Malia Duffy is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a Master of Science in Public Health. She earned degrees from Simmons College, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University where she was a Presidential Scholar.
She has been working domestically with immigrant, refugee, and homeless populations to improve health-seeking behaviors, address vulnerability, and provide non-communicable and infectious disease and primary care clinical services. She has also worked across sub-Saharan Africa; Eastern Europe; Central and Southeast Asia; and Latin America and the Caribbean focusing on training healthcare workers, developing and implementing public health programs.
Duffy's primary areas of focus include HIV and AIDS, mental health, comprehensive service integration including for infectious and non-communicable diseases, and adolescents/youth.
Duffy teaches in the Master of Public Health program with a focus on global and behavioral, social and environmental health.
Nasaba, Rosemary, Denis Tindyebwa, Victor Musiime, Robert Iriso, Resty Ingabire, Denis Nansera, Monica Etima-Kizito, Joseylee Kasule, and Malia Duffy (2018). Pocket Guide on Counselling and Psychosocial Care for Children and Adolescents Living with and Affected by HIV in Africa. Kampala, Uganda: The African Network for the Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA).
Chandani Y, Duffy M, Lamphere B, Noel M, Heaton A, Andersson S (2016). Quality improvement practices to institutionalize supply chain best practices for iCCM: Evidence from Rwanda and Malawi, Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.07.003.
Levy, Marcy, Lyn Messner, Malia Duffy, and Jennifer Casto. 2016. Strengthening Linkages Between Clinical and Social/Community Services for Children and Adolescents who Have Experienced Sexual Violence: A Companion Guide. Arlington, VA: Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project.
Duffy, Malia, S Lamstein, C Lutter, and P Koniz-Booher. 2015. Review of Programmatic Responses to Adolescent and Women's Nutrition Needs in Low and Middle Income Countries. Arlington, VA: USAID/Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project.
Duffy, Malia H., Heather Bergmann, and Melissa Sharer. 2013. Toolkit for Transition of Care and Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Duffy, Malia H., Melissa Sharer, and Andrew Fullem. 2013. Training Manual for the Toolkit for Transition of Care and Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV-Training Manual. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Pitorak, Heather, Heather Bergmann, Andrew Fullem, and Malia H. Duffy. 2013. Mapping HIV Services and Policies for Adolescents: A Survey of 10 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Duffy, Malia H., and Helen Cornman. 2013. Standard Operating Procedures for Integration of Mental Health and HIV in Zimbabwean Communities. Boston, MA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Duffy, Malia H. and Melissa Sharer. 2013. Workshop for Integrating Mental Health Services into HIV Programs in Zimbabwean Communities. Training of Trainer's Manual. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Duffy, Malia. 2013. Swinging to New Heights: Linking Resources to Build an Integrated Care Network for OVC and their Caregivers in Nigeria. Case Study Series. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Duffy, Malia. 2013. Practical Information and Guidance for Integrating Maternal Newborn and Child Health and HIV Programs in Developing Countries Within a Continuum of Health and Social Services. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Pitorak, Heather, Malia H. Duffy, and Melissa Sharer. 2012. "There is no Health without Mental Health": Mental Health and HIV Service Integration in Zimbabwe, Situational Analysis. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order.
Duffy, Malia H., and Cornman, Helen. 2012 International AIDS Conference: Where the Tide Will Turn: How is Community Level Participation Most Effective in Turning the Tide? Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
Johnson, Kristin L., Malia H. Duffy, John M. Carper, Bisola O. Ojikutu. 2012. Health Information Technology for Continuous Quality Improvement of Antiretroviral Treatment-Related Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources. AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.


I remember being younger, more specifically in my late teens and early twenties and complaining about things older folks did. Why couldn't they just change their ways or do things differently. As I'm in my thirties now, I'm starting to realise that as we age, we develop habits that we're sometimes not even aware of. Also changing some of those habits could be quite a challenge, especially if we've been doing them for quite some time. I recently started dating someone and it's been interesting how he's been able to highlight aspects of my personality that I've never noticed. Some of these qualities I'm actually quite ashamed of and know that I need to work on and some are just simple little quirks. I complained about things my parents or elders did when I was younger and as I'm older now, I'm starting to realise that changing some of those habits is not always the easiest thing to do as you've become comfortable with your way of living. This is a gentle reminder for me to not judge others as it's very easy for me to end up in the same predicament I once judged someone harshly for. Having someone analyse you when you think you've been doing so many things the right way, when in fact you haven't, is a real eye-opener. I'm enjoying my time with my new guy so far and I'm thankful for his openness and honesty and I hope it's something that will be well reciprocated by him when I need to highlight some of his quirks.


We are committed to develop the best potential in every child for India's progress and for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
St. Paul's Vidyalaya was founded on 7 June 1985 in Chittoor town, Andhra Pradesh with 110 students. It is an English medium school catering to the children in the poorer section of Chittoor town. The school provides good standard of instructions in written and spoken English language. It had a humble beginning where lessons began in a shed. Kindergarten classes and formal education up to Standard VII were conducted on rented premises until 30 July 2008 when we have our own building.
The student population has hit the peak of 320. Over 20 years, the prayer request on every child's lips was to have a permanent place. God listens to every child's prayer. Now, we have eight new classrooms to house these children. Another eight more classrooms will be added under the second phase construction of the School Building project. We hope to have these new classrooms ready for the next students' intake in June 2009.
By that time, the school should be well equipped to conduct classes up to Standard X, which prepares students to take the State of Andhra Pradesh Board final examinations. With 16 classrooms, the capacity for school admission can be raised to 400. We conduct daily morning devotions on the sacred text written in the Holy Bible and prayer at the beginning of each new day. We have developed close ties with Singapore teacher friends who come regularly to help raise the teaching standard of instruction in the areas of English, Science and Mathematics. Under the flagship of St. Paul's Vidyalaya, the school structure is organized into SPV Kindergarten (for children aged 4-5 years old); SPV Primary School (Standard I to V) and SPV High School (Standard VI to X). In the near future, we hope to establish a SPV Junior College for Plus 1 and Plus 2 classes.
The school crest was designed by Miss Venetia Chew and unveiled on 1 December 2008 at an SPV Christmas concert. Click here to understand its significance.


If a computer can play more evenly than a human pianist, is the difference worth it?
My answer requires that we think 'through' time as it evolves or passes in the performance. A phrase of music, especially in the hands of a master composer, is something that ends up with a balance of opposing forces, but does not start that way. It is like a seesaw (with the fulcrum at the mid-point). Person "B" (for beginning of the phrase) sits down on one end and the horizontal line that the see saw would have if in a balanced state is replaced by one end touching the ground and the other end twice as far from the ground as it would be if things were level.
Person "E" (for end of the phrase) sits down near the center of the see saw. Although of the same weight as person B, from E's initial position the see saw is still well out of balance. But gradually through time (as the phrase evolves), E begins to move along the see saw until she reaches the opposite end from B. The seesaw is now in balance. While the seesaw can remain in this state indefinitely if E and B don't move from their positions, this state exists only transiently in music; at the moment of the completion of the phrase, just as another phrase begins, and there is another general progress towards a balance of musical forces.
I grant that this description is over simplistic, but it is true to the basic principles of good playing.
However if the human rendition is too uneven, and duration through time doesn't eventuate into a dynamic balance or equilibrium, then it is preferable to listen to the computer play its notes, where each quarter note is exactly equal in duration to every other.
I had an early experience of this. In the 1980's, when computers were still rare, so were recorded performances of Bach's 215 cantatas. There were few choices. One of the first recorded performances of most of the cantatas was conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The playing was so bad in general, that just hearing the computer sound the correct pitches at the correct times, in the correct rhythm, was sufficient to reveal the greatness of Bach's music. In this case, the computer's rendition was vastly preferable to the human rendition.
The see-saw analogy of a musical phrase in this blog and in 'Introducing the Beginner to the Keyboard' is brilliant. And the insight into clarifying playing at octave intervals in 'Melodies in Octaves': also brilliant.
Perhaps the question could be rephrased: "Which would you rather listen to, a poor human player playing sublimely composed music or a computer rigidly reproducing a score?", Joe. Your example at the end points this out.
When extending this to composers other than Bach (and there was a reason that 'Switched on Bach' wasn't 'Switched on Chopin') I think the question of whether a computer, even now, can interpret a composer's intentions better than a poor or even mediocre human player is not settled. Even if it were to be settled in the computer's favor (does that even make sense?) the point is whether you, as a human, would rather listen to and watch a human relating a human composer's work to you, another human, or listen to (and watch?) a computer get in the middle of things. To take the discussion a bit wider, would robotic baseball be more fun to watch than the simply human?
Psychology and even errors are part of the game, I think, whether we talk about baseball or music.


