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The goal of new telescopes is usually to resolve more details at greater distances. The most straightforward way to do this is to simply make telescopes larger. Unfortunately, the simple weight of the mirrors makes this a path fraught with difficulties. Despite the difficulties, there are consortiums attempting to do just this.
An alternative is to combine the light from different telescopes. The interference between the light fields captured by separate telescopes creates an image that has details that would ordinarily be resolved by a telescope with a size similar to the separation between the telescopes. This seems simple, but the light fields are very weak and losses involved in transporting and combining the light fields are such that separations of a few hundred meters are today's limits. A trio of Canadian researchers has proposed using technologies being developed for quantum key distribution to greatly extend the allowable distance between telescopes.
How does interference help?
Imagine we have a pair of objects very close to each other, but at a great distance from our two telescopes. According to the individual telescopes, there is actually only a single object, because they do not have sufficient resolving power to separate the pair. When we use the two telescopes together, though, things change. The light that travels to the first telescope has to travel a slightly different distance to the light that travels to the second telescope. That difference depends on the direction from which the light comes, which is slightly different for the two objects. When the light from the two telescopes is mixed, the brightness of the pattern depends on that path difference: if it is an integer number of half wavelengths, we get a bright pattern, and as we move away from that magic number, the pattern dims and eventually disappears.
When we mix the light from the two telescopes, we can introduce an additional delay to the light from one telescope, so that we can choose to get a bright pattern. In our case, with two objects, each one produces its own repeating pattern of bright and dark patterns as the delay is varied. The mixture of those two patterns tells us that there are two objects, not one. It also tells us the angular separation of the two objects. Hence our two (rather poor) telescopes have resolved objects that would normally only be separated by a much more expensive telescope.
That's already awesome—why add quantum-y stuff?
Assuming that the light from stars is purely classical, I was a little puzzled at how the physics behind quantum key distribution might help in this respect. It turns out that as you crank up the resolution of the telescope system, you see more features, but the total amount of light doesn't increase that much, so the total number of photons per mode (or feature) goes down until it is much less than one. This makes starlight very much like a quantum light source.
But with so few photons, it's impossible to build up the interference patterns used to separate objects. Indeed, every photon counts, so the last thing you want to do is throw them into an optical fiber and have them absorbed by a defect in the fiber. Instead, a Canadian team of researchers has proposed to use entangled photons to perform the interference measurement at each telescope without having to transport the starlight.
Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is one of the most misused concepts around. Entanglement is delicate, rare, and short-lived. At its heart, quantum entanglement is nothing more or less than a correlation between two apparently separate quantum objects. Having discovered that, you might ask "so what is all the fuss about?" The answer lies deep in quantum mechanics.Read more…
The basic idea is that, somewhere between the two telescopes, we generate entangled photons on Earth that are sent to a randomly chosen telescope over a fiber optical cable whose length can be varied. At each telescope, the generated photon is mixed with the starlight on a beam splitter. Half the time, the stellar photon and the generated photon go to the same telescope, and the result is thrown away. The other half of the time, the two photons go to different telescopes, resulting in one of two detectors clicking at each telescope. The interference pattern is built up by looking for simultaneous clicks at pairs of detectors as a function of the fiber optic cable length.
This scheme has the advantage that the photons sent between the telescopes are generated here on Earth and can be easily replaced. Indeed, single photons can be sent over lengths of about 70-100km reliably at the moment, a massive increase over the few hundred meter limitation in stellar interferometry. But the scheme automatically throws away half of the stellar light—enough to make any astronomer cry. And single photon sources are simply not very good at the moment; they don't produce useable photons at the rate required. Indeed, the researchers acknowledge this, and calculate that the single photon source should produce photons at about 150GHz to end up with a sensitivity comparable with today's stellar interferometers. For reference, current single photon sources are in the MHz range.
So why is this interesting if it's so far away from a practical implementation? The technology that the team is proposing is exactly what people are working on in quantum information technology, but the requirements are much more stringent for stellar interferometry. These ideas, then, act as a technology driver for those working on the practical side of quantum information technology.
Physical Review Letters, 2012, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.070503


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Which Actor Would You Bring Back for One Final Movie?
List Rules Vote up the actors you wish would come back from the dead.
We asked, you answered. Fans of the Ranker Facebook page chose which dead actors they'd like to bring back to life for just one more movie. Do you agree with their choices?
From old Hollywood stars like Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe to more recent actors who died young, we'd welcome back any of these great talents with open arms. We started with a few suggestions (like Paul Walker, Health Ledger, and Patrick Swayze), and Ranker fans added their own on Facebook. Now, it's time to vote. Who do you miss the most?
Which of these dead actors do you wish you could bring back to life for one final movie? Vote up the stars you think should get a second chance on Earth and on the big screen. Don't see your favorite actor who passed away? Add them! Maybe wishing will make it so! If not, we'll just have to wait until we get to Heaven to see these famous faces yet again. Until then, at least we have their past films to fill our time! RIP to these actors who passed away.


