, which still contains the pine tree planted by shogun Tokugawa 300 years earlier.
Here I had my first encounter with exquisite cherry blossoms and the joy of the informal “hanami” (flower viewing) picnic and plein air (on location) blossom painting.
I saw more of this lovely picnic-under-the-blossoms tradition in Shinjuku garden in the heart of Tokyo, where dozens of families had gathered to sit together under the spreading canopy of old, large cherry trees.
The simplicity and elegance of their time together — with shoes carefully placed off the picnic blanket or ground-tarp — was a treat to observe. It is certainly as refined and civilized as the most genteel of any English high-tea party.
On the way to snow-covered Mount Fuji, I discovered how wonderful single-flowering cherry trees can look dotted here and there in random patterns within a mixed woodland. We rarely see cherry trees planted this way in B.C. where more often they are used as featured specimens or street trees. To see them mingled so naturally in a woodland setting, the way dogwoods often are here, was a pleasant surprise.
At the large castle garden of Kenroku-en in Kanazawa, I found meticulously maintained gravel stroll-paths, a picturesque lake, low bamboo fencing and immaculately clipped azaleas and sculptured pines. The attention to detail was impressive.
But the best part for me was finding a quiet pavilion at the top of a hill. It was a treat to sit in pure peace, relax and contemplate the beauty of the garden from inside the simply built pavilion with its low plank benches and elegant bamboo fencing.
In Kyoto, the Saihoji moss garden challenged my idea of what a garden should or could be. Moss is a plant we have been taught not to love and admire but here gardeners brushed and tended it with loving care. If there is any garden that can change your mind about the value of moss, it is this one.
But a far greater challenge to my imagination and intellect was the esthetic of the iconic 14th century dry-landscape rock garden at Ryoan-ji.
Who would have imagined that raked white gravel dotted with 15 rocks could be so peaceful, engaging and inspiring. It was surreal and splendid and astonishingly peaceful.
It left me breathless with admiration at the calm and beauty to be found just sitting looking at the voids and feeling the harmony, balance and tension between the purposely planted rocks — only 14 can ever been seen at one time.
The tiny islands of pines at the Golden Pavilion, the Mona Lisa of Japanese gardens with this gold-plastered temple, were still further lessons in pure minimalistic landscape art.
These gorgeous island plantings looked like perfect bonsai trays as they seemed to float on the still, reflecting mirror-like surface of the lake. This garden is considered the perfect vision of a Buddhist paradise; I had no argument with that.
And the garden at the 14th century Silver Pavilion (Ginkaku-ji) on the northern slopes of Kyoto was equally amazing with its deep-ridged raked sand garden and a sand-symbol of Mount Fuji raked to perfection at one end.
Garden lovers would also enjoy taking the Philosopher’s Path from this pavilion. It meanders along the canal bank and offers you the chance to stop at other temple gardens on the way down the hillside.
But when I looked back over all these delightful, enlightening visits, there is one garden that touched me most of all. It would be the one I would pick as my favourite, the one I wish I could bring home with me: the superb small-space garden at the Nomura Samurai House in the heritage Nasga-machi district of Kanazawa.
This garden was built to be viewed from every room of the house. It is accessible, of course, but only for the owners. It is not a public stroll garden. It was built primarily to create a perfect harmony between the space inside the house and the garden outside, viewed from every window or doorway on both lower and upper levels.
This garden not only looked superb — with its rich variety of plant material including beautiful clipped podocarpus and black pines and exquisite maples and azaleas — it offered graceful changes in levels, an immaculate and shapely koi pond and privacy on all sides.
My plan is to one day return to Japan to see these gardens in the fall when the leaves on the maples have changed colour.
Many of the streets in Kyoto are also lined by clipped ginkgo trees, which would look amazing with their yellow leaves in autumn. They tell me the time to go is not September or October, but November.
It is something I will be investigating as now I feel the need to see Japanese gardens in the season of spectacular foliage colour.
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VANCOUVER -- When Martin Rennie said earlier this season that he preferred to look at his Vancouver Whitecaps with a glass half full approach, it was clear he believed in the potential of a squad struggling then to score and to get results.
And so, with the 'Caps now having played 11 of 34 MLS regular-season games, perhaps it's appropriate to ask this question: Is the glass one-third full or two-thirds empty?
It might take a very sharp eye and a whack of optimism to see the situation as the former. Or, maybe it requires the view of somebody who, assuming the glass was full of 12-year-old scotch, had gulped down the top two thirds.
Vancouver lost a game it looked ready to place in the win column on Saturday, giving up a sloppy late goal to the 10-men Portland Timbers, and now sit at a mediocre 3-4-4 ahead of a bye weekend, having won just one of its last nine games.
At least the 'Caps are scoring now. And they are 3-0-3 at home.
Camilo was terrific on Saturday, some of their young players are beginning to rise to the occasion and $1.2 million designated player Kenny Miller, who the Scottish Sun said on Monday is close to a deal that would see him headed back to Rangers in September, may have had a visit from Grannus, the Celtic god of healing, and be ready to play again after a balky hamstring kept him sidelined for seven game.
But it's still extremely difficult to ignore that awful win percentage over the last eight weeks.
The 'Caps are eighth in the very competitive Western Conference, just three points back of the fifth and final playoff spot, but face a daunting two-game road trip when they do resume MLS play.
Vancouver has to travel to New York to face the Eastern Conference-leading Red Bulls on June 1 and then head down the I-5 to Seattle a week later to play the surging Sounders, who are unbeaten in seven. The Cascadia rival, whom the 'Caps have never beaten, have won three of their last four, including decisive 4-0 and 4-2 wins at home over San Jose and FC Dallas, respectively.
Having played a busy stretch of late, with three Amway Canadian championship games mixed in with the MLS schedule, and now no game until May 29 when Montreal is at B.C. Place in a game to decide the Voyageur's Cup, Rennie is giving his players some needed time off. They won't return to the practice field until Thursday.
"We're going to have a couple of days off here to get away from the game for a little bit and then it's back to business," said goalkeeper Brad Knighton. "We've got a trophy to win."
Said centre back Brad Rusin: "It's nice to get some time away and regenerate a bit."
Rusin, in particular, was happy to put the 2-2 tie with the Timbers in his rear view mirror. He was victimized on the tying goal in a result that put a damper on what could have been a real turnaround week for the 'Caps.
They beat the two-time reigning MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy for the first time ever on May 12, then went into Montreal last Wednesday and got an ugly, but serviceable 0-0 draw with the Impact in the first leg of the Amway Canadian championship final.
On Saturday, Vancouver went up 1-0 on a magnificently struck free kick from Camilo in the 30th minute. And after Canadian international Will Johnson scored on a penalty in the 51st minute following an Andy O'Brien handball in the box, the 'Caps responded three minutes later with Gershon Koffie curling a 20-yard shot into the far, top corner of the net.
But just a couple of minutes after Futty Danso was red-carded in the 81st minute for pulling down Camilo in a footrace to a long ball in Portland territory, substitute Jose Valencia tied it on a controversial goal.
Rusin, in the lineup for the suspended Johnny Leveron, was furiously backpedalling to try to get his head on a high ball lofted forward by Will Johnson. But Valencia bumped him off balance and then appeared to bring the ball down with his arms.
Valencia quickly cut inside on Andy O'Brien and calmly rolled the ball inside the post past a helpless Knighton.
Rusin accepted "full responsibility" for not doing better, while Knighton bemoaned the fact "one lack of concentration cost us two points."
"We need to win that game," said Knighton. "We're a man up and one long ball right down the middle of the field beats us. We can't let the referee make a decision for us. We need to take care of business. It's unfortunate because I thought we played really well."
Rennie said that despite losing the points,."
In his mind, it's clear: with two thirds of the MLS season ahead, he's sure the glass is one-third full.
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A digital library of primary sources in US social history from 1850-1877. The U of Michigan has scanned in about 1600 books and ten journals (50,000 articles). Excellent source of obscure materials.
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Texts and images of papyri from ancient Egypt.
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Annotated guide to resources, timeline of Caesar’s career, etc.
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Quick time tours of Greek ruins, such as the Acropolis, Troy, etc.
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Classic Nordic literature and art, but much is not translated into English.
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Multimedia version of a 1400 page manuscript on Korean history.
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History and development of the Silk Road, plus information on the Mongols.
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Collection of articles from over 100 contributors on this subject.
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Traces the history of exploration beginning with the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and continuing on through Columbus, Magellan, etc. Includes the evolution of steering ships, a timeline, and biographies of explorers. Geared toward high school students.
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Contains over 1100 full-text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, and other materials about Columbus.
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History and development of the Silk Road, plus information on the Mongols.
France
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Daily life in Paris during the reign of Phillip II (1180-1223). Philippe Auguste built the Louvre, paved streets, and walled the city. Some pages have not been translated into English.
Germany
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Primary materials from Nazi Germany and East Germany; organized by a professor of communications at Calvin College.
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Great Britain/Scotland/Ireland
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- Encyclopedia of British History: 1500-1980
2000+ entries with narratives, illustrations, and bibliography.
- Irish History on the Web
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- Glossary of the Holocaust
- Elie Wiesel Interview
- Women and the Holocaust
- Women and the Holocaust: A Cyberspace of Their Own
India
- India WWW Virtual Library
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Indian history, culture, geography, social issues.
Japan
Judaism
- Jewish Encyclopedia
Complete contents of the 12-volume work, published between 1901-1906.
Latin America
- HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
“Annotated bibliography of scholary works”
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Presents information about the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, and Zapotec cultures.
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Good links statistics and responses to the bubonic plague. Includes primary sources.
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- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Includes primary sources.
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- Medieval English Towns
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Index to articles, essays, and book reviews covering 450-1500 C.E.
- Medieval Literature and History Page
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Writings by and about women from the medieval period, with bibliographies and related links; no longer maintained. See also the Labyrinth, Medieval Women page.
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- ORB–Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- The Perseus Project
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Middle East
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Russia
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- Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
- REESWeb The Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library
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Located at the University of Texas, Austin, this site has many links
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- American and British History
- Biographical Directory of the US Congress, 1774-present
Information for all who have served in the Congress and the Continental Congress.
- Digital History: excellent site with primary documents, timelines, essays, biographies, etc.
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Collection of texts, including court records, laws, profiles of colonists, and wills; includes essays on topics such as women in Plymouth, servant-master relationships, house construction.
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Role of religion in the colonies and early US history, with digitized images and texts. From the Library of Congress.
Revolution and Early U.S.
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Role of religion in the colonies and early US history, wtih digitized images and texts. From the Library of Congress.
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Scanned images of spy letters sent, with background information for each. Also brief biographies.
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National Geographic Online presentation. Includes a Time Line covering slavery in the Americas from 1500-1865, plus an interactive account of a runaway slave’s journey on the Railroad and maps of escape routes. Another similar site is provided by the National Park Service.
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One of the best Cold War sites, CWIHP includes scholarly articles.
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World War II
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Companion to PBS series on farming in the Thirties.
