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After a slippery Honda Indy Toronto on the Exhibition Street Circuit won by CFH Racing’s Josef Newgarden, Round 11 of the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season returns to Fontana, California for the MAVTV 500 at the Auto Club Speedway.

Having served as the season finale for the past three years, the event has been replaced by the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma as this year’s final round in a crammed 2015 calendar.

The Circuit

2015 IndyCar Series MAVTV 500
Date 26-27 June 2015 Lap Length 2.00 mi / 3.22km
Free Practice Session 1 Fri 08:30-10:15 Free Practice Session 2 Fri 14:45-15:30
Qualifying Fri 16:45-18:00 Race (250 laps) Sat 13:36-16:45

Session times quoted in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT – 07:00)

Formerly known as California Speedway, the groundbreaking for this 2-mile oval took place in November 1995. This track has 14 degrees of banking in all four of its turns as well as 11 degrees of banking on the front stretch and 3 degrees on the back stretch.

Before hosting IndyCar sanctioned races in 2002, this track held open wheel events in CART from 1997-02. Mark Blundell won the inaugural CART race there in 1997, and Sam Hornish Jr. scored the victory in IndyCar’s first visit at this track in 2002. Hornish won there again the following year.

Auto Club Speedway hosted the season-finale for IndyCar the past three years. This year, the season-ending race will be held at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California on August 30.

Rewind to 2014

Last season in Fontana we saw Will Power become the first Australian in IndyCar history to become a Verizon IndyCar Series World Champion, finally breaking through after three successive seasons of being beaten at the final hurdle.

Power looked like being a four-time ‘choker’ after his Penske teammate and title rival Hélio Castroneves grabbed his 41st career pole of the season, while Power qualified a dismal 21st.

Nonetheless, he drove a steadily and calm race, climbing quickly towards the rear of the top-ten and finishing ninth to capture the title after Castroneves encountered problems. Chip Ganassi scored a 1-2 finish with Tony Kanaan winning the race – his first of the season – ahead of teammate Scott Dixon. Ed Carpenter finished third in his final outing for his eponymous team before he merged with Sarah Fisher Hartmann Racing.

The Entry List and Form Guide

There will be a couple of driver line-up changes as the field returns to the oval racing format this weekend in the wake of the street race in Toronto a fortnight ago.

Ed Carpenter – who has a win and two further podiums in his last three outings here – will be back behind the wheel of his #20 CFH Racing entry in place of Luca Filippi. Carpenter has had a poor season in his two outings to-date at Indianapolis and Texas, failing to finish in either outing.

Meanwhile, Dale Coyne Racing’s ever-changing line-up will see Tristan Vautier and Pippa Mann team up for the second time this season after driving together at Texas Motor Speedway; Mann finished seventeenth on that occasion, while Vautier retired.

In other news, Chevrolet has reinforced its lead over Honda in the IndyCar manufacturers’ championship following the publication of post-event infractions from the last round in Toronto. The former earned 10 bonus manufacturer points after the engine in Simon Pagenaud’s Team Penske car reached its minimum lifespan of 2500 miles, while Honda was docked a total of 40 points after the engines used by Andretti pair Carlos Muñoz and Marco Andretti were changed out before reaching the mileage minimum.

Under rule of the series regulations, manufacturers are fined 20 points for each engine that is changed before achieving the 2500-mile limit. Following the adjustments, Chevrolet’s points tally now stands at 1003, while Honda is on 840.

Juan Pablo Montoya comes into this weekend’s 500 mile race with a 27-point lead in the Drivers’ Championship over Team Penske teammate Power (374-347). Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon is third on 329 points, seven ahead of Castroneves on 322. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal rounds out the top five on 283 points and nine clear of Dual in Detroit Race 2 winner, KVSH Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais, on 274.

Andretti Autosport’s Marco Andretti sits two points behind the Frenchman in seventh on 272 points and just four points ahead of CFH Racing’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama and Toronto winner Josef Newgarden (268).

Practice 1 and 2 and Qualifying for the MAVTV 500 begins Friday June 26 with the 500 mile 250-lap race concluding the race weekend on Saturday June 27.

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Fun time without the bike!

What’s that? Tony has a blog post that doesn’t have a bike?? What is this world coming to?!? But yes it is true, it has been a week, but during this week there has only been 2 days on the bike.

Don’t you worry though, I sure as hell got my exercise!  Continue reading “Fun time without the bike!”

Book Review: Downhills Don’t Come Free by Jerry Holl

Recently I realized something. Even though I have continued being an avid reader this year, as always, it has been a long time since I have read a cycling book. So, a week ago I went perusing Amazon for a good choice.

After a bit I stumbled upon Downhills Don’t Come Free (One Man’s Bike Ride from Alaska to Mexico) by Jerry Holl. I loved the title! It may honestly be the best bike book title I’ve ever read. Anyone who has ever reveled at a fast long downhill after climbing for hours would understand why.

Yep hit the purchase button as soon read about it… Continue reading “Book Review: Downhills Don’t Come Free by Jerry Holl”

Playing Hookie

Sometimes, ladies and gents, you have to make an executive decision. Work is important, as it pays the bills, let’s me eat regularly and allows Michelle and to go on vacations. However, for me, a summer that has already been wicked busy, is soon going to get worse!

Michelle and I have a couple of days off together coming up (at least one for sure will be blogworthy) but other than that it is straight on work till Labor Day weekend.

Last week I looked at the calendar and made an executive decision. Monday was honestly my only window, it was time to take a day off and ride!  Continue reading “Playing Hookie”

Its all in how you say it!

It may come as a surprise to some of you, but I am NOT the best at filtering what comes out of my mouth. No, Really! True story!

I had a boss once that came in all excited showing off his linen salmon pants he got on sale. He walked up, me wearing my khaki dockers and polo shirt, and said “I KNOW you wish you could pull off this color like I do!”

Without a blink or hesitation I replied, “Even salmon themselves hate that color, they wear it on the inside!!” He didn’t seem to appreciate the humor. (For the record they were GAWD AWFUL ugly, and it wasn’t, by far, the ugliest piece of clothing he owned. (OR it is entirely possible I just don’t understand fashion))

But I digress…  A couple of days ago I was the recipient of a non filter…. Continue reading “Its all in how you say it!”

Tourist in our own town!

Well the 4th of July is upon us! Independence Day! This year, though, it of course falls on a Tuesday. We love the day off from work, but sadly both Michelle and I had to work the Monday before and again tomorrow. This means we couldn’t get the heck out of dodge for the holiday. So it was time for a different plan… Continue reading “Tourist in our own town!”

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More vile comments from local pastor…

As many who are familiar with the issues of vagrancy downtown and the impact of the rescue mission already know, those who give the rescue mission no blame for the problem often use “Christian charity”” as their shield to deflect any scrutiny or objections by the general public of the activities of the rescue mission. This attitude is insulting to those of us who are Christians but are able to look at the reality of situations and apply reason and critical thinking to understand the problem and then form well informed opinions and answers. Even after being faced with overwhelming data from multiple sources that have documented the vagrancy problem, its effect on the community, the root source and even proven solutions, there is still a part of our community that refuse to lay any responsibility on the rescue mission. This naive perspective allows them to justify any and all behaviors or activities as long as they have been branded as “Christian based”. Since the days of Christ there have been charlatans who have hidden behind the banner of Christianity to disguise the true nature of their activities and during that same time there have been volumes of people who fall for the act. In one of the most extreme examples, Adolph Hitler claimed “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord”.

In a recent letter to the editor, local Reverend Robby Entrekin wrote comments that compared our local Mayor as Herod the Great ( The sheer implications of these comments are so vile that they rank to the same levels of  the most outrageous of racist comments. Rev. Robby Entrekin should publicly apologize for his remarks. Below first is a response to Rev Entrekin’s letter and the latter part of this post is Rev. Entrekin’s original letter. Is this what we should expect from our local Christian leadership?

Readers response to letter to the editor :

This is in reply to the Dec. 13 letter “Make room at the inn” authored by the Rev. Robby Entrekin, about the Panama City Rescue Mission and Mayor Brudnicki’s handling of the issue.

There are certainly two sides to every story, and the Rescue Mission is no exception. However, in his letter the Rev. Entrekin equates the mayor to Herod: “Herod sent out troops to slay all the children of Bethlehem. The mayor of Panama City, who slept in a warm bed last night as the temperatures were in the 50s, desires to send out an eviction notice to the Rescue Mission.”

