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Student Employment

Student employment is not just to pay for college anymore.

These days most employers look for college graduates with evidence of real-world work experience – not just good grades. Students graduating with job-ready skills and competitive résumés are more likely to find employment.

As an SPU student working on or off campus, you have the opportunity to gain the experience and tools employers look for in candidates — and earn some money while you’re at it. The Office of Student Employment is here to help.

Job opportunities

To view current job opportunities and apply, please visit SPULink. Each job description will detail how you apply for the position.

Benefits of student employment

You may think that working during college will hurt your GPA. But studies have shown that the opposite is true, that in fact:

  • Students who work during college do just as well or better academically than nonworking students.
  • Grades actually improve as students work more hours per week (up to 20).
  • Working students are more likely to complete a degree program than nonworking students.

Although student employment may not relate directly to your future career, working while in school or during the summer can help you develop:

  • money-management and time-management skills
  • networking abilities and professional experience
  • a robust list of references
  • a professional résumé
Biochem student doing research in a lab

Biochemistry major Dylan Marashi ’15: “At SPU, you’ll probably find me wearing chinos, a lab coat, and goggles as I spend countless hours in Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Wade Grabow’s lab. I’m helping him with research related to destroying prostate cancer cells.”

Job search preparation

In order to position yourself as a strong candidate, searching for a job requires that you create a professional résumé, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and list of references, and that you practice your interview skills. You may also want to reflect on your vocational calling and network to explore career options.

The Center for Career and Calling offers online tools and resources, as well as career counselors to assist you with landing a job.

Work study

Work study is offered to all SPU students. Eligibility for government-funded work study programs will be determined by financial need as demonstrated on the FAFSA. It is assumed that you will use the wages earned under work study for educational expenses.

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

What is a Teacher?

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, I'd like to dedicate one of my favorite posts to the dedicated mothers in America who sacrifice so much each and every day to home educate their children.

What is a Teacher?

A teacher is someone who can....

....Give a hug without getting arrested.
....Bandage a knee without calling the school nurse.
....Change a light bulb without calling the custodian.
....Make the children wash the bathrooms without union approval.
....Have a relationship with the principal without getting fired.
....Teach a child's mind while capturing their heart.
....Teach what they believe in and believe in what they teach.
....Meet the child's needs and not worry about meeting state guidelines.
....Commit to a lifetime of work without pay but receive rewards that last a lifetime.
....Pray in class, out loud, with the children and the ACLU can't say a word.

There is only one that can fill that job description...

....A teacher is a mom.

"Hear my son, your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching."
Proverbs 1:8

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Stacy Tilton Reviews: Check out "The Briefcase" on CBS 5/27 #TheBriefcase

Tuesday, May 26

Check out "The Briefcase" on CBS 5/27 #TheBriefcase

“The Briefcase” Features Families Experiencing Financial Setbacks
Who Are Given a Large Sum of Money and Told to Make a Potentially Life-Altering Decision

I've seen a few commercials as well as an exclusive sneak peek for this show already and I can't wait to actually watch the full episode tomorrow night. It looks like a great reality series that actually helps people out that have truly had a hard time at some point in life and could use the briefcase to give them a fresh start.

I hope you'll join me tomorrow night 5/27 from 8:00-9:00 PM ET.

CBS announces the new reality show THE BRIEFCASE, featuring hard-working American families experiencing financial setbacks who are presented with a briefcase containing a large sum of money and a potentially life-altering decision: they can keep all of the money for themselves, or give all or part of it to another family in need. The series premieres Wednesday, May 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

“THE BRIEFCASE is an eye-opening look into what matters most in people’s lives, taking the audience on an emotional roller coaster ride with a shocking ending each week,” said THE BRIEFCASE Creator and Executive Producer Dave Broome. “I've been incredibly impressed by just how generous Americans are, even with shrinking paychecks and rising debt, when there’s little left to give.”

Each week, two families have 72 hours to learn details about each other’s challenging circumstances and make the weighty decision of what to do with $101,000.  However, what they don’t know is that the family with whom they are considering sharing this financial windfall received an identical briefcase with the same instructions. Throughout their journeys, relationships within both families will be tested and beliefs questioned as they find out what really matters most in their lives, and how much importance they place on values such as love, generosity, compassion and faith.

THE BRIEFCASE is produced by 25/7 Productions and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Dave Broome (Creator and Executive Producer, THE BIGGEST LOSER) and Faye Stapleton are executive producers.

Here are some of the families that are participating in THE BRIEFCASE:

Bergin Family
Joe: Ice Cream Truck Owner
Kim: Part-Time Event Planner
Three children, ages 15, 13 and 12

Matthews, N.C.
After Joe was laid off from his corporate job 10 years ago, he and his wife, Kim, started an ice cream truck business which is struggling.

Bronson Family
Dave: Injured Retired Iraq Vet
Cara: Nurse
One child, age 3, with another on the way

Manchester, N.H.
Dave is an American hero whose Humvee exploded when he was in Iraq and he lost his leg. He and his wife, Cara, are expecting their second child this summer. Living on one income with a growing family has put a significant amount of stress on the Bronsons.

Wylie Family
Matt: Former Steel Industry Worker
Becky: Stay-at-Home Mom
Two children, ages 20 and 16

Rio Vista, Texas
After suffering a bad back injury almost 20 years ago and losing his well-paying job in the steel industry, Matt now works as the local constable. Becky and Matt admit that their financial situation has made life difficult, but they believe strongly in community service and rely heavily on their Christian faith to guide them.

Bailey Family
Tonya: Director of the nonprofit City Year
Leila: Managing Director of the nonprofit City Year
Two children, ages 14 and 9

Dorchester, Mass.
Three years ago, Tonya and Leila took in Leila’s nephews, Milton and Jaden, and today the children are thriving. Taking on the responsibility of two children comes with added costs, and they have put their dream of having a child of their own on hold.

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  1. I watched a preview of the first episode. Really liked it, and can't wait to watch future episodes.

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Stacy Tilton Reviews: Let your hands lead the way with RunLites

Monday, October 17

Let your hands lead the way with RunLites

As some of you may already know my husband is an outdoorsman. He likes to hunt, fish, hike, camp, you name it as long as it's outdoors. Along with that there are many times he's outside after dark in the woods. And that means many time he needs to carry a flashlight so he can see to get back to his truck. However that can be a difficult task if he's also dragging out a deer or has his hands full with supplies and fish. Having a way to light up the path hands free (or with his hands in this case) is really what he needs. I recently got him a pair of camouflage RunLites sport gloves and I have to say he is now a very happy man. He an carry all of his gear, and as long as he can keep his hands pointing in front of him he can light the way for himself. The gloves he says are very comfortable and he can see himself wearing them year round because they are lightweight. I like that the lights are rechargeable so we don't have to worry about a battery running out on him while he's out, or having that added bulk of a battery pack. You really can't even tell these have lights built into them unless you're really looking for it. I actually liked them so much when they arrived I almost kept them for myself!

RunLites gloves are a lightweight, wearable, hands-free lighting solution ideal for outdoor activities. Carrying a flashlight can be burdensome, wearing a headlamp is uncomfortable and bringing a lantern isn’t always an option. Put light where you need it while setting up your tent, starting a fire or walking through the woods with RunLites.

Benefits of RunLites:
• Compact, lightweight and hands-free
• Bright (40 lumens) light that projects a 135-degree radial arc up to 15 feet
• Rechargeable LED lights last up to 12 hours continuously
• Reflective strip for safety
• Available in Half-length (for working) or full-length (for colder weather)
• Padded palm pocket for storage

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Hello Summer!

