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Looking for a shiny squirtle will trade anything but I don't have any shinys.
Name :Amber
Pokémon black 2 FC: 5372 8790 3068
Looking for a shiny squirtle will trade anything but I don't have any shinys.
Name :Amber
Pokémon black 2 FC: 5372 8790 3068
Looking for any squirtle. Offering: charmander, bulbasaur, torchic, mudkip, totodile, chimchar, piplup, turtwig and more.
Edit: Have all my starters!
Last edited by Krioni; 27th April 2013 at 8:16 PM.
i am a new player looking for a squirtle only got 1 badge but can someone spare one this pokemon is my favorite
Want Squirtle have legends to trade
Trade Completed
Last edited by N(emesis); 5th April 2013 at 7:41 AM.
Black FC: 5415 9915 9793
Black2 FC: Milling events
X Friend code: ZK2Z-U9WG-JALB-WJBE
3ds Friend code: 4270-0846-6137
Pokedex is 645/645 Need Manaphy Shaymin Victini Keldeo
I'm looking for a Squirtle but I don't have much to trade. PM me to see what I've got. Thanks : D
Hey, just started black 2. Havent played pokemon since blue, really want to bring squirtle with me for memory sakes, and want to raise it from the start of my journey. Hope you can help. Thanks !!
I know its a big ask (especially for a first post) considering i just started so i have nothing to trade but how could you ever know if you don't try.
P.S. My friend code for anyone who wants to play; 4728 8332 8466
Last edited by Grin; 6th April 2013 at 6:07 PM.
Seriously bring me a patrat and ill give ya one im MMin so i got a few extra.
Black FC: 5415 9915 9793
Black2 FC: Milling events
X Friend code: ZK2Z-U9WG-JALB-WJBE
3ds Friend code: 4270-0846-6137
Pokedex is 645/645 Need Manaphy Shaymin Victini Keldeo
I have the following pokemon available for trade:
- Squirtle (thanks to N(emesis)
- Tirtouga
- Cottonee
- Oshawott
- Petlil
- Snivy
- Tepig
- Squirtle
I am looking for:
- Archen
- Starter Pokemon from Generations I to IV (except for Squirtle)
- Version exclusive Pokemon (except for Petilil and Cottonee)
Pokemon FireRed Team: Blastoise, Parasect, Graveller, Pidgeot, Arbok, Primeape
Pokemon Crystal Team (current): Bayleef, Wooper, Ledyba, Spinarak, HootHoot
Pokemon Platinum Team (hiatus): Grotle, Kricketune, Onix, Magikarp, Zubat
Pokemon Black Team: Embroar, Krookodile, Swanna, Beheeyem, Vanilluxe, Magnezone
Current Shiny Hunt: 13 soft resets for a shiny cleffa (Crystal)
My Pokemon Collection | Friend Code: 4700 1271 9539 | IGN: John
Have bulbasaur,squirtle,charmander
All Lv1 from egg..
Lv70 Relaxed nature || ALAMOS Event
x3 Lv50 Hardy,mild,bold nature || WIN2011 Modest flawless nature
x2 Lv50 docile,naughty nature || GAMESTP
x2 sassy,nasty nature || Oblivia
adamant flawless nature || TRU
Jolly flawless nature (MAY2010) || TRU
Shiny Event || TRU
Shiny Event || TRU
Shiny Event ||
Looking For any shiny(Prefer Pokeradar's)
I have all starters
Test your battles skills at "PokeGyms"
Gym record: W/7-L/1
Gym record: W/0-L/0
My gyms are currently close.
Wi-fi record: W/18-L/2
All time streak: 17 Current streak: 0
NEW Black 2 FC: 0090 3787 9986
Gym badges:
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Get your Squirtles here! lots and lots of em' PM me
Black FC: 5415 9915 9793
Black2 FC: Milling events
X Friend code: ZK2Z-U9WG-JALB-WJBE
3ds Friend code: 4270-0846-6137
Pokedex is 645/645 Need Manaphy Shaymin Victini Keldeo
I need a squirtle! If anyone has one please pm me!!
Pokemon Black 2 FC: 1593 4112 0380
i can offer squirtle, charmander, chikorita, cyndaquil, tododile, treeko,torchic,mudkip, turtwig, puplip,chimchar, oshawott, Tepig, or snivy(newly breed lv 1) This is what i need:
Ekans, Pichu, porygon, Ryhorn, pidgey (Males) i prefer lv 1 too thanks
Giving away the three Kanto starters for any Pokémon I don't have from Kanto and Johto, (which is a lot) someone help please, I have so many!
[IMG]Trainer Card[/IMG][IMG]Trainer Card[/IMG]I have Charmanders, Bulbasaurs, Squirtles, Lapras , and Larvitar for trade!
Looking for Heracross, Male Nidoran, either a Pichu, Pikachu or Raichu a Houndoor and a shiny Haxorus
Desperately in search of a Mew, will trade almost anything for it!
If you have anything else, I'm open to offers!
Currently breeding for a shiny Charmander, so I have boxes full of them!
Soon I wll be completing the first 2 Gen Pokedex's
hi im looking for a squirtle or any other kanto starters I will trade what I can please pm me
Hi, as in my signature looking for a Squirtle. I've got little to offer but if somebody has many Squirtle eggs please send one my way!
Looking for any lvl1 Squirtle, trading any pokemon from White
Looking for any squirtle please
White2 Friend code: 0519-7592-3571
X Friend code: 0216-1851-5361
My safari: FIRE, slugma,growlith,ninetales
#007 Squirtle (★), Available: 2
Ability: Torrent, Nature: Bold, Gender: Male
IV: 31/31/31/31/31/31, Hidden Power 70 DARK
Egg Moves: Haze, Yawn
Check my trade shop for rules/regulations and wants.
Dragonheart Sanctuary (OT: Ilane)
Trade Shop || Sinnoh || Unova || Kalos
offering shiny blastoise. PM me offers.
Platinum FC: 1550 7312 4136White FC: 1636 5031 1365
Check out my trade shop!
Offering a shiny Blastoise infected with PokeRus, looking for any legit and uncloned shinies. PM if interested.
Winner of the June shiny competition, with 15 points! (three 1/8192 shinies)
Latest shiny! (Friend Safari)
Spoiler:- Shinies:
Friend Safari
x3 x2
Masuda Method
Chain Fishing
"Strong Pokemon. Weak Pokemon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."
-Elite Four Karen
I still have Squirtle if anyone needs. Just PM me.
VO Squirtlemasterr
3DS FC-Toddry- 0044-2803-7809
Guild: Veneno Oscuridad
breeding squirtles seeking treecko
Black FC 1464 4404 4075
Seeking Leftovers x 3
Wings x infinite
vitamins x infinite
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Chicago Blackhawks: Toews-Kane Line the Immediate Fix for Scoring DroughtJanuary 15, 2014
The Chicago Blackhawks are struggling at the moment.
Chicago is 4-1-5 in its last 10 games, meaning the team has 13 points over that stretch. Those numbers aren't as bad as they look and would still have the team cruising towards another high playoff spot, but it's the way the Hawks have lost games recently that has been disconcerting.
The Hawks woeful stretch of play continued last night in a 3-2 overtime loss against the Colorado Avalanche in which they out-shot their opponent 48-26.
The Blackhawks are still one of the hardest teams to beat in regulation this season, but have been dreadful in overtime. The team hasn't scored a goal and has a combined record with shootouts at 4-11 in the extra period this season.
Scoring in general has been at a premium for the Hawks lately, a shocking sentiment for the NHL's leading offense. They have scored 30 and given up 28 during their last 10, but the former number is inflated by high-scoring outings against Colorado, St. Louis and New Jersey toward the front of this stretch. The new year has been disastrous, as the Hawks are 2-1-4 in 2014 including a 1-1-3 mark in their last five.
While scoring goals in general has suddenly become tough for the Hawks to do, one of the main reasons is that their best players, namely Patrick Kane, are not producing. Kane started off the new season hot following his playoffs MVP honors in 2013, and for a while appeared to be the guy to overtake Sidney Crosby for the scoring title this season, but he's struggled mightily in 2014.
The biggest reason? Consistency.
