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If you figured this one was coming eventually, then it’s the Flashback Friday you’ve been dreading at Faith and Fear in Flushing.
Usually I get to sneak these commemorations in on the sly. Goodness knows I’ve had an exclusive on the tenth anniversary of 1997. Nobody scooped me on my 1977 Newsday route, Joe Torre’s 1967 Topps card or Susan Prince’s 1957 birth.
But you’d have to get up pretty early to beat the rush to remember the Terry Pendleton game before anybody else. And I don’t get up particularly early.
Even if every night this week on SNY — with two real, live actors from the original production re-airing their grievances in a veritable loop — hadn’t been a veritable Pendletonian parade of regret, and even if Dan Graziano hadn’t recorded in the Star-Ledger the searing irony of Pendleton and his pitch-server Roger McDowell sitting at Shea in archrival uniforms twenty years to the day since they became linked in Met infamy, sneaking the Pendleton anniversary past Mets fans would be like trying to sneak sunrise past a rooster.
No Mets fan doesn’t know about it. No Mets fan with working organs doesn’t ache from it. Every Mets fan who was around for it remembers where he or she was when it happened.
It was September 11, 1987. Last year I read a blog that referred to it as “the other September 11,” which I thought was astoundingly insensitive…but not altogether without contextual accuracy.
• The Mets were about to win a very important game.
• Instead they lost it.
• Pendleton, third baseman for the Cardinals, hit the home run that tied it in the top of the ninth.
• Somebody else did something else and the Cardinals won in ten.
• And there, more or less, went the 1987 Mets.
Reflecting on all that went wrong during that worst 92-win season in Mets history, Keith Hernandez worked himself into a tizzy the other night. He recounted the pitching shorts that afflicted the Mets and how that year was the most disappointing of his career and how they should have won in ’87 as they did in ’86, as they came closer to doing in ’88. Then, like the Mets during that September twenty years ago, he pulled up short.
Me, I threw a shoe. Not this week, but two decades ago. I threw a shoe that took out a chunk of the hallway wall opposite my bedroom. It wasn’t repaired in the four years between that night and the day my father sold our house. I’ve driven by it a handful of times since 1991 and have occasionally wondered what would happen if I parked, walked up the front steps, rang the bell (much as the families of previous owners did when I was a kid in presumably more trusting times) and explained that I used to live here and I’d like to come in and have a look around to see if the dent my shoe and Terry Pendleton left in the upstairs wall still stands as a memorial to that lost season.
No disc on the Shea Stadium wall between 1986 and 1988. Just a dent from 1987 in a wall in Long Beach. Probably lots of them in lots of walls throughout the Metropolitan area.
I’m wary of giving too much spotlight to any event that already gets a little too much credit or blame amid a sequence of events. That the Pendleton game is so instantly remembered and so widely rued indicates its impact can be overstated. There was an entire season of missteps leading to September 11, 1987 and, more importantly, there were three weeks that remained to wipe up their residue. In a way, the Pendleton home run was the Scioscia home run writ large. Neither one of them technically ended anything, not even the games in which they were hit. On October 9, 1988, the Mets had the bottom of the ninth and several extra innings in which to answer Scioscia, followed by Games Five, Six and Seven. A year earlier, Pendleton’s punch to the gut didn’t have to be definitive. It wasn’t the last game of the season. It wasn’t even the last game of that series.
But Pendleton’s who and what we institutionally remember. It was dramatic. It was hit with two outs. It did come with the Cardinals — the Braves of their day and then some — behind by two. It was hit off McDowell, the quasi-zany but generally reliable reliever we could generally count on to not give up three-run leads in the ninth inning in games that not only would have been horrible to lose, but wonderful to win.
It wasn’t McDowell’s night. He walked Ozzie Smith, but teased an advancing grounder out of Tommy Herr for the first out. He struck out Dan Driessen. Then Willie McGee doubled to make it a two-run game. Then Pendleton. 4-1 became 4-2 became 4-4.
It wasn’t any Met’s night, nor any Met’s year, not in a way that would have done anybody any good. But there was still a chance to come back. McDowell himself gave up another base hit, a double to David Green, but struck out Tom Pagnozzi to leave it tied. There was no rule declaring the Mets couldn’t have won it in the bottom of the ninth. Yeesh, Bill Almon singled with one out and jogged to second on a wild pitch with Mookie Wilson at bat.
C’mon! A guy named Bill, a wild pitch, Mookie up…c’mon!
In 1987, Mookie strikes out. Even a walk to Tim Teufel goes for naught when Keith Hernandez, the all-time Mr. Clutch for this franchise, grounds out to Driessen.
Orosco replaces McDowell and allows consecutive one-out singles to Vince Coleman, Smith and Herr (5-4) and an RBI grounder to Driessen (6-4). The bottom of the tenth consisted of Darryl Strawberry striking, Kevin McReynolds flying and Gary Carter lining out against Ken Dayley.
Gone was the opportunity to move within a lousy half-game of the Cardinals.
Gone was the momentum that had carried the Mets from 10-1/2 out on July 23 despite the steady diet of Don Schulze starts that held the fort for all the disabled pitchers.
Gone was the vibe from the Newsday back page from that week that I clipped immediately and I saved for years until I couldn’t stand to look at it any longer, the one that turned a Mets cap into a birdcage about to trap a runnin’ Redbird.
Gone was the reprieve from the exhaustion of the long season in which players accused other players of jaking, players demanded more playing time, players demanded trades and almost everybody was kind of a jerk at one point or another.
Gone was Ron Darling’s near no-hitter, which lasted until there was one out in the sixth, until Coleman put down a bunt on which Darling managed to mangle his thumb and miss the rest of September.
Gone was the good sidebar cheer from Darryl’s and HoJo’s 30-30 chases.
Gone was the renaissance of the human spirit represented by Doc’s comeback from drug rehab.
Gone was anything but “oh yeah, that’s nice” from Terry Leach’s sterling 11-1 record as a spot starter and long reliever.
Gone was the shimmy from the Teufel Shuffle, a hippy hippy shake that translated to a totally unforeseen 14-61-.308 right half of the second base platoon.
Gone was the sense that there was no way we couldn’t come all the way back on these White Rat bastards.
Gone was what could have been a great and a noble comeback for the ages, to be replaced by a story pockmarked by bitter recriminations.
Gone were the defenders of the 1986 world title.
Except that there were 22 more games after September 11. From early in 1987, every time a caller to Mets Extra panicked, calm Howie Rose reminded them there were still ‘x’ number of games to be played (the first suicide he prevented came with 152 games to go after Herr socked a grand slam off Orosco on April 18). A championship-caliber club could make up 2-1/2 games with 22 to play, especially with two more at Shea against the Cardinals immediately and three at the schedule’s end. All we had to do was treat this like the bump in the road it technically was and continue to pick up ground the way we had from July 23 until September 9, when we took 29 of 45 and picked up those nine games on the Cardinals. Why couldn’t we do that?
That’s not a rhetorical question. We couldn’t do it. I just want to know why.
By September, we had most of our pitching back. OK, Darling was lost (replaced by the once great John Candelaria) but Gooden had been pretty much on fire since June. Except on September 12, he was doused. The Cardinals acted as if Saturday afternoon was simply an extension of Friday night and jumped the Doctor for five runs in the first. Still, there were 21 to go.
We did win Sunday after an insanely long rain delay (St. Louis’ last trip in and all that). Then we took three straight from the Cubs and the Expos. We even managed to close the gap back to the 1-1/2 it was before Pendleton. In fact, we hung on exactly 1-1/2 back clear through September 19, eight days after Terry’s tater. And a championship-caliber club could make up 1-1/2 games with 14 to play, especially with those three at Busch.
I thought so. But the Pirates didn’t. And the Pirates are unremarked-upon villains in the story of the 1987 Mets. For as much as you hear about Terry and the Cardinals on a Friday night in September, it was the Pirates on a Sunday and the Expos on a Thursday and the Phillies on a Wednesday all in the same month who determined there would be no Mets celebrating in early October.
Friday at Three Rivers had been bad enough. That one went back and forth, the Mets leading 8-5 in the fifth, but the Pirates winning 10-9. OK, those games happen, especially when you’re using your twelfth starting pitcher (Candelaria) of the year. The Mets won on Saturday, the night the Pirates got around to retiring Ralph Kiner’s number.
But Sunday…bloody Sunday. A 6-2 lead in the sixth for Sid Fernandez after Teuf jacks a three-run job off Bob Kipper. The Pirates, waking up from a several-years nap, are just beginning to feel their oats in late 1987. They have kids named Bonds and Bonilla leading their pack. They have a second-year manager named Jimmy Leyland. But they are still the Pirates. And we are still the Mets.