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- Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
- Emma Goldman’s Papers
- First Ladies of the U.S.
- Godey’s Lady’s Book Online
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- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association Collection
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Women at War: Redstone Military Arsenal
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Early Christian Church
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- Augustine on the Internet
- Ecole Initiative : Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History
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- Guide to Early Church Documents
Reformation
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History of Lutheranism, with work by and about Luther, Bach, Melanchton, Walther.
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Islam
History of Science
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Provides links to famous texts in the scientific world.
Baseball
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Historiography Class
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Historical Research using the Internet
- Collective Projects: Perseus Oral History Archives of WWII
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The surprising ways social media can benefit young students
Only a decade ago, school-aged children were forced to communicate with one another the old-fashioned way. They talked in hallways. They wrote notes. They talked on the phone into the wee hours of the morning, or at least until their parents discovered they were still awake. And now, just ten years later, the social landscape has changed dramatically due to the growth of the Internet and a swarm of new ways to communicate online. What started with Myspace quickly exploded into a social networking phenomenon thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and countless others. And although social media didn't exist in this way just a short decade ago, it's now become ingrained in the way we live, the way we communicate, and the way we connect socially.
Social media's dangers
Unfortunately, the rise in social media use among school-aged children has led to concerns from both parents and educators. A recent study from the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools revealed some troubling consequences for kids who engage with social media on a regular basis. For instance, 72 percent of students (age 9-12) surveyed reported experiencing cyberbullying, a fairly recently-coined phrase used to describe the use of technology or the Internet to harass another person in a repeated and intentional way.
A compilation of other studies also revealed troubling statistics, including the notion that social networking may lead to lower psychological well-being for some girls. In addition family members of social media users have reported a lack of quality family time with their child. Other research shows that kids who talk about smoking or drinking on social media and suffer no consequences might think it's the norm. Of course, these are just a few of the drawbacks to children's repeated use of social media. There are surely others, and possibly even some yet to be seen.
The benefits of social media
Despite its negative aspects, there are benefits of social media use that span all age groups, even adolescence. In a report for the American Psychological Association, Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D. argues that for all of the unhealthy behavior we observe kids engaging in on social media, there is, in fact, some good coming out of it. According to Rosen, it's all about socialization and personal development, and the social learning and skill-building that inevitably occurs when students and peers gather in one place, virtual or not.
A recent article in The Atlantic echoes this sentiment while focusing on the role social media plays in the emotional development of boys. According to teacher Andrew Simmons, the recent surge in social networking may encourage young men to display their intellectual and emotional side in a way that regular social discourse never has before.
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Other benefits of social media usage are also emerging. As an article in Psychology Today points out, social media can help shy and timid students learn to communicate with their peers. Introverted young people stand to benefit from getting to know one another in a sheltered, low-risk environment. According to the article, social media may also boast educational benefits, as it encourages the use of technologies commonly found in school and the workplace.
Social media: A family affair
A recent study from Brigham Young University uncovered yet another benefit to letting kids maintain an online presence. According to the report, children and parents connected through social media often feel closer to one another. The school surveyed almost 500 families to examine their social networking habits and the impact that it had on their family dynamic. The authors of the study reported that social media users were more likely to be kind, helpful, and generous to others.
Lead author of the study Sarah Coyne argues that social media can provide families with an additional platform to give positive feedback and show affection to one another. According to her, that in itself may be enough to tighten family bonds and foster effective methods of communication among family members.
"Social networks give an intimate look at your teenager's life," Coyne tells redOrbit.com. "It lets parents know what their kids are going through, what their friends think is cool or fun, and helps them feel more connected to their child. It gives a nice little window into what is going on."
Sources:
"Facebook Has Transformed My Students' Writing -- for the Better," The Atlantic, November 18, 2013, Andrew Simmons,
"Social Networking and Peer Relationships: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Children (9-12) Using Online Social Networking Sites," UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools,
"The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good of Kids' Use of Social Media," Psychology Today, May 28, 2013, Jim Taylor, Ph.D.,
"Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids," American Psychological Association, August 2011, Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.,
"Families Who Connect Through Social Media Feel Closer," redOrbit, July 16, 2013,
"Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking," Brigham Young University, July 11, 2013, Sarah M. Coyne, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Randal D. Day, James Harper, and Laura Stockdale,
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The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday lodged N161.59 billion to the Excess Crude Account (ECA), bringing the new balance to 9.66 billion dollars.
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Jonah Otunla made this known to reporters at the end of the technical sub-meeting of the FAAC for the month of November.
“I think we have fared very well in the Excess Crude Account, we targeted 10 billion dollars at the end of the year and I am happy to tell you that we have 9.66 billion dollars in the account.
“On percentage basis, that is about 97 per cent of our aspiration for the year,’’ he said.
The accountant-general also commented on the recent demand by the 36 state governors for the withdrawal of one billion dollars from the oil savings account.
He said that the federal and state governments would be guided by the “principle of consensus’’ to resolve the matter.
“I am sure that when they table this request before Mr President, as usual a consensus will be reached,’’ he said.
Earlier, Otunla had told reporters that the country’s mineral and non-mineral dropped to N569.46 billion in November compared with N640.76 billion realised for the month of November.
“The total distributable revenue for the month is N407.86 for statutory revenue; Value Added Tax (VAT) is N62.72 billion. NAN
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Weekend Happenings Apr 13-15
Our top picks for what's happening in and around Orlando this weekend.
It's the final days of the Florida Film Fest at the Enzian, and there are events and films happening all weekend long.
Photo by Michael Liesch Courtesy of Florida Film Fest on Facebook
Friday:
Folk Festival – Casselberry – 6 to 9 p.m.
Art & Music in the Park expands with a folk twist. Forlorn Strangers headlines the live music performances with food trucks, local artisans and other vendors on site. 6 p.m. Free. For more info: 407-262-7700, ext. 1507
A Gift For Teaching's Back-to-School Blast – Rosen Shingle Creek – 7 to 11
A Gift For Teaching is celebrating their twentieth birthday and you’re invited. Guests should be ready to travel back in time to 1998, the year the organization was founded. Come as you are now, or come decked out ‘90s-style. The event includes food and music with appearances from DJ D-Strong, SWITCH, and ‘90s boyband royalty, Chris Kirkpatrick of ‘N SYNC. For more info: agiftforteaching.org
Bachata Downtown – The Balcony Orlando – 8 to 11:00 p.m.
Dance the night away with an instructor-led class while taking in beautiful views of downtown Orlando and a breath of fresh air. For more info: facebook.com/events
Saturday:
The Color Run Hero Tour – Kissimmee – 9 a.m.
This year’s run is filled with superhero-inspired features as runners get doused in color at every kilometer. The event benefits Second Harvest Food Bank. For more info: ohpark.com
Orlando Art for Healing Festival – Maitland – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This free event at Lake Lily features jewelry and artworks by local and national artists, plus a healing garden and more. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. For more info: 407-739-7835
Delandapalooza Music Festival – DeLand – 1 p.m.
A 12-hour festival of original music and art, with acts performing on stages throughout DeLand’s historic downtown. Rock, folk, blues, jazz, country, metal and more, plus more than 40 art displays and various vendors. For more info: ssa.cc/delandapalooza.html
Cattle Baron's Ball – Rosen Shingle Creek – 6 to 11 p.m.
The American Cancer Society's 2018 Orlando Cattle Baron's Ball, presented by Harvill’s Produce, brings together cowboys and cowgirls for an evening of western-themed fun, and raises funds to help the Society finish the fight against cancer. For tickets and more info: acsfdo.ejoinme.org
Boots & Blues Concert – Leu Gardens – 7 p.m.
Enjoy some music under the stars with Jamie Davis Band, Mud Rooster Blues, and Beemo. Pack a picnic dinner and bring chairs or blankets. For more info: leugardens.org
Sunday:
Florida Wedding Expo – Rosen Plaza Hotel – 1 to 5 p.m.
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Mozart & Dvorak – Kissimmee – 5 to 7 p.m.
Presented by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Celebration Foundation's concert series, hear the music of these two classical composers performed live. For tickets and more info: eventbrite.com
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Florida Film Festival – Enzian Theater – Fri to Sun
It's the concluding weekend for this Oscar-qualifying festival with over 180 films premiering the best in current, independent and international cinema, plus first-class events where film lovers can mingle with filmmakers and celebrities. For more info: floridafilmfestival.com
Celebration Exotic Car Festival – Daytona and Celebration – Fri to Sun
North America’s largest collection of exotic cars, race cars and iconic Hollywood movie cars, on display. Following two exhilarating track days and racing at the Daytona International Speedway, the event moves to Celebration, Florida. For more info: celebrationexoticcars.com
Florida Storytelling Festival – Mount Dora – Fri to Sun
Storytelling “concerts,” workshops and competitions, a Swapping Grounds, a Youthful Voices & Family Fun Tent, a story store and a story cruise on Lake Dora. For more info: flstory.com
Blues at the Winery – Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards – Sat & Sun
Some of Central Florida’s best blues artists perform on an outdoor stage. Sip wine or beer, tour the winery and enjoy the music. Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For more info: lakeridgewinery.
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Betty Berry tells readers how to avoid in-home health care fraud
Q: I’ve heard about Medicare fraud and how important fighting it is. But if someone was receiving in-home care, what would be some fraud “red flags”?
A: Although most home health agencies are honest, a few commit fraud.
To know if billing for services is correct, you must know two things: what services your doctor has prescribed for your care and which services Medicare covers.
Ask questions if you don’t understand something in your care plan. Continue to ask until you are satisfied that you understand what services you are to receive and what to expect from them.
Don’t hesitate to question the in-home agency about visits by the home health staff that you feel are excessive or unneeded. Always check your Medicare Summary Notice carefully. Make sure the dates of service match the dates of your visits and that the description of the care is correct.
Always question payments for services or equipment that you never received and never give in to pressure to accept services or equipment that you know are not part of your approved care plan.
The doctor approving your home health service should be involved in your care. If changes to your care are suggested, your doctor should be involved in determining and approving those changes.
Be suspicious of any agency that offers you free services or equipment in exchange for your Medicare number. Never give your Medicare and MediCal numbers to anyone without an official need for it.
If you suspect fraud and are calling from Ventura County, call 800-434-0222. From outside Ventura County, call 477-7310.
Q: I am concerned about the number of appeals for money I receive in the mail. How can I tell whether they are legit?
A: There are a number of steps you should take before opening your checkbook. Read the appeal thoroughly to make sure it clearly identifies the charity and the programs it serves. Is it really from the organization you think it is? Many solicitors deliberately use a name similar to a well-known agency’s hoping you think you recognize the name and respond.
How does the charity use its funds? The majority of money collected should go directly to the programs offered. Watch out for statements such as “All proceeds will go to the charity.” This can mean that money left after the fundraising expenses will go to the charity. Fundraising expenses can be very high depending on the type of event planned.
