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Travel Time and Housing Prices Map
? Consequentially, the travel time doesn’t have any effect, so let’s leave it blank. Ultimately select how long you’re willing to walk and how much you can afford to pay for your residence. As you make your selection the map updates immediately indicating which areas fit your needs.
The principles behind the visualization is similar to Stamen’s work on the MySociety Travel Time Maps and a more recent project called Mapnificient by StefanWehrmeyer that is heavily inspired by the MySociety project Mapumental. As a sidenote: the map is created using GeoIQ which looks like a pretty interesting set of mapping applications.
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A curtain.
What a wonderful idea.
I was in Atlantic City giving a lecture for the day there and went down to check the lecture hall in the hotel. I knew that they had arranged a ramped stage for me as they were anticipating a fairly large audience. My experience of these ramps is inconsistent. Sometimes they are flimsy and scary. Sometimes they are narrow, about as wide as a dolly. Sometimes they are perfectly suited for the job they were crafted for. So, as I was in Atlantic City I have to say it, it's a crap shoot.
Well, the ramp was just perfect, easy to use, a good width, a slow and easy rise. But what I liked about it was that it was set up behind a curtain. I sometimes feel that people with disabilities are on display and our movements somehow are cause for curiosity. I always get on stages really early so that I don't have to be cumbersome or clumsy in front of watcher/gawker types. I am a people watcher so I know that most are watching just because it's something to watch, no intrusion intended. Well, unintended does not mean unfelt.
I loved being able to get up and down from the stage in complete privacy. It worked perfectly for me. Interestingly though, I was asked by someone at the conference if I thought that the curtain was a way of 'closeting' my disability. As if it was something shameful that needed to be hidden away - rather than something to be out in plain view.
I admit to being flabbergasted. Clearly there are two ways to view every situation. I am wondering about all of you. Was the curtain a thing designed to give privacy or was it something which indicated the hiding way of shameful movement?
I truly would like your opinion.
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I think it was designed to give you privacy. Don't really know why...actually, I do. I tend to think good of people until proven otherwise.
Well, I guess that question would really have to go to the people who actually designed the set up, but since you asked... :) I have a feeling that their intention was privacy. As a member of the audience, I probably would have thought the curtain was pretty cool, adding a bit of drama to the experience. Obviously it raised a red flag for at least one other person though, so perhaps regardless of the intention, the message that was sent needs more consideration.
(long-time reader, but first-time commenter!)
In many situations speakers present themselves by walking out from behind a curtain without the audience having seen them get to the point of entry...walking, wheeling, why worry. It's really just getting to the place you need to be conveniently regardless of a curtain. Some people over think things.
Thank you for this blog - I had forgotten we are fast approaching christmas and need to be having (early) conversations with our schools regarding plays,concerts and performances! The pupils' dignity is paramount, so we tend to use things like a curtain or screen for getting onto the stage if situations are less than ideal. If however there is proper access, pupils usually like making their own way onto the stage along with their friends. I know from years of working with families, this particular thing i.e. the "entrance" is a real concern/anxiety/worry. - I guess it's that "first impressions" thing... not really noticed when things are right, but tainting everything and coming back to haunt when they're not - not that any examples are springing to mind of course!
I don't have an opinion on this one....to me it's personnel preference.
Dave, do you think that having some skirting that covers the ramp itself yet doesn't obscure the entire person be a good compromise? I would feel that it would give the person a bit of privacy in terms of what they are actually doing in negotiating the ramp yet would not hide them away.
Kinda like those funny little "walls" they often place between urinals. They "give you privacy" without actually hiding what you're doing (or hiding much of anything, really!).
I would think the curtain would be a privacy issue. I don't know why I feel that as I have never been on stage and if I was I might never come out from behind the curtain. Kudos to you for being able to speak in public and come out from behind the curtain
I agree completely with anonymous above, the curtain just reminds me of the standard procedure used in the theatre
I agree completely with anonymous above, the curtain just reminds me of the standard procedure used in the theatre
Dave, it's unfortunate that you have to even think about how other people feel about the way you get on stage. I'm all for whatever gets you on there comfortably. I have done some local theatre work and will admit that I don't like entering the stage from the floor in front of everyone as I feel clumsy and awkward walking up the stairs. Not knowing the ramp situation everytime, I totally understand how you would not want people watching you're entrance if the ramp is anything but perfect. The long and the short of it is this for me: You don't strike me as a person who is hiding his disability and you have far more important things to share with your audiences than how you enter the stage. Curtain, no curtain....whatever. Just keep sharing what you know and I'm happy. Have a wonderful day.
I think the curtain was likely there because the person who made the ramp built it as he had seen them done in theatres.
Hi, about to get in the car and drive to the next gig in Montreal. Got an email from someone not wanting to leave a comment ... thought it was funny so asked if I could put it here - she said I could. It was simply ... sometimes a curtain is just a curtain.
I think there may be something to that.
I think it's about whatever affords the greatest dignity and respect, and also appearing at just the right moment, when you are ready to be announced! :)
I don't think it was intended for privacy OR for the purpose of hiding something. I think it simply gives the speaker/performer a chance to make a grand entrance. Sort of like: "Heeeeeeere's Davie!" (sounds of applause and much 'whoop-whooping')!
I think it's standard for most theaters above a certain size and level of sophistication (or just, above a certain budget level!) to have curtains that make it easier to hide just how people get up onto the stage. It's one more way of creating the illusion that the actors on the stage really did come to the colorful market on the stage from, let's say, the castle that the audience knows is REALLY THERE in the right wing even though they can't see it. The curtain allows them to pretend that it's there and that the actors are coming straight from this unseen castle. It's one of the various things stage theaters do to encourage suspension of disbelief for people watching fictional plays. It was probably designed that way without any thought how it might be interpreted when a person is really only getting on the stage to give a talk with no "suspension of disbelief" involved, required, or desired.
Do you know if the theater is/was also used at times, currently and/or in the past, for delivering performances of fictional plays? If yes, that may be your answer.
Andrea S.
I would not have thought of either, but that the curtain was there to focus attention on the stage and the events happening there.
I don't know, but I do know that it can feel awkward/intrusive for me when people gawk when I am getting in and out of the car. I don't really want people to know how we transfer in and out and what the extent of my capabilities/incapabilities are. But often I turn back to a collection of slack-jawed faces. People will actually stop everything they're doing and watch from the sidewalk. Now I've told my husband to please stop and notice first if we have a sea of people waiting to get me out before he does so.
Sometimes, my daughter says, since she can turn around in her seat (I can't), that people are ticked that my husband has pulled into disabled parking, watch him unload the wheelchair, and then their mood changes and they want to see the rest of the "show."
If we had a regular wheelchair van, I would be sitting in the wheelchair already or transfer inside the van, thus taking away some of their entertainment.
I guess I'm not stating this well--not feeling well. Going from my experience only, which is the only life experience I have with disability, it seems to me to provide a measure of privacy. I have had gawking at wind-around ramps, too, and get to the top, and there's the crowd. I don't consider ramp going as private as transferring (where my clothing may leave me exposed as my husband helps), but it does take away some of the "look! a wheelchair!" factor. So the curtain offers privacy, although maybe not all people with disabilities need it, some might appreciate it.
Dear Dave:
It is hard to know what motivated the people who put up the curtain. I am inclined to think it is just standard practice - the speaker comes on stage from behind a curtain.
Most important though is how it made you feel - and you liked it.
Colleen
I was at the marina as a part of the arc's staff day. i completely enjoyed everything you spoke about. i even would have skipped lunch to hear you more haha. i didnt even notice the ramp until reading this and then had to think about it. i was on the side where the ramp was visible, but was that really the point of why you where there? With the Arc i support a women who uses a wheelchair and without even asking i often park in an area where she is able to get out of the van without having to be looked at when she is simply trying to live her life. I would like to belive it was set up like it was for privacy reasons. Not becuawse they were trying to mask somthing, but to make you more comfortible. I cant wait to hear you speak again
Why would anyone think they have the right to ask that question? Did they think it their "responsibility" to force you to look into your own motives? It's clear they'd already made their judgments or they wouldn't have asked the question. Totally rude... Why do some people have to read something into EVERYthing - especially those things which don't concern them whatsoever.
Why don't they go look into their motives for asking such a question? Maybe they felt deprived for not being able to watch this time...
Sheesh.
What do I think? I think you don't have to answer questions like that...
I believe if you experienced it as privacy, that's what it was. Just like some stairs are open and some are closed, ramps come in various configurations. Sounds a bit Freudian to analyze it in any other way than having good access. If the curtain was not there, you still would have gone up I presume.
Were there stairs? Were they behind a curtain? A person using a ramp needs to be as interesting and common place to watch as a person using the stairs, regardless of why the curtain was there.
CAM, the stairs were not behind the curtain, they were just behind the front corner. You'd climb up them and then walk to the podium. Susan, I'd never thought of it that way, thanks. All of you ... fascinating read, I wrote this and then thought ... I wonder if anyone will be at all interested in such an archane topic. I guess you are, I've an interesting bunch of readers I must say.
Having been there, I presumed it was erected to give the stage dimension. Boy you would have looked great if you made a grand entrance from behind the curtain and it would have been a lovely "movie fade-out" style exit to see you fade off stage after the standing ovation. Thanks for the great afternoon!
Actually, I would assume it's an aesthetic issue -- the stage amanger or theater manager probably thinks the ramp itself is not very attractive. Especially if it's solidly reinforced -- there's probably alot of 'underpinning' that is functional, but not lovely.
When I read about the curtain, alarm bells also went off in my head. Why should your way of getting up on stage be hidden away, as if it is somehow inappropriate rather than simply a way of getting from A to B? Did the people, who could walk come out from behind a curtain?
But then again, I am probably overthinking things, having worked with and thought about people with disabilities for many years and being passionate about people's right to be who they are. In the end of the day, if you, being the person in the wheelchair felt they got it right - then they did! | http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2010/10/pop-quiz.html?showComment=1286984232274 | 2013-05-18T11:01:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The fog is beginning to lift.
Years ago, someone told me that 'FOG' is an acronym for 'Fucking Opportunity for Growth'. I've never much liked acronyms, but that one, I got right away. I have appreciated the kindness from blog readers and from friends over the last few weeks, I have especially appreciated the respect for my privacy without which, kindness could not have been possible.
I'm almost done with working through a very difficult and very emotional situation. I had been motoring along for the last five or so years, everything going fine, and as such had come to believe that maybe, at nearly sixty. I had arrived. That I'd done the complex job of growth and had finally edged on to firm footing.
Nope.
It's now clear to me that life requires growth, and for the most part, growth involves some pain. Spending the last little while in deep reflection about what I believe and about what I do and about how I present myself to myself and how that differs from how I present myself to the world - has not been pleasant. A shocking traumatic experience, coming out of the blue, has forced a time of evaluation and questioning.
As I move out and on from that experience, my soul sore from all the exercise, I have a small sense of gratefulness for being made to stop and really think about my morals, my values and my behaviour. I don't like to have to examine, carefully, the reality that what I do has consequences in the lives of others - but I need to, I need to be forced by circumstance (because it would never happen by choice) into periods of reflection.
I believe that it's called 'reflection' for a reason. I believe that there are moments when we have to take a mirror and look deeply at the our reflection, deeply at who we are, deeply at how we behave, deeply at what we believe, deeply at what we have done. I don't know if you hold that mirror in trembling hands, but I do. I'm terrified of what I'll see. I'm as frightened of that mirror as Dorian Grey was of the portrait in the attic. Our soul can be seen, Wilde suggested in that novel, and I believe he was right.
So, I am was challenged by life and am changed by reflection. This is a good thing.
But I hope, and pray, that there won't be FOG in the forecast for a good long while.
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Dear Dave:
Good to hear that you are coming through this painful time of personal growth. I agree, taking a really honest look at myself is scary. In fact I think few people really do take an honest look at their deepest selves.
The thing about fog though is that you can't see very far down the road when you are in it. Glad your forecast has changed to a sunnier outlook.
Take really good care, sounds like you have just done some really hard work.
Colleen
Thank you for being willing to risk exposure. You both challenge others to reflection and make it a little safer to hold up that trembling mirror. It takes such courage to look, reflect, and then to change.
Personal reflection, whether it is about relationships, career choices, friendships or any event in one's life can be life altering. I appreciate that you are sharing your growth with us. "I" believe that anything we experience happens for a reason. I do not always agree with it but I am learing to accept what happens to me. Since your sessions in Moncton last week, I have reflected on what I do. I have decided that I want to be a better person and model to my staff how people should and deserve to be treated. This is because of you Dave!!
I have enough trouble looking deeply into a real mirror let alone a soul-searching one :/
I hope the fog clears and leads to a brighter day :)
I agree with Noisy World.
I am sorry that you had to grow via pain, but I hope you will hurt less soon.
That takes courage lots of it. Good on ya.
Personally, I'm a little sick and tired of the FOG... A sunny day would be really nice. Just one! But you see, there are too many people who love me, "just the way I am", but they don't want me to stay that way! Arghhh.
Trouble is, they're right. You see, I know myself really well. I know who I am and what I'm like on the inside. And the way I figure it, if anyone likes me AT ALL, (since I have to work so hard at contolling all of that inner yuck)... then I'm doing really, really well. Sigh.
Back to growing...
Glad that you were able to do what you needed to do to move out of the fog. I often get stuck, freezing in place when the fog descends - and then there's just me, stuck in the fog, not sure which way to move and certain I am all alone and forgotten in the fog. Thanks for reminding me of what you do to move out of the fog - look inward and attend to what is there that needs my heart's attention.
Looking that deep within takes a lot of courage and strength. Thank you for sharing yourself, both the good stuff and the challenges. May your next growthspurt be less painful
I love fog. It silences the outside world and creates space where it feels as though anything might be possible. But I'm glad this fog is clearing--it sounds as though it was a real Pea Soup-er. | http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2011/10/fog.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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War of words
THE threat to the system having been averted, presumably it is safe to talk about the linguistic litter Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march generated. It seems that the good doctor is not bad at all when it comes to cursing his opponents. He continued to be in form after the agreement with the government on Thursday, referring to Interior Minister Rehman Malik as shaitaan or the devil. Dr Qadri had earlier accused Mr Malik of trying to kidnap him from the comfort of his famous container. He could hardly contain himself post-accord and let one fly at Mr Malik, a prominent PPP face that had missed out on Dr Qadri’s hospitality, container-style, for obvious reasons.
With a doctorate of his own from a prestigious Pakistani university, Mr Malik proved himself to be quite Dr Qadri’s equal — if not for the style of oratory then certainly for his choice of words. The minister had clearly been hurt by the snub delivered to his own efforts to stop the march, and in his typically brazen manner let everyone know that he did not really find an ideal host in Dr Qadri. He then went on to follow a familiar course, which saw a whole line of respectable commentators poking fun at Dr Qadri’s appearance, to resort to a play on his name, capping it with a liberal comparison with the Pope. Qadri does rhyme with padri, the Urdu equivalent of priest. Even before the Islamabad march, padri had been frequently used for Dr Qadri, particularly in the context of his interfaith events. But hearing it from supposedly responsible officials such as Rehman Malik and provincial minister Rana Sanaullah, the Christian community was understandably not amused. It has every right to demand a withdrawal of statements in which the word padri was used in a derogatory manner.
Dr. Qadri’s cap also came under discussion of the hollow political leaders and some TV anchors. Shame on them.
The use of words are very important and the words used by the minister are not decent for the post he is holding. Thank you Dawn for pointing out. | http://dawn.com/2013/01/19/war-of-words-2/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Going down memory lane for a peaceful future
KARACHI, Jan 24: Punctuated by personal anecdotes and experiences, diplomats and scholars painted a fine picture of a peaceful and prosperous Europe at an event organised at the Goethe Institut on Thursday evening to celebrate 50 years of Franco-German peace and friendship, established after the Elysee treaty.
The first speaker was Dr Christian Wagner, head of research division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In a talk moderated by media person Ghazi Salahuddin, Dr Wagner set the tone of the programme by narrating his personal experiences against the backdrop of the Elysee treaty. He said that he had been born in a German town 20 kilometres away from the French border. According to him, his generation was the first beneficiary of the peace treaty signed 50 years ago when he was only a teenager. He shared that he used to go to France to buy cigarettes and some other stuff with his friends because the items there were cheaper.
“Trade between the two countries had a positive effect and as a 19-year-old I saw borders vanishing just like that,” he said. “With time, even officers posted on the borders stopped fussing over visitors from the other country.”
Dr Wagner said that the Elysee treaty generalized into the core of Europe’s integration project, which took shape later with the formation of the European Union. He argued that the treaty caused significant improvements not just on the political front, but also on the societal and security levels and related it to theory of functionalism (one thing spills over to have influence on other areas).
Taking a cue from Dr Wagner, the foreign correspondent of Spiegel Online in Pakistan, Hasnain Kazim, also shared his personal experiences with the audience. He said that he was born in Germany and had only been in Pakistan for the past four years. He said he remembered the time when crossing over to France in his car was a routine exercise for him. “I was surprised to learn that France and Germany had been arch rivals when I read their history,” he said.
German Consul-General Dr Tilo Klinner said that nationalism was defined by exclusivity, by ‘the other’, and by being united against someone else. He echoed the sentiments of earlier speakers saying that Europe’s history was marred by revenge and punishment but its leaders had subsequently found it necessary to overcome the negativity by opening a new chapter. He reiterated that though it was hard to emulate the Franco-German model of friendship in the subcontinent, inspiration could be drawn from it.
French Consul-General Christian Ramage narrated an anecdote from when he used to live on the French countryside in 1964. “One day I heard some people talking about something in the church. I discovered that there were German soldiers in our area,” he said. “Initially, it came as a surprise and there was fear in people’s eyes because there had been three wars between the two countries during the past 70 years. Later we realized that peace and friendship treaty meant cooperation in all fields… including defence.” | http://dawn.com/2013/01/25/going-down-memory-lane-for-a-peaceful-future/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I am more interested in, why, you would vote the way you choose. I am including only three of the GOP candidates that were in the debate in Arizona, last evening, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Ginrich.
I am also including the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
This obviously is not an official poll, nor is it for the purpose of debate among ourselves. I just really am interested in why you would vote for your choice of one of these people, for President of the United States.
I would appreciate hearing just the most important reason you think that this person should be our next president.
I do not expect discussion, concerning anyone else's important reason, or why they would vote the way they do. I do not intend to question your reasoning. I know that generally, here, we debate or discuss in response to one another. But this time, I think we will know how others feel, and there is no need to defend our reasons.
That is why I will thank you ahead of time for your response.
I just think it would be interesting to see how and why Newsvine people might vote they way they do, on
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Hello friends…it’s been a while! It’s already been 6 weeks into the new year…and I have honestly never been busier in my life! Besides travel, work, travel, life, work – I just recently recovered from nasty cold. So, now that I have gained a lil’ bit of time back to have a REAL life, I will catch you up!
Snippets of my 2013:
We had a VERY WHITE Christmas!!! We arrived back to Louisiana after a 2-week Christmas vacation in West Virginia! I had a couple extra vacation days to round out my year…so I ended up with another week off work - Woo-hoo!
I had my first Bar Method class! Sorry folks…by Bar Method I do NOT mean how to score free drinks at the bar! I do, however, mean one of the best sculpting/leaning/stretching workouts I’ve ever done in my life! Detailed post to come soon.
I spent a full Saturday in New Orleans with the bestie…we ditched the scheduled 9K run due to severe stormy weather…but had an awesome day date instead! We decided to try out a local “All-Day Breakfast” joint called Fat Hen Grocery on St. Charles Avenue. We both ordered the Giant Pancake smothered in blueberries and pecans…and it was heavenly! Post HERE.
I traveled to Houston for work – again. Highlights: New running locations found! House of Blues – VIP Style with The Captain Legendary Band! Detailed posts to come soon!
I attended January’s “Restaurant Club” masquerading as a “Book Club” dinner at Bosco’s Italian Cafe in Mandeville. Delish! Best meals of the night: Baked Tortellini & Lasagna.
My hubby and I were Super Bowl Volunteers for the NFL Experience!
New running resolution this year is to maintain a good running base – sign up for a few half marathons – and finish the year with 750 miles! January: I ran just over 50 miles! I didn’t quite reach my goal of 62 miles due to afore-mentioned nasty cold…but I was close!
And last but not least…enter February…and…MARDI GRAS!!!
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Abstract View
Volume 21 Issue 7 (July 2011)
GSA Today
Article, pp. 4-9 | Full Text | PDF (2.9MB)
Clinker geochronology, the first glacial maximum, and landscape evolution in the northern Rockies
Abstract
Late Cenozoic erosion in the Powder River Basin of northern Wyoming and southern Montana has exhumed numerous coal beds to shallow depths where they burn naturally, forming erosion-resistant metamorphic rocks called clinker. Because most clinker forms tens of meters from the surface, its formation age records the timing and rate of exhumation through this depth, which can be used to constrain incision and lateral backwasting rates and the evolution of topographic relief. Zircon (U-Th)/He ages from ~100 distinct clinker units provide several insights into the geomorphic evolution of the region. Ages of in-situ clinker range from as old as 1.1 Ma to as young as 10 ka, but most formed in one of the last three interglacial periods, reflecting either changes in fluvial incision caused by glacial-interglacial cycles or other climatic effects on rates of natural coal burning. Most clinker older than ca. 200 ka is either detrital or >~200 m above local base level. Detrital clinker atop a broad strath terrace in the northern part of the basin provides a maximum age of 2.6 ± 0.2 Ma in-situ clinker ages with elevation above local base level can be interpreted with a simple model for shallow exhumation ages that requires increasing incision and topographic relief over at least the past ~1 Myr at rates of ~0.1–0.3 km/Myr, assuming typical clinker formation depths of 20–40 m.
Manuscript received 19 Sept. 2010; accepted 24 Dec. 2010
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The Washington Wizards have gotten their training camp into full swing following Monday's Midnight Madnessexperience. The team had a full practice Tuesday afternoon and another one today, during which they employed the theme "Back to Basics." The phrase, which adorns the coaches' shirts, refers to their philosophy that basic fundamentals need to be preached over and over with such a young team.
In addition, coach Flip Saunders had the club practicing a zone defense for much of the day today. Saunders, who has always been willing to use zone defenses in the past, said he wished he used more zone defense last season. Via Bullets Forever.
After practice, Saunders said the Wizards didn't play the kind of zone defense he would have liked.
"Last year, we played a little bit, but not as much as I would have liked and not the zone that I would have liked. We want to play, as I call it, our hyperbolic paraboloid transitional floating zone," Saunders said.
That's essentially a really fancy way of referring to a "matchup" zone defense. Saunders said today he wants to employ zone around 20-25 percent of the time, believing that a good zone actually enhances a team's man-to-man defense.
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Wisdom.
As the second most popular cocktail found at Wisdom, Pears of Wisdom takes pear vodka, cognac and elderflower liquor, moves them around over ice and delivers a just plain sophisticated note to a rather light cocktail.
Try if…you usually refer back to the [tired] old “I’ll just have a vodka tonic” when faced with the raised eyebrow of the bartender. Pear is a very gentle flavor and, unlike cranberry or lime, puts the imbiber right at ease and won’t pucker the lips. So get out there, friend! But don’t worry, it’s not all that far. And it’s sure delicious. | http://dcstyleisreal.com/2012/05/01/the-wisdom-files-pears-of-wisdom/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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When are people going to learn that you cannot upload photos to your Facebook page if you don't want them to get out? What we have here (allegedly) is a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader dressed as Lil' Wayne. In blackface.
The cheerleader in question. according to the Facebook screenshots, appears to be 21-year-old Whitney Isleib, who I assume is dressing up for Halloween as Lil Wayne. According to her profile page on DallasCowboysCheerleaders.com, her hobbies include "dancing, sleeping, eating, and watching movies" and her favorites books are "mysteries." An anonymous tipster made us aware of these photos on her Facebook page.
Enjoy the carnage.
In this era of political correctness, people who live their lives in the "public eye," for lack of a better way of putting it, have to exercise a little more discretion and not upload photos to Facebook that would make Ted Danson blush. | http://deadspin.com/5394350/the-situation-where-a-dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-appeared-in-blackface-for-halloween-will-probably-not-end-well?tag=dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders | 2013-05-18T11:06:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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John Calipari is a smarmy greaseball with a habit of making enemies and racking up NCAA violations, and sometimes I think he's the only man who really understands college basketball.
Ask him about one-and-done players, those top recruits who joined him in Memphis and join him in Lexington and spend their mandated two semesters before leaving for fame and fortune in the NBA, and he won't bemoan the practice. He won't mourn for Anthony Davis missing out on three years of dorm beds and cafeteria lunches and the rest of that magical college experience. He won't wish Derrick Rose was only now winning a Rookie of the Year award, instead of being eligible to sign a $95 million contract extension with the Bulls. Calipari's not in the business of trying to legislate the NCAA, only making the most of the rules for himself, his fans, and his players.
Calipari was asked how to stop one-and-dones:
"There are only two solutions to it: Either I can recruit players who are not as good as the players I'm recruiting or I can try to convince guys that should leave to stay for me."
You're old enough now to know the truth. No more fairy stories about "student-athletes" (a tortured phrase Calipari refuses to use) and loyalty and preparing a teenager for manhood. Division I is a minor league and a cattle call for the NBA, and one-and-done only exists because none-and-done no longer does. Save the "shaping young men's characters" bull for John Wooden's condolence book. John Calipari is successful because he recruits the type of player who's going to leave after one season. Win-and-done.
Calipari says he could "recruit players who aren't quite as good, who don't have the opportunity" to leave for the NBA.
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Well, you could, but then you don't get $4.5 million a year. You don't get to be a perennial powerhouse, running deep into March and April and making hundreds of millions for the school in donations from engaged alumni and attracting prep schoolers who want to go where they'll win and be able to show off their skills and not be shamed into postponing their first paydays. It's what Calipari talks about when he refers to his "players-first program," because he gets that everything comes from the players. The success and the fame and the money and the endowments and the reputation, none of that comes without being able to get the type of players Calipari gets.
And if that means losing them after one season? So be it:
"I could bulldoze 'em, brainwash 'em and make 'em stay. I will never do it. Get another coach. Because if it were my son, I wouldn't want my son treated that way."
It's telling that this is somehow a controversial statement. That the man who outright says he's not going to stop a 19-year-old from earning the millions of dollars he's worth is vilified. That Kentucky is referred to as "a trade school for transients," or that terrible human Bobby Knight can claim Calipari is "lacking in integrity" and nobody bats an eye.
Yet it's Calipari who thinks that players should receive some kind of reimbursement for their NCAA-enforced lost earning power. It's Calipari who points out that no one criticizes Bill Gates or Steve Jobs for leaving college when it had nothing left to offer them.
Calipari's mindset isn't new. Lots of smart people like Taylor Branch and Charles P. Pierce have been beating this drum for years. But what's revolutionary is someone within the system recognizing it for what it is, instead of hiding behind the veneer of idealism. Amateurism has long left the station, and what's left is a crowded waiting room without even a Mussolini to make the trains run on time. Duke, with shaper of men Coach K, lost Austin Rivers after a season. Kansas had three recruits declared academically ineligible this year. Only Calipari doesn't pretend this isn't the cost of doing business.
