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June 23, 2014
A Wine Tasting And Professional Review
Virginia's Beach Campground--Lake City, Pennsylvania
I lingered over an extra cup of coffee this morning after the best night of sleep I've had yet. I decided last night that I would make today a shorter ride and head to a campground just past the Pennsylvania border.
Somewhere between Ashtabula and Conneault, I came across some of the tallest reeds I have ever seen. I stopped to take a selfie of me with them. I hope you appreciate the picture because I suffered at least 20 mosquito bites while trying to take it. I just didn't think I'd be there long enough to have to pull out my secret weapon (the 100% DEET.)
Six miles into Pennsylvania, I turned off of Highway 5 onto a quiet little road that led to Virginia's Beach Campground. Yes, it's a private campground which, just yesterday, I said I dislike. This one has a good reputation among bicyclists though, AND it has some nice primitive sites away from the RVs. I got there at exactly 3:00 p.m. By 3:10 I began hearing thunder. From 3:15 to 4:30 it was a steady rolling thunder. It started raining at about 4:30, but never so hard that I had to dive into my tent. The storm passed with only light rain--nothing my rain jacket could not handle.
I've been learning that the Lake Erie region of northeast Ohio, western Pennsylvania and southwest New York is grape country. And that means wine country. Now, I am definitely not a wine connoisseur, but after the resounding success of my food review a couple weeks back, I thought it might be fun for me and perplexing for you if I were to write a wine review. So here it is:
Before I get into the actual tasting of the wine, let me say something about how I acquired it. While in the city of Conneault, I pulled over to the sidewalk and asked a pedestrian where I could find a grocery store. He pointed directly behind him. It was a Dollar General.
"No, I mean a full-service grocery--like where I could get fresh meat and vegetables."
"Oh, you'll have to go back to Orlando's."
"Where is that?" I asked.
"Where's dow . . . nevermind." I asked somebody else.
Orlando Brothers was small, but they had some locally produced wines and I chose, with complete randomness, something from the Ferrante Winery in Geneva, Ohio. It was their "Russo Red Table Wine."
On the "residual sugar scale," so the label informed me, the wine rates a 3.5 on a scale from 0 to 6. I probably would have given it a solid 5 on that scale. It's OK though, because I LIKE sweet wines. I am not a sophisticated wine drinker. If I taste a $50 bottle of, say, cabernet sauvignon, my mouth will say, "What the hell was that?"
This Ohio Wine had outstanding sweetness and I detected hints of grape. I really WANTED to be able to say it had hints of oak or peach or blackberry or charcoal or T-bone steak--like a real wine reviewer--but that would not be honest. I tasted sugar and grape. The bouquet of the wine was also decidedly grapey. And it had 11% alcohol by volume, so it did its job in that regard. Plus, it paired well with a fine meal of Lipton's Chicken Noodle Soup, an avocado, Cheez-Its, and beef jerky.
There you go--my first wine review.
A heavier storm came through at night after I was safely tucked away in the tent. Lightning, thunder, rain, the works. I liked it.
Today's ride: 35 miles (56 km)
Total: 1,040 miles (1,674 km)
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I'm in the third full day of my Wisconsin cabin retreat. I am happy to report that I am getting attuned to nature's rhythms. Living and walking amidst the woods in northwest Wisconsin has naturally slowed my pace both mentally and physically. I find myself synchronizing with the absence of natural light by going to bed earlier. I'm even driving more slowly in order to honor the beauty of the scenery; it's almost hypnotically calming to gaze at the fields of green and gold. (What other colors would they be in Packers territory?) I typically listen to sports talk shows in the car but turning the radio on in the midst of such splendor would seem too jarring.
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Broccoli and Bacon Salad
Recipe submitted by: Tara Dunsmore
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Goodbye to lettuce, Hello to this broccoli and bacon blend that's bursting with flavor!
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6 cups fresh raw broccoli florets
1/2 cup raisins
2 tbsp. red onion, chopped
12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
2 tbsp. vinegar
3 oz. cream cheese
2 tbsp. granulated sugar
Dash of pepper
1/8 tsp. garlic salt
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. mustard
1 egg
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
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This thesis investigates the potential for improvement of mechanical ventilation systems at RWTH Aachen University. The premises of the RWTH Aachen University consist of a large number of buildings with different building types. They differ in usages, year of construction, physical condition and sometimes show considerable potential for energy optimization. This is also true for ventilation systems. In particular, the numerous institute buildings, with significant requirements of qualitative air, demand a large part of the energy supply for the operation of ventilation systems.
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Hey there everyone!
I recently read a manga I happened to come across called Yakitate!! Ja-pan, Yakitate meaning freshly baked and Ja-pan being a pun on Japanese Bread (pan means bread in Japanese)!
Of course, being a lover of all things food and also of many of the heart-warming stories from Japan I started reading and got hooked!
The story is full of humour, teaching, as well as a love, passion and determination for bread that is sure to inspire.
There are even recipes spread throughout so you can create some of the same bread they're eating!
I also discovered that there was an anime made of it that very closely matches the manga, up to the start of the second series I read anyway!
Be wary though, there are many puns as you can imagine by the title, a lot of them can leave you a little puzzled if you're not fluent in Japanese!
Still not all humour will be lost to you, the reactions to the heavenly bread they make will be sure to get you giggling!
I wonder if there is any real life merit to this croissant idea, not for the free trip to the moon of course!
As I mentioned earlier, there are recipes throughout the manga, as well as having some in the show and I would be out of my mind if I didn't try one!
This recipe is from Volume 9, Chapter 72: Conserve Your Electrons!
For this recipe you will need a microwave that can adjust it's wattage!
This bread needs no kneading and is ready really quickly!
Microwave Bread, Ja-pan number 3!!!
Makes 4 rolls
Bread flour (or self raising) 100g
Milk 75ml (Water works too!)
Unsalted butter 8g
Salt 1g
Instant yeast 4g
Granulated white sugar 9g
Black sesame seeds (I used white)
Place the butter and milk in the microwave at a medium/high setting of 600 watts, microwave for 30 seconds.
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Cover the dough with greaseproof paper and heat it for 30 seconds on a low setting, 200 watts.
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Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) teamed up with U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) to hold a roundtable discussion with farmers, ethanol producers and county elected officials Thursday at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy.
Both assured attendees they would continue to advocate for the agriculture industry.
"We're going to be out there fighting every day," said Axne, a member of the House Agriculture Committee.
Excessive small refinery exemptions, a weak Renewable Fuel Standard, delays in extending the biofuel tax credit – and, for some southwest Iowa farmers, flooding – have combined to put the squeeze on farmers and the biofuels industry.
