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Thanks Again!

My pleasure Sandra, this is also the kind of image I was hoping to see in the group, and the sky is outstanding.

Thank you Carson for the feature in Man and Nature Group!

Thank you Mary - I love storms! Glad you like this one!

Beautiful perspective and wow..what a sky!

I love the perspective and the drifting clouds in this photograph. Sean.

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About Sandra Bronstein

Sandra Bronstein

Sandra Bronstein finds great pleasure in sharing the beauty of the natural world and its magnificent wildlife as seen through her lenses for over 35 years. Having been intrigued by many different elements, in both the manmade and natural world, she strives to discover new and different ways to capture these elements. Her vision provides a window into the ever changing world and, simply put, Sandra has captured and shares with us a simple moment in time. Sandra was raised and continues to reside in large metropolitan cities but has always had a love of nature and wilderness. It was due, in part, to family travels and being an "outdoor" girl which kept her love strong for wildlife and the environment. That love and respect shows in each...

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Canada’s Newest LEED AP

Today marks a big achievement for me. I passed my LEED Accredited Professional exam with the Existing Building Operations and Maintenance (O+M) specialty. I have been studying for this exam off and on for almost a year now. My college exams and the European exchange trip I was on caused some major delays in writing. I put a big push on in the last couple of weeks to be able to write this before my summer vacation starts next week.

This is what the Green Building Certification Institute who manages the certification has to say about it:

“The LEED AP Building Operations + Maintenance credential demonstrates the exceptional expertise of green building professionals implementing sustainable practices, improving performance, heightening efficiency and reducing environmental impact in existing buildings through enhanced operations and maintenance. Those who hold the LEED AP O+M credential are vanguards in their industry, transforming the built environment and possessing thorough knowledge of the LEED rating systems and their implementation.”

The exam was very challenging and required memorization and application of a wide range of information. The reference guide for LEED O+M is over 700 pages long and the pass mark on the exam is 85%.

There are a huge amount of buildings that have been constructed over recent years to the LEED standard, but this deals with construction only. How these buildings are operated is exclusive of that. Buildings that were constructed to LEED standards are eligible for LEED O+M, but so are buildings that were not built to LEED standards. Raising the bar on our existing building stock is a big step towards a greener built environment.

I’m looking forward to applying my new credentials in the work place. I believe the next wave of LEED work will be for existing buildings. I am particularly interested in the greening of existing schools because of the impacts of green buildings on learning. I plan to seek out opportunities to improve the learning environment for students.

Fin MacDonald, LEED AP O+M

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Fire Cider Recipes

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Wicked Simple Sauerruben Recipe

Lacto-fermented veggies are very easy to make, full of good for you probiotics and are a nice balance to the rich, warm foods we have begun eating for the fall and winter.  Sauerruben is made just like sauerkraut, only instead of shredded cabbage you’ll be thinly slicing baby turnips. This method is a very easy way to preserve the end of harvest bounty by making it even more nutritious and flavorful.  The sauerruben will last for months in the fridge, if you don’t eat it all in the first few weeks!

-Salt, 2 tsp per pound of veggies.

-Turnips, sliced or shredded. After much experimenting, I prefer sliced when using smaller, tender turnips. The turnips in this picture are delicious sweet, tender Hakurei turnips from our friends at Woven Roots Farm in Lee, MA.

Options per Quart mason jar-
1-2 clove garlic

and/or 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

and/or 1/2 tsp caraway seeds

Or get cray-zay and spice it up with everything!

Clean bottles filled with water make great weights to keep the veggies under their brine.

Clean bottles filled with water make great weights to keep the veggies under their brine.

-Weigh your sliced turnips and measure out 2 teaspoons of salt for each 1 pound of turnips.

-Add sliced turnips into jar, sprinkling salt as you go. The salt draws the water out of the turnips creating the brine it will ferment in. Weight top, mashing the veggies a bit to compact them and encourage the brine to form.  We used empty, cleaned beer bottles filled with water to weight the turnips and keep them under the brine.

-Keep the veggies submerged under the brine or risk nasty things happening. Add a little water if you don’t get enough liquid from the veggies.

-Store them at room temp somewhere where possible overflowing brine won’t cause problems, like a counter top with a pan under the jars to catch spills.

-Wait a few days, admiring the lovely bubbling. Taste every now and then.

-Put in the fridge to stop further souring, or keep them out for maximum sour awesomeness.

Nurse Moon’s Quick Fire Pickles

Pretty pickles made with Fire Cider!

Pretty pickles made with Fire Cider!

This recipe was sent to me by my friend Helen, yes, she’s a nurse and she knows what’s good for us- whole, organic foods!  This quick pickle recipe is an excellent way to preserve all those cucumbers that have taken over your garden.  Raw cucumbers are a cooling summer food.  When combined with some hot pepper, garlic, ginger and vinegar these pickle become a perfect fall condiment or snack.  Enjoy!

Fire Cider Pickles:

  • 2 or 3 cucumbers sliced into thin rounds
  • half an onion sliced into half moons
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • a thumbnail of ginger, peeled

For the Brine:

  • Few pinches of kosher salt
  • Crushed red pepper (to taste)
  • 1 cup water
  • 2/3 cup Fire Cider
  • 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
Boiling the pickles

Boiling the pickles

1. Put the cucumber, onion slices, ginger and garlic into a clean quart canning jar.

2. Add the remaining brine ingredients to a pot an boil on the stove top for 5 minutes.

3. Pour the hot liquid mixture over the  cucumbers and onions in the jar and close lid.  Let it set for 5-10 minutes.
4. Strain the liquid back into the pot and boil another 10 minutes. Pour over the cucumbers and onions in the jar again and set for another 10 minutes with the lid on.
5. Now, bring water to a boil in the pot (enough water to cover the jar at least half way when submerged)  and set the jar, with the lid on and the cucumbers in the brine, in the boiling water.
6. Then turn off heat and let the jar (and hot water) cool.  Once it’s cool, refrigerate and enjoy!

Homemade Mayo is Wicked Easy

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Mark Bittman’s recipes?  They are easy, accessible, reliable and, of course, delicious!  Here’s one that Dana and I have been making up weekly because mayo goes with everything.  Seriously, my friend eats banana mayonnaise sandwiches!

Mayonnaise by Mark Bittman from ‘How To Cook Everything’

This is the easiest, quickest way I have found to make mayonnaise at home. Making it yourself means it’s made from organic high quality ingredients and costs a lot less than the stuff at the store, win win.

I have a Bamix wand blender made in Switzerland, it’s the ultimate wand blender and unlike most other versions, it will last forever because it’s all one piece. On models where the stem detaches, eventually the connection point wears down and then you need a whole new one. No good. You can also use a blender or a food processor to make this mayonnaise. Or use a whisk, but remember, when whisking by hand you must add the oil only a teaspoon at a time and whip it in between. It’s a bit of a work out!

Ingredients for 1 Cup:

  • 1 whole egg at room temperature
  • dash cayenne pepper
  • ½ teaspoon dry mustard or organic Dijon-style mustard
  • 2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice OR 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar and 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 cup extra virgin olive oil, sunflower seed oil, grape-seed oil or a combination, or more if needed, at room temperature
  • Pinch or two of unrefined sea salt, to taste

  1. In food processor or blender combine the egg, cayenne, mustard, lemon juice, salt and ¼ cup of the oil. Blend for about 30 seconds.
  2. Then, with the processor or blender running, add the oil in a slow, thin stream. After you have added about ½ the oil, the mixture should start to thicken. You can add up to 1 ½ cups of oil, to the desired consistency.
  3. That’s it! Taste and adjust seasonings: more salt or lemon. Place in a glass jar with tight fitting lid. It will firm up even more in the fridge and will last about 2 weeks.
  4. If you’d like to, you can add 1 tablespoon of whey (which you can easily strain out of your whole milk yogurt) in the first step, before adding oil. In this case, let the finished mayo sit at room temperature for 7 hours and then place in the fridge. It will last several months this way and contains beneficial bacteria.

