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Monday, January 20, 2014

The Deep Way (January 19, 2014)

I am not sure you can become a Unitarian Universalist minister without knowing at least a few poems by Mary Oliver. When I was in seminary, we used her poetry in worship again and again because it seemed to speak right to our desire to live in the world in a deep way.

One poem we often heard in chapel was “The Summer Day” which ends:
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
On first hearing it spoke directly to my most urgent questions about what I was called to do with my life. What better life could I choose than being the minister of a church like this one? “To Serve Lovingly, live ethically and grow spiritually."

And so these past 15 years I have poured myself out into the shared ministry of our faith. I have tried my hand at just about every aspect of church life- I have been a church secretary, a church musician, a youth group leader, a Sunday school teacher. As a minister I’ve washed dishes and visited members in the hospital. I’ve weeded the garden and officiated at weddings. I’ve organized political action and led discussions of biblical criticism. And through it all I learned the hard way that it's not more meetings, more spreadsheets, more programs, or even more skillful preaching that lead to spiritual growth. As some of you dedicated volunteers know, it is possible to spend all of your spare energy serving your church, your community, your principles until you are all used up. If we are only serving lovingly and living ethically without growing spiritually, the quality of our presence, the spark of life we bring to one another sputters and goes out.

When I shared Mary Oliver’s poem from the pulpit a few months back, I was startled to find a whole new way of looking at this question “What will I do with my one wild and precious life.” There’s nothing in that poem about the work of building up our world, instead she writes:
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
What Mary Oliver has chosen to do with her one wild and precious life is "to be idle and blessed."

I want to acknowledge right now that this is profoundly counter-cultural. As I mentioned in my sermon on “emptiness” last month, we have come to value the worth of our lives by our productivity, by how much we do and the profit therein. But when we seek healing for the broken parts of our world, I don’t feel like we are a few over-time shifts away from repair. I don’t feel, as I walk through the mall, that we are a few more sales away from repairing the environmental damage to our planet, or one more iPad upgrade away from mending the broken hearts in our community.

For millennia, religious community has offered something different than the status quo. The great Unitarian religious educator Sofia Fahs wrote:
"The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship." [ii]

I think this is a great explanation of what we mean by “spiritual growth” in our mission statement. We are growing high, wide and deep. We are looking for the intangibles at the heart of everything.

Like everything of importance in our lives, this deep way takes time and attention. Spirituality doesn’t just happen. Okay, sometimes it does. Sometimes you find yourself gazing at a sunset from the peak of a mountain, or at the hospital bed of a beloved who is suffering and something deep comes to your heart and soul un-bidden. But most days we choose, consciously or unconsciously, whether to take the deep way or to skim along the surface of life.

I submit to you that it is possible to do each and every one of the long list of action items that make up church life without growing a jot. This happens not only when we are “going through the motions” instead of bringing our full self to a task, but it also happens when we confuse the purpose of our task with religious purpose. We can create worship that is excellently prepared, but still does not help us touch the ineffable. We can have meetings that complete every task on the agenda, but that still do not satisfy the longing in the soul. For this is the other part of what I am proposing; it is also possible to do each and every one of that long list of action items that make up church life in a deep way, in a religious way. You get this- this is part of what I love about you- you know the difference between what is important and what is merely urgent. I see you looking for the heart of our shared life together in this beloved community. I see you looking for the deep way.

My seminary professors Bob Kimball and Til Evans used to talk a lot about this-- about that special thing that can happen between people when they are really truly present with one another, something deep and real. We don’t have complete control over when and how this will happen but, as Bob used to say, we can do things that “increase the odds” that such moments will occur. This, they felt, was the essence of the religious life, the essence of ministry. Sometimes, as a clergy person, I forget that it matters more HOW we are at a meeting, than WHAT we accomplish. I notice that the busier I am, the more things on my to-do list, the easier it is to forget. My attention strays from the needs of the soul to the needs of the agenda. That is part of the reason that ministers take a study leave in the summer and a sabbatical every few years--creating a space that “increases the odds” of authentic, real, presence.

And of course, ministers are no different than any other person when it comes to the need for deep, authentic, relationship. It’s not just ministers and academics (and I hear now researchers at Google take sabbaticals). Everyone needs the time and the space to connect to the deepest wellsprings of life. Every soul needs space and time to develop. Every spirit needs room to grow. That is to say, as a Universalist, I believe that no one comes into this world cut off from their one-ness. We are all part of this amazing unity that is life, though sometimes it’s easier to remember that than other times. I believe therefore, I take the Universalist leap, that true religion must be accessible to each and every person. The religious life, life on the deepest level is by this definition something that every living being is connected to. Living a religious life is about our attempt to renew that connection to our one-ness with all that is.

I believe with Fahs that “The religious way is the deep way.” So I hypothesize that to find the “heart of every intangible thing” you go deeper and deeper until you reach the point where everything actually is one. Go so deep that there is not even the distinction of “this is a religious life and that is not” or “this is me but that is not me.” Seeking such a level of being is, to my mind, the essence of both the Unitarian tradition — the one-ness of God, and the Universalist tradition — the one-ness of our common plight.

Many people have asked what I will be doing on my sabbatical, and the training I will be doing in Spiritual Direction is just part of the answer. A better answer is that I want to go deep. Recently I mentioned to some friends that in addition to taking a leave from my usual work here in this congregation, I will be taking a break from all the committees on which I volunteer in the community as well. They were amazed-- Darcey without committee meetings? My partner Eric said “I don’t think I’ve ever known you when you didn’t have committee meetings.” A friend said “I’m looking forward to getting to know what you are like when you have no committee meetings.” I replied “me too!” What will this look like? I’m not totally sure. If I’ve learned nothing else about trying to follow the deep way it is that the first step is letting go of expectations, letting go of attachment to the outcome.

The spiritual adventure can look many different ways, it can take many different forms. It can look sometimes like sitting in meditation, and other times like weeding a garden or being fully present in conversation with a toddler. It takes patience and a persistent curiosity to penetrate beyond the surface of things to the deep well-spring at the source of life.

Raised as we have all been in a culture that measures our value by our productivity, I must reassure myself that restoring, nurturing, lighting my soul with this in mind is not insular and selfish, but is one of the critical pieces of co-creating a religious community like ours, and co-creating our world through these troubled times. As Clarissa Pinkola Estés writes in her “Letter to a Young Activist”:
“...One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ... causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these — to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both — are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.”[iii]

 If we believe that a soul who is “fully lit” is important to our world, then we must give whatever time and attention is necessary to “shine like gold in dark times.” As far as I know I am the only person in this congregation who is headed off on sabbatical this spring (and I am deeply deeply grateful to you for this gift of time to re-ignite my own soul) but I invite each of you, as you are willing and able, to follow the deep way, the religious way. While washing the dishes, while meeting in committee. I invite you to taking time for contemplation or to fall down in the grass-- to be idle and blessed. To “see what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon.”

