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Editor's note: After the Exclusive Brethren split in 1960 and 1970 into Taylorites and non-Taylorites, the non-Taylorites then underwent several further schisms, as shown in the following dendrogram. There are, of course, many other branches derived from earlier schisms. This Section contains Roger's comments on some of the non-Taylorite sects, particularly the fellowship often referred to as the Renton Group.
Thu, 9 Aug 2001
Subject: Upsetting the Brethren
Back in May -in an exchange with Peter French in Dick Wyman's Guest Book- I described the brethren teaching on separation as 'blasphemous nonsense'. A 'Ted Fry' wrote to ask whether I was talking about the JTJr onward era or the whole of brethren history. I replied:
Date & Comments: May 24, 2001
This is in animated response to Ted Fry (on whom be peace).
No, not just the Jims, the principle of separation from the world as it is taught and practised by exclusive brethren in all their sectarian varieties is arrogant, simplistic and subversive of Christian teaching. My 'Frost' mother lives with my 'Renton' sister. They love each other (and I dearly love both of them) yet because of some foolish pharasaical difference (straining out the gnat and swallowing down the camel) between the two tiny fellowships they can't break bread together. If it wasn't so sad it would be worthy of a comic novel. Evelyn Waugh would have loved it as source material. So would Nancy Mitford and Stella Gibbons. (But you'll have to wait for my (lesser but OK) novel on the subject - which is three quarters finished.)
The model for Christian life (which EBs have always subverted and denied) is the life of Jesus. The apostle Peter says we should 'follow in his steps'. Brethren have gone into paroxysms of specious argument to deny this and to set an agenda which suits their masochistic, dull, sterile, life-denying tunnel vision. They seem to have been determined to be the Pharisees of the present age. And everyone knows what Jesus said to the Pharisees about their attitudes and their prim arrogance.
Transcendence is a part of the Christian life but it has to be matched by the equal truth of immanence. And THAT is something that brethren have totally ignored. The saddest thing to me is EBs who leave the Hales sect but learn no lessons and carry on with a pale imitation of all that damp-handed, pathetically silly posturing. And still (in their innermost being) believe that they are the ONLY ONES WHO ARE RIGHT. It's enough to drive you to drink. There was no 'recovery', no 'light of the assembly' - just a sterile, boring, sad little cul-de-sac. Which, in the end, blew up. And ruined many lives in the process. I am grateful that my five wonderful children were too young to be tainted before 1970.
With blessings upon all of you, however prim and hide-bound you may be, My friends we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age, But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth, And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death: For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
Roger (I used to be a 'ministering brother' before I discovered Shakespeare and Yeats and Mozart and Rembrandt) Stott
Now that letter is fairly sweeping and it has a touch of irascibility about it, I admit. But there is a tongue-in-cheek element in it as well, esp. in the 'drive you to drink', the Chesterton quote and the sign-off. I wouldn't want to change it, even 11 weeks later. But it has aroused widespread fury among Rentons and Frosts. I am being pilloried all over the country (and probably all over the rentonfrostite world) as a malicious mocker of the holy truths of brethrendom. Which I suppose -on the basis of that letter- I am. I really seem to have touched a nerve.
But this is the group (or a fragment of it) which has sweepingly condemned and blackened the whole of christendom (and the rest of the world) as evil and wicked and to-be-separated-from. Darby spent nearly seven hundred pages castigating the Roman Catholic Church and used a great deal of sarcasm and mockery in doing so. It seems a little strange that they should 'cry foul' when they get a bit of their own treatment.
I really think that they believe that those of us who have left ebism have done so entirely out of lust for the world and in a spirit of self-indulgent hedonism. That deep down we all KNOW REALLY that brethren teaching is right.
To those who have contacted me I have said, quite simply, that the whole brethren phenomenon has been a dark blight on my life (and on my family) and that I am perfectly entitled to say so. That they have been robust enough in handing out condemnation and criticism and that they should therefore be able to take it. I've advised them to go back to my letter and read it again and tell me where I have been unfair.
Incidentally, no one seems to have a clue what I am talking about when I refer to 'transcendence and immanence'. It's perfectly straightforward. Transcendence refers to the side of Christian teaching which is devotional and ruminative and related to heaven -the idea of God and his realm being 'out there'. Immanence (which is given equal space in the bible but has been TOTALLY ignored by brethren and some other fundamentalists) is the involvement of God in his own creation, the sense of us all being part of (and responsible for) each other, whatever we may (or may not) believe. It's the organic side of Christian belief (which Paul refers to when he speaks of 'the whole creation groaning together' (Romans 8:22)) Gerard Manley Hopkins is a poet of immanence (read 'The world is charged with the glory of God') and Wordsworth is another. When immanence is overstressed it becomes pantheism. When transecendance is overstressed (as in all brethren teachings) it becomes gnosticism - a claim to have esoteric spiritual insight which brings with it a hatred of the body and of material things in general.
Darby was, I believe, a genuine gnostic, who punished and denied his body and had no regard for material pleasures. His way of life was very austere. Paradoxically, his legacy has been a middle class hypocrisy, living comfortable, self- indulgent lives while still regarding themselves as some kind of ascetics because they don't have TVs or go to the cinema. They're like a bunch of kids dressing up in costume but not really understanding its significance. I've known some real ascetics and there is a kind of grace and sanctity about them which I have never seen in brethren. (I speak, of course, as one who no longer believes.)
Sorry about the length of this.
Love to all
I was very sad to hear of the death of Cloudy's daughter.
Thu, 9 Aug 2001
Subject: Upsetting the Brethren
Dear Warren and Sandy
Many thanks for your warm responses. I was a bit nervous about airing all this on the main forum but I did want to share it with my friends. (The exebs have been giving me quite a hard time over it - by stirring up my relatives who are brethren-lite.)
Warren: I had a bit of correspondence with Gordon Rainbow after Aberdeen. (I've still got the letters somewhere.) He does go on a bit. (But then, sometimes, so do I.)
No Sandy, Kensal Green is a famous cemetery in London! Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope are buried there. My son and I lived near there for a few years when we both worked for the BBC.
Love to all
Sun, 9 Sep 2001
Subject: 'Happy memories' (another one for JB to delete)
Dear Michael
Welcome back. I hope you had a good trip.
I'm sorry you felt saddened by your feeb intray. You asked before you went away if anyone had any positive memories of their lives in the brethren and most people said they didn't.
This is actually quite a complex question to ask. I can look back on a great deal of 'happiness' even in the JT Jr days (I remember particularly enjoying 3 day meetings at Andover with your father) but I couldn't say that these were good memories. Why?