Fire Cider:  Use Fire Cider in place of the lemon juice- 1 tablespoon Fire Cider plus 1 Tablespoon of water

Garlic : Add 1-2 crushed cloves garlic to the egg yolk mixture. Be sure to use fresh garlic cloves, not jarred paste or jarred cloves, which can have an acrid taste.  This one is great with the Fire Cider version.

Cilantro Cucumber: Replace lemon juice with lime juice. After the mayo has thickened, add 3/4 cup cilantro leaves and 1/2 cup peeled, seeded, and chopped cucumber. Puree in blender until smooth.

Herbs: When the mayonnaise has thickened, add 1/2 cup fresh parsley and 1/4 cup single or mixed fresh herbs, such as basil, tarragon, mint, or chives. Puree in blender until smooth.

Kickin’ Dippin’ Sauce

This recipe is short and spicy sweet!  This is from a Fire Cider fan I met at the Big E, and it’s my favorite kind of recipe: there’s lots of room to make it your own and it’s super quick to whip up.  Fresh dill is generally available year round and if you like it, consider growing your own on a sunny window sill!

Windowsill Garden in Tea Tins

2 parts sour cream

1 part mayo

Fire Cider to desired consistency and taste

salt and pepper to taste

lots of fresh dill

Finely chop the dill and mix it well with the rest of the ingredients.  Taste and adjust seasonings.  Enjoy as a snack with fresh veggies, flax crackers or corn chips!

Fire Cider Apple Chutney

For our Holiday gift boxes we have included an 8 oz jar of this delicious condiment- it’s great on roast pork, eggs, sautéed or steamed greens… whatever you usually put hot sauce on, try it with this spicy apple chutney.  I think this would be an excellent addition to any holiday feast!

apples in a basket for fall

Recipe by Dana St. Pierre, as suggested to us by Liz Olny and based loosely on Nigella Lawson’s recipe in ‘How to Be A Domestic Goddess’

  • 1 lb cooking apples
  • 1/2 medium onion
  • One 8oz bottle Fire Cider
  • 1/2 Cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 Cup honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger OR 1 t grated fresh ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Peel, core, and roughly chop the apples.  Finely chop the onion.
Put all ingredients in a heavy bottom sauce pan, bring to a boil and cook over medium flame until mixture thickens to a jammy consistency about 20-45 minutes.

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Lily is from Phoenix, Arizona. We met at JFK airport as she headed home from a solo trip to New York City. We talked about the differences West US to East US, and she noted the more reserved culture this side, that in some ways it might be a better thing. And talked about her trip.

Her tour around NYC was a pilgrimage of kinds, seeing all the sights her boyfriend – a New Yorker by birth – had told her about, from the showstopping global monuments to the little corners and neighbourhood relics one only knows as a local. She described seeing the sunset in a small park below Brooklyn Bridge. Places they’d talked about seeing together, before he passed away just a little while ago.

It’s hard to describe the impact of her story, and in describing it to others I’ve failed to elevate it properly from what might sound like one of sadness. The way Lily told it, it was one of the most inspiring narratives I can recall. Somehow complete, energising, significant and soaringly perfect.

When we’d walked back to Lily’s gate, having shot five minutes walk away at Gate #69 where the late afternoon light drifted in hot and golden, we wished each other luck and I simply put my camera away.

Having spent much of the summer in airports, I’ve looked at shooting in a number of them, but from the thousands of people waiting to fly, no one has really resonated with any of the backdrops I’ve seen. This encounter reminded me of a couple of things. Firstly, that with the right light, the requirements of a backdrop change instantly. Changing planes, with most of my kit on the runway somewhere, I only had a single reflector. When things looked a little flat using it in my typical way – Lily holding it just below shot – I took hold of it and fired the full strength sun back onto her. That was just a little too harsh and contrasty, but I found if I tilted the lens hood every so slighty into the sun (coming from a window over her shoulder to the right) then the resulting flare/haze helped control the contrast and rein it back in. With this appealing mix of light on Lily, I could adjust the exposure for the backdrop, and everything suddenly leapt into life.

Secondly, I was reminded of the importance of a narrative. How many incredible stories have I missed out on for not taking a risk in the last few months? Too many. Lily’s story really struck me – both the poignant narrative, and the uplifting, composed energy and spirit she brought to it.

Lily – thank you so much for sharing your story. I hope you like your portait, and that it maybe offers another reminder of the incredible journey you outlined to me.

This is portrait #69 of my 100 Strangers Project – check out the group page and get involved.

Finally, I’m now live on Facebook;

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Ed:cetera: Exercises to Advance Your Career

Today’s world buzzes with sound bites divorced of context. Advance your career by confidently identifying who said what at arts event receptions and other free-food occasions. For artists, photographers, writers and poets, “Practice makes perfect.” Who said that, Thomas Edison or Tre Cool? Not sure? These exercises from the Common Core Curriculum will build your confidence and enhance your arts future.

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What Can You Do With An Economics Degree?

What Can You Do With an Economics Degree?
Careers in economics are as diverse as they come, with job roles covering everything from food and agriculture to business and banking. Depending on your area of interest, an economics degree will help you develop specialized analytical skills, enabling …
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New Economics
I am tired of the classic left/right perspective on society, policy, and politics. I realize that markets are an incredible tool to allocate resources efficiently. And I also realize that markets are subject to failure and we need to protect our society …
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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence
[This post was co-written with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb and appeared in HBR.org on 17 November 2016] The year 1995 was heralded as the beginning of the New Economy. Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything.
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Are Cookie Butter Rolls the New Cinnamon Rolls?

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The smell of cinnamon sugar means Christmas is coming. Every December, my mother bakes her famous cinnamon rolls. She spends a weekend turning out batches of them, baking them in round cake pans. Her cinnamon rolls are the best I've ever had: thin and nearly crisp at the edges. They're tightly coiled with intensely buttery spirals of cinnamon sugar, and nothing like the pillowy frosted behemoths you find in airports.

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Cookie Butter Sweet Rolls

She wraps them in aluminum foil and ties each one with waxy red ribbon. We'd drive around to friends and neighbors to drop them off; nothing makes people smile like warm, homemade baked goods. This little act encompasses all the best parts of the holidays: sharing, gifting, enjoying delicious food.

This year, I'm channeling my mother and making sweet rolls, too. But instead of spreading the dough with melted butter and showering it with cinnamon sugar, I'm spreading mine with cookie butter. If you've never had cookie butter, take a look in your grocery store. Most shops carry it now and after one bite, you'll quickly understand why it's gained such a cult following. Made from crushed speculaas cookies (a crunchy, spiced Dutch holiday cookie), it has the texture of peanut butter and a caramelized sweetness that manages to be creamy, decadent, and festive all at once.

Photo by Posie Harwood

I use a simple and easy-to-roll-out yeast dough, which is a perfect one to master for riffing on this recipe. You can swap out the cookie butter filling for jam, Nutella, or peanut butter. You could top the cookie butter with toasted chopped nuts or toasted coconut flakes or even chocolate chips. You can use the dough for a monkey bread or a pull-apart loaf, or even just simple sweet rolls to spread with butter.

These cookie butter rolls freeze beautifully; having a few batches on hand in the freezer is a wise move for the holidays. Just pop one in the oven to warm it up and serve it for breakfast on Christmas morning. I can't think of a nicer gift.

(And psst: You can find a video of me making these sweet rolls right here.)

