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Atletico Madrid can't stop drawing and Dan Fitch expects them to avoid defeat again when they visit Sevilla, as he previews the weekend La Liga action.

Test for Sevilla and draw specialists Atletico

Sevilla 2.42 v Atletico Madrid 3.40; The Draw 3.30
Saturday 2 November, 17:30
Live on Betfair Live Video
Fifth-placed Sevilla host an Atletico Madrid side in fourth on Saturday. The two teams are only separated by goal difference and are just a point behind the leaders Barcelona.
Sevilla are in good form since being thumped 4-0 by Barcelona back at the start of October (P4 W3 D1). On Wednesday they came close to winning at Valencia and putting themselves into an even better position, but conceded a late equaliser.
This will be a test of the progress being made by Sevilla under Julen Lopetegui. They have generally beat the teams you'd expect them to this season, but have been defeated when they have stepped up to face Real Madrid and Barcelona - neither of whom were in convincing form at the time.
Atletico are unbeaten in ten, yet can hardly said to be in convincing form themselves when they are drawing so often (W4 D6). Like Sevilla they too came close to winning away in midweek when they faced Deportivo Alaves, but conceded late on. It's a frustrating habit and it's best to play it safe and back Atletico to merely continue to extend their unbeaten run in the Double Chance market at 1.70.

Another clean sheet for Real Madrid

Real Madrid 1.31 v Real Betis 10.50; The Draw 6.40
Saturday 2 November, 20:00
Live on Betfair Live Video
Real Madrid got back to winning ways on Wednesday as they put their recent defeat to Mallorca behind them and beat Leganes 5-0.
La Liga's bottom club did not put up much resistance and Real found themselves 2-0 up within eight minutes, after a quick-fire double from Rodrygo and Toni Kroos. Luka Jovic rounded off the scoring with his first goal for the club since his summer signing.
As unpredictable as La Liga is right now, you still can reliably expect Real Madrid to steamroller weak opposition and everything points to them doing something similar against Real Betis. Rubi's side beat Celta Vigo in midweek to move up to 16th, but have not won any of their five away games last season (D1 L4).

Betis failed to score in their 1-0 defeat at Granada last weekend and with Real Madrid having kept clean sheets in their last two games, backing them to win to nil again at 2.60 looks a solid bet.

Real Sociedad are reliable scorers

Granada 3.10 v Real Sociedad 2.52; The Draw 3.30
Sunday 3 November, 20:00
Live on Premier Sports 2
La Liga's surprise package Granada had the chance to return to the top of the league on Thursday, but fell short as they were defeated 3-1 at Getafe.
November brings some more potentially tricky fixtures for Granada, who remain third. This weekend's match with Real Sociedad is followed by a trip to Valencia and then a home match against Atletico Madrid. That sequence should reveal whether Granada have any chance of realistically competing for European football, or if a slide down the table is inevitable.
Real Sociedad in sixth, certainly look like the team with the greater potential, even if their own maddening inconsistency is letting them down. On one hand they are the only team to have beaten Atletico Madrid this season, but on the other they have slumped to defeat in two of their last three home games.
The most recent loss came on Wednesday when they were beaten 2-1 by Levante. Though unreliable in terms of results, one way in which they are predictable is their ability to score. Sociedad have found the net in all 11 of their games this season and Both Teams To Score is generously priced at 2.04.

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Even in defeat Red Bull Salzburg manage to impress and Dan Fitch is banking on them being involved in another goal-laden game when they face Napoli.
Napoli 1.92 v Red Bull Salzburg 4.00; The Draw 4.30
Tuesday 5 November, 20:00
Live on BT Sport Extra

Napoli face second game against Champions League entertainers

Napoli remain top of Group E after an entertaining 3-2 victory over Red Bull Salzburg in their last outing.
Salzburg twice fought back to level the scores, before Lorenzo Insigne's winning goal for Napoli. The Austrians might struggle to make the knockout stages in a group that features teams as strong as Napoli and Liverpool, but they are nevertheless making a major impact on the competition.
Only Bayern Munich have scored more goals in the group stage than Red Bull's eleven. Their 19-year old striker Erling Braut Haaland has scored six of them, which includes both of the goals that they scored against Napoli. Haaland is the top scorer in the Champions League, despite only playing 196 minutes in the competition so far.
Since Napoli beat Red Bull they have failed to win in three matches. Draws with SPAL and Atalanta were followed by 2-1 defeat at Roma on Saturday. These results have seen Napoli slip down to seventh place in Serie A, eleven points shy of the leaders Juventus, though still within three points of the top four.

Big price for Napoli to do double

Napoli might be without a win in three, but given their home advantage and the fact that they beat Red Bull just a couple of weeks ago, their price of 1.92 seems rather generous.
Red Bull Salzburg might have given it a good go against Napoli and in their away match with Liverpool, but they have ultimately lost both matches and were never ahead in either. The odds for a Napoli win are already tempting, but if you want to boost them you can back a home victory and both teams to score at 2.82.

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Nations League Tips: Ukraine will continue fine form

The 2020/21 Nations League kicks off on Thursday and Dan Fitch is backing Ukraine to get off to a winning start, as he previews Thursday night's matches.

Nations League
Thursday 3 September

Sides drew twice in last Nations League

Latvia 1.52 v Andorra 9.60; The Draw 3.95
Kick off 17:00
Live on Sky Sports Football

It's a surprise to see Latvia so short in this Group D1 match. They may have pulled off a shock win against Austria in their last game, but it was their first victory after a 17-match run without a win (D5 L12).

Two of those draws came against Andorra in the last Nations League. At these prices it's worth backing another draw at 3.95.

Fair price for Faroes

Faroe Islands 1.72 v Malta 6.40; The Draw 3.40
Kick off 19:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

In the other match in Group D1, Faroe Islands take on Malta. These countries are very familiar with each other, having been paired in Euro 2020 qualifying and the last Nations League.

Faroe Islands have won their last two home games against Malta and should beat them again at 1.72.

Spain always score

Germany 2.62 v Spain 2.96; The Draw 3.50
Kick off 19:45
Live on Sky Sports Premier League

This will be Spain's first match since Luis Enrique returned as their manager. That adds to the unpredictability in a match between two teams that are both in good form.

Some value can be found in the likelihood of Spain scoring. They've found the net in each of their last 40 matches, last drawing a blank against Italy in Euro 2016. Both teams to score is 1.73.

Dzyuba can continue scoring streak

Russia 2.62 v Serbia 3.10; The Draw 3.30
Kick off 19:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

This is another match that is difficult to predict, with Russia and Serbia likely to be competing for promotion in Group B3.

Perhaps more predictable than the result is the chances of Russia's Artem Dzyuba to score. Dzuba scored nine goals in ten internationals in 2019 and is 2.80 to find the net.

Put money on Turkish delight

Turkey 1.66 v Hungary 6.40; The Draw 3.90
Kick off 19:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

Also in Group B3 are Turkey and Hungary. Turkey are a relatively short price, but it still looks to be value, given their form.

The Turks have only lost one of their last 13 matches (W9 D3), while Hungary have lost five of their last six (W1). Back Turkey to win half-time/full-time at 2.58.

Ukraine have become major force

Ukraine 2.62 v Switzerland 3.20; The Draw 3.30
Kick off 19:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

Ukraine have become a consistent force in international football, losing only one of their last 21 matches (W13 D7).

Since the World Cup, Switzerland have not been great away from home (P7 W3 D1 L3). Ukraine look value to inflict another defeat at 2.62.

Ukraine manager Andriy Shevchenko.

Moldova can score against Kosovo

Moldova 9.00 v Kosovo 1.48; The Draw 4.00
Kick off 20:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

Both of these teams won promotion to League C during the last Nations League, but while Moldova scraped through, Kosovo did it in style.

The key to finding some value for Kosovo is by banking on Moldova to score. Since changing manager in October, Moldova have found the net in defeat against France and Iceland. A Kosovo win and both teams to score is 4.00.

