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Friday, July 19, 2019

[Project Volvo 960] Gramp’s Wagon Part 1: Introduction

There comes a time in most young people’s lives where they start making some headway with their careers. This usually equates to a bump in pay and a little extra spending money. Most people would probably go out and buy the latest and greatest turbo hot hatch and call it a day. Then there’s the people who think Grandpa’s hand-me-down 1995 Volvo is a better way to go fast.

For the last few years, Willum has been daily driving his grandfather’s 1995 Volvo 960 wagon. It’s green, it has blown shocks, and the interior finally received a cleaning when the sunroof was accidentally left open at the automatic car wash. By now you’re likely to assume it’s a clapped out beater that would best be given to someone’s 16 year old daughter, and you’d be correct. Look between the lines though and you’ll learn this Volvo has a transverse leaf spring IRS and rear wheel drive. Since it’s a 1995 model, it’s also the last eligible year for GM’s E-Rod crate motor program. Cutting to the chase, this Volvo is going to be a 430 horsepower air-conditioned burnout machine.

Just Like the Actor

The idea for this latest round of blasphemy stems from two things. The first being that we have a difficult time selling anything. The other being the late, great Paul Newman had a similarly styled Volvo wagon back in the 1990s which utilized a Ford 5.0 V8 paired with a supercharger. At that time, it was good for 400 horsepower or so, but old photos will tell you it was a shoehorn job. Now that 20+ years have gone by, the Chevy LS motors have taken the cake as the go-to v8 swap. Being that it’s lighter (aluminum block), more compact, and produces more power naturally aspirated, the LS is miles ahead of Vanilla Ice’s Five-Oh in just about every aspect.

Since this is the great state of California, we still have to deal with smog. Thankfully the E-Rod crate engine is CARB compliant right out of the box. It’s the 6.2 liter LS3 V8 as found in the previous generation Camaros and Corvettes, but the kit comes with all the necessary emissions equipment and self-contained wiring harness. The idea behind the E-Rod is that it can go into nearly any vehicle up to 1995, all while being smog legal. By technicality, the CARB sticker supplied with the engine exempts the vehicle from having to go to the state referee, but I’d be very surprised if a regular smog tech would even touch this thing.

Accessories Sold Separately

Like any swap, there will be various odds and ends needed to get the LS3 properly working in the Volvo chassis. The E-Rod kit is fairly comprehensive, but it still requires the buyer to source the accessories and transmission/clutch combo. The motor arms are custom fabricated for this specific swap, and the driveshaft will be a Frankenstein’d piece to mate the GM transmission to the 960’s differential. Since “Gramps Wagon” is currently an automatic, we also sourced a manual transmission pedal assembly to make the already potent LS3 a little more engaging to drive.

So what’s the plan of attack? Well the engine has been shipped, as well as the Tremec T56 Magnum trans with the option for a .63 6th gear. The motor mounts have been tested to fit, but we still need to decide on an accessory package (GM has a few to choose from which dictates spacing arrangements). The clutch/flywheel setup is most likely going to be from an LS7 because it’s made for the C6 Z06 with 505 horsepower stock (75 more than we’re working with).

Parts Unknown, and no Chef in Sight

Hiccups are guaranteed to happen along the way. Thanks to the helpful folks on the TurboBricks forum, we’ve been able to answer most of our questions, but there’s still a few items that we’ll be performing the R+D. For example, we currently don’t know if the Holley 302-1 pan we ordered will clear the front subframe, so there will be a few test fits before anything is finally bolted into position. Another item in question is the rear differential. The 3.73 unit is said to electronically lock up to 25 mph, but we’re more concerned whether it can take the torque that the LS is going to be barreling through the drivetrain. This is where the earlier solid axle cars would have made things easier, but only a minor hurdle in the scheme of things.

A brand new GM crate engine is fine and dandy, but it’s not going to do anyone any good if the Swede Machine is sloppy to drive. The wagon doesn’t need to enter any time attacks, but it’d be nice if it didn’t bottom out over the slightest dip in the road. Concocting a suitable suspension and braking package will be an interesting endeavor. The 700/900 series Volvo’s have plenty of suspension options, but of course 1995 marks the year when Volvo was phasing out the rear wheel drive platforms in favor of the front wheel drive 850 and S70 cars. The result is that our 960 Wagon has underpinnings closely related to the FWD cars, so suspension and wheel options don’t work like they do on the older cars. The brakes should be fairly simple as we can go junkyard diving for an upgrade off an 850. The suspension on the other hand may as well be trying to find a Middle English translator. The company Kaplhenke makes the only aftermarket suspension for the IRS 960 we could find, and it’s kinda pricey. Go figure.

I Promise We’re Not Crazy

As you can see, the parts pile is growing quickly, as are the receipts that come with them. There’s also been more than a few raised eyebrows as to the logic behind this project. If we weren’t in California, then we could have sourced a used LS engine for much less. To be fair though, by the time you refresh a used engine, you’ll be in the same ballpark as the brand new crate engine. It’s honestly a case of paying now or later.

On to the bigger point justifying this swap: What car could you reasonably purchase for $20,000 that will comfortably seat 4 people for long distance trips, be able to haul a bunch of cargo, and have insurmountable reliability? Oh, and be able to surprise many of today’s high output machines? Trust me when I say we thought long and hard about this. The only vehicles that came close were the e39 M5 and Cadillac CTS-V wagon, but they were too expensive to maintain and too expensive to find one used, respectively. So here we are back to square one, or better yet, brick one.

Any way you slice it, there’s a long road ahead. This is the first American V8 we’ve gotten the chance to really get our hands on, but ironically we can still use all of our metric sockets and wrenches. With 430 horsepower on the horizon, it’s hard not to get excited. Most of all, we can’t wait to see people’s faces as Grandpa’s old Volvo wagon blows their doors off. I like to think Paul would approve.

See an initial breakdown of what we have planned for the Volvo:

GM LS3 E-Rod Crate Engine

Tremec T56 Magnum

V8 Volvo LS Swap Mounts

Kaplhenke 960 IRS Coilovers

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Archive for February, 2012

February Bloom Day — First Blooms

Iris douglasiana

This’ll be a short bloom day post. We don’t have a lot in bloom, but things are starting up with the promise of more to come. This past week saw several plants open their first flowers. We have our first Doug Iris, first Cal Poppy, and first Daffodil. The Tree Coreopsis, Ribes ‘White Icicle,’ and the New Zealand Tree Fuchsia have been blooming for a couple of weeks. One of the Sidalceas has had a clutch of flowers for the same amount of time. And the ever-bloomers have flowers, Alyssum, Geranium ‘Bill Wallis,’ Calendula, and the Iochroma. Of the deciduous plants, the Ninebark broke leaf at the start of the month and the Snowberry is breaking leaf now. That’s early for the snowberry, but right on schedule for the ninebark.

Coreopsis gigantea

Thanks to Carol for hosting bloom day. Click over to MayDreamsGardens for links to many more blogs showing off their flowers.

Andy Goldsworthy’s Stone River

I almost included this in my post about the Richard Serra sculpture at the Stanford museum, but it seemed like it should get its own post. It’s Stone River, one of several Andy Goldsworthy pieces in the Bay Area. The others are Drawn Stone at the De Young museum and Spire in the Presidio. This one is my favorite of the three. I love the snakelike form and the stylized coping stones. Vertical coping stones along the top of a wall are common, especially in Europe, but I’ve never seen them quite like this. It’s all built from rubble the university saved after the earthquakes of 1989 and 1906, 128 tons of stone, 320 feet long.

The whole thing is set into the ground with the top of the wall at grade. Because the color of the stone and the dirt match so closely, it sort of feels like someone took a big scoop of dirt and compressed it into the stone for the wall. I like to see how far I can get walking along the top (not very far).

