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Harvest: Immigrant Stories from Bessarabia of Hard Beginnings in
the Days of One-Share Ploughs and Spinning-Wheels
By Eva-Maria Hermann.
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased to announce
publication of the Second Harvest: Immigrant Stories from Bessarabia
by Eva-Maria Hermann of Leipzig, Germany. She is author of the book
We Ate the Salt of Russia: Stories of People Forgotten at Home
(1994) (http://library.ndsu.edu/gerrus/hermann.html).
In the "Foreword," Pierre Fuger, Amerikanisches Sprachinstitut,
Leipzig, Germany, writes: "As an American reading Eva-Maria Hermann's
Second Harvest: Immigrant Stories from Bessarabia, I could
not help but wonder what it was that drove the exodus of Germans
to such harsh climes. The forlorn immigrants of Bessarabia have
been painstakingly portrayed by Hermann in this wonderful collection
of tales. The similarities to American folklore are undeniable:
the source is the same.
The German immigrants of Bessarabia have survived dictators and
tyrants, diseases, poverty and had at one point lost the recognition
of their German roots. Once again, Hermann enchants us with her
engaging style of retelling the stories of these very real people."
There are stories of the Tarutino hunger revolt; Jakob, the orphan
boy; Sophie, the Kashub girl; Christian Lukas, heir to an estate;
and Bessarabian folk tales. There are many photographs and illustrations
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Early admission, campus plan on agenda, Sept. 25
Posted September 21, 2006; 10:19 a.m.
A discussion of the University's recent decision to end early admission is on the agenda for the Monday, Sept. 25, meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.
The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture. It is open to all members of the University community.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye will lead the discussion on the change in admission policy, which was announced Sept. 18.
Also on the agenda will be a discussion of the development of a 10-year campus plan. The University is midway through a two-year effort to develop a comprehensive plan for the campus through 2017. The planning effort is being led by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP.
Leading that discussion will be Mark Burstein, executive vice president; Natalie Shivers, associate University architect; and Neil Kittredge of BBB.


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Programs in this category
- Activities of the Biomedical Engineering Center
Speaker: John LaCourse
- Biomedical Endocrinology - Are You Stressed?
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Biomedical Endocrinology - Growth and Reproduction
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Biomedical Endocrinology - Hormones and Breast Cancer
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: Should We Play God?
Speaker: Subhash Minocha
- Critical Ethical Issues in Public Health
Speaker: Marc D. Hiller
- Deformed Frogs in New Hampshire - Pollution or UV Light or Disease?
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Humans and Wildlife
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Ethical Issues in Human Experimentation (Human Subject Research)
Speaker: Marc D. Hiller
- Genetics, Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Speaker: Anita Klein
- Medical Ethics - Critical Issues
Speaker: Marc D. Hiller
- New Horizons in Medicine
Speaker: Thomas Laue
- Prehistoric Animals are Alive and Well on the UNH Campus - Research with "Bloodsucking" Lampreys, Predecessors to Dinosaurs
Speaker: Stacia Sower
- Seeing Inside Your Own Eye
Speaker: Ken Fuld
- Synthetic Vision: Can a Machine be Made to See?
Speaker: Richard Messner
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Speaker: Marion Girard-Dorsey
- The First Steps in Vision
Speaker: Rick Cote
- The Neural Basis of Vision
Speaker: Ken Fuld
- The Power and Challenges of Genetic Testing
Speaker: Anita Klein
- To Clone a Human: How, Why, and for Whom?
Speaker: Subhash Minocha
- Visual Perception and Baseball
Speaker: Ken Fuld
- What We Know About the Way We See Color
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By Ginna Parsons/NEMS Daily Journal
Sunday morning, before the wind started howling, I picked up my copy of the Southern Living book, "Around the Southern Table" by Rebecca Lang, and began to thumb through it, looking for something to fix for supper.
As you can imagine, there were a lot of recipes in there for fried foods and gravy-laden meats and cheesy side dishes. There were also some rather healthful salads, but who wants a salad when it's 40 degrees outside?
I finally came upon a recipe for grilled chicken with a white barbecue sauce. I showed my husband the recipe and the picture and he jumped on board immediately.
Then the rain started and the wind picked up and I knew I couldn't ask him to stand outside over the grill for any length of time.
So, we changed tack and ended up cooking a salmon and pasta dish on the stove instead. But mark my words: The first pretty day that comes along, we're making this chicken.
White Barbecued Chicken
2 cups mayonnaise
3⁄4 cup cider vinegar
11⁄2 tablespoons cracked black pepper
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1⁄2 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 (41⁄2-pound) whole chicken, cut up
Rosemary springs, for garnish
Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, pepper, sugar, lemon juice and red pepper. Set aside 11⁄2 cups; cover and chill remaining sauce.
Remove and discard excess fat from the chicken. Place chicken in a large zip-top plastic freezer bag. Pour reserved 11⁄2 cups sauce over chicken. Seal bag and rub to coat chicken. Chill 8 hours.
Light one side of the grill, heating to 350 to 400 degrees (medium-high heat). Leave other side unlit.