Greece improving under new coach

Slovenia 2.58 v Greece 3.10; The Draw 3.30
Kick off 20:45
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

Greece have won their last three games under new manager John van 't Schip. That record suggests they can be competitive against Slovenia.

It would be foolish to back against Slovenia, who enjoyed some good home wins in Euro 2020 qualifying. Instead, back both teams to score at 2.10.

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Heading South, Looking Up

For most of the past decade the last thing I would do before going to bed was to step out on to my back patio and stare up at the sky for a few minutes, checking for clouds. If the skies were clear I always slept better. In the morning, I would hop out of bed and do the same thing, to see if any unexpected weather front had passed or cirrus had snuck in while I had been sleeping. If all was well with the skies, I knew that my robotic telescope 95 miles southeast of me, likely had a successful night scanning the skies, and I was excited to get up and get to my office to see the results. I knew that any clear night we might (and eventually did!) discover something larger than anything else ever seen past Neptune. It was just a matter of time and of keeping those pesky clouds away.

Too many clouds

Whenever I found anything, I would quickly tell the two other guys working with me on the project, Chad Trujillo at the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz at Yale University, and we would scheme what to do next to learn even more.

While clouds would come and go, there was something even more substantial blocking much of our view of the sky: the earth. From our spot at a latitude of 33 degrees north, there were many constellations in the southern hemisphere that we could never see. We would never know if something was flying past the constellation Tucana (the toucan), swimming through the constellation Volans (the flying fish), or disguised with the constellation Chameleon (the, um, chameleon).

Five years ago, right after we found Haumea, Eris, and Makemake in quick succession in the northern hemisphere, everyone asked: When are you headed south?

It was an obvious thing to do. The northern skies were quickly being exhausted, the southern skies were relatively untouched. Like any good whaler who has successfully depleted his prime hunting grounds, I knew it was time to wait for next breeze to push me over the equator and into the southern seas.

But I wasn’t going to go.

It’s true that finding more objects was so appealing: each of these largest discoveries beyond Neptune has painted us a unique picture of the early history of the solar system. Finding even a few more would substantially increase our understanding of this otherwise mysterious time period. But for this same reason, I couldn’t take the time to go look for more. Each of the objects that we found was indeed so interesting that I decided that it made more sense to spend the time studying them in detail rather than looking for more. We studied the tiny moons of Eris and Quaoar and Haumea. We developed theories for the unexpected slabs of frozen methane on Makemake and even predicted that we should see the same thing on Quaoar (and we DID!). We went down a rabbit hole with Haumea and found an unexpected world of icy rocks, dancing satellites, and the biggest Humpty Dumpty puzzle known in the solar system. And we spent years trying – and still not yet succeeding – to understand Sedna.

Making more discoveries in the southern hemisphere would be fun, but whenever anyone asked, I simply said: I’m not going to do it, but you should.

That’s not quite as crazy an idea as you might think. Given the right equipment and a sufficiently obsessive personality, mounting such a telescopic survey is not that hard to figure out how to do. After all, I had never done one until I did the one I did. And I muddled by somehow. I made a few mistakes along the way that I later thought through and fixed, but I always promised anyone who asked that I’d be more than happy to give them more advice than they could ever want.

But no one ever took me up on my offer.

Still, I had other things to keep me occupied. I was playing with data from the Cassini spacecraft on fog and lake-effect clouds on Titan and teaching a new generation of Caltech undergraduates how to understand such things. I was not going to go south.

Then I got antsy.

It had been too long.

I didn’t mind if someone else was going to make the discoveries, but I was getting frustrated that no one was going to make the discoveries.

So I cracked.

The new Skymapper telesccope at Siding Spring

With a little discussion I got involved with a group from the Australian National University who were building a fancy new telescope to survey the whole southern skies in what they called the Skymapper project. It was going to be perfect, though the telescope and camera were still under construction, so it would take some time still. Michelle Bannister, a graduate student at ANU, took the project on as her Ph.D. thesis, and, with the beauty of Skype, I have yet to get on an airplane even once for this project.

As it turns out, I was not the only person getting antsy. A few months later I got word that another survey in the south was soon to be underway. The survey was going to take place using an old telescope that had been refurbished and an old camera that had been shipped south. The old camera? The same one we had used at Palomar! The survey was being run by my old collaborator David Rabinowitz, who, too, must have tired of no one doing anything. It seemed likely to me that refurbishing an old camera and telescope was going to be faster than building a new one. To get things going even faster, David even hired my recently graduated Ph.D. student Meg Schwamb -- who had been working on the northern survey -- to run the southern survey. It seemed to me that Michelle and I were now in second place, and that David and Meg were going to be the likely winners of the race to the southern hemisphere. We stepped up our efforts to at least make it a fair fight and try to have a chance.

Out of nowhere, though, a third group appeared. This group, predictably, now, includes my other old collaborator Chad Trujillo (the group is run by Scott Sheppard out of Carnegie Observatory, who, many years ago, was one of those people to whom I had said: you should do the southern hemisphere; shockingly, people occasionally take my advice!). Scott and Chad are using an existing camera and an existing telescope. Existing cameras and telescopes trump refurbished cameras and telescopes trump still-under-construction cameras and telescopes. I resigned myself to third place.

Having a friendly but serious race definitely makes things much more fun, but being the likely third place survey when attempting to discover new objects in the outer solar system is not particularly useful. Once a discovery has been made, everyone else is a has-been. Or perhaps never-was. There is actually no such thing as third place.

The Uppsalla 0.5 m telescope

Unbeknownst to anyone, though, Michelle and I have a secret weapon. While it is true that existing cameras and telescopes are great, they still lose to one thing: existing data. For the past 10 years the Siding Spring Survey has searched for near earth asteroids from the moderately small Upssalla telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia (right next to the new Skymapper telescope being built, in fact). The pictures that the Uppsalla telescope takes night after night have been fabulous for detecting the motion of the occasional fast moving tiny rocks that might someday come slamming into us, but these pictures were never designed for finding the much more slowly moving distant objects that we wanted to see.  To the Uppsalla telescope, the things we want to discover are so far away and moving so slowly that they might as well be the stars of the Milky Way. But over the past year Michelle and I have developed a huge software package to go back over 10 years worth of pictures and try to pull out the distant slowly moving objects.

The good news? We are potentially back in virtual first place. The bad news? We’re only in first place for a small number of the very brightest objects, and those might not exist. The Upsalla telescope would only be capable of detecting the very brightest of the know objects in the northern part of the outer solar system: Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, maybe Quaoar and Orcus. So if there is something that bright in the south, we should find it first. The chances, though, are only moderate. Remember, our northern survey could see a good bit of the way south, so the southern survey really only have about 1/3 of the sky to look at, and it is 1/3 of the sky that is somewhat far from the disk of the solar system. So my best guess is that there will be one or zero really bright objects down there. We’ll know the answer before anyone else, but unless the answer is one, rather than zero, no one will particularly care!

The one fun thing that I like to ponder as I think about the fresh skies of the southern hemisphere is just how fresh they really are. When we were looking at the northern skies we knew that 70 years ago Clyde Tombaugh had been there first. Sure, we could see things 100 times fainter than Clyde, but we knew that we were unlikely to stumble across anything as bright as, say, Pluto. The southern skies have never even had a Tombaugh. I’ve been spending free moments idly speculating on how bright the brightest slowly moving thing could be in the south that would have escaped detection. Is there any reason something as bright as Pluto would have been found if it existed in the southern skies? I don’t think so. You could probably even hide something a few times brighter and get away with it.

Does this mean something twice the size of Eris is lurking in the southern hemisphere, waiting to be pulled out of the old data? I don’t think so. But it might be.

These days I don’t look at the sky last thing before going to bed each night. And I don’t check for clouds first thing in the morning. I do the seemingly much more mundane tasking of picking up my phone from beside my bed, using it to log in to my server on the Caltech campus, checking that all of the processors are humming away sorting through 10 years worth of data, and waiting to see what gets spit out. Is there anything in the old pictures? I don’t yet know, but it’s just a matter of time and keep those pesky computers running smoothly.