This warm weather and lack of rain has me a little unsettled. I remember some winters like this when I was growing up, but that was before my gardening days and I don’t remember how it affected the plants. I guess I’ll be finding out. In the meantime, I’ve stopped at Tilden several times this winter to check out how the manzanitas are responding to this lack of a winter. I thought I could look at past photos to see if the different varieties are acting any different this year, but I couldn’t figure out anything conclusive. I think I’ve seen bigger bloom clusters in other years and I think they started blooming a couple of weeks late this year, but I couldn’t say for sure. In any case, they’re looking good right now in the heart of manzanita season.

The one in the photo below, Arctostaphylos montana-regis, has one of the best tree trunks I’ve ever seen. This little cluster of trees is probably my favorite spot in my favorite garden.

The next thing to keep an eye on is when everything deciduous wakes up. A few things in the garden had buds, but nothing had broken into leaf yet.

Tree, Line by Zander Olsen

I really like this photo by a photographer from the UK. It’s great how it plays with my eye, but also how it seems to satirize or exploit the practice of painting tree trunks white. He has more photos on his website.

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The Lay Of The Land

Fast Track From Final Cut Pro to DVD SP

Quick Menu From Photoshop to DVD SP

Using VTS Views

Setting Build Folder

Quick Compressor Overview

Layered Menus

Transitions In Menus

Rotating Drop Zones

Quick Mapping (early verions)

More Mapping Examples

Using Motion to Create
Animated Backgrounds (FADE IN )

Using DVD SP Assets From Templates

Auto Assigning Buttons/
More Button Creation-Mapping

Semi/Pseudo Animated Rollovers Sort Of

Basic Return To Menu

Track Markers Jumps

Stories Details

Scriptless Play All/Scene Selection

Stories & Jumps

Random Return To Menus

Make A "Secret" Passcode

Using Scripts For Preferences (Audio Selection)

Random Fun (Making Random Jumps to Material)

Bit Shift Bingo

1.) Start a new NTSC Project in Motion

2.) Show the timeline in Motion

3.) From the library palette go to shapes

4.) Use the gray ball and place on the timeline

5.)Press record (the button becomes red) to make animation

6.)Drag the play head to about 10 seconds (see where inverse yellow triangle is on the timeline right above the gray ball track is in blue on the bottom of this picture) then drag the gray ball in the viewer and slide to the right. The red line indicates the motion path.

7.)Create a new layer

8.) Use the text tool to write "MY Button" in the new layer. Note that the left edge of the text starts at about 8 seconds where the gray ball has almost finished its cycle

9.) From the library/behaviors, drag fade in from left onto the MY BUTTON text

10.) Export the animation

11.) Note the export settings, particularly the second tab (output) 720 x 480 ALSO NOTE: This exported movie should then be compressed to an m2v. In the project files it is Untitled.m2v and I refer to it as Untitled.m2v later.

11.)Hide layer 1 then change color of the text to blue

12.)Note that settings should not be set (checked) for correct for aspect ratio. Then export as a still image, note the settings. In the project files it is Untitled.pct and I refer to it as Untitled.pct later.

13.)Open up DVD SP, press F3 key to get the following set up and bring Unttlted.m2v and Untitled.pct into the project

14.)The rest of the action occurs in the inspector so the images will focus there. Set the background for the menu to the Untitled.m2v

15.)Set the loop point to 10 seconds (where the text MY BUTTON is full faded in) by dragging the slider shown

16.)Set the overlay for the menu to Untitled.pct

17.)Create a button

18.) Then Map the colors using Advanced Selection. Note that we are mapping blue right now since we made the text in Blue. You can also map Red, Black and White. In the example i made I just used blue for the overlay colors (Step 11 above). You could have also used Grayscale and mapped using that. In the image below, the blue is being mapped so that when the button is selected it will be Yellow with a Value of 7 (about half of the total color saturation which could be applied)

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The X-Files Podcast: S10E04 – Home Again

Join us as we discuss The X-Files season 10 episode four, titled: Home Again. We take this emotional episode very seriously, but at the same time we still find the funny. Check out the show notes for additional info, and enjoy!

Our Favorite Screencaps

Show Notes

Randy said the art in this episode reminded him on Banksy art. Check it out!

“Downtown” was a huge song in this episode and we discuss how it was used in a couple different shows: Seinfeld and LOST. Check out the videos below.

LOST – Downtown – Link to external website

We talk about the trashman in It’s Always Sunny in Philedelphia. Here are a couple clips from that amazing episode.

Our Recap

Cold Open:

  • We open with phase 1 of Operation: Fiscal Cleansing, which is the homeless being bombarded by dues with a massive super-soaker. It’s then that we get what might as well be labeled, “MURDERER’S MASSIVE TRUCK OF DEATH AND GARBAGE AND MORE DEATH” roll up outside the operation’s organizer. He dials for help, but it’s to no avail as the assailant bursts in and “disarms’ captain 1% before compacting him in the garbage truck of super-death.

Roll Credits

Run 1:

  • CSI: Lame-town are taking pics and we get informed that they called the FBI due to the “spooky” nature of the crime. Jesus, Scully looks good. The dynamic duo is informed that there are no footprints, but Mulder states that it’s impossible to be born without footprints. So, it turns out that just the arms are missing and the head is in the trash can. Scully cunningly deciphers that the vic was torn apart whilst receiving calls from William…Scully Jr, her brother. Turns out that her mum is in the ICU due to a heart attack. Mulder dismisses her, but seriously misses her. He looks as if he really wants to console her, but he doesn’t feel that it’s his place anymore.
  • Mulder views some video surveillance that leads him to believe that Banksy saw the crime while he was putting up some depressing, yet super-meaningful, art on a billboard across the street. It’s “Street art” of Jeffrey Tambour looking longingly at nothing. Mulder steps on a disgusting band-aide and holds it over for evidence?
  • Mulder arrives to see that her mother (Margaret) is on some sort of breathing assistance apparatus, to find out that Margs only wanted “Charlie” in her moment of consciousness, her estranged youngest son. Dana issues some comforting words, but she gets hung up on “William is here”. Obviously, Scully is totes talking about her bruv, but meaning her son.

Run 2:

  • Mulder rolls out demanding that he have access to the building with access to the Bluth patriarch’s likeness billboard, only to discover two terrible community actors running though the lines of the world’s only play regarding homelessness versus the murder of a city figurehead (seriously…they were awful).  Mulder mediates while being told about the threat of homeless people. One homeless peep speaks up stating that “the band-aide knows”. Mulder’s curiosity is peaked.
  • We get the moment that Scully alluded to earlier regarding her brush with a coma. She uncovers Marg’s personal artifacts, one of which is a quarter that’s been turned into a pendant. “Bill” calls and his on his way from Frankfort (presumably Germany). Bill is a bit of an arse, requesting a status update on whether or not mom would be worm food by the time he arrived from the country that has no history between 1933 and 1945.
  • We cut to Mulder in a super sciencey room with an even more super-sciency man in a lab coat telling him that there are neither organic nor inorganic materials present in the band-aide.
  • Back to Scully, we find out that Marg’s was serious about her “advanced directive”.
  • The fake Method Man and the fake Michael Pena unveil the Jeffrey Tambour painting , only to have the image disappear from the canvas and appear in their deaths. Fake Meth finds fake Pena dea, panics, runs, and ends up on the wrong end of a Mortal Kombat fatality. We end the scene with the canvas signed by “Trash Man” in blood.

Run 3:

  • We get White Knight Mulder rolling up to Scully at her mum’s hospital. Mulder explains the myth of the Golem…ahem…Trash Man. Scully doesn’t give two shits because she’s all hung up on her mu, asking for Charlie, changing her living will, and the quarter pendant (which seems to have no significance). Then, when her mother needs some medical assistance, we get a viewer’s perspective. We don’t need the answers to the big questions, just for this series to live long enough to answer the little ones. I what can only be an allusion to LOST, we get a luxury SUV rolling up to an affluent neighborhood and doing affluent stuff, like using a Keurig. A trash truck drops off The Trash Man, who just wrecks shop. He rips Mrs. Keurig user apart, placing part of her in the trash can and part in the garbage truck of death.
  • Back to Sculder, still in Mummy Scully’s hospital room, when Scully reminisces about being able to summon someone back to life. Mulder jokes about inventing the ability while Scully calls him a “Dark Wizard”. Charlie calls, but seems to want nothing to do with mummy Scully. Charlie ends up on speaker phone, mummy Scully wakes up for a brief moment to say that William is her son’s name too, and then proceeds to kick the bucket.