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Moonwalk (baile), paso de baile hecho famoso por el cantante Michael Jackson.
Moonwalk (libro), libro autobiográfico del mismo Michael Jackson (ISBN: 0749313382).

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Visit to ASEAN Headquarters, Jakarta, Indonesia
President Randolf Sevidal Vicente with Honorary Presidents Pingeran Matusin Matasan and Vice President Ady Ruchiatan visited the Office of His Excellency Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia
In pursuance to the mandate and obligations of the ASEAN FLAG, being a Civil Society Organization duly recognized and accredited by ASEAN, President Randy organized a visit-meeting on 11 April 2019 at around 11:00 AM with His Excellency (HE) Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary General of ASEAN. The visit was in deed a pronouncement of President Randy during his inaugural speech in Brunei during the 14th South East Asia Survey Congress saying that: "During my watch, I will see to it that ASEAN FLAG will reach the platform of ASEAN".
The ASEAN FLAG delegation headed by President Randy was cordially received by HE Lim and Mr. Tan Tai Hoing, Assistant Director, Market Integration Directorate, ASEAN Economic Community Department. The meeting started with a short welcoming message from HE Lim. It was followed by an expression of gratitude from President Randy for the warm accommodation. The discussion continued with the purposes of the visit-meeting which include the following: (a) invitation for HE Lim as Keynote Speaker in the 15th Southeast Asia Survey Congress (SEASC) in Darwin, Australia on 14 – 18 August 2019; (b) Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) in pursuance to the objectives of the Coordinating Committee on Services (CCS); (c) ASEAN Land Governance Events; (d) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management; and (e) other matters.
Considering that HE Lim does not have anything on above said dates based on his appointment book, he mentioned that he may be able to attend the Congress in Darwin. On the matter of MRA-CCS, Mr. Matusin gave a short background on and status of MRA in Surveying for the appreciation of the Secretary General. President Randy likewise mentioned that there is a proposal covering Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) for the "Establishment of a Legal Framework on Surveying Registration and Licensing to Facilitate Free Movement of Professional Land Surveyor in ASEAN", which is being discussed in the recent meetings of the Competent Authorities (MoCA) for Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) in Surveying. HE Lim was requested to support the initiative by way of endorsing the same to possible funding agencies or institutions so that the objectives of the said proposal will be realized. Nonetheless, HE Lim assured the delegation that they will look into it and see how it can be properly endorsed to funding institutions. He added that they will work with the Competent Authorities as well as ASEAN FLAG and other relevant partners.
President Randy handed-over the two Declarations signed by the guests and delegates of the First and Second ASEAN Land Governance Summits held in Manila and Sabah on 4 and 5 December 2017 and 15 and 16 August 2018, respectively. It was requested that the contents of the two Declarations serve as guide in future related initiatives and that support of HE Lim was sought for the realization of the intent and spirit of said documents. Along this line, VP Ady gave a brief situationer concerning the Indonesian scenario on land governance insinuating, among others, the call for stronger regional ties/cooperation and urgent need to expedite the documentation and approval of ASEAN MRA in Surveying. President Randy promised HE Lim that the Federation will continue to sustain regional cooperation and foster genuine fellowship and camaraderie among Surveyors in the region.
Before the meeting ended up, President Randy conveyed his heartfelt gratitude for the warm accommodation and for a very fruitful meeting. A special token of appreciation was subsequently handed-over to HE Lim.
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Second Philippine Surveying and Mapping Summit held in Manila
26th MoCA held at Imperial Hotel and Country Club, Brunei Darussalam
The Council of ASEAN FLAG conferred Honorary Presidents in Singapore
69th ASEAN FLAG Council Meeting held in Panyu District, Guangzhuo City, China
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Lord Howe Island Museum > Current Projects > Publication of a new book
Publication of a new book
The Museum is seeking sponsors to to support the publication of a fascinating biography, to be published by New South Publishing in October 2022.
"The Naturalist: the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch" reveals the highs and lows of this brilliant scientist and illustrator, who first visited the island in 1902 with Edgar Waite of the Australian Museum. McCulloch returned often, staying with island families to celebrate Christmas and collect specimens for the Australian Museum. Later in life, he retreated to the island to recover from bouts of mental illness. He would soon be sitting in the sunshine, writing articles on his portable typewriter, or taking photographs of island life, or painting some of the amazing marine life from the island.
The Lord Howe island Museum holds several works by Allan McCulloch, including paintings, sketches, photographs and scientific illustrations.
Following McCulloch's tragic death in Honolulu in 1925, his friends arranged for a memorial to be erected at Signal Point, where it stands to this day overlooking the coral lagoon where he spent many hours studying its fishes and corals.
Author Brendan Atkins has woven a fascinating narrative to reveal the talented life and tragic death of this forgotten figure in the history of the island.
'The Naturalist: the remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch'
$1,935 of $8,000 raised
Donation Total: $100
Painting of a blue-bottle, by Allan McCulloch.
Naturalist Allan McCulloch on Lord Howe Island.
Other projects you might consider sponsoring…
Another donation from Hans Rueckert
Hans Rueckert donated a large collection of books and maps to the Museum in 2017. Recently he came across some more boxes of items and offered to donate these as well.
Purchase of a plan cabinet
The Museum is seeking sponsors to to support the purchase of a new 6-drawer horizontal plan cabinet.
Monthly and annual payments are needed to keep our website up-to-date and fully functional.
Regular donations are sought to help offset these costs.


Maroondah Rugby Club - Main Jersey Sponsor.
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У 2017 році уряд вирішив скасувати деякі округи та об'єднати їх з іншими округами, щоб утворити більші округи, зменшивши кількість округів з 19 до 11, що було реалізовано 1 січня 2020 року. Так округ Бускерюд було включено до складу нового округу Вікен.

Проте з 1 січня 2024 року після рішення Стортингу від 14 червня 2022 року буде 15 округів. Зокрема, три з нещодавно об'єднаних округів (Вестфолл-ог-Телемарк, Вікен і Трумс-ог-Фіннмарк) розпадуться та будуть замінені своїми раніше об'єднаними округами. Тож округ Бускерюд буде відновлено.

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"The Polywing Spinner, Trico" is a spent wing dry fly imitating the final stage of a Trico mayfly, which is common to certain slower, weedy spring creeks. These insects are tiny, but hatch in such dense numbers, as to blanket the water, and become easy protein even for larger trout. Tricorythodes are multi-brooded, so hatches can go on for months. Tiny, tiny flies, extra fine tippets, wary, well educated, large trout, makes for a heady concoction of extreme challenges in a complicated high stakes game.


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The Brazilian Amazon frontier shows how remarkable leadership can work towards increased agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability without new greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to initiatives among various stakeholders, including national and state government and agents, farmers, consumers, funding agencies and non-governmental organizations. Change has come both from bottom-up and top-down actions of these stakeholders, providing leadership, financing and monitoring to foster environmental sustainability and agricultural growth. Goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-cover and land-use change in Brazil are being achieved through a multitiered approach that includes policies to reduce deforestation and initiatives for forest restoration, as well as increased and diversified agricultural production, intensified ranching and innovations in agricultural management. Here, we address opportunities for the Brazilian Amazon in working towards low-carbon rural development and environmentally sustainable landscapes.


