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ONE WORLD OUT AND ABOUT....ALAMEDA COUNTY FAIR!!!
Oh Mike..... Somehow I feel there may be a police report involved. So happy Pleasanton is out of your jurisdiction, right Kirk Wu????
I knew over the years that a lot of folks were following the programming of Chyna and I online. I had no idea it was so many! I will be sending out our programming every Sunday night to anyone who still wants to join the group. Thank you to all you folks following CrossFit One World over the years. Your support is appreciated! Email me at fdc0714@gmail.com to join the programming group.
If you are thinking about joining Saturday's Competitors Group Training Session @ 10am, make sure you warm up for backsquats, deadlifts, and presses BEFORE go time. TEASER!!! haha (I'll post a photo of the entire session on Facebook) DON'T FORGET THE SESSION IS NOT GOING DOWN ON FRIDAY NIGHT!!! Happy 4th!!!
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Brittany Brand selected for Green Communities Leadership institute
The Green Communities Leadership Institute recently selected Brittany Brand, associate professor of geosciences and director of the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute, to join the 2022 cohort of resource management and community planning professionals consisting of 23 leaders from 18 cities across the United States and Mexico.
The institute provides leadership training and mentorship to prepare conservation leaders for new challenges including addressing climate change, population growth, economic instability and other components of community sustainability and resilience.
As director for the Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute, Brand's work focuses on interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration to build connected, thriving, resilient communities. Her research areas include hazard preparedness (helping residents personalize risk and develop positive attitudes toward the efficacy of preparing for hazard events), community resilience (working alongside community members to co-develop locally relevant resilience metrics that holistically assess community disaster resilience needs), and volcanology (eruption dynamics, sediment transport in volcanic flows and volcanic hazard assessment).
Brand states, "I am thrilled to work with and learn from such a diverse and skilled group of professionals. I anticipate that the experience will greatly improve the work I do and my leadership of the HCRI."
The Green Communities Leadership Institute workshop includes four asynchronous weeks, one virtual week, and a three-day in-person event. Learn more about the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute and the Green Communities Leadership Institute.

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"It's Good to Be George Clooney"
Posted by S. A. Young on February 15, 2012
If they gave out Oscars for being a bon vivant, the best raconteur or guy-you'd-most-like-to-have-at-your-next-dinner party, then George Clooney would be a shoo-in. I could listen to him talk for hours. He's intelligent, charming, self-effacing and very, very funny. He's also not hard on the eyes. I enjoy his films immensely. He makes smart choices and if he can't find a movie from someone else that he wants to do, he and his producing partner, Grant Heslov, will write their own. Then he gets his friends to help out.I've never heard or read a single negative anecdote told by actors who've worked with him and his private life and behavior don't make the tabloids for anything other than the fact that he's a serial monogamist.
He also puts his celebrity to good use, which is a better reason to admire the man than the way he looks in a tux. There is no question his interest in the crisis in Darfur has shone a light on a region of the world that no one was paying attention to, despite the fact that another holocaust was happening under our noses. He's by no means the only activist to highlight what's happening in the Sudan (Sam Childers aka "The Machine Gun Preacher" may have been there longer and is more hands on, but until recently not many had ever heard of Sam or his work) nor is he the only celebrity attempting to put their fame to good use (ie Angelina Jolie or Madonna) but, I think the fact that he's so well regarded in general means attention will be paid.
He's a great guy and everyone loves him.
The problem I have is with George Clooney, Academy Award nominee for Best Actor. I enjoyed The Descendants both times I saw it, but when I walked out the second time, my opinion hadn't changed from the first. It's a good movie. It's well written and it's well acted, which is what we should expect when we buy a ticket. We should not be so surprised when we come upon quality that it's immediately given front runner status for Awards Season. There is a lot to like in that film, most notably, in my opinion is the discovery of Shailene Woodley. She's just twenty years old and has a great career ahead of her if she continues to make smart choices. (For the record I don't consider her performance awards worthy either, even though she was touted for Best Supporting Actress early on.) Nor do I think this was Clooney's best work, a phrase being bandied about more and more as we get into the final stretch before Oscar night.
I would suggest that he was better in Michael Clayton (for which he was nominated but lost out to Daniel Day Lewis for There Will Be Blood). I suggest that he was better as Archie Gates in Three Kings, Jack Foley in Out of Sight or even as Everett in O Brother, Where Art Thou? all of which were made when it was still possible for him to disappear into a character. Now, whenever I see him on screen, I rarely see anything other than George Clooney. He's too famous to completely disappear into a role. (Something I dread happening to all of my favorite actors, the ones the world has suddenly caught on to like Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy. It's already happened to a large extent to Gerard Butler.) In the clip below, Clooney mentions how, in his later years, Spencer Tracy always played some version of Spencer Tracy, but "you couldn't take your eyes off of him." That's how I feel about Clooney.
I am very happy his script for Ides of March was nominated. More than the performances (and Clooney was very good, make no mistake. So were Gosling, Wood, Tomei, Hoffman and Giamatti for that matter), the words were the star, just as they were when it was a play. I love the story he told "The Hollywood Reporter about how restless he is and how he wakes up five times a night and it was during one of these sleepless nights that he wrote a particularly memorable line of dialogue from Ides of March. (Arguably the most memorable) "I woke up and sat down and wrote the whole scene in the kitchen between Ryan and myself: 'You want to be president…You can start a war, you can lie, you can cheat, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't fuck the interns.'"
Speaking of that venerable publication, Gorgeous George is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter next week and he invited the photographer and journalist into his home for the interview. Below is a video clip of the photo shoot. (This is by the way, the 2nd time this awards season that Clooney has allowed cameras to film him in his private domain. The first was for CBS News' "Person to Person" with Charlie Rose and Lara Logan. The seventeen minute video can be found at the link. If he were anyone other than George Clooney, one might say he was lobbying hard for that Oscar. But because he IS George Clooney, it's easier to give him the benefit of the doubt. He just wanted to invite us all in for a chat.
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JANESVILLE, WI – Another set of the Battle of Wisconsin starts tonight in Chippewa Falls, with each team looking a little different from this week's trade deadline.
In the last week, the Steel added defenseman Joey Trifone, released forward Sam Dabrowski, and traded Czech defenseman Filip Dusek to the New Jersey Titans.
The Jets have also been busy.
A playoff-position team trading its captain in-season is not unheard-of, but certainly uncommon. In the team release, head coach Corey Leivermann identified the move as best for all parties involved: the Jets, the Ice Dogs, and MacLaren. What's immediately apparent is that the trade adds a new flavor to the rivalry between Janesville and Fairbanks, set to start up again in two weeks when the Ice Dogs come to town.
For now, though, the retooled Jets are energetic from last Saturday's thrilling overtime win over Springfield and hope to keep that energy tonight and tomorrow.
Playing their last road games until a mid-March trip to Alaska, the Jets face a Chippewa team who, despite sitting 16 points out from a playoff spot, cannot be overlooked.
The Steel swept the Minnesota Wilderness in a home-and-home set last weekend, and last month ran a 3-2 record in their final regular season trip to Alaska. Interim head coach Carter Foguth is 8-10 since taking over in late November. That's good for a .444 points percentage, a noticeable improvement over the Steel's .292 performance in the first 24 games of the season.
Those aren't anything but statistics, though, to Leivermann and the Jets. Foguth hasn't played Janesville yet, and a Jets group brimming with energy is en route to the Chippewa Falls Ice Arena looking for a series sweep.