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  • 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
  • 1 cup warm whole milk
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3-3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 10 ounces cookie butter
  • 1/2 cup simple syrup, optional, for brushing
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Comparing the redesigned crests of Everton and Crystal Palace

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Everton Football Club’s redesigned badge was greeted with near-universal disapproval. A poll on one Everton fans’ website, Toffee Web, indicated that 91% of 12,369 fans either disliked or hated it. The frustrations mainly came about because the new badge ditches the characteristic laurel wreaths and the club’s historic Latin motto, “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum”, but also because of aesthetic changes – the broader shape and the thick yellow outline.

Evertonians expressed their distaste in the form of a petition which has since gathered almost 24,000 signatures. The legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall declared to his 32,000 followers on Twitter that “the new badge is crap” and even the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, announced it was “not good enough”. The fan backlash soon succeeded; the club confirmed that the new crest would only be used for one season whilst a new one would be designed to replace it. But the concerns of Everton fans were not easily allayed. For many, this episode had revived questions about the board’s competence only weeks before they would appoint the successor to David Moyes’ 11 year reign as the over-achieving manager of the club.

Crystal Palace FC had also introduced a redesigned crest near the end of this season. In stark contrast, a fan poll on the CPFC BBS concluded that 90.59% of supporters liked the new badge, showing remarkable support for a move which is always bound to be controversial to some fans.

Interestingly, both Crystal Palace and Everton shared the same reasons for changing the club crest. When Crystal Palace co-chairman Steve Parish was interviewed at the Player of the Year awards night, he said “the badge that we had was a line-drawing from the seventies or the eighties and it just doesn’t reproduce very well, it tends to look like a mess on the kit when it’s embroidered”. On their official website, Everton FC also cited the poor reproduction of their crest as a reason to change it: “The previous version of the Crest – created 13 years ago – was often misrepresented, suffering regularly from the omission of key elements like our name and our year of formation.  As technology marches on, those challenges have increased. On television, on websites, on mobile devices, the Crest was far too often badly reproduced.”

Parish also admitted that a change was needed because Palace’s old badge appeared “tired and old-fashioned”, saying the new crest has a “modern and more up-to-date feel”. Everton showed a similar desire for a modernised crest: “Our team carries a responsibility to maintain a refreshed and relevant identity for the Club”.

The reasons given by the two clubs – modernisation and a crest which is easier to reproduce – show that they are keenly aware of the importance of brand identity in football. A crest which can be easily printed or embroidered on merchandise gives the club a much stronger brand image, and consequently more recognition. These reasons reinforce the fact that modern clubs can no longer afford to only focus on their local community, but must also attract fans across the globe in order to ensure their survival through the cut-throat commercialism of the Premier League era.

“Our new Club Crest combines four historic elements of the outgoing Crest – the Tower, the shield, our name and the year of our formation – to form a concise, modern and dynamic representation of Everton” reads one sentence on the Everton website, trying to validate the redesign. Evidently, the fans do not agree that those four elements were the most important. This leads to the question, what parts of the badge are most important to supporters and why?

The most recognisable elements in Everton’s old badge have their origins in a club crest designed by Theo Kelly, then the club secretary, in 1938. The centrepiece of Everton’s crest has been Prince Rupert’s tower. Ken Sweeney, chairman of the Mid-Cheshire Everton Supporter’s Group was quoted on the official club website as saying, “To me, the Tower is everything, the Tower is Everton. It represents Everton Football Club; that is so important to Evertonians. Every badge has had the Tower on except when it was just ‘EFC’.”  This depth of feeling may seem curious to some, as the building was used in the past by Parish Constables to lock up drunks and petty criminals. What may explain the close link between the club and this building is that it is the oldest surviving building in Everton, having stood on Everton Brow since 1787. A plaque on the tower proudly reads, “When the successful local chapel team took the name ‘Everton’, this well-known landmark was adopted as the Everton Football Club insignia”.

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The building on Palace’s crest may appear to be just a rather elegant greenhouse. In fact, this was the home of the Great Exhibition of 1851, an event to convey Britain’s prestige as a world power in the days when the Sun never set on her Empire. Exhibits hailed from all over the world, and recorded attendances were as high as 109,915 in a day. The palace itself was relocated to Sydenham Hill in 1854, and was considered the defining landmark of South London until its destruction by fire in 1936. Its loss was proclaimed as the “end of an age” by Winston Churchill, who witnessed the fire.

The link between these two buildings then is an issue of local pride; one as the oldest building in Everton, the other as a once world-famous landmark of South London. Supporting a football team is often an issue of local pride, and concepts such as fans mostly hailing from the local area and local boys rising through the ranks of the youth academy to play for the first team are still seen as idealistic by many supporters.

Another theme consistent with both badges is the date of foundation. Crystal Palace introduced it to their crest for the first time in their history, whilst Everton’s was moved from the periphery of their old badge into a more prominent position in the new one.

Their foundation in 1878 marks Everton as one of the oldest clubs in the Premier League. It is worth remembering that in footballing terms, 1878 was only six years after the first ever final of the FA Cup – the oldest football competition in the world – was held, and it would still be ten years until William McGregor founded the Football League.

Crystal Palace’s date of foundation may be more recent but the fans still show pride at the club’s longevity, as shown in 2005 when centenary shirts were released, and a sell-out commemorative friendly fixture was played against Inter Milan. At a protest in 2010 outside Lloyd’s bank when the club was staring down the barrel of liquidation, one banner read: “105 years of history won’t die without a fight”.

The date of a club’s foundation is of course crucially important to its history because it tells us how long the club has endured, how many family generations the team has been supported by and where the nature of the club’s traditions originate from.

105 years of history

A lot of the ire about Everton’s new badge was concentrated at the fact it removed the motto “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum”, which translates from Latin as “nothing but the best is good enough”, along with the omission of the two laurel wreaths, symbols used since the Olympics of ancient Greece to signify a victorious athlete. The much-publicised petition opens with the line “Keep the wreaths and motto of Everton Football Club”. Some cynical fans saw their removal from the crest as evidence of their club’s diminished stature; a club which once challenged for league titles and competed in European competitions now reduced to struggling for sixth place, having been without a major trophy in almost two decades.

It is interesting that both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur also removed their Latin mottos from the crest in recent redesigns, giving weight to the idea that designers and executives may consider these phrases to be ‘out of touch’, or ‘too old-fashioned’. However, Spurs’ motto (Audere Est Facere) was only introduced in 1956, whilst that of Arsenal (Victoria Concordia Crescit) was adopted in 1949, the idea actually coming from the editor’s programme notes. Therefore, neither had quite the same gravitas as Everton’s motto, which was their founding principle 1878.

The very fact that the motto Everton FC was founded on has endured 135 years shows how it has shaped the club’s outlook and attitudes.  More than just a motto, it could even be seen as the club’s raison d’être. It is easy to understand why fans are so keen to preserve this defining characteristic. As Tony Abbott, chairman of the Everton Fans’ Forum said, “We all have it in our hearts and minds; in our DNA.”

However, the eagle that dominates Crystal Palace’s badge is not of any local importance or even particularly old. The eagle insignia of Portuguese footballing giants Benfica was the inspiration, and its first appearance on Crystal Palace’s badge dates from 1973, the same year in which the red and blue stripes were first seen on the kit. Putting that in context, it was introduced in the same year that Kevin Phillips, scorer of Palace’s winning goal in their recent play-off final, was born. This rebranding of the club seems to have been well received by the fans, with “Eagles” having effectively replaced the club’s former nickname “The Glaziers” to the extent that a badge without an eagle would be virtually unthinkable. This could suggest that tradition and history are not essential elements for a club crest after all, and it is indeed possible for style to triumph over substance in the eyes of the fans.