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Q: LuaSocket smtp connection refused I am wanting to send an email to a gmail account from lua using the socket library.
smtp = require("socket.smtp")

address = { "<someone@gmail.com>" }
from    = { "<someone@gmail.com>" }
theMessage = {
 headers = {
   to = "YOU",
   cc = '"him" ',
   subject = "I got something to tell you..."
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 body = "You're the best."
}
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When I do
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A: You may need to specify the ip/port in your smtp.send function
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An active member of a cooperating church of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The church must contribute financially to the Virginia portion of the Cooperative Missions budget.
Enrolled through one of the following ministry partners: the Baptist General Association of Virginia, the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, Bluefield College, Gardner-Webb University, Averett University, Duke Divinity School, Campbell University Divinity School, Northern Seminary, and McAfee School of Theology.
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Agree not to apply for BGAV College Scholarships, BGAV Ministerial Education Funds, or BGAV Nontraditional Ministry Education Scholarships.
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Please note that the online application will need to be completed in one sitting. This year, the option to enter data, save it, and go back later and complete is not functional. If you close the application window before submitting, you will lose your data. If you submit your application before all data and questions are answered, you will not be able to go back later and add information.
Through the vision and stewardship of faithful Virginia Baptists, the Baptist General Association of Virginia has offered scholarships to deserving recipients for many years. Through Cooperative Missions gifts of Virginia Baptists around the state, students are able to receive scholarships to assist in their education.
The Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) is committed to the development of emerging leaders of all ages for advancing the Redeemer's Kingdom. To that end, the BGAV is committed to financially aiding emerging leaders in their educational development.
BGAV Nontraditional Ministry Education Scholarships are given each year by the BGAV Scholarships and Ministerial Education Funds Committee to Virginia Baptist students who meet all established requirements. Through these means, a continuing relationship between the applicant and the Baptist General Association of Virginia will develop.
BGAV Nontraditional Ministry Education Scholarships assist BGAV church leaders in accessing training and continuing education opportunities provided by the Baptist General Association of Virginia and its ministry partners.
These scholarships are intended to assist nontraditional students, who are defined as: part-time students who are in non-degree programs of study with an emphasis in continuing education for ministry in the local church.
Clergy and lay leaders who have a financial need and are active members of a cooperating church of the BGAV may apply for a scholarship for up to one-third the cost of an educational offering sponsored by a ministry partner.


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Padres deal Pomeranz to Red Sox
San Diego receives No. 1 pitching prospect Espinoza in return
By A.J. Cassavell
SAN DIEGO -- As it turns out, Drew Pomeranz's first All-Star Game appearance was also his last at Petco Park as a member of the Padres.San Diego dealt the 27-year-old left-hander to Boston on Thursday. The Padres, who sold high on Pomeranz after a brilliant first half, will receive 18-year-old
SAN DIEGO -- As it turns out, Drew Pomeranz's first All-Star Game appearance was also his last at Petco Park as a member of the Padres.
San Diego dealt the 27-year-old left-hander to Boston on Thursday. The Padres, who sold high on Pomeranz after a brilliant first half, will receive 18-year-old right-hander Anderson Espinoza, who instantly slots into their system as the No. 1 prospect.
Pomeranz is coming off a first half in which he posted a 2.47 ERA -- tied for third in the Majors. His .184 batting average against is the best in the National League.
"Not an easy guy to deal," said general manager A.J. Preller. "Any time you have a left-handed starter that's performed the way he has -- and the resulting All-Star berth -- you've got to feel very good about the return that you're getting."
In short, the Padres do, indeed, feel very good about that return. Preller said Espinoza was "close to untouchable" from a trade standpoint. He boasts a fastball that can touch 98 mph while sitting in the mid-90s. On top of that, Espinoza has a curveball and a changeup that could potentially become well-above-average out pitches.
"It says a lot to Espinoza what the guys in our group thought about him," Preller said. "From that standpoint, when we looked at it, we felt like we were getting a premium guy, a guy that's been close to untouchable in the last year."
Pomeranz, who amassed 102 innings for San Diego in the first half, has never hit the 150-innings mark. His previous Major League high was 96 2/3, with Colorado in 2012, a season in which he also threw 50 2/3 frames in the Minors. He can become a free agent after the 2018 season.
Espinoza, who was given a $1.8 million bonus to sign with Boston during the 2014-15 international signing period, went 5-8 with a 4.38 ERA for Greenville of the South Atlantic League this season.
The Pomeranz deal is just the latest route through which the Padres have stocked up on young pitching talent in the last month. They traded closer Fernando Rodney for 20-year-old right-hander Chris Paddack in June before signing top international pitching prospect Adrian Morejon out of Cuba.
Of course, those signings came after the Padres used 10 of their first 12 Draft picks on pitchers, including Stanford's Cal Quantrill at No. 8 overall.
"You start to feel the excitement from the player development staff," Preller said earlier this month when asked about the influx of prospects.
"They're seeing talented players and guys that they feel have a chance to come up here and impact at Petco. That's big. ... When you get these guys all on the field together, that's what we've been building for."
The trade marks the fourth time Pomeranz has been dealt since being drafted No. 5 overall in 2010. The Padres acquired him from the A's during the offseason in exchange for first baseman Yonder Alonso and reliever Marc Rzepczynski. (San Diego also received Minor Leaguers José Torres and Jabari Blash in that deal.)
The Padres have clearly made a solid return on their investment in Pomeranz. But for now they need to replace him, and Preller named reliever Paul Clemens and Triple-A righty Edwin Jackson as immediate options. The trade could also clear room for Michael Kelly, who has flown through the system this season, appearing at all three levels.
"That's the challenge for our scouting group as well," Preller said. "Find the next Pomeranz. Find somebody that, with some opportunity, has some ceiling.
"There's huge value in depth, there's huge value in numbers. I think we saw a lot of value in getting these guys together in the next few years. ... In the Minor Leagues, here in the next year or so, every day when you look up, there's going to be a pitcher on the mound that's got a chance to be impactful."
It's not the first time Preller has dealt with Boston's Dave Dombrowski. Last November the Padres sent Craig Kimbrel to Boston in exchange for four prospects -- two of whom, Manny Margot and Carlos Asuaje, debuted at Petco Park during Sunday's SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.
Preller enjoys working with Dombrowski, but would he compare himself with Boston's president of baseball ops?
"Definitely not in the way I dress," Preller quipped. "That would be a major compliment, because he's pretty sharp that way.
"But baseball-wise, he's easy to deal with, honestly. He's straightforward, he's a guy that's direct. That's the way that we've approached things in the last couple years. He's a guy that's willing to trade value for value."
The Padres certainly had value in Pomeranz, an All-Star lefty. Now they think they have value for years to come in Espinoza.
Drew Pomeranz