It's not just about finding consistency in Kane's game, which has been off in the seven games the Blackhawks have played in 2014 in which he has yet to score a goal and has only recorded three points (all assists). The Blackhawks' seemingly never-ending search for a quality second-line center to skate with Kane is causing the 25-year-old to slump and is affecting his ability to be one of the best playmakers in the league.
Since losing Dave Bolland to the Toronto Maple Leafs after the 2013 Stanley Cup-winning season, the Blackhawks have been searching for an answer in the revolving carousel at center to skate on Kane's line to no avail. Despite his woeful start to 2014, he still is tied for second in the NHL in points with 56, trailing only Crosby for the league lead. But he hasn't been able to create opportunities for his linemates recently, and his game has been flat.
Always unafraid to juggle his lines to get the performance the Blackhawks need to win, head coach Joel Quenneville has shaken things up and rotated through turns of Michal Handzus, Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger and Brandon Pirri lining up at the dot on Kane's line. Shaw has benefited the most from Kane's play and has the highest numbers, with 24 points on the season in 47 games.
But is Shaw the immediate answer to get Kane's mojo back where it needs to be? No.
The Blackhawks need to slot the winger back into a line with Jonathan Toews, at least in the short-term to jump-start the offense again. The duo have always skated together in crunch time, and the combination allows for both players to get the most out of their games while the benefits affect the entire team. This season, while they haven't skated together very often, Toews has been on the ice for all nine of Kane's power-play goals.
With top prospect Teuvo Teravainen—the Finnish sensation who recently captained his nation to a World Junior Championship Gold Medal—still a solid year or so away from being NHL ready, Kane will play his best hockey if he's paired up with Toews for the moment. Kane has dramatically changed his game over the past two seasons to become more of an all-around player, and ignites the offense when he's playing well.
With the Blackhawks primed for three huge matchups in a row in home games against the NHL-leading Anaheim Ducks on Friday, a rematch of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final against the Boston Bruins on Sunday and then a trip to Detroit to play the Red Wings for the first time this season on Wednesday, the Hawks need the offense to start lighting the lamp again quickly.
While the time apart raised Kane's game earlier in the season, putting him back together with Toews will help solve that issue for the time being.

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In honor of Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday, I decided to explore the Galapagos on shiny new Google Earth 5.0 with extra fantastic ocean capability. It is SPECTACULAR – stuffed with videos, blogs, cruises, and photos. So here's how I wasted an hour exploring. I'm not providing links since it's more fun to find the sweet sweet procrastination important educational materials yourself.
- Zoomed into Puerto Ayora, the main town on the island of Santa Cruz. Checked out the Darwin Station and a photo of Lonesome George. Was hoping to find some historical photos to get a handle on growth, but no luck.
- What's this red hat symbol? Sacre bleu, a video of Jacques Cousteau diving with marine iguanas in 1971. Bonus sea lion harassment of iguanas!
- Onto the island of Floreana. Read about critically endangered Floreana coral, with pretty photos.
- Anchor symbol – oceanographic goodness! An unusually well-written blog about a Woods Hole geographic expedition (on SIO's R/V Revelle) to explore sunken volcanoes. They've got interviews with a huge cross-section of the scientists and crew.
- Awww, Galapagos penguin chick begging for food off Isla Isabela.
- I wonder what's underwater? Swim over to Alvarado Ridge. There need to be some hidden easter-egg-type goodies in the Google Earth deep sea.
For a bonus, check out the largest initials on the planet, carved right into the sea floor!!! That's the glory of supplying the bathymetry data – DTS/SIO is Dr. David T. Sandwell of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
For more Google Ocean, Peter Etnoyer on Deep Sea News has been playing, too – see here and here and here.


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Children in Painting
Marie-Christine Autin Graz
In the same way Caravaggio was the inspiration behind Jewels in Painting, so Fra Angelico is the starting point for Children in Painting. It was while I was looking at his Last Judgement in the convent of San Marco in Florence that two child angels filled me with happiness. They are meeting in Paradise and embrace with tenderness before entering the dance of eternal happiness. They make you believe in true love. Fra Angelico is divine but is a child so? From the day of his birth until the age of ten, one might believe so. This is the reason why no child over ten features in this book. Having a child is a universal desire. A child is life, a child is love. Having to choose amongst an infinite number of pictures, I have attempted to select the most representative ones in Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English, American, Swiss and French painting, in which children play, laugh, kiss, cry, eat or sleep. Each of them reveals a masterpiece, in which the artist has exchanged his knowledge for a marvellous innocence. the ordinary becomes extraordinary, truth reveals beauty and beauty reveals truth. This book is as much for adults as it is for children, who will hopefully be encouraged to delve further into the world of art. To understand it is to start loving it: admire it and let yourself be carried away from everydays routine.
Parenting Teenagers for Positive Results
Expansion Of Consciousness
Effects of the Western Australian Cannabis Infringement Notice Scheme on Public Attitudes, Knowledge and Use : Comparison of Pre- and Post Change Data
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A controversial GOP plan to tackle deficit spending by privatizing the nation's entitlements could help Democrats in senior-heavy Florida, a top Democrat argued Wednesday.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said the "dramatic contrast" between Democrats and Republicans on Medicare and Social Security "is absolutely going to be critical" at the polls next month.
"We have elderly voters here who are extremely concerned about the Republican plan to privatize Social Security [and] turn Medicare into a voucher program," she told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.
"Floridians in particular are very concerned about the safety net that they have in their later years in life being ripped out from under them by Republicans, and that's why I think they're going to go to the polls and choose Democrats across the ballot."
The concern isn't evidenced in the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, which has Democrat Kendrick Meek trailing Republican Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioRussia leak raises questions about staff undermining Trump House members urge Senate to confirm Trump's NASA nominee Rubio: McCabe 'should've been allowed to finish through the weekend' MORE 22 to 44 percent, while Independent candidate Charlie Crist splits the others with 30 percent.
At issue is a proposal, sponsored by Rep. Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanHouse Dem moves to force vote on bill protecting Mueller Collins: 'Extremely disappointing' ObamaCare fix left out of spending deal House poised to vote on .3T spending bill MORE (R-Wis.), that aims to balance the budget largely by cutting spending on the nation's healthcare entitlements. Under Ryan's plan, dubbed the Roadmap for America's Future, those entering Medicare after 2020 (meaning those younger than 55 today) would receive vouchers to purchase private insurance coverage, effectively replacing the government-backed single-payer system that now defines Medicare.
Vouchers would be adjusted based on the wealth of the beneficiary, with low-income seniors paying less than wealthier folks. Ryan's blueprint would also slowly raise Medicare's eligibility age, from 65 now to 69-and-six-months over the next 80 years.
On Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a co-sponsor of Ryan's bill, explained the reasoning behind it.
"We reform the entire health care system," Nunes told the Fox Business Network's "Willis Report."
"We say the federal government is so completely inefficient and wasting so many tax dollars that we believe if we move those entitlements from bureaucrats in Washington and basically put them into the individual — where the individual takes care of their individual programs — they can take care of it and manage it, under the watch [of] the government but not under government control."
Nunes blasted the Democratic critics of the plan, accusing them of resorting to scare-tactics about how the changes would "take granny's Social Security away [and] keep her out of the hospital."
"This is what we have to put up with when guys like us actually just put legitimate plans out there on the table," he said. "We don't say we have all the answers, but at least we have a plan. The rest of these people have no plan."
Most Republicans, though, aren't eager to jump on board either. Indeed, Ryan's plan has generated plenty of headlines in recent months, largely because GOP leaders have declined to endorse it. (It has 13 co-sponsors).
House Minority Leader John BoehnerJohn Andrew Boehner4 reasons Mike Pompeo will succeed at Foggy Bottom The misunderstood reason Congress can't get its job done GOP sees McCarthy moving up — if GOP loses the House MORE (R-Ohio) told reporters in July that parts of the proposal "are well done," but he has "some doubts about … how good the policy is."
Politically, that reluctance makes good sense. In its analysis of Ryan's proposal, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the value of the Medicare vouchers would be less, when the program launched in 2021, than the projected spending on each enrollee under traditional Medicare.