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The TNA Bound for Glory Pre-Game show opened Mike Tenay & Don West welcoming us to the show, then they went outside, where Jeremy Borash was in the parking lot. The "headbutt heard around the world" was discussed, and we saw Samoa Joe, in street clothes, sitting in a chair in the lot. Borash said he had been waiting for Kurt Angle to arrive in the lot for over an hour.
We went to Christy Hemme at ringside in front of a group of fans, noting that the crowd was electric and then sent us to a video package on LAX vs. AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels. Mike Tenay and Don West then ran down the lineup for tonight's PPV.
Bobby Roode came to the ring, announced as now hailing from "Wall Street, Manhattan." He came to the ring and said that the moment everyone was waiting for has arrived. He said it was going to be a new start for "Robert Roode", his new ring name. He buried Bobby Heenan, Col. Parker, and Sherri Martel, saying he didn't need them. He said he needed someone to make him their number one priority, referring to himself in the third person. He said that he wanted someone who would bring him to the World title and said he would make a lot of money with his new "CEO", Ms. Brooks (Tracy Brooks). Brooks was dressed in business attire.
Robert Roode vs. Lance Hoyt
Roode attacked Hoyt when he played to the crowd, beating him with punches and chops. He began stomping Hoyt in the corner, showing a lot of aggression. He began choking Hoyt against the ring ropes, then hit a running snap mare. Hoyt began mounting a comeback, but Roode cut him off. Roode continued to work over Hoyt with punches. He rebounded off the ropes but was hit with a big boot by Hoyt. Hoyt hit a running clothesline in the corner. Roode was caught and hit with a TKO variation, but Roode kicked up at two. Hoyt ascended to the top for a moonsault, but Ms. Brooks distracted him. The referee chased her away. Hoyt went for the moonsault but missed as Roode had discovered. Roode hit a lariat to the back of the head, then hit the Payoff spinning DDT for the pin.
Your winner, Robert Roode!
A much better showing for Roode this month. With the Wall Street and CEO references, I kept thinking of the old WCW York Foundation and Michael Wallstreet. Although Roode referred to himself as Robert Roode on the mic, the announcers and ring announcer Dave Penzer all called him Bobby Roode.
Outside, Jim Cornette, flanked by security, was trying to talk sense into Samoa Joe, telling him he wasn't going to let anyone ruin Bound for Glory and to let the issue with Kurt Angle go for tonight. Joe ignored him, sitting in the chair, seething.
Back in the Arena, Roode and Brooks were working over Lance Hoyt. Ron Killings hit the ring and Roode backed off. Killings rapped his rap song, which was over bigtime in Detroit. Hoyt danced in the ring.
Backstage, Christy Hemme was discussing the 8 Mile Street Fight as a midget ran around. He stopped Hemme, saying she looked bigger on television and asked where the locker room was, saying he was here for the Kevin Nash Invitational. Hemme directed him, then sent us to a Rhino vs. Christian Cage video package.
Mike Tenay and Don West discussed the Monster's Ball and the championship matches as they continued to plug the PPV.
They ran a video feature on Sting's quest to win the NWA championship tonight against Jeff Jarrett.
At ringside, Don West did a hard sell for the PPV. As West did the hard sell, he reacted to something and we heard noise but the cameras didn't go outside for a good 30 seconds, where Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe were being held apart by security, presumably after Angle got out of his car. Angle taunted Joe, telling him he was going to be in the ring if Joe wanted to find him. Angle called Joe a "son of a b**ch." If there was any physical contact, we didn't see it.
Aaron McMann sent word that Vince Russo was visible in front of the fans and taking pictures with anyone who asked during the pre-game show.
They closed the pre-game show with the excellent Fozzy music video that aired on Impact.
The PPV opened with one hell of an opening video that explained every match and talent that was competing painting the passion and driving force of their abilities as something special that was housed by TNA. They called it the most important night in the history of TNA.
They shot off a lot of pyrotecnics to open the show.
Kevin Nash came to the ring in a suit carrying a bowling trophy. Nash is doing commentary. They announced it was a gauntlet. Another gauntlet?
The first two competitors are Austin Starr (the re-debuting Austin Aries), billed as hailing from "TV Land" and Sonjay Dutt. Aries shoulderblocked Dutt. Dutt came back with a headscissors takedown. On commentary, Nash said he was interested in the X-Division because he was such a high flyer. They said it there were going to be new entrants every minute, but it was more like 30 seconds.
Maverick Matt Bentley was the third man out. Bentley and Starr whipped Dutt into the ropes and elbowed him down. Starr hit a driving elbow. Dutt rebounded off the ropes with a double clothesline. The crowd was into everything that they did and is really hot.
The fourth competitor was Jay Lethal, who hit the ring with a lot of fire and nailed a cartwheel into a dropkick. Starr came off the corner with a rear elbow on Lethal. The next competitor out was A-1. A-1 in the X-Division? Come on, TNA. Make an effort here. A-1 nailed Lethal with a big spinebuster. He drilled Lethal into a corner. The sixth combatant was Zach Gowen. Gowen hit a one-legged moonsault over Dutt. Frankie Kazarian was out next.
As Kazarian came to the ring, Dutt was eliminated. A-1 and Gowen tried to toss over Lethal but he hung on the ropes. Sierlda was next, returning with blonde hair. Starr nailed her with a backhand. She drilled Kazarian. Starr hit her with a lowblow, and A-1 drilled her with a running clothesline to knock her over the top. The crowd was even into Sirelda, who has worked local indies here, they are so hot.
Shark Boy hit the ring. Nash joked Shark Boy was his favorite. The Battle Royal continued. Next out was Alex Shelley. Shelly hit a crossbodyblock off the top on Lethal and Kazarian. There was a huge "Shelley" chant. Nash said he was going to send Shelley out last but the State Athletic Commission made him do this on the up and up.
Next out was the returning D-Ray 3000. He hit the ring and began headbutting everyone. D-Ray and Shark Boy, old partners, acted excited to see each other. Sharky began using D-Ray's head as a battering ram. Bentley was eliminated. Johnny Devine was next out. Devine clotheslined Gowen on the ropes, with Gowen bumping off the apron to the floor.
Elix Skipper was out next. At this point, there was nothing really standing out here, but the silliness was being kept to short bursts. Skipper went to rebound off the ropes for a dive but slipped and fell. Next out was Short Sleeve Sampson, the aforementioned midget. Shark Boy and D-Ray were tossed. Sampson and Starr battled. Starr carried Sampson around the rings. Fans called for Sampson to be tossed to them. Norman Smiley hit the ring, out next and took out Starr. Sampson and Smiley both did the big wiggle on Devine and Starr.
Alex Shelley tossed Sampson out to the floor on Shark Boy, who was getting up. Sampson chased referee Slick Johnson into the ring. Johnson acted like he was going to compete. Petey Williams was last out, given a hero's welcome by the crowd. He tossed Johnson right out. Skipper was tossed out. Jay Lethal was hit with the Canadian Destroyer, which got a standing ovation. Shelley tossed out Williams from behind, which pissed off the crowd, as they started chanting, "Bullsh**.:"
Austin Starr tossed out Johnny Devine. He then shoulderblocked Shelley over the ropes onto Devine. Devine and Shelley began arguing on the floor. Jay Lethal and Austin Starr are the final two, with a pinfall determining the winner. Lethal hit a full nelson suplex for a near fall. The live crowd did the dueling chants. Starr hit a brainbuster to score the pinfall and the win. They called it a "Starrbuster."
Your winner, Austin Starr.
This was your typical Battle Royal. Everyone got in a spot or two, waiting for the next entrant, but there was nothing really memorable. They tried to mix in comedy with Sampson, Sirelda, and Johnson. The competitors were all trying hard.
After the match, Nash awarded the trophy to Austin Starr. Alex Shelley felt insulted. It appeared Nash was leaving with Starr, but they cut to a video package without really showing it.
They aired a video clip of Gail Kim being injured by LAX on Impact.
Jeremy Borash interfered America's Most Wanted. Chris Harris said he didn't want to disrespect their opponents tonight, but on the greatest night of TNA history, there is now a missing piece of AMW. Harris said that he couldn't see how LAX could even call themselves men. James Storm said that they were going to be the new border patrol and said he didn't know how they even let people like LAX into the country. He said that they might be getting a whopping at the hands of AMW later and "Sorry 'bout your damned luck." Good promo with a lot more fire from Harris then usual and Storm doing his usual good job.
Shane Douglas came to the ring and introduced the Naturals. BG James did his usual spiel on the mic. Brother Ray took the mic and did the "You Wanted The Best" intro, ala a KISS concert, and Kip James said he had "two words for that" and then said "Suck it" to little reaction.
Chase Stevens and James Storm started off, having a good exchange. Ray tagged in and hit a big boot to Storm, then a uranage. He then clotheslined Chris Harris. Ray and BG did stereo clubbering on AMW. Weren't they feuding a few months ago? OK, they then turned on each other, so I can forgive it. Devon and Kip battled in the center of the ring. Storm hit an enziguiri on Ray.
Storm went to the top and battled with Andy Douglas. AMW and The Naturals ended up doing a great looked stacked Tower of Doom powerbomb. TNA wisely showed a replay. Harris went for the Catatonic on BG, who broke free and hit a pump handle slam. Chase Stevens drilled him with a running clothesline. James Storm caught him with the Whirlybird. Devon nailed Storm, but Andy Douglas hit a tornado DDT. Brother Ray hit a sit down spinebuster on Douglas. Kip hit the Famouser on Ray. Good, fun exchange.
The fans began chanting for tables. Team 3D hit the Doomsday Device on Chase Stevens. Devon then hit the top rope headbutt on Andy Douglas. Team 3D led the fans to yell, "Get the tables" but Chase Stevens hit a dropkick. The Naturals drilled Devon with the Natural Disaster. Andy Douglas accidentally hit his own partner and was then drilled with a 3D. Douglas was pinned. They worked their rear ends off here, trying to fit as much in as they could. Good match and effort by everyone involved.
Your winners, Team 3D!
Shane Douglas hit the ring irate. He faced off with 3D, who then let him pass. Douglas began screaming at Douglas. Chase Stevens grabbed him, but Douglas slapped Stevens down and continued berating them.
Outside of Samoa Joe's dressing room, Jeremy Borash noted that Joe didn't want to comment and would let his actions talk for him. Jake Roberts appeared and said he wasn't going to be a referee, but a guide. He said he was just going to check the pulses to make sure they were still alive. He promised Borash that if he really wanted to see it, Jake would show him the snake. Borash's reaction was hysterical.
They aired a video feature on the Monster's Ball.
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There's nothing quite like a night in an old hotel. Last year we stopped by the St. James Hotel up in Cimarron and now we'll check out the Shaffer Hotel in Mountainair. Mountainair, about 90 minutes south of Albuquerque, was named for the fresh breezes that blow off the surrounding mountains and down through the town. Mountainair is also the self-proclaimed "Pinto Bean Capital of the World." This second claim to fame tells you something about what most people in Mountainair do for a living.
Established in 1903, Mountainair soon attracted the attention of Clem "Pop" Shaffer, a blacksmith who arrived in 1908 to work his trade and sell useful items like caskets and coffins. Mr. Shaffer built a hotel out of wood which promptly burned down. So, in 1923, he built another hotel, this one out of cast concrete and various bits of iron that he collected from wherever he could. This hotel would not burn down.
But the fact that the Shaffer Hotel is made of concrete is almost entirely obscured by its ornamentation, a mesmerizing mixture of Native American symbolism, fantastic creatures, and menacing characters of unknown origin.
Pop Shaffer's hotel did well for him and he added a Ford showroom and garage in the back of the place, alongside the coffin workshop. A restaurant was opened next door, the ceiling lavishly carved and colored. Each day, like clockwork, Pop's second wife, Lena, went shopping for food and provisions. This gave Pop a little time for extracurricular activities, but one day Lena returned unexpectedly to find her husband climbing the stairs to the rooms of the hotel with another woman in tow. Lena produced her pistol as the mistress drew hers. However, as was common in those days of unpredictable side arms, both shots went very wide of their marks. Lena's bullet hit the ceiling behind the staircase. The mistress's lodged in the molding of the ceiling opposite the staircase. One has to wonder what Pop Shaffer thought of this incident. I have found no record of how this domestic crisis was resolved, but it did not end in divorce.
There are those that say Pop Shaffer still resides in his hotel. A man who hung himself in Room 16 is also said to haunt guests. I was told that the previous Halloween a father had requested that he and his daughters be given the most haunted room in the hotel. The man was put in 16 and his daughters got the adjoining room of the suite. In the middle of the night the man went to use the bathroom and felt a chill then turned to see the outline of a body on the bed. He attempted to go to his daughters but was unable to unlock the door to their room. They awoke and were likewise unable to open the door from their side. Early the next morning the woman that runs the front desk came in to find the man and his daughters sitting downstairs. The girls were crying. The man said they weren't staying another night and the hotel could keep their money as far as he was concerned. The desk woman said she made the refund anyway. I couldn't convince MLE to stay in 16 so we took an adjacent room where I slept quite well but she did not, feeling a little rattled by the general atmosphere.
While we weren't haunted by ghosts, the night we stayed at the Shaffer one of the women that worked at the hotel was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend who threatened to shoot everyone inside. He drove by a couple times and the police were called. At one point, while eating in the restaurant, we were asked to step away from the front window. For a few minutes we drank our tea by the cash register, waiting to see which way things would go. But, in the end, there was no gunfire at the Shaffer that night, surely how Pop would prefer it.
Not far from the Shaffer Hotel is Pop's old residence, Rancho Bonito. Guarded by an alarming wooden creature and comprised of two fairly small buildings that are perhaps even more colorful and fanciful than the Shaffer, it's very much worth a look. Both the hotel and Rancho Bonito are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Shaffer is for sale or lease if you want to own or operate a piece of history. Accommodations range from "cowboy" rooms with no bath to spacious suites. I'm sure all ghosts will be included at no additional charge.
Information for this post mostly came from the Shaffer Hotel's now-gone website. A bit more came from a personal tour of the place and the rest from lived experience.
JANUARY 2016 UPDATE: The Shaffer and its restaurant have opened and closed a couple times since this post was written almost exactly four years ago. In mid-2015, it was shuttered again and, sadly, shows no signs of re-opening anytime soon.
MARCH 2020 UPDATE: The Shaffer and its restaurant have opened again! Such great news! You can find them on FACEBOOK and rooms are available on Airbnb.