  1. Good luck! Maybe you can find that next TNO without even having to miss a junior soccer game.

    What are you using for your software? A commercial package like IDL or Matlab, or something homegrown?

  2. We truly live in the future when we can sleep while computers crunch our data.

  3. @BrianW: I tend to write most software in IDL, which, 10 years ago, made me one of the cool young hipsters. Now the youth of astronomy mostly uses Python and I just feel like a has-been.....

  4. Meanwhile astronomers Alex Parker and K Kavelaars stipulate that the planet Neptune wasn't guilty of shaping the Kuiper Belt... The Nice model of Hal Levison and Alex Morbidelli might need some more squeaking!

  5. Suspense! Excitement! Nail biting anticipation! Will the Solar system Change? Or will WE have to?

    Good luck on the survey :D but of course I'm biased and think no real biggies will be found.

    Y'all spent a lot of time in Chile, I was wondering how you felt about the dramatic mine rescue and if you've ever cruised by Copiapo or know anything about the area. This will probably be a tourist hotspot and that might interfere with operations. I hope not.

    It was like the Moon landing, only coming up to the planetary surface from below rather than down from above. The capsule even looked like a little spaceship. The social effects were also Apollo-like. The only difference is that the disgruntled would-be heros will not be able to complain about the cost of the rescue, a mere $30,000,000. So -

    "If we can rescue men from 2000 feet below the ground, why can't we teach a gorilla to talk?", or, "If we can get the Chileans and the Peruvians together, why can't we get the Israelis and Palestinians to stop stealing each other's water?" (Answer: "Because we can").

    Mining old data sounds like a very sensible way to do a survey. Watch out for cave-ins, though :D

    -Michael C. Emmert

  6. Hello, Phillip :D

    Thanks for the link. Alex Parker and K. Kaavelars would probably be very pleased to learn that the work I've done with GravitySimulator amply confirms their work. I have flown virtual binaries past Neptune a LOT and they get ripped apart or collide. The Cold Classical belt has not been disturbed by Neptune to any great degree.

    Nevertheless I do think other populations have been disturbed by an as-yet-undiscovered object somewhere between 5 and 25 times the mass of Neptune. I wish I could call it Nemesis but the name's already taken. The Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer is out looking for the object right now. This is not news to regular readers of this blog. Rather than take up more space on Mike's blog:

    Here is a link to my "Nemesis" ideas; read the very first comment to the main article:

    It could be that Daniel P. Whitmire's "Tyche" is the same object I'm proposing that he found by analyzing the orbits of long period comets. However, his thing could also be a random passing star or brown dwarf or subdwarf and his "Tyche" and the "Nemesis" that so many scientists have proposed could both exist. But I think they're probably the same. I guess I need to come up with my own name, to assume responsibility for my ideas, but I'm stumped. :?

    I think the Nice model is incorrect.

    Anyway, thanks for taking the time to post, Phil. Have a nice day.

    -Michael C. Emmert

  7. @Mike Brown: Well, I am an IDL has-been as well, though our telescopes are pointed mainly the other way these days (FUV spectroscopy/aeronomy from LEO).

    I have taught myself to speak a little bit of Python though: Hsssssss.

  8. The Uppsala Southern Schmidt telescope has made other discoveries in the past. It was used to find Comet McNaught!

  9. @exofever: not only that, but McNaught himself actually took all of the images that we are using for the search

  10. "we could see things 100 times fainter than Clyde"
    Of course, we all know that this is impressive, because Clyde was pretty dim.


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Sunday, 27 April 2014

calabash ruby: Installing ruby rvm on mac OSX why and how

Why Ruby or RVM ?
Calabash commands needs ruby to be installed for interpreting commands to actions.

Which version of ruby to install ? -
Check here pre requisites section in this link
Currently its 2.0+

Why Rvm ?  -  RVM is used to manage to rubies on mac

Alternative to RVM ?  -  use rbenv

How to install rvm ?
run these command from terminal on mac

$ \curl -sSL | bash -s stable --ruby
(there is a backslash before curl. This prevents misbehaving if you have aliased it with configuration in your ~/.curlrc file)
Then install required version of ruby ..
$ rvm install 2.0.0
$ rvm use 2.0.0
You can set a version of Ruby to use as the default for new shells. Note that this overrides the ‘system’ ruby
$ rvm use 2.1.0 --default

Check here for more documentation -
      • When to clean and install - Check errors section below
      • How to verify RVM installation is successful

      Close existing terminal and reopen new terminal window
      a) type this command in terminal 'open ~/.bash_profile' check if you see code the this

      [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session.

      b) type this command 'rvm list'
      check ouput it must be like below

      ~ $: rvm list

      rvm rubies
         ruby-2.0.0-p353 [ x86_64 ]
      =* ruby-2.0.0-p451 [ x86_64 ]

      # => - current

      # =* - current && default
      #  * - default

      c) Ruby version currently used

      ~ $: ruby -v

      ruby 2.0.0p451

      Common Issues: While installing calabash gems
        1) Error during RVM installation
        About to install Homebrew, press `Enter` for default installation in `/usr/local`,
        type new path if you wish custom Homebrew installation (the path needs to be writable for user)
        : Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

        2) ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
            You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.
        lon04-04266:~ dakojuu$ sudo gem install calabash-cucumber
        Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
        ERROR:  Error installing calabash-cucumber:
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Nice put up about affiliate marketing online here. Amazon has essentially the most simple-to-use technology of all of the affiliate packages I will probably be reviewing at present. Gold Investing is without doubt one of the most profitable niches on the Web right now, and Regal Assets has the best supply for critical associates.

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The Blaze’s Countersuit Against Timmy Lahren Paints Her As An Abusive, Potty Mouthed Snowflake

Tammy Lahren, embattled former star of The Blaze, has been countersued by her former employer and the details are juicy as hell.

In case you haven’t heard by now, Tammy Lahren, the Nazi broomstick in a blonde wig whose inappropriately named “Final Thoughts” video segments went viral last year when she capped on Colin Kaepernick and gave Black Lives Matter a black eye, in a hell of a public pissing match with The Blaze. Glenn Beck’s media company had been Lahren’s employer up to a couple weeks ago, but then Timmy went on “The View,” told the world she actually has consistent small-government beliefs (she’s pro-choice despite being personally against abortion), and her throng of conservative followers turned on her because she called them hypocritical for not viewing abortion in the same nuanced way she does.

It’s funny to me that Trichinosis could call far-right ideological conservatives her audience and not realize they’d turn on her so quickly when they realized she was a BABY MURDERING LIBTARD when it came to abortion. But the fight between The Blaze and Lahren didn’t break out in full until she sued them for wrongful termination, but now the hilarity has been ratcheted up a notch or two because The Blaze is counter-suing and the details of their suit are quite tastily embarrassing for the woman who calls everyone who disagrees with her a “Snowflake.”

As reported by Mediaite, the suit brought by The Blaze against Tromboni alleges that she was abusive to staff and she offended their audience.

The lawsuit states that Lahren’s treatment of the floor crew during her shows was “inappropriate and unprofessional” and that she constantly complained about lighting, room temperature, editing, shooting and directing. (source)

Anyone else find it hilarious that she calls liberals names and implies we’re all overly sensitive and yet she never stopped bitching about how lighting made her look? Who else but a snowflake would worry about the temperature in the room so much unless she was afraid of melting? She wouldn’t be the first cable star to be a prima donna about how her show was shot or edited, but really, when you build your reputation on being tough and willing to handle any adversity, stories like this wind-up shaking that facade to the ground.

Then there’s the fun fact that apparently pious, goody two shoes Teletubby is, behind the scenes, a bit of a potty mouth. Of course, Glenn Beck is a magic underwear sporting Mormon so his view of what is too bawdy or ribald for polite company may not be the most accurate or unbiased.