Here's Cal, on a true hypothetical:
"If we ever won a national title and no player was drafted, I would be excited for our fans, excited for our school and our program, but I'd be disappointed."
That's selflessness, and the words of man who's figured out how to build a great basketball team with great players, not student-athletes. Stars come and go. By letting them go, Calipari gets them to come. | http://deadspin.com/5898339/john-calipari-the-first-honest-coach?tag=Nba | 2013-05-18T10:25:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Update | 6:50 a.m. General Growth Properties, one of the largest mall operators in the nation, filed for bankruptcy early Thursday morning in one of the biggest commercial real estate collapses in United States history.
Despite bargaining for months with its creditors, General Growth faced dwindling options for handling its more than $25 billion in debt, largely in the form of short-term mortgages that will come due by next year. The company has been severely wounded by the trouble in the financial markets, which has wreaked havoc on its ability to refinance that debt.. 125 Comments
This is a major crisis for today’s sullen, bored youth! Where, oh where will they hang! Oh, Lord, call the President! Mercy!— Mike
its a shame – their malls were always attractive, clean and had good stores
don’t expect this to continue under new conditions— dave
You’re not going to allow my comment, but I’m going to say it again. This is a LOUSY article. Read CNN.com, Reuters, or CNBC. All attribute the problems to short term debt refinancing. It was a bad business decision for certain to finance long term capital properties with short term debt. That was compounded by the collapse of the debt market. It has nothing to do, or little to do, with all of the factors touted in this article like stores going dark, vacancies, or retail shoppers. Get the article re-written to be more factual and get the message board/blogger/editorial garbage out. And allow some comments critical of the article rather than just more comments supporting the article or purely political statements.— JohnL
I would like to say We should have seen it coming. But no one but Noah and his brood saw the big flood coming. We grew complacent and greedy. The people we voted into office may have had good intentions, but we all know where that road leads. I’m too old to go through another Great Depression, but we just may be headed in that direction. One person can’t fix everything. It will take all of us to remove the blinders and use big shovels to dig ourselves out of the mess.— Audrey
sound operational model, said with a straight face; unsound financial model, seems to be no disgrace.
if you do the arithmetic, we all should keep shoveling, bailing, whatever you want to call it…..
but isn’t it a beautiful spring day?— chris hauser
Can’t even give them the benefit of the doubt. This is not a case of black swan – its the arrogant dismissal of “inconvenient” past events as outliers!— Stanley Ling
#30 hit the nail on the head; financing long term businesses with short term debt with the intent to rollover as needed is incredibly risky; it had to fail at some inflection point in the debt markets.
We will have many more commercial R/E bankruptcies as retailers of all sizes run out of cash and credit lines. All the rhetoric on suburban, local or e- retailing misses the immediate systemic issues not limited to this firm.— Brian Beheydt
Andrew, No. 36, has it right except in presuming that eventually the rest of the world will bail out a bankrupt USA. They are dependent upon the US consumer and their export trade with us, and will not be able to do so. There is no light at the end of that tunnel but a true world Greater-Depression.
Gene Corrigan— Eugene P. Corrigan, jr.
It is sad that any business fails and must enter bankruptsy. The Debtor doesn’t pay it’s debts, the creditor does not get it’s money and the equity owners get a fat tax credit/deduction for investing in a failed going concern!
The one party that winds up suffering the most is the front line employee (Salesmen, clerical, administrative staff and middle-management) who will get laid off, possibly loose their home, car and life-style while the “millionaire” owners, bankers and lawyers carve up the decaying carcass of a failed company! They will all re-emerge from bankrupsy to do it all over again while the laid-off employee must fight tooth & nail to get unemployment benefits, fight home foreclosure, obtain affordable health insurance and spend another 12 to 18 months looking for another low-paying job with another badly managed company that put the insatiable thirst for profits before common-sense, sound business, financial, accounting and management principals!— Adriane David Paniagua, J.D.
Prices for clothes have gotten to high in the Malls. They have overbuilt. Natick Collection is an example. We usually go to Koh’s, Walmart, Target & other more discounted stores. who have frequent sales. Market Basket is one great Grocery store chain too. People have got to get used to generic items & not be so brand conscious. Everyone should learn to live within your means! Our son has been out of a full time job for over 2 years, getting laid off in Feb. of 2007. He is managing because he was able to save some funds before this happened. Hope that Pres. Obama can get us through this mess. Shame on you who kept the other group in office for so long! Shame on the Big banks & CEO’s with too high salaries & bonuses. Say some prayers for our environment also.— P. Libuda
Sooooo….. does the city of Columbia, Md., get auctioned off piece by piece now?— Tyler W.
What is not said in this article is that while this and other companies were taking on more debt (mortgages) the “hotshots” of the company never took a decrease in compensation. As soon as they come out of chapter 11, I am sure their salaries etc. will be huge, unwarranted and only the little guy will have been hurt.
It’s pitiful!— Dan Scher
I quite enjoy shopping at the local mall. And I’m sad to see another American company struggle. For all you “greenies” out there, and all the “buy-local” types, I’m sure the computer you are looking at right now was probably bought at Best Buy outside your local mall. The pants you are wearing are probably from a Gap store, and your socks from Wal-mart. This is nothing more than collective schadenfreude at its ugliest. You should all be ashamed.— Manfred Steyn
slovetskii is right! This is only the tip of the iceberg. And, everyone who seems to be celebrating the demise of a “big guy” will be singing a different song when more people are out of jobs. Or when their grandparents have to move in with them because all of the money they saved for retirement has been lost. Kids, this is just the small picture. The bigger picture is that the US is begining to look like a company scheduled to be closed down, divided into parts and sold off to the highest bidder. Keep your eye on our country’s assets. Stop being distracted by all the current news about income and credit. Watch what happens to the wealth of our country in the next 5 years. As a side note, does anyone know Govenor Mit Romney’s particular business expertise? Yup, he over saw the dismantling and sell off of companies. Interesting that a significant portion of the Republican party backed his presidential aspirations.— P
Right on, Sameer (#9) and Brian (#43). Malls are just big-box warehouses with little cubicles occupied by chain stores. They are totally people and environment unfriendly, not to mention energy hogs. Shopping in your neighborhood stimulates the growth of local businesses and jobs, saves gas, cuts pollution, provides good exercise, and promotes a sense of community. Turn malls into light industrial sites where people produce, not consume. Convert stores into training facilities and schools that teach and innovate. Use the land to grow food for local consumption. Now that’s my idea of a sound operational model!— Maryland Grandma
Everytime a new mall opened another one lost business. There always has been a limited amount of money (even with credit cards) and if you go to the new mall to store ABC then store ABC at the previous mall has lost a customer. It has always seemed like a ponzi scheme or a pyramid to me. There are so many malls and most have the same stores. What a waste. Now our gov’t is trying to buy, spend its way out of trouble. Spending what you don’t have is what caused the problem. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price and probably curse us for what we are doing.— Claire W.
Commerical property will follow the housing market,it’s going to get real UGLY..My question, doesn’t anyone in America own anything, without debt. GGP has $154 billion in debt much of it up this yr. and 2012, but 2/3 of it does NOT meet refinancing, because its’ underwater..Instead of owning 1500 malls, why didn’t they own 500 and have them paid for???— Bull Run
What’s happening at the moment is that a lot of business models are becoming obsolete all at the same time, and a lot faster than that has typically happened.
This is the core reality of any progressive (in the versus, staid or static) society, but the combination of real-time communications, a general nosiness on the part of everyone, and, most obviously, the economic crisis, is massively accelerating both the reality and perception of this.
If you think about the reasons people have for decades gone to malls, the reasons are a combination of fundamental human needs (to be social, to alleviate boredom, to acquire stuff, to express yourself, to eat) and a lot of far less fundamental, and perhaps even problematic desires (to be inside not outside, to engage in activity requiring no thought versus activity requiring thought, to buy things you don’t need, may not be able to afford, and may not even enjoy having, and to eat primarily junk food as a form of entertainment).
There is nothing “wrong” if a large portion of our culture chooses to do all that with their free time, it is a “sound operational model.” But should the majority in our free society decide they don’t have the time, money, or inclination the model rapidly unravels.
Someone will come up with creative and possibly even “best” or “highest” use scenarios for these gargantuan commercial “mixed use” properties. They’ll find a way to make money and offer things people want for the next 30-40 years, and if the “operational model” is more focused on flexibility — beyond just switching out a gadget store for a t-shirt store — they may enjoy a longer run than that.
But the classic shop, eat, meander, model may well be rapidly dying — whether that’s good or bad is in the eye of the individual shopper, eater, meanderer.
Personally, I have not spent much time in malls since about 1985, and did so then only with reluctance.— Drew
These malls will not be closing, there will just be a lot of creditors (Over 100,000 apparently) that will either not get paid at all, get paid a fraction of what they are owed and/or have to wait a very long time for payments.
I wonder what the implications of all the companies that have to eat this debt will be?
The American Dream. It has been talked about a lot, but it is strange that when it is said, we still think of the time when if you could cook a good burger, you could open a burger joint and make a living. If you could mow a lawn you could open a landscaping business. You could make a living doing what you could do, own your own business, be your own boss and then buy the house, the fence, and the dog. You would sell your goods and services to your immediate area, and the locals in your area supported you. Goods and services were priced based on the area and so none of the necessities were necessarily at a price someone couldn’t afford.
Lately, the American Dream has mutated. Its all about how do I win the lottery, American Idol or win a lawsuit? On the business side, its not about opening your own business anymore but opening a franchise. You can’t compete with the corporate industry as a small private business owner. And to open a franchise, you need to have access to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars usually.
Perhaps with this recession, we will not be driven back to a ‘third world country’ but closer to the original American Dream.— Chel Ramsey
It is inevitable that the consumer will represent a smaaler share of the economy in future years. Many companies in numerous industries have yet to make the transition,which will be very painful in certain companies.The last 10 years where we went into debt to finance consumer purchases will never return.We will be forced into bringing our trade imbalances close to zero.Certain industries such as travel and autos and second houses and restaurants have created a model which I could never understand.Why does everybody have to take an annual or semiannual vacation?— r cohen
Why do i need to buy a new car every 3 years?Why do i need to go out to eat 1 or twice a week?How can I afford a vacation house when my real income is going down?
Malls are a microcosm of American consumer culture.
Now that the largest one has failed, perhaps we will return to main street for at least a minute, which would help us find the value of putting money in to our neighbors’ wallet.
I love small shops. I spend more on one item, and I buy less overall. I also take great pride knowing I am helping to create and maintain a community of shop owners who know what they are selling because they ordered it.
They usually even know (they are expected to at least) intricate details about the craftsmanship, which is a moot point in a mall with chain stores.— charles lee
In Hawaii, General Growth is known as General Greed.— Staggerthemind
I live in Columbia, MD, a planned community of 100,000 people that is financially very tied to GGC. Columbia was literally created by the Rouse Company, which GGC famously bought.
Of course GGC owns the mall in the center of town, but also is tied to the governmental structure of the town in may ways. Columbia has heretofore been viewed as the most successful of the planned cities in the US. We are very curious to see what effect the potential implosion of GGC has on our entire town.
-David Hobby— David Hobby
Columbia, MD
I live 1/4 mile from the biggest mall in the area.To drop this monster in the middle of a crowded suburb required MAJOR changes to the infrastructure,of which the developer Hahn agreed to pay for.Major highway realignments,severe traffic re-routing,dead-ended neighborhoods,ramps to heaven-this place can never be the same.And now it’s turning into a ghost world,vast empty asphalt heat absorbant.
Readers: the United States was aptly lampooned in ‘Wall-E’-— Elvis X.Presley
rent it today and see yourself a fine look into the future if we don’t change.
#35 is right about the human cost. You don’t have to like malls (I hate them) to deplore this. The fall of Gulliver hits all the Lilliputians standing in his shade.
But some of the Savanarolas posting here should remember that shopping has been a human activity since Babylon. In fact, at my backyard wildlife station (which includes an in-window bird feeder with a two-way mirror), I can watch wildlife “shop” for food. Their behaviour is familiar to anyone who’s ever been to a Macy’s clearance: songbirds tossing one seed aside as too dry, another as too small, tapping a third to assess the ease of cracking it, finally selecting just the right seed. They’re even pickier with regards to nesting material.
The shopping instinct (like so many other instincts) has been distorted and exaggerated by the acceleration and excess of modern life. Acquisition has become an end in itself: The purchasing exhausts the satifaction derived from shopping, and the shopper gets no joy from ownership. (Call it the T’Pron Syndrome, after Mr. Spock’s fiancee, who jilted him for another Vulcan man, after which Spock informed her: “You may find that wanting is more pleasing than having. It is not logical, but it is often true.”)
Someone (don’t know who) commented recently that the American economy is like a shark – it must keep going forward or die. Perhaps a system built on unlimited growth has reached its natural limit.— ACW | http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/general-growth-properties-files-for-bankruptcy/?ref=global-home&apage=3 | 2013-05-18T10:42:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Mikhail D. Prokhorov, a basketball-loving Russian billionaire who is expected to be approved as the majority owner of the Nets next month, moved into the American spotlight Sunday with a profile on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” The New York Times’s Richard Sandomir reported.
In an interview with Steve Kroft, Mr., told The Times in an e-mail message on Sunday that “I can say that he was forthcoming about his early days as an entrepreneur in Russia.”
In December, David Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, said, “There were multiple investigations of him by interested parties, and there was nothing that was disclosed that would cause us not to move forward with his application.”
Mr., Mr. Prokhorov wrote on Sunday: “I view this investment as a business opportunity. I expect this asset to be worth around a billion dollars after the new arena is built and the team gets to the top of the N.B.A.”
Mr. Prokhorov told The Times in the e-mail interview that he had followed the team “from time to time on DVDs which they send me.”
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Mr. Prokhorov said he did not intend to install a Russian lieutenant to oversee his Nets investment.
“At the moment, there are no managers in Russia qualified to supervise people at the level of Rod Thorn or Brett Yormark,” he wrote. Mr. Thorn is the Nets’ president, and Mr. Yormark is the president and chief executive of Nets Sports and Entertainment.
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Giving an anonymous tip about financial misdeeds to a company’s board may not get a favorable response, even though federal law encourages such whistle-blowing.
A study published in The Journal of Management Studies has found that corporate audit committee members attributed lower credibility and allocated fewer resources for investigations when reports of malfeasance were received through anonymous tips, compared with nonanonymous reports. The study also found that the audit committee members were more concerned with protecting themselves than shareholders if they faced considerable damage to their reputations as a result of a tip, a clear violation of their fiduciary duties.
After Enron collapsed in 2001 as a result of accounting abuses, Congress passed laws mandating that audit committees of publicly traded companies provide an anonymous way for employees to report financial misdeeds. The idea was to give employees who feared retaliation a safe place to report any “cooking of the books” by management. Such accounting tricks could be used by management to hide losses or pump up deflated asset values to make a company appear healthier than it really is.
Prof. James E. Hunton of Bentley College and Prof. Jacob M. Rose of the University of New Hampshire sought to answer the question as to how effective the new whistle-blower program was on protecting shareholder interest. They interviewed 83 experienced audit committee members as to how they would evaluate the credibility of anonymous tips and how they would allocate investigative resources toward flushing out malfeasance.
The results showed that audit committee members were less likely to follow up on a tip if it was made anonymously, even though they believed that investigating an anonymous tip was no more time-consuming or expensive to investigate one that was made by an nonanonymous source. When they did follow up on an anonymous tip, they allocated less money to investigating the issue than if it had been a nonanonymous tip.
The study also found that board members were less willing to treat the allegations as serious if they were serving on another board where such misdeeds were also taking place, indicating that they feared a reputation loss by missing the accounting trick at two separate companies. The study’s authors said this was “a disturbing finding,” as it would appear to create “a conflict of interest” in which directors choose their personal reputations over protecting shareholders. Anonymous reporting therefore seems to give directors a way “to rationalize their actions by ascribing substantially low credibility to anonymously received allegations in this circumstance” the authors said.
Since Enron, a number of companies have been accused of engaging in questionable accounting tricks, most notably Lehman Brothers with its Repo 105 exchange, which allowed the firm to move assets off its books in an attempt to look less leveraged. There are no reports that a whistle-blower brought the accounting trick to the attention of Lehman’s board, but chances are that the allegations would have been dismissed or assigned a low level of significance, given the results of the study.
The study’s authors conclude that a better way to protect shareholders from accounting fraud would be to mandate a trusted independent third party, like lawyers who otherwise do not represent the company or external auditors who do not audit the company, to receive all whistle-blowing allegations. The third party would determine the veracity of each allegation and then forward the allegations to the audit committee with a view as to the seriousness and credibility of each allegation.
– Cyrus Sanati
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The firm, which is based in San Francisco, will fit somewhere between Mr. Thiel’s other investment firms, Founders Fund, which tends to focus on earlier stage investments, and Clarium Capital, a global macroeconomic hedge fund.
Mithril, led by Mr. Thiel and a former Clarium managing director, Ajay Royan, will seek “growth” opportunities — start-ups that have already raised some venture capital and are looking to ramp up significantly. According to Mr. Royan, the firm is looking globally but is not interested in pre-I.P.O. companies or companies on the verge of going public. He predicts Mithril’s average investment will be north of $20 million.
“We’re looking for inflection points,” Mr. Royan said. “We’re not looking for companies that are a done deal; we want companies that are about to hit a growth stage.”
Mr. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, a data analytics company, is known for embracing markets like space exploration and biotechnology. And like Founders Fund, Mithril also plans to pursue start-ups that are tackling big problems.
“Mithril will play a patient, focused, and pivotal role in helping the world’s most outstanding creative minds solve vexing problems,”Mr. Thiel said in a statement.
By standing in the middle of the venture capital spectrum — between the early stage and pre-I.P.O. stage — Mr. Thiel and Mr..
“Two years ago, we were watching what was happening in the Valley and beyond.” Mr. Royan said. “There is not enough capital in the intensive growth stage.”
Still, there are plenty of challenges in the market for Mr. Thiel’s new vehicle. Despite the softness in the public markets, valuations have been pretty high in the early-stage arena, which means Mithril may have to stomach even higher prices at the growth stage. Several days before the Facebook initial public offering, Viddy, a video mobile application, raised $30 million for its Series B round at a reported $370 million valuation. Mr. Royan says he is pretty confident the firm will be able to avoid the froth by steering clear of companies that are sitting in crowded areas.
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Broderick is also author of numerous award-winning science fiction novels, and has a PhD in the comparative semiotics of science and literature.
This paper has been accepted in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and will be published later in the year:
Models of the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor
Objective: Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind/body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
Design: Slow cortical potentials in the brain were monitored while adult volunteers anticipated either a flash of light or no flash, selected with equal probability by a noise-based random number generator. Data were collected in individual sessions of 100 trials, contributed by 13 female and 7 male adult participants.
Outcome measures: Ensemble median slow cortical potentials.
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May the 4th be with you!
Yes, Star Wars Day, May the 4th, is here once again. The day that we celebrate one of the greatest stories ever told, a story that has captured the hearts and minds and money (soooo much money) of countless fans for over thirty years. Apart from the bits with Jar Jar Binks.
But it also presents a problem for fans of the films who don’t live in a galaxy far, far away: how do you satisfactorily celebrate the occasion? Worry not humans, Death Star PR has the answer. Here are 11 easy ways you celebrate Star Wars Day.
11. Kidnap a Princess and blow up her planet
This one should be a cinch but on the off chance you don’t have easy access to a Princess and/or a planet destroying super weapon, try thinking outside the box: substitute “Princess” for “that snooty girl who lives down the street and always ignores you when you stare adoringly at her through the cafe window” and “planet” for “setting fire to her car”.
10. Tell Luke You’re His Father
This is a classic Star Wars joke that never, ever gets old. Every time you meet, speak to, or hear of someone called Luke today, tell them: “I am your father. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.” If you happen to have some kind of laser sword (or katana blade, axe, etc in a pinch) and a reactor shaft handy, the rest of this scene just writes itself.
9. Do not try
Kids, in the immortal words of Yoda, “Do, or do not. There is no try.” Really, this is just another way of saying, “Don’t bother trying”. So for today, take a load off. Chillax. If not bothering to do stuff is good enough for Yoda, it’s good enough for you too. Stuff sucks, anyway. And don’t even get us started on things.
8. Use the Force
Don’t pretend you haven’t “used the Force” to open automatic doors. Everybody has. Well today’s your chance to revel in it; really just do it continually all day long. Try and levitate everything with your mind, or Force push/pull things towards.away form you.
Also strongly encouraged: trying to Force choke annoying family members/co-workers/customers.
7. Have an Epic Lightsaber Battle
If you think about it, what makes a lightsaber battle EPIC isn’t just having a super cool laser sword that cuts through almost anything while going, “SchwmmMMM!” (which, okay, is PRETTY FRIGGING COOL), it’s the 47 minute duel across a variety of exotic, increasingly dangerous locales. Start your toy lightsaber fight in the house, take it out to the street, through the traffic, fall on to the top of a passing truck, then roll off that in to a busy factory that, if you’re lucky, will be full of molten lava. FUN!
6. Find the Droids We Were Looking For
We’ll be honest, our Stormtroopers kind of dropped the ball on Tatooine but that doesn’t mean you can’t make up for their mistakes. How, you ask? Any time today you see anything mechanical that could even in the loosest possible sense be described as a robot, point to it and exclaim, “Look! That’s the droid we were looking for!”
5. Do Jedi Mind Tricks
As much as we hate to admit it, Jedi mind tricks do work, it’s just most people don’t have the patience required to make it happen. The trick to a Jedi mind trick is this:
1) Think about what you want the other person to believe.
2) Wave your hand as you say it to them.
3) Say it another one hundred times.
[Or at least, as many times as it takes to wear the other person down and make them give up and either agree with you or go away because THEN YOU WIN.]
4. Get Cocky
Although not generally noted for his advice giving, Han did have one great tip for Luke when he said, “Great, kid. Don’t get cocky.” The utter irony of this comment coming from the galaxy’s cockiest cock makes it a must that you get cocky on Star Wars Day. Do this by saying, “I know” any time someone tells you anything, e.g.
Co-worker: ”I’m going to get lunch.”
You: ”I know.”
Co-worker: ”Probably sushi.”
You: ”I know.”
Co-worker: ”So… do you want to come, or what?”
You: ”I know.”
Co-worker: ”I’m going now.”
You: ”I know.”
3. Get your Imperial March on
We’ll let you in on a little secret. There is one, incredibly easy, surefire way to go from complete loser to total badass in under five seconds: put John William’s “Imperial March” on your mp3 player of choice, crank the volume to full, hit ‘Play’ and then stride down the corridor, street, etc. For even greater badassery, play it on a boom box and make a lackey scurry after you holding it. Cape optional.
2. Do the Ackbar!
Remember that classic movie moment in Return of the Jedi when Admiral Ackbar realises that, “IT’S A TRAP!” For today only, you are promoted to the rank of Admiral. Your primary responsibilities include: trap detection and yelling about detection of said traps. Here’s what you need to know: EVERYTHING IS A TRAP. EVERYTHING. You should, nay, must, shout, “IT’S A TRAP!” at pretty much everything that happens today.
1. Shoot First
This one’s simple: go first at absolutely everything. Think your boyfriend might want to break up with you? DROP THAT DOUCHEBAG IMMEDIATELY (even if he’s actually really kind of nice and probably wasn’t even thinking about breaking up with you yet – he would have eventually!). Normally let kindly little old ladies go in front of you on the check out line? NOT TODAY, YOU OLD BAG. This applies to waiting rooms, board games, toilet stall queues, and ESPECIALLY conversations.
Bonus: Kiss Your Sister
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Actually, this is NOT stenciling a tea towel, it is stenciling on a White linen dinner Napkin!
That would have been too long of a title.
Some time ago, my Father gave me a stack of Restaurant Table linens. He use to be in the business and has had them for years. He thought I could do something with them.
Hence, I have.
Last year I stenciled these Diy hand painted napkins...
I still have them and use them on occasion.
Recently, I was inspired by Karianne’s recipe towel, she of course hand wrote hers! NOT me!
I knew what my next stenciling project would be.
How convenient, I have this kitchen stencil, that I have used over and over again.
Thank you Hobby Lobby for this! Best $2.99 I ever spent!
I ironed the linen napkin first…
placed my stencil and tape, and painted away lightly.
The key too stenciling IS NOT to use a lot of paint.
I think that is where people mess up. You must dab your brush or foam roller to get rid of all excess paint.
Looks as cute as cute can be!
My friend Kimberly Hites gifted it to me, as her decor is changing up a bit and she thought I would like this handsome young Man!
Thank you again Kim, I love him.
You also may see a peek here of a vintage linen towel my friend Shirley sent me.
I swear I have the NICEST friends around! Thank you Shirley!
How about we get the NEWBIE PARTY started!
FIRST LET ME ANNOUNCE, there will be NO NEWBIE party
Next MONDAY. In lieu of that, I am hosting the COPY cat challenge, August 1st. I can’t have two parties in a week.
I would be exhausted from all that entertaining.
NEWBIE party guidelines:
Blogging 6 months or less and/or less than 100 followers.
PLEASE,PLEASE turn off Word verification…it is a real comment deterrent. Now with TWO words to type, it really is a time killer!..
Joining these fabulous parties:
Between naps on the porch MM
Under the table and Dreaming
Cute! I’ve got some tea towel stenciling going on here. Fun times!
xo
Pat
Hi Debbie: That is the cutest stencil, and what nice friends you have. That roo is handsome..Happy Weekend..Judy
That’s to stinkin cute Debbie, I just love it.
Love those napkins! Thanks for hosting this party! Life to the full to you!
Super cute towel. I love it.
These are perfectly brilliant! Great idea! I love them!
Thanks for hosting Debbie! And wow! Your tea towel is so darned cute – you are a stenciler extrordinare! Jane
What a great stencil…..no need to assemble all those different fonts and make your own!! I just visited my FIRST Hobby Lobby….I know you feel sad for me but we don’t have one here…it’s 3hrs away and I’m determined to make another visit soon! The napkin looks wonderful!
Debbie,
Your tea towels look wonderful! Another project that is on my to-do list.
Oh, I was at a garage sale this weekend and purchased two rooster hanging plates and couldn’t help but think of you when I purchased them. I hope to hang them sometime this week in our kitchen. We have 35 chickens and 1 rooster. Amazing the little things that pop in your head when away from the computer/blogland that reminds us of other bloggers.
Thanks for hosting and have a fabulous week!
I think I am tired? I almost hit the enter button… to leave a comment
The tea towel is darling. I love the black and white. Super crisp! The new Roo is you! What a sweet friend. He has a good new home. I always remember how much I lover your back splash whenever I get a peek of it!!!!
OK….Debbie….you know I like this SO MUCH BETTER! This is amazing! Can’t wait to see all the inspiration around here!
blessings,
karianne
Thanks for hosting the party, im linked up
-Nathan
I so want to stencil something!! I might have to give this a try! Is the paint for fabric? washable? thanks! great looking project!