Run 4:

  • Back from commercial, we open on Scully’s mom being taken to Fisher & Sons/slashed up for organ donorship, much to the chagrin of Scully. It’s then that Scully gets super-distraught regarding her now-dead-then-living mum’s words regarding the alien offspring she gave up for adoption. Scully decides that she needs to work in order to take her mind off of things.
  • The spray paint presumably used by The Trash Man is pretty distinctive (use of “vibrational spectography”), so much so that only one shop sells it. This makes it pretty easy to tail the only human buying it. Sculder tracks down that one human to an abandoned warehouse area, which leads them to and even more abandoned set of catacombs beneath the abandoned warehouse. We get Mulder and Scully confronting a super-homeless dude.

Run 5:

  • Super-homeless dude talks about how humans treat each other like trash, which is why he brought The Trash Man to life. Mulder spouts off about some Tibetan myth but we get a direct analogy for the trash-golem and William (Scully’s kiddo). Scully tells super-homeless man that he is responsible for all of this, and they realize that the worst of the community actors from earlier in the episode is the next target.
  • Community theater man gets the heeby-jeebies (or just starts noticing a terrible smell), and chooses to investigate further. Perpetuating the white-people-can’t-control=themselves-during-a-supernatural-crisis stereotype, The Trash Man turns out all of the lights and proceeds to chase down the community theater guy that inexplicably hates the homeless. Mulder and Scully roll up just in time to notice that TM is gone and only a bloody pile of dismembered parts remain. Although no Trash Man is present, a gross band-aide is. Captain Homeless leaves his homeless headquarters, leaving behind a bit of evidence and a giant painting of the murderer.
  • We cut to Sculder on a log by a lake somewhere. Scully states that the only reason that her mum wanted to talk to the distant Charlie is so that she would know that he’s okay, and that this was a direct correlation to William. Scully talks about being there for Mulder’s biggest mysteries, while not being able to ever answer hers. Does William think of her? Has he ever been afraid and wished that she were there? Does William doubt himself because they left him? What questions does he have about her? Scully needs to believe that they didn’t treat William like trash.


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the positive pompous

i’m insulted pompous

young i
often custard pompoused
an enthusiasm an interest
a thing known
listeners to know
to work to grasp

most took the meant
i’d put effort
i’d interest
i’d an understood
but resenters resent the rattle on excited
perhaps they’ve no ability
perhaps they’ve no intensity
perhaps they’ve never gumptioned
no don’t fix the failure
and by insult
admit their fault
can’t think
can’t work
can’t learn

often i’m pompoused
rattling modernist enthusiasm
complexity takes a stress
reward for work
i’ve challenged insulters
they’ve not tried
they’ve not worked
they’ve not heard
they won’t test
won’t work
won’t learn
so they insult
admit my work
admit their none
resent their state
resent their lazy
can’t think
can’t work
can’t learn
too thick to know

even the naïf grasp
music is personal taste

for the young me
programming a rare profession
silly media labelled
for whizz kids and genius
a nonsense
we all know now
anyone with fascination
can understand
i knew then
i was no whizz
it was a profession
wrapped in nouveau fear’s blood shine
i’d had the luck to find
that’s all
yet pompousers pompoused me
resenting my rattling joy
refusing kenning’s work
they labelled themselves
intentionally ignorant

the dictionary’s pompous
windbag false pomp
glamour sans amour
that’s the insulters attempt
they see no substance
they don’t look
they won’t look
they don’t see
they won’t see
the pleasure of modernist music
the simplicity of programming
substance itself
they insult those who do
they won’t think
won’t work
won’t learn
they can’t think
can’t work
can’t learn

pomp itself’s a spectacle
a trance
a bright pride in dull times
of culture of history
if the pompous make associate
we’re accused
of taste

to be insulted pompous
you think
you work
you learn
you express
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NFL Betting

Pens Overcome Slow Start and Thunder Through Lightning

The Pittsburgh Penguins were coming off their bye week as they faced the Tampa Bay Lightning today.  The rust was there for sure during that first period.   But they shook it off during the second and third period with gusto.  The Pens would score twice in the second period and four more times in the third on their way to another 6 goal game.  Final score in Pittsburgh, 6-2 Pens.

As Matt Murray continues to mend, Marc-Andre Fleury has been very strong in net.  He gave up the games first  goal during the second period, but would hold serve for the remainder as his offense in front of him would wake up.  Slowly but surely the passes became more crisp and the Pens started to bury pucks.

Down 1-0, Pittsburgh would get a sweet goal by Conner Sheary at around 6 minutes into the second.  Then Eric Fehr would net one later in the period to give the Pens the lead and the momentum.

Then in the third period, Chris Kunitz would score just 2 minutes into the period to extend that lead to 3-1.  The Pens would add another just a few moments later as Scott Wilson would score an unassisted goal to pretty much put the game away just 3 minutes into the third period.

If there is one thing that the players have learned from their coach is to keep the pedal down.  Pittsburgh was not done as they would add two more later in the period as Phil Kessel would extend the lead to 5-2 at around the 7 minute mark.  Then with just a few minutes left in the game, Pittsburgh would add one to grow on to finish off the Lightning.

The final score once again was 6-2 as the Pens won their 5th in a row and solidified themselves as the highest scoring team in hockey.

Pittsburgh plays the Capitals in Washington on Wednesday.  Washington just broke up the Columbus Blue Jacket 16 game winning streak and are looking to continue to build on that.   It is always fun to watch these two teams play each other regardless of the location.

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US senator seeks safe passage for Blazers star Enes Kanter

SALEM, Ore. — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden wants to ensure Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, a Turkish star whom Turkey wants arrested for his criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will be able to safely travel to Canada for a possible NBA championship series against the Toronto Raptors

The Oregon senator wrote Tuesday to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking that his government facilitate Kanter's safe passage to and from Canada if the Blazers advance to the title series.

The Blazers opened their semifinal series against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. The Raptors face the Milwaukee Bucks in the other semifinal series. The finals begin May 30.

Turkish officials have sought a "red notice" — an international wanted notice — for Kanter through Interpol. Kanter's Turkish passport was canceled in 2017.

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EAA Tri-Motor Coming to Auburn in April

The Auburn EAA Chapter 526 is thrilled to announce that the chapter will be hosting the Ford Tri-Motor at KAUN (Auburn), on April 25-28, 2019. More information will be forthcoming, but it is possible to buy your ticket(s) now. The adult price is $72.00. There are only 180 seats available for the Auburn experience. Ride days and hours will be: Thursday 4/25 (2-5pm) & Friday 4/26 through Sunday 4/28 (9am – 5pm).

For our Chapter 1541 members, Chapter 526 is looking for volunteer help. Those interested can contact Phil Vardara at 530-613-2301.

The Tri-Motor will be making numerous stops in northern California in March and April including Watsonville, Sacramento, Nut Tree, and Marysville. Schedule is available at the EAA website.


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Chinese Philosophy

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Post by DCHindley » Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:41 pm

There has been some buzz about eastern religions being represented in Alexandria and Rome.

(Chan, wing-tsit) A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963) ... -tsit_chan

1. The Tao (Way) that can be told of is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
The Named is the mother of all things.
Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety,
And let there always be being so we may see their outcome.
The two are the same,
But after they are produced, they have different names.
They both may be called deep and profound (hsüan).
Deeper and more profound,
The door of all subtleties!

Comment. While ancient Chinese philosophical schools differed in many respects, most of them insisted on the correspondence of names and actualities. They all accepted names as necessary and good. Lao Tzu, however, rejected names in favor of the nameless. This, among other things, shows the radical and unique character without names, and when names arise, that is, when the simple oneness of Tao is split up into individual things with names, it is time to stop.

