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Fusion-io's Flash Madness Slows Down as Apple and Facebook Trim Orders
Shares of Fusion-io, the company that uses flash memory to enhance servers in data centers, are falling like crazy. Seems forecasts for the coming quarter came in below the aggressive projections of Wall Street analysts.
Having risen more than 3 percent to $20.09 on the New York Stock Exchange today, Fusion's shares fell by more than 17 percent to $16.79 in after-hours trading after the company said it expects slower revenue growth as major customers Facebook and Apple slowed orders. CFO Dennis Wolf claimed the timing of orders from those two companies slipped by two quarters. Together Facebook and Apple account for 51 percent of Fusion's business.
I just got off the phone with CEO David Flynn, who told me that having two customers account for so much of its business was always a risk. But? When Fusion first IPO'd in 2011, Apple and Facebook accounted for 70 percent of sales, so it could have been worse. "We knew there was going to be some risk with customer concentration," he said. "Over time the concentration will work itself out," Flynn told me.
As yet, no other single customer accounts for more than 10 percent of revenue, and therefore requires disclosure. But five of the 10 customers that bought more than $1 million in Fusion-io products in the last quarter also bought its newer product ioScale. Also, sales in Europe grew 100 percent year on year, while sales in the Asia Pacific region grew 130 percent.
Fusion-io reported per-share earnings of 2 cents in the quarter, versus 7 cents a year ago. Revenue rose more than 40 percent to $120.6 million. The results fell short of analyst expectations, which called for earnings of 8 cents on $120.3 million.


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When I wrote "Correct Baby Handling and Correct Choice of Appropriate Equipment and Accessories," we might have marketed with, "Wow, a new handbook for parents on baby handling. This must be the latest, super modern thing. An entirely new invention that every single parent should know about!"
Hmm, yes, this is how the baby handling story could be hyped.
However, the true story doesn't go like that at all. Baby handling is nothing new, nothing super modern. We might even say baby handling is something that our grandparents and great grandparents were skilled at without handbooks or special endeavours. It is something we have forgotten, even though we shouldn't have.
I don't see how a baby born 100 years ago is different from a baby born today. Today, just as a century ago, the baby is helpless after birth, as well as dependent and immature. But a hundred years ago, babies were not made to be life projects, and people would never consider getting a house mortgage just to buy all sorts of baby equipment available in the shop. People were simple, satisfied with little things, inventive and patient – and parents weren't focused on creating babies that were perfect technological miracles.
Today when a woman finds out about her pregnancy, she dives into reading magazines, books, seeking out articles online, shopping for the best baby products and frantically searching for all things imaginable. But today's mothers rarely consider talking to their mothers or grandmothers and asking for a piece of advice. Why should you when everything is online?
This is a mistake we often make. How come we don't listen to our loved ones? The people who raised us and other members of our families have no bad intentions and only want to keep our heads clear and share their views. Why do we rush into shops, buying all the "best" toys, baby rockers, resting chairs, front carriers and baby walkers available… when we actually don't need them at all?
I am 100 percent positive that our grandmothers didn't lie in expensive resting chairs, nor did they have numerous toys and other unnecessary equipment at their disposal. These "modern essentials" didn't even exist. Children had to spend their time on the ground, in the lap or in the baby stroller, basket, etc. They began walking when they were truly ready for it and nobody forced them into it. Nowadays, we want everything to happen as soon as possible because we're constantly in a hurry, because the neighbour's kid is already sitting, crawling on all fours and standing up and…
Considering all of the above, what I've learned about baby handling is nothing new. The basic philosophy simply strives to encourage the child to be active as independently as possible, promotes communication between parents and the child and, most importantly, focuses on observing the child and discovering his or her needs – just like our parents and our grandparents did. You will quickly learn that children don't need any expensive equipment and whatnot – new parents need onlylisten to their parents, share close contact with their babies and create quality opportunities for quality development.
Did you seek advice from your parents and grandparents during your pregnancy or after? What was the best advice you received?

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I love Pandora. Pandora is a free Internet Radio service that uses the Music Genome Project to send you a constant stream of fresh tracks based on your music preferences. I love rocking out to the music streams Pandora sends my way every day.
The core music service Pandora offers is impressive but Pandora impresses in a lot of other ways.
Pandora's user interface contributes a lot to the success of the service. The user interface is beautiful and a pleasure to use.
Pandora is an ad supported service and I've always been impressed by the way they've integrated ads into the user interface. Ads are usually integrated into a website as an afterthought – slammed into the right margin or simply dumped into a header or footer. Pandora on the other hand integrates, or blends, the ad into the user interface. I think this makes the ad far more effective.
Recently, Pandora has been making more of the ads integrated into their service interactive. Today the HP TouchSmart ad really impressed me – it was beautiful and a pleasure to interact with. I think this type of ad is a very effective branding tool. Ads like this might not convert well on the spot but I do think they're great for brand building.


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Luckily, it is very easy to follow best practices to help achieve this goal. For many years, single-family homes have used three different colored bins to separate waste streams. But, such a multi-bin, three-truck system is not as practical for commercial applications. However, because Brea Disposal operates as part of Republic Services, with state-of-the-art processing for recyclable material, larger waste generators also have it easy to participate.
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California Assembly Bill AB 1826 (signed into law on September 28, 2014) stipulates that local governments must facilitate compliance with this law by establishing and implementing additional recycling programs. The purpose of this regulation is to separate commercial organic waste from the waste stream and divert it from landfills. AB 1826 specifies that on or after January 1, 2016, local agencies shall implement an organic waste recycling program to divert organic waste from qualifying businesses. Complete information about MORe can be found at the CalRecycle website
- The City of Brea adopted an Commercial Organics Recycling program on February 2, 2016, as mandated by the state.
- The City conducted outreach to the Commercial Business sector in Brea. The effort included surveying businesses, informational workshop, Brea Chamber of Commerce and City Council presentations.
- In addition, City staff regularly provided status updates to CalRecycle, the state regulatory body providing oversight for municipal waste management activities.
- On February 5, 2019, the Brea City Council set a public hearing for April 16, 2019 to consider proposed sector-wide rates for the Commercial Organic Recycling program. View the Public Hearing Notice, the existing rates and the proposed rates.
- Republic is the exclusive hauler for organic waste and would facilitate the conversion of food waste to renewable energy.