Hi all! I hope you are all having a wonderful Summer so far. Mine has been good, not too crazy yet. Although I don't have kids at home anymore, I do keep my grand kids, (I have four now, ages 10 months to 5 years!) so they have me pretty busy. Next week we are heading back home to Florida for a week and I am really looking forward to getting away for a bit and to just sitting on the beach!
Lately I have rediscovered my stamps and have been playing around a lot with coloring. Today I'm sharing a couple of cards I've made.
This one is an stamp set from My Favorite Things. I did stamp the image twice, once on Copic X-Press for coloring then again on polka dot paper so I could fussy cut her bathing suit. The Hello Summer sentiment and tab are from the Silhouette Studio and cut with the Cameo.
This is one of my favorite new stamps! It's from Bug a Boo designs and I think is just really fun! I finally used some of the spool of Airmail twine I bought a few years ago, still don't know why I thought I needed a whole spool of that, but oh well!  The twine was had a white thread in it, which I didn't think looked right with the darker paper, so I darkened it up a bit by dying it with Antique Linen Distress ink. You can do this simply, and with any ink refill, by adding a few drops of ink to a little water then placing the twine in the mixture. I like to use a small zip lock type plastic bag for this. Mix it around until you have the coverage you want, then take the twine and wring the excess liquid out and let it dry. This same method works for the bias tape ribbon as well.
Hope you enjoyed today's post and enjoy the rest of your day.
Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy@ Scrap-obsessed.blogspot.com said...

Cute cards. Thanks for sharing.

Sis Patterson said...

What great cards - love your coloring and stamping! And the twine - perfect!

cdm317 said...

Love these cards! That wonder woman is just plain fun!

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Boxing is a combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, speed, reflexes, endurance, and will by throwing punches with gloved hands against each other.

Colonel Jack O'Neill taught Teal'c to box and the Jaffa became quite proficient and instructed Jonas Quinn. (SG1: "The Fifth Race", "Redemption, Part 1")

While under the influence of the Atanik armbands O'Neill's physical strength and speed increased hugely. He evaded Teal'c's punches with ease, and managed to take Teal'c down with a single punch. (SG1: "Upgrades")

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Friday, January 22, 2010

The Supremes on campaign financing

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-to-4 decision with significant consequences for elections in this country. Reversing several prior courts’ decisions, they declared unconstitutional the restrictions on campaign donations from corporations and labour unions.

There are valid arguments on both sides of this decision. Unfortunately, the main point taken by the majority is not one of them. The court has long and inexplicably supported the idea that money equates to speech — specifically, that donating money is a first-amendment right, amounting to free speech. That there was any intent toward that by the authors of the constitution is just silly. Freedom of speech was meant to protect people who would speak out, disseminate ideas, whether popular or not. It was never meant to allow the bankrolling of political candidates.

But even more ludicrous, on its very face, is the idea that corporations should have the same first-amendment rights as individuals. Yet Justice Kennedy, in the majority decision, says just that: “The court has recognized that First Amendment protection extends to corporations.”

Of course, the argument against that is the undue control that corporations can exert. With the enormous financial resources wielded by a large company, it can buy the loyalty of a candidate with donations, and intimidate legislators by toppling their colleagues who vote against the company’s interests.

This isn’t an idle fear: there are many ways for this to happen now. Allowing open financial support on a large scale just makes it much, much worse. And the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has just given the green light.

Yet the standard conservative argument for opening this up is also valid: by limiting contributions, we limit the ability for opposition candidates to raise funds with which to run campaigns. If we broaden the fundraising opportunities, we broaden the potential candidate pool. We make it possible for the average citizen to run for office.

Yet we don’t want the “average citizen” to wind up running with corporate interests on her back.

There is another answer. To even the chances for the average citizen, we can make sure she can come by the millions necessary to run for office. Or we can make sure that millions are not necessary.

Instead of campaign finance limits, we need campaign spending limits. The amount of money — and time — spent on political campaigns in this country is insane. Strict limits on both will save a lot of ridiculous waste, while putting elected office within reach of every citizen with the interest in serving.

And then the voters could decide, as our founders intended.

Update, 6 p.m.: The New York Times has a good editorial on this decision. They, too, think the majority view is abusive and inappropriate.

Ray said...

Robert Reich has a good suggestion:

Jim Fenton said...

Campaign spending limits would be great, but wouldn't solve the problem here. The "corporate free speech" that's enabled by this ruling has to do with issue advertising, not the spending of a particular candidate. The argument would remain that this isn't campaign spending.

scouter573 said...

The fundamental confusion here is not about free speech, it is about the concept of a corporation as a person. If a corporation truly has the rights and responsibilities of a person, let them vote. And when they break the law, take them to prison. Let's debate what it means to take a corporation to prison - I start the discussion with the Board of Directors. If someone makes a car that fails and kills someone, take the Board of Directors to prison. If a corporation knowingly withholds safety information about recreational drugs (tobacco), take the Board of Directors to prison. If a corporation defrauds customers, take the Board of Directors to jail. If the corporation does something particularly heinous (such as killing a group of people), put the Board of Directors on Death Row. Then let's see how long this concept of "corporation as a person" lasts.

Dadinck said...

All well said. Let me add that if there are no limits, why not let the candidate who can raise the most funds win, and forgo the election?

What REALLY should happen is that all of the fund raising goes into a pot and every candidate on that level splits the pot so that all have equal footing during the election.

But, we can't have equality in the USA, can we?

Barry Leiba said...

That's basically how the optional contribution you can designate on your tax form works. But, yes, there's an idea: make that universal. You can contribute to the will of the people.

I like it.

Barry Leiba said...

I just got a chance to read Robert Reich's suggestion, which Ray points to above.

How does this (Reich's "shareholder protection" plan) not create an incentive for a bizarre investment strategy, wherein one preferentially invests in companies that make lots of political contributions, with the intent of refusing all contributions, and then one banks the extra dividends as additional return on one's investment?


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"Stand firm. There might be worse things here than Grievous."
"Looks like you're right about that sir!"
―Kit Fisto and Commander Fil, upon seeing Gor — Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]

Gor was a male roggwart owned by General Grievous during the Clone Wars. Grievous, who served as the Supreme Commander of the Confederacy of Independent Systems' Droid Army, kept Gor in his castle on the third moon of the planet Vassek. There, Gor acted as both a guard and a pet for the general, and was one of the few creatures Grievous cared for. While the general was away, Gor was tended to by his master's medical droid, EV-A4-D. The droid was responsible for fitting Gor with four cybernetic limbs grafted to his back, and attaching an exoskeleton of armor to the roggwart's body.

In 22 BBY, the Confederate Head of State, Count Dooku, lured a Jedi-led Republic task force to Grievous's castle in an attempt to test the general's skills. Grievous ordered Gor to kill the intruders, but the roggwart was slain by Jedi Master Kit Fisto.

"Gor, time to entertain our guests!"
―General Grievous — Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]

Following the defeat of the Bitthævrians in the Kaleesh–Bitthævrian War, the victorious Kaleesh warlords took roggwarts as trophies from the Bitthævrian homeworld of Guiteica.[7] One such roggwart came into the possession of Confederacy of Independent Systems Supreme Commander General Grievous, who named it "Gor." During the Clone Wars, Grievous kept Gor within his castle on the third moon of Outer Rim world Vassek.[3] Gor served as a guard alongside Grievous's IG-100 MagnaGuard battle droids,[5] and came to be loved by the general. Despite Grievous's affection for his pet, the cyborg understood that Gor's abilities as the castle guardian could be enhanced through the use of cybernetics, just as similar technology had improved Grievous's abilities. To that end, the general ordered his caretaker and medical droid, EV-A4-D, to attach four mechanical arms to Gor's back, and to graft exoskeletal armor to the beast's body.[1]

In 22 BBY,[2] Separatist Council member Nute Gunray escaped from Republic captivity while aboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer Tranquility and fled in a stolen Republic frigate. Intending to reassess Grievous's abilities after the general was defeated numerous times in battle, Confederate Head of State Count Dooku sent the frigate's tracking beacon to Grievous's castle in order to lure Republic forces there. While the general was away from the castle, Dooku remotely deactivated his MagnaGuards, leaving no one to feed Gor.[6] The roggwart was shrieking in hunger by the time Republic forces arrived to search the castle for Gunray.[5]

Gor's Death

Gor's death at the hands of Kit Fisto

Jedi General Kit Fisto, Jedi Knight Nahdar Vebb, and a squad of clone troopers under the command of Clone Commander Fil infiltrated the castle shortly before Grievous returned. Upon his arrival, the general was badly damaged by the Republic and Jedi forces and retreated deep into his castle to be repaired by EV-A4-D. Before beginning his repairs, Grievous released Gor into the corridors of the castle to hunt down the intruders. The roggwart found Fisto, Vebb, and Fil in one of the castle's large rooms and attacked them. Fil fired on Gor several times, but its tough hide and armor rendered the blaster shots ineffective. An aggravated Gor lunged at Fisto, disarming the Nautolan Jedi Master.[5]