Seriously, the Rev. Entrekin, do you stand by that statement? Since his election, the mayor has explored various strategies which would possibly involve the relocation of the Mission to another area of the city. Given the property ownership is privately held, the mayor has discussed the issue with the owner. To date, no resolution has been reached, and the Mission continues at its current downtown location.

Now here we are, two weeks before Christmas, and a man of the cloth comes forward and makes outlandish statements about the mayor’s actions in this issue.

Shame on you, Reverend.

Panama City

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As we prepare for Christmas, I think it important to mention that Christ himself was homeless and born into poverty. When Joseph and Mary arrived in Bethlehem, we find recorded in the Holy Scriptures that there was no room for them in the inn.

Jesus was not only born homeless but lived much of his adult life homeless. He said, “Foxes have their holes and birds have their nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His own head.” Without a doubt, were the Christ child born in Panama City today, He, along with Mary and Joseph, would not be welcomed.

Herod sent out troops to slay all the children in Bethlehem. The mayor of Panama City, who slept in a warm bed last night as the temperatures were in the 50s, desires to send out an eviction notice to the Rescue Mission. He wants Mary and Joseph to pack up and move out. He wants public feedings of the hungry to stop.

Jesus said, “Just as you do to the least of these, you do to me.” Mr. Mayor, be careful who you kick out and have no room for in your city.

Panama City Beach

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Becoming a Ninja on Club Penguin was always a rumour and a mystery. However, that all changed in November 2008, when the Club Penguin Dojo was dug out by a lot of helping penguins. After the ‘Dojo’ building and courtyard was dug out, various penguins found out that Sensei was the master of the art of Card-Jitsu. Ever since the release of the Dojo, many secrets, updates, and facts have been released within the Club Penguin Community. Now, becoming a ninja is the beginning of your journey.

If you are having troubles becoming a Ninja on Club Penguin, simply follow this guide:

1. Log onto Club Penguin, and pick any server. However, to become a Ninja you will have to play and compete against different Club Penguin players at the same time, so I suggest choosing servers with about 3-5 bars.

2. Open-up your Club Penguin EPF Spy Phone device, or your Club Penguin Map, and visit the Dojo Courtyard.

3. Simply waddle into the Dojo, room, which will currently be in front of you.

4. Once you’re inside of the Dojo room, waddle up-to, or click on the ‘Earn Belts’ poster. Now, a poster showing you all of the different belts, white being the lowest, black being the highest should have appeared onto your screen. Now, in order to become a Ninja on Club Penguin, you must continuously waddle up to Sensei, and play against other penguins. Each time you win, or come close to winning, your winning percentage should increase, therefore making you closer to the next belt.

Here are the amount of wins needed for each belt to be earned:

  • White belt – 5 wins
  • Yellow belt – 10 wins
  • Orange belt – 20 wins
  • Green belt – 30 wins
  • Blue belt – 40 wins
  • Red belt – 50 wins
  • Purple belt – 60 wins
  • Brown belt – 75 wins
  • Black belt – 90 wins
Go here to earn your belts and talk to Sensei.

Go here to earn your belts and talk to Sensei.

5. Once you have earned your black belt, simply waddle up to Sensei again, and click on ‘Challenge Sensei’, instead of ‘Earn Your Belts’. It may take you a couple of tries to defeat Sensei, although try your best. Once you have defeated Sensei, a ninja headband and mask will be added to your inventory. With this headband, you used to be able to visit the old Ninja Hideout, however that was taken away in May 2013.

The old Ninja Hideout

The old Ninja Hideout

6. Remember, if you want to play Card-Jitsu for fun, and not earn any progress, simply waddle up to a playing mat in the Dojo and play with your friends.

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7. If you head on down to your local Club Penguin retailer, simply purchase some Card-Jitsu cards. Not only can you collect certain Card-Jitsu cards, but you can also unlock incredibly powerful and rare cards with the given code inside the packet. Below is a brief example of a Card-Jitsu Pack, in which you may be able to purchase in your Club Penguin retailer:

However, from a 2013 update, you can now buy Card-Jitsu Power Cards for 1,500 coins (for 3) in the Martial Arts Catalog if you’re a member, located inside of the Dojo room.

If for any reason you are having troubles becoming a ninja on Club Penguin, please leave your inquiries in the comments below this page. I hope that this guide will help you on your quest to become a Card-Jitsu ninja.

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Staying connected is what it is all about these days. With social networking websites among the most visited on the web, keeping in touch both professionally as well as socially really isn’t an option anymore. The creators of the iPad definitely had this in mind when they developed this outstanding little gadget.

One of the beautiful things about the Apple iPad is that it is all operated on a touch screen. This means that all the applications are right there, just waiting for your touch to bring them to life. And there really are an amazing number of options for applications from games through to cool musical applications, weather information and literally everything in between. While some applications are free and some are nominally priced, they can all be a perfect addition to any iPad.

The following are iPad applications that really will help you stay in touch, no matter what social media or website outlets you prefer. These can come in quite handy if you are traveling frequently to miscellaneous social media conferences and other trade show events.

1. Twitterific – this is a cool app that really makes your iPad into a total Twitter site. Unlike using a basic browser, everything is right there at your finger tips for easy browsing and navigation. It comes with a built in browser that allows you to simply click on a URL within any Tweet that pops up on the screen for easy viewing and access. Your original Tweet is still there of course, just close the pop up browser and continue.

2. Wikipanion – a free app, this is one that anyone that is determined to be as accurate as possible in their communication really needs to consider. It contains all the information of the Wikipedia but in a handy and instant access mode right from the iPad. There is also an application available for a monthly fee which allows you to download and read information offline. However, just getting the basics is great with the free version.

3. Sundry Notes – for those that love to keep records including sketches, schematics and just simple notes this is a must have app. It is quick to download and can even handle PDF’s downloaded from your computer.

4. Air Video – while not a free app, it is just a measly $2.99 per month and allows you to watch Flash videos and other streaming videos from your computer to your iPad. This app deals with the awkward limitations of the iPad with regards to some video services.

5. Netflix – where doesn’t Netflix exist? This instant download site can now be right at your fingertips on your iPad, perfect for those long flights or finding out what all the buzz is about the latest movies, televisions shows or entertainment features. You can watch instantly which is also nice. The only drawback is it currently only works in the US.

6. NBA and MLB – if you are a sports fan that likes to stay on top of the latest scores, stats and player information then these iPad apps are a must. ESPN also has their own app, which definitely keeps the information coming.

7. ETrade Mobile Pro – a great application for those that play the stock market or just want to keep up on what their investments are doing. All the graphs, tickers and information on the site are in real time, an essential consideration for anyone planning investments.

8. Glee – based on the popular television show, the Glee app offers you the chance to sing along in harmony to all your favorites. This app also allows you to connect your musical productions through your Facebook and Twitter accounts, should you be so brave.

9. Twitter and Facebook – of course no social networking list of apps wouldn’t be complete without these traditional favorites.

10. The Weather Channel – staying on top of local and national weather is important in any aspect of social media. This application is simple to use and with the large iPad screen is very easy to use and view.

Staying in touch with the different iPad apps is a lot of fun, whether it is for social media, business, or pleasure. What apps would your recommend to keep connected?

Vern enjoys tinkering around with his iPad and checking out all of the new innovations iPad app developers have to offer.

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The Surprising Reasons You Aren’t Getting Enough Vitamin D

During the summer you probably forget all about the colds, sore throats, and viruses that strike you and your family every winter. Why do people get sick more in the winter? It used to be thought it was from getting cold, lack of fresh air, or from being in closed buildings.

Many experts now believe people get sick in the winter from having low levels of vitamin D.  That makes sense since most of the US population is lacking in this essential nutrient.

Vitamin D — What’s It Good For?

Vitamin D is technically not a vitamin, it’s a pre-hormone that’s created when your skin is exposed to sunlight. It’s the only human nutrient that’s created from sunlight.

Vitamin D is close to being nature’s cure-all. It’s a fantastic immune system booster. It’s been found to be protective against cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s.

Studies have shown it can lift your mood, banish depression, improve memory, and increase problem-solving ability. Inadequate levels may contribute to the depression many people feel in the winter.