AB 1826 requires businesses meeting the following criteria to arrange for recycling services specifically for organic waste:
- Tier 1: On or after April 1, 2016, a business that generates 8 cubic yards or more of organic waste per week (approximately 35 businesses)
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Knockout Noodles: Monday Lasagna at Club Lago
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Growing up, I had a few friends with Italian roots. And for them, the term for that tomato-red stuff Mom poured over a plate of pasta noodles was "gravy." The word choice always struck me as odd—in my household, gravy was what blanketed your pot roast and Thanksgiving bird; it was salty, fortified with corn starch, and laden with enough onions to ensure a night of eventful digestion. What my buddies called gravy I always knew as "sauce."
Those little divergencies of language interest me, much like the way someone might favor the word "soda" over "pop." But in this case, I now know—having been set straight by Club Lago's mountainous Monday lasagna ($11)—that sauce and gravy aren't exactly synonymous. In fact, the two can be very different animals, and, when it comes to certain Italian-American comfort-food toppings, the latter is simply the mot juste.
Club Lago has been a neighborhood fixture since 1952. Even after a 2009 fire and subsequent rehab, the place still captures the essence of a bygone era, with its checkered tablecloths, whispering jazz music, and walls lined with hand-painted sailboats and black-and-white photos. The lasagna, a weekly special available on Mondays, also has a wonderful throwback quality to its presentation and execution: balanced on a thick oval plate stands a tall stack of swollen, fluffy, wavy noodles punctuated by a delicate stuffing of milky ricotta and juicy ground meat. A generous helping of an intriguing, meat-studded substance—rich, savory, slow-cooked, and ruddy-toned—had been lovingly spread across the multi-story architecture and its surroundings.
Once I began carving away at the bulging edifice, it wasn't long before I had leveled the whole thing. This lasagna is delicious, in its easygoing way, the kind of food, I thought later on, that you eat with your gut. Part of me wanted to size it up against newer Italian fare popular in Chicago right now. But quibbling over its lack of an oven crisp or roasted vegetables or much of any chef-driven flourishes would seem to miss the point of this lasagna; for its much more enjoyable to celebrate what it is rather than question what it isn't. It's a beautiful plate of food, covered in gravy that Mom would approve.
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OCEAN CITY – Pedestrians will only have to look over their shoulder for the lurching Boardwalk tram during the summer months after Tuesday's City Council work session.
The Boardwalk tram is breaking down more often and costing the town more money than ever, so when the service went under Public Works Director Hal Adkins' "cost cutting" microscope, he found a change was needed.
"Currently, we start the service Good Friday and operate every weekend thereafter including Fridays. On these weekends, the trams lose $500 per day," Adkins said. "In addition, we feel if we cut the tram service in the shoulder months, we would see a savings in excess of $33,000."
The City Council voted unanimously to approve Adkins' recommendation to trim the tram schedule to the summer season only, as the tram will now begin Springfest weekend, May 7-10, then resume the Saturday before Memorial Day, (May 16), and commence with its daily "full blown service" until Sunfest in September.
The decision to cut "shoulder months" tram service also had to do with not just the cost of the service, but also the failing machinery on the trams.
Transportation Superintendent George Thornes spoke about the 6-year-old trams and how the coastal atmosphere is starting to take its toll on the machines.
"We are having a number of electrical problems with the trams based on the harsh conditions, as well as trams overheating," he said. "I wouldn't see a downturn in labor on these based on the age of these trams."
The trams were awarded to the lowest bidder six years ago and financed over five, so although they are paid off per say, they may not last the 12 years they were projected to, prompting Council President Joe Metrecic to say "sometimes the lowest price isn't always the best one."
The price of the tram also came under scrutiny from Adkins. Currently, it costs $3 per ride. The price of the tram has only gone up 50 cents in the past six years and there is a savings, albeit a small one, for riders if they purchase a "punch card" that gives them 10 rides at $20. The punch cards bring in about $300,000 of the $1 million in revenue budget for the tram itself. As a result, the council approved Adkins' recommendation to scale back the punch card deal from 10 rides to 8 rides at the same $20 fee.
What council did not approve, however, was Adkins proposal to do away with the senior citizen passes that enable them to ride the tram for free.
Adkins told council that $122,000 worth of free rides were used in 2008 by 2,200 senior residents, down slightly from the $133,000 in free rides given in 2007. He said that, "almost 80 percent of those were given to senior citizens." Currently, children under 42 inches in height, seniors and town employees showing identification can ride the tram for free.
"I realize that this segment of the tram issue is very sensitive, but I feel I have to say it," Adkins said. "If we were to abolish that policy and that right, that historically may have never been intended, will it result in $122,000 in money back, probably not. But does it have the ability to substantially modify the deployment needs of the tram division and result in cost avoidance in man-hours, fuel costs and unemployment? There is no doubt it would."
Despite a motion to support Adkins' proposed cuts for free senior rides from Councilwoman Mary Knight, who thought that seniors would be willing to "do their part to help save town costs," the motion received no support and died there.
The council also squashed Adkins' proposal to use the drop down DVD machines on the trams and create revenue by selling advertising to be seen by riders of the trams, but encouraged him to return with concrete numbers on how much advertising revenue could be created.


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Spending more than a year in prison has not softened Madzore, who leads the youth wing of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. It seems to have hardened him.
President Robert Mugabe's government has long used arrests and detentions to cow opponents, but it appears this tactic is only strengthening the resolve of activists, creating a radical element willing to take more risks to unseat him.
"We are ready to pay the ultimate price, if that's what it takes," Madzore said, echoing the kind of extreme pledges one would normally hear from Mugabe militants.
"If that's what it takes to win freedom, then so be it," he said.
His office is bare, save for three Tsvangirai campaign posters and a picture of a hand holding up a red card with "Let's finish it" written above it.
Madzore was one of 29 activists charged with killing a policeman in 2011. The group denies the charge and sees it as a continuation of an old tradition of arbitrary arrests.
Usually, activists are held for a few days before being released. But the "Glen View 29" spent over a year in jail and were denied bail countless times.
Activists expect imprisonment
The group became a rallying point for critics of Zimbabwe's unity government. It was a sign, they said, that the coalition had failed to deliver on promised political reforms. Tsvangirai came under fire from some supporters, who claimed he was not doing enough to push for the group's release. Most of the accused have now been released, but five remain in prison.