5. Heaven and Earth are not humane (jen).
They regard all things as straw dogs.
The sage is not humane.
He regards all people as straw dogs.
How Heaven and Earth are like a bellows!
While vacuous, it is never exhausted.
When active, it produces even more.
Much talk will of course come to a dead end.
It is better to keep to the center (chung).

Comment. The term "not humane" is of course extremely provocative. It may be suggested that this is Lao Tzu's emphatic way of opposing the Confucian doctrine of humanity and righteousness. Actually, the Taoist idea here is not negative but positive, for it means that Heaven and Earth are impartial, have no favorites, and are not humane in a deliberate or artificial way. This is the understanding of practically all commentators and is abundantly supported by the Chuang Tzu. To translate it as unkind, as does Blakney, is grossly to misunderstand Taoist philosophy.

The two Taoist ideas, vacuity (hsü) and non-being (wu), later employed and elaborated by the Buddhists, were taboos to Confucianists. To them, these ideas are charged with a great danger of nihilism, even if Taoism is not. The Neo-Confucianist Chang Tsai (Chang Heng-ch'ü, 1020-1077) called Reality "Great Vacuity" (T'ai-hsü), Chu Hsi (1130-1200) characterized man's nature as hsü and intelligent, and Wang Yang-ming (Wang Shou-jen, 1472-1529) described the original mind of man in the same terms. But Chang's Vacuity is equivalent to material force (ch'i), which is real and active. To Chu and Wang, as to other Confucianists, vacuity means purity, being devoid of selfish desires, impartiality, and so forth. Even then, they used the term sparingly and with great care.

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Eastland UMC - Come worship with us!
Saturday, July 20, 2019

These are ways that we reach out to our community and the world around us

Through the Fredericksburg District of the United Methodist Church, we support:

*Our international mission partner, the El Salvador Evangelical Methodist Church. For ideas how you can be involved, see their website at www.Salvadoranmissionprojects.com

* The Heartwood Center in Hartwood, Virginia.  The Rappahannock River District seeks to join hands with local hospitals to operate a clinic, seeking to partner with Stafford Social Services to offer elder day care programs, seeking a partnership with local public schools and much more.  To see how you can be a part of this ministry, go to www.rappahannockriverdistrict.org

   *The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe. Relief-supply kits help provide care for the most vulnerable people during times of crisis. They collect items for health kits, sewing kits, school kits, bedding kits, birthing kits, and cleaning buckets and send them where they are most needed.  Go to their website to see what items are needed for which kits.

Stop Hunger Now
   *Stop Hunger Now is driven to end world hunger in our lifetime by coordinating the distribution of food and other life-saving aid and helping to mobilize the necessary resources to the world's most vulnerable people.  Their meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used primarily to support education programs and to save lives in developing countries around the world. Stop Hunger Now meal packaging provides volunteers the opportunity to have an exponential and sustainable  international impact right from their own community.

The Society of St. Andrew
   *The Society of St. Andrew partners with people of all faiths, and of many organizations, that we might all serve together by feeding the hungry out of the abundance that we are provided. Volunteers glean from fields and orchards after the harvest, then sort and deliver food to agencies serving those in need.

School Supply Ministry
   *We collect items for homeless and needy students in our county. Please bring in hygiene items and school supplies and place them in the tub behind the Mission Control desk. If you would rather provide financial support, you may send a check in any amount to the church and clearly mark "School Supplies" in the memo section. Contact Frances Vaughn with questions.

 ...and here are opportunities to serve at Eastland UMC:

*Choir rehearses Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., August - May, breaking for the summer.  See the calendar for rehearsal dates.

Fifth Saturday Gospel Sing
*6:00 p.m. on the 5th Saturdays.  Invite your friends and neighbors to come to the church for an evening of worship and fellowship as we hear the words of Christ through song.  Free admission; a free-will offering is taken.

Loaves of Love Bread Ministry
   *To be a part of this tasty ministry of welcoming newcomers to Eastland, sign up at the Mission Control Desk in the Fellowship Hall or call the church office 540-898-6430.
Around the Church
   *Put your maintenance skills to work at Eastland.  All skill levels are welcome.  You may serve as an usher, or a counter or on the hospitality committee. Speak to the pastor or sign up at the Mission Control Desk.
 Women of Eastland
This group of dynamic women ministers to the congregation and the community.  See the calendar for meeting dates.
Empower House
   *We take donations of food, toiletries, cleaning supplies and non-perishable foods all year long.
Salvation Army
   *At Christmas, we sponsor families and fulfill their wish lists.  See the "Angel" Tree (in the narthex after Thanksgiving).
United Methodist Men
Meetings are held on first Saturdays of odd numbered months at 9:00 a.m. at Four Seasons - below are ways to be involved in ministry with the UMM.
The Food for Life Program
   *Eastland’s United Methodist Men participate in the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank’s “Food for Life” Program.  There are program changes that took effect on August 25th, 2013.  To qualify for the program an individual must be 60 years of age or older and income qualified based on the USDA Income Guidelines.  The program no longer accepts anyone that is on SSI or SSDI and falls under the age of 60.  All participants that are currently on the program will be grandfathered in.  These changes will allow the FAFB to continue to use USDA foods, have access to more grants through Feeding America and be able to provide more nutritious foods along with produce and dairy. Food distribution is the third Thursday of each month from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the social hall of our church. See Frances Vaughn or Bill Todd if you have questions about the program or would like to complete an application.
Questions? – call the church office 540-898-6430.

Youth and Children

Vacation Bible School
   *Join us for summertime fun and learn about Jesus, too.  Adult and older youth helpers are invited to join in the fun. Do you like to have fun? Vacation Bible School is a way to have fun and learn about Jesus. Teachers and all kinds of helpers with arts and crafts, snacks and music are needed.  If teaching isn't your thing, you can still take part! Donations of supplies are needed.

Youth Group
 *We meet on the second or third Sunday of each month for all kinds of fun events. Check the calendar and the youth page for details.

Fundraising for Missions
*We are collecting new or empty ink cartridges and old cell phones to raise funds for missions. Considering putting up a collection box at work and marking the box with a sign saying "Eastland United Methodist Church and Missions." All you collect from work, home, friends and neighbors can be placed in a collection box in the Fellowship Hall.


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Herb Schildt's Java Programming Cookbook

Herb Schildt's Java Programming Cookbook

English | 2007 | ISBN: 0072263156 | 524 Pages | PDF | 5.5 MB

Legendary programming author Herb Schildt shares some of his favorite programming techniques in this high-powered Java "cookbook." Organized for quick reference, each recipe shows how to accomplish a practical programming task. A recipe begins with a list of key ingredients (the classes, methods, and interfaces) followed by step-by-step instructions that show how to assemble them into a complete solution. Detailed discussions explain the how and why behind each step, and a full code example puts the recipe into action. Each recipe ends with a list of options and alternatives that suggest ways to adapt the technique to fit a variety of situations. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced pro, you'll find recipes that are sure to satisfy your Java programming appetite!

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What’s an API Call and How Are They Counted

Intrinio sells financial data through APIs and I get questions about how exactly this works on a weekly basis. It's easy to see how it could be confusing- no one was selling financial data through APIs five years ago. This blog will tell you what an API and API call are, how API call limits work in Intrinio's data plans, and how API calls are counted.

What is an API call?

API stands for application programming interface, and this is just a fancy term for a tool that gets data from a database so a developer can display that data in their application. Intrinio has a massive database of financial information like stock prices, balance sheets, economic data, and FDIC call reports. Our data feeds, which you can browse in our marketplace, give developers an easy, systematic way to pull that data into whatever program they want to use via a single API.

Pulling data in this manner is called an API call, and its very much like a phone call. The developer calls the database, asks for a specific piece of data, and the database sends back that data. The developer can then use that data in their application.