As the three intruders surrounded Gor, Fil continued to shoot at the roggwart's neck. Vebb drove his lightsaber into the creature's back, which did little to slow Gor, who quickly bucked Vebb off and grabbed Fil with his prehensile tail, flailing the clone about. Vebb again approached Gor and was again beaten back, this time by the creature's tail that held Fil. Fisto, who had regained his lightsaber, sliced at Gor's face, causing the roggwart to slam Fil into the ground. Vebb rushed forward again, this time slicing off Gor's tail and freeing Fil, who perished from his wounds. Fisto also attacked Gor, who had been distracted by the loss of his tail, slicing off the creature's two front limbs. Gor fell to the ground in pain and was quickly killed by Fisto via a lightsaber stab to the throat. When Grievous's repairs were completed, the general attempted to see if Gor had finished "playing" with the Jedi, only to discover that Gor had been slain—a revelation that greatly upset the general.[5]

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Gor in Grievous's castle

"Well that was something."
―A clone trooper, upon hearing Gor in Grievous's seemingly empty castle — Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]

Gor was a male roggwart—a large, predatory, non-sentient beast.[3] At a height of 4.5 meters[1] and a weight of 254 kilograms,[4] he had large, sharp teeth and two horns that curved downward from his head. Gor's long tail ended in three prehensile graspers that were capable of impaling foes, and his hands and feet both ended in large claws.[1] His muscular body was capable of withstanding blaster shots and enduring modest lightsaber wounds.[5] Additionally, he had a long, gooey projectile tongue.[8] Gor was fitted with a set of battle armor and four large mechanical arms that extended from his back; the chest plate was included to protect his vital organs, while the helmet was created to protect his brain case.[9] He screeched loudly when hungry. Gor had an aggressive disposition, which was evident during his battle with the Jedi.[6]

Given his position as a guard in Grievous' castle, Gor was likely taken from his brood-nest early in life; only roggwarts taken at a such a young age were able to be trained as watch-guardians or pets. The general himself was fond of Gor, doting on the roggwart during his time in the castle.[7] Grievous indeed identified with the creature, and eventually noted that Gor would benefit from a cybernetic transformation just as he had earlier in his life.[1] Upon discovering his pet's death, Grievous was enraged, and added that offense to an already lengthy list of wrongs the general believed the Jedi Order had committed.[7]

Behind the scenesEdit

Gor was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. Gor was first mentioned in Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide as the first depiction of the roggwart species. He later made his series debut in the season one episode "Lair of Grievous." Gor's voice was created from sounds of a lion and a vulture.[10]

The spelling of Gor's name is disputed by several differing sources. While most sources, including the Visual Guide, claim that it is spelled "Gor," The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars spells it as "Gore." The episode guide also refers to him once as "Gorr." While The Official Episode Guide: Season 1 claims that Gor's species originated on Guiteica, the Star Wars Roleplaying Game supplement Galaxy at War states that they are from Vendaxa instead. In 2010, Gor's homeworld was officially stated to be Guiteica with the release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia.

Gor armor

Concept art of Gor in his armor

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia lists Gor's height as 4.5 meters, while Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Head-to-Head lists it as 4.65 meters. This article assumes that the former source is correct.

Non-canon historyEdit

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Head-to-Head presents a non-canon matchup involving Gor, pitting him against the Wookiee warrior Chewbacca. When Chewbacca becomes trapped inside Grievous's lair on the third moon of Vassek, Gor blocks his escape. However, Chewbacca confronts him directly, and Gor, being unaccustomed to his prey running toward him, fails to prevent the Wookiee from severing his cybernetic limbs. Chewbacca is thus able to trap Gor in a nerve-pinning headlock, causing the roggwart to fall unconscious.[4]

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August's Secret Recipe Club Reveal - Chocolate Chip Pecan Blondies

I'm back for a second time with the Secret Recipe Club, and I'm so happy to be. It is such a fun group of food bloggers who are assigned a secret blog from which to make a recipe, and then blog about it! It really has become such an exciting part of my blogging experience... following a new blog and drooling over all of their recipes and deciphering which one to make. All while keeping it a secret.

For the month of August, I was assigned the blog Barefeet in the Kitchen, which was great because I was new to the blog. It has been a pleasure getting to know Mary through her blog and recipes. I love the name of her blog, and the idea that her boys are in the kitchen [barefeet] with her, spending quality time together. I hope to have that with my children one day (when I have some!), to be able to share my love of cooking with them, and to use it as a way to bond and spend time together, as well as teach them lessons. I was also very intrigued by her "dehydration" section on her blog; she has dehydrated many fruits and veggies, some successes and others failures, and she is one creative woman! While I was tempted to try my own hand at dehydrating, that is not what I chose to make from her blog. She only started her blog in May, but she already has a vast array of recipes for me to choose from! After longing over many savory recipes like her adorable Caprese Skewers, fancy Mushroom Risotto, and Grilled Chicken and Bacon Sandwich, I finally decided to target dessert recipes, since I need more desserts on my blog and more practice with baking in general. But oh what to make?! I was longing to make those Almond Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, or some Oatmeal Butterscotch Bars, and I will one day! But since I had all of the ingredients already in my pantry, her Chocolate Chip Blondies won out.

I decided to make a few changes to make the recipe more suitable for us. We had pecans on hand already, so we used those instead of walnuts. Also, since PJ doesn't like nuts as much as I do, I halved the amount of pecans to make them more to his liking. We also cut down on the vanilla, but I'm sure if you used the whole amount that they would be just as good.

These blondies were tasty, and even better for me the next day. I would definitely do the entire amount of nuts next time. I loved the addition, and the extra crunchiness it gave the sweet blondies. PJ also acknowledged that he liked the nuts and would have liked more. I was shocked! So definitely keep the original amount of nuts called for in Mary's original recipe. The recipe below uses the whole amount of nuts, since that's the way I think it should be made.

MMM I'm thinking about these bars right now, drooling at my computer screen as I'm writing this, thinking how I can't wait to make these again.

These blondies have me thinking that the old saying that "blonds have more fun" could really be true. {Cheesy, I know, but I had to}

Chocolate Chip Pecan Blondies
adapted from Barefeet in the Kitchen

      dry ingredients:
  • 2 cups of all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
      wet ingredients:
  • 10 tbsp butter, melted
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla

  • 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup of chopped pecans

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the melted butter and light brown sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter and brown sugar mixture. Then add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Next add in the chocolate chips and chopped pecans and fold everything together until mixed well.

    Pour batter into the well-greased dish and bake for 25-27 minutes, until slightly browned along the edges and a brownie consistency in the center. Cool them in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling before storing them in an airtight container.

    Serve warm or at room temperature. Serve with whipped cream, or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, if desired.

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    I preferred them the next day, at room temperature and allowed time to harden a bit and set. PJ, on the other hand, said he would really like them heated up in the microwave. I'd say that could be a good idea too, if you prefer. Top it with a dollop or two of whipped cream, or a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream, and you've got a perfect summer treat.

    This would also be a perfect dessert to take to a party or company potluck, as you can cut them into squares and serve individually, and they store easily. So if you want to be good and have some will power not to eat them all, then pack some up and take some in to your coworkers or spouse's coworkers. They'll certainly thank you and think you are all sorts of amazing.

    Thanks for such a great recipe, Mary! It's been fun getting to know you secretly :)

    Peace, and bacon grease!

    Trisha said...

    I can't wait to try these Desi. Nice to get to know u through SRC!

    Rachel @ Not Rachael Ray said...

    There are a few blondie recipes this month and they all look great! Glad to find you through the SRC!

    Dan said...

    Wow, those squares turned out absolutely perfect - what great photos. I imagine they tasted phenomenal.

    Barefeet In The Kitchen said...

    I'm glad that you enjoyed them! I like them just like you do, room temp the next day. However, your man is right that they are awesome warm (with ice cream). I've served them to guests straight from the oven with melting ice cream on top. Your photos are so pretty; you've made me crave them this morning!