Because I now see that my whole outlook was skewed and unreal. I was in the grip of something that I still don't fully understand (I'm writing a book about it) but which I now know to have been damaging and toxic. I was participating in a mad, apocalyptic cult that was frequently cruel and oppressive to innocent people who had grown up in it when it was quite different and later (because of family/ financial/business ties) found it impossible to leave. So even those bits that felt warm and enjoyable at the time are tainted. (Take a much more extreme case. A Nazi guard at Auschwitz might have had a very good social life with the other guards playing cards etc, but if later he came to realize what an obscenity he was involved in, he would hardly look back affectionately on that period of his life.)
There are other factors that affect the way we look back. In the JT Jr years there were those who led and those who followed, those who did things and those to whom things were done. If you were among (or on the fringes of) the ruling classes (usually called 'the approved') it was possible to feel safe and enjoy yourself. I certainly did, although there were times of anxiety and stress. Your father was a prominent brother (as mine was) and you and I grew up as part of the ruling elite. (If I remember right you were 11 at the time of Aberdeen? I was 32.) For others who were on the receiving end and not really convinced of what was going on, life could be very tough indeed most of the time. Many of the people on this forum had that experience.
Another factor is: how far one moves away from the brethren outlook afterwards. By being with the Rentons (as some of my relatives are) you have clearly retained much of the original (ie pre-JT Jr ) outlook of exclusive brethren. Most of the folk on this forum have moved much further away than that. They see the seeds of Jt Jrism in the whole principle of separation and believe that the brethren movement was wrong-headed and arrogant from the start. Some of the forum members left brethren before JT Jr arrived and others left in the very early 60s. These never saw the developed repressions and cruelties of the middle and late 60s yet they still look back on their brethren years as wasted and oppressive.
You and I probably represent the extreme wings of the feeb membership. For all James Bell's merry little quips at my expense, I am not an atheist - as anyone who has read my emails will have realized. But I am certainly not a practising Christian. I see all religions as metaphorical attempts to explain the ineffable and I'm perfectly happy that they should try. Myths and literature and painting and the whole field of the arts are trying to do the same things, and I find them of more value. But when religions start shouting about being the ONLY TRUTH and putting everyone else in the wrong and breathing out threatening and slaughter (and eternal torture) to anyone who doesn't accept their dogmas, I shrug and move on. Truth should be able to stand on its own two feet and not need barbed wire and machine gun posts round it.
I hope you will be able to stay with us. The whole point of this forum is that it is a resource for any who have a brethren background, whatever their present outlook. You say that I have a number of things wrong about the 'Renton' fellowship and that may well be true. I have found that their outlook varies quite a bit from place to place. In their meetings around London there is still quite a bit of brethrenistic emphasis on 'separation' but much of this is contravened in practice. But the basic 'religious apartheid' idea is still in place and that I think is what screws everything up. It always contains within it something of that stupid old graceless idea that 'we are right and everyone else is wrong'.
Love and best wishes Roger
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 Subject: I love the world
This is going to be another of those 'Dear Michael, I have nothing but goodwill towards you but . . .' letters.
'Whining' was the word that made me feel that I had to respond. Whining? -the exclusive brethren outlook (much of which you retain by being in the Renton fellowship) is founded on whining. It's a run-away-from-reality, don't- let-the-bogies-get-me escapism which hides behind a dishonest and hypocritical interpretation of the bible so as to create an apparently safe little enclave of comfortable people who all share the same mythical distortion of reality. And whine, whine whine, about the wickedness of the world and the errors and wrong practices of other christians but still manage to live comfortable unselfdenying bourgeois lives in the world.
This world is a wilderness wide,
We have nothing to seek nor to choose whine whine whine whine.
(Imagine a very strong, very rude, dissenting word here. In bold and underlined.) Now I'm going to quote a passage written by a member of the forum on this subject. I don't have the author's permission so I will quote it anonymously. (I have made two small changes so that the author can remain anonymous if he/she wants to. I hope I am forgiven.)
I love the world. I am crazy for the world around me and the people in it. I love mountains and rivers and politics and computers and Tibetan Buddhist monks and liturgical prayers and Beethoven and travel and good wine and my cat and my partner and the way sunlight filters through the eucalyptus trees in the morning outside the patio doors and the ravings of William Blake and the films of Jean Renoir and laughter and the City of London and the entire Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art even the front steps and the west coast of Vancouver Island and Christiane Amanpour reporting from anywhere. I can't get enough of the world. I want to live in it, love it, care for it, savor it, write about it, celebrate it, heal it, enjoy it.
That is so beautiful that it deserves to be enshrined as 'the forum hymn' or 'the forum declaration of liberty'. I salute the writer. Like us he/she was shrivelled and stunted by the meanness and small-mindedness of brethren thinking, its pettiness and its ruthless suppression of individuality (especially of girls and women), its constant whining derogation of beauty and creativity and true (as opposed to bogus) spirituality, its complacent dismissal of 'the human mind' as dark and irredeemable. (Which resulted in the elevation of fourth rate minds to oracular authority.)
But the writer escaped from all that dark and dreary mediocrity to an infinitely more creative and fulfilling way of living and many of us have and we look back on our brethren imprisonment quite differently to you because you were only eleven when Aberdeen happened and you were protected by the eminence of your father in the movement. And you now belong to a watered down version of this 'religious apartheid' movement (which still shares many of its arrogances as I have pointed out previously). That's OK, but don't accuse people on this forum of whining if they have an utterly different mindset to you about brethrenism. They were oppressed and damaged (some irretrievably, some still recovering) and they are entitled to talk about their experiences if it is therapeutic to do so. That is what this forum is for.
Love to all
(Incidentally, talking about Rentonism, I was recently shown the notes of a Renton fellowship meeting circa 1972 in which one of their prominent leaders insisted that it was 'wrong in principle' for anyone to have left the exclusives before Aberdeen happened. I was told that that statement has never been repudiated. Very interesting if true.)
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 Subject: I love the world
Dear Michael
My 'flash of irritation' was genuine and I don't regret it. I am in weekly touch with relatives in fellowship with you and see the characteristics I referred to all the time. And as I have said to you - my mother is 96 next month and we all know that when she dies, my Renton sister (with whom my Frost mother lives) will not be able to attend her own mother's funeral because it will conducted by Frosts and my sister's Renton locals would not allow her to go. That -if an uncredible unbeliever may humbly point it out- is iniquitous and unscriptural (as well as a lot of other things) and means that you personally are, in the time-honoured brethren phrase, 'going on with evil'.