The complaint also alleges that her “word choice on air” had to be addressed on a consistent basis because she border lined on profane. “Lahren turned down a number of advertisers on TheBlaze for unexplained reasons, limiting any chance for TheBlaze to recoup its investment into her and her show,” the paperwork states. (source)

Watching Lahren and Beck go at it reminds me, as a Dodger fan, of watching a game between the Giants and Yankees. You root for bout of influenza on both teams. I genuinely don’t know or care who I want to come out on top more. Clearly, as the countersuit shows, Lahren was very keen on crafting a persona to sell herself in a way that might not be totally accurate.

Gee, how weird for a person who belongs to the party that elected a phony, shitty businessman and reality-TV huckster to be just as utterly full of shit as to who she is, huh? The irony is that if she had just been honest with everyone from the beginning and toned down her ridiculous dog whistle racist shit, and by “tone down” I mean “drop that shit like a hot rock,” she might even be welcomed among liberals as a castoff refugee from Mormonistan.

Maybe it’s time for Talmud Lahren to come over to the dark side. If we can de-program her from believing that tax breaks for the wealthy do anything but make them wealthier, we’re on our way. Then again, she’s toxic as fuck, vapid, and the next time she has an original thought that isn’t just a regurgitated, likely incorrect talking point will be the first one. So I don’t really care if she wiesns up and joins the ranks of the living.

One way or another, this fight is going to play out with details that just get juicier and more delicious as time goes on. I only hope the world doesn’t run out of popcorn. It’s pretty fucking entertaining watching two modern day pharisees fight for the dubious honor of “second least hated person affiliated with The Blaze.”

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Celebs Push for GMO Labeling (Video)

The drumbeat on GMO labeling just keeps getting louder. Recently, the Environmental Media Association debuted this #ConcealOrReveal PSA on the “Today Show,” featuring Constance Zimmer, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jillian Michaels, Jordana Brewster, Sara Gilbert and Sarah Michelle Gellar all urging brands to support GMO labeling. Unfortunately, the video misses a most important takeaway: Click here to add your name to a petition supporting mandatory GMO labeling laws.

That same week, Gwyneth Paltrow and her mother Blythe Danner testified on Capitol Hill against the misleadingly titled “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act,” known among activists as the “DARK (Deny Americans Right to Know)” because it would prevent states from mandating GMO labeling. Despite grass-roots campaigning, the bill passed the House of Representatives in July.

We need all the drums we can get. We’re only halfway through 2015, and already major brands are throwing down to block GMO labeling laws. Coca-Cola has spent more than $5 million, Pepsi more than $3 million, and Kellogg and General Mills more than $1 million each.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Free Admissions...We're There!

O.k. I know we are all always looking for or at least get excited when we learn of free outings for our home schooled children. Well I had a play date scheduled for this past Tuesday because it was winter break in our county so my daughter's school-age friends were out of school and available to come over. I decided not to take winter break along with the school system but we did take a couple of half days and a really awesome field trip! This is what today's post is all about. Our really, really awesome, super fun, free, educational field trip!

There's a place in south GA called Callaway Gardens. It is really beautiful in the spring and summer months, well, because it is a garden:

"Open since 1952, Callaway Gardens is the centerpiece of 13,000 acres nestled in the southernmost foothills of the Appalachians.  Founder Cason Jewell Callaway longed for a place where man and nature could abide together for the good of both, and now more than half a century later, his retreat continues to offer solace, inspiration and discovery for all who come here."

We, however found out from my friend, that Callaway was offering free admissions! This is of course due to it being winter which is definitely off-peak season for a nature retreat in the South. Well, the dear old people of Callaway Gardens were probably not expecting it to hit 75 degrees during their off-peak season, but opportunistic moms like myself and my friends waited patiently until just such a day come upon us and pounced on the golden opportunity!
Birds of Prey Show at Callaway Gardens

I called a field trip, packed a lunch, called another homeschooling mom of 5 and we hit the road. Literally. We are not in the closest proximity to Callaway so it was more like a road trip for us but was still well worth it. We watched an awesome Birds of Prey show that included interesting facts about Raptors or wild birds of prey. We learned about the Red Hawk which is one beautiful animal. We also learned about the Horned Owl and a couple of more beautiful birds. We also ducked as these lovely creatures flew ans swooped over the crowed. It was a great experience for the kids! Especially since my friend's kids were coverning birds in their curriculum this past week. We however had just finished covering insects. NO worries though, Callaway had us covered. There's a beautiful butterfly atrium where they breed butterflies and have a number of cocoons and chrysallis on display so that we could observe the different stages of a catepillar turning into a butterfly. Very educational for my two girls. Inside of the atrium though was several species of butterflies fluttering all around. It was magical.
Chelsea in the long sleeve pink tee inside the butterfly atrium and Madison attempting to catch a butterfly!

We also enjoyed feeding large fish off of a bridge at Discovery Center and seeing all of the different types of flowers beginning to bloom as we walked from station to station.

In closing...I'd like to say that if you are new to home schooling like me, take this tip for things to do. Think about all types of attractions business whose peak times have passed, pull up their websites and search for free admissions! You're sure to stumble upon something good.
We need a better camera!
Chelsea and Madison playing in the fountain inside of the butterfly atrium

I will add pictures of our outing soon...

*What did you do on Winter break or over the weekend? Please feel free to share below!!!

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Shosen Valley

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Shosen Valley (御岳昇仙峡, mitakeshosenkyo) is one of the best landscape scenery located in Chichibutamakai National Park, Yamanashi. It is also chosen as the Heisei 100 best waters. The valley is about 5km long, and it have many beautiful rocks and waterfalls, including Senga Fall, which is the 100 best waterfalls in Japan. The valley was formed by scoring of Arakawa River. Therefore, there are many unique rocks, walls and tunnels which create the art of nature in this valley.

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There are free parking and restaurants. The sidewalk of the river is well constracuted.

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1. use local bus to Sengataki, Shosenkyo.
2. walk north (5 min.)

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Shosen Valley

Because Shosen valley is located near from Koshu Kaido Road the valley has been very popular tourist spot since Edo period. After Nagata Enuemon built the riverside in Edo period, people started visiting this valley. There is local Soba, called Mitake Soba. This Soba has a history from Edoperiod.

There are many waterfalls, unique rocks and lots of nature in this valley. Also, the most of Japanese birds habit here.

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Monday, March 23, 2015

On the Menu Monday (MPM) - Week 13 - 2015

We started the weekend off mild and nice and ended it with about 10 inches of snow on the ground!

We spent Saturday turning more Parade of Homes, I love looking at the new builds and getting ideas. I am also happy when they have interior designers who have worked with the houses, love looking and getting ideas!

I love these floors, they are actually ceramic tiles. We are thinking about doing these downstairs once we finish that off.

 Love these for counters too, I think they would look great with dark brown cabinets or white for our bar area.

Saturday night we got together with friends for a fun game night. Scott and I have never played poker before, so we learned a couple of different games, had some wonderful food and got to catch up with some really great friends!

We have been getting siding bids, flooring bids and we are meeting with an architect to make some pretty radical changes to our house. I would love to do an addition as well, but that is not going to happen right now, but I am really excited to see the changes that we want to do get implemented. Hoping to start our project around the beginning of the summer and it looks like it will be about a 6 to 8 week project. Then of course there will be the landscaping, driveway and doctoring it all up.

This week we have more estimates coming in this week, and here is how the rest of the week is shaping up.

Plans - A visit to the chiro, we were rear ended lightly, a tap really, on Saturday and it threw me out a whack. Luckily we have an EXCELLENT chiro. Then out to eat!
Breakfast and Lunch - Bananas, peanut butter, granola and chicken poblano from TJ's (I picked up a few easy meals to throw together for lunch this week, I am so glad I did this, our leftovers are slim pickings).
Dinner - Lord Fletchers (we have not been in SO long, cannot wait!)

Plans - We have a company coming out for our 4th estimate for our house project, so I will need to whip something up quickly for dinner.
Breakfast and Lunch - Banana, peanut butter and granola and a grilled chicken with lime green salad (thank goodness for Trader Joe's!)
Dinner - Creamy Spring Pasta I am going to add roasted turkey to this dish. We bought two rotisserie turkey breasts this past weekend, will be great to add to meals this week.