In fact, the reason that the eagle won over the fans was probably due in no small part to the charismatic manager who introduced it, Malcolm Allison. “Big Mal”, as he liked to be known, was a Fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking eccentric who remains to this day extraordinarily popular amongst the Palace faithful. I say “extraordinarily popular” because this man led the team to two consecutive relegations yet is still revered as a hero. But whilst he may not have revived the club’s fortunes on the pitch, he certainly made them the centre of media attention, attracting all sorts of newspaper headlines with his witty remarks. As Crystal Palace’s record appearance maker Jim Cannon said, “Malcolm Allison put Palace on the map. No other man could single-handedly take a club from the First Division to the Third Division and still become an instant hero”. The eye-catching bright red and blue stripes of the new kit and the eagle (both of which have remained steadfastly associated with the team since his departure) are his living legacy to the club. This is why the fans hold them dear.

So far, these two situations seem remarkably similar. The clubs shared the same reasons for wanting a redesign, and fans had strong feelings towards aspects of the club crest for similar reasons of history and local pride. What is also consistent is that the clubs did not want drastic change to their badges and even recognised the value of history to supporter, as the Everton website says, “We recognised the need to do this with diligence and sensitivity – with one eye on the past but also one eye on the future. We researched our history, we reviewed the evolution of our Crest…” Steve Parish echoes this by saying “I see this change as more evolution than revolution, as it was important to keep the heritage of the past.” However, the place where the clubs’ approach markedly differs is in the level of fan consultation.

As early as 2010, the Crystal Palace board had mooted changing the crest. Various graphic designers were consulted and six designs were drawn up. These were presented to season ticket holders to vote for the new crest. This may well seem like the ideal way in which to decide on a new crest, but in fact the result was that all crests were panned by supporters and the board were no further forward.

Steve Parish instead took inspiration from popular fan-made designs, saying, “The designs the fans put out online, we took them all to a designer, and there was one guy on the BBS called Dan who really designed it to my brief.” The finished product was revealed at the Player of the Year awards night at the end of the 2012/13 season, to rapturous applause. As well as the fans’ delight, Parish confirmed that it had fulfilled his original criteria: “This new design will re-produce much better than the old line drawing, featuring a stronger more dynamic eagle that brings our club image into the 21st Century”.

Meanwhile, Everton designed their new badge behind closed doors. The Everton website at first claimed the crest was designed “following an extensive consultation process with fans, supporters’ groups and branding experts.” When fans hotly disputed this, Everton’s chief executive Rob Elstone eventually conceded that “Our chairman had demanded widespread consultation and we stopped short of that”. But a lot of damage had already been done. Whilst the chairman may no longer have been held personally responsible, the club’s botched redesign still attracted negative coverage in outlets such as the Mirror, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Times and BBC News – a PR disaster for a team christened “the people’s club” by outgoing manager David Moyes.

This blog has compared the recent crest redesigns of both Crystal Palace and Everton by firstly establishing why they wanted the change; the answer to this was a more modern appearance and a crest that is easier to reproduce on merchandise. These factors are largely due to the increased need of a strong brand identity in a highly commercial league with a globalised television audience. Secondly, the reasons for the fans’ attachment to certain symbols of their club was explained, with history, tradition, local pride and even the memory of a flamboyant manager provoking strong emotional ties from supporters. Finally, the design strategy of both clubs has been contrasted, and this gives the strong impression that fan consultation (facilitated by the internet) is now necessary when a new badge must be introduced.

Input from fan designs online paid dividends for Crystal Palace, as they were able to achieve their objectives with near unanimous backing from the fans. When Everton did not take fan opinions into account, their new badge was a failure and as a result, merchandise revenue will fall, and some fans will feel disenfranchised from the club. When Everton introduce another design at the end of the 2013/14 season, they must learn from the approach of Crystal Palace in order to keep fans on their side, and to keep their heritage alive.

It is doubtful that either club would have changed their badge without reason. However, removing 135 years of history from the badge is clearly an unwise move and is prone to upset fans who obviously cherish the history of their club which so defines its identity. A club crest is so much more than just a marketing tool, because it represents the club’s history, and all that it stands for. Steve Parish is not only a football club co-chairman but also the founder and former CEO of Tag: worldwide, a design and production agency that operates internationally, so his reflections are of particular interest:

“When we started off, I did think of it in an advertising sense, as a logo. But it’s not a logo, is it?

“It’s a shield, a coat-of-arms; it’s what you wear when you go in to battle”.


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THE MINISTER FOR Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe has announced that female candidates will be prioritised in applications for senior civil service jobs.

Outlining a plan to achieve an equal gender split in top civil service roles, Donohoe’s department said female applicants will be given preference for high-level vacancies on boards where women are under-represented.

It said the “merit-based approach of ‘best person for the job’ will continue to apply”, but in cases of equal merit a female candidate would get priority.

Today, two out of 15 secretary-generals in government departments are female - Orlaigh Quinn in the Department for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and Niamh O’Donoghue in the Department for Social Protection.

However, government-mandated gender quotas have run into a few roadblocks in the past.

Minister for Sport Shane Ross clashed with a junior minister last month over a proposal to cut state funding to sporting bodies that didn’t achieve a 30% gender quota on their boards.

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    I am trying to operate the Nexys Video development board using the vivado hardware manager on a windows 8 system. However I keep getting No hardware targets exist on the server error. Steps i have taken to remedy the situation include: Re-installed Vivado with included cable drivers Tried different versions of vivado Tried on a different PC Formatted PC and installed vivado Updated FTDI drivers Tried 3 different (new) USB cables Installed cable drivers manually The programming jumper is in the right position (jtag), the USB cable is plugged into the correct (prog) port and the board is powered. Can anyone suggest anything else I might try to fix the issue? Thanks.


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    Hi all,

    As many of you know, the 3GS is being released tomorrow and I'm probably going to be waiting in line to get one. But now that I won't be needing my 3G anymore, I want to unlock it and sell it on Ebay.

    First thing, once my old SIMM card that I currently have in my 3G is deactivated tomorrow, will I still be able to jailbreak and unlock the phone? I used to jailbreak my old 2G iPhone, but got a bit weary of doing it for the 3G so I've never jailbroken or unlocked a 3G phone before.

    If I can just go and pick up the 3GS and then unlock the old 3G at my leisure, that would be great, but I haven't been able to find out any solid info regarding this.

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    I have an iPhone 5 on 6.0.2 jailbroken. This afternoon my camera icon disappeared. I snooped around and saw that someone suggested to "reset all settings" to see if that worked. After I did this, camera icon was still not on my springboard. When I tried to respiring, it was in Safe Mode. Every time I try to respiring, it comes back in Safe Mode. I've deleted many packages, thinking that might help, but nothing. How can I get out of Safe Mode?

    BTW I tried someone's suggestion to go to settings>general>restrictions and that worked to get the camera icon back.
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I'm running a completely stock car, however I've had a vacuum leak CEL for the last few thousand miles, and haven't had time to work on it. Now I'm driving it again for the winter, and the fuel economy is just awful. I have a 1" crack on a hose that comes up from the engine near the alternator and makes two right hand 90* turns into the two hard lines right in front of the TMIC. Is this a vacuum hose? I don't want to replace all my vacuum hoses right now if I can avoid it, though I admit many are getting pretty hard though.

You can see the hose here, hugging the silver bracket.

Honestly, I should replace all of my vacuum lines. The only issue I'm having is there are Ancillary kits and regular kits, both of which are priced above 90 bucks. Not something I want to invest in if I don't have to. Anyone know the sizes for our hoses and if I'm lucky, how much I'd need to buy of each?

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Leaders: From left, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld of the Rabbinical Assembly; Cantor Stephen Stein of the Cantors Assembly; Rabbi Steven C. Wernick of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

How Conservative Judaism Lost Me

One of the most striking findings in the recent Pew Research Center survey on Jews in America is the massive decline of Conservative Judaism. While 43% of American Jews affiliated as Conservative Jews in 1990, just 18% do so today. This is causing much soul-searching in the Conservative movement.