Then there is my earlier allegation (which you didn't comment on) that Rentons laid down a fiat early in their existence that it was 'wrong in principle for anyone to have left the eb fellowship before the events of Aberdeen' (which is as big a piece of arrogant silliness as I have ever heard). I am told that this has never been repudiated. Put those two idiotic things together and I marvel at the understatement in my previous posting!
Forgive this rumbustiousness on this forum Gordon but I haven't seen Michael in the Kitchen for several weeks and I'm not sure whether he still has a presence there.
Love to all
[excerpt from a later letter written 4 July 2002:]
The signs for the funeral don't look good. Christine and Michael (who have had mother living in their house for the last years of her life) have had it indicated to them by their local branch of the Rentons that they mustn't attend a Frost funeral meeting and they are (I think) going to absent themselves and just be at the grave. This edict can only be based on a rather more than vestigial idea that 'there is only one right position and we are it, so every other collective Christian act is sinful and schismatic'. For me this outlook is ignorant, arrogant and also, in a simple Christian sense, heretical. At the same time it is cruel and stupid. I wish that my lovely sister and her husband could get this cancer out of their systems.
Sat, 7 Jun 2003
Subject: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I agree with most of what Alistair says but will give my own account. I was in the 8000 who left the Taylor fellowship after Aberdeen and stayed with them until the end of 1971 (18 months). The split came some months after that. (I'm not sure exactly when, I was too busy going to the theatre.)
My father was one of the most prominent brothers in the Frost side of the split (I always guessed that he was mildly irritated that the company became known as 'Frosts' rather than 'Stotts' -he was vastly more influential than Dr Frost, and Jim Renton -who gave his name to t'other side- was my father's first cousin, but my father never actually said so.) So Frosts and Rentons spent about two years as a single fellowship but tensions grew about how much of JTJr's teaching was correct. Jim Renton took the line that the tightening up of separation from 1959 onwards (leaving professional associations etc) was authentic and right and that SOME of the later stuff (including some of the 'not eating with people not in your fellowship' issue was still to be observed. My father and John Welch (AJEW) were the two surviving trustees of the Stow Hill Depot and they went different ways on the split. So the poor old publishing depot had to be cut in half again.
In general terms it was the most brethrenistic and 'legal' who formed the Rentons - they were more at ease with a tighter regime. But they were still way more liberal than the Taylor fellowship that we had all left. I had a close up on this because my mother and brother remained with the Frosts after my father died in 1976 and my sister stayed with the Rentons (and in fact married John Welch's son Michael after her first husband, Ben Bodman of Bristol, died tragically young in the same year as my father). A few years later my mother moved in to live with my sister and her husband but continued to attend Frost meetings while my sister had Renton breakings of bread and prayer meetings in their house. (My mother would be picked up and taken off to a Frost meeting while Rentons were arriving at the house.) This was seriously farcical because theologically they were only a whisker apart.
Frosts (I used to take my mother to their meetings sometimes so I saw quite a bit of them) were still quite brethrenistic but they had a much stronger sense of the ridiculousness of the JT Jr years and they were quite relaxed about relations with other christians and even got involved in some charity work. Someone from my mother's local meeting actually drove a minibus full of clothes and food out to Bosnia!
If I had to sum up the main difference between the two I would say that Frosts are quite content to take their place amongst other Christian groups, believing that they have 'more light' but also accepting that a great deal of this is being at ease with 'what you are used to.' They have a keen sense that exclusive brethren have made serious fools of themselves. My mother (who died 11 months ago) said that if she had her time over again she would not choose brethren - this shocked me because she has spent her life reading brethren ministry and had a big reputation as a 'pious and well-taught sister'. Frosts on the other hand (although they will deny it) are still haunted by the dreadfully silly idea of 'there being only one right position'. They will squirm all round this and use expressions like 'we have to be true to the light that we have' but they are actually crippled and distorted by the exclusive idea. They are deeply hypocritical - my sister can quite happily go to a business dinner with the company where she works but was unable to enter the Frost meeting room for her mother's funeral meeting. (But did come to the grave where a Frost brother 'committed the body'.) They still don't have radio or television but many of them have videos with screens and hire videos.
The Frosts did split a few years ago into what are called 'hard' and 'soft' Frosts but I don't know all the details. It was sparked off in Croydon by (I think) an elderly brother raising some pertinent questions about JT Sr's ministry. (My mother shook her head in despair and told me that if she were not in her nineties she would have turned her back on brethren altogether at that point.)
I see the whole brethren thing as a kind of viral infection and the soft Frosts have a very mild version of it. They are kind and nice people but somewhat hidebound and stultified. The Rentons - most of them - are lovely too but they are more messed up and out-of-sync. My sister, whom I love dearly, is WASTED in that silly arrogant little fellowship. She paints exquisite watercolours and plays Chopin very well indeed but her major energy is being poured down the brethren drain. (I want to take her to Stratford and Glyndebourne and the National Theatre.)
Sorry this is such a personal account. I can't really avoid that.
Love to all


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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
This takes place in the 19th century, as with the two previous films with Nemo's character - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) & Mysterious Island (1961) - a creation of Jules Verne. But, as mentioned on Wikipedia, there's some discrepancy - this should be later in the life of Nemo but there are references to the Civil War still going on.
The story begins with a storm at sea; several passengers on a ship get swept into the ocean. They would surely drown (and the length of time that they're underneath the surface seems long enough for them to drown anyway) but for the sudden appearance of underwater divers, who rescue them. Among those rescued is a heroic-like senator (Connors). Brought aboard the famous craft The Nautilus, they meet Captain Nemo (Ryan), who is polite but dictatorial. Soon after, they reach Nemo's underwater city, which Nemo has dubbed Templemir (why that name? Dunno; maybe someone else here has the answer).
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Most of the conflict in the story stems from the old & tired love triangle plot - Connors' senator falls for Paluzzi, who is being wooed by Nemo's 2nd-in-command. Also, inexplicably - as sometimes happens in these adventure tales, Nemo begins to favor new man Connors over his loyal 2nd-in-command. At least one of the rescued persons is also a troublemaker, very nervous about being stuck in paradise deep under the sea. And, a couple of others always seem to have sinister motives (Nemo is right to be cynical, I suppose). The whole thing is kind of a TV-movie-styled pale version of the big 1954 Disney film.