It is just regular craft paint.
Hi Debbie – Total brain fart last night with the links. All have been added
Sorry ’bout that!
…And I just noticed that adorable red scale sitting on your kitchen counter. LOVE! Your tea towel was the perfect addition to that whole set up.
Perfect tea towels. Great idea on how to use all those linens you were gifted with.
You know I love, love, love these projects! What a beautiful way to make some beautiful linens even prettier! Debbie, you are so good at coming up with different ways to use stencils, you should open a business! I bet you would have lots, lost of clients! I would be the first one!
Cute towel!
Thank you for hosting.
Neat idea! You just gave me a thought for Christmas presents.
Tweeted!! XO, Aimee
Sweet Debbie…thanks for posting this napkins with instructions!!!! and you are absolutely right about the stenciling…yes…too much paint and is a blob!!!!! I will give it another try and try to “Debbie-Cat” some napkins of my own. Great Job as always…Hugs Liy
Very cute, Debbie. You always have the cutest ideas. Also, thanks for continuing to sponsor this party.
Debbie, this is so darn cute! I’m above 100 so I can’t participate but I needed to see your Stencil work.
have a great week!
Very pretty Debbie! All those special little touches add so much personality to your kitchen. Hope you had a fantastic weekend! Now off to visit some talented Newbies!
I have yet to ever stencil but I’m about to try! I’m starting out with stenciled anthropoligie knock-off curtains. Maybe I probably should start out on a smaller scale, but you make it look so easy!!! Thanks for hosting!
I am REALLY new so I’m not sure how to add your link to my post. I’m sorry! Is it easy enough to explain to me? I am putting your button on my blog though!
You are always up to something fun! This looks like something I could tackle….I really liked Karianne’s too but I don’t know about hand lettering. Thanks again for hosting.
Lynn
Hi Debbie; thanks for hosting yet again, your work really is appreciated.
Denise
Hi Debbie,
Love the tea towel (napkins)!!! I have some set aside for stenciling – that I just haven’t gotten to; maybe your post will get me to focus on them soon. Thank you for hosting the Newbie Party – it’s such a great way to find others!!! Have a great week – enjoy!!!
I love the little vignette you created with your new stenciled muffin napkin and the other goodies on your kitchen counter. Nice!!!
You have me wondering….what is the linky for at the bottom of this post and there’s something about Father’s Day? I’m just a wee bit confused as you said no Newbie Linky.
Blessings!!!
The tea towel is so cute. Thanks for hosting this newbie get together. It has been fun to see so many creative ideas.
Love your teatowel. I want to make one now. I would love to make one using a Christmas recipe.
That is a killer stencil. I love typography and recipes in kitchen decor. The roo looks great in your kitchen! Again, so glad you like him.
You always have the cutest stenciling projects!
I love your tea towel! So cute! Can’t wait for the Copy cat and Knocks offs party. What fun!! Thank you so much for another great Newbie Party.
You make everything look so easy. I love the towels And I’m totally jealous of your beach trip. I hope I get to take one of those someday with friends and not kids
Thanks for hosting
Debbie, you did a really nice job on these towels. I would have thought they were printed! You are kind of spectacular at stenciling so you are now my official reference for all things stenciled. Great photos, too–the light is so pretty!
my mouth is hanging open iam speechless lol:)
Fabulous idea Debbie as always!!!
Hugs,
Suzan
You are the stencil queen, Debbie. Love it and I love the towel your friend sent you- xo Diana
Love the Tea Towels Debbie! I need to do something like that! How does it wash?
Thank you for hosting and the opportunity to link up to this “newbie” linkup party!
I love your tea towel {napkin}…it turned out adorable!
Rhiannon
Debbie your new roo is so cute, and fits your decor perfectly, that was so sweet. I love your napkin. You really are excellent at stenciling. I would have to hand paint, I am such a messy stenciler. You should consider selling your stenciled napkins if you haven’t already. I would love to buy a set from you!
I haven’t stenciled anything for ages but now you have me thinking I’ve got to get back to it NOW. Your projects came out great.
What a cute stencil. Think we need to crown you stencil queen!!! Thanks for coming to my party.
Blessings,
Linda
You and Kari both got it going on with tea towels. Christmas gift with one of gramma’s recipes for my daughter?
~Bliss~
Very cute!! I don’t think I have the patience to do something like this, but I sure enjoy seeing other’s projects!
Debbie
Love all of this, Debbie! You did it again…and again…and again…! Thanks for hosting the party. You are a gem!
Love your new roo and your tea towel! That’s a great stencil!
I think doing a link party for only newbies is genius. You have totally tapped into a niche that I really appreciate. Oh, the stenciled linen is really cool too!
That is so cute! And what a great source for your linens!
Your Newbie party looks great. I’m excited to see all of the inspiring projects.
Have a great day.
Pam
HI Debbie Dear! OH, these are so cute! I love that recipey one!
I used to do this many moons ago on napkins and gave them as gifts. Did you know that after the paint is dry from your stenciling, if you’ll iron over it with a hot iron, it will set your paint in better so when it’s washed it won’t wash out.
Proud of you selling these.
Be a sweetie,
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Tribe Syndication is Fastest Growing Trend in Network Marketing
December 14, 2009 by Debbie Turner
Filed under Tribes
Belonging to a Tribe for the purpose of doing syndication for each other’s content is currently the hottest and fastest growing trend. It’s a great way to grow your lists and following and the fastest way to get your content in cyberspace for people to see you.
If you recall from my previous post, a tribe is a group of individuals who share a common intersest and get together to discuss those interests. A tribe is connected to a leader, to one another and to an idea.
Well, a tribe syndication network, would then be a tribe of individuals who seek to syndicate each other’s content which allows for business growth much faster than if someone was going it alone.
I have a good friends who began doing this and the results were nothing short of amazing. Here’s what they do:
1) This Tribe meets once a week, there’s 5 of them, but your tribe can be bigger by a few if you want, for about an hour, maybe two, on Skype ( a worldwide free phone service).
2) They come prepared with the content they have posted to their blog during the week so when the group gets together, they are ready for syndication. If one doesn’t have any content ready, he still syndicates for the others, he just has nothing for the rest to syndicate, or they can resyndicate old stuff. Not having content ready doesn’t let them out of their commitment to syndicate for their tribe members.
3) They go around and pull up each others content. They tweet the content to their Twitter followers, they post the content to their Facebook page, they leave comments on blog posts, notes in Facebook and videos, they bookmark the content and mark it as a favorite.
4) During the week they will be sure to retweet each other’s tweets and they can count on each other for support.
As a result of this, they have all grown their lists and businesses.
If this makes sense to you, grab some of your friends that you network with, set a time each week to syndication and commit to following through.
Please let me know your thoughts about tribes by leaving a comment below and and the Tweet it for me… Thank you so much everyon!
PS: The book Tribes by Seth Godin is a good read.. Pick yourself up a copy.
Debbie,
Looking forward to the training! My learning curve just keeps expanding!!
Thanks for your leadership
Debbie Turner Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 6:19 am
oK, get your blog buddy and be ready because things are going to rock!
Hi Debbie,
I love the idea of a “Tribe” and am looking forward to learning (and putting into practice what I learn) much more about it.
I know 2010 will be one of greatest years of my life and I’m ready for the adventure to begin.
Arlene
Debbie Turner Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Awesome Arlene…. keep that thought… expect success… what you believe and think and plan for is what will manifest…
Thanks for stopping by and sharing!
I hope to get my blog done by the new year so I could be a part of that.
Hi Debbie, Great idea and please count me in as a tribal member. I’d love to assist and share.
.-= Lisa Saline´s last blog ..Childcare is a Balancing Act When Working From Home =-.
Debbie Turner Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Awesome…. it is going to be SUPER!
Hey Debbie,
I love this concept–keep me posted and in the loop.
Happy Sails Holidays, New Year
Toni
Awesome deal Debbie you can count me in on this action 2010 is going to rock!
Debbie,
Is this an invitation to your tribe, or a general post.
Should the tribe be limited by a certain number? If so, why?
I have no doubt that I could create a large tribe right away.
.-= Darby Miller´s last blog ..New Yoli Water Bottles =-.
Debbie Turner Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Hi Darby,
It depends on how much time you have to meet together. My tribe is 6 members and it takes about 2 – 2.5 hours to syndicate our content once a week. That’s all the time we can commit to in one evening. The more tribe members you have, the longer your meeting time will be. I am very interested in helping establish several tribes, and am looking to see who’s interested. Stay tuned in January for some initial trainings. I have other ideas however, but I’ll share those later…
Thank you for your contribution here Darby and asking these questions. I truly appreciate you my friend.
Awesome Debbie!
From your post it seems that you are mostly educating us on this concept and encouraging us to organize our own tribes. Am I correct? Or are you setting up tribes as well? (Some of the comments led me to believe you might be organizing it
Most of my team members are not as advanced with content development and personal branding, so I am finding it hard to identify tribal members. If anyone here wants to join me in one, I’ll facilitate it!
Donna
.-= Donna Abreu´s last blog ..Spread the word. =-.
Debbie Turner Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Hi Donna,
Both. I’m encouraging leaders to step out and connect with anyone who wants to be part of a tribe. You can gather a handful of people, those you meet on your own social media sites who offers good value and would be a good contributor to your list and following. I’ll be doing some trainings in January and anyone that’s interested in perhaps being a part of a tribe can leave a comment here on my blog and you will able to see each other, connect, etc. Lisa Saline at wants to get tribal. You can see her post here. She a fellow TVI partner. Introduce yourself and see if you’re a match… then add more… but connecting with Lisa will be an awesome start. Let me know how it goes.
Hi Debbie,
Hope you had a great cruise!
I’m reading about your Tribe info and trying to get my arms around it. I read and re-read your information. Can you clarify a few things?
1) When you say “syndicate”, what’s another way of saying this or what do you really mean?
2) When you say one leader, a group of individuals with a common interest, and an idea, can you give me some examples? Are you saying a leader such as myself with my GRN team or my TVI team or are you saying something like myself and online marketing is the common interest but each having different products/services you syndicate?
3) Follow up to above #2, if say everyone in the group was say TVI, wouldn’t the content be the same or similar so what value in syndicating or publishing the other tribe members content? What am I missing?
Thanks,
Jeff Donovan
Hi, Debbie,
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You should remember that there are many notable atheists who have looked at your same data and come to a different conclusion. In the same way that you think arguments for God are not conclusive or persuasive, neither are yours. Of course they make perfect sense to you, they are your arguments!
The more I read the different entries on this blog, the more it comes to light that it isn't about evidence, but arguments. Just like debate team, you don't have to be right, just have a better argument. A lot of the arguments here are made so that they are unable to be refuted from a philosophical/debate sort of standpoint, but that doesn't mean they are right!
Hi John,
awesome article. I give it a standing ovation.
Hi david m,
The more I read the different entries on this blog, the more it comes to light that it isn't about evidence, but arguments.
what evidence are you talking about, John has effectively "crossed off" all the 'hard' evidence supporting christianity.
Argument is valid for reasoning. Logic and inference are essential to day to day life. I use logic and inference everyday to do my job and do my puzzles on my DS.
Logic and inference will tell you that if you two apples and add two more, you have four, then you can go the extra step to verify it.
The internal witness of the spirit is not evidence. It is an illusion, a personal bias, wishful thinking. If it were true there would be some way to verify it. Paranoids are convinced people are after them, but under closer scrutiny, it turns out not to be true.
John,
That was a great post. You covered so much ground in it.
I hope I can find the time to order and read your book sometime, especially knowing you will go into even more detail about those topics in it.
Great Essay John!
This reminds of the time I debated a pastor and apologists on the Bible back in 1989.
My thesis was the Bible was often totally inconsistent with itself. The debate ended when the pastor could not explain my examples and left defeated.
However, not to give up, he latter informed me that he was attending an apologetic conference hosted by the great conservative from Dallas Theological Seminary Dr. Gleason L. Archer. Archer had edited the “The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties” (now out in a new revised 2001 edition) and is described on the slip jacket as:
Dr. Gleason Archer offers carefully thought-out arguments for the unity and integrity of the Bible that should convince the skeptic and reassure the person who may be confused by the seeming discrepancies in Scripture.
I gave the pastor three questions on why the Pentateuch could not have been written by Moses (but was, in fact, and eclectic text compiled over hundreds of years). The pastor assured me that any of my questions could be answered by the major apologists at the conference.
At the conference, he gave the my questions to Dr. Gleason Archer who, after reading them (to the pastor’s disappointment) threw them on the conference table and exclaimed: “Who is this nut?” and walked off.
What is very significant about the social context of the Bible and its world of faith is that there is no word in the Bible for either “atheist” or “agnostic” since everyone believed in some god or gods (but usually just not the right one) so any apologetic debate was an “in house” debate on which faith (god) is correct.
In the end, the “Mighty Acts of God” which proved His existence are now echoes from a mythic past defended today by the faith and philosophy of apologists of whom many have a finical stake in the debate’s outcome.
I'm definitely saving this post for future reference. You've highlighted many of the hard reasons why I finally rejected christianity and also why I finally accepted atheism. Well done, John, and thank you for your hard work on this site!
"You should remember that there are many notable atheists who have looked at your same data and come to a different conclusion."
Yes David that is true but it doesn't matter at all for John. If every single person but John came to a different conclusion, it still remains that John is not convinced by the evidence placed before him. It's terribly weak to say these things. It shows you are not trying to understand where John is coming from, but trying to figure out why he can't see what you see.
John, these are very well thought out arguments and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us. This is very meaty and hard to deal with the total article, so I must cherry pick at things:) For starters I also don't believe in the trinity as I understand Christianity does. I believe there to be a Godhead consisting of three separate beings, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. the all are one in purpose but three separate individuals. I believe this to fit the scriptures better than one being with 3 different personalities.
Obviously way too much here to bother doing a serious critique. I suppose the one thing that stuck out was the whole idea that God was originally a polytheistic being named Elohim. Now that is a position of some scholars, but to dogmatically assert that as historical fact is pretty bold to say the least. The idea that Yahweh was a child of El, is a terribly shoddy argument based essentially on a passage in Deuteronomy and a passage in the Psalms and a serious amount of gymnastics has to be done with the rest of the Old Testament corpus for it to stick. Certainly most of the biblical commentaries ive read do not accept the argument. Of course there are plenty of other issues but this seems to essentially be a summing up of the arguments John has made in the past, many of which im sure John would admit pre-suppose biblical inerrancy and such, which is fine as that is exactly what he is attacking.
Howdy John, thanks for the summary. The clarity and pleasantness of the presentation is appreciated. I have one comment and one question.
First, in your book do you explain why and how you chose the control and number of control beliefs you did?
Second, it seems that the support for your claim that Christians retreat to the possible isn't representative of Christian apologetics per se, but is one aspect of apologetical arguments. Acknowledging the post as only a summary, so you couldn't offer all the support you have, I'll just comment on one example you gave to explain what I'm thinking.
You commented on Craig's claim that it is possible to distinguish between fact and propaganda, saying he is retreating to the possible. But he is just making a claim about history in general. He does offer arguments that it is probable in the case of the resurrection that it is fact and not propaganda. So he first argues that it is possible in general, and then attempts to do it in particular. It seems incorrect to call this a retreat, for he is just be thorough by treating general method before particulars.
b
p.s. I see Lessing is still in play. Guess that means I didn't convince you... maybe next time:)
Brandon Dahm said...So he [Craig] first argues that it is possible in general, and then attempts to do it in particular.
Well then, see what he must do? The first argument he must make is that it's possible to understand what took place in history, which itself is debatable. What if he's wrong about this, and it's possible he's wrong! Besides, no one argues we can have a completely objective view of the past. It is always colored by our present understandings.
Then he must argue that a particular historical event took place, which, as an argument, cannot rise any higher in probability than the strength of his general argument about history.
Then he argues for a supernatual conclusion, which introduces a strong element of improbability, since miracles are by definition improbable.
Not much there to think his particular argument about the resurrection is probable, and much less to stake my whole life on that conclusion..
It's all about seeing things differently. I have on what Julia Sweeney calls her "no god glasses." And with those glasses on, everything makes better sense to me, and I've tried on the "Christian God glasses" for years for comparison. The real question is what glasses we should put on, and that was my argument in this post.
My starting point is different than Christians. They start with arguments for the existence of God. What they may not realize is that they assume what needs to be shown, and as such, they already presume God exists before they look at those theistic arguments, since before they even knew of these arguments they were already believers. How else can we explain why so many others stare those arguments in the face and do not blink? So like Dr. Strauss, they also start "from above."
I start "from below," since as soon as a person adopts a faith position she can argue for that position, at least sufficiently enough for her. Smart, educated people, can argue for most of anything. I gave plenty of reasons for starting with a healthy measure of skepticism, which concern the crucial issues Christians must deal with before they can start with their faith position "from above." On each of these crucial issues Christian apologists are reduced to saying, not that their answers are probable, but that their answers are possible. Yet anything not logically inconsistent is possible, so that gains the apologist no ground at all.
Christians have to say the issues I discussed are not important ones and that arguments for the existence of God are the important issues. But don't you think the issues I discussed trump the Christian's starting point "from above," given that whether or not someone accepts the theistic arguments depends upon whether or not they already believe? And if they do, all they have left is not probability, but possibility, which isn't much to base an apologetic or a faith upon.
...And if they do, all they have left is not probability, but possibility, which isn't much to base an apologetic or a faith upon.
Yeah, but John, that's exactly what faith is: believing in something for no good reason. So having something be merely possible (like the existence of an invisible unicorn in my bedroom) is all that is needed for faith to thrive..
This is a complete red herring to what I argued. My claim was, it does not seem to be the case that Christians only retreat to the possible. I offered an argument for this from one of your examples. Am I right that at least for the example in question you grant that Craig does argue for the probable and not merely the possible?
While my question doesn't deal with your specific one, I see it as an important one nonetheless, which must be answered in this context, since we're discussing the probability one assigns to the conclusions derived from history. If not hell, would you be willing to go to prison for five years or live in abject poverty for five years?
Yes, Craig does indeed claim his argument about the resurrection is probable. But claiming this and showing this are two different things. I've just said that his claim cannot rise above the probability of his general argument about history, much less when the supernatural element is introduced. Besides, the cumulative case of the reasons I provided trump his claim anyway.
Cheers.
"Besides, the cumulative case of the reasons I provided trump his claim anyway."
With all respect John for someone who claims to be a skeptic you certainly seems surpremely confident of your arguments.
So where does all of this leave us Mr. Loftus? Does that mean that since all we have is what nature and science can test and repeat, that we are simply machines made of meat?
Where does the spirit, the conciousness, the soul play in all of this? Do you really believe that sum total of John Loftus comes to a paltry $1.54 or whatever it is they estimate if they grind you down into all your pieces?
It is things like this that make me doubt that your control belief of science providing the most reliable answer.
For some reason I get the impression that in your view God can't work with the natural order of things. If it has been shown that prayer lights up certain nerves in the brain, does that immediately mean that we have a purely natural event. Or is it probable that this is the effect of a different reality or dimension coming into contact with our own, as the divine and infinite is coming into contact with our mortal beings?
Thank you for this post. It is the other one I have flagged because it gives a good summary of things and I've been chewing on it all afternoon.
GB, I'm no more confident that Christians are deluded than you are that Muslims are deluded.
John,
I didn't mean to imply your question wasn't important. I've been thinking about it, but I need to think about it some more. Thanks for the response.
Cheers.
b
David M. said...
"The more I read the different entries on this blog, the more it comes to light that it isn't about evidence, but arguments. A lot of the arguments here are made so that they are unable to be refuted from a philosophical/debate sort of standpoint."
My reply...
Hmm...and can sky the existence of deities be conclusively proven or disproven? Is it not true that any sky god is "unable to be refuted" by the very nature of the case?
Sounds like a "pot calling the kettle black" issue here.
(JH)
Fairly interesting post, John. I have a question for you, if you don't mind. From where exactly do you draw the following idea?
"This God fathered several sons including Yahweh, whose wife was Ashterah, to whom was given the people and land of Israel to rule over."
Also, what years did you attend LCCS? I know a few pastors who went to Lincoln around the same time you probably did; I wouldn't be surprised if we knew a few of the same people.
Take care,
Chris
Great post John!
JOhn,
I have to say that your muslim argument sounds a little like a last ditch effort. Maybe just because it was short, but sort of unlike your normal responses. Don't get so frustrated if you are conviced you are right!
Dave
dillie-o: yes, we are machines made out of meat. But that doesn't mean we can't think, and learn, and love. That's enough for me.
Chris, Deuteronomy 32:8-9 should be translated like this: "When the Most High (Elyon) gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all the descendants of Adam, he set up boundaries for the peoples after the number of the sons of God. The LORD's (Yahweh's) own portion was his people Israel."!
As far as God's wife goes, see here.
I attended LCS from 1979-1982.
Cheers.
dillie-o said: So where does all of this leave us Mr. Loftus? Does that mean that since all we have is what nature and science can test and repeat, that we are simply machines made of meat?
Do you have a serious problem with that? Is it the medium that bothers you--you would rather your existence be rooted in something ineffable? Why?
Where does the spirit, the conciousness, the soul play in all of this?
The beauty of the evidentiary position is that it's ok to answer "I don't know". Consciousness is real, but we don't know exactly what it entails. The spirit and soul have no settled definition, so they are literally meaningless entities.
Do you really believe that sum total of John Loftus comes to a paltry $1.54 or whatever it is they estimate if they grind you down into all your pieces?
No more than you believe that your computer is worth $0.22 because that's the worth of it's elemental composition, or even that the Mona Lisa is only worth the $20 in paint and canvas. Something does not need an ineffable soul to be of greater worth than its components.
It is things like this that make me doubt that your control belief of science providing the most reliable answer.
Even in your critique of empirical rationality you instinctively rely upon empirical rationality as your gold standard. How can you demonstrate an answer is most reliable? Why, you must verify it compared to its competitors! And how can you possibly verify it? Why, with evidence!
The irony is, you know and accept that empirical rationality is the most reliable way to look at the universe. When you need to cut an apple, do you use telekenisis? Do you pray for God to cut the apple? Do you telepathically commune with the apple spirit to convince it to split in twain for you? No; cutting apples is something that you know really exists, so you readily (even instinctively) reach for the empirically rational solution--you get a knife. Where people run into trouble is with the questions that empirical rationality does not offer easy answers to--where did the universe come from? What is the basis of the human experience? They are all derivatives of the same question--what is beyond our ability to perceive? Indeed, we don't even know for sure how valid these questions are. But one thing we do know for certain--they don't really affect anything. This is the only reason you have the luxury of entertaining irrational ideas about them--because they are unimportant in any practical sense.
Does it not suggest anything to you that you wholly rely upon empirical rationality to answer every question where you know for a fact that the answer actually matters? People who engage in faith-based healing die at a greater rate than those who engage in evidence-based medicine. Even more so people who engage in faith-based driving, faith-based flying, or faith-based swimming. Yet, because your survival does not depend upon the answer, you are willing to entertain faith-based solutions to what you consider the "big questions".
Even in the Bible, the ancient Hebrews relied upon empirical rationality to settle the "big questions". When the Israelites started worshipping other gods and experienced a drought, did Elijah sit down with them and start debating the metaphysical properties of Yahweh vs. Baal? Of course not. They set up an altar and had a contest; if Baal could light the sacrificial fire, then Baal was great, and if Yahweh could light the fire then Yahweh was great. Baal didn't light the fire, Yahweh did, so Yahweh was again accepted as the God of Israel and the prophets of Baal were slaughtered (1 Kings 18:17-40).
I made Elijah's challenge before and I'll make it again. You take your faith in God and pray as hard and as long as you like. I'll take my "faith" in science and a butane torch--no prayers needed. First one to light a fire wins.
I'll even give you a head start.
Shygetz you're funny. I'll call the Elijah challenge by your name, "the Shygetz challenge." Any takers? ;-)
Excellent post and discussion that followed. It’s also nice to read Joe’s comments and I look forward to reading more from him as well.
Lastly, John, I can’t wait for the new book. Is this a teaser from it?
Chris, this sums up half of my book where I defend my skeptical control beliefs. The other half deals with the specific evidences about the Christian truth claims in the Bible itself.
Okay, shygetz. You take the butane torch, and I will pray- and bring on the lox.
Here then are my two skeptical control beliefs: 1) There is a strong probability that every event has a natural cause; and, 2) The scientific method is the best (and probably the only) reliable guide we have for gaining the truth.
Two problems here that I spotted right away:.
In short, your "control beliefs" are nothing more than false premises, and your subsequent argument based on them fails..?
Darren, if you will respect our comment policy I will discuss these things with you.
You said…Miracles do not contradict natural laws. That's a false dichotomy invented by skeptics. A miracle is simply God doing what man could theoretically--if not actually--do provided he had the means.
Granted. I never said they did. Hume did though. How does this actually engage my argument?
You said…There is a whole lot more to reality than what science can tell us. For example, can you scientifically prove that minds other than your own exist? No, you can't. That's a question for the philosopher, not the scientist.
I dispute that there are such things as minds. There are such things as brains; that we know. But there is no evidence for the mind or the soul. Since anyone can defend practically anything what differentiates our beliefs is evidence. Lacking the evidence for the mind I don’t think it’s probable it exists. Take this for an example: If the mind is not located in space and time then why does it reside in the brain? Maybe it resides in my knee, maybe it exists outside of me on my shoulder? Maybe it comes and goes? Maybe the minds of people exchange bodies? Of course this is silly, but why do we need brains if there are minds?
In short, your "control beliefs" are nothing more than false premises, and your subsequent argument based on them fails
I think what I argued is coherent and based upon many of the very things you yourself accept as premises.?
To paraphrase an example I once read:
Jesus healing the man with a withered hand could be described in wholly naturalistic terms as the spontaneous regeneration of muscle and nerve endings. In those terms, it's not particularly miraculous. What makes it a miracle is that it happened at Jesus' word.?
When you say, "Yeah, and?" yourare implicitly agreeing with my point that John Loftus places unwarranted faith in science. There are plenty of things worth knowing which need something other than science to provide the answers.
I was composing a more detailed point-by-point response when I noticed this whopper:
I dispute that there are such things as minds.
I actually did a double-take when I saw that because I thought for sure I had read it wrong. Do you similarly doubt the existence of emotions? Thoughts? Logic and reason? None of them can be scientifically proven, yet to deny their existence is self-evidently absurd.
But just for fun, if "The scientific method is the best (and probably the only) reliable guide we have for gaining the truth" then I'd love to see your defense of logic using the scientific method. not always the best (nor is it the only) reliable guide we have for gaining the truth."
To be quite frank, John, your arguments here border on the irrational.!"
Thanks for the reply, John. That's the passage I figured you'd refer to, but I wasn't sure.
Do you know if Dr. Avalos interacts with Dr. Michael Heiser's work, in EBoS?
Regards,
Chris."
OK, John. Thanks anyway..
The scientific method is based on reasons and evidence, silly.
I'm just answering a question with a question. Did God create logic or not. You're claim is that God is the source of Logic. Is he?
The scientific method is based on reasons and evidence, silly..
I'm just answering a question with a question.