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The U.S. Mission in Turkey launched Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation
The U.S. Mission in Turkey and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State announce the call for concept notes for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Competition 2022.
The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
The application process involves two rounds: In Round 1, the U.S. Mission in Turkey will collect project ideas in the form of concept notes to be submitted to the Cultural Heritage Center after an initial evaluation. In Round 2, the Center will invite embassies with promising ideas to submit full project applications. Awards will range from $10,000 to $500,000. The Cultural Heritage Center anticipates funding globally 20 to 30 projects.
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DOL Remains in the Spotlight, Settling Wage and Hour Claims Brought by Its Own Employees and Fighting Opposition to its Controversial New Overtime Rule!
Although pregnancy itself is not a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, pregnancy-related conditions that substantially limit an employee's major life activities, even temporarily, may entitle the employee to accommodations for her condition. If a pregnant employee states that she cannot work, or cannot perform certain job functions, employers should engage in an interactive process with the employee to determine whether her condition can be reasonably accommodated within her current position, and if not, whether there are other vacant positions for which she is qualified, with or without reasonable accommodations. It is this last step that is the subject of a recent lawsuit brought by the EEOC. According to the EEOC's Complaint, A bank manager was unable to work for the majority of her pregnancy, due to a medical condition. After allowing the employee several months of leave, her employer informed her that if she was not released to return to work, she would be replaced, but she was free to apply to other open positions. To assist her, she was given access to third-party redeployment services. However, despite applying for multiple open positions for which she met the minimum qualifications, both before and after she was eventually terminated, she was not placed into any of these positions.
Prevailing in court, in arbitration, or before federal and state administrative agencies such as the EEOC, MDHR, or ERD takes a team effort where we as lawyers spearhead the defense and legal strategies, but always with solid facts and evidence provided by our clients. It is truly an honor to work with great clients to prove that they've done nothing wrong and to win; it is why we love doing what we do!
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In any kind of career that we choose to take on, there are points along the road at which we ask ourselves why we do the work. What drew us to it and why do we continue? I recently reflected on these questions in terms of being a teacher- of both contemporary dance and yoga. Now that I finished a performance and my focus is swinging back towards my classes again, I ask myself- why do I teach these practices and what do I hope to give to my students?
Just after finishing a particularly technical dance class last week, I thought about the fact that through both of these movement vocabularies, you learn to better concentrate on each part of the body, one piece at a time and as a whole. You begin to connect the mind with physicality, with patience and grace. You start to notice patterns, really understanding when something does and doesn't feel right and what small adjustments you might be able to make to help create more ease and openness. You learn that you don't need to be "fixed," you just need to be better understood. Perhaps starting with a teacher, and then on your own.
Whenever I ask myself why I teach, this is always an answer that arises- encouraging the practice of intuition. Being able to help others reconnect and understand their own bodies, learning how to live within them with more comfort, peace, and joy.
Erin Loechner wrote in her book Chasing Slow that "it takes work to change your perspective, work that is not easily done when you're looking everywhere else." Contemporary dance and yoga are two practices that work on looking inwards, paying attention to the inner subtleties and learning how to move your whole self through space. Over time, your general perspective is able to shift towards being more perceptive, more aware, more intuitive. I, personally, know that being a dancer and then adding in yoga as another element has given me such a gift of being able to listen to my own body and understand its signals. This practice of unifying thought and movement is something I feel compelled to share and try to inspire in others.
While the specific kind of intuition that I aim to teach is centered around movement, I believe that having this innate knowledge can naturally spread to other parts of your life outside of a studio. Having more awareness of my body in motion also increases awareness even when it is still. I feel that dance has taught me how to better listen to the signs that something is off- if I am getting sick, whether I'm physically or emotionally hungry, etc. Basic needs, feelings and emotions can too often get tuned out if we are not paying attention. To be intuitive is to be an active listener in your own body, and learning to dance, do yoga, or any other mindful physical practice is really just the first stepping stone.
How do you cultivate your own inner intuition?
When the weather turns chilly, rainy and grey, cravings naturally turn to bowls of warmth and comfort. Stews, soups, and anything slow-roasted in the oven. Hot soup with some bread and butter on the side always feels like a giant hug when it gets cold out and that is all that my body is asking for lately. A healthy, hearty, loving hug. Say hello to this carrot, sweet potato and fennel soup. It is full of soul-warming spices like turmeric, ginger and cumin and is made extra creamy with the addition of normal potatoes along with the other veggies, blending up to smooth perfection. I like to top it either with a drizzle of tahini or coconut cream and some extra fennel sprigs. If your body is also starting to craving winter comforts, this soup is exactly what you may need.
In a large pot, heat the oil over a medium flame. Once hot, turn down the burner to medium-low and add the onion and garlic, sautéing until fragrant and the onions are translucent. Add in the fennel, spices, salt + pepper and give it a stir. Toss in the carrots, sweet potato, and potato, mixing to coat with the spices, then pour in the water or stock. Bring to a boil, cover, then bring back down to a simmer. Cook for about 20-25 minutes or until all of the vegetables are soft.
Remove from heat, stir in the tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and taste the broth, just in case it needs extra salt or pepper. Blend the soup either with an immersion blender or wait for it to cool down and then transfer to a stand blender, pureeing until completely smooth and silky. Serve hot with extra fennel sprigs and a drizzle of coconut cream, tahini, yogurt, or whatever you like.


The eight year old and under (8U) Middle Georgia Hurricanes softball team were undefeated champs in the Premier Sports "Adopt An Angel" tournament which was held in Cordele on Saturday, December 7, 2013. The Hurricanes fought hard that day playing teams from all over, they never gave up and stuck together through fifteen hours of tough, freezing cold softball. Awesome fall season Middle Georgia Hurricanes! Pictured (front row, l-r) Lauren Slaughter, Allie Mathis, Brooke Perdue, Jayci Yawn, Tannah Cobb and Caitlynn Lancaster; (middle row, l-r) Ansley Brooks, Ava Roland, McKenzie Maddox, Riley Haley and Bryn Yawn; (back row, l-r) coaches Chad Slaughter, Ricky Maddox, Brian Perdue and Terry Cobb and bat boy A.J. Mathis.


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Normandy, France
If you're one of the people who hasn't seen "Saving Private Ryan", go watch the opening sequence. You don't have to watch all of the movie, just the opening.
"WHAT'S THE RALLYING POINT?"
"ANYWHERE BUT HERE!"
Ever try to run in full battle rattle? Ever actually WORN full battle rattle?
Ever try to swim in it?
I can't begin to imagine what it was like on that beach. I can't begin to imagine what those men went through. I can't begin to imagine what it was like to be there on that beach as men fell around you and all you could do was press forward into Hell.
But I can damn sure feel grateful, and make sure their sacrifice won't be forgotten, ever.
Yeah, I'm a day early. I can't guarantee that I'll be posting tomorrow. All I can do is make sure this point goes up.
Labels: Earn This
Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Modern Liberal Edition
By Evan Sayet. Sometimes you need to be reminded of who we're dealing with.
The Modern Liberal will invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Give the Modern Liberal the choice between Saddam Hussein and the United States, and he will not only side with Saddam Hussein; he will slander America and Americans in order to do so. Give him the choice between the vicious mass murderer corrupt terrorist dictator Yasser Arafat and the tiny and wonderful democracy of Israel, and he will plagiarize maps, forge documents, engage in blood libels--as did our former President Jimmy Carter-- to side with the terrorist organizations and to attack the tiny democracy of Israel.
They're not just wrong, they're evil. Ignorance that is caused by willfully rejecting knowledge cannot be virtuous. Ever.
That is so much the mindset of the Modern Liberals. It's not that they are not aware of all the things that we're aware of; it's that they need to reject them in order to remain in this five-year-old's utopia that they've been told is the only hope for mankind: a mindless indiscriminateness.
But of course he was
Former President of Muslim Student Association arrested in Pedophilia sting.
Folks, anyone who's spent some time in the Middle East isn't going to be surprised by this at all.
Labels: Islam
I am of the opinion
That anyone who uses the word "Heteronormative" in a non-sarcastic way (unless it's doing research like R.S. McCain) is crazier than a shithouse rat and needs to be avoided. They're also most likely to be some of the most miserable, self-hating individuals in the world, who make everyone else miserable...
And always vote Democrat.
Sometimes you CAN judge a book by it's cover.
Labels: Modern Life, Nucking Futs
This is what a third-world shithole looks like
Unfortunately, I'm looking at the USA right now.
It may be dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but in recent decades it often has been almost as risky to be a friend. There was Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, overthrown and assassinated by his army in 1963 after losing American support. Or the thousands of Iraqis and Afghans who assisted American troops a decade ago but are still waiting for the visas for safe haven in the U.S. The uncomfortable truth is that America has too often treated former allies as expendable.
The drama that played out this year around Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova is a reminder of what can happen when time passes and Americans forget. Gen. Vides was El Salvador's minister of defense in the government of José Napoleón Duarte in the 1980s. Duarte was an American favorite, with plenty of backing from the Reagan administration and Democrats who understood his commitment to democracy and human rights. . . .
This is a country being run for the sole advantage of the people in charge, just like some Central American banana republic. If I were some other country right now, I would be extremely wary about entering into any deals with the USA, as the Democrats seem to think that "foreign policy" is equivalent to giving blowjobs to your enemies while ignoring your friends.
Actually, when you remember that most Democrats don't actually like America very much, their foreign policy becomes much more clear. Why have a foreign policy that helps the racist, capitalist, patriarchal, 1%ers anyways?
This is why Obama caters to illegal aliens to flood across our borders, but doesn't do a damn thing to help the Afghans who helped us who are now in mortal danger from the Taliban. Since America is bad, people who helped America are bad, and don't deserve any kind of support.
You feeling sick yet? Stock up on ammo, people. There's no guarantee that Hillary won't be the next President, and she hates this country just as much as Obama does. Think about that fact, and weep for your country. The actual possibility of Hillary as President convinces me that this country is in a death spiral, the parasites outnumber the producers, and there's no voting our way out of this.
Labels: anti-American, Obama, The Death of America
Speaking of people who don't have a chance...
Rand Paul just assured that he will never be president.
People here in town think I'm making a huge mistake. Some of them, I think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.
Dude, as much as I hate John McCain, I don't think he wants America to be attacked. I just think he's a liberal douchebag who hates the people who vote for him.
But Paul's statement is mind-boggling in it's sheer hubris. And he probably just sunk his campaign, for no good reason at all. He had plenty of support for his anti-Patriot Act stance without having to go full retard.
Lindsey Graham is running for President
He has less of a chance than I do, and I'm not tossing my hat into the ring.
Spent the past few days on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. Nothing like waking up and sitting on deck watching fish swimming around the boat.
Also did quite a bit of running on the island. Clean air. Loved it.
Hated coming back to the valley. I cannot wait to leave this hell.
And this is my....
Sunday Music post
Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day, Modern Liberal Edi...


