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Evelyn Louise Loranger, age 98, of Cedarview, peacefully passed away at the home of her great-grandchildren, Kenneth and Atissa, surrounded by love.
She was born March 20, 1923, in Weiser, Idaho, to John Clarence and Beatrice Olive Williams Crow, the fourth of eight children. When she was four years old, her family moved to Utah in the back of a horse drawn wagon. She loved her up-bringing and talked about it with such pride. She always said she had the best parents, that they were the kindest people she had ever known, never saying a cross word to one another or their children, and how they filled their little house with so much love.
She married the love of her life, Louis Edward Loranger, in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 18, 1945. Shortly after, they bought a farm and made it into an unforgettable homestead where they had two children Barbara and Edward whom she devoted her life to. She loved her home and lived there with her husband Louis for almost 50 years. She was by his side until the day he passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on January 7, 1996. She remained in her home, being the very strong, loving, independent women she was, until January 2019 when, after a short hospital stay, she moved in with her grandchildren.
Evelyn, above all, loved being a grandmother and by far was the most patient, kind, caring, loving grandmother to all of her grandchildren and many others that adopted her along the way. She was an amazing homemaker and really was the kind of person who would do anything for anyone. She loved with her whole heart, was one-of-a-kind, selfless to a fault, never complained no matter what, and was grateful for everything and everyone God put in her life.
She was an extremely hard worker, and together with her husband, ran their 40 acre farm on which they had cattle, pigs, chickens, a huge garden, and, at times, horses – three of her favorites being "Stormy," "Jane," and "Hoss." She loved taking care of her garden, flowers, house plants and trees, and, when it was time to harvest, she could run a tractor and bail hay, as well as cook a feast for all who came to help – doing it with a smile that could brighten the darkest of days. She canned all the fruits and vegetables they grew and could cook or bake anything you could imagine. At Christmastime, she would get everyone together to make a smorgasbord of chocolates and candies, a memory her grandchildren remember fondly. She was a talented quilter and her stitching was far better than that of a machine. Each quilt was made with the love and care only she could put into it, and with a tag carefully stitched on the back that said, "Made with love!" She was also passionate about walking and would do five miles each morning and evening up until her early 90's. No one could keep up with her, and even some of the truckers would joke and say how she passed them on the road when they were driving out that way! She had a heart of gold. Everyone will always remember the farm and the wonderful memories made there, and the love that she brought into everyone's lives!
When her son was thirty-four, he battled brain cancer, and Evelyn was by his side, with his wife, Susie, until he passed. After that, she spent many summers in Denver with his family, usually taking one of her great-grandkids with her on the Grey Hound Bus. She had a way of making everything fun and an adventure. She made sure there was never a dull moment and you always felt loved! Not many years after that, she was by her daughter's side as she battled breast cancer and beat it! Once she loved you she always would! After Barbara and Frank C. "Butch" Hardinger divorced, she still remained in contact with him and always considered him family.
Evelyn was a devout Christian, and became a member of the Roosevelt Baptist Church, baptized on September 15, 1963. She found a church family in all of the wonderful members. For many years, she was their bookkeeper, and kept track of all the church's records. She attended almost every Sunday until she wasn't able to anymore.
She is truly and deeply loved and will be missed by all the many people who held her dear to their heart. She asked that when she went, for everyone to be happy for her and take great comfort knowing she is where she wants to be. She is in her forever Home with Jesus and all those who went before.
Evelyn is survived by her daughter-in-law, Susie Loranger; grandchildren, Frank E. (Shaunda) Hardinger, Louanne Hardinger, Marcia Drogheo, Lori (Steve) Farley, John E. (Megan) Loranger; great-grandchildren, Atissa (Kenneth) Bennett, Brittany (Robert) Ufford, Micheal Hardinger, Maria Hardinger, KariSue (Hunter) Hoag, Elana Drogheo, McKenna Farley, Anthony (Holt) Murphy, Julia Drogheo, Marissa (Jonny) Murphy; great-great- grandchildren, Dominic (Kapriese) Eldredge, Devan, Kyri, & Kayli Bennett; Luke (Dezaray) Hall, Lily Hostetter, McKenzi, Isabella & Jordan Hardinger; Garrit Murphy; and three great-great-great-grandchildren. And as she said with her spunky personality, "Wow! That's a lot of greats! Guess I must be!" and she was!
Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Louis; children, Barbara Hardinger and Edward Loranger; siblings, Charles Crow, Lloyd Crow, Catherine Brown, Grace Eskelson, Raymond Crow, Cleo Crow, Fred Crow.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 23, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. at the Roosevelt Baptist Church. There will be a viewing on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Hullinger Mortuary and at the church on Thursday from 10-10:45 a.m.
Burial will be in the Cedarview Cemetery.
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Evelyn was the sweetest lady. I use to deliver home meals to her and I will never forget her beautiful smile.
Katie Norton Dec 22 2021 3:01 PM
Evelyn was the sweetest lady. I use to deliver home meals to her. I will always remember her bright smile. Prayers to the family.
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Thompson Family Dec 21 2021 7:06 PM
My heart is breaking for the family but my heart is smiling for precious Aunt Evelyn! Fly high beautiful soul fly high!
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Allen and Jeanie Brown Dec 20 2021 10:53 PM
She was such a good friend.
Arvil Brown Dec 20 2021 10:13 PM
Thinking about you at the passing of Evelyn. She was so wonderful.
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Stop Whining About Android Fragmentation, Start Doing QA!
Zipline CEO: Stop whining about Android fragmentation and do some damn QA!
After reading last week's Next Web article on the 'toll' of Android fragmentation, I've had my fill of horror stories about Android support. I thought I'd set the record straight, based on Zipline's experience with Wolf Toss, a game that we released to Android and iOS on the same day and has been a Top 20 title on both platforms.
Let's roll back the clock. In 2011, I really believed the fragmentation issue was going to be a big deal for us. We'd spent most of the year beta testing our Moai game development platform, which had its first high profile iOS launch in September with Crimson: Steam Pirates. Our own game, Wolf Toss, was tested heavily on iOS as a result, and it should have had more Android testing before we shipped in December. Mea culpa.
In January, Wolf Toss was featured on Android Market, and shot up to a million users in a week, with over five hundred different Android device types. Yes, there were lots of users complaining of bugs and resolution issues, but it didn't stop our average review exceeding four stars.
The team and I spent long evenings and every weekend testing on each Android device we identified as having an issue. Thanks to the remote testing service Perfecto Mobile, I personally tested over forty different devices for device-specific bugs. Even as late as January 31,I thought Android fragmentation was a significant challenge and wrote about it in a lessons learned article from our launch.
Guess what we found after weeks of testing? Yes, there were device differences but most of our problems were rooted in classic software engineering issues. We did see some crashes on specific devices, but the catalysts were devices that have less memory or run more processes which were causing the underlying issues to be exposed more often.
The actual root causes of our crashes were our own decisions – specifically, a stack corruption issue and a thread locking issue which took us some long nights to track down. We rolled those fixes back into our Moai platform, and added real-time crash reporting from Crittercism as well. Today our crash rate on Android is well under 1% of players and very close to iOS.
A big part of our Android problems came from a development effort that didn't pay enough attention to Android up front. Only one person in our office even had an Android phone when Moai went into beta last summer. The best approach is to bite the bullet and start carrying a second phone, and make sure everyone on your team has access to Android as well.
Trying to support every Android device is like trying to support every model of iPhone and every major iOS version back to 2007. It's not worth the effort, and technically not feasible for a demanding physics game like Wolf Toss. If you take the time to test properly on Android, and target a capable set of devices, then the main fragmentation problem you have to solve is different resolutions and aspect ratios. It's a little more work than the four different displays that you now see on iOS devices, but well worth it.
For Wolf Toss, we set the bar at Android 2.2 devices with an arm7 CPU plus a minimum screen resolution of 320 x 480, which covers most Android phones designed in the last two years. Users who don't meet that bar are screened from seeing Wolf Toss in the Android Market. If Android users are complaining they can't use your app on their device, then you've probably incorrectly configured your app manifest.
Our major lessons were to test earlier and more often on Android, and to support Android screens like QHD and 16:9 aspect ratios out of the gate, because everybody hates letterboxes. The good news is that Android support in both Wolf Toss and Moai is now world class.
The idea that Android fragmentation is an insurmountable issue for developers is overblown. Our major problems were traditional software engineering challenges and we found only a handful of issues that were truly device-specific in the end. A little extra complexity for Android is worth your time as a developer.
Look at what Google has brought to their ecosystem: the most open, competitive market for smartphones, an open-source OS and unfettered distribution, immediate app deployment, and transparent, real-time customer transactions in Google Wallet. For a lean, fast moving startup, these are major advantages that make Android a priority.
We're not done looking at the challenges and triumphs of mobile development and will be continuing the discussion here on The Next Web.