There are many depression solutions available, which is great because the only thing you need to do is to find the best depression solution for yourself.
Depression has been around for a long time and it has been treated in many ways. However, the first thing that you should know is that there is no general solution to depression because each case of depression is unique.
Psychotherapy is a place where depression is treated. In psychotherapy, you are provided with guidance, professional advice and support. Everything you need to overcome your depression is found in psychotherapy sessions and treatments.
There are many types of psychotherapy: Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalysis and many others. All of these therapies have different approaches in treating mental disorders and one way can work better for you than another. Therefore, if one therapy does not help you, do not get discouraged.
Choosing the right therapist is very important. When you are in therapy, you should feel comfortable and free to express yourself. If you do not like your therapist, change him or her. Of course, just because you do not like him or her does not mean that he or she is a poor therapist. It only means that you should look for one that you like.
Sometimes psychotherapy alone is not enough to treat depression, this is the case with severe depressive disorders. When this is the case, antidepressants are used to reduce or relieve the patient's symptoms of depression so that the patient can take part in psychotherapy.
Antidepressants need to be taken for at least six months and in the exact way as it is prescribed. They should always be taken very seriously because any misuse can cause great consequences and deepen and prolong your depressive disorder. When taking antidepressants one needs to be disciplined and responsible. This is why severely depressed patients must be supervised when taking medication.
Depression medication should never be taken on your own or without professional supervision. Remember, if you are taking antidepressants, you need to be in psychotherapy in order to benefit from the effects of the medications that are reducing your symptoms so that you are able to work on your depression.
Natural supplements can be taken as the alternative to antidepressants. They can reduce or even relieve you from your symptoms of depression and make you more fit for participating in psychotherapy.
Important things to notice about natural supplements are that just because they are "natural" that does not mean that they are harmless and that they should be taken without professional advice and supervision. In fact, some natural supplements can be very harmful when they are misused and overused.
There are many other possible depression solutions. However, to no if something is the right solution for your depression, we need information about your case.
Unfortunately, many unhealthy and wrong depression "solutions" are used all over the world. One of them is self-medicating with alcohol. Alcohol has never cured anyone from depression or any other illness. It is the last thing that a depressive individual needs, even though many try to easy their pain with it.
If you have alcohol problems and you suffer from depression, you must get yourself in alcohol counseling and psychotherapy. Depression cannot be cured when it is "fuelled" with alcohol because alcohol is a depressant!
Abuse of illegal or legal drugs, aside from deepening your depression can also kill you. Many people intentionally overdose or take a deadly mixture of legal drugs. Drugs do not offer solutions, but problems, pain and death.
Depression is a serious illness but it is also a very treatable illness. There are many right depression solutions out there and you, together with your therapist, will find it.


Throughout this adventure of Innkeeping we have had a number of guests whose first Bed and Breakfast experience was with us at the Beacon House Inn. That gave me pause to think about the differences between accommodations at a traditional hotel versus a B & B. So, I thought I would share some of those observations; maybe get some of you to walk on the wild side and ditch the cookie cutter motels for something new!
We like to think that staying at our B & B is the next best thing to staying with friends. We want you to have a personalized visit that leaves you with pleasant memories; already planning your next trip back.
A B & B is the place to stay for people who want to taste the local culture. It is a chance to stay in a home that is a reflection of the area. Many B & B's are located in residential neighborhoods, each home with its own special charm reminiscent of the era in which it was built. Our Inn is no different in that respect: we are a beach house built in 1946.
We want our guests to feel right at home with us. Picture being woken up by the aroma of bacon sizzling in the pan. Pad down to the kitchen in pajamas and slippers for early morning coffee, freshly brewed and waiting for you. Enjoy your morning beverage while rocking on the porch as your breakfast is being prepared. We want you to feel like this is your home, only better because we are doing the work!
offerings include freshly baked banana bread, garden vegetable frittata or spiced apple pancakes. The nature of the Inn gives us the ability to work with our guests to accommodate any dietary restrictions or preferences.
Interacting with the Innkeepers and other guests is a big part of the Bed and Breakfast experience. The open dining room encourages group conversation and you never know who you may meet; an author, movie producer, teacher or lawyer. Just imagine a warm kitchen full of laughter; feeling satisfied after a home cooked breakfast lingering over coffee with new found friends. Lazy afternoons in the living room after a day in the sun may find a tall iced coffee waiting for you or later a pre-dinner wine and cheese social. Small details that cater toward your comfort and enjoyment plus the chance to meet other curious adventurers are what set B & B's apart.
A stay at a Bed and Breakfast is personal and unique. It is our sincere hope that when you come and stay at the Beacon House Inn you may arrive as a stranger, but you will leave as a friend.
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The Kishima Group is a group of palaeontological geological formations located in Japan.

It dates to the Upper Eocene—Lower Oligocene epochs of the Paleogene Period, in the Cenozoic Era.

The formations of the Kishima Group are:
 Daimyoji Formation
 Funazu Formation
 Itanoura Formation
 Kakinoura Formation
 Kishima Formation
 Magome Formation
 Matsushima Formation
 Okinoshima Formation
 Oshima Formation

See also
 List of fossil sites

Further reading
  (1993); Wildlife of Gondwana. Reed.

Geologic groups of Asia
Geologic formations of Japan
Paleogene System of Asia
Paleogene Japan
Eocene Series
Oligocene Series
Oligocene paleontological sites
Paleontology in Japan