The reasons for this decline are surely complex. I believe that one factor is the failure of the Conservative movement to nurture young leaders from its ranks. I would like to relate my own experience, in the hope that this will contribute to the conversation about how to renew Conservative Judaism.

I was raised in a very committed Conservative home in Montreal. My grandfather had joined the local Conservative synagogue as a founding member in the 1950s, and my mother and her siblings grew up there. My father, a British doctoral student at McGill University, became the synagogue youth director in 1968, and there he met my mother on Shemini Atzeret. My mother’s two sisters both married Conservative rabbis, so I grew up with two Conservative rabbis as uncles.

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My family observed the Sabbath. Each week we had Sabbath meals, walked to synagogue and did not drive. We kept kosher at home, and outside we ate only vegetarian food. We celebrated all the holidays.

I was very active at my parents’ synagogue and proudly identified as a Conservative Jew. I went to Jewish schools through the end of high school and attended Camp Ramah. After graduating high school, I spent a year at Hebrew University, where I focused on academic Jewish studies. I later earned a doctorate in German and Jewish philosophy at Indiana University, and now I teach at New York University.

By all rights, I should be a Conservative Jew. Yet, if the Pew pollster had called me, I would not have identified as one.

What happened?

As a youth, I had internalized what I understood to be Conservative Jewish values by being very committed to Halacha and Jewish learning. But I found that my family was one of the very few in my synagogue that valued these things. While the pews overflowed on the High Holy Days, they were sparsely filled on a typical Sabbath, and almost no children attended. My family rarely went out for Sabbath meals, as few families at the synagogue prepared them.

Before my bar mitzvah, I was very involved in the synagogue service. I led the end of the Sabbath morning davening each week, attended morning minyan and read the Megillah on Purim. But after my bar mitzvah, as I sought to study more Torah, I found few outlets at my synagogue. So at the suggestion of a friend who was also raised Conservative, I began studying Talmud at a local ultra-Orthodox kollel. As my graduation neared, I approached my Conservative rabbi for advice about studying at a yeshiva after high school. At the time, there was no Conservative yeshiva, and he recommended that I attend an Orthodox one in Israel.

I was told that Conservative Jews were as serious in their commitment to Halacha as Orthodox Jews were, but they differed in that they recognized halachic change. But as I knew no Conservative Jews who cared about Halacha, my teenage sensitivity to inconsistency led me to see Conservative Judaism as inauthentic.

I was also dissatisfied by what I saw as the self-preoccupation of Conservative Judaism. While Orthodoxy saw itself as fulfilling God’s will through halachic obedience, and Reform Judaism as saving the world through social justice, or tikkun olam, I was constantly being encouraged to work for the advancement of the Conservative movement. I felt no mission driving Conservative Judaism, which for an idealistic youth was highly unsatisfying.

I also sensed a certain superiority from Conservative rabbis I encountered. They constantly recounted how the Jewish Theological Seminary had attracted great scholars such as Louis Finkelstein, Saul Lieberman and Louis Ginzberg, and how by contrast Orthodoxy was unscholarly and uncritical. But already in my time those great European scholars had died or retired, and the religious value of having housed those great critical scholars was not at all evident to me.

I felt that Conservative Judaism was distracted by what I saw as political rather than religious issues. The burning issue of the day in the Conservative movement was egalitarianism and the ordination of women. My synagogue was not egalitarian, although women could be called to the Torah on special occasions. The argument was made that egalitarianism was crucial to keeping Jews affiliated.

I did not buy that. It seemed to me that focusing on egalitarianism was a distraction from the real problem: that Conservative Jews were not committed to Halacha and Jewish learning and that no serious effort was being made to engage them in these matters. Worse still, as egalitarianism swept Conservative Judaism in the United States, Canadian Conservative Jews who were not egalitarian were made to feel unwelcome. Eventually my synagogue and several other Conservative synagogues in Canada dropped their membership in the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

After my year at Hebrew University, I spent a second year in Israel, studying at an Orthodox yeshiva. When I returned to my synagogue in Montreal, people were certain that I wished to become a rabbi, although I had no intention of or interest in doing so. I began to feel unwelcome at my Conservative synagogue, as many people thought that my religious passion made me Orthodox. I felt increasingly uncomfortable with the formality and halachic carelessness of the prayer and what I regarded as the lack of seriousness and knowledge among the congregants. Having no outlet for my religious enthusiasm at my Conservative synagogue, I started attending an Orthodox one on the Sabbath, although it was a considerable distance from my home.

I am fully aware that my family’s halachic observance and my interest in Jewish study and practice were highly atypical for Conservative Jews. But the Orthodox synagogue that I now attend includes many families in which at least one spouse was raised by one of the few observant families at their Conservative synagogue.

It was from these families of committed Conservative Jews that a new generation of Conservative religious and lay leaders should have emerged. But not only were the children in these families not nurtured by the Conservative movement, too often they were made to feel that they were too religious. Some ultimately became Orthodox, some post-denominational, others nonobservant. The Conservative movement lost many of its most committed youths and was impoverished.

Many people are thinking about how to revitalize Conservative Judaism. This is important, as the world needs a vibrant Jewish religious center. From my experience, I would recommend one thing above all else: Support and nurture the most committed Conservative Jews at local synagogues. Give them outlets for their religious curiosity and passion. These Jews may not write big checks. They may sometimes make the less committed members of the synagogue feel uneasy. But they are the future.

Michah Gottlieb is an associate professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His book “Jewish Protestantism: Translation and the Turn to the Bible in German Judaism” will be published by Oxford University Press.

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Iraq trivia – the white Oldsmobile Cutlass

An interesting piece of trivia from Iraq.

The recent news story about two Iraqi women who were killed in Baghdad by employees of a private security firm included a description of the car involved. It was a white 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.

What is a white 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera doing in Baghdad? Oldsmobiles are not exactly hot sellers in this part of the world. Granted, there were a lot of Chevrolet Caprices in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s – their reputation for excellent air-conditioning systems made them big sellers in the desert states.

Here’s the explanation:

During the Iran-Iraq war that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988, Iraq lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In the early years of the war, the families of those killed did not receive compensation from the government. The Iraqis researched how other countries, including the United States, compensate the families of the fallen, and came up with a uniquely Iraqi solution.

The family of an enlisted soldier or noncommissioned officer was given a red Brazilian-made Volkswagen Passat. When I was in Baghdad in 1987 and 1988, I saw thousands of them everywhere – easily the most common vehicle on the road. The family of an officer killed in the war was given a white Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. There were a lot of them on the roads as well.

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Paul DaltonLiverpool born, Paul Dalton, began his musical life at the age of eight studying the Piano. Within a few short years he was learning to play the Cornet but transferred to the trombone to accommodate the needs of the School Band.

University in Liverpool saw his playing diversify into brass bands and numerous orchestral opportunities. He was privileged to be taught by Eric Jennings, the long serving Principal Trombone of the RLPO.

Upon completing his degree, he moved to a teaching appointment in the Fylde, for many years as Head of Music. He is now teaching music at Kirkham Grammar School.

During this time he has played briefly in the Trombone Section of the Northern Dance Orchestra as well as other local Big Bands.

Paul played for a short spell at The Poulton Band before moving to Freckleton Band as a player. After two years he put down the trombone to begin the work of Resident Conductor. He worked closely with an assortment of Professionals, including Duncan Beckley, John Golland, Gordon Clough and Roy Curran. During this time the Band progressed from the Fourth to the Championship section.

In 1992 Paul was appointed Professional Conductor of the Blackburn & Darwen Band. He took them from the First Section to the Championship Section in a three-year tenure, including a First Section North West Area win and a trip to the Nationals.