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A Tale of Two Obamas
This president, who could have been such an insurgent at a moment demanding insurgency, has been so utterly captured by the Wall Street elite, the health insurance industry elite, and the military elite.
Robert Kuttner, Columnist
It was the best of Obama, it was the worst of Obama.
I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to the White House jobs summit last Thursday, where I got to watch President Obama engage with about 130 people off the cuff. And I was reminded, first hand, what drew so many of us to the promise of this remarkable outsider -- the decency, the intellect, the idealism, and the evidently progressive impulses. I came away even more bewildered and dismayed at the reality that this president, who could have been such an insurgent at a moment demanding insurgency, has been so utterly captured by the Wall Street elite, the health insurance industry elite, and the military elite.
As a friend said, "I so wanted to be supportive of a great progressive president this time instead of being back in opposition."
At the jobs session, Obama began with a ceremonial introduction, then sent the summiteers into six working groups for about two hours. He circulated among them, and concluded with an extended on-the-record plenary session leading a discussion of the jobs challenge. He was absolutely masterful, with a fine grasp of detail, and values that one could only applaud. What a contrast with George W. Bush!
All afternoon, people put forward thoughtful ideas for getting unemployment down. The elephant in the room, however, was the question of whether to increase the deficit, especially with the White House under pressure to back the scheme for a deficit-reduction commission.
So, when my turn came to ask a question, I pressed President Obama on the issue, and he did not disappoint me.
Robert Kuttner: You know, most of the things that have been proposed today cost money. And there is this concern about the federal deficit. I hope that your administration will recognize, as I know you will, that it's possible, first of all, to reduce the deficit over time and sometimes in the short run realize that you need to increase the deficit. I hope the concern about the deficit in the long run doesn't crowd out the need for additional spending in the short run.
And I also think that some of these programs that increase jobs and increase GDP are probably the fastest way to get the economy back on a track that will reduce the deficit over time. It's certainly a better way to reduce the deficit than putting ourselves into a debtor's prison, and assume we can deflate our way to recovery.
President Obama: Well, I think this is an important point. We have been talking a lot about specific initiatives. There is a macroeconomic element to this whole thing, and so let me just amplify what was just said. We have a structural deficit that is real and growing, apart from the financial crisis. We inherited it. We're spending about 23 percent of GDP and we take in 18 percent of GDP, and that gap is growing, because health care costs -- Medicare and Medicaid in particular -- are growing, and we've got to do something about that.
You then layer on top of that the huge loss of tax revenue as a consequence of the financial crisis, and the greater demands for unemployment insurance and so forth. That's another layer. Probably the smallest layer is actually what we did in terms of the Recovery Act. I think there is a misperception out there that somehow the Recovery Act caused these deficits. No. I mean, we had -- we've got a 9-point-something trillion-dollar deficit. Maybe a trillion dollars of it can be attributed to both the Recovery Act as well as the cleanup work that we had to do in terms of the banks.
It turns out, actually, TARP, as wildly unpopular as it has been, has been much cheaper than any of us anticipated. So that's not what's contributing to the deficit. We've got a long-term structural deficit that is primarily being driven by health care costs and our long-term entitlement programs. All right, so that's the base line.
Now, if we can't grow our economy, then it is going to be that much harder for us to reduce the deficit. The single most important thing we could do right now for deficit reduction is to spark strong economic growth, which means that people who've got jobs are paying taxes, and businesses that are making profits have taxes, are paying taxes. That's the most important thing we can do. We understand that in this administration. That's not always the dialogue that's going on out there in public, and we're going to have to do a better job of educating the public on that.
The last thing we would want to do in the midst of a -- what is a weak recovery, is us to essentially take more money out of the system either by raising taxes or by drastically slashing spending. And frankly, because state and local governments generally don't have the capacity to engage in deficit spending, some of that obligation falls on the federal government.
Having said that, what is also true is that unless businesses and global capital markets have some sense that we've got a plan, medium and long term, to get the deficit down, it's hard for us to be credible, and that also could be counterproductive.
So we've got about as difficult a economic play as is possible, which is to press the accelerator, in terms of job growth, but then know when to apply the brakes in the out-years, and do that credibly. And we are trying to strike that balance, but we're going to need help from all of you who oftentimes are more credible than politicians in delivering that message, because we want to leverage whatever public dollars are spent, and we are under no illusion that somehow the federal government can spend its way out of this recession. But it is absolutely true that any of the ideas that have been mentioned here are still going to require some public dollars, and those are actually good investments to make right now.
This response was pitch-perfect. Let's see how hard the president fights for more deficit spending to put Americans back to work, and whether his State of the Union Address is as good as this impromptu answer.
It was the same week that Obama decided to buckle to the pressure from his generals on Afghanistan. For several weeks, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been taking his case for escalation public. You wonder why Obama didn't say to McChrystal, "General, you work for me and I expect your advice to be confidential. If you want to go public, you are free to resign." President Harry Truman, when the war hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur went public with his campaign during the Korean conflict for war with China, simply fired the popular general.
It was also this week that key House Democrats caved in to Goldman Sachs on the issue of derivatives regulation, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner backed the industry's efforts to weaken the measure rather than urging Congress to hang tough. Late in the week, Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, reached agreement with Collin Peterson, the conservative Democrat who chairs the Committee on Agriculture on the key details. In their draft, Wall Street won all of the key points -- big loopholes for derivatives involving foreign exchange, and even bigger ones for derivatives involving non-financial "end users." Bottom line: the industry's lucrative and high-risk practices of creating and trading most derivatives outside regulated exchanges will likely continue.
For the back story, see Michael Hirsh's terrific piece in the current Newsweek,in which he reports:
"This is an orchestrated, well-funded effort by the banks to manipulate our legislation and leave no fingerprints," says a congressional staffer involved in drafting the legislation. The staffer, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, passed on to Newsweek nine pages of proposed changes in the legislation intended to protect trading from open scrutiny -- all of it on paper without a letterhead -- that she says came from Goldman Sachs.
Where was Obama in all of this infighting? The kindest interpretation is that he was distracted by the health insurance bill, and by Afghanistan, and simply letting Geithner run the show.
Many of us in the progressive committee play a little game with ourselves called, "If the Czar only knew ..." We don't want to believe that this attractive leader is fully aware of some of the things being done in his name. If only President Obama knew, he would set things right.
Well, the Czar knows. He certainly knew who he was appointing, even if he lacks the time to parse every provision of a complex bill on financial derivatives.
Time for a pop quiz.
President Obama has turned out to be disappointingly centrist because:
A. Wall Street has immense power, and you have to be at least as radical as Roosevelt to even partially dislodge it.
B. As a consummate outsider, he concluded that he needed the blessings and the expertise of the establishment -- the financial establishment, the military establishment, the medical-industrial establishment.
C. He never really was that much of a progressive on economic issues.
D. He really believes what he says about building bridges and finding consensus -- which defaults to making accommodations with the powerful.
E. All of the above.
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At its most recent meeting in Los Angeles, ASTA's Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve a change to its US Travel Agency member structure that extends ASTA's top-quality benefits to all member agency employees and changes Travel Agency members' dues from a flat-fee to a tiered structure based on sales volume.
The new plan will provide Travel Agency member employees with access to ASTA's full range of online benefits and resources for travel agents, including a profile on ASTA's popular consumer website TravelSense.org; invitations to Chapter events; and the opportunity to serve on their chapter's committees.
Under the new tiered structure, agencies with sales of less than $5 million will see an increase of less than $20 and pay $295. Agencies with sales between $5 million and $10 million will pay $495. Those with sales between $10 million and $25 million will pay $695, while those with sales between $25 million and $35 million will pay $895; and those with sales between $35 million and $50 million will pay $1,295. Agencies with sales greater than $50 million will have the option to become Premium members at the $2,500 rate. (The option of joining as a Premium member will remain for all travel agents regardless of sales volume.) Each company will have one vote.
Going forward, travel agents who are employed by a non-member agency, as well as independent contractors may join as non-affiliated members at the lowest tier and will have one vote. Travel agents who are employed by a member agency and wish to have voting rights may purchase a separate membership at the lowest tier.
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Wired has a fantastic article in the upcoming September issue on the exploding field of manufactured diamonds, and the threat they pose to the De Beers stranglehold on the industry. One of the main points of the article revolves around whether or not people (specifically women, if you read the subtext of all the quotes) will accept man-made diamonds as equal to their earthen-born counterparts; I think that the more interesting question is whether or not diamonds will fall from their absurdly elevated prestige once the artificial scarcity holding them there is shattered.
Erin read that article and she already wants a $15 3 carat pendant… Of course, she's somewhat more rational than your average woman (not so rational that she isn't drawn to shiny things, but rational enough to realize a CZ is just as nice as a real diamond).
I wouldn't accept an artificial diamond. I would accept an artificial diamond way before I'd accept a De Beers diamond. But I wouldn't want a diamond at all. It's not a real tradition - it was a marketing ploy. And I have a dozen reasons for not wanting a diamond. And some of them would apply even if it were a synthetic diamond.