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The program is designed for experienced and intermediate level endurance athletes, who are looking to address limiters in the off season, and keep up their motivation. Guidance will be given to enrolled athletes on planning their 2017 season.
This program is designed to couple to the 2017 Spring Triathlon group training program. Athletes should select an early January 10 kilometer or 10 mile race for their final baseline effort.
Incorporated into the program will be weekly training plans that will guide you to your race with solo workouts & two group training sessions (GTS) per week.
No bag watch will be provided.
There will be no swim GTS sessions. The program will be focused on running, cross training, and core strength development. Bike & swim workouts may be prescribed as part of the weekly training plan for variety and skill development.
You will be able to view upcoming workouts via Mobile App & will receive a daily email from Training peaks specifying workout details for the day.
Athletes who choose will have the ability to enter and comment on their workouts, and to upload their training data into Training Peaks. Athletes will receive feedback by coaching staff on data & their comments.
Athletes will be provided training progressions based upon experience and capability.
A Facebook group will allow athletes to be in contact with one another, post social events, and view athlete or coach posted links and information.
Fees are payable by November 15, 2016. Start Line Coaching will invoice you via Paypal after successful completion of all registration materials.
Athletes are responsible for race registration fees and travel expenses.
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The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness
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In connection with what I said yesterday about our Appeal, I should like to emphasise again that in man's present conditions of life everything depends upon arousing, in as many people as possible, a right social understanding. You must not forget that the way the relations in life have recently developed has brought a great part of the civilised world into a state of chaos such as is only occasioned by what arises out of human souls. As the situation is at present, external means cannot greatly help mankind, whether this is in the form of laws or in the form of outward administration of the economic life. In individual States it is possible, of course, that for a time things may go on, but it would be a mistake to think conditions in these individual States can permanently remain as they are in the midst of the developing social upheavals encompassing all mankind. Help can come only when an understanding of the social relations is cultivated in men's souls.
What I have put in rather a complicated form can also be said more simply. We may say that what is now a striving for disorder will first take an orderly direction when men show themselves capable of producing order. They will be so only when they arrive at a real social understanding from which man today — of whatever party — stands very far removed. It is the most imperative task to spread this understanding. It is a fact of the utmost importance that what is agitating the souls of many millions of the proletariat is something very different from what lives in the souls of their leaders. The leaders have for the greater part inherited the bourgeois attitude to life, which they try to apply to the conditions of proletarian life adorned with a few flourishes of the agitator. This is an essential fact with which we act in accordance only when deciding to work above all for social understanding. Even when external conditions of life have to be recognised as being in still greater confusion and error than formerly, nevertheless the assumption that something can be attained by muddling through would be false. What modern man lacks is social understanding. And this lack is due to the whole of human thinking, feeling and willing having developed in recent times without being applied to this understanding. It is remarkably limited even in the many people today whose social impulses are strong.
Do not think that this social understanding needs some specially comprehensive and far-reaching knowledge for its development. That is not of any consequence; the point is that in contemporary mankind there is lacking even the elementary basis for such an understanding. People's thoughts are very different from those needed for grasping the most primitive social questions. — It is quite right today that attention should be given above all to finding a way to avoid the abstract sentimental concepts at present pacifying so many. It is widely believed that it is possible today to deal with the social problem from some kind of ethical or religious standpoint. This possibility does not exist. Today one cannot just preach religion or ethics, however excellent. This may just warm the feelings and, in an egoistic sense, have some effect. Concepts, however, must be made capable of gripping hold of the everyday affairs of human beings.
Infinitely much depends today on acquiring this understanding. I have said that men today in whom social impulses are flashing up have very often only primitive concepts. Many in leading circles as well as among the proletariat imagine that a simple reassortment of social levels can bring about real change; — for example, if those who were at the top, ministers and secretaries of State were to fall and those who were formerly proletarians were to rise, in effect, if there were a re-levelling. It would be quite a mistake to fancy that things could be changed thus. Many have this idea however much they may protest. Befogged by the outlook of some party or another they are unconscious of holding these views. It is a question, however, of coming quite simply to a clear understanding of the threefold social organism, often dealt with here and also in many public lectures. It is a question of every detail in social measures being so developed that they comply with the necessity inherent in the threefold order. Whether measures have to be taken to build a railway, either under a private company or the State, or a decision is to be made about the ways and means for paying an undertaking on some occasion (I am not speaking of labour-power but of undertakings) it is always a matter of carrying out the measures in the threefold direction, in accordance with the independence of the spiritual life, of the political life of rights and of the economic life. You can of course ask how this or the other should happen. But at the stage where the matter now stands those are for the most part the wrong kind of questions. The spirit living in the threefold order can perhaps be described like this, to take an example: What is the best system of taxation? Now today the important thing is not to think out a system of taxation but to work towards the threefold order. When this threefold membering of the social organism becomes more and more an actuality the best system of taxation will arise through this threefold activity. It is a matter of establishing the conditions under which the best social organisation can originate. Someone or other ruminating over what would be best is not of importance and is not in accordance with reality. But imagine that one of you were a genius, such a genius as has never before been seen in human evolution, and were therefore in a position to think out the best possible system of taxation. But what if you were to stand alone with your magnificently thought-out system and the others refused it, wanting perhaps something less good but anyhow not yours? You see it is not a matter of thinking out the best, but of finding what men as a whole would accept as a basis on which to do their best.
It is true that you may say here: One must begin somewhere. The threefold State must be set up even though men appear unwilling to accept it. That is something different, for there it is not a matter of what men can wish for or not, such as a system of taxation, but of what fundamentally all men would want were they to understand it. If you find the right way you can make it intelligible to them, for subconsciously men want it to be realised during the coming decades throughout the civilised world. That is not merely thought-out, but seen to be what men are wanting. And it is not because they lack the desire that countless men reject it, but because being still full of prejudices, they work in opposition to this matter, which in future will be fully realised. The essential thing is to pay heed to what is primary. The primary is that for which, in a longer or shorter period, understanding can be awakened when once the hindrances to this understanding have been removed. Naturally there are always leading personalities who stand in the way. These personalities are not to be convinced; they must first break their heads against the obstacles they meet. And there will be many such obstacles. On this account if at first the affair does not go as one had imagined, it need not be labeled a failure. Things of this sort must be prepared for. Something must be there when what is now brought about in a mistaken way will have led to an absurd situation, when much that now appears in the world is no longer there — just as the German princes are no longer there, who in 1913 never dreamed they would have disappeared by 1919 — when what so many people now applaud is gone, then something on which they can fall back must at least be there in people is heads and hearts. Preparation must be made, the ground must be ready. When once you have penetrated long and deeply enough into this threefold membering of the spiritual life, the economic life and the political life, then the need will arise in you to have a more fundamental understanding of all this. This understanding is absolutely essential, otherwise even when spoken with all possible goodwill what is said will have no connection with reality. The social organism is subject to definite laws in the same way as the natural human organism. You gain nothing by acting against these laws even on grounds of principle. You can at best lead men into a blind alley.
Now do not say: Where is human freedom when man finds himself in a social organism with fixed laws? You might as well ask whether a man can be free when daily he has to eat. It does not make him free to refrain from eating. Things subject to certain laws — even men themselves — have nothing at all to do with the problem of freedom, just as little as our not being able to grasp the moon has to do with our freedom.
To gain a social understanding it is advisable for us to be in the position to go back to fundamentals, to primaries, rather than let our understanding remain bogged in secondaries or tertiaries, which are subsequent phenomena. We may give this example from a certain condition of life — a man needs a definite minimum, let us say in money — since we have converted our values into money — in order to support life. This subsistence minimum can be spoken of as referring to some special condition of life. But we can so speak of it that we say something apparently extremely obvious on the one hand, on the other, what is complete nonsense. I will try to make this clear to you by an example. Taking given conditions of life in any part of the world you may perhaps say with feeling that a manual worker needs so and so much as a subsistence minimum, otherwise he would be unable to live in the particular community. This can seem quite an obvious idea. But how is it then, in accordance with what has been assumed here, when this is not realisable within a certain social organism? The question that must first of all be answered is: What then if the realisation of this is impossible?
To reflect upon the matter thus is not the primary thinking I have represented. Thought out in the abstract, the subsistence minimum demanded does not lead us to fundamentals but ties us down to what is secondary, what appears as a mere consequence. To attain social understanding we have to be in a position to enter into fundamental things. It is fundamental to cultivate a practical view as to how there can be a subsistence minimum in accordance with conditions of life in the social organism. In this case I mean by 'practical' such a view that would result in humanly possible social conditions and social community life. This is the primary.
And now one comes to certain conceptions very unpopular with a great part of present-day mankind, because the basic teaching that should work towards such things, and really guide them in this direction, has been neglected. Men need to realise that even to be half-educated one should not merely know that three times nine is twenty-seven; one should also know, for example, what it is that we call ground-rent. I ask you, how many people today have any clear idea of what ground-rent is? But without considering the social organism in connection with such things, no human progress can be made.