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I was going to post something different today but something happened this weekend that reminded me that one person's actions can influence the path of someones else's life forever.
Me? I'm the person who was influenced.
I was given a gift, a very special gift.
Remember a few days ago I wrote about the Rugby Street Church in Christchurch New Zealand and the church hall behind it that has now been completely demolished due to earthquake damage?
Well this place holds a special place in my heart for more reasons than just the dances and fun times I had there.
I went to this youth group because I was friends with a brother and sister who parents had a holiday house in the same place as my family did.
These two people came into my life during some turbulent years and I valued the fact that they accepted me for who I was and we got on well, so when they invited me to come along to their youth group I said yes.
My parents were semi-neutral about my joining this group and although I had a sister who rarely went out and for whom they were a ready and willing taxi service, when I expressed hope of the same it was made clear that my bike was in the bike-shed and if I wanted to get there, I could do so under my own steam.
Since I lived in the shadow of the Port Hills on the other side of town I therefore commuted to and from the friday night youth group by ten-speed bicycle.
One day when I was locking up my bike outside Rugby Street hall another member of the group, ("M") came over and wondered why I hadn't walked to the meeting. (It appeared that he assumed I lived close to the brother and sister friends who lived a short walk away.)
I laughed, told him where I lived and thought nothing more about it.
A few weeks later "M" came and told me that he was really worried about the idea of me cycling home in the dark alone, especially through the often deserted one -way system that I used to get home.
I'll explain why he said that.
In the "wisdom"and thinking of the day, Christchurch's City fathers planned the layout of their new city in a concise looking grid pattern before even leaving England, which got somewhat complicated when they imposed it on a landscape on the other side of the world that surprised them with added features like meandering rivers.
The grid pattern road system worked well on paper, but when motor vehicles were added to the equation, reality was that the sheer number of intersections meant more traffic lights than city inhabitants and crossing the city became a nightmare.
One day someone had a bright idea and turned designated streets into one-way systems with synchronised traffic lights for speedy travel north/south and east/west on each of the four sides of the city centre.
Good, the system worked well enough, but it was synchronised for car speed and not bicycle speed so for cyclists there were many stops along it anyway.
I still considered the one-way streets safer than the very busy Columbo Street because there wasn't much space on Colombo for bikes and I wanted to avoid the weekend inebriated who hung out around Catherdral Square.
The one-way systems were by far the quickest routes, but often the most lonely too, light industrial businesses had strung up along many of them, the inner city residences that there were, were few and far between and because this was an area of the city that might be termed as "an old-established, pre-regeneration area" the houses tended to be more run-down needing some obvious TLC, than inner city chic.
"M' was worried about my safely cycling alone here at night and said he wanted to borrow his father's car and drive me home. My problem with this idea was that "M" lived very close to the Rugby Street church and my house was a long long way out of his way… not only that, but it rankled with me that I couldn't afford to give him petrol money, so in my pride and stubbornness I politely refused his offer.
Several offers of a lift later, also politely refused, and despite assurances that no petrol money was needed (after finding out that it was one of my reasons for declining) "M" took matters into his own hands.
When I got on my bike and cycled home in the dark, he would follow a safe distance behind me in his father's car, made sure that I got up my driveway ok, and then wave and drive home again.
Since I was resolute in my opinion that his actions weren't necessary and hope he would grow tired of it, I continued to cycle as usual and he continued this process until one summer night when our youth meeting had gone on far longer than usual.
It was well past midnight, but the weather was still balmy, it had been tropical all day so I was wearing a tee-shirt and skirt as I cycled home as usual.
The one-way street that would take me south was Barbadous Street and it was really quiet… the odd car passed but other than "M" following slowly behind the streets were deserted.
I'd been waiting at the traffic lights because of course they were phased for car speed and not cycle speed, and when they turned green off I went. All of a sudden I heard a strange noise… a sort of "whop whop, then a pause and again "whop whop".
More than the noise I now noticed a strange light in the darkness and still cycling, turned my head to see what it was.
Imagine my shock to see "M's"car pulled over to the side of the road with a police car next to it… there was no siren on but police car's light's were flashing and this was the strange light that I had noticed.
I turned around on my bike and cycled back to find poor "M" tying to explain to the police that he was on a mission to assure my safety and that he wasn't actually stalking the female cyclist as it certainly looked to them.
The look of relief on his face when I arrived back to confirm his story will stay with me for the rest of my days, so will the incredulous looks on the faces of the police officers at the whole situation before them.
My pride and stubborness were knocked down quite a bit that night and not wanting to embarrass "M' further we quickly thanked the police for their concern and intervention, put the bike in the back of the station-wagon and drove the rest of the way home.
Outside my door we sat in the car and had a long talk. It wasn't about the petrol money "M" said, or the time, effort or distance, it was because he really worried that something might have happened to me on one of these nightime journeys and he had the means to make sure nothing did.
He wanted to help, not only for me but for his own peace of mind… this had really been worrying him and he wanted to help.
Then he said words to this effect: "Sometimes someone just wants to give, they know you can't pay them back, but that's not the point… payback to me isn't needed.
Maybe instead, one day, some time , somewhere in life you will find someone who has a need that you can meet.
It might have nothing to do with cash, it could be your time, your talent, a skill, a listening ear, it may indeed be financial … but most often you will find that your time and efforts are needed far far more than money.
When you see this situation and can meet the need, just do what you can and in doing so you will have paid me back in full."
His words that night changed a lot of things in my life, not least my attitude because it made a good dent in my stubborn streak.
The biggest lessons I have learned from this … is that help often comes to you when you least expect it and in guises you never dreamed of …. that giving back brings a satisfaction that you never imagined possible…. and that if you have your eyes open you will always find someone who could use a helping hand and that both parties can be richer for having given and received.
Whilst I have never "given"with the expectaion of anything in return, I can tell you that I have often experienced some very strange situations in my life in which seemingly unrelated chains of events have slotted together prefectly to ease a complication in my life.
Is this "karma"or a case of "what goes around comes around"? Who knows…
I am richer as a person because I have learned that when I give, I grow.
For various reasons I now longer attend church but I don't think that having faith is necessarily defined by church attendance, for me it's all about the maxim "to whom much is given, much is required".
Sadly I lost touch with "M" long ago, but I will continue to be influenced by him because his kindness and his words changed me and widened my horizons. I can only hope that every now and again he is blessed in receiving a random act of kindness from a complete stranger whenever he needs it too.
The best thing about a random act of kindness? …. Passing it on.