"Beneficiaries would therefore face higher premiums in the private market for a package of benefits similar to that currently provided by Medicare," CBO said.
Also, because the value of the vouchers are expected to grow more slowly than that of medical inflation, seniors, under Ryan's plan, would be forced to pay more costs out-of-pocket as the voucher program ages, CBO said.
"Beneficiaries would therefore be likely to purchase less comprehensive health plans or plans more heavily managed than traditional Medicare, resulting in some combination of less use of healthcare services and less use of technologically advanced treatments than under current law."
It's not a message most Republicans want to endorse in an election season when party leaders are blasting Democrats for slashing Medicare benefits under the new health reform law. Instead, most Republicans on the campaign trail are vowing to balance budgets without mentioning the entitlements, which are the single largest driver of deficit spending.
Indeed, when BoehnerJohn Andrew Boehner4 reasons Mike Pompeo will succeed at Foggy Bottom The misunderstood reason Congress can't get its job done GOP sees McCarthy moving up — if GOP loses the House MORE was asked last month how GOP leaders plan to tackle the entitlements if they win the House, he said there is no such plan.
"I don't have all the solutions," he told reporters. "It's about having that adult conversation in an honest, open way that'll get us the answers to lay out the plan that will solve this problem once and for all."
For the supporters of Ryan's proposal, though, time is of the essence.
"If we refuse to act," Nunes warned, "this could actually stop Social Security, Medicare [and] a lot of government programs in their tracks within the next 10 years."


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Fieldwork Diary: September 23rd, 1881
View of Blackbird Hill, showing Lake Wa-kon-da-gi Pe-ghi. Photograph by William Henry Jackson, 1868-69. Glass Negatives of Indians, 4037-a-1
"That city-bred lady stood everything with-out complaint."
--Thomas Tibbles
View from Blackbird Hill. Photograph by William Henry Jackson, 1868-69. Glass Negatives of Indians, 4037-a-3
A glowing sky greeted me as I came out of the tent into the damp morning air - it was not yet six a.m. After performing some portion of my civilized toilet, the kettle of soup was brought in and placed on the ashes of last nights fire and we sat on one rolled up comforter, each where he slept and ate with a relish. Suddenly the recollection of my usual life came over me and I burst out laughing, startling the tent in the midst of the somewhat serious matter appeasing out door appetites. I was forced to explain but I did not tell all. "Aye keep something to yourself" Mr. T. said, "Its enough to kill a fellow to live as you do east. Two hours at dinner!". "Thats pleasant", I suggested. "No strong man could stand that thing, all of the men are thin, pale, miserable chaps. I could whip half a dozen of them". After a minute he added, "theres Mr. F. and Mr. --, look at em! They do a great amount of brain work, theres more than one sort of strength, you know". "Yes, but they all eat raw meat east". S. translated to Wajapa who looked at me and laughed. I cast an incredulous glance toward Mr. T.
Indians are great meat eaters, but eat it very well done, care little for fruit.
As we crossed the bridge and turned up the main street of Ponca City Wajapa stopped our team and looked at a span of horses pulling a heavy load. He then said, "See that nigh horse, it was stolen from the Omahas, Louis Sansousi owned it". S. said, "Just think of it, as we travel we see our horses which have been stolen from us, and we cant get them back, for an Indian has no redress by law. The horse which matched my cream color mare (the nigh horse of our team, a fine animal), a man in the Iowa bottom has him and Father cant get him back". One feels so proud to belong to the dominant race seeing and hearing these things. Such conduct is not creditable to an eastern, well bred person - Alas.
Started at 9.45, waiting on rain and thunder and heavy sky. It looks like clear hot day.
We all take names - Wajapa names me, Ma-she-ha-the. It means, The motion of eagle as he sweeps high in the air. He gives me the name of his family and band. He belongs to the eagle family. Ma-she means high, ha-the means eagle. So ha-the give the eagle sign.
Susette, The western princess - Mr. T. Oo-nuz-zhe-coo-ta, Grey coat - Had one on when he released Standing Bear.
Notice several Spanish words brought to the western vernacular, "Jah hoop" a worthless fellow.
Bridges a feature of this country, generally holes, shake, planks jump up - One was built like a peaked house. Mr. T. said, "Some architect was trying experiments". He fled, I suppose, to the wilderness but "a chit has come taken notes!".
Wajapa belonged to the Indian Police, but, perhaps because he was too intelligent he was removed by the agent. He was a carpenter, built houses for government, paid $10.00 per month. Agent promised to give him more. He worked two months at the time agent had said he would pay more - went on for another month, then he asked the agent if he remembered his promise and if he would not then give him more pay. Agent dismissed him.
Indian trails skirt round in between hills and avoid taxing the horses. There are a series of ruts irregularly distanced - some deep, some not. Indians keep the trails because if they go out into the grass the snakes may bite the horses.
Susette says, it is difficult for her to write poetry as she was driving, Mr. T. on the load behind us, we passed a herd of cows on the low bottom land. Susette said, "Thou sleek and meek cow". There add another line and it will be poetry. "No it wont" says Mr. T. "Why not". "It isnt poetry anyway". Just here the horses suddenly stopped. Susette said, meditatively, "Composing poetry stops the horses!" "I should think they would stop at such poetry. Id lie down!" responded Mr. T. "The line lacks a foot anyway" he added. Susette said at once, "Thou sleek and meek Ka-ow", which we laughingly agreed met the dilemma, and I record the triumph.
Passed Newcastle at 1l.45 - 11 miles from Ponca, a Roman Catholic settlement, a little white church with its cross, a well painted porch, house with its piazza, a little further up the hill below on the level land a few houses, a store containing P.O., blacksmith and every sort of thing. Not a thrifty place. Hear this populace German.
The pitches of the road are peculiar, like going over a peaked roof. Often the roads have to be abandoned and then the new would be by its side, the old one with its high middle lies like a grave.
Barbed wire fences - cattle.
Rode to a house buried in cottonwood trees. Mr. T. went there, deserted. No water, no wood, over desolate hills, moors, S. admires them, thinks the landscape beautiful. Mr. T. thinks that out here there is room to turn round. To me it is desolation, no trees, only yellow billowy land, miles on miles and miles again. Seems to have no beginning or end, to come from nowhere and to go no whither. Weary, weary, weary.
Up another billow and there was the wreck of another house, its gaping windows knowing no home light, like the scene. Up another and round a curve, then we came to a creek running through a break in one of the level places. Here we stopped and the horses were led or made their way to the water, running through the black mud. One horse sank belly deep and pulled up on the opposite side. Wajapa was equal to the occasion and ran down the break and leaped to the other side, headed off the horse and soon he was with his mates eating corn and rolling on the ground. We sat in the shade of the wagon, while Wajapa made a fire out of bits of wood and dried weeds, off on the side of the creek. We had our meat warmed up, drank our coffee and ate our bread. While the rest were harnessing and packing up I went on and made a call at the log house. It was clean inside, through the spaces between the boards of the floor I could see the dirt floor. Daylight decorated the walls or rather ribbed sides of the house. Three beds were at one end of the room - made of two posts nailed to the floor, cross pieces fitted to the walls, and then the slats laid across. Two high beds and between these one lower one. There were four children, and mother ancient. The stove was blacked, the shelves had a clean curtain hung before them. Beds had white spreads, thrift was on every turn.
Yellow asters by the way, blue gentians, watermelon! Stealing?
Her name was Hugho. Her parents were from New York state. Emigrated to Michigan, then Iowa, then here. Had been here one year. Pasturing herds was impossible The country was so thickly settled! We rode miles without seeing house, a smart, lively young woman was there waiting. I note that everybody is blue-eyed, have hardly seen a pair of dark eyes. She talked well, both used correct English.