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December 10, 2017 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann
Christmas Arrives in Unexpected Settings
When one has a difficult mother, it can become essential to distance one's self and family, particularly at the time of significant holidays. If one has a courageous husband, he may announce, as the parental car pulled out of our Princeton driveway after a particularly grueling visit, "That's it. We are not letting her ruin another Christmas. We are going skiing at Waterville."
My husband, Werner Oscar Joseph Edelmann (for full effect say with German accent) was 100% Swiss. Although he had not grown up skiing, we took it up as a family, the year we moved to Princeton – 1968. Shore friends, sitting on their dune-cushioned deck, insisted that our families learn together. It was August and steamy. Winter? WHAT Winter. We said yes.
I secretly hoped some disaster, like a broken leg, or death, would intervene before that crucial February challenge. None did. So we all began to learn to ski. The girls were in kindergarten and first grade. At Killington, they looked like bunnies in their fuzzy snowsuits and fat mittens, among a gaggle of other little beginners, huddled at the base of 'the bunny slope.'
They, being half Swiss, did not remain beginners very long. In the year of our deliverance from my mother, they were teens who preferred 'bombing the black lines' – the expert slopes. Especially "Oblivion" in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. The White Mountains were Werner's choice for our runaway Christmas, because their ski school and an authentic Swiss lodge were run by Paul Pfosi. All Paul's instructors were Swiss. Extremely demanding. "Ski marks on the inside of your ski boots" to prove you had your legs close enough together. Off-slope, they all delighted to converse in their native (unwritten) language with this tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed very determined American skier. Stein Eriksen in those years was our hero, our model.
No one would mistake us for Stein, but his example formed Pfosi's Instructor Corps.
Swiss Copper Cheese Kettle in situ
Pfosi's Lodge held the huge copper kettles we'd first seen in Emmenthaler, in which magnificent Swiss cheeses were precisely concocted. Only Pfosi's kettles overflowed with silky evergreen boughs from nearby endless forests. Swiss Christmas music, such as relatives had carefully sent to Diane and Catherine over the years, pealed from hidden speakers. Conditions were ideal on the slopes, and for any number of days we almost forgot it was Christmas. But not quite.
Our family, over the years, had no experience of that Holiday beyond our own formal tree and hand-made-ornament tree, one by the living room fireplace, one by the family room's slate hearth. Heaven to us was a fire in each room, the three of us in long plaid skirts and white lace blouses, playing our guitars and caroling for Werner in the family room. There'd always been the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, and caroling in the neighborhood near Princeton's Snowden Lane. Could Christmas find us in New Hampshire?
There was a tiny church in the village below the lodge. It felt very odd to go to church in ski clothes and apres-ski boots. Instead of a jungle of poinsettias in the Princeton church, but two tiny ones 'decked' this austere altar. Instead of instruments sustaining voices back home, a motley choir with cracking voices sang in a small wooden balcony high overhead. But it was Midnight Mass, and it did hold all the magic we needed. And the quivering voices underscored a somehow more memaningful reality.
We drove back up the mountain, past the restaurant where we'd had Christmas Eve Supper. We'd sat next to a live birch tree, somehow able to live and thrive indoors, reaching for the midnight sky. Between dinner and church, we'd been astounded by stars beyond counting, which seemed nearly blinding. But between church and the lodge, no stars. Instead, white swirls, glistening to be sure, of new snowflakes — no more welcome blessing in ski country at Christmas.
Back in our rooms — it must have been near 2 a.m. by now — we found dark Swiss chocolates wrapped in bright gold foil upon our pillows,. Pfosi's had signed lacy old-fashioned Christmas cards with gilt arabesques, such as those which arrived every year from Tante Li, Onkel Joni, Cousin Vera and the rest of the family in and near St. Gallen. I cannot spell their Christmas message, but we all knew how to say it in Swiss — it sounded like FRO-LIKKA-VIE-NOCKTEN. One said this with certain notes in our voices which the girls had heard since babyhood..
Diane's and Catherine's room was right across the narrow hall from ours. They burst in, laughing all over. "Come Quick! Come Quick! Carolers!"
We "thrust open the windows, threw up the sash" onto a scene I will never forget. Snow circled, enfolding us as though we had been transported into the Milky Way. itself, Horses snorted and their visible breath mingled with the flakes. Yes, sleigh bells jingled. Tucked into hay in an old fashioned sleigh were male and female carolers, dressed as we had been for Mass, in ski parkas and ski mitts and knit hats. These voices sounded like tiny silver chimes, like bells, rising into the heavens in celebration.
And we'd thought Christmas was only in our family room…
It wasn't every Christmas morning that opened on a trail named "Oblivion"!
May each of you find your special holiday exactly as you need it this year — and may its real message of Peace on Earth, Good Will, suffuse our entire planet.
Here is an ad from the 1970's, when we were there:
ski watervi w va NEW HAMPSHIRE PFOSI S LODGE Willkommen! Paul Pfosi, Director of the Waterville Valley Ski School, invites you to enjoy the Swiss-American hospitality of Pfosi's Lodge. Alodge unique in every way combining old world charm with the most modern American accommodations and conveniences; …
The future would bring Christmas in other realms:
In Aspen, we could ski through forests.
In Zermatt, the Materhorn always tantalized:
But the slopes held the magic:
BUT NOTHING EVER TOPPED CAROLERS IN THE HORSE-DRAWN SLEIGH OUTSIDE THE OPEN WINDOWS OF PFOSI'S LODGE OF WATERVILLE.
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July 3, 2017 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann
TRULY RURAL: SELLERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
MODERN MALE, SELLERSVILLE, PA, FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND
(A recent Pearl S. Buck pilgrimage took a friend and me also to surrounding towns in very rural Pennsylvania. Sellersville was a curious combination of past and present. We had to turn to Wikipedia to learn some of its past.)
EMMA, OUR CHARMING GUIDE TO NEARBY PEARL BUCK ESTATE
Sellersville was founded in the early 18th century. It was centered on a major road known as Bethlehem Pike that connected Philadelphia to Bethlehem and the rest of what was then far Western Pennsylvania.
(Wikipedia is rather voluble about this tiny burg surrounded by farmland, hills and almost-mountains of the appropriate shade of violet.)
(We had begun our Pearl Buck-quest at a delightfully vibrant and lively farmers' market in Perkasie. First peaches joined healthy cabbage, vibrant tomatoes and a rainbow, so to speak, of fresh 'greens', sold by the farmers themselves.)
The 'shank of the day' was spent exploring the Pearl Buck Estate on nearby Dublin Road.
WELCOME TO SELLERSVILLE
Our finale was a bountiful and gracious late lunch at Sellarsville's remarkably sophisticated Washington Inn, in what most people otherwise might describe as 'a backwater'. The name of that Inn was just part of the constant Fourth-of-July references that peppered our adventure, –none planned and all greatly appreciated–, on our Country's sacred Birthday weekend.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR AMERICA, FROM SELLERSVILLE
The town was very small and was called Sellers Tavern. Its most notable feature was a large inn. The present Washington House in Sellersville, however, was not Sellers Tavern.
HOW WASHINGTON INN LOOKED FROM MAIN STREET IN ITS PAST
The town grew slowly over the years until the Industrial Revolution. In the 1860s the North Pennsylvania Railroad was built, running parallel to Bethlehem Pike: this stimulated the growth of light textile industries and brought a wave of population growth.
PROUD PAST – SELLSERSVILLE'S MAIN STREET
The East Branch of the Perkiomen Creek runs through the town, connecting it to an adjacent town of Perkasie. This creek was dammed in the early 20th century, creating a small body of water known as Lake Lenape. (So, even in Pennsylvania, places are named after those who were destroyed — these first settlers — in order that 'progress' might take place…)
Along the length of the lake, a park was built on Perkasie and Sellersville lands. In the 1920s and 1930s this park housed a carousel, a roller coaster and several other amusements.
The railroad brought hundreds of people from Philadelphia in the summertime. It became a well known vacation spot for blue-collar city workers.
SELLERSVILLE THEATER, 1894
The town was also home to the Radium Company of America, which was the largest uranium milling facility in the world at the time. (There seems to be no notice of the human toll of uranium milling, or the "luminescence" to follow. At Wheaton Glass Museum in South Jersey, the human toll of luminous glassware is frankly declared.)
TURRETED TOWN OF SELLERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
The United States Gauge Company originated in Sellersville in 1904. It became a prominent manufacturer of gauges for military use, many of which were coated with radium-based paint[1] for nighttime luminesence. The company later became instrumental in the production of nuclear weapons,[2] leaving behind a legacy of industrial and radioactive contamination that has been well-hidden by local, county, state, and federal government agencies for decades. (Ironically, my friend – who had planned this intricate excursion- and I were actively speaking with longing of the healthy air, the healthy lives these fortunate residents must have!)
CLEMATIS EXUBERANCE, WASHINGTON INN