They, however, have Darnell Coles. Entering Sunday, Coles, the starting rightfielder, owns a batting average of .186 for 1987. He has five home runs and 24 RBI. Yet with two out, El Sid, the pitcher nobody hits all that well, loads the bases for him and Coles unloads them with one swing. It’s a grand slam, it’s 6-6 and it’s a nightmare in broad daylight.
Mazzilli and Dykstra double in the top of the eighth to retake the lead for New York, but unknown Pirate pinch-hitter Mack Daniel Sasser — Mackey, they call him — in his thirteenth big-league plate appearance, singles home the seventh Buc run of the day in the bottom of the inning.
It stays 7-7 ’til the twelfth when Teufel doubles home Keith Miller. Same inning, different half: Barry Bonds singles, is moved around the diamond on a bunt and a fly until Bobby Bonilla singles to make it 8-8.
Finally the 14th, the bottom: Bobby Ojeda surrenders a one-out triple to young Bonds. Randy Myers comes in and gives up the fly ball necessary to bring him home. Mets lose 9-8.
We’re 2-1/2 back with thirteen to go, ending with those three in St. Louis.
Somehow we’ve lost no more ground to the Cardinals in the intervening three days since Darnell Coles. The margin is still 2-1/2. And the Expos are giving us every chance in the world to sweep them a two-game set. We beat them Wednesday night but trail here 5-2 in the eighth. Darryl reaches on a miscue by second baseman Tom Foley, steals second with one out and moves to third on the bad throw. He then scores on an error by the third baseman Tim Wallach. The Expos have been entertaining pennant race notions of their own all season, their record only a bit behind ours, but they are playing like they’re afraid customs will give them a hard time at LaGuardia if they beat the locals.
Come the ninth, the Mets have a golden opportunity: Mookie singles and steals off of Tim Burke. Dave Magadan strikes out, but Teufel drives him in. It’s 5-4. Bob McClure replaces Burke, a lefty to face Keith, dangerous Keith. He, too, strikes out. No worries, though: Strawberry walks. Randy St. Claire comes on to face McReynolds. Another walk. Now the bases are loaded for Gary Carter. Future Hall of Famer Gary Carter. Journeyman Randy St. Claire. World Champion Mets. Shea Stadium.
St. Claire induces a bases-loaded groundout from Kid, Wallach unassisted. Mets lose 5-4. Mets lose in three hours and fifty minutes. Mets lose by leaving eleven runners on base, including three in the ninth. Mets lose at home. And the Cardinals won.
We’re 3-1/2 back with nine to go. Three of them, if you hadn’t heard, would be on the road versus the Redbirds.
The Mets didn’t completely fold after St. Claire. They took two of three against the Pirates to finish out their home schedule and bused down to Philly on Monday night. An unlikely combination of pitchers — Candelaria for five, Aguilera for three-and a-third and freshly minted closer Myers for the last two outs — shut down the Phillies 1-0. We had narrowed the St. Louis lead down to two again. But the next day it was the Mets who were whitewashed, Carman (a one-hitter) besting Cone. Thank goodness we had our ace going on Wednesday night.
Dwight Gooden was everything one could have hoped for once he was straight again. You could overlook that his addiction we hadn’t heard anything about until April Fool’s Day cost us two months of his badly needed services. He came back to the majors and pitched very much like the Doc we knew and loved his first three years. He was 15-7 since June 5. He would have won 20, we told ourselves, had he pitched in April and May and not snorted cocaine in the months just prior. And on this final night before the showdown in St. Louis, in this game we absolutely had to win to make those games mean anything at all, amid a do-or-die situation for the team that was struggling to stay alive, Doc Gooden did all he could.
It should have been enough. He went nine innings. He struck out ten, including two in the eighth and all three in the ninth. He retired 16 of his last 17 batters faced from the fourth ’til the ninth. He had given up three early, but following the contours of his unanticipated 1987, he righted himself in the middle and was finishing strong.
He gave the Mets life and gave Mets fans hope. Darryl homered in the fifth, a solo shot. Teufel went deep with Mookie on an inning later. It was 3-3 then and stayed 3-3 through nine. In the top of the tenth, with two out, Gooden was due up. Davey Johnson had never, ever let Dwight Gooden pitch past the ninth inning in a regular-season game before (not common for starters, but not unheard of for studs). He had permitted Doc a tenth inning in Game Five of the NLCS the year before, that classic duel with Nolan Ryan. This moment in baseball time was every bit as crucial to the Mets as that playoff game had been.
Davey pinch-hit Bill Almon for Dwight Gooden with two out and nobody on in the tenth. Almon struck out.
Jesse Orosco, no longer the closer, no longer a reasonable facsimile of the man who dropped to his knees and flung his glove skyward twice the previous October, no longer to be trusted in a tie game with the season on the line, was sent out to pitch the bottom of the tenth. He popped up Ron Roenicke for the first out. And then he threw a gopher ball to Luis Aguayo. Aguayo took note and swung.
Just as it completely escaped me why Orosco was on the mound instead of a well-rested Myers, it completely escapes me why the name Luis Aguayo doesn’t live in Met infamy alongside Terry Pendleton’s (to say nothing of Darnell Coles and Randy St. Claire), maybe ahead of it given the timing of their respective crimes. Who the hell was Luis Aguayo to be crushing a season? Pendleton would eventually win a Most Valuable Player award. Pendleton is a Major League hitting coach. I don’t know what Luis Aguayo’s doing right now. I’m sure I don’t want to know.
• If the Expos beat the Cardinals, we’d be three out with three to play against the Cardinals and have at least a chance to sweep them and force a one-game playoff, one last shot to bundle 1987 with 1986 as truly Amazin’ years.
• If the Cardinals beat the Expos, the Cardinals would be division champs and we would be left to defend nothing.
The game was on the radio in New York. WNEW-AM broadcast a network feed. WFAN sent Howie Rose, who didn’t usually make road trips and who had repeatedly reassured us that there were still games left until there was only this game, with the team to St. Louis. He played the role of correspondent for the first and only time I can recall. He wasn’t the only member of the Met traveling party at Busch. Since the Mets were already in town, Cardinal management gave a bunch of players — including beloved Bird turned insidious city slicker Keith Hernandez — a luxury box to watch the game…to watch their demise.
On October 1, 1987, Danny Cox threw a five-hitter and the St. Louis Cardinals clinched the National League East title 8-2 in front of 48,763 fans and several of their humiliated enemies. It was perfect for them: The Cardinals led by four with three to go.
It was perfectly appropriate for us, too. It was a season of almosts. We almost caught the Cardinals who were only as good as they had to be to hold onto first. We almost won the Pendleton game. We almost beat the Pirates that Sunday. We almost came back on the Expos. We almost extinguished the Phillies. If we had taken care of those four particular bits of business — Pendleton (+3) — we win a second consecutive division title for the first time ever. We play the Giants in the NLCS and if we beat them (the Cardinals did), we play Frank Viola and the 85-win Minnesota Twins in the World Series.
But we didn’t do any of that. We were the 1987 Mets. We weren’t the 1986 Mets. We were sixteen games worse in the win column and one notch lower in the standings and utterly out of tune the entire year. In 1986, every radio station in town played that catchy “Let’s Go Mets Go” all through October. In 1987, after the Cardinals eliminated us on October 1, WNEW-FM played “The End” by the Doors. Then you didn’t hear a thing about us the rest of the month.
It was the end. Four out with three to go will clinch that much for you.
Terry Lee Pendleton did not act alone. He had accomplices all over the East, including on the amazingly unmagical Mets, where the pitchers couldn’t stay in one piece, the batters couldn’t bring runners home, the manager couldn’t remember which of his relievers he could rely on and everybody sniped, carped and nitpicked everybody else to death. It was a horrible month that ended a horrible year, one of the most horrible years I’ve ever lived through as a fan, the most horrible year I ever experienced that didn’t accompany a severe losing record because even a hot pennant race couldn’t mask the sadness and anger and shoe-flinging frustration that was perhaps due us after such a joyous ride the year before. It short-circuited the dynasty every blessed one of us expected to blossom following 1986. It wasn’t a nice and valiant try like 1985. It laid the groundwork for the perception (cemented by the loss to the Dodgers in the ’88 playoffs) that the Mets of the late 1980s weren’t anything special unless you’re impressed by all-time disappointments. 1987 basically wrecked an entire era. Of all Met seasons, I can’t believe how mad that Met season makes me to this day.
Next Friday: I wish I’d said goodbye.
I have been reminded that Luis Aguayo is a minor league field coordinator for the Mets.
Though I still maintain that I don't want to know.