Over 2,000 genes have vitamin D receptors. Lack of vitamin D can lead to cancer because without it, cells don’t get the message to stop reproducing.

Surprising Reasons You’re Probably Deficient

It’s estimated that 80-90% of adults in North America are not getting enough vitamin D. Getting 20 minutes of sun exposure on large surface areas of your body, such as arms or legs, twice a week is said to do the trick. But this must be without sunscreenin the right latitude, and with the right UV radiation levels.

Here are some things that can interfere with vitamin D formation.

1. Sunscreen

Even if you are outside a lot when the sun is shining, wearing sunscreen prevents vitamin D formation. I live in southern Arizona where the sun shines intensely and I spend time outside every day. However, since I wear sunscreen I found that I was still vitamin D deficient! I now take a vitamin D supplement every day and wear sunscreen some, but not all of the time.

2. Latitude

If you live in the US draw a line from Los Angeles to Atlanta. If you live north of this line, the sun’s rays are too weak to trigger vitamin D production except during the summer.

Time for some fun science! Here’s a way to tell if the sun’s rays are strong enough to stimulate vitamin D formation. Go outside, stand in the sun, and look at your shadow. The more direct the sun’s rays are, the shorter your shadow will be.

A good rule of thumb is that if your shadow is your height or longer, the sun’s rays strike at too great an angle to promote vitamin D formation.

3. Skin Color

Our different skin tones evolved depending on how much sunshine our ancestors were exposed to. Light-skinned people from very northern areas evolved to utilize sunshine more efficiently. If you have dark skin, you need even more sun exposure to get adequate exposure levels, up to one hour a day.

4. UV Index

Just because the sun is shining doesn’t mean you’re producing vitamin D! UV index is affected by season, time of day, cloud cover, air pollution, altitude, and even your surrounding surface. Whether you’re outside in the snow, at the beach, or picnicking on a lawn can affect how much UV radiation is reflected back at you by up to 40 fold.

It is only when the UV index is greater than 3 that the needed UVB wavelengths are present in sufficient amounts. Check a site like to find your current local UV index before you take a vitamin D “sun bath”.

The Next Step — Know Your Levels, Supplement Accordingly

Vitamin D deficiency symptoms — muscle pain, weak bones, low energy, lowered immunity, depression, mood swings, and sleep problems — can be mistaken for many other health problems.

The only way to know for sure if you need vitamin D supplementation is to have a blood test to check your 1, 25-hydroxy level. You can see your doctor to order the test or you can purchase a vitamin D test online.

If your level is found to be low, you may need to supplement. Learn exactly when you need to supplement in this article Why you may want to Stop taking Vitamin D.

There are five forms of vitamin D and most experts agree the most effective form is D3. Some foods, like milk, are fortified but with the D2 form which is not well utilized.

The D3 version is found in fatty fish, so eat your sardines! Cod liver oil offered great benefits to all our grandmothers.

When you choose a vitamin D supplement be sure to buy from a company you can trust. Last year a study on 55 brands of vitamin D supplements found they contained between 9% – 146% of what was listed on the label!

It’s not too late to start paying attention to your vitamin D levels to keep your immune system strong enough to stay well this winter. It is also one of the smartest things you can do to keep your brain in top working order to avoid feeling blue, lethargic, or depressed during the winter months.

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1. What is vitamin D? What are the benefits of vitamin D?
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Deane Alban holds a bachelor's degree in biology and has taught and written about natural health for over 20 years. Her current focus is on the growing problem of age-related mental decline caused by our modern lifestyle. Deane is the author of Brain Gold: The Anti-Aging Guide for Your Brain. She teaches the most effective ways to protect your most valuable asset and stay mentally sharp for life at her website


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Third Procedure: 10 month update (310 days post-op)

Hello everyone,

Today is Thursday, November 23, 2017 and I am now 10 months and six days post-op from my Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) scar revision procedure with Dr. Daniel McGrath in Austin, TX.

I got a haircut on November 19th with a 3.5-guard around the entire suture line but I feel the barber kept the hair a little too long, compared with my last haircut.

If you’ve been following my blog and my channel for a while now, I’ve often mentioned that when you get to 11 months post-op you pretty much know what your final result will look like, so next month I will get a 3-guard around the entire suture line.

As I mentioned in last month’s post, unfortunately, I can’t get my temporal peaks cut at the same length as the hair around the repaired suture line. This is because when my temporal peaks were recreated during my first two FUT/strip procedures by Dr. Huebner, he used many density grafts that when they grow out, look great, but when cut short, they look pluggy.

This video at 3:35 from Joe Tillman’s channel, Hair Transplant Mentor, explains how hairs that are from the donor region are thicker and take up more room than non-transplanted hairs that have begun to miniaturize. When transplanted hairs reach a “sweet spot” in length, they cover a larger area than non-transplanted hairs, however, if cut too short, they will be noticeably different than the rest of my natural hair.

With next month being 11 months post-op, I pretty much know what my final result will look like and I am super stoked to see how short I’ll be able to cut my hair.

Check back next month in December when I reach 11 months post-op.

Happy Thanksgiving and all my best,

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Taking the stress out of entertaining.

I have a little secret to share.. I am really bad when it comes to cooking for other people… well I used to be until I stated planning.

I over think things, and end up trying to do too many things at once, when just one dish cooked from the heart would have been more than enough.

When it comes to entertaining guests, I have come up with a plan. It makes life so much easier.

  • First of all, dont fret it. Most of the time a simple dish that you take forgranted can be very impressive to someone who has never tasted it before.
  • Presentation is key. Take time to arrange things nicely. Browse the net for ideas and keep them in a folder for inspiration.
  • Add fresh herbs ad even roses from your garden for a fancy garnish.
  • Instead of trying to make fancy desserts with exotic flavours ( which some people my not appreciate), stick to perfecting some classics and keep your tried and tested recipes. Som must knows are:
  1. Sponge cake
  2. Moist chocolate cake
  3. Buttercream filling (you vary the flavour)
  4. Vanilla or Chocolate Cupcakes
  5. Red Velvet Cake
  6. Tiramisu or other sponge biscuit cake
  7. Fresh custard and creme pattissiere.
  8. whipped cream
  9. Chocolate ganache
  10. Butterascotch sauce
  11. Butter cookies
  12. Chocolate Brownies
  13. Carrot Cake
  14. Fruit Cake
  • You also need good recipes for:
  1. Basic yeast dough for pizzas, buns, rolls etc
  2. Shortcrust pastry
  3. Samosa skins
  • Arranging a fruit platter is an easy way to impress.
  1. Make sure you have a variety of fruits.
  2. Make sure they are fresh
  3. Slice evenly and stack together.
  4. Leave  some whole fruit well.
  5. Dont cut too early as frits will lose their freshness. Wash and dry fruit as prep.
  • Make things you can prep in advance ad dont break the budget:
  1. Chopped Lebanese bread makes excellent dipping chips when toasted. It can be prepared in advance and is inexpensive.
  2. Make spring roll filling or other fllings the day before and store in an airtight container in the fridge.
  • Ice and lemon/orange slices add an ielement of interest to an otherwise ordinary drink, and a jugfull ca n make a beautiful centrepice.

These are my tips for now… and here are some pics for inspiration from my recent afternoon tea:


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Each day I become more convinced that being a member of the Tea Party is a litmus test for childishness. Back in April, I wrote the post “What does the Tea Party want?” in which I explored some of the truly inane pronouncements by this group. It is an amazing attribute of the human species that anything sober and logical (Monetary Sovereignty) will be rejected by a large group, but anything outrageously juvenile (Lady Gaga) will be revered by an even larger group.

In the earlier post, I commented not only on the Tea Party’s adoration of such sages as Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell, but it’s hopelessly confounding message:

Unfortunately for Tea Party “logic,” they not only want lower taxes, but lower deficits and less government. At the same time, they want a stronger army, better schools, federal supervision of banks and other financial firms, better roads, defense of our borders, less crime, more guns, defense against terrorism, safer food, better retirement, better unemployment insurance, police, health care, rescue from hurricanes and other disasters, more jobs and a better environment.

I reminded readers that what the Tea Party wants costs money, the money they don’t want the government to spend. But now that bit of TP logic has been superceded by the next puerile demand, to which the eagerly submissive GOP has agreed. Not only must the House of Representatives waste an hour or a day listening to someone read the U.S. Constitution aloud (“Now follow along, children. See Spot jump.”), but every new bill must contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing his constitutional authority to enact the legislation.