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Fanning the Flames by Chris Cannon
A Going Down in Flames novel
Bryn McKenna has it all, including her smoking-hot knight turned live-in boyfriend, Valmont. Even though she's a hybrid dragon, she's finally fitting into the new shape-shifting dragon world that's become her own. But her grandparents want to ruin everything by making Bryn's nightmare of an arranged marriage to Jaxon Westgate a reality. It doesn't help that Jaxon's father is on a witch hunt for Rebel sympathizers and Bryn finds herself in his line of fire.
If she doesn't say, "I do," she'll lose everything. Good-bye flying. Good-bye best friends. Good-bye magic. But if she bends to her grandparents' will and agrees to marry Jaxon, she'll lose the love of her life—her knight.
Award winning author Chris Cannon lives in Southern Illinois with her husband and her three dogs, Pete the shih tzu who sleeps on her desk while she writes, Molly the ever-shedding yellow lab, and Tyson the sandwich-stealing German Shepherd Beagle. She believes coffee is the Elixir of Life. Most evenings after work, you can find her sucking down caffeine and writing fire-breathing paranormal adventures and snarky contemporary romance.
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MAUMEE, OH — Plans are underway for the "2nd Annual Racer's Chili Challenge" and race teams and fans should mark Saturday, February 20th on their calendars. This year's event will be held in Fremont, Ohio once again, but this time at the Ballville Township Community Hall located at 1413 East Cole Road (across from the fire station). The Kistler Racing Products Fremont/ Attica Sprint Title (F.A.S.T.) organization will once again be heading up the planning of the chili cook-off along with the help of the Hoserville Ohio gang and several other generous volunteers. This event was established to bring fans, teams, promoters & drivers together in the off-season for some good fun, great chili, and a little bit of bench racing before the green flags wave once again at Attica Raceway Park and Fremont Speedway in 2010.
The doors will open to the public at 1 p.m. and general admission is just $5.00 at the door. Children 12 & under will be admitted free with a paid adult. Admission includes a sample cup and spoon to taste each team's chili creation. Be sure to visit your favorite team's booth often and vote for them as "The People's Choice" award.
"The Inaugural Racer's Chili Challenge was a big success," says F.A.S.T. co-founder Bryan Autullo. "There were about 22 entries last year in 4 different categories and a lot of really great chili was consumed by the large crowd that showed up on a cold and snowy winter day."
Last winter's celebrity judges (Brad Doty, Kenny Jacobs, Jim Linder, and Darl Harrison) voted the WFIN radio "Racing World" team as the "Grand Champion" and fans came from as far away as Western Pennsylvania to sample the chili, mingle with the Fremont & Attica drivers and the local racing legends throughout the afternoon. "We're sticking to pretty much the same formula for 2010," Autullo added. "We're going to do a few things differently, but for the most part it will be the same recipe for a good time that we cooked up in 2009. We'll have celebrity judges, games for the kids, a driver autograph session, and a couple of show cars this February."
Celebrity judges will once again determine the best chili in each of the three divisions (Sprint Cars, Late Models/ Dirt Trucks & Fans/Media) and the winning team will receive a chili pot trophy and prize packs from Fremont Speedway, Attica Raceway Park, the F.A.S.T Series, and Hoserville Ohio. "The People's Choice" chili will be voted on by the general public and the winner will receive the Grand Champion chili pot trophy and their choice of either a $100 gift certificate to Kistler Racing Products or $100 cash.
Scott Porter, co-founder of the F.A.S.T. organization commented, "We're also bringing back the KS Sales & Service Hot Head Jalapeño Eating Contest and thanks to Kevin Shammo we're doubling the prize money to $100 for the winner. This event was the highlight last year as Jason Tomczyk consumed 15 peppers in five minutes, while the event left several other contestants in tears." Another event returning is the Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament for the kids (17 & under) presented by Computer Man, Inc. of Fremont, Ohio. New in 2010 will be a beanbag tournament presented by Hoserville Ohio – a charity organization that helps injured drivers with their medical expenses. Registration for the tournaments will take place the day of the event.
Updates about the 2nd Annual Racer's Chili Challenge will be posted at www.fastondirt.com and can be heard on "The Last Lap FASTcast" on Wednesday nights leading up to the event at www.lastlaplive.com or www.dirtvision.com.
Here's How To Enter Your Team Into The 2010 Racer's Chili Challenge:
Entry into the 2nd Annual Racer's Chili Challenge is FREE and teams will consist of two team members.Team members will be admitted for free to the event. There will be three divisions this year in which you can enter: Sprint Cars (410s/305s), Late Models/Dirt Trucks, and Fans/Media.
The Racer's Chili Challenge fliers/entry forms are available to download at the official web site of the F.A.S.T. Series (www.fastondirt.com) and will also be available at Kistler Engines & Kistler Racing Products starting this Saturday, January 9th at their annual open house event. The entry deadline for competitors is Monday, February 1st. Please sign up early, as booth space is limited.
About Our Title Sponsor:
Kistler Engines builds lightweight, high performance racing engines and quality is their commitment. They pride themselves in high tech, innovative designs, producing highly competitive engines for Sprint 410's as well as Late Models, 360's, Midgets and 305's. Through the use of state-of-the-art equipment, the highest standard quality parts, and constant research and development, Kistler Engines is setting the standard in the highly competitive field of dirt track racing today. Customers powered by Kistler Engines have consistently set fast times and track records, and have won with the World of Outlaws, All Stars, and numerous feature events including the Knoxville Nationals. Kistler Engines has also earned a reputation for service among professional race teams with quick turnaround time on rebuilds in most cases. In addition to complete engine building and machining services, Kistler Engines also stocks a wide variety of "hard core" engine parts. With a vision of adding a complete sprint car parts store, Kistler hired key staff members to be able to offer the same type of service at Kistler Racing Products as he has with his engine business. Brian Kemenah and Dave Deyo take care of the day to day operations of KRP. Kemenah is a 4-time All Star Crew Chief of the Year and is a major asset to Kistler Racing Products as customers are able to ask technical questions and receive race proven answers. You can also visit Kistler racing Products at their parts truck every weekend in the pits at Attica and Fremont.
To learn more about the F.A.S.T. Championship Series visit www.fastondirt.com or to learn more about Kistler Engines – www.kistlerengines.com and www.kistlerracingproducts.com


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At The Plate – Nice comeback win for the Cubs as they trailed for most of the game and really couldn't generate any offense. They only needed one inning to get the job done as they scored six times in the sixth en route to a 6-4 win. One small note, that was big in this game was the Cubs turned five double plays, FIVE, that's hard to do. Josh Vitters was 1-for-4 with an RBI, and a run scored in the victory. Brad Nelson was 1-for-4 with two RBI's, and a run scored, he's now hitting .278 on the season. Donnie Murphy had a big game going 2-for-4 with his first home run of the season, three RBI's, a double, and a run scored.
On The Mound – The Cubs gave up twelve hits in this one but held the Aces (get it?) to only four runs thanks in large part to those five double plays I mentioned. Nick Struck got the start and battled to earn his first win of the season while not having his best stuff. Struck went six innings giving up four runs on eleven hits while walking one and striking out four. Esmailin Caridad worked two scoreless innings out of the pen giving up one hit while walking one. Zach Putnam was solid as well, he worked a scoreless ninth inning to earn his second save of the season.
At The Plate – What a thrilling win for the Smokies as they trailed 4-2 heading to the ninth where they scored four times to take a 6-4 lead, and get the victory. Matt Szczur came into this year with a lot to prove, and so far he's proving an awful lot. He was 2-for-5 with a double, his thirteenth stolen base of the year, and an RBI, he's now hitting .291 on the season. Rafael Lopez has been on fire of late, he was 2-for-4 with his third home run of the season, a double, an RBI, and two runs scored. Rubi Silva was 2-for-4 with his seventh home run of the season, a double, two RBI's, and a run scored. Tim Torres was 1-for-4 with a double and two runs scored in the victory. Anthony Giansanti who was recently promoted from Daytona was 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI, and a run scored.
On The Mound – Dallas Beeler got the start and had another solid outing, Beeler went six innings giving up three runs, two earned, on six hits while walking two and striking out three. Tony Zych walked a fine line in his inning of work giving up one run, unearned, on two hits while walking two and striking out one. Trey McNutt struggled a bit with command, but was also overpowering in his inning of work, he walked two and struck out three to earn his second win of the season. Kevin Rhoderick had one of his best outings of the year to nail down his first save; he worked a scoreless ninth while striking out two.
At The Plate – Daytona had nothing going in this one, and really I can't blame them as they haven't seen game action for five days. The D-Cubs could only manage five hits in the shutout loss, the Stone Crabs tried to help them as much as possible with three errors but Daytona couldn't take advantage as they were 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. Only three guys were able to record hits in this one, Zeke DeVoss went 2-for-4, Ben Carhart went 2-for-4, and Chadd Krist went 1-for-3, all singles.
On The Mound – The Daytona pitching was good enough to win in this one, but had to work around some trouble, they got a lot of help from their defense as the D-Cubs turned four double plays, and ahad two outfield assists. Zach Cates got the start and took his fourth loss of the season, he worked six innings giving up three runs on eleven hits while walking one and striking out three. Frank Del Valle was his usual solid self, tossing a scoreless inning while striking out two. Luis Liria worked a scoreless inning as well, giving up one hit while walking one and striking out two. David Cales worked a scoreless ninth inning to keep Daytona close.
At The Plate – The Cougars couldn't get anything going all day long, and when they did threaten they couldn't come through as they were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. Gioskar Amaya was 2-for-4 with his fourth stolen base of the season. Dan Vogelbach continues to hit as he was 2-for-4, he is now hitting .295 on the season. Jeimer Candelario was 1-for-4 with his tenth double of the season in the loss.
On The Mound – Pierce Johnson was solid once again in this one; unfortunately he was hung with the loss which drops his record to 1-3 on the season. Johnson went six innings giving up four runs, three earned, on seven hits while walking one and striking out six. Jeffry Antigua was just about perfect out of the pen as he worked two scoreless innings while striking out five.
The Cubs Venezuelan Summer League opened yesterday, things didn't go so well. The VSL Cubs lost 22-11 to the VSL Rays, you can view the box score here.