The wrong-headed conceptions men hold today are due to confusion in this sphere. Ground-rent, which can be reckoned according to the productivity of a piece of land in a certain district, yields a certain sum for a State-bounded area. The land tapes its value according to its productivity, that is, in accordance with the way or the degree in which it is put to rational use in relation to the whole economy. It is very difficult today for anyone to gain a clear concept of this simple land value, since in the modern capitalistic economic life interest on capital, or capital in any form, has confused the whole picture of ground-rent, and the true concept of its economic value for the people has been blurred by phantoms in the form of mortgage law and the system of stocks and shares. Strictly speaking, everything has been forced into conceptions that are impossible and false. Naturally a true conception of ground-rent cannot be acquired in the twinkling of an eye. But think of it simply as the economic value of the land in some territory, with regard to its productivity. Now there exists a necessary relation between this ground-rent and subsistence what I have referred to as a subsistence minimum. There are many social reformers and social revolutionaries today who dream of the wholesale abolition of ground-rent, who believe, for example, that ground-rent will be done away with by all land being nationalised or communalised. Essentials, however, are never changed by a mere change of form. Whether a whole community owns the land or it is owned by a number of individuals makes no difference to the existence of ground-rent. It is simply obscured and takes on other forms. Ground-rent as I have defined it is always there. Take the ground-rent of a certain district and divide it up among the individual inhabitants, then you will get as quotient the only possible subsistence minimum. This is a law as definite and unalterable as a law of Physics. It is a primary fact, something fundamental, that in a social organism in reality no one deserves more than is yielded by the ground-rent being divided among the total population. What can be earned further arises through coalitions and associations in which conditions are established where one individual can acquire more value than another. But not a whit more can pass into the movable property of an individual man than what I have here indicated. From this minimum, which really exists everywhere even though the real conditions are obscured, arises all economic life in so for as it applies to an individual's movable property. It must have arisen from this basic fact. Hence it is that one starts not from something secondary but from this primary fact. This primary fact may be compared to any other, for example to a primary fact also valid for the economic life, that on a certain territory there is only a certain amount of raw product. Naturally you may think it desirable to have more of this raw product and to be able just to reckon how much more might be had from this land. But the raw product does not allow of any arbitrary increase; that is a primary fact. And it is a primary fact in the same way that, in a social organism, in reality nothing more can be earned through work — however hard this work may be — than can be yielded by the quotient I mentioned. As I said, all surplus is acquired through human coalition.
The social and political administration can be in contradiction to these facts. Therefore it is necessary to bring all organising thought into the direction that facts take. Man can find satisfaction only when these things are thoroughly understood. Then the organising factor, the thinking that has taken on reality, is brought into line with what the nature of the social organism demands, and other thinking adjusts itself to it, so that it cannot happen that one thinking considers itself prejudiced by the other. That is what lies as a law at the basis of the true life of the social organism. Right thinking, realistic concepts on such matters can be gained — as I showed by the example of the relation of a subsistence minimum to ground-rent — only when you make your start on the basic principles of the threefold order. For only under its influence is it possible for men to create measures by which human life in common on any given territory can be developed really productively. Life will develop most productively when it goes in a direction that accords with law and not in the opposite direction. Thus it is a matter of living in time with the social organism.
It is necessary to be quite clear about this — that you will never gain insight into the fundamentals of the Threefold Order by observing life externally, any more than observation of any number of right-angled triangles will give you the Pythagorean theorem. But once known it can be applied to any real right-angled triangle. It is the same with these fundamental laws. Once grasped correctly in accordance with reality, they can be of universal application. And in addition you have from the basis of Spiritual Science the opportunity to grasp the necessity of the Threefold Order. Consider what can be given through it — the life of earthly spirituality, if I may so call it, art, science, religion and also, as already mentioned, civil and criminal law; that is one sphere. The second is the political association of men and is concerned with man's relation to his fellows. And the third is the economic life, concerned with man's relation to the lower man, what man needs in order to raise himself to his true manhood. The Threefold Order has to do with these three spheres. Man should be established in the social organism in accordance with these three members; he must be so established. For the three members have each a quite distinct origin in regard to the human being as such. All life of the spirit on earth — and what I now say counts for our own age — is a kind of echo of what man lived through in the life before his descent through birth into physical existence. In that life the human being lived as a spiritual individual in a spiritual relation to the higher hierarchies, with those disembodied souls who were in the spiritual world and not at the time incarnated on earth. What man develops here as spiritual life, be it in devotion to religious practice or life in a religious community, be it in activity in the arts, or as a judge passing sentence on those of his fellowmen found guilty, everything lived out in this spiritual life has its origin in the forces acquired by man when, before he entered physical existence through birth, he lived with the higher hierarchies in the spiritual worlds. Here you must distinguish between life lived in common with other men in accordance with individual destiny, and that lived with others in accordance with what I have just described. In earthly existence we come into individual relations with one or other of our fellow-men. These relations depend upon our individual karma, and either trace back to earlier lives on earth or point to those coming later. But among these individual relations between human beings you must distinguish those, for example, that arise from belonging to a certain religious community. For in a religious community you think or feel as a number of other men do. Or suppose a book is published. Men read the book, take up thoughts from the book, and thus enter into a community. Spiritual life on earth, whether having to do with the bringing-up of children, education, or anything else of the kind, consists in our coming into relation with people and developing a life in common with them, in order thereby oneself to make spiritual progress. All that, however, is experiencing relationships in which, before descending into spiritual life on earth, we were in a quite different form. It has nothing to do with individual karma but with what was prepared during life in the spiritual world in the time lived through between death and a new birth. Thus, one has to seek the source of what I have called the spiritual sphere, in the life passed through by man before he prepared to descend. through birth into earthly existence.
Then there comes what is experienced simply by living on earth between birth and death. We grow into this life by degrees. When as an infant we enter into this existence through birth, we still bear — if I may make a foolish comparison — much of the egg-shell of the spiritual world around us, though it is not hard. The child is very spiritual in spite of its main task being the development of its physical body. In its aura there is much of the spiritual; what it brings with it is very nearly akin to the spiritual life on earth. Gradually, however, it enters more and more deeply into the life that belongs entirely to the time between birth and death.
Now the sources of the life of the political state are found in this life not chiefly concerned with the spiritual. The political state has to do only with what man experiences between birth and death. Therefore nothing should be involved in it save what concerns us as beings between birth and death in our mutual relations as man to man. If the state involved itself in anything other than what concerns the public life of rights between birth and death, if it spread its wings over Church and School, for example, well — in the places where there were people with a faculty for judging such things it used to be said: "There the Prince of this world holds his unjust sway!" Nothing belongs to all that is the object of state-organisation except what has to do with the life between birth and death.
The third member is the economic. This economic life, which we are obliged to lead because we eat and drink, clothe ourselves and so on, forces us as human beings to descend into the subhuman. It chains us to something beneath the level of our full humanity. By having to concern ourselves with life economically, by having to dive down into economic life, we experience something which, when observed socially, has more in it than is usually thought. In so far as we stand in the economic life we cannot live in the spiritual nor in the life of rights, but must plunge below the human level. But just by this plunging into the subhuman we take into ourselves something that thus has an opportunity to develop. Whereas in the economic life we are active and higher thoughts must be silent and even the human mutual relations play in only from another sphere, there is worked in our subconscious then what we then carry with us into the spiritual world through the gate of death. Whereas in the spiritual life on earth we experience the echo of what we lived through before our descent to earth, and in the life of rights of the political state experience only what lies between birth and death, in the economic life, into which we cannot enter with our higher self, something is being prepared that is also spiritual and carried by us through the gate of death. People would like the economic life to exist only for the earth. But this is not so. Just through our plunging down into the economic life something is prepared for us as human beings that is again connected with the supersensible world. Therefore no one should think of holding the economic life too lightly. However strange and paradoxical it may seem, this external materialistic life has a certain connection with the life after death. So that in actual fact, for anyone who knows man, the three spheres fall asunder — the purely spiritual sphere points to life before birth; the political sphere of the State points to life between birth and death; the economic life points to life after death. It is not in vain that we cultivate fraternity in the economic life. In all that we develop as brotherliness in the economic sphere lie the foundations and preliminary conditions of life after death. I am giving you only a first brief indication of how the threefold membering of the nature of the human being gives the spiritual scientist in these three distinct spheres the differentiation necessary for social life.
It is a particular characteristic of Spiritual Science that, when we come to deal with it, we find it directly practical. It sheds light on the life around us, and at the present time men have no other possibility of getting light on the real relationships of life than by in some way accepting spiritual knowledge. Thus it is desirable that those who are interested in the Anthroposophical Movement should let the light of their understanding ray out to others; for the Anthroposophist it is relatively easier to penetrate these things with insight. He knows something of life both before and after birth, for example, from the standpoint of Spiritual Science, and this shows him the necessity for the threefoldness in life from this point of view. This necessity can indeed be seen today. But we shall gain a deeper, more comprehensive insight if we have the anthroposophical basis of which I have been speaking here.
In the course of the last centuries how much has been spoken in a sentimental way, when men have held forth, for instance, about universal moral teaching and the like, and religion has been kept as far as possible apart from external daily life. We are now at a point of time when we have to develop concepts that can penetrate right into daily life and do not just extend to the promise of salvation or to the demand "Children love one another". They do not do it in any case when they do not have to or when other business is on hand. The concepts we develop must have sufficient driving force to enable us really to understand our present-day complicated economic life. Thus, simply through knowledge of the nature of man we are shown the necessity for the sound social organism to be threefold.
It must become clear to as many people as possible today that this is the very foundation-stone of a new structure. just to prate about the spirit is, as I was saying yesterday, perhaps more harmful just now than the materialism which, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, has up to now continued to spread. For mere talk of the spirit, mere sighing after the spirit, mere worship of the spirit, no longer meet the needs of our epoch. In our epoch it is fitting that we realise the spirit, that we give the spirit the possibility of living in our midst. Today it does not suffice just to believe in the Christ; it is essential that men should now manifest the Christ in their deeds, in their work. This is the important thing. If man develops sound thinking and perceiving in this sphere, these sound thoughts and perceptions will flow into another sphere as well. Consider how a great many of the present official representatives of one or other of the Christian faiths speak today of Christ. But if asked: Why is He whom you call Christ, the Christ? they can give only a fictitious answer, what is indeed an inner lie. Many modern theologians talk of Christ, but were you to ask them: How does your concept of the Christ-being differ from your concept of the Jahve-God, the one God, weaving and creating throughout the universe? they would have no answer to give.
The great theologian Harnack, in Berlin, has written a book on The Being of Christianity. What he describes as the Being of Christianity is the Jehovah of the Old Testament, with all Jehovah's characteristics. It is inwardly a lie to describe Jehovah as Christ, And it is thus with hundreds, nay thousands, of those preaching Christianity today; they are simply preaching God in general, the God of Whom we can say ex Deo nascimur. Christ is discovered only when one has experienced a kind of new birth. We need only be healthy human beings to have to recognise the God of Whom we say ex Deo nascimur; for to be an atheist is in reality to be ill. But one can speak of the Christ only when in the life of soul one has experienced a kind of re-birth, in the way this happens in the present cycle of human evolution. For this, it is not enough that man is simply born as a human being.