Don’t be overly influenced by stories or pictures in the literature or a celebrity sales pitch. Concentrate on the substance of the message. Do the goals and methods coincide with your beliefs?
When making a contribution, pay by check, never cash, and make the check payable to the charity, never to the person making the request.
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Friday: “Will You Pass Your Next Driving Test?” seminar. 1:30-3 p.m.; Goebel Senior Adult Center, 1385 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks. For information or reservations, call 381-27
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During the last few centuries, Knowle Green and surrounding rural communities have been a hive of activity and industry, virtually every building was engaged in the production of crops, food, textiles, bobbins or hand tools.
Today, it is a collection of a few farms and many home conversions for people who probably work in the nearby towns and cities. It is a delightful corner of Lancashire.
Our walk is an interesting excursion along the old paths connecting Ribchester, Knowle Green, Dutton and Stydd, we explore an 18th and 19th C landscape littered with farms, hand-loom weavers cottages and early waterwheel powered mills. These energetic communities turned to the textile industry to supplement farming, virtually every property was used as a small production unit prior to the powered looms in large mills of Burnley, Blackburn and Preston where production was centralised.
Today, the same properties (there aren’t many new-builds in this area) have been lovingly converted or restored into dwellings.
From Ribchester, we meet Cowley Brook, a small fell-side stream that provided power to several mills and cotton factories along its short course. We follow Cowley Brook through Knowle Green before turning East, then South over Duddel Hill returning to Stydd, then Ribchester. Along the way, look out for Cage Mill, the site of Lum Mill, the old smithy and ruins of Knowle Green Bobbin Mill, Lower Mill, Higher Mill and Moor Hey Mill as well as the hand-loom weavers cottages at Dilworth Bottom and New Row.
Criss-crossing this landscape are many paths (Rights of Way) linking farms, mills and weaver’s cottages, these paths were the communication network of yesteryear, vital for a vibrant community to go about its work transporting raw materials, finished goods and produce.
Our walk gives a fascinating insight into our past, it presents us with an opportunity to remember a lifestyle that clearly moved at a much slower pace than today, yet was most productive in its output and probably very rewarding in its process.
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Town is still isolated by mudslides
Crews continue cleanup; evacuated residents return
It was the third day of isolation, and according to county officials, it won't be the last.
As crews worked to clean up mudslides on both sides of town Tuesday morning, about a foot-and-a-half of mud continued to pour over Highway 126 at Hopper Canyon, blocking the route between Fillmore and Piru. Flooding and debris blocked Highway 126 eastbound to the Ventura County line.
Meanwhile, about 400 residents who voluntarily evacuated their homes Monday night as water poured over the spillway at Lake Piru returned to their homes Tuesday under sunny skies.
Still marooned inside town, most of those families came home feeling lucky. The amount of rain Monday night was lighter than predicted, and the area didn't flood.
Others didn't fare as well. The Garcia family left the evacuation center at Piru Elementary School on Tuesday and found Main Street outside their house was knee-deep with mud and water. The flooding was blamed on clogged street drains.
Inside the home, the family found cups full of coffee and barely touched breakfasts they had abandoned three days earlier. They had fled the home as water and mud began seeping through the walls and under the floor, without a chance to grab clothes or supplies, the children still in their pajamas.
"I was really scared," said Jose Garcia, 8, who made a beeline for his room Tuesday when his parents told him it was OK to go inside. Much of the house had a layer of mud on the floor, but his bedroom was relatively unscathed. Jose and his sister, Isabel, 7, rushed to collect some toys to take with them to a relative's house, where they would stay.
Their father, also Jose Garcia, had been stranded in Valencia, where he works as a tow truck driver, since Sunday. After trying unsuccessfully for two days, he was allowed to get into Piru on Tuesday escorted by rescue crews, and the family was reunited.
"It was frustrating," his wife, Olga Garcia, said about the separation. Still, she considered herself lucky. Unlike some residents at the evacuation center, she said, "At least I had my kids with me."
Tuesday was the first day rescue crews were able to drive up Piru Canyon, said Capt. Tom Retan of the Ventura County Fire Department. They found about a dozen mudslides spread over about six miles, isolating several campers and several residents.
"Everybody was fine," Retan said, adding that medication had been airlifted in for one canyon resident the day before.
The residents, however, remain stuck. Only one lane of Piru Canyon Road has been opened, and it's only for emergency vehicles.
Over the past three days, rescue crews responded to several flooded residences. People were trapped in some homes near Highway 126, including one house where eight people were rescued after being hemmed in by a mudslide. No injuries were reported.
Medical emergencies and food supply are the most immediate concerns about the Piru area, said sheriff's Sgt. Ron Nelson. Rescue crews have been contacting residents to make sure medical needs are met, he said, but there are no plans to bring food into the area yet.
While it could be two weeks before Highway 126 is reopened between Fillmore and Piru, the portion heading east to Valencia could open within the next two days, Nelson said. Then, residents will be able to get out and delivery trucks in, although it will be a long drive to points west, such as Ventura.
Chide Asfour, owner of Piru's Sanchez Grocery, has watched his shelves get wiped clean of bread, chips, milk and other supplies. Asfour, who lives in Fillmore, has also been stuck in town, sleeping in his car.
The store has been busy, he said, but no one seemed to be panicking.
Stuck together and unable to get to work, residents seemed to bond over the ordeal, said lifelong Piru resident Richard Aries, 42.
"It brings everyone together," he said, taking a break from shoveling mud out of a neighbor's driveway Tuesday. "We're relatively lucky -- fortunate compared to other people."
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VCU ADVANCES TO CAA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH WITH 1-0 WIN OVER NORTHEASTERN
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – A header off a corner kick by senior Meaghan Dullea in the 49th minute gave second-seeded VCU a 1-0 win over No. 6 Northeastern Friday night in the semifinals of the 2011 Virginia 529 College Savings Plan Colonial Athletic Association Women's Soccer Championship at Albert-Daly Field. With the victory, the Rams, who extend their unbeaten streak to 10 games, return to the CAA championship match for the first time since 2007.
After three straight corner kicks in the 48th minute, the Rams finally capitalized on its fourth in a row as freshman Cristin Granados lifted the cross from the left side and found Dullea, who headed the ball into the near post from five yards out to put VCU on top 1-0. It was Dullea's second game-winning goal of the season.
"I'm very proud of our team's performance tonight," said VCU Co-Head Coach Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak. "You always have to be happy with a win in the semifinal match to go to the championship. The first half was a little ugly but that's what you would expect in a semifinal game. Both teams want to win, so it's going to be just a crazy battle and that's what it was in the first half. We're proud of our team for battling, and in the second half we got to play our game and possess a little bit more and have more opportunities to score."
VCU, which will face the winner of top-seeded William & Mary and Delaware on Sunday at 1 p.m., fired 16 of its 24 shots in the second half, while holding Northeastern to just one shot during the final 45 minutes. Nine different Rams collected shots with sophomore Courtney Conrad posting five with three on frame. Sophomore Taryn Cressy and freshman Maren Johansen finished with four apiece.
The Rams, who have not lost since suffering a 1-0 setback at Hofstra on Sept. 25, have allowed just two goals in their last 10 games, including eight shutouts.
VCU nearly got on the board less than five minutes into the match when a Northeastern defender passed back to goalkeeper Paige Burnett, but she was able to corral the ball before it slid over the goal line. Junior Gabby Wilson and Johansen also had looks in the first 10 minutes of the contest.
Shortly after, Northeastern countered with a series of chances during a three-minute stretch. Hanna Terry fired a point blank shot from the right side of the box in the 16th minute but VCU junior keeper Kristin Carden, who posted her ninth shutout of the season, made the stop. Carden also came up with saves on shots from Greta Samuelsdottier and Veronica Napoli.
Less than four minutes later, senior Molly Allen sent a cross from the left wing to classmate Azania, who launched a shot at Burnett, but she again made the save. The Huskies then tried to get on the board with 18 minutes left in the first half but Samuelsdottier's shot from the right wing hit the far post.
VCU had a flurry of chances during the closing minutes of the opening stanza but couldn't find the net and battled the Huskies to a scoreless first half. Cressy just missed the far post with a strike in the 40th minute. Two minutes later, junior Heather Hovanesian sent a pass to sophomore Bex Kunz but Burnett made a save to keep the Rams off the board. Then, with just inside a minute to play before intermission, Cressy fired another look from the top of the box but Burnett collected her fourth save of the period.
The Rams regrouped and wasted little time in the second half creating two quick scoring opportunities, but Burnett was there again for a pair of stops. Less than a minute later, following three straight corner kicks in the 48th minute, the Rams finally capitalized on its fourth in a row when Granados found Dullea for the eventual game-winner.
"To be honest, I really wasn't thinking and I just went for it," said Dullea. "I remember starting the run and then I remember the ball going into the back of the net.
"I never would have imagined it would have happened," Dullea said of scoring the game-winner in what could have potentially been her final game of her career. "To be honest, I don't care whether I score or someone else scores but it's nice to be the one to do it."
Johansen hit the near post on a shot from 25 yards out in the 57th minute before Northeastern came up with a critical defensive save to keep the Huskies within a goal. Conrad fired a shot but Northeastern defender Laura Holmstedt stuck her right foot out and punched the ball over the net to keep the Huskies' chances alive.
Carden later made a save on a shot by Napoli with eight minutes to play in what proved to be Northeastern's only chance of the second half.
"The difference between the first and second half was that Northeastern just ran out of gas," Roberts Sahaydak said. "They fought so hard and we give them so much credit. They had to play 110 minutes yesterday and then had to put together 90 more minutes today. They battled the entire time but physically it's hard to go back-to-back.
"We put ourselves in a good position being in second place to not have to do that. I think we got the advantage there. I give a lot of credit to Northeastern for their battle but once they ran out of gas, we were able to combat that by keeping the ball. And when you keep the ball, they start chasing and get even more tired."
Friday's match was VCU's first CAA Tournament appearance since 2007. That year, the Rams also advanced to the championship match but lost 1-0 to Hofstra in Virginia Beach, Va.
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The thing that hooked me on Claire Sherman’s portraits of the natural world were her loose but deliberate brushstrokes. For me, creating brushstrokes that possess both those qualities has always been one of the biggest challenges, so I usually take a little extra time to appreciate it in other’s work.
wow…very intense work, I particularly love that first painting those colours/shapes are mesmerizing…thanks for the links!
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Comedy is dying a dying in Hollywood as stars fly to streaming products and services like Netflix and studios pour their resources into superhero movies.
US cinema field space of commercial figures video show easiest eight per cent of earnings final year came from comedy movies, down from 25 per cent a decade in the past. Predominant comedic successes on the field space of commercial are genuinely few and much between, with studio chiefs struggling to blueprint tall names to film initiatives.
In 2009 comedies earned $2.5 billion on the US field space of commercial, and six particular person motion photos each made bigger than $100 million. Closing year that was the total manner down to $1 billion and easiest one film, Loopy Neatly off Asians, exceeded the $100 million milestone. Adam Sandler, who had churned out a gargantuan quantity of hit comedies for Hollywood, is now signed to a multi-film take care of Netflix. Jennifer Aniston, one other staple of Hollywood romantic comedies, signed up for Sandler’s most up-to-date Netflix movie, Ruin Mystery.