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The youth stooped to kiss her feet, and Mary extended her arm from that statue, took him by the hand and held him so strongly that no power could move him.
Father Razzi, of the order of Camaldoli, relates that a certain youth having lost his father was sent by his mother to the court of a prince. The mother, who had a great devotion to Mary, when she parted with him made him promise to recite every day a "Hail Mary" and add these words:
"Blessed Virgin, help me in the hour of my death"
The youth arrived at court, but soon began to lead so dissolute a life, that his master was obliged to send him away. In despair, without means of support, he went into the country and became a highway robber; but even then he did not omit to recommend himself to our Lady, as his mother had directed him.
At length he fell into the hands of justice, and was condemned to death. Being in prison the evening before his execution, and thinking of his disgrace, the grief of his mother, and the death which awaited him, he fell to weeping bitterly.
The devil seeing him so oppressed by melancholy, appeared to him in the form of a beautiful young man, and said to him that he would release him from death and prison if he would follow his directions. The convict engaged to do all that he required. Then the pretended youth made known to him that he was the devil and had come to his assistance. In the first place, he ordered him to renounce Jesus Christ and the holy sacraments. The youth consented. He then required him to renounce the Virgin Mary and her protection.
"This" exclaimed the young man, "I will never do" and turning to Mary, repeated the accustomed prayer that his mother had taught him: "Blessed Virgin, help me in the hour of my death". At these words, the devil disappeared. The youth remained in great affliction for the wickedness he had committed in denying Jesus Christ. He invoked the Blessed Virgin, and she obtained for him, by her prayers, a great sorrow for all his sins, so that he made his confession with much weeping and contrition.
On his way to the gallows, happening to pass before a statue of Mary, he saluted her with his usual prayer: Blessed Virgin, help me in the hour of my death, and the statue, in the presence of all, inclined its head and saluted him. Deeply moved, he begged to be allowed to kiss the feet of the image. The executioners refused but afterwards consented on account of the clamor of the people. The youth stooped to kiss her feet, and Mary extended her arm from that statue, took him by the hand and held him so strongly that no power could move him.
At this prodigy the multitude shouted "Pardon, pardon" and pardon was granted. Having returned to his country, he led an exemplary life, and was always most devoted to Mary, who had delivered him from temporal and eternal death.
Source: "The Glories of Mary" by St Alphonsus Liguori
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Here is an open letter to Darren Millar (MP) regarding his request for feedback on the draft Static Holiday Sites (Wales) Bill, dated 11th December 2013.
Since 2005 My Holiday Caravan has provided independent information to those looking to buy a static holiday caravan on a UK park, working closely with national and regional park operators.
This experience has given us a real insight to the motivations and concerns of static caravan buyers and owners.
As you are in the process of seeking feedback on the Static Holiday Sites (Wales) Bill, we have summarised the key issues from caravan owners canvassed by online surveys and face to face contact at UK caravan shows. We have tried to balance this with views of park operators which we have access to via our commercial partnerships.
We have thus focused on the key areas which we feel, based on this feedback, need clarification in law to protect caravan owners and park operators.
Misappropriate use of holiday homes as permanent residence is a concern for legitimate park operators and caravan owners.
The proposed maximum occupancy of 28 days within 3 months would potentially restrict a usage for a caravan owner who wishes to holiday for an extended period beyond 28 days. Legitimate caravan owners often can have "longer stays" especially those who have retired and such restrictions could potentially harm the whole industry.
It is permanent continual residential living that is the key issue.
At this time, many conscientious park operators are struggling to enforce a non-residence policy. Buyers can give a false permanent address or sell their property after holiday home is purchased.
Under the proposed bill park owners become directly liable for their caravan owners. It seems the only option open to them is to control access more directly (perhaps on a weekly basis via a key-management process) for which many feel defeats the freedom and point of holiday home ownership.
As the bill targets park owners rather than caravan owners who float rules, we can't see any other truly enforceable way for a park to prevent misuse.
12 month park licences being granted by many local authorities in the UK sits uneasily with many in the industry, as the feel they erode the very definition of a holiday park by elimination of the "closed season", whereby permanent residence was impossible.
Many are also asking which governmental body would enforce this new legislation with park operators and on with what regularity.
We enclose the most prevalent feedback from static caravan holiday home owners on licence agreements.
Wording should be clear and have fair terms for both parties.
Caravan owners like a lease which states the number of years a caravan can stay on a pitch (e.g. 20 years) and that can be renegotiated on at the end of term. Contracts which are dependent on "condition" of caravan can be vague and park operator retains the final say on eviction.
Buyers expect a full and detailed list of ownership costs.
Caravan owners want protection against unfair increases in site fees and have protection if park is purchased by a third party.
Caravan owners want utilities to be provided at cost with open and transparent billing.
Owners also want to be able to sell their caravan independently without interference from the park operator (paying commission as per their licence agreement). We have regular reports of parks not allowing private sales and applying below market valuations.
One of the most prominent complaints from dissatisfied caravan owners is lack of aftercare and breaches of licence agreements.
Customer charters are good in principal but hard to enforce once you have purchased and the park operator revokes on promises.
Handover meeting should be completed with all new buyers detailing key personnel on site.
Licence agreement should clearly lay out complaints handling procedure.
When owners are in dispute with parks they often feel there is no support mechanism apart from expensive legal action against park operator. With so many potential grey areas, this action is always going to have an inherent risk.
Currently in the UK, the National Caravan Council will arbitrate if the park is a member of the approved scheme, but have no real powers to intervene if a compromise cannot be found.
Others seek advice from organisations such as NACO who provide advice on legal matters.
With the proposed legislation, caravan owners would need to know where to look for support in its enforcement e.g. The Office of Fair Trading.
We hope our input is of benefit to your feedback process, please don't hesitate to contact me if you need anything in the future.


