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I am having an online discussion with a born-again "follower of Christ" lady who says that the fact that I have so many Christians in my life challenging my atheism means that the Lord is courting me. My response has been that I think it is because I am an outspoken atheist and the issue is very important to me, so I tend to give Christians around me reason to talk to me about it.
What should I say to her about why this issue is so important to me without her twisting it around so that it seems I am just confused and seeking Jesus but don't know it?
BTW, I think she thinks she is helping me to find Jesus, but she's not. I am basically studying her. the problem is that I can see how people can be taken in by her message.
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@ John: forgive me - you're the ex-Christian, so you know better than me, but - isn't that just a commonplace interpretation which was pasted onto the story afterwards? Where in the actual story itself does it support that interpretation?
It's not just the "philosophy of self-acceptance" - that whole process is spot-on, immensely powerful, and a great contribution to humanity.
Sorry for the delay Simon. Anyway, I am wondering, are you talking about the atonement idea in general? I want to make sure I don't miss your question.
@ John, I guess I am talking about the idea of atonement in general. I think it can get people who are in the s***, out of the s***, and improve the world, if it's done properly. Now, maybe it's me who's pasting my own meaning onto historical events. Whatever, for me, the story of the Crucifixion and Ressurrection is a perfect embodiment of a uniquely powerful idea. If Jesus did that on purpose, it was brilliant, and vividly authentic.
Just tell her that the god of the bible is a murderer, sexist, racist, ageist, liar, slaver and is not omniscient, omnipotent or omnipresent with biblical documentation to support that case.
Or you could possibly direct her to a playlist of videos from a former Christian.
Don't say that your atheism is important, just say that the TRUTH is important to you and there just isn't enough(any) evidence to support what she is saying.
I'm afraid that is probably a futile task, trying to come up with something she can't turn around and reinterpret from her in-the-box-perspective. She is operating from within her box and has to interpret things that way to make them fit into her world view.
I haven't read the responses yet, so this is my unbiased advice.
I've been in (and still am) in the same boat as you. Virtually all of the people I know are xians - I live in the rural Bible Belt (rural GA), so this is a very conservative, very xian area. I am also an outspoken atheist - and the way I have dealt with the people who try to "save" me is to say:
OK, I know you have my best interests in mind; and I also know that a part of being a xian is the mission to preach the gospel and witness to every unsaved person you meet. As it says in Mark, "Go out unto the world, and teach the gospel to every person".
They tend to be surprised how much I know about their faith, and that I used to be just like them before I "awoke" and realized that I was just going through the motions, lying to myself that I believe, and I didn't want to be a hypocrite anymore. I also tell them that I would love to discuss their religion, answer questions they may have about atheism and atheists. Down here most xians have never ENCOUNTERED an atheist - at least that was "out of the closet" - so my non-confrontational style tends to disarm them a bit, especially when they realize that a) I usually know as much, or more, about their religion than they do; and b) I am as set in my nonbelief as they are in their belief.
I have used this approach with great success; however there's always the truly die-hards that think that if they just continue to hammer on me "the lord will speak to my heart" and I'll have a (re)conversion. But even those people eventually back off (and usually stay away from me) once they realize it's not going to work. Also, for those people I tend to either give them the discrepancies in their "infallible word of god", or I use the Stephen Roberts quote: "When you realize why you don't believe in all the other religions, you'll realize what I don't believe in yours - I simply believe in one less god than you do." (or something like that)
I also tend to be "easygoing" and just accept that I'm in a xian culture, and trying to fight it is a fruitless endeavor. For instances, prayer before football games. I figure it doesn't hurt anything - my youngest son, who has played football for 6 years, simply doesn't bow his head, and no one says anything to him, because we're not "in their face" trying to change it. There are some things I do fight - like trying to push creationism in science (I've dealt with that one before) - but overall it's not too bad.
Good luck, and if you have any other questions, let me know!
You should be fighting prayer at public football games led by school representatives- it is against the law and contrary to the First Amendment. Contact the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the ACLU, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State and request anonymity.
Public school prayer-
FFRF, ACLU, and AU
We all should fight the progressive establishment of a theocratic USA.
Wow - you and I are very similar. I could have written much of that in the same words regarding myself.
It is amazing how many Christians have trouble accepting just how much of an atheist I am. They assume, I think, that because I am approachable and will engage in conversation about it, that I am really seeking God or Jesus. They also think I am deluded about it when I tell them I am in fact not seeking either.
I have talked to Christians who say they've never met an atheist before, and I hope their ideas about atheists are broadened as a result. I want them to see ME, not my atheism, first. I confuse them because I apparently display several "Christ-like" attributes better than many Christians. I do this because they are sound spiritual principles, period.
The irony is that if it weren't for Christians and Christianity, I might be able to get something useful out of the Bible if I followed a "take what you want and leave the rest" attitude. But noooooooo...... that's not good enough for them. I suppose I have surreptitiously done a little bit of that anyway.
I'm rebellious and defiant enough to get some guilty pleasure out of remaining steadfastly atheist no matter who bombards me. I have begun to tell them to take a number and be prepared to wait in line for a long time.
ummm, that sounds like the situation of most Atheists in the US. So God must be 'courting' all of them? Or is it just you?
It always amazes me how many different things God can do. All at the same time, and all while being 'outside space and time'.
*rolls his eyes*
Apparently I'm special. : )


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New technique helps biologists save the world's threatened seagrass meadows
Danish and Australian biologists have developed a technique to determine if seagrass contain sulfur. If the seagrass contains sulfur, it is an indication that the seabed is stressed and that the water environment is threatened. The technique will help biologists all over the world in their effort to save the world's seagrass meadows.
Seagrass meadows, such as eelgrass or Halophila, grow along most of the world's coasts where they provide important habitats for a wide variety of life forms. However in many places seagrass meadows have been lost or seriously diminished and in their effort to reestablish the meadows biologists can now benefit from a new technique that reveals the health of seagrass.
"It cannot always be seen by the naked eye if a seagrass plant is thriving or not. Therefore, it is necessary to develop methods that reveal the health state of the plant and what causes the failure to thrive. Now we have such a technique", says professor Marianne Holmer from the Department of Biology at the University of Southern Denmark. For many years she has studied the ecology and biogeochemistry of seagrass in temperate and tropical ecosystems.
Seagrass meadows grow along many coasts in the world except where harsh winds, waves and currents are too turbulent for rooted plants to remain attached to the seabed. The meadows are not only a home for a variety of small and large animals; the leaves also help to dampen the waves and the roots help to hold the sediments of the seabed. The plants also act as particle filters that keep the water clear, and they also store carbon and nutrients.
According to Marianne Holmer, biologists today have good knowledge of how light and water quality affect seagrasses, while it is more complicated to understand how sediment conditions affect seagrasses. Together with her colleague Kieryn Kilminster from the Department of Water in Western Australia, she has now developed a technique that can detect whether the sediment conditions are a problem for the seagrasses.
"We take a small piece of plant tissue from a seagrass and bring it back to the lab. Here we analyze it in a so-called mass spectrometer, and this shows us if the plant tissue contains sulfur. If we find sulfur in the plant tissue, it means that the plant has absorbed sulfide from the seabed, and this means that the seabed is not a healthy environment for the seagrass", explains Marianne Holmer.