With election talk building, Madzore expects more activists to be arrested, but believes this will only serve to fortify the anti-Mugabe resistance.
Activists live in constant fear, he admitted. "But it's a choice between flight and fight; we choose to fight."
At Chikurubi, Zimbabwe's largest maximum-security prison, he was kept away from other inmates. "They said I would incite others," he said.
Madzore claimed that in jail he was approached by "senior securocrats" who tried to get him to turn against his party. "They would come to me and say: 'We can make all of this go away; you can walk free.' It was on condition I renounce my party. I said no."
To fill the long, empty hours in jail, he immersed himself in books — over 100 of them, he said. One of them was Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.
"I said he [Mandela] must have said to himself: 'If this is what it will take to bring democracy to South Africa, then let it be.' He had a choice to sell out, but he chose to stay the course."
Unashamedly servile in his loyalty to Tsvangirai, he said he had imagined "President Morgan Tsvangirai coming to fetch me from jail in his presidential motorcade".
"That Tsvangirai will be the next president of Zimbabwe is as sure as the rising and setting of the sun," he said.
But what of the military, whose top brass remains fiercely loyal to Mugabe? "We know that there are a few individuals. But [army general Constantine] Chiwenga is not the army. [Police commissioner Augustine] Chihuri is not the police. They must respect the will of the people."
The youth vote
Zanu-PF is targeting the youth vote, handing out loans and promising shares in foreign companies, a strategy that even many within the MDC privately acknowledge is attractive. But Madzore said the empowerment crusade is just one big con."
The youth can see through all that. They know what they want. They want a properly run economy that creates jobs."
Last year, civic group Youth Forum reported that only 18% of voters in the 2008 elections were aged between 18 and 30. But Madzore said young people are becoming more active. "They are saying: 'We are prepared to defend our vote.'"
When asked how the youth would "defend the vote" in the face of possible violence, Madzore paused. Choosing his words carefully, he said: "We will not be violent. But we will not keep quiet while people are maimed and raped."
A life of activism has put pressure on his family, he admitted. He speaks glowingly of his wife, Charity, describing her as "my pillar, my star". He has two young sons, who "understand the work I do and what's at stake".


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Courtesy of College Insurrection and Instapundit, NBCNews has a story about student loans held my college drop-outs.
The article discusses a number of victims, but this one stood out:
Drew Scott, 26, registered for the for-profit Art Institute to study video game arts because he was attracted to the accelerated program.
"I didn't completely understand what I was getting into,†he said. "I knew it was more expensive, but at the time, I thought, 'they wouldn't be charging more if it wasn't better, right?'â€
After two years of uneven teaching quality—"some of the teachers didn't quite know what they were doingâ€â€"Scott concluded he wasn't getting his money's worth. He left the program earlier this year, owing $30,000 to the government and $15,000 to his parents. Scott now lives in Seattle and makes $11 an hour working part-time at a game-testing job. "I definitely didn't need to go to school†to do this job, he said.
For profit-colleges have poor "optionality." Instead of providing good opportunities with little danger, they provide mediocre opportunities with higher danger. The Department of Education's new "Gainful Employment" is a first start, but it is took weak. The "gainful employment" rule should apply to all institutions that receive student loans.
A degree in the humanities ghetto from a Big State University or a private religious college is just as worthless as a degree in "game design" from the "Art Institute."
We don't know what the future holds. We need an educational system that makes learners resilient, even if the world changes. Our test scores are stagnant, our tests are broken, and top-down efforts can't be the whole solution.
We need to close the road to dead-end non-bankruptable debt. We need a "gainful employment" rule to apply to all colleges and universities. We need to track graduates, to to the PhD level. The Department of Education's new rules are a good start. But more needs to be done.


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AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — Continued strong sales of Spam and Jennie-O products helped Hormel Foods as its net income climbed 13 percent in its fourth fiscal quarter.
The Austin, Minn., company also increased its annual dividend by 13 percent to 68 cents per share.
But both its earnings and revenue were below Wall Street expectations and its shares slipped 29 cents to $31.01 in premarket trading.
For the period ended Oct. 28, the food company reported Tuesday that it earned $132.6 million, or 49 cents per share, up from $117.3 million, or 43 cents per share a year earlier.
Analyst expected slightly higher earnings of 50 cents per share, according to a FactSet poll.
Revenue rose 3 percent to $2.17 billion from $2.1 billion. Wall Street forecast $2.23 billion in revenue.
The Jennie-O Turkey Store unit, which makes up 20 percent of the company's revenue, reported a 5 percent sales increase thanks to better sales of its fresh tray pack products, turkey bacon and turkey burgers. Sales for the grocery products unit climbed 21 percent due to strong Spam sales, sales of Hormel chili and its MegaMex Foods joint venture. The segment comprises 16 percent of total sales.
The bulk of Hormel's sales, 49 percent, come from the refrigerated foods segment. Its sales fell 3 percent on lower meat prices.
Hormel Foods Corp. said its full-year net income climbed 6 percent to $500.1 million, or $1.86 per share, from $474.2 million, or $1.74 per share, in the prior year. Annual revenue increased 4 percent to $8.23 billion from $7.9 billion.
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Source: BretMichaels.com
Bret Michaels was readmitted to the hospital this week after suffering numbness on the left side of his body, predominately his face and hands which doctors described as a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) or warning stroke. While MRI and CT scan tests were being conducted, Michaels also received a Doppler Ultrasound of his legs and lower abdomen looking for blood clots and most importantly an Ultrasound Bubble Test of his heart was conducted which proved positive for a Patent Forum Ovale (PFO), a hole in the heart. Dr. Zabramski (Bret�s neurosurgeon), Dr. Becker (who ordered the test), Dr. Cook (who conducted the test) and Dr. Frey (Director, Outpatient Stroke Program) all confirmed the results.
Dr. Zabramski states "There is no doubt that the positive Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) is devastating news to Bret and his family. The good news is that it is operable and treatable and we think we may have diagnosed the problem that caused the Transient Ischemic Attach (TIA) or warning stroke; however we feel it is highly unlikely this is connected to the brain hemorrhage he suffered just a few weeks earlier. Once again it is great that he quickly reacted to the severe numbness and got to the hospital immediately."