    Lisa~~ said...

    Great looking bars, I want some now!! If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my Group 'A" ~ SRC recipe this month: Cilantro Lime Chicken

    Cook Lisa Cook

    Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...

    IT's the simple recipes that are sometimes the best! I love a good blondie bar!

    amanda @ fake ginger said...

    Oooh, I love a good blondie recipe! Can't wait to try it!

    Heather Lynne said...

    I love a good blondie. This looks delicious!

    Beth said...

    I love her blog too, and these blondies look great.

    Erin said...

    They look fantastic! I love that they are a bar!

    AndiWinslow said...

    hard to turn away from these bars. Yummy great post nice photo's andi

    Andrea the Kitchen Witch said...

    Awesome photos, they are great! I'm off to check out this blog, with blondies this good I bet there's other delicious stuff out there too :)

    Nikki said...

    Lovin' my SRC friends and all these amazing blogs, thanks for stopping by tonight.
    These blondies look AMAZING! So yummy!

    The Daily Dish

    Tina @ MOMS CRAZY COOKING said...

    These look like hot out of the oven delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies, but even BETTER!

    Thanks again for being a part of SRC and being a part of my first group, I enjoyed being your host! Now, I get to visit everyone's blog, THIS IS THE FUN PART!

    If you haven't already, come check out my Secret Recipe Club Post: Cucumber Salad http://momscrazycooking.blogspot.com/2011/08/cucumber-salad-secret-recipe-club.html

    or my second post for the SRC Raspberry and Nutella Pizza

    4Sisters said...

    Yum! There's something so delightful about blondies - sweet and buttery with the right amount of chocolate. Now I'm going to need to make some soon!

    Becca @ Crumbs and Chaos

    Desi said...

    @ Trisha - Good to meet you, fellow SRC member!

    @ Dan - Thanks, I'm really trying to take better photos, so thanks for noticing!!! And yes they did taste pretty dern good :)

    @ Barefeet in the Kitchen - They are pretty much delish any way I eat them! So glad I got your blog, it's been great lurking around your blog secretly!

    @ Amanda - I'm new to blondies but I'm lovin em!

    @ Beth - So glad I found her blog, she's got a lot of nice recipes, and I love the layout of her blog too.

    @ Erin - Yes, basically choc chip cookies (with nuts) in bar form!

    @ Andrea - Yes yes, check out her blog please!

    @ Nikki - So nice to meet you through SRC, thanks for stopping back by!

    @ 4Sisters - YUM! Now I'm wanting to make some other kinds of blondies besides chocolate... like butterscotch and toffee and peanut butter!!! I've almost got myself drooling lol. Off to check out your SRC recipe.

    Lisa said...

    I love the spirit of your blog ... I'm a meat and potatoes girl, too. These blondies look lovely. I'm not a nut in dessert person but the pecans might work for me. We have family congo bars and there's always a debate: nuts or no nuts. Fun to be in SRC with you!

    Desi said...

    @ Lisa - Thanks for stopping by! You are like my fiancee... not big on nuts in desserts, but he liked these so hopefully you will too!

    Tina said...

    Thanks for following my blog! Yours is pretty fantastic too :) I'm loving these blondies!

    Desi said...

    @ Tina - Thanks for stopping by my blog and returning the love :)

    Vivian - Let's Try These... said...

    Another great idea for potlucks! Our church does love its potlucks! Great recipe and blog!

    Pretend Chef said...

    Another great recipe to have on hand for the next get together I'm invited to. Great recipe pick for SRC. Love your blog title. Me too! Haha!

    Allison said...

    These look fantastic. I love how the top has that little glossy crackly top. I need a new blondie recipe. Looking forward to following your blog.

    elenareviews said...

    I am a chocolate addict! And my girls are too.

    Desi said...

    @ Pretend Chef - Nice to meet you, fellow steak and potatoes gurl :)

    @ Allison - Hope you like this one, have you got any other good blondie recipes?

    Taste and Tell said...

    Oh my - these look amazing!!!

    Amy said...

    Looks great! SCR is turning out to be lots of fun -- so many new recipes to try!

    Amanda said...

    These sound fabulous! I see that Suzanne featured you today on SRC, congrats!

    Lynne @ 365 Days of Baking said...

    Desi, these look yummy! Congratulations on being the SRC feature!

    Anne said...

    I love blondies! THe addition of chocolate chips and pecans is inspired!

    Desi said...

    @ Lynne - Thanks for stopping by, I'm honored to be an SRC feature :)

    @ Anne - I agree. I can't wait to try out different variations!


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Unamused Vault Boy 28 maj, 2016 @ 3:36pm
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 20 sep, 2015 @ 9:54pm
Cheers ;)
Ferret Lord 20 sep, 2015 @ 4:46pm
I love this house, I just wish there was more storage, especially near the forge area. ;-;
Other then that, though. It's gorgeous!
ProfessorDoctorMisterWhiskers 22 dec, 2014 @ 6:47pm
I can't find the enterance for the life of me... I gave spent the past 45 minutes looking for it.
ProfessorDoctorMisterWhiskers 22 dec, 2014 @ 5:01pm
If you could, it would be extremely helpful to put a picture of the entrance to the cave on the slide. Thanks, Im going to try the mod out right now! xD
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 7 jun, 2014 @ 6:15pm
Yeah It can be a bit tricky to find in the dark XD
nywolfspirit05 23 apr, 2014 @ 12:21pm
Really nice job, it's beautiful in a rustic kind of way. It's right where you said it is but I must have ran around it for 20 minutes, because fast travel is so slow so it was dark when I got there.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 22 apr, 2014 @ 10:08pm
@emberlight Thanks! This was the first house mod I ever made so Im glad you like it!

@541n7x Haha thanks!
Alone 15 apr, 2014 @ 7:23pm
Beautiful mod, Greylight! I love to see mod makers go for quality over quantity, and this is just that. It's great for sightseeing, you can navigate almost perfectly, and I don't see as many ruin player homes.

Overall, great work, Greylight.
541N7x 6 feb, 2014 @ 3:58am
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 25 dec, 2013 @ 4:10am
True! Like in oblivion, depending on what things you have done people reacted to you differently. You finish the main quest, everyone worships you as the Champion! You kill a few people and everyone hates you!
enysoft 25 dec, 2013 @ 12:01am
If you are a mod-maker I would have only one advice for you. Maybe you should create a mode based on respect from others.To be honest, I don't like the atitude of most people of Skyrim. We are Dragonborns. We have changed the world by finishing the war, killing Alduin, and becoming the chiefs of most guilds.We deserve respect from others. I'm refering to the leader of the imperials(Tullius)/stormcloaks(Ulfric), the soldiers, the simple people... you know what I'm refering to. If you have any ideeas to create such thing , I would gladly help you with some advice. Oh, almost forgot, this is a cool mod.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 13 okt, 2013 @ 3:28pm
Near the alchemy table
The Crimson Fucker 13 okt, 2013 @ 1:55pm
Where's the Jarrin Root plant|?
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 12 okt, 2013 @ 4:04am
We seem to have something in common then ;) Thanks mate!
Syncytium 12 okt, 2013 @ 3:54am
"Ever thought to yourself, ''I would really enjoy living in a ruined house inside a cave"

....yes, actually. All the time.
Thanks a lot man. You do fantastic work.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 6 sep, 2013 @ 5:48pm
Haha thanks man :)
Walhart™ 6 sep, 2013 @ 1:32pm
I keep forgeting to like your mods once I subscribe. Now I gotta go back and like all the ones I forgot. *cough* Anyways, wunderbar work, many rounds of zee applause.
Mactoco 29 aug, 2013 @ 4:40am
thank u
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 29 aug, 2013 @ 1:53am
Yes, at the regular rate. How often that is I am not certian.
Mactoco 28 aug, 2013 @ 9:21am
Do the plants respawn
Jonathan 13 aug, 2013 @ 2:58am
Jarrin root!
Jonathan 13 aug, 2013 @ 2:57am
LOL You just answered my two, only questions...
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 9 aug, 2013 @ 4:51am
Oh yeah sorry. The plants are respawnable, they take as much time to respawn as all the other plants in skyrim (I don't know exactly how long that is). And also no the chests are not labeled XD
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 4:12am
Sorry for all the posts, but I did have a question that you forgot to answer (it probably mixed in with all my other comments), but are the plants/ingredients respawnable?
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 4:11am
What would also really be cool is to have a "vampire/werewolf lair" where you have people chained up to feed upon, and those bodies would reset and be replenished every so often... I mean, the house is, of course, set inside a cave. What do you think lives in caves, Altmer? lol
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 4:07am
And as a modder myself, I'll just let you know that multi-level homes are just as easy (hard?) to do as one-story homes, except you just have to line up the staircases for navmeshing, plus do a bit more navmeshing (meaning not harder navmeshing, just more, as if you were putting another one-story home on top...)