Plans - Scott is seeing the chiro after work, I might go into the office, I have an eye appt not far from the office, but I am debating.
Breakfast and Lunch - depends on whether or not I decide to go into the office.
Dinner - Depends on whether or not I decide to go into the office. . . if I go in, we will probably go out to dinner.

Plans - We have both a flooring estimate and someone coming back to deliver an exterior estimate.
Breakfast and Lunch - Cheese and turkey for breakfast and hopefully leftovers for lunch.
Dinner - Butternut Squash Carbonara and pork chops

Plans - We have friends coming for HH and to catch up
Breakfast and Lunch - Egg, bacon, and turkey with a green salad
Dinner - we are doing a bunch of different apps, hopefully I will post some of them later this week.

Saturday and Sunday
Plans - This is the last weekend for Parade of Homes, so I will need to look at my book and make sure that we checked out all of the fabulous houses! It is also the Remodeling Showcase weekend, so I am sure we will check out a few of these. A week from Saturday, we have a Mad Men themed party on the books, so I will be getting ready for that as well, making sure we have the decor like we want it and planning the food and drink.
Meals - not sure what we will be doing for meals this weekend, most likely out, its also the weekend before my birthday, so maybe something fun!
For more meal plans and links to lots of great recipes and meal ideas, check out the orgjunkie!

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

He Could Have Been Her Prince Charming

Yesterday morning I came outside because Lola was barking her head off and I thought the neighbors might appreciate it if I attempted to do something about it.

"Look at what I found mom!"

I came out to find Mr. Froggy who was, for some crazy reason, desperately trying to get under our fence and into our backyard.

I couldn't decide if Lola was trying to send him away or cheer him on through the fence. I've never really seen her interact with such an animal.
To kiss or to eat?

Mr. Froggy did make it through the fence later that afternoon. I found him on our back porch around lunch time, but decided to keep Lola inside.
It was for your own safety Mr. Froggy.
I will always wonder if they would have been friend or foe...Sometimes it's best just to keep wondering.

  1. How cute. I wonder what Bella would do if she came across a frog??

  2. Adorable! And what a crazy frog. I wouldn't try to play with something that was 10x my size and barking it's head off.

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Importance of dancing applies to women as well

The truth is that this is obvious and doesn't need proof. However a short while ago there was a woman who published on her blog criticism against women dancing (even though her main point of contention was their dancing in public, she definitely insinuated that there was nothing positive about their dancing). The truth is quite clear all over the Torah that it is very important for women to dance (in mitzva). We find e.g. that evil queen Eezevel, wife of Achav, had one good point to her, that she would dance to bring joy to the brides, and for this her hands and feet were saved from hell. This Shabos I read in Kochvay Ohr from R' Avrohom ben R' Nachman that one time Rabbi Nachman daughter had a severe tooth ache, and without getting into the whole story, Rabbainu told her that there will come a time that she would be joyous and dance and then she would be healed. This is in fact what happened, one day she was filled with joy, she closed the shutters to the windows and danced, and she was cured.

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Action packed three days at 150th show

The Topp Twins are coming to Rangiora to help celebrate the 150th Northern (Rangiora) Agricultural and Pastoral Show.

The iconic New Zealand performers are the feature act of an action-packed day at the show on Saturday, October 22, and will perform in two shows, on the west field at 10.30am and then as the president’s choice of entertainment in the main oval at 1.45pm.

A major change for this year’s show is there will be no Friday night carnival, with a day of celebration being held instead on Sunday, October 23, to celebrate 150 years of A&P shows in North Canterbury.

A highlight of the 150th show is the Royal Event status in equestrian and sheep, which has resulted in a significant boost in entry numbers, show secretary Debbie Cameron says.

She says this means exhibitors will get the chance to win a prestigious tri-coloured RAS (Royal Agricultural Society) ribbon and medal.

The equestrian section also has a full Royal Show programme, with Connemara and golden horses being entered in a Rangiora show for the first time. Equestrian events from 8am on both Friday and Saturday.

The main attractions in the horse events include the Lochinvine Two Jump Challenge at 11.45am and the Top Cat Roof & Brick Ltd Six Bar Challenge at 12.15pm, followed by pony hunter jumping at 12.30pm and hack hunter jumping at 1pm.

Competitors in equestrian events can also earn qualification to the Horse of the Year competition being held in Hastings in March next year.

The sheep section also has a full Royal Show programme and so will have breeds which have not been shown at Rangiora before. Within the sheep classes are the traditional breeds, black and coloured sheep, prime lambs, gift lambs, pet lambs and fleece classes.

Mrs Cameron says the show will have the usual range of livestock, including goats, cattle, sheep, horses, ponies, donkeys and mules, dogs, alpacas and poultry.

There will also be shearing, wood chopping, sheep dog trials, grain and seed, home and produce, trade and craft sections and dancing competitions.

Goat classes include angora, mohair, dairy goats, kids and bucks. Dancing classes include Irish jigs, highland flings, sword dance and sailors hornpipe.

A big attraction for foodies is the range of food on offer including whitebait patties, Thai, kebabs, falafel, Cornish pasties, smoked bacon and egg baps, pork belly burgers, venison ciabatta with caramelised onions and ice cream, along with the traditional hot dogs, chips and candy floss.

There will also be a range of sandwiches, sausage rolls and cakes at the Rangiora Showgrounds Function Centre, which will also a public bar available.

To keep the smaller children entertained, there will be the farmyard nursery which will be in its usual spot to give the town and city kids a taste of country life. Craft stalls will be selling all kinds of produce, food stalls will cater to a variety of appetites, and side shows and rides will be on offer.

The terrier racing at 11.30am on Saturday in the main oval is a popular event. The grand parade will be held at 2.30pm in the main oval, featuring the livestock champions, vintage cars and machinery, followed by a trade parade and a lolly scramble.

Rounding out the day’s action will be the pony and horse show jumping.

Mrs Cameron wishes to thank show day sponsor Farmlands, PGG Wrightson for supplying a marquee at no cost, the Waimakariri District Council, Pub Charity and Mainpower for their continued support of the Northern A&P Association.

The entertainment will continue on Sunday, October 23, with 150th anniversary celebrations planned.

The Northern A&P Show will be held at the Rangiora Showgrounds on Friday and Saturday, October 21 to 22. Admission on Saturday is adults $12, $5 a child and under-fives free.

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Saturday, 25 March 2017

Book Review: The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

Title: The Romance of the Forest
Author: Ann Radcliffe
Publisher: Oxford World Classics
Publication Date: 2009 (1791)
Pages: 397
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classics/Gothic
Source: Xmas Gift

Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's proprietor, a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finally force her to contemplate escape to distant regions.

Rich in allusions to aesthetic theory and to travel literature,
The Romance of the Forest is also concerned with current philosophical debate and examines systems of thought central to the intellectual life of late eighteenth-century Europe. (Back Copy)

I have enjoyed all Radcliffe's other novels, and The Romance of the Forest is no exception. Indeed, I believe it is my favourite. I enjoyed the simplicity of the tale and cared about the characters. The Gothic themes are there, but they are more subdued than in Radcliffe's later works, so they don't take over the narrative. All up, this was a delightful read from start to finish. It is very much a work of its time, but that will be no obstacle for those used to reading eighteenth century literature. It is certainly one for all Gothic fans.

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Kids’ Pasta Project Celebrates Six Years of Synergistic Support

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It’s a Monday night at Delicious Orchards, and kids are busy finishing rolling out the fettuccine noodles and setting the tables.  The marinara sauce is simmering on the stove and the aroma of apple crisp escapes from the oven.  The kids sit down around the picnic table outside for their own pasta dinner before the guests arrive, and a representative from the organization being supported at the dinner talks to the group about what his/her organization does in the community.  After the kids have dinner, guests begin to arrive.  The young cashier takes money at the door and the young maitre d’ escorts guests to their tables.  The waiters approach with bread and greetings and takes orders. There is a lot of conversation at the shared tables, neighbors catching up, interrupted only by kids serving salad, pasta and dessert.20150420-kpp-tasty-reads-05

You know how when you go out to lunch with a friend and both of you are trying to pay the bill?   One person might end up paying the bill and allow the other to pay the tip–which becomes inevitably generous–and then the other tries to make up for the generosity by doing something else.  And the cycle continues.