The sulfide in the seabed is formed by the so-called sulfate-reducing bacteria. They appear, when oxygen disappears from the seabed – this can happen when the seabed is fed large amounts of organic material from algal blooms or from plankton that blooms, when nutrients are released from agricultural farming. The supply of nutrients and particles can also come from cleared coastland. When vegetation is cleared from the coastland, soil and particles are freed and flow into the water. This is a problem in e.g. Australia, where cities are growing rapidly along the coasts.
"A seagrass, which has absorbed sulfide, shows reduced growth and may die-off", explains Marianne Holmer.
When seagrasses absorb nutrients, the nutrients are bound in the plant as it grows. Seagrasses have a relatively long life cycle and nutrients will be bound for a relatively long time compared to being bound in shorter lived seaweed and plankton. If seagrasses are inhibited in growth or disappear from coastlands, bays and fjords, the nutrients become available to other, more short lived plants, and this can lead to increased growth of algae and plankton.
"Many countries are working to restore the lost meadows of seagrasses, and in this work it is important to understand when and why the plants do not thrive. With our new technology, we are now better at this", says Marianne Holmer.
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Gladstone Grow Op / Rebecca Houston / Windfall
An emerging sculptor and MFA candidate at York University, Rebecca Houston has worked in community development through the arts for two decades, including eight years at SKETCH Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth.
Recent work in a community housing project influenced this response to the complex relationship between humans and a changing urban environment. Local children looking for playthings, break the branches from saplings in a new park while old and dying trees across the city drop unwanted branches, wreaking havoc on our city infrastructure. Windfall is an interactive sculptural plaything that reanimates Toronto's recent bane, fallen tree branches into a kinetic prosthetic for a broken relationship between children, urban nature and outdoor play.
GROW OP will be on public display at the Gladstone April 24 – 27, 2014
Curated by Victoria Taylor, and featuring 26 new projects, Grow Op 2014 is the Gladstone Hotel's annual alternative landscape and urban design event, celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to sustainable placemaking across a broad range of creative practices.
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Welsh poet/author visits Wayland
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University students were treated to a cultural exchange this week as Welsh poet and author Dr. David Rowe and his wife, Ann, an accomplished artist and potter, shared their work with several classes and in several other special events. The Rowes' visit culminated in Friday's honors luncheon at which time Dr. Rowe shared with students, faculty and staff his latest project: George Catlin and the Voyages of Discovery.
Friday's luncheon honors those students in various honor societies as well as those participating in Wayland's honors program, a program designed to challenge those students who strive to get the most out of their academic endeavors.
Two Wayland honors students, Nick Pruitt and Lori Pretzer, have completed their honors theses and gave a brief overview of their work. Pretzer, working on a chemistry project, has designed a system and put together extensive research for a method of removing ammonia from water. Pruitt's research delves into the lives of Ku Klux Klan members in West Texas in the early 20th century. Pruitt will present his finding in a public forum on Monday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the Gates Hall auditorium, on the second floor of Gates Hall. Pretzer will present her research at a later date.
In his address to the group, Dr. Rowe expressed his excitement to be back at Wayland. He first visited the university eight years ago when a one-man play he had written based on medieval poetry was being presented in Wayland's studio theatre by his friend and fellow native of Wales, Mansel David. Rowe said the idea for his latest project was born eight years ago during his visit to Wayland and the surrounding area.
"Coming back to Wayland really kind of closes a circle for me," Rowe said. "What I have been working on for the last eight years started here. It was after leaving you, in Sante Fe, I bumped into a person who I have been working with for the last couple of years, and who will be coming to Wales in October to open a play that started in Wayland eight years ago. This is closing a circle and it is really nice to come back."
Dr. Rowe's latest project is a play that focuses on the life of George Catlin (1796-1872), an artist who spent much of his life trying to capture the essence of Native American culture prior to the influence of European civilization. Rowe has written a play that will open in Wales in October.
"He's one of the early American pioneer western painters," Rowe said, "probably the first and certainly one of the more interesting ones."
Catlin visited tribes that were not well known at the time, traveling throughout the west for several years. Rowe said Catlin completed a remarkable collection of paintings, recording Native American costumes and ceremonies. Through his journey's Catlin put together what Dr. Rowe called "an unparalleled record of Native Americans." And through his journey into the unknown cultures, Catlin learned not only about others, but about himself, as well.
Dr. Rowe compared Catlin's voyage of discover to the voyage that the students will embark upon once they graduate.
"We all go on a voyage," he said. "But whether we discover anything and what we discover is up to us.
"Those of use who are older are fortunate for young people who are going to set out and enrich the world."


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Ten Finalists Chosen For 2011 America's Best Restroom Contest
Public Voting Begins for Tenth Annual Awards Program Presented by Cintas Corporation
CINCINNATI - Will America''s next Best Restroom be nestled inside a 13th century Tuscan castle and winery in Northern California? Will it feature silhouettes of birds in mid-flight? How about a section of the Berlin Wall? These are just some of the spectacular images inside the ten public bathrooms that will compete for the coveted title of America''s Best Restroom, the popular contest sponsored by Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) and now in its tenth year.
The public is invited to vote for their top pick at www.bestrestroom.com through Monday, September 19, 2011. The site takes visitors on a photographic tour of each facility and then encourages them to choose their favorite. The winner will be announced this fall.
This year's finalists for America's Best Restroom are:
Castello di Amorosa Winery, Calistoga, California
This restroom boasts hand-painted Italian-style frescoes. The sinks are custom made from travertine imported from Tuscany, Italy. The spigots reflect a common Castello theme of dragons and gargoyles.
Don''s Johns Presidential Luxury Restroom Trailer, Chantilly, Virginia
This regal restroom trailer was actually set up for President Obama during the 2009 Inauguration. It features granite counters and shelves, black marbleized walls, wood panel doors, and a hardwood-designed floor. Climate-controlled heat and air conditioning also guarantees to keep guests in maximum comfort during their visit. The dual audio system not only plays soothing music inside for the visiting guests, but those waiting outside can keep up with the event on an exterior-mounted flat screen television!
The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
With two large family-friendly restrooms on the ground floor, the Field Museum features sufficient stalls and sinks, as well as eco-friendly hand-dryers. The women''s restroom has a special nursing room with a shut door, sink, and small sofa for new mothers. The women''s restroom also has a large "Tot Area" with smaller toilets for its littlest guests.
Habana Outpost, Brooklyn, New York
The restrooms at Habana Outpost feature a glass roof over-head with hanging plants and the galvanized walls. The 'green' toilets flush with rainwater! Water is collected through a series of rain gutters and stored in a holding tank where it is filtered and then redirected to the toilets, saving thousands of gallons of water every week. Architecture students designed the system as part of a design program called Urban Studio Brooklyn which is part of the non-profit Habana Works.
The Joule Poule at the Joule Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas
This rooftop pool bathroom features an outdoor shower that uses beautiful blue mosaic tiles to depict others showering. The cool color choices are intended to reflect the clarity of blue water. The design is carried into the restroom, which features contemporary art, wood paneling, modern lighting and cloth hand towels.
Main Street Station Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
A graffiti-covered segment of the oppressive wall that once separated East and West Berlin now serves an appropriate function in the gentlemen's restroom in the main casino area, as it holds the urinals.
Ninja New York, New York, New York
Diners are transported back to a 15th-century Japanese village. And while their wait staff, dressed as ninjas, may have some lethal moves, it''s their toilet that will knock you dead in your tracks. This bathroom is outfitted with a control pad that operates seat warmers, a water spray (that oscillates or pulsates) and a built-in deodorizer and blow drier.
Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington, Virginia
The use of light reflects the evidence of motion throughout this elegant restroom. Walls ablaze with sunset tones of orange and gold and silhouettes of birds in mid-flight.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
This loo is sleek and modern with terrazzo flooring, glass-tiled walls and spacious, stainless steel stalls. An ingenious lighting system continuously shifts the colors of the space from cool blues and greens to warm golds and reds.
Snowbasin Resort, Huntsville, Utah
Snowbasin''s restrooms feature Italian Carrera marble, Barovier, Tosso & Moscatelli chandeliers crafted from bronze and crystal, floor to ceiling commodes, beautifully inlaid African Anegre wood and hand-painted walls.
New this year, fans can conveniently vote from any web-enabled mobile device. The mobile website is a fast and easy way to nominate a deserving restroom while on the go.
You can also participate by visiting the America's Best Restroom Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube Channel to post comments, receive contest updates, share photos or upload videos; links to all three sites are on the contest homepage.
Cintas created the America's Best Restroom award in 2002 to honor those businesses across America that place hygiene and style at the top of their priority list. Proprietors recognize the parallel between clean restrooms and customer retention. "We like to think of this contest as an entertaining way of drawing the public's attention to the very important issue of restroom hygiene," says Cintas Senior Marketing Manager Rich Bing. "People don't think about this issue until they walk into a poorly kept restroom, and then it matters. After that, the odds are they won't be back."
Over the last decade, this contest has attracted tens of thousands of voters. The 2011 winner will receive a plaque of recognition and a coveted place in the America's Best Restroom "Hall of Fame" section of the program's Web site. Previous winners were:
2010 The Fountain on Locust, St. Louis, Missouri
2009 Shoji Tabuchi Theatre, Branson, Missouri
2008 Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee
2007 Jungle Jim's International Market, Fairfield, Ohio
2006 Wendell's Restaurant, Westerville, Ohio
2005 Fort Smith, Arkansas Airport, Fort Smith, Arkansas
2004 Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2003 The Grand Casino, Biloxi, Mississippi
2002 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
For more information about the Cintas Best Restroom Award and the 10 finalists, contact Claudia Maj at (312) 664 -1532.
About Cintas Corporation
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid and safety products, fire protection services and document management services to approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor''s 500 Index.


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The regulatory 32 minutes were not enough to decide the champion of the 2013 Sports Center/Carolina Sports Holiday Classic.
MOREHEAD CITY � The regulatory 32 minutes were not enough to decide the champion of the 2013 Sports Center/Carolina Sports Holiday Classic. Neither was 36 � it took 40.
The Havelock Rams (5-5) and West Carteret Patriots (5-7 played to double overtime with the Rams holding on for a 78-75 victory.
With the game tied in regulation with nine seconds to go, Havelock guard Matt Boykin picked off a pass and darted to the rim getting fouled in the act, but missed both of his free throws.
In the closing seconds of the first overtime period with Havelock up by two, Khaliq Spencer hoisted a runner for the Patriots that danced on the rim before Jason Dudley tipped it home sending the game to a second bonus frame.
Havelock would go up by two again with less than a minute to go in the second overtime when Julian Cuthbertson was whistled for a foul on Chase Carraway�s 3-point attempt.
Carraway drained the trio of freebies, giving the Patriots a 75-74 lead with 38.9 seconds to go.
Tournament Most Valuable Player Kyran Bowman then drove to the rim for Havelock, making a layup to put the Rams up 76-75.
A Patriot miss that was rebounded by Keion Joyner of Havelock led to a clinching pair of free throws by Micheal Bowman.
�We definitely gave the people their money�s worth,� Havelock coach Bill Fryczynski said. �What a great game by a bunch of kids on both sides. I�m happy and proud that we were able to win two tough games in this tournament.�
The Rams defeated West Craven 55-50 in Friday�s opening round.
Kyran Bowman dropped in 27 points and was named tournament MVP. He scored 20 against West Craven the previous night.
Micheal Bowman delivered 19 points, including going 4-for-4 from the line in the overtimes.
�Mo (Micheal Bowman) was very valuable for us tonight,� Fryczynski said. �He is our sixth man coming off the bench, and I want him to embrace that role because he is a great weapon to have in that spot.�
In a game with many odd occurrences, Dudley�s tip-in was ruled just in time by the officials at the end of the first overtime, and West Carteret guard Nathan Windley swished a halfcourt shot to end the first half.
West Carteret placed four players in double-figures for the second night in a row.
�I think tonight we proved we can play with the upper echelon of this conference and I think Havelock will be right there at the top of it,� West Carteret coach Craig McClanahan said. �We teach the guys to play together and trust each other and they buy into that. That�s West Carteret basketball.�
Havelock�s title game victory was its fifth straight of the season after starting 0-5 as many of its players were on the football team.
Havelock (78) � Kyran Bowman 27, Micheal Bowman 19, Jordan Begley 12, Keion Joyner 10, Jordan Cuthbertson 6, Shondel Granison 4.
West Carteret (75) � Nathan Windley 24, Chase Carraway 18, Khaliq Spencer 13, Jason Dudley 10, Austin Fountain 7, Maleek Walker 2, Dylan Carpenter 1.
Jordan Honeycutt is a reporter for the Sun Journal.


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Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres LP
Format: LP
Wydanie: 2011 r.
Język: polski
Dostępność: dostępny
Album zarejestrowany na żywo przed publicznością w studio Hotel2Tango, Montreal, 9 lipca 2010.
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"Matana Roberts (pronounced mah-tah-nah) is one of the leading lights of contemporary African-American experimental music, combining her widely recognized gifts as an alto saxophone player and improviser with an intensely engaged re-definition of American Jazz traditions.
Matana's COIN COIN project is the centerpiece of this engagement and re-definition: a multi-chapter work that combines conceptual scoring (graphic notation, 'chance' strategies), storytelling and historical narrative, performative theatre (personae, costume, multi-media), and a deeply considered channeling of personal ancestry and the 'universal' experience of Africans in America.
Roberts began spending significant amounts of time in Montreal during the second half of the 2000s and has been an on-and-off resident of the city since 2008. While she was familiar to Constellation as early as 2001 (through her work with Sticks And Stones and her guest performance on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Yanqui U.X.O. album), it was through the evolution of her mesmerizing COIN COIN project that we fully fell under her spell – as did the dozen or more Montreal musicians who began working with her on the music and in performance.
COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres is the first official recording of this ambitious and powerful project. We invited Matana to assemble her Montreal group for a live in-studio performance at the Hotel2Tango facility, before a small but capacity audience of about 30 friends and supporters. The band spend the entire day running things through while recording engineer Radwan Moumneh set microphones and levels. The evening performance was stunning, literally bringing audience members to tears, and went to tape beautifully. The full 90-minute performance was edited down to around 60 minutes, comprising four quarter-hour suites spread across four sides of 10" vinyl.
Says Matana: "COIN COIN is a compositional sound language, that I have been developing since 2006. My initial interest in creating this work came from my childhood fascination with ghosts, spirits, spooks, and the faint traces of what they leave behind. I have a deep interest in old, antique objects of human existence, mostly because of the variety of story that can be created, factual or not, from the possibility of their being. This project is a combination of those interests as well as my delight in musical communication , ritual adornment, and the genealogical 20th century history of Africans in America. In some instances I am using information that I have gleaned from research into my own ancestral history, as inspiration and area of creative consideration. The musical root of much of this work also stems from my continued attraction/repulsion to certain aspects of the American Jazz tradition(s) which I am deeply involved with as an alto saxophonist."