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Written by Steve Garcia
[ Background | Equipment | Where ]
Water polo is sport that is team oriented and combines rules from soccer, basketball, ice hockey, and rugby. No other activity compares to water polo as it is both an invigorating and addictive sport that gets your body moving. The unique characteristics of the game are what make water polo such an interesting sport. It is played in a deep pool that measures 30 x 20 meters and involves a lot of swimming.
From a fitness stand point, you get all the benefits of swimming. The swimming style is different to normal swimming as the game is played while treading water. It requires extremely high fitness with emphasis on upper body strength and high power accelerating.
Water polo originated in the mid-19th century England as an aquatic version of rugby. The first games were played in rivers and lakes. In 1870, the London Swimming Association developed a set of water polo rules for indoor swimming pools. At present, water polo is played world wide and include soccer players who play water polo in their off season training. At a competitive level water polo is played as an Olympic sport.
The playing area for water polo is 30 X 20 meters and 2 meters deep. Seven players (a goalkeeper and six field players) complete at a time with each team having 13 players. Players can only handle the ball with one hand with the exception being the goalkeeper. There are four quarters in a game, with each quarter being seven minutes in length. There is a two minute break between each quarter. If the game is tied after four quarters, two periods of overtime are played, with each period being three minutes in length. Sudden death overtime is played if the score is still tied after overtime.
Teams can substitute players after a goal is scored, between periods, for an ejected player, or by swimming to their bench corner and tagging an entering player. There are three time-outs per team during the game. A goal is scored when the ball completely passes the face of the goal. If a goal is scored from more than seven meters out, then two points are awarded. As in basketball, the offensive team has a time limit to shoot the ball. In water polo the shot clock is set at 35 seconds.
Fouls can occur during the game and range from touching the ball with two hands, taking the ball under water when tackled, and pushing off an opponent. The offended team is awarded a free throw at the point of the foul. Major fouls include kicking or striking, and holding, sinking or pulling back an opponent not holding the ball. Major fouls result in the player being excluded for 20 seconds.
As only a good pair of swimming goggles and trunks are required, water polo is a very inexpensive sport to play. The combination of swimming and team competition are what makes water polo an extremely thrilling sport to play.
Water polo is offered at many indoor pools and facilities in the community. Contact Water Polo Saskatchewan (306) 780-9260 or your local parks & recreation department.


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answered this already.. page 3 I think... ummm... I'll go find it...ConnieLw wrote:#31 on the list of tats on the first page. What's the story behind that one? A dare? A fan? Feel the need for speed?
too far back to quote so I'll copy and paste - here you go
Venomous_Bear wrote:Wait wait wait... FRANK TURNER has a NASCAR tattoo??? And an Earnhardt one at that?? As a white trash Canadian NASCAR freak, this is freaking incredible to me.
Even if that's not the reason, fuck yes.
ahhh you need to see this ...
http://www.virginmedia.com/music/video/ ... 8568255001
for the Dale Earnhardt explanation go to time stamp 02:00
his drunk leg ...
he tells a slightly different story about the Dale3 here
http://new.livestream.com/livestreamses ... s/13131422
should be the live stream part 2 - he mentions his Hermes tattoo at time 01:00 followed by talking about the dale3
In the Virgin interview he says its the picture on his credit card umm I'll see if I can type it....
"its a long story.. I have an American bank account for business and when I got the bank account they gave me a book of credit card designs... I got the Dale Earnhart 3..... its become this thing with my American tour manager... hows dale feeling? Does Dale want to get involved in the party? and you put your credit card down... So that was a joke for ages... So me and him (Cassey Cress) and my American Guitar tech (Grizz Middleton) all got Dale Earnhart 3's done..."
ugh my typing sucks
so there you go


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Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Bistecca alla Fiorentina – the classic Tuscan dish that makes my mouth water every time I think about it. This recipe is perfect for people who seriously love beef. It's simple in seasoning and preparation, choosing to let the quality of beef selected to shine. Traditionally, the Chianina breed of cattle is used in Florence, but we feel pretty confident that you'll be happy with using our Leahy's Angus Beef for this recipe. The recipe traditionally uses a thick cut Porterhouse, left medium rare, but you can substitute a T-Bone or Rib Steak if you desire, or if you really don't like bone in steaks, use a thick New York Strip steak. We've stuck with a simple seasoning of salt and pepper, but again, if you desire, you can add an herb crust of rosemary and thyme. Enjoy!
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Heat your grill to medium high heat and, if possible, add wood chips to your grill to add wood smoke flavor to the dish.
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Once the grill is hot, sear the steak on each side for 4 minutes. Do not flip until the steak has developed a deep brown color. Make sure you also sear on the sides, you will need to hold the steaks with tongs to do this.
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After searing all sides, remove the steak from the grill and let rest for 5 minutes. Cut the steaks away from the bone (the larger piece of meat is a strip and the smaller piece a tenderloin filet) and slice into pieces. Serve the slices of steak with more salt for seasoning and a full glass of Italian Red Wine. Enjoy!
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Pamela Wells Dudley
Pamela Wells Dudley, 79, of The Hill at Whitemarsh, a community volunteer who operated the Chestnut Hill Dancing School, died of complications from pneumonia Dec. 11 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Dudley, formerly of Wyndmoor, operated the dancing school for about a decade. An avid tennis and squash player, she chaired the Girls United States National Grass Tennis Tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket Club for many years.
She also was a volunteer for more than 25 years at Chestnut Hill Hospital, visiting Alzheimer's patients as a member of the Care Giver Support Group for Alzheimer's patients.
Born in England, she was raised in Darien, Conn. and attended Mt. Holyoke College.
She was an avid gardener and animal lover.
Mrs. Dudley's husband, Robert M. Dudley, died one day after the couple's 50th wedding anniversary in 2004.
She is survived by her son Robert M. Dudley, Jr. and his wife Jennifer, her daughter Linda Dudley Mutch and her husband John C. Mutch, III, her grandchildren Carson, Andy and Robbie and her brother Stephen Wells and his wife Andrea Wells of New Canaan, Conn.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, at the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 8000 St. Martin's Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19118.
Memorial donations may be made to the Music and Performing Arts Programs (The CHASS Players), Chestnut Hill Academy, 500 W. Willow Grove Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118, to The Church of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, Willow Grove and St. Martin's Lane, Phila., PA 19118 or to the Amy Wells Unlimited Possibilities Fund, St. Mary's Healthcare System for Kids, 29-01, 216th St., Bayside, NY 11360, or to the above church. – WF
Sylvia B. Lorenzon
Sylvia B. Lorenzon, 97, died December 9, 2010 at the Lancaster General Hospital. Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of the late Frank and Lena (Bongiovanni) Bosco, she was the wife of Reno V. Lorenzon who died in 1969. She moved to Lancaster in 1994 and had lived at MeadowRidge at Willow Valley for the past 2 years. Survivors include daughters Gloria (Edward) Shelmerdine of North Carolina; Linda (James) Kopf of Lancaster; Susan (Hansell "Hank") Wade of Limerick. Also five grandchildren: Kirk (Juliana) and Thomas (Jan) Shelmerdine all of North Carolina; Jennifer (Ad Crable) Kopf, Amy (David) Finnegan, both of Lancaster and Emily (Robert) Cassidy of Delaware. Step grandchildren Bret, Theron and Greg Wade, Dallas Schurr and Kelsey Herman all of the Philadelphia area. Sylvia is also survived by great grandchildren and step great-grandchildren, and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by brothers Joseph, James and William Boscoe. A Memorial Service, followed by a reception, will be held on Saturday, Decemeber 18th at 2pm at MeadowRidge at Willow Valley in Lancaster, PA. Funeral services and internment at Ivy Hill Cementery and Chapel will be held Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 11am. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Brunner Foundation Nursing Education Fund, Attn: June Draude, Willow Valley Retirement Community, 600 Willow Valley Sq., Lancaster, PA 17802.