Mmm, is that a red herring that we taste in the stew? On Bravo's new cooking competition Recipe for Deception, contestants won't just need an arsenal of culinary skills to cut the mustard—they'll also have to be stone-cold sociopaths. Hosted by stand-up comedian and food writer Max Silvestri, the series, loosely based on the parlor game Two Truths and a Lie, challenges chefs to create a winning dish featuring a mystery ingredient. To home in on what that is, they'll swap clues with their opponents while trying to intentionally mislead each other along the way. Silvestri dishes about bringing Pinocchio into the pantry.
With so many kitchen showdowns out there, what will make this one stand out?
Our show takes food very seriously, but it has a sense of humor. It does not treat food competition as a sacred and solemn temple to worship at. You can tune in and laugh. People like to watch chefs struggle and sweat, and we turn that up to 15.
How do the contestants fare at the deception?
I was expecting chefs to not be good liars. I don't know why, but I thought they would all be breaking into smiles, and there were maybe only two like that. I'm a little unsettled by how adept some of them were—not just at lying, but at all sorts of crazy misdirects, mind games and manipulation. I didn't tell them to do that!
On an upcoming episode, celebrities will play for charity. Any major rivalries in the mix?
Coolio and Lou Diamond Phillips. This is their third time cooking against each other on TV, and it was score settling at a cosmic level. I figured it would be lighthearted, but they were more cutthroat than anybody. I was like, "OK, you realize you are professionals at something else, right?" Also, you may think there's only one way to wear an apron—and Coolio will show you otherwise.


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Good seats , gave it 4 starts because people coming in late or personnel obstruct the view just a bit so you lose a little bit of view by visitors team area. Other than that not bad seats . Close to the home team though!
Excellent seats just outside of the premium section located almost behind the visitors bench.
Great seats. 3 rows away from the players, could clearly hear them talking.