To us, COIN COIN represents some of the most honest and compelling work – musically and thematically – that we've had the privilege to be associated with. It rallies adventurous improv, experimental voice and narrative, a wide array of black folkways, and Matana's impassioned lead playing to tremendous emotional and conceptual effect."
Matana Roberts: reeds/voice
Gitanjali Jain: voice
David Ryshpan: piano/organ
Nicolas Caloia: cello
Ellwood Epps: trumpet
Brian Lipson: bass trumpet
Fred Bazil: tenor sax
Jason Sharp: baritone sax
Hraïr Hratchian: doudouk
Xarah Dion: prepared guitar
Marie Davidson: violin
Josh Zubot: violin
Lisa Gamble: musical saw
Thierry Amar: bass
Jonah Fortune: bass
David Payant: drums/vibes
A1 Rise
A2 Pov Piti
B1 Song For Eulalie
B2 Kersaia
C1 Libation For Mr. Brown: Bid Em In...
C2 Lulla/Bye
D1 I Am
D2 How Much Would You Cost?
1 Rise
2 Pov Piti
3 Song For Eulalie
4 Kersaia
5 Libation For Mr. Brown: Bid Em In...
6 Lulla/Bye
7 I Am
8 How Much Would You Cost?


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Our Community Assistance Program (CAP) service discount offers qualifying residential single-family customers a 15% discount on water and a 35% discount on sewer charges.
CAP applicants and re-enrollments will now be required to participate in a free water conservation home evaluation. Our Water-Wise Evaluation program is facilitated by a trained water conservation specialist and can lower your bill even more! Each 'site-specific' visit will provide free showerheads and faucet aerators, if needed, help detect costly plumbing leaks and show you ways to conserve our great Hetch Hetchy drinking water.
Water-Wise evaluations are available for existing CAP customers upon request. However, new CAP applicants should not schedule the home evaluation prior to receiving a letter stating your household meets the program requirements. To schedule the evaluation, please call (415) 551-4790.
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PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT DOCUMENTATION AS PROOF OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME and proof of occupancy. Please allow 4-6 weeks to process your application.
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text: Mariska Hargitay is the star of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit". She was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield and former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay. The actress has made numerous television appearances and has portrayed Det. Olivia Benson on "SVU" since 1999. She is married and has one child.


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International stars in sports such as baseball, hockey and basketball have long been afforded special immigration status to play on U.S. teams. Think David Beckham, the former Los Angeles Galaxy soccer player from Britain, or Dodgers rookie phenom Hyun-Jin Ryu, a pitcher from South Korea.
Now add Danny "Shiphtur" Le, of Edmonton, Canada, to the elite list.
Le, an online gamer, is one of the world's top players of League of Legends, a virtual capture-the-flag game in which two teams of fantasy characters compete for a glowing orb. Le is so deft at racing down the virtual field and opening up gaps for teammates that he recently became the first so-called eSports player to be granted a type of visa normally awarded to athletes featured daily on ESPN.
Like other stars on sports teams, Le needed the visa to live and practice with his Riverside squad. In the professional league, all five members of the team must be gathered together physically when they compete.
"It's kind of so big — actually kind of mind-blowing — that there's a demand for visas for League of Legends," said Le, 20.
With a generation of children having grown up playing video games, the decision by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has been widely perceived as elevating America's newest professional sport to the same class as old-school stalwarts.
And in a worldwide competition in which the winning team can take home $1 million in prizes, the ability to sign the best players — whether from Canada or South Korea or Russia — was seen as a must-have for U.S squads.
"The elite have great reflexes. They're fast and they're good," said Michael Pachter, a video game analyst with Wedbush Securities.
The professional competition grew out of the free computer game League of Legends designed by Santa Monica's Riot Games. It is probably the world's most popular online game.
Two teams of five players compete in an epic battle fought on Internet-connected computers. Using their computer mice and keyboards, players have to slash through opponents' characters and an ever-growing swarm of robots called minions on a quest to destroy their opponent's orb, known as the Nexus. Players pay real money for extra weapons and characters.
In the U.S. bracket of the championship series, eight teams compete against one another on Thursdays and Fridays at a West Los Angeles TV studio.
The games are broadcast online and draw more than 1.7 million unique viewers. A typical National Hockey League game on the NBC Sports Network last season drew a quarter of that audience.
Gaming industry analysts estimate that more than 32 million people worldwide play the game, about half of them in the U.S. The rest come from Europe and Asia. By those calculations, 1 in every 20 Americans plays League of Legends. That dwarfs baseball, from Little League to Major League Baseball.
When Le of Canada initially tried to become the first international star on an American squad, U.S. immigration authorities turned him away at the U.S.-Canadian border.
International eSports players had sought visas in the past. They could come as business visitors for a single tournament and leave with prize money. But immigration rules bar such visitors from earning a salary and that resulted in Le's denial.
Riot, the game developer, turned to immigration attorney Jeptha Evans to fight for Le. He suggested that Le could play for the U.S. team under the P-1A visa program, which U.S. officials said is designed "to enrich the nation's cultural landscape" by welcoming "diverse talent" to perform in the U.S.
Several thousand athletes in professional sports receive a P-1A visa each year. They include, for example, all Dodgers players who have foreign citizenship and no green card. A slightly fewer number of internationally recognized singers and entertainers receive the similar P-1B visa every year.
Evans and Riot told U.S. officials that the eSports league met government benchmarks for a major sports league because it had clear rules and at least six teams with combined revenues of more than $10 million.
Like many people hearing about League of Legends for the first time, immigration officials scratched their heads, Riot Vice President Dustin Beck said.
"We had to show this was a profession," he said. "We had to make a case that this is just like Major League Baseball or the National Hockey League."
Le was approved for the visa May 29. A handful of other eSports players, including citizens of Argentina and Armenia, have received P1-A visas since then.
Daniel Cosgrove, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman, declined to talk specifically about eSports' classification as a major sports league. But he said that a P-1A is "highly specific visa" designed for "internationally recognized athletes" and that the agency considers "each petition on a case-by-case basis."
Le is now living in a Riverside house with his four teammates and their coach. In between a morning gym workout and evening personal time, the team spends almost eight hours a day in front of computer screens practicing with various characters and weapons.
They sit side by side but use headsets to communicate. Practices involve "scrims," or scrimmages against other teams in the league. Sometimes one or two teammates will sharpen their skills by joining a random team composed of amateur players.
"The game's amazingly complex," Le said. "It helps to be mechanically sound individually, but the great teams are also good at strategy."
The League of Legends big event, the World Championship, will be held at Staples Center in October. About 10,000 fans are expected with tens of millions around the world watching online. In all, $2 million in prizes will be awarded.
Most eSports players make tens of thousands of dollars annually. A few have total earnings in the low six figures, according to Esportsearnings.com. Many of them hope the salaries will continue to rise as more sponsors and advertisers take notice of eSports.
Data from the consulting firm Frank N. Magid Associates Inc. shows eSports in the U.S. are especially popular among Latinos and Asians, and about 2 in 5 players are men between the ages of 18 and 34. The demographics are certainly attractive to advertisers.
Analysts said it's clear that the eSports industry wants to broaden its audience beyond gamers to reach a wider market. Not everyone who watches baseball and football plays the sport, for example.
But Ninja Metrics gaming analyst Dmitri Williams, who is also a USC professor, said Riot faces one major challenge in being considered mainstream by more than just immigration authorities.