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And I've come to the conclusion: what I'm talking about when I say "BDSM" is not the same thing that a lot of people over there are talking about when they say BDSM. Witness this comment from becstar, quoted in part:
I think society does teach people that BDSM with sub women is the *only* way to go about sex. [...] Things like spanking and cumming on women's faces have been taken out of BDSM territory and been normalised which I think is where the danger starts.
I'm left with a strange void between what I've understood as BDSM and what other people are pointing at. Especially since, as a female submissive, it has been very clear to me that the sort of sex that I want is not acceptable, not normal, not what I should be doing; especially since I have heard other kinksters of various orientations and preferences express the same feelings.
Spanking and BDSM? I know from a couple of spankos I've seen talk about this that a lot of people with that particular kink prefer to distance themselves from BDSM, being Not Like Those People. I have also seen quite a few of them talk about getting sexual responses to corporal punishment as children from the physical sensation. Far from being a gateway drug - to steal a silly concept - it seems to be one of those things that may or may not fall into the BDSM category depending on who's counting.
Ejaculation on the face? Well, maybe I'm totally isolated from BDSM norms, but I never heard about this practice at all until I encountered the Porn Wars. And because porn is totally outside the scope of my sexual interest and experience, it just never much occurred to me. (I have an ex who had a hard time orgasming from coitus, which tended to mean he got himself in the eye occasionally, though.) I mean, it's not even on any version of the Purity Test I've played with, and since the long Purity Test versions frequently include scat and incest I'd expect if this were so mainstream it might have gotten a mention on one or two versions.
The closest thing to mainstream-culture BDSM I can think of from my childhood is an episode of Cheers. Seriously. For those who aren't familiar with Cheers, its basic plot orbits around a misogynistic horndog trying to pursue a woman who isn't having any of that. In a bar, in which Wacky Sitcom People come to get drunk. In any case, Sam (the horndog) and Rebecca (one instance of the woman) were, at one point, in an elevator, and the subject of risk-taking sex comes up. Sam is, of course, all for, and thrilled that Rebecca is showing some kind of interest; she takes a scarf, ties his hands to the handrail, and he's panting with excitement that not only might he get the woman, but he's getting the woman kinkily; she pulls down his pants, and he's thrilled; the elevator stops, she gets off and leaves him there, because she still can't stand his entitled ass.
I'm not so sure that it's a good display of the ubiquity of female submission, though. Maybe a "he'll settle for sex, but exciting sex will be more thrilling for him" cultural datapoint. But she was dominant, she was in control, and she said no - leaving him nonconsensually exposed and quite vulnerable. Which was, I am pretty sure, not his kink.
And so I turn it around, and look for things that I'd file as clearly BDSM in the mainstream. And I don't see them. At least, not outside the Signs That Someone Is A Dangerously Depraved Serial Killer or something on Cop Show Glurge: Dead Whore Version. Bondage more serious than tee-hee a silk scarf or cheap fuzzy handcuffs? Culturally marked 'creepy'. Impact play? Culturally marked 'abusive'. Slave contracts? Mocked publically when they come up in the news, otherwise unheard of.
"Naughty schoolkid" roleplaying situations and similar stuff get played for laughs on sitcoms - in that 'Who could believe someone would really do that?' overdone kind of way. It's something like the kinky equivalent of flaming queer comic relief. Lacy lingerie is normal stuff (and one's occasionally considered a little pervy if one doesn't fancy it), but black or red lacy lingerie is a sign of dangerous dominatrix tendencies which are, again, played for mockery.
And I have never, not in any mainstream medium, seen any treatment of kinky submission. Bottoming maybe (and mostly as a joke); coercive, abusive situations, including those treated as normal by some people, those show up on the news. But to talk about anything remotely approaching the stuff I do in pop culture requires the sort of language used to talk about drug use -- and gets spun in the same pejorative way.
So I'm left wondering where the hell the BDSM is that some people are finding so prevalent. Because I'm so not wherever they are.


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A graduate student at the Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials Lab works on a project to improve a petroleum-based biodegradable polymer, which can be used for flexible food packaging and then composted, by creating a polymer clay nanocomposite.
Photographer: Mark Dawson
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Trembly of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment inspects a sample. He leads a $2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to find a way to clean wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.
Photographer: Jill Bateman
To measure stress loads from passing cars and trucks, a research engineer from the Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment installs strain gauges in perpetual pavement — engineered to last decades — on WAY-30 in Wooster, Ohio.
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Apr 15, 2013
Introduction by Adrienne Cornwall; captions by Colleen Carow
With the largest endowment of any college at Ohio University, the Russ College is home to innovative and forward-thinking meta-engineers and technologists. Faculty, staff and students are leaders who have a far-reaching impact on the world around them and apply their technical expertise to the entire life cycle of a design. Whether in computing, technology management, aviation, or chemical, civil, biomedical, electrical, industrial and systems, or mechanical engineering, the Russ College and its faculty produce world-class research and applications —and the engineers and technologists of tomorrow.