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I thought Ryan was miscast; Nemo, to me, is an eccentric, intense genius and the stern, gruff one-note Ryan just doesn't fit the part. He begins to fall for Newman's smart & pretty widow, also hard to buy into. I also didn't quite buy into Connors as a senator. The story also throws in a giant sea monster - dubbed Mobula (derived from a scientific term), it's a giant manta ray. It shows up briefly a couple of times. This was released, btw, in late 1969 in a couple of other countries, but not until 1970 in the USA.
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Driving North
View New England Trip, Summer 2012 in a larger map
A full photographic collection from this trip is on my flickr account. There are a few photos also posted on instagram.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
An Evening in a Kayak
Yesterday evening, I joined the folks from Delaware Paddlesports in a "social paddle" at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Prime Hook is on the Delaware Bay near Milton, Delaware, and includes a large range of marsh and open water. We saw Ospreys and Herons and Skimmers and many other birds. Very pleasant, a nice minor workout, and quite relaxing.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
It's Been 25 Years Since I Moved to Lewes
Lewes Lighthouse Sign, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
I had a tiny bachelor apartment on Second Street before Karen and I married. We had a small apartment on West 3rd Street when we first married. We rented a small duplex on Market Street briefly before buying our first house, a Cape Cod on East 3rd. Eighteen years ago, we moved into a suburban-style house on Inlet Place. And here we've stayed.
I've lived in Lewes for half of my life now. In fact, this is the place I've lived longest in all of my life.
I'm proud to be a part of this town; glad that our daughters have grown up here. It's been my honor to serve for several years now on the Lewes Planning Commission.
I wonder if I'll still be here in 25 more years?
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Literature: Words About Jazz
The story, the history and the evocation of time and place are wonderful. But I was struck by this passage about playing the music. In this scene, a young, scrawny black German trumpeter first comes to play with an established group of musicians, who are skeptical that he can even hold his horn. The narrator is Sid, a bassist from Baltimore.
But when he lifted his horn, we gave him a respectful silence. His trumpet was a cheap-lookin thing, dented, like a foil-wrapped chocolate been in a pocket too long. He put his rabbity fingers on the pistons, cocked his head, his left eye shutting to a squint.
"Buttermouth Blues," Ernst called back to him.
The kid nodded. He begun to tease air through the brass. At first we all just stood there with our axes at the ready, staring at him. Nothing happened. I glanced at Chip, shook my head. But then I begun to hear, like a pinprick on the air -- it was that subtle -- the voice of a humming-bird singing at a pitch and speed almost beyond hearing. Wasn't like nothing I ever heard before. The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal. Pausing, he took a huge breath, started playing a ear-splitting scale that drawn out the invisible phrase he'd just played.
The rest of us come in behind him. And I tell you, it ain't took but a minute more for me to understand just what kind of player this kid was. He sounded broody, slow, holding the notes way longer than seemed sane. The music should have sounded something like a ship's horn sounding across water -- hard, bright, clear. The kid, hell, he made it muddy, passing his notes not only over the seas but through the solid too. Sounded rich, which might've been fine for a older gate, but felt fake from him. The slow dialogue between him and us had a sort of preacher-choir feel to it. But there wasn't no grace. His was the voice of a country preacher too green to convince the flock. He talked against us like he begging us to listen. He wailed. He moaned. He pleaded and seethed. He dragged every damn feeling out that trumpet but hate. A sort of naked, pathetic way of playing. Like he done flipped the whole thing inside out, its nerves flailing in the air. He bent the notes, slurred them in a way made us play harder against him. And the more we disagreed, the stronger he pleaded. But his pleading ain't never ask for nothing, just seemed to be there for its own damn sake. In a weird way, he sounded both old and like he touching the trumpet for the very first time.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Happy Maori New Year
Watch the skies, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
It got me thinking back to about this time of year in 1980. I was a senior in high school and had invited a young woman from New Zealand to be my prom date. Helen was an exchange student and part Maori. She had the coolest accent ever.
It's traditional, for Maori New Year, to look to the skies.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Flag Bench
Flag Bench, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
On my walk to a sandwich shop in the western part of downtown Dover today, I came across this flag bench sitting all by itself.
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Come fishing
Come fishing, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Monday, May 28, 2012
A Hot Day on the Fairway
I played a practice round at Old Landing Golf Course outside Rehoboth Beach today. It was a very hot day. I didn't carry my clubs, but I did walk the course. I'm glad I took along enough water.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Just Because This Picture is Simply Charming
Gee-Up!, a photo by josefnovak33 on Flickr.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
"Make Up Your Own Rules"
Here's a part of the speech I found very interesting. It comes at the end when he has already given advice about akin art and living as an artist.
We're in a transitional world right now, if you're in any kind of artistic field, because the nature of distribution is changing, the models by which creators got their work out into the world, and got to keep a roof over their heads and buy sandwiches while they did that, are all changing. I've talked to people at the top of the food chain in publishing, in bookselling, in all those areas, and nobody knows what the landscape will look like two years from now, let alone a decade away. The distribution channels that people had built over the last century or so are in flux for print, for visual artists, for musicians, for creative people of all kinds.
Which is, on the one hand, intimidating, and on the other, immensely liberating. The rules, the assumptions, the now-we're supposed to's of how you get your work seen, and what you do then, are breaking down. The gatekeepers are leaving their gates. You can be as creative as you need to be to get your work seen. YouTube and the web (and whatever comes after YouTube and the web) can give you more people watching than television ever did. The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are.
So make up your own rules.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blackbird Creek, From a Canoe
Blackbird Creek Canoe Trip, 5/17/12, a set on Flickr.
On Thursday, I took the morning off for a naturalist-guided canoe trip on Blackbird Creek, in New Castle County. It was a part of the outreach programming from the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, a part of DNREC. My boss took the morning and came along, as did several members of the staff of a company called Delaware Interactive, with whom we have been partnering on several eGovernment projects lately.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Our Purple Tree, Spring 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
A Walk Through Historic Williamsburg
We saw the key things we wanted to see and returned in the evening for a lovely meal at the Kings Arms Tavern, where nearly a quarter century ago (!) I proposed to The Lovely Karen.
Friday, April 13, 2012
A Visit to the College of William and Mary
William and Mary is a tough place to start, I expect. It's such a lovely campus and seems a desirable place to go to school. I worry it might spoil the game for the other schools.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
On the Street Where You Lived (Part 2)
Part 2: The Farrars of Meadow Road
My next search of the 1940 Census was in Greenwich, Connecticut, where my mother grew up in the neighborhood of Riverside. Her family lived on Meadow Road, at the apex of the triangle it forms with Tower Road. They were part of Enumeration District 1-62.