Today the town is still relatively small, sandwiched between a ridge line and the larger town of Perkasie. The center of town still runs along Bethlehem Pike, now called Old Route 309.
THE WASHINGTON INN, 2017
The Washington House still stands and has recently been restored to become an upscale restaurant.
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT: WASHINGTON INN
Next door to the restaurant was a livery stable, which was converted into a theater (later a movie theater) in 1894. It has since been restored. It was reopened in 2001 as Sellersville Theater 1894 as a live music venue. (The Washington Inn and the Sellersville Theater cooperate in evenings of food and drama. My friend and I signed up for chances on "A Big Night in Sellersville — involving gastronomy and theatre and 'a night in the Tower.')
PARISIAN CHAIRS, WASHINGTON INN, SELLERSVILLE, PA
The creek is still dammed but only the carousel in Perkasie remains of the amusements.
The textile industry has long moved out of the area. Sellersville has become mainly a residential town for people working in the many urban centers that are only a short commute away.
The town is surrounded on three sides by open country and spread-out housing developments.
The Teller Cigar Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
TURRET OF YESTERYEAR, SELLERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
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October 14, 2016 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann
CAPE MAY CALLING
Beach Walk to the Light, Cape May
NJWILDBEAUTY readers know that The Intrepids are prone to stealing the last glimmers of summer, by going away toward the end of October. Jeanette is determined to wade, even to swim. With any luck, newly prospering humpback whales and/or clusters of minke whales will migrate alongside our beachwalks, beginning Monday.
Storm at Sea, Cape May
This October flight pattern stranded me up in the Berkshires, while Sandy roared his/her impossible way throughout those distant mountains. Next-door North Adams lost power for days. Somehow Williamstown was spared. I spent that week marooned, but warm, unlike my Princeton neighbors. My days were spent reading thick books and watching a weather station of mere words typed — not even a commentator, not a picture, not even of Mantaloking's destructions.
Stormy Williamstown
For there was no way for me to come home from my three-day runaway to wild beauty of the mountainous type for nearly a week. Driving back roads home, trees were down on all sides, and I never knew what literally lay ahead. But nowhere on that interminable route was as ruined as Princeton. Police cars spun blinding lights on the tarmac of familiar gas stations, for people were at each others' throats over necessities. It had been rather blessed, being stranded between the Berkshires, Green Mountains, the nearby Catskills. That kind town took me to heart as a refugee. That multi-houred drive home brought me not surcease, but power outage at home, after all that. Tasha O'Neill and Alan McIlroy took me in, wrapped me in wool, gave me a warm supper in their twinkling greenhouse. To this day, I rue my blase assertion, in a cafe about 2/3 of the way to Williamstown, hearing the owners talk of the coming storm: "Oh, don't be silly. There aren't hurricanes in mountains."
Mount Greylock Vista as Storm Nears
Other Octobers brought returns to Williamstown with Jeanette Hooban and Carolyn Yoder, followed by last year's sentimental journey to Cape Cod. This year, Jeanette found us a bright (probably modern) Cape May Victorian home to rent, a block from the sands. This means the three of us can stroll in quest of birds, at this time of key raptor migration, at first light and last. The weather's to be good. The birding spectacular. A friend came to work today to loan me her Swarovski optics, –a king's ransom in monetary value, and beyond price in bird details that will be evident for me as they only are with those phenomenal lenses. Also beyond price in terms of trust and friendship.
The Faithful Gather on the Cape May Hawk Watch Platform
Carolyn Yoder, my co-author of the book on Stuart Country Day School's fifty years of excellence, is driving us. Jeanette found the ideal setting, at a price even I can afford. [Basically less than a night at a normal hotel…] Jeanette's bringing wine. I'm bringing breakfast muffins from Lawrenceville's phenomenal Gingered Peach bakery. Cape May will have a bakery, but it won't hold a candle to this! My Cape May Bird Observatory Membership is in good order, so we'll have access to all the latest migratory information; as well as certain birding sites only available to members in good standing.
Skimmers Return from the Open Sea
Carolyn's never been to Cape May. Jeanette, I think, never overnight. I'll be the site-and-restaurant guide. You all know there is nothing I cherish more than leading enthusiasts to new nature experiences.
Cape May Irresistible, Even in Winter (from Internet)
We'll do Back Bay birding on the Skimmer (pontoon boat with naturalist staff), and walk Reed's Beach at leas one dawn when there'll be warblers collecting and facing the dauntless challenge of Delaware Bay. The birds, of course, are the true Intrepids. The hawk watch platform should lend irresistible raptors, as well as the resident peregrine. There'll be wild swans on ponds tucked in among the dunes, and a black one has been recently sighted. We could also find loons in those jewel-like pools. We hope for squadrons of skimmers zooming in from the sea, and maybe even new whales and late dolphins.
The Peregrine's Bunker, near the Hawk Watch Platform
NJWILDBEAUTY readers may remember about the adventures of Tasha O'Neill and Alan McIlroy, last Christmas Day. I would be groping upward from Cape May; and they downward from Princeton, in fog so thick we could not see the hoods of our cars. Our destination was the Brigantine Wildlife Refuge near Smithville, otherwise known as Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, where we have a festive Christmas picnic ever year. Tasha pooh-poohed my dawn proposal to call our off our plans: "There's so much fog, I can neither see nor hear the sea, and I am inches from it. We're not going to get any birds!" "Carolyn," insisted wise Tasha, "this isn't about birds. It's about fellowship." Of course it was:
The Christmas Red-Tail at the Brig, taken by Tasha O'Neill
Tasha O'Neill and Al McIlroy in the Christmas Fog at the Brig, 2015
And fellowship will be the core of this journey, beginning Monday for the week. Three friends-of-long standing, who cherish the same things with the same passion, will stretch their wings together in setting new to two of them. Anything could happen… but, probably not an October hurricane. I had remnants of that last weekend at 'The Brig', so that birds could not fly and we couldn't see the sitting ones without open rain-smeared windows, so that wind-driven rain soaked us in the car. We earned our birders' stripes that day. But this coming week will be easier.
Where the Warblers Meet the Bay — Reed's Beach, Cape May
And, o, yes. October is an 'R' month. We are traveling to the home of Cape May Salts, my favorite oysters after Wellfleet. I told my colleagues at work this afternoon, "We'll be o.d.'ing on oysters."
Here's to adventure!
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"CACTUS ED" ABBEY ON MY MIND
"The earth is not a mechanism, but an organism." Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
[Being in the Southwest] "is a treasure best enjoyed through the body and the spirit…, not through commercial plunder." Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
"Are we going to ration the wilderness experience?" Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
Delicate Arch, Canyonlands, from Internet
The more I experience of man's inhumanity to the Planet, –especially in overpopulated, pipe-line-threatened New Jersey–, the more I need Ed Abbey at my side.
Right now, horrified at the success of the multi-billion-dollar-funded Climate Change Deniers (see This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein), I'm reading Adventures with Ed by Jack Loeffler. The author hiked and ate and drank and discussed and even fought with Ed during his lifetime.
The two made a solemn pact that neither would let the other die in a hospital. A pledge Loeffler was barely able to keep, but did. The secret burial site required by Ed was facilitated, honored and often visited by Loeffler. He would bring beer, –one poured for Ed; one drunk by himself, whenever he made that pilgrimage.
Everything about which we have been warned by Naomi Klein and 350.org and James Hansen and and Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben and probably even Rachel Carson and even the Nobel Prize Committee and Al Gore, is described in chapter and verse of anything by and about Abbey.
A professed non-naturalist and determined "desert rat", — who claimed to want to turn into a vulture upon dying–, Ed showed us the Southwest as the Poster Child for military/industrial/Big Coal/Big Gas/Big Copper ruinations.
McKibben issued his clarion call when The End of Nature was published in 1989. He is still calling. Abbey's pivotal Desert Solitaire brought us to attention to commercial despoilations of our planet, especially in the Southwest, in 1968 Is anybody listening?
My first attention to the plight of our pPlanet came through Ed's articles, as well as through his seminal non-fiction work, Desert Solitaire.
My first protests began and accelerated with the proposal to dam the Grand Canyon (!yes!) and another to build an enormous coal-fired generating station on the Kaiparowits Plateau, fouling the Four Corners region sacred to countless Indian tribes.
In those enlightened days, popular magazines published words and memorable images of the beauties we seemed fated to lose, as we now stand to lose New Jersey's last green spaces to Pipelines conspiracies. That's when I joined the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, and 'adopted whales' through a Provincetown non-profit, as my daughters' main Christmas presents.