Man as he is born today is necessarily full of prejudices; that is the nature of present-day man. And if we remain as we are born we carry these prejudices with us through life; we live in one-sidedness. We can save ourselves only by having inner tolerance, by being able to enter into the opinions of others even when we think them wrong. If we can bring a deep understanding for the opinions of other souls even when considering them mistaken, if we can take what the other thinks and feels in the same way as we take what we think and feel ourself, if we adopt this faculty of inner tolerance, we may overcome these prejudices due to the human cycle in which we were born. We then learn to say: What you have understood in this the least of my brethren, you have understood of me. For Christ did not speak to men in this way only at the time when Christianity began, but has made good His word "Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of earthly time". He still continues to reveal Himself. Once Be said: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto Me". Today He tells men: What you understand with inward tolerance in the least of your brothers, even when he is mistaken, you have understood of Me, and I will let you overcome your prejudices when you convert those prejudices into tolerant reception of what others think and feel. — That is one thing; that, in regard to thinking, is the way to come to Christ. Then Christ can so permeate us that we not only have thoughts about Him but Christ can live in our thoughts. This, however, is only achieved in the way I have just described.
And secondly, in regard to the will. In youth the human being is sometimes idealistic. This is an inherent idealism and we have it simply by being born as human beings. Today, in this era, this idealism belonging to mankind is not enough. We now need a quite different kind — an idealism to which we educate ourselves; we do not have it simply by becoming human beings but by making an effort. It is this kind of idealism we need. We need the idealism we have ourselves acquired. It then becomes the idealism that will not vanish with youth, it will keep us young and idealistic throughout our life. If through training we make an idealism our own, then, on the basis not of logical law but of the law of reality, we bring to bear the driving force to place ourselves actively into the social organism in accordance with the very purport of this organism, instead of acting egoistically as an individual man. No one today who does not train himself to this self-acquired idealism will gain a true social understanding. The ex Deo nascimur is innate. The way to Christ is found on the one hand through supersensible thought, on the other hand through the will. It comes through the thought by our being convinced beforehand that nowadays we are born as men full of prejudice and must overcame our prejudice by tolerantly listening to the opinions of others, thus gaining right judgment. Where the way of the will is concerned, this will only be fired socially in the right way today when we have this self-acquired idealism, the idealism we drive into ourselves through our own activity. That is re-birth. And what we have found when we as men have gained it for ourselves leads us to the Christ. Not the God of Whom we say Ex Deo nascimur may we describe as Christ, for that is inwardly untrue. That God was known in the Old Testament. When we as men shall have transformed ourselves in life in the two directions mentioned, we shall clearly see the distinction between the God Who is pure Father and the God Who will then speak to us. For this God is the Christ.
Modern Theology actually speaks very little about this Christ. This Christ must eater men as a social impulse. What many people say today of Christ is intrinsically untrue. Now such things are not to be looked into as people today subtly present them, taking them logically, point by point. As I once told you recently, there is an understanding in accordance with reality different from one that is merely external and logical. But when man has developed in himself what I have called a re-birth, then human thinking will be brought near Christ, and we shall learn to think and feel as we must think and feel if, for the benefit and salvation of man, we are to place ourselves into human society. We shall also learn to think and feel rightly in other matters by thinking and feeling rightly on these fundamental things. From this, however, the spiritual life of modern mankind has travelled terribly far. And the reason is that this spiritual life has been absorbed by the political State. Man's spiritual life must be freed from the political State to become fruitful and full of impulse for human evolution. Otherwise all thinking will be dislocated and from this dislocation false realities will be created.
I have already referred to Wilson's definition of freedom. For anyone who has some understanding of philosophy it is not very important how a statesman of the day defines freedom. It is important, however, as symptom of what lives in a men when he has thoughts about freedom. Now Wilson says: We call free what adapts itself to certain conditions so that it can still move freely. Thus we say when in a machine the piston can move freely, when it does not knock against anything but can move without impediment — we say the piston runs free. Or a ship moves forward freely which is so built that it runs before the wind. If it run against the wind it is hampered and not free. So man is free when he fits in with the conditions of the social mechanism. There, then one can only speak of the social mechanism.
It is not very important that thoughts such as these live in a head and are realised; the importance lies in what is realised being experienced in such thoughts. Then one knows whether this is sound or the opposite of sound. The thinking is quite dislocated; and why? Now you need only reflect on the following with the experience you have gained from Spiritual Science: when you fit into the external conditions of your life, when your life is running according to this adapting oneself to conditions without impediment, then you are free, free as a ship is free when running with the wind. But man does not stand thus in the whole world: For if indeed the ship running before the wind does run freely, it must, however, sometimes also be able to stop. And that is just what is very important for man — that he can sometimes turn round and take his stand against the wind, so that he not only fits in with circumstances but can also adapt himself to what is within him. One cannot think of anything more foolish, more absurd, than Wilson's definition of freedom, for it is opposed to human nature and the very reverse of what lies at the basis of true freedom. If we compare a man with a ship running freely before the wind, we must also compare him with a ship that having run in a certain direction and not needing to go further, can turn to face the wind. For if a man has to proceed only in accordance with external conditions, he is naturally free in them but not in himself. We have completely lost sight of the human being today in our observation of the world and of life. He has dropped out of our considerations concerning life and the world. But he must once more be given a place in the world. [ Note 01 ]
This has its exceedingly serious side; here it is seen only as a symptom but it has a most serious side. For today the human being is placed into the social organism in such a way that really he is only running with the wind, and the capitalist ordering of economy has particularly destined the proletariat only to run with the wind, never to be able, as a rest, to stop and face the wind. In a public lecture in Basle I said that within the capitalist. economic system the capitalist uses only the labour of the workers; in a healthy social organism the capitalist must use the workers' leisure also. Abstract capitalistic capital needs only labour-power. Capital that, under the threefold order, will give back to men their purely human driving force will also use the leisure of the workers, the leisure indeed of all mankind. For that, capital must be placed into the social organism, it will know how it is to be sustained by the social organism and how it must in return sustain the organism.
It is a question of the proletariat being able to save their labour-power so as to be capable of taking part in the spiritual life; and it is a question of the will being there to allow the worker sufficient leisure, to leave him sufficient labour-power, that of himself he can join in this spiritual life. The bourgeois economic order has allowed a deep cleft gradually to arise. What it produces spiritually is valid only for this bourgeois order and is out of touch with proletarian life.
Capitalism has brought things to the point where only labour-power is considered and not the leisure of the proletariat. Today these matters still seem abstract. It should be so no longer, for upon understanding these things rightly depends the sound human evolution both of the present and the future.
Now I have once again given a few indications as to the relation to social life of some of the fundamental tenets of Anthroposophy. It would be very desirable if such a spiritual movement as ours should, as a little social organism in itself, cease this unhealthy separation — developed to man's hurt by appalling bourgeois concepts — of the economic life from the spiritual, and should seek health by permeating the concepts of practical life with the concepts of Spiritual Science. The social organism must so organise its different members that there will no longer be men who cut off coupons and in this coupon-cutting become nothing less than slave-drivers, since for the coupons they cut off, a number of people, with whom they have no connection, have to perform hard work. Afterwards the coupon-cutters go to Church and pray God to be saved, or they go to a meeting and talk theoretically about all sorts of beautiful things; but they have no conception of the foolishness of living such an abstract spiritual life that they can seek, on the one hand, a connection with a God, and on the other hand share in slave ownership and the exploitation of labour by this coupon-cutting. They separate these things in a way that is not salutary by not attempting to discover the salutary. This is what is in question, what has been neglected and what must be changed: this separation between the religion and ethics that float in a cloud-cuckoo-land, and the external life thoughtlessly pursued in the form given it today by an unsound social organism. Above all it must be recognised that the misfortunes of the present-day have come about through this separation by the bourgeoisie of the abstract from the concrete. If efforts are made to drive out all that shows itself in an unsound and sectarian form, it is in just such a movement as ours that there can be a first setting-up of a kind of small social organism that is sound. In our Anthroposophical Movement there is nothing from which we have had to suffer more than the repeated appearance of a tendency towards sectarianism. Without noticing it people strive towards some kind of separation. But Anthroposophy must be the reverse of sectarian. It will then meet the subconscious and unconscious contemporary demands which truly do not run to creating sects, but cultivate something that develops out of the whole man for all men and out of all men for the whole man.
Just consider how you, in your own souls, can get away from sectarianism. In countless souls today sectarianism lives like something atavistic, an unhealthy inheritance, because the will does not exist to carry the true life of the spirit into the conditions of external life. Only through such sectarian sentimentality could it happen that the Appeal of which I spoke yesterday should meet with the reproach that it was just from this direction that mention of the spiritual had been expected! But I have never been able to refer to the spiritual in the sense of these enthusiasts. When, in the beginning of the nineties, there spread in America the Adler-Unold Ethical Movement, I opposed it with all my might, because a movement for ethical culture was to be founded based on nothing, and connected with nothing in life, but a desire to give out ethical maxims. The understanding of life, life in its fundamentals, is what contemporary men need, not the fashioning of phrases as to how things should be done. In regard to the social organism, the threefold order is above all something to be studied fundamentally, investigated and given consideration, something to be taken deeply to heart, so that it may be mastered in the same way as the multiplication table is mastered.
1. See lecture 13.1.23 (Anthr.Qtly VI.1.)
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The Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin
The Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coins were minted from 1908-1915 and again in 1925-1925. Having only 15 series to collect, the popular incused coin makes it easy to complete. This also has it fair share of issues and controversies which only makes it more fun and satisfying for coin collectors to collect.
The History of the Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin
Gold coins issued at the start of the 20th Century usually have a life expectancy of no longer than fifty years. However, four of these gold coins are long overdue for a major change in design. For more than 60 years, three of these have been sporting the same portrait of Miss Liberty with a coronet.
All things changed in 1901 when the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was assassinated on the 6th of September of the same year. The slain president was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz two times in the chest, only to die eight days later.
President William Roosevelt was his successor and the man behind the reason why the US gold coins were redesigned. President Roosevelt has always been dynamic and an advocate for quintessential change – he wanted to influence the whole spectrum of national life, and the US Coinage was one of them.
He was the one who appointed Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a popular sculptor to create new designs for the double eagle and eagle gold piece. As a result, stunning new gold coins debuted in the year 1907, garnering great reviews. Roosevelt basked in self-glory after the release of the new gold coins were praised by the public. The following year, he also made sure to approve the creation of the new designs for the remaining two gold coins.