Young woman told me how to cleanse water. Make lye out of wood ashes by boiling it in an ample kettle of water. This lye is put into the hard water and it is then ready for use. As she was talking of cleansing water I asked, "What is cleansing water?" "Ha, ha!" She keyed out, "Dont you know what that is? I thought everybody knew that" "Well I suppose they dont do such things where you came from. Ma has often told me how awfully green she was when she first came west". Then, after looking at me, "I dare say youd find lots of inconvenience living out here". "I should probably find things different", I replied. "How do you like this place?" asked the elder, "How do you like it, better than where you came from?" I hesitated and then replied, "It is very unlike where I came from. It seems desolate to be void of trees" - "and houses" put in the elder. "Well, no, I dont care for houses but I do miss trees and streams", "Well, so do I" chimed in both. "I was awful lonesome at first", said the elder. "Ive been here seven years" said the younger, "and I told Jen yesterday we must have trees, I couldnt stand it any longer." "Do you have prairie fires here?" "Ha, ha! dont we, every spring and summer, burn us out if we didnt fight them". "Fight them?" I interrogated. "Of course, dont you know how to make fire breaks, I suppose not". She then explained. "What wood do you burn?" "Oh, we get it from the river" "How far?" "Nigh twenty miles" "Should think youd plant cotton trees" "We will soon, I hope. It takes a long time to get wood" "Long" put in the younger, "Why, one can go in the morning and get back in the afternoon, I dont think that long - Land! think of what people have to do further north - fifty miles for wood and burn corn cobs and all sorts of things besides, land! it isnt hard here".
We pushed on over moors and rolling prairie. As we passed mile on miles and no house, we wondered how the place was so thickly settled. As we rode on this a.m., Wajapa spied a patch of watermelons, and as we rode up he pointed to it and shouted in well toned English "Watermelon". We shouted, Hurra to him for his proficiency. After riding for some hours we plunged through a gully, a twisted descent and steep ascent and came upon a patch of watermelon and garden produce. We hailed the sight and Mr. T. sprang over the fence and secured one, soon we reached the house and paid the woman and enquired the way. Up and down "breaks" for a way further, having struck Bow creek or Ta-wa-ne Village creek, S. and I got out and walked while Mr. T. drove the wagon over a sidling road round one of the hills, the vehicle leaned at an angle that boded no good to axles &c. We passed a big bull snake resting after a hearty meal in the grass. He lifted his head as soon as I gave him a wide berth. After a half mile or more, we got in. Soon Wajapa came galloping up bareheaded, his hat in his hand, he had gathered plums and presented them in a courtly way to S. and to me. It is Indian breeding to take and never share with the giver, so we did the correct thing. On we went and then struck a beautiful bottom land. The creek was broad and clear, the bushes and trees by its banks green. A wide plain on which the Omahas used to come, lay near this creek, such a lovely site.
We went over the bridge, met a stupid man who was not sure he could sell us corn but might sell enough to feed the horses. Thought to stop on a level just beyond the bridge but the mosquitoes were dense, pushed on past a log house where "a widder woman lived", to another space when Mr. T. said he would camp anyhow. The sun had set in a glory. A heavy curtain of dove colored clouds was drawn up from the horizon became a clear stretch of sky which was like limpid gold. Turbulent clouds were all about the horizon, their great bubbling forms glorious in white and gold and dun. All was a soft greenish gray when we drew up near to a dwelling fenced in with a cottonwood grove just beyond the paling. The fire was started, the horses lariated just over the bridge on the other side of the stream where the pasture was fine.
A supper of fried potatoes, hard boiled eggs and black coffee and biscuit partaken of with a relish made us feel fine.
The wagon had been drawn up near the fence and the tent spread over it, and the intervening space made available by putting poles from the wagon to the top board, we had a comfortable, low, studded bedroom. The harness, dishes &c. were packed under the wagon and while supper was preparing I made my bed and combed and braided my hair. Wajapa said we would have rain.
All about the horizon the lightning played, forked in some places. We sat by our camp fire. Wajapa told of when the Omahas had smallpox, lost many people when they were very sick, went to the Poncas for help, were refused, angry - and the well ones fought the Poncas. Then the Omahas became restless and roam, couldnt bear to go in tents, the empty places made them heartsick. Wajapa traveled five years since to Indian Territory. It was the time of the last hunt of the Omahas. He dropped off from the tribe when near the Territory. He spent two months among the different tribes. Fearing the time would come when the Omahas would be moved he wanted to see what sort of country. On this trip he had in his mind to look at the land of the northern tribes for, as he dislikes the Indian Territory he will try and flee to the north if the Omahas are removed.
Talked of a white farmer who thought all Indians thieves, told him some white men were not good, said he had but one white man for a friend - Mr. Dorsey - and he thought as much of me as of Mr. D.
As we sat by the camp fire the lightning played around us. Off to the right a line of fire, like a line of battle was advancing over the distant prairie, above the stars shone clear.
At 9 P.M. we turned in. In less than a half hour the thunder began to roll, lightning to flash and the rain to fall. It poured. Soon Mr. T. had to rise and do his best to close up bolts for a hole let a stream in on him. That was fixed but Mr. T. crept in under the wagon. The showers came and went all night. Occasionally Mr. T. or Wajapa would tip up the baggy places in the tent cover and the water ran off in streams. The candle was a great blessing and gave a friendly light from the step of the buggy.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Nutsy Castillo
Crazy Train showed up at my house the other day.
The Laureles house, not the downtown one.
I was inclined to run her off.
But she came bearing flowers.
And wood.
She's not all there, that one.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Carnival 2012, We Hardly Knew Ye.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mennonite-ing Our Way
When I saw Marcos wearing this shirt this morning everything in me wanted to play the Mennonite Game with him and ask which Hunziker's he knew.
Then I remembered that I was in Honduras.
Here Mennonite names aren't Yoder, Smucker and Kolb but rather Velasquez, Lacayo and Green.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Lauro is 15
Lauro is an enigma, he is at once sweet and affectionate, compassionate and generous yet also easily angered, jealous, rebellious, and knows how to hold a grudge. His life has been one of rejection; his mother repeatedly abandoned them through the course of his childhood, leaving the family to beg for food from other families in the community while she shacked up with other men in Laureles. She finally left them for good when Lauro was 9, moving to the other side of the country with another man. Lauro then was a raised by his father until he got a new wife who in due time let it be known that she had no interest in raising another woman's sons. Lauro's father then essentially chased he and his brother Checho out of the house and left them to fend for themselves. And that's what he does, he works from 6 in the morning until 9 at night selling and counting and loading bananas - there is no thought for studying, nor plans for such; there is no time. I worry for Lauro - he's willful, long's to be a grown man, to experience the grown-up life and everything that comes with it. I love this kid, want the best for him and see so much potential in his life; and I see the path he's headed down. Pray for young and still quite innocent Lauro.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Eastern Mennonite Missions
Going Where The Church Is Not...
How Cacho got this shirt is beyond me - but he is definitely where the Church is not yet.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Honduras May Update
Greetings all from Blistering Honduras,
I trust this finds you well and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is Spring in North America. We don't have Spring in Honduras we have heat waves, blistering, incessant, inescapable heat waves – they're not nearly as beauteous or wondrous, let me assure you. That little weather tidbit aside though life here in Honduras has quickly gotten back to normal – it's been a little over a month now that I've been back after a 4 month break and I've been surprised and relieved at how smooth the transition has been. This then is my May update relating the events of the previous month, specifically as it relates to the transition back into life and ministry here.
The Big Move Out
A lot has changed from last year, principally my living situation - I no longer live in Los Laureles but rather am back living in the apartment I was in for my first 3 years in Honduras. This has been a truly mixed-bag of emotions; we (EMM) still have the home in Los Laureles and I do spend a goodly portion of my week there, tidying up, sitting on the front porch and entertaining people. Blas and Santos still live there, though they now care for themselves, and very often I will spend my Saturday nights there so that I can wake up in the community on Sunday morning and get our group of kids around for church. I don't want to disparage the year that I lived in Los Laureles - I really do miss it in fact, but the act of living there limited the amount of time I actually truly visited other people in their homes. People instead visited me and did so around my schedule. It limited my time for activities with the youth of the community, as much of my life was occupied by maintaining my home, caring for the guys living with me and searching for water. And it limited the amount of quiet, alone time I had - the only time I had to myself was either early in the morning or late at night. Now though that I'm back living where I was prior to life in Laureles I'm finding that the rest of my life is finding balance as well; I'm spending my days in people's homes, my focus when I'm in the community is on the kids, their needs and our different activities and I have much more time to myself for rest and reflection. It's hard sometimes, in fact it doesn't feel quite right when I have to leave the community in the evening; I love that place and everything in me wants to stay - wants to have my place, my home be there in Laureles. I very often miss just sitting on the front porch late at night and watching the stars, I miss being part of the community in a deeper way. I'm seeing the good in not living there though and the balance I feel in my life tells me that I'm living right where God wants me right now.