[ii] Sophia Lyon Fahs, Today's Children and Yesterday's Heritage, from Cornerstones, p.5. [iii]

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Interact Installation.....haha....the performance that I enjoyed most!!'s the day
and it was an awesome one....
thanks to my awesome friends, Audrey, Fiona, SayWei, Michelle, William, Amelia, JiaWei, ChiaSing, XingYao, MunNee, BeeLee, HuiMun and lotz more!!! Thanks for all the support and the loud cheer when I was on stage, I was really nervous but it definitely gave me an immediate confidence boost....Love you guys!!
so yea I performed Taylor Swift's Love Story (I don't know why on earth I chose that song) secara solo...
I was pretty nervous so I think my voice was very very shaky and bumpy
but I think it was okay...since Chia Sing said : "Taylor Swift is an Asian now!" LOL and Amelia said : "Taylor Swift dyed her hair" LOL! haha....all these comment made me laughed like crazy...
and Oh Thanks Jia Tern for the flower....LOL....
I wanted to bring the flower home but sadly, it belongs to the school.....sigh

so I was very nervous when I come to school
and I realize something was wrong under my feet
holy crap, my shoes' sole came out
Michelle called it "Crocodile Mouth Opening"
WTH? I barely wear those shoes I think the last time I wore was 2008's Int Installation
and now It's opening it's mouth edi....!@$*!@

I really panicked and tried to fix it with cellophone tape, (Special thanks to the form 3 girls at backstage for lending me the cellophone tape)
but NO, it didn't work, but it got worst
I really thought I was gonna embarrass myself on stage...

I got no choice but to exchange shoes with someone else
and that someone is MunNee.... Thank You so much, you saved my life!!!
yea then prepared for the performance...

This year's Theme : Musical Starlight

hehe My Seat No.
I think I should buy 3D

sorry, can't help myself to camwhore when you have a huge mirror in front of you

Some shots of the day

And of course took photos with my awesome friends....LOL

The Cert

The performances was pretty cool, BeeLee you rocked!!!!!

Interact was not bad afterall
I mean the service projects were really fun
like services at Precious Home, JoyHaven and also painting the school, etc etc
I really learned a lot during those projects, especially at JoyHaven...
Then I remember those memories in form 3
where we went to the super crazy orientation and also running the signature drive
oh gosh, I did a lot of funny stuff like singing and dancing in front the seniors
I remember there was one senior who asked me to grade him from 1 - 10
and I was such a pengampu so I said 11....LOL
yea so much memories to be treasured...

okay now it's over
I really really have to concentrate on Piano and also my scholarship applying thingy....
havent settle all the documents yet...
I guess that's all, ciao for now...

Fellowship Through Service =)

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At last week’s Workplace Week Convention I was struck by a comment from Mark Wood who opened the event with a great presentation on trends in demographics, economics and society. Wood is a finance expert and he talked from a global, not a UK, perspective about the big forces shaping the future. His “new realities” include scarce energy; income not capital; equity versus debt; creativity not credit and productivity not wealth.

He said: “Asia is a source of high intellect and productivity not cheap labour.”

For some time now western political and business leaders have talked about the need to focus on the knowledge industries. We may not be able to compete in manufacturing but we can still lead in high-tech research, development and design. But for how long?

Mobile telephony has exploded across the world. In some developing countries it has leap-frogged fixed-line technology and in many a smartphone is the preferred device for accessing online services.

Most of the world’s smartphones run on just three platforms: Android from Google, iOS from Apple and Windows from Microsoft. The hardware may be made around the world but the software originates in labs on the west coast of America.

Surely it won’t be long before Asia’s “high intellect” produces innovation born from Asian rather than western culture.

And if research and development migrates East, there’s just a hint that there might be some movement the other way.

Apple’s iPhones and iPads are made by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, mostly in China. As Workplace Week ended, an article on the business pages of The Guardian ran under this headline: “Taiwan’s Foxconn weighing up plan to outsource jobs … to America.”

Apparently Foxconn has been looking overseas for opportunities as labour costs rise in China and has “evaluated” US cities including Detroit and Los Angeles.


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P2P Lending
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Social lending existed long before banks; most presently communal lending is taken off in the last couple of years and is become a major source of loan money thanks to our shaky economic times and as other sources of small loans dry up. Person-Person lending sites connect individual lenders and borrowers through a peer-to-peer lending network that is streamlined, efficient, legally formatted, profitable, and most importantly - helpful Social lending person-to-person Peer to Peer Lending, is getting more attention. Borrowers are looking for investors willing to make small business and personal loans.

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P2P lending is the emerging social trends that directly and indirectly signal change in relationship with high street banks. Sixty four percent of people felt that they had received charges from their principle bank which they felt was unfair or unreasonable. Mainstream banks are based on authority and rigidly defined consumer and institutional roles that establish a set of unequal power relationships. P2P lending may seriously rival more traditional mainstream financial services and prompt a need to re-examine the model of traditional banking. Shared lending-Cutting out the middle men, Borrowers with good credit can now benefit from lower interest rates by bypassing banks and credit card companies. Borrow up to $25,000, at rates as low as 7.88% collective lending brings everyone together.

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The most important motivation for using Peer to Peer lending was financial gain Lending and borrowing directly from people increases the perceived risk of using Social Lending investors competent using the Internet and who are financially savvy and stimulated by risk-taking or you have a desire for control. Peer-Peer-Lending sites offer a financial exchange between two People but they do not rival the range of products and services offered by mainstream financial services.

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Al Sharpton: Do you think this crosses the line?

Too far?

At this weekend's NRA convention, a vendor was selling this zombie target that many think bears a striking resemblance to President Obama.

These zombie targets bleed when you shoot or attack them.

Do you think this crosses the line?

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Ferrari Enzo Girls

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Harry Reid’s Gaffes Just Keep on Coming

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Asian Chamber of Commerce last week: “The Asian population is so productive. I don’t think you’re smarter than anybody else, but you’ve convinced a lot of us you are.” In remarks videotaped by the GOP group America Rising, Reid also joked that he has trouble keeping his “Wongs straight.” Then followed this apology: “My comments were in extremely poor taste, and I apologize. Sometimes I say the wrong thing.”

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Sometimes? Reid is being far too humble.

After the perfunctory apology, then comes the phase when Beltway solons offer explanations for why the Senate’s top Democrat can be the author of many a faux pas without being branded as a creepy kook. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake wrote that Reid is “like Joe Biden; he’s almost built up a gaffe immunity by committing so many small-ish gaffes.”

Republican Sarah Palin’s many ill-considered words define her in Washington. But Democrat Reid gets gaffe immunity. He just keeps running off at the mouth and then apologizing, but he never really has to worry about paying a heavy political price. He’s a ruthless politician, yet Washington treats him as if he were this regular guy — but with a tact problem.

Reid’s comments to the Asian Chamber of Commerce weren’t hateful — unless, that is, you belong to an ethnic group that the sage of Searchlight, Nevada, believes is not so productive. These remarks are reminiscent of what he said in 2008 about Barack Obama’s being electable as a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” In 2010, Reid had to apologize for his “poor choice of words” after they found their way into “Game Change,” the groundbreaking expose of the presidential race written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

Reid also dismissed Justice Clarence Thomas as an “embarrassment to the Supreme Court.”

It must be so, because Reid is so enlightened about people of color that he ventured to opine in 2010, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.”