A graduate student tests a device he designed and fabricated to improve the collection efficiency of a patented algae harvesting system at the Russ College's Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment, directed by Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Ben Stuart. Stuart and Loehr Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dave Bayless are collaborating on a $2.5 million grant from Ohio Third Frontier to establish the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization. Bayless discovered that blue-green algae can be used to trap carbon dioxide escaping from coal-fired power plants, thereby reducing environmentally harmful emissions. Photo courtesy of the Russ College
Mechanical engineering senior design team work on a can assembly for local client Jackie O's Brewery as part of their year-long capstone course. Students apply principles and concepts from prior core engineering classes in a major design experience, working on a team from conception, through testing, to delivery to a professional client in order to develop leadership and team-building skills while showcasing their technical abilities. Since 2009, mechanical engineering "Designing to Make a Difference" teams have won four national awards, earning almost $50,000. Photo by Rebecca Miller
The Russ College's autonomous snowplow team, "M.A.C.S.," took first place for the third year in a row at the Institute of Navigation's January 2013 Autonomous Snowplow Competition. The electrical engineering team built a 600-pound, four-wheel-drive robot that uses a 360-degree scanning laser to determine the distance and angle toward beacons placed around an area to clear, enabling it to find its position within an inch and its heading within half a degree. Photo by Rebecca Miller
A bench-scale model of a farm shows how Russ Professor Gerri Botte's electrochemical "pee to power" process can convert wastewater to hydrogen with clean water as the only byproduct. Botte was the first researcher to efficiently convert urine into an alternative fuel source, garnering more than $12 million in external research funding. Photo courtesy of the Russ College
Graduate students working at the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology's collect data on oil/water wetting of pipe surfaces, using large-scale multiphase flow loop, which can generate a wide variety of multiphase flow regimes and simulate the complex corrosion environments seen in real pipelines. Supporting research for leading oil and gas companies across the globe, the Russ College facility is the largest of its kind in the world. Photo by Mark Dawson
Russ College students learn and gather in the new, state-of-the-art, $30 million Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and Charles R. and Marilyn Y. Stuckey Academic & Research Center. Housing the Russ College's classroom space and labs supporting bioengineering research in the areas of breast cancer metastasis and targeted drug delivery, the facility is only the second at Ohio University — after historic Cutler Hall — to be constructed primarily with private gifts. Photo by Mark Dawson
Undergraduate electrical engineering students perform research on the Galah, a small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), as part of their internships with the Russ College's Avionics Engineering Center. Founded in 1963, the center's researchers perform aviation navigation research for agencies such as NASA and the FAA, aeronautics industry leaders such as Rockwell Collins, and airports across the globe. Photo by Mark Dawson
Unique in a collegiate aviation program, a student pilot receives instruction in the Russ College's Beechcraft Baron 55, which gives students a high-performance, multi-engine aircraft experience in a plane they'll be flying once employed. Photo by Mark Dawson
Engineering technology and management students set up an experiment on a pneumatic trainer in Stocker Center's Parker Hannifin Motion and Control Laboratory. Featuring brand-new equipment provided by the company, the state-of-the-art hydraulics training lab was created with a charitable gift from Parker Hannifin, Inc., in honor of 1973 Russ College alumnus and 35-year employee Jack Myslenski. Photo by Mark Dawson
Industrial and engineering students work in the Russ College's ergonomics lab to understand the role of posture and forces in reducing risk factors for repetitive stress injuries. Russ College students have placed in the top two teams for the past two years in Alabama-based Auburn Engineers, Inc.'s national ergonomics competition — beating out more than 30 other teams — in which they have to solve ergonomic design challenges using the company's eTools application. Photo by Mark Dawson


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Everglades Racer, Racer
Scientific name: Coluber constrictor paludicola (AUFFENBERG & BABBITT 1955)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber constrictor – LINNAEUS 1758
- Bascanion constrictor – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Coryphodon constrictor – DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854
- Zamenis constrictor – BOULENGER 1893
- Coluber constrictor paludicola – AUFFENBERG & BABITT 1955
Description: Average adult size is 20-56 inches (50-142 cm). Adult color typically is slate gray, but many specimens are brownish-gray, bluish, or greenish. The chin and throat are white. The belly is grayish to uniform black. The body is slender and the scales are smooth, and there are 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juvenile color is gray with distinct reddish brown blotches fading into a solid-colored tail.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Smooth scales
Range: In Florida, it is found in the Everglades region and throughout the southern peninsula and northern Florida Keys. It is also found near Cape Canaveral in Brevard Co., FL. It is not found outside of Florida.
Habitat: Commonly found in pinelands, hardwood hammocks, prairies, cypress strands, melaleuca forests, and limestone outcroppings.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous), though they will readily bite to defend themselves. See comments given for the Southern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor priapus).
Comparison with other species: The Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) has a much heavier body, sometimes reddish pigment on its chin and throat, and an undivided anal plate. The Eastern Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum flagellum) is black anteriorly and light tan posteriorly on the body.


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On our first call of the morning we were diverted from a difficulty breathing to an unknown trauma at the rail yard. Bob pulled Medic 13 on to the overpass and parked behind the engine already on scene. We got out of the rig and peered over the side. It was difficult at first to process what it was we were seeing on the tracks below.
Several sets of railroad tracks passed under the bridge. Two people were by the set of tracks next to the embankment on the right side. One of them was lying outside the right-hand rail, and the other was kneeling next to him. The guy lying next to the rail kept trying to roll to his right, but every time he did so, his left arm and leg stayed where they were and he would roll back to his left again. It finally registered that his left arm and leg were no longer attached to his body. The guy kneeling next to him was trying to get his belt around the stump of the left leg. Turned out later the guy who was kneeling was the patient s uncle.
We grabbed our bags, headed around the right side of the overpass, and half slid down the steep, garbage strewn embankment. About half-way down we met a couple of firefighters on their way up. Their eyes were wide, their expressions stunned. It would take a lot to elicit such a response from a North Philly crew that saw the worst the city had to offer daily. That was when I really felt the lump in my throat. One was carrying an arm, the other, a leg. I was just supposed to be observing on this tour, but my observer status didn t survive this first call.
The worst part about the whole thing was that the guy was conscious. I've seen a lot of more horrible stuff, but the patients were either dead or unconscious. Lack of awareness of what is happening to a patient removes a major psychological burden in treating victims of severe trauma. But this guy was alert, and he kept trying to get up. We could see what was left of his humerus sticking out of his stump purposefully moving around, unaware that the rest of the arm was gone.
Trauma isn't usually medically challenging. The assessment is straightforward, the diagnosis obvious, the treatment clear. Stop the bleeding, immobilize, rapid transport, further interventions en route time permitting, Golden Hour. Here, the challenge was figuring out what to say to the guy while trying to get all this stuff done. How do you answer incessant queries of, Am I gonna be OK? The easy route is to lie — You re gonna be all right, just hang in there. Or maybe not say anything. Or maybe say something neutral — We are doing everything we can for you. Or, maybe, you should be truthful, to allow your patient to make his peace, or say a prayer, or something.
The leg didn t bleed much, but the brachial artery was spurting. We finally got that stopped with an inflated BP cuff. Unfortunately, he maintained his LOC, airway and breathing throughout the transport. Would he be a candidate for RSI? Probably not per protocol, but what about mercy? Anyway, that wasn't an option for us back then. So he got a non-rebreather. Nothing else to do on the short trip but try to start some lines. And, well, comfort him as best we could. But how do you comfort an 18-year-old who just killed himself in a most horrible way for no good reason, but who is still alive, at least for a little while? We found out later that the kid and his uncle were entertaining themselves by jumping on and off the trains — certainly a noble cause for which to give up one s life.