One More Meeting
This also has been a month of meetings and if my calendar serves me well, this next month will hold more of the same. Much of my time has been spent in support-style meetings and studies, things that I longed for and missed out on for the first 4 years of my experience here. I now have a regular mentor that I can physically meet with as opposed to having to meet over the internet; I've known him for almost 5 years now and am so happy to have him speaking wisdom and encouragement into my life, even if he is a Presbyterian. For the first time in a long time I'm also working in a larger EMM-team setting, with 5 Eby's and 3 YES Team members we could open up an old-fashioned mission compound. We all meet together twice a week, once for Bible study and once for team planning and ministry coordination. Of course they all cut out of here in July and I think I'm really going to miss the input and support once they're gone, but for now I really appreciate their presence and help here.
Finally, just about 2 weeks ago we formed an oversight board made up of members of the two main Anabaptist churches in Honduras and to eventually include a few members of the Los Laureles community. Andrew Eby sat in on the meeting as he's been handling the administration of the school scholarship program this year and I think we were both very encouraged by the tone and optimism of the board members. We received a lot of affirmations but also a lot of suggestions and vision for the future, especially with regards to the School Scholarship program. I came away encouraged and energized; a lot of their ideas were things I had been ruminating on even from the beginning but in being one person, had felt overwhelmed to implement. I never knew where to start. With this board I feel like there is support for my work, a group to help discern the vision and future and people to help me implement the needed changes. In a lot of ways, I feel like a weight of guilt has been lifted – guilt for not being able to run the program as well as I might like; with this new group I have real hope for the quality of the project.
New Ministry Direction and Prayer Request
This past week I began a discipleship program with 4 youth that I have been close with since my time here in Los Laureles began. These are 4 guys, leaders amongst their peers, on distinct paths (career/education-wise) and in varying relationship with Jesus (some closer than others). I will be meeting separately with each one so as to be able to tailor our time to their specific needs. Be in prayer for each one of them: Duke, Cristian, Chihua and Checho. Please pray especially for Checho – I have spent many, many hours sometimes whole days with him, counseling him, encouraging him, simply trying to be a support to him. He's 17, in 8th grade, works by day and studies at night. He has to support himself because his father has essentially disowned him and his younger brother Lauro. The weight of that responsibility has weighed on him recently and he's been very discouraged. He doesn't see much hope in the future, is not sure that this education thing is any guarantee of a better life – and I think he kind of feels sorry for himself; his mother ran away when he was 11, his father disowned him, if he doesn't work, he doesn't eat. Life's not easy right now, pray for encouragement, for support and for wisdom in speaking into his life.
That's all for now – thanks for taking the time to read through this and once again thank you all for your continued support and prayers. I felt them as much as ever in the 4 months that I was home and rarely a day goes by that I don't realize that were it not for you all and your faithfulness, I would not be here and this work and ministry in Los Laureles could not exist. Thank you and Blessings to you.
Matt Keiser
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Los Laureles Life
April 2012
"'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty." – Zechariah 4:6
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Monday, May 7, 2012
How Do You Celebrate Communist-Utopian Pipe Dreams?
This past Tuesday, May 1st, as I'm sure you all know, was the International Day of the Worker, that "cherry on top" of heady 19th Century Socialism and the reforms that it extracted from weak and ineffectual politicians, mostly of the European variety. If you have no idea as to what I am talking about it may be because the day was never anything more than an empty symbol, a kind of "finger in the eye" to all those Capitalist Fatcats, who apparently, by virtue of being succesful, aren't workers.
So how did we Gringos celebrate this day of tribute to Mother Jones, Karl Marx and his brother Groucho?
We did what any disaffected, disillusioned, culture-less expatriates would do in this situation.
We set up a booth in the park selling mildly provocative buttons and handing out poorly-written communist literature advocating everything from violent, anarchic revolution to the abolition of gender.
Just kidding.
We took a cue from our Honduran hosts and kicked it into party mode.
Except in being Mennonite Missionaries we chose not to participate in the activities depicted in the above photo and instead headed for the river with Nelson from church and apparently everyone he's ever met. Seriously, he just must have invited his entire rolodex to his own personal partay in the mountains.
So we came here to Nelson's property in the mountains, where in true soviet fashion, we gourged ourselves on sides of beef, whole chickens and hamhocks. And then we swam.
Just so we're all clear out there in Blogger-land, whenever I use a disambiguous "we" anytime in the next 3 months I will almost assuredly be referring to myself and this year's crop of slaves.
In this photo Slave John is remarking to Slave Nick that something is afoot up yonder on them rocks and oughtn't they check it out.
(Forgive me if I offend with my use of regional coloquialisms but Slave John is from Ohio and in that I would never debase myself be actually speaking to someone from Ohio, I can't quite be sure how this conversation went - thus the aforementioned offending colloquialism is my best guess.)
Slave Nick shows his aptitude for Cardinal Directions by actually pointing to the region they had already been discussing.
And away they swim, though to where we're not quite yet sure.
Well here's a clue, Slave Jetmir (Sounds awfully communist that name, I'll have to keep my eye on that one.)...Slave Jetmir appears to be looking down on his fellow slaves and encouraging them to join him.
(With that communist name of his I should imagine he's inviting them to join in some sort of violent overthrow of my reign and regime.)
(With that communist name of his I should imagine he's inviting them to join in some sort of violent overthrow of my reign and regime.)
And away go the two similarly dressed, similary hued slaves, scurrying up the rocks.
I was right, Slave Jetmir was high above on a cliff beckoning to his brothers. Perhaps in a defeated state of desperation from my tyrannical rule he shall throw himself to the mercy of the churning waters below.
By-the-bye, I invited Lauro along for the day just to have a little sanity in my life.
He was anything but impressed by these three chuckleheads and their less than deft scrambling over low-lying rocks.
Back to our One-man Communist Sleeper Cell.
I was right, he had grown weary of his mortal coil, and my incessant and exasperating demands for more iced-coffee, and decided to let nature have its way with him in the raging river below.
Though ever defiant, even to the end, instead of death-leaping in any sort of traditional sense (can leaps of death really have a traditional method?), he chose to simply lean forward and fall head-first to his demise.
Fortunately though for me (and EMM's insurance company), Slave Jetmir did nothing more than make an inordinately massive splash (must be all them flour tortillas he's been putting away here).
Consuela though, in the foreground, was so impressed that she was spontaneously moved to applaud.
Well done Slave Jetmir.
The twin slaves arrive soon after Slave Jetmir's face-plant and suddenly begin to rethink this plan of jumping to their doom. Perhaps King Matt's reign is more benevolent than what they had given it credit for. (It isn't, but at 25 feet up in the air even I and my autocratic oppression appear worth giving a second chance.)
Lauro, the only sane one in the whole group - grew tired of the charade and opted to return to the BBQ pit to see if there were any racks of lamb left.
Suddenly Comrade Jetmir appears out of the murky depths and surfaces under a bubbling waterfall, resplendant in the afternoon cloud-cover.
(This is not his best profile shot, but it fit the story line.)
Slave Nick takes heart, rededicates himself to Marxist living and leaps.
Comrade Jetmir wrings his hands in evil delight. One slave down, one to go, and a revolution will have been born - no more King Matt.
But Slave John won't jump - he considers, and reconsiders, sits down, stands up, rubs his chin and still, Slave John won't jump.
He keeps mumbling things like:
"Them look like mighty pawerful waves down thar!"
"I mightin be able to jump off this here stone iffin I were to have a pull on that jug uh recipe yous got there."
(Again, I can't be sure that he said these things verbatim as I stopped up my ears when he began to speak, but in that he's from Ohio I would imagine this was as close to intelligible English that he was able to manage.)
Regardless, King Matt may just be saved.