In 1995 he returned to the Freckleton Band as Principal Conductor. Since his return, the band has been the North West Area, First Section Champions, National First Section Champions, and has dominated the Preston & District Championships.

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About 6 months ago I bought a FED-2 in a flea market in Budapest. It is a pretty solid piece of machinery and it seemed to be functional. Now I’ve tried it out! At the same time I tried out the iPhone app ‘Lightmeter’ since the Fed does not have any lightmeter. I was amazed, the whole roll came out with more or less correct exposure! I love it, no need for another gadget!

The lens (Jupiter 50/2) is pretty soft at full aperture. Alternatively I did not manage to focus accurately…

It seemed to be pretty sharp when stopped it down a bit.

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MAT.24:1 Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.
MAT.24:2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
MAT.24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
MAT.24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.
MAT.24:5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
MAT.24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MAT.24:7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
MAT.24:8 “All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MAT.24:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
MAT.24:10 “And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
MAT.24:11 “Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
MAT.24:12 “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
MAT.24:13 “But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
MAT.24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
MAT.24:15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
MAT.24:16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
MAT.24:17 “Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
MAT.24:18 “And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
MAT.24:19 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
MAT.24:20 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
MAT.24:21 “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
MAT.24:22 “And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
MAT.24:23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
MAT.24:24 “For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
MAT.24:25 “See, I have told you beforehand.
MAT.24:26 “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
MAT.24:27 “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
MAT.24:28 “For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
MAT.24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
MAT.24:30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
MAT.24:31 “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
MAT.24:32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
MAT.24:33 “So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near–at the doors!
MAT.24:34 “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
MAT.24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
MAT.24:36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
MAT.24:37 “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
MAT.24:38 “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
MAT.24:39 “and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
MAT.24:40 “Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
MAT.24:41 “Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
MAT.24:42 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
MAT.24:43 “But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
MAT.24:44 “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
MAT.24:45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
MAT.24:46 “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.
MAT.24:47 “Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
MAT.24:48 “But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’
MAT.24:49 “and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,
MAT.24:50 “the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of,
MAT.24:51 “and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Live the Word

To grow as a Christian, you need to put what you read in the Word into practice-to take what God says at face value and do what He says to do. “If you know these things,” Jesus said, “blessed are you if you do them.” (John 13:17)
When you read about Jesus showing love and consideration to all men, ask Him to help you be more like Him in that respect, and He will.
When you read about Jesus humbly serving those He was leading into the kingdom of Heaven and He says, “I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you,” (John 13:15) believe that He is talking to you. Become a “slave of all,” and you will be great in His eyes. (Mark 10:42-44)
When you read “whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight,” (1 John 3:22) do your best to obey and please the Lord, and see Him answer your prayers wonderfully.
When you read that it is more blessed to give than to receive, (Acts 20:35) give of yourself and your material things to others in need, and watch God repay you many times over. (Luke 6:38)
When Jesus says, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you,” (John 20:21) let Him use you to share the Good News of salvation through Jesus with others, and see Him transform lives before your very eyes.

“Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
– James 1:22-25

You can read all the Word you want, but if it doesn’t come to life by the Spirit, it’s not going to do anything! You can quote it word for word right out of the Bible, but if you don’t live it in love, it won’t do any good.
-Maria David

(Message from Jesus:) I have spoken many Words unto My children throughout all the ages. I have revealed unto them truth, truth, and more truth. I have given unto them many revelations through My Words, and it is up to them to choose to follow, to believe, to receive. Those who do, prosper and grow; those who do not, fall along the wayside of limited fruitfulness. There are many today who believe My Words, but do not receive all that I have to say. They are able to accomplish some, but I cannot use them to the full, because they do not receive all that I give, or all that I have given, nor all that I will give.
That is their choice, and this is the choice that I give unto each one of you: whether to forge ahead and continue to receive and believe the Words that I give, or to remain on the plateau at which you have arrived. This is always the choice that is given to My children. Will they continue to climb, or will they be satisfied where they are? If they choose to be satisfied, then I will use them there on that plateau, and they will be fruitful there. But those who choose to carry on up the mountain will go to new heights and receive the blessings and the fruitfulness that are higher up the mountain.
These are the Words that I have given, and this is the choice that I put before you: Do you come to Me with an open or a closed heart? Have you decided that you have climbed this far and will climb no further, or will you climb further in faith? This is what I ask you: that you decide, that you search your heart.
Know this, that I love those that remain on the plateau, and I love those that continue the climb. But they that continue to climb will ascend higher and see more and partake of those things which are higher up the mountain. Each one must make his own choice.

Love the Author, love the Book
There once was a young woman who read a certain book and remarked to a friend that it was one of the dullest books she had ever read. Not long after this, she met a young man with whom she promptly fell in love.
One evening she said to him, “I have a book in my library which was written by a man whose name is the same as yours. Isn’t that a coincidence?”
“I don’t think so,” he replied. “I wrote that book.”
The woman sat up half that night, rereading the book. This time, she thought it was the most interesting book she had ever read! What made the difference? She now knew and loved the author.
-Dr. Howard W. Pope, adapted

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Freedom of Conscience vs. “Gay Rights”

Freedom of Conscience vs. “Gay Rights”

So. Have you heard anyone say “don’t be ridiculous, gay relationships are no threat to you, all that stuff is just ‘fearmongering’?”

I personally don’t feel even a little threatened by people living a homosexual lifestyle. My concern is the attempt to FORCE others to approve.

You don’t believe that could happen?

Well, it is happening. The popular site has been bullied into starting a new site for gays, against the sites founders Christian convictions.

Read about it

Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to create a new Web site â€” “Compatible Partners” â€” for gays and lesbians, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General announced.

Created as part of a settlement with Eric McKinley, a gay man from New Jersey, the Web site will provide services for users seeking same-sex partners by March 31, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Director J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo said. &nbps;[Read More]

Here is another article on the topic at

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  1. ugh! this is just the tip of the iceberg… Unfortunately, it is also starting to infiltrate our school system too. This year, as part of the annual teacher’s conference, there is even a workshop on how teachers should deal with homophobia in the classroom and amongst their peers.. Needless to say, that I am not interested the least bit to attend any of those conferences again…Education matters, not brainwashing!

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Gaucho Gil

April 17, 2013

Throughout Argentina there are small shrines at the roadside decorated with red flags and often with a small colourful statue of a little gaucho man. These are shrines to a Robin Hood-esque character called Antonio Gil also known as Gaucho Gil.

gaucho gil sanctuary

We just happened to be passing Mercedes which is the final resting place of Gil and the site of a very large shrine to him.

Antonio Gil was born in 1847 and joined the army to fight in the War of the Triple Alliance. Once the war was ended he deserted from the army and turned into a cattle-rustler who stole from the rich landowner’s and shared his ill-gotten gains with poor local villagers. The villagers in turn gave him shelter and protection.

sculpture of gil hanging

Eventually the law caught up with him and he was hung by the feet from a tree and then beheaded.  However before dying he warned the sergeant in command of the police that his son was very ill and that he would only recover if the sergeant buried Gil after he was dead (it was the custom not to bury army deserters).

As the story goes, when the sergeant returned home and his son was indeed ill, he quickly returned to the site of Gil’s execution and buried him. The son recovered and so was born the legend of Gaucho Gil.

The site of the execution is now a major destination for Argentinians with a shrine surrounded by gift shops selling Gaucho Gil related memorabilia.

plaques thanking the gaucho

Around the shrine and in separate buildings close by, are walls of plaques thanking Gil for performing life-changing miracles for those who have petitioned him.  There is even one from an Argentinian football player thanking him for making the squad.

presents to the gaucho

As well as plaques, there is also a room which displays the gifts that have been given to Gil as offerings over the years. There are a number of guns, knives and even swords amongst these gifts.

touching the gaucho for luck

There is even a campsite at the shrine to allow pilgrims to stay overnight. We took advantage of the campsite and visited the shrine rubbing the head of the small statue of Gil for luck.