The film broke info to catch Netflix’s largest opening weekend when it was launched earlier this month, no subject critics largely panning it as formulaic and humourless. And Eddie Murphy’s comeback comedy “Dolemite Is My Name” can even be on Netflix, in space of the tall video show. As foremost Hollywood studios, collectively with Disney, catch more and more centered on mega-budget superhero initiatives it has also become more complex, even for established stars, to procure comedies made. Will Ferrell told the Armchair Knowledgeable podcast: “I’ve no longer too lengthy in the past come across issues where I belief ‘Boy, what a immense belief’. I went around metropolis and everybody correct went ‘Nope.'”
Ferrell is now writing a comedy film about the Eurovision Tune Contest – for Netflix.
For the rationale that launch of the summer season no comedy movie has introduced in bigger than $35 million on the cinema, and there catch been a series of flops.
Those included “Long Shot,” starring Charlize Theron as the US secretary of mumble, and “Poms,” about cheerleaders in a retirement community. Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst at Comscore, acknowledged: “Whereas you can furthermore very well be no longer delivering the goods audience catch many varied alternate strategies in this level in time.
“Names like Sandler and Aniston, they’re correct going where the resources are. There might be now not any stigma now in movie stars going to the diminutive video show. Sandler is one amongst the largest comedy stars of all time, and here is on Netflix.” Mr Dergarabedian added: “I mediate folks quiet attain desire to slip to the movie theatre and snigger with diversified folks, there is that communal electricity that comedy creates. “However the code must be cracked again on what comedy would possibly well perhaps furthermore furthermore be in the movie theatre. We now catch considered an on a typical basis decline in contemporary times, but I wouldn’t totally shut the door on comedy coming again.”
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3 Hour DVD Burn
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How To Burn A 6 Hour DVD With WinDVD Creator Plus 1.1Buford T. Justice, Feb 17, 2004, in forum: DVD Video
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Thousands of horses finish their racing careers in the UK every year, some through injury and many due to the realisation of their owner(s) and/or trainer that they are simply not going to make the grade. What to do with a horse who was bought with such promise and potential, and at substantial cost, has become a dilemma for many owners who care about their horses.
With the majority going directly to the ‘Sales’ , where their fate is determined by the highest bid, many fall into the hands of unscrupulous dealers who trade in horse meat or pass them off as a ‘safe’ ride to innocent buyers. Some are bought with good intentions by well-meaning but inexperienced individuals, who may find them too difficult to handle and therefore have no option but to sell them on again.
The prospects for ex-racehorses without a retraining programme can be bleak, as their purpose has expired. Pastures New are a registered charity dedicated to the rehabilitation, retraining and re-homing of retired and injured racehorses.
Through our retraining programme we achieve a useful and worthwhile future for every horse, be it as a “happy hacker” or something more befitting of their fantastic pedigree, such as in dressage, polo, eventing or show jumping.
Those horses suitable will help in our Equine Assisted Learning programme. Here we are helping both the horse and the programme participant at the same time.
In the right hands, and with the right training, horses can go on to have a very contented, successful and happy life after racing.
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3D accelerator and winamp visualisations
Discussion in 'Computer Support' started by astroboy,
new accelerator program and many probsyepp, Oct 12, 2003, in forum: Computer Support
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Dual Monitor - Winamp 5 VisualisationsWeyoun the Dancing Borg, Nov 19, 2004, in forum: Computer Information
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CD-Audio Album Visualisations/Art?John, Jan 13, 2005, in forum: Computer Information
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Is there any way to delete Total Access and still keep AcceleratorHoward H., Jan 19, 2006, in forum: Computer Support
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Got rid of NSIS Media Popups Just uninstalled WinAmp and removed Winamp folder and NSIS folderEd, Dec 30, 2006, in forum: Computer Support
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Did you know that something as basic as leaky ducts can create multiple problems in your living space? We’re talking poor indoor air quality that causes allergies and watery eyes, different temperatures in each room, noisy heating and A/C air ducts and a fine layer of dust on your window sills and furniture? Then there are those mysteriously high energy bills that eat into your monthly budget. The best quick-fix solution to all these issues is to seal the air ducts with Aeroseal.
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How has XP2 service pack worked for those who have it?
Discussion in 'Computer Support' started by Harvey Wallbanger, Oct 25, has disabled/deleted all my network places=?Utf-8?B?emlyZW50b24=?=, Feb 11, 2006, in forum: Wireless Networking
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How do I know if I have service pack 1???, Nov 29, 2004, in forum: Computer Support
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XP Service Pack 3 - has it been installed on my machine?hungerdunger, May 7, 2008, in forum: Computer Support
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When Is A Visaster Service Pack Not A Service Pack?Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Jun 26, 2008, in forum: NZ Computing
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Reklam och Annonsering - Media Produktion för MarknadsföringGiuen, Sep 12, 2008, in forum: DVD Video
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Sunflower Clinic Australia. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Adelaide. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Adelaide. Help with health Counselling in Adelaide Hills. Choose us for analysis on colonics in..., Health in Adelaide. Avail Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Colonics in Adelaide.. Susannah B. Participating in, and completing The Completion Seminar (TCS) has been the most beneficial decision I have ever made. Nyssa M. Even though I absolutely love and am inspired by Don Tolman, David Wolfe and Robert Young..... Thank you for your time spent with me this weekend much appreciation and gratitude. Sarah T. Colon Hydrotherapy: Its Benefits Unravelled - Sunflower Clinic Australia. The popularity of colon hydrotherapy- often deemed as a system of wellness and healing- dates back to the 1930s.
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There are doctors that practise western medicine while there are a set that have acquired degrees in natural healing. Natural healing can include homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractics, etc. which too are specialisations on their own. Homeopathy is one such alternative medicine that several are known to opt for to heal health ailments whether simple or complicated. While several are not aware of the perks of it, it is essential for each and everyone to give it a try as it is known to treat the ailment from the root while figuring out the cause of the symptoms, unlike western medicines that suppress the disease with synthetic pills.
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Also referred to as colonic irrigation, colon hydrotherapy is the right choice for any individual who has gone through symptoms that are somehow related to the colon. These may include irregular movement of bowels, constipation or irritable bowel syndrome in addition to numerous other effects that don't appear to be specifically related to the colon at all. Colon hydrotherapy in Adelaide is performed by the expert hydrotherapists who've undergone specialised training relating to the technique. The hydrotherapists utilise specialised equipment to infuse warm, purified water through the anus and into the lower digestive tract. Live Blood Analysis and Dried Blood Analysis Explained – Amazon Article Directory.
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Find out! If you thought that blood analysis is only required for monitoring your “physical” health, then you were wrong all this time. Ask the best of physicians around, and they will tell you that proper blood analysis helps them treating patients facing emotional or mental challenges as well. Choose us for analysis on colonics in Adelaide. Sunflower Clinic Australia, Hahndorf. Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy : The Reasons to Clean Your Colon with Hydrotherapy. Colon cleansing encompasses various alternative medical therapies claims to remove specific and nonspecific toxins from your body through the colon and intestines.
Colon hydrotherapy helps you improve the overall health of the body and is believed to be helpful in reducing risks of colon cancer as it removes the deposits in the lining walls that can get infectious with regular deposits. Colon cleansing is often put in the category of natural healing without the use of external medicines. Help with live blood analysis in Adelaide. Issues Dealt Effectively by Counselling in Adelaide Hills: sunflowerclinic. The act of counselling is very personal, and this is something that is accomplished during testing times.
At times, some issues come into the way of your daily life and disrupt its normal pace. Sometimes there are problems that you are unable to share with anyone. As a result of this, your quality of life deteriorates. Why Is Colonics Required for a Healthy Body? – Sunflower Clinic Australia – Medium. Colonics in simple words mean cleaning the colon that comprises of the large intestine and rectum which is known to witness waste material sticking to its walls with time.
These wastes are sticky in nature, and if you are one of those with bad eating habits that comprise of non-fibrous foods, you are likely to witness its residue in the colons. Not everyone is aware of the fact that an unclean bowel system initiates several health ailments and often gets to know about it from their doctors who suggest patients getting their colon cleansed to reduce the health ailments to a certain extent.
The colon, therefore, requires periodic cleanup either externally or by the intake of medicines. Sunflower Clinic Australia — Avail live blood analysis and counselling in... Sunflower Clinic Australia. Sunflower Clinic Australia Contact details PO Box 437, 136 Darby Rd, Adelaide SA 5245, Australia Health and Medical Counseling & Mental Health Map Data Map data ©2016 Google.
Common Questions Answered on Homeopathy and Its Goodness – Amazon Article Directory. Ever wondered why people have turned to homeopathy in the present times rather than availing the fast allopathic treatments that are easily available?
Well, homeopathy isn’t something that has surfaced up anytime now and had its presence in the lives of the people since ages. It is just that western medicine had come about making its presence felt as though it is the ultimate cure for all health diseases at the fastest time possible. The truth that lies behind this quick recovery is something that no many are aware of. Western medicine is made up of chemically derived substances that cannot cure a disease but can suppress the germs, virus or the bacteria from surfacing. Experts helping out with health counselling in Adelaide Hills too believe that this suppression is for a particular period which allows the germs to thrive in the body and surfacing all over again whenever required. - We are one of the best clinics offering help with classical homeopathy in Adelaide where you get to witness natural healing…
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is one such alternative healing form that is non-invasive and painless where one is put into a pure oxygen chamber and thus allowing the body to absorb as much as oxygen and thus replenishing it well. Oxygen plays an imperative role in out well being. When oxygen reaches all corners of our body in the right proportion, you are likely to be less prone to health ailments. Here are a few things that are likely to make you believe in its goodness and its good effects on the body and why opting for it would bring back normalcy. • You are likely to witness wounds heal at a faster rate. 4 Ways in Which Your Body Gets Benefitted with Colonics – The Articles Base. The need for colonic hydrotherapy The colon is known to absorb all that we eat, segregate the nutrition from it and get rid of the trash.
Whenever you visit a naturopath, the first thing that they would tell you is to clean your colon and then pay them a visit. Witness Natural Help with Colonics in Adelaide. Sunflower Clinic Australia - Hahndorf, South Australia, Australia - Health and Medical. DropShots™ - Free Video Hosting & Photo Sharing; No Advertising. Upload Now!
Classical Homeopathy In Adelaide (Health) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy : Know Why to Opt for Hyperbaric Therapy in Adelaide. Did you know you can enhance the body’s natural healing process, by opting for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Adelaide? This is a kind of medical treatment that helps in improving the body’s natural healing process by keeping the patient in a chamber where atmospheric pressure is controlled and increased, and the body is exposed to 100% oxygen. Yes, it is true that the body heals on its own, but at times the healing is delayed due to the global warming and the depleting levels of oxygen on the planet Earth.