Axne has called for a federal investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's biofuel waiver process – specifically, what she says is the misuse of the EPA's small refinery exemption, which has been granted to some large companies.
As a result, the demand for ethanol and corn have decreased and prices have fallen. Less blending of ethanol in fuel has added to more greenhouse gas emissions, since ethanol burns more cleanly, she said.
The small refinery exemption has been used in a way not intended by Congress, Klobuchar said.
"The whole process was designed for a handful of waivers, and I found out there have been dozens and dozens of them – and some have gone to big companies, including ones like Exxon," she said.
"It was a gut punch to our industry," said Justin Schultz, coordinator of the SIRE plant.
The EPA has approved 31 SREs, Schultz said.
Said Klobuchar, "The 31 SREs alone negated the E-15 benefit for this year." She was referring to the Trump Administration's approval of the year-round sale of gasoline that is 15% ethanol.
"We've lost roughly 2 billion bushels of market for these biofuels," said Carl Jardon, vice president of the the Iowa Corn Growers Association Board and a Fremont County farmer. "That equates to about 50 cents a bushel in price."
Soybeans are also down because of reduced demand, said Michael Dolch, public affairs director for the Iowa Soybean Association. One reason is uncertainty about renewal of the tax credit.
"We've had farmers on the brink, and we've had biodiesel plants close," he said.
That reduced demand by 300 million bushels, Dolch said.
"If waivers keep coming and ethanol plants keep shutting down and laying off, those are small towns that are dying," said Daniel Heady of the Iowa Farm Bureau.
Green Plains has sold $75 million in assets, closed an ethanol plant in Virginia and laid off more than 100 employees, said Michelle Mapes, an executive with Green Plains, a commodity-processing business based in Omaha that produces ethanol.
"We're doing what's necessary to restructure and move forward in a very different environment," she said.
Klobuchar has teamed up with Chuck Grassley and other farm-state senators to advocate for a strong renewable fuel standard, which is set by the EPA and mandates how much ethanol is to be blended with gasoline each year.
"The farm economy is the backbone of this country," she said. "And I'm talking about food, but I'm also talking about energy. I've always said we want to invest in farmers in the Midwest and not oil cartels in the Mideast."
"It actually takes away from our national security not to produce our own energy," Axne said.
Not only does ethanol burn more cleanly, it also takes less water to refine it, Klobuchar said. It takes three gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol, she said. It takes more than 100 gallons of water to produce a gallon of gasoline.
Once plants close, there's less demand for corn, corn prices decline further and risk increases for banks that provide operating loans to farmers, said Brett Frevert, chief financial officer at SIRE. That, in turn, can lead to more foreclosures. That has a "ripple effect" on communities and the farm economy, he said. Addressing the problems next year will be too late for some farmers and agribusinesses.
The EPA only sees part of the picture, Schultz said.
"They see what's on the paper, but they don't see the people," he said.
"I think that human focus has to be there," Klobuchar said. "There are people of all kinds of biofuels who are on our side. Hawaii is on our side."
"I'm worried not only about our farmers, but I'm worried about our climate with all the fossil fuels," said Alice Hodde, who farms with her husband, Lyle, in Fremont County.
Lyle Hodde suggested agriculture interests should team up with conservationists and market ethanol more aggressively as a clean fuel.
"What I would like to see is every vehicle being a flex-fuel vehicle," he said.
One concern is the tax credit blenders get for blending ethanol into gasoline. Axne said she has talked to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about extending the credits and believes the House will extend them. She said ethanol should also be looked at as an export opportunity.
Schultz said SIRE is exploring the possible use of higher blends of ethanol, such as E-30.
While crop insurance may help when fields flood, farmers still lose money on other things, Lyle Hodde said.
"A lot of their equipment is not covered for flooding," he said. "They lost a lot of tractors and combines and grain bins."
Hodde said they lost their home in the flood of 2011 and moved into the town of Sidney. They lost 620 acres of farmland in Missouri that year.
"We were right in front of the levee that broke," he said. "Now, it got our Iowa side."
Karol King, chairman of the SIRE Board, farms on bottomland in southwest Iowa and was also affected this year.
"We only got one-third of (their cropland) planted this year," he said. "We did go ahead and plant oats on the marginal land this year, and we're hoping to harvest hay off of it – but right now, it's got water standing on it."
Axne encouraged everyone to forward her their stories about the effects of SREs and tariffs, as well as low prices and flooding, to help her personalize the ag downturn when talking to policymakers in Washington.


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In case you weren't already convinced by the epic catfights and breakdowns on the "Real Housewives of Orange County," living in the posh California community doesn't mean life is perfect.
Cast member Alexis Bellino has revealed she's still struggling with an eating disorder that first began when she was 12 years old.
"I try not to let my weight consume me, but an eating disorder is a lifetime disease," she told Life & Style.
The reality star said she "just didn't want to eat" while watching her parents go through a divorce as she entered her teen years.
"Looking back, I think it was my way of controlling something at a time when everything else in my life was out of my control," Bellino said.
But it wasn't until another six years passed that the leggy blond, feeling "so heavy," began purging.
The bulimia continued through the rise and fall of her first marriage before she began seeking help in 2002.
Three years later, she married Jim Bellino, who "finally got me to stop counting calories," she said.
"He loves my body," she told the magazine. "In fact, he says he likes me about 5 pounds heavier."
Bellino said she now weighs between 118 and 122 pounds, but regularly eats less than 900 calories a day and remains fixated on the scale.
"It's not like I'm healed," she explained. "This haunts me."
And while she believes eating disorders "cannot be cured," they don't "have to be practiced."
"My goal is to reach other women," Bellino explained, "and let them know that they can conquer it."
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text: Petition to Reduce VAT to 5 percent for the Hospitality Industry22 August 2011 The Publican's Morning Advertiser (PMA) has lodged an official petition with the Government calling for a reduction in VAT to 5% for the hospitality industry.21 countries in the EU have a lower VAT rate for the hotel sector and 13 for the overall hospitality sector. In France, tax was reduced from 19.65% to 5% and led to the creation of 21,700 jobs in the first year. A cut in VAT could help create 320,000 jobs in the post Olympic years and help save pubs, restaurants and hotels. If the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, it will be debated in the House of Commons. Pubs of Ulster back this campaign and urge members to sign the petition and pass it on to others via email, Facebook, Twitter and any other ways possible. To sign the petition, click here.


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MOF is stoked to continue to spread the Aloha throughout the rest of our California Tour! We will be making several stops in the Golden State, so stay tuned to our calendar for upcoming events!