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  1. Betti Doherty permalink
    April 18, 2013 2:28 am

    Hi Sarah and Mark.
    Still enjoying your blog. Really amazing! And very very helpful. Thank you very much for the excellent infos about border crossings, camp sites and all.

    You guys almost 2 years ahead of us. We arrived from the UK to Halifax in December and slowly made our way down to California where we currently are (and have been for a couple of months -family visits). Within a couple of weeks we’ll be heading down to continue our travels to South America.

    I was wondering if you can advise on RV camps in Mexico and Central/South Am in general. How did you find your camp sites? Of course I’m looking into websites but there might be a good guide book out there that we should have? Or certain nature places (like beaches, forests etc) where OK to park overnight and it’s well known amongst travellers etc

    We managed to camp at excellent spots in Canada and the US -wonderful nature spots in National forests or BLM lands where camping was lawful and free and peaceful. Hardly ever parked in RV parks. But I have the feeling that in Mexico and other countries safety might be one of the top priorities and it is necessary to book into RV parks.
    As you guys are the travellers who have been at these countries most recently probably you have the most up to date info on these.

    I hope we’re not burdening you with the question. Any advice will be most appreciated. If you wish you can reply to our email address:

    Still enjoying reading your adventure and love the photos! (great lense)

    All the best,
    Betti Doherty and John Brooks

    • April 18, 2013 11:14 am

      We are really jealous of you guys being at the start of your trip.

      There is a really great book – Traveler’s Guide to Mexican Camping by Mike & Terri Church which is the bible on Mexican camping (and has some Belize and Guatemala sites). Needs to be used in conjunction with their website as some campsites have closed.

      Our approach was to always park somewhere secure in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. In Costa Rica and Panama we free camped more as we felt a lot safer. However that is not to say that you can’t free camp in the other countries – it depends how you feel.

      you won’t find RV parks as such south of Mexico and you’ll end of staying in all sorts of places.

      Petrol stations are always good overnight stops if you can’t find anywhere else.

      We have also spent nights in secure parking lots – sometimes they can actually be quite nice. They are everywhere and can give you city centre camping.

      You have to be creative but we have been surprised at the places that will let you stay – from fire stations to 5 star hotels.

      Do some internet searching for other travellers sites. The problem of being in a truck is that most travellers are smaller and often you might find that you don’t fit !

      Hope that helps,

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Peach Bourbon Tea Pops

One of my favorite summertime local treats are the fresh, juicy peaches. For as long as I can remember, I have picked fruit throughout the growing season … Strawberries in June, blueberries in July, peaches in August, then pears, apples … Mmm. I haven’t gotten to go to the orchard yet for peaches right off the tree, but I did pick up some tasty ones from Bechdolt’s Orchard in Hellertown at the Artsquest Farmers’ Market.

Unfortunately, I bought them on a Tuesday, then ended up having to unexpectedly travel to NC for a funeral. The peaches still needed to ripen up a teensy bit, but I was afraid they would go bad while we were away. So, I put some in the fridge to preserve them and left some on the counter to ripen. Well, I came home to a Goldilocks situation where the ones on the counter were over ripe and the ones in the fridge were too hard. Growing up in this frugal, Pennsylvania Dutch valley, I learned not to waste. So, the softer peaches turned into these tasty Southern-inspired popsicles!

Peach Bourbon Tea Pops

Peach Bourbon Tea Pop Ingredients

If a recipe starts with these ingredients, can you really go wrong?

• 4 ripe peaches
• 2-4 teabags, depending on your taste (I used 2 lemon-ginger bags)
• honey (to sweeten to taste)
• 4 oz. bourbon

  1. Boil 4 cups of water. Add tea bags and steep about 10 minutes.
  2. While the tea is steeping, coarsely chop the peaches. No need to peel. Set aside one peach-worth of chunks for later.
  3. Puree the rest of the peach chunks with about 1/4 cup of water until smooth. Transfer to a bowl with a spout (or a pitcher).
  4. Drizzle in as much honey as you would like (I used about 1/8 cup).
  5. Add the bourbon.

    Pouring in Bourbon

    Adding the bourbon.

  6. Remove the tea bags from the water and add the tea to the bowl.
  7. Stir until well incorporated.
  8. Set out popsicle molds (or paper cups and popsicle sticks … whatever you’ve got) and divide the reserved peach chunks among them.
  9. Pour the peach-bourbon-tea mixture into the molds.

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  10. Freeze overnight and enjoy!

    Peach Bourbon Tea Pop

    My husband, about to enjoy a pop after a long day working hard. It's like sitting on a veranda in the south, but in Bethlehem!

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Month: July 2013

A Kitchen Worth Waiting For

I love everything about design, from the shabby to the chic, from the traditional to the contemporary, from the high end to the low end….I love it all! One of my dreams as a child was to become an interior designer, however it was nothing that I ever sought after simply because I didn’t realize … Continue reading A Kitchen Worth Waiting For


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That’s right Kaiju fans, Pacific Rim 2 is happening!  Director Guillermo del Toro announced last night that a sequel to his mechs vs monsters blockbuster will be hitting screens on April 7, 2017. Story writer for Avengers, Zakk Penn will be handling the script and backed up by the previous movie’s writer Travis Beacham.

And if 2017 seems like too long a wait for some, fret not as del Toro also revealed his plans to create a Pacific Rim animated release to bridge the 2 movies.  You can watch his announcement video below:


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The title for the new Star Wars movie has been announced.

Ever since the first film was released back in the late 1970′, the Star Wars movies and it’s wider universe have been amazing and entertaining people across the world. After the somewhat disappointing addition of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, people were gifted with a return to form in December of 2015 with the release of Episode VII.

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens took place around 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi and focuses on the story of a scavenger named Rey and a former Storm Trooper named Finn. They  are on a mission to find Luke Skywalker, the final Jedi who disappeared many years ago, but left clues behind, making his whereabouts a total mystery.

Last Jedi Rey and Finn

Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi – Walt Disney Studios

In Episode VII, the Empire has been replaced by the First Order, who are now led by Supreme Leader Snoke and his Sith disciple Kylo Ren, the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia. They are also trying to find Luke, so they can wipe the Jedi from existence, while also perfecting a planetary weapon that makes the Death Star look like a water pistol.

In case you haven’t seen it yet somehow, spoilers ahead:

At the end of The Force Awakens, Rey finds the location of Luke Skywalker. The final scene shows Rey coming face to face with Luke and offering him his Lightsaber

The official Star Wars website has justreleased the title of the next chapter in the Skywalker saga. Episode VIII comes with the title The Last Jedi. The title most likely refers to Luke himself, who will be coming back to the fight after his self imposed exile and search for the origins of the Jedi order.

Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi Title

Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi – Walt Disney Studios

Star Wars: Episode VIII is due for release on December 15th, 2017.
The film will most likely be released in 3D and IMAX 3D, much like Episode VII.


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Bedding Plants

Bedding Plants are at the core of Gemmell's Garden Centre

As you can see from the 'About Us' page, before we renamed to Gemmell's, as Nurseries Direct, and before that Roadend Nursery, we grew bedding plants commercially for the trade markets. When Nurseries Direct commenced business in 1991 the main aim was to sell bedding plants direct to the customer. Nowadays, we are able to maintain the quality, quantity and range of varieties without losing our important sales area.

Bedding plants are great for bringing colour to the garden throughout Summer

Tub and basket plants produce great masses of cascading flowers and Bedding Geraniums, Fuchsias, Impatiens New Guinea and Non Stop Begonias are great for centrepieces. Our Plant area is brimming with a fantastic stock throughout the season and we often offer multi-buys to help keep costs down.