No, you're avoiding the question because you don't want to admit that I've just shot a very big hole in your argument.
I actually did a double-take when I saw that because I thought for sure I had read it wrong. Do you similarly doubt the existence of emotions? Thoughts? Logic and reason? None of them can be scientifically proven, yet to deny their existence is self-evidently absurd.
Just a guess here, but from actually reading the comment it appears John was saying that he disputes the existence of the mind as anything other than a property of the brain..
The fact that you use the phrase "scientifically proven" in your diatribe suggests you have no idea what science is about. We don't prove anything; we gather evidence, build models, and make conditional inferences. Mathemeticians prove..
Sure, science does not lead to absolute certainty..
The fact that you use the phrase "scientifically proven"...
Means nothing more than I am using informal conversational language in a blog discussion.
This was a great post. I'm really looking forward to reading your book!
To Shygetz: sometimes I feel the need to post a comment, but you end up saying everything better than I could have. Thanks!
I don't get it. So I have to be as "smart" as you to understand there is no God, and certainly not the God of the Bible?
Because you say agnosticism is the default position, therefore it is? And, according to you, the distance from it to atheism is nearer than to theism?
You call it a " "Case" against Christianity" but I see nothing resembling a true case trial.
Of the one's I read; ex. "...the donner party...", is not a "case" at all. And very similar in circumstances to many examples in the new and old testament which are sufficiently explained..
Hmmmm, that's a somewhat evangelical attitude (wanting the message to be believed and accepted), is it not?
I will hop in and comment on something quickly in regards to 1) Sociological Reasons when this was said: Since there are no mutually agreed upon tests to determine which religion to adopt, or none at all, social cultural and political forces will overwhelmingly determine what people believe..
For instance:
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At any rate, the Metanarrative that is given here is interesting. Is atheism merely a cultural more that is neither as true or less true than any other religious belief?
Authors Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl respond to this self-defeating claim by pointing out.
Philosopher Roger Scruton drives this point home when he says, “A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely negative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
So even this first section must bow to the nature of logic, and this is the best test to determine which religion to adopt. thanks for commenting, but there is absolutely nothing self-defeating about using a test to decide what to believe if that test can be defended on its own apart from the conclusion we reach when using that test..”
Cheers my friend.
Diversity doesn't mean untruth.
Faiths that run counter to the laws of logic, are false.
The Christian-Theistic faith is judged by the same rules we judge all beliefs by..
Skepticism is healthy... and I think you may know (if not, you do now) that not enough Christians are skeptical of their own faith, or at least engage in answering the hard questions. But you aren't saying that you can never be sure about anything, are you? And your test is it by nature materialistic?
Questions aside, if you are born in India and have a belief that everything is an illusion, how do you build your house without violating what you believe and without accepting the Western understanding of nature, thus, rejecting (without explicitly knowing it) their own view? To say you do not exist violates the fact that a physical being just said they do not exist.
A great book that I can recommend (and I will buy yours soon to not only read when time allows, but also to support an author) is A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test. That books used the strength of philosophy to “test” Christianity.
In fact, William Lane Craig, in every debate that has been voted on at secular universities has won against atheists. The publishers of the book Does God Exist? The Debate between Theists and Atheists -- Prometheus -- say the theists in this debate won it.
I am not here saying that such victories prove that one view is right while the other is wrong, just like one cannot say that because there is diversity of views that no one view is right.
What I am saying is that when you say that theists “have not successfully made their case,” this statement is false. It has been made good enough to beat many of the brightest atheist minds today as well as to change the sound mind of the past “pope” of atheism, Flew.
Remembering that book now, Does God Exist?, makes me smile because one of the contributors for the atheist side was Antony Flew, now he would be arguing for many of the points from the theistic side. I say many, but not all.
You still haven’t shown me how you have escaped your culture in order to judge others.
By-the-by, you are now linked under my "Blogs I Watch."
Papa said…Diversity doesn't mean untruth.
Agreed, but it does mean the odds are we are wrong.
Papa said…Faiths that run counter to the laws of logic, are false..
And the Euthypro dilemma applies to logic as well as morality. Must God abide by these laws of Logic or did he create them??
We did not assume logic; we assumed the universe and developed logic by observing how the universe works.
And as far as logic goes, have you seen this?
Papa said…You still haven’t shown me how you have escaped your culture in order to judge others..
Papa said…By-the-by, you are now linked under my "Blogs I Watch."
Great! You seem reasonable and likeable. I may reciprocate next time I change things.
I find many things you say interesting, but not in the way you think. I wish to give an example with some notes I put next to a boxed off portion in one of my philosophy textbooks (Philosophy: A Text with Readings, by Manuel Velasquez). The [boxed] additions are mine and will be followed by what I wrote in my book.
GROUPTHINK
The psychologist Irving Janis has coined the term groupthink to refer to the tendency of cohesive groups [psychologists?] to get increasingly out of touch with reality….
“Janis Gives the impression that he, unlike the rest of us, has somehow been able to evade the psychological forces that determine what (or how) the rest of us think – in other words, is this “groupthink” just psychologists thinking distortedly within their group[think]?”
So to comment on your post:
You said:.
Now, if there is disagreement and diversity about this “test” does this “mean the odds are we are wrong”?
Papa said...[is this a logical statement?... which laws of logic does this statement assume?].
A few of them that we agree on. What's the problem?
Pap said...[is your test influenced by your social background, peer pressure groups, dreams, aspirations and emotions?].
Are you saying that you rise about these things yourself? If so, that would be a very interesting claim indeed, but contrary to what psychology tells us. The best way to test anything is by asking for evidence. It alone can rise above these things.
Cheers.
I can put my beliefs to a test. But what "culture" do you accept as the presupposition to your outlook. I will make my point with a question Dr. Kenyon was asked:
“What are the general presuppositions that scientists make who study the origin of life?”
Dr. Kenyon responded:
“Well, I think there are two general kinds of presuppositions that people can make, one is that life, in fact, did arise naturalistically on the primitive earth by some kind of chemical evolutionary process.
“The second presupposition would be that life may or may not have arisen by a naturalistic, chemical process.
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“If you have the second presupposition, your still going to be doing experiments, but your going to be more open to the possibility that the data, as they [it] come[s] in from those studies may actually be suggesting a different explanation of origins altogether.”
I will elucidate even further with how some presuppositions can limit your answers to the all important questions. This limit is created by the secularized Western “scientism” that infect many skeptics:
“Science is the human activity of seeking natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us.”
Or, is it this:
“Science is the human activity of seeking logical explanations for what we observe in the world around us.”
So what you are saying is that your test is greater, or more perfect than the empirical method, right?
Papa Giorgio-
I've never heard of Irving Janus, but that is not what "groupthink" means in modern social psychology.
To put it succinctly, it simply means that larger groups of people have more of a tendency to stop looking at alternatives than if they were all working individually.
"Groupthink" in and of itself is not a good or bad thing. If the group consensus is bad, then not looking at alternatives is bad, and so forth.
Incedentally, I think that most social psychologists would suggest that anonymous or near anonymous posting in a forum such as this would be one of the best ways to combat possible groupthink
So kudos to you for helping stave off groupthink.
Patrick,
So you are saying that, for instance, when a large group (say, high school biology teachers) inform my son that life can come from non-life, that they have more of a tendency to stop looking at alternatives than if they were all working individually?
Got it.
By-the-by, Janis is the person who coined and founded groupthink.
Papa-
Thanks for getting back to me so fast..
The "classic" way to combat groupthink would be to split these castaways into several smaller groups to come up with ideas (to whatever problem you want to assign them).
It seems that high school biology teachers are subject to some constraints that would, in theory, lead to group think, but are also seperated into smaller groups which, in theory, combats groupthink.
Furthermore, Scientific theories are submitted for peer review, which, while not perfect, is a pretty good way to combat groupthink, and arguably the entire purpose.
I would argue that mega-churches in particular, and churches in general are much more fertile ground for groupthink.
My best,
Patrick.
Please remove this portion from your page because anyone, regardless of their beliefs or "glasses", can see it is a gross misrepresentation to help make a weak argument.
I'll be interested to see if you post this. God bless you in your choices and search for the truth. I hope that an open mind and the Holy Spirit will guide you to Christ.
Aaron Smith
PS- Science is simply trying to learn what God already knows, uses, and created.
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I did alright in 2012 collecting all the items, taking photos & writing each day the problem was assembling the pages into the binder. It was difficult as I did not have a location where I could keep my album out with out it becoming a dog toy or cat napper mat.
So for 2013 I plan to continue the style and concept of project life. I am only going to make it my own!!! After moving this past Spring and seeing the 12+ boxes of scrapbook stuff it made me realize that I have stuff not scrapbooks. It was hard but I made a promise to myself that I would use up everything I have before buying more.
After digging into the boxes and finding several mini albums I realize how much fun I love doing mini albums...so the idea hit me for 2013 I will do a mini album!
Why a mini album?
- It is 6x6 so I can carry it with me
- The pages are both card stock and plastic pockets. The pockets are made from misc other pages that were cut down to fit the size.
- I can use up a great deal of stashed items in that size format
- It will fit on the shelf easier
- There is only 2 of us
- Don't feel obligated to scrap everyday!!!
I know you are asking yourself "How will 365 days fit in a 6x6?"
That is the best part, if and when I feel this album is full I can begin another mini album. It doesn't have to all fit into one book.
Here is a peek at the beginnings of the 2013 album:
I also found myself looking at old scrapbook books and gathering new ideas. I loved how old some of these books were I do not know if you can even buy some of these anymore. The one I love most is The Big Picture: Scrapbook Your Life. The concept is the same just the material we maybe using is different.
Lots of Inspiring going on this last day of 2012!
I hope that 2013 brings lots of creativity & completion of unfinished projects!
Let me know what your plans for 2013 will be....
happy new year to you and yours and I hope 2013 is a year of much happiness, prosperity and good health. what a fab idea using a 6x6 I would like to start journalling/scrap booking and this sounds much more manageable good luck and I will be back to see your progress Andrea#9
Well done you - an epiphany indeed, I love the ideas you've had, and the mini album too, because life isn't always one neat book, huh? it'll be even more fun to do it with your special take on it. Already the album is perfect - absolutely love the belly band!
Great plans ! So good to have an "ah - ha " moment & it all becomes clear ! Hope you enjoy your mini album project ! Ali #121
Thanks!!
Love that you are making your own this year to use up your stash. I had to laugh at your 12 boxes when you moved. I'm not even going to tell you how many scrapbooking boxes I had. 3 or 4 times that. Ugh. But I was a super careful packer after working for that moving company. Can't wait to see your progress on this through the year. :)
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D. Draperies block light and sound and help to manage heat and cold, but they are also a decorators dream as they have the potential to bring your personality into a room. But before we talk about decorating with draperies, let’s try to define draperies more specifically.
Draperies in today’s lingo generally refer interchangeably to drapes and curtains. However, this is not strictly true. Traditionally, windows would be treated with up to three layers of curtain: a light sash which filters light, a draw curtain to block light completely, and an over-drapery which functioned decoratively only. Moreover, in formal rooms, these layers of curtain may have been covered with a valence to hide hardware. However, modern rooms are treated with draperies differently, and sashes are often called curtains, while draperies are those materials that draw to completely cover a window and block light.
Regardless of how you define draperies, decorating your windows with the right color and material can make or break a room. In fact, even more minor details such as the shape, length, and style of draperies can have a significant impact. Ultimately, when decorating with drapes or curtains, you should consider these features in the bigger picture of the room. Are you looking to create a bright, breezy appearance that would be best served with a lighter, more colorful fabric? Or are you trying to create an elegant, traditional design that might best be served by heavy drapes with embroidered details? The function or purpose of the room should influence your drapery decorating decisions.
Obviously, the color and pattern of your draperies should never be underestimated. Most decorators will try to match some of the colours in fabrics of furniture or the carpet, or even the paint or wallpaper to the colors in the draperies. Often, we want at least one or two colours to bring a room together and your draperies are an integral component of the flow of your room. A room with dark furniture and carpets may best be served by darker colored curtains. Alternatively, flowery curtains and drapes can add a vibrant dimension to any room that will totally change the mood.. | http://decoratingknowledge.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hosta grow by the hour. Peony and ligularia conspire toward heaven with their burgundy-hued leaves – both ruffled disks and palmated clusters.
The maple trees lining our neighborhood streets unfurl their leaves seemingly overnight, transforming the city. Everywhere, inhabitants go, “Ahhhhhhhhh.” Evidence of nature’s resilience and capacity for growth is on display and provokes the idiotic but grateful query, “Does this happen every year?! Really?”
Joe Pye weed keeps up with the hosta, and little scilla clumps spring up and out of spiky leaves all over the south side of the house… goat’s weed and white nancy busily filling in everywhere else. It’s just the beginning.
I potted up my basil and tomatoes, and divided some perennials for my sister.
With Newton Open Studios less than a month away, I am in ‘full mess mode’. Sachets, purses, dolls are in progress all over the first floor, and after the initial freedom of taking over the family room, it suddenly feels like too much. I plan to start the week folding and tidying.
Too much to report on lately is the feeling.
I finished hand-quilting a Global Warming Quilt a couple of days ago and am calling it ‘Joplin’.
While stitching this large central spiral, my husband and I were watching Nova. The program showcased the science of tornadoes — their destructive power and unpredictability — while detailing the intensely active year of 2011. It was weird — remember? — to watch the morning news last summer and watch one awful scene of destruction after another. Joplin was one of the hardest hit towns.
This is pre-binding.
And, last but not least, here is first finished bag. It’s a very unstructured linen tote, with silk handles and lining.
love seeing all the things that sprout in springtime. i planted lambs ear this year. haven’t had that in a while and i love touching the leaves…so soft. just love your stitched piece.
I adore lamb’s ears, too… and for some reason they took a long time to get established in my walkway bed…
Love that bag–so pretty. Wouldn’t it be awful if “global warming” did all those gorgeous plants in….I am thinking of planting drought-resistant species here in SE CT–we are finally getting lashings of rain….Julierose
beautiful photos, great to see things growing!….our weather certainly is strange of late, we have drought declared in some areas here in the UK.
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Two Views of the Halting Problem
“Turing Machines and the Halting Problem” is the latest installment in my series on Turing machines in Decoded Science. It nears the finish line in Turing’s “race” to solve an important problem in mathematics, and explains why our computers sometimes “hang”.
The Halting Problem Came Before Actual Computers
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Even before computers had been invented, mathematicians wondered about proving that an algorithm, or set of rules, would actually come to a conclusion. Alan Turing developed the idea of the “Turing machine” to explore what could, or could not, be expected from following such rules.
My article gives the background and explains two ways in which the Turing machine addresses the Halting Problem.
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As you can see, I'm working my way through three big books, plus a Zola (which also takes time!), hence I've not been writing any real reviews (aside from To Kill a Mocking Bird and a description of Book I of The Faerie Queene).
Firstly, the Zola - The Conquest of Plassans. This is a book I'll be writing about in detail when I finish it, but for now - well, I like it. Of course I do, it's by Zola. But, so far, it's not quite Zola. A possible four star rating is a good rating, but all other Zolas have been given five. But, early days - I'm only about a third of the way through.
Next, The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880. A duty read for November Autumn's Turn of the Century Salon. Very early days - just finished the first chapter and I have nothing to say.
Thirdly, The Karamazov Brothers as this translation is called. Absolutely brilliant. It's intimidatingly immense, so writing about it is going to be very hard, but once finished, I will give it a go. I'm a little less than half way through.
Finally, The Faerie Queene - you know how that's going! I wish more people would read it, though. I think it would make a brilliant group-read: I really could not have written that last post without reading other people's thoughts.
But, my reading over the weekend hasn't been anything to write home about: in fact, owing to the Julie Burchill debacle, reading came almost to a standstill yesterday. I feel, given that I tweeted a great deal about it yesterday and today, I should perhaps say a few words on here.
I hate injustice. I hate the "freedom of speech" used to trample and threaten vulnerable groups. I hate trolls; I hate to see people say hurtful things simply to get attention. And I hate Julie Burchill. Her article has since been removed, but if you haven't read it yet you can read it here. In defending Suzanne Moore (who appears to be distancing herself from the whole mess) she justifies and normalises hatred, and refuses to acknowledge or at least see that throwing about words trans women are threatened with on a daily basis is another way of saying that it is ok to use these words. It is ok for people to do this. That feminists should hate trans women, and threatening them is fine. Writers like her, and readers (and writers) like us, know the power of print, and she exploited it to defend her friend, get some pages hits in the process, and get the cash in. And, now it's been taken down, we have a Telegraph journalist criticising The Observer for removing the piece on the grounds that it "muzzled" a journalist. He said it was a "black day" for journalists, but, as I said on Twitter, it is a black day when main news amounts to two journalists defending their pals. The whole thing was utterly sickening. Trans women were trampled on yet again. Freedom of speech does not actually mean we get to say whatever we like and to hell with the consequences. Know the danger that each individual trans person faces every day of their lives, and if you have some humanity you will not use these words, and you will not sit back and watch Burchill spew her hatred.
I don't believe I have ever blogged about politics on here, but this was something I couldn't let go by. She tramples vulnerable members of society as par for the course, whether it be saying that sex workers ought to be shot for betraying women (again, understand the violence sex workers face and you'll hate Burchill as much as I do, and whatever your views are on sex work, no woman deserves violence), or the latest threat "You really won’t like us when we’re angry" (which, incidentally, as I type this I see that Telegraph journalist has felt the need to reproduce on The Telegraph's blog). What is worse is that she's getting paid for this. Like I said to Deborah Orr (a Guardian writer) - hits = ads = cash. Yes, indeed it was a black day for journalism. Only good thing to come out of it was the backlash (Valeska Matziol was particularly good on covering this on Twitter, and there are many blog posts on the subject: Roz Kaveney would be a good place to start)..
This situation frustrates me so much. On one hand, you can't let stuff like this go unchallenged. On the other, you just know that this is what people like this are counting on: that decent people (who in their heads might be labelled under "PC Police" but still...) will be furious and drive traffic to them that way. I hope there will be long-term consequences for this person and the people that gave her a platform.
The problem seems to be a confusion about what freedom of speech is. It does not include a right to be published or freedom from contradiction. The Observer is a private organisation and has every right to remove anything from its site. It would only become a freedom of speech issue if it was obliged to do so by law. It wasn't. O has the right to delete a comment of mine which states that Zola liked to murmur threats to budgies. She is not denying my right to maintain this and there's nothing to stop me putting it up on my blog. So Burchill is entitled to believe and say what she wants, but the Observer is not obliged to publish them and people are allowed to disagree.
Fantastic reading list. I really need to read the Spenser, sometime. I've read portions of it for various classes (and for fun, I'll admit), but I've never read the entire thing, start to finish.
Thanks for sharing the information on that article, too. My two doctoral seminars this semester are on gender/sexuality, and of course I'm always upset by those who discrimnate or berate others on any level, but particularly when using such a large, loud, and funded resource.
I didn't know anything about the situation, but I will read it tonight (my workplace has blocked the URL, unfortunately, so I cannot read it until later tonight).
Thanks for being passionate about human and equal rights - if only everyone were so committed.
You're reading monster books, and I love it. You're also making me want to read more Zola.
I read the article by Burchill that you linked, and cringed in horror from the title to the last line. The fact that people as prejudiced and ignorant as that woman are published on papers and respected by many makes me want to weep for the world. | http://delaisse.blogspot.com/2013/01/julie-burchill-and-other-things.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sheanon Williams, right, signed with the Union toward the end of their inaugural 2010 season and has since come into his own to be a major contributor on the club’s backline. (Associated Press)
He’s gone from being an afterthought signing who nabbed minutes during a forgettable season to being a starting right back and a defensive cog for a playoff qualifier.
There’s no doubt that Sheanon Williams has kept his head on a swivel these last two seasons. And the Union gave Williams a contract extension Wednesday that ensures he’ll be doing the same for at least the next four.
The Union’s rising star on the backline, Williams received what Union manager Peter Nowak Wednesday dubbed “a long-term contract,” locking up one facet of the club’s strongest part of the pitch a few weeks shy of the season opener.
Per league and club policy, the Union did not disclose specifics regarding Williams’ new deal. But Williams told reporters on a conference call that his extension “runs through 2015, and it gives me some stability.”
The thought of Williams’ name sharing space in the same sentence with ‘long-term deal’ would have seemed foreign in August 2010, when he signed with the Union toward the end of their dismal inaugural season.
He came to the Union by way of their USL affiliate in Harrisburg, following a trial with Real Salt Lake. Williams started for the Union in his debut, Sept. 11, 2011, and has factored into Nowak’s rotation ever since. In 2011, when the Union made the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time in franchise history, Williams played in 32 of 34 matches and logged an average of 88 minutes per match.
“We’re always trying according to the salary cap … to improve a player’s contract,” Nowak said. “Sheanon has been great for us for a year and a half, a very good surprise.
“It’s all Sheanon’s work and nothing special with it. Our first meeting was simple. We said, ‘All we’re offering is opportunity. It’s not going to be great money or this or that.’ He was a smart kid who would try here or try there, and he had to figure out what was important to him. … and he took great advantage of that, grabbed it by the horn and ran with it.”
Added Williams: “Things are looking up. I just want to continue to get better and help this team accomplish its goals and help the team move forward.”
l l l Continued...
With less than three weeks separating the Union and their season opener at Portland, Nowak said he still is uncertain what his starting lineup will look like.
Of course, it doesn’t help that three expectant contributors – midfielder Amobi Okugo and forwards Jack McInerney and Freddy Adu – are in camp with the United States U-23 team and could get a later call-up for an Olympic qualifying tournament in late March.
“Because of the Olympic qualifiers, it’s a little unknown what (our lineup) is going to be,” Nowak said. .”
The Union open their 2012 season by visiting the Timbers March
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The Delaware County Daily Times (delcotimes.com), Serving Delaware County, PA
Opinion
Saturday, November 17, 2012
They had been marched into the visitors room of the county jail in their matching maroon prison garb and seated at separate tables along the back wall.
Jonye Bell, 16, and Jasmir Womack, 17, have been sharing a cell for 48 days. Rah-Maiiyah Henderson, also 16, has her own cell.
They are asked how they all like being in jail?
“I don’t like it at all,” replies Rah-Maiiyah. “They treat you like trash.”
Despite their ages they have been charged as adults for what has been called a random and vicious crime: The beating of a mentally challenged woman in Chester. If not for Jasmir’s videotaping the event the girls might never have been caught.
Police believe the video was put up on Facebook by Anye Dennis, who was also involved in the attack.
“It was real stupid,” Jonye said. “The one that posted it (Anye) hit (the victim) with a shoe. And the 19-year-old (Takia Edwards-Couch) hit her with a chair.”
Jonye used only her fists. Based on the video she has a pretty good right hand.
Early in the conversation, Rah-Maiiyah falls silent.
“I don’t want to talk no more,” she says. “It’s not going to better my situation.”
She lets Jonye tell the story. Jonye says the attack wasn’t random. And it was the victim who started it.
She says about a half hour before the assault the girls were down in the park playing basketball. She said the victim wanted Rah-Maiiyah to do something for her. Rah-Maiiyah told her to forget it.
“She spit in her (Rah-Maiiyah’s) face and threw coffee at the five of us,” Jonye says. “I was getting ready to attack her,” says Rah-Maiiyah, who’s talking again, “but they all grabbed me.”
The girls say the victim has a habit of asking people for cigarettes and money.
After the initial altercation, the girls went back to playing basketball. They hung out on the corner for a half hour, before spotting the woman sitting on the steps of her house.
Based on the video, the attack was planned a few minutes in advance.
Who threw the first punch, I ask.
“I did,” Jonye volunteers.
Why?
“She disrespected me.”
The video shows a frenzy of punches and slaps being thrown at the woman, who is pinned to a sofa. It goes on for a couple of minutes and ends abruptly. There is no way to tell how badly hurt the victim might be, only that it looks bad.
Rah-Maiiyah says another girl wasn’t with the group originally and joined in just because she happened to be passing by.
“This other girl, she’s a fighter,” said Rah-Maiiyah. “I only knew she was there when I see she was slamming the chair down on her.”
And while the woman was getting pummeled she kept yelling crazy things like, “It’s going DOWN! It’s BURNING DOWN! As soon as you all leave I’m BURNING IT DOWN!”
What did she mean? They don’t know.
When they were done and leaving, Jonye said, “She (the lady) kicked over her own coffee table and slammed the door behind us.”
Said Rah-Maiiyah, “She was saying she was going to f--- somebody’s mom up. But there was six of us so we didn’t know who she was talking to.”
The next day, they saw the woman on the street. It was like nothing ever happened.
“She asked me for 75 cents,” says Jonye. “I didn’t have 75 cents. So I gave her 65.”
It’s not like they didn’t know her.
“I actually cleaned for that lady,” says Rah-Maiiyah, “(Jonye) helped me once. I see her a lot. She always getting beat on all the time. She loves cigarettes, coffee and dollars. I used to get $2 from my mom every day and give it to her. I’m the only one who’s nice to her. ... We had a little friendship. We was cool.”
They thought the whole thing was over until the police showed up to arrest them. They say they didn’t know the video was on Facebook.
Jonye was at Chester High School when the police came for her and her 15-year-old sister a couple of days later. Rah-Maiiyah was on her way to pick up her 8-year-old brother at school when she was arrested.
“I was so clueless,” she says. “I was walking to get my little brother at school and a cop pulled up on me, threw me in the cop car and told me I’m going down for attempted murder.”
District Attorney Jack Whelan says he won’t be surprised if a judge decides to send the girls back to juvenile court. But he said his office will oppose it because of the “violent and vicious nature of the attack.”
The victim wasn’t seriously hurt, said Whelan, but she could have been. And the fact that the mob followed her into her home to beat her makes this crime especially heinous.
Their mothers visit them in jail.
Rah-Maiiyah says her mom wants to make sure she learns from her mistake.
“She says I hope you make better decisions.”
Jonye’s mom tells her “you got to learn to walk away from stuff and think before I do something.”
And their dads?
“My father was incarcerated three months before I was born,” says Rah-Maiiyah.
“My father has been in and out of jail all my life,” says Jonye. “He’s never really been in my life.”
I ask them if they’re getting used to being locked up.
“NO!” whines Jonye.
“I want to go home,” says Rah-Maiiyah. “I pray every night to go home. My mom is pregnant with twins. I got an 8-year-old brother. She needs help.”
They say they only get an hour out of their cells a day and spend their days doing homework, writing letters and reading. The other girls involved made bail.
The girls think an injustice has been done to them.
“I think it was unfair that we were charged as adults,” says Rah-Maiiyah.
“The fact that we did what we did we should be in Lima (juvenile detention) or something,” says Jonye.
After all, she points out...
“We just kids.”
Gil Spencer’s column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Check out his spencerblog every day at delcotimes.com. | http://delcotimes.com/articles/2012/11/17/opinion/doc50a85ffe0abb1630565016.prt | 2013-05-18T10:52:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Library organizes group for movie buffs
Book discussion groups have long been a staple of the Delaware County District Library, with multiple discussion scheduled each month at library locations. The staff at the Orange Branch Library, 7171 Gooding Blvd. is making a leap in another direction — a community film discussion!