Here is a breakdown on what is to come from MOF:
This past Friday May 13th we visited Rady Children�s Hospital in San Diego and Jason Magallanes hosted his Surf Experience Day in Del Mar on Saturday, May 14th.
This week, we will be packing our bags and heading up north to share smiles with the children at Valley Children�s Hospital in Madera on Tuesday, May 17th and Sutter Children�s Hospital in Sacramento on May 18th. On the same day, we will head down to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland and will be concluding the NorCal hospital visits at UCSF Benioff Children�s Hospital and Lucile Packard Children�s Hospital on Thursday, May 19th.
We will also be celebrating the life of our beloved MOF Ambassador, Shawn Barney Barron, at our Memorial Surf Experience Day at Cowells Beach in Santa Cruz on Saturday, May 21st.
Closing up the month of May, we�re joining the staff at Children�s Hospital Orange County on May 26th to put on a fun day for the kids in the pediatric ward.
Come join us for a day of waves in Laguna Beach, the birthplace of Mauli Ola Foundation, on the following Saturday, May 28th, which will be hosted by MOF Director of Development, Hans Hagen.
As always, thank you so much to our sponsors Ambry Genetics, GoPro, Flexfit, Chiesi, and Da Hui for helping us make this tour possible every year!
Blame it on the Beach Boys and my orange Morey boogie board that would send my seven year-old self spinning through Salt Creek's whitewash. I didn't know it yet, but some kind of bug bit me good—the type of bug that constantly keeps an extra body in the lineup. This bug isn't so rare these days, but it's been known to cause symptoms like extreme joy when near an ocean, daydreams about the ocean and the constant urge to ride waves—results may vary! For the past 12 years, I have been surfing the California coastline as well as a few other spots on the globe. These adventures and more can be found on my blog: confessionsofasurfergirl.com It is incredibly inspirational to see how MOF changes the lives of many individuals through surfing and other ocean activities. Stoked to be a part of the Ohana!
Will not be able to volunteer at Malibu since the date was changed. When you guys find out schedule for next year plez let me know asap mahalo
Mahalo and Much Aloha. MOF is an amazing organization!
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Human beings are weird. I say this often but never thought I'd use it as my opening line on a ChurchMag post, but yeah, it's just happened. There are many reasons I mutter those words, and for now, it has to do with our interaction with tech. To be more specific our addiction to tech. The thing I find 'funny' (not haha funny; disturbing funny) is how we're enslaved by our own creations or devices.
I often think about this, and BuzzFeed's Netflix series, "Follow This", made me reflect on it again. Particularly the episode with a telling name: Tech Addict. That particular episode featured, among other people, a bunch of gamers. Oh! and social media addicts in rehab. It showed people trying to reclaim their lives.
Upfront: I'm not anti-tech. It's amoral. It is often how we use it that harms or helps us. Now that's out of the way, let's proceed.
Many people wrestle with many kinds of addictions for different reasons. Some experts say there isn't enough data to be conclusive about a lot of aspects on the subject. Toward the end of the episode, Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed's senior tech writer, alluded to tech addiction as a behavioral issue. That is, not necessarily a disorder. This subject is complex and I'm nowhere near expert level. I thought some reflection on it would be helpful for us to explore, anyway.
Addiction or Lack of Self Control?
Warzel asks, "Is this an addiction or lack of self-control?"
According to addiction the dictionary on my computer, an addiction is: "the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity". Wikipedia says: "An addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences."
And self-control has to do with an individual being able to control his/herself. I find it tempting to offer my thoughts on that question, but I won't. At least not now, not in this post. For now, I'd like to use that as an invitation to join me in thinking about it. We often rush to give answers and lose the benefit of reflecting. Taking time to be thoughtful in the real sense.
What is a Tech Addict? Am I a Tech Addict?
Does failure to go through a couple of hours without using my phone means I'm a tech addict? Being disconnected from the Internet cause me anxiety? If yes, does this mean I'm addicted? What about refreshing your Instagram and Twitter feed every five minutes? And spending half a day gaming, often?
There things we instinctively know but can't define. You know how we know something but can't come up with a satisfactory definition for. We can describe aspects of it but can't quite define in its totality. Tech addiction has many aspects to it and whatever definition you have for it is probably right. Unless, of course, you're in denial. LOL.
Some Questions
- How anxious do I feel without my phone?
- To what extent does my use of [fill in the blank] alter my mood when I use or don't use it?
- Am I unreasonably protective and or defensive about my use of particular tech?
- What's the first thing you do when you wake up?
- How has my use of [fill in the blank] tech affected or affecting my relationships with those closest to me?
- Are you a compulsive phone and social media checker?
- What is the percentage of time I spend on my [fill the blank] tech compared to other activities in my life?
Answer these questions for yourself and ask someone close to you to answer them for you. I mean, let them answer based on what they think about you. This isn't a clinical diagnosis, just a way to get us thinking. A few questions to help us talk about our use of tech.
This is the first post in the series. I started it because I've been wondering about how addicted to tech I am / might be. Also, to the extent of the impact, my use of tech has on me and those around me. I haven't found definitive tests or diagnosis, but I think we can have these conversations with ourselves and others anyway. How addicted to tech are you?


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When you live in an expensive city, achieving financial independence takes time. You graduate, find work and then see if you can afford to afford to move out of your parent's home. Often, you can't.
As noted in a recent Toronto Life profile of millennials living with their parents, the latest census shows that roughly 42 per cent of Ontario residents between the ages of 20 and 34 live at home. Read the profiles and you'll understand why.
In some cases, the jobs these young people have simply don't pay enough to cover Toronto's expensive rents. Others have a lot of debt, and living at home is a big help in getting it paid off. The common thread is that having a job may not be enough to make you financially independent.
One of the most interesting aspects of these profiles is the way in which millennials living at home are contributing to the household. Some are buying groceries, some are paying utility bills and others are doing household chores ranging from cooking to shovelling show. These families are taking a tough situation and making it work.
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Okay, grab your thinking caps, kiddies, because it's time for our language lesson. Today our lesson comes from the picturesque, pastoral and puny little Himalayan ex-Kingdom of Nepal. In Nepali, as in a number of other Asian languages, no one ever wants a thing. If a speaker of one of these languages feels a liking for a thing – say chocolate, or, perhaps, as is the case with the mountain-dwellers in Nepal, rancid butter – when they say so, they don't say "I like rancid butter." Instead they say, "rancid butter falls to my heart." When they are hungry for rancid butter or any other thing, it is not the speaker who is the source of said hunger, it is hunger that attaches itself to the speaker. They say "Hunger has attached itself to me." Or they might say that "love" has attached itself to them, or, if the situation calls for it, hatred, chilliness, confusion, awe, nausea, tickles, sorrow or even indifference. They aren't things you have, they are things that have you.