Ed, whom I did not yet 'know' from that one volume (still most successfully in print) said it first. Working as I do for D&R Greenway Land Trust, though I am speaking here as my very private, very opinionated self, I see perils to nature at every turn. Some of which incursions we can prevent, and in some cases turn around. Every year of the benighted 21st Century, it becomes more and more clear to me that Ed was a remarkable prophet, as well as a stirring author. (Read his novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, if you don't believe me.)
Ed is carefully quoted by Jack Loeffler, –from a speech Abbey was asked to give to St. John's College in Santa Fe, in his beloved New Mexico: "WILDERNESS IS WORTH SAVING FOR ITS OWN SAKE." This was 1975. "Not for human benefit or pleasure. Wild things and wild places have a right to exist and to continue existing… Bees. birds, animals, snakes, buzzards, bugs, whatever, have a legal and moral right to continue. Even rocks have the moral right to continue being rocks."
Those of you who read my US 1 (Business) Newspaper Cover Story on Four Shady Walks this week [princetoninfo.com], have absorbed my passion for the towering boulders of the Sourlands trail off Hopewell's Greenwood Avenue. This haven taught me that not only trees and flowers, animals and insects, –but the very rocks themselves–, exude spirit. One is changed, –of course for the better–, in their midst. One is stilled, inspired and strengthened merely walking among them. Even more-so, sitting upon the most majestic rocks at the end of the blue trail, their ancient reality, their connection to creation, seeps into and surrounds one.
You who read this blog, who did read NJ WILD all those years with the Packet, have seen images of those rocks. They impact me like Chartres and Mt. St. Michel. But you must go there in timelessness. You must allow them to realize that you are open to their beings, and sometimes, even their messages. You might apologize aloud for humans who ferried them away and pulverized their eminences into gravel and Belgian blocks. To say nothing of the angry and misguided who defaced them with (now effaced, but never forgotten) wild graffiti last fall. You might also make amends to noble beech trees along the trail, scarred by (to me, inexplicable) human need to carve their initials upon their sacred skin.
Ed insists, and I have always agreed, the Bible has it wrong. "Man was NOT put here to have dominion over all things… The earth was here first, and all these living things before us." Ed, also, –whose great joy was scrambling over rocks and boulders, mountains and peaks, preferably in sere desert landscapes–, goes on to tell the St. John's students: "Is it not possible that rocks, hills, and mountains, may enjoy a sentience, a form of consciousness, which we humans cannot perceive, because of vastly different time scales?" His most outrageous proposition, which I find irresistible, is "…consider that we are thoughts in the minds of mountains, or that all humanity is a long, long thought."
His (temporary, for Ed never gave UP on these themes) conclusion is, "As mind is to body, so is humanity to earth. We cannot dishonor one without dishonoring and destroying ourselves."
The Intrepids and I turn together to Eleanor Roosevelt and Georgia O'Keeffe, to stiffen our spines for the battles demanded in the 21st Century, to carry on to victories small and large upon which the Planet's very survival depends. Privately, every single year, I turn to Ed.
Ed ruminates on reverberations of research: "Science leads to technology…, and industry. It's what [science] can lead to that could be bad… Things go wrong, and scientists (and the Army Corps of Engineers, adds Carolyn-of-New-Jersey) are called in to think up remedies. More and more, the system comes to rely upon remedial tinkering. It becomes ever more centralized until utter collapse is inevitable." Outrageous Ed dares to say "the sooner, the better", which quip I do not applaud. But his conclusion is essential, "Then, maybe, we can stamp out this blight, this cancer of industrialization."
When our beautiful –state, with its marvelous green preserves of forest and farmland–, is reduced to a "What Exit?" joke… When everyone's view of this entity formerly known as The Garden is a plethora of tanks and chimneys and wires and overpasses. When our sacred Shore is eyed by Big Power as one long limitless oilfield — it's time to pay attention to Ed. Read him. Write letters to editors. Protest every pipeline suggestion/appropriation. Support your local land trusts, who are trying to turn the tide of ruination decried by Ed Abbey, the Hemingway of preservation.
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Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu Home and Studio
Come with us, far from politics and disasters and overweening technology — back to timeless New Mexico, and Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu refuge. She carried this 'rack' of antlers home from a desert walk. Devoted helpers mounted it. No more appropriate welcome to her home and studio exists than the abstract simplicity of this doorway, and its iconic crest.
Georgia's Door, Home and Studio, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Georgia's Favorite Tree
Essential Ladders to Tend Adobe Rooftops
Magnificent Guide, Barbara, and Georgia's Garden, being restored by local students
Georgia's Original Trees and Restored Garden, flood-irrigated once each week
Georgia's River-Washed Stone Collection – Rio Grande Not Far
Early Georgia O'Keeffe Sculpture
Georgia's View of "Her" Mountain – Pedernal – Where Her Ashes Rest
Georgia's Winding Abiquiu Road
Barbara Showing Us Georgia's Extreme Abstraction of Her Abiquiu Road
Sheep Below Georgia's Bedroom and Studio
Georgia's Iconic Doorway – Catalyst for Countless Southwest Abstractions
Georgia's Outdoor Stones as SHE Arranged Them
Georgia's Irrigated Restored Garden, flowers and foods, with marigolds for pest control
Farewell View, Around the Corner from Georgia's Studio and Austere Bedroom
Garden Gateway, Abiquiu Inn — Where You Lunch and Catch Bus for Scheduled Visit to Georgia O'Keeffe's Home & Studio
Abiquiu Inn Cottonwoods, and the Cotton Bits Were Floating Like Snow
Abiquiu Inn Farewell
Abiquiu Inn Acequia — Carrying Scarce and Precious Water from the Rio Grande
Posted in Abiquiu - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio, Abiquiu Inn, Abstract Art, Acequia, Adventure, Appreciation, art, Artist Home, beauty, excursions, expeditions, exploration, Garden, Georgia O'Keeffe, Irrigation, mountains, museums, Nature, New Mexico, peacefulness, Rio Grande, Sangre de Christo Range, scattering ashes, sculpture, serenity, Southwest, The Pedernal, timelessness, tranquillity, Travel, wild beauty, wild nature	| Tagged Abiquiu, Abiquiu Inn, Abstraction, Acequia, Adobe, art, beauty, Garden, Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio, Irrigation, nature, New Mexico, Pedernal, Sangre de Christo Range, sculpture, tranquillity | 6 Comments
GHOST RANCH ~ GEORGIA O'KEEFFE AT HOME NEAR TAOS
Janet Black, Jeanette Hooban and I, –as July was born-, traveled to New Mexico on a Georgia O'Keeffe Quest. Firstly, in Santa Fe. Then to her home and studio in Abiquiu, near Taos; then to Ghost Ranch, where she first leased, then owned a house in the Southwest.
I remain speechless before the magnitude of beauty we encountered at every turn, every moment bringing cataclysmic changes in clouds, shadows and drama.
We are more inspired than ever by the lofty talents of this artist – so abstract and unique so young (in 1915, 16, etc.!), like no one else anywhere ever. Thiw woman cannot be described nor encompassed. Georgia belonging to no 'school', painted from within.
As you see, this phenomenal artist was inspired by what she claimed as her everyday surroundings. Her sites and sights would overwhelm ordinary mortals. But Georgia immortalized mountain majesty, without descending, even momentarily, into the trite or the trivial.
We learned nothing of her literary influences. But Georgia lived her life on EVERY level, according to the key lines of Hamlet: "… and this, above all… to thine own self be true…"
Janet, Jeanette and I walked very slowly away from the Georgia-sites. We now have a new yardstick for life: "What would Georgia do?"
GHOST RANCH GATE – Georgia O'Keefe's First Southwest Homeland
GHOST RANCH SKULL — GATE — NOTE BULLET HOLES — This is the West!
GHOST RANCH GATE, RANCH SIDE
GHOST RANCH WAGON AND SOUTHWEST'S CLOUDS
GHOST RANCH WAGON, COTTONWOOD AND GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MOUNTAINS
GHOST RANCH CABIN
GHOST RANCH ACEQUIA — TO BRING WATER FROM RIO GRANDE
GHOST RANCH FLAGS AND CLOUDS
GEORGIA ROCKS NEAR GHOST RANCH
GEORGIA'S RIDE FROM GHOST RANCH HOME TO ABIQUIU AND BACK
THE CLOUD-BUILDER
We felt as though we could walk across the Rio Grande (Grand-ee) – which Janet re-named 'The Rio Petito'.
RIO GRANDE NEAR GHOST RANCH
RIO GRANDE ISLANDS EN ROUTE TO AND FROM GHOST RANCH
GEORGIA'S MOUNTAIN – THE PEDERNAL
WHY SHE PAINTED WHAT SHE PAINTED!
PEDERNAL — WHERE HER ASHES WERE SCATTERED
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INTREPIDS ~ AT HOME IN TAOS
Our miracle trip has come and gone. But the keeper of NJWILDBEAUTY discovers, "My heart's in the high desert."
Mountains from Back Patio, Taos
Last Light on Our Adobe Home, Red Truck, and Mountains
Contemplation: Jeanette Hooban, Janet Black on Back Patio at Sundown
Quality Craftsmanship of our Taos Home
Gold Fruitlessly Sought by Spain
Art Pottery and 21st-Century Umbrella
Kitchen Window View – a Sea of Sagebrush
One Part of Ancient Pottery Collection
Sea of Sage and Mysterious Statue
Reflection in Jeanette's Window, from Back Patio
Last Light — Lowering Sun This Intense
The Old and the New — in Indian Country
The Old, as in Classic Cadillac — Note Rio-Grande-Washed Gravel — yes, EVEN the GRAVEL was beautiful!
Neighbor Walking His Dog past Corn Maiden Statue in our Driveway
Our Neighborhood at Sundown
Taos Farewell Drive
Posted in Appreciation, Art Pottery, beauty, coyotes, excursions, expeditions, exploration, fellowship, Indians, mountains, New Mexico, Sangre de Christo Range, serenity, silence, solitude, Southwest, Taos, The Intrepids, timelessness, tranquillity, Travel, wild beauty, wild nature, wilderness	| 14 Comments