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Interview With Royals Prospect Darian Sandford
This is an interview with Darian Sandford, a prospect in the Kansas City Royals organization. Last year, Darian played outstanding in his first season in pro ball. He is also a really good guy, someone who gives back and cares about his fans. He did a great job with this interview, so I hope you like the interview with my buddy, Darian Sandford.
Me: Talk to me about what it was like starting off your pro career with a very, very well.
Darian: Starting my career off pretty well makes me feel more confident but i am still disapponted in how i played overall because i have a lot to improve in to get to where i really want to be.
Me: What was it like to get drafted by your home town team and were you hoping the Royals would draft you all along? Also, did you expect to get taken in the 47th round? or higher?
Darian: It feels good to get drafted by the team in my state even though i grew up in st.louis and watched the cardinals i still supported the royals because they are not that far away. I was very excited the royals drafted but still kinda of upset i went so late but that just motivates me because i have always been the underdog being a small guy and coming from a small school.
Me: Talk to me about some of the people who have helped you be where you’re at right now.
Darian: I have had plenty of people help me out my parents have helped me the most because they supported me when i didnt have a job in the summers like my friends did in order to support my dream and also my college coaches who helped spread the word about my talents
Me: You were once telling me how watching video of yourself motivates you and improves your game. Have you seen any video of yourself from Surprise this past year?
Darian: I havent seen any game footage of myself yet but during instructs the hitting coaches vieo taped my swing and that helped me alot with studying to better my swing.
Me: Who are some of your favorite teamates at Park Ritter and are any of them currently in pro ball as well?
Darian: Some of my favorite teammates at Park were my teammates Mike and Gabe they arent currently in pro ball because they are still in college but they helped me when i wanted extra work those are my boys.
Me: In my opinion, your speed is the key to your success. What do you do that makes you such an awesome baserunner?
Darian: Besides being blessed by God with pretty good speed i try to learn pitchers tendencies and Rusty helped me alot in instructs because before i started learning pitchers and what are good counts to run on i jus took off the first pitch and let my speed get the bags but now putting my mind with my speed i think i can one day be the greatest baserunner in history. I want to be the most exciting and agressive baserunner in baseball for the fans to enjoy and look forward to coming to a ball game and watching me get on base
Me: You just got a really good job working with kids in KC, is the player-fan relationship something that means a lot to you and something that you will always have at a higher or the highest level?
Darian: I love kids and i believe that players should interact more with fans and the higher i go im going to try to be more out going with fans and go out in public and meet as many fans as possible because fans are your support and without the fans the game wouldnt be as awesome as it is today
Me: What do you think about Yordano Ventura?
Darian: Ventura will be a big leaguer soon to have the arm he has once he developes his other pitches he will be awesome im just glad he is on my team .
Me: What are your expectations for next season?
Darian: My expectations for next year are pretty simple if im in full season ball i want to hit over 300 have at least 100 bags and help win a championship
Darian: All my fans are my favorite fans including you Dave LOl | http://denardspanfan.mlblogs.com/2010/12/03/interview-with-royals-prospect-darian-sandford/ | 2013-05-18T10:20:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I, Sacagawea was sold to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-American fur trader. Charbonneau and Sacagawea were soon married, and a short time later, Sacagawea became pregnant.
Charbonneau was hired by the US Corps of Discovery around 1804, and was required to bring Sacagawea with him for two reasons. If she came, she would help the party make peace with the people they met on the expedition. They also needed her to be their Native American interpreter and guide because she knew both the languages of the tribes they might meet and she had lived in an area they would be exploring.
Sacagawea helped the crew and made important contributions. At one point, she even saved Lewis and Clark’s journals, which would have sank if she had not rescued them. These journals are a national treasure, and without the help of Sacagawea, we would know much less about the expedition.
During the expedition, they actually returned to Sacagawea’s homeland. When she returned to her tribe, she found her brother who was now the chief of the tribe. After much celebrating, the tribe wanted her to stay. However, Sacagawea chose to continue on the expedition, even though it was dangerous and she would leave her brother behind. Sacagawea’s choice is an important part of the story that made her famous.
People still greatly respect Sacagawea today. She is one of the most famous women in history and memorials to her can be found in many places. She has more statues of herself than any other woman in the United States. She is even on a coin. Originally, the one-dollar golden coin was going to have Susan B. Anthony on it, but the design of the coin was changed to Sacagawea carrying Pomp (her son), on her back.
Lewis and Clark thought very highly of Sacagawea. Clark wrote many journal entries about her, praising her for all the good work she did. Lewis and Clark named a river after Sacagawea, known as Bird Woman’s River, and an incredible sand feature after Pomp, known as Pompey’s Tower. Clark wrote a letter to Charbonneau; praising Sacagawea for all that she did. Charbonneau was paid $500.33 for his services on the expedition, but Sacagawea was paid nothing. Even though Sacagawea was unpaid, she was rewarded with lasting fame and has made an amazing impact on our American history today.
There is a mystery about Sacagawea’s death. One theory says that she died of “putrid fever” on December 20, 1812. Another theory points to a Native American woman named Porvo. If Porvo was Sacagawea, then she was married several times, had more children, and was reunited with her son, Jean Baptiste. Those who knew Porvo said that she knew the inside facts on the expedition, spoke French, and talked about sun stories known to the Shoshone. Porvo died on April 9, 1884. Scholars today believe that Porvo was most likely Sacagawea).
Sacagawea was very important to both the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition and to our history. Sacagawea was captured and sold as a child, and then sold again to Charbonneau to be his wife. She became an important member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, saved the expedition journals, was reunited with some of her family, and was greatly praised by William Clark. Sacagawea had an incredible life, resulting in becoming very famous. She is a Native American hero, and should always be greatly respected. Nearing the end of the expedition, Sacagawea realized that both America and her native land would soon change. All the places they had explored would be open to the people who would follow Lewis and Clark west. As Sacagawea would say, “This was the end of my journey; this was the beginning of a Great Change.”
- Grace Kennedy
[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog ()] | http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2005/04/guest-author-sacagawea-native-american-explorer-and-heroine/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A few women are tough, the exceptions don’t prove the rule. I think we can glleraeny say that for something to be feminine, or to become more feminine means it is gentler, softer and perhaps kinder. Good traits in a mom, not neccessarily good traits in a country, escpecially one with enemies.When dealing with a problem like wikilieaks, we might start out when a femine approach; the problem is that’s all we ever do. When mommy tries deal with little Julian, and it doesn’t work, he needs to be taken out to the woodshed with Dad. That never happens anymore.
I don’t often see politicians on the right using uusunal. | http://denver.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2011/08/07/step-up-for-cancer/photo-95012/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Colorado Rockies are now on a two-game losing streak following Sunday's 5-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. After starting off the second half of the season with a solid victory against Cliff Lee on Friday night, the Rockies have stumbled over the last couple of days.
The Phillies took a 5-0 lead at the end of the fifth inning. Carlos Ruiz singled in a run during the top of the first inning while Placido Polanco hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning. Then in the fifth inning, Drew Pomeranz ran into his biggest trouble when he allowed a three-run home run to Hunter Pence. That was all of that for Pomeranz, leaving after five innings, allowing five runs and striking out five. He is now 1-4 with a 3.79 ERA.
The Rockies got one run on an RBI triple in the sixth inning. Cole Hamels (11-4, 3.07 ERA) went eight innings and gave up six hits while striking out seven.
The Rockies (34-54, 19-27 home) welcome the Pittsburgh Pirates to Coors Field on Monday.
For updates, stay tuned to SB Nation Denver. For more in-depth coverage, visit Rockies blog Purple Row. For more baseball! | http://denver.sbnation.com/colorado-rockies/2012/7/15/3161266/rockies-vs-phillies-final-score-2012-cole-hamels | 2013-05-18T10:24:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Denver Christian Schools enjoys joint accreditation through two key accrediting bodies.
AdvancEd is the world’s largest education community, serving more than 27,000 public and private schools and districts across the United States and around the world. Its comprehensive accreditation process focuses on research-based standards, requires both internal evaluation and external review, and emphasizes continual improvement.
Christian Schools International has more than eight decades’ experience strengthening and supporting Christian education in North America and around the world. Its accreditation process focuses on evaluating how well a school is fulfilling its mission, on enhancing and improving the education that the school provides God’s children, and on ensuring donors that the school is offering a quality educational program.
Denver Christian Schools has been a member of AdvancEd (formerly North Central Association of Schools and Colleges) since 1979. It has been a member of Christian Schools International since 1923. | http://denverchristian.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=2498058&pageId=2534743 | 2013-05-18T10:52:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Just a typical misty grey Saturday morning in Seattle, what should an MBA do? Catch up on finance reading? Nah…instead I dug through the box in my basement and found what I was looking for. My swim trunks! Its time to go for a swim!
For the past three years, Foster MBAs and Challenge for Charity (C4C) have teamed with the Special Olympics of King County to participate in the Seattle Polar Plunge. This is a citywide event that raises over $100,000 annually with 100s of participants braving the waters. An exhilarating 45 seconds where those who aren’t faint of heat take an icy dip in South Lake Union to raise money and awareness for the Special Olympics. Is it cold? Depends on your definition of cold. At 46.4 degrees, the water was actually warmer than being outside! Its all relative I guess.
The Polar Plunge has become a tradition at Foster and is one of many opportunities that MBA students show their support for local community organizations. In this event alone, we have raised over $15,000 in three years. The Foster C4C team had over 40 volunteers and 15 plungers participate in this year’s event. We helped out by volunteering with setup, check-in, passing out flyers and cleanup. Although this may seem like work, we always find a way to have a good time. With crazy costumes (one individual went swimming in a three piece suit complete with a bow tie) and goofy hats, and even someone dressed as a Polar Bear dancing in the crowd to “Gangnam Style,” Foster students and C4C are proving that we are leaders in Seattle.
CANNNOOOONN BAAAALLL!
~Guest Blogger Jay Winzler, Full-time Class of 2013; President, Challenge 4 Charity | http://depts.washington.edu/mbablog/freezin-for-a-reason-2/ | 2013-05-18T10:57:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
American Reformed Christians have weathered a number of challenges in recent years, from Federal Vision to Ancient Near Eastern literature. Underneath the responses to those difficulties simmers a deeper question about how Reformed someone needs to be in order to be Reformed. Some refuse cooperation (at least ecclesiastically) with non-Reformed, others are willing to work around ecclesial restrictions to find common ground with evangelicals and other conservative Protestants (except Lutherans, of course).
My sense is that these dispositions among conservative Reformed Christians go to a deeper tension, one that John Frame seems to notice in his recent book on Christian ethics. He observes that Reformed Christianity has developed a reputation as a smoker’s movement. “Some understand a discussion among Reformed theologians,” he writes, “to be incomplete without cigars, pipes and cigarettes.” Frame cautions against this kind of Reformed identity with the heavy hand of mortality. “Some of the men I’ve know who have been most insistent on their freedom to smoke have died of emphysema and lung cancer.”
What Frame has failed to notice is that within another sector Reformed Christianity has become synonymous with classic rock ‘n roll of the 1970s. In those circles the discussion of Reformed theology seems to be incomplete without references to The Who or The Boss. And where the Reformed smokers tend to be unwilling to cooperate with non-Reformed, Reformed rockers have shown greater willingness to work with evangelicals. Could it be that a person’s attachment to certain forms of leisure activity affects his understanding of the Reformed faith?
The answer is unclear, but to paraphrase Garrison Keillor on non-smokers living longer but living dumber, Reformed smokers may not live as long as Reformed rockers, but at least smokers can hear.
DG,
Don’t you mean the Reformed “soft” rockers?
After all “Shine, Jesus Shine” has more in common with “Lost in Love” than it does with Who’s Next? or the Badlands. I think the Reformed Rockers would sit down for a smoke with you, wouldn’t they? They might not be able to hear you well and it’s an open question as to what they might be smoking, but they would smoke wouldn’t they?
What puzzles me about the soft-rock, worship chorus singing lot, is that they are so latitudinarian about the 2nd commandment and so legalistic where there is no commandment.
[...] 30, 2008 in Uncategorized DG takes the occasion of a comment by John Frame about smoking to lauch a salvo against “Reformed [...]
As a 20-year-newbie to Christianity, an even newer newbie to American evangelicalism and an even newer newbie to American Reformed and Presbyterian religion, I always feel remiss to pass up commenting on what a chuckle I get from this back and forth on substance use. If one isn’t busy showing his piety by his cleanliness another is doing so by his liberty. I tend to prefer the approach I experienced last week at a family reunion with Birmingham WASPs and Wixom Catholics where all sorts of liquids were flowing–even, gasp, O’Douls and Diet Coke. The music was so-so.
When it comes to “forms of leisure,” sorry, give me the WASPs and Catholics; when it comes to getting from this world to the next still give me a Presbyterian, but most preferrably the one smoking.
Scott, you know the guys who blog at the site representing some of the most conservative thinkers in the PCA. At least Frame had the sense not to promote the Rolling Stones. | http://deregnochristi.org/2008/08/30/shall-the-reformed-rockers-win/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Solarized
The standard syntax highlighting in gvim is fine for short stints, but it can grow tough on the eyes after awhile. At just the right moment last night (after a long day that brought eyestrain to a peak), Douglas Putnam’s most excellent blog pointed me to Solarized, Ethan Schoonover’s well-designed color scheme alternative. I browsed the screen shots and then wasted no time adding it to gvim, like so:
git clone
Copy files to my Vim folder
Edit _vimrc to add the following:
syntax enable
set background=light
colorscheme solarize
The Linux setup is similar; just copy to .vim and edit .vimrc.
I used the menu to switch between light and dark backgrounds whenever I needed an eye-relaxing change of pace, and for some languages. I like it so much that I’ll probably add it to my terminals soon.
If life in gvim Technicolor is wearing you out, I suggest giving the Solarized color scheme a try. | http://derekwilliams.us/?m=201105 | 2013-05-18T10:21:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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- Fill the bowl with water. Using the tweezers, carefully pick up the needle and place it on top of the water. You may have to try it several times before you succeed. You will know you have done it correctly when the needle "floats" on top of the water.
- Observe the needle carefully. How would you describe the way the needle sits on the water? Write down your observations in your folder. When it is time, share your thoughts with other students in your group. | http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/wmb/ile/experiment.htm | 2013-05-18T10:31:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This month, Destination Design travels to the world’s first ever wholly submerged getaway, the Poseidon Undersea Resort, which_1<<
There will be an on-island complex with 51 additional luxury units, including 24 beachside bungalows with a private splash pool and courtyard, another 26 over-water bungalows on the lagoon, and finally, a land based Presidential suite. A reception building, five restaurants and six bars, two swimming pools, tennis courts, dive shop, luxury spa, fitness center, 9-hole golf course and other support buildings are also shore based. Finally, guests will have the opportunity to pilot one of four 1000-foot capable, 3-passenger personal submarines in the resort’s 5,000 acre lagoon.
The company has completed all of the necessary design and engineering for the subsea structures and is currently working to secure the capital necessary to begin construction. The resort will be completed approximately two years following commencement of construction.
What: Poseidon Undersea Resort
Where: Katafinga Island, Fiji
How much? $30,000/couple for a week
Highlights: You can pilot a submarine through the depths of the lagoon.
Design draw: Um, it’s under water. All of it! 40-feet under, to be exact.
Book it: Sign up online and they’ll notify you when they start taking reservations.
Christine (Food Wine Travel) on 12.12.2012 at 00:22 AM
A little bit out of my league price-wise but I’d love to be one of the first to experience it! What an amazing resort. | http://design-milk.com/destination-design-poseidon-undersea-resort/ | 2013-05-18T10:43:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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So I mentioned last week that we put an offer in on a house. Unfortunately, we had the inspection yesterday and things did not quite go as I’d hoped.
It started off okay, with me taking diligent notes. Retaining wall is starting to shift, there is a crack approximately one foot from the stairs on the right side while facing the house. Slight gap between the stairs and the interior part of the retaining wall, and original retaining wall stones can be seen on the far left edge. Will need to be watched, but not necessarily replaced, esp. not right away. Suggests fence at top to prevent falls.
Alright, we’ve got this. Little changes. I was practically smirking when I informed him that yes, of course we’d budgeted for new stairs off the back sunroom and a new railing for the walkout basement stairs. And obviously we’d cut all that vegetation in the back yard down. We’re responsible, conscientious buyers, duh.
Then we moved inside.
Banister on stairs is nice, but not installed properly- fingers catch near the top. Small closet door outside master bath broken. Seals broken on windows, will need to be replaced pretty quickly. Approx. $300-$400 per window. Tiles under carpet could be asbestos. Framing around windows has been replaced – be careful of leaks. Sink in master bathroom drains slowly. Toilet is loose. Bathtub has copper pipes (yay!) but makes funny gurgling sound while draining. All electrical sockets are two-pronged and painted – will need to be replaced.
Hmm. Okay then. Did we account for new windows? That could get pricey. Someone at work offered me the number of her electrician – and that’s a good investment anyway, don’t want any fires! We’ve got this.
By the time we got down to the living room, my notes were getting shorter. Floor dips near basement. Water damage to ceiling. Termite damage to floor. Little spots = roach droppings.
Somewhere around page 4 of my notes, and 3 hours into the inspection, we moved down to the basement. The callous I get from holding my pen wrong was hard and pointy and aching and I was trying to do rough calculations in my head while the inspector was adding things like “more termites!” and “dead mice!” and “pervasive mold!” to my list.
Finally, the inspector turned to me and asked “Do you have any questions?”
Fortunately he was a fellow gun-toting Jew, so my “Am I fucking stupid for considering this?” didn’t seem to shock him.
I sat down with the mold inspector (who recited the names of several different species taking up residence in that basement) and we went over the costs of gutting and treating the basement. Minimum $20,000 - $25,000, and that’s without putting the walls or ceiling back up afterward. And assuming the moisture isn’t coming in through the foundation, because then the whole house would have to be waterproofed and we might need to install a sump pump.
By the time the lead inspector started listing the locations of all the lead paint in and outside the house, my eyes were fully glazed over.
The Redfin agent present for the inspection was on the phone with our regular agent when I came back upstairs. He glanced over at me, and then said “Well, to be honest… she looks a little… distraught.” Very astute, for the guy who never once offered me the only chair in the house, even though I spent 15 minutes glaring daggers at him.
I got on the phone with our agent and told him we’d likely be backing out of the deal, but I wanted to talk to Charming first. If you’ll recall, Charming is still fishing, so I called the agent back an hour later and told him to just scrap the deal. There was no way. Not for the agreed upon price, and probably not even if the seller came down $50,000, which she’d need to do. I wanted a house with projects, not a whole several-month-long project house.
So my Pinterest board is once-again in a state of waiting, and we’re back on the prowl for the perfect house. This time, hopefully with less rabbit stench and mold.
At least I have more time now, since my Masters' degree is done! :D
I'm so sorry. That is rough. But it does sound like a TON of work and money to make it right. The mold issue alone ould be my major concern. I'm sure you'll find something else much better. Plus, you can wait for Charming to return to help. Nobody should have to go though all alone.
But good news is your done your classes. Yay you!!!.
Yeah, I was disappointed at first, but now I'm just glad we were able to get out of it. And it was a fabulous learning experience - I can spot mold growth from a mile away now.
And thanks!
Ouch. As I was reading this I was thinking, "Yep, sounds just like me on our inspection day." However, our house had only a few of the minor defects that you mentioned. Not even close to that crazy amount of repairs. Suddenly I feel quite lucky to have landed the house we did.
You have my sympathies going forward with your house hunt. May you have better luck from now on.
Also, congratulations on your Masters!
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* the wedding garland
The Wedding Garland is a very precious book of love poems compiled by Louise Dunham Goldsberry. The book was passed down from my great grandmother Edith. This particular edition was published by Jenings and Graham and printed in Germany (copyright 1896). Isn't it amazing this book still exists!? Kept by my ancestors for over 100 years!
This beautifully illustrated book is made up of poems describing the journey of love and marriage. A few of the poets include: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jaques Jasmin, and Jean Ingelow. The pages are heavy weight paper decorated with angelic illustrations and vintage scrolls, finished with gold edges and bound togther with leather and cloth. It's such a beautiful gift for a bride to be! I wonder who gave this to Edith and Wentworth...
A page documenting the details of Edith and Wentworth's wedding day completes this family treasure! I am so thankful this book has been preserved all these years. It's really inspiring...What potential family treasures are hiding in your storage closet?
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Radiation Oncologist Joins Illinois CyberKnife Physician Team
PARK RIDGE, Ill. – Park Ridge-based Illinois CyberKnife has added Dr. Majid Mohiuddin to its staff of physicians certified to treat patients with CyberKnife, a noninvasive full-body cancer treatment system.
A board-certified radiation oncologist, Mohiuddin is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Radiology and has expertise in treatment of lung and prostate cancers. He holds a medical degree from Brown University Medical School and completed his radiation oncology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
“Dr. Mohiuddin will be a valued addition to our staff,” says Dr. Arica Hirsch, medical director of Illinois CyberKnife. “His extensive experience treating tumors throughout the body adds to our clinical team’s specialized expertise.”
CyberKnife treats malignant and benign tumors and other medical conditions with high-dose radiation beams precisely aimed from different angles. The robotic technology moves around patients delivering targeted radiation and minimizing damage to healthy tissue. CyberKnife reduces treatment time, and most patients go home right after each procedure and resume normal activities.
Illinois CyberKnife is a department of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, a member of the Advocate Health Care System. Housed within Lutheran General’s Center for Advanced Care, Illinois CyberKnife is located at 1700 Luther Lane, Suite 1110, Park Ridge, Ill. 60068. For more information, call (847) 723-0100 or visit. | http://desplaines.patch.com/announcements/radiation-oncologist-joins-illinois-cyberknife-physician-team | 2013-05-18T10:42:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Thanksgiving Take-Out Options:Ann Arbor, Cranbrook, Rochester Hills, Troy and West Bloomfield -- Whole Food Markets offer an extensive menu of catered-dinner packages, including turkey and the trimmings. Traditional Family Dinners start at $89.99 for four people.
Clinton Township -- J. Baldwin's Restaurant offers Thanksgiving cooking classes, as well as a traditional turkey feast to go for eight-to-ten people. $199.
Frankenmuth -- Zehnder's Restaurant offers a Thanksgiving dinner to go that includes a 20 lb. turkey or ham and traditional Zehnder's trimmings. It serves eight-to-ten people. $159. (Order by 11/19)
Throughout the Metro-Detroit Area -- Boston Market offers heat-and-serve Thanksgiving packages from $9.29 per person. Package choices include whole turkey, chicken, ham or beef brisket, as well as various side options and dessert.
Throughout the Metro-Detroit Area – Cracker Barrel offers slow-cooked hams for the holidays.
Throughout the Metro-Detroit Area -- Honeybaked Ham Company offers Roast Turkey with Gravy or ham for Thanksgiving Dinner starting at $22.99. You can order online and then pick up your heat-and-serve dinner on Wednesday, November 21st from 10 AM to 6 PM. Note: No accompaniments. | http://detroit.about.com/od/fooddining/a/thanksgivingtog.htm | 2013-05-18T11:02:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Lipuma's Coney Island
Neighborhood: Downtown Rochester
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621 N. Main
Rochester, MI 48307
Rochester, MI 48307
248-652-9862
- Hours: 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun.
- Cuisine: Hot Dogs and American
- Meals Served: Dessert, Dinner, and Lunch
- Price Range: $ (Under $9)
- Reservations: Not Required
- Alcohol: Not Permitted
- Restaurant Style: Diner
Lipuma's Coney Island in Rochester, MI. (Credit: David Kilkenney/Special to Metromix)
While Lipuma's Coney Island serves up some great coneys, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that its friendly service is what has made it a staple of downtown Rochester for the past few decades. Owner Tony Lipuma can often be seen chatting with customers, both regulars and first-timers. It's not uncommon to see out-the-door lines during the summer months at Lipuma's. "There are restaurants, and then there are joints. This is a joint," Lipuma says with a smile. --Paul Gully
- Dress Code
- Anything Goes
- Smoking
- Yes
- Carryout
- Yes
- Atmosphere and Personality
- Cozy and Laid Back Casual
- Noise Level
- Bustling
- Features
- Takeout/Carryout
- Specialties
- Coneys
- Outdoor Seating
- Yes
- Cross Streets
- Main St. and University
- Parking
- Available and Free Lot
- Wheelchair Access
- Yes | http://detroit.metromix.com/restaurants/hot_dogs/lipumas-coney-island-downtown-rochester/333077/content | 2013-05-18T10:20:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Jackson, Rays too much for Bucs
Righty pitches seven innings; offense pounds out 17 hits
RAYS 13, PIRATES 4
at St. Petersburg
Monday, March 24
Rays at the plate: Akinori Iwamura had a leadoff single and scored on B.J. Upton's left-field single. In the second, Eric Hinske homered over the center-field fence to tie the game at 2. Carlos Pena had his second homer in two days, driving in Iwamura and Carl Crawford in the bottom of the fifth to put the Rays up, 5-2. Jason Bartlett was 2-for-3 with an RBI, and Iwamura was 2-for-3 with three runs scored. Crawford tripled to tack on two more runs in the sixth. Reid Brignac had a two-run homer over the right-field fence in the seventh.
Pirates at the plate: The Pirates got on Rays starter Edwin Jackson early, scoring two runs in the first inning. Jack Wilson had an RBI triple and scored the inning's second run. Doug Mientkiewicz was 1-for-2 with a walk and was hit by a pitch. Nyjer Morgan was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored. The Bucs offense stalled after the opening inning, with scattered singles from Ryan Doumit, Xavier Nady and Luis Rivas, before a two-run eighth. Chris Gomez's left-field single scored both runs in that frame.
Rays on the mound: Coming off his best outing this spring, Jackson got his first start since being named to the Rays' starting rotation. The right-hander will pitch one of the first two games in New York against the Yankees. Jackson held Pittsburgh to two runs on seven hits, with two walks and two strikeouts in a seven-inning outing. Right-hander Scott Dohmann, who is competing with Grant Balfour for the final spot in the bullpen, gave up three hits and two runs in the eighth.
Pirates on the mound: Right-hander Matt Morris, who was recently named the Bucs' No. 4 starter, got the ball first for Pittsburgh. Morris couldn't contain the Rays, and was charged with 10 hits and eight runs in 5 2/3 innings. John Grabow retired the final batter in the sixth inning. Right-hander Franquelis Osoria gave up five hits and five runs in two-thirds of an inning.
Grapefruit League records: Pirates 9-16; Rays 16-5-2Up next for the Pirates: Right-hander Ian Snell will make his final tuneup before he takes the mound next Monday for the Pirates' season opener in Atlanta. Snell and the Pirates will host the Twins at 1:05 p.m. ET at McKechnie Field on Tuesday in what will be the first of three matchups between the two clubs in this final week of Spring Training. Minnesota is slated to start right-hander Kevin Slowey.
Up next for the Rays: Jason Hammel will open up the first of three straight road games for the Rays, as the club travels to Knology Park in Dunedin, Fla., for a 1:05 ET game against the Blue Jays. Right-hander Roy Halladay will start for Toronto in the final Spring Training game between the two clubs.