In 2012, Reid charged that Mitt Romney “didn’t pay taxes for 10 years.” PolitiFact rated that claim “pants on fire” false — but it served to muddy Romney’s reputation under cover of Reid’s gaffe immunity.

He once complained that Washington’s humidity was so high “you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.” Well, he thought it was funny. Reid famously told a reporter that the death of Ted Kennedy would help Democrats pass health care reform.

Once, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Reid whether he would vote for a bill to continue National Institutes for Health funding: “If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?”

Reid’s answer: “Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own.”

If a GOP Senate candidate said half the things Reid has said, then Reid would show him no mercy.

Email Debra J. Saunders at: [email protected].

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Glenn Greenwald’s Naivete About Bush Bashing On National Security

It’s really amusing to watch the scales fall from Glenn Greenwald’s eyes on national security. You can almost feel the hurt come through the page as he tries to figure out why his fellow libs are giving Obama a pass for the same national security measures they viciously criticized during the Bush years:

Just look at these illustrative incidents. Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell went on Fred Thompson’s radio show yesterday to demand that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be put before a military commission — at Guantanamo. Over the weekend, Time’s Joe Klein lambasted the Obama DOJ, and embraced Bush’s former CIA and NSA Chief Michael Hayden, by objecting to the criminal charges and Constitutional rights afforded the accused Christmas Day bomber, with Klein decreeing: “the bomber is an enemy combatant. He doesn’t have Miranda rights.” MSNBC personalities Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie chatted yesterday with their boss, MSNBC Washington Bureau Chief Mark Whitaker, all agreeing that the decision to grant civilian trials for “Terrorists” is “a pure, self-inflicted wound.” When Najibullah Zazi was arrested for allegedly plotting a serious Terrorist attack, The New Republic’s Michael Crowley said he was so frightened by this that he was open to torturing Zazi. Democratic Senators are threatening to join the GOP in cutting off funds for civilian trials. Democratic members of Congress joined with the GOP to prevent even modest reforms of the Patriot Act and other surveillance abuses. City officials compete with one another over who can be the most frightened and terrorized by Terrorists.

…Seriously: if you were a Bush follower, wouldn’t you feel as though you were owed a major apology for all the accusations and the fuss that came from Democrats and media figures, accusing you of supporting radical and Constitution-shredding policies when, it turns out, they actually crave those policies in order to feel safe? Doesn’t all of this bolster the Republican claim that those attacks on the Bush administration for civil liberties abuses were not due to genuine conviction, but rather for partisan gain (in the case of Democratic officials) and cheap, preening, wet-finger-in-the-air moralizing (in the case of media stars)?

…All of these attacks on the Obama administration really leave one wondering: what is it exactly that Bush and Cheney did wrong? Was it just the waterboarding (the official authorization for which was withdrawn several years before Bush left office and which, in any event, people like Richard Cohen and Michael Crowley still crave)? Everything else other than the “enhanced interrogation techniques” was good? What happened to all the profound talk about how they ruined our image in the world and violated our “core principles” and how we can simultaneously Stay Safe and adhere to our values — which happened to be a central theme of Obama’s successful presidential campaign? How can Democrats and media stars claim to find Bush and Cheney so distasteful as they simultaneously attack Obama for reversing their defining policies in a few isolated instances? In the areas of civil liberties and Terrorism, what exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?

Glenn, you didn’t get that a lot of the liberal criticism of Bush on the national security front was driven by politics? Seriously? Even after the majority of Democrats in the Senate voted for Iraq, talked about WMDs just like Bush, and then pretended like it never happened when it became politically inconvenient? You probably think the same people clapping and cheering when Code Pink harasses military recruiters really “support the troops,” too, don’t you?

Here’s the honest truth, which may, believe it or not, make Glenn Greenwald feel a little better. Most liberals care a lot more about domestic issues than foreign policy and they care not one whit at all for intellectual consistency.

So, sure, most liberals may buy into the same weepy nonsense that Glenn Greenwald does about making terrorists sleepy or tired being a form of torture, but at the end of the day, they care more about getting elected — and the average American does not give a rat’s rear end what we do to members of Al-Qaeda. Glenn Greenwald may not get this, but most Democrats do and so they’re willing to pretend to be tough on terrorism when it’s politically necessary.

If you don’t buy that, just think back to 2004 when the Democrats ran a candidate whom liberals tended to like because he made a name for himself as an anti-war protester. But, what did they talk about non-stop during his presidential campaign? The fact that he fought in Vietnam. The fact that he had medals. Most liberals actually consider those things to be a negative, but if it helps get Democrats into a position to raise taxes and socialize part of the economy, well then, something has to give.

Personally? I’m glad the Democrats are willing to be such hypocrites on national security issues. It beats the alternative, which would mean sticking to their convictions and pursuing nearly suicidal national security policies regardless of political pressure. Better that they break Glenn Greenwald’s heart than get us all killed.

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Former ISIS Sex Slave Shames Obama With A Single Line

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who was once held by ISIS as a sex slave, testified before the Senate Homeland Security committee about all the horrors she saw and experienced while living under the rule of ISIS.

Murad escaped her captivity in 2014 and now hopes to rally the U.S. to do more to help minorities like Christians and Yazidis in the fight against ISIS in the Middle East.

CNN reports,

“The USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror.”
“Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons,” she testified, with the assistance of a translator. “The Yazidi people cannot wait.”
Murad called on the U.S. and other countries “to establish a safe and protected zone for Iraqi and Syrian religious minorities,” which President Barack Obama has repeatedly rejected.
She also expressed her condolences for the attack in Orlando that left 49 dead but said she was not surprised it happened.
“I knew if ISIS were not stopped, they would deliver their crimes everywhere,” she told lawmakers.
Speaking about the Middle East’s Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities, she warned that “if they are not protected they will be wiped out.”
…Murad also called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce ISIS.

“What has been happening has been happening under the name of Islam,” she said. “The Muslims must be the first ones to resist this … We have not seen that Daesh have been labeled as an infidel group within Islam by any Muslim country.”
Do you think this administration is doing enough to protect Christians and Yazidis from ISIS?

  • Tony

    OBAMA doesn’t care! He want money and a large house. The only want to get something done is through TRUMP. The rest of the snarley dems are out for money. Look at the Afro-Americans….very little done for them and there will not any significant help. Hell, he can’t even say the words Islamic Terrorists, much less do anything.

    • Flyby

      Sure obama cares. He’d rather be out there with his brethren and some Yazidi slaves of his own. With a handful of younger women Michelle would be history. Trump would enjoy getting rid of the head loppers and illegals. Trump 2016!

      • Deborah Foehr

        You are so right, I think she is a man anyway. She fertainly has all the physical charistics of one. Maybe thats why the girls have no birth certificates?

    • Donald Keller

      Agreed !!!

    • Deborah Foehr

      I don’t agree with saying Afro-Americans have very little done for them. Because of the ‘free stuff’ housing, food stamps, medicade,cell phones etc, those and other minorities are the ones who lected Obummer.