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Happenin': Zaireeka must be experienced
MUSIC REVIEW- Happenin': Zaireeka must be experienced
Zaireeka happening
by Flaming Lips on CD
at Brown College
Friday, September 19
"Happenings" just don't seem to happen much anymore.
Getting a fair number of people together for an event which is more than just the medium– as in more than just the movie being watched, or the rock show being seen– is an increasingly rare occurrence since the happening heyday of the '60s.
Leave it to those clever kids in UVA's Brown College to bring a troubled idiom back to life, if only for an evening.
Brown College, as you may or may not know, is a strange and wonderful residence at UVA whose application process whittles down applicants to the more eclectic of the crop, making for a culture of brainiacs and wacky folk in general– and I mean that in the best possible way.
It was through one of these interesting characters I learned that some of the Brown residents were planning a Zaireeka listening party last Friday night, September 19, a happening if I ever heard one.
But possibly some explanation is in order. Zaireeka is the quadruple CD set released by the stranger-than-thou indie-pop group Flaming Lips way back in 1997, but here's the catch– all four albums are designed to be played simultaneously, on four different stereos, each one providing a different part of the sonic spectrum.
As four stereos, and at least two sets of arms to press the play button on them all (and properly sync them all up), is not something everyone can boast, not that many individuals have been able to hear the complete work.
Seated in one of the darkened lounges in the bowels of Brown College, after the arduous task of getting four hands to press the play button on four stereos, we listened as the first track, "Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand" filled the densely packed room with what could best be described as acid choir rock.
At only a little longer than two minutes, "Okay..." gets to the heart of what the multi-directional Zaireeka listening experience is about: interesting drums, echo-saturated lead vocals, looping bass lines, and harmonious multi-tracked backing voices, sounding like what one imagines a message from God (whether you're a believer or not) will be like.
Track 2, "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)," is definitely an album highlight- jazz influenced drums combine with orchestral sounds, and Coyne's disembodied voice weaves in and out of the mix. Multiple movements are separated not just by instrumentation, but also by the lucidity of lyrical content (never a Flaming Lips specialty).
Track 5, "The Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat" is all shimmering guitar codas, huge drums, and singer Wayne Coyne's oblivious-to-the-beat vocal delivery. Meandering at a little over six minutes, this is probably the album's weakest track, but it's still an experience to listen to.
Describing the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka is like trying to explain love; I can only show you the way, and give you a hint as to the wonders that await you. You've gotta experience it for yourself.


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INTERVIEW- The boys are back: DMB come home to finish up
The Dave Matthews Band's last album sold more than 20 times as many copies during its first week of release as the number of people who will read this issue of the Hook. Tickets for this week's two-night stand at UVA's John Paul Jones Arena sold out almost immediately after it was announced.
But through it all, the boys have kept their feet on the ground when there's really no earthly reason for them to do so. Boyd Tinsley granted an interview to the hometown press, the band kept trucking with hurricane relief benefits well into 2006, and they only grudgingly agreed to release the greatest hits compilation due out November 7 once they realized they were obligated to do so under the terms of their record contract.
Even beyond their charitable aims in support of Live Arts, the John Paul Jones Arena concerts testify to the band's humility: even when the hysteria around town seems completely deranged, they still manage to love us back.
The Hook: DMB was supposed to be the grand opening event at the John Paul Jones Arena, but several other acts were added to the schedule ahead of your show. Did you want to christen the new venue?
Boyd Tinsley: Not at all. We're just happy to play in it. I think it's a great thing for the town to have a venue where we can have these national acts. You don't have to go to Richmond or DC to see a great show anymore.
The Hook: What do places like the Charlottesville Pavilion and the John Paul Jones Arena mean for places like Miller's?
Boyd Tinsley: I think it's good. The whole Charlottesville music scene has really sort of come on in the past few years with the Paramount and some of the others. The major acts coming through Charlottesville are looking like some of the major acts coming through San Francisco and other major cities. And people come out and support it, that's the main thing.
The Hook: Does that open the possibility for more DMB shows at home?
Boyd Tinsley: Charlottesville seems to be the spot for a lot of national acts, and I think that we will be included in that. I think we'll be playing more shows in Charlottesville now that there are venues that can hold us.
The Hook: At this time last year, everyone was amped up about the Rolling Stones. You're opening for them next month; did you ever think about getting involved in their Charlottesville show?
Boyd Tinsley: No, not really. We had just gotten off the road when they played. I think everybody was pretty glad. Our tour was probably about 60 dates last year, so everyone wanted to be home and relax. We pretty much didn't discuss that at all. I think some of the guys went out to see them, though.
The Hook: What are your typical pre-show and post-show activities and rituals? Will they be any different when you're at home?
Boyd Tinsley: Everybody has their routines. I usually like to spend the hour before the show listening to music and just sort of being alone, having some space. That's my way of getting pumped up for the show. Afterwards, we usually chill for a little bit, come back to my bus, and probably listen to a little bit more music, go out and meet some of the fans. I don't think it's going to differ a whole lot. The great thing about being at home is that I won't be coming out of a hotel room; I'll be coming out of my house. But we'll take our buses over to the gig, and we'll probably have our normal routine.
The Hook: DMB has always put out a lot of live albums, but in 2004 you also started with the "Live Trax" series. What does it accomplish that the regular live albums didn't?
Boyd Tinsley: I think that we've always just tried to put out as much live material as possible. Our songs are very different from show to show. Definitely, our live songs are a lot different from our studio cuts. We just try to make as many avenues as possible to get the music to our fans.
The Hook: What determines whether a given show will be in the series or a standalone album?
Boyd Tinsley: I don't know, honestly. I'm not as involved as far as how they're released. We have a crew of people on our staff who go through all our live shows, and we try to pick the best one and release them to the fans. Whether they're a series live show or a regular live show, I don't know the difference.
The Hook: What are your thoughts on MusicToday being sold to Live Nation?
Boyd Tinsley: I haven't thought about it at all.
The Hook: Well, doesn't it have ramifications for your merchandise sales?
Boyd Tinsley: Not particularly, no. That's more a business thing that relates to our management. I haven't even thought about it.
The Hook: You've been pulling out new songs from your 2006 recording sessions at other shows this summer. Can you introduce them to our readers?
Boyd Tinsley: We have probably six or seven songs that we've been working on in the spring. "The Idea Of You" is one that we've been playing a lot this summer, as well as "Break Free," and "Kill The King." A great song that we've really been falling in love with for the last month or so is "Can't Stop." They're all great songs, and we're all excited about getting in the studio and recording. It's great taking them out in front of a live crowd, because they get the chance to evolve.
The Hook: When you compare them to material from four or five albums ago, what are the biggest differences you see?
Boyd Tinsley: First, they sound like Dave Matthews Band, that sound that we have that I can't describe in less than 500 words. But they're different, they're evolution. I'm playing mandolin a lot more than I have in the past, Dave is playing a guitar that's half the size of a normal guitar, and it has a sound that's between a guitar and a mandolin. We're experimenting with different sounds and different grooves. It's pretty exciting to go on to the next step of our music.
The Hook: You're currently working on another album with Stand Up producer Mark Batson. What's different the second time around? Are you more at ease with each other?
Boyd Tinsley: No, the great thing with Mark was that it started off relaxed. It started off very comfortable– everybody pretty much knew what Mark was about, and he knew what we were about from the very beginning. We get in there, and it's a very free flow of ideas.
The Hook: Are you doing anything different on these sessions?
Boyd Tinsley: So far, it's been going pretty much the same way.
The Hook: So do you think it will end up similar to Stand Up?
Boyd Tinsley: I think it'll be an entirely different record, but I think the process by which we're going about it is the same.
The Hook: In addition to the new album, you've kept busy with other projects. What was it like being guests on the new Jurassic 5 album?
Boyd Tinsley: Well, you don't want to screw up the song, for the first thing. It was a lot of fun, they're a great band. We did our recording here in Haunted Hollow, and we had a blast playing on it. We did the same thing that we do in the Dave Matthews Band– we find our musical place in the song and try to add something to it.
The Hook: You recently composed the theme for Wimbledon, too.
Boyd Tinsley: Wimbledon being such a distinguished musical event, I couldn't go up there and just do a rock song. I took more of a classical approach and tried to make a composition that reflected the tradition and glory of Wimbledon. Towards the end I added a little solo to it and put in my little rock flair, but I tried to make it more of a classical piece than a rock piece.
The Hook: Comparing that to your solo album, True Reflections, which was more enjoyable?
Boyd Tinsley: They both were. They were very different; I can't really compare, because they were two different things. One was a singer-songwriter kind of thing, and this was writing music for a sporting event, which is me coming from a whole different place musically. I was very flattered to be associated with something as distinguished as Wimbledon.
The Hook: Did your compositional process change?
Boyd Tinsley: I pretty much always write starting with a drum groove. I did that on a lot of stuff on True Reflections, and I did that on Wimbledon. The way they started was very similar, but the way they evolved was different.
The Hook: You recently participated in the filming of Live From... The Hook, a film about the music scene in Charlottesville in the 1980s. What do you see as the major difference between that era and the one DMB sprang from?
Boyd Tinsley: I think that DMB to some extent came from that era of music. There were a lot of great bands, a great music scene in Charlottesville in the '70s and '80s. A lot of musicians had a big influence on a lot of the guys in the Dave Matthews Band. We re-embody some of that, as a band, still to this day.
The Hook: This is the last stop of your tour. What symbolic meaning does that have?
Boyd Tinsley: We're going to be coming home anyway. I think it's a great way to end the tour.
The Hook: And a great way to jump-start the Arena.
Boyd Tinsley: You know, it's something that we've really never done before– an arena show in Charlottesville.
The Hook: It's a bit on the small side for you, isn't it?
Boyd Tinsley: We mostly played outdoor shows this summer; 25,000 seats on average. This would be one of the smaller ones.
The Hook: What are you expecting from it?
Boyd Tinsley: I think we expect to go up there and play like we do every night– give everything we've got and have some fun. Everything else will take care of itself from there.
File photo by Barnaby Draper