That linguistic peculiarity might seem like nothing more than a footnote, but if you think about it for a minute, you might notice that a person who says "I hate you" is a lot different from one who says "Hate for you has attached itself to me." In the latter case, there is a big space available for the speaker to change, be forgiven and grow. On the other hand, you might be excused for preferring the person who says "I promise" over one who says "Obligation has attached itself to me."
They say that communication is the architecture of civilization, and by "they" I mean whoever it was that professor was talking about in that lecture I attended all those years ago at some university or another, and after you get over the fact that it sounds pretty pretentious, you might notice that "they" are pretty spot-on. Think for a minute of Doric columns and how they express the flavor of ancient Greek civilization. Think of the arabesque (in all the definitions of that word…) ornamentation of mosques, Moscow's Red Square, and, of course, the Golden Arches of the good ol' US and A. Likewise, consider the Nepali reluctance to admit volition, the Turkic languages' love of "vowel harmony" in which words which butt up against each other in a sentence can't have clashing vowels, and the famed Inuit languages many words for the different types of snow. They are the Doric columns of communication.
From that point of view it becomes clear that the way that we use language is more important than even our mothers knew when they pounded into us the need to say please and thank you. "They" also say that diplomacy is the art of letting other people have it your way, and they might well have been talking about Barack Obama. He's so refreshingly diplomatic, political cartoonists around the globe are tearing their hair out. Their eight year field day is over. But fear not! There's plenty of raw material over in the Czech Republic, whose president, Vaclav Klaus is soon to assume the rotating presidency of the EU, relieving Nicolas Sarkozy of center stage. Mr. Klaus just might turn out to be a godsend for the snarky set.
Not long ago Klaus called global warming a "myth" and Al Gore an "apostle of arrogance." In Europe there is a palpable fear that Klaus will embarrass the world's largest trading bloc and complicate its efforts to solve the economic crisis, which he asserts is a result of too much regulation in the financial markets. In the 80s a communist secret policeman infiltrated Klaus' clandestine economics seminars, looking for evidence of his support of free-market heresy. Instead, he found the "his behavior and attitudes reveal that he feels like a rejected genius. He shows that whomever does not agree with his views is stupid and incompetent." Get that man a pair of cowboy boots! And to think he took over the Czech presidency from that other Vaclav, the dreamy, poetic and visionary diplomat, Vaclav Havel. Hang on: I just need to run and get my textbook on the Czech language to find out what all this means.


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Far From Now
Begins. Massive screen, puzzling images, no sound.
All in the air, no meaning found.
From somewhere, far below,
tones too fine to be played on strings with a bow,
deeper than a cello can go,
till there is no time, silence resumes.
Tall houses of merchants near a dock side.
Who looks from the windows?
Who opens the rooms?
It is not still but never more than slow.
Allowed calm to study what I see.
Attend to cries, remoter than whale song.
Here to witness, not to belong.
Too much to describe,
even if I had the skill.
Most of it strange, alien,
not built by my mind or moved by my will.
When I see something familiar,
it looks clearer, richer than it was.
There I am, a schoolboy, one summer,
smiling in the pleasure parks, too awake to dream,
in the Land of the Little People,
in Southport, the seashore town,
held in my hand fair ground candy floss,
toffee apple, Pendleton's ice cream.
Windy walk, long pier, tide far out,
strain to see a strip of the sea,
Blackpool tower further north,
draws me back, simplifies me.
We will go there one day, parents promise.
Maybe we did.
Who knows what wardrobes and curtains keep hid?
Family outing photographs.
Why do some pictures stay when most of them go?
Loaded ocean liner leaves the harbour.
Moves so grand and slow.
Erratic seagulls. Faces startled by cameras,
most are unaware.
Is that you? Where you there?
It is the past, far from now.
Lone as a lighthouse I stand.
Must be moments of intense living, awareness, we recall.
The rest is blank, gone.
Cobweb on the stair I brush away with my hand.


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Apparently the Baptist was a bit uneasy. Sitting in Herod's prison, it seems John was tempted by doubts concerning Jesus. John was a fiery prophet. He was disciplined in self-denial. He was a decisive figure, drawing a line in the sand and predicting the imminent destruction of all who failed to repent. You were either in or you were out. What must have been his reaction then upon hearing that the Christ was dining with tax collectors and prostitutes? Or that he was becoming ritually unclean by touching lepers and corpses? Was this the Christ he was expecting?
John's unease is apparent in this week's gospel (Mt 11:2-11). Suffering in chains, a consequence of his intense moral preaching (specifically against Herod's unlawful marriage), he hears of "the works of the Christ." Perhaps snippets of the Sermon on the Mount are reported: "Blessed are the poor...blessed are the peacemakers...love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Hearing such words, and hearing of some of Jesus' unorthodox practices, perhaps John asked himself "can this be the one who will clear the threshing floor and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire?" In a word, "is this the one whose coming I announced?" Troubled by doubts he sends a delegation to Jesus: "are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
How does Jesus respond? Jesus tells them to return and report to John "what you hear and see: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the good news proclaimed to them." At the end of this litany of great works we almost want to hear Jesus ask wryly: "so, for whom else would you be looking?" In a sense, he does say it, but more forcefully: "and blessed is the one who takes no offense at me."
This exchange between the Baptist and Jesus is a defining moment. In the Gospel there is always a tension between judgment and mercy, between condemnation and redemption. Jesus' life and preaching does not dissolve that tension, rather he refines it further: "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters" (Mt 12:30). But, while this tension holds, Jesus reminds the Baptist (and us) that the Gospel is principally about healing, restoration, and new life.
Wherever the Gospel is preached authentically, "the desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom" (Is 35:1). Human flourishing is the fruit of true evangelization. The Gospel always offers an abundant life (Jn 10:10). Blessed is the one who takes no offense at it.


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When we adopt additional names for creative purposes, it is now so very much more possible to become known by them. A brand goes beyond business. It speaks to the heart of creation.
I have just completed making a presentation on "Selling the Invisible in Second Life®" to an audience of accomplished digital virtual environment service providers. I based the content on experience and Harry Beckwith's classic marketing field guide of the same name.
Several points struck me in preparing the presentation, in discussing the material with the group, and in putting into words thoughts that had been rattling in my head since I first began learning my way around online.
Making the invisible visible.
- A brand "makes the invisible visible." It stands for something intangible. You can not see a service but you can see a brand.
- Making the invisible visible is complex and significant. A good brand makes selling easier and increases sales.