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Ronnie Burk's AZT Death Grove
Posted on November 1, 2014 by Todd Swindell
The history of AIDS drug development is rife with conflict of interest and greed. While the last ten years has seen improved success with the efficacy and tolerance of AIDS treatments, it's important to remember the complacency and corruption that preceded it– a fact made clear by the lethal legacy of AZT.
When the AIDS Memorial Grove was established in Golden Gate Park in 1996, ACT UP SF member Ronnie Burk saw a chance to call attention to the lives lost to AIDS drug toxicity. AZT, the first federally approved AIDS treatment, was authorized on the basis of a fraudulent clinical trial as documented in John Lauritsen's essential book Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story which can be read at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/PoisonByPrescription
Chicano Surrealist poet Ronnie Burk reclaims the AIDS Memorial Grove in memory of the lives lost to AZT poisoning. Photo by Mira Ingram © 1996
Having lost a companion to AZT poisoning in the late 1980s, Ronnie felt an urgency to honor the horrible truth behind these deaths. A cancer chemotherapy that was shelved for being too toxic, AZT was dusted off in 1987 and aggressively promoted to a sick and desperate community. Many people with AIDS and HIV were pressured into taking AZT by organizations who received grants from its manufacturer. Anemia and weight loss were among its debilitating side effects. After its use in the gay community waned, AZT was exported to Africa and administered to pregnant women despite being known to cause birth defects.
Flyer by ACT UP SF member Ronnie Burk in response to the 1998 Intl. AIDS Conference in Geneva. Click to enlarge.
As a Chicano Surrealist poet, Ronnie brought a theatrical element to his informed and impassioned activism. Using the imagery of skulls and black cloth associated with Día de los Muertos, Ronnie visited the grove early on the foggy morning of Nov. 4, 1996 to transform it into a haunting tribute to the many lives needlessly sacrificed for profit and greed. There are those who feel strongly that we should not look back at the brutal legacy of AIDS drug development but instead simply be grateful for the longevity of people with AIDS living today. ACT UP Archives seeks to dispel such divisive viewpoints with an understanding that there is not only room but need for both when it comes to telling the history of AIDS.
Appreciation is given to ACT UP SF member Mira Ingram who filmed the action and generously provided the footage to the ACT UP Archives.
Photo by Mira Ingram © 1996
Collage by Ronnie Burk for Día de los Muertos © 1995
For more information about the AZT scandal, this 1993 exposé for UK's Meditel program Dispatches remains an excellent resource:
ACT UP San Francisco Press Release — November 4, 1996
ACT UP San Francisco Protestors Transform National AIDS Monument Into "AZT Death Grove"
AIDS activists' somber Day of the Dead action at AIDS Memorial Grove mourns those lost to AZT poisoning; protests aggressive marketing of experimental treatments.
San Francisco – Shrouded by dense fog in the early morning hours, members of ACT UP SF made their way to the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, draped the monument with black cloth and renamed the site "The AZT Grove" in observance of Day Of the Dead. AIDS activists from the militant, direct action organization staked paper skulls looking like Aztec glyphs and death certificates condemning San Francisco Health Director Sandra Hernandez's promotion of toxic, experimental agents around the nationally recognized monument.
"AZT and other toxic AIDS drugs have killed off a whole generation of my friends and lovers. We will not stand in silence and watch the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry murder another generation of young men all for profit," said HIV-positive activist and artist Ronnie Burk who conceptualized the action.
ACT UP members are upset that the San Francisco Department of Public Health is railroading an eight million dollar package this coming week for pharmaceutical and administrative services for the promotion and dispensing of the experimental protease inhibitors.
"Sanctioned murder is still murder," commented ACT UP demonstrator Mira Ingram. "It is insidious that the DPH is rushing ahead to squander millions on drugs that not only don't cure but kill." ACT UP SF has demanded that City Supervisors and DPH officials participate in an immediate public debate on the merits and dangers of antiviral therapy. Recent comments from Donald Abrams, Head of the FDA Antiviral Committee and Director of the AIDS Program at SF General Hospital, revealed that his patients "have watched friends go on the antiviral bandwagon and die so they've chosen not to take any antiretrovirals." Despite such grim reports, Dr. Sandra Hernandez has stated publicly that she is ready to instruct her department to set system wide standards for provision of viral load testing and protease inhibitor drugs "by whatever means necessary" ACT UP members say this mixed message from city AIDS leaders signals a new wave of deadly toxic immunosuppressive therapies within the SF health care system.
"Dr. Hernandez has given us all ever more reasons for commemorating Day of the Dead. A year from now SF will return to the killing fields of the mid-80s. I remember it all too clearly. ACT UP SF will resist this force-feeding of poisons to the HIV positive, as in Dr. Hernandez's words "by whatever means necessary," stated 41 year old Burk as he placed paper skulls around the monument.
Press photos of the "AZT Death Grove" are available.
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Queers Bash Back: Nuns Pie Homophobic Rev. Fred Phelps
Posted on October 20, 2014 by Todd Swindell
"We must confront religious hypocrites and let them know we will no longer be their victims. The gay community must unite to protect our safety and well being," Sister Thelma of ACT UP SF's Holy Order of Pieing Nuns (HOPN).
Thankfully this year has seen the death of homophobic preacher, the Reverend Fred Phelps. This maniacal leader of a mutant clan of so-called Christians from Topeka, Kansas made a name for himself by traveling with his family, many of whom are lawyers, across the nation preaching against "sodomite sin" with their neon colored signs proclaiming God Hates Fags. Several years ago, members of the family (Phelps had 13 children) who had left the church gave gruesome reports of the abuse they suffered.
When Phelps and his brood arrived at San Francisco's City Hall in March,1999 to protest Mayor Willie Brown's officiating of a mass domestic partner ceremony, ACT UP San Francisco decided to serve some just desserts in solidarity with the Biotic Baking Brigade. At the time three members of the BBB, including ACT UP SF member Gerry Livernois, were in jail for pieing Mayor Brown in protest of his discriminatory homeless policies.
Establishing the affinity group Holy Order of Pieing Nuns (HOPN), Sisters Thelma (Todd Swindell) and Louise (Victoria Grace) took to the streets of San Francisco armed with vegan pies in costumed resistance to the violent rhetoric of fundamentalist religious bigots. The following exclusive footage was generously provided to the ACT UP Archives by Agent Apple of the BBB:
Sisters Thelma and Louise of ACT UP San Francisco's Holy Order of Pieing Nuns (HOPN). Photo by David Pasquarelli © 1999
As radical queer activists, there is a proud tradition of pie throwing as non-violent political protest. Pieing seeks to deflate the position of power from which these destructive forces of bigorty operate by making them objects of ridicule. It empowers the LGBTQ community as a form of spiritual activism by transferring guilt and shame back to the true perpetrators of evil.
On Oct. 14,1977 in Des Moines, Iowa, gay pagan Thom Higgins threw a pie in the face of right-wing spokesperson Anita Bryant who was on a homophobic crusade to "save the children" from "dangerous queers" by eliminating our civil rights thereby condoning violent attacks against the LGBTQ community.
Homophobic bigot Anita Bryant after being pied by gay activist Thom Higgins in Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 14, 1977. Photo by Flint Born.
Bay Area Reporter article from April 1, 1999 — Pages 1,19. Click images to enlarge.
Bay Area Reporter — April 1, 1999 Page 1. Click image to enlarge.
Bay Area Reporter — April 1, 1999 Page 1 & 19. Click image to enlarge.
ACT UP San Francisco Press Release — March 26, 1999
Pieing Nuns Cream Homophobic Reverend————————————————————————— Fred Phelps targeted for ongoing campaign that incites violence against Queers
SAN FRANCISCO — An offshoot of the controversial direct action organization ACT UP San Francisco pied supporters of homophobic Reverend Fred Phelps this evening. Dessert was served by a duo known as the Holy Order of Pieing Nuns to protest the recent violent murders of gay men across the nation. Phelps and his clan held a rally tonight, carrying neon signs emblazoned with hate messages like "AIDS Cures Fags" and "GAY: Got AIDS Yet?" to protest Mayor Willie Brown's officiating of a mass domestic partners ceremony at City Hall.
In defiance of the recent six month jail sentence handed down to Biotic Baking Brigade members who pied Mayor Brown, two activists dressed in nun's habits tossed four organic vegan banana tofu pies into the Phelps' entourage twisted faces of hate as part of "Operation: Second Phelping." Citing heinous attacks on queers nationwide and the repression of political pie-protest in San Francisco, Sister Agents Thelma and Louise demanded that community members respond with anger and power to the very real and immediate threat of the religious right-wing.
No stranger to San Francisco, in 1994 Phelps attempted to picket the funeral of Randy Shilts, but was met by hundreds of angry and vocal demonstrators who, within seconds of his arrival, forced Phelps and his family to flee back to Topeka, Kansas. Recently Phelps, who travels to these "demonstrations" with his children and grandchildren, picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard. Shepard was tied to a fence post, beaten, and left to die in Wyoming last year. Last summer, having picketed Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro, Phelps was met with paint balls from a concerned citizen.
"Queers have been tossing pies since Anita Bryant's homophobic attacks on gays and lesbians in the late 1970's. The venom spewed forth by Phelps and his ilk is no different," stated pieing nun Sister Thelma. "From the vicious stabbing of Robert Hillsborough in the Mission district twenty years ago to last week's slaying of Henry Northington, whose decapitated head was found impaled on a Virginia bridge, the hatred and violence remains. We must confront religious hypocrites and let them know we will no longer be their victims. The gay community must unite to protect our safety and well being."
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School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
French (Theses and Dissertations)
Points of passage : an exploration of the theme of the threshold in the poetry of Jacques Réda, Jean-Claude Renard, Pierre Oster, Philippe Jaccottet and Alain Bosquet
Harley (née Johnston), Ingrid
Ingrid Harley (née Johnston), 'Points of passage : an exploration of the theme of the threshold in the poetry of Jacques Réda, Jean-Claude Renard, Pierre Oster, Philippe Jaccottet and Alain Bosquet', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2003, pp 283
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This thesis proposes an investigation of contemporary and near-contemporary French poetry and an exploration of the poetic imagination, using a thematic approach based on a Jungian/Bachelardian concept of imaginary symbolism . I have chosen the theme of the threshold as a way into the poet's imagination for, whether portrayed in terms of a physical, temporal or spiritual entity, it is a recurring theme and motif throughout contemporary poetry. However, despite the prevalence of the liminal image in contemporary French poetry, there is remarkably little published material concerning this theme and this thesis is an attempt to redress this imbalance in some small measure.
Author: Harley (née Johnston), Ingrid
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May 16th (Saturday): Been to Lucy's place which she rented while her house being renovated during these few months. The boys had so much fun with her tow adorable daughters. I'm glad that we drop by.
May 14th (Thursday): Another day checking on the progress of the house renovation. Mr. Yee has another person who did the surface smoothing of the house.
May 12th (Tuesday): Went to check on the house again and got some photos for hubby to decide on certain things. Our concern and opinion are so diverse that we had some argument concerning the renovation. I wish he is around to settle things rather than me myself only.
May 11th (Monday): Brought Cal for his dental appointment that have been wanted to do even over in Hong Kong. Found out that his tooth which has been filled before got infected and need to do root treatment. He was being brave and obeyed the doctor's instructions.
May 10th (Sunday): The first time stepping into my house with renovation going on. Feeling a bit confuse on the things that I need to notice and started worried about the things that I need to prepare.