      • Howleyesque

        Meanwhile what Al’s following DON’T realize is that the job opportunities being stolen by illegal aliens are MOSTLY being stolen FROM THEM!

      • Blacks have better benefits then the whites on welfare who lost their jobs.. and besides, they can control the black better then they can control most whites..They just hopped off one plantation unto another..

        • Byron Hall

          As a black American I have to unfortunately agree with you most of my brethren are brainwashed

  • Richard Bagenstose

    sorry to say it but you have 6 more months till this freak is out of office ,one way or another he is out of here , i don’t care if we have to drag his dead corps out , he is out

    • Howleyesque

      I’d rather see him and his whole corrupt GANG in GITMO! Lerner, Holder, Swillary ALL of her ACCOMPLICES (“aides”), her pedophile HUBBY and Lynch!

      • Richard Bagenstose

        i want to see the whole bunch of them have there heads on the top of isis flag poles, seeing how they love these muslum terrorists so much , they wasted enough of our money and putting them in prison will only cost us more , shoot the freaks and have it over and done with

        • Howleyesque

          Except that as far as executions go, we’re down to either hanging or lethal injection…

  • Howleyesque

    Absolutely NOT! That has never been his intent. His constant lies AND THOSE OF SWILLARY CLINTON fly in the face of what ACTUAL MUSLIMS have to say. Such as: the Imam of the Orlando shooter, Salman Rushdi who has a price on his life to be paid to anyone who MURDERS HIM BY the “religion of peace, love and tolerance” the Liperals keep telling us about and last but not least the Saudi’s own HEAD CLERIC!

    • Sandy devine

      Not with her ther wil be no impartiality and she proved it Monday!!! She just didn’t think she would be caught at it. She knows the rules and she allowed for it to be broken. Besides, from a report I heard, she waited for him to get on board for their no meeting! She knows the rules and she willingly broke it. So, thus tells me there wil NOT be any substantially real investigation if it’s brought before her office.

      • Howleyesque

        I’ve been MORE than skeptical myself, BUT the latest news is that she is on record as saying that SHE WILL NOT make ANY determination, that it WILL BE up to the prosecutors. (That old racist isn’t entirely stupid, she knows full well that she’s on the hook herself for covering up the murder of Lavoy Finicum, so the VERY LAST THING she wants is to be impeached!

        • billybonney

          Under Obama no one gets impeached! They can do no wrong.

          • Howleyesque

            To this point in time… BUT Lynch well KNOWS that there IS a 7 year statute of ,limitations ..on MOST crimes, HOWEVER as an accessory after the fact to murder… 😉

  • Sandy devine

    As long as this administration is in place there will never be a sanctuary place within that country, see, it’s all ass backwards, they concentrate on producing and encouraging sanctuary cities here in the states for all Felons or people’s who commit crimes from murder to coming here illegally! That’s what’s important and next , we have a concentration of bringing that entire region into all other countries! Yup, such a very unsafe condition and it’s happening in. Front of our faces! Now this is supposedly acceptable by the regime we have in hand and if Hillary gets in it will be worse.. They will never ever protect Christianity!! Never, if people have religion then they have morality on and on therefore they cannot control that person so when they strip us of everything then we become puppets to be controlled !! That’s the main agenda if you sit back and really think about it. Don’t look at it as a party thing, take that configuration away, think with the brain God gave you before its to late to have free will.

  • MegaMouseGW

    Her plea to obozo falls on deaf ears. Obozo will do nothing to harm his TERRORIST brothers.

  • Darrel Dunson

    I think our elected officials believe we are so stupid we fall for whatever line they hand us. They also believe they are above the law. I think Trump will change a lot of that and restore some power and dignity to the American people, at least I hope he will. If the people truly rule we will be rid of the embarrassing &*#$% that run our country now. Guess what? That means the return of prosperity because they won’t be stealing it all! We will see change, either by vote or by civil war. I prefer the former but, will not oppose the latter if it comes to that. I have no faith in our elected leaders, crooks, almost all of them. I do have renewed faith in our voters, common man (and women) who recently began to speak out against the injustices of our leadership. Continue to stand, tall and strong!

    • Byron Hall

      I pray what you have said is true. a Hillary will kill what is left of the United States

  • KingDon

    Obama is totally indifferent to anything other than promoting the socialist/communist system here in the U.S. He actually cares little about anything happening in the Arab states. The exception being the bringing as many combat age Muslims as possible onto our shores for possible use later as troops to further destabilize our country. In case anyone hasn’t noticed, good solid, productive countries never get taken over by the progressive/socialists. Therefore he has to create chaos in our nation in the hope of performing a coup, probably through use of martial law.

    You could have a billion girls and women forced into sex slavery, and Obama would blink an eye. He’d still be out there making excuses for his Muslim brothers.

    • Grim Reaper

      Obama is a complete traitor to America and the worst thing to ever happen to this country.

  • Patrick

    Tony, you are correct on Noboma, I detest when he says “That is not US” heck the largest group of Americans are not behind any thing he says or does!!! GO TRUMP!!

  • Dave Norton

    • Richard Bagenstose

      oboma is more like peewee herman wishing he was the increadable hulk , never happen , he has bin surounded with lies and it gives him a fausl scence of what is really being said about the freak, that’s why he still thinks other countries give a shit about what comes out on his lying mouth, and he is to stupid to know it

  • Rodger K. Shull

    strange how the white house occupant, will help minorities, but not the Christian Minorities an Tribal Minorities. over in the middle east, but will fall over himself over here, UMMMMMMMMMMM just him feeding his ego, that he is a savior,

  • Grim Reaper

    Obviously the Muslim in the W.H. doesn’t care about the victims of Islamic Terror. Obama is committed to bringing more terrorists to America so they can create more mayhem, so there can be more government intervention to take away the rights of non Muslims. Obama aids and abets Islamic terror, and is a traitor to this nation. He should be arrested for treason.

  • theicecube

    It is a sad time when the Govt. suppresses our right’s guaranteed by the constitution for “our own good” while at the same time using the constitution to tell us what behavior we have to accept even if it infringes on our beliefs of right and wrong because it is for “our own good” and Govt. knows what is best for??????

  • John Edward Blake

    They have demonstrated an indifference and won`t allow them in as refuges like the swine they really are.

  • Jimh77

    This Monkey in the White House needs to be removed. He is nothing but a problem for America. Congress needs to get off their Asses and impeach this Monkey and do it NOW! Then charge this Mudslime bastard with Treason!

  • Shelba Herring

    obama could care less about the minorities that the Isis will kill off as long as his goal to tear America down is reached and he is coming closer and closer to reaching his goal and it will be finished if hillary is elected president she will finish what obama started

  • DaveyJ

    Obama had threatened America! Hillary Clinton will complete that destruction!

  • AC1USNRetired

    No. We DO NOT ask or tell them to give up their weapons. We TAKE their weapons after they’ve been wiped off the face off the earth.


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Vegas Shooter’s Father Was FBI’s Most-Wanted

The father of Stephen Craig Paddock — the man who opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night, killing at least 58 and injuring over 500 — was a “psychopath” with possible “suicidal tendencies” who was once on the FBI’s most-wanted list.

Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, the father of the Las Vegas shooter, was a serial bank robber and con-man who a 1960s FBI escaped prisoner poster described as “psychopathic” and “extremely dangerous.” In fact, he was so dangerous that he was put on the FBI’s most-wanted list for a number of years after escaping prison in the midst of a 20-year sentence for robbing a series of Arizona banks.

“Since he has utilized firearms in previous crimes, has employed violence in attempting to evade arrest and has been diagnosed as being psychopathic, [Benjamin Hoskins] Paddock should be considered extremely dangerous,” reads an escaped federal prisoner poster issued by the FBI after Paddock escaped prison in 1968.

The NY Post notes that Benjamin Paddock was incarcerated in 1960 for robbing an Arizona bank, but managed to escape in 1968, spending “nearly three years on the run before the FBI caught up to him in Las Vegas in 1971, at which point he tried to run down an agent with his car.”

Fox News provides some more details on Paddock’s “colorful life of crime and deception”:

Paddock was indicted in 1960 on three counts of robbing Phoenix branches of Valley National Bank, the Arizona Republic reported on Oct. 6 that year. He was accused of stealing close to $25,000 and was caught in the summer of 1960 by FBI agents after returning to Arizona from Las Vegas.

The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Paddock was convicted and slapped with a 20-year prison sentence, but the lengthy jail term was cut short when he busted out of a federal prison in Texas in 1969, the Eugene Register-Guard reported. …

About six months after the escape, Paddock was involved in an armed robbery at a bank in San Francisco and in September 1978, he was awaiting trial related to charges from that incident, according to the Oregon newspaper.

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  • Jaron Gant Joyner

    Sounds like-Mental Illness-Runs in the Family of the Shooter-In Las Vegas–I wish Someone had noticed the Signs.-Prayers for all the Victims-In the Vegas-Shootings.

  • Luisa

    Father & Son psychopath disgusting. The shooter should be shooting himself to death instead. There are so many things are very shady behind him. How could he afford to buy an Air plane, and who funded that to let him fly secretly to do somebody’s idea frauds. Fraud goes where the money is.


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Josh's toe (June 7, 2010)

Well hello

How are you doing? I am sure you are great. (except maybe Josh). I am not going to lie when I heard he broke his toe I laughed, but I repented and I am sorry. The boot is the part that gets me. I am sorry. It sounds painful. Look at the bright side, you don't have school for over a year (I don't think senior year counts) JK it counts finish out strong. You get a 3 mounth break. Then you come on your mission and get a 2 year break. it is awesome. Trust me. I do study but it is for a different purpose. It isn't for me, it is for the people of Japan and for God. It is so much better.

Ya it sounds like it is getting Hot in Vegas. It is getting hot here. It is like 30 and very humid it is very fun. (Not sarcastic)

I can't believe Cameron is almost leaving that is so cool. I am sure he will Love it.

Funny story, This week we were riding in the train because we do that about everyday and there was this kid. He took a picture of me and my companion. I thought it was funny. That was the first time. I tried to go talk to him but the train was at the stop and he ran away. I just wanted a picture with him. I did not think I was that scary. I was even wearing deoderant that day lol. seriously I do everyday. I don't know how out of the ordinary that was but you know. Also they love my eyes. They are always telling me how cool blue eyes are. I have also had people ask me if they could touch my hair.

This week it rained once. It was interesting. We were out working and then out of no where the temperature changed and 10 minutes later it was down pouring. We keep plastic bags in our backpack so our stuff doesn't get wet but besides that we had no rain gear. Our apartement was 30 min away so we just went and visited members soaking wet. They were surprised to see that we would come visit them when it was thundering and lightning. We were like we Love you. And so it went really well. One of the families seems really interested. They are 20 and have a very very young kid. We talked to them about families. They seemed really interested. The husband already gave out a book of mormon. We were like that is awesome.

We are way close to getting our first baptisimal date. Karumina said she was going to pray about baptism. Awesome. We asked her to read 2 Nephi 31 and she told us that she already had read it. We were like you are awesome. She is doing really well.

I hope you have another nice week. Josh have fun with your toe...sorry.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Orizaba Success!

At 7 AM January 26, 2008, our team successfully summited Pico de Orizaba east of Tlachichuca, Mexico, after leaving our high camp of 15,100' to the crest of the Orizaba caldera at 18,490'. After nearly a week of acclimatizing increasing altitudes from Mexico City to Tlachichuca to the Piedra Grande hut to our final high tent camp, the team took five hours in the early morning hours navigating "The Labyrinth "rock/cliff band to the Jamapa Glacier. There, the slope gradually increased from 10-30 degrees to a high of 50-60 degrees near the upper rock formation affectionately known as "The Sarcophagus!" Team members were roped together via a 100-meter climbing rope, equipped with plastics boots, crampons and ice axes.

Smelling whiffs of sulfur, we neared the summit at sunrise and were treated with incredible views of the Mexican plains to the east and west of the summit. To the west, the shadow of Pico de Orizaba formed a perfect pyramid shadow that perhaps the Aztecs used as a model for their pyramids hundreds of years ago. We stayed on the summit for about 20-30 minutes to take pictures, offer congratulations to fellow team members, and take in the accomplishment. With wind chills easily below zero, we began a tight rope descent upon the glacier. Three hours later, we were back at high camp to rest, drink water, break down camp for the return to Piedra Grand hut and Tlachichuca that evening. Cold cervezas greeted us at Senor Reyes climbing compound and after a hard nights rest, we traveled back to Mexico City. Some boarded flights back home that day while others remained for a day or two to tour this old city of 20+ million residents.

For detailed dispatches, please visit http://www.alanarnette.com/dispatches/live/index.php What an incredible experience with close friends and the "high point" of my climbing career! Climb On!

Thursday, January 17, 2008

El Orizaba Cuatro!

Or to the Spanish challenged (myself included) - the Orizaba Four! Our intrepid team leaves for Mexico City in a little over 3 days and I thought it good to introduce you to the team. Essentially, we're a team of many things. We are weekend warriors, friends, father's, big mountaineer's, homebrewers, ultra marathoner's, engineer's, instructor's, retired(?), and men with a climbing addiction.

In the photo on the far left is Scott Olmer - ultra marathoner extraordinaire. I've known Scott for nearly 10 years and over that time, we've backpacked and/or hiked 14ers in Colorado, gone on too many hut trips to count, enjoy a good cigar from time to time, and enjoy the finer Colorado micro brews weekly at the Southern Sun Brewpub in Boulder. Scott is a natural athlete and excels in 50/100 mile races a couple times of year - crazy!

In the next photo is the remainder of the team. From left to right is Robert ("The Goat") LeClair, Patrick ("The Navigator") Vall, and Alan ("Big Pappy") Arnette.

I first met Patrick on our Rainier trip in July 2004 and got to know him well over the years on numerous 14er hikes. Patrick owns his own veterinarian practice in Woodland Park, CO, has a wonderful family of 4 children, a very understanding wife (Shannon), and a slight obsession with THE University of Ohio State - this presents a problem at times when he sees a "University of Meeechigan" hiker on some of our summit attempts. Patrick is a very strong yet smart hiker and provides his GPS expertise to our group during the summer climbing seasons. He has written numerous trip reports on SummitPost (http://www.summitpost.com/) and is a great friend.