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The smartcards discussed here can hold digital certificates (x.509) and corresponding private keys. The private key cannot be read from the card, but it can be used by the card itself for signing and decryption of data.
Ths enables use of what is known as two-factor authentication: the user not only possesses the smartcard, he or she can also prove the knowledge of the smartcard PIN by signing data using the private key stored on the smartcard.
Smartcards are accessed via smartcard readers, using either a contact or contactless interface. The IGEL Third Party Database lists the readers that are supported by the Linux firmware.
The PC/SC Resource Manager is a common Application Programming Interface (API) that is available on Windows and Linux operating systems. It provides a standardized way for applications to handle smartcards and readers.
The PC/SC Resource Manager is active by default in the Linux-based firmware and can be controlled via the Activate PC/SC Daemon parameter on IGEL Setup > Devices > Smartcard > PC/SC or IGEL Setup > Security > Smartcard > PC/SC or IGEL Setup > Security > Smartcard > Services (depending on the firmware version).
In order to provide a generalized interface to different types of smartcard hardware there is an additional software layer called smartcard middleware.
For information on how to use the Coolkey cryptographic library with a firmware older than IGEL Linux 10.04.100, please refer to the FAQ "Using the Coolkey Cryptographic Library".

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As Western Australia's premier university, UWA was equal first overall in Australia based on key measures in the Good Universities Guide 2016 including student demand, graduate outcomes, graduate starting salaries, finding a full-time job and research grants.
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The University is home to a number of industry-based research centres and institutes, and is affiliated with many others in Western Australia and across the country. The University also works in partnership with three domestic and international university networks.
Established in 1911 as the State's first university, The University of Western Australia was also the first free university in the British Empire, actively promoting equal access to tertiary education for all social classes. The suburb of Crawley, just 10 minutes from the Perth central business district, is home to the main campus of The University of Western Australia. The University has smaller campuses at Claremont and Albany.
Our communications team aims to maintain and develop the institutional brand, ensuring that the image and message we communicate is in line with the University's goals and the expectations of our stakeholders. The University’s official publications provide an overview of the University’s courses, research and expertise.
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We are committed to providing an environment in which concerns and complaints are treated seriously, impartially and resolved as quickly as possible. Complaints should, where possible, be raised with the other party in the first instance. We hope this informal step will ensure most matters can be readily resolved.