Puleeze. The most contentious bill passed by Congress – hated by the TP – already contains such a statement, and that hasn’t prevented two judges from ruling one way and a third judge from ruling the other. What is called the “Individual Mandate” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act already includes these sentences:

The individual responsibility requirement provided for in this section (in this subsection referred to as the requirement) is commercial and economic in nature, and substantially affects interstate commerce . . . In United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association (322 U.S. 533 (1944)), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that insurance is interstate commerce subject to Federal regulation.

Well, I guess that should satisfy the TP.

The problem is that the Constitution was written 200+ years ago to address problems of the time, and must be interpreted to address today’s problems. And while “originalist” Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas claim to have special insight into the original intent of the Constitution framers, they don’t, they don’t even try, and anyway, why should anyone want that?

The Supreme Court has nine members rather than just one, because the Constitution, like the Bible, is either vague, outdated or repeatedly misconstrued concerning almost all we wish to know. Every Justice has pledged to obey the Constitution, yet seldom do we see a 9 – 0 decision. Does this mean some Justices intentionally disobey the Constitution every business day?

Reality check: The true issue is not whether a law obeys or disobeys the Constitution, but rather, whether the sponsors are Democrats or Republicans (aka TP sycophants). But that bit of truth does not perturb the TP members, who live in a magical world of dreams, where all wishes come true, even (especially?) those that are self-conflicting.

It seems our Representatives prefer time-wasting, populist, pandering nonsense, to actually learning about, and coming to grips with, real problems, which is why the recovery has been so slow, and why millions of Americans have no jobs, no homes, no health insurance and no retirement.

What next from the Guns ‘n’ God Group? A rule that the House must stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day?

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No nation can tax itself into prosperity. Those who say the stimulus “didn’t work” remind me of the guy whose house is on fire. A neighbor runs with a garden hose and starts spraying, but the fire continues. The neighbor wants to call the fire department, which would bring the big hoses, but the guy says, “Don’t call. As you can see, water doesn’t put out fires.”


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El-Rufai receives North Igbo Leaders in Kaduna

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday received leaders of the Igbos resident in Northern Nigeria under the auspices of Igbo Delegate Assembly and Northern Igbo Chiefs, reassuring them that, they and their property in the region will be protected.
This was also as the Governor assured the Igbo leaders that, no matter how long it will take, Northern youths who signed the quit notice to Igbos would be arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others.
El-Rufai, however urged Igbo leaders to prevail on their youths against making statements and agitations capable of dividing Nigeria.
According to El-Rufai, “Kaduna State Government is grateful to the Igbos for coming. Kaduna has suffered so many crises, so we are very sensitive to comments that incite and cause disaffection among the people. Therefore, the Northern youths behind the ultimatum will not only be arrested but will be prosecuted”.
“Kaduna used to be a home for all, but so many crises have divided the state and the metropolis across religious lines. As a government that is why we abolish indigeneship, once you live in Kaduna you are an indigene.
“We have arrested so many people for hate speeches and we are trying them. We are going to arrest the Arewa Youths and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes. Since the press conference was done in Kaduna.
“If they had done it in any other place we would have just condemned them, but since it is in Kaduna we are going to arrest them no matter how long it takes.”
“I have the mandate of the Northern Governors Forum under the chairmanship of Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, to reassure the Igbos in the 19 Northern states and Abuja that their lives and property are safe in the North”, El-Rufai said.
On his part, President General Igbo Delegate Assembly, Chief Chikezie Nwogu, commended the Federal government and Governor El-Rufai for their swift reaction to the quit notice issued by the Northern youths.
Chief Nwogu, who led the Igbo traditional rulers from the 19 Northern States to Kaduna on a courtesy to Governor El-Rufai, said the Igbos are ready to remain in the north.
He said, “we are here in Kaduna to hold a meeting based on what has been happening in the North, especially with the Arewa Youths and the ultimatum given to Igbos and the agitations by IPOB. We are not here to condemn anybody. We thank the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai and other Northern governors, traditional rulers and the Federal government for their interventions at the heat of the issue.”
“We want the government to tackle the root cause of agitations and subsequent quit notice by Northern youths and find solution. Let us look at the problem of the Youths when there is complains, also is good to restructure in a way that will benefit everyone.”
“We are not happy with the call for division. We want Nigeria as one so that all of us can benefit. Northern youths have been our brothers. The Igbos are not going anywhere, we will remain with our Arewa brothers in the north,” Nwogu said.

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Joakim Noah trained with big wave surfer in off-season

The trendy off-season workout for NBA players is MMA — it’s a hard workout, it teaches balance and core strength, plus it’s just cool.

That’s not what Joakim Noah did last summer.

He was in Southern California working out with famed big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. And no, working out with him doesn’t mean jumping on some 50-foot wave (which I’m pretty sure violates Noah’s contract in like 12 places). Rather he was doing pool workouts that sound pretty extreme. From the Daily Herald (hat tip to SLAM).

“I would say I learned just as much about recovery from him as anybody,” Noah said after playing 44 minutes and the entire second half against the Knicks. “The way he trains for what he does is unbelievable. I consider him like a mentor….

“He surfs 60-, 70-foot giants,” Noah said. “You fall, you could die. Talk about mental toughness. When you have a 60-foot monster, you can be under (water) for two or three minutes, so you have to train for that.

“He’ll use weights and do like jumps underwater. He can do like 10 jumps. I can do like three. It’s unbelievable, just for your lung capacity and stuff like that. It really helped me doing these pool workouts.”

Noah is having a career year — 13.7 points and 10.8 rebounds a game, he’s the defensive anchor still and taking on more of the Bulls offense with Derrick Rose out. He has a PER of 18.5. The Bulls are atop the Central Division without their MVP and Noah’s play at both ends is a key reason.

So apparently this works.

Is it really hard to picture Noah hanging out on the beach, talking workouts with surfers? Then finding a way to make it work for him.

Draymond Green guarantees Warriors will beat Rockets in Western Conference finals

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Warriors coach Steve Kerr is confident despite his team trailing the Rockets 3-2 in the Western Conference finals.

Golden State forward Draymond Green goes further.

Green, via Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic:

“We still winning this,” Draymond Green said. “Book it.”

Of course, Green is confident. He’d never say he expects his team to lose.

But he didn’t need to frame it this way. He could’ve said he was just focused on the next game rather than make such a bold proclamation.

He’s taking pressure upon himself and putting his reputation on the line. If Golden State loses, especially in Game 6 at home with Chris Paul out, Green will be widely mocked.

If he and the Warriors pull through, he’ll probably deserve praise for setting a tone that helped them advance.

Danny Green: Kawhi Leonard told me he wants to stay with Spurs

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The Spurs are reportedly worried Kawhi Leonard‘s camp wants to get him to the Lakers, Clippers, Knicks or 76ers.

Leonard hasn’t said much himself – except apparently to San Antonio teammate Danny Green

Get Up on ESPN:

I talk to him here and there, check up on him, see how he’s doing.

I think he wants to be in San Antonio. He’s let me know that. He’s let me know verbally he wanted to be there. So, we’ll see what happens.

Green has tried playing peacemaker throughout this saga – going as far as denying tension that clearly exists. He’s not the most reliable source.

And even if Leonard explicitly told Green he wants to remain in San Antonio, I’m not sure Leonard is confrontational enough to tell Green he wanted out, even if he did.

Those caveats acknowledged, this could be a huge revelation.

If Leonard wants to stay with the Spurs, the next step is meeting with them, mending their relationship and convincing them he deserves a super-max extension (which projects to be worth $219 million over five years). No matter how Leonard feels about San Antonio right now, if the Spurs don’t trust investing so much in him, that could lead to a fractured relationship and his exit.

So, there’s still a lot to sort out. But Green saying this means something.

LeBron James flips elimination-game game on its head

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His Cavaliers down 3-2 to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals, how does LeBron James assess his situation?

"I don’t enjoy being in the position where it’s you lose and go home," LeBron said before Game 6 tonight in Cleveland.

He might not enjoy this position, but he’s pretty good in it.

Since he first reached the playoffs in 2006, other teams have won 26% of their elimination games. LeBron’s teams have won 57% of theirs.

Of course, LeBron hasn’t gone 12-9 in elimination games just because he’s lucky. He has willed his team off the mat numerous times.