When you use an application like those Intrinio lists in the marketplace, apps like the Excel add-in or the Intrinio Screener for Excel, the data you are seeing is being "called" from Intrinio's database.

How do you sell API calls?

To use one of Intrinio's APIs or applications, it is necessary to subscribe to the data feed you want to use. Many of our products are available in our Sandbox environment where you can test out a subset of the data for free. All paid plans have API call limits. The US Fundamentals and Stock Prices feed, for example, allows 120 API calls per minute (for individuals) and has several options that allow users to upgrade and access more data per minute. In general, more expensive plans allow more API calls, meaning you can access more data in the allotted amount of time.

The various plans a user can subscribe to have different features, such as whether the plan includes redistribution rights, but the savvy user will still want to estimate how many API calls they will need so they can pick the right plan.

How do you count API calls?

Since Intrinio's plans come in units of API calls, its important to understand exactly how much data you can get with an API call. For most data types, one API call gets you one data point. For example, =intriniodatapoint("AAPL","ceo") returns Apple's CEO in Excel and charges your US Fundamentals and Stock Prices subscription one API call.

In reality, the Excel application is making this API call when that formula is entered:

A developer building an application would also be charged one API call to get this data.

There are two exceptions to the 1 data point = 1 API call rule. For historical stock prices, it is possible to get up to 100 stock prices in a single API call. For example:

will get a developer Apple's price history. That call is limited to 100 results per page with each day containing the open, low, high, close, volume, and adjusted stock prices. This article explains paging with the API- each page of data counts as one API call. For developers, this one page = 1 API call is a good rule of thumb.

Likewise, when an Excel user pulls historical stock prices:

=IntrinioHistoricalPrices("AAPL", "adj_close", 0, "2012-01-01", "2012-12-31")

they will be charged one call. They can then subsequently access then next 100 historical prices for that stock, in this case Apple, without being charged additional calls. This is because the API call that Excel made to get the stock price actually pulled the first 100 prices into memory with a single API call. If you want to get the 101st price (using a sequence of 100), another API call will be made. Thus, Intrinio Excel functions with a "sequence" parameter call the API in 100-record increments.

A developer can get the entire income or balance sheet for a company in a single API call:

This API call gets quite a few data points but counts as only a single API call. If a user in Excel queries a balance sheet or income statement, Excel will use the API to pull the entire statement into memory, allowing the user to access that data in subsequent formulas without additional API calls.

Developers will quickly want to make "dimensional calls", which is an API call with multiple tickers or multiple data points like this:

That single API call pulls in the most recent stock price for both AAPL and MSFT. While this is technically one API call, Intrinio calls this dimensional calling and counts it as 2 API calls against your subscription. Dimensional calling is not available for the historicaldata endpoint but can be accessed in endpoints like news and datapoint.

How can I track my usage?

Developers will notice that the JSON return of their API call includes the item "api_call_credits":

Example of a dimensional call

An example of a "dimensional call" where a single API call counts as two

This number will usually be one, but with API calls that include multiple items, or multiple tickers, it can go up to 150.

Developers can track their usage via API using this documentation which shows how to return your usage levels for the different data feeds you are subscribed to.

Excel users can track their usage at intrinio.com/login by clicking "Usage" on any of the data feeds they are subscribed to:

Tracking API usage from intrinio.com/login

Click "Usage" in your account on any of the plans you are subscribed to to track your API calls in real time

Wait, what?

If any of this sounds confusing, and we know it does, feel free to chat with our team regarding any specific examples or use cases you are facing.

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Young Bicyclist Airlifted To Stony Brook Following Crash

A 15-year-old girl was flown to Stony Brook University Medical Center on Tuesday after she was struck by a van while riding her bicycle, according to Southampton Village Police.

At 11:35 a.m. on Tuesday, Dermot Odwyer, 53, of East Hampton was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Express van southbound on Flying Point Road when he struck the 15-year-old, whom police did not identify. She was coming out of a driveway on the west side of the road, according to a press release issued by Detective Sergeant Herman Lamison of the Southampton Village Police Department.

The Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance responded to the scene. The girl was stabilized and transported by Suffolk County Police Medevac helicopter to Stony Brook University Medical Center for treatment of unspecified injuries.

Neither the driver nor a passenger in the vehicle was injured as a result of the accident, although police report Mr. Odwyer was in shock following the incident.

Detectives are investigating and have asked anyone with information to call 283-0056.

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Juniper Spatula: Benefits of Wooden Utensils

There are many different utensils to choose from on the market. A person commonly will use plastic or wooden utensils.  Each will provide advantages and disadvantages in the kitchen. Here is a closer look at the benefits of using wooden utensils, especially a Juniper spatula.   Advantages of Wooden Utensils   Wood utensils do not conduct heat. This means that they are unlikely to cause burns when they touch the skin. Many times, a person will get a bad burn when touching a metal utensil that has come in contact with high heat.   Plastic utensils tend to melt when […]

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Olive: An Immortal Fruit!

Features Issue 72 Jul, 2010
Text by Arina Sherchan

Lawrence Durrell once wrote (in The Alexandria Quartet) that “The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palms, the gold breads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers—all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent smell of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”

Absolutely tantalizing with a chilled glass of wine, highly prized as a pizza topping, a garnish on a wide variety of dishes, and the oil of which is beneficial for health — this is some of what we know about olives. Oh, yes, and there is also the famous lanky comedy character, ‘Olive’, girlfriend of ‘Popeye, the Sailor Man’. The olive, or Olea europaea, has been immortalized in print by many authors, but perhaps the first to hail its attributes was Pliny the Elder in 50 AD. He noted that “Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive”.

To embark in quest of the world’s most cultivated plant, picture yourself
near the origins of the olive along the golden shores of the Mediterranean. As modernized as the world has become, we are still admirers of things natural and simple, and this is to have the Mediterranean feeling in us.

The earliest recorded poets and scribes referred to the olive, its oil and its tree. It even appears in the Bible and in the Koran. Olives have been cultivated since prehistoric times and appear in one of the earliest cookbooks ever discovered, a 2000-year-old text by the Roman Epicurus (4th century BC), after whom we now have the words ‘epicurean’ and ‘epicure’ (one who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink). In Greek mythology, Athena gave this luscious drupe to mankind as a gift and, in gratitude, the citizens of Attica were said to have named the city of Athens after her. (A drupe is a fleshy fruit with thin skin and central stone. The term is derived from dryppa, Greek for ‘olive’.) Moses exempted from military those men who worked at olive cultivation. Early civilizations believed that olives could cure every illness except death. Vincent van Gogh, the 19th century Dutch painter, illustrated both sunny and dark moments in his artwork with olive trees bearing twisted branches.
live branches were used in the Olympic flames, and the victor’s head carried a crown of olive leaves.

After the Romans defeated the Etruscans (Umbria, Tuscany), the initial cultivators of the olive, they spread it far and wide within the Empire. After awhile, however, olive oil production fell with the Roman Empire but its cultivation was revived during the Renaissance. Olive trees can grow to a height of 40 feet, are injured if the temperature falls below 26° F. (–3° C.), can tolerate drought well and live for centuries. The history of the olive is many centuries old, and its cultivation and sale have gone global. In Kathmandu, olives and olive oils in many varieties are available in stores and supermarkets including Bhatbhetini, Bluebird, Namaste and Saleway. Olives are widely used  by restaurants and hotels and as the health benefits of the olive become more well known, consumption is increasing.

Farmers in ancient times believed that olive trees would not grow well if planted more than a short distance from the sea. Behold, however, that this highly adorned Mediterranean fruit is now being grown in Nepal, far from any sea. The olive grove is located on terraced land in Bissingkhel in Palung, Chitlang Valley, about 80 km by road southwest of Kathmandu, at an altitude close to 2000m. The drive to the Chitlang is along the old Tribhuvan highway, Nepal’s first road connecting Kathmandu Valley with the outside world. What lay ahead us on that drive was a curiosity, a unique quest and some surprises. First, after three hours from Kathmandu, we arrived in the land of the Gopali people of Palung. The Gopalis are an ancient and colorful Newari community. There we saw Gopali men clad in daura suruwal, with flowers behind their ears, and women in traditional folk attire of black and scarlet. The olive trees of which we had heard were being cultivated nearby, but as we later found out, wild olives also grow abundantly (uncultivated) in western Nepal at Humla, Bhajura, Dolpa and Jumla.