Remove chicken from marinade, discarding marinade. Place chicken on lit side of grill and grill, covered with grill lid, 7 to 10 minutes on each side or until browned and beginning to char. Transfer chicken to unlit side of grill and grill, covered with grill lid, 25 to 30 minutes or until done. Let stand 5 minutes before serving. Serve with reserved sauce and garnish with rosemary, if desired.
Serves 4.
Ginna Parsons is the Daily Journal's food/home/garden editor.


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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – North Mississippi's newest competitive sports organization will host tryouts for this fall's Mississippi Flood Futbol Club next week at a new sportsplex south of Oxford.
The club will field teams in several age and gender brackets from the U8 soccer academy to U18 boys and girls to play against similarly organized teams from metro Memphis, metro Jackson and the Gulf Coast.
"The Mississippi Flood Futbol Club is aimed at training the most competitive soccer players in north Mississippi to compete at the highest level of select soccer," said Dr. Michael Perry, one of the club's organizers. "This club allows children from the U8 soccer academy to the U18 boys and girls to benefit from the best and most experienced coaches … to develop the player to his/her maximum potential."
Perry said the Flood will be North Mississippi's only All-Select program for soccer, operating in league with other competitive teams around the South.
"The Flood has already attracted players already from Memphis, Grenada, Pontotoc, Amory, Saltillo, Greenwood, Tupelo and Oxford," he said.
Tryouts will be held at the club's home field at a new privately owned sportsplex two miles south the Highway 7/9W split.
For more information regarding tryouts, visit www.msfloodfc.com or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The recession has resulted in an interesting schism in the way nonprofits approach fundraising events. One camp has shrewdly scaled back the fluff—Crisis Ministries' recent "no item auction" that raised $130,000 is a perfect example. The other side of the coin has embraced a party-while-Paris-burns laissez-faire affection for puffery—ACBA's Red Party waltzes to my mind if only for the sight of a guest dressed as Marie Antoinette, in drag no less! Thursday night's Circle of Light gala fell somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
Hosted by Darkness to Light, this gala is typically the most styled out party of the year with intricate themes parlayed into detail-drenched panoramas of lighting and color. And with the price of admission ringing in at $300 ($400 for VIP), it is also one of—if not the—priciest gala ticket in town. This year, Tara Guerard of Soiree brought Bollywood to Marion Square—the second party to celebrate India in as many weeks (the recent Fur Ball was sari friendly).
There is always something special about arriving at this particular party. The crisp November air, the city's white holiday lights blinking from the branches, and the makeshift bedouin-style camp needed to accommodate the sprawling affair (guests weave through a veritable village of tents during the course of the evening, including coat check, food prep, staged photo opps, cocktail party, and seated dinner) all creates an aura of magic.
Bubba, a portrait happy camel, greeted guests as they drifted into the cocktail party tent. Inside, the flavor of the subcontinent continued with a sitar player, chai tea cocktails, henna tattoos, ceremonial parasols, and belly dancers. At the dinner hour, the several hundred attendees paraded into the main tent for fine cuisine prepared by 39 Rue de Jean, Charleston Grill, COAST, Fat Hen, Wild Olive, Hank's Seafood, Peninsula Grill, FIG, Grill 225, j.b.c, Halls Chophouse, Langdon's Restaurant and Wine Bar, McCrady's, MUSE Restaurant and Wine Bar, Oak Steakhouse, The Ocean Room, Sea Island Grill, Tristan, Wentworth Grill, and Virginia's on King. The tent was swathed with tangerine and florid-hued draping, the tables were set with low tableaus that featured earthen crocks, candles, and marigolds, an auspicious matrimonial flower in India.
The late night portion of the party turned into a show stopping Hindi cinema "item number" as guests of all ages (and a dozen or so party crashers) piled onto the dance floor. The music didn't stop until the stroke of midnight, and the frenzied crowd nearly staged a riot with its demanding "one more dance" mantra.
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This is mountain terroir, with cooler weather and demanding soils, a mix of limestone and clay. The family's Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre vines are mostly older (between 30 and 50 years) and are very low yielding. Because of the ideal conditions here, Thierry Faravel explained that they are the last domaine in Gigondas almost every vintage to start the harvest—the combination of exposure and altitude allows grapes to ripen slowly and evenly. What this means for the wine is more elegance and freshness, which is certainly what you'll discover in every one of the Faravels' unique mountain cuvées.
Thierry and Gilles grew up in Gigondas and learned much from their winemaking father, Antonin, who Thierry described as a "weekend winemaker." While he worked at another domaine, Antonin would tend his family plots only on the weekends when he had free time. For almost two decades the family sold their fruit from these mountain plots, until they decided in 1979 to start bottling wines themselves.