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Fathering is a core value of the Kingdom culture. The Kingdom thrives through community and legacy. God identifies Himself generationally as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is a high-value principle that extends the LORD’s work beyond just our own personal reach. Fathering is essential to combat the orphan spirit. It is key to bringing restoration, healing, and wholeness to those operating outside of authority and accountability.
A key to prosperous fathering in the Kingdom is how well we model sonship. The apostle Paul demonstrates this in his personal relationships with his spiritual sons Timothy and Titus as well as the churches under his apostolic authority. He exhorted the Corinthians to follow his example as he followed Christ. Paul’s success was a direct result of the revelation of his sonship through Christ.
Paul modelled secure identity in Christ, to those under his leadership and outside the church. His confidence rested not in Himself but in the power of God that operated in him and through him, thus displaying power and authority, honesty and integrity, confidence and vulnerability, devotion and consecration completely sourced in communion with God.
As men of God, Kingdom leaders and laypeople alike, let us display this core value. Let us build each other up in the faith, let us invest in the generations that would come after us, imparting the revelation of sonship to those in relationship with us. Whether an apostle, prophet, evangelist, or average Joe the call of all men in the Kingdom is to reproduce and make disciples. Let us be imitators of God and leave a lasting legacy that will impact the generations.
Anthony had a 15 year love affair with heroin addiction and spent time in prison, but an encounter with God, one night, radically changed his life. Since that evening Anthony has had a desire and passion to serve the LORD and spread the Gospel of the Kingdom wherever he goes. Using Biblical insight, his experience, and street knowledge, he is able to reach people in the darker places of society. Anthony and his wife Tanya currently serve as Senior Leaders of Thrive Church and is the co-host of The Alliance Podcast. He is a gifted preacher and teacher with a desire is to build people up into their destinies, living a supernatural lifestyle, and manifesting the Kingdom of God in their everyday lives. You can connect with him personally or learn more about his ministry and his book at anthonyportillo.org.


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$149.99 for new accounts ($199.99 for existing ones). Considering T-Mobile itself isn't even letting non-T-Mo customers preorder at all, this is a pretty damn good deal already. However, read on.
No tax - Wirefly.com doesn't charge tax, which makes this deal better than even Radioshack's $150 offer and is way under Best Buy's $200 price tag.
Free shipping - Wirefly is offering ground shipping for free, but in my experience they set your expectation low and then ship via 2-day shipping instead (though don't quote me on this).


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I haven't done an empties post before purely because I'm terrible at using products up. I have so many half used bottles of products that I've got bored with, didn't like or opened something new and more exciting. I could never imagine doing a monthly post of empties although I really should start using things up before I open something new. That would be the sensible thing anyways... and let's be realistic haha.
Here's some things I did manage to "empty" in the last couple of months.
Radox Muscle Soothe - I love long relaxing baths and I used this bath soak a lot to soothe my aching muscles when I was doing Jillian Michael's 30 day shred.
De Lorenzo Nova Fusion Shampoo in Fire Red - I use this every time I wash my hair to keep my hair red.
Batiste Blush Dry Shampoo - I actually have about 3 empties of this exact product as I use it every second day to get another day out of my hair before washing - Read: dry ends and oily roots!!
Garnier Intensive 7days Moisturiser for dry, dull skin. This is my second bottle and when I remember to put moisturizer on after my shower my skin thanks me for it. As for lasting 7 days.... who knows.
Perfume - Taylor Swift Wonderstruck Enchanted - This was the first vial of a two pack I got for Christmas from my boyfriend and I've really been enjoying it. I used to always have about 5 different perfumes on the go but lately I've been finding it really hard to find a scent that I really like. This is a light sweet scent that's perfect for everyday.
Clarins Multi-Active Night Cream - Once upon a time many moons ago I worked on a Clarins beauty counter and fell in love with their products. If I won lotto I would buy the whole entire Clarins range (skincare & bodycare) and cover myself in it from head to toe everyday. My skin always looks so much better when I use Clarins but I can't always justify spending the money.
Clarins Multi-Active Serum - I put this on before my daily moisturizer and absolutely love it. This product was the very first serum I ever tried and has always made a significant improvement in my skin. This tiny little tube lasted me 3 months.
Benefit Porefessional Primer Sample - Used it, loved it and got a full tube of it for Christmas from my lovely sister - Win!
Pantene Clinicare Shampoo, Conditioner and Treatment. I do love this stuff and use it every now and again but apparently it's full of bad stuff that makes your hair FEEL good but doesn't actually do anything good to it. That's what I heard anyways, I have no idea if it's true. This was a little sample pack which gave me two uses.
Well that was my very un-exciting first empties post, I feel more inspired now to use up some more products in the hope of showing you some better ones next time ha!

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Desso Flux Carpet Tiles Colour A786 9104 Dark Grey Stripe.
A786 9104 Grey Stripe carpet tiles are a modern commercial Grey Stripe carpet tile and one of 18 colours from the Desso Flux carpet tile range.

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It’s April now, and we’ve finally finished going through all the manuscripts we received during the open reading period we held over the fall. The response was overwhelming—all in all, we received over 350 manuscripts. We’re humbled that so many brilliant light bulbs wanted to work at our power plant.
2014 is gearing up to be a big year for us. In the next few months we’ll be releasing Big Lucks #6, launching a Kickstarter campaign, and opening back up for submissions. If you’re interested in staying up to date with any or all of that nonsense, please sign up for our mailing list.
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Families may become a part of the Malibu Recovery Center Community in a number of ways. First, there may be more than one member of the family that would like to detox from drugs and alcohol . Additionally, parents or guardians of children may need to keep their children with them while they are a part of the Malibu Recovery Center Community: we have a place for them. We also have apartments for families so they can remain together while living in a safe, sober environment. No matter what the family configuration may be, Malibu Recovery Center is here to help not only the person with addiction, but the family members as well.
This specialized and person-specific approach is open-ended and has proven to be a powerful tool in deterring chemical dependency, substance abuse, and relapse. It is critical to the recovery process that the individual gains a complete understanding of the concept that recovering drug addicts and alcoholics may have underlying issues and problems that are a major contribution to why they drink and/or abuse drugs. It is also important that the family members are a part of this recovery process as well.