That’s how it has been for Kids’ Pasta Project in the North Fork community since April 2009, when the kids first started serving home made pasta dinners to the public and donating profits to local causes at Eleni’s Uptown.  The generosity began with Eleni offering her restaurant for us to use.

Then ten-year-old Kids’ Pasta Project volunteer Antonio Gonzales said it best:

We are basically helping other organizations that help our community; so we donate money to the organizations and the organizations use it to put back into the community.

The North Fork community also supports the Kids’ Pasta Project in many ways, and thus the circle of giving continues.  Community organizations, businesses and individuals of all ages support KPP by partnering to host dinners, attending dinners, donating goods and money and volunteering at the dinners.  Sometimes the best support is the kind that’s hard to define, like when a dinner guest offers a waitress words of encouragement or a farm calls unexpectedly offering bunches of basil.20150420-kpp-tasty-reads-09

Antonio said that about our community in a 2010 video that Hutman Media donated its services to make, one of the many generous gestures that became infectious then and continues to this day.  In that video, we discuss how much the community plays a part in KPP and how mutually beneficial it can be.

As the kids are learning the value of service to community, they/we also get to witness how much community organizations and individuals do for each other and for KPP.  The organizations (KPP Partner-Recipients), local businesses and farms, guests and volunteers represent different segments of this synergistic community!

Originally, KPP was just a good idea for helping kids learn practical business and restaurant skills while raising money for their school.  Aki, Jo E., Jo F. and I were working together to set up the dinner operations, and other founding board members, Daniel, Elaine and Jim helped set up the organization and complete essential behind-the-scenes work. After a few practice dinners with friends and their kids, we decided that we should play restaurant with our friends and let them enjoy the smiling service that only seven- to twelve-year-olds can bring.

Soon before the dinner, Aki’s mother-in-law, Liz, suggested that we donate the profits from our first dinner to the Senior Center because she volunteered there and could see that it needed funding.  Her suggestion proved to be the most brilliant stroke in the whole process of beginning–it was the idea that nudged KPP’s direction firmly into the realm of community service along with practical education.2013040102

It wasn’t hard to find other organizations that needed funds, and soon our Monday night dinner schedule was full of organizations being sponsored. Soon, these “recipient” organizations became officially called “Partner-Recipients” because they were partnering with us to enhance the dinners and invite their friends and memberships as well as receiving the dinner profits.  Sixty organizations partnered with KPP between 2009 and 2014, some every year, some just once and others in between for a total of 143 dinners.

The community is doing a lot for our volunteers in providing this opportunity to learn about this breadth of community work–senior centers, animal care programs, school sports and extra-curricular activities, organizations that offer scholarships, mentoring programs and more.  When Martin Luther King National Day of Service came around in January, we decided to make a special event with the aim of creating a recognition dinner for these community organizations.  A group of Kids’ Pasta Project volunteers got together in November of 2009 to develop the guidelines, title and decision making procedure for this award.  Inspired by the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service description, the following questions are answered by community organizations nominating themselves for the award or by others who wish to nominate them:

  • How is your organization strengthening our community?
  • In what ways does your organization work to empower individuals to serve their community?
  • How does your organization serve to build bridges between different people and groups in the community?

kpp-chc-15KPP Volunteers are invited to participate in choosing the organization that will receive the award, which is presented at the KPP dinner on Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service.

The award recipients—Paonia Library, Pickin’ in the Park, Helping Hands and Tri-County Resources–reflect the wide range of organizations that serve our community, offering education, music, food for the community, those in need, and provide support to counter domestic violence.

The KPP volunteers who review the applications learn a lot through reading about what they do and discussing who should receive the award.

Local farms and businesses

KPP didn’t ask Hardins to donate 50 pound sacks of organic flour whenever we needed it; Scott and Lisa just offered sometime very soon after we started and have continued ever since!  Likewise, KPP didn’t ask Flying Fork Bakery to charge only cost for providing bread for the dinners; Kelly just said he wanted to support what we were doing.

When Mesa Winds called to say they had thirty boxes of the most delicious peaches in the world to offer for our desserts, all we had to do was pick them up.  Orchard Valley not only had cases of wine to donate, which added to dinner profits, they also had world class vinegar to sell to us at cost so that our salad dressing could be delicious with simply oil and that vinegar.  North Fork Lifestyles regularly offered door prizes, something that adds greatly to the after-dinner presentations that the kids do.  Zephyros Farm, one of the early KPP providers was ready with a deal on lettuce any time they had it.  Ultra Mat left a message one day saying they wanted to do KPPs laundry, so wash the light blue tee-shirts made at Lasting Impressions with money donated by Cocker Kids’ Foundation and the aprons handmade by Jo and Aki.20150420-kpp-tasty-reads-06

Many farms of all sizes call occasionally to offer something from their harvest. With Thistle Whistle Farm, it started more as a planned giving when in 2010 the partnership between the Kampe Foundation, Thistle Whistle Farm and KPP began under the soon-to-be-invented title “The Sauce Plot.”

The kids involved in The Sauce Plot gave it that name one of the mornings they gathered at the yurt on the farm to learn about the work they would be doing in the gardens.  Anna Kampe and her assistant, Lizzie, guided the kids in all aspects of growing produce for the KPP dinners as Mark Waltermire, owner and master farmer at Thistle Whistle offered frequent expert advice and mini-lessons.  Thistle Whistle Farm has designated a portion of the farm as “The Sauce Plot” ever since.

Beginning with Eleni’s, several restaurants have welcomed KPP to use their space on Monday nights when possible.  Fresh and Wyld offered their beautiful setting for a transitional time between Eleni’s and Scenic Mesa Ranch, while Julie Littlefield generously offered the use of the restaurant and the deck’s gorgeous views from fall of 2010 through spring of 2013.

After that, PJ’s in downtown Hotchkiss made it easy for the crew to step into Peter’s charming space to work.  When PJ’s started opening on Mondays, Delicious Orchards, which had been a venue for KPP special events in the past, stepped in to offer their space with a nice blend of outdoor and indoor seating.  The Paonia Teen Center, Hotchkiss Memorial Hall, Orchard Valley, The Blue Sage, Crawford Town Hall and recently, the North Fork Community Montessori School in Crawford have all been welcoming venues for KPP dinners and other events.20150420-kpp-tasty-reads-25

Other events have included serving at the BMW Rally and Ride the Rockies, catering a rehearsal dinner, marching in the parade, having a recipe development class for some of the kids, training programs, Bulldog after-school learning center activities, school visits to teach pasta making, library programs and displays at Mountain Harvest Festival.

Kids’ Pasta Project would not exist without the kids who make it happen.  At every dinner, a crew of eight to twelve seven- to sixteen-year-olds mound flour and mix in eggs and olive oil to make fresh pasta dough, and then roll it through pasta machines to make the fettuccine noodles.  They prepare the salad and dessert, set the tables and make sure that everything is ready for the dinner guests to arrive at 6:00.

Volunteers wait on tables and work the “front of the house” as cashiers, hosts and hostesses.  The waitresses and waiters are generally paired with a less experienced volunteer who helps bus the tables.  There is a bustle throughout the dinner; kids are grinding pepper and parm over chunky marinara, filling water glasses, bringing plates, clearing plates and having fun!   The youth volunteers–the KPP kids–learn the value of giving as they serve very welcoming and understanding crowds of dinner guests.

A teen volunteer works as a “midway” between the kitchen and the dining area to make sure that orders get to the chefs and to the guests in a timely manner.  On the other side of the line, another teenager makes sure that the bread, salads and desserts are in order.