LeBron has scored 40 points and/or had a triple-double in six straight elimination games, winning five of them. His line in his last elimination game before that streak? Just 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists.

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Rockets played with fire with Chris Paul, got burned

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Chris Paul played 79 minutes in three days.

Prior to Games 4 and 5 of these Western Conference finals, he hadn’t done that in more than two years. He hadn’t done it without both games going to overtime in more than three years.

The Rockets leaned heavily on the 33-year-old Paul, and they’ll pay the price.

Paul will miss Game 6 against the Warriors tomorrow. Given how quickly Houston ruled out Paul with a strained hamstring, he seems unlikely to play in a potential Game 7 Monday.

Injuries are somewhat – but not completely – random. Players are more susceptible when worn down. After missing the close of the 2016 postseason, Paul missed 45 games the last two regular seasons. He has accumulated a lot of mileage in his 13-year career.

Yet, Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni drastically shortened his rotation, anyway. Not only did Paul play big minutes in this series, he shouldered a huge load. He took the reins of the offense at times, allowing James Harden to conserve energy for defense, while maintaining his own strong-two way play. That’s never easy, especially in these high-intensity games.

This was the risk.

We can feel bad for Paul and his predicament. We can also acknowledge Houston got this far by gambling on Paul’s health.

That’s not to say it was a bad bet. This is what you save him for, the biggest playoff series of his career and maybe one of the last before he exits his prime. The Rockets would have been far worse off to this point resting Paul extensively and protecting him. Even with such a heavy workload, an injury was never fait accompli. And Houston got plenty from Paul before he went down. He was instrumental to wins in Game 4 and Game 5 that gave the Rockets a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference finals.

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Cold Weather Update

This should be the last update.  The Mitsubishi min-split models we have are supposed to produce 100% down to a -5 degrees F.   This past January they got tested and preformed perfectly. We didn’t get to a -5 but did get to and near 0  a couple nights.   We had a two week spell where it was exceptionally cold, 12 day with the night time low in the teens and single numbers and only in the 20ds during the daytime..  The one mini-split in the family room kept the house between 68 to 70 down to around 15 degrees F,  below that we had to supplement it with the one in the bedroom.  We’d run the bedroom unit from noon ish or late afternoon  to 10:00 or 11:00PM.  It was our highest electrical usage so far, 1,100 kWh compared to last Jan at 992kWh..  Our old house averaged 1,200kWh for all the winter months (which didn’t include heat nor hot water).  Solar production was down a little because the penal were snow covered more days then last year.

Amazing performance.  The house was comfy, no drafts.   Now we are back to the cycle where the TV and cooking will,  on some day produce enough heat to turn off the mini-splits in the evening and over night to the next afternoon.

Well, at the one year mark,  we’ve achieved the Net-Zero goal.  Usage of 6,673kWh and generation of 6,722kWh.  That’s about a fine tuned as you can get.  Our final HERS rating was 11. The difference is the way we use the house and how the HERS rating works.

Our goals when we started were; A comfortable house; an aging in place floor plan;    an energy efficient; with Net-Zero an add on. And house that took on the appearance of a 1930s craftsmen.

I have to say all goals have been achieved.  We really enjoy the pace and the layout.  Because of the materials the house is comfortable: no drafts nor cold spots. The energy efficiently is amazing; in our last house with near the same square footage we used 12,000kW of electric just for plug load and cooling, heating and DHW was from propane.  This house used just 6,673kWh for everything.  Cost was $501.82 (not counting SRECs pay back)  a 90% reduction of energy cost from the last house.

There isn’t much more to say, so I expect this to be my last entry.  But I’m available for questions and any assistance  you my need.   My email address is

Closing in on ZERO

The summer’s been good as for energy usage and generation. April’s usage was 457kWh and generation was 435 kWh thus a $6.08 electric bill.  Since then we’ve over generated by 1,044.  Our electric bill has been $2.98 (the connection fee) for; May, June, July, August, September & October.  That’s 6 months with no energy bills and we have 1,044 kWh credit with JC P&L.

Our year ends with the November Meter Readings, around 11/25.  Our full year usage as of Oct 25  was 5,977 kWh and generation 6,493 kWh. I’m estimate a Nov usage of 678kWh and a generation of 434kWh thus ending the year with 6,612kWh usage and 6,819kWh generation.  I think we will be in 100kWh =/- of Zero.   That’s about as close as one can get.

Now our HERS rating is 11, but as I’ve written before the HERS model uses only design perimeters and assumes the a three bedroom 2.5 bath house has 2 adults and X children using electricity  and a different rate that just my wife and I use.

One of the things I’ve noticed is how many cloudy or partially cloudy day you get.   Oct was a good example we had 8 days where we only generated 9kWh or less and one day where we only generated 932Wh. That’s 26% of the days undegenerating. I don’t know how the estimates factor in cloudy days.  One estimate shows Oct should have generated 537kWh and actual was 480.

Watch for the full year report in early Dec.

I’m still waiting for NJ CleanEnergy to do it’s final review and cut me the check. Any day I hear.

Usage vs Generation Update

Just processed my August generation meter readings.   The house modeled at a HERS 16 because the model assumes the family size to match the bedrooms and bath rooms in the house.  It doesn’t allow the modification of the usage to match how the house will really be used.

Because on NJ’s Net Metering I adjusted our usage to match my estimate of what I though I’d use.   Now that I’ve got actuals up to the end of August I plugged in the last three month of the years estimate based on their matching months from the beginning of the year.

My estimate to usage is  6,929 kWh and my estimate usage is 7,078.    I’d call that a Net-Zero.

Over Night Performance

Just an quickie on the house’s performance.

Last night the house was 69 degrees.  I use a laser thermometer gun to check temperatures. The temps varied between 69.0 to 69.5.  at 11:00 before I went to bed. We left two windows in vent mode, one in the Kitchen and one in the bedroom.

At 7:30 in the morning the house lost about 2 degrees overnight to 67.0 to 67.5.  The outside air temperature was 43, but more interesting the hard services, the deck, and siding were at 32 degrees.

At this point there is no sense of a draft.  Again waiting for winter.

Second month update (living in a high performance house)

I’m over due for a performance update. been busy doing the things that make a house live able, shelves; hanging clocks and pictures; setting up the garage;………… I just got the basement work shop functional but lots of work still do down there.

Now after living in the house for two and a half months, all I can say is wow. This concept, and it is still only a concept, it amazes me on how well it works.   The second month’s electrical usage was 628kWh which is 42% of the last house’s usage for the same period last year, and the old house had a gas hot water heater.  I’m guessing my big ticket item for usage is my 52″ plasma TV which is on about 4 hours or less a day.

My number 1 goal was a comfortable house. At this point that goal has been achieved. In the heat wave of mid August, 90 to 95 highs for a week, with the index above 110. Testing all the combination I could, it turns out the mini-split in the great room can cool the whole first floor.  I turn it on between 8 to 9AM and off between 9 to 10PM.  Over night the house will hold it temperature or  if I vent the windows lower to the outside temp.  The is 1 9,000 btu, 30.5 SEER is cooling the 1640 sqft area of the first floor.  The early modeling didn’t project that that would happen. I’m guessing that in heat mode it will do the same.

The basement:  many said I was NUTS with my salutation to insulate the basement, but it just made sense to my limited knowledge of physics. A technician working on the hot water heater said “This basement is amazingly warm, and dry”.  When I walk down the cellar steps the basement is noticeably warmer the first floor.  Because of the thermal mas of the interior wall it changes the temperature  very slowly. One worry was the heat exchanger  hot water heater would  pull the basement’s temp down. So far it doesn’t.  Again wanting to see what winter brings.

In September it finally cooled down, 70s during the day & 55-65 at nights.  We find leaving the windows in vent mode over night and closing it up from around 8 AM to 10 PM the house’s temperature would very from 68 to 72 degrees.  If the house was around 70 at 5:00 it would go up a degree or two by just living in the house.  It feels just our bodies in the bedroom will push the temperature up over night.  Both my wife and I feel the house wants to heat it’s self.  Today, 10/6, I was out all morning. Out side air temp was 55 to a nice 68, when I went in the house felt warm, so I opened some windows.