After about an hour of these shenanigans Comrade Jetmir begins to lose heart. He and Comrade Nick leave the tranquil pool and...
Join in on an Old-Timey Socialist Workers' Rally where they hear speeches about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Jungle and Child-Labor Laws.
They log their demands with the Complaints Committee and head off to...
dance the Maypole at Bryn Mawr College, an all-girls school, where they chant "Death to the Patriarchy" as they dance. This doesn't make much sense to Comrade Nick but he joins in just the same.
They return from their May Day events to the BBQ pit to find that there's still one cow alive after all the meat that was consumed that day. The two comrades, in true Leninist fashion, invite the cow to join their cause, which she unwittingly does; at which point they point out to her their need to eat and her obvious ability to fulfill that need. She doesn't understand until the recite to her that old communist maxim,
"give a man a fish and he'll eat for a...",
wait that's the wrong ideology.
They recite, "From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs".
The docile comrade cow obliges and Comrades Nick and Jetmir gourge themselves on Comrade Cow.
Slave, now Comrade John seeing this feasting as it occurs and remembering that he too is hungry, finally makes the leap of faith into the torment below crying out as he falls,
"Ima eat me some Mountain Oysters Comrades!"
(Or at least I assume that's what he said.)
Not realizing of course that the cow was a female.
the Party is over.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Home-Made Fun
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Design is in the details. And it takes obsession with detail to breathe life into that irresistible piece of clothing. These are the people behind the scenes at Gap Inc. — the dedicated professionals who push themselves every day to create customer experiences that resonate. Get to know these heroes of their craft.
Tracy Byrnes is always thinking about you. Whether she's running — which she does often — cycling or doing yoga.
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Tracy started her career in purchasing, which means she bought everything — from zippers to the fabric — that went into a garment, offering her serious grounding in what goes into a piece of clothing and why people should care. She then turned to developing high-performance fabrics. Which technical details matter most for a shirt, pair of pants, or piece of outerwear? What technologies are the premium mills working on, and how can Tracy bring them to life as something you can wear?
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A long-distance runner, Tracy completed her first marathon in 2004. She wasn't always a runner; in fact, she didn't care much for it before the early-aughts. But she was always an athlete. As her career in performance wear moved in parallel tracks to her interests as an athlete, there was so much overlap, they became one and the same.
Tracy moved to Boulder, Colorado to ski and cycle. She worked at Pearl Izumi, outfitting elite cyclists and Tour de France teams, developing a keen awareness of what athletes need when they're riding for eight hours a day or training in Belgium in the damp springtime.
She picked up running with the Bolder Boulder, an annual 10K foot race that draws the entire community. She moved steadily from there to a half marathon, to a full marathon, to qualifying for the Boston Marathon, to completing an Ironman triathlon.
"I am an athlete, and I know what it takes for a product to work and last," Tracy said. "If we're working to make a fiber stronger — a 'type 6 or a 'type 66 nylon with a special filament' — what I can say to the customer is that, if she's doing floor workouts, it's not going to pill; it's really going to last and look good for the long haul. The knees aren't going to sag and bag. The butt's not going to droop out. That fabric's going to bounce back into place. It's going to look good. It's really going to move with her and not fail her."
But it's not just a matter of knowing the athlete and living the life. Product prototypes must undergo rigorous testing in the wild before they make it to customers. The team discusses how to innovate everything from hiking pants to winter training tights, putting the products through the ringer as they consider what's working, what isn't working, what's missing and what could be improved.
Sometimes, a great idea even comes out of left field.
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Some of the highlights for New York include:
– In the Medicare program, there is a gap when someone uses up the initial amount the program will pay for prescription drugs and before they hit the catastrophic coverage. That area of out-of-pocket expenses is often called the "donut hole." There were 84,164 New York senior citizens who received $250 tax-free rebates and will receive a 50 percent brand-name prescription drug discount for hitting the donut hole this year. The White House estimates the hole will be closed completely by 2020.
– There are more than 2.8 million New Yorkers on Medicare. They are all eligible now for free preventative services and yearly wellness visits from a doctor.
– New York alone is slated to receive $8 billion to expand Medicaid coverage. The could include more than 305,945 additional people.
– Speaking of kids, if the economy — or the future unknown — has left your offspring unemployed, parents may keep their children on their plans until age 26. That's about 77,800 New York young adults.
– Small businesses who now face insuring their employees can get tax credits. There is $40 billion in tax credits set aside for up to 4 million small businesses for providing insurance for employees and making premiums affordable. There are about 340,000 small businesses in New York eligible.
– More than 10 million New York residents have private insurance. The law keeps insurance companies from dropping or capping insurance plans unexpectedly and from imposing lifetime limits that pose problems for people with chronic diseases, such as cancer or HIV.


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Hudson, P., Trauer, T., Kelly, B., O'Connor, M., Thomas, K., Summers, M., . . . White, V. (2013). Reducing the psychological distress of family caregivers of home-based palliative care patients: Short-term effects from a randomised controlled trial. Psycho-Oncology. [Epub ahead of print]doi: 10.1002/pon.3242
To examine the effects of a four-step, nurse-led, in-person and phone-based psychoeducational intervention on psychological distress, perceived unmet needs, preparedness, competence, and positive emotions among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer
Family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer enrolled in home-based palliative care services in Australia were randomized to usual care (control) or to a four-step intervention. Caregivers received a written instruction manual on preparation for the caregiving role and a home visit from a family caregiver support nurse (FCSN), who later developed a personalized care plan for the family's needs in conjunction with the local palliative care team and educated the caregiver on indicated topics. The FCSN followed up by phone to assess needs and to evaluate the continued appropriateness of the care plan, and reinforced relevant educational and psychosocial coping topics, including attempts to assist the caregiver to identify positive aspects of the caregiving experience. Discussion to prepare for the patient's death and bereavement was conducted during a second home visit, and a written summary of key strategies and resources for caregiving and coping was provided at the intervention's conclusion.
A randomized, controlled, two-arm trial design was used.
No significant improvements were noted in the primary outcome, psychological distress, as measured by GHQ. Caregivers (especially older ones) who received both home visits scored higher for preparedness for caregiving (p = 0.035) compared to the control group, although the effect size was small (0.29 for the two-visit group). Caregiver competence scores were also significantly improved in the two-visit group compared to the controls (p = 0.04), but not for decrease in unmet needs or perceived positive aspects of caregiving postintervention.
The primary outcome of the study, decrease in psychological distress, was not met.
This intervention, although previously piloted, theoretical, and evidence-based, was relatively labor intensive, involving personalized care planning with several reassessments by a study nurse outside of the established palliative care service. The authors noted that, on occasion, recommendations made by the FCSN to address unmet needs were unable to be acted upon by local staff due to inadequate resources, and this may have impacted the lack of significant change in scores. Additionally, a high attrition rate was noted, especially among the subgroup possibly most in need of extra support: caregivers with rapidly declining patients. Future work to support this group is needed.


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The Life and Influence of George F. Kennan
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis talks about George Kennan, troubled Cold War mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents that set the strategy of containment that defined U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. He was also an architect of the Marshall Plan and would become an outspoken critic of American diplomacy, politics, and culture. George F. Kennan: An American Life took almost 30 years to write, is based on interviews with Kennan and his voluminous diaries and other personal papers.


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Bromage from Birmingham
My grandmother Sarah Ann Bromage married John William Cox on 20 January 1928, they both lived in Ashley Street, Birmingham. His father is listed as John James Cox and her father was Thomas William Bromage.
John William Cox was born on 24 June 1904, his mothers name is listed as Martha Cox formerly Charles and their address is listed 88 Cuckoo Road, Aston.
Sarah Ann Bromage was born 4 January 1907, her mother's name was Emily Bromage formerly Cox, their address is listed as 21 Frankfort Street.She had two brothers that I am aware of Arthur and George.
John William Cox and Sarah Ann Bromage had three children, Ronald, Eric (my father) and Barbara, they lived for many years on Golden Hillock Road in Small Heath.My grandparents divorced when I was very little and I have no idea what happened to my grandfather, my father said he thinks he may have moved to Gloucester, he thinks he may have married again.