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Eastern Automation & Controls Services is privately owned company based in Lahore Pakistan and represents world leading companies in the business of process control instruments, Water Treatment Systems and Chemicals we have diversified business expertise to support our customers.
Eastern Automation & Controls Services provides a hub to water treatment system, chemicals and Instrumentation & control equipment manufacturers from all over the world to market their products, providing after sales support, engineering, recommendation, participation in tenders and pre qualification of the products without having their own offices in the region.
We provide full support from engineering, specifications, supply, installation, commissioning, calibration, repair and maintenance for all the equipments supplied by others or us.
Eastern Automation & Controls Services have diversified in order to meet the challenges of market and customers that we serve. We now represent a number of other companies and products, so as to provide range of complimentary products and services to the industrial manufacturers and process control market.
Our objective is to offer high quality products at competitive prices backed by sound engineering application assistance. We strive to ensure that every sales inquiry is carefully considered and a solution is provided that meets the application criteria for functionality, compatibility, reliability and of course cost effectiveness.
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industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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The fog has thickened. Sore throats, achy bodies and stomach flu have taken up unwelcome residence.
1. This, too, shall pass.
2. My second son is making his first reconciliation today. What a gift!
3. "Only Mommy can make me feel better." Precious words from my two year old this morning.
5. Mommy gets to take a sick day too ~ a rarity ~ but in a way a treat.
6. It's the weekend. There is time for recovery.
7. Your prayers. Thank you.
Now I invite you to leave a comment (or a link to your blog) and share a few of your "little things" today.
A First Reconciliation today! What a blessing! Thomas, my second son, had his in December.
Misty, I hope you are all feeling better! Saying a prayer for you right now. My little thought is, "Mommy, I love you!" said about fifty times today, accompanied by hugs. Doesn't get better than that!
Congratulations to your son! Will he be receiving First Holy Communion very soon? Little things? It's our first day of the new school year and my 9 year old said, "I had a great day, Mum. I love learning new things." So encouraging. God bless, Misty.
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The Met’s ‘Live in HD’ performances, streamed live to cinemas around the world, provide a different way of experiencing opera. The camera mercilessly captures a singer’s acting abilities – or lack thereof. It is no wonder, then, that soprano Kristine Opolais, who has garnered worldwide praise as a singing actress, is a popular star in these HD simulcasts. This time, Opolais took to the HD stage as the tragic heroine of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – to overwhelmingly convincing effect.
From her first entrance as a naive blushing bride to a shattered woman who sees no honourable or worthwile future for herself, Opolais proved once again why she may be the definitive Butterfly of her generation. Her secure, large soprano, coupled with a complete dramatic embodiment of the role is utterly gripping and convincing.
The HD close-ups seem to back Opolais’ own statement that, when she is on stage, she is living a role completely, without holding back. At no point did her gaze wander to a monitor or the conductor, and at no single moment did she even show signs of being a soprano singing a taxing role. The only difficulties and suffering on display were Butterfly’s.
Roberto Alagna sang an ideal Pinkerton with a warm and ringing voice, although some vocal wear and tear seemed to show occasionally. His Pinkerton oozed charm, an uncurbed puppy-like enthusiasm and plain stupidity, which made the character much more human – an unthinking product of American imperialism rather than a calculating bad guy.
Dwayne Croft’s well-sung Sharpless seemed constantly painfully aware of the harmful consequences of Pinkerton’s oriental adventure, but visibly too cowardly or implicated to intervene. It rendered the character less sympathetic than usual. Maria Zifchak’s Suzuki was vocally convincing, although the character remained largely in the background.
In spite of some moments of sloppiness, the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Karel Mark Chichon, gave a passionate and warm-blooded reading of Puccini’s orchestral score.
The late Anthony Minghella’s 2006 production keeps things relatively simple and draws on elements of Japanese theatre, such as semi-invisible stage helpers in black who hold props that provide atmosphere, such as lanterns. His use of colour, especially of the blood-red that ominously surrounds a dancing geisha before the start of the opera, and that returns at its very end, has a strong dramatic effect.
Kristine Opolais and Maria Zifchak in Madama Butterfly, (c) Marty Sohl.
I was less convinced by Minghella’s choice to have Butterfly’s son played by a somewhat uncanny-looking wooden puppet. I found myself actively trying to block out the protracted fidgety movements of the pseudo-child.
However limited the acting skills of children under the age of six may be, I much prefer a living child of flesh and blood who sticks to the background and only runs centre stage when the drama asks for it.
Particularly disruptive to the flow of the second act was the rather unmotivated inclusion of an interval right after the ‘humming chorus’. Generally, the audience understands that Butterfly spends hours waiting for Pinkerton without having to experience something similar in the queue for the washroom.
Even more destructive to the dramatic flow, however, was the decision to have an overly enthusiastic Deborah Voigt corner Opolais with a microphone as she left the stage. Rarely do these short conversations lead to any real meaningful insights. If anything, they break the magic of a performance.
Luckily Opolais managed to draw the audiences back in quickly after the interval and brought the opera to a powerful, heart-rending end.

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This strain promotes fruity aromas through high ester production, especially at warmer temperatures.
Cider fermented with this strain will finish dry and be relatively full-bodied with exceptional depth and a full-flavoured fruit character.
This strain has high alcohol tolerance up to >12% ABV.


text: The Kimaya Collection is an eccentric momchromatic hand knot rug produced of the finest all natural wool with the addition of a distinctive medallian of high luster Art Silk (Viscose). Kimaya is a uniquely individual addition to any room. Produced in India by AMER skilled artisans.


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Akim will soon be ten years old. His parents left their housing project known as “Cité des 4000” * — without any regrets—when he was two months old. Since then, the family has expanded and their flat in nearby St. Denis feels cramped.
* Cité des 4000: Four gigantic towers built in Paris’ northern suburbs in the mid-1960s to house thousands of residents the city could not place elsewhere, notably North African immigrants.


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Living in the Bay Area we are lucky to have several Miniature Museums and attractions featuring miniature models.
Walt Disney Family Museum at 104 Montgomery Street, the Presidio of San Francisco, CA. The Museum is open daily 10AM to 6PM. Exhibits include a scale model of the locomotive, Lilly Belle that Walt helped to build and install in a 1/2 mile track around his home to a 12-foot model of the Disneyland of Walt's imagination.
Know of any other locations with miniatures, local or otherwise? Please let us know!
Look out for more posts about where to find amazing miniatures!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Government functions with the help of taxes collected from citizens and business entities. However, a lot of Government revenue is lost through evasion.
� To enhance the detection of evasion, Government has framed the system of rewards to the people who help in the detection of tax evasion.
� The following are a few guidelines for the people who would like to help detection of Customs Duty/ Drawback/ Evasion/ Frauds.
� Under the existing Rewards Scheme, Government of India grants handsome rewards to informers who provide specific information leading to seizure of goods, currency, bullion or leads to detection of duty evasion including wrong declaration of quantity, description, value etc.
� An Information is any useful message received from the public or any person for that matter revealing fraudulent evasion of duty. It is the message based on which the department officials conduct further enquiry and investigation leading to seizure/ detention.
� An Information has to be given in writing addressed to the Head of the department.
� An Information should contain details of the evasion known, such as name & address of the firm, method adopted for the evasion, the persons responsible and other relevant details.
Reward scheme to the Informer has been extended to the cases of recovery from Tax Defaulters.
� Reward is admissible to an informer who gives information regarding the whereabouts, assets, immovable property etc. of persons from whom arrears of duty, tax, fine, penalty etc. are to be realised and the information results in recovery of arrears upto a maximum of 5% of the amount recovered.
� For details and further conditions of Reward Policy Circular No.20/2015 dt. 31.07.2015 may be referred.
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industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Quoted: ...half a billion dollars is a mere rounding error in the great sucking maw of the federal budget, so why bother?
Because it's demoralizing for hard working Americans to have their pockets picked when the government isn't even trying to be frugal and efficient.
I believe Romney when he says, "I will ask a simple question about every federal program: is it so important, so critical, that it is worth borrowing money from China to pay for it?"
GLORIA BORGER: As the Romneys were struggling to get Ann's MS [multiple sclerosis] under control, they were about to face a challenge of an entirely different sort.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Could the scandal over Salt Lake's Olympic bid shatter on the city's quest to host the winter games?
BORGER: The 2002 Winter Olympics were in trouble. Salt Lake City was embroiled in a bribery scandal that threatened to bring down the games. So the search was on for someone to repair the damage.
SCOTT HELMAN: The list of people who could have come in and saved the 2002 Olympics began and ended with Mitt Romney.
BORGER: Romney knew finance, politics and was a Mormon. And that made him the top choice. A. ROMNEY: They called me instead of Mitt because they knew that Mitt would turn them down flat.
MITT ROMNEY: She called me at work said, you know, I want you to -- don't say no, Mitt. I think you ought to go run the Olympics. I said don't be ridiculous. That's absolutely crazy. I'd never do that. But over time, she convinced me.
BORGER: So despite Ann's health issues, the Romneys left Bain and moved to Utah in 1999. But when Romney really left Bain capital is now controversial. On paper, he remained chief executive officer, raising the question of his responsibility for companies that laid off workers when he was in Utah. He says that he was gone from the company completely, that the Olympics were all consuming.
TAGG ROMNEY: When he got there, it was a disaster. And -- he was panicked. He really seriously considered saying, you know, we -- it's not going to work here, there [are] just too many problems.
BORGER: Romney need help, so he rallied an old friend from Bain Capital, Fraser Bullock, to be the games' chief operating officer.
FRASER BULLOCK, former COO, SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: Mitt did describe it as stepping into an empty elevator shaft because you're not sure -- you're falling and you're not sure when you're going to hit ground.
BORGER: Bullet joined the team that tried to do damage control. They created an operating plan, tried to convince sponsors to stay on board, and took a critical look at the nearly $400 million budget deficit staring them in the face. And even got rid of the usual catering at Olympic board meetings.
F. BULLOCK: We had Domino's Pizza. And it was a dollar a slice. Because he knew he could buy a pizza for five bucks, cut it into eight slices, sell them for a dollar a slice, get $8 of revenue for every pizza at a cost of $5. He turned the lunches from a cost center into a profit center.
M. ROMNEY: The Olympics is like putting on seven Super Bowls a day for 17 days straight.