- Branding is equally worth study by the most experienced as well as the newest of service providers. You can always learn something new you had not known before. You can always tweak and adjust your service, your focus, and your presentation for further improvement.
- A brand has a combined textual / visual / multi-sensual / subliminal impact.
- A brand is a promise, a warranty, that you and your service can be counted on to perform.
- A brand must be maintained.
Our name is our brand.
- Beyond product or service, our NAME is our brand.
- We can have many products and services under one brand. It is our brand that our customers come to trust. If it's by a known name, they're much more likely to buy it. If it's by an unknown name, they're much less likely to bite.
A brand goes beyond business.
- A brand goes beyond business. Because it makes the invisible visible, it speaks to the heart of creation.
We have more than one brand.
- We have more than one brand. We have our personal names, given us at birth. We have our professional names, that go on our vita. We have our titles, given by our employers, if we work for someone else; or by our selves, if we have our own enterprises.
- In these days of online forums, chats, blogs and virtual environments, we have our online ID's as brands. Some of us use the same online ID everywhere, which makes it a brand across those environments. Some of us use separate ID's in separate environments, which each become a specialized brand within those environments.
- We are never ONE brand, we are many brands. This is not new. Through recorded history, artists and leaders have adopted names in addition to their birth names to be known by. Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens. Lord Kelvin was William Thomson. Caesar Augustus was Gaius Octavius Thurinus. And so on
- Perhaps the biggest difference today is that, when we adopt additional names for creative purposes, it is now so very much more possible to become known by them, because of the availability of the Internet and social and business networking tools.
A brand is a worthy foe.
- In the presentation. we did a quick group exercise to brainstorm a Service, Focus, and Name for a talented individual with wide ranging experience, education, and skills. This simple exercise reminded us of just how very complex is this branding thing.
- Branding is the essence of finding yourself, presenting yourself, and addressing the complexity of how do you want to be perceived by others and how do you perceive yourself.
- A copy of my presentation and full chapter notes from Beckwith's field guide are available here.
Also see:
Nom en ligne (online name)
Identity?—the French have a word for it


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Katrina: The Debris is stories about what was left behind by the storm and the floods that followed, aiming to pick up some of the narrative threads of the storm and follow them into the present and future.
August 24, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // The R Word: Resilience
Well, we've made it. Almost. It's been a long, hot summer and this is our last episode as we come up on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. The city is abuzz with journalists and experts and NGOs and politicians. We thought we'd use this last bit of The Debris to explore a word they're all using to talk about New Orleans: resilience.
24 min
August 17, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Newcomers
Lots of people who visit New Orleans today are surprised to find the city in such good shape. The rebuilding effort has been long, arduous, and largely successful in most areas (with a few notable exceptions, like the Lower 9th Ward ). New Orleans would not be where it is today without the students, church groups, retirees, professional organizations and lone good souls who gave their time and energy to rebuilding. At least a million people, by one count, and likely many millions. Newcomers
25 min
August 10, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // The Debris
This week on Katrina: The Debris, we're exploring the actual debris — the stuff left behind when the winds died down and the floodwaters receded. Katrina changed our relationship with that "stuff" — the tangible things that make up our modern lives. Some things became much more important, while so much else became just trash to be left on the curb for pickup.
16 min
August 3, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Mental Health
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the floods that followed is most visible in pictures of ruined houses and people's destroyed possessions lying out on city streets. But there's unseen damage that runs even deeper: the collective emotional trauma experienced by the thousands of people who lived through it.
15 min
July 27, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Missing
According to numbers from the US Census and the IRS, 236,970 people left Louisiana between the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006, mostly because of Hurricane Katrina. Census details can't tell who is a former resident returning and who's new, but as of last year, the state had only recovered about 100,000 people, less than half of those who left. Whether it's a bandoned houses or empty chairs at the dinner table, New Orleans is rebuilding around a conspicuous absence. This week on The Debris
22 min
July 20, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Education
Of all the changes New Orleans has seen in the ten years since Katrina, the restructuring of the city's public school system is perhaps the most drastic. In place of a traditional school district, most Orleans Parish schools are now governed by a loose confederation of charter operators. What does this new model mean for students, teachers and parents in New Orleans?
23 min
July 13, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Nueva Orleans
According to a study by the Data Center , the Hispanic population of the New Orleans metro area has nearly doubled since the year 2000. Many people immigrated from Mexico and Central America, or migrated from other parts of the U.S. to work in cleanup and construction after Katrina. The Latino population of greater New Orleans continues to grow and reshape the culture of the city.
19 min
July 6, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Houston
Nearly a quarter of a million people evacuated to Houston from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and in 2006 there were still about 150,000 Katrina evacuees in the Bayou City. As of 2012, 40,000 had resettled permanently from New Orleans to the Houston area.
24 min
June 29, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // On The Road
You don't realize how much you appreciate traffic lights until you have to drive around a city without any. This week on Katrina: The Debris, getting around New Orleans, during and after the storm.
19 min
June 22, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Generations
New Orleans is a family city. Grandparents and grandkids, cousins, aunts and uncles often live in the same house, share the same traditions. When Katrina hit, many families evacuated together — three generations crammed into one car.
26 min
June 15, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Ingredients
The root of the word "restaurant" is in fact the French verb restaurer , to restore. And New Orleans restaurateurs , the proprietors, were seen as key figures in restoring the life and spirit of the city. But in those first months after the flood, nobody was sure how or even if the city's most famous restaurants were going to reopen. We hear tape from an October 2005 meeting of New Orleans chefs — including John Besh , Susan Spicer and Leah Chase — about how to get the city's restaurant
19 min
June 8, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Green Dot
The first comprehensive map for rebuilding New Orleans came out in early 2006, about six months after the flood. Saying it was highly anticipated would be an understatement. On it, some symbols that appeared as a death knell for some neighborhoods: green dots. To New Orleans native Wendell Pierce , star of The Wire and Treme — and to thousands of others — those dots meant: "your neighborhood is not welcomed back." Meet a woman who helped bring back her Green Dot neighborhood of Broadmoor , with
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June 1, 2015
Katrina: The Debris // Incredible By Modern Standards
Incredible by Modern Standards— June 1 New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the National Weather Service is using social science to improve forecasts. And hear from New Orleans residents who say the argument to call our 2005 disaster "The Federal Flood" instead of just "Katrina" still holds water. Why that weather wording matters. Read the National Weather Service's report on its service during
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SJHL Will Crown New Champion
The Ice Wolves impressive run of two SJHL Championships came to a jarring halt Wednesday night when the Humboldt Broncos completed the sweep of La Ronge in a 6-2 victory. The game was closer than the score indicated, but the Ice Wolves didn't seem to have enough energy in their game to make a play for avoiding the loss on home ice. A lot of the Wolves hopes were resting on Tuesday night, and after that loss, a feeling of inevitability seemed to settle around the team. Not the mindset you want coming into an elimination game.