Himalaya Plantations Pvt. Ltd. is a Nepal-German joint venture, registered in 1994. Hartmut Bouder, a German, is the director. Prior to coming to Nepal, he lived in southern France. Our quest began as we walked with him along muddy paths near a stream through his olive farm, and our first sight of olives was alluring. The plantation covers two broadly terraced hills, which Hartmut and his wife Pramila call ‘Vinci’ and ‘Tuscany’. The names reflect their affection for things Mediterranean. They began by planting 2300 olive tree of several varieties, imported from Italy and France. This year, however, perhaps due to the exceedingly wet monsoon, the trees at Vinci did not give many olives.

Himalayan Extra Virgin Oil is made from hand picked, green ripe olives that grow in the crystal clear mountain air. They are cold-pressed immediately after harvesting. The oil is low on acidity and high in natural antioxidants. To retain its superb qualities, this oil should be kept sealed after use, and stored in a cool dark place. Below 8° Celsius the oil becomes cloudy, but this does not influence its quality. It clears quickly at room temperature.

Olives are cultivated at Palung by two methods, rooted cuttings and grafting. When planted by rooted cuttings, a rooting agent (various combinations of chemicals) is added to the soil while the olive seeds are being planted, then provided with proper watering and sunlight conditions. Grafting involves taper-cutting a stem (called a scion) and wedding it with the stem of a mature olive tree. The grafted stem gradually grows into the tree in two and a half to three years. It works best in a nursery that is well ventilated, watered and temperature controlled.

The Himalayan Plantation is now old enough to sell young olive trees for cultivation by Nepali gardeners and farmers. Once planted, it takes seven years for the first olive crop to show. The trees are then pruned, an integral part of olive cultivation. The inner branches are cut to make the tree small and spread wide to receive sunlight to the fullest. Any diseased leaf, olive or tree is removed.

Among the surprises we encountered was the taste of a green olive directly from the tree. Not recommended. A bitterness remained on the tongue long after we were fooled into eating one. For the Himalayan Plantation, oil is the main product. The typical yield of olives from one tree is 1.5 to 2.2 kg of oil per year. Himalayan Plantation averages 250 to 300 liters of olive oil from 2000 and 2500 kg of olives produced.

The plantation employs six year-round employees, but during harvest time another 15 to 20 workers, from the local Gopali community and others, are added to the work force. Work begins early, at six o’clock a.m. Harvesting of the fully ripe olives is done  by raking the branches with a large comb-like device. A net is spread on the ground to catch the falling olives. As they are collected, the workers remove over ripe or brused olives. At 2 o’clock p.m., the collected olives are taken to Godawari (Hartmut’s house) where the oil pressing is done. The olives are kept in a netted box and a ventilator blows the leaves away, after which they are washed. The oil pressing time affects the acid content, which affects the quality of the oil. Pressing is done around 8 p.m. on the same day in a three-phase process. The olives are poured in a stainless steel container fitted with a crusher. Crushing lasts for 30 minutes under strict temperature control, not exceeding 27° Celsius, with water added as necessary. The result is piped to a centrifuge, where the liquid is separated from the solids. The oil is then bottled and sealed. The remainder is called pomace (water and paste), which can be further processed. The crusher and centrifuge operate continuously, and can process 80 kilograms of olives per hour.

The more the olive ripens, the higher its acid content and poorer the quality of the oil. Himalayan Olive Oil has an acid content of 0.2%, which makes an ideal ‘extra virgin’ quality oil. The company’s production has been examined by Australian, German and Italian experts who have set the standard as one of the best quality oils produced. The oil is then is sold at Rs 900 per bottle. The bottles are from China, the labels from Italy, and the fine cork from Portugal. Until now Himalayan Olive Oil has been distributed to relatively few individual’s on a special order basis, because oil production is not yet large enough to meet the demands of a greater market.

Olives destined for whole food consumption (not for making olive oil) are hand harvested to prevent bruising. A major question that arises is the difference between green and black olives. Aside from taste and color, they are from the same tree. The only difference is their ripeness. Green olives are picked when they are immature, while black olives remain on the stem longer. In a sense, the olive is synonymous with wine because it has many varieties according to taste and acidic content. On the stem, olives turn from green to bluish-purple to black as they ripen. Each country where olives are produced feature specialized methods of cultivation and treatment, with distinct types and flavors. All fresh olives are bitter and tough, whether unripe and green, or ripened to red-purple, or fully ripe and black.

The darker the olive, the higher the acid content, giving it a richer flavor. Green olives are harvested at the earliest stages of maturity. Pink olives are slightly riper, changing from pink to rose or brown prior to reaching full maturity. Black olives, harvested at full maturity, have smooth black skin and a deep reddish-black hue.

Green olives must be cured before they are edible. To leach out their bitterness, the olives are cured in salt brine for one to two months, or rubbed with coarse salt and dry-cured. Some varieties are best picked green, such as France’s Picholine and the Manzanilla from Spain. Most of the green olives consumed in the world are then sealed in glass jars for sale in stores. They are meant to be eaten as is.

Black olives, on the other hand, are cooked in the process of canning. Deep-black, ripe olives, such as Niçoise from France or the Greek Kalamata, are best picked at full maturity.

Pitted Olives are those that have the pit or stone removed. They are generally stuffed with an ingredient such as a pimiento, jalapeno, dried tomato, garlic or onion.

Unopened cans of olives have a shelf life of three to four years if stored on your pantry shelf. Olives have high flavor and can easily take over a dish, so they should be used discreetly.

Of the 750 million olive trees planted worldwide, only 10% of the annual harvest goes toward the production of table olives, for eating. The rest are harvested for their oil.

It is a wonder that different olives, and olives of different countries taste different. Rather than confuse yourself with the abundance of varieties and tastes, it is more fun to take the opportunity and try them all. But, not in one sitting.

Homer, the ancient Greek bard, called olive oil “liquid gold”. Olive oil has been more than mere food to the people of the Mediterranean; it has been medicinal, magical, an endless source of fascination and wonder, and a font of great wealth and power. It has been described in poetry and books since time immemorial.

Olives are grown mainly for the production of oil, which is rich, beautiful and fragrant much like wine. The color, aroma and flavor of olive oils depend on factors like the variety of olive, the location and soil qualities, the general environment, olive ripeness, harvesting methods, length of time between harvest and pressing, and the pressing technique used. Olive oil is flammable and burns well. Most of the world’s supply is produced from olives grown in Spain, Italy and Greece, but olive oils are also produced in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, France, elsewhere in the Mediterranean Basin, and in California.

Olive oil has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet for thousands of years and, today, its popularity is growing rapidly in other parts of the world. It is one of the most versatile oils for cooking and it enhances the taste of many foods. It is an excellent alternative to butter or margarine as a condiment or for use in food preparation. Olive oils are graded by production method, acidity content and flavor. The International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) sets quality standards that most olive producing countries use (except the United States). Oleic acid is a monounsaturated fat which accounts for 55% to 85% of an olive oil’s content.

There are three basic types of olive oils: extra virgin, virgin and pure olive oil. ‘Extra virgin’ is the top grade. This oil has less than 1% acidity, the olives have been picked and pressed the same day, and the oil has a strong, green color with a perfect aroma. Essentially, extra virgin olive oil should smell and taste just like the olive from which it came from. ‘Virgin’ olive oil is the next grade, with less than 2% acidity with good color and aroma. The final grade is ‘pure’ olive oil, much lighter in color with little or no aroma. Pure olive oil is the result of a blend of virgin olive oil and refined oil generally extracted from olive pulp, skin and/or pits.