The second goal was spaceial comfort. That was achieved too.  My wife and I drew up the floor plan to meet what we thought our space needs were, then gave our drawings to our architect Jim Wentling, to make it work as a house. To make the pieces work we added space as needed.  We eventually turned the kitchen around and opened the wall to the great room.  And it all works as we wanted it to.  We wouldn’t change a thing.

Third goal is energy efficiency. We  won’t know for sure until we are in for a year but it looks like we will use between 6,000 to 7,000 kWh for a full year.  I was waiting for a year so I could be sure to size the solar system to match our usage, since NJ is not a Net Meter state, and I won’t get paid for over production.  But I’m comfortable we will be under that 7,000 kWh, and why waist a year so I’m installing a solar system starting this weekend.  See up and coming blog entries.

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More on performance

Been in for three weeks today.  The past week plus it’s been over 90 everyday with heat index getting above 110 some days and staying above 70 at nights and some nights 75 plus.  A good test for the A/C.

The past week I’ve only been running the great room mini-split from 8 AM to about 10 PM.  set of 72.  The hole first floor is at temperature and a very comfortable, low humidity.  That mini-split is only a 9,000 btu unit.  Looking forward to getting a full month electrical bill.

Update:  your first month’s meter reading was from July 22 to August 22 was 827 kWh which in 48% of the old house’s usage from 2015. I didn’t figure out that the first floor only needed one mini-split to cool it, so the 827kWh my guess is 50 to 100 kWh higher that it could have been with only one mini-split running.

I will be adding a usage tracking system, and a tempeture monitor,too. In the next month or two.

Also I’m pushing forward with the solar PV arrays.  I’ve changed strategy and am putting the PV arrays on the garage roof, the ground mounted system just wasn’t cost effective.. The trick is sizing the system. NJ doesn’t pay for over producing. The current NJ Zero Energy Ready program has a big incentive to adding renewables.  Between the NJ incentive and the Fed tax rebate the system will only cost a couple thousand dollars.  And with the NJ SREC program it will be paid back in one year.


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The apartment from Friends

Last year, the real estate site Movoto took a close look at the houses and apartments featured in fifteen iconic television series, crunching the numbers to see which characters would really be able to afford the homes in which their fictional lives took place. Not surprisingly, many shows turned out to paint an unrealistic picture of how much house you can have, and the lead exhibit, as usual, was Friends. Rachel and Monica—a fashion coordinator and a chef—were estimated to earn a combined monthly salary of $9,300, while a comparable apartment of 1,126 square feet in Greenwich Village would set them back $5,000 every month, or well over half their gross income. “Most sitcoms,” a related article on Fast Company concludes, “ultimately serve as lifestyle advertising,” and there’s no question that viewers are often left with unrealistic expectations about the quality of life they can reasonably expect upon, say, moving to New York after college. But this only gets at part of the answer. If the apartment on Friends is twice the size it should be, it’s because it’s essentially an ordinary apartment cut in half longitudinally and unfolded to create an invisible proscenium arch. Monica and Rachel aren’t living alone: they’re sharing the space with three cameras.

The sets in sitcoms, in other words, aren’t explicitly designed to arouse viewer envy, at least not in terms of their size: they’re simply a pragmatic response to the logistics of shooting a three-camera sitcom with a live audience, and the proportions of these apartments roughly match those of the soundstage. In another Fast Company article, the interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde, who is often asked to recreate sitcom sets for his clients, goes into greater detail about the compromises that the format entails:

Almost all the shows have triangular proportions to lend the sensation of depth to the sets. Even the apparently squared sets are in fact trapezoidal…and sometimes it’s very difficult to translate to a sheet as “real houses” because all the tricks of the set decorators are in evidence.

A show filmed using a single camera isn’t subject to the same limitations, which is why a series like Girls can get away with sticking its characters into cramped, depressing, “realistic” spaces. Whether Friends would have seized the imagination of its audience to the same extent if it had been shot in the same way is something we’ll never know. But there’s no doubt that some combination of the show’s practical demands and the attractiveness of the cast and their stories fused into one in the minds of many viewers, until they could no longer safely be separated.

Parks and Recreation

It’s a pattern that we see repeated in other elements of storytelling, in which conventions that were originally introduced to solve specific problems of writing, staging, acting, or direction become bundled up with the larger fantasy that the narrative presents. The fact that actors in so many movies and television shows are always smoking doesn’t point to a vast conspiracy with the tobacco companies: it’s more a reflection of an actor’s need to do something with his or her hands. Actors are always looking for bits of business, and the cigarette—with the rituals of lighting, puffing, gesturing, and stubbing it out on the ashtray—is manifestly the best prop ever devised, even if its collateral damage has been immense. Similarly, the ensemble cast of a show like Friends, which provides writers with useful pairings and combinations for generating plots, leads to a form of unrealism of its own. Most of us don’t spend our lives hanging out with the same set of six friends from our twenties, and we don’t engage in humorous adventures with our colleagues after work. People drift apart; they move away; they find themselves more preoccupied with marriage and children; and the last thing many of us want to do is spend more time with the people we see at the office. But none of this prevents me from watching Parks and Recreation and feeling a stab of regret that I never found that kind of family in the workplace. (If anything, shows that have suffered from creative turnover, with supporting players disappearing abruptly and stars departing over contract disputes, are closer to real life than the few that manage to keep their core casts intact.)

You could even say that the idea of a plot itself affects the way we see our own lives, and not always for the better. For reasons of economy, fiction is usually tightly focused on one aspect of the protagonist’s world: our real lives are a constant balance between the competing demands of work, love, family, and other kinds of fulfillment, while stories generally only have room for one of the above. That’s often the correct choice, as far as constructing a workable plot is concerned, but it rarely reflects the complexity and messiness of everyday reality. And the imperative for a story to deliver a neat beginning, middle, and end has problems of its own. A romantic comedy, for instance, focuses on a single slice in the story of two people, and very few have ever tried to consider what might happen in the years and decades after that closing kiss. (From a viewer’s perspective, this isn’t always a bad thing. Many of the best fictional romances actively create a dynamic of tensions that would realistically shake any relationship apart within a matter of weeks. It’s hard to imagine Cary Grant settling down with the Katherine Hepburn of Bringing Up Baby, but that movie is so fun precisely because it creates an impossible pairing and focuses intently on the handful of days in which it could be expected to survive.) Movies and television aren’t out to fill us with dissatisfaction: they’re only trying to crack the hard problem of holding our attention for an hour or two. But when we make lives of our own, we need to use a different set of blueprints.

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August 28, 2015 at 8:47 am

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  1. This was such a great post. I have always loved Friends and did often wonder how a group of friends would really manage to pull off that lifestyle in reality…the answer: they wouldn’t. Thank you for reaffirming my life. I had so often felt I was falling short haha.

    August 28, 2015 at 9:40 am

  2. @originaltitle: Glad you liked it! I’ve spent half my life trying to live up to the examples I’ve found in fiction, but even if they’re inherently unattainable, there’s no harm in trying, as long as you pick the right role models.

    September 6, 2015 at 2:31 pm

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Going up the mountain

What we idolize

Idols are those things we have in our lives that we regard with extreme adulation. So God was clear ... be careful what you idolize! Join us as we look at a centuries old story of how what we idolize can mislead us, taking us away from the vibrant humanity that God wants to give.

Learning how to shine

What do you think it feels like to "shine"? Join us as we look at a story that talks about about that very thing.

"You shall have no other gods before me."

Idolatry can mean something more than you might think! Keeping the 1st commandment is harder than it appears...

We are made in God's image. When we create our own images to worship, we move away from who God intended us to be. How do we live into the image we were created to be without the distractions of the images we ourselves create?

Daily Inspiration

"The life of faith never exists without the life of charity, for without charity the life of faith is impossible."

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English Language Arts Worksheets and Study Guides Second Grade. Past Tense (-ed)

The resources above correspond to the standards listed below:

Washington Standards

WA.3. Writing: The student writes clearly and effectively.
3.3. Knows and applies writing conventions appropriate for the grade level. (W)
3.3.5. Applies usage rules.
3.3.5.c. Maintains consistent tense, especially past tense.
3.3.5.d. Uses standard verb forms in past tense or past participle (e.g., He went home. We were going home.).


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The bank says falling costs and a strong performance in a "competitive" market shows its recovery remains on track.

Image: RBS remains more than 70% owned by the taxpayer following its 2008 bailout

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported first quarter profits of £792m, up 206%, as income grows and costs fall.