You're not correct about the McDonald's Chipotle connection. McDonald's owns 0 percent of Chipotle. McDonald's owned shares in the past, but no longer.
You're correct that it can be fattening, but it's not if you skip the gauc and cheese. Or if you opt for a burrito bowl instead of a burrito. The tortillas are surprisingly high in fat and calories. But delicious.
But overall, their food is high in fat and calories, unless you split your order with one or two people.


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Q: Adds a clickable element in the select tag() I have a question regarding a drop-down menu. But it is difficult to explain. I would like to make a drop-down menu <select> as shown in the picture below and for every <option>, I should create a question mark (?) at the right side. As you see in the picture, the purpose is to show a small explanation of that <option> when we place the mouse cursor on each option's question mark. I really appreciate if anyone can help me. Thank you in advance.

A: Unfotunately with simple <select> and options that is not possible. You have to use <div> as as dropdown or <ul>. You can also search for "custom select box plugin" in google.

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In light of new questions being raised during last week's testimony before the SARS Commission of Inquiry and from media inquiries, led by our global leadership and external Counsel, Bain & Company is now undertaking a deep and extensive investigation into all matters relating to our work with SARS. We want to be absolutely certain that we entered into our SARS engagement in full compliance with applicable procurement laws and that our investigation's findings are accurate and unassailable.
We want to be completely open and transparent, as we believe that is what the people of South Africa deserve. However, given the Commission of Inquiry is continuing its investigation we cannot publicly discuss anything that would in any way affect the ongoing work of the Commission.
Bain continues to stand by the value and rigor of its work – not as a point of pride – but out of a sense of mission that our South African associates wanted to bring to that organisation. We worked hard because we wanted to help SARS become an even better organisation and we believe our work could help to do that.
We have listened with concern to the testimonies of SARS employees who feel they have been mistreated and disrespected, at their frustration and pain and the consequences this has had on the lives of these individuals and their families. We are dismayed by the way our work has been used to further a different agenda than was intended. In our recommendations, there was no need for any lay-offs or terminations. This didn't turn out to be the reality when the model was implemented. We are deeply sorry for how this turned out – we wish we had known then what we do now.
We contend that this could have been avoided. Through the various Commission testimony, we now know that essential elements of delivering a successful operating model were not systematically addressed, causing the failure at SARS.
As we stated in our testimony, Bain believes that the success of an operating model for an organisation is a function of defining and implementing all elements of the model correctly: leadership, organisation structure, accountabilities and decision processes, governance forums, core values/ways of working, capabilities, business processes, and IT systems. We raised this with SARS, but Bain's contracted work on the operating model covered only one aspect, organisational structure, whilst SARS handled internally all other aspects of the process. This point must not be lost nor is the fact that the design principles for this structure was presented to and reviewed by SARS's independent Advisory Board instituted by the Finance Minister.
In hindsight, as we reflect on our role at SARS there are several places where we could have done better. We could have listened better. We could have pushed SARS harder to acknowledge and address the risks we raised. We could have been more aware of agendas that could have diverged from the mandate we were given. These are lessons we have already taken to heart.
These last few weeks have been difficult. There is a growing frustration within our firm that we did not recognise the possibility that we may have been used to further a political or personal agenda. We always go into our work presuming our clients have good intentions. We are now questioning these beliefs as it relates to SARS.
As a firm, we stand by the work we produced and the dedicated effort of our employees who wanted nothing more than to make SARS a better place. We will continue to cooperate with the Commission of Inquiry to support a process aimed at restoring SARS to the once credible institution it was once known as.


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Grocery Outlet Bargain Market Opens in City Heights
The new grocery store is located at 4360 54th St. and has created more than 25 jobs in the City Heights community
By Monica Garske • Published May 25, 2017 • Updated on May 25, 2017 at 1:32 pm
City Heights residents have a new place to score some deals on groceries: a Grocery Outlet Bargain Market opens in the neighborhood this weekend.
The store, located at 4360 54th St., plans to host a grand opening celebration on Saturday starting at 8 a.m. The party will include deals, prizes and treats, while they last.
For instance, the first 100 customers in line will get a 25 percent off coupon for their shopping trip, while the first 500 customers get an eco-friendly reusable bag.
Customers will also be able to enter to win $500 in Grocery Outlet gift cards and take a spin on something called the "Wheel of Bargains." At 8 a.m., there will be free coffee and treats; from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the store will offer $1 hot dogs and drinks with proceeds going to Crawford High School's athletics program.
The store is the first-ever Grocery Outlet to open in City Heights. According to the company, the opening has created more than 25 jobs in the community.
This location is owned and operated independently by San Diego native Kelly Meldrum, a 22-year veteran of the grocery retail industry. The store is located near Meldrum's old high school, in the heart of the community in which he grew up.
Meldrum held a ribbon cutting ceremony for his store on Thursday and donated $1,000 in Grocery Outlet gift cards to the San Diego Food Bank. He hopes to continue to find ways for his store to give back to the community.
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Grocery Outlet Bargain Market currently has more than a dozen stores in San Diego County, from San Marcos all the way to El Cajon. Less than two years ago, a new Grocery Outlet opened in Santee.
The company, founded in 1946, is based in Emeryville, California, and has 270 locations in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. The chain is known for offering bargains at deep discounts compared to other grocery retailers – from produce, dairy and meat to beer, wine and health and beauty products. The stores are run by independent owner-operators in local communities.
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Definition - What does Yama mean?
A yama is a duty or observance recommended by yogic philosophy and teaching as part of the eight-limbed path of yoga. In Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, he outlines five yamas as his first "limb" of yoga.
The word, yama, originally meant "bridle" or "rein" and refers to the restraining nature of the yamas. These yamas are practices that are considered to be outer observances. They are a way of applying the behavioral codes of yoga to the way the yogi relates to the world. They are considered to be a valuable and highly relevant guide to help yogis live an ethical life.
Practicing the yamas is said to give the yogi the opportunity to live in a way that is healthier and more peaceful. They can improve relationships with others, strengthen character and help the yogi progress on his/her spiritual path. It is also believed to reduce or even prevent the accumulation of bad karma, which can be gathered when one lives without awareness or honesty.
Ahimsa: non-violence or non-harming of all creatures, including ourselves. Physical, mental and emotional violence are all to be avoided and, as such, ahimsa is often considered to guide yogis to practice compassion and non-judgment as a tool for cultivating nonviolence.
Satya: truthfulness or honesty in words and actions. It is important that this is practiced alongside the first yama of nonviolence as the need to speak the truth must be balanced with the need to not harm another.
Asteya: non-stealing of other's property or time. This means not taking anything which has not been freely and willingly given, and includes not committing or being complicit in theft, exploitation or oppression.
Brahmacharya: chastity, which can also be interpreted as sexual restraint or marital fidelity. This can also be considered as continence or moderation in all of the yogi's impulses, not just sexual ones. Brahmacharya is believed to help the yogi become healthier, wiser and stronger, as it is said that it will conserve energy, which can then be better employed to achieve higher spiritual aims.
Aparigraha: non-coveting. This is a practice of letting go of all that is not needed and only possessing what is completely necessary. It is said that this helps the yogi to see the one thing he/she truly has, Atman (true Self), without the distraction of clinging to possessions.
There are believed to be at least 60 ancient sacred texts that describe the yamas, many of which are written in Sanskrit. These include variations on Patanjali's list of five yamas, with some texts listing up to 10 yamas. The other variations order the yamas differently and emphasize different aspects.