In 1908, the Gold Indian Head $2.50 or the Indian Head Quarter Eagle along with the Half Eagle, its companion, stand among the crowd of other coins back in the days. All the letterings and designs were submerged in a uniform, flat plane. If there is any in the design that exceeds the highest points of the fields, it would be the mint marks. Because of this, the coins have no rims raised to protect the details from wear.
A sculptor in Boston and a pupil of Augustus Saint-Gaudens named Bela Lyon Pratt was the brain behind the design of the Indian Head $2.50 and replaced the long-running design of the Liberty Head. The head of the coin, also called as the obverse was changed from the Eagle motif into a portrait of an American Indian. It was believed that this is the first time that a real Native American was used and featured on a US coin.
US Mint (coin), National Numismatic Collection (photograph by Jaclyn Nash), NNC-US-1908-G$2½-Indian Head, size by Bonnie Mattie, CC BY-SA 4.0
As mentioned, the obverse features a realistic Indian who looks brave in a war bonnet. LIBERTY is found on top of the Indian's head while the date rests below the portrait's bum. Thirteen starts were scattered on either side of the Indian.
As for the reverse, it shows an eagle resting on fasces and an olive branch which serves as the symbol or peace and preparedness. Four different inscriptions were incorporated into the design – namely UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN GOD WE TRUST, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and the denomination 2 ½ DOLLARS. The same design was used for the Indian Head Half eagle.
The Indian Head $2.50 Gold coin has a reeded edge and is made up of 90% Gold and 10% Copper. It weighs approximately 4.18 grams and is 18 mm in diameter. The coin's designer, Bela Lyon Pratt succeeded in placing all four inscriptions in the design without making it looked cramped and unbalanced. He was able to do this thanks to his excellent and judicious placement of the inscriptions as well as the size of the letters.
When the coin was released, the public had mixed reactions, to say the least. Although some are able to appreciate the beauty of the coin as well as the artistic merits of the design, some found ways to criticize the Gold Indian Head $2.50. The critics claimed that the main designs – the Indian portrait as well as the Eagle were not properly represented. There were also some who claims the coins cannot be stacked properly. The coin's unconventional design did not go unnoticed by the public's eye.
Samuel H. Chapman, a coin dealer in Philadelphia have warned President Roosevelt regarding the imposing problems that the Gold Indian Head $2.5 will eventually face. For one, the sunken design can easily be counterfeited. Another issue brought up by Chapman was the fact that dirt can easily accumulate on the surface of the coin which harbors numerous types of diseases that easily be transmitted once out and used in the public commerce. President Roosevelt did not waver and stayed loyal to the coins.
From 1908, the Indian Head Gold Quarter Coins were minted up until 1915, when the US Mint decided to stop the production for almost 10 years. After a decade, minting resumed from 1925 until 1929, when the Indian Head Gold Quarter Coin series finally came to an end. It became one of the victims of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
When the most devastating crash in the stock market occurred, many coins were removed from the circulation. Since gold was needed to create the Indian Head Gold Quarter coins, the Wall Street Crash, also known as the Great Crash, gold coins were recalled and the Indian Head Gold Quarter failed to make a comeback.
The Indian Head Gold Quarter only has a total of 15 date-mint combinations. The two US Mints that produced these coins are the Denver Mint and the Philadelphia Mint. With only 3 issues from Denver and a total of 12 issues released from the Philadelphia Mint, it quickly became the smallest series among all US coins ever minted. Those minted in Denver has the mintmark D, while those mint in Philadelphia bears no mint mark.
The Gold Indian Head $2.50 Coin Series according to the PCGS Coin Facts
Regular Strike:
1908 Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin –564,821 coins minted
1911-D Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin –55,600 coins minted
1912 Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin -616,000 coins minted
1914-D Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin -448,000 coins minted
1908 Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin (Proof) – 236 coins minted
1909 Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin (Proof) -139 coins minted
Collecting Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coins
Because the design of this gold coin is recessed, it keeps the design protected from wear, but can also be a hindrance when it comes to grading the coin. When grading an Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coin, the Indian's cheekbone, the feathers on his headdress as well as the shoulder of the eagle's left wing are the areas you should focus to try and look for wear.
Despite its relatively high price, Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coins makes it easy for collectors to obtain this selection since you only need 15 combinations to complete the series of regular strike coins. The price range of the Indian Head $2.50 ranges from $210.00 up to $225,000.00 for the MS66 PCGS-graded 1911-D Strong D. That and the fact that the 1911-D is the only regular strike Indian Head $2.50 Gold coin that has low mintage rate – with only 55,600 coins produced in Denver. All dates from the series are readily available in MS or mint state, all except for the 1911-D.
The Indian Head $2.50 Gold Coins may have a history with a fair share of criticism, but that doesn't make it less desirable among coin collectors. Despite all the controversies it went through during the time these were issued, one can't hide the fact that it is one intriguing yet an equally satisfying collection to complete.
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Over the weekend, I planned out our children's Easter Baskets for this year. While I was at it, I decided to share the following list of ideas - some for this year and others that we have used in the past - tying in our beautiful Catholic faith and the true meaning of Easter.
Just like on the feast of St. Nicholas, when we give our children each an Advent/Christmas themed book, we have always given our children a new book on Easter. Over the years we have built a wonderful collection of Picture Books for Easter!
Also, now that my boys are getting a little older (and since the UPS man didn't arrive until 8pm on Rascal's Birthday) I decided to give them each a new chapter books, Lost in Peter's Tomb and Break-In at the Basilica . This looks like such a great series, and I am excited to give them to the boys.
.: Coloring Books and/or Art Supplies :.
The Holy Imitation Series :: Life of Jesus , Mother of God , Holy Name of Jesus, Eucharistic Adoration, and The Rosary .
Catholic Story Coloring Books :: All these coloring books include beautiful stories by Mary Fabyan Windeatt.
Catholic Mosaic Coloring Book :: I am sure most of you already own a copy of Fenestrae Fidei: A Coloring Companion for Catholic Mosaic, but if not, you really should consider adding it to your collection. I love that the illustrator and publisher gives permission for copies to be made for family use!
Art Supplies :: I have been slowly adding to our supply of quality art supplies. The Stockmar Modeling Beeswax that I purchased for the Alphabet Path was expensive, but it has inspired so much creativity in our children! They still use it on a weekly basis.
This year I ordered a cute little set of Crayon Rocks in a Cotton Muslin Bag for Snuggles. I think he is going to love them!
.: Catholic and/or Easter Stickers :.
Trademark Stationary :: These traditional and inspiring stickers are my favorite!
RosaryCard.Net :: Here you will also find a great assortment of Catholic Stickers, in addition to free shipping!
Autom :: Although you have to puchase these in bulk, Autom has a great variety to choose from. Including all the stickers that can also be found (occasionally) at the Dollar Store. It wouldn't be hard to find a few friends to split an order with!
Amazon :: I love so many of the little Dover Sticker Book, and so do my children. I ordered a number of the religious themed sticker books to put in this year's Easter Baskets including Angels in Art , Shiny Crosses , Celtic Crosses , and Littlest Angel Stickers . All of these qualify for Amazon's 4-for-3 promotion!
I also ordered (and LOVE) some of the old-fashioned Easter Stickers including Old-Time Bunny Rabbit Stickers, Glitter Old-Time Easter Stickers, Old-Time Easter Stickers, and Old-Time Easter Animals Stickers.
We don't generally put a whole lot of candy in our children's Easter Baskets - they usually end up with plenty from their Easter Egg Hunt. I do like putting in a Chocolate Cross each year and sometimes (when I can find them) the little Lindt Chocolate Lambs.
This year I am planning on making my own candy to include in the baskets. I already have the mold to make Easter Lily Lollipops and I also decided to order a larger cross mold (I currently only have this small cross and bible molds ). Amazon has quite a few Cross Candy Molds to choose from, but I ended up choosing this one and this one . I am also thinking about ordering a lamb mold as well, although the nativity mold I already have would work just fine, if I am not able to find the Lindt Lambs this year.
To tie in each of my Children's Patron Saints, I have decided to include a Hand-Painted Wooden Saint for each of them. Inspired, back in 2008, by the Wee Felt Saints used in the Alphabet Path, I decided to paint our own Alphabet of Saints. My children just love these little dolls and really enjoy playing with them! Along the way I have added a few others to our collection and this past year I painted a couple larger saints for Rose's first birthday. I have purchased/been given a few saints that I will put in the baskets this year, in addition to painting a couple more myself. I have found Woodworks LTD to be a great place to purchase the little wood people and wooden toy parts.
I am often asked whether or not I would be willing to sell any of my little saints. You all are so sweet, but, to be honest, I think you'd be much happier with the darling dolls from Catholic Folk Toys, St. Luke's Brush, or St. Anne's Pixies - these (real) artists are able to add so much lovely detail to their dolls, unlike myself. If I ever find the time to paint some (very plain and simple) extras, I will let you know!
Another option would be to make your children darling Saint Dolls using Amy's Crochet Saint Patterns or Charlotte's Saints 'N Stiches. Or you could always order the cute little Saint Softies from Saintly Silver.
.: Religious Medals, Scapulars and Rosaries :.
Often I will tuck in a new medal, rosary, or scapular into a little easter egg. I've been noticing that all of my children's scaplars have pretty much fallen apart this past year, so we will be including a new brown scapular in each of their baskets.
.: Holy Cards and Games :.
Various Holy Cards, Holy Traders , Vessels & Vestments, and other Small Catholic games would be great additions to Easter Baskets. I am thinking of making each a couple new card games for my children, like our Saint Joseph Memory Match Playing Cards.
I hope you are all having a blessed and fruitful Lent!
Thank you for this list! I have been trying to find the Stations of the Cross and Rosary stickers at my Dollar Tree without any luck, and am so happy to hear that I can purchase them online.
Oh thank you Jessica!! This is great! Easter is sneaking up on us fast, isn't it? Yikes!
There are so many fantastic links here I don't know where to start. THANK YOU!
Which size peg dolls did you get for your Alphabet of Saints? My mother-in-law is an artist by trade, and if you don't mind, I think I'm going to have her make a set just like yours for us, including the kids' patron Saints. I LOVE this idea and was just telling my mom about doing the same sort of thing for my kiddos for Easter!
I love those ideas- thank´s for sharing! God bless from Germany, Nicole.
Great ideas!! Thanks for sharing all the links, too!
Sarah ~ The majority of our dolls (including the Alphabet of Saints) are all made with the 2 3/8" Doll. I've used the larger 3 1/2" Doll for the ones I painted for my littlest one. Hope that helps!
Sarah ~ I actually checked Target this past weekend - that is where I usually purchase them - and ours didn't have them. :( I will have to check again. . . Maybe they were just out of stock and they will get more in.
Thank you for all of the wonderful ideas!! You are very creative and have really helped our family bring the liturgical year into our home. I found it fun to know your family is linked to the Fraternity of St. Peter too. My brother is a Fraternity priest. God bless and blessed Lent.
Thank you so much for a wonderful post! I love your ideas and am now thinking, maybe I'll try my own hand at making the children's chocolate treats with molds. I love your blog!!
What are you using for the candy molds? Do the Wilton Candy Melts come out shiny like that or are you using something else?
I really love the lily mold and think that would be fun to make for Easter.
These are great ideas! I looked at our Catholic bookstore for ideas last year and unfortunately didn't have much luck!
Angela ~ It looks like I somehow missed answering your question. . . Yes, I am just using the Wilton Candy Melts. They work beautifully as long as they are fresh, and if you don't over heat the candy when melting it!
What great ideas, while I have no problem figuring out St. Nicholas Day and Christmas gifts I am at a loss to pick out Easter Basket items. I don't want a basket filled with candy and dollar store toys. I want gifts that are meaningful and faith filled. Now I wish I had read this post before i bought the fillings for the baskets.
Hi Barb, I somehow missed answering your question... We don't decorate our home for Easter until late on Holy Saturday. We do decorate with lots of purple and all of our Lenten "decorations" from Holy Week through Good Friday, and then I usually replace them with the Easter decorations after my kids go to bed on Holy Saturday, leaving it out until Pentecost Sunday.