My mother, Judith Farrar, was nine on Census Day in 1940; she would turn ten later in the spring. She was the youngest of three children of John and Roberta Farrar. Her sister Joan was 14 and her oldest brother, Robert, was 16 that spring. Their parents were both 41 years old.
The household included a nurse, 48-year old Edna Bullock from Massachusetts. She was there for Joan, who was unwell. There was also a maid, Geneva Lumpkins (I think), a 20-year old from Alabama. My mother tells me that Geneva was not there much longer. As she put it, "The war changed a lot of things." Robert and their father would both enlist; Robert became a navigator on B-17 bombers out of England.
Before the war, though, my Grandfather was making films. The Census form lists his occupation as Movie Director. My brother John found a listing for his company, Mercury Pictures, in a 1948 edition of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He also owned a hardware store and wrote jazz music.
Among the other occupations listed in their neighborhood in 1940 was an interesting mix of the wealthy and people who work for them. There were lawyers, publishers, and bank vice presidents, as well as maids, cooks, housemen, and a butler. That neighborhood is still very high rent; last time we visited we had to get special permission to go through the gates.
In Part 1, we looked at my father's household.
On the Street Where You Lived (Part 1)
Part 1: The Mahaffies of O Street
an enumeration sheet that included my grandparent's household.
My grandfather, Charles D. Mahaffie, Sr., was 55 years old on Census Day in 1940. He served as a Commissioner on the Interstate Commerce Commission. My grandmother, Isabel Mahaffie, was 47 and listed as a homemaker, though undoubtedly she continued to work, if not full time, as an artist. My father was about to turn nine years old and is listed as having completed three years of school.
I was interested also to learn about the people of the neighborhood. This is a partial picture, since the folks on the other side of O Street are in a different enumeration district, but a quick review of the people in the area suggests a fascinating mix.
There were a number of salespeople, a few people employed in the dairy business, a photographer, and the assistant chief of the Library of Congress (Maud Brady) who lived in the same house as a secretary at the Library (Cornelia Brady). I think they were Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law.
Up the street lived a young woman named Besley (first name illegible, at least so far) who was listed as a Secretary for the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Around the corner, on 30th Street, lived Paul L. Townsend, with his wife and kids. The census form notes that he was born in Delaware, and Townsend is a big name in Delaware; so I did a search. He turns out to have been the son of US Senator John G. Townsend, Jr., of Delaware.
I work across the street in Dover from a building named after the elder Townsend. Small world.
In Part 2, we visit the household of my Mother in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Monday, April 2, 2012
First Time on an Old Golf Course
18th Hole, Shawnee, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Shawnee Country Club dates back to the late fifties; the golf course is fully mature. The club, however, seems to have fallen on hard times and this year the golf course is under new management and is open to the public. That's us.
Course management has been taken over by the folks who run The Rookery, east of Milton. They're calling the "new" course "The Rookery North at Shawnee."
The course is not in great shape, but it's not too bad. The fairways are mostly dead grass; they appear to be resetting things. The tee boxes and greens are fine, though, and the rough, out of bounds areas, and on-course plantings are all quite nice.
I'd play there again.
Friday, March 30, 2012
A Hike to Kingston-Upon-Hull
Kingston-Upon-Hull is a a decaying 17th-century building that has been a farmhouse, a tavern, a store, and a brothel. It marks the location of some of the earliest settlement in central Delaware and reminds us that waterways, in this case the St. Jones River, were once our highways.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Heart & Soul of Sussex County, Delaware
The video is part of an effort to get the people of the county talking about the future of the county. It started back in 2008 with a web site dedicated to collecting words and images about the county from people who live here. I created a flickr group to help collect still photos; it looks like it helped.
Friday, March 2, 2012
A Hike at Blackbird Creek
I took time off yesterday morning for a hike at the Blackbird Creek portion of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR). The hike was led by a pair of coastal programs staffers from DNREC who shared the history of the site, information about the flora and fauna, and restoration plans. The day started out quite damp and foggy. But by the time we finished our walk, the sun was out and it was a very nice day.
Monday, February 27, 2012
On a Clear Day....
ship and new jersey, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
I took this photo from the top of the coastal defense tower at Fort Miles in Cape Henlopen State Park. On a clear day, you can often see New Jersey from Cape Henlopen; and the view is always clearest from on high.
But I think the presence of this ship somehow pulls the Jersey shore closer and all of the sudden the Delaware Bay seems smaller - no less grand, but more understandable.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
A Bench Full of Cats
Bench full of cats, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Arbitrary Milestone Number 7,800
hall of records, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
So. That's done.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Video: At the Compass Rose
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Who Was Norman Greenbaum Anyway?
The song itself was simple, when you're writing a song you keep it simple of course. It wasn't like a Christian song of praise it was just a simple song. I had to use Christianity because I had to use something. But more important it wasn't the Jesus part, it was the spirit in the sky.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Video: A Drive Through the Great Swamp
For What It's Worth, Here's What Winter Used to Look Like
This is in the city of Lewes, on February 6, 2010.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Video: A Ride Over The New Indian River Bridge
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Thank You, Barbara Vaughn
I've worked with Barbara on a variety of issues over the years. She's lately been the ex-officio member of the Lewes Planning Commission for the Council, providing us with regular updates and the council's perspective on issues that we discuss.
Barbara Vaughn is a very bright, kind, and dedicated woman. I've always been impressed by her willingness to give her time and energy to my City. This woman is in her 80s, and still going strong.
I will also note that Barbara Vaughn bears an uncanny resemblance to my Mom, Judy Mahaffie, another strong, kind, dedicated and bright 80-something. So working with Barbara has always felt somewhat... home-y.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Just by Way of Comparison...
Canada Geese visit Legislative Mall Dover. DE, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Today? It was sunny and 60-some degrees. Trees are starting to bud. Daffodils are starting to push up through the non-frosty ground.
It ain't right, I tell ya.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
We Won!
Lori and Kirk are the heart of a trivia team called "Who the H**** is Molly Hatchet." The membership varies, but we've enjoyed being a part of the team for a few weeks now. Last night, the team also included Lori's sister, Linda Lane, her husband Tom, their daughters Katelyn and Stephanie, and Kathleen's young man, Jordan Blankenship.
We edged out the nice couple at the next table last night to win on a tie-break question: "How many pounds of potatoes does it take to make a bottle of vodka?"