Also, as for the functioning decorations like faucets and such, those assets are already out there (like on the Nexus), so it shouldn't be too difficult to add them to your mod.

Just sayin'... lol ;)
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 4:01am
Sorry about that... I read "chests" and thought that they were just any old chests, but I didn't know if they were specifically labelled for "light armor", "heavy armor", "weapons", etc. etc...

Are they?
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 9 aug, 2013 @ 3:35am
Dude there is like three chests! Didn't you read the description? ;) Haha.
Yeah sounds like a good idea, ill get around to adding manequins and stuff eventually.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 9 aug, 2013 @ 3:34am
@talkinrock Haha that sounds pretty good but to be honest with you it was a struggle for me just to make this small home! I dont think I have the skill for a multi-leveled large home.
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 3:33am
Also maybe some mannequins and storage areas for weapons, armor, ingredients, and such...
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 3:32am
I just suggest making this mod a bit more complex and feature-rich because it really is a great and unique idea for a home mod (meaning in terms of it being in a cave).
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 3:31am
Haha, I don't know, maybe making it into one of those "advanced" player homes with multiple/underground levels like other really complex home mods do? Also, with multiple rooms and functional decorations (such as, but not exactly like the functioning faucets and organ piano in "The Hill House" ) mod...

Also, I had a another question: In this mod, do the ingredient plants respawn? Because if they don't, they should.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 9 aug, 2013 @ 2:17am
@The99thshadow Yes, thanks.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 9 aug, 2013 @ 2:16am
@talkinrock Probbably not, but what did you have in mind?
talkinrock 9 aug, 2013 @ 1:52am
Is this house going to be updated with new features soon?
The Vault's chosen 6 aug, 2013 @ 2:57pm
enysoft 1 jul, 2013 @ 8:10am
thank you!
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 1 jul, 2013 @ 5:29am
Extremely clost to the Falcreath fast travel point. Its tucked behind a rock, so its a little bit out of sight, but im pretty sure that you will find it okay.
enysoft 1 jul, 2013 @ 5:03am
where is it?
Balduir 30 jun, 2013 @ 3:07am
This mod is great.
DeathClaw 20 maj, 2013 @ 4:15pm
Now You are talking my language. I love alchemy really love alchemy. Thanks for this mod.
tiny tooter 19 maj, 2013 @ 8:27am
Thank you so much! I found it n.n
killobeam 19 maj, 2013 @ 6:40am
Add a few spells in there like increased potion strengh 1 game hour a spell like that would be cool
Vernerl 19 maj, 2013 @ 1:45am
and... make more playerhome!
Vernerl 19 maj, 2013 @ 1:44am
great idea i was thinking of this myself!
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 18 maj, 2013 @ 9:11pm
Just fast travel there.
Go right up and stand near where the bridge thing is in front of you, but dont go under it!
Turn right, you should see a door in the rocks. If you dont, then check your load list and make sure the mod is actually loaded ^-^
tiny tooter 18 maj, 2013 @ 8:16pm
Okay, I feel really dumb asking this. Could someone maybe give me better directions? I can't find it and Ive been wandering around the area near Falkreath for like an our ;n;
White Rabbit 17 maj, 2013 @ 9:55am
If you have heartfire, can you make a big greenhouse? I'd do it myself, but my CK wont load hearthfire, dawngaurd, OR dragonborn. .___. Just a really cool idea I had for a mod.
4KINGS - Mance  [skapare] 16 maj, 2013 @ 11:14pm
Thanks! Im glad you think so :)


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Monday, January 28, 2008

Turning the Page

Back now from Atlanta. Although I am completely worn out, it was a truly fantastic weekend. The memorial was everything I could have wanted and more. Mom would have absolutely loved it (I'm sure in some way she was there partying with us.) I plan to post a complete synopsis of the event as soon as I get copies of pictures and eulogies.

We arrived Thursday evening after 10+ hours on the road. It was a very nice, but long drive. Our host Pete had a scrumptious dinner on the table as we walked in the door; salmon, homemade mashed potatoes and green beans.
Yummy! Deb was en route from work in Seattle. Throughout the weekend we were able to spend some quality time with our goddaughter Caroline (apparently, I read a great bedtime story.)

The next day, after wrapping up loose ends for the memorial (or as I've come to call it, "Mom's Show") I met up with Foxy (one of the Loser Diva's ~ reference posting from October 6, 2007) and Musician Extraordinaire, Don Luigi Longworth Roksov (read on; please...) to head to Bebe Barbosa's palatial estate for rehearsals. Along with the aforementioned Losers and Trouble Popinolpolous, we learned, and occasionally butchered, a piece of music for Mom's Show. Later, the rest of the entourage arrived for a sumptuous feast cooked by Bebe and her most wonderful husband. The revelry continued into the night and the Diva's elected to allow Musician Extraordinaire in to the Loser's fold as an honorary member (no voting rights mind you!)

The next day was long and exhausting for me, but completely fabulous. The 'show' was everything it needed to be and more; music, memories, laughs, tears... Perfect. I promise to post when I receive everything from people.

We arrived home last night to some very happy puppies! It is good to be home now. Time to turn the page; start a new chapter.

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Faezeh said...

I'm glad you are home safe and sound. :D


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Rocko was a native of the world of O-Town who would encounter a stranded away team from the USS Voyager when the Delta Flyer wound up lost in a spatial rift. (Star Trek: Voyager - Dark Realm)

He immigrated to O-Town from Australia shortly after completing high school. His best friends were an anthromorphic steer named Heffer and an anthromorphic turtle named Filburt. (Rocko's Modern Life)

Rocko was about twenty Earth years old when he encountered the Voyager away team consisting of Ensign Tom Paris, Lieutenant Junior Grade Henry Kano, Petty Officer Third Class Kenneth Dalby, Crewman William Telfer, and Crewman Tal Celes.

His best friend, Heffer fell under the sway of a schnitzel worshipping cult around the same time he encountered the away team and he would ask them for help. Receiving their aid, Rocko and Filburt hatched a scheme to distract the cult members long enough to rescue Heffer and allow Emmett Brown to sneak into the compound and rescue a captive Marty McFly and take the DeLorean time machine back from Biff Tannen's gang, who had co-opted the cult's support. Later he, Filburt, and Heffer were rescued when Rocko and Filburt's ruse to fool the cultists was discovered. (Star Trek: Voyager - Dark Realm)

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06/09/12 11:56 PM ET

Garcia to miss four weeks with shoulder injury

ST. LOUIS -- Jaime Garcia didn't know what was wrong. But he knew something was wrong.

"I wasn't able to be consistent on the mound," he said on Saturday afternoon. "I couldn't find any consistency with my mechanics and my arm slot. I don't think it's in my head, because I've always worked really hard. ... I knew my head was in the right spot. I was battling through something but I was going out there and trying to give the team a chance to win. That's when I decided to get it checked out. Maybe there's something wrong and there was something wrong."

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said on Friday that Garcia would be shut down for four weeks to rest and go through shoulder therapy.

The 25-year-old lefty is 3-4 with a 4.48 earned-run average in 11 starts this season. He went 13-8 with a 2.70 ERA in 28 starts in 2010 and was 13-7 with a 3.56 ERA in 32 starts a year ago.

"This season has been tough because it hasn't been hurting," he said. "If it would have been hurting I would have said something about my shoulder. It's been a weird feeling in there. If I had to say something, it's like weak and tight in there. I've tried strengthening my shoulder with exercises and lifting and all that stuff and it seems like nothing was helping, because the problem was inside the shoulder, not so much on the outside."