Olive oil retains its best quality in the year it is produced, unlike wine that may require several years to reach its peak. One basic thing to remember about olive oil is that it is constantly oxidizing as a result of age, heat, air and exposure to light. It is best to store olive oil in a dark glass bottle or stainless steel container in a dark place, slightly cooler than room temperature. The container should be tightly closed when not in use. Olive oil cannot be refrigerated, for the condensation from cooling mixes with the oil and makes the final result less flavorable. Olive oil is like sunshine captured in food, with many health benefits.

Olive oil helps in blood circulation by preventing arteriosclerosis and its attendant risks, high blood pressure, heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure and brain hemorrhages. Olive oil improves the working of the stomach, pancreas, intestines and liver, and prevents the formation of gallstones. It protects and tones the epidermis with its Vitamin E content and its antioxidant effect, and it is particularly useful in the prevention of skin lesions and for reducing the effects of ageing. It has also become known for use in the prevention and control of diabetes. Recent studies demonstrate that the glucose levels of healthy people drops by up to 12% when they consume olive oil. Olive oil stimulates growth and enhances minerals in our body by the absorption of calcium. It protects against certain tumors (breast, prostate, colorectal). Even the astronauts’ diet was changed to include olive oil after the discovery that it increases protection against radio activity. Due to its composition and digestibility, olive oil is also used in baby foods. The antioxidants in olive oil helps temper some of the effects of ageing,especially cerebral ageing, and in some experiments it has been observed to increase life expectancy. When used as primary fat, it produces a drop in LDL cholesterol, the ‘harmful cholesterol’, without dropping the level of HDL, the ‘good cholesterol’.

Because no two batches of olive oil are the same, tasting is important. Inferior oil may ruin the flavor of food, but good oil will enhance the flavors without overpowering the food. It is always best to taste olive oil first before it is used in cooking or in salads to ensure that the flavor is pleasing and that it will work for the specific dishes you have planned.

Olive oil is used in marinating meat, fish and poultry. Instead of serving butter with bread, olive oil can be used as a dipping. Olive oil prevents butter from burning. Light olive oil is ideal for baked goods because of its subtle flavor. When using olive oil for deep-frying, food should be as dry as possible before it enters the hot oil to prevent splattering. Olives can be used as sandwich fillings, and give dull ingredients a little flavor and variety. Nutrition, flavor and colorcan be added to spaghetti sauce by stirring in chopped olives.

Olives ignited a Mediterranean love for a loosely defined fantasy of casual, healthful, warm and intimate existence, comfortable for the stylish and accessible for the striving. Traveling with taste is the slogan of Mediterranean life and it’s just what we consider to be the best way of going through countries. A Spanish proverb says that the belly rules the mind; if so, a century old taste of the olive and its oil will surely cure dead cells of the present. Green and black olives, liquid gold,editerranean life, Vincent van Gogh’s olive trees..., Oh! How remarkable the olive.


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is led by Calderdale College with CogBooks, the Institute of Education,
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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Winter Penguin Trio Card

Hello, Today I am using a Bugaboo digi called "Winter Penguin Trio." You can find it here

Copics used are BV0000, BV000, V22- snowballs, BV0000, BV000- snow, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17- beaks and feet, C5, C7, C10, W5, W7, W10, BV0000, BV000- penguins, R22, R29, R35, R39- gloves, C00, C1, C3, B000, B01, B05- ear muffs, G03, G07, YG41, R22, R29, R35, R39- scarf.

Iridescent glitter by Recollections was used on the falling snow and snow on ground.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC. I punched it out with a 1" circle punch by Recollections. Then inked the edges with blue ink by Studio g.  It is popped up with foam tape.

The buttons are by Favorite Findings.

The embossing was done with a Martha Stewart embossing folder called Snowflake Design.

The papers are by Recollections- red, green, blue, Georgia Pacific- white, Imagine That!- digital dots paper-

The card is 5" x 6 1/2".

I am entering my card in:

Bugaboo Christmas in July Day2-

The Outlawz Monday Greeting Card Challenge Embossing and one DP-

Thanks for dropping by. Have a happy day! Edwina

Lisa Lynn said...

Edwina, your card is so adorable. Love the bright colors.

aussie aNNie said...

Thanks for entering our CHRISTMAS IN JULY, current challenge at Catch the Bug, lovely creation. Hope to see you here again.
[aNNie] GD for Catch the Bug Challenges

Fiki said...

so cute card!

Cynthia said...

This is adorable, Edwina. One of my favorite Bugaboo winter images! Thanks for joining the CIJ week at Catch the Bug.

Pippa said...

Great card and take on the sketch. Thanks for sharing in the CIJ event at Catch the Bug. Pippa GD


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Front Office Manager

Mrs Song Sopheak has been promoted to the position of Front Office Manager. Sopheak was the natural choice for this new role, which has been created to ensure that E.I.S continues to provide excellent service to students and parents as its learning centre expands. Sopheak was one of E.I.S's first students of English language in Sihanoukville and her potential was immediately obvious. She was recruited as a Receptionist in April 2013 and became Centre Coordinator in 2014. Her promotion to Management is a reflection of her hard work and dedication to the wellbeing and happiness of E.I.S's students and staff alike.

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    Congratulations to our Teacher Assistant Sorn Putheavy on passing her ICT Traning Programe in Korea! 🎉 E.I.S Team wishing her all the best and we are very proud of her accomplishment. ☺ សូមអបអរសាទរចំពោះជំនួយការគ្រូបង្រៀនរបស់យើង

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My Corner of the World

My Corner of the World -

Bread Machine Dinner Rolls

I came across this recipe and tried it. The rolls really are amazing! So soft and tasty. I used bread machine yeast and they turned out very nice! I wanted to get the ingredients in my own post in the event the original post ever goes offline for whatever reason. The rolls are *that* good! :-) So here goes…

  • 1 c. warm water
  • 2 tbsp margarine
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1/4 c. sugar
  • 3 c. all-purpose flour
  • 3 tsp quick rise yeast (bread machine yeast works too)
  • melted butter for brushing buns with

All ingredients go into the bread machine in order. When the dough is done, preheat the oven to 375 (350 works, just increase bake time a few minutes), and cut into 16 equal pieces. Roll into balls, place on baking sheet, and brush with melted butter.  Let them rise for about 20 minutes in a warm spot (I like to turn the oven on for a minute at 200 F, turn it off, then shove them in there.  Bake at 375 for 12 – 15 minutes (350 for 18 minutes works too) on middle or upper rack. Optional: add garlic powder, Parmesan, or whatever toppings you want before placing in oven.

Note:  I tried this with whole wheat flour (Five Roses or Robin Hood, I can’t remember which brand but it was one of those two).  It is fantastic!  I also took half the dough to make rolls then the other half to make a loaf (I did it for a white batch and a whole wheat batch).  Same temperature and time for the loaf as the bread.  Awesome!  And it makes really good toast.  Hubby and I are really impressed with this recipe.


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[Lirerial]'s diary

1169371  Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2015-06-05
Written: (1506 days ago)
Next in thread: 1169372, 1169377

Well.... Cody and I are getting a divorce. It was a combination of things but the end result is we're over. On the plus side... I have some amazing friends... I'm being shipped off to Canada to spend a couple weeks camping with an old friend of mine. Cody and I have really been dead for a while and we finally just made it official. It was so bad I just feel relieved he's gone. Wish me luck in Canada ^_^ I may or may not come back. My friends have been trying to tempt me into moving there lol

1169318  Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2015-05-13
Written: (1528 days ago)
Next in thread: 1169346

Oh gosh >_> Cody and I got a couple geese for meat and a piglet to raise. The piglet is blind and was bottle fed with the understanding he would be butchered when he's older. One of the geese really fell for the pig and has turned into his own personal seeing eye goose. Like literally, that goose leads the pig around the yard and I have no idea on how to convince my hubby to spare the two of them

1169015  Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2015-01-30
Written: (1631 days ago)
Next in thread: 1169016

Thank god my roommate is finally moving out. It only took her running up the power bill to 600 dollars and her dog destroying half the house before we got into an argument. I mean seriously? If someone offers you a place to live and says your dog has to be neutered because I have female dogs, you can't have guys over for sex and pay half the bills (not rent, 50% of bills. That's it!) Would you like it? Because all I got was half excused as to why she can't pay half the bills, a dog that got my dog pregnant and a subsequent DNA test for the puppies because she claimed it wasn't her dog, her dog busting through 2 windows and destroying the frame of a third and destroying a door and every weekend her bf is at my house where they fuck so loud it wakes us up. I finally snapped though when she started bad mouthing Cody. By god my husband may have a shit ton of issues but I am TIRED of her trying to play us against each other so she can do what she wants. I flat out told her that she has no room to talk about anyone in the house when she causes more problems on a daily basis than anyone else in a week.