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Zen Priest MisconductBy Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Feb 27, 2013
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In topic: General Topics in Buddhism
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This is yet more on "algebraic objects in functional analysis".
Since Compact Hausdorff spaces are algebraic over Set, it seems to follow that one can find "Compact Hausdorff objects" in any suitable category representing functors from that category to CompHaus.
An obvious such functor is the spectrum of a unital $C^*$-algebra. This seems to imply that $\mathbb{C}$ is a compact Hausdorff object in the category of unital $C^*$-algebras. So:
Question 1: Is this right?
Followed by the obvious:
Question 2: Are there any other interesting "Compact Hausdorff" objects in other categories?
Similarly, $C^\ast$-algebras is algebraic, and whilst Banach spaces isn't algebraic then it embeds in an algebraic theory (of totally convex spaces). Again, to any compact Hausdorff space one can assign its $C^\ast$-algebra of continuous functions to $\mathbb{C}$. This suggests that $\mathbb{C}$ is a "$C^\ast$-algebra" object in CompHaus - except that $\mathbb{C}$ is not a compact Hausdorff space. However, we have a way out due to the way that $C^\ast$-algebras are algebraic: it's the unit ball that we should be thinking of and this is continuous functions to the closed unit disc in $\mathbb{C}$, which is compact Hausdorff. Thus $\{z \in \mathbb{C} : |z| \le 1\}$ seems to be a $C^\ast$-algebra object in Compact Hausdorff spaces. Again:
Question 3: Is this right?
Question 4: Are there any other interesting "$C^\ast$-algebra" objects in other categories?
Question 5: Are there any "Banach space" objects (or "totally convex space" objects) floating around anywhere?


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I like to cook when there is no one in the kitchen ,...i guess that's how everyone likes it,..but these days i don get this opportunity ,i have to shut the kitchen door or ask some one to latch from outside,,,,reason being Advay,...he will just come and open kitchen tap,throw utensils,play with burner or do so many other things which will disturb me to the core,...:-(,..i have to keep telling hubby to keep him out specially during evening,..cause that's when he is most notorious.
One afternoon Advay took afternoon nap for three hrs continuously this may sound normal for everyone but for me this was blessing in disguise reason i got enough opportunity to experiment in kitchen ,..that too without any distractions :-),..had no menu in mind,...first thing first ,..saw fresh cottage cheese,green peas in refrigerator...and thus without any doubt thought of preparing matar paneer ,saw curd too and chopped cabbage,capsicum,and carrot without wasting time i started with the preparation,...
ingredient required for Matar Paneer
chopped cottage cheese one cup
tomato two chopped
onion three chopped
garlic five to six cloves chopped
green chili three chopped
ginger one inch chopped
salt to taste
half tsp each turmeric powder,red chili powder and coriander powder( mix in few drops of water,make paste and keep aside)
cumin seeds one tsp
dry red chili three crushed
bay leaf two crushed
pepper seeds half tsp
black cardamom two
oil to cook one tbsp
fresh green peas half cup
heat half tsp of oil in non stick wok or kadai ,once the oil is hot add chopped cottage cheese and shallow fry till the edges start turning brown.
once done keep the fried cottage cheese on kitchen towel to drain excess oil.
add remaining oil in the same wok and once it is hot add cumin seeds,followed by crushed red chillies,bay leaves,black pepper seeds and black cardamom
once spices start turning brown add chopped ginger ,garlic and green chili followed by chopped onions,keep frying till onions start changing their colour,now add chopped tomato
once tomatoes are done add salt followed by masala mixture,..and keep stirring till oil is seen along the sides.
now add desired amount of water for the gravy ,followed by peas,
lower the flame and simmer for 10 to 15 Min's,once done add fried cottage cheese ,simmer again for five minutes.
remove from flame ,add chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or roti.
another version of matar paneer which can be tried is instead of chopped onion,ginger and garlic and green chili their paste can be used for the gravy and to give more subtle flavour black cardamom,pepper and red chili can be omitted,i experimented with chopped onions because i wanted to prepare matar paneer the same way its prepared in road side dhabas ,i don't know how far i succeeded in preparing dhaba version of matar paneer :-) goes well with rice and chapati...
for salad i mixed red wine vinegar in chopped cabbage,carrot and capsicum along with salt and pepper,...
for masala curd just beat curd and give tadka of dried red chillies ,fewmustard seeds,add pinch of salt and red chili powder,..
event Recipes for the rest of us salad and masala curd goes to Ramkis event.
Winter treat event as this thali is perfect for winters
hot matar paneer curry is off for her event,..
...till then happy blogging and cooking,...;-)


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Back when my blog was in its nascent stage, even before I made it public, I took pictures of errors at Six Flags New England and posted them on here. (There were quite a few, and I guarantee it wasn't creative advertising.) My friend Holly went to Six Flags on Sunday for Fright Fest, and she took a picture of an interesting gravestone:
Wow. Maybe one of the art directors decided to let his little nephew stencil a few gravestones and accidentally got them into the mix.
I just can't get over the fact that not only is it wrong, but it alternatively uses both "you're" and "your" to mean the contraction "you're."
I don't think that the intention was to have it be wrong on purpose — every other gravestone is correct. Besides, if they meant for it to look wrong, wouldn't they have done more things — mixed up words, spelled words incorrectly, written letters backwards — to make it look even worse?
Scientists have been saying it since the park opened, and I guess it's true: riding Superman really does kill your brain cells. (For the record, I didn't go on it for that very reason. I'll fly through the Swiss Alps while strapped to a parachute, but I won't go on a brain-damaging roller coaster like that.)


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Fall fashion forecast: Cool pastels and moody hues of crimson and mauve
This fall, fashion tells a story of dueling visions. Shadows chased the light on runways from New York to Paris in February: Deep crimsons, rich purples and moody oxbloods competed with sky blue, pearl gray, and the palest mauves, lilacs and pinks seen for fall in several seasons.
After the vivid emerald and ruby tones of spring, Ralph Lauren embraced the subtlest pastels on the spectrum (an oatmeal gown). Conversely, Alexander Wang departed from his girlish scheme of the previous season and turned his eye toward the dark side with beautifully brooding results.
Wes Gordon, whose showstopping liquid blue coat commands attention even against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, described his color story as "like an afternoon rain. Think of the city after it's been raining. The light starts coming out, but the sidewalks are all different shades of wet gray within these flashes of color. But the grays are all drying at different rates." It is that gray note that unifies collections now arriving in stores; 50 shades is a paltry count compared with the battleship, steel, fog and slate varieties imagined by designers.
Silhouettes are equally divergent. Elongated, minimalist scaling has returned to the forefront, while a new take on rounded shoulders is softening outerwear, as evidenced by Raf Simons' sloping cape at Dior, Chanel and Proenza Schouler. Jaclyn Jones, U.S. womenswear editor at trend forecaster WGSN, calls it "the cocoon shape."
The more utilitarian-oriented collections, typified by Wang, favored boxier cuts, while the puffer jacket trended across the board. Luxurious takes on the practical staple at labels like Donna Karan proved that even the highest of fashion can't ignore increasingly extreme winters across the globe. "The puffer became the 'it' coat out of necessity," Jones notes.
The compelling and competing stories of fall brought us to Fort Point, the historic military outpost at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's a space filled with near blackness and moments of sun, hard edges and soft wisps of fog, glimmering water and battering bay winds. The location was memorably featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo," a film that explored themes of duality, dark versus light and a kind of "reverse doppelganger" effect that perfectly mirrored the conflicting moods of the collections. Let our reimagined leading ladies take you on a tour of this iconic landmark, as well as through the shadows and light of fall fashion.