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Canon has launched a new digital compact camera in India - Canon EOS M100 that comes with a 24.2-megapixel sensor and Dual Pixel Autofocus system. It has a 3-inch display, which can be flipped up to 180-degrees for taking selfies. The Canon EOS M100 is priced in India at Rs 39,995 and was originally launched in August at a retail price of $599.99 (Approx. Rs 40,700) with the EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM lens. Along with this, the Canon India has also launched its TS-E series lenses in the country. The TS-E50mm f/2.8L Macro, the TS-E90mm f/2.8L Macro, and the TS-E135mm f/4L Macro are priced at Rs. 1,72,995. While the EF85mm f/1.4L USM comes at Rs 1,17,995, the Macro Twin Lite MT-26EX-RT will cost you Rs 64,999.
It must be noted that the Canon EOS M100 is an upgrade to its EOS M10 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera but has kept the compact form factor. The new camera will be made available in Black and White color options. The Canon EOS M100 comes with a higher resolution image sensor, better autofocus, and improved video capabilities. It features a 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and Canon DIGIC 7 image processor. The camera allows you to shoot 4fps burst photos and up to 6.1fps with a fixed focus. Users can also record full HD (1080p) videos at 60fps. It uses Canon's Dual Pixel autofocus system for faster focus shifting during video recording.
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If there had been no pathway set for the development, modifications in the corporate will not be in the manner as required and will result into many challenges than betterment of the organization. It is necessary to know what modifications, is to be done and methods that need to be adopted (David, 2001). It can be further stated with an example i.e. if organization is opting for a freshly satisfied administrative structure, then it becomes important to know whether the new structure is well suited with the previous structure. Also method to convert the previous data to the fresh structure and if there had been some restricted area during such conversion needs to be understood. One must allocate responsibilities to people in charge for the transition so that all roles are performed. The period for the conversion also plays a vital role so its required to have an arrangement for troubles or barriers in fulfilling basic job while such conversion takes place.
It is important to get each and every workforce on the ship while conducting modification in the company; else it may result into troubles during development procedure . The choice of executing modifications initiates from the higher level of the corporate. All managerial should be a part and should have the ability to face the modification or may result into opposition by the staff . It is not essential that the whole workforce will be together at the time of commencement. If workforce and managers are shown how the modifications will influence the corporate and the path for execution such modification may help them at the initial stage of the modification if there had been any uncertainties.