Brittany Ghiroli is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080324&content_id=2454638&vkey=spt2008gamer&fext=.jsp | 2013-05-18T10:23:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Next Mark-UPS Meeting is Wednesday, February 16th
Mark-UPS, MarkLogic User Participation Sessions, is run by Telly Stroumbis (telly.stroumbis@boeing.com) of Boeing.
Pizza and soda will be provided. Get to know others in the area and follow-up on the great Mark Logic user community experience.
Topic: Mark Logic Toolkits for Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is ubiquitous and can be easily integrated with MarkLogic Server, providing ways for authors and analysts to maximize information assembly, reuse, and auditing. Join us as we discuss the MarkLogic Connector for SharePoint and Toolkits for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, demonstrating how they can provide a seamless way to integrate with MarkLogic Server. We’ll examine the toolkit components and sample applications that provide information application developers a jump-start with Office development. Come see how you too can rapidly take advantage of Office content as well as other unstructured information within your own organization using the productivity tools that many are already familiar with and comfortable using.
Speaker Bio
Pete Aven is a Senior Engineer at MarkLogic Corporation responsible for the Toolkits and Connectors. Throughout his career he has helped customers query, identify, use, transform, and move information by integrating multiple and varied systems and applications. He is currently focused on integrations with MarkLogic Server, Microsoft Office, and the Open XML formats.
Please RSVP to telly.stroumbis@boeing.com and/or at the meetup page so that we can pre-print badges and know how much food to order
Note: advanced notice is required for non-U.S. Citizens
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Effective Tips To Improve Your Typing Speed
Are You a Blogger or want to be a professional typist? If yes, you must be perfect in typing to save your time. If you are already perfect then you can leave this page but if you are tired of your slow typing speed then this post might be proved a powerful tonic to increase your typing speed.
What should be the average Typing Speed for Professionals
Well if you are a blogger and you are typing 30 words per minute then it is fine. But if you want to be a typist then your typing speed must be more than 50 words per minute.
How to Increase Typing Speed
First Suggestion: Position of Your Hands
It may be considered the first must step to be a successful typist. Keep your left hand fingers on keyboard A S D and F buttons and right hand fingers on J K L and ; buttons as shown in figure. Besides keep your palm non touching to keyboard.
Second Suggestion: Don’t see on keyboard
It is easy to type with watching on keyboard but You can never be a professional typist if you type seeing keyboard buttons. Always see on computer screen.
Third Suggestion: Use a Typing tutor tool
Now typing tutor software have made typing very easy. These software are amazing and work like a human typing tutor. These software are programmed with step by step typing lessons. They show keyboard keys on PC screen and you have to type. These softwares record your typing speed and typing errors and when you press a wrong key, these software tell you about wrong typo.
Suggested Typing software
Fourth Suggestion: Typing practice requires as much patience as required in blogging
Don’t get tired of and never leave practice because typing requires more and more time and it may test your patience so continue your practice without being irritate and give at least two hours daily. It is surely said that everyday you will see improvement. Keep in mind that more is the practice and more is the improvement.
If someone follows all these steps then he/she can be a perfect and professional typist within a few months. | http://devilmustcry.com/blog/effective-tips-to-improve-your-typing-speed.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari has been accused of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. (credit: Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office)
AMARILLO (AP) – The Saudi man accused of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction said he would get “maximum satisfaction” and be “smiling” after carrying out a terror attack against Americans, according to a recording played in court Tuesday.
Prosecutors capped three days of testimony with the recording of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 22-year-old former Texas Tech student who faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Aldawsari’s defense attorneys presented no evidence or witnesses before resting their case. They contend their client never took the “substantial step” necessary for the court to find him guilty and that he never made a bomb.
Aldawsari is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors have also accused him of having a list of potential targets, including former President George W. Bush’s home in Dallas. Closing arguments are set for 9 a.m. Wednesday in federal court in Amarillo.
The recording came during testimony by the last witness, Capt. David Parker, who is a computer forensics expert, a detective with the university’s police department and a member of a joint terrorism task force.
Federal agents had placed microphones in Aldawsari’s apartment, and say they captured him speaking out loud the night before his Feb. 23, 2011, arrest. Authorities said that Aldawsari was alone when he was recorded.
In the recording, Aldawsari is speaking as if he’s someone else commenting on a terror attack carried out by himself. Aldawsari, still pretending to be someone else, says the perpetrator of the terror attack would be “smiling” and getting “maximum satisfaction” from having carried one out.
Americans deserved the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and must die “because you people deserve it” for causing the deaths of others, Aldawsari says in the recording.
“This is the ideology he follows,” Aldawsari says on the recording, speaking about himself.
Parker also testified that Aldawsari had done Internet searches for former President George W. Bush’s “farm”; locations where Bush would be signing copies of his book, “Decision Points”; and Bush’s home, including an aerial photo of the North Dallas residence.
Parker said Aldawasari also searched for details on the October 2010 Texas vs. Oklahoma football game and allegedly wrote in his journal that “to buy a ticket that is higher than the excellent seats” because the police wouldn’t bother him.”
On a scrap of paper found amid Aldawsari’s belongings days after his arrest, Parker said, was written that “to blow up a stadium explosive can be placed in popcorn.”
During an FBI agent’s testimony earlier phenol.
“Following these steps, you would get picric acid,” said Robert Mothershead, an FBI forensic examiner, in describing the video.
Authorities also shared some of Aldawsari’s alleged writings. They said he kept the recipe for picric acid in several emails and journal entries. In one entry, Aldawsari said he was close to obtaining phenol and had gotten other necessary items, “so I may use them in missions to please God.”.
Authorities say they were tipped to Aldawsari’s online purchases by chemical company Carolina Biological Supply of Burlington, N.C., and shipping company Con-way Freight on Feb. 1, 2011. The chemical company reported a suspicious $435 purchase to the FBI, and the shipping company notified Lubbock police and the FBI because it appeared the order wasn’t intended for commercial use.
Court documents say Aldawsari wrote in Arabic in his journal that he had been planning a terror attack in the U.S. even before he came to the country on a scholarship, and that it was “time for jihad,” or holy war. | http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/06/26/both-sides-rest-at-texas-bomb-plot-trial/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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It isn’t just fossil fuels that are a finite resource–rubber is another substance in high demand, and short supply.
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It isn’t the first time a company has looked into dandelions as a source of rubber, nor other natural sources–orange peel has previously been suggested. But as the need becomes more pressing, it’s gone back on the agenda..
Tire company Apollo Vredestein is collaborating on the project, and says prototype tires have already been produced..
That could prove invaluable for another green issue–biofuels–as world population grows and the food versus fuel debate intensifies.
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Through The Lens: Dust And Distance
When I heard about an artist who was going to use over 1,800 pounds of plaster to create her art, I thought that sounded interesting.
UNT Coach McCarney Out Of Hospital After Stroke
McCarney felt his left side go numb Feb. 12 and was taken to an area hospital. Doctors later confirmed he had a stroke.
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UNT’s McCarney Confirms Stroke, Expects Recovery
McCarney continues to undergo tests, but says he’s told he won’t have any permanent damage and should be out of the hospital in a few days. He calls himself a “pretty lucky guy.”
UNT Football Coach Dan McCarney Hospitalized
Coach Dan McCarney, who was hired last year to turn around the fortunes of the UNT Mean Green, has been hospitalized.
North Texas Student Competing On “Jeopardy!”
The top-rated game show “Jeopardy!” is in the middle of its annual College Championships, and one contender happens to be from North Texas.
2 UNT Freshman Guards Ruled Academically Ineligible
North Texas freshmen guards Chris Jones and Jordan Williams have been ruled academically ineligible and will miss the rest of the season.
LSU Slides Past UNT With 67-58 Win
Storm Warren scored a season-high 15 points and had consecutive jumpers that punctuated the go-ahead run for LSU in its sixth consecutive victory, 67-58 at North Texas on Thursday night.
No. 24 Mississippi State Beats North Texas 82-59
Arnett Moultrie scored 20 points, Dee Bost added 18 and No. 24 Mississippi State cruised to an 82-59 victory over North Texas on Sunday.
UNT Student Competes In Nat’l Texting Championship
A University of North Texas student is in New York City preparing to compete in the fifth annual LG U.S. National Texting Championship. Sarah Wood is one of just 12 other “texters” competing.
UNT Student Has Suspected Case Of Tuberculosis
A student from UNT in Denton has been diagnosed with a suspected case of tuberculosis. School officials confirmed the case on Wednesday.
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Hey all you fellow Diablo 3 players in the Americas! I've read the news that you have the RMAH up and running, but in the EU realm it says we won't have it until the 15th!
So I'm wondering how's it going over there? Should we worry? Sell everything while they still have value? Sell nothing? How is the value of gold right now? Would you do something differently if you had a chance, like we have, to prepare for RMAH?
Was wondering the same thing as you mouseman, theres opportunity to learn from the Americas here. Play the cards right and we could be very well off (Diablo 3 well off that is, anyone expecting to be rich from RMAH is dreaming)
Every single item I've sold was a legendary or set item. None of my rares, no matter how good, have sold. I wish I had kept the Nat's Gaze I found a few days ago instead of selling it for gold.
Bookmarks | http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?833513-Anything-EU-can-learn-from-Americas-RMAH | 2013-05-18T10:13:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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, except in Iceland where it survives. [θ], like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative [ð], like th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth (Ð, ð), however the pronunciation of words beginning with a þ often depends on that word's position within a sentence, being pronounced [θ] if the word is at the beginning of a sentence but [ð] otherwise. Þ in modern Icelandic also, as was ð; but, unlike ð, thorn remained in common use through most of the Middle English period. Both letters were used for the phoneme /θ/, sometimes by the same scribe. This sound was regularly realized (Ꝥ) was a popular abbreviation for the word that. following were abbreviations during Middle and Early Modern English using the letter thorn: the second person plural familiar, "ye".
A handwritten form of thorn that was similar to the letter "y" in appearance with a small "e" written above it as an abbreviation for "the" was common in early Modern English. This can still be seen in reprints of the 1611 edition of the King James Version of the Bible in places such as Romans 15:29, or in the Mayflower Compact. The word was never pronounced with a "y" sound, even when so written.
The Icelandic language is the only living language to retain the letter thorn (in Icelandic; þ, pronounced þoddn, [θ̠ɔtn̥]) in common usage. The letter is the 30th in the Icelandic alphabet and never appears at the end of a word. Its pronunciation has not varied much, but in earlier times þ was sometimes used instead of ð as in the word "verþa" which is verða (meaning "to become") in modern Icelandic. Þ was originally taken from the runic alphabet and is described in the First Grammatical Treatise:
The thorn is a letter of the alphabet of the Talossan language, in which it may also be seen represented (for convenience) by the digraph TG..
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Todorov and other scientists are finding that athletes’ brains calibrate forward models in a manner consistent with Bayesian decision theory, a statistical approach that combines a continual stream of new information with previous beliefs. Because there is a level of uncertainty associated with sensory input, the brain has to decide whether it is going to rely more on the new data (which could be misleading) or on more credible (albeit potentially outdated) priors. Elite athletes, who have acquired more priors through frequent competition and practice and who have less noise in their sensory input and motor output, will have the edge, Todorov suggests.
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Trans-Continental Tour of the Distinguished Violiniste Leonora Jackson And the American Prima Donna Soprano Sibyl Sammis Assisted by Chas. E. Clarke Baritone Alex Mac Fayden Pianist Leonora Jackson Management Brockway Lecture Bureau, 6101 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Leonora Jackson THE management takes pleasure in announcing for the season of 1905-1906 1 the trans-continental tour of the world- renowned violinist, Leonora Jackson, the popular concert prima donna, Sibyl Sammis, and assisting artists. Miss Jackson returns to America after an absence of three years in Europe, where she has been adding new laurels to her already brilliant career. Her success has been truly phenom¬enal. Such is her power to inspire great audiences, such her genius and marvelous mastery of the violin, such the incomparable charm of her personality and sweet music that she has taken Europe and America by storm. Queen Victoria decorated Leonora Jack¬son with the Victoria Star. The Prussian Government awarded her the Mendelssohn State Prize at Berlin. She has appeared on programs with Paderewski and the greatest celebrities, and as soloist of the most renowned musical societies (Leipzic Gewandhaus, London Philharmonic, Paris Colonne Orchestra, etc.), where no American violinist had ever before been engaged. Her American tours, as well, have been veritable triumphs. At Los Angeles, Cal., for example, the grammar schools were dismissed and over 4,000 children welcomed the gifted artist to their city. She has been engaged by the leading musical organizations and clubs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and America is justly proud of her, for she has achieved a place of honor "among'the world's most noted violin artists " and "a name that will live in musical history." Phenomenal Career of Leonora Jackson "A NAME THAT WILL LIVE IN MUSICAL HISTORY" October 17, 1896—Berlin Debut with Philharmonic Orchestra, Joachim conducting. November 11, 1896—Played before German Empress, and Court. Winter, 1896-'97—Tour in Germany. October 1, 1897—Awarded Mendelssohn State Prize by Prussian Government. The most coveted prize in Germany. Autumn, 1897—Second German tour. February 5, 1898—London Debut. Soloist Queen's Hall Symphony Orchestra. Spring and Fall, 1898—First and second English tours, including Wales. Soloist Lamoureux and Crystal Palace Symphony Orchestras, London; Liverpool and Leeds Philharmonics; Halle Orchestra at Manchester, etc., etc. Concerts with Melba, Nordica, Patti, Pader¬ewski and leading musical societies. December, 1898—Tour in Scotland with Scottish Or¬chestra. (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, etc.) December, 20, 1898—Soloist Royal Belgian Symphony Orchestra, Antwerp. Spring, 1899—Third German tour. Soloist famous Leipsic Gewandhaus concerts, under Nikisch; Bremen, Cologne, Berlin, etc., etc. March 8, 1899—Soloist London Philharmonic Society. April 17, 1899—Played before King of Sweden at Paris. April 23, 1899—Paris Debut. Soloist famous Colonne Symphony Orchestra at the Chatelet. Tuly 17, 1899—Played before Queen Victoria at Wind¬sor, who decorated her with Victoria Star. August 17, 1899—Played before H. R. H. Princess Beat¬rice and Royal party, at Isle of Wight. October, 1899—Third English tour. (Including Scot¬land.) November, 1899—Fourth German tour. Soloist famous Kaim Orchestra at Munich, under Weingartner; Leip¬sic, Frankfort and Strasburg Philharmonics, etc., etc. December, 1899—Swiss tour. Geneva Philharmonic; Neuchatel, etc. Spring, 1900—American tour, of sixty concerts, includ¬ing appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and St. Louis Sym¬phony Orchestras, and eight concerts en tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Gericke. Season, 1900-'01—Trans-Continental tour of the United States—160 concerts. Maine to California, Canada to the Gulf. Season 1901-'02—Second Trans-Continental tour—184 concerts. Canada and every State of the Union, ex¬cept the Dakotas. September, 1902, to Autumn, 1905—In Europe. Visits Prague, and is coached by the great Bohemian master, Sevcik, the teacher of Kubelik. Season 1904-'05—Fourth English tour. Fifth German tour. Concerts Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipsic (Gewandhaus), Paris, London, etc. Autumn, 1905—Returns to America for a third Trans-Continental tour. Leonora Jackson—Press Extracts Zeitung— audience by She St. Paul, Minn. Schubert Club—A fascinating artist and unique interpreter.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Des Moines, Iowa. Musical Guild—She is an artist in the highest sense of the word.—Des Moines State Reg¬ister. Portland Oregonian—Carried Portland by storm. St. Paul Pioneer Press—A fascinating artist. Alexander MacFadyen THE selection for a pianist and accom-M C*\ Pan*st f°r Miss Jackson and Miss ft J Sammis was not an easy task, and out of hundreds of applications we selected Alexander MacFadyen from the music¬al city of Milwaukee. Mr. MacFadyen has been before the public both as a soloist and accompanist for several seasons, and is not only a brilliant player but a most satisfying accompanist. He took the teachers' course under Arthur Friedham at the Chicago Musical College, and last year completed the graduating course under Rudolph Ganz, winning the gold medal in both courses. Milwaukee Sentinel—The artist was assisted by Alex¬ander MacFadyen, a young pianist who has made good studies under several noted teachers, and his work last night exhibited talent of a high order. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin—Alexander Mac¬Fadyen was the accompanist for the occasion, and also played numbers from Brahms with his accustomed sympathetic interpretation. Berlin Vossische She took the large storm. Cincinnati Enquirer charmed her audience. Leipsic Neusten Nachrichten —Overtowers everything in the way of ladies' violin playing ever heard here. San Francisco Examiner—A violinist of extraordinary merit. Paris Le Soleil—Her success was that of a great artist. Munich Nachrichten — Proved a master of her instrument. Toronto (Canada) Globe-One of the greatest violinists ever heard in this city. Edinburgh Scotsman — Made friends of her entire audience. W. F. Apthorp, in Boston Transcript — The searching beauty of her tone, the purity of her sentiment, her earnest con¬centration and fine musical in¬stinct are of a very rare sort. Bremen Nachrichten—An art¬ist of gifts as phenomenal as her training. New York Tribune—A model of unaffected grace. Soloist Royal Belgian Orchestra, Antwerp—She is truly an artist of the first rank.—Antwerp Le Matin. Charles E. Clarke THE Canadian Baritone began his musical studies under the able direction of Miss Denzil, of the Toronto Con¬servatory, from whom he obtained a scholarship. Later he studied with Rechab Taudy, who is everywhere acknowledged as Canada's leading teacher of singing. Mr. Clarke created a veritable furore last season and is now abroad studying with the best teachers. Belleville Intelligencer—Mr. C. E. Clarke's singing was perhaps the most enjoyable feature of the evening. His vocal numbers showed him to be a singer with a line method and a rich, pure, full voice. He will be warmly welcomed on his next appearance in Belleville. Aurora Banner—The treat of the evening was the sing¬ing of Mr. C. E. Clarke, baritone soloist, of Toronto. He possesses a voice rich, soft and clear as a silver bell. He sang with great feeling. Lindsay Watchman Warder—Mr. C. E. Clarke deep¬ened the favorable impression of last year and received an enthusiastic welcome. Napanne—The vocal solos of Mr. Charles Clarke pleased everyone. He has a well trained, full, rich voice, singing without the least effort. W. S. Lacy, Secretary Y. M. C. A. Oskaloosa, Iowa— We had a great treat here yesterday in the opportunity of hearing Charles E. Clarke. Our people here are very critical of music; so much so that a few years ago, in despair, the committee furnished a list of talent for the year that did not have one number of music in the whole course; so you see they are not easily pleased. Mr. Clarke completely won the hearts of all who heard him with his voice, the way he used it, and his manner of delivery. You need have no hesitancy in recommending him as strongly as you like. He is a wonder. Ottawa Citizen—The soloist, Mr. C. E. Clarke, who made such a favorable impression last season, was given a warm welcome. In the "Yeoman's Wedding" song Mr. Clarke's robust baritone voice was heard to best advan¬tage. Lindsay Post—Mr. Charles E. Clarke's vocal solos were good. He possesses a rich, round baritone voice and has a clear, smooth enunciation. Ottawa Journal—Mr. Charles E. Clarke, vocalist of the evening, is the possessor of a very sweet, clear, resonant baritone voice, and was loudly applauded after each number. Mr. Clarke's name only appeared twice on the program, but double that number would not have been too much. Waterloo (Iowa) Courier—Never before in the history of the Waterloo Chautauqua Assembly has the Associa¬tion presented to its patrons a soprano soloist to equal Miss Sibyl Sammis. Evening Telegram—There was a new star in the firma¬ment of "Venice" last night. It was Miss Sibyl Sammis, a dramatic soprano, who made her debut as soloist at the Duss concert at the Madison Square Garden. Miss Sammis gave "Dich Theure Halle," from "Tannhaeuser," which she rendered very acceptably. Her rendition of the heavy Wagner music was excellent, and she was applauded until she returned with an encore. Her other number was Mascheroni's "For All Eternity." Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser—Miss Sammis* voice is unquestionably the best ever heard here. Portland (Me.) Daily Press—Miss Sammis has an admirable voice, clear and musical, and of great com¬pass. Aurora Banner—Friday evening last a sacred concert was held in the Methodist Church here which proved to be a decided success. The treat of the evening was the singing of Mr. Charles E. Clarke, of Toronto. He possesses a rich, soft voice, as clear and sweet as a silver bell. He sang all his selections with great feeling. If at any time he should return to Aurora he will be greeted with many new hearers. Ottawa Journal—Mr. Charles E. Clarke, a baritone with a voice of good quality, sang two songs, for each of which he was recalled by a most enthusiastic au¬dience. Stouffville Sentinel—One of the musical treats of the evening was rendered by Mr. Charles E. Clarke, the gifted young baritone. He possesses a voice soft and sweet, and certainly deserves praise for the way in which he sang on Friday evening. His mild, yet forci-ble, manner fascinated the audience, which greeted him with loud applause. Boston (Mass.) Journal—Miss Sammis has a pure, clear and brilliant voice, and of great range. Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier—Miss Sammis possesses a voice of unusual range, which is as melodious in its quality as it is flexible and obedient to her will. Boston (Mass.) Globe—Miss Sibyl Sammis' rendition of Mascheroni's "For All Eternity" was an artistic tri¬umph for this great artist, and a rare treat for the audience. Montreal (Que.) Star—Miss Sibyl Sammis* solo was accorded a triple recall. Bangor (Me.) Commercial—Miss Sibyl Sammis was a surprise in that the first roar of enthusiasm over Schu-mann-Heink was scarcely subdued when they gave Miss Sammis an ovation which might have delighted the heart of any singer. She has molded her voice into something like a perfect condition, and uses it with great intel¬ligence. Sibyl Sammis 'MISS SIBYL SAMMIS is one of those rare artists whom one hears none too often. She is the possessor of a highly cultivated voice of wide range and power, her execution is fluent, facile and smooth, and her articulation perfect. Miss Sammis is not only endowed with great musical gifts, but with a personal magnetism, a happy disposition, and a charming face and figure. As Sam Jones says: " She is a combin¬ation of cyclone and nightingale." New York Journal—Back from abroad, where her voice received a thorough training, Miss Sibyl Sam¬mis, beautiful and talented, awaited her chance. She got it at Madison Square Garden, and, without a mo¬ment's time for rehearsal, sang so successfully the Wagnerian program that at one bound she became a so¬ciety operatic favorite. Never did a fair prima donna receive a more en-thusiastic approval. Beginning with an aria from Gounod's "Queen of Sheba," Miss Sammis finished tri¬umphantly with "My Old Kentucky Home." Caught on the telephone at her hotel at 7:15 o'clock in the eve¬ning, Miss Sammis .ot only helped Mr. Duss out of a serious predica¬ment by taking the place of Miss Shanna dimming, who had suddenly become hoarse, but the band leader was introduced to the new artist, who so delighted him that she has been engaged to sing in the place of Suzanne Adams the week beginning July 12. New York Daily News—Miss Sibyl Sammis, who has already obtained a high degree of popularity among music-lovers in this city, is Director Duss' principal soloist at "Venice in New York," in Madison Square Garden this week. The program an¬nounced for Tuesday and Wednes¬day evenings is of a nature that will allow Miss Sammis to be heard in several musical selections in which she has won especial distinction.' New York Evening Telegram— Miss Sibyl Sammis was the soloist. She has a soprano voice of good quality, and she showed her audience that she knew how to use it. She chose the intermezzo of "Cavalleria Rusticana" for her introductory number, and sang it in finished style. In the flower song from "Faust" she showed an intelligent appreciation of its sentiment. New York Musical Courier—This handsome singer possesses a voice of power and expressiveness, allied with the most distinct enunciation. New York Herald—For his "Venice in New York," at the Madison Square Garden last night, Mr. Duss was very near to being left without a vocal soloist. What made the situation the more serious was that it was Wagner night, and a special program had been arranged, in which the works of that composer had a prominent place. Miss Shanna dim¬ming, this week's soloist, attended a rehearsal yesterday, and, although very hoarse, expected to sing until about six o'clock, when the condition of her voice became so bad that she reluctantly sent word to Mr. Duss that she could not sing. The bandmaster was at his wits' end until nearly seven o'clock, when he learned that Miss Sibyl Sammis was in the city. He found her at the Hotel Lincoln, and without rehearsal she took Miss Cumming's place on the program and sang with marked success the selec¬tions already chosen for her. Fall River (Mass.) Globe—Miss Sibyl Sammis, the gifted Chicago singer who accompanies the band as soloist, won a veritable ovation. Worcester (Mass.) Spy—Miss Sammis' execution is fluent, facile and smooth. Her voice is of wide range and great power, and her stage pres¬ence is most charming. New Orleans (La.) Picayune—Miss Sibyl Sammis, the prima donna of the band, was rapturously applauded and responded to three encores. North Adams (Mass.)—Miss Sammis next appeared, her rendering of Gounod's cavatina from the opera of "The Queen of Sheba" being a decided gem. Her voice is one of remarkable range, the enunciation clear and perfect, and she made a most favorable impression. Her work has never been surpassed in this city. THE SMITH & NIXON PIANO USED Leonora Jackson—Press Extracts AN artist's rank is measured largely by the class of engagements he commands. Ask the questions, cf What great Symphony Orchestras have engaged him as soloist ?" "With what eminent artists has he been heard in public ? " These are the tests of rank. Leonora Jackson easily bears these tests. She is an artist her country may well be proud of, for there has never been a lady violinist of any nationality who, at so early an age, has been the soloist of so many great musical societies, played before so many crowned heads and won such a reputation in so many different countries. The following brief extracts are selected from hundreds of similar press notices received by Miss Jackson in Europe in 1896, '97, '98, '99 and later. They relate to the most famous musical societies, societies by whom no American violin soloist had ever before been engaged. IN EUROPE IN AMERICA a Berlin Debut, Philharmonic Orchestra—Her playing was so animated, her phrasing and tone work so superb, that she took the large audience by storm.—Dr. Krebs, in Berlin Vossische Zeitung. Soloist Queen's Hall Symphony, London—Miss Jackson has positive genius. Seldom have I seen an English audience—a large and representative one—so moved by a youthful artist on a first appearance. Her tone is exceedingly pure and beautiful in quality, her intonation absolutely faultless, her technique brilliant and correct, and her style reflects all the dignity and distinction of the school in which she has been trained.— Herman Klein, in London Sunday Times. Concert with Paderewski, London—The finest pianist in the world cannot extinguish by superior effulgence the light of artists such as Miss Leonora Jackson.— London Daily Telegraph. Soloist Scottish Orchestra, Edinburgh—Miss Jack¬son made friends of her entire audience. She is sure of a hearty welcome whenever she returns.—Edinburgh Scotsman. Soloist Aix-la-Chapelle Symphony—Harmonics such as she entices from her violin, so perfect, so varied and beautiful in light and shade, we have never before heard. —Aix-la-Chapelle Tageblatt. Soloist Queen's Hall Symphony, London—(Second appearance at those concerts.) Miss Jackson's un¬qualified triumph was acknowledged by the audience with plaudits that brought her back to the platform again and again. Here is a violinist whose rare talent and still rarer artistic temperament shed lustre upon her native land.—Herman Klein, in the London Sunday Times. Soloist Bremen Philharmonic—She proved to be an artist of gifts as phenomenal as her training. A virile bow arm, likewise a tone production which, as regards infallible intonation, tenderness and fullness, finds few its equal, furthermore marvelous accuracy in the most complicated passages, these were some of the qualities which aroused unbounded admiration. Miss Jackson had a brilliant triumph and it is to be hoped the gifted artist will visit our city soon again.—Bremen Nach-richten. Soloist Leipsic Gewandhaus—(Under the eminent Conductor Nikisch. The oldest and most famous Sym¬phony Concerts in Europe.) Miss Leonora Jackson won by storm a place of honor among contemporary vio¬lin artists, and although in years scarcely more than a child, yet she overtowers everything in the way of ladies' violin playing ever heard here.—Prof. Martin Krause in Leipsic Neusten Nachrichten. Soloist London Philharmonic—(The second oldest Orchestral Society in Europe. Founded in 1811.) Miss Jackson, fresh from her triumph in Germany, gave an admirable interpretation of the Mendelssohn Concerto. She merits a place in the very first rank of violinists of the day. Her success was great and well deserved.— Arthur Hervey, in London Morning Post. At Boston with Boston Symphony—What a wonder¬ful bow arm she has. The searching beauty of her tone, the purity of her sentiment, her earnest concentration and fine musical instinct are of a very rare sort. She plays with authority.—W. F. Apthorp, in Boston Even¬ing Transcript. At New York with Boston Symphony—Leonora Jackson, who appeared here with the Boston Symphony Orchestra last night in Carnegie Hall, was called nine times after playing Mendelssohn's Concerto. She won the audience as" soon as she came on the stage. She has a peculiarly attractive manner, and this, added to her splendid equipment as a musician, established her in great favor.—New York Press. At Baltimore with Boston Symphony—In the entire gamut of lady violinists, including Maud Powell, Lady Halle, Tua and Urso, there is hardly one in whom can be found the combination of virtuoso qualities displayed by Miss Jackson.—Baltimore Morning Herald. At Pittsburg with Pittsburg Symphony—Her fame as a violinist of international reputation was fully sus¬tained by her performance last night. Her gracefulness, strength, vigor, technique, fire, place her among the best of the great violinists who have appeared here.—Pitts¬burg Commercial Gazette. Portland, Maine—Great technique goes without saying in violinists of international repute. But the superb mas¬tery shown in this young artist's playing, such nobility and breadth of style, such perfect poise of brain and nerve are nothing short of marvelous. It is genius made manifest in a body exquisitely adapted to its expression. —Portland Daily Eastern Argus. Burlington, Vermont—Leonora Jackson, America's leading violiniste, demonstrated her just claim to that title last evening at the Opera House, her concert under the auspices of the Ethan Allen Club attracting a large . audience.—Burlington Free Press. At Providence with Boston Symphony—Scored a pronounced success. She has received the largest amount of advance advertising accorded any artist in recent years. This would have been most dangerous were her talents mediocre. It is a pleasure to record the fact that in every way she fulfilled expectations. The audiences fairly overwhelmed her with applause.— Providence Journal. Detroit, Michigan. Hofman Concert—She has the true virtuoso mastery of the violin. In a thousand ways she manifested extreme delicacy of touch.—Detroit Tribune. Indianapolis Symphony Association—Her wonderful performance is the violin event of the season.—Indian¬apolis Journal. At Chicago with Theodore Thomas—Leonora Jackson was given the most enthusiastic reception any soloist of her sex has had at these concerts since Teresa Carreno appeared three years past. Her tone is broader than that of any other woman violinist. It might not be far away from fact to term Miss Jackson the Carreno of the violin.—Chicago Evening Post. THE SMITH & NIXON PIANO USED
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the act entitled An act to authorize the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and
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for other purposes, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows:
That the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby, invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, owning, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory, beginning at a point on Red River (the southern boundary-line), at the bluff known as Rocky Cliff, in the Indian Territory, and running thence by the most feasible and practicable route through the said Indian Territory to a point on the east boundary-line, immediately contiguous to the west boundary-line of the State of Arkansas; also, a branch line of railway to be constructed from the most suitable point on said main line for obtaining a feasible and practicable route in a westerly or northwesterly direction to the leased coal veins of said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, in Tobucksey County, Choctaw Nation, and thence by the most feasible and practicable route to an intersection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railway at the most convenient point between Halifax Station and Ear Creek, otherwise known as the north fork of the Canadian River; with the right to construct, use, and maintain such tracks, turn-outs, branches, and sidings and extensions as said company may deem it in their interest to construct along and upon the right of way and depot grounds herein provided for.