This thread is really intended for requests for art for items that are in impending danger of actually being printed. Which is not to say you should not ask, just that you should not expect anything if your project isn't in that arena.
Solomoriah wrote: This thread is really intended for requests for art for items that are in impending danger of actually being printed. Which is not to say you should not ask, just that you should not expect anything if your project isn't in that arena.
Solo is correct, but i think i have a pair of pics that may work out for you, when you get the class worked out.
Much thanks, Sho. When it's a little further along I'll get back to you about those.
I assume you'll be here all week?!
i just saw the pic. I was slow to load when the page loaded...and i was scrolling down before the pic loaded before..
LOL ok that was funny. seriously..
Sho, if you still don't mind me using those illustrations I'd appreciate them whenever it'd be convenient for you.


Dorchester County Water & Sewer (DCWS) provides water and sewer service to certain areas within Dorchester County.
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How is it that the smelt in the estuary have survived for thousands of years with intermittent periods of severe drought but now need the help of environmental do-gooders who demand that precious fresh water must be wasted to ensure their survival in these times of severe drought? Our meddling with nature may render the smelt to become incapable of surviving without a copious amount of fresh water.
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In our final article on the subject of house systems, we're going to dive into a topic requested by readers. It involves something that is very common in birth charts, but not much has been written about it. If you've wondered how intercepted signs work, and how this impacts a planet in a sign that's intercepted, then by all means read on!
As I told you in the first two parts of this series, regardless of which House division system one uses, often charts won't show a change in the sign on the cusp of a given house. However, the farther north or south you go from the equator, the wider the variance in the size of the quadrants (and therefore the houses), leading to what are called "intercepted" signs. This is when you have the end of a sign on the cusp, the entire next sign inside the house, and the sign after that on the next house cusp.
We all have all the signs in our chart somewhere, and if the cusps involve the very early or very late degrees of a sign, at least two houses will have different signs on their cusps. I've even noted that a chart could have three possible signs on its cusp if we're born in extreme North or South latitude.
Whenever we find the same sign on two houses, with the opposite signs also on two houses, we will find intercepted signs in another pair of houses. Here different house division system may yield different signs that are "intercepted," as well as different houses where a sign is intercepted.
This is a common but little understood phenomenon. Almost everyone born above certain latitudes has intercepted signs, while those born closer to the equator almost never have them. So let's have a look into what these can indicate in a chart.
Generally speaking, the concept of interception involves two houses having the same sign on the cusp, the two opposite houses also having the opposite sign on those two houses, while denying two other signs occupancy of a house cusp.
Whether this occurs or not depends entirely on what house system we use. It can never happen when we use Equal Houses, since that puts the natural sequence of signs on successive houses beginning with the Ascendant.
As an aside, my old friend and Master Astrologer Carl Payne Tobey held the opinion we should also examine charts using Equal Houses starting from the Midheaven degree, since that doesn't change according to latitude. This would certainly produce different results from an Ascendant based system (except near the equator, when the houses are pretty much equal house anyway, regardless of what system we use).
I explored the issues around house systems and what they're about in previous articles posted last week, so please check them out if you want to know more about the intricacies of the different house systems and why I use the approach I do. Those who have read those articles know I have a somewhat different approach to multiple house systems than most astrologers, and you may find a resolution to some dilemmas in those articles.
Back to interceptions. Using my own chart as an example, when calculated using the Placidus House system, I have 11 Leo on the Ascendant, 2 Virgo on the 2nd and 28 Virgo on the 3rd, 30 Libra on the Nadir (IC), 6 Sag on the 5th and 11 Capricorn on the 6th cusp. Obviously the signs opposite to these go on the opposite house cusps. So where are Taurus and Scorpio?
They are "intercepted" in the 10th and 4th houses respectively. The cusp of my MC is 30 Aries, while the cusp of my 11th is 6 Gemini making my 10th house 36 degrees wide. That means I begin the house at the end of Aries, and it's wide enough to encompass all of Taurus and a fifth of Gemini. The same with the 4th, but with opposite signs.
My 2nd house, on the other hand, is only 26 degrees wide, as is my 8th. Planets move through my 2nd and 8th houses quickly, but stay longer in my 4th and 10th, since those houses are wider. Again, this is all about how space or time are "bent" by which house system you use to calculate charts.
In another example, when using the Porphyry House division system (my favorite) my cusps change significantly. I'll always have 11 Leo as an Ascendant and 30 Aries as a Midheaven (MC), but using Porphyry I have 7 Virgo on the 2nd, 4 Libra on the 3rd, 4 Sag on the 5th, and 7 Cap on the 6th, with opposite signs on opposite houses. Thus you can see the rulers of my 3rd and 9th houses change when I change house division systems, also moving my Saturn from the 3rd (Placidus) to the 2nd (Porphyry). However, Taurus and Scorpio remain intercepted in the 4th and 10th in both these systems.
The Koch system is closer to the Porphyry cusps, though it expands my 4th and 10th while narrowing my 6th and 12th houses. Campanus also is close to the Porphyry cusps, and expands my 1st and 7th while narrowing my 4th and 10th.
Regiomontanus, on the other hand, is closer to the Placidus cusps (Virgo on the 3rd) and widens my 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th houses while it narrows my 2nd, 6th, 8th, and 12th houses. In all systems other than the Equal House system, Taurus and Scorpio remain intercepted. Again, if this has you confused, reading the previous articles on houses will help some of this make sense.
So what does all this mean? When two houses share the same sign, they are both ruled by the same planet. When a sign is intercepted, it means the previous sign is the cusp ruler, but the intercepted sign exerts a very powerful influence, since all signs get their due in our life experience. We all have all the signs somewhere, and exactly where is why some of us have similar or different approaches to our life affairs (the houses).
As you can see, whatever houses share a ruler is determined by which system we use. As I introduced in the previous articles in this series, my personal approach is that each cusp is actually a zone created by using any three systems, creating a degree span where the two houses in question meet and overlap each other.
In our example, using Equal, Placidus, and Porphyry together, we see that the cusp between my 2nd and 3rd houses is anywhere from 28 Virgo to 11 Libra. This is the "commons" where my values meet my attitudes, where my resources and how I use them contacts my environment and close relations.
There are other correlations as well, such as the border between my 8th and 9th being between 28 Pisces and 11 Aries. This is where my desires meet my truth and future, or where my shared values and resources meet my ethics and philosophy. Any time a planet moves through these zones that planetary principle activates the shared "zone of influence" and I get new insights and activities about what is common to those different houses through that planetary lens.
Just because a sign is on 2 houses doesn't make it "more powerful," and the intercepted sign "less powerful." More obvious and less obvious might be a better way to approach this phenomenon. Of course, just because something is not obvious or is hidden in some way doesn't mean it's less powerful.
Ultimately, it all involves "narrower" and "wider" spans of experience in our different life affairs. The same sign on two adjacent houses implies a harmonic linkage, but also shows a narrow range of influence, since the same sign on two houses always indicates a house that's less than 30 degree wide. An intercepted sign always indicates a wider house than most of the others, thus opening that span within us to a wider range of experience. Not necessarily stronger, but more diverse.
That would also go for any planet in an intercepted sign. The fact that we don't have the same sign on a cusp as a planet in a house does not make a planet in that sign "weak." Intercepted is not weak - no planet is "weak."
A planet in an intercepted sign shows that the influence works independent of the general inclination to approach the house affairs through the sign of the cusp and whatever planet rules that sign. As I've noted, it shows a very wide house, encompassing three sign energies, which would mean when any planet transits through that house it would have a long stay and a wide range of experience.
Remember, the planets always express their nature and qualities. While the signs on our cusps show our general inclination of approach in those life areas, those areas only express through events when a planet occupies that sign, or when a hot spot is set off by a progression, transit, eclipse point, a planetary station, a major planet conjunction point, a Solar Return emphasis, or other such indicators.
An intercepted planet is still very strong, and will show its influence every time something makes an aspect to it. It may work as a background influence, or a non-obvious influence, but it will still show itself.
For example, my Venus in Taurus in the 10th is intercepted, but no one would ever think it was not a powerful influence in my life! And I can assure you that the transits through my intercepted Scorpio in my 4th are very powerful, since they aspect quite a few of my planets.
When two cusps share the same ruler, obviously we look to that ruler to see what "governs" the affairs of those houses, and we will often see similar movement in both areas as its ruler moves through its yearly dance with itself and all the other planets in our charts. Just remember that the outer Invisible Quartet of Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and TransPluto work out transpersonally and collectively, and if we want to see what's going on in our personal and interpersonal affairs we must reference the traditional rulers of the signs.
Unless you're a global force majeure, you'll usually understand more about your life affairs by looking at Saturn as ruler of Cap and Aquarius, Jupiter as ruler of Sag and Pisces, and Mars as ruler of Aries and Scorpio. And even world rulers and major players are under the traditional rulers, though their decisions may work out as Uranian, Neptunian, or Plutonian energies in the world.
So please take a new look at how interceptions work if they apply in your chart, since it's a very powerful influence even though those signs aren't on a cusp. And take the view that cusps are zones of overlapping influence rather than hard lines fixed in space-time.
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COMMENTS: Before I insert the comments sent to me by Mark, I'd just like to interject one thing. Every now and again I pick up a puzzle someone else made which is just perfect in every respect, and makes me feel like I am a caveman working with a chainsaw in comparison. This is one such puzzle. Every angle, detail, cut, even the finish, is absolutely perfect. This is a superlative puzzle. The Ring of Diamonds puzzle was designed by Stewart Coffin, originally starting around 1973 and rediscovered in 1995. This is an improved variation of Mr. Coffin's #13 (The General or Four Star) that uses rhombic sticks instead of triangular sticks. The Ring of Diamonds is numbered 13-B in Mr. Coffin's list. According to his records he made a few in 1995. This puzzle is another of Mr. Coffin's wonderful polyhedral puzzles which can be assembled to make a four star prism. The puzzle consists of six differently shaped pieces and has only one solution. Mr Coffin described this version as neater and easier to make. I agree with the neater portion, but I'm not so sure about the easier to make part of it! This puzzle requires very accurate rhombic sticks at exactly 60 degrees. While this may seem like an easy task, it definitely is not. If the rhombic stick is 59.9 or 60.1 degrees, cracks appear on all star faces. This puzzle required two new jigs along with several others to make accurate stock and pieces. All of the copies were made from two different boards of canarywood. The puzzles' sharp edges were carefully hand sanded. They have a thinned lacquer finish which was hand rubbed and then hand waxed with Renaissance wax for smooth operation and a nice feel to the touch. Truly a premium puzzle! Thanks again to Mr. Coffin for generously allowing the reproduction of his beautiful puzzle designs. Each puzzle is signed and dated by the artist.