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Since our founding by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross has been dedicated to serving people in need. We received our first congressional charter in 1900 and to this day we are tasked by the federal government with providing services to members of the American armed forces and their families as well as providing disaster relief in the United States and around the world.
Even while the Red Cross adapts to meet the changing needs of the people we serve, we always stay true to those roots. Are you familiar with the classic images of Red Cross nurses helping American soldiers and civilian war victims during World War I? In fact, as you read this Red Cross staff and volunteers are still deploying alongside America’s military. Maybe you’ve taken a class through the Red Cross, such as first aid certification or how to swim. Did you know we’ve been offering similar training since the early 1900s? Have you ever given blood or received donated blood? The Red Cross developed the first nationwide civilian blood program in the 1940s and we still provide more than 40% of the blood products in this country.
Today, as throughout our long history, the Red Cross depends on generous contributions of time, blood, and money from the American public to support our lifesaving services and programs. We invite you to learn about our history and hope you will feel inspired to become more involved with the Red Cross.
Come see our historic treasures! Free, guided tours of the National Headquarters at 430 17th Street, NW, in Washington DC are offered Wednesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. by reservation only. Limited to 15 guests per tour.
For questions, call us at 202-303-4233. Please note, tour reservations are not accepted over the phone.
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World War I was a time of phenomenal growth for the Red Cross ultimately helping to define and create the organization we know today. To commemorate this event, a new exhibit, entitled Answering the Call, the American Red Cross in World War I, is on view at the historic Red Cross National Headquarters building in Washington, DC.
Featuring photography, artifacts, and personal stories, the exhibit details the growth of volunteer opportunities, chapter expansion, fundraising, and the development of Red Cross nursing in support of the U.S. military and humanitarian relief to impacted civilians well into the early 1920s. Reservations for tours on Wednesdays and Fridays at 10am and 2pm can be scheduled by emailing tours@redcross.org.
A highlight of many tours of our National Headquarters is the beautiful set of windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany, donated to the Red Cross by the Women’s Relief Corps of the North and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Learn More.
Please be aware that this is a working office building and, due to meetings, some spaces in the building may not be available for viewing.
Get to know some of the people and milestones that built the Red Cross.
Explore our timeline to learn how our 5 service areas developed over more than a century.
"The Red Cross…has often seemed to be the friendly hand of this nation, reaching across the sea to sustain its fighting men. "
From the Spanish-American War to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, the Red Cross has served alongside America’s military personnel and cared for veterans and families back home.
When the United States declared war on Germany, the American Red Cross was tasked with aiding American servicemen in Europe. In addition to mobilizing more than 20,000 nurses and building 54 hospitals overseas, the Red Cross provided a way for patriotic men, women and children back home to contribute to war relief. By the end of the war, nearly one-third of all Americans had donated in support of the Red Cross effort or were serving as volunteers.
A Red Cross nurse in a field hospital in France ensures her patient has clean bandages.
The Red Cross mobilized in support of the U.S. military, our Allies and civilian victims of World War II. We enrolled more than 104,000 nurses for military service, prepared 27 million packages for prisoners of war, shipped more than 300,000 tons of supplies, and collected 13.3 million pints of blood for the armed forces. In nearly every American family, someone was a Red Cross volunteer, donor or blood donor, or received Red Cross services.
The Red Cross collected millions of pints of blood for the armed forces.
During the Korean Conflict, Red Cross services grew. The blood program for the military was expanded. The emergency mobile recreation service served all United Nations forces. Red Cross provided emergency communications from family members and facilitated calls and letters home from wounded service members. Following the 1953 armistice, the American and Korean Red Cross societies ensured the transfer of nearly 90,000 prisoners of war.
Assistant Field Director “Pete” Murray carries comfort supplies in a hand grenade box.
Between 1965 and 1972, American Red Cross field directors, hospital personnel and recreation workers (“Donut Dollies”) served on military bases and in military hospitals and hospital ships throughout Southeast Asia. The Red Cross provided recreation activities for service members while facilitating more than 2 million emergency communications between service members and their families.
A “Donut Dollie” offers coffee to soldiers taking a break from the fighting.