It didn t take long to get to Hahnemann Hospital, one of Philly s Level I trauma centers. They were ready for us when we came through the doors. Something I had never seen before was the on-duty reimplantation team. Their only job was to prepare severed body parts for possible reattachment. While the main group was working on the patient, the reimplantation team was examining the condition of the limbs. Where s the rest of this arm, one guy hollered. Probably wrapped around a train axel on the way to Trenton; either that or the dogs got it, Bob replied. I looked at the arm. If they ever did get that thing sewn back on, he would have an elbow about three inches south of his shoulder.We found out the next day that he didn t last the night. But for us, the call had taken up most of the first hour of the shift. Only 11 more to go, and at least that many calls to go. If I remember right a decade and a half later, the next run was for a woman with a sore knee.


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|Sad Bautista is sad. We miss you too, buddy.
For about three weeks now, I've had Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" stuck in my head. Not so bad, you say? It's a pretty great tune, and stands up pretty well 25 years later. (Did you just feel as old as I did just then?) But the problem is that there is only one portion of the song that is stuck in my head, and it lights up every time I think of the Blue Jays in the run of a day. So my eyes land on the mini Scott Rolen bobblehead on my desk, and suddenly, W. Axl Rose starts asking the question:
"Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go?"
That goes on in an endless cycle, with Axl's vocals getting increasingly desperate and whiny and screechy. And so while the song's lyrics seem to be pointing me towards a salient question, the off-key caterwauling drowns out any thought before it even has the chance to be formed. This is annoying.
The truth is that I've pushed back on pondering the future of the franchise because I just want this season to play out. That's not to say that I'm holding out hope for the rag-tag band of survivors to pull together and miraculously make a run at the coin-flip game. But considering that I hear from the wiseacres and cynics every year starting in the winter that the Blue Jays are already out of contention, I just don't feel the need to place the wreath upon the stone until I absolutely have to. Once you give up on the season, you might as well put on your parka and start raking the lawn. I'm not ready for that quite yet.
As a general impression, though, let me say this: I don't think that this team is that far off, but at the same time, I think that 2013 is going to present some real challenges.
It would have been overly simplistic to assume that the path towards this high plain in the sun where the Jays contend every year was going to be direct and without obstacles. Injuries happen - do they ever - and can determine the fate of a franchise for several years. With a significant portion of the Jays' pitching talent in various stages of injury and recovery, next year's staff will likely need to be supplemented by some short term help from veteran free agents.
And I hear some of you screaming: "YAHOO, WE'RE GETTING ZACH GREI-NER-KEY!" Slow up and climb down off that horse, hoss. That's pretty much the most unlikeliest of scenarios. And save your tantrums or your airing of frustration about the ownership. It's beneath you.
If we're lucky, the veteran free agent talent that the Blue Jays bring in will be something along the lines of a number three starter. Someone who can pick up the slack should Ricky Romero repeat this year's underwhelming performance, and should they be faced with the prospect of yet another partial season from Brandon Morrow. In that context, pitchers like Edwin Jackson, Brandon McCarthy, Joe Saunders, or Anibal Sanchez might be considered a "good get", but all will likely command big salaries and multi-year deals.
The next level down is a whole heap of wishes and prayers, and if you want to parse through the list and find hope, MLB Trade Rumo(u)rs has the full list of 2013 free agents right here. Have at 'er.
The question, I suppose, will be if the Jays think that the acquisitions for 2013 will become superfluous in 2014 once the cavalcade of wounded arms comes marching back into action. I won't pretend to have an answer to that question, nor will I hazard a guess at what Alex Anthopoulos will do with it. Do we even know what Kyle Drabek or Drew Hutchison will have in the tank in 2014? And who will be part of the next shift of injured troops to be convalescing in that season?
I'm told repeatedly that if the Blue Jays just got off their wallets and threw some money around, all of the question marks would become exclamation points. I really wish it were that easy.
So where, in fact, do we go now? For now, let's just get through the rest of the season. It's going to be tough, I know, because this team that we're rooting for is nothing like the one we'd envisioned coming into the season. But let's not get bogged down there. Let's not suppose that the team we're seeing is much of a reflection of what we're supposed to be seeing, or what we might see next year.
And let's not forget: Winter is coming. So let's smile while the sun still shines warmly on the last weeks of the season.


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Austin, TX – Meighan Simmons scored a team-high 18 points to lead six Lady Vols in double figures as the No. 13/12 Tennessee women's basketball team rolled past No. 18/20 Texas, 94-75, on Sunday at the Frank Erwin Special Events Center.
Tennessee (7-1) enjoyed a balanced offensive attack in the win with strong shooting from the field (46.8 percent), beyond the arc (8-of-15) and the free-throw line (14-of-18). Bashaara Graves posted a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Ariel Massengale had 15 points and a game-high seven assists. Taber Spani scored 15 points, Cierra Burdick had 14 points and Jasmine Jones head a big second half to finish with 10 points off the bench.
Chassidy Fussell led Texas (6-2) with a 31-point effort that included a 10-of-10 showing from the charity stripe. Nneka Enemkpali added 15 points and eight boards for the Longhorns.
Tennessee led 45-27 at the break and the teams traded baskets over the first two minutes of the second half. Burdick hit a jumper at the 17:35 mark push Tennessee's lead to 20 points at 53-33.
Texas focused on attacking the paint in the second half. The Longhorns went on a 7-3 run with points from fouls drawn inside and layups to pull to within 56-40 by the first media timeout of the second half at 15:39.
The Longhorns drew to within 14 points on a Enemkpali layup, but Simmons pushed the Lady Vols' lead back to 20 points with a three pointer from the left wing and a drive from the right side for a three-point play. Tennessee led 62-42 with 13:45 remaining.
Ashley Roberts' 3-pointer with 12:55 on the clock sparked an 11-2 Texas run that also featured two treys from Chassidy Fussell. The Longhorns found themselves within 66-53 after Imani McGee-Stafford sunk two free throws at the 11:37 mark.
Jones helped keep Tennessee's lead at or over 13 points with an aggressive layup on the Lady Vols' ensuing possession and a pair of free throws with 11 minutes remaining.
Tennessee's lead was down to 70-59 when Enemkpali put in a layup with 9:38 on the clock. After a 3-pointer from Kamiko Williams, Enemkpali tipped in a missed shot and later drove the paint for a layup to cut the Lady Vols' lead to 10 points at 73-63.