"Even though we all know better, you can't help but think that it's a silly kids' game, and those feelings don't go away quickly," Williams said.
Le plans to keep at League of Legends for at least five more years before returning to Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton to finish his bachelor's degree.
For now, he's dealing with Riverside's high temperatures and the sport's pressures.
"We're still trying to find out our way to play effectively," Le said. "Our team chemistry is slowly getting there."
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For the second time in as many games, a South Burlington rally threatened to end Team CT's season in Cranston, R.I.
The Southington South 9-10 year olds had built a 4-0 lead in the championship game of the New England region, but a nine-run rally had all but secured Vermont's victory in the regional tournament.
…Or did it?
On Saturday, Aug. 10, the local Little Leaguers struck back. Jake Neuman doubled to left field to lead off the fifth inning, and Sean Olson singled to shortstop with two outs to shrink the deficit to 9-5. Pinch runner Colby Powell capped a four-run rally in the next inning after runs by Drew Belcourt, and Neuman, Shane LaPorte.
Just like that, the Cinderella locals turned a 9-4 deficit into a tie game in the final inning. The CT state champions weren't about to go quietly.
Olson scored the go ahead run to start the next inning. Belcourt and LaPorte crossed home plate safely. When Nikko Buonanni scored the final run of the seventh inning, the game was already out of reach.
Southington South had avenged their only loss in the Little League Eastern Regional, and their fourth win at the tournament clinched the New England 9-10 year old title.
Even a loss in the next round to Team NJ didn't diminish the team's torrid run through the postseason. The Southington South Little League team is the 2013 New England champion.
Southington entered the regional brackets after rolling to a District 5 championship in early July. They carried the momentum through the sectional brackets on their way to a CT State championship over Newington.
Southington surged into Cranston with lopsided wins of Maine and New Hampshire champions before surviving a one-run win over Massachusetts and suffering a one-run loss to Vermont the following game.
Along the way, Southington shuffled eight players on and off the mound. All 14 players contributed on the field and at the plate. For the next year, the Southington squad can boast that they're the best in New England.
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, the group out-lasted North Andover (MA), 6-5, to improve to 3-0. Olson earned the win. Buonanni's homerun and Jake Napoli's double helped lift Southington to the victory.
North Andover took a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the third inning, but Southington responded with two runs in the bottom of the inning and one run in each subsequent at bat.
Two days later, the locals suffered their first loss of the regional brackets. South Burlington (VT) rallied for four runs in their final at bat to turn an 8-5 deficit into a 9-8 win.
Jake Napoli powered the locals with two homeruns but it wasn't enough as Southington fell for the first time since the CT State championship series and just the second time in the postseason.
Two days later, the locals answered in the rematch with their own come-from-behind win. Neuman scored the victory on the mound. LaPorte had a pair of doubles. Napoli and Neuman both doubled, and the team from Southington South scored the town's first New England title in the 9-10 year old division.
The streak came to an end in the next round when the New Jersey all-stars out-lasted Southington, 3-1, in the East Championship final. Southington represented the New England champions, while Monroe Township (NJ) represented the Mid-Atlantic teams.
Monroe jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of the championship game. Southington manufactured one run in the fourth inning but never regained the lead.
The loss ended Southington South's summer campaign.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Two new whiskies for Europe at Whisky Live Paris
Whisky Live Paris will feature the launch of two new whiskies for Europe by Nikka and its European representatives at La Maison du Whisky: the Nikka Coffey Grain, a no-age-statement single grain whisky, and a quite affordable (30 Euros) Nikka Blended Whisky. Here are a couple of snaps from the promotional material for these EU-only drinks:
3 comments:
- Yokosuka Mike said...
The Nikka Blended looks like the Nikka "All Malt" bottle to me.
- August 28, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Mark @ Malt said...
I'm excited about that Nikka Coffey Grain. The 1995 bottle is in my top 3 whiskies.
- August 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM
- Nikka Whisky EU said...
Actually Mike, the Nikka Blended is the same bottle shape as the Nikka Malt Club (though they look very similar).
- September 12, 2012 at 7:04 PM
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Curious... What's the white stuff on the top of the cake in the picture and on the sides that looks like icing sugar? I'm dyyyyying to make these!!!!!!
Raw carrot refrigerator cake recipe
Prep Time
Total Time
Shelf Life4 days in fridge
Yield1 cake
Cake ingredients:
- 1 cup carrots (roughly chopped)
- 2 cups walnuts
- 1 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup dried shredded coconut
- 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds
- 1/8 cup honey, agave nectar or maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 tablespoon water
Icing ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups cashews
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Recipe Directions
- 1. Place carrots in food processor by themselves. Process them very briefly - just to reduce them to littler chunks - about the size of pieces of popped popcorn. Leave carrots in food processor.
- 2. Now add all cake ingredients into food processor. Process briefly and slowly, stopping to monitor the process. You want to get the texture seen in the above pictures - you want to be able to see small chunks of carrots, walnuts, etc. Do not over-process!
- 3. Press cake down into a cake pan or square baking dish. Alternatively, you can shape the raw carrot cake mixture into a "cake" shape on a plate using your hands.
- 4. Place all icing ingredients into a high-speed blender and blend until smooth.
- 5. Ice cake.
- 6. Refrigerate this raw carrot cake recipe for at least two hours. The cake and the icing will both harden up a bit in the fridge.
The Rawtarian's ThoughtsBy The Rawtarian
This raw carrot cake recipe strangely mimics the texture of cooked carrot cake - without the need for dehydrating. Just throw the ingredients in the food processor, form into a cake shape, ice with your preferred icing and pop into the fridge.
Depending on how you'd like to use your cake, you can press the cake mixture down into a cake pan, or you can mold it into a cake shape on a plate using your hands.
This recipe keeps surprisingly well - for 4 days or so. You can make this in advance and it holds its shape and does not get soggy (provided that you did not overprocess the cake).
This raw carrot cake recipe should always be kept in the fridge.
No dehydrator required for this recipe! (However, if you want a dehydrated raw carrot cake recipe for some reason, I do have a completely different dehydrated raw carrot cake recipe right here.)
Nutrition Facts
- This recipe is very low in Carbohydrates, and Sodium.
- This recipe is low in Calories.
- This recipe is a good source of Protein, Iron, and Vitamin B6.
- This recipe is a noteworthy source of Dietary Fiber, and Vitamin A.
Amounts per 100 g (4 oz) suggested serving
|% Daily
|16 %
|8 g
|15 %
|31 g
|39 %
|29 g
|8 %
|Dietary Fiber
|4 g
|13 %
|16 g
|48 mg
|5 %
|2.6 mg
|20 %
|74 mg
|3 %
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Comments and Reviews
Feb 01, 2016
You have a good eye. It's coconut flour. Just used to make the photo look fancy :)
This carrot cake is really good. You should make it.
Feb 03, 2016
Aha, mystery solved! So clever...so fancy! I shall report back!
Haha you are nice. Love to hear what you think if you make it, Carla!
Oct 27, 2015
If you had to choose between this one or the dehydrated carrot cake, which would you say is better? I want to try one but can't decide which. Thank you!
Hi Hope! Make this one! It's quicker (no need to dehydrate) and it's more cake-like. Just make sure to process it a lot, otherwise it will be too chunky and not cake-ish.
This was great I also under processed so it was a bit crumbly. Made it with my little sister and brother who are 9 and 11 and they loved it. My stepdad actually now prefers it too baked carrot cake!