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Latin form of Eve, which is from the Hebrew Hayya, meaning "life" or "breathe". The name of the first woman in the Bible.
Eva "Evita" Peron was first lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Blue Wave Communications originally got its start in the mid-1980s as the cabling solutions division of Compuquip Technologies. Compuquip originally entered the cabling industry because the company would frequently run into situations where poor or substandard cabling would impede the efficient integration of new IT systems and lead to unnecessary downtime for their clients. To address these frequent cabling problems, Compuquip created a division of cabling specialists specifically to tackle common cabling issues.
Fast forward 20 years, and demand for Compuquip’s cabling solutions team became large enough to require the full attention of a dedicated company. So, in 2004, Blue Wave Communications was born as a specialized structured cabling company to offer customers the best cabling in the industry. Spinning off from Compuquip allowed Blue Wave to focus on providing top-tier cabling services while enjoying the security and strategic partnerships offered by being part of Compuquip.
Today, Blue Wave Communications is regarded as one of the premier low-voltage contractors in South Florida offering complete communications technology solutions beyond just structured cabling. Our commitment to providing top-class service using only the best workmanship and materials has earned us consistent accolades from our customers.
As a company, Blue Wave is committed to being more than just another cabling contractor. We are a complete technology solutions provider offering the highest quality work and superior service to all of our customers.
We do more than just the bare minimum required to meet your needs: We go above and beyond industry standards for service quality while providing cost-effective technology solutions.
Providing prompt, polite, personalized, and professional customer service.
The needs and wants of our customers (and we take great pride in designing and installing tailored solutions that exceed their expectations).
Delivering high-quality work to our customers at a fair price.
Helping our customers avoid and solve problems.
Our specialization in cabling services and our dedication to providing a superior quality of work allow us to exceed expectations from the start of your cabling project and throughout the life of your network infrastructure.
We’re a structured cabling company that builds long-term relationships with our clients—meaning that the completion of your cabling infrastructure installation isn’t the end of our service to you. We’ll work with you and your teams to provide top-quality work that is clean and organized to make your own work easier to handle. If you ever have a request for service, we’ll respond in a timely and professional manner—long after the initial installation is complete.
Our technicians are formally trained on current cabling techniques and technologies. More than that, they’re coached to demonstrate the highest level of professionalism and dedication to quality on every job. We’re a state-licensed and fully insured low-voltage cabling contractor that has a team of BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designers (RCDDs) who will help you by designing cabling systems that meet both your current and projected future needs.
We’ll work closely with your architects, general contractors, electricians, phone system vendors, furniture vendors, and other partners to ensure that your cabling solution is thoroughly and properly integrated with your office.
To help us guarantee superior performance, we partner with a variety of product vendors to ensure that we install only top-quality products. Blue Wave Communications only uses products manufactured by reputable organizations who share our commitment to quality and customer service. Our strong partner relationships enable us to provide extended product and applications assurance warranties on our installations that range from 15 to 25 years—that’s right, not months or days, but years.


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Our menu team scours the globe finding hard to get ingredients, and importing them to our Las Vegas warehouse so you can wow your customers.
Looking to have us distribute your products?
One of our experienced staff sits with you during an initial consultation and we look at your menu to see how we can help. From imported ingredients like olive oil, to lobster tails, to a 10 year aged cheese, we can find anything you need.
Once the ingredients have been chosen, an MGP account is created for you, and we take your demographic information such as where deliveries should go. Our friendly delivery drivers are all over town, and happy to bring your items to you.
Needs change, and once you are part of the MGP ecosystem, we reach out to you periodically to make sure that your menu is still the same, and let you know about new access to items or ingredients. We also let you know about discounts when available.
Finding the right food distributor for a chef, restaurant, or catering company is as crucial as an artist having the best materials to create with. It’s a lasting decision, and one that can have a huge impact.
Our team of experts has over 100 years of combined experience in the food and beverage world, and connections with suppliers across the globe to get you rare and hard to find ingredients consistently, at a price that ensures you are profitable.