The teams traded buckets over the next three minutes. With 6:29 left, McGee-Stafford missed a jumper and Isabelle Harrison was injured in the tussle for the rebound. Harrison left the game and did not return.
Tennessee squashed the Texas comeback attempt after that. The Lady Vols went on a 15-7 run after Harrison's injury to close out the game. Massengale scored six points over that stretch.
The Lady Vols took command in the first half as Texas struggled with 25-percent shooting (7-of-28).
Due to a Tennessee technical foul prior tipoff, Fussell made two free throws to give the Longhorns a 2-0 advantage before the clock even started. That did not phase Tennessee as the Lady Vols responded with a 15-4 run over the next six minutes. Graves and Spani had six points each over that stretch and were the offensive catalysts for Tennessee in the first half.
Empress Davenport made a layup at the 13:53 mark and Brady Sanders hit two jumpers as Texas made a 6-3 run to draw within 18-12 by the second media timeout.
Graves came up big for Tennessee after the timeout, scoring off an offensive board with 11:12 left and making a layup a minute later to push the Lady Vols' lead to eight points at 24-16.
A jumper by Jones with 9:03 on the clock and a floater by Spani from the left side on Tennessee's next possession gave the Lady Vols a 28-18 lead by the third media timeout.
Texas drew to within 28-22 after two free throws from Enemkpali and a steal and layup by Davenport at the 6:48 mark.
Tennessee followed with an 8-2 run. Massengale found Burdick for a jumper on Tennessee's next possession and Spani hit a jumper at the 5:30 mark to push the Lady Vols' lead back to 10 points at 32-22. Simmons made a jumper in transition with 3:54 left in the half for her first points of the game after she started 0-of-7 from the floor. Burdick hit a dagger from the right side to with 3:28 left to give Tennessee a 36-24 advantage and force Longhorns head coach Karen Aston to take a timeout.
The Lady Vols closed out the first half on fire. After the Texas timeout, Tennessee went on a 9-2 run to take a 45-27 lead into halftime. Spani made two free throws and nailed her third trey of the game from the right wing during the final three minutes of the period. Graves had 10 points and four boards and Spani led all scorers with 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting in the first half.
Tennessee will travel to Waco, Texas, to face defending national champion No. 3 Baylor on Tuesday at 7:00 PM. The Lady Vols will return to Thompson-Boling Arena on Dec. 22 to host No. 1 Stanford.
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Regular listeners to our broadcast know – we have repeatedly made the point that the war on drugs doesn't work – nor has it ever. Tonight, Mike and Mark speak with Dr. Oliver Villar, co-author of "Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror: U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia", who has spent over a decade researching the subject, and has some eye-opening observations on not only why it doesn't work, but also on why it's supposed to work that way.
About the guest:
Dr. Oliver Villar is a lecturer in Politics at Charles Sturt University. For the past decade his research has been devoted to this book. Much of the research is based on his PhD dissertation on the political economy of contemporary Colombia in the context of the cocaine drug trade. He has published broadly on the Inter-American cocaine drug trade, the U.S. War on Drugs and Terror in Colombia, and U.S.-Colombian relations.
Oliver was born in Mendoza, Argentina and has lived in Sydney for most of his life. In 2008 he completed his PhD on the political economy of contemporary Colombia in the context of the cocaine drug trade at the then UWS Latin American Research Group (LARG). Whilst completing his PhD, Oliver's research interests in political economy, Latin America and the global drug trade followed teaching positions in politics at UWS and Macquarie University. His academic interests have involved an engagement with the sizeable Latin American immigrant community in Sydney and Melbourne and international concerns, such as with political and policy concerns over the 'globalisation' of crime and terrorism and the underlying causes of the processes involved.
At CSU Oliver's research interests continue to focus on the vast and dynamic reservoir of political economy and the study of class analysis and class relations. This abiding interest extends across economic thought, economic development and the development of social and political relationships between the First World and Third World (in particular between the United States and Latin America) and the impact of neoliberal economic globalisation.


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Get writing, networking, and everyday tips from the Masters -Debra St. John, Christine Verstraete, Morgan Mandel, DL Larson, Terri Stone, Margot Justes and Rob Walker.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Hearts & Daggers by Margot Justes
Shameless self promotion, Hearts and Daggers is out earlier than expected and is available on amazon.com. In a way, it's sort of like giving birth-plenty of anxiety and wonder. Is anyone going to like it? What should or could have been done differently? Was it ready to go out? Will it ever be ready to go out?
A Fire Within was edited professionally, and edited by my critique partner, and I won't tell you how many time I went over it. Let's simply say, many, many times, it's all part of the writing process. The other part is the one that doesn't want to let go.
However, the voices in my head are persistent, maybe just one more time-but when you're coming up against a deadline-at some point-as a writer you have to say enough, it's time to give birth.
Once you give birth, the trepidation begins, and it really is sort of like giving birth. The wonder of the little person you brought into the world sinks in and then overwhelming terror grips you. The tremendous responsibility for that precious life you have assumed as a parent will last for the rest of your life. Now that is commitment.
At the onset, releasing a new book is giving birth to a new project, but it is only a story and once the butterflies settle down in my stomach, I will think rationally and hope readers will enjoy the story, and feel happy after they read it. It is after all a story and not a lifetime commitment to parenthood.
Till next time,
Margot Justes
Hearts & Daggers
A Hotel in Paris
6 comments:
- Debra St. John said...
Hi Margot,
Congrats on a new release! Early is nice, but it can through you for a loop when things start to come together more quickly than expected.
I can't wait to read this anthology!
- January 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Debra St. John said...
Oops! I meant "throw" you for a loop. (I guess I need someone to edit my blog comments...yeesh.)
- January 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Margot Justes said...
Sometimes, I need to edit my blogs
to. Hope you'll like it.
Hearts & Daggers
- January 21, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Morgan Mandel said...
Congratulations, Margot!
Morgan Mandel
- January 22, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Margot Justes said...
You too Morgan, on the great reviews.
Margot Justes
- January 22, 2012 at 12:40 PM
- Deb Larson said...
Congrats, Margot! Glad this worked out for you - early release will be just fine!!
DL Larson
- January 22, 2012 at 12:53 PM


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Even though Netflix customers may be miffed about Thursday's deal with Warner Bros., the agreement could be just the thing to keep everyone happy -- or at least happy enough.