Garcia met with the Cardinals medical staff, including Dr. George Paletta, and then traveled to California to visit with Dr. Lewis Yocum. The two doctors concluded that whatever was wrong could be helped by rest and rehab.

"They did an MRI last year and they saw my shoulder was fine and then this year it's different," he said. "There is a tear in the rotator cuff or something like that, but they both believe that rehabbing should make things back to normal, back to the way they work. Basically there's some tightness in my shoulder and that's what's causing my shoulder not to work they way it should. They both believe that by doing the little things that I used to do when I rehabbed my elbow -- stretching and strengthening the small muscles in the shoulder -- is going to help me a lot, get my velocity back and my strength back."

Garcia has had mixed results this season. He allowed one earned run on nine hits and struck out nine batters over 7 1/3 innings in a win at San Francisco on May 16 and then followed that up with two earned runs on seven hits over seven innings in his next start against the Padres.

But then he allowed four runs on six hits over six innings in a loss to Philadelphia on May 26 and allowed six earned runs on five hits in two innings in Houston the next time out.

"I saw two starts not too long ago that were really impressive," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "The one in San Francisco I thought was a great start. He had a rhythm about himself and a disposition on the mound that looked as good as you could ever want. If he could keep doing that I would have been fine. When you know something's off, you're off. That can lead to bigger and worse things. We need him to figure it out."

Garcia said that he would also visit Dr. James Andrews on Monday, though he later amended that statement to say he wasn't sure he would and was more like 50/50 on whether or not he would make that visit.

Holliday out vs. Indians with back spasms

ST. LOUIS -- Matt Holliday was scratched from the starting lineup a few minutes before opening pitch on Saturday night with what the team announced were "mid-back spasms."

"He came to me about two minutes before we exchanged lineup cards, so there was some mad-rushing going on to get everybody in place," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "I think he did a smart thing and pulled up. He could have probably pushed through it. It was almost a low lat-back issue where it just tightened up while he was getting his swings in right before the game. I think he was smart by kind of putting on the brakes there.

"They went through treatment all game long. We'll take a look at him tomorrow. There's a good chance, good chance he won't be in there. That way he'd have the off-day too to make sure we're doing everything we can to stay away from this becoming something major. Right now it doesn't look like it's going to be that bad."

The Cardinals' left fielder had appeared in 58 of the team's 59 games this season.

Holliday, who was scheduled to hit clean-up for the first time this season before being scratched, is hitting .276 with nine doubles, one triple, 10 home runs, 35 RBIs, 38 runs scored, a .362 on-base percentage and a .458 slugging percentage.

The 32-year-old outfielder, who is in his fourth season with St. Louis, is a career .313 hitter and a five-time All-Star.

Molina bats third against Indians

ST. LOUIS -- When he takes the field on Saturday night for the 935th start of his nine-year career, Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina will be hitting third in the lineup for the first time.

Cardinals rookie manager Mike Matheny went with a different lineup for Saturday night's game against the Indians at Busch Stadium. Molina was hitting third, behind centerfielder Carlos Beltran.

"I'd say he's our best hitter right now," Matheny said of Molina. "Just kind of watching how he's gone about every at bat, whether it's men on base or getting an inning started, he's going about it well right now. I wanted to put that lineup out there with kind of a full offense with Carlos in center. I've been thinking about it for a while now. I like the way it lays out."

Molina has never been in the starting lineup as a leadoff hitter and has only once (in 2008) been in the No. 2 spot. He has made 359 starts batting seventh and 311 starts batting sixth, with 14 starts as the clean-up hitter and 48 as the fifth-place hitter.

The 29-year-old catcher batted .305 with 32 doubles, 14 home runs and 65 RBIs a year ago and went into Saturday's game hitting .337 with 14 doubles, eight home runs and 32 RBIs in 53 games.

"He's done a nice job in the six hole and the six hole's been pretty important, but typical thinking in baseball is to try get your better hitters in as many times as you can and a lot of times that's trying to get them up in the order," Matheny said. "I like the idea. We'll just see how it plays out. There's nothing written in stone here with this. I think it's an acknowledgement to him of what he's done so far. I know he's just as fine if we threw him in the eight hole. He just wants to do what he can to win. I think this is something worth looking at."

Cards claim Gaub off waivers from Texas

ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals have claimed left-hander relief pitcher John Gaub off of waivers from the Texas Rangers and optioned him to Triple-A Memphis.

"I know he's got a good arm, a plus arm," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said on Saturday afternoon. "I don't know a whole lot about him besides that. It's just another opportunity to bring someone in and see if we can help him and see if he can help us."

The 27-year-old, who was added to the 40-man roster, had a 6.75 earned-run average in four games with the Cubs last September.

He allowed two earned runs on two hits, struck out three and walked two in 2 2/3 innings. In his final three appearances, covering 1 1/3 innings, he allowed one hit, struck out two and walked one.

In 21 Triple-A appearances this season -- 16 with Durham (Tampa Bay organization) and five with Round Rock (Texas) -- Gaub went 0-1 with one save and a 3.43 ERA over 21 innings. He allowed eight runs on 13 hits, struck out 25 and walked 14.

Gaub was originally a 21st-round pick (641st overall) by the Cleveland Indians in the 2006 Draft. He was acquired by the Cubs, along with two other players, in a deal for Mark DeRosa in December of 2008. He was acquired by Tampa Bay on April 5 on a waiver claim from the Cubs and then acquired by Texas on May 24 on a waiver claim from the Rays.

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SEATTLE - A group of VIPs will arrive at Safeco Field today as personal guests of J.J. Putz and other Seattle Mariners players, and the Western Washington Action Team, the youth volunteer corps administered by the Major League Baseball Players Trust and Volunteers of America. The special visitors are 55 Puget Sound-area elementary and middle school students.

The kids will travel to the stadium from Camp Volasuca in Sultan under the Buses for Baseball banner, a nationwide program administered by the Players Trust to give underprivileged children throughout the United States and Canada the opportunity to attend a Major League game as the personal guests of the players.

Once at the game, the children will meet the players, get autographs, and receive free tickets, food, beverages and souvenirs. In tow will be Team Captains of the Western Washington Action Team, a group of high school student volunteers who are acting as role models for the disadvantaged youths and drawing attention to the need for positive enrichment programs for vulnerable children and youths. The younger children visiting today all have incarcerated parents who are being served through other Volunteers of America Western Washington programs.

On behalf of my Mariners teammates, in particular, and all Major Leaguers, in general, I want to thank the Western Washington Action Team Captains for getting involved to help brighten the day of needy children from our area, said Action Team Player, and Mariners reliever, Putz. Action Team Captains all across the country are doing a great job in helping Major Leaguers inspire and train the next generation of volunteers.

After meeting the players, the youths will relax, eat hot dogs and other stadium fare and enjoy a major league game - a first for many of them.

Administered by Volunteers of America and the Major League Baseball Players Trust, the Action Team program encourages young people throughout the United States to volunteer in their communities. Action Teams  consisting of Major League baseball players and area high school student Team Captains  work together in Seattle, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mobile, New York City, Oakland, Philadelphia, Portland (Maine), San Francisco and Washington, DC. To date, Action Teams across the country have inspired more than 9,000 high school students to lend a helping hand to more than 38,000 people in their respective communities.

Each season, the Buses for Baseball program, administered by the Players Trust and underwritten by Majestic Athletic, a division of VF Imagewear, Inc., has provided an unforgettable trip for more than 1,500 youths, many of whom are being helped in other Volunteers of America programs.

An Action Team school-based curriculum developed in partnership with The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition carries the message of volunteerism and teaches valuable community service skills to 700,000 high school students in more than 5,000 classrooms across the United States.

The Action Team program with Volunteers of America Western Washington is made possible through active partnerships with Cascade High School and Archbishop Murphy High School, both in Everett, as well as the Sky Valley Youth Advisory Council supported through Volunteers of America.