John William Cox was in the army for many years as a medic.
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Hiya Sandra my name is Paula i am the grand-daughter of Marina Rita Cox who is the daughter of George Henry Bromage who also has brothers called Arthur and Fred and a sister he usded to call Annie.
annie used to have a boarding house on Golden Hillock Rd for many years.
Her father Thomas William Bromage used to live next door to her.
Later in life she moved to Ironbridge where her brother George lived with her until she moved away.
I have photos of Annie and Jack and a couple more other photos.
From the journal you have written it sounds very much like my nans family.
Also you might be interested to know that George Henry Bromage (great grandad) is still alive and is now 101.
I hope to here from you soon as it would be nice for my nan to have contact with a family she has tried to find for many years now and for me as i would really like to get to know that side of the family.


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Roses in the Treetops
Ramblers and Large Climbers
By Sue Hopkins—Written for the Rainy Rose Society
Photos by Marji Lynn and Sue Hopkins
Why grow ramblers into trees?
Beautiful towering firs and deciduous trees combine to offer a surprising and glorious burst of early to mid-summer color and fragrance when a rambler is trained up into their heights. Ramblers are ideal as little-to-no-care additions to the garden that add depth and substance. Several of them bloom in repeats and many will open after the spring flush has faded into memory, continuing the delight of roses in bloom during summer's halcyon days. Ramblers are perfect for the widest range of gardeners, from those with not a moment to waste on rose care to those with fully landscaped properties to collectors with 'nowhere to go but up' with the next rose purchase. Even gardeners with a tall dead tree can offer it a second life as a rose trellis.
Good plant choices
The Horvath roses are setigera or wichurana hybrids and include 'Gardenia' (1899) with its shiny, broad green leaves and creamy white blooms, 'Long John Silver' (1934), and 'Doubloons' (1934). R. setigera is the closest to a native climbing rose that we have in the United States. These are hardy fellows descended from the hybridizing experiments of Michael Horvath (characterized by Horace McFarland as "the rose wizard") in Rhode Island during the early 20th century.
Inspired by Horvath's work with wichurana, the Barbier brothers of Orlean, France, developed the Barbier ramblers, with exqui-sitely colored blooms that draw on a heritage of r. wichurana and tea, prolific and healthy, and suitable for large structures in the garden as well as tree climbing. This family of ramblers includes 'Albéric Barbier'(1900), 'Albertine' (1921), 'Alexander Girault' (1907), the highly fragrant 'Auguste Gervais' (1918), 'François Guillot' (1907), 'Paul Transon' (1900) and 'François Juranville'(1906), which, according to Clair Martin, former Curator of The Huntington Rose Garden, is scented with gingerbread mixed with attar of rose. They are extremely disease resistant, particularly 'Albéric Barbier', with a scent like tea rose
(something special in a climate where tea roses may not flourish).
The family of Van Fleet ramblers include 'American Pillar' (1902), which dramatically graces the entry of the Jardin de Bagatelle in Paris… as well as the entire west side of our cottage. Another member of the family is 'Dr. W. Van Fleet' (1910), perhaps best known as the rose that sported unexpectedly into the first patented rose, 'New Dawn', and has large, orange-red hips that can be kept for fall color and as bird attractants. Other Van Fleet roses are 'Alida Lovett' (1905) and 'Bess Lovett' (1905), and the classic 'Silver Moon' (1910).
Michael H. Walsh, an English expatriate, managed the Joseph Hay estate in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the late 19th century and became a passionate rose hybridizer. A trio of his very hardy, successful hybridizations from spe-cies roses are 'America' (1915), 'Hiawatha' (1904), 'Minnehaha' (1904), and 'Evangeline' (1906) whose pink and white single clusters remind one of apple blossoms and whose orange-yellow leaves add a splash of additional color in the fall ramblers.
More? Try 'Trier' (Lambert, 1904) a multiflora rambler that is a perpetual bloomer and the parent of many of the hybrid musk roses. Or 'Treasure Trove' (1977), an intense apricot pink rose of 23 petals hybridized from 'Kiftsgate 'and a hybrid tea cross, very disease resistant and vigorous as well. Consider 'Chevy Chase' (1939) for unscented but intensely cherry red roses, 'cl. Cecile Brunner'(1894), pink perfectly formed rosebuds for your sweetheart, or 'Veilchenblau' (1909) for a deep blued-purple with charming yellow centers. 'Seagull' (1907), a white single, is another you might enjoy, rampant in bloom and growth and foolproof as well. 'Madeleine Selzer '(1926) has few thorns and pale lemon-colored, well-scented flowers. 'Mme. Alice Garnier' (1906) is one of the most beautiful and fragrant of all ramblers, with shiny, dainty leaves and quilled salmon-pink petals. 'Rambling Rector' has semi-double white flowers and is perfectly willing to climb "up and over trees, hedges and buildings," according to Trevor Grif-fiths, author of The Book of Classic Old Roses.
Where to plant
To plant a rose that will climb up into a large tree, dig the rose hole just outside the drip line (the outside edge of the furthermost lower branches), angle the plant toward the tree, then guide a bamboo pole onto the lowest branch, headed toward the trunk. After the rose is established in the tree, the bamboo pole can be removed. Planting out-side the drip line allows the rose to have sunshine, rain, and soil nutrients of its own rather than competing with the tree for resources.
Guide the whips (long and flexible springtime canes) along the bamboo or a rope. Even a permanent trellis will do, but make certain to use hard wood that will survive the challenge of years in wet ground. The rose will find its way up and out to the sunlight as time passes. This is not the work of a single season but several, with each passing year adding to the mass and volume, always well worth the anticipation. The great news? No pruning once the rose makes friends with the tree!
Pruning for a structure
Prune first after bloom, usually sometime after mid-summer, and follow up with a final pruning just before winter to protect the rose from swaying canes that may break in harsh weather conditions. Take the basal canes and trim all laterals (those smaller branches that come off the sides of the basal) to about 5-10 inches and above a bud eye. Tip the cane end to stimulate growth along the cane and be sure to aim the tip up at a 45-degree angle. This will increase bloom, so be firm about pruning excess plant material. Once the rose's laterals are pruned the rose will be easy to maneuver in a horizontal fashion around the structure. If you find that you have a flourishing lateral whip cane, you may turn it into a main cane and develop new laterals from it in the same way. Each main cane should be wrapped around the structure at a 45-90 degree angle. If you only attach the rose cane vertically, you'll only have roses at the top of the plant; horizontal placement allows roses at and below eye level. Roses on structures require much more care in that they must be rewound each year, limiting canes to the number that fit comfortably on the structure. Remember that the best bloom is on old wood, and add a new basal cane or two each year so that you can remove one or two canes that are two years old. Tip: check out Paul Zimmerman's excellent instructional YouTube video, "How to Pillar a Rose."
Attaching your rose
Tie roses with nylon rope, green stretch gardener's tape, old pieces of pantyhose nylon, or twine (my favorite). If you're tying to a metal structure, remember to tie around the metal first, knot or pad the tie to keep the rose cane from chafing or touching hot metal directly during the summer, then tie the rose to the structure. Each tie should encase the cane, holding it near but not on the structure. If you're fortunate enough to have a willow nearby, you can use soft willow whips to tie the roses. They offer a lovely effect as they disappear into the foliage and will wear away by the following year.
Care and feeding
As with all other roses, alfalfa meal or tea, or, if you prefer, a favorite rose food, are probably all you need. Any other additives should be dependent on a soil evaluation of the site. If you have been tormented by black spot or mildew in other roses, you can relax with climbers. They will be beyond your reach and you'll never see spotting or fuzz, if indeed it even exists. What a lovely thing to hunt for the bloom and not the spots! Generally, little or no care is necessary, though you may occasionally want to remove dead wood. Be wary of the springy nature of those long canes, though. No sharp tugging, and please dress appropriately with helmet, face shield and Kevlar® pants and jackets.