At this juncture opting for hyperbaric therapy is an excellent way to accelerate healing. Well, this is not the only point why you should go for this medical treatment. Many other reasons will make you wonder why you haven’t considered opting for this before. Whenever there is a small cut or a wound, most of us apply an anti-bacterial cream or a healing lotion. Recover Fast from Surgery. Reasons to Opt for Live Blood Analysis for a Healthy Body – Amazon Article Directory.
Summary – You are exercising well, eating properly and enjoying a great life, but still, there are times you may be feeling down and low. Have you ever considered why so? The doctor may say you have a healthy weight, the fat-muscle ratio is optimal, but still why such a hue and cry about the weakness. Well, get your blood tested.
Effective Health Counselling in Adelaide Hills by Hardo Bottin. Choose us for analysis on colonics in Adelaide - Classified Ad. Sunflower Clinic Australia, Hahndorf SA. Sunflower Clinic Australia Classical Homeopathy in Adelaide. Ways in Which Health Counselling Is Related to Live Blood Analysis - Sun Flower Clinic. When you talk about counselling, the first thing that strikes your mind is a counsellor sitting at the other side of the table, trying to solve your problems. Well, things have changed now and mostly for the better. Gone are the days, when counselling was done so professionally. What Are the Advantages of Live Blood Analysis ... - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Adelaide.
Blood testing is undoubtedly one of the main factors on which definitive analysis depends. How Can a Wellness Retreat Help You Improve Your Health? How Can a Wellness Retreat Help You Improve Your Health? A visit to a wellness retreat is something that should be a part of our bucket list and if not frequently, we should pay a visit at least once in our entire lifetime. Restore Your Wellness with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. If you are looking to restore your health in an all natural and effective way, then hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be the one for you. Oxygenate your life by flushing out the toxins with oxygen therapy.
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SSL VPN Client
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Casual Game Design » Building a prototype. Coming up with an original idea for a game can be hard enough, but how do you know if your idea will actually work?
Of course, you could just trust your own design skills and start implementing the game. That’s not an approach I’d recommend, though. Prototype early and often - Prototype early and often. Problem summary Design problems are typically complex, “ill-structured” and can only be well understood through exploration.
As a result, there are many subtle, but critical questions about these problems that only learners themselves can answer. The trick lies in finding how to find what the questions are, and how to ask them. Discussion Most learning problems that are worth solving well are typical of design problems in general. The people who, at some level, know the problem best are, of course, learners. What learners often need in order to make effective contributions to the design debate is some form of representation of a solution (or its parts) that they can comment on, play with and explore. The application of prototyping in some design environments – particularly in the e-learning industry – does not make best use of prototyping.
Recommendations But using prototypes in this way challenges a number practices common in the e-learning industry. Paper Prototyping: 5 Facts for Designing in Low-Tech. Paper Prototyping: 5 Facts for Designing in Low-Tech. Lost Garden. The Usability Methods Toolbox - Usability Methods Toolbox Contextual Design Heuristic Evaluation Inspection Inquiry usable engineering. Prototyping: You’re (Probably) Doing It Wrong. You’re not alone, I was also doing prototyping wrong until a few years ago.
There are probably many different ways of prototyping games correctly, and maybe your way works great for you. In that case, a more accurate title for this post could have been “Prototyping: I Was Doing It Wrong”. A good game prototype is something fast/cheap that allows you to answer a specific question about your game.. Mistake #1: Going With The First Idea Every company I’ve ever worked at has done this mistake. » How To Fail At Prototype Design » Farshid Palad. Bored Game – A Cautionary Tale For Design Students (Part 2) Earlier this month, I embarked on a two-part odyssey chronicling the misadventures of my design team as we built an analog game for class.
You can read part one here, but the tl;dr version goes like this: We spent two weeks of a three-week project developing a game that we were too stubborn to admit broken. It was broken because we split the focus of our team, ignored crucial states of play, and waited too long to prototype. At the end of the second week we scrapped our previous board game model, and decided to do a pen and paper RPG. It was an odd choice considering the time frame, but there was logic behind it. When working in the AAA industry, we had been told ad nauseum that they wouldn’t give be giving us the opportunity to bring our “visions” to life on a daily basis.
Lesson #5: Follow your heart. Initially, the other designer and I wanted to make a tabletop RPG, but passed over it in favor of a board game. So we sprung to action. Paper Prototyping – Putting Your Games on Paper » #AltDevBlogADay. Potential game ideas; every game developer has them. Ask any game developer and I am sure that they have some great game ideas that they would pursue if given the opportunity. Some people think these game ideas aren’t really useful; but it really depends on the application. Making of MGS2 1. Making of Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty Part 1. Game Prototyping 101. This article tells you how to get started with game prototyping.. In summary, a prototype has the following key properties: Easy to create, fast to get startedCheap to work with, so that you can throw away the resultsShould not produce something you can use in finished productShould not allow optimizationBe made with the right tool for this specific design challengeAllows to judge one specific aspect of design The problem with prototypes is that they sound like extra work.
Proto - "Google Docs" Features -. 1. We lay it all out here. For easy browsing, all tips and tricks are organized into four sections: Setup, Design, Development, and General Gameplay. 1.
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Hotel Villa Constantsia - Assos-Lechaio, Corinth
Notara & Smyrnis Str., Kato Assos - Corinth1-877-662-6988
Villa Constantsia is a beachfront hotel in Corinth.
This beach hotel in Corinth offers free Wi-Fi and a garden.
This hotel has a business center. The lobby has a TV in it to keep you occupied while you're waiting.
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Hotel Facilities at Villa Constantsia
- Business Center
- Internet/Email services
- TV Lounge
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Garden
- Pets accepted
- Free parking. Baby cots are included in the price. Use of the wireless internet connection is included in the price. Breakfast is not included in the price and costs €6,00.
Room Details
Book your beach accommodation at Villa Constantsia, offering 10 guest rooms with free Wi-Fi and air conditioning. Rooms open onto balconies. In-room kitchenettes equipped with refrigerators allow you to save on dining expenses while you travel.
Guests can unwind at the end of a busy day and enjoy 15-inch TVs.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with showers.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Mini fridge
- Wireless Internet access
- Cooking corner
- Terrace/Balcony
Distances from Hotel Villa ConstantsiaAncient Corinth - 7.2 km / 4.5 mi
Temple of Apollo - 7.2 km / 4.5 mi
Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth - 7.3 km / 4.5 mi
Acrocorinth - 8.1 km / 5 mi
Castle of Penteskoufi - 8.4 km / 5.2 mi
Penteskoufi Castle - 8.4 km / 5.2 mi
Heraion of Perachora - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
Historical and Folklore Museum of Corinth - 9.8 km / 6.1 mi
Corinth Canal - 15.2 km / 9.5 mi
Ancient Titani - 18 km / 11.2 mi
Kryoneri Observatory - 18.2 km / 11.3 mi
Byzantine Monastery of Lechova - 18.9 km / 11.8 mi
Ancient Nemea - 19 km / 11.8 mi
Archaeological Museum of Nemea - 19.2 km / 11.9 mi
St Vlassis Church - 21.7 km / 13.5 mi
The preferred airport for Villa Constantsia is Athens (ATH-Eleftherios Venizelos) - 98.5 km / 61.2 mi.
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Hotel de Rennes - Le Mans
43, Boulevard Robert Jarry - Le Mans1-877-662-6988
De Rennes Hotel enjoys a strategic position in Le Mans, in front of the train station, near the historic centre and the circuit of the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Warm hospitality is complemented by an extensive range of amenities, including a bar, parking facilities and wireless Internet access.
Staff of this Le Mans hotel are more than happy to recommend sites and attractions perfect to add to your Le Mans vacation itinerary.
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Breakfast at Hotel de Rennes
A full breakfast is served between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Hotel de Rennes
- Business Center
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Snack bar
- Luggage room
- Newspapers
- Personal newspapers
- Laundry service
- Room service - limited hour
- Pets accepted
- Internet/Email services
Know before you go
Check-in: between 11 AM)
- Self parking fee: EUR 6 per day
- Pet deposit: EUR 5 per day
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 7
- Resort fee: EUR 0.71 per person, per stay
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Book your pet-friendly accommodation at Hotel de Rennes, offering 24 guest rooms with Egyptian cotton sheets and climate control. Satellite TV channels offer entertainment at the end of a busy day. Corporate travelers will benefit from free (wired) high-speed Internet access as well as complimentary weekday newspapers during their Le Mans visit. Guest rooms are individually furnished, making each stay a unique experience. A good night's sleep in Select Comfort mattresses with premium bedding and down comforters will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their vacation or business trip.
Bathrooms are outfitted with showers. Coffee/tea makers, complimentary bottled water and hair dryers can be found in each room to accommodate basic traveling needs. Additional guest comforts include free local calls and soundproofing.
Accommodation Services
- Extra beds
- Coffee and tea maker
- Soundproof rooms
- Hairdryer in each room
- Satellite TV
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- High speed Internet access
Distances from Hotel de RennesPalace of Congress and Culture - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi
St-Julien Cathedral - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Musee de Tesse - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Leon-Bollee Stadium - 2.1 km / 1.3 mi
Abbaye de l'Epau - 3.6 km / 2.3 mi
Papea Park - 4.2 km / 2.6 mi
Circuit de la Sarthe - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
24 Hours of Le Mans Museum - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi
MM Arena - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Bugatti Circuit - 4.8 km / 3 mi
Chateau of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe - 25.9 km / 16.1 mi
Church of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe - 26 km / 16.1 mi
Beaumont-sur-Sarthe Public Gardens - 26 km / 16.2 mi
Lake Brulon - 31.4 km / 19.5 mi
Eglise de Sille-le-Guillaume - 31.7 km / 19.7 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel de Rennes is Tours (TUF-Tours - Loire Valley) - 74.6 km / 46 B&B Federico Secondo - Palermo, Baker City Hotels, USA
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This sought-after southwest Gainesville pool community features energy-efficient homes by G.W. Robinson and is located off SW 91st St. Cobblefield is a family-friendly neighborhood with winding roads and sidewalks throughout, as well as great community amenities! This neighborhood offers smaller communities within, including Arundel, Braemar, Dunnideer, Hedingham, Kelburn, Pembridge, Sedgewick, and Thornbury. Development of Cobblefield started in 2001 and continued through 2007. There is a wide variety of home sizes in this neighborhood, ranging from 1700 sq. ft. to 4000 sq. ft.
Houses in Cobblefield range in price from the $260Ks to the $350Ks. You will find mostly contemporary and traditional home styles. HOA fees are approximately $600 yearly and include upkeep of the community pool, playground and other community areas.
Cobblefield is ideally located between Newberry and Archer Road and is close to the Town of Tioga, as well as a variety of shops and restaurants. Cobblefield is only 9 miles from the University of Florida and Shands.