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The Streets of Monaco Yacht (Around $1 Billion). This insane invention aims to recreate Europe’s most notorious billionaire enclave with scaled down clones of iconic structures like the Monte Carlo Casino, Hotel de Paris, Cafe de Paris, and even the Grand Prix course, functioning as a go-kart course on the deck of this 500-foot watercraft. Read more after the jumpOther features include multiple swimming pools, a multi-use court for basketball and tennis that doubles as a helipad, a submarine (!), an interior “oasis” area, space for up to 16 guests and 70 staff members, a spa, and, of course, a swim-up jacuzzi bar. All of which begs the question: how big does a yacht have to be before it becomes a city unto itself?

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These are books I've been recommended, books I own but haven't started yet, books I've been given but am avoiding reading etc. etc.

  • The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967 by David French
  • The Library: A World History by James W. P. Campbell
  • Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
  • The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
  • The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George Neville-Neil & Robert N. M. Watson
  • The Illustrated Star Wars Universe by Ralph McQuarrie & Kevin Anderson
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago - "city gets hit with an epidemic of contagious blindness, survivors wander around"
  • The World Without Us by Alan Weisman - "non-fiction thought experiment of sorts, about what would happen to the planet if every human suddenly disappeared. Very interesting"
  • The Stand by Stephen King - "disease kills everyone, good survivors fight evil survivors"
  • LÖVE for Lua Game Programming by Darmie Akinlaja
  • Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom
  • A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich - "In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history."
  • The Viking World by Stefan Brink (2008 ISBN 0415333156)
  • The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst (2015 ISBN-13: 978-1625275271)
  • Seneca Dialogues and Essays John Davie translation, Oxford World Classics (2009 ISBN-13: 978-0199552405)
  • The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart (2017 ISBN-10: 1849047995)

  • The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
  • The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking by Barbara Tropp
  • Chinese cookbooks by Fu Pei Mei
  • A Taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey

  • Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Wang Zheng
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine by Yang Jisheng
  • Spying for the People by Michael Schoenhals
  • 我的前半生 The First Half of My Life; From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Aisin-Gioro Pu, Yi - (1964,1987, 2002) Foreign Languages Press. ISBN 978-7119007724 - "Ghost-written by Li Wenda, is well known as From Emperor to Citizen in the Western world. It was released in China again in 2007 as a newly and correctly revised version. Many sentences which were deleted in the 1964 version were correctly included."
  • The Corpse Walker: China From the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu
  • Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter - "China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade". This study systematically questions this assertion on the basis of abundant archives from China, Europe and the US, showing that opium had few harmful effects on either health or longevity, that most smokers used it in moderate quantities without any fatal 'loss of control', and that the substance was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with in-built constraints on excessive use."
  • Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation by William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon & Anna B. Puglisi
  • Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China by Robert Antony (ISBN 1-55729-078-4) link
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RAthena Cloud City’s Scarlet Blaze Dungeon Guide: Floor 4 – Leader Skills Invalid

The fourth floor of the Red Athena challenge dungeon invalidates your leader skills! This means you can’t get any multiplier from leader skills and you can’t alter the size of the puzzle board. The dungeon is roughly analogous to Heroes Descended, but with boosted monster damage and a severe handicap.

So what can you do? Let’s investigate!

NEW! 3P UDR Optimal Yog Kill – 3 Actives with Paimon update!

Cosmic Trinity farming with Yog-Sothoth

This article features an updated build inspired by teams seen on JP. See this older article for a review on the dungeon and requirements. Paimon’s new split ult allows us further optimize the previous team. If you can’t make this specific build you should refer to my previous articles on Yog 3P teams to see if you can make a less optimized version.


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ISBN: 9780199644926

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The Grammar of Romanian

Edited by Gabriela Pana Dindelegan

  • A comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated (but not theory-bound), description of the Romanian language
  • A much-needed addition to the relatively small body of serious English-language scholarship on the linguistic structure of Romanian

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DGHI Board Member Honored for Support of Tanzania Collaboration

August 07, 2017
Plaque honoring the Gorries.

The Duke Global Health Institute’s (DGHI’s) partnership with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUC) is among our strongest and most successful international collaborations, and DGHI Board of Advisors member Tom Gorrie and his wife, Meg Gorrie, have played a critical role in that success.

In late June, the Gorries traveled to Moshi, Tanzania, with their son, Alex, and his fiancée, Mary, for the unveiling of a plaque at KCMC honoring the Gorries’ generous support of the KCMC–Duke collaboration.

Gorrie Contributions Strengthened the Partnership

Since 2009, the Gorries have provided more than $800,000 in support for the KCMC–Duke collaboration in Moshi, Tanzania. In addition, they’ve provided more than $300,000 in graduate fellowship support for students from low- and middle-income countries.

Their generosity has helped the Institute build a stronger partnership with KCMC and has supported students in the Master of Science in Global Health program. Their early philanthropic support has also inspired other donors.

Whirlwind Trip Packs in Ceremony and Many Site Visits

The plaque, dedicated to the Gorrie family and in memory of their daughter, Katherine, was unveiled at a ceremony on June 27 attended by more than 100 people representing KCMC, Duke University, and community partners.

Gileard Masenga, executive director of KCMC and Egbert Kessi, provost of KCMUC, and Reverend Samson Laizer, KCMC chaplain, jointly officiated the ceremony.

Duke University officiants included Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health and former DGHI director Michael Merson; John Bartlett, DGHI research director and professor of medicine and global health; and Gorrie. A number of other Duke faculty members, research staff and students also attended the ceremony.

During the ceremony, Gorrie reflected, “Of the many opportunities we have had to support people and organizations, I felt the KCMC–Duke partnership was most worthwhile because it had the opportunity to be a hub of helping others, education, research and excellence.” He was drawn to support this initiative, he said, because of its potential impact not only on the local community but the larger region and the world.

Gorrie commended the success of the collaboration, made possible in large part “through the excellent work of many dedicated people who work here.”

During their trip, the Gorries also visited the sites where many of the partnership activities take place and had the opportunity to talk with local partners and people in the community, as well as DGHI faculty members and graduate students.

Martha Masaki, a research assistant at the Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute,
talks with former DGHI director Michael Merson as Lindah Mhando, Duke
research scholar, the Gorries and DGHI professor John Bartlett listen in.

Meg Gorrie talks with assistant global health professor Dorothy Dow. In the background
(left to right): Tom Gorrie, Alex Gorrie and global health professor Megan Huchko.

(View more photos from the trip.)

This was the Gorries’ second trip to Tanzania; in 2011, they traveled to Moshi with former Duke president Richard Brodhead, his wife, Cindy, former DGHI director Michael Merson and other Duke representatives to see the collaboration in action and meet some of our Tanzanian partners and people in the community.

Tom Gorrie Has a Long History with Duke and DGHI

A strong advocate for Duke University and Duke University Health System, Gorrie has been a committed volunteer for more than 25 years. He was instrumental in the formation of the DGHI Board of Advisors and served as chair from 2010 to 2016.

In addition to his role as a DGHI Board of Advisors member, he currently serves on the Duke University Board of Trustees, Duke Health Board of Visitors and Duke Kunshan University Board of Trustees. He also chairs the Duke University Health System Board of Directors.

Gorrie retired in 2008 from Johnson & Johnson as corporate vice president of government affairs and policy and is currently an adjunct professor at the Rutgers Business School. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Princeton University and completed post-doctoral studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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Posing in Front of Plaque
From left: DGHI professor John Bartlett, Alex Gorrie, Mary Carosa, Meg Gorrie, Tom Gorrie, former DGHI director Michael Merson and Gileard Masenga, executive director of KCMC.

Since 2009, the Gorries have provided more than $800,000 in support for the KCMC–Duke collaboration in Moshi, Tanzania.

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