Despite coming out flat in the first the Wolves were held in it by Alex Rajotte who made sixteen saves in the opening frame. However, early in the second period, La Ronge got down by two and would be fighting to come back from that all night. The Wolves seemed to get a spark after pulling within one for the second time on the night late in the middle period, but couldn't even it up before the third and the Broncos quickly put any hope of a comeback out of reach and cruised to the victory and advance to the Bauer Conference Final.
Ice Wolves Face Elimination
For the first time in two years, the Ice Wolves face elimination (without the chance to win themselves) in the SJHL Playoffs. Many of the Ice Wolves hopes in this series hinged on being perfect at home and stealing one on the road. With a 3-2 loss at the Mel Tuesday night, the Wolves fall behind the Broncos 3-0 in their Conference Semi-Final and have their backs firmly against the wall.
Tuesday's game started out well for the Ice Wolves. They were physical and kept the pressure firmly on the Broncos. It certainly became evident the Broncos weren't in a comfortable position. Time after time, the Broncos tossed pucks out of play to relieve the pressure, but the Wolves kept coming. Humboldt weathered the storm and turned things around on La Ronge, holding tough pressure on La Ronge for the next ten minutes or so. Once the Broncos got their footing in the game, they controlled the play by pressuring the Wolves into a lot of giveaways and mistakes. In the first period, the Wolves did great job of recovering, and though they were outshot, they weren't really out-chanced. The Wolves took back momentum late in the period and on the powerplay, Marc-Andre Carre sniped his first of the post-season to give La Ronge a 1-0 with 12 seconds left in the opening frame.
Coming into this Bauer Conference Semi-Final with the Humboldt Broncos, the Ice Wolves players and coaching staff were confident they would only need to win one game in Humboldt. This of course rests on the Wolves winning all three of their games on home ice. Now they have a chance to make that a reality, or else be in some serious trouble.
The Ice Wolves' Bastion of Hope (also known as the Mel), saw the Wolves and Broncos clash in two very tight games this season. One, a 6-5 Humboldt win with the other going to the Broncos 3-2 in the shootout. Certainly the Wolves hope they can get the jump on Humboldt on home ice, but it's far from a guarantee.
It's amazing the difference 24 hours can make in Junior Hockey.
I'm not going to spend a ton of time on the 8-2 game. It was probably the Wolves worst game of the 2011-12 season, matched maybe only by the 4-0 defeat at the hands of the Notre Dame Hounds at the Mel. Both brutal games for the Wolves, though the Humboldt loss a little more pronounced.
Pretty much everything that could go wrong did for La Ronge. The perfect summary was the Broncos' eighth goal of the game when it bounced in front of Myles Hovdebo and took a wild bounce to the right and into the goal. The Wolves were completely unprepared for a Humboldt team that certainly requires everything you have, and a little more.
The Canalta Cup (then Credit Union) hasn't let the Bauer Conference for five years. The Ice Wolves managed the repeat the last couple of seasons while the Broncos owned the Provincial Crown for the three years before that. On the way to their first SJHL Title, the Ice Wolves had to overcome the Champs on the journey, and now, the same will have to be true for the Humboldt Broncos if they want to raise the Cup.
The Ice Wolves challenge is clear. Defeat the RBC Cup hosts who are ranked third in the country, didn't lose to the Wolves all year and was one point shy of a 90 point season. The Ice Wolves will have to, in a sense, slay the dragon to try and match the Broncos and their threepeat.
There are a lot of fun story lines in this matchup. The relationship between the coaches, the whole previous champs thing, the RBC Cup on the horizon for the Broncos. Obviously, by the regular season stats, the Ice Wolves are up against it. That's the beauty of the playoffs, it doesn't matter in the least. We'll still pour over the regular season in this breakdown of course, and reference those numbers repeatedly during the series, but it doesn't really matter. That will be the mentality from the Ice Wolves perspective. The Broncos would be happy for the regular season to carry over into the playoffs and continue their domination of the Wolves. How will it go down? The beauty of it is we don't have to wait long at all to find out.
The Ice Wolves accomplished the task set out before them in Flin Flon Monday night. They went in looking to get out of the Survivor Series in three games and avoid giving any momentum back to the Bombers on home ice. A solid 3-1 victory got the job done and the Wolves ousted their Northern rivals from the post season for the third straight year.
It was a pretty convincing victory despite how close the score was. The Wolves really controlled the play to start the game and it was key in the victory. Byron Sorenson got the Wolves an early lead and things looked pretty good. The Ice Wolves kept pressing their advantage, but a couple Bomber powerplays turned things around for the home side. Despite looking a little uncomfortable between the pipes, Alex Rajotte held the Bombers off the scoresheet with some help from his defence.
The second period had the Bombers playing with more jump to start the frame than the first, but the Wolves weathered the storm and pressed back the other way. The penalty kill was called upon frequently and did a fantastic job of shutting down the Bombers. Towards the end of the period, the Ice Wolves took another penalty and something interesting would happen. Alex Vandenameele took a boarding penalty with 1:36 remaining in the second. The Wolves got to the break still leading 1-0, the game clock showed 23 seconds remaining on the PK. The penalty was run down over the intermission so the score clock could time the break. When the teams came back, though, 36 seconds went up for the remaining time on the penalty kill. Oops. So the Bombers had an extra 13 seconds to work with on the man advantage, but it was the Ice Wolves who would benefit. Nathan Boyer stole the puck and at the Wolves blue-line and raced in alone on Devin Buffalo. The Bomber goalie stopped Boyer's first chance, but Boyer buried the rebound to give the Ice Wolves the 2-0 lead. If that timing mistake isn't there, we can be reasonably (not 100%) certain Boyer doesn't score at that point. Both teams would have been in different set ups with the penalty having closed off ten seconds ago. What looked like a bad break for La Ronge, turned around on the Bombers.
Flin Flon, knowing the season was in jeopardy, turned up the heat. The physical game ramped up and you could sense the desperation. The Bombers just couldn't seem to gain any purchase, though, and Aaron Enns iced the game with an empty netter in the final couple minutes. Riley Storzuk gave Bomber fans something to cheer about, breaking the Alex Rajotte shutout bid with 16 seconds left in the contest.