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Another Video of Lewes: Canalfront Park
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Happy (Gubernatorial) Anniversary, Jack Markell
reflected inauguration 1, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
I knew Jack Markell very slightly already. He'd spoken, as State Treasurer, at a conference I organized years ago. I like the guy, and I think he's done a good job so far.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Videos of Lewes
I took a look at Zwaanendael Museum.
And I looked around 1812 Park.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Good Advice From the World of Improvisation
Tina Fey worked her way into television through Chicago's Second City improvisation theater and in her book she offers a set of Rules of Improvisation that she says can be applied to everyday life. I've extracted the main heads here; the full thing is well worth reading as is the whole book itself.
- The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES.
- In real life, you aren't always going to agree, but this rule reminds us to try to keep an open mind.
- The second rule is to not only say yes, but to say YES, AND...
- Don't be afraid to contribute. Make sure you are adding something to the discussion.
- The third rule is to MAKE STATEMENTS.
- Whatever the problem, don't just ask questions and point out the difficulties; suggest solutions.
- Finally, THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.
- Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been made by accident.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Polly vs The Faucet
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Odd: Family History For Sale, By a Stranger
This gorgeous double-sided plate features the work of the artist Isabel Cooper from specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. One side features seashells from tropical waters and the other American specimens.Isabel Cooper was an artist and illustrator who provided paintings for a variety of publications, created murals for public buildings, and traveled to remote outposts with scientists where she fulfilled the role later filled by color photography.
As near as I can tell, these are plates cut from a book my grandmother did illustrations for in the years before her marriage to Charles Mahaffie.
I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of thing appearing for sale. My grandmother was paid for her work back in the 1920s, so that's not an issue. But I hate to think of great old books being cut apart and mined like this. Also, I always thought of Etsy as a site for artists and artisans to sell things they created themselves.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Remember When We Could Golf?
Fore! And Fore more!, a photo by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.
This nifty old photo, from the National Library of Ireland, brought me back to wanting to head out and play again, even though this weekend is too cold and windy.
This is from flickr's "The Commons" project, by way, which is worth any amount of time you can spend wandering through the national memories of any of several countries.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Tree Shadow
Tree Shadow, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Monday, January 9, 2012
"the delight of a well-found, well-handled man-of-war"
In this passage, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin is describing life aboard the Surprise, captained by his "particular friend" Jack Aubrey, in a letter to his intended:
I wish I could convey the delight of a well-found, well-handled man-of-war, sailing with all reasonable sail abroad, a steady, urgent wind coming in over her larboard quarter, her prow (or I think I should say cut-water) throwing a fine sheet of spray to leeward with each even, measured pitch: there is a generally-diffused happiness aboard; and since this is a make-and-mend day, the front part of the vessel is littered with hands busy, some with shears, many more with needles, cutting out their length of duck and sewing the pieces together, making their hot-weather clothes with wonderful dexterity. And each time the log is heaved they pause, ears cocked for the midshipman's report to the officer of the watch. "Nine knots and two fathoms, sir, if you please," croaks little Mr. Wells, whose voice is breaking at last; and a discrete wave of mirth and satisfaction ripples over the forecastle, while ten knots is greeted with such thumping on the deck, such enthusiasm, that the officer of the watch desires the mate of the watch to attend to "that God-damned bellowing and trampling, like a herd of drunken heifers mad for the bull."Interestingly, I was just looking back at a post from October of 2006, when I last finished reading the series straight through. Here's what I wrote then:
In the end, it took almost exactly 5 months to read all 20 novels. It was great fun. In another 5 years or so, I think I'll do it again.I started this trip through the series in late August of 2011, almost exactly five years later. And I swear I did not realize it until just now.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
For Comparison's Sake
Winter beach, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Birthday Cake!
Birthday cake, a photo by mmahaffie on Flickr.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Down Memory Lane: At The Air Mobility Command Museum
I was there for a planning meeting for the 2006 Delaware GIS Conference. It was my first visit to the museum. In later years, we started having GIS Day events there and I got to spend more time photographing the museum and all the airplanes.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Cool Christmas Gift
She visited my various on-line sites and mined photos and logos to create this cool clock. She used my old tag line -- Remarkably self-absorbed. Since 1962. -- as a central theme. Ironically, I had recently accepted Google's suggestion that I link my G+ and Blogger accounts, which required using my G+ profile which has no tag line, for both. But I added it back to the blog as a description in the header.
So all is well.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wooden Boat Story
This is the Juneve, a wooden boat built in 1949 in Scotland. She fished the North Sea and eventually was converted to a yacht. The present owners came to Lewes by accident, after a breakdown, and according to a story in this Tuesday's Cape Gazette, they like the city.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
2011 Metrics: Reading
I also dove back into the 20 novels of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series this year. I started at the end of August with Master and Commander. As we start 2012, I am about to finish The Hundred Days, the 19th in the series. I am reading this series straight through, without leaving O'Brian's 19th-Century. I've done this before and have read some of these novels three or four times. I still thoroughly enjoy them.
Of the rest of the books I read this year, only one was non-fiction - Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars.
though I am happy to say I own the entire Aubrey/Maturin series, most of the rest of what I read this past year were from the Lewes Public Library. I remain a strong supporter of my library.
I also read two books by relatives in 2011. My nephew, whose nom de plume/guerre is Magpie Killjoy, wrote an interactive novel called What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower.
Descend into the depths of the undercity and embroil yourself in the political struggles of colonialist gnomes and indigenous goblins. Fly in air balloons, drink mysterious and pleasant cocktails, smoke opium with the dregs of gnomish society. Or dream and speak of liberation for all the races. Fall in love and abscond into the caverns. It's up to you, because this is an adventure of your own choosing.And my fifth cousin's wife, Donna Gruber Adair, wrote a slightly fictionalized account of the westward movement of Benjamin Adair, my paternal grandfather's paternal grandmother's brother. The book, An American Odyssey, includes my great-great-grandfather JB Mahaffie, a founding settler, with the Adairs, of Olathe, Kansas.
As you can see, I enjoy reading. I am a fan of fiction and treasure the fact that I can entire other worlds and different times through the pages of a novel.


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(Western) Armenian - but most probably Eastern Armenian as well:
աստղ pronounced asdgh (gh = ɣ, Spanish agua)
աստղ pronounced asdgh (gh = ɣ, Spanish agua)
Eastern Armenian pronunciation is astgh.(Western) Armenian - but most probably Eastern Armenian as well:
աստղ pronounced asdgh (gh = ɣ, Spanish agua)
Eastern Armenian pronunciation is astgh.
In Tagalog:
Star - bituin
Stars - mga bituin
I wonder where you got that one – Maltese kawkba means "mahogany"!Maltese kawkba is probably an Arabic loanword.