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The Pacific Sun is a free distribution weekly newspaper published in Marin County, just north of San Francisco in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the longest running alternative weekly in the nation and is published on Wednesdays. Since October 2019, Daedalus Howell has been its editor.

History
The Pacific Sun was founded in April 1963 in California by Merrill and Joann Grohman in the back of a Stinson Beach grocery store. In 1966, the Pacific Sun moved its offices to San Rafael. Steve McNamara, the former Sunday editor of the San Francisco Examiner, bought it from the Grohmans that year.

Ten months after McNamara took over as editor, the San Francisco Press Club awarded its first prize for the best news story in a northern California non-daily paper for the Suns story "The Night Nicasio Fired the Principal", about a school board's firing of a principal for admitting to marijuana use. In 1984, The Sun won the award for General Excellence from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer worked as a reporter for the Pacific Sun for two years in the 1970s, winning a Press Club award for a 1973 story on a state supreme court controversy.

Embarcadero Media, publisher of community weeklies in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Pleasanton, purchased The Sun from McNamara in 2004.

Sam Chapman, a former Chief of Staff to Senator Boxer, served as the paper's publisher until 2010. Jason Walsh served as the editor and Dani Burlison replaced Samantha Campos as staff writer in 2010, after Campos replaced Jacob Shafer in 2008.

In October 2012, former Embarcadero principal Bob Heinen purchased the paper and took over as publisher.

In May 2015, Metro Newspapers acquired the Pacific Sun, increasing its portfolio to four Bay Area alternative weeklies. Metro restored circulation cuts that had occurred under the previous ownership and commissioned well-known typographer Jim Parkinson to redraw the Sun's nameplate. Owner Dan Pulcrano promised "investment and creative vision... to produce a free weekly that's fresh, original and true to its history."

In December 2019, the Sun commemorated its 55th year of publication with longtime Mill Valley resident Sammy Hagar on its cover.

The Serial
Cyra McFadden's 1977 best seller, The Serial: a Year in the Life of Marin County, began as a series of 52 installments in the Sun. In 1980, Paramount Pictures made a movie titled Serial based on the book.

References

External links
Pacific Sun website

Newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States
San Rafael, California
Newspapers established in 1963
1963 establishments in California
Mass media in Marin County, California
Weekly newspapers published in California

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Something remarkable has happened over the last few years in California. We will cover the story in more detail elsewhere but, in a nutshell, hundreds of marijuana compassion clubs have sprung up across California. Many of them operate as what would otherwise be conventional retail storefront operations. They have commercial offices or store space. They advertise and operate openly, just like any other business. They sell marijuana to anyone with a medical marijuana recommendation from a doctor, and recommendations are not difficult to get. Just about any medical complaint will do.
Marijuana is de facto legal in California for any adult who wants to go to the trouble to get it. It is sold on terms that are only slightly more restrictive and bothersome to the consumer than those for alcohol. With alcohol, you pay the tax in the form of a tax on each bottle sold. With marijuana, you pay the tax in the form of an annual visit to the doctor, with about a $100 fee.
These clubs have opened to meet the existing demand for marijuana, and some of them are doing a huge business. Our research shows that some clubs have pulled in tens of millions of dollars per year.
As a result, a rush is on to cash in on the boom. It is the New California Gold Rush. Only this Gold Rush is better, because you can grow this gold. Nationwide, the marijuana business is estimated to be in the tens of billions. California and a few other key states are destined to become the suppliers to the nation -- replacing the drug lords of foreign lands. The billions that formerly went to the drug lords instead will go to good, law-abiding, patriotic, tax-paying Americans -- and the communities they live in will experience an unprecedented boom.
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