The Ice Wolves never trailed on the scoreboard in the series as they move on to face the Humboldt Broncos and will try to upset the third ranked team in the country. The Wolves are no stranger to upsetting the first place team coming out of the survivor series. They accomplished that exact feat two years ago when they came out of the Survivor Series (against Humboldt) and beat the Bombers who were in first. Two players still remain from that team in Carre and Enns while Hladun and Boyer were around the team as AP's.
The Conference Semi-Finals get going for all four series' Friday night. Both Friday and Saturday's game will be broadcast on MBC as the Ice Wolves look to win their first game of the season against Humboldt. The Wolves need to win at least one game at the Elgar Peterson Arena to complete the upset and their best chance may be Game 1 with the Broncos coming off a long layoff.
I'll have a series preview up ahead of Game 1.
Ice Wolves Look for Sweep in Flin Flon
The Ice Wolves got off to a great start on home ice in the Survivor Series with a pair of wins on home ice to start out the playoffs. Friday's contest started out fast and furious with the Wolves getting the better of the early action, but letting their foot off the gas nearly cost them as the Bombers pulled themselves back into the contest. The Wolves collected themselves in time and took the 5-4 win, but it was clear what the Wolves needed to improve on. To gain playoff success, the Wolves need to put the pedal down and finish games out.
Saturday's game started slow, but the Wolves made adjustments in the second period and again came out on the right side of a flurry of action. A 4-1 lead after two periods quickly became 5-1 when Nathan Boyer scored his second of the game 20 seconds into the third. The game quieted from there until the Wolves popped another two on the powerplay, late, when the Bombers got into penalty trouble. A 7-1 beat down gave the Wolves their 2-0 lead in the series and showed they have the killer instinct to put teams away.
Also important for La Ronge, they were able to put some pucks behind Devin Buffalo in the third period. After allowing the fifth goal Friday, Buffalo shut down the Wolves for the remainder of that game and when he stepped in for Andy Desautels in the second Buffalo was fantastic as well. The third period marked a return to the norm for the Ice Wolves when they were able to get three by him at the Mel. A confident Devin Buffalo would be bad news for the Wolves heading to the Whitney Forum. Obviously the choice by Mike Reagan to put Desautels between the pipes for Game 2 will generate some discussion and I'll be sure to get his thoughts on the decision tonight in the pregame show.
It's finally that time of year again. The time of year when glory and gut wrenching disappointment are separated by a razor thin line. One goal/penalty/save can mean the difference between heading home in February or playing until May.
Ten teams will become eight, will become four, then two and finally one will remain... until it becomes two, then one, then five and so forth (man Junior A playoffs are complicated). Today's focus is on the ten becoming eight bit, and more importantly the fourth and fifth place teams battling to be fourth and earn a date with the Humboldt Broncos. I'm not a huge fan of the format, and I know any team that has ever finished fourth will agree, it's not much fun to play for spot you've already earned. That said, the Survivor series generally presents some very intriguing and entertaining hockey. Take last year's Bauer Conference victory by the Bombers, or the Bruins' dramatic OT win in game five over the Millionaires in the Sherwood series.
Combine the Survivor Series and the War in the North and you have the makings of a darn good series (not to mention something that sounds like a WWE pay-per-view). Some may call it a "healthy dislike" (Bob Beatty) others, may comment that they've hated the Bombers since the first meeting of the season (Pavlo Zerebecky). Any way you say it, the Wolves and Bombers have one of (if not the) nastiest rivalry in the league. 35 games including eleven playoff games in the last two years will do that to teams.
Road to the Anavet
It runs through Yorkton, don't you know? The Wolves are on the ice at Farrell Agencies Arena right now getting in a full skate before we head on to Portage and the Anavet Cup.
A couple of notes, Doug Lindensmith is skating, but he's doing it back in La Ronge as the Wolves hope he can get in to the lineup sooner rather than later. After talking to him on Tuesday, he was feeling better through the day, though the sheer volume at the Mel for Game 7 was a little harsh on his head.
Robert Monfore isn't on the bus, he was banged up in the Championship Game. Don't know the severity or anything like that, but it is the infamous "lower body injury".
Practice looked good today, the guys are obviously in high spirits, but they're focused as well. They do find it a little weird being back in Yorkton and they're all running with the getting ready for "Game 8" mantra. I don't think SJHL Fans would mind seeing Yorkton and La Ronge go at it again.
I was listening through some of the audio I grabbed after the Cup presentation on Tuesday, and the quote of the night goes to Graham Smerek as he exclaimed, "I've never won anything before, this is the best feeling of my life." That interview will be up, along with the rest of the audio from the Finals soon. I've fallen behind in my uploading duties and I hope to rectify that situation ASAP.
I'll have a preview of Game 1 of the Anavet Cup online tomorrow!
Ice Wolves Repeat as SJHL Champs
I just want to get something up here seeing as it did happen this evening, the date of the posting doesn't say that, but let's just say it's a little early.
The Terriers gave the Ice Wolves a very stiff fight. In fact, they played well enough to win this game, but Adam Bartko played phenomenal and got the Ice Wolves the win.
The Terriers just didn't have an answer for the Ice Wolves line of Carre, Eggum and Herauf as they were just dynamic. I'm curious to see how the Portage Terriers react to that line, especially if they play like tonight. Wow.
The Wolves winning on home ice was spectacular. There wasn't an empty nook or cranny in the Mel tonight and that crowd was just-a-pumpin'. The moment that made it for me was when a puck was cleared with about 30 seconds to go Alex Vandenameele who was crouched behind me in the broadcast booth just screamed and leapt down the ladder and shortly after that onto the ice to join his teammates as the celebration began. The ecstatic joy of the team winning the Cup is something to behold. It's truly an honour to have been on this ride with this group of guys. The best part is, it ain't over yet.
I'll have more in the coming days, I just wanted to get this up so you didn't think I forgot about you. I'll be on a bus to Yorkton at 1:00 tomorrow (yeah, Yorkton, I thought I'd done that leg for the last time this season too) so blogging tomorrow isn't high on the list of things I need to get done.
To the Yorkton Terriers, your resolve and excellent play won't be forgotten any time soon. It was a hell of a series. To Terriers fans, you're awesome, especially those of you that made the trip(s) to La Ronge. Finally, to the Terriers moving on to new challenges within the game of hockey, and to other exploits in life good luck in all of your future endeavours!
Ice Wolves fans, enjoy this moment because it doesn't get much sweeter than this, but it can, and the Ice Wolves will do their best to make it that way before the season is done.
The Anavet Cup begins on Friday in Portage. I'll have those games on MBC Radio. Games 3, 4 and 5 are back in La Ronge, marking the return of myself and Curtis to the webcasting fray. Apparently we might be getting some new toys to play with courtesy of some nice people that run a top rate webcast in a town that starts with M. More on that when details are confirmed.