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Cannabis plants in Colombia can reach up to 14 feet high.
The Hemp Road Trip explores Colombia’s illicit hemp industry as the country moves towards legalization, traveling through bustling cities and up dangerous mountain roads to experience a vision of hemp where food is medicine.
Originally published in Issue 4 of HEMP. Subscribe HERE or find in a local grocery store.
With a beneficial climate and plenty of agrarian land, Colombia has the potential to become a worldwide leader in producing hemp. Legal hurdles — along with complicated realities on the ground — still stand in the way. But as Colombia moves forward from its complicated past, new opportunities abound. This spring, I set out on another leg of my years-long Hemp Road Trip to find out where the Colombian hemp and cannabis industries are headed.
Even though Colombia is historically known for the landrace sativa strain “Colombian Gold,” cannabis remains illegal for public consumption and cultivation. However, in 2012, the Colombian government decriminalized possession of up to 20 grams and personal cultivation up to 20 plants.
On the low-THC side, plants called cáñamo (industrial hemp), are not fully legal for cultivation. The word on the street was that the government expects this to change in the summer of 2018, but for now, only hemp research is authorized.
Clones of high-THC strains grow in substrate in the Colombian mountains.
I set out to get a better understanding of this country and help where I could with the expansion of cáñamo and cannabis. The tour would take me completely across the country (over 6,400 miles). We travelled from Cartagena to Montería, through Medellín to Silvia in guerilla territory, up to the capital of Bogotá, and then finally returned to Cartagena. We would often drive overnight, then tour farms, fish hatcheries, and businesses, speaking with locals who were interested in cáñamo and cannabis.
We started in Cartagena, a beautiful, historic city with stunning colonial architecture and international flare. It’s home to one of the busiest ports in Colombia, and rife with opportunity, as well as crime. In Colombia, cash is king — I spent more cash in Colombia in two weeks than I spent at a high-end resort in the Hawaii Islands. That’s a small price to pay for organic food and security against cartel violence.
We then moved on to Montería, the beautiful capital city of the Department of Córdoba at the center of organic farming and distribution. It was there I first walked on organic land that reminded me of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon — sponge-like, trampoline-esque, bouncy soil.
After Montería, we attempted to drive to the infamous city of Medellin, but in true road trip fashion, our vehicle died in the middle of nowhere, between two of the three massive mountain ranges we needed to cross.
It wouldn’t be a proper Hemp Road Trip without some vehicle trouble. As we were driving overnight through the second steep mountain range, the vehicle suddenly started to overheat. We tried a couple of times to let it cool down in the crisp, chilly mountain night. It would cool, we’d get back on the road, and 1–2 miles later the vehicle would overheat and force us to pull over.
Cannnabis and hemp are grown in secret up in Colombia’s mountains, where motorcycles are the primary source of transportation.
Once, 15 miles from the nearest town, we had to pull our vehicle over on the side of the road, right after a downward turn, in an incredibly precarious situation. Tractor-trailers occasionally tore down the windy mountain roads at insane speeds, only slowing to narrowly pass the trucks going up the slope. On the positive side, the stars and natural setting, seen without light pollution, were incredible.
With no tools and no help for miles, we decided to push it and keep driving and pulling over until we ended up at a mountainside midnight café. As it turns out, a bus was headed to Santander de Quilichao, where we were to meet our guides and protectors the next day.
After some discussion, we agreed to abandon our broken vehicle and take tour buses for the remainder of our journey. Arturo, my guide, would return later to retrieve his vehicle. As it turned out, the busses would be a blessing in disguise, as both Arturo and I would not have to drive, and could get some sleep on overnight journeys.
We hopped on the bus bound for Santander de Quilichao, where we would meet the locals for transport — and protection — and head into jungle mountains never conquered by the Spanish or the Colombian governments, inhabited by peoples that still speak indigenous languages along with Castellano Spanish.
Our first stop was the mountain town of Silva, where about 37,000 people who speak four languages — Nam Trik, Misak, Castellano, and Nasa Yuwe — live at an elevation of 2,800 meters. Silvia rests in the Cauca region, much of which is under the de facto control of the FARC. Formed in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, FARC was the largest of Colombia’s rebel groups, estimated to possess some 10,000 armed soldiers and many more supporters.
As a Marxist organization, FARC supports the redistribution of wealth and opposes the influence that multinational corporations and foreign governments (particularly the United States) have had on Colombia. Until recently, they used hijackings, bombings, kidnappings, and narcotrafficking to financially support themselves and destabilize the Colombian government.
The people in Cauca live under the control of the FARC, who have historically taken the locally grown cannabis, coca, opium, and other plants to market internationally to fund their activities against the Colombian government.
Three generals are present to process hand-cured and hand-crafted cannabis in the mountains of Colombia.
In fact, three years earlier, as a village I was visiting was hiding out from the guerilla faction violence, helicopters flew overhead and shot through the roof of the local high school, killing three people. They look back at this day as a long distant past, and hopefully, as something that will torment them no longer.
In August 2017, they negotiated a historic ceasefire with the Colombian government, and gained official recognition as a political party in exchange for ending an armed struggle that had killed thousands of Colombians on both sides. Currently, they are allocated 10 seats in the Colombian legislature, five in the House, and five in the Senate.
Despite the ceasefire, the Cauca area is not keen on outsiders, and remains controlled by FARC hierarchy. In order to enter this area as an outsider gringo, I needed help from local people to protect me from potential theft, kidnapping, or murder. Thankfully, my guide was able to setup the connections required to remain alive, photograph, and report back.
My accommodation consisted of a couple of small rooms, about 8 ft. by 8 ft., with walls made of bamboo rods and adobe mud. The kitchen was a similar size dwelling, with an electric stove and fire pit used to make some of the most delicious coffee I’ve ever tasted.
Lucky for me, our local hosts were celebrating a quinceañera — or 15th birthday — of a local girl named Luisa. Here I was in the middle of the Colombian jungle, in the highest mountains in all the land, surrounded by guerillas growing cannabis, coca, and opium (amongst other medicinal herbs), celebrating a fifteen-year-old’s birthday. We enjoyed local cake and sang songs, and I celebrated by dancing with her 83-year-old grandmother, who could shoulder-roll like a pro!
Javier comes out of a local kitchen constructed from bamboo and adobe mud. Structures like this could be made from hempcrete in the future.
My guide introduced me to Javier, who grows cannabis under incandescent lights on the steep mountainsides surrounding the village. We did our standard introduction, “Rick, the expert in cáñamo from the U.S., not cannabis, but the industrial side of the plant.” It was a similar introduction across the country.
Javier was using the terpenes from the cannabis plant in a very unique operation. He bottled up the distilled terpenes and was using them as a cleaning product for his home and cultivation facility. This was news to me: cannabis’s many applications also include utilizing it as a cleaning supply.
It was a pivotal moment in my understanding of that culture and the helped bring new light to this incredible plant. This plant not only adapts to its local soil, altitude, and rain conditions, it also adapts to provide the local people what they need, as a cleaning supply, nutritional supplement, healthy food, or natural medicine. I tour the world explaining the amazingness of this plant, and I fully realized, at this moment, the true meaning of that adaptability.
Just after this realization, as if the universe needed to imprint this idea in my brain like a Texas rancher branding calves, a lightning strike hit. The thunderclap was loud enough to scare everyone in our group, and it took out the local power, leaving everything dark. There I was, without power underneath the starlit sky, needing to find my way back to my adobe accommodation in the jungle.
Typically, a situation without light in the middle of guerilla territory in Colombia would freak me out. However, I walked home alone, without light, direction, or guidance, and completely without trepidation. I realized during my walk home that this plant is so much more powerful, and has so much more potential, than I ever gave it credit for. It was my “aha” moment for cannabis.
The next day, I was blessed with a tour of the local mountains and landscape, where I held cáñamo stalks nearly half a foot in diameter from plants over 14 feet high. We ate off-the-plant coca seeds and leaves and drank cannabis juice. This lifestyle is so engrained in the lives of locals that I stumbled upon a full-length soccer field in the middle of the cáñamo jungle, which provides everything the young players need for nutrition, recovery, and motivation.
Cannabis plants in Colombia grow tall and free in a garden.
In fact, as it was explained to me at the Indio Center for Medicinal Plants and Herbs, the locals consider food as medicine. The children are taught, from a young age, how to cultivate medicine — or as we call it in the U.S. — food. They are taught to recognize and cultivate medicinal herbs from the land that will help grandma feel better or sustain mother during pregnancy. There is even a local fishery that utilizes fresh mountain spring water, combined with quinoa and medicinal herbs, to feed their fish.
I usually don’t choose to eat fish, especially when it has bright orange skin and includes the bones and head on the plate. However, there was so much nutrition in this fish that my body overrode my mind’s aversion and I ate the flesh, the skin, the bones, the everything — except for the head. It was absolutely delicious and amazingly nutritious, and like everything I ate in Colombia, it was organic and right from the earth.
A training garden grows outside of Colombia’s Institute of Medicinal Plants.
From the adobe dwellings of Toribio and Silvia in the Cauca region, we headed down the mountains towards Bogotá. This sounds simple, but after a hellacious lightning storm and downpour, some of the roads were simply washed out on the steep slopes of the Northern Andes.
We were cramped in a Toyota truck, with five persons in a four-seat vehicle, moving slowly down the muddy roads, trying not to end up high-centered between deep tire tracks. Meanwhile, the locals were packed on a large school bus, bearing up the mountain as if there was not a deadly cliff drop to their left.
After miles of white-knuckling it down from the mountains, we finally reached a small town and transferred to an overnight bus headed to Bogotá.
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, is a very metropolitan city with over 10 million residents, and up to 4 million additional migrant workers at any given time. I had the opportunity to meet with local business incubators and actually teach a class in Spanish to entrepreneurs and farmers. As they began to learn that cannabis is much more than something to smoke or eat, they became excited and very engaged.
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My hope, and the hope of my students, is that Colombia will soon see a legal hemp industry, so that the Colombian people can enjoy the benefits of domestic use and cultivation — and can bring their hemp medicine down from the mountains and into the full sun of legalization.

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