The Major League Baseball Players Trust partnered with Volunteers of America in 2002 to promote the nurturing and well-being of Americas children and their families. The partnership features the personal involvement of Major League baseball players and their families with a variety of programs conducted by Volunteers of America throughout the United States. Together they administer the Action Team, a national youth volunteer initiative inspiring the next generation of volunteers in a dozen cities around the country. For more information about the Major League Baseball Players Trust, visit

Volunteers of America is a national, nonprofit, faith-based organization dedicated to helping those in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential. Through thousands of human service programs, including housing and healthcare, Volunteers of America helps more than 2 million people in more than 400 communities. Since 1896, our ministry of service has supported and empowered America's most vulnerable groups, including at-risk youths, the frail elderly, men and women returning from prison, homeless individuals and families, people with disabilities, and those recovering from addictions. Our work touches the mind, body, heartand ultimately the spiritof those we serve, integrating our deep compassion with highly effective programs and services.

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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The St. Louis-based Lutheran Church Missouri Synod [LCMS] directs thousands of dollars in aid to fight Ebola in western Africa.

More than $50,000 in aid has been distributed to church partners in Liberia and Guinea.

Two previous Ebola grants – totaling more than $16,000 – were distributed to Missouri Synod partners in Sierra Leone and Guinea earlier this year.

All the LCMS funds will be used to help prevent new cases of the often-fatal virus that has killed more than 1,000 people – over half of the more than 1,800 people infected so far.

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On Dec 26th, 2012, a student in the SMMG Club called for Aussino. Again, I gave my endorsement as "Nice!" Today the stock brokeout with at least 30% gain in price. While everyone is cheering, one should look to book some profits. Now, the SMMG Club had reached a new milestone with more eyes prying on stocks. In the past I had only maybe 1-2 people helping me, right now I have got dozens which is not only resourceful and powerful with more selection/rotation on stocks, but more importantly, I can focus on potential breakout stocks which gives huge % returns.

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YousafWelcome to the second in the series of the SEO’s toolbox!

Today I’m honoured to be in the company of Yousaf Sekander of Rocket Mill the brains behind the awesome social share monitoring tool “Social Crawlytics”.  Social Crawl (that’s what us cool kids call it) made quite a splash in 2012 and I was fortunate to get in on it very early. It’s an excellent social tool to monitor your own sites but for me it REALLY comes into it’s own when analysing competitors social activity.

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First of all welcome and thank you for agreeing to do this interview. To kick off I’d like to know a little more about you and how you first become involved with Social Crawlytics?

“Thanks for the opportunity. I work for RocketMill, a forward-thinking digital marketing company based in the UK. I come from a development background so I am very passionate about web technology and I love digital marketing. I spend most of my time playing with APIs, learning new stuff etc.

I was frustrated by the fact that there were no tools out there that could identify a site’s most shared content, particularly if the site in question had thousands of pages. I looked into pretty much all of the high profile social media analytics tools but didn’t find any that could do this simple yet important job. That’s what led me to creating Social Crawlytics.”

Tell us more about Social Crawlytics itself?

“Social Crawlytics is essentially a social media analysis tool that allows you to scan any website in order to identify their most shared content and their most shared authors(if they have implemented Google Authorship properly). You can use it to monitor your own site or more importantly you can use it to monitor and gauge your competitor’s content. It is a rather nifty tool that could save you a lot of money when it comes to producing potent content.

(Social Crawl stats for StokedSEO)

Within only a few months, Social Crawlytics attracted just shy of 7000 users, the vast majority of which are regular users. Our users include a rather large sizeable number of big brands who are using Social Crawlytics to monitor their competitor’s. And then there are a large number of agencies from different corners of the world utilizing Social Crawlytics for their clients. In short, the user base demonstrates that Social Crawlytics is loved and used by many professionals in the digital marketing industry.”

If there anything exciting coming up in the next few months? What does the future have in store for Social Crawlytics. Do you have a vision of where you see Social Crawlytics heading in the short to medium term?

I am in the process of building a link building app which might use Social Crawlytics API to find rich data.

Over the course of next few months I will also look into integrating link metrics in Social Crawlytics, however this subject to third party data providers agreeing to support our effort.

The way I tend to find out about the best tools (both new or old) is via blogs or presentations from other SEO’s who’ve often been using them for a while. Is there any post or slide decks featuring your tool you’d recommend?

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(From Gaz: There are also slides from Martin Macdonald at mozcon, more slides from Mike King  (he’s clearly impressed) and a great post by Yousaf  himself on the Rocket Mill blog)

How about some headlines, give me a couple of interesting facts about Social Crawlytics?

“We have just shy of 7000 users; the vast majority of them are using the app very regularly. I am really pleased with that as the tool has had no marketing at all and was only launched around 5 months ago.

I benchmarked the tool a few days ago by scanning, the app managed to scan 111895 pages in under 6 hours which a technically remarkable achievement given that it is a free service. Most paid for services charge you $200 a month and limit you to 10000 pages or something.

You can view that particular report over at

What about pricing models?

“Social Crawlytics is based on generosity and appreciation model which means it is completely free – however you can donate towards the server costs if you feel it deserves your support.”


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Boy, I seem to be coming across a lot of news lately about Christian publishing! This one’s about Zondervan launching a teen fiction line. It’s from MLive (the M stands for Michigan). The line will be aimed at readers 13 to 16.
"Sales of young adult books, according to our numbers, are 15 to 20 percent of total book sales in terms of dollars," said Michelle Bayuk, marketing director of the Children's Book Council, based in New York City.

Zondervan aims to tap into that reading group by offering an alternative to the current books for the age group, according to Annette Bourland, vice president and publisher for Zonderkidz, the young readers’ line for Zondervan.
"There has to be an alternative to 'Sex in the City' for teens," Bourland said. "We offer a Christian world view rather than a hopeless, post-modern world view. We offer realistic answers."

Another tidbit that I found interesting in this article is:
Research by Zondervan found five authors account for 71 percent of young adult titles sold in Christian bookstores: Melody Carlson, Bryan Davis, Bill Myers, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.

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My Current View of the Global Warming Controversy

In the raging debate over global warming (or climate change), each side contributes to polarization and misrepresentation of views. Too many of those who see themselves as part of the “consensus” about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) have a habit of ignoring the differences among those who disagree with them. These people are eager to slap the label “denier” and “anti-science” on the skeptics. (Both those labels have been applied to me by Mike Treder, who has consistently proven the most dishonest and arrogant example of what I’m talking about.)

We skeptics (okay, “planetary traitors” if you prefer) actually hold a wide range of views. I’m tired of being labeled a “denier” of some unspecified received truth. I do not deny, for instance, that there has been some global warming this century. My doubts about the claimed (and possibly real) consensus concern other beliefs. To set the record straight (and to make it a bit harder for people like Treder to misrepresent me), here are my current views, as of early August 2009:

• It’s highly probable that there has been some global warming this century—probably about 0.7 degrees C.

• The climate is dynamic and is continually changing. Further, it changes in different ways in different places. For instance, it may be warming in some areas while it cools in others. Local, specific examples are not good evidence for a global trend.

• There has been no warming over the past 12 years—despite continued human-related emissions.

• Over the next century, it’s extremely uncertain how much, if any, further GW/AGW to expect.

• Climate models are not proven reliable or accurate. Climate modeling is still an infant science.

• GW is far from the most urgent or important global issue for us to deal with. (See the work of The Copenhagen Consensus. Also see this [yes, it’s from a Cato blog, so start up your ad hominems]. Some problems that are more deserving of attention: Hunger, malaria, and unsafe water.

• Enormously expensive actions to reduce/stop GW by severely restricting CO2 emissions are premature. (Global wealth decades in the future will be far higher than with restrictions; mitigation is vastly more efficient, to whatever extent it might be needed.)

• Given the considerable uncertainty (and also taking in account geopolitical and health considerations), it probably makes sense to move strongly toward nuclear power (and more solar, wind, and wave power where feasible) and to encourage or even subsidize research into alternative energy sources.

• The extent to which global warming is anthropogenic is much more uncertain than asserted by the “consensus”/orthodoxy.

• The extent to which a consensus actually exists is not clear, nor is it clear on what exactly the consensus agrees (beyond the fact of some warming over the last century and some contribution by human activities).

I reserve the right to change these views as I continue to study this interrelated set of complex issues.

gmlk said...

I think that GW (increased GW) will be a good thing in the end, after a period of adjustment has passed.