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Innovative Technologies Celebrated on Digital Learning Day
Nearly two million students and thousands of teachers in hundreds of school districts were encouraged to embrace innovative learning technologies that provide students with a rich and personalized educational experience.
On the inaugural Digital Learning Day, students across the nation were encouraged to try something new, showcase success, kick off project-based learning, or focus on how digital tools can help improve student outcomes, writes Katherine Shulten at the New York Times.
The intention of the day is to promote vital new learning resources and look to advance the important questions on the "digital divide" — like examining the educational value of the Internet, how machines can augment teaching and if computers are changing the way we think.
With iPads making their way into kindergarten classrooms from Maine to Tennessee, it may seem like a given that American education is embracing technology for the rising generation, writes Stacy Teicher Khadaroo at the Christian Science Monitor.
However, only 40 percent of teachers in the country claimed to use some kind of computer regularly during instructional time. Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, believes that it's time for that to rise.
"It is time we stop asking students to 'power down' when they go to school and instead to 'power up' and use their interest in technology as a new way to learn," he said.
Richard Halverson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, believes that one of the biggest barriers for K-12 school systems is suspicion.
"You have this real split awareness…. For the people who use [such tools] … they are invaluable. [But] for many K-12 schools, it threatens the existing relationship between teachers and students, and it's seen as … something to be controlled and banned rather than something to be exploited for learning purposes."
Lawrence H. Summers is former president of Harvard University and former secretary of the Treasury. He spoke to the New York Times on the difficulty of changing the philosophies behind higher education curriculum in the face of new technologies:
"With few exceptions, just as in the middle of the 20th century, students take four courses a term, each meeting for about three hours a week, usually with a teacher standing in front of the room. Students are evaluated on the basis of examination essays handwritten in blue books and relatively short research papers. Instructors are organized into departments, most of which bear the same names they did when the grandparents of today's students were undergraduates. A vast majority of students still major in one or two disciplines centered on a particular department."
Summers doesn't believe that this kind of system reflects the structure of society anymore.
"For most people, school is the last time they will be evaluated on individual effort. One leading investment bank has a hiring process in which a candidate must interview with upward of 60 senior members of the firm before receiving an offer. What is the most important attribute they're looking for? Not GMAT scores or college transcripts, but the ability to work with others. As greater value is placed on collaboration, surely it should be practiced more in our nation's classrooms."
Summers believes that these new technologies will revolutionize the ways in which knowledge is taught:
"Electronic readers allow textbooks to be constantly revised, and to incorporate audio and visual effects.
"Similarly, it makes sense for students to watch video of the clearest calculus teacher or the most lucid analyst of the Revolutionary War rather than having thousands of separate efforts."
He also wants to see more video technology used in classroom, citing medical students at Harvard who use accelerated video lectures and are said to feel more focused and able to take in more material faster than when they attended lectures in person.
"We are not rational calculating machines but collections of modules, each programmed to be adroit at a particular set of tasks. Not everyone learns most effectively in the same way. And yet in the face of all evidence, we rely almost entirely on passive learning. Students listen to lectures or they read and then are evaluated on the basis of their ability to demonstrate content mastery. They aren't asked to actively use the knowledge they are acquiring."
He believes that "Active learning classrooms," whereby students are clustered at tables with integrated technology that helps professors interact with their students through the use of media and collaborative experiences are the best examples of where technology meets learning in the most effective way.
But more is required than just flashy devices. He adds:
"Still, with the capacity of modern information technology, there is much more that can be done to promote dynamic learning."
To mark Digital Learning Day, the NEA Foundation joined with Microsoft to launch the Challenge to Innovate (C2i) Competition, which looks to engage young people with using new technologies in innovative ways.
The challenge invites educators to trade ideas about how to use interactive technology and game-based learning to meet students where they want to be — having fun while they learn. Ideas can be posted, discussed, and evaluated on the Department of Education's Open Innovation Portal and ten winning ideas will receive $1,000 cash awards.
Harriet Sanford, President and CEO of the NEA Foundation, said:
"Nine out of 10 kids, between the ages of two and 17, play electronic games in the U.S, according to a recent national study. Should these new tools be limited to simple fun, or can they open new doors to learning?
"The next great teaching frontier is light years away from chalk and erasers. If we change the classroom conversation from a one-way exercise to an engaging process that is constantly being renewed and refined, what would happen? Can gaming and education be combined in effective ways?"
In this new age of technological innovation, the Foundation wants to explore ways to exchange ideas and identify innovative solutions to a range of instructional challenges.
To date, more than 9,350 individuals have joined the C2i community.
Proposed solutions for the gaming challenge will be accepted from Jan. 23 through March 5, 2012.
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Q: Getting difference between 2 dates I want to get the number of days, hours and minutes between two dates. How do I do this?