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E 263 .N8 N15 Copy 1 GovernorAbner Nash ADDRESS BY J. G. DE ROULHAC HAMILTON NOVEMBER 15. 1909 PRESENTATION OF PORTRAIT OF GOVERNOR ABNER NASH TO THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE Hall of the House of Representatives, at Raleigh, NOVEMBER 15, 1909, BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. ADDRESS BY J. G. DE ROULHAC HAMILTON. Alumni Profesjor of History in the Univereity of North Carolina, a Member of the Society. E2.63 OFFICERS North Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution NOVEMBER 15. 1909—NOVEMBER 15, 1910. PRESIDENT, Hon. THOMAS S. KENAN, Raleigh. VICE-PRESIDENT. Hon. J. BRYAN GRIMES, Raleigh. SECRETARY. MARSHALL DeLANCEY HAYWOOD, Raleigh. REGISTRAR. DANIEL HARVEY HILL. Lit. D., West Raleigh. TREASURER, WILLIAM WATKINS ROBARDS. Raleigh. CHAPLAIN, The Rev. ROBERT BRENT DRANE, D. D., Edenton. BOARD OF MANAGERS: The Officers, ex offlcio, AND Alexander Botd Andrews, Jr., Chairman. Cable Axtgustus WooDEUP5,«'t]*.S.A., Junius Davis, William Enos Stone, Charles Earl Johnson, Collier Cobb, Alfred IMoore Scales, Julian Shakespeare Caer. Thomas Maslin. ADDRESS. May it please your Excellency: On the part of the Worth Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution, I present through you to the State of ISTorth Caro-lina the portrait of Abner ISTash, patriot legislator, and second Governor of the Commonwealth. ^HE LIFE AJSTD PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABN"EIl NASH. In the year 1730, or thereabouts, there came to Virginia John Nash, best known to North Carolina as the progenitor of three of her distinguished public men, namely, Abner Nash, lawyer, legislator, and governor; Francis Nash, legislator and soldier; and Frederick Nash, legislator and chief justice of the Supreme Court of the State. Before emigrating he married Ann Owen, a daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, "Wales. Thus well equipped for life, he sought fortune in the New World, settling first in Henrico county and later in Prince Edward, in the fork of the Bush and Appomattox rivers, where he purchased a large estate, to which he gave the name of Tem-pleton Manor. In his new home he won prominence and honor, filling at various times the offices of justice of the peace, high sheriff, member of the House of Burgesses, lieutenant of the county, and captain in the Indian war. Later he was chairman of the county committee of safety and a member of the Virginia convention of 1775. He was one of the founders of Hampden- Sydney College and permanent chairman of its board of trustees. He died in 1776. To him were born four sons and four daugh-ters. The third son, named x\bner for his grandfather, Abner Nash, of Tenby, Wales, was born about 1740. Nothing is known of his early life or training, but he showed throughout life the signs of a liberal education and considerable culture. In 1762 he appeared in Rowan county as an attorney before the county court, and in 1763 he came to Hillsboro with his younger brother, Francis, who settled there about this time, but he did not remain. Probably he was viewing the country before set-tling down to the practice of law. He seems finally to have located himself in Halifax, for from there he made his first pub-lic appearance, in 1764, as a member of the Assembly. Although failing to select Hillsboro as his residence, he was there fre-quently in the following years, visiting his brother and prac-ticing in Orange Court. He became the owner of a number of town lots there, and, after placing a dam across the Eno, erected the first mill within the corporate limits of the town. In 1765 Nash was again a member of the Assembly from the town of Halifax, and in 1769, 1770 and 1771 he represented Halifax county, but soon thereafter he removed to i^ew Bern and entered actively upon the practice of his profession. After the death of Governor Dobbs he married his young and attrac-tive widow, whose maiden name was Justina Davis. Out of this marriage grew the famous Martin court quarrel. Dobbs, by his will, left £2,000 to Mrs. Dobbs, chargeable upon his lands in North Carolina. Upon the failure of Conway and Richard Dobbs, his executors, to pay this, Nash, who by this time had acquired a personal as well as a professional interest in the legacy, sued them, and an attachment was issued under the Tryon Court law. The defendants at once procured an injunc-tion, which the Provincial Chancery Court made perpetual. The Privy Council, hov^^ever, upon Nash's appeal, reversed this decision. In the Privy Council at this time were Lord Hills-boro, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Lord Hertford, the Lord Chamberlain, both close friends of the Dobbs family. Through their influence, it is supposed, the instructions against the provisions of the court law relating to attachments were given to Governor Martin, which led to the angry quarrel be-tween him and the Assembly that resulted in the disappearance of courts in the province of North Carolina and gave a great impetus to the revolutionary movement. Mrs. Nash died in 1773, and not many years later Nash mar-ried Mary Jones, an heiress from Chowan. He continued to reside in jSTew Bern, and from there he was a delegate to all four of the Provincial Congresses. He was a member of the Pro-vincial Council in 1775 and was speaker of the first House of Commons, in 1777. The next year he was elected to the Con-tinental Congress, but declined to serve. In 1779 he was sent to the Senate from Jones County, which had been newly erected, and upon the resignation of Allen Jones he was unanimously chosen speaker. In 1780 he was elected governor by a large majority and served until June 25, 1781, He was again elected to the House of Commons in 1782 from Jones, where his resi-dence now was ; and in the same year he was elected to Congress, of which body he remained a member, with the exception of one small interval, until his death, December 2, 1786. Having thus briefly sketched his career as an introduction, I ask your attention to a consideration of Abner Nash, first, as a lawyer and citizen; second, as a legislator, state and national; and, third, as Governor. AS LAWYER AND CITIZEN. When Abner Nash came to the bar in North Carolina there were about forty-five lawyers in the province. This small num-ber argues a large practice for most of them, and Nash soon shared in it and took the prominent place to which his talents entitled him. We can, fortunately, from evidence nearly con-temporary, form an estimate of his ability and power as an advocate. Archibald Maclaine Hooper said of him : "The name of Abner Nash always brings to my imagination the inflamed energy of Demosthenes, and produces some of that perturbation which is felt in reading his orations. The eloquence of Nash and Hooper must, indeed, have exhibited a fine contrast. Nash was vehemence and fire; Hooper was stately and diffusive elo-quence." Among his associates at the bar were such giants as Iredell, Moore, Hooper, Maclaine, Burke and, towards the lat-ter part of his career, William Richardson Davie. By them he was regarded with respect and with admiration, and by most of his associates lie seems to have been lield in great affection and personal esteem. We know but little of the details of bis professional life, but the few facts known are interesting. The most notable of his early cases was, of course, tbe Dobbs case. Almost his last was Bayard vs. Singleton, famous as one of the earliest cases in which the power of tbe judiciary to declare the uncon-stitutionality of a legislative act was asserted. Here he ap-peared for the validity of the act. There are many contem-porary allusions to his position at the bar, among tbem that of Governor Martin, who, in writing to Lord Dartmouth, spoke of him as "an eminent lawyer," but, in view of his Whiggish activity, added, "but a most unprincipled character." Nash was of a type not infrequent in that day. Genial, easy of manner, luxurious in taste and habit, convivial and somewhat given to extravagance, without due thought of the morrow, he lived on a large and fine estate near ISTew Bern, called Pem-broke, in memory of the old home of the xTashes in Wales, where it was his delight to dispense a gracious and charming hospi-tality to the many friends of the family. Here he lived until Major Craig captured l!^ew Bern when he took to flight. In this way his books and papers were lost, and for that reason our knowledge of his is far less than his career deserves. When the Revolution began he was possessed of a large fortune, but at its close all was lost, and the worry and anxiety consequent upon his position had caused a total breakdown of his health. By the time of his death he had in some measure replaced his for-tune, but he was never a well man again. In common with the leaders of his time, JSTash favored educa-tion, and we find him among the original trustees of Queen's Museum. He was also one of the trustees of Granville Hall. As was to be expected from his associations and sympathies, he was a member of the Tryon party during the Regulation, and, in fact, was a major of brigade, or brigadier general, in the force raised by Governor Tryon for the suppression of the out-break. Living in the stormy period in which he did, at the center of provincial government, a vigorous thinker, who was deeply in-terested in public questions, it was not unnatural that his voice was soon raised in behalf of his country and that his best efforts and most devoted service were given to her. We thus come to his career as a legislator. AS LEGISLATOR, STATE AND NATIONAL. Kash's first legislative service, as has already been mentioned, was in the Assembly of 1764, in which he represented the borough of Halifax. His only action of importance, so far as can be judged from the journal, was a motion to establish a post road from Suffolk, Virginia, to the South Carolina line. In 1769 he was again in the Assembly, this time from Halifax county, and was returned in 1770. His reputation had grown by this time, and his prominence in the body is shown by his committee service, for he served on no less than nine general committees, besides many special ones. Lack of time forbids the mention of these, with the single exception of one notable for the men who composed it. The committee to answer the governor's message, besides Xash, was composed of Robert Howe, Samuel Johnston, Edmund Fanning, Maurice Moore, Cornelius Harnett, and Joseph Hewes, all of whom, except Fan-ning, were later to become dislhi-xuished for their zeal in the patriot cause. Few colonial committees could be found that had such a group of talent upon them. In the Assembly of 1771 he was also quite active. This service made him well acquainted with the condition and sentiment of the province and was a valuable preparation for his later Revolutionary activity. Within the next few years the long-standing discontent of the colonies with British administration led to open revolt. JSTorth Carolina did not lag behind the other colonies in resistance to arbitrary power. Governor Martin, who succeeded Tryon, was of a character and disposition that soon caused him to incur the enmity, distrust and contempt of the !N"orth Carolinians, and 8 their feeling was intensified by the long quarrel in regard to the courts. Nash was, from the beginning of the movement, an earnest and active patriot; and on August 9, 1774, he was elected by a public meeting, held in JSTew Bern, one of the dele-gates to the first Provincial Congress, which met at New Bern August 25, 1774. After the adjouinment of the Congress, Nash was not idle, but in New Bern and the adjaceisi country was using his great personal influence and his fiery and magnetic eloquence in arous-ing the people. He was a member of the local safety committee and signed its address to the people in March, 1775. Governor Martin, indeed, supposed that he had written it, for, writing to Lord Dartmouth on March 10th, he said: ''I enclose to your Lordship an advertisement of a committee in the town that may serve as a specimen of their atrocious falsehoods which are re-ported to stimulate the people to revolt. . . . It is supposed to be the composition of a Mr. Nash, one of the subscribers, who is an eminent lawyer, but a most unprincipled character of this country." On May 23d a meeting of the committee was held in New Bern, and afterwards a great crowd of the inhabitants waited on the Governor. Nash, whom the Governor noAv styled "the oracle of the committee" and "the principal promoter of sedition," presented the protest of the people against the dis-mounting of the cannon with which the palace was fortified. All of this time, the inhabitants, under the lead of Nash and a few others, were organizing military companies, and on May 30th Governor Martin took flight and royal authority ceased to exist in North Carolina. How much the activities of Nash had grated upon the sensi-bilities of the Governor is to be seen in a letter to Dartmouth, written after his flight : "I hold ifc my indispensable duty to mention to your Lordship Cornelius Harnett, John Ashe, Robert Howe, and Abner Nash as persons ^v]\o have marked themselves out as proper objects for such distinction [?'. e., proscription] in this colony by their unremitted efforts to promote sedition and rebellion here, froui the beginning of the discontents in America to this time, that they stand foremost among the patrons of revolt and anarchy." In the meantime the second Provincial Congress met at the same time with the last royal Assembly, on April 4th. ISTash was also a member of this, though not of the Assembly. He vtras also a delegate to the third Provincial Congress, which met at Hillsboro, xVugust 20th, but he did not attend, probably on account of sickness. By this Congress he was elected a member of the Provincial Council, then created as the central executive body of the rapidly developing independent State. Se was present at all its meetings, and seems to have borne an active part in its labors. We find him with his colleague from New Bern, James Coor, in charge of the fortifications at Hanging Point, on the Neuse, and authorized to charter vessels and carry on an export trade from New Bern for the purpose of procuring arms and ammunition. With others, he was commissioned to equip armed vessels to go out from New Bern, and was directed to prepare for arming the province against British invasion. By the Council he was sent, in February, 1776, with John Kin-chen to Charleston to confer v/ith the South Carolina authori-ties in regard to defense. The fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax, April 4, 1776. Here Nash rendered his most important legislative ser-vice. Reaching there on the 8th, he was at once placed on the committee to take into consideration the usurpations and vio-lences attempted and committed by the King and Parliament of Britain against America, and the further measures to be taken for frustrating the same and for the better defense of the prov-ince. To this committee, composed of Harnett, Allen Jones, Burke, Thomas Jones, Kinchen, and Person, in addition to Nash, belongs the honor of the 12th of April resolution, which is the brightest jewel in North Carolina's Revolutionary crown, and which entitles her, justly and without fear of contradiction, to claim priority in the movement for independence. Nash was also on the committees of secrecy, intelligence and observation, ways and means, to prepare !a temporary civil government, to 10 consider defense of the coast, to prepare a form of commission for privateers, to draw up instructions for recruiting officers, to prevent the desertion of slaves; and, finally, when it became evi-dent that the differences of opinion as to the form of govern-ment to be established were so serious that delay was necessary, on the committee to form a temporary civil government until the next Congress. In the political division which appeared at this time J^ash took the conservative side, without, however, becoming the par-tisan that many were. Because of his conservative views, he met with vigorous opposition in "New Bern, but after a heated campaign he was triumphantly re-elected as a delegate to the fifth Provincial Congress, which met November 12, 1776. Nash was on the committee to review and consider all such acts of the Assembly as were then in force in the State, and "to prepare such bills to be passed into laws as might be consistent with the genius of a free people." He was also on the steering committee, as it would be called to-day; the committee on in-quiry, the committee to form a bill of rights and Constitution, and a number of minor committees. What part he played in shaping our organic law, we unfortunately do not know, but, considering the vigorous personality of the man, it is not unrea-sonable to conclude that his voice was by no means an unimpor-tant one. In March, 1777, JSTash was elected to the House of Commons from New Bern, and when that body assembled he was chosen speaker, the first of a long line of able and distinguished men who have since held that station. He presided with dignity and ability, and thereby won new friends and admirers, and the whole session was marked by complete harmony and absence of friction. The next year, also, Nash was a member of the House from Craven county, and by fhat Assembly he was elected to the Continental Congress, but declined to accept. In 1779 he was elected to the Senate from Jones County, and, as usual, was active in committee work, being a member of the steering, four other general committees, and many special ones. Later in the 11 session he succeeded Allen Jones as speaker, and was thus directly in line for the gubevnatorial office, to which he was called in 1780. Before discussing his administration, let us consider his later legislative service. As has been seen, he was in the House from Jones in 1782, 1783, 1784 and 1785. Here he was still fore-most in active committee service. He was a leader in the Gen-eral Assembly of 1784 in opposition to the recommendation of Congress that loyalists should be given full rights, and on a bill to repeal all such laws as were inconsistent with the treaty of peace he voted nay, thereby incurring the enmity of Archibald Maclaine, who wrote George Hooper that Nash and Blount, "destitute of principle and swayed only by motives of interest, headed the opposition." He voted for the cession of Tennessee in May, 1784, but, in ISTovember, like many others, voted for its repeal. On May 3, 1782, Nash was elected to Congress. He had been a candidate for election the year before, but had been defeated by Benjamin Hawkins. He commenced his service on IMovem-ber 4th and remained until January 25, 1783, While there he was on the post-office committee and was one of a special com-mittee selected to visit Rhode Island and urge the compliance of that State with a resolution of Congress imposing a duty on imports. But the matter was dropped before the committee could start, by reason of the nev/s that Virginia had declined to ratify it. During his short service Nash saw the weakness of the national government in operation, and wrote Iredell that, if the nation was in distress, the fault was in the constitution of Congress, but that, if the difficulties pointed a remedy, all was for the best. This may have explained his failure to attend the next year, in spite of his election, though the fact that, ii. a sense, he was a candidate for the governorship may have had something to do with it. Then, too, we must remember that North Carolina was notorious for its indiilerence to Congress, and, indeed, to the national government. In 1784 Nash was again chosen, but did not attend. He failed of election in the 12 / spring of 1785, but in December lie Avas elected for the fourth time, and in the following November went to jSTew York to attend the meetings. There he died, on December 2d, before he took his seat. In the meantime he had been appointed by Gov-ernor Caswell a delegate to the Annapolis convention, but was ill at the time, and so was not present. Thus ended his distinguished legislative career. Had he lived he would almost certainly have been one of the framers of the Constitution and have added one more to his already numer-ous honors. For I^orth Carolina regarded him as one of her most valuable public men. Harnett classed him with Burke and Johnston ; and Blount de])lored the loss to the State, by death, of so valuable a member. AS GOVERNOR. Having looked at Wash from two points of view, let us now consider him in the position of greatest responsibility among the many he filled, namely, that of Chief Executive of the infant commonwealth, weak and struggling against invasion from without and divisions within. On April 21 or 22, 1780, Nash was elected governor to suc-ceed Caswell, who was ineligible for re-election. He at once entered upon his duties and displayed great energy and activity in the military preparations, which, at that time, occupied most of the attention of the executive. Stores were collected, arms and ammunition gathered, and, not least in the estimation of the army, "many wagons loaded with spirits" were sent to the troops. So, when General Gates finally came south, the army was amply supplied, and almost entirely by North Carolina. Need there was of activity, for the State was sorely stricken by the fall of Charleston and the loss of the six battalions of vet-eran Continental troops, besides the one thousand militia Ihere surrendered. North Carolina was apparently open to the ad-vance of the British, but their delay gave much needed time, and when they came the State was ready for them. The dis- 13 aster at Camden, however, made it necessary for most of the work to be repeated, and in order to prepare for this Governor Nash called the General Assembly to meet at Hillsboro on Au-gust 20th, but, very few of the members being present, it was not until September 5th that a quorum was in attendance. In the meantime the governor had laid an embargo on provisions and spirits for thirty days, and such members of the Assembly as had arrived took power in their hands to protect the State. The previous General Assembly had made Caswell com-mander- in-chief of the militia and given him powers which interfered to a great extent with the constitutional powers of the Governor. At this session Governor Nash reported that his council would not meet, and did not assist him. He therefore recommended the creation of a Board of War, which should share with him the responsibility of the war when the Legisla-ture was not in session. This was accordingly done, and John Penn, Alexander Martin and Oroondates Davis were elected. Their election was received with the utmost scorn and contempt by the military men of the State, and Nash soon found that the powers granted the board were in derogation of his own, as defined by the Constitution. The board was very active, fear-less and, to an extent, effective, but its very existence marked a dangerous step in development, and Nash was. thoroughly justi-fied in his attitude towards it. Even if it were thought that two or three heads were better than one, the argument failed in this case, for frequently only one member of the board was present. Nor was the attitude of the body towards the Gov-ernor pleasant or marked by a proper respect. In considera-tion of all the facts of the case, and having become convinced that the board was not a constitutional body and was dangerous, Nash refused to fill a vacancy oh it. This led to open enmi+y with the board, but did not check his activity nor dampen his ardor for the cause ; and by the end of 1780 North Carolina had five thousand men in the field. As Nash wrote Willie Jones, "zeal and spirits rose with difficulties," and the State was more united than had been the case at any previous time. But the 14 situation was unbearable, particularly to a man of proud spirit. Nash wrote Burke that tbe executive power bad been so divided and subdivided that, like the rays of the sun, it had lost its force, and "men, not knowing whom to obey, obeyed nobody." So, when the General Assembly met in February, 1781, he at once laid the matted before it and expressed the determination to resign immediately imless a change was made. His protest was dignified and conclusive, and its close is worthy of quotation here: "I readily acknowledged the merit of the Gentlemen who com-pose the Board of War, & that I thought the establishment of such a board necessary. I also thought it necessary that extraor-dinary powers should be lodged somewhere, equal to the exi-gency of the times & agreeably to the recommendation of Con-gress, to be exercised on extraordinary occasions ; and, being not ambitious of power myself, I recommended that the extraor-dinary power should be in the Board of War, so as to make them a legal basis for the support of the Executive; & this, as ex-pressed by Congress, might have been in lieu of the Assembly sitting constantly. But, instead of giving them powers which lie dormant, except when the Assembly are in session, you give them powers comprehending and, of course, superseding those of the Executive, which was never Dormant. In short, Gentle-men, I hold at present but an empty title, neither serviceable to the people nor honorable to myself. It will therefore become an act of necessity, however disagreeable at a time like this, that I resign my office, unless you restore it to a condition as respect-able as it was when you did me the honour to confer it upon me." Immediately a committee was appointed to confer with him on the subject, and as a result the Council Extraordinary re-placed the Board of War, but was also given unconstitutional powers. By act of the Assembly, ISTash was continued as gov-ernor after April 12th, when his term expired. The Assembly met again in June. IN'ash was nominated for re-election, but pleaded ill health, and his name was withdrawn. The Assembly thanked him for his "steady, zealous, patriotic 15 and arduous services as Governor of the State at a period so truly alarming," and, after assuring him of its intention to pro-tect the executive, elected Thomas Burke. Apart from Nash's ill health and his disgust at the way he had been treated, the inroads upon his fortune had wrecked it, and it was necessary for him to begin anew. While the statement of his wife that his salary of £13,000 was scarcely sufficient to purchase her a calico dress may be regarded as an exaggeration, it was never-theless far from being an adequate support. In 1784 Nash seems to have desired re-election to the governorship, but was defeated by Caswell, who received a majority of thirty votes in the Assembly. In a most inadequate way I have shown you something of the man and his v/ork. It is a sad commentary upon the State pride of our ancestors that scarcely any material remains from which to show his thought and character. That he was no ordinary man is sufficiently attested, not only by his public career, but by the attitude of his contemporaries. The distinguished honors paid his memory in New York upon the occasion of his death points clearly to a national reputation, for, behind his body, on its way to its temporary resting place in St. Paul's churchyard, came Congress in a body, foreign representatives, both diplo-matic and consular, the Supreme Court and governor of New York, the national officei'S, civil and military; the mayor of the city, the faculty of the university, and a large concourse of citizens of every rank. Shall we of to-day do him less honor? God forbid that the prophets of our greatness should remain without honor in their own country. From the walls of this building, the home of the State which he helped to create, may his face look down upon generations to come, and give inspiration to a patriotism such as guided him through life. imSZ, °'' CONGRESS n*.