Perfect, Pigwig! Love that everyone approves! :)
May 21, 2015
Love all your recipes!! Thanks. However, please HELP with this RawCarrot Cake one. I wanted to make it into bars but the cake doesn't hold its shape…………….What could I add that would bind it more and hold its shape more?
I tried adding extra Nut Butter and dates and omitted the raisins. I wasn't going to add the icing on the top
Hi Mich! Did you make a few tweaks that might have impacted the consistency? Generally, if made as written and not holding together, it might not have been processed enough. Also, if it is refrigerated for a number of hours it'll solidify a bit. Hope this helps!
Laura G
May 08, 2015
Laura G's Review
Raw carrot refrigerator cake recipe
So good!! Great texture & not too sweet. Thank you so much Laura-Jane for another wonderful recipe! I check back often and love how you use everyday, easy to locate ingredients to create such mouth watering recipes!
Thanks, Laura! I'm happy you found me! :)
I just made this the other night! It turned out fantastic! I think, though, that in my paranoia to not over-process, I may have under-processed just a tad. It was still great! Thank you for this super easy recipe!
Practice makes perfect! But I'm glad you still enjoyed! :)
Sep 01, 2014
I've looked up so many raw carrot cake recipes. Has anyone ever used oats instead of the walnuts?
Hi Jujubee!
Why do you want to use oats instead of nuts?
I believe the cream cheese icing on the website has the addition of coconut oil and it's not included on the video. Have you tried it both ways? Thanks!
Ooops! Definitely add the coconut oil :)
Feb 24, 2016
How much coconut oil would you add to the icing ingredients?
Hi Handzie!
Thanks for your comment. It actually made me realize that there was an error in the ingredients on this recipe, which I have now fixed. Thanks!!
jbubonia's Review
Raw carrot refrigerator cake recipe
Ohhhhh. This is really delicious.
Jul 14, 2014
Hi Dear,
What do you suggest as a substitute for raisins? Going to make this today, but don't have any raising at home. Please help, thanks! :)
Hi Pauline! You could try currants, or dried cranberries, or any other dried berry or fruit.
dederae1's Review
Raw carrot refrigerator cake recipe
Love this recipe! The frosting was a little too thick. I wonder if I should have soaked the cashews?? I added a little extra water but was still too thick to spread.
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Dr. Richard M. Lerner receives two-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF
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Richard M. Lerner has been given the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development Award
Richard M. Lerner selected as the winner of the International Society
for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) 2016 Distinguished Scientific Award
for the Applications of Behavioral Development
Richard M. Lerner is featured in a video discussing why Williamson College
of the Trades matters for the future of American society
Watch the video >
Richard M. Lerner has been named the 2015 recipient of the
'American Psychological
Association Division 1 Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award', for distinguished
career contributions to general psychology
Learn more about the award >
Julie Dobrow, Direction of
Communications and Media Studies at Tufts University, blogs on the
Huffington Post about IARYD'S AIMS Study.
about the new research on anti-bullying awareness >
IARYD's own Mimi Arbeit was asked to speak at Tufts'
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, at
which she earned her PhD.
Watch a video and/or read a transcript
of the speech >
IARYD alum Amy Eva Alberts Warren releases
undergraduate textbook in collaboration with Jennifer Tanner and
Daniel Bellack. Learn more about the book, Visualizing the
Richard M. Lerner, Elise M. Harris, Jennifer P. gans,
Miriam R. Arbeit, and Lisette M. DeSouza write a Feature Article for
the SRA News Blog
Read the article, "In The Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner:
Applying Developmental Science to Promote Social Justice" >
Arthur interactive graphic novel, "So Funny I Forgot to Laugh,"
highlighted on Kidscreen.com
Read the blog post, "Once More, (Games) With Feeling" >
Richard M. Lerner wins the 2014 American Psychological Association
Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology
The APA award "recognizes a distinguished career and enduring contribution to
advancing the application of psychology through methods, research, and/or
application of psychological techniques to important practical problems."
Dr. Julie Dobrow, Director of Communications and Media
Studies at Tufts University, blogs on Huffington Post about IARYD
Read the blog post, "Learning from Arthur: New Research on
Anti-bullying Awareness" >
Princeton University and the Brookings Institution release the latest
issue of The Future of Children. Colonel Stephen J. Cozza (U.S. Army,
Retired) and Richard M. Lerner serve as co-editors of the volume dedicated
military-connected children and their families. (Fall 2013)
Read more >
Dr. Megan Kiely Mueller featured in the Summer 2013 issue of the
Magazine of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
the Tufts Veterinary Medicine issue (see page 24-27 for the article on Megan and her work) >
Dr. Edmond P. Bowers featured in the Chronicle of
Evidence-based Mentoring
Read the interview with IARYD's rising star here >
Dr. Megan Kiely Mueller featured on the Tisch College blog
Read about Megan's work on the role animals play in human
development >
America's Promise Alliance launches the Center
for Promise at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences
the announcement on the America's Promise Alliance website >
an article about the Center for Promise in The Tufts Daily >
Professor Richard M. Lerner and Doctoral Research Assistant
Megan Kiely Mueller to teach course covering human-animal interaction
an article about the course and more from The Tufts Daily >
Dr. Lerner delivers Keynote Speech at recent conference on PYD and Service
(Zurich, Switzerland - September 2012)
German-language interview with Richard M. Lerner >
Richard M. Lerner wins the 2013 Urie Bronfenbrenner
Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in
the Service of Science and Society
Dr. Gail S. Goodman, Distinguished Professor in the Psychology
Department of the University of California, Davis, and President-Elect
of Division 7 of the American Psychological Association has announced
that Richard M. Lerner is the 2013 winner of the "Urie Bronfenbrenner
Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the
Service of Science and Society." Professor Goodman wrote to Rich that
this award is "a wonderful acknowledgement of your tremendous
contributions to the field!"
Rich will be presented with the award at the 2013 APA convention.
He will give an invited address at a ceremony in his honor. The 2013
convention will be held from July 31 to August 4 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Please join those of us at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth
Development in congratulating Rich on this award.
Richard M. Lerner delivering the keynote speech at the Youth-Nex
Inaugural Conference Oct. 24-25, 2011 "Forward Thinking: Preparing
our Youth for the Coming World"
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Society for Research on Adolescence newsletter
features 4H Study of Positive Youth Development
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The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development is
featured in U.S. News and World Report
the article >
IARYD Issues Latest Annual Report
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Kirschenbaum-Cohn Fellow Named
We are happy to announce that Miriam Arbeit, a doctoral student in the
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and research assistant at
the Institute, has been named the Kirschenbaum-Cohn Fellow for 2010-2011.
The Kirschenbaum-Cohn Fellowship was established by the generosity of
Joan Kirschenbaum Cohn, Ph.D. The fellowship provides support to a student
pursuing a Ph.D. in Child Development while working as a research assistant
at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development. Mimi is the
fifth Kirschenbaum-Cohn Fellow. We thank Joan Kirschenbaum Cohn for her
generosity and congratulate Mimi on being named the most recent fellow.
more about Mimi >
Dr. Lerner featured in recent New York Time article "What Is It About 20-Somethings?"
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Richard M. Lerner named the 2010 recipient of the John P. Hill Memorial Award
It is a great pleasure that we announce that Richard M. Lerner has
been named the 2010 recipient of the John P. Hill Memorial Award from
the Society for Research on Adolescence. This award recognizes an
individual whose overall program of work has had a significant impact on
the understanding of development and behavior during the second decade
of the lifespan. This certainly fits Rich's important contributions to
the field. The award will be presented on March 12th at the SRA
Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony in Philadelphia.