1168666  Link to this entry
Written about Tuesday 2014-12-09
Written: (1683 days ago)

Nothing like having a dog sit outside your bedroom and whine because your roommate kicked him out of HER room because she couldn't take the noise. Then, when she finally wakes up and starts getting ready for work and you start drifting into glorious sleep, you are jolted awake by the sound of your rabbit screaming and realize your roommate has let her dog out into the yard unsupervised and it is now doing its best to turn Ms. Bunny into breakfast... Again. Looks like my daily heart attack happened early today >_>

1168214  Link to this entry
Written about Saturday 2014-11-01
Written: (1722 days ago)

Yea.... I'll post in the morning. I'm drunk, sleepy and creeped out. Night everyone!

1168211  Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2014-10-31
Written: (1722 days ago)
Next in thread: 1168212

Soooo.... The just pulled a dead body out of the creek right next to my house. Its the whole 9 yards, crime scene tape, infestation of cops and dogs and everything else. Apparently the guy was shot and its creepy as hell, I had to bring my dogs in to make sure the police didn't shoot them.

1168073  Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2014-10-22
Written: (1731 days ago)
Next in thread: 1168074, 1169347

Well... This morning was seriously out of a comedy. This morning I woke up to someone trying to turn off my power. This was shocking to me since I had paid my bill. Before running out I had to stop to grab Arya out of the crib... She was completely naked. I put some pants on her and went to confront the lady. Turns out she at the wrong house. While I'm talking to the lady Arya comes running out the front door waving her pants above her head and once again completely naked. Thankfully once the lady sees a naked squirming baby tucked under my arm we resolve the issue and I take my irritating child inside. I manage to get diapers and on my daughter when I suddenly hear my dogs go ballistic again and so I walk out to find Animal Control outside at my neighbors house.
Apparently my city not has a leash law against cats since one of the officers is chasing my cat around and trying to shove her in a carrier. I'm sitting there trying to get them to release my cat when Arya comes shooting at the back door and running across the yard... Completely butt ass naked. Now at this point I have 4 dogs in my yard, all who are running around my naked daughter while I'm trying to catch her and convince AC to give me back my cat. Finally the office decides to give me my cat so I walk over to the fence, momentarily giving up on catching my wild child, to receive my cat. One of my dogs (Lady) follows me to the fence. While there the officer compliments my dogs. Lady, being a complete idiot, takes that moment to jump the fence and run up to the officer before turning to jump back into my yard. Now I've officially reached a breaking point. I finally grab Arya and tuck her under my arm. She starts kicking and screaming, like only a 2 year old can, and I finally just start yelling. "Everyone shut up and get inside!" almost instantly every single dog stops barking and my entire pack files up the stairs and into the house, followed by the cat. Even Arya has gone quiet as I turn and look at the officer, apologize for the craziness and turn and carry my child inside. I swear the officer looked like she was going to roll in the grass with laughter.

1167978  Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2014-10-17
Written: (1736 days ago)
Next in thread: 1167979, 1167985

I so want to murder my neighbor. His damn dog got loose today and knocked me down some steps. My ankle is now broken. :(

1167520  Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2014-09-24
Written: (1759 days ago)

Sitting in class of my mom's beauty school.... I hate this sensation that I've signed away my soul to the devil >_>

1167135  Link to this entry
Written about Monday 2014-09-08
Written: (1776 days ago)

Went hiking and found a huge deposit of oyster mushrooms. Managed to get bit by a spider so now my arm is swelled up and hurts like a bitch. :(

1166994  Link to this entry
Written about Sunday 2014-08-31
Written: (1784 days ago)

That awesome moment when a random drunk man shows up on your doorstep at 11:00 pm and asks if you and you're roommate want to get drunk. Then after the standard "oh hell no" reaction and he has left you realized you DO want to get drunk and make a booze run right after >_>

1166828  Link to this entry
Written about Thursday 2014-08-21
Written: (1793 days ago)

Feeling really down today. I haven't had a bad day with my depression for a while so I guess its about time. Just feels a lot worse than usual... I'm so tired of it all. I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up again.

1166587  Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2014-08-13
Written: (1801 days ago)
1166564  Link to this entry
Written about Wednesday 2014-08-13
Written: (1801 days ago)
Next in thread: 1166584

Starting to avoid Facebook. A friend of mine is trying to convince me to give her one of my horses. I'm starting to get really annoyed. I have two horses both at the same boarding place where I pay 30 a month. She wants me to move my gelding to her house so she can charge me 150 or just give her the horse. Seriously... If you want another horse BUY one, if you want I may SELL Morgan to you but no matter how much you beg and ignore my refusals, I won't give him to you

1166348  Link to this entry
Written about Monday 2014-08-11
Written: (1804 days ago)

Just found out some really bad news. I honestly have trouble imagining how it could get worse. Right now I think I may actually hate the person who put me in this position. I've just realized that I will be unable to go back to school this fall like I'd originally hoped. Please excuse me while I go curl up on a corner and cry while I plot my soon-to-be exhusband's demise.

1166233  Link to this entry
Written about Thursday 2014-08-07
Written: (1807 days ago)

I'm having a distinct "fuck life" moment... I woke up still drunk. I've had my coffee and Arya is running around like she's ingested several shots of straight caffeine. Oh and after going through some text messages I'm seriously contemplating an emergency trip to Florida and confiscation of a phone before they get read :P

1166181  Link to this entry
Written about Tuesday 2014-08-05
Written: (1810 days ago)

I'm feeling so loved right now it makes me want to cry. My friends and family are amazing and I'm so glad to have them while going through a rough time. :3

1165830  Link to this entry
Written about Monday 2014-07-14
Written: (1831 days ago)

Omg.... We have the best cats in existence! Arya has a special coffee table where she hides stuff. X box controllers, tv remotes, keys and basically anything else she wants but isn't supposed to have. Anyways, you know those two kittens I mentioned in a previous post? Well they've become permanent additions to the household and Arya's favorite pets but she's not supposed to be picking them up (they're older kittens not tiny babies). Just a few minutes ago I walked into the living room and caught Arya hiding both cats in her coffee table lmao! She jumped 3 ft in the air when I walked in and called her name! XD

1165724  Link to this entry
Written about Sunday 2014-06-29
Written: (1846 days ago)
Next in thread: 1165725

So I brought home a pair of kittens over the weekend. They're both solid black. XD Today my neighbor showed up with a kitten that was the exact same color as the two I had. In that moment of awesome clarity, my neighbor decided to let me borrow her cat for a few hours/days. Basically we wanted to see how long it would take my husband to figure out that we have 3 cats instead of 2. So far all three of these cats have been in his lap (no more than two at a time) and he's been talking about how fast these cats move. XD I swear he's starting to think he's going insane

1165705  Link to this entry
Written about Friday 2014-06-27
Written: (1849 days ago)
Next in thread: 1165706

That moment when Cody is playing a game on the X-Box and returns to the home screen before walking out to the front porch and I'm left sitting in the living room fighting the urge to grab the controller and pop in my game.... >_> I may have a problem XD

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