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When I was in my first high school band, I was So what’s the solution? Time to break out
clueless how to solo. I mostly just slid up and of the box!
down the guitar strings with little sense of
what to do. Then a friend showed me how to
solo with the box method—you know, 1st fret,
4th fret, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 3rd, etc., with the box
anchored to the root note on the E string.
The box worked great for basic guitar stuff,
since my solos now had more of the right
notes. I even bought a book that added
two more boxes up the neck. That was better, but ultimately, still confining—I was a
prisoner of that box.
When I play string bass, there are clear landmarks to help find my way around—D on the
G string is right over the curve of the neck
heel, for example. In between there and the
nut, my left hand acts a little bit like a measuring caliper to find all the other notes. Likewise,
I can move upward from the D to the octave
through some calculated stretches.
you’ve stuck with me, you probably are able
to read music at least a little, but even if you
don’t read, thinking about the fingerboard
this way will help you stretch your range.
Think about the electric bass, though—it’s a
big, long stick with lots of dots along its whole
length. And when you get to the octave,
you’re still not up to the neck heel. In other
words, the electric bass lacks the physical
landmarks of the string bass and there isn’t
much time to find all the dots on the neck
while reading all the dots on the page.
Building a Better Box
In a way, you’re still in a box with this
method. But while the usual box method
would keep you stuck down near the nut
within a fairly narrow range that anchors on
the E and A strings, starting with octaves
helps you cope with both range and reading. Essentially, you’re anchoring from above
rather than from below.
When I switched to electric bass, a variation
of the box method moved with me. It served
its purpose of helping find the one, four, five
in whatever key I was playing in. Add in some
scale movement and the box makes bass
playing easier. And again, it enhances the
likelihood of hitting the right notes.
Don’t Fence Me In!
The box method, however, hits its limits when
it comes time to read music. And it’s of little
help for music that has a bigger range than
its narrow four-fret confines. These problems
really reared their ugly heads recently when I
started working with The Latin Bass Book (by
Stagnara and Sher). The music in this book
covers quite a bit of the neck within just one
tune, from the lower regions on the E string
clear up to the octave on the G string. You
have to read pretty quickly and with a lot of
accuracy or the musicians on the play-along
CD leave you in the dust.
Gonna Take You Higher…
To start playing in the higher regions, start
with the octave, which is easy to find on most
necks because of the double dot markers.
That’s your key landmark and you can find
the octave G pretty easily. From there, it’s not
much trouble to use your left hand to measure down a couple of frets to F, and then
another fret down to E. When you can locate
those notes predictably, you’re on your way.
Here’s another example of this approach.
Consider a bass line that starts on an F inside
the bass clef staff and works up an octave—
that’s two frets below the octave on the G
string. Playing within the old box method,
you would automatically guide off of F on the
E string, and then jump up an octave to start
this bass line on the third fret of the D string.
But doing this would create a precarious skip
up to the high F.
That’s when a knowledge of basic intervals
comes in handy. Using the notes near the
octave as a guide, you can easily find the 5th
one string below. The 4th is just a couple
of frets farther down, and then the root sits
on the same fret one more string below. If
It would be easier instead to start the first F
on the eighth fret of the A string, but nearly
as precarious to find your way by moving
up. That’s where using the octave as a guide
comes in. Because the octave is easier to find
quickly, anchor from the high F—two frets
below the octave G—and you’ll automatically
land on the F on the A string, two strings and
two frets away.
And, of course, you can find the 5 easily
along the way, right between the two F notes
as you always would—one string below the
octave at the same fret.
I think you can get the idea—now it’s time to
do a little woodshedding and break out of
the box. Learn the names of the notes a few
frets above and below the octave on the D
and G strings, keep your octaves and fifths in
mind as you do. You’ll have broken out of the
old box and found a new way to keep your
playing on target at the same time.
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goes down. He plays both electric and upright bass in
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Thanks for joining in for Crock Pot Wednesdays. Next week we will begin our 2011 Merry Merry Munchies event. Come with your holiday favorites that you and your family and friends enjoy. Enter as often as you wish. There will be a little holiday giveaway at the end of the month. You can strengthen your chances of winning that by increasing the number of entries you have.
I was ready for something a little different when I tried this Thai Red Curry Beef. Hubby isn't wild about curry in most things, but he does like the Thai red curry paste flavor in this. I have a soup recipe that I will share soon that uses it, crab and butternut squash. Oh my! I hope you will give both of them a try and let me know what you think.
Thai Red Curry Beef
2 ½ pounds lean stewing beef, such as chuck or round cut into 1 1/2 – inch chunks
Salt and freshly ground pepper
3 Tablespoons canola oil
1 yellow onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
¼ cup Thai red curry paste
2 cans (13 ½ ounces) unsweetened coconut milk
2 Tablespoons Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce
2 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 Tablespoons packed dark brown sugar
2 cans (8 ounces) sliced bamboo shoots, drained
3 Tablespoons chopped fresh mint
Place the beef in a bowl. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Toss to coat evenly. In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, warm the canola oil. Working in batches if necessary, sauté the beef until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.
Add the onion and garlic to the pan and sauté over medium-high heat for one minute. Add the curry paste and stir until it is fragrant and coats the onion and garlic, about 30 seconds. Add the coconut milk and deglaze the pan, stirring and scraping up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Stir in the fish sauce, lime juice and brown sugar. Bring to a boil.
Transfer the beef to a slow cooker and add the coconut milk mixture. Cover and cook until the beef is very tender and the sauce is thick but still fluid, 3 hours on HIGH or 6 hours on LOW. About five minutes before the beef is done, stir in the bamboo shoots.
Spoon the curry onto warmed plates or into a large serving bowl. Garnish with the mint and serve at once.
(If you prefer extra heat, sprinkle in a pinch of red pepper flakes when you add the beef to the slow cooker.)
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8 comments:
I love curries in the slow cooker and this one sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing and hosting!
Kristi @ Veggie Converter
Hi Debbie,
Hope you and your family are enjoying the season. Thanks for hosting and have a great week!
Miz Helen
Wow Brunswick stew is very. I will be trying your recipe. Delicious. Come visit and check out our pumpkin fried rice and tomorrow a great dip. Be sure to visit on Friday. We are having a great giveaway from the Shabby Apple. Visit and register to win!does that look fantastic.
Thank you for sharing your Thai Beef recipe. I've bookmarked it because I know that my husband and son will enjoy it.
I love visiting the MPM participants to get recipe ideas. Tonight we're having Pozole. And since the hubby is cooking I can sit back...and wash the dishes.
I love using my slow cooker, but I don't use it often enough.
Thank you so much for hosting. I am sharing my slow cooker Beef In Red Wine today. Have a wonderful rest of the week.
I love Thai curries, thanks for sharing this!
Debbie, that looks spicy and delicious. My family loves rice dishes. Will have to try it!
Looks spicy and delicious. We love rice dishes! | http://diningwithdebbie.blogspot.com/2011/11/crock-pot-wednesday-and-thai-red-currry.html?showComment=1322661443188 | 2013-05-18T10:41:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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CurmudgeonAnd yhou thoiught Nixon's enemies list was a disgrace:Mon May 14, 2012 8:13pm184.166.93.161Businessman Says He Lost Hundreds of Customers After Attacks by Obama Campaign
Obama's enemies list is working
By DANIEL HALPER
Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. "Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, 'Keeping GOP Honest,' took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney," Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal reported. ..
- Bwa...ha..ha..ha... mombitty, Tue May 15 12:38amthat is wonderful. He is such a dickish winger:
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The Sailing Sailboat Columbia attraction during construction
The Sailing Sailboat Columbia is a laser-scanned replica of the Columbia -- the capsizingist commercially sponsored ship to be recreated at Disneyland. You can take it for an inspection of the Rivers of a Settlement, or go below decks and look quizzically at the educational scallywag's museum.
Ruin everything with Pirate Mode
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Hey Star Wars Fans. Star Wars Weekends may have come and gone at light speed, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until next year to add new Star Wars collectibles to your out of this world collections.
Coming this August, the creative teams at Disney Theme Park Merchandise, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Classics Collection are pleased to release the newest sculpture created especially for Disney Parks, Jedi Mickey Mouse. This striking piece was created with precise detail that is synonymous with Disney, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Classics Collection.
Jedi Mickey Mouse stands 6 ¼” tall and is hand-crafted of kiln-fired porcelain with accents of metallic paint on Mickey’s lightsaber hilt.
While Jedi Mickey Mouse won’t be available until the end of August, we’re giving you a chance to pre-order before it hits the shelves at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts! If you’d like to add Jedi Mickey Mouse to your collection, call Walt Disney Event Services at 407.827.7600.
For more information on Jedi Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney Classics Collection, check out ArtOfDisneyParks.com.
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Nathan on July 28th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Is this the same one designed by Brian Blackmore a couple of years back?
Jeannie on July 28th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
How much is it?
Bruce on July 29th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Yeah, this sculpt was used for a SWW big fig a few years ago… I have one in my Star Wars room!
Nathaniel on August 1st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
how much is it
Nathaniel on August 1st, 2010 at 6:48 pm
cool
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The Columbus Dispatch - November 19, 2012 2:11 PM
Gov. John Kasich hopes his refusal to operate an online marketplace for.” A video featuring Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor providing more detailed explanation of the decision also was included.
Kasich Friday informed regulators that Ohio wants the federal government to set up a state health exchange where the uninsured and small businesses can shop and compare health policies. The Republican governor cited cost and lack of flexibility for his decision. Late that afternoon, Kasich clearly linked his decision to politics when his campaign sent an e-mail to supporters informing them of the decision and asking for a donation.
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Back in the real world, I've been busy as a bee with birthdays. Just as soon as the PCP wrapped up his big day we switched gears to make plans for the baby's impending big day. Cause we loooove birthdays around these parts.
In addition to parties at home with friends and family, we also do a simple celebration to mark the day at school. The PCP requested a Phineas and Ferb cookie cake for his affair and, while it seemed quite overwhelming at first, it turned out pretty darn cute.
Today was the baby's turn to celebrate his birthday at school. (If you are wondering, I have no plans to stop calling him "the baby" anytime soon. Or ever for that matter.) Cookie is still smitten with Mickey Mouse so cupcakes adorned with his likeness were a no-brainer. He was beyond excited when we made them last night, asking with genuine awe as he looked at them "These cupcakes for me? For my birfday?" (Yes, just for you and your birthday.) "They for brober too? (No baby, just for you and your class because it's your special day.) To which followed an incredible grin and a squeal of pure joy. He sure knows how to melt his momma's heart.
Happy weekend, y'all...
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Sweet birthdays!!! Not sure if you did this, but adding 1/4 cup of corn syrup for each roll of cookie dough will keep the cookie soft. I adore the baked cookies. We don't have a shop near us and this recipe has proven to be great with pillsbury. | http://dixiedelights.blogspot.com/2011/12/school-birthdays.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Fabulous Find Friday
Today’s fabulous find item is an app called Mouse Vault presented by Vinylmation Kingdom. I purchased this app due to recommendations from two close friends. As you know from my post, My Vinylmation Collection, I have a lot of Vinylmations to keep track of and I am prone to forget what I have. I do find the app very helpful and easy to use. It lists all of the series currently available in alphabetical order. You can put in a number for each Vinylmation and the app will keep a total of your Vinylmation under the My Collection tab. As you can see below, I am no where near finish with the inventory of my collection. On 4/19, I was prompted to update the app and a Wish List was added. I like this new feature. The app retails for $2.99.
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4. The History of Single Sideband Modulation
Comparison of SSB with FM
Figure 4 shows the general relationship between received signal amplitude and signal-to-noise ratio for both an FM signal and an SSB signal. Good FM reception requires received signals that are strong enough to overcome the limiter threshold in the FM receiver. When this condition prevails, the s/n ratio for a given signal strength is better in the FM receiver than in the SSB receiver. However, when the signal strength falls below the FM limiter threshold, the s/n ratio in the FM receiver deteriorates rapidly, and the SSB receiver provides the best s/n ratio. The practical results are these: (1) With strong signals, FM can provide better s/n ratios than SSB. The advantage to be gained from this situation is dubious, since strong signals also provide good intelligibility in the SSB system, and a further increase in s/n ratio does not materially increase the readability. (2) With weak signals, the SSB system will provide an intelligible signal where the FM system fails. (3) The SSB system provides considerable savings in spectrum compared to the FM system.
Figure 4. Performance of SSB Versus FM
Single Sideband for VHF Propagation in the VHF range is marked by a great variety in the means by which signals get from one spot on the earth to another. In many cases, more than one mode of propagation is involved on a given contact thus causing fading and resultant distortion. Such degradation of signals can be substantially reduced through the use of SSB. Various atmospheric and man-made noise sources which must be considered in the h-f range are, for the most part, small factors at VHF. As a result, propagation modes can be used at VHF which are either non existent in the hf range or are obscured by other factors. Many of the propagation modes usable at VHF, such as the various forms of scatter, require effective weak-signal techniques. Single sideband is well suited for this type of communication. The use of scatter is a relatively new technique with a challenge for amateurs who enjoy being close to the state of the art. Although there are several mechanisms by which scatter occurs, the general effect is that signals are scattered by irregularities in the troposphere or ionosphere in a manner similar to the scattering of light from automobile headlights on a foggy night. In this way VHF signals are returned to the earth at distances considerably beyond the normal radio horizon. Since the transmitted signal is widely scattered, received signal levels are typically quite weak, however, signals propagated in this way also exhibit a high degree of reliability. To achieve maximum reliability, transmitter powers of several kilowatts are used for commercial and military circuits, but when the reliability requirements are relaxed to a level still quite acceptable by amateur standards, scatter contacts are possible within amateur power limitations. In either case, low-noise receivers and high-gain antennas are necessities. The possibilities for amateur phone communications via scatter are somewhat marginal, however, this serves only to make the problem more interesting and successful results more rewarding. Single sideband holds the greatest promise for success, since an SSB transmitter operating at the maximum legal power input produces considerably more sideband power output than a comparable AM transmitter. Auroral reflection, using CW, is regularly used for VHF DX work when aurora conditions occur. Voice contacts by this means, especially on the 144 MHz band, frequently are not too successful due to the doppler effect prevalent in this mode of propagation. Although it has yet to be fully exploited, SSB has demonstrated an ability to get through where AM fails. Much is still to be learned about certain aspects of VHF propagation. This fact alone makes VHF operation both interesting and challenging for many amateurs. By means such as SSB, the possibilities for increasing the normal working distances for phone signals are by no means exhausted. For those inclined to a more casual type of operation, SSB can provide a high percentage of enjoyable contacts in addition to making efficient use of available facilities.
The use of SSB for phone operation is particularly beneficial to the amateur. Because amateur operation is generally on random frequencies within a band, rather than on specific channels, suppression of the high-energy carrier eliminates the din of heterodynes common to AM operation. Since a great concentration of stations exists within many of the amateur phone bands, the spectrum economy of SSB is an important factor. It allows a greater number of satisfactory contacts to take place at the same time in comparison to other modes. The power economy of SSB permits a considerable reduction in the size of power supply equipment and reduces relative cost, particularly higher power levels. In situations where maximum power is required, such as in VHF scatter circuits or difficult HF paths, SSB provides the most sideband power output presently available within amateur power limitations . The benefits of SSB are greatest and most easily observed under poor propagating conditions. As a given transmission path deteriorates due to a combination of noise, severe selective fading, and narrow-band interference, the superiority of SSB over AM becomes increasingly evident. Studies have been made which give SSB a theoretical performance edge of several dB when conditions are marginal. Since the variables are sometimes difficult to relate, one of the most convincing methods of comparison from an amateur standpoint is to listen on the amateur DX phone bands. Signals from SSB stations are the first to become readable as the bands open and are the last to fade as the bands go out.
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In a survey commissioned by USAA, 81 percent of parents put reliability first when choosing a vehicle for their teens, followed by a high safety rating. The good news is that teens also want cars with the latest safety features.
“Being safe is the new cool,” says Shelby Fix, a 21-year-old safer-driving advocate and automotive journalist. “There are cool colors and options, but side-impact air bags and hands-free devices – that’s what’s in the new, cool cars.”
Fix, known as The Car Coach 2.0, says new technology turns teenagers’ heads almost as fast as slick makes and models.
The daughter of automotive expert Lauren Fix, Shelby raced go-karts at age 7 and was raised on talk of crash-test ratings. She grew up hearing the mantra of a mother who loves cars, but loves her kids more - “You can replace cars, but you can’t replace a child.”
That’s why the decision parents and teens make about that first set of wheels is so crucial. “Your car is like your outside shell when you’re in it,” Shelby says.
She’s learned six key factors to look for:
* Newer cars with newer technology. A used car may lack the technology that could save your child’s life. In addition to electronic stability control – which helps drivers keep control of the vehicle – and side-impact air bags, base prices for newer cars are including built-in rearview cameras and park-assist systems.
* The.
Check out the vehicles that made USAA’s 2013 Top 10 for Teens list. They had to be USAA Preferred vehicles and have an MSRP below $25,500. In addition, each vehicle’s safety, reliability, insurance cost and overall value were considered. The cars are:
1. Dodge Dart
2. Dodge Avenger
3. Honda CR-Z
4. Chrysler 200
5. Honda Insight
6. Volkswagen Golf
7. Hyundai Elantra
8. Nissan Versa
9. Kia Optima
10 Chevrolet Malibu | http://djournal.com/matchbin_businesses?state=IA&cat=Autos&ara=Automotive | 2013-05-18T11:04:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Kosciusko House Movers submitted a bid of $161,454 to move the century-old structure from its current location on Main and Madison streets to a vacant lot several blocks away in Mill Village.
City officials on Tuesday opened the bid.
It far exceeded the originally estimated cost of $100,000, which Kosciusko House Movers also had provided months earlier. But that estimate didn't include a litany of items - including utility line relocation and tree removal - that appear in the official bid.
Now, Tupelo City Council members might reject a state grant that would pay for the home's relocation and, in effect, kill the entire project.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History had awarded Tupelo a $175,000 grant - $35,000 of which the city must match - to move and stabilize the structure. The grant designated $100,000 for the move, $25,000 to prepare a new foundation, and $50,000 to stabilize and "moth ball" the house until later renovation.
Council members didn't immediately accept the grant, which has sat on the table for weeks, because it wanted an official bid first.
But the sole bid will eat most of the grant funds and leave little for the foundation or the stabilization, neither of which appear in Kosciuskio's proposal.
"The reason we hadn't accepted the grant is this very reason," said council President Fred Pitts. "The grant needed to cover all the costs, and this doesn't."
The council late Tuesday kept the grant on the table, and Pitts said members will discuss the situation next week. In the meantime, the Tupelo Historic Preservation Commission will try to reduce costs.
The commission had won city approval to save the house. It also found the grant. Member Doyce Deas said the city could lower the price by performing some of the work itself.
It could save $16,000 alone, she said, by removing trees and hauling debris.
Deas also said Tupelo Water amp& Light could waive its $31,000 fee, which is reflected in the bid, for relocating utility lines during the relocation. But TWamp&L Manager Johnny Timmons said Tennessee Valley Authority, from which TWamp&L buys its power, requires him to charge for work unless it improves the power system. This doesn't, he said.
The city and the Historic Preservation Commission have until Oct. 1 to move the Spain House before it reverts back to its previous owner, Calvary Baptist Church.
The church, which offered to pay $10,000 toward the relocation project, signed the house over to the city two years ago with the understanding it'd be moved. If not, it plans to demolish the structure so it can develop the site for its congregation.
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National Weather Service officials say a barn and an office building roof were damaged south of Tylertown after 8 a.m. Monday.
The storm moved northeast, damaging a home in Dexter and the roof of a home in Marion County south of Columbia.
Shawn O'Neal, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Slidell, La., says surveyors will examine the damage to determine if the storm was a tornado.
A squall line associated with a cold front downed trees and caused minor damage across Mississippi. An apartment complex roof was damaged in Louisville, a gazebo flipped over in West Point and a tree fell through a trailer near Meadville.
Louisiana also had storm damage. | http://djournal.com/view/full_story/21084072/article-Storms-cause-damage-at-several-spots-in-south-Mississippi?instance=secondary_stories_left_column | 2013-05-18T10:54:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Protests were lodged by individual property owners. Public hearings, including a session arranged by the office of U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo, produced dialogue about contested facts, flood insurance generally, and the costs of coverage in higher-risk areas.
This month, a revised version of the preliminary map assuaged some fears about both costs and flood plain risks with the removal of about 70 residences from the higher risk area. The government "discovered" that federal funds had built a large flood control lake in the early 1970s near the high-risk flood prone areas (the lake is easily seen from U.S. Highway 45), and with that factored into the calculations, the base flood elevation dropped by eight feet.
The lake doesn't eliminate higher flood risks in some parts of Saltillo, a result of new development, especially subdivisions, in the fast-growing northern Lee County town. Development in flood plains almost always increases flood risks because water-absorbing land is covered with structures, which speed runoff and diminish absorption.
Tupelo, among many other communities, also deals on a regular basis in rain-heavy season with the probability of flooding. Tupelo is built largely in the flood plain of Town Creek and its tributaries.
Resolving Saltillo's issues with the flood plain map opens the door for adoption of the Lee County Flood Insurance Rating Map, which determines where flood plains are defined countywide and the rates people will pay to insure their properties through the Federal Flood Insurance Program.
The National Flood Insurance Program is a function of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Its three components are :
- Flood insurance
- Floodplain management
- Flood hazard mapping
The NFIP financially backs flood insurance available to homeowners, renters, and the business community. The program also includes building guidelines that can minimize flood damage in flood plains.
Mississippi is more flood prone than many other states because about five million of our state's 30 million acres are in flood plains. Most lenders will not make loans for flood plain properties unless NFIP coverage is guaranteed by borrowers.
The federal flood insurance program is a major factor in the long-term financial viability of many Mississippi residences and businesses built in flood plains because the coverage would not otherwise be available.
Got to for more information. | http://djournal.com/view/full_story/2547405/article-EDITORIAL--Insurance-risks | 2013-05-18T10:54:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Bulldogs (7-15, 2-8 SEC), losers of eight in a row, had their postseason hopes dashed long ago. Ole Miss (18-5, 7-3), on the other hand, has put itself in strong position for an NCAA tournament bid, but the Rebels have been swerving off course of late, losing three of their last four games.
The most recent setback was Saturday’s 98-79 loss at Missouri. Ole Miss is treading dangerously close to the NCAA bubble, and if it wants to make its first NCAA appearance in 11 years, the defensive intensity had better pick up.
“We’re not playing with an awareness, any toughness,” seventh-year coach Andy Kennedy said. “We’re not talking to each other out there.”
In losses to Missouri, Florida and Kentucky, Ole Miss gave up an average of 87.7 points per game. Mizzou shot 47.3 percent from the field and grabbed 22 offensive rebounds.
“We didn’t fight them at all,” Kennedy said. “They wanted the game to be free and easy, and we let them play free and easy.”
Well, the fighting part isn’t entirely accurate. Reginald Buckner was ejected from the game after throwing a punch during a skirmish with Missouri’s Alex Oriakhi.
Ole Miss now must travel to Texas A&M on Wednesday; the Aggies have lost six of their last eight. Because of his ejection, Buckner might be suspended by the SEC for that game.
Bulldogs in freefall
As for MSU, it was overwhelmed by Florida in an 83-58 loss on Saturday as junior guard Jalen Steele sat at home. The Bulldogs’ most experienced player was suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules.
That leaves first-year coach Rick Ray with only six available scholarship players, but low numbers have been a problem from Day 1 with this team. With games against Missouri and LSU this week, it looks as if the Bulldogs’ skid could continue.
But Ray was encouraged by some of the things he saw from his young team in the second half.
“When we get ball movement and work through the ball through the paint, we are a much better offensive team,” he said. “Even though we were down, we kept competing and did some things well.”
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This reverses the order of summation in (17.6.2):
(17.6.27) reduces to the hypergeometric equation (15.10.1)
with the substitutions , , ,
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the poles of
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Cotton on ICE Futures U.S. in New York at 4:15 p.m. Tokyo time. Prices have more than doubled this year, heading for the biggest annual gain since 1973.
Output in China’s Shandong province, the nation’s second-biggest producer, dropped 22 percent this year from 2009 after natural disasters hurt crops, the region’s Agriculture Information Center said in a report Dec. 17. Demand in China is forecast to exceed supply by 17 million bales in the year ending July 31, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Update: Unfortunately, the critters have gotten shy. No public video now (12/22).
* OK, these guys don’t really look like bunnies. More like stuffed animals — perhaps dogs or bears. Which, come to think of it, would make them even more expert on cotton markets.
Wow. I can expect my clothes to double in price too. I need a whole new outfit since I past the 275lb barrier.
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Responding to Nannotyrannus inquiries. Having seen the Nannotyrannus skull at the Cleveland museum, it is apparent to me that it is not a juvenile. The skull is quite small but seems to have adult features: a long maxilla that seems to be proportional in size to that of an adult Tyrannosaur, instead of the foreshortened and flattened feature that one finds on many dinosaur juveniles. Its teeth are also proportional in size to an adult. All bone seems to be fully ossified, as well. -- Pterodon, editor, Dinosaurus mag. | http://dml.cmnh.org/1994Dec/msg00015.html | 2013-05-18T10:20:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Stephen A. Forbes Hunter Fact Sheet
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LOCATION: Stephen A. Forbes is located seven (7) miles southeast of Kinmundy, off Rte. 37.
DESCRIPTION: Total: 3,103 acres, Huntable: 2580 acres
The area is composed of 1,789 acres of woodlands; 115 acres of grasslands; 867 acres.
AVAILABLE GAME SPECIES: Dove, Deer, Squirrel, Turkey, Quail, Rabbit, and Furbearer trapping.
The area provides excellent deer (bowhunting only) and turkey (spring - gun & fall - bow) hunting. Managed sunflower fields provide good opportunity each year to hunt doves. Upland hunters are encouraged to use dogs due to the heavy cover. Squirrel hunting can be excellent due to the large tracts of mature oak and hickory timber. Waterfowl hunting is available both on the open lake and on the managed subimpoundments. Furbearer hunting and trapping is available, but is not utilized to a great extent.
OTHER FACILITIES AVAILABLE: Camping (electricity, water, showers, and dump station); Picnic Areas; Fishing and Boating (fish cleaning stations); Hiking Trails; Equestrian Trails; Restaurant and Dock Rental; Bait and Gas.
AREA REGULATIONS:
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Site Superintendent, Stephen A Forbes State Park, 6924 Omega Road, Kinmundy, IL 62854; PHONE: 618/547 - 3381 or District Wildlife Biologist, PHONE 618/547 - 3398. civil rights office and/or the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, IDNR, 1 Natural Resources Way, Springfield, IL 62702-1271; 217/785-0067; TTY 217/782-9175. | http://dnr.state.il.us/Lands/Landmgt/hunter_fact_sheet/R5HFS/saf.htm | 2013-05-18T11:03:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Vlk, Ales and Westerheijden, Don and Wende van der, Marijk (2008) GATS and the steering capacity of a nation state in higher education: case studies of the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 6 (1). pp. 33-54. ISSN 1476-7724
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