Alan, "Big Pappy", Arnette is our hiking/climbing guru. I first met Alan back in 2001/02 through my former spouse and our mutual interest in mountains lead to many hikes in the Colorado high country. Alan has traveled the world in search of mountain peaks to climb, breathed the rarefied air above 25,000', and was the instigator of the 2004 Rainier trip. He provides a wealth of information about mountaineering to both Patrick and I - we're constantly learning more about the topic through his patience and guidance. Orizaba is the final preparatory climb for Alan - he's planning to return to Mt. Everest in April/May 2008 as part of his "Memories are Everything" campaign to raise awareness and donations for the Cure Alzheimers Fund.

So there you have it - the "client" team for Orizaba 2008. I look forward to challenge of Orizaba as well as sharing the summit with some very good friends - it will be an experience! Climb On!

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Successful Summit!

Congratulations to Alan Arnette (aka "Big Pappy") for his successful summit of Aconcagua (22,841') yesterday. His team, guided by Mountain Professionals LLC (our guide service to Orizaba), successfully made the summit 8 hours after an early alpine start (3:30 AM 'ish) from their Advance Base Camp. Cold temperatures (0 degrees) and high winds made for a challenging summit push but Alan reported that the team did well.

If you want to hear audio dispatches of the climb, please visit the following URL for details: http://www.alanarnette.com/dispatches/live/index.php I believe Alan's site will have audio dispatches as well as periodic updates of our progress on Orizaba January 20-27, 2008 if you're interested in following that climb too. Climb On!

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Orizaba: Day by Day

Last night, I realized when talking to Mom that very few folks know the full extent of my upcoming trip to Orizaba in Mexico. My flight to Mexico City takes off in 17 days, so come along on a virtual journey...

  • January 20th: Depart Denver, Colorado (5,280') at 8:47 AM to Mexico City via Los Angeles, CA. Arrive in Mexico City (7,340') around 7 PM. Catch the free Holiday Inn shuttle to the Holiday Inn-Plaza Dali and meet Alan Arnette/Patrick Vall/Scott Olmer for dinner and cerveza's.

  • January 21st: Meet Ryan Water and Dave Elmore from Mountain Professionals, LLC and transport gear/people to Tlachichuca, Puebla, Mexico (8,497'). Welcome dinner at a local restaurant.

  • January 22nd: Expedition overview, gear check, and explore local artisan market. Believe it or not but this is part of the acclimization process - having fun!!

  • January 23rd: Transport via 4-wheel drive to the Piedra Grande hut at 13,972. Acclimization hike and return to hut.

  • January 24th: Acclimization hike to high camp; set up tent camp and return to Piedra Grande hut for a good night's sleep.

  • January 25th: Hike to high camp with the remainder of summit gear and attempt to get some sleep.

  • January 26th: SUMMIT DAY to 18,490'! Alpine start (usually 12 AM - 2 AM - depends on guide service) and push for the summit. Pray for good weather!! Return to base camp to break down high camp, hike back down to the Piedra Grande hut for rest of the gear, and jeep back down to Tlachichuca for a celebratory dinner and Cuban cigars!

  • January 27th: Morning transport back to Mexico City to catch flight back to Denver, Colorado feeling exhausted but happy!

That's it friends! If you're interested in more details, you can visit Alan Arnette's website at http://www.alanarnette.com/alan/orizaba.php His site is a wealth of information about climbing in the States and around the world. As part of Alan's 2008 return to Everest, he is raising funds for Alzheimer's research and a cure for this horrid disease. Unfortunately, this disease has hit home as his Mother is suffering from this mind-robbing condition. Please consider making a charitable donation through his website. Climb On!

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Happy New Year!

Hard to believe it, but another year has ended and a new one started this morning at 12 AM! I've never been a huge New Year's Eve partier nor desire to pay those huge cover charges to hang out in a club with a couple hundred people you don't know. My Dad used to work in hotel management years and years ago for Holiday Inn and he called New Year's Eve "the night of amateurs!" Rather than join the amateurs, I spent the night at a friends house party and rang in the New Year with a small glass of champagne and a late night call to K. Awoke to brilliant Colorado sunshine and hit the cross country ski trails at Eldora for a day of blue sky, light winds, and rolling terrain!

I always have to laugh when I read the newspaper on New Year's Day - all the advertising is geared towards New Year's Resolutions and NCAA Bowl Games. I prefer the later myself but that's another story - GO CLEMSON BTW! Resolutions are a funny thing - it's that one time of the year people "promise" to change something in their life for the better. Although a noble idea, most resolutions are doomed to failure whether it be to exercise more, lose weight, etc.. because folks often return to what is comfortable, easy, or in most cases, life just plain gets in the way.

I prefer goals rather than resolutions - goals are often attainable and are easier to gauge success or failure against. So without further adieu, here are my 10 goals for 2008 in no particular order:
  1. Be happy!
  2. Spend time with K and her son!
  3. Live each day to its fullest!
  4. Volunteer in 1-2 organizations.
  5. Make a difference in someones life.
  6. Run the Colorado Colfax Marathon in May 2008 - brother Jim's upcoming Disney Marathon inspired me - signed up December 31, 2007.
  7. Stay in contact with friends via phone, email or visits.
  8. A safe and successful climb on Pico de Orizaba January 20-27, 2008.
  9. Continue good health through good eating, exercise, and mental R&R.
  10. Continue hiking, climbing, mountain biking, down hill skiing, XC skiing, homebrewing...and...and...
That's it friends - Happy New Year and make it a good one! Climb on!


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Friday, December 20, 2013

#DuckDynasty: Respecting One Another

I am not a fan of #DuckDynasty but, I saw few of their episodes and I was entertained. The family is amazing and I like them. I know they are popular and their TV show is a big hit. What amazes me is that, their fans came from all walks of life. That's something huh? This family truly touched the American viewers in ways no one can explain.

Popularity is not all the time smooth and fun. There are intrigues as well and just this week, the patriarch of Duck Dynasty was suspended for anti-gay remarks. “Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right” -Phil.

Well, I have gay friends and I love them and respect them dearly. In this country we have the Freedom of Speech. That is the opinion of Phil and though his opinion may differ with yours and mine, we should respect that too. Just like we respect the gay people to enjoy going to Disney on "Gay Day". Some people might be offended but, they show respect for not complaining.
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Best of the Chicago Blues

I don't know if it has something to do with the fact that I grew up nearby, but Chicago-styled blues are the blues that speak to me the most. When Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf transplanted to the city, they changed the sound of modern music forever, with influences still reverberating to this day. This CD has slightly lesser known names than those giants, but still some spectacular talent - Jimmy Cotton, Otis Span, Buddy Guy (legendary for his remarkable guitar work with the masters as well as his long solo career), JB Hutto, Johnny Young, Homesick James, harmonica kings Junior Wells and Big Walter Horton  - all giving some truly electrifying performances.