The bank said its earnings performance demonstrated the "progress" it had made in its turnaround - announcing its first annual profit in a decade just months ago.

However, it is expected to agree a multi-billion pound penalty with US authorities this year to settle claims it mis-sold mortgage-backed securities ahead of the financial crisis.

Such a deal would have a significant impact on its bottom line.

Its shares were trading over 1% down at 267p on Friday afternoon reflecting, analysts, said, nerves over the looming settlement.

RBS had no update for investors on the negotiations with the US Department of Justice.

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Image: Natwest and RBS are the bank's two largest high street brands

But it did report a significant fall in costs for misconduct and other reasons - factors which have dragged down profitability for years and helped delay the sale of the taxpayers' remaining 72% stake back to private hands.

However, it is anticipated that £3bn worth of RBS shares will now be offloaded by the Government in each of the next five financial years, albeit at an expected loss of billions to the public purse because the bank's share price is well below its 2008 bailout value.

RBS said restructuring costs totalled £209m and conduct and litigation charges £19m during the first three months of the year.

Unlike its major peers, also outlining their progress this week, there were no further provisions to cover the cost of the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal.

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Image: Ross McEwan is the RBS chief executive

RBS reported an operating profit before tax of £1.2bn - 70% up on the same period in 2017 - aided by a £400m drop in operating costs which was bolstered by "increased digitisation".

:: TSB 'on its knees' over online banking fiasco

As lenders come under pressure over branch closures, RBS said 55% of its personal unsecured loans sales now came via its digital channels while 5.75 million customers were now using its mobile app.

Chief executive, Ross McEwan, said: "This is a good set of results, showing the progress we are making, despite a more competitive market. Our income is up, costs are down and our capital has strengthened again."


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Mental Illness is the wrong scapegoat after mass shootings

by Dec. 11, 2014, 10:57 AM

An extensive new study by two Vanderbilt University researchers challenges common assumptions about gun violence and mental illness that often emerge in the aftermath of mass shootings.

Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt University)

When a mass shooting occurs, there seems to be a familiar narrative that untreated mental illness is the primary cause for the terrifying act. But a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health by Dr. Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth T. MacLeish finds that an isolated focus on mental illness is misguided.

“Gun discourse after mass shootings often perpetuates the fear that ‘some crazy person is going to come shoot me,’” said Metzl, the study’s lead author. “But if you look at the research, it’s not the ‘crazy’ person you have to fear.”

Mentally ill not violent

In the article, “Mental Illness, Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms,” Metzl and MacLeish analyze data and literature linking guns and mental illness over the past 40 years. They found that despite societal pre-conceived notions, most mentally ill people are not violent.

“Fewer than 5 percent of the 120,000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness,” they write.

Four myths arise after mass shootings

Their research uncovered four central myths that arise in the aftermath of mass shootings:

  • Mental illness causes gun violence.
  • Psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime before it happens.
  • U.S. mass shootings “prove” that we should fear mentally ill loners.
  • Because of the complex psychiatric histories of mass shooters, gun control “won’t prevent” mass shootings.

They stress that all four of these are incorrect, though understandable, assumptions.

“Our research finds that across the board, the mentally ill are 60 to 120 percent more likely than the average person to be the victims of violent crime rather than the perpetrators.”

Misdirected blame

Metzl and MacLeish find that the focus on mental illness after horrific, yet statistically rare, mass shootings misdirects people from the bigger issues tied to preventing gun deaths in the United States.

“There are 32,000 gun deaths in the United States on average every year, and people are far more likely to be shot by relatives, friends or acquaintances than they are by lone violent psychopaths,” Metzl said.

“We should set our attention and gun policies on the everyday shootings, not on the sensational shootings, because there we will get much more traction in preventing gun crime.”

Mental health screening can’t prevent gun crime

The presumed link between mental illness and gun violence has led to calls for mental health screening for gun owners. But the authors find that psychiatric diagnosis is in and of itself not predictive of violence.

“Even the overwhelming majority of psychiatric patients who fit the profile of recent U.S. mass shooters – gun-owning, angry, paranoid white men – do not commit crimes,” Metzl and MacLeish write.

“Basing gun crime-prevention efforts on the mental health histories of mass shooters risks building ‘common evidence’ from ‘uncommon things,’ all while giving mental health providers the untenable responsibility of preventing the next massacre.”

Signs to predict gun violence

The authors detail how focusing solely on mental illness ignores those factors that do predict gun violence more broadly:

  • Drug and alcohol use
  • History of violence
  • Access to firearms
  • Personal relationship stress

“People are far more likely to be shot by relatives, friends, enemies or acquaintances than they are by lone violent psychopaths,” according to Metzl and MacLeish’s research.

Kenneth MacLeish (Vanderbilt University)

Mental health systems

The authors argue in the paper that lawmakers and voters should pay much more attention to mental health systems such as access to mental health care, medication and health insurance.

“In a way, it is a failure of the system often that becomes represented as a failure of the individual,” Metzl said.

Race, gender and anxiety

The authors also delve into to the ways that responses to mass shootings reflect cultural anxieties about race and gender.

“The rhetoric in which people are accumulating guns in the present day has a lot to do with the fear of the unknown stranger. ‘Somebody could come attack me or my family, so we need to protect ourselves.’ And that rhetoric is most common among suburban white men,” Metzl said.

The authors uncover how the political and racial strife in the 1960s led some African Americans to push for their constitutional right to own and carry guns, while some white Americans at the time, including the National Rifle Association, pushed for stricter gun control laws.

“The gun rights statements of the Black Panthers and other black power groups in the 1960s reads almost exactly the same as the pro-gun rhetoric of the Tea Party today,” Metzl said. “Both groups argued that they’re protecting themselves from government tyranny and have a constitutional right as individuals to bear arms.”

Yet Metzl adds that in the ’60s, American society rushed to pathologize “black culture” while restricting gun rights, while in the present day our narratives locate the problem on individual white brains while at the same time encouraging further gun ownership.

Metzl and MacLeish teach at the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt, an innovative multidisciplinary center that studies the social and societal dimensions of health and illness. Its scholarship, teaching and wide-ranging collaborative projects explore medicine and science in an array of cultural contexts, while at the same time fostering productive dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.

The paper will be published in the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

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About the Site

Motivations for this Site

The chief motivation for this site is to present interesting games that for the most part are not yet part of electronic databases. In addition, there is entertaining (semi-recent) history and the blog format is ideal so readers can chip in and flesh out the memories. The best thing about semi-recent history is that most of the characters are still alive!

The site is divided, generally speaking, into decades starting from the 1970s and going into the 2000s. To kick it off, I simply started annotating “undiscovered” games in June 2007 along with whatever memories I could muster. The mention on the Susan Polgar blog site gave it a big push in July 2007.

Brief Background on IM Mark Ginsburg

Dr. Mark Ginsburg received his International Master title in 1982 from FIDE, the World Chess Organization headed at that time by GM Fridrik Olafsson. He has been battling in the International arena for over 30 years. He won the Manhattan Chess Club Championship twice, in 1988 and 1990, before that venerable Carnegie Hall institution sadly went the way of the dodo. His peak rating was 2578 in 1992, putting him 28th in the USA. His specialty is opening innovation.

Mark’s undergraduate degree was from Princeton (Biology) and did graduate work at NYU, culminating in a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He is the author or co-author of two programming textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed articles on groupware, digital libraries, and e-business strategy. As for chess, his writings have appeared in Chess Life and he was the technical editor for GM Joel Benjamin’s magazine Chess Chow in the early 1990s. His publications are here and you might find particularly interesting an article on ICC and Volunteerism.

His most famous games are on the Chessgames.Com site. They include interesting wins over GMs Dzindzihashvili, Shamkovich, Benjamin, Wilder, Biyiasis, Balinas, Rohde, Armas, D. Gurevich, Dlugy, Fishbein, Henley, S. B. Hansen, and Wolff and other oddities such as a 4 queen position (QRR vs QQQR) in a game with NM Alan Williams. In addition, we have put up the 1970s and 1980s game collections in replayable format for your convenience.

You can find Mark on ICC as ‘aries2’.

May 2011 News:  “Chess U” on iTunes!

A recent project is Chess U on iTunes.  It’s a free platform to go through guided instructional quizzes.  The free course is Attack 101.  Modestly priced in-app purchase options (only $0.99)  include Rook Endgames 101 and Anand 101.  More coming.