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Dunas Suites & Villas Resort - San Agustín
Avenida del Touroperador Sunair, s/n Maspalomas - San Agustín1-877-662-6988
Dunas Suites & Villas Resort offers hotel accommodation in the Meloneras area. Highlights include a health club and a nightclub.
Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner as this 4-star hotel in San Bartolome de Tirajana has its own restaurant. Make the most of your trip to Spain by taking some time to relax as you will find massage/treatment rooms and a sauna on site. Don't forget to pack your swimsuit and towel as this hotel features 6 outdoor swimming pools. Additional leisure facilities include a library. In addition to all the great amenities on offer, this hotel has a children's pool, a children's club and supervised childcare/activities. Fancy sipping an ice-cold drink by the pool? Don't miss out as there is also a poolside bar.
Wi-Fi is available for a fee. The lobby has a TV in it to keep you occupied while you're waiting. Other amenities include gift shops/newsstands, dry cleaning/laundry services, ATM/banking services, an elevator (lift) and beach/pool umbrellas.
Regarding the services in general : good,if you have children it's a very nic...Venere Guest, Switzerland
These reviews have been left by customers who actually stayed at this hotel
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Facilities at Dunas Suites & Villas Resort
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Gift shop
- Shops in the hotel
- Beach umbrellas and deck loungers
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Minimarket
- Laundry room
- Garden
- Pool bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Multilingual staff
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Luggage room
- Tennis court
- Children swimming pool
- Billiards / Snooker
- Children's mini club
- Night club
- Internet/Email services
- TV Lounge
- Health club
- Sauna
- Massages in-room wireless Internet: EUR 6 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 6 per day (rates may vary)
- Deposit: EUR 10 per stay
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Dunas Suites & Villas Resort reviews
- March 2009
- Venere Guest
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- Switzerland
Regarding the services in general : good,if you have children it's a very nice place to go, many services for childrens (any years)! Only the food at the hotel was not so good...Fortunately they're many restaurants in the surroundings. En ce qui concerne le service de l'hôtel en général : bon, si vous avez des enfants c'est un très bon endroit, les infrastructures sont très bonnes pour les enfants de tous âges ! Seul bémol, la nourriture de l'hôtel qui n'est pas vraiment ce dont nous espérions (trop gras, pas très fin), heureusement il existe beaucoup de restaurants au choix dans les environs.
- April 2010
- Venere Guest
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- Venere Guest
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- March 2011
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Dunas Suites & Villas Resort reviews by TripAdvisor
Room Details
Book your all-inclusive accommodation at Dunas Suites & Villas Resort, offering 302 guest rooms with climate control. Rooms open onto balconies. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy televisions with satellite channels. Business travelers visiting the Meloneras area will have access to wireless high-speed Internet access (charges apply) as well as desks and safes.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with shower/tub combinations, hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. Additional guest comforts include minibars, air conditioning and blackout drapes/curtains.
A turndown service is available.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Mini bar
- Extra beds
- Hairdryer in each room
- Safe
- TV
- Desk
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Terrace/Balcony
- Satellite TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Dunas Suites & Villas ResortMaspalomas Dunes - 0.2 km / 0.1 mi
Maspalomas Golf Course - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Maspalomas Lighthouse - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Meloneras Beach - 1.4 km / 0.8 mi
Maspalomas Beach - 2 km / 1.2 mi
CITA Shopping Center - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi
Yumbo Shopping Center - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
Kasbah Shopping Center - 3 km / 1.9 mi
Aqualand Maspalomas - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
Las Burras Beach - 4.8 km / 3 mi
Playa de San Agustin - 4.8 km / 3 mi
El Aguila Beach - 7.5 km / 4.7 mi
Palmitos Park - 10 km / 6.2 mi
Amadores Beach - 13.4 km / 8.3 mi
Lago Taurito Water Park - 17.1 km / 10.6 mi
The preferred airport for Dunas Suites & Villas Resort is Las Palmas (LPA-Gran Canaria) - 29.3 km / 18 Burgos by Marriott - Burgos, Spain
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“What Are You Wearing?”Categories: Sin and Temptation
Many of our neighbors have a poor gauge of what kind of dress is appropriate. In fact, the things that some of them leave the house wearing is downright shameful! Unfortunately, because we see these things day in and day out, our judgment can begin to drift, as the attire of some of our own brothers and sisters all too clearly reveals.
The Bible teaches us principles that help us both to don modest clothing that is not a temptation to our neighbors and to possess an attitude that glorifies God. So then, before you head out in a tank top or a short skirt, and before you hit the beach in your swimming trunks or your itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini, take a listen to these lessons on modesty and appropriate attire.
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Hey guys!
Today is Saturday, annnd I went to Vegan Summer Fete in Holborn, London!
I‘m not Vegan or Vegetarian but lately I became really interested in that stuff, so I thought I‘d go! ^_^v
Annnnnd I got wheatfree cupcakes! I searched for wheatfree bread this week but instead I found wheatfree cupcakes on the Vegan Fete - oh well - why not?! lol
I went there with Shannon who actually told me about the event! Thank you <333
Actually, I didn't know about Vegan cakes before! @_@
They all looked SO cute!
Since everything was so cute and healthy at the same time, the small event place was REALLY CROWDED. And I mean hardcore crowded since I wrote it in caps, lol
So it was also quite difficult to get to the stalls and make pics, huh! ^^;;
And as you can see the cupcakes sold well, haha <3
Other Vegan sweets! Gummy Candy, Chocolate and Fudge...but much healthier! : 3
More healthy cake! (oh, healthy cake sound so good, lol)
And there was dairy free chocolate, too!
I could never think of that though. I wonder how they made it. @_@?
Oh, Today it also rained, and I, was smart enough, to take an umbrella with me! Finally, finally I used my brain correctly, haha...<3
Hope you had fun today, too!
Sweet Greetings
Venus
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6th Galenus Workshop 2018
“Development & Translation of Bioresponsive Drug Delivery Systems and Medical Devices”
University of Würzburg, Chair for Drug Formulation and Delivery
Venue:
Alte Universität Würzburg Neubaukirche
Neubaustraße 9
97070, Würzburg, Germany
November 6 - 7, 2018
Organizers: PD. Dr. Tessa Lühmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. Lorenz Meinel
Abstract submission deadline: "Closed" (September 30, 2018)
Registration deadline: "Closed" (September 30, 2018)
Please use the provided online Registration Form for both registration and submission of abstracts.
The Abstract Submission Template can be downloaded here.
In case you do not have a Google Gmail account please return the completed Abstract Submission Template by email to [email protected]
Upon receipt of the registration confirmation, the full registration fee is due immediately. Payment instructions are provided in the registration form.
The registration fee for 6th Galenus Workshop is €100 for academia, €80 for PhD students, €150 for industry and €80 for SFB TRR225 members. The fee includes participation in the workshop, coffee, lunch snacks, the conference dinner, the lab tour (upon availability as participation is limited; places will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis) and participation to the organ concert.
The deadline for registration is closed.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is closed.
A limited number of abstracts will be upgraded to short oral presentations.
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Adding Functionality To Photoshop CC With Free Extensions
find out if the extension you are downloading is compatible with your use. It will be a waste of time and space if you download an extension that will not install. Keep in mind that it is not so common for the free extensions to be up to date.
How To Install Extensions
You may use the ZXP Installer or Anastasiy’s Extension Manager to install the extension. You just need to drag the .zxp file onto the app. The next time you open the program, the extension will be available for you to use. You may install or uninstall the extensions by using the Creative Cloud Desktop app of Adobe as well. If the latter does not work for you, you can try the former.
Free Extensions For Photoshop CC In 2019
Here are three handy extensions that you can use for your Photoshop CC program in 2019.
- Interactive Luminosity Masks (Sven Stork): This extension can be of great help in your photo editing services using Photoshop. It can be used even when you want to make some local edits. This feature helps you to select different regions of luminosity in a picture, which you are editing. You will be able to adjust the tone or contrast of a particular area alone, without changing the other regions. The picker and zone mask of the extension helps you to make a customized choice as well.
- Adobe Paper Textures Pro (Russell Brown): You may add paper textures to your photos using this extension. You can make the extension worthy of using without any cost. This can be done by downloading full-res texture images freely from some other sources. It will make your editing work more effective.
- Interactive Blender Panel (Sven Stork): This extension works to blend the pictures based on their tone. The blending will be only for the particular ones and the remaining photos will remain unblended.
You can explore and find out more free extensions that are compatible with the version of Photoshop you use.
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If you're a regular on this blog and you're not up on Ka, then you need to start listening to his albums (all of which are impeccable IMO) IMMEDIATELY. Simply put, Ka's music; lyrical content, stripped down production; and DYI style of distribution and marketing are absolutely inspiring.
Ka witnessed the genesis of hip-hop growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He learned how to become a rapper first with Natural Elements and later as half of Nightbreed. But it wasn't until his first album, Iron Works, made its way to GZA that things began to change after the Wu-Tang MC had him guest on his 2008 track “Firehouse.” By the time Ka’s next LP, Grief Pedigree, dropped in 2012, he’d honed his stark, minimal style to perfection and has been acclaimed for it since. In control of everything – rhymes, beats, videos, distribution – Ka is a single-minded force in rap. Sitting with Jeff Mao at the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy, Ka talks about growing up in Brownsville, the escapism of art, the reality of life as a man, and the patience needed to find and accept your own voice.
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Chessa has been watching Supernatural incessantly. I've caught a few episodes with her and it's not too bad. Probably not something I'd sit down and watch on my own, but I find it to be infinitely more palatable than The Walking Dead, which she watched in its entirety before Supernatural.
I've been on a Mad Men binge lately courtesy of Netflix. It gets better after Don and Betty divorce.
After I finish up Mad Men (or at least, all the episodes available on Netflix) I may get back into Eureka, or I may begin watching True Blood..my ol' lady has most of the seasons on DVD
Yeah its not the gore fest that TWD is. I was able to eat a burger while watching Supernatural, lol. I dig it much better, too.
Mad Men starts up again this weekend. It's going to be a short season though. Looks like AMC is doing the same thing to it as they did with Breaking Bad, trying to get more money out of it by breaking up the last season into two seasons. I find this to be annoying, but I'm still loking forward to it and it's still a great show.
The new season of Game of Thrones started last week. I've been pretty excited about that too.
The tv version of Fargo begins tonight (Tuesday). Although I don't think the show is going to be written by the Coen Brothers, I'm still looking forward to it. It's not going to be a continuation nor a remake of the movie, but instead it's going to do its own thing while supposedly remaining true to the tone of the original. I like that idea. I've scanned some reviews of it and they have all been pretty positive, so I have my hopes up.
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Dotson came into our lives when he was two years old in 2000. Dotson was
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foot. It was hilarious. It also helped keep the sock companies in business
because I repeatedly replaced my socks after Dotson had "helped" remove
them.
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other and the pit bull knocked down a board on our fence and attacked
Dotson. His neck was broken and there was blood everywhere. The pit then sat
there and guarded his kill and would not let me retrieve little Dotson
body. By the time he finally left, Dotson was gone.