Chicago blues is usually highlighted by stellar electric guitar work and amplified harmonica, along with a a swing not found elsewhere, but of course, Otis Spann's fantastic piano also helped to define the sound - and with good reason! This CD is packed with incredible talent and if you're not already familiar with these names, you should be! Another fine comp.


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Monday, June 18, 2007

Red Seas

I posted my review of what thus far is my favorite book published this year: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. Scott did everything right in this book, much in the same way The Lies of Locke Lamora had all the right elements. The main difference is that Scott’s writing and plotting are even tighter with one book under his belt. I was lucky enough to get an early look at the Gollancz-UK version of the book, but chances are I’ll wind up picking up the US edition as well since I’m something of a completist.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Zombies - Is it the End of the World?

Waking today presented no problem. Unfortunately, the remainder of the day wouldn’t be so easy. The following days would not begin so harmlessly, I’m sure. My wife had already left for work by the time I was fully conscious, I vaguely recall her peck on the cheek before she descended the stairs. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

By the time I got in my car and made the turn onto the highway, I knew the day would be a problem. Cars were at a dead halt on the road, many of them crashed into each other. Since it was late spring, I was driving with my windows down, which allowed the stench of death to waft into my car. Once you smell death, you know it when you smell it again. There was nothing I could do to get on the road, even the shoulder was jammed. My only hope was to turnaround and try driving the back roads.

As I was doing that, I needed to make a phone call. I dialed my wife’s speed-number on my cell phone and waited what seemed an eternity for her to answer. “You aren’t going to believe this,” she said before I could say anything.

“I might, I’ve just seen the highway at a complete dead stop.”

“Well, I know why. There is a Zombie Uprising.”

“Shit, I just knew life was going too well. They say one happens every hundred years or so, right?” I asked.

“Yeah, at least that’s what my Dad says. His Dad supposedly lived through the last uprising,” she responded. I remembered hearing the tales from her father on a couple of occasions, mostly after a random Zombie or two shambled in from the woods. Random Zombie sightings, while not exactly common, weren’t entirely rare, either.

“Try and get home, keep you cell phone turned on,” I said, hearing some strange grunting in the background. “I’m going home to get some helpers.”

She knew what I meant, the old baseball bat, the axe, sledgehammer and pickaxe. They worked well enough on the lone zombies that shambled around on occasion. “I’ll do what I can, but the Zombies are starting to flood everything. I’m only halfway to work. I love you.” She said.

“I love you, too.” We both ended the call. I felt so goddamned helpless knowing she might be stuck in a death trap with her brains enticing the Zombies.

Zombies have been a semi-regular occurrence for a few hundred years and for some reason, they rise in droves once a century. Not too dissimilar to the loud buzzing cicadas, except the Zombies flock in greater number, eat brains, and smell a lot worse. In all the Zombie movies, comics and cartoons one thing that can never be conveyed is their utter stench. After all, a Zombie is a corpse that eats people, so the smell is bound to be offensive.

The Zombie Uprising that followed the Revolutionary War nearly destroyed the world. Only through the assistance of the various Native American tribes were the early Americans able to fend of the Uprising. I would hate for it to be the end of the world, but these Zombies might just be smarter.

Getting back onto my street wasn’t the refuge I hoped; Zombies were marching down my street. Marching is a strong word, but they did seem to share an unheard tune as they walked in cadence. I shouldn’t have been too surprised; I lived on the same street as a large elementary school, so there were plenty of potential new Zombies ready for the making should the Uprisers make their way to the school. I drove my car head into a bunch of them and turned into my driveway.

If the fiction couldn’t capture the smell of Zombies, they certainly captured the speed, or lack thereof. I was able to grab my makeshift weapons, drop a few in the trunk and throw one on the passenger seat. It was then I noticed my neighbors had been Zombified. I really liked Janet and Kyle, but they were no longer themselves. I hacked at them and was about to turn back out of the driveway. Much as I hate to admit this, I would expect them to do the same if our situations were reversed.

For whatever reason, the Zombies I didn’t run over continued to trundle down my street, almost as if I wasn’t there. I wasn’t complaining, which brings me to this point. I don’t know who will be reading this, but I have to blog this like it is the end of the world. The Zombies are rising; grab anything you can– a shovel, a pickaxe, or a baseball bat and swing for the fences.

Wish me luck as I try to fend of the Undead and get to my wife so we can live through this Zombie Uprising. Let’s hope I can post back here tomorrow with some good news.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Newest "New" Fantasy Author on the Block: D.A. Durham

My latest review, David Anthony Durham’s Acacia Book I: War with the Mein, is now up at Like last year, this seems to be a strong year for opening novels for multi-volume sequences. Last year Scott Lynch, David Louis Edelman, and Sean Williams* all launched impressive sequences. This year has already seen Patrick Rotfhuss and now David Anthony Durham’s sequence launch. Both authors have been making the rounds with interviews on SF Web sites and blogs.

Patrick Rothfuss interviewed by me and Pat (of the Fantasy Hot List)
A Dribble of Ink interview with Patrick Rothfuss (Part 2)
A Dribble of Ink interview with David Anthony Durham
Fantasy Book Critic interview with David Anthony Durham
Fantasy Book Critic interview with Patrick Rothfuss interviews Patrick Rothfuss / Jay Tomio interviews David Anthony Durham
WOTMANIA’s OFBlog interview with Patrick Rothfuss

*Technically Sean Williams saga launched a couple of years ago, but 2006 was when it was published in the States.

Also, I know Joe Abercrombie was highly-touted last year, so I'm looking forward to reading The Blade Itself when Pyr publishes it later this year.

I've been hearing a lot of grumbling at night lately, and it has been getting louder over the past couple of days. I could swear I'm hearing the word brains, but I can't imagine why.

Monday, June 04, 2007

David's Darkness

I posted my review of Peter David's Darkness of the Light, the first book in his Hidden Earth saga. I've been a fan of Peter's for a while, so I was looking forward to reading this book. Set in a far-future earth, the book has a feel not too dissimilar to Jack Vance's Dying Earth. If not in style, than in setting and some of the humor.

Only one week remains in SFFWorld's contest to win an advance copy of the book.

On the Malzan front, I'm still making my way through Deadhouse Gates and still enjoying it. I don't want to rush through these books, since the series is both unfished and the US versions haven't caught up with the UK. But goddamn does Erikson make it tough to close the book.

Nine days remain until the Uprising. I am mentally preparing.


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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

A Preview of things to come...

Here is one of the quilts I am currently working on, in its infancy.

In this Picture: Ellie Fun 2, Batik Beauty, and ????
I've spent most of the blog so far trying to catch up on things I've already done, so I look forward to  moving on to the things I am still in the process of doing. Exciting times!

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NASA’s shape shifting origami robot squeezes where others can’t | WIRED

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NASA MAY HAVE equipped its Mars Curiosity rover with an impressive array of scientific instruments, but the robot attaché’s size and $2.5-billion price tag give its operators ample reason to steer clear of terrain that could jeopardize its mission. Which is a shame, because much of Mars’ craggy, cave-ridden, boulder-strewn landscape is so treacherous (planetary geologists literally call it chaos terrain), that big, expensive robots like Curiosity can’t risk accessing it. That’s why NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built Puffer.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Announcing an Upcoming Blog Tour

Welcome to Writing Children's Books with Robyn Opie

Coming soon!