Enjoy the win!


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An athlete can receive no greater honor than to be selected to represent their country during international competition. The University of South Alabama's Tuki Jacobs repaid the gesture by helping Namibia to one of its greatest moments in Davis Cup tennis action.
Jacobs, a junior for the Jaguars, recently took time off from school to travel to Cairo, Egypt, for the Africa Zone Group III event. Nine countries were split into two pools and played a round-robin format. The winners of each pool faced the runner-up of the other group, with the top two finishers being promoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2016.
The No. 1 player for Namibia, Jacobs was making his fourth appearance on its Davis Cup team. Prior to this season, he had a 6-6 career mark in singles and 2-2 in doubles.
"I've enjoyed every year playing in the Davis Cup," Jacobs told Lagniappe. "We are getting better as a team, but we were up against players who are ranked among the top 200 in the world."
Namibia opened with Ghana. Jacobs defeated George Darko 6-3, 7-5 in singles. "He had a powerful serve," Jacobs said, "but I was able to break his serve for the difference." Jacobs then teamed with Gideon Van Dyk to win 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in doubles.
Next up was the heavily favored team from Tunisia, which swept three matches. Jacobs lost 6-0, 6-1 to Malek Jaziri, who is ranked 92nd in the world.
"I tried to play better to beat him," Jacobs said. "I tried too much and he beat me quickly. I had a lot of unforced errors."
Jacobs redeemed himself against Algeria. After losing to Mohamed Hassan, ranked 221st in the world, in last year's Davis Cup, Jacobs came through to win 6-1, 6-3. Jacobs and Van Dyk then sealed the victory with a 6-2, 6-2 decision in doubles. This marked the first time Namibia had ever defeated Algeria in team competition.
"I fixed my mistakes, and just decided to play my own game," Jacobs said of the match with Hassan. "I lost to him in straight sets the last time."
With the 2-1 match record, Namibia finished second in Pool A. This qualified them to play in the Africa Group III final for the first time.
Egypt, the host team, proved too powerful and won both matches. Jacobs lost to Mohamed Safwat 6-4, 6-4. Tunisia beat Benin in the other semifinal, and will be promoted with Egypt to Group II.
"It was exciting to reach the semifinals," Jacobs said. "We did not move up, but we learned a lot. We will be better prepared in July when the Davis Cup is played in Madagascar."
Jacobs, who stands 6-foot-2 and weighs 205 pounds, returned to Mobile in time to help the Jaguars close out the fall season at the CCB Collegiate Invitational in Birmingham. He earned a victory in the third-place match by beating Gian Issa of Middle Tennessee 7-5, 6-2.
"I've enjoyed this season a lot," said Jacobs, who is majoring in electrical engineering. "We work hard in practice, and it shows in our matches. There are no lazy players on this team."
In 2014-15, Jacobs had a 24-8 record in singles. He was named second-team All-Sun Belt Conference.
Despite his recent successes, Jacobs still has many goals he wants to accomplish while at USA, including being the Sun Belt Conference player of the year. He knows what it takes to earn that honor, after watching former Jaguar teammate Daniel Leitner claim the last two awards.
"Having seen him work hard in practice and then beat some great guys, I understand what I need to do," Jacobs said. "But I also want to learn to be a leader like Daniel was."
College briefs
● The women's soccer team at the University of Mobile saw its tremendous season end following a 2-1 double overtime upset to Benedictine College during the quarterfinals of the NAIA national tournament in Orange Beach. The Lady Rams finished with a 19-3 record, with the losses coming against teams nationally ranked in the top six. In Saturday's championship game, Spring Arbor shocked top-seeded Lindsey Wilson 3-0 to capture the title.
Five of UM's players were named Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes for maintaining a minimum grade point average of 3.5. Lucia Guajardo, a midfielder from Daphne, was the only senior. Juniors completing the list were defenders Melissa Beaulieu and Anna Caroline Scales plus midfielders Elissa Chamberlain and Morgan Littlewood.
● The Lady Jaguars also had an incredible run in women's soccer. USA was undefeated in league play and then captured its third straight Sun Belt Conference tournament trophy. After winning its first NCAA tournament game with a shutout of LSU, the Lady Jags eventually lost to defending national champion Florida State to end with an 18-2-3 record.
Chardé Hannah was named to the All-South Region second-team, while Nini Rabsatt-Smith, Sarah Hay and Jemma Purfield were on the third-team. Hannah was named the Most Outstanding Player in the SBC tourney.
● UM had three men's soccer players earn Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors. The seniors were forward Mitch Golding, defender James Hayley and defender Harry McGregor.
● Mechell Daniel, a junior opposite side hitter for the USA volleyball squad, has been named all-SBC for the third time. She earned a berth on the second-team unit after ranking third in the league with 385 kills.
● UM had six volleyball players gain Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors. Local players include junior defensive specialist Jessica Cunningham of Satsuma and junior outside hitter Brooke Presnell of Saraland. Others on the list were setter Taylor Harper, outside hitter Bailey Nations and defensive specialists Nicole Armstrong and Taylor Harper.
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For my third skillshare class I'm demonstrating how to use the Free Notation Software, Musescore.
Musescore is my go to software for daily composing or writing banjo/guitar tabs. Best of all Musescore is Free and Open Sourced with a team of people that are seeking constant improvements.
Here is the link to my class, so far we have two videos with more to come each month. I go over how to get started with note entry and using the Palette. As always, with membership to skillshare you get access to all of my classes as well as thousands of other teaching videos on a variety of topics.


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The 600 Lb. Gorilla Falls – Part 1
600 Lb. Gorilla Loses His Shirt (And You and His Investing Students Will Too If You Miss This One Key)…
Part 1 of 2
Just take a good look around… many of the real estate gurus still espousing those old methods are losing properties and going out of business right and left.
The 600 Lb. Gorilla Falls – Part 2
The 600 Lb. Gorilla Falls — How A Simple Glimpse At THIS One Picture Could Have Saved Him His Shirt (And How It Can Save You Yours, Too!)
Part 2 of 2
Here he goes. The 600 lb. investing gorilla has made his ascent. And he is about to fall, big time. (Here is Part 1 in case you missed it.)
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We're really pleased to let you know that we've released the first authentication method APIs to public preview:
So far there are APIs for managing phone numbers and password resets. When phone numbers are set with the API, the user can use that number for MFA and SSPR (as allowed by your tenant's policy).
The team is hard at work at building out APIs for all of the other authentication methods, and we'll update the response here as they're released.Nik Mehta supported this idea ·
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fully support - there is very high demand for this feature