...which is the colloquial name for star, from the Byz. Gr. neuter diminutive «ἀστέρι(ο)ν» astéri(o)n of the Classical 3rd declension masc. «ἀστήρ» ăstḗr (nom. sing.), «ἀστέρος» ăstérŏs (gen. sing.), which has also produced the formal MoGr masc. «ἀστέρας» [aˈste.ɾas] (PIE *h₂ster- star cf Skt. तारा (tārā) -the absence of the s- is unexplained- Hitt. ḫasterza, Av. stār-əm, ToA śre/ToB ścirye, Lat. stēlla < *stēr-lā, Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, Arm. աստղ (astł)).Greek:
I'm wondering about the etymology of зоря, зірка and зірниця, as they seem to be different from the name for 'star' in most other Slavic languages (Russian звезда, etc.).Ukrainian: зоря, зірка, зірниця, (archaic) звізда
Lucero (m) may be another option on some contexts.Spanish:
estrella (f) or astro (m)
Thanks! So зірка/зірниця can be taken to be derived/diminutive forms of зоря ? BTW in the old (1927) Polish etymological dictionary by Brückner the word 'zorza' seems to be lumped together with words (such as dozór supervision, dozorca watchman, nadzór supervision, pozór appearance) which rather clearly derive from the root zьrěti.The Ukrainian зоря/зірка are not related to the Protoslavic verb zьrěti [...]. They are cognate to OCS зарѩ/зорѩ, Rus. заря/зоря [...]
Btw, here is an interesting map.
Thanks! I'll just mention that Wikitionary on the etymology of 'gray' says that it comes from PIE ǵhreh 'to green, to grow' [perhaps a typo and it should be 'to glow'?] and lists as related OCS зьрѭ 'to see', Russian зреть and Lithuanian žeriù 'to shine'. I don't know where the etymological information of Wikitionary ultimately comes from. On the other hand the 'Online etymology dictionary' (I haven't checked its ultimate source) for 'gray' says that it has 'no certain connections outside Germanic.' So the whole situation is unclear. I think it is safe to say that at the proto-Slavic stage (~500 CE) the 'to glow' and 'to see' roots were definitely separate, and with less certainty they were so at the proto Balto-Slavic one (~?1000 BCE).In Machek's Etymologický slovník jazyka českého the words záře/zoře (OCS зарѩ/зорѩ < *zar-ja) and zříti (OCz. zřieti < *zьr-ě-ti) are listed separately, záře is related to Lith. žėrėti and žėruoti, zříti is related to Lith. žiūrėti. Machek explicitly excluded any connection between them two.


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So this is sushi salad, or as the blog I stole it from called it, "Lazy Sushi". I like this idea for several reasons. First, I'm lazy. Second, it would make it possible for me to eat sushi way more often than I presently do. Thirdly, there are literally thousands of variations you could dream up for this.
I pinned the recipe from a blog called Lea's Cooking. I followed her recipe pretty exactly and it turned out great. The only change I will make next time (and there WILL be a next time) is, I will leave out the canned tuna. It was ok, but honestly, I would just use the crab or maybe even throw in a few sautéed shrimp. The tuna didn't see to fit in. I think I might also throw in some edamame next time.
I added the baked egg roll wrapper crackers. I like the different crunchy texture they brought to the party. You could fry them, but I was trying to be somewhat healthy, so I baked mine instead.
This was a great find. I am absolutely positive I will make this again. I think it would be ideal for school lunch, or quick dinners during the week. It's almost like an Asian spin on a Mexican burrito bowl- only better!


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Comprising two hamlets backed by a schist ridge, Clavans features pretty fountains, flower-filled squares and an interesting church. The fast-flowing Ferrand torrent, which gives its name to the Valley, gushes down in waterfalls from the glacial Lac des Quirlies (2600m), before tumbling into the turquoise waters of the Lac du Chambon. With its flower-strewn pastureland, typical shepherds huts, ancestral traditions and daring roads, Clavans-en-Haut-Oisans is a land combining the modern day and memories of yesteryear.
- Untamed environment
- Track to Alpe d'Huez in the summer (35 mins by car)
- At the foot of the Col de Sarenne
- Peace and revitalisation
In summer, you can go up over the Col de Sarenne – a marvellous unspoiled viewpoint over the Massif de la Meije – and on up to Alpe d'Huez on the pastoral track. For hikers, Clavans is on the GR54 Tour de l'Oisans long-distance footpath and the Montée du Cerisier or the traditional walk up to the Lac des Quirlies (listed site) will reveal magnificent scenery. In winter, the Grand Sablat glacier off-piste run can be tackled with a guide from the Pic Blanc (Alpe d'Huez) down to Clavans.
History and Heritage
The name Clavans comes from Cla, meaning "key" and Aarvan, meaning "high". In olden days, it was a customs village on the former Savoie border, which the peddlers used across to sell their haberdashery, trinkets and alpine plants throughout France and even as far as Russia. When they returned, they brought other products back to the village, together with news of the outside world. Some fine houses still bear witness to their prosperity and some of them sheltered Huguenots during the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), when hundreds of Protestant refugees fled to Savoie. The inhabitants of Clavans-en-Haut-Oisans have managed to maintain the traditions from this era both as regards crafts (wickerwork, the manufacture of locks and the production of honey) and culinary traditions, using simple yet filling products.
A long time ago the story went around Clavans of the foultoum', a ghostly light that brought all the villagers out into the square at dusk. A touch of superstition made the Clavanchons wary and the phenomenon caused great intrigue. Everyone had their idea about where this light came from, dancing between the trees further up the stream. Even the mayor had difficulty maintaining a minimum of sang-froid among his population, so deeply was the legend rooted in Clavans.
But as with many mysteries, an explanation was found. A young lad called Petit Pierre thought to stand on the shoulders of a tall Clavanchon and reported that the legend was simply the reflection of the bulb of a street lamp, which was diffusing its ghostly rays in the caress of the breeze.
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This is what gets me into the Christmas Spirit. Why in the world am I doing in Dallas then? Well, because I only like the first snowfall of the season. After 12 years in Chicago, by the next day, the snow was no longer white and pure, but black and slush. Pleasant, eh?
I dream of being a quintessential small town during the Christmas season. There is just something romantic about small towns that draws me.
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring. ~ John Milton


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The Feds And AmmoBY Herschel Smith
6 years, 10 months ago
From Instapundit:
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: Why Are The Feds Loading Up On So Much Ammo? "According to one estimate, just since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That's sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times. Including illegal immigrants. To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, DHS is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war."