These teenagers are a part of the developing KPP internship program whose aim it is to help older volunteers learn management skills.  As more experienced youth volunteers have the opportunity to learn skills to manage operations through internships, they also help to make the organization sustainable.  In turn, they can learn to teach their skills to other volunteers, keeping the cycle of sustainability strong!   In 2009, the average age of the youth volunteers was eight-and-a-half.  Because some of those kids are still involved, the average age has risen to almost twelve.20150420-kpp-tasty-reads-02

Here’s what one of our teen interns, Siena, has to say about volunteering over the years:

At the beginning, Jo F. gave me instructions about waiting tables and manners.  My mom (Moni)  gave me advice about how to take initiative.  Aki taught me how to make apple crisp and Jo E. taught me how to make a spreadsheet.  Hours and hours of doing all of these things helped me be able to teach other kids now.  I organize and help kids do work journals at the end of the dinners.  I can sit and have funny conversations or sing weird songs while I teach some of the other volunteers the apple crisp recipe and I can go home at the end of the night feeling happy!

The teen volunteers also help organize the public speaking at the end of the dinner.  Some of the youth volunteers get up in front of the crowd and ding a glass to get everyone’s attention.  They give little speeches thanking our hosts and donors, telling about local food sources for the dinner and awarding a check with the dinner profits to a representative from the Partner-Recipient organization.kpp-chc-30

Over 126 North Fork youth between the ages of seven and seventeen have served as KPP volunteers since the organization began in 2009.  Some have been regular volunteers, working at least once a month, and others just come to support a certain organization, as is often the case with school groups such as the Paonia track team, the North Fork Community Montessori School, the K-8 Destination Imagination team and Flight of the Eagle Project.

Youth ages 7-18 are welcome to volunteer for Kids’ Pasta Project.  Applications are accepted at any time, and volunteers are scheduled when there are openings.  Training orientations are also held for new volunteers.   KPP is partnering with the Blue Sage Center for the Arts to offer a KPP summer camp focused on experimenting with pasta recipes and exploring the world of pasta from June 29 – July 3.

Here’s the teen intern again with some words about the guests:

Without the kind, supportive guests, the dinners would not be the same.  I remember one of my first times serving a table.  Earlier that day, I had asked Jo (Feldman) if I could wait on the big ten-top.  She instructed me on how to set the table and what to say and do.  I was very excited.  Around 6:00 guests started arriving and I noticed people were starting to shuffle in and sit at my table.  I repeated what Jo told me earlier over and over in my head until I walked over and said, “Hi, my name is Siena and I’ll be your waitress tonight.”  The smiles the guests had on their faces encouraged me to smile back and be even more excited to wait on such nice people.  Compliments the guests give at the end of the night and sometimes even thank you cards in the mail encourage us to keep going!

KPP’s home base, where most of the dinners are served, is Delicious Orchards, just west of Paonia.  Special dinners are also held at the Blue Sage, the Teen Center, Hotchkiss Memorial Hall, Crawford Town Hall and the North Fork Community Montessori School.

For more information, please visit the newly-designed website,

The mission of the Kids’ Pasta Project is for youth to serve their local community by preparing and selling freshly-made, healthy meals, with the profit going to local causes.

Where possible, the ingredients for the meals are from local producers and businesses.

The Kids’ Pasta Project provides the opportunity to learn the value of service to community as well as relevant life skills.

A key intention of the Kids’ Pasta Project organization is for it to be sustainable, adaptable and transferable to any community.

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Himachal to add more attractions to Kullu Dussehra festival

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Himachal’s Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Saturday to add more attractions to International Kullu Dussehra Festival that will be celebrated from October 14-20 this year.
Himachal’s Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh while presiding over a meeting of the State-level Kullu Dussehra Organizing Committee said that week-long famous International Kullu Dussehra Festival will be celebrated with traditional fervour from 14-20 October this year and directed the officials to take necessary steps for highlighting the traditional customs and rich folk culture of the State during the festival.
“Rath Yatra of leading deity Lord Raghunath Ji on the inaugural day was the traditional affair and main attraction of the festival, which should be highlighted properly,” Singh said, while directed the festival authorities to explore the possibility of running commentary of the Rath Yatra on the analogy of ‘Rath Yatra’ of Jagannath Puri.
Singh said variety of cultural programmes depicting rich culture and folklore of State should be given more importance and efforts should be made to invite the best cultural troupes from different parts of the Country and abroad as well. He suggested that competitions based on folk dance and folk music instruments should also be organized in the day time along-with evening cultural program for the entertainment of the tourists and local people. He said that winners of these competitions should be suitable rewarded. He also directed for proper arrangements and providing best possible facilities and remuneration to the accomplice of Deities.
The chief minister said that fairs and festivals of state were playing a vital role in preserving and promoting traditions and cultural heritage, and Kullu Dussehra was among one of the International Festival of the State like Shivratri fair of Mandi, Summer Festival of Shimla, Lavi of Rampur and Minjar of Chamba districts.
“We have taken up matter with Government of India for a grant of Rs 40 lakh for providing tent facilities to the deities and their accomplice during the festival. Further, sports events and an attractive exhibition depicting latest developments in various sectors will also be organized during the festival,” he said.
Meanwhile, Principal Secretary Language, Art and Culture Upma Chaudhary said that best cultural troupe from State, India and abroad would be invited to the Festival. “Efforts are being made to organize famous Ramyan show of Shri Ram Bhartiya Kala Kendra Delhi and North Zone Cultural Centre (NZCC),” Chaudhary said.


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Guitar Practice Routine: The Album Approach

In this series on guitar practice routines we've already discussed how important it is to learn songs, not just exercises and technique. An album project is a first-rate way to organize your learning around songs. Professional musicians organize their work in albums, so why not take example organize your practice as an album, too?

Benefits of the Album Approach

An album of eight or ten songs is a great learning tool. Use it to plan and organize your learning and practice and get these useful benefits.

1. A well defined objective

An album provides an easy to imagine and worthwhile objective. Learning one song is great, imagine your satisfaction when you learn eight.

2. Variety

You will often find that you come across flat periods while you learn. You seem to be stuck on the same problem without progress. Instead of getting frustrated, just work on another song for a while instead. As the saying goes, a change is as good as a rest, and you'll find fresh motivation to practice.

3. Repertoire

What better way to build your repertoire? It's just how your favourite artists do it. You too can take your album on the road, or at least to your aunt's house for her birthday party.

4. Perfect skills through repetition

You will give your skills a really good work out as you apply them to several different songs. And the best thing is, you don't drive yourself mad playing the same song over and over to get it.

Prepare Your Practice Album

It's well worth taking a little time to prepare a good practice album. These tips will ensure a good start to your project.

1. Choose songs you love

You'll be better motivated to learn your favourite songs. This one is really important. You don't have to play any song because it's the "song all guitarists have to learn".

2. Set a target date

Choose a rough time frame for your album, but don't pressure yourself if you don't make it. Three to nine months works well for me, any longer and I start to lose interest.

3. Limit the learning goals

Keep in mind your planned time frame and don't aim for too many new skills. Lots of techniques or unfamiliar chords will bog you down.

4. Aim for common skills

Eight songs might seem a lot to learn in six months but if you choose songs that use similar skills it is not such a tall order. You can make a whole album of songs that use only three to five chords, for example. You can also stick mostly to chords you already know and add a new technique, like bass runs, or more advanced picking.

5. Focus on one style

Recording artists release albums of songs in completely different styles. It confuses the listener and makes the album harder to follow. Your learning album will also be more successful if you stick to one style, largely because this supports the aims of common skills and reasonable learning goals. It also helps you develop your ear and sense of style as you hear and feel familiar sounds repeatedly.

6. Revisit an old album

You can revisit songs you already know as a base for learning new skills. For example, you might learn how to strum through eight songs with dominant 7th bar chords to learn blues guitar. Then you can revisit the album later to add new techniques, like playing little fills to spice up your playing.

Take It On Tour

An album is a great tool to organize your guitar learning. With an album of songs to practice you have an easy to identify, focused and satisfying goal. It also gives you a variety of things to work on which helps you over the inevitable learning plateaus you will encounter.

Best of all, after you've learned your new album through a few months work you can "take it on tour" to show all your friends.