As part of the agreement, starting this month, Netflix will wait 28 days before offering Warner Bros. DVDs and Blu-ray discs to its customers.
The waiting period is an attempt for the studio to cash in on DVD sales. If Netflix customers can't rent the hottest Warner Bros. titles, perhaps they'll be willing to buy them. As the Associated Press points out, nearly three-fourths of DVD sales are made during the first four weeks the discs are in the stores.
Local news from across Southern California
Other studios are expected to follow, signing similar deals with Netflix this year.
In exchange for the waiting period, Warners has agreed to offer Netflix hundreds of additional movies for its online streaming service. In addition, Netflix will get a discount on Warners titles. The savings will be used to acquire even more instant-viewing titles, the AP reported.
This could be a win-win-win situation. Studios can keep cashing in on retail sales, Netflix will continue its quest to eventually stream every piece of content ever made and viewers can still get movies without leaving the couch.
The deal sacrifices just enough convenience for customers to keep them from pirating movies -- or at least that's what the powers that be are banking on.
Netflix customers -- by definition -- have already given up on immediacy. That's the whole business model. Pick a bunch of movies and eventually they'll get to your house. And even with online streaming, Netflix users aren't accustomed to new releases. Other than the Starz deal, the instant viewing option is mostly filled with older movies.
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The protections of the First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, engaged in conflict-of-interest disclosure, went beyond just assembling others writings, or tried to get both sides of a story. As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable: With the advent of the Internet and the decline of print and broadcast media the line between the media and others who wish to comment on political and social issues becomes far more blurred. Citizens United, 558 U.S. at 352.
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This is a crappy cell phone picture of a great David Grove drawing. But, that's OK since I've already posted it here. The difference in this picture is that the drawing is framed and on my wall. My good friend, Gregory Manchess, conspired and traded with Grove in order to give me this drawing. It's just now back from the framer and I can't tell you how happy it makes me each time I pass by.
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That Manchess guy is a sneaky one, isn't he? ;)
That's really cool and that's a sweet Grove drawing. Nice.
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Easter is upon us and up on this hill today the wind whispers, All Is Well. The chimes ring out resurrection. Spring, renewal and all the promise that resides there. I haven't been plugged into the season very well this year. Preoccupations and responsibility. Normally, Easter is one of my favorite times of year for just that promise of new life that springs eternal. The year, I've let the burden of other things weigh heavy on my soul and heart.
A few years ago (how many now) I wrote a daily devotional during lent and posted it on the internet. I've been so blessed by all those who have read it year after year and wrote to me to share that they did so. You crazy people. Oh, how I love you. The thing is, there was nothing special about it. Just a daily email that was life in action. All the messy places. Just simply walking out the day and at the close of day - reflecting. Maybe that's not what I'm doing enough of these days. Pausing to reflect. Ok, I'm certain of it. I rush from morning into evening and then to crashing into bed full of the crazy that is my life.
Granted. This thing I do. Count my blessings. I pause for just that long. And the smile of all the littles, their words, and photos. The Adorables growing now into gorgeous, young women, the little wild wolf pack rambunctious and keeping me on my toes while laughing.
America Mystic is coming to fruition, finally, oh, finally! But still it arrives in due season. Not the book it used to be in rewrite after rewrite. Not the book it used to be anymore than I am the woman I once was. Death and Resurrection. We bear our crosses which sometimes feels like crucifixion. It's not.
The pauses.
I watched a flock of birds this morning in the early hours. All else was sleeping in the house. My mother, my cousin, the dogs, the cat. All was quiet but me, the porch, the birds in flight. Then I noticed, they landed in a tree, paused, took flight again, a little ways, another tree. Coming after them were other birds that reached the tree and paused just after others had taken flight. They moved that way while. I have many trees. I watched them. A tree, flight, a tree, flight. It went on this way. Then I realized one of two things maybe both. I know nothing of birdology so I can make things up as they occur to me which suits me find.
The birds in the first group landed to allow the stranglers to catch up, gain their strength, stay with the flock. Eventually, I felt certain they would arrive together in the fold that waited for them. Some great community of kindred spirits and feathered fellows.
Or, they were just showing me, God showing me, that in flight over those passages of deeper valley's pausing was a righteous thing to do. The pause to gather strength. To rest to realign their focus, their purpose, their destination.
I pray that we each pause this Easter weekend to realize just how far we've come across mountain, valley, distant shores. To realign our purpose with all that is Divine and lives and moves within us. For every sacred moment, illuminated hour.
Together we continue. We've come this far and our journey sacred. In the midst of all of it, there is the power of renewal.
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Abermawr beach, which looks out towards the north-west on the rugged northern coast of Pembrokeshire, is a wide, sandy beach in summer time, but often in winter it is rather bare after stormy weather has stripped away the sand. At such times the submerged forest is visible at low water.
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Separated from the smaller beach, Aberbach to the north, by a rocky promontory called Pen Deudraeth (Head of the two beaches), it was once associated with smuggling, and its isolated location make it an ideal place for such nefarious practices. One claim to fame is that, with Aberbach, it nearly became the terminus of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's proposed South Wales Railway link between Britain and Ireland in early Victorian times. These two beaches, either side of the rocky promontory, which Brunel evidenty saw as the ideal springboard for building a jetty for substantial packet ships, would have become what Fishguard Harbour became 60 years later. But Brunel only got as far as Treffgarne, about nine miles further inland, where the remains of his cuttings and embankments survive. That was when the Irish Potato Famine of 1846 pulled the rug from under the project as the Irish economy collapsed.
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Smuggling made a surprise return a decade or so ago when a gang of drug smugglers, who had been using this out of the way spot to bring their evil contraband ashore, were caught by the Dyfed Powys Police. It was almost a repeat of the Seal Bay incident at Newport in 1983 when a sophisticated and ingenious international gang of drug smugglers had gone to unbelievable trouble to further their drugs empire. They even excavated a shingle beach and buried large fibre-glass tanks in which to store their contraband. But they, too, had been rounded up, tried and jailed. The Abermawr-Aberbach incident came after a tip-off about the unusual goings-on in the vicinity and the Police played a waiting game, keeping constant surveillance, logging visitors' vehicles and collaborating with the Customs and Excise officers and immigration authorities. Their patence paid off and the rogues were caught and paid the penalty for their crimes.


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