Wicked fascists. If you're in this line of work, you ought to go home tonight, fall on your knees, beg God for forgiveness and then turn in your resignation. You will answer for your sin of totalitarianism one day. God does not approve of your world view, and He manages the economy of His creation by spheres of influence and authority, the Church, State and Family, all accountable to Him and none with the authority to override the other's domain. You have usurped God's natural order.
Shame on you, now or in eternity. Beware. God will not be mocked.
Prior: So Why Does DHS Need 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Handgun Ammunition?


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Du-25 White Crevice SULIAO - Acupuncture Points
( Du-25 White Crevice SULIAO - Acupuncture Points ) In a depression on the tip of the nose.
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As the name implies, Du-25 can be located in a depression on the tip of the nose, which generally can be easily palpated.
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It is important that, to the extent at all possible, relationships between parents and children be maintained after a divorce or separation. Custody determinations and visitation arrangements affect the rights of your children.
Courts must determine custody and visitation in accordance with "the child's best interests." No brainer? I assure you nothing in family law is so often recited, yet so often violated, as "the child's best interests." Dueling parents seldom get this right, and the cost to your child is devastating. So here's a test question: Are you fighting over your child? If so, you and the other parent are harming the child right now. The first parent to understand this point will probably get custody, and in the process save the child a lifetime of pain.
The best interests of a child are defined by statute by a host of factors, including:
But I re-emphasize: when discussing physical custody and visitation rights, it is essential, even for grandparents and other relatives to avoid the trap of making children pawns. I and any number of child psychologists in this field can assure you that prolonged exposure of kids to parental conflict and parental alienation can be every bit as damaging to your child's development as physical and even sexual abuse.
This point is so critical that if I could grant you any one wish, it would be for you and the other parent to understand and live by what I have described here.
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On Lindsey's wonderful site Majikthise, she points to Beck's outrageous and twice-repeated claim that Americorps received half a trillion dollars in funding.
In the clip, Beck claims that Americorps has "just received half a trillion dollars in funding." What the hell is he talking about? Half a trillion dollars is $500 billion. Half a trillion dollars would put Americorps in the same league as the Pentagon.
For FY 2010, the president requested less than two billion dollars for Americorps' parent agency, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and congress appropriated $90 million less than he asked for.
Lindsey mentioned that it was reported that Beck corrected the outlandish claim late in the show. I'd imagine all of it was as calculated and programmed as his frequent emotional outbursts. They must have statistics of how many of the 2 or 3 million viewers don't watch to the very end.
David Bellavia, former Army Staff Seargeant and highly decorated war hero, actually seems more hysterical than Beck. He claims to be genuinely concerned about the evil progressives who want social justice, distorting them into something akin to the SS or the fedayeen. He said he wouldn't make comparisons then went on to do exactly that, comparing Obama to Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
Does this Bellavia have his own show yet? He's a natural, don't you think?
Do you think any good can come from this? What do you think Glenn Beck is trying to accomplish? Is it just about ratings, regardless of whatever effect he may have on the country? Or is he really trying to bring about changes in America? And what might they be?
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My job was eliminated at my hotel. They changed me over to the Front Office Manager. Basically, I've gone from selling the hotel to managing a hotel. I've now had to move from managing myself to managing the entire staff. It's crazy and busy and has caused me to work a bunch of hours.
In fact, I worked one shift 29 hours in a row.......Spring Break near SeaWorld. Almost makes me want to curl up in fetal position and cry.
My son should be coming home in the next couple weeks. He will be home for a few months and then he will move out on his own. He's ready to be living on his own.
My oldest daughter has been working full time in order to put money away for school.
My youngest daughter is a senior in high school and she is all ready for prom and the military ball. She can't wait to graduate and be done.


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Tipnique Tuesday is here again and this week I have an interactive card for you that I learnt sitting on a train with other paper arts ladies many years ago. Again it was one my children loved :o). I have a house full of visitors so I do apologize as I can't get in my art room to actually decorate the sample but this is a fun card based on the Jacob's Ladder where parts bend over other parts to reveal different areas.
- Two pieces of card stock.of choice. I have used red (25cmx14cm) and white (15x14cm) for contrast so you can see easily what I am doing.
- Ruler, pencil, rubber, bone folder, craft knife and craft mat
- Stamps of choice
1) On white card stock have the 15cm sides at top and bottom. Measure and mark across top and bottom at 5cm intervals. Draw a soft line with a pencil. I have used a black marker so you can see what I am doing.
2) Use the ruler and craft knife and cut along the marked lines
3) On each panel trim a further few mm off one long edge
4) Place red card in landscape position. Measure and mark a dot along the top and bottom edges at 5cm intervals. Use bone folder and run it down from each dot at top and bottom. Rub out dots.
5) Concertina fold the red card and use the bone folder to press each fold.
6) Flatten the red card out again. On first line and on last measure and mark a dot at the half way mark. In this case its at 7cm and then half way between this above and below that mark (3.5cm and 10.5cm from the top line). Use the craft knife and cut three lines from the first line at left to the last line at right at the marked dots (3.5cm, 7cm and 10.5cms).
7) Start to weave the white panels you made thru the cut lines under and over as shown till all three panels are in place.
Decorate the card. on all parts showing in the woven areas. Use stamps etc or images that fit in each red or white area and that don't overlap. Decorate front and back! As I said I can't get in my art room to decorate mine so use your imagination :o). Now fold the card up and something like magic happens...the bent areas start to pop open...look at the left hand side below...
This effect happens at the front and the back. Different areas fold out at different times. Hidden ares get revealed and hidden again!!
You don't have to use three panels you can use two like below.
Have fun! If your panels are larger make the "red" card 5 times that length (for three panel cards and 4 times the length for two panel cards)
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It has been waaay too long since I have posted!! But second year of medical school, boards, and post-boards vacay are now done and I am settling into my family medicine rotation! I really can't even explain how exciting it is to have free time again!!
I actually made this a few weeks ago as a quick snack, but didn't have time to post it. It is super easy and delicious! There is no reason to settle for all the crap in the bottled version from the supermarket when making it yourself only takes 5 minutes. I based it on this recipe, but didn't have all the ingredients so made a few changes.
Avocado Ranch
2 avocados
1 cup Greek yogurt (I used 1 package Fage Total Greek Yogurt)
Juice from half a lemon
1 TBSP parsley
2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
veggies for dipping
Mash avocados and mix in yogurt and seasoning. Enjoy!