Nurseries and resources
Rogue Valley Roses (www.roguevalleyroses.com) has the region's widest selection, offering plants of varied sizes from small bands to 5-gallon pots. Other online sources include Northland Rosarium in Spokane, WA (www.northlandrosarium.com), Vintage Gardens of Sebastopol, CA, (www.vintagegardens.com), and Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham, TX (www.antiqueroseemporium.com). Locally, you may also find suitable plants at Christianson's in Mt. Vernon or Raft Island Roses in Gig Harbor, but call first to be sure they have ramblers or large climbers in stock.
For specific information about these roses and other ramblers, go to www.helpmefind.com/rose/plants. Information is gathered from across the world and shared among rose lovers – the most current, detailed resource available for descriptions, photographs, garden listings, articles, nurseries and more.
Lords and ladies of the tallest trees
These very large ramblers belong in tall trees – 'Bobbie James' (Sunningdale, 1961), 'Brenda Colvin' (Colvin, 1970), 'Guadalupe Volunteer' (Hulse 1997), 'Kiftsgate' (Murrell 1954), and 'Himalayan Musk Rambler'.
Whether you decide to send a rambler scrambling up to the blue skies in a tall tree or just delight in the lovely fra-grances and unique forms of a few canes structured on a tripod or post, I hope you'll join me in the wonderful ad-venture of ramblers in your garden. They bring a beauty all their own and I can promise that you'll anticipate them more eagerly every year. Who could ask for more?
Scanniello, Stephen and Bayard, Tania, Climbing Roses, Prentice Hall, 1994
Dickerson, Brent, The Old Rose Advisor, Volume II, Authors Choice Press, 2001
Martin, Clair, 100 Old Roses For The American Garden, Smith & Hawken, 2000
Griffiths, Trevor, The Book of Classic Old Roses, Michael Joseph Limited, 1987
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I knew it!!!!!!! You've got the entire collection of Coldplay CD's, don't ya?
I'm sure this oak will swell when and if it gets soaked, and with the bigger gap (Scott's suggestion). It will be easy to grab the blowgun and blow the debris out.
Moisture is going to get in there just like the first time, might as well give it a spot to evaporate out of. And room to clean it out.
4 more boards to go, but one will need to be ripped down, that one will be be placed in the center for looks. Yes, I'm getting anal with this project.
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How does this work, if they had >10m at 25 sept, and they have 9,6m Q4 (oct-des). Does this mean they lost 400k during 25th sept-30 sept? Im assuming if a sub expires at oct 1. it will still be counted in Q4, am I right by assuming this?
How does this work, if they had >10m at 25 sept, and they have 9,6m Q4 (oct-des). Does this mean they lost 400k during 25th sept-30 sept? Im assuming if a sub expires at oct 1. it will still be counted in Q4, am I right by assuming this?
We know the subs lost and not those belonging to the legions of whining wastes of space complaining endlessly on the official forums about daily quests and "forced" rep grinding because you need an active sub to QQ on the forums.
The subscriber number is meaningless, regardless of if it goes up or down, because we do not get it with enough context. What was the breakdown by region? Of those that left, what were the listed reasons? Nobody can draw any conclusion from the number alone except that 400k fewer people worldwide are playing. But they will of course try to extrapolate a simple number into all kinds of crazy arguments from now until the Q1 2013 report.
All this complaining is simply further proof that Blizzard could send each and every player a real-life wish-granting flying unicorn carrying a solid gold plate of chocolate chip cookies wrapped in hundred dollar bills, and someone would whine that Blizzard sucks for not letting them choose oatmeal raisin.
Looks like adding boring ass dailies helped a lot. Lollol.
Gentlemen, fasten your seat belts. It's about to get really scary in 5.3 and 5.4. A few changes I'm certain we'll see going forward into even 6.0.
1. Expansion of the LF system. This seems to be the future for getting people to see the content. Expect an LFBG update and extending LFR to at least normal mode.
2. Four tiers in MoP. If this is the fallout from just a few months without a new tier, imagine the damage a year would do. If Blizz wasn't already planning it, they're in the war room today planning out the tier between ToT and SoO.
3. More free gear. They tried VP, it didn't work. They tried dailies, it didn't work. Expect them to try something else entirely when it comes to gearing up your character. It may even be so easy as just farming heroic 5-mans. Or even doing solo questlines.
4. Expansion V will be big. MoP is at best stagnant, at worse it's failing. Blizz really will have one final saving throw later this year when they reveal Expansion V. If it fails to support the subscriber base, expect Blizz to start giving up on keeping WoW from losing players.
5. A lot more player interaction. SoE recently introduced a voting system for features in Planetside 2. Expect to see similar coming to WoW in the future.
I'm afraid WoW is officially entering it's decline. And nothing Blizzard can do will save the game. The community is too big, too greedy, and too against itself to possibly survive.
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Well just few points-
1. It's Dec sub number, so the current number might be slightly different(whether up or down)
2. It would be more like -500k, as last time it was 'more than 10mil' which I suspect it to be 10.1~10.2ish.
People were still finishing up the first Tier, and moving into Firelands which was INSANELY difficult for most, along with the fact it stagnated progression.
When DS came along a lot of people were still wrapping of Firelands or enjoying Molten Front.
4.3 was looked at as an amazing patch for a few reasons:
1. Transmog.
2. New Raid that was made to sound epic.
3. 3 New Dungeons.
That enticed a lot of people.
But after DS and Cata, a lot of people felt betrayed and were just burnt out of the game.
It's to be expected that those people, while some of them tried out Mists and didn't like it, would leave again, or more would.
The game is 8+ years old.
Even I was expecting a loss at this point.
They keep making mistake over mistake.
Huh, subs are down. Surely this means that all the folks who left did so because they agree with MY complaints about the game.
No, seriously.. these sub threads, and player expectations that get generated from them, are a great example of why this company and others like it shouldn't be publicly traded.
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Mystique wasn't played by the same actress outside of an in-joke cameo.
And wolverine's appearance was again more of an in-joke.
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I think it's somewhere in the realm of alternate reality in the same universe type comics bullshit, but it's definitely not a prequel in the narrative sense. It's a new story, not a previous chapter in the established one.
LeoliansBro wrote:Yes, they don't. It's similar to the DB5 from Goldfinger being in Skyfall. It doesn't make sense but it's just a joke basically and not to be dwelled on.
Both cameos make no sense if it is a reboot.
kalel wrote:Exactly.
LeoliansBro wrote:Yes, they don't. It's similar to the DB5 from Goldfinger being in Skyfall. It doesn't make sense but it's just a joke basically and not to be dwelled on.
Both cameos make no sense if it is a reboot.
I wouldn't class it as a prequel, more that some shit happened before the others took place.
The cameos can still make sense if you ignore they used the same actors and just look at the characters.
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Temple of Doom doesnt count because barely anyone knows its a prequel. It doesnt exactly advertise the fact and, like a bond film, they all stand apart as their own ripping yarns.
Except the last one.
It is a rare example of a good prequel, though.
I'll take ToD as a good example, although Indy is proper Saturday Matinee story-telling stuff. Each episode is what it is and happens in isolation. The timeline is sort of irrelevant (let's ignore Crystal Skull).
Temple of Doom is a weird one. There's nothing really about it that makes it a prequel, it just happens to take place a couple of years earlier.
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Apparently, the X-Men films are the same continuity...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the only other good prequel.
We found 2 out of how many?
Ooh, the new planet of the apes film was ok.
GF2 wasn't really though. It was a sequel with flashbacks.
They're not flashbacks.
Is it a crime to suggest that Terminator: Salvation wasn't complete shit?
darkmorgado wrote:Yes. It had barely any redeemable features.
Is it a crime to suggest that Terminator: Salvation wasn't complete shit?
Yes. But T2 would be an interesting shout.
kalel wrote:Interesting because it's not a prequel?
Yes. But T2 would be an interesting shout.
They could all be prequels in a closed loop time travel palava.
Anyway, quite a few comics have good prequels.
X-Men: The Hidden Years was an excellent prequel series.
All the Terminator films take place in a loop in time. You can surely argue all of them after the first are prequels.
BttF doesn't loop in the same way.
Until the Terminator franchise continues past the point where the first Terminator and Kyle Reece are sent back, they're all prequels (arguably). That is the initiation point in time of the Terminator narrative.
And this is an AWESOME conversation now.
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