In all of my 42 years, I have never been so devastated as with the loss of
this dog. He was my baby and I adored him. No expense was ever spared for
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Mike Kentrianakis is the American Astronomical Society Eclipse Project Manager and a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York.
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′s (November 2012).
Cheers to CVG for the data.
15 Comments
G1GAHURTZ
Xbox 360 FTW!
Dragon246
Well obviously. 360 will topple it in a few months.
Congrats to them.
a7md1990
Everytime Xbox achieves something, I die a little.
daytripper
@3 Good
ManuOtaku
Say what you want but is pretty great to see all of them with great numbers overall nintendo with 97 million, and 70 million for the other two, this is more healthy than the previous gen which was aprox sony 120 million versus 20+ for the other two each one, of course sony did loose some market share, and the other two increased, but seeing the trend for upcoming generations this is a great sign, that all of them will make good numbers, personally i dont care which one wins, i just want them all to succeed, like they did this gen.
Fin
@3
I’m surprised you’re still alive.
monkeygourmet
MS has got the UK locked down;
It’s because all we want to do is play Fifa, Call of Duty then watch streamed reality TV shows and Black Eyed Peas music videos with our consoles.
Joe Musashi
That’s curious. Only a week or two ago I read comments from people stating how insignificant this sort of thing is so late in the generation and how little it means as a result.
JM
theevilaires
Wow this says a lot about the Wii. Nintendo should have just released the Wii U in 06″. They’ve had great success with Wii but the Wii U could have been such a great comeback story in Nintendo history.
Seraphemz
@8 – LOL !!!! Great point!!!
theevilaires
Seraphemz!
and JM you’re right, but you should have waited to say that until the other (well known) 360 supporters commented
PC_PlayBoy
Wonder how many dead 360′s make up those figures. I bet it’s a fucking lot.
Psychotext
@12: Why would you buy one in a shop when you can get a free repair or replacement from Microsoft?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure some people would but it seems a bit of a stupid way to do it.
a7md1990
@4
LMFAO!!
@6
My 9th life will probably end when Xbox takes over Japan.
theevilaires
@13 not when it comes to the U.S. market. People who did have the extra cash still shipped out their units after they already went and bought a core model replacement. They just slapped on their hard drives from the broken one.
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MPAA Baseball Leagues
Recreational League
MPAA has two recreational seasons, a spring and a fall. The spring season typically begins in early March and the fall in late August. Information in regards to division can be found below. The age cutoff for each division is January 1 of each year. For fall seasons, players play up in the division they would in the spring season.
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Bourne Ascendancy
Starbreeze Bourne game is Ascendancy, says CV
Another day, another developer CV spilling a bean. This time is looks to be the name of Starbreeze’s EA Bourne title – according to Starbreeze audio director Carl Vikman, it’s called “Bourne Ascendancy”. Starbreeze was announced as the developer of the next Bourne game in February this year, with a rep to the Ludlum estate […]4
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Yoichi Wada
Square Enix explains Yoichi Wada’s new role as Chairman for Square Enix Tokyo
Square Enix has explained Yoichi Wada’s new position at the firm as its Chairman of the Board.4
Yoichi Wada headlines […]1
Square Enix confirm lay-offs at European and UK offices
Square Enix has confirmed it is set to make redundancies to both its European and UK operations.10
Square Enix's new president plans 'fundamental review' of publisher's business
Square Enix’s new president takes up his duties in June, and his first order of business will be to take a good, long look at the publisher to find out why it’s not making money – despite holding some of the most celebrated brands in the industry.24
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Square Enix not expecting console profits for at least two years
Square Enix is pumping out social games while it waits for another HD console hit.4
Sleeping Dogs sales aren't "poor," original projections "exceedingly high," says Square
Sleeping Dogs sales have not been “poor”, according to Square Enix President, Yoichi Wada, who clarified the “sluggish” comments he made regarding the title back in October.15
Final Fantasy 14 to offer developer PvP, including against CEO
Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada will take to the battlefield to engage Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn fans in PvP.0.2.12
Final Fantasy XI most profitable of series to date
A new expansion for a decade old MMORPG supplanted by one of its own sequels? Absolutely: Final fantasy XI is one of Square Enix’s top financial performers.1
Square Enix's Luminous designed for RPGs and action RPGs
The gorgeous Luminous Engine Square Enix showed off at E3 is intended to power the next generation of Final Fantasy games, as well as other, action-oriented titles.2
Square opens 25th anniversary portal site for Final Fantasy
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Yoichi Wada stands down as CESA CEO
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Square Enix has "two to three" upcoming games based on new IP
Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has revealed the publisher’s plans to expand its line up of brands.3
Square Enix has "plan for the future" with Deus Ex, says Eidos Montreal
Eidos Montreal has said there is a plan in place for Deus Ex’s future within Square Enix.2
Final Fantasy brand "greatly damaged," says Wada
Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has said that the Final Fantasy brand had been “greatly damaged” following the launch of Final Fantasy XIV last year.31
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Parliament has sat at Parliament House, Melbourne since 1856, with the exception of the period 1901-1927, when Parliament House was used by the Federal Parliament and the Parliament of Victoria sat at the Royal Exhibition Building..[6] Further construction was undertaken throughout the 1970s to make "temporary" offices for members of Parliament, although these were not modernised until further works began in 2015. Sections of the structure's outer walls have gradually been replaced over time.[7].[8] Enabling legislation was passed by the Parliament of New South Wales, and Victoria was formally created a separate colony of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1851.[9]: drafting the first Constitution of Victoria, ensuring a secret ballot within elections (a novelty within the British Empire at the time[9]), and ordering the construction of Victorian Parliament House in Melbourne.[10].[11][12] The constitution established the Westminster-style system of responsible government that continues in Victoria today.[11] It further stipulated several preconditions on voting that have since been rescinded such as restricting voting to only men of at least 21 years of age who met minimum wealth standards. Rural districts were also very over-represented in order to favour large landowners..[14] The Legislative Council consisted of thirty members representing six Provinces, each province returning five Members.[9] The Legislative Assembly consisted of sixty members representing thirty-seven multi and single-member electorates.[15]
Although the White Australia policy denied the vote to Indigenous Australians in some states, Victoria did not directly legislate voting based on race. Therefore, Indigenous Victorian men were entitled to vote from 1857, provided they met the other requirements.[16] Furthermore, Indigenous Victorians who enrolled to vote in Victoria were allowed to vote in federal elections from 1901.[17].[18] Agitation for allowing women to vote began in earnest in 1891, with presentation of an immense petition containing over 30,000 signatures was presented to the Parliament.[19].[19] The first woman was not elected into the Victorian Parliament until 1933.[20]
Political parties began to increase in size and influence throughout the 1890s,[21].[21]
The principle of ensuring that rural regions, which typically represented the landed gentry when Victoria first formed, were over-represented in parliament was also rescinded. One-man-one vote was adopted in 1899 in the Legislative Assembly, and expanded to the Legislative Council in 1937.[20],[20] and elections made compulsory in 1935.[3]
Voting was further expanded in 1973, when the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. Membership of either house was also lowered to 18.[20]..[23].[13]
Fixed four-year terms were introduced for both houses in 2002, replacing the previous provision that allowed the government to expire after no more than three years.[20]
Parliament consists of two chambers: the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. It is overseen by the Governor, on behalf of the Monarch.[24]
All members of both houses are elected for fixed four year terms. General elections are held on the last Saturday in November every four years with the Parliament expiring on the Tuesday twenty-five days before the election.[15] The most recent general election was held on 24 November 2018.
Parliament can be dissolved earlier by the Governor, and a general election called, in two exceptional circumstances:[15]
Anyone enrolled to vote in Victoria can stand for election as a candidate for either House, except for:[15]
It is also not permitted to be a member of both houses or a candidate for election to both houses of Parliament..[25].[26][27].[28].[29]
It consists of eighty-eight members who are elected for four-year terms using instant run-off preferential voting.[30]Casual vacancies in the Assembly are filled by a by-election within the electorate.[31].[32]
Most bills originate within the Assembly, partly as a matter of convention and mostly due to the fact that bills not sponsored by the government are unlikely to be passed. A bill typically goes through three readings, each followed by a vote, before being presented to the Legislative Council.[33].[30] Casual vacancies are filled by a joint-sitting of both houses. The new member must be from the same party as the original member was at the time of their election.[31]
The Council's power has decreased over time, as its role has changed. It was initially a means of suppressing democratic reforms, particularly since the more representative Assembly was seen as too "liberal" and "radical"..[32]
The Governor's opening address to Parliament occurs in the Council..[33].[34][35].[36].[37].[38].[39].[39]
As a general rule, official government policy is based on advice given by a committee. This ensures further public input as committees consist of members from many parties. Bills are then drafted by the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel to ensure that all relevant clauses and technicalities in existing laws are covered. Any member, whether in government or otherwise, may draft their own bill. Bills are almost always tabled to Parliament by a minister; any bills proposed by someone other than a Cabinet member are referred to as a private member's bill. Any private member's bill is usually drafted by the member in question without input from the OCPC.[33].[29].[33]. If a house amends the draft bill, then the other house must separately agree to the same amendments. This means that it is returned to the other chamber for another vote. The bill is usually not read out in full again, rather only the amendment in question.[40]
Once both houses agree to the bill, and both presiding officers have certified the votes, it is presented to the Governor. The Governor provides royal assent on behalf of the Crown,[24].[33].[41].[42] However, the federal parliament may only make laws for matters to which it has been specifically granted the ability to do so by Australia's Constitution. Therefore the remaining powers remain the legal domain of each state parliament in turn.[43] The Treasury Corporation of Victoria outlines that the Victorian Parliament's key responsibilities are: "education, public health, police and justice, transport, roads and railways, industry, mining and agriculture, public works, ports, forestry, electricity, gas, and water supply and irrigation."[44].[44].[45]. These houses sit in separate chambers.[46]
The Parliament also has the ability to amend Victoria's constitution, although this power is subject to strict requirements. All sections must be passed by an absolute majority of each house (currently 45 in the Assembly and 21 in the Council), regardless of how many members are present in the chamber.[32] Alterations to Victoria's Constitution made in 2003 stipulate that some sections may not be modified without a three-fifths majority of both houses, while others may not be amended without a public referendum. However, since neither of these requirements were themselves passed by such majorities it is unlikely that the clauses could not simply be removed by an absolute majority in both chambers at a later date.[47].[48].[49].[50] a bill is treated as though it has passed both houses in the normal fashion.[50].[51].[51]
The Monarch (Queen Elizabeth II) is considered part of the Parliament. The monarch's powers are exercised by the Governor who is in turn appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Premier.[24].[13] However, the Parliament is obliged to observe the governor's three rights in overseeing it: the right to be consulted, the right to warn, and the right to encourage. The Governor may insist on being consulted on matters before the Parliament at any time.[52]
The Governor's role includes formally opening sessions of parliament with a speech outlining the government's legislative agenda. Victoria also has a Lieutenant-Governor to fulfil the functions of the office when the Governor is otherwise unavailable.[52]
The Governor is not subordinate to Australia's Governor-General. All Australian state governors have jurisdiction over their respective states with their commissions coming directly from the monarch.[24].[52].[21] Parties must have at least 500 members on the Victorian electoral roll, have a party constitution and register with the Victorian Electoral Commission to receive official status.[21].