Go get it by clicking on the banner ad!

Quick Photo Links

1980s photos

1990s photos

2000s photos

Photo Sampler

Here he is in Switzerland (Biel) about to lose to GM Robert Huebner in a torturous ending, Summer 2000. Photo Credit: Dr. Petra Schubert, Uni. Koblenz.

And let’s go on a time warp. Here he is at the Marshall Chess Club, 1981 (photo credit: Eric Schiller). Note the pink glasses which are a key fashion accessory when studying opening theory.

The Marshall CC was the site of many key triumphs and disasters; he made an IM norm there along with Tisdall and (later) Schroer. Fedorowicz also scored a key GM norm in a 1981 event.

Thanks to Sara Walsh for Editorial and Press Assistance, to ChessUp.Net for Diagram Creation, MyChess for the replayable game Java applet, and Chess Base and Fritz for chess storage a nd engine assistance. Also thanks to interested parties from days gone by, such as Frank Teuton and others, for chipping in with key memories.  MG Addendum 7/15/08:  I should also mention Alexander Maryanovsky’s fancy new Web chess diagram creation resource (he used ImageMagick, a term familiar to Unix people).  His site allows the user a great detail of control over the set, the colors, enables circles and arrows to be drawn, and so on.  The user can then link back to his server to reference the chess diagram or opt to download the PGN graphic locally.

Curiosities that Open in a New Window

This link should show blogs that link to me!

This link should show all meta-information (external) information about my Chess History pages!

Get me out of this page!

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7 Responses to “About the Site”

  1. Stinklebutt Says:

    pink glasses are dorky.

  2. Ryan Emmett Says:

    No, the pink glasses are so uncool, they’re actually cool!

  3. Russell Mollot Says:

    Mark – BIG DEAL!
    Hey, this blog is very cool. Saw Joel B the other night at the BAL Awards Dinner in Manhattan. Four Queens – wow! sounds like a good
    poker hand – never saw that in a chess game. Also, 4Q is a casino in LV.
    MARK – can you accept banner ads on your blog? is there a way to do that?
    Have you seen what Chess Express Ratings is doing with chess stats?
    Take a look at this:
    (downhill rating measures performance vs. weak opposition;
    uphill = performance vs. stronger players)
    … and this:
    (particularly the stuff at the bottom).
    Well, take care – drop me a line sometime!
    p.s. – – Our old boss got laid off from SIAC (practically everyone else too).

  4. kaidanov Says:

    very interesting blog, some cool pictures. My wife and I stayed in Jeremy Bart’s appartment in 1990 for few days. we played in this tournament in Manhattan Chess Club,remember? I think you had a winning position:)

  5. nezhmet Says:

    Indeed. I dredged this game out of the

    [Event “Manhattan CC International”]
    [Site “Manhattan CC NYC”]
    [Date “1990.??.??”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [White “Mark Ginsburg”]
    [Black “Gregory Kaidanov”]
    [ECO “D45”]

    1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. a3 Bd6
    7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O h6 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 e5
    12. Bc2 a5 13. Re1 exd4 14. Qxd4 Bc5 15. Qc3 Nf6 16. Bf4! Bg4
    17. Be5! Re8 18. h3 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 Nd7 20. Bc3 Qg5 21. Rad1 Nf8
    22. b4 axb4 23. axb4 Bb6 24. c5 Bc7 25. g3 Rxe1+ 26. Rxe1 Ra3
    27. h4 Qd8 28. Re3 Qd7 29. h5 b6 30. Bf5 [30. Be4 wins]
    30…Qd8 31. Qxc6 bxc5
    32. bxc5 Qd1+ 33. Kg2 Qxh5 34. Bh3 [34. Bc2 wins; 34…Bd8 35. Re8 or 34…Ra7 35. Re8 and wins]
    34…Bd8 35. Re8?? [Payroll job during day, chess at night – not recommended. 35. Qd6 is obvious and winning; 35…Qg5 36. Re8 and white wins by the same motif as the prior winning line.]
    35…Rxc3 36. Rxd8
    Qxc5 37. Qa8 Rc1 38. Qf3 Qc6 39. Rd5 Ne6 40. Bf5 Rc3 41. Qe4
    Rc4 42. Qf3 Rf4 43. gxf4 Qxd5 44. Be4 Qd6 45. f5 Ng5 46. Qe3
    Nxe4 47. Qxe4 Qf6 48. f4 Kh7 49. Kh3 h5 50. Qd3 Kh6 51. Qc2
    Qb6 52. Kh4 Qd4 53. Qc6+ g6 0-1

  6. Frank Johnson Says:

    I just linked to your 2008 Chicago Open post. I want to add you in my link section. Let me know what description you would like to appear there.

  7. Lily Ginsburg Says:

    Hey dad, you didn’t tell me you won the Manhattan tournament twice. And dad, you were in 28th place. sweet.

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Costa Rica Nicoya Peninsula

The Travel Guide to the Peninsula de Nicoya, Costa Rica, with detailed Maps, Hotels and Tourist Information

Animals of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Water Birds II

Boat-billed Heron Costa Rica

With its massive broad scoop-like bill and very big eyes the Boat-billed Heron is the funniest-looking of all Costa Rican herons. The wading bird lives in small colonies, often hiding in thick cover. The oversized eyes are an adaptation to hunting at dawn and at night.

Green Heron

The Green Heron species which occurs in Costa Rica is found from South Canada to Panama. This small heron is commonly found near shallow fresh, brackish and salt water.

Bare-throated Tiger Heron

Of the three tiger-herons in Costa Rica the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron is the most common one. It is found in fresh and brakish water habitats, often standing in a motionless posture in shallow waters and waiting for prey which they spear up with their sharp beak. The birds have their name for the fine herringbone pattern of their plumage.

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Nippon PLUS

English | Japanese

Full Day Nikko Trip from Tokyo Enjoying the World Heritage

Tour feature and details

Let’s enjoy the World Heritage shrine and temples and the great nature of a waterfall, lake and forest in Nikko.

Nikko, a pilgrim town, is located 128km north of Tokyo where the Toshogu Shrine complex listed the World Heritage sits amid mountains. They were built to enshrine the First Tokugawa-Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, after his death (1616) and his successors. The surrounding mountains are beautiful throughout the year. Proverb says “Don’t say Kekko (great) until you see Nikko! “ Ideal Itinerary and time table can be referred in the Course below.

Main visiting spots and what you can see are as below, but places and time change depending on the season.

Course(Visiting Spots)

【Ideal Itinerary and time table】
●Departing from Shinjyuku at 8:21 by JR・Tobu-line, arriving at Tobu-Nikko at 10:13
●The Nikko Toshogu Shrine : Mausoleum of the founder of Tokugawa Shogunate
- Yomeimon: Chinese gorgeous gate
- Yakushi-Do: Dragon barks
- Three wise monkeys: See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil
- Sleeping cat: Peaceful age in Edo period
●Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park:
- The villa for Taisho Emperor (1912—1926) has 106-room residence surrounded by gardens. You can stroll corridors, appreciate gorgeous screen paintings and the 400- year old weeping cherry tree.
●Departing from Tobu-Nikko at 16:39 and arriving at Shinjyuku at 18:36

【Likely Optional Spots depending on the season】
●Lake Chuzenji: The lake was formed by the eruption of Mt.Nantai (2,486m) and it is one of the best resort places.
●Kegon Water Fall: Water comes from Chuzenji-Lake and falls 97m down. The spectacle is beyond the description.

Departure Time 7:30AM
Duration 12 hours
Number of People 1~15
Meeting Point At your hotel in Tokyo
Tour End Anywhere
What's Included ・Professional guide fee
・Your hotel pick up and drop off
・Small group private tour
What's Excluded ・Transportation fee for guests and guide (about Yen8,000 per person)
・Entrance fee (Toshogu 1,300yen), Tamozawa Park(510yen), Kegon-Fall (530yen)
Reservation Deadline 5 days before the tour
Others Travel insurance not be attached.
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  • Language:English
  • Interpreter Guide Number:EN00770
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Tour Fee

  • US$301 per group

Cancellation Policy

8 or more days before tour date
No Cancellation Fee
2-7 days before tour date
20% Cancellation Fee
1 day before tour date
50% Cancellation Fee
On the tour date or If you do not send a cancellation contact
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