I'm pleased to be involved in the blog tour of the Little Horrors series by Tiffany Mandrake.

Here is a little information about the series, supplied by the fabulous Tiffany Mandrake.

Three Scottish water hags, displaced by the draining of lochs and general failure of the fairy breed/human relationship, are on the point of giving up. There are no young bad fairies coming on, and all the GOOD fairies are doing sweet deeds without regards to the consequences.

One hag, Kirsty, discovers a single young bad fairy at Miss Kisses' Academy of Sweetness. This discovery leads her to band together with Maggie Nabbie and Auld Anni to create their own school - the Abademy of Badness.

The hags are bad fairies, but they are not evil. Their sense of justice means they will never try to change a good fairy into a bad one. Therefore, they devise a test for their candidates. Each likely little horror must create and submit an original act of badness to qualify for the Badge of Badness and enter the Abademy.

The hags stay out of this, but they do provide a fetch (imp, familiar) for each candidate. These critter-fae are imps with animal DNA. They are sharp witted, smart and bad to the bone.

Each story introduces a new main character, and charts her journey as a candidate. Flax is a feral fairy. Her act of badness is to kidnap a young film star and bamboozle two crooks... but that isn't how she wins her badge.

Mal de Mer the mermaid has her eyes set on ruining a marine theme park. Tikki Flicker the pixie bewilders a group of Pixiepackers and their Leader, while Nanda Gemdibbler the gnome (who really believes she is a GOOD fairy) leads a young human comprehensively up the garden path of wish fulfillment.

The stories are all self contained, but the three hags appear in each one. Occasionally, other characters appear in more than one book. Each tale is ostensibly told by Tiffany Mandrake, a human who lives in a cottage in the Abademy grounds. Tiff has a whole biography, but this is never mentioned in the stories. She plays no active part, but implies that the critter-fae act as her informants.

Flax the Feral Fairy and Mal the Mischievous Mermaid are published by Little Hare.

If you would like to learn more about Flax and Tiffany then make sure you catch this blog tour at:

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Sally Murphy’s Writing for Children -

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Happy reading and writing!
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India’s Rocket Women: Meet The Women Of ISRO

9 April, 2016

India has built and launched 82 satellites into space and explored the Moon, Mars and the stars through it’s Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and ASTROSAT respectively. But behind these missions is a strong team of scientists and engineers, including a team of trailblazing women.

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launch [ISRO]

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launch [ISRO]

Condé Nast Traveller recently featured the women working on the Mars Orbiter Mission (also called Mangalyaan). India’s MOM mission to Mars was astonishingly designed, planned and launched in 15 months with a budget of only US $70 million! Comparatively, NASA’s recent Maven mission to Mars cost $671 million.

Nandini Harinath served as deputy operations director on MOM and has worked on 14 missions over 20 years at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), India’s space agency. Nandini highlights that “Women constitute only 20% of ISRO’s 16,000-strong workforce, but female engineers are increasingly joining in. There’s greater awareness and education among young women now. Parents are being supportive of their daughters pursuing careers.” Nandini also discussed the problem of a number of highly educated women dropping out before they reach leadership positions. “That’s the mindset we need to change. Women have to realise that they can manage having careers and families. It’s possible! You can do it if you want to.””

“Women constitute only 20% of ISRO’s 16,000-strong workforce, but female engineers are increasingly joining in”

ISRO Scientist Nandini Harinath at ISRO’s Satellite Centre in Bengaluru

Here’s an excerpt from the Condé Nast Traveller’s fantastic feature:

“What does it take to make sure your little girl grows up to be a rocket scientist? Start her young. Some 30 years ago, Ritu Karidhal was a little girl, looking up at the stars twinkling in the Lucknow sky, and wondering why the moon changed its shape and size every night. In her teens, she began following the activities of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the newspapers, cutting and collecting clippings. Around the same time, Moumita Dutta was reading about India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan 1, in the Anandabazar Patrika in her hometown of Kolkata and thinking, ‘How lucky those people are to have the opportunity to be part of this!’ Flash forward to 2015, and both women are top ISRO scientists, part of a team that worked on India’s acclaimed Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), aka Mangalyaan.”

The feature highlights the little-known story and mission dedication of the women at ISRO, including the four hours of sleep they get per night in order to help their children study and supportive in-laws that travel for hours to help their families.

“We think of our satellites and payloads as our babies, too. To us, they have lives. So the rules for office and home are common: Patience, Procedures, Priorities. If you’re patient, that’s half the battle won. Don’t allow for single-point failure; have backup plans in your mind all the time to avoid chaos. And you can’t be everywhere at once; so assign your priorities. The mind and heart have to be in sync. You must always be true to yourself.”

Read the full Condé Nast Traveller feature here.

Update: Meet The Women Who Helped India Reach Mars On The First Try (within 18 months!)

Nandini Harinath, ISRO [Science Friday]

Nandini Harinath, ISRO [Science Friday]

“If you’re doing mission operations you don’t need to watch a science-fiction movie, we see the excitement in our day-to-day lives.” – Nandini Harinath, Project Manager Mission Design, Deputy Operations Director, Mars Orbiter Mission, ISRO

A wonderful new film from Science Friday tells the story of the Indian women in science of ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM).

The goal of the film is to show the scientists and work behind the mission, aiming to inspire the next generation of women scientists. With only around “40% of missions to Mars” having been successful, this mission is special as it was not only successful on the first try for ISRO but on a “shoestring budget and in a very short time”.

“When I was small I had a dream to help the common man.” – Minal Rohit, Scientist & Engineer, Project Manager, Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), ISRO

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Announcing an Arca-Swiss Tech Camera Workshop – April 2015

Join us April 23rd – 26th 2015, on location in Charleston, South Carolina for a unique experience to shoot with Arca-Swiss tech cameras and Phase One Digital Backs. The workshop is a cooperation with Digital Transitions and Rod Klukas from Arca-Swiss USA. We plan to photograph in a beautiful antebellum plantation and along coastal beaches with the location guidance of Charleston Photography Tours.

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Jeff Zucker Named New President Of CNN Worldwide

Source: CNN

Veteran news producer and former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker will become the president of CNN Worldwide in January, the network announced Thursday.

“Jeff’s experience as a news executive is unmatched for its breadth and success,” said Phil Kent, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, CNN’s parent company. “In a career that has seen significant professional success in both broadcast and cable, Jeff has demonstrated his ability to run multiple lines of business and fiercely defend journalists and journalism.”

Zucker succeeds Jim Walton, who has headed CNN Worldwide since 2003. As president, Zucker will oversee 23 branded news and information businesses, including CNN’s U.S. television network, CNN International, HLN and CNN Digital. The latter includes, one of the world’s leading news websites.

“I am thrilled to join the distinguished team of journalists across the worldwide platforms of CNN,” Zucker said in a statement. “The global reach and scale of the CNN brand is unparalleled in all of news. Outside of my family and the Miami Dolphins, there is nothing I am as passionate about as journalism.”

To read this article in its entirety visit CNN.