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Paying Attention
My partner and I live just north of Los Angeles in the slightly inclined stretch of land that becomes the foothills and then the startling uprightness of the San Gabriel Mountains. In winter, the mountains are often dusted with snow. After a snow, when the sun peeks between the horizon and the clouds, the mountains are tinted yellow, orange and pink. In the summer, the setting sun tints the mountains violet.
We bought our house on a whim. Jim had remained behind in Edinburgh to sort out our move back to the States and I had the job of scouting out houses near my new job in Pasadena. I had seen several houses with a real estate agent, none of which met our criteria that the house must not need any renovation, should be on a cute street, and should be a house built in the 1920s. As an afternoon of house hunting dragged on, I began to despair of ever finding "The House" when the agent and I pulled in front of the house we came to own. Upon seeing it, I immediately remembered our rented flat in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I had lived in Edinburgh for the previous two years while doing graduate work in economics at the University of Edinburgh. My partner and I had rented the garden flat of a terrace home in the Tollcross neighborhood, which as many said was as good as the adjacent neighborhood, Merchiston Park where J. K. Rowling lived, but half the price. The flat's back garden was a tangle when we moved in. Snails near four inches across ravaged any green leaf. My landlord said that his grandmother had planted the garden; to me the garden looked as if nothing in it had been done since Gran went to her reward. I have made many gardens in my life and I determined to make sense of this garden and to add a touch of myself as well.
The house, of which we had the bottom half, had been built in the mid 19th century. Its walls were thick Scottish granite; the window ledges were deep enough to curl up into with a book. The upper level had two bedrooms, one was of which was unusable as its windows were but five feet from a street that led from the football pitch and several popular pubs. Downstairs, we had a parlor, a kitchen and an unheated conservatory that opened to the garden that faced north.
The garden was walled with thick granite blocks piled eight feet high. At the bottom of the garden was the brick built McEwen brewery. An ancient apple tree that grew along one wall produced mean, puckery apples while the gooseberry that grew in the tree and across the wall produced sweet, Concord grape-sized fruit. At the back of the garden was a shingled garden shed and a gazebo set on an elevated terrace. The garden shed was full of big pieces of slate and the bodies of snails that had been caught in a sudden Scottish freeze. We scraped off the snail carcasses and buried their remains under the bushes. The slates we piled into a sort of altar that I planted with ferns and vines from the garden.
We had decided to do without a car while in Edinburgh, which is so compact that nothing is more than a few steps away; but, without a car a garden project became a matter of how much could I bring home in my trolley cart? A trolley cart is a tall wire box on four wheels, which can handle no more than a bag full of groceries without going wonky. Nevertheless, day after day I bought snail bait or fertilizer or potting soil at the neighborhood garden shop that I trundled home in my trolley. One day the checking out clerk at the garden shop while ringing up my order, leaned over and said, "Sir, we do deliver free of charge." After that, freed of the drudgery of hauling garden supplies over cobble stone streets in a wonky trolley, I doubled my work in the garden and with time the garden recovered.
I made several mistakes in that garden. I trimmed a boxwood hedge, which promptly died. My landlord was horrified at the sight, stammering, "My grandmother put in that hedge." I also trimmed the heather, a gardener no-no. Thank god the heather didn't die. I had a lot of successes as well. The Solomon's seal increased and thrust a profusion of its white flowers into the pale Scottish sun from under the shrubs. The daffodils and irises I planted bloomed in what had been empty flowerbeds. The rose that grew across the conservatory roof was renewed and began to bloom continuously.
Not long after the garden recovered and flourished, the day came that I had to return to the U.S. A garden is a patch of the planet that you care take for the next caretaker. My successor would discover that I had planted daffodils to be followed by bluebells under the shrubs. He would wonder at my choices and gardening techniques; and, would set about making the garden his own.
The house I saw that day with the real estate agent was a renovated 1920s English Cottage bungalow with an English garden, front and back. I thought the front garden was too masculine, dominated as it was with big masses of old lavenders. The back garden, which I loved, was a woodland garden with mature trees under planted with camellias and azaleas. I was reminded by the house's garden of my garden in Scotland, which at first sight had been a tangled mess full of potential which under my care had flourished.
I have taken care of my current garden for seven years now. I have learned that gardenias will not grow in my garden unless shaded. I have become amazed at how fast plants grow in Southern California and consequently how much pruning there is to do. I have watched as plants like beach strawberries and lion's tail have sprung unbidden from the soil. Over time, this garden I have tended has thrived and become my own.
When we give our attention to something, it flourishes, just like a garden. Our attitude about life is very much like a garden. We can ignore it and let it go to dark weeds and tangled vines; or, we can turn our minds to learning to see the miraculous that life offers all about us just as a garden surprises us with unexpected beauty when we give it our attention.
I believe we swim in an ocean of miracles that we could see if we would but give them our attention. A miracle can be the smile of a child who passes us in a crosswalk. It can be the pattern of shadows on a wall. It can be the pointed leaves of daffodils pushing up through the soil in spring. It was the checking out clerk in Edinburgh who told me her store had free delivery. I believe that miracles are the way the Universe tells us we are loved.
I have known so many people with HIV/AIDS who could see only anger and regret in the world about them; many of them have died. To survive year after year with HIV/AIDS as I have, I believe you have to clear the tangled vines in the garden of your mind to let in the sun and the miraculous all about us. With time and attention our ability to experience the miraculous blooms like a well-tended garden. Ugly events may make us doubt that we live surrounded by the miraculous, but they are like vines covering a window. Once the vines are cleared, the sun beams through the dusty glass making patterns on the floor and once again we see the miracle that is life.


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In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned.
Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge.
Name: Mārtiņš, son of Brežs, Gutmans, born March 2, 1869, died March 26, 1923
Bottom Inscription: "Dusi!… Tavu bālo seju rotā smaidi, Šķiet – Tu saldu sapni sapņotu, Nobeigti ir visi sāpju vaidi, Izgaisuši līdz ar dzīvību" (Sleep!… Your pale face is decorated with smiles, It seems that you dream happy dreams, Finished are the cries of pain, Vanished along with life)
Location: Meža kapi, Rīga
Tombstone Tuesday – Mārtiņš Gutmans, 1869-1923


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In Washington DC, in the course of increasing concern over renewed tensions in the West Philippine Sea and South China Sea, the Philippine Embassy in the United States is shopping for excess defense equipment from the United States under Washington's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.
Jose L. Cuisia Jr., the Philippine ambassador to the United States, said he has asked the Department of National Defense and Armed Forces of the Philippines back home to provide him with a wish list of military equipment they will need to shore up the country's defense capability.
He said he expected the defense department to "prioritize" its modernization goals, but was careful not to explicitly link the purchase of US excess defense articles to the Philippine military's job of securing the territorial sovereignty of the country in the face of China's alleged intrusions into the areas of the disputed Spratlys group claimed by the Philippines.
"There are defense articles that will be available, and that's why I'm asking the Philippine Marines, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and Philippine Army what their needs are," said Cuisia who made this disclosure during a visit of former President Fidel Ramos at the embassy last week.
It is part of Cuisia's job to negotiate with US officials contracts for the purchase of US military hardware. The FMS program is a standardized method for the sale by the US of defense equipment, services and training to foreign countries and governments.
Cuisia said the negotiations with the US are only after the defense department, in consultation with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, has determined "what the country needs."