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Spanish Trail Golf & Country Club
Spanish Trail, a 27-hole facility designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., has played host to PGA Tour and college golf tournaments. Spanish Trail features three nine-hole courses that can be played in three distinct 18-hole combinations. The Lakes course includes six water features. Canyon's bunkered holes require accurate tee shots. Sunrise presents a challenge to players of every ability. Spanish Trail is a private golf club, but limited reciprocal arrangements are available.


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Sunday, February 3, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Ma-te-Way Activity Centre
Public skating is at Ma-te-Way Activity Centre - 1 Ma-te-Way Park Drive.
Skates (child and adult sizes) can be borrowed from the Lending Hub located in the skate sharpening room.
This session is sponsored by the Renfrew Lions Club so there is no charge for patrons to skate.
Strollers are not permitted on the ice surface.
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We'll be upfront -- we love comics.
We're excited about Iron Man 2's opening next week, we've been following the development of the Green Lantern and Captain America movies, and we're pretty proud of our complete collection of Ultimate Spider-Man trade paperbacks. Yet, if our zealous nature doesn't convince you to get into your local comic book shop, maybe this will; on May 1, many shops around the country will participate in Free Comic Book Day, where everyone gets at least one free comic.
Yeah, you can walk right in and snag free reads of titles like Iron Man, Superman, G.I. Joe, and Toy Story.
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Here's where the cynics say, "Meh. Comic books are for kids." Some are, for sure, but pick up an issue of Mark Millar's Kick-Ass (which the recent film was based on) and double check -- there are plenty of titles that appeal to adult audiences. In fact, some of the more mainstream titles like X-Men or Batman deal in far bigger issues than just thwarting a costumed villain.
But what if you've been out of the mix for a while and want to get back to reading your favorite titles? Here's some hot tips:
- Check out the trade paperback section. Often, these collected stories get you a full storyline for around $20, and can really help get you up to speed on what's going on in the main titles.
- Try a title that has issue #1 on the shelf. Many of these titles will ease you into a new story or show off new characters without having a bunch of back titles to read through. Comic companies issue new titles all the time with low numbers to bring in newer readers.
- Ask an expert. Almost all comic book store employees can give you in-depth information on what titles are selling well, have interesting stories, or are an easy read. Just ask!
- Don't just buy one issue. Comics aren't expensive -- for $20, you can normally pick up five or more titles. If you don't like the story in one, it's no sweat -- you have four more chances.
Need help finding your local comic book shop participating in the event? Head to the official Free Comic Book Day website for a store locator.


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Open data programmers go to Washington, D.C., to promote their efforts and brainstorm potential collaborations with the White House.
Some of the nation's most innovative users of open government data accepted surprise invitations to the White House for national recognition in June. Sixteen citizen software developers met with White House officials at a "Champions of Change" event designed to showcase the potential of Web apps utilizing data sets made available by federal, state and local agencies. Developers who made the cut boasted apps that enable users to find and organize pick-up games at public facilities, guide citizens through zoning ordinances and direct parents to child-friendly locations, along with numerous other services.
VIDEO: White House showcases innovative open-data apps from citizen developers.
After a formal ceremony, White House staff whisked all 16 "champions" to a meeting, where they found themselves surrounded by historic art and furniture as they traded ideas with national CTO Aneesh Chopra and other officials.
At times, Chopra asked questions with rapid-fire speed, finishing developers' sentences and concocting ideas that displayed a detailed mastery of federal IT initiatives. At other times, he was joshing the champions, like when he insisted young developer Conor White-Sullivan was a Justin Bieber look-alike. Several of the apps triggered suggestions about ways the developers could collaborate with the White House. Following are video interviews with the champions.
Leigh Budlong's Zonability app guides citizens through complicated building ordinances. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, who chairs the U.S.-India Open Government Dialogue, said the app could help India prevent government corruption. During a trip to India last year, a farmer told President Barack Obama of the difficulty in getting his certified land records. Chopra said an app like Zonability could make related data available online, allowing landowners to bypass government offices. In this video, Budlong discusses how she came up with her project and the challenges she faced in application development.
Sportaneous, created by Aaron Royston and Omar Haroun, enables people to find and organize pick-up games at public facilities. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra offered to put Royston and Haroun in touch with First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign for a potential partnership. In this video, they talk about what makes their application unique and the importance of open data.
Jill Seman created Mom Maps, which guides parents to child-friendly locations and allows end-users to add recommendations. San Francisco residents have used the app to pressure city leaders to address park safety problems. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said Mom Maps could help parents in transparency-challenged countries alert their governments to problems at public facilities. Mom Maps already serves cities in multiple countries, so Chopra asked an agreeable Seman if she could create a button that lets international users easily endorse complaints about facilities. Those complaints could be routed to the Obama administration, which could send them to appropriate officials overseas. In this video, Seman discusses what exactly MomMaps is and whether it has expanded beyond San Francisco.
Savita Farooqui is president of SymSoft Solutions, a small Web development and integration firm that created California Cage Fight, which generates side-by-side comparisons of municipalities based on information such as income, population and unemployment rates. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra talked to Farooqui about enhancing her application with data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this video, Farooqui talks about where she wants to take her app in the future and the importance of open data.
Randall Leeds is developing a platform for building "community-curated" directory apps. Called the ReDirectory, this app aims to assist those providing services for low-income communities with an up-to-date referral resource. In this video, Leeds discusses how he came up with this project and the challenges he faced during development.
Michael Riedyk created YouTown, a suite of prepackaged apps for agencies to pair with their open data. YouTown's selling point is that governments supply the data, YouTown provides the apps, and agencies simply adjust the settings the way they would on a Google account. Riedyk's hope is that citizens will automatically go to YouTown when they need government data, similar to how people go to YouTube to find videos. Governments wanting open data apps can get them without launching app development contests or using internal resources. Taking a more expansive view, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said YouTown could be an easy, inexpensive way for other countries to adopt open data principles. In this video, Riedyk talks about the challenges he faced during application development and what makes his app unique.
David Van Sickle is the co-founder and CEO of Asthmapolis, a Madison, Wis.,-based company that's developing tools to enable asthma patients to track how often they use their medication. Van Sickle hopes public health agencies can use data collected by the tools to improve patient health. In this video, Van Sickle talks about how he came up with his project and where he wants to take it in the future.
Waldo Jaquith created Richmond Sunlight, a free Web-based app for tracking legislation in the Virginia General Assembly. The app provides video sessions, voting records of legislators, and an application programming interface for integration into other websites. In this video, Jaquith shares how he come up with this project and what makes his application unique.
Conor White-Sullivan's Localocracy is a community-focused discussion board that seeks only participants who are registered to vote and use real names. Localocracy aims to empower informed citizens to generate discussions that influence citizens, governments and journalists. The White House saw the app as a way to stimulate local conversations about federal programs. Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said Localocracy could be a useful vehicle to spread awareness of federal solar energy subsidies and other initatives. In this video, White-Sullivan discusses what makes his application unique and the challenges he faced in app development.
As a federal open data contest entry, Dave Augustine, Bob Burbach and Andrew Carpenter redesigned the Federal Register in a way that made the loads of documents easier to consume. Federal officials were so impressed they collaborated with the developers to officially redesign FederalRegister.gov. In this video, the three developers discuss how they came up with the project and the challenges they faced during development.
Dan O'Neil created Citypayments, a website that aims to make it easy to search vendors, contracts and payments posted by Chicago agencies. In this video, O'Neil discusses how he came up with Citypayments and what makes his application unique.
David Emory and Brian Ferris have been collaborating with the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) to create an open source trip planner that combines multiple modes of transportation. TriMet expects the app to be serious competition for expensive proprietary apps. In this video, Emory shares how he and Ferris came up with the project and the challenges they faced during development.


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"Engrossing . . . remarkable . . . a book packed with historical illumination, unforgettable characters and the deepest questions about the tenacity of belief . . . The greatest triumph is the way [The 19th Wife] illuminates the larger landscape of faith." – The Washington Post Book World
"Part history class, part expose, part love story, The 19th Wife is thoroughly addictive. . . .[David] Ebershoff not only imparts a valuable lesson on religion, but spins a compelling tale that makes readers question the power of faith and what we believe and why." – USA Today
"Rarely has a work of fiction seemed more timely. . . . A page-turning epic. . . [a[ tour de force." – Vogue
"This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult…Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th "rebel" wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man…With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject."
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