A higher temperature and higher humidity seem to go together. AGW could lead us out of this ca. 5000 year old cold period with frozen poles and huge desert towards a future with significantly more arable land available then today.

It would be foolish to fear change just because it's change: Never assume the worst. Never underestimate the chance for the best.

This planet has managed a long, long time without us and it has survived worse then anything we are capable of putting it through. Life will adapt and when possible it will move in the direction "more" and away from "less".

Stefano Vaj said...

Max's post sounds balanced and plausible, even though I remain personally reluctant to form an opinion on the merits of AGW.

What I should like to point out, as I already did a few times, is that AGW is an issue composed by several different questions, namely:
The issues of course are:
- does GW exists?
- irrespective of whether it is anthropic or not, would gas emission reduction materially affect it?
- irrespective of whether gas emission reduction would materially
affect it, is it really a bad thing (in fact, only a massive
propaganda keeps it unpopular amongst the inhabitants of really cold regions...)?
- if it is, how bad? or rather, how much would we really like to
reduce it? what costs would we be ready to pay for it? if planet
cooling is an unconditional goal, why not reliquishing altogether the
use of fossil fuels in a six-month time, damn any other concern,
welcome back to paleolithic?

Because the measures aimed at fighting GW, even admitting that the latter exist and that they are not futile, have a *cost". A cost which can be measured in reduced or delayed growth, in investments diverted from other targets, in a massive redirection of technoscientific
research, and ultimately, for the utilitarians possibly amongst us, in human lives and human suffering.

And costs which should be compared, at the best of our ability to assess both, with the costs of GW multiplied by the probability factors of other abovementioned hypotheses and parameters, which as high as one may deem them to be are by definition lower than 1.

Taking also into account that besides the crucial issue of
geoengineering as a necessary, albeit repressed and denied, part of the equation, we might well end up calculating that the breaking point in the tradeoff between keeping our planet "terraformed" and modifying our economic and ultimately biological requirements could be found at a level less obvious than expected.

I remain perplexed about AGW, and still assume that its "proponents"
might be perfectly right. But it is disquieting to see how even in
transhumanist ranks all the issues above are dismissed out of hand in
favour of being, no matter what, on the "cool" side (pun intended).

And since I have no expertise nor training to express a meaningful
opinion on the merits, and my claims to competence lay instead in the area of politics, legislative mechanism, mass psychology and cultural
trends, I am mostly concerned with those aspects.

Mark said...

I agree with much of what Max says. Perhaps this is not surprising given the vague generalities he asserts. I do not intend 'vagueness' as an criticism. Given the complexities of the issue it would be hard to be more precise and plausible in a short blog post. That said, I wonder on what basis Max is able to make consistent these two claims:

"[1] Over the next century, it’s extremely uncertain how much, if any, further GW/AGW to expect, but some is quite plausible."

[2] Climate models are not proven reliable or accurate. Climate modeling is still an infant science.

Surely the reason for asserting that it is plausible that some "further GW/AGW" ..."is quite plausible", cannot be on the basis of climate models. For we are told in [2] that climate models are "not proven reliable or accurate". Perhaps the idea is that we have evidence for GW simply by applying Richenbach's straight rule: there has been GW in the last century so barring additional information we ought to expect more. Still, that would not explain the claim that it is plausible that some AGW is plausible. If this is not made on the basis of climate models, then what reason should we accept it?

This problem aside, I suggest some part of the slippage in the debate between skeptics like Max, and myself has to do with issues of 'accuracy'. Any time we speak of 'accuracy' we need to know by what standard and/or for what purpose. Take a road map of the US. If it were drawn to scale we should expect US highways to be 50 miles wide. The map is not accurate to that level of detail, but it may well get you to where you want to go. Climate models are typically doubly qualified. Each provides a range of estimates, e.g., 1 degree to 5 degrees of GW in a century's time, as well as an estimate (e.g., 80%) of how reliable the model itself is. Of course these two measures are intimately intertwined. Typically, the larger the range of estimate, the more confident that we can be that the model is accurate within the range. Perhaps Max agrees that part of the problem is that policy makers and public debate seems incapable of assimilating such nuances.

I'm glad to see that Max thinks it is prudent to switch from fossil fuels, given the uncertainty. I'm not a big fan of nuclear, however. I think companies like nanosolar and esolar have shown that solar is ready for prime time. (See the Scientific American article "A Solar Grand Plan" for the nuts and bolts on how to proceed). I would like to see fossil fuels taxed out of existence. The best way to do this, in my opinion, is to have a progressive tax that because draconian only near the end of this period. This would give the market the appropriate information to retool and spur innovation.

Max More said...

Very well, Mark, I'm removing the clause: "but some is quite plausible." All I intended was to say that this would be a continuation of multi-decade trends (though not of more recent trends) and so I would not be surprised at warming in the future. I was NOT saying that I have a reliable model of climate change that leads me to expect further warming.

ethnopunk said...

Yes we are living in a dynamic system in which humans are possibly an unnecessary adjunct to evolution.

I don't like what I see in so much uncritical dialogue on the subject, but be that as it may, the fact remains, the permafrost is melting. Glaciers are receding. If this is not the result of Global Warming caused as a result of human intervention, then what is the cause?

Surely not Solar Flares or an increase in Solar activity? We would have noticed it if that were the case.

The only plausible explanation is that we are heading towards an environment which resembles Venus, and we should rather be doing everything we can to get a second habitat seeded on Mars.

We could just float the ISS over to Mars, and proceed from there! Would take less than a generation, and we could make some progress towards actually building a Second Earth!

Stefano Vaj said...

Max: Very well, Mark, I'm removing the clause: "but some is quite plausible."

Or perhaps you need not. Correct me if I am wrong, but plausible is simply the opposite of "implausible" and does not imply an especially high degree of probability, as in "War and peace are equally plausible outcomes of this scenario".

Mark said...

Stefano: First, I agree with many of the comments you have made previously about the issue. Two of which may be summarized as (1) nature does not determine the good and the right, (2) some differences at the level of empirical prediction may not be important at the level of policy. As for your suggestion that Max might find AGW as plausible as its denial, I'm not sure that he can consistently. Recall, that I think Max has good reason to support the idea that there will be GW based on the straight-rule: there has been a rise in global temperature in the last century so it is a good bet that it will continue in the future. My question was about the tepid endorsement of a causal model AGW; Max said he thought was plausible causal mecahanism. My question was whether he can consistently say this in absence of any significant credence in climate models. I'm not sure your suggestion will work in all cases, e.g., either magic gnomes are the cause of global warming or not. Surely these are not equally plausible alternatives. The general problem is this: there are millions of causal explanations for GW, and if we were completely in the dark about how nature works we should assign an equal but small probability to each. Of course we reject most of these because they are implausible given our current science. But this response raises the difficult bit of homework for Max in the philosophy of science: if he is going to go down this road he must say that we should have enough credence in science to eliminate many of the non-standard explanations (gnomes, wrath of God, etc.), yet not so much credence that we accept the consensus of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists that AGW is the correct causal mechanism. In other words, if this is the road Max wants to explore then he needs to tell us where the good science ends and where bad science begins, and it would also help to know why so many scientists fall into the trap of bad science despite training most of their adult lives to avoid it.

Roko said...

"mitigation is vastly more efficient, to whatever extent it might be needed."

I don't agree with this. I haven't seen a thorough analysis of the risks that mitigation efforts would come with.

It seems clear to me that, all other things being equal, reducing CO2 emissions is better than mitigating against them. But all other things aren't equal: I want to see an analysis that weighs up the risks of mitigation against the lost economic growth from CO2 reduction.

Otherwise, great post.

Roko said...

I also disliked Treder's article. I have a post up questioning his unjustified attacks on your views here.

Mitchell said...

Max - may I suggest you look into air-capture technology, i.e. technologies which can capture atmospheric CO2 and lock it away. (And then for extra cognitive dissonance, look into the idea of reconstituting energy-rich hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2.) It's not going to make the difference in views between you and your opponents go away, but it's a neglected variable in most discussion.


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Any applications using outputs of the Structure Sensor are developed by, and are the sole responsibility of, the application developer. Developers of applications relying on the Structure Sensor are solely responsible for ensuring the sufficiency of any scans for any intended purpose and Occipital makes no warranties in this regard.

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