He said he has already seen the list provided by the Philippine Navy, but the other service commands—the Army and Air Force—have yet to come up with their own wish lists.
Hamilton class cutter
On May 13, Cuisia marked his debut as the new ambassador to Washington by signing the certificate of transfer of the decommissioned US Coast Guard Hamilton class cutter to the Philippines. (The cutters are called "Hamilton class" after their lead ship, the Hamilton, named after Alexander Hamilton, the first US Secretary of the Treasury.)
While in the US Coast Guard service, the vessel saw action in maritime safety and security missions, including drug and migrant interdiction, and search and rescue.
The patrol vessel, whose two 1,800 horsepower gas turbines can propel it to speeds of up to 28 knots, will be renamed the BRP Gregorio del Pilar. It is the biggest ship ever to be acquired by the Philippine Navy, and will be sailed to the Philippines in July 2011.
Philippine military officials have high hopes of acquiring a few other relatively modern patrol ships.
Cuisia, however, seemed lukewarm to purchasing a decommissioned US warship because of the high price tag, even if it's being sold at a "very big discounted price."
"Is that what we really need? Do we need another one, or do we need something else?" he said.
"Do we need a US Made frigate? Maybe that's not what we need. Maybe what we need are fast patrol boats to go after pirates, after Abu Sayyaf, etc.," he said.
Caution vs arms buildup
Ramos warned Philippine defense officials against promoting an arms buildup in the Spratlys group, a reputedly oil-rich chain of islands and reefs, which is claimed wholly or in part by the Philippines, China, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam and Taiwan. Arms buildup is not so necessary but if the whole country claiming the Spratly islands in the Philippines waters are keep on advancing their arm weapon, then it is necessary for the Philippines to strengthen their arm forces and equipment to gain respect from the country who are abusing the Philippine waters.
"There's a buildup on many sides—even us. This is a little tiny buildup, which is the (purchase of a) Coast Guard cutter. Why don't we use all this money that's being budgeted for an arms buildup for peace, development and prosperity?" he said.
Escalating tensions in the Spratlys, which straddle busy international shipping lanes, is a relic of the Cold War, said the retired general who met with Cuisia and the Filipino community here during a 12-day swing of the US in May.
Ramos urged President Benigno Aquino III to accept an invitation from Chinese President Hu Jintao to visit Beijing. He said this would help ease the tension over China's recent alleged intrusions.
As early as March, Mr. Aquino has been invited by China to make an official visit, but Malacañang has yet to set a date.
Philippine Arm Forces Weapon Modernization
The purchase of new Defense weapon for the Philippines is just coincidentally with the recent activity in the spratlys. It's been a long time that the Philippines did not make any upgrades in its defense weapon which results to failure to identify and detect invaders in the Philippine waters and horizon by the armed forces.
The Philippines has been bullied as titled weak because of its capability to depend its territory so the recent upgrades and further on the way upgrades for the Philippine defense weapon is very important. The reaction of Mr. Ramos maybe a feeling of a little shame and insecure since he is a soldier and President Aquino is an economist. During the Ramos term when he was a president of the Philippines, he fail to make any upgrade of the Philippine defense weaponry. During his term, the corruption of the AFP is rampant and seems to be tolerated by him.
As the Philippines could afford for Frigate, submarines and etc even at a higher price then why not to include them in the DND wish list?
Joint patrol of rivals
Ramos envisions a "common defense" of the South China Sea instead of rival claimants locked in a perpetual war mode, pointing their arsenals against each other.
His proposed setup is akin to a joint patrol of contested waters in which all claimant countries would contribute forces to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
"What do we do with these existing armies? Why don't we in Asia Pacific agree to treat each other like partners in peace and prosperity instead of us potential rivals 10 years from now?" he said.
For this idea of Ramos, this is good but it seems to be impossible as china and Vietnam want to takeover most part of the Philippine waters and islands in the West Philippines Sea for their greed dream to control the oil and gas of the region? They are thinking for their own well not for the region. They want more power both weapon and economy and it is a competition not sharing what each other have.
If the Philippines will not level up, then the bottom line is the Philippines would be abuse buy the neighboring countries. The sense of having modern defense weapon is to gain respect and capability to protect its territory rather than being bullied by the neighboring countries and maybe in the next day they will squat the islands of the Philippines. What can this old man Ramos do if this will happen?
Ramos noted the marked changes in the global security environment after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, which precipitated the disintegration of the Soviet Union and with it, the threat of international communism.
Yes, it is true but it makes sense also that the Philippines will dream to be part of the so called well-armed nation. The Philippine is still developing and it could be imbalance if only the Philippine economy will grow but its capability to protect it territory is less. It must be Economy and Power will grow together; and part of power is weaponry advancement.
In both the Korean War and Vietnam War, the US had pursued a policy of containment, triggering the mushrooming of US military bases in Asia and around the world as the free world's response to the advance of communism, he said.
The Philippines sided with the US in both wars, nurturing a political, economic and military relationship in post-World War II which did not always sit well with communist China.
But with China embracing capitalism, its economy is set to eclipse the US in 2016, as the International Monetary Fund recently predicted.
The real enemy
According to Ramos, the real enemy in the 21st century is no longer one country against the other.
"That's outmoded. That's a Cold War mentality," he said.
"The force which is being applied one against the other and then continues to escalate should not just be identified with the No. 1 and No. 2 superpowers (the US and China) because who is the enemy? What is the enemy now? It's international terrorism. It's endemic disease. It's climate change. It is poverty," Ramos said.
"Can you imagine how much better the quality of life all around the world, especially in the Philippines and in China and in many parts of the world, would be if the huge amount of dollars, of yuan and pesos will be devoted to economic and social development?" he said.
The Ramos Peace and Development Foundation is working toward this goal of regional stability and prosperity, he said.
To end the Spratlys tension
It is just very simple to end the tension in Spratlys. Since the UNCLOS formulated the LAW of the SEAS then the very thing is just to implement it. Any country will violate must be sanctioned. That's all!. Vietnam will return to its UNLCOS allowed limit of 200 Nautical Mile Exclusive Economic Zone, the Philippines, Malaysia, China and Brunei will obey and follow the law of the UNCLOS and it could be the end of the tension.


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Columnist Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has certainly written quite a flamboyant article regarding the Occupy movement ("Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23). In it, he states a disconnect between them and the so-called "middle class," a catch-all term he uses to project his own identity. Most notably, at no point in the article does he refute anything that the Occupy movement stands for. Since he cannot refute their goals, he must resort to character assassination and manipulative language instead.
The entire psychology of the article is obvious. Throughout history, any attempt to address social inequality of any sort is met with strong backlash. Those used to lots of power are not likely to give it up easily. What was once a luxury becomes a necessity. As feminism, civil rights, and gay rights became more mainstream they faced similar problems. Sexism, racism, and homophobia became more vocal — most recently by the backlash against Maryland's allowing of same-sex marriage. It's clear that Mr. Ehrlich feels personally threatened by Occupy's presence.
This letter won't stop him nor other people from attempting to discredit the movement. The same arguments will be trotted out, attacking perhaps the fact that the movement's goals at this point are abstract rather than concrete, framing the movement by the most extreme parts of the group, or claiming that their goals are anti-American. These tactics are meant to push hot buttons rather than provide for any logical discussion. However, those attempts unwittingly vindicate Occupy's cause. Such responses betray a simple notion, that those in power feel threatened and they will attempt to hold on at all costs.
Dylan Greene, Baltimore