The practice routine series is coming to an end soon (you'll be relieved to hear). Tune in for the last part in your email or your RSS reader.

More on practice routines...

Aristotle's Guitar Practice Routine
Guitar Practice Routine: Get Started
Guitar Practice Routine: Interval Training
Guitar Practice Routine: Hamburger's Tips
Guitar Practice Routine: Songs First

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Ezekiel 37: 3-6

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

God showed Ezekiel a situation that seemed impossible in the natural. God showed him a valley of old dead bones. Now these bones that God showed Ezekiel were not only old and dry but they were scattered all over the valley. God asked Ezekiel a very crucial question because the prophets’ answer would determine if God could use him in this situation. God needed Ezekiel to be open to do and believe whatever He said. Ezekiel must had known possibly by experience or good teaching that whenever God asked you a question we need to ask Him what the answer is not lean to our own understanding. We must be willing to trust and accept whatever God says and agree with Him. If God says no then we say no, if God says yes then we say yes, if God says stop then we must stop and not go one inch further. God performed a great miracle through the prophet because He obeyed God’s command. What would have been totally impossible in human ability God made a reality through one man’s faith in God. Ezekiel did exactly what God told him to do and he saw exactly what God said He would do.
Sometimes in our lives we may be faced with situations that seem down -right impossible but God has a word for every impossible situation. When we take the time to hear what God has to say and then say only what He commands us to say we will always see favorable results. It is impossible for God to lie, so if God says it, it shall come to pass. If you read the whole chapter of Ezekiel 37 you will see that when God began to perform this miracle through Ezekiel there was a part when the miracle was not complete. Everything had happen just like God said but there was no breath yet. God had said that He would put breath in them. However Ezekiel did not fret, murmur or complain. He did not settle for 95% either because He knew God was not a 95% God. Ezekiel waited on the word of God to command him in what to do next and God spoke and told him what to do. Ezekiel did not get in pride and try to do it himself, no; he waited on God because he knew God was not finished. God fully expects to do everything He says not just half but all.
We must stay in faith and allow God to accomplish His full complete will in our lives as well. We must not run ahead of God or try to figure things out for ourselves we must trust God. God is not a man that He should lie, He will always keep His word, and He will always do what He said He would do, 100%.

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Activity Of Consciousness
Aim And Method Of Naturalism
Autonomy Of Spirit
Consciousness Of The Ego
Constructive Criticism
Contrast Between Darwinian And Post-darwinian Views
Creative Power Of Consciousness
Criticisms Of The Mechanistic Theory Of Life
Crities Of Darwinism
Darwinish In General
Darwinism And Teleology
Darwinism In The Strict Sense
De Vries's Mutation-theory
Differences Of Opinion As To The Factors In Evolution
Eimer's Orthogenesis
Evolution And New Beginnings
Feeling Individuality Genius And Mysticism
Freedom Of Spirit
Fundamental Principles Of Naturalism
Goethe's Attitude To Naturalism
Haeckel's Evolutionist Position
How All This Affects The Religious Outlook
How The Religious And The Naturalistic Outlooks Conflict
Individual Development
Intuitions Of Reality
Is There Ageing Of The Mind?
Lamarckism And Neo-lamarckism
Machnical Theories Criticism
Mind And Spirit The Human And The Animal Soul
Mystery : Dependence : Purpose
Natural Selection
Naturalistic Attacks On The Autonomy Of The Spiritual
No Parallelism
Other Instances Of Dissatisfaction With The Theory Of Descent
Pre-eminence Of Consciousness
Preyer's Position
Religion And The Theory Of Descent
Spontaneous Generation
Teleological And Scientific Interpretations Are Alike Necessary
The Antimony Of Our Conception Of Space
The Antimony Of Our Conception Of Time
The Antimony Of The Conditioned And The Unconditioned
The Characteristic Features Of Darwinism
The Conservation Of Matter And Energy
The Constructive Work Of Driesch
The Contingency Of The World
The Dependence Of The Order Of Nature
The Development Of Darwinism
The Ego
The Fundamental Answer
The Law Of The Conservation Of Energy
The Mechanics Of Development
The Mystery Of Existence Remains Unexplained
The Organic And The Inorganic
The Position Of Bunge And Other Physiologists
The Problema Continui
The Real World
The Recognition Of Purpose
The Religious Interpretation Of The World
The Spontaneous Activity Of The Organism
The Supremacy Of Mind
The Theory Of Descent
The True Naturalism
The Two Kinds Of Naturalism
The Unconscious
The Unity Of Consciousness
The Views Of Albrecht And Schneider
The Views Of Botanists Illustrated
The World And God
Theory Of Definite Variation
Theory Of Life
Various Forms Of Darwinism
Virchow's Caution
Virchow's Position
Weismann's Evolutionist Position
What Is Distinctive In The Naturalistic Outlook
What Is Distinctive In The Religious Outlook

The first of the three points we have called attention to has, so to
speak, become famous through the lectures of du Bois-Reymond, which
attracted much attention, on "The Limits of Natural Knowledge," and "The
Seven Riddles of the Universe." That these thoughtful lectures made so
great an impression did not mean that a great new discovery had been made,
but was rather a sign of the general lack of reflection on the part of the
public, for they only expressed what had always been self-evident, and
what had only been forgotten through thoughtlessness, or concealed by
polemical rhetoric. Consciousness, thought, even the commonest sensation
of pleasure and pain, or the simplest sense-perception, cannot be compared
with "matter and energy," with the movements of masses. They represent a
foreign and altogether inexplicable guest in this world of matter,
molecules, and elements. Even if we could follow the play of the nervous
processes with which sensation, consciousness, pain, or pleasure are bound
up, into their most intricate and delicate details, if we could make the
brain transparent, and enlarge its cells to the size of houses, so that,
with searching glance, we could count and observe all the processes, and
even follow the dance of the molecules within it, we should never see
"pain," "pleasure," or "thought," or anything more than bodies and their
movements. A thought, such as, for instance, the perception that two and
two make four, is not long or broad, above or beneath; it cannot be
measured or weighed in inches or pounds like matter, tested with the
manometer, thermometer, or electrometer for its potential or intensity and
tension, measured by amperes or volts or horse-powers like energies and
electric currents; it is something wholly different, which can be known
only through inner experience, but which is much better known than
anything else whatever, and which it is absolutely impossible to compare
with anything but itself. Even if we admit that it can only become actual
and develop as an accompaniment of processes within bodies, and only
within those bodies we call "living," and that wherever bodies exist
psychical phenomena occur; even if we were able, as we never shall be
able, to produce living beings artificially in a retort, and even if
psychical phenomena occurred in these also, we should still have made no
progress towards explaining what the psychical really is. It would still
only be the blazing up in these bodies of a flame which, in some
inexplicable way, had fallen upon them, and associated itself with them.
We do not doubt that this association, where it takes place, does so in
obedience to the strictest law and the most inexorable necessity;
therefore, that wherever and however the corporeal conditions are
produced, sensation and consciousness will awaken. For we believe in a
world governed by law. But the mystery is in no way lessened by this, and
the modern theory of evolution throws no light into this utterly
impenetrable darkness. In the first place, the whole idea of "explaining"
in terms of "evolution" is a futile one. The process of becoming is
pictured as a simple process of cumulation, a gradual increase of
intensities, while the business is really one of change in quality and the
introduction of what is new. In the second place, the occurrence even of
the first and most primitive sensation contains the whole riddle
concentrated on a single point. In the third place, the riddle meets us
anew and undiminished in every developing individual. For to say that the
physical inwardness, once it has arisen, is "transmitted," is not an
explanation but merely an admission that the riddle exists. And the idea
that the psychical is just a penumbra or shadow of reality, which comes of
itself and so to speak gratis, is quite inadmissible from the point of
view of strict natural science. There are no longer luxus and lusus
naturae. Reality cannot throw a "shadow." According to the principles of
the conservation of matter and energy, we must be able to show whence it
gets the so-called shadow, and with what it compensates for it.

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