Parliamentary sovereignty within Australia is a complex matter due to the nature of the monarchy, federation, and the gradual centralisation of power into the federal government over time. Victoria's Parliament is subjected to the limits of the Commonwealth constitution and its powers stem from the Crown. Furthermore, the Commonwealth Parliament has exclusive powers in some matters that the states may not exercise at all. In matters where the powers of the Victorian and federal parliaments overlap, the federal parliament's powers prevail.[41] There are no other restrictions to Parliament's authority, though, and the largely ceremonial role the crown has in governance makes Victoria's parliament sovereign over Victoria in practice. Such power is nonetheless approved by the governor whose power stems from the monarch.[53] Parliament's sovereign power over Victoria is supreme when compared to the equivalent federal parliament's power over Australia as a whole; Victoria's Constitution does not rigidly define a separation of powers as the Commonwealth's constitution does, meaning that all powers residing within the executive and judicial branches of government stem from Parliament. There is no legal impediment, therefore, to Parliament exercising control over the other branches of government.[53]
Parliamentary sovereignty was legally tested following the passage of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities 2006, which delegated powers to the judiciary to oversee human rights violations within Victoria. Although this allows the judiciary to intervene in Parliament's role in certain circumstances, subsequent legal analyses have determined that the courts only have such power as they have been granted by Parliament. In the specific case of the charter, the judiciary may indicate if legislation contravenes the charter but not invalidate the law, although this does not necessarily mean that a future parliament could not alter the charter to give the judiciary this power.[47] Parliament may delegate powers to another branch, but as it may reverse such powers at any time it maintains sovereignty over the other branches of government.[54] Sovereignty is further reinforced by the fact that no Parliament may pass a law that a later Parliament cannot overturn, including the delegation of powers to other branches. All controversial social issues are, in practice and in law, still determined and debated by Parliament.[55]
The 2003 changes to the Victorian Constitution entrenched several provisions, such as the requirement for a public referendum to alter how members of parliament are elected, and the independence of public offices. Such clauses are seen as infringing parliamentary sovereignty, and while they have not been tested in court, it is probable that these clauses are not legally valid. General legal rationale is that a given parliament can always overturn or amend the legislation of its predecessors. The exception to this is that an alteration to the state's constitution possibly could be entrenched if it was passed by a public referendum. The Australia Act 1986 (Commonwealth) and Westminster tradition place limits on the level to which state constitutions can be entrenched, with the accepted view being that the supposedly entrenched clauses within Victoria's constitution could be overturned by a majority of both houses of parliament in the normal fashion.[47]
The practice of allocating tied grants is used by the federal government to circumvent the power of state parliaments. The federal government cannot exercise powers on matters it has not been given responsibility for, unlike the state parliaments whose powers are hardly limited. Victoria's Parliament, like all of the states of Australia, has a vertical fiscal imbalance and is dependent on the federal government for about half of its funding. The states gave up their ability to raise income taxes during the Second World War, but they have maintained responsibility for the management of the majority of services. The Australian Parliament typically only funds measures that it finds politically advantageous, though, meaning that it will generally make funding for certain projects conditional on accepting particular terms and conditions. Although this allows the federal government to exercise some control over the states, it does not change nor dilute the sovereignty that the Victorian Parliament wields; there is no way for the Australian Parliament to force the Victorian Parliament to accept a tied grant.[45]
Members of both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council are paid a base salary of $182,413 per annum (as of 1 July 2019) plus an additional 8 percent "expense" allowance, meaning the minimum gross pay for a backbench MP is $197,006.[56].[57]
Members are also entitled to receive various allowances for travel and work costs. Members representing non-Melbourne electorates are also entitled to a second home allowance.[58].[59].[60]
The current parliament is the 59th Victorian Parliament, having been elected at the 2018 Victorian State Election. It was formally opened by Governor Linda Dessau on its first sitting day on the 19 December 2019.[63] The incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Daniel Andrews, was re-elected with an increased majority in the Legislative Assembly. The government holds 55 seats, the opposition 27, and the cross-bench consists of three members of the Greens and three independents.[4]
The government has 18 seats within the Legislative Council, and the opposition Liberal/National Coalition has 11. The remaining 11 are held by a variety of cross-bench parties.[64]%.[65] Similarly, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party gained 3 seats with a statewide 3.7% of the primary vote, while the Greens' statewide 9.3% primary vote earned them just one seat.[64]
Catherine Cumming, originally elected to the Legislative Council on the Justice Party's ticket, left the party a week after her election. She now sits as an independent.[66] Labor Party member Philip Dalidakis resigned from his seat representing the Southern Metropolitan Region within Legislative Council on 17 July 2019.[67] He was replaced by Enver Erdogan, who was appointed to fill the casual vacancy in a Joint Sitting and was sworn in on 15 August.[68]
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Being in Your 20s Is Great
Aug 28 2012
See? Being in your 20s is hella fun.
Cracked.com—the compendium of list-based articles that proves literally anything is publishable online as long as it's laid out as a countdown—recently ran a piece entitled "Five Reasons You Don't Miss Your 20s When They're Over," by a man who may or may not exist named "John Cheese."
I realize that there must be a couple of benefits that come with exiting your 20s and hurtling ever faster towards death, but I'm in my 20s and I'm in no rush to find out what they are. It's a bind, but I guess the Friday nights spent at home, wallowing in self-pity and The Killing box-sets, while everyone younger than me is out, partying, fucking, smiling, and having the best time of their lives, will have to wait for now.
So, I'm calling bullshit on you, your article, and everything you stand for, John Cheese—and in true Cracked style, I'm gonna do that by writing a list.
#5. You're in the Last Stages of Cool
Basic premise: All new music suddenly sound shitty and all new fashion trends suddenly look dumb.
Choice quote: "There is no maintaining the illusion that you're young and cool. I've got to say, it feels good to finally let go of it. But damn the actual act of letting go is hard."
Is it really that hard, though? John paints an image of young people being mercilessly exiled from the realms of cool by people who still have school uniforms and a set bed time, but why would any self-respecting adult care about what children thought of them? It's your teenage years where the Heathers of this world get to sneer at your shoes and make you feel like burying your head under a mountain of lead blocks. Not your 20s.
Your 20s are when you realize that all the playground rules dictating what was cool were complete bullshit and, unless your adolescent insecurities have spilled over into real life, you forget about actively trying to be cool and just enjoy yourself in the disorientating smog of drugs and alcohol you now have the money to buy and the freedom to use.
#4. Your Ego Gets Punched in the Dick
Basic premise: Society stops caring about you as soon as you leave compulsory education. Any residual feelings of happiness or self-worth from your school days will be extinguished by people who are older than you.
Choice quotes: ."
This one is essentially a hugely convoluted attack on how you're optimistic in your 20s and haven't yet realized that the first ten years of your career are going to grind you into the same tortured, bitter Scrooge that is every middle-aged office worker who hates their life and everyone around them. I don't think I have to explain why being excited about your life is better and probably more conducive to getting anywhere with your time on this planet than being resigned to a depressing lifetime of clocking in and once-a-year birthday blowjobs.
#3. It's the Worst Dating of Your Life
Basic premise: It's impossible to find love when everyone in their 20s is in a state of flux.
Choice quotes: "This is the time of your life when you're most desperate to meet a girl or a guy, and it's the absolute worse time to actually do it."
Some more choice quotes that apparently sum up dating in your 20s include: "You end up latching on to whatever short-term relationship you can get your hands on, just to fight the loneliness," and: "The chick you met by doing jello shots out of her cleavage probably isn't going to be the long-term romantic connection you've been searching for."
Are you fucking kidding me? Your 20s—the early to mid ones, at least—are your one chance in life to capitalize on everything you've learned from college movies, porn, and the years of awkward sexual fumbling that preceded them, not a decade to spend fretting over a "long-term romantic connection" (a phrase guaranteed to make 99 percent of VICE's readers throw up in their mouths). The fact that everyone in their 20s is, as John states, "trying on personalities like outfits in an 80s movie dressing room montage" is exactly what makes getting laid in your 20s so easy. (Plus, it comes with the added bonus of letting you forget about yourself and your own hang-ups just enough to fuck like a sociopath—i.e. well.)
It makes sense—you've hopefully had just enough of those stunted encounters to work out how to effectively get your P into a V by now, or vice-versa. And your inevitable loveless marriage is way off in the future, rubbing its sweaty palms together and gleefully waiting to show you that true companionship means regularly hearing one another take a dump. Your 20s are the perfect time to teach your mouths and sex parts the lay of the land, not to get lost in some neurotic, premature quest for "The One."
#2. You'll Be Balancing the Heaviest Workload of Your Life—Or at Least It Feels Like It
Basic premise: Life sucks in your 20s because you have to work, study, and maintain relationships with other people.
Choice quotes: ."
That workload gets a hell of a lot more real when you have children to support, a mortgage to pay, and a prostitute habit to hide from your depressed spouse. Your 20s are the years where you can get by in some bullshit profession, like drug dealing or freelance graphic design, just as long as you have enough cash to pay rent and buy yourself food. I get that steps have to be taken towards a career at some point (when you realize that living out your days like The Dude is a very sad existence) but I hope no one's actually expecting a four bedroom house in Surrey with two cars in the drive by the time they're 23. What a distressing way to live your life.
Also, here John seems to focus entirely on balancing a part-time job with academic work. Even if you took two extra gap years to refind that piece of your soul you left on a beach in Ko Samui, you're still going to finish school at 24, at the absolute latest. That's only 40 percent of your 20s, you've still got the other 60 to enjoy never having to sit in an exam again. Plus, since when has anyone actually got that tormented over balancing work and school? It sucks for a little bit, then it's over—stop crying about it.
#1. You're Uncertain About Your Adult Status
Basic premise: If you have friends who are a few years younger than you, people will think you're weird. If you talk to people who are older than you, they will patronize you.
Choice quotes: ."
Uncertain? No, you're really, really not. As soon as you lose interest in your birthday, you're an adult.
The only things I can take from the original Cracked piece are that John Cheese really doesn't enjoy having fun, or is just determined to fool himself into believing that his own 20s weren't any fun. "You know, growing up and having babies is its own, totally new, special, magical kind of fun," I hear him cry through a sad mirage of baby vomit and fake laughter. And yeah, I'm sure having kids is life-affirming and all that stuff, but fun, really? As fun as all the moments from your 20s that you incessantly reminisce over while your debt worries, crumbling physical health, and regret for what could have been keep you awake every night? I doubt it.
Follow Jamie on Twitter: @jamie_clifton
More stuff about getting older:
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