A: I have not found a Ruby-ish seconds_to_hours function (although it's trivial to build), but there is an obvious solution at the bottom of this post.
s = Time.now
e = Time.now + 3.hours
d = e - s
 => 10803.318176

Note: This value is simply a float, representing the seconds between the two date values.
I would like that to return hours. To do so, you divide by the time, in seconds.
b = d / 1.hour.seconds
 => 3.0009217155555556

My goal was to get a decimal value of hours, rounded to the nearest 6 minutes, so:
r = b.round(1)
 => 3.0

To sum it all up:
r = ((e - s) / 1.hour.seconds).round(1)
 => 3.0

A: d3=d1-d2
d3.days
d3.hours
d3.min
d3.sec
#etc...

Note: This is the answer to the original question, not to the different question it was edited into after the answer was posted.
However, as @dukedave mentioned in the comments, this isn't really a working answer. Please use @RealCasually's answer below.

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Sept. 2, 2013 -- In today's economy, it's even more important to make good decisions about the care of our horses. The more you know about horse health, the better. But where do we draw the line between making our own decisions on our horses' health and soliciting the advice of a veterinarian?
This is where Horse Side Vet Guide (HSVG) comes in. Horse Side Vet Guide is a brand new app for iPhone users (Android versions will be released soon) that is designed to help caretakers of horses (and other equines) make better health care decisions for their horses.
Importantly, HSVG is observation-based. It is all about what you actually see, not what you assume you see. It is about making you the best observer you can be, and then guiding you as to what to do once you have made those observations.
"Understandably, horse owners are turning to the Internet more and more for information about horse health, sometimes instead of calling the veterinarian," said Thal. "Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't. Too often, this approach results in a delayed diagnosis and ultimately increased cost to the horse owner.
"It occurred to me that there might be a way to educate my clients via a smart phone application that provides credible equine health information "Horse-Side"–-literally while standing in the stall and looking at your horse," Thal continued.
Horse Side Vet Guide was made with the horse owner in mind.
Assist In any situation in which you notice a problem with a horse, you can input the words that describe your perception of the problem. HSVG shows you relevant observations, provides a summary of the observation, and lists what other observations to look for. It tells the user how concerned they should be, the factors that determine how urgent the situation is, what to do until the veterinarian arrives, and much, much more. Starting with your observation, HSVG gets you oriented and educated.
Educate HSVG provides an ability to explore the world of equine healthcare from an aerial perspective: You can browse any of the database tables for concise descriptions of hundreds of: Horse Owner Observations, Vet Diagnostics, Vet Diagnoses, Vet Treatments, Horse Owner Skills, or Horse Owner Supplies. Again, HSVG's unique relational structure allows you to see the big picture--how one thing relates to another--like no other resource ever developed.
Develop Skills HSVG can teach you, your students and staff how to become competent partners in the health care of the horse. Users will always have access to 114 carefully selected skills on their phones. This is done through the use of short, concise descriptions, photos, diagrams and videos. There are 20 high-quality "Quick Reference" videos, dozens of anatomical drawings, and the whole database itself is resident on the phone without an Internet connection.
Improved Communications HSVG improves communication between users and their local veterinarian. The "My Vets" feature puts important vet contact information at your fingertips and encourages the dialog.
Customize You can customize the content by using the "notes" feature, in which you can attach your own personalized notes to any individual record within the database. This allows you to customize the database with information from other sources, especially content provided by veterinarians and other reliable sources.
Share You can quickly and easily share (through e-mail, Twitter and Facebook) a topic from within HSVG.
Quick Reference This features 20 high-quality videos demonstrating key examination and treatment skills. Also included is a group of anatomical drawings created especially for horse owners and equine professionals. These images were created by Thal, then a professional artist cleaned them up and formatted them.
Quiz Take the quiz to get a sense of what you know. In the future there will be more quizzes.
Horse Side Vet Guide is not structured as a simple decision tree that takes you down a singular path based on your input. It is not a substitute for your local equine veterinarian. It does not, and cannot, anticipate and address all of the subtle variations and unique circumstances associated with your horse's health. That is your veterinarian's job.
Horse Side Vet Guide is intended to increase the quality of communication between you and your equine veterinarian for the benefit of your horse.
To download the application for iPhone or for further information, please visit https://itunes.apple.com/app/id663353024 or www.horsesidevetguide.com. Follow us at www.facebook.com/horsesidevetguide and http://twitter.com/horsesidevet.
Doug Thal, DVM, Dipl. ABVP, has been a horseman his entire life. His father was a steeplechase rider and polo player. He grew up on a family cattle and horse ranch and has been riding and training horses since early childhood. He has been an equine veterinarian for over 20 years working on a mix of performance and pleasure horses. His special interests are lameness and surgery. Thal is board certified in Eqine Practice by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners. He continues to manage his equine veterinary practice, Thal Equine, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can see more about his veterinary practice at www.thalequine.com.
Version 2.0 of the Zoetis EQStable app offers the new Vet Finder feature powered by GlobalVetLINK, providing an interactive map to search for equine veterinary clinics and gas stations within a specified area.
Sept. 21, 2013 -- The Horse Side Vet Guide is offering horse owners a chance to win either a $100 Dover Saddlery gift certificate or one of five free downloads of the IOS app.
SUMMIT, N.J. – Feb. 28, 2012 – Merck Animal Health Unveils New Websites to Help Horse Owners Understand these two devasting diseases.
Sept. 12, 2013 -- Vaccinations are important for horse health and worth the investment, especially when considering the cost of disease and treatment.
New Version of EQStable App by Zoetis Offers Customized Individualized Deworming Plans and More!
The free new EQStable app for Apple operating systems (iPhone, iPad, etc.) allows you to manage your horse's health care, track and share rides, has a reminder calendar, access to digital health certificates, and more!


As day slips softly into night, sharp eyes catch glimpses of the special creatures who are active at dusk.
Lyrical text and lush art capture the richness and life of this magical time in a sumptuous picture book that will inspire budding naturalists and anyone who has ever chased a lightning bug at twilight. An author's note about twilight is included.
Holly Thompson was raised in New England and is a longtime resident of Japan. The author of the children's novels in verse Falling Into the Dragon's Mouth, The Language Inside, and Orchards, Holly teaches creative writing and splits her time between Japan and Massachusetts. Visit her online at hatbooks.com and on Twitter at @hatbooks.
Jen Betton is a freelance illustrator and college art instructor. She holds a BFA in painting from the University of Central Florida and an MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University. Twilight Chant is the first picture book she has illustrated. She lives in Arlington, MA. Visit her online at jenbetton.com and on Twitter @JenBetton.


I am lucky to live in between a wild Ocean and a luxurious & fantastic nature. I have always been an outdoor animal. Younger I used to surf & windsurf, ski & trek. Getting older and having a sore back (very bad ski accident), I no longer seek for adrenaline but nice & easy outdoor activities.
CANOEING : on the Ocean, on the lake or the river, it is a marvelous and easy way to access to places you cannot walk to on land. You're alone on the water, the scenery is awesome, the noises of nature louder and you can discover wild life you don't even imagine from land. Effortless, or almost if you're chose well your weather conditions (wind, waves and kind of water where to practice). You can even take your dogs with you. take a 2 day trip and stop for a camp at night. Kids will love this and I bet you too.
SCUBA DIVING & SNORKELING: I took my PADI when I was 25 and I never regretted it. When travelling in exotic place it is a must do for me to visit the bottom of the sea :-). I had a fabulous dive in The Seychelles and the loveliest things I saw in Egypt were underwater. PADI is worldwide known and is for me the safest way to scuba dive (both gears and rules). Snorkeling is fun too. No fuss with gears :-). Recently some companies have really improved snorkeling gears: mask in which you can nose breathe & snorkel waterproof ^^… Kids love snorkeling when at the beach. The best way for me to adopt or being adopted by the Ocean.
And I keep CANYONING, RAFTING, KAYAKING, SAILING & BOATING for next time.


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Q: Duplicate an entire Wordpress site in the same domain I have a live site built in Wordpress at www.site.com/name1.
The client wants a new theme.  I've heavily modified the current theme with custom code and will need to do so with the new theme, all without interrupting the live site, so this wont be as simple as moving the site from one theme to another.  Therefore I think I need to create a duplicate of the site at www.site.com/name2 because the content will all be the same.  Doing this will give me a place to work on the redesign.
What is the best way to go about doing this?  Should I have both use the same DB or not?  When I get ready to go live should i simple redirect the domain to /name2 or move everything at /name2 to /name1?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

A: If you want the same Data you can use the same DB but there is somes Options Tables dans Meta tables in the Wordpress DB, then if you change parameters on one site it will affect the other.
If you just recode the Theme without touching anything in the configuration you can use the same DB to test your theme with valid datas, but if you think you'll have to change paramaters i would prefer duplicate the Production DB to a Test DB to secure the production Website.
When you go live you'll just have to move your theme to the production website and copy your Option and Meta Tables.

A: If you're at a point where you're having clients, you should definitely develop locally. This will free you from the trouble of mistakingly messing up the production site.

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*Install Apache, MySQL and PHP on your own machine.

*Copy database and files from production.

*Change anything you'd like without exposing it to the Internet.

*Upload your new, tailor-suited theme to production when it's ready to go live.