Today, the Faravels are considered one of the leading artisan winemakers in Gigondas, if not in the whole southern Rhône valley. Since the late 80s, the family has been dedicated to organic farming, using organic fertilizers and as little sulfates as possible in their wines. "You have to respect the wine," says Thierry, and this shows: harvest is always by hand, and wines are never pumped but led from tank to barrel via gravity. Vinification is always as natural as possible, each vintage dictating how the brothers handle each varietal through fermentation and aging. Wines are seldom fined or filtered—to quote Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, these wines are "vibrant" and utterly alive. Domaine la Bouïssiere wines, with their rich complexity and stunning freshness, definitely deserve serious real-estate in any serious cellar—10, 15 years is the norm for these impressive, long-lived cuvées.
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Murral, that was his downfall. When he was called out on events or actions, he was the one who pouted and gave us his signiture line about all reporters are " jackals". When the " Jackals" reporting suited him all was well, but if they reported on his actions..............another story.
I expected more backbone from him Regards
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Kevin Entwistle
WGD (Worlds Greatest Dog) Cinci Redstocking "Loki", born: Jan. 22, 1999, RIP November 13, 2011
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"That which you manifest is before you" (The Art of Racing in the Rain)
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." Thomas Jefferson


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Date Posted: February 19, 2009 - 10:06 pm by: coffeeboy
|Pamela Anderson
Say what you will about Pamela Anderson, she's still got a tight body at 41! Making a surprise appearance at the Richie Rich fashion show, Pamela strutted down the runway in a gold swimsuit as the show's finale. And, as always, it's created a snowstorm of criticism from my fellow bloggers. So I'll make a stand right now: babe looks good! I wonder though if appearing at this show will affect her standing as the face of Vivienne Westwood. Stay tuned!
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Cardinal advocates break-up of United Kingdom
Once again the leader of Scotland's Catholics has transgressed his brief (or is he fulfilling it?) by supporting the secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom. His Grace's assertion that political objectives may constitute religious agendas got him banned from the EU Referendum blog. Dr Richard North was having none of it, so a permanent ban was duly meted out ( - the first time since that fateful day that His Grace has had his freedom restricted). It seems that elephants in rooms are sometimes invisible even to those who presume to be experts at spotting the variety.
Cardinal O'Brien referred to the visit of Pope John Paul II and to his kissing the ground on his arrival at Edinburgh airport. It was intended to remind 'the world that Scotland is a nation among nations', and this is consistent with his reference to declarations by previous popes in support of Scottish nationhood in the Middle Ages. He conveniently neglects the events of the 16th century when Scotland rejected the Papacy, and subsequent centuries of vigorous Protestant witness. But the Cardinal is pursuing the old Roman strategy of 'divide and rule'. The Europe of Regions strategy is the same principle - the one by which the Holy Roman Empire divided countries into small dukedoms, principalities and kingdoms, ensuring that no civil ruler was strong enough to challenge the Pope or Emperor. The fragmentation of the United Kingdom is of course to weaken it, and it is no coincidence that the opposition to the Act of Settlement is simultaneously being organised within the Scottish Parliament, where the strategy will always be to raise an issue outside of the Edinburgh remit, in order to provoke Westminster to appeasement.
Cardinal O'Brien has repeatedly pressed the issue of the unacceptability of the 'anti-Catholic' provisions of the Act of Settlement, but realises that this is an area of UK competence. For him, the only solution is Scottish separation, and he therefore speaks enthusiastically of 'the benefits independence can bring', which will be fulfilled 'before too long'. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Conservative Party have warned that such a development would be a backward step, and would massively impoverish the Scottish people. It is, however, no surprise that the Leader of the SNP, Alex Salmond, has described the Cardinal as 'a man of vision and stature'. His vision, however, is for the terminal undermining of the United Kingdom, and his stature is the self-obsessed one that St Andrews and Edinburgh should be equal with Westminster, for they are Rome's cardinals in the United Kingdom, and this stubbornly Protestant nation must be adapted to conform to their pastoral principalities.


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Like I said, it is still in discussion how to get these out to the retriever community. Possibly for free online viewing.
Imagine seeing 2xNFC King Buck running with John Olin handling -- it is on there! The dog who was on the federal waterfowl stamp; The guy who owned Winchester ammunition.
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June 5, 2013 12:30 pm
Fashioning Likeness and Posing in Costume: Two Renaissance Portraits from Northern Italy
Speaker: Jack Greenstein, Professor of Art History, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
For more information call 619-239-5548.
Admission is FREE.
No reservations or tickets are required.
Related Exhibition: Object Lessons: Slice of Truth, the Reality of the Renaissance
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HE was aroused from these austere, yet, to him, inspiring reflections by the click of an opening door and the sound of women's voices. Mademoiselle de Mirancourt paused on the threshold, one hand raised in quick admiration, the other resting on Lady Calmady's arm.
"But this is superb!" she cried gaily. "Your charming King Richard, Cœur d'Or has given you a veritable palace to inhabit!"
"Ah yes! King Richard has indeed given me a palace to live in. But, better still, he has given me his dear heart of gold in which to hide the life of my heart for ever and a day."
Katherine's words came triumphantly, more as song than as speech. She caught the elder woman's upraised hand gently and kissed it, looking her, meanwhile, full in the face.—"I am happy, very, very happy, best and dearest," she said. "And it is so delicious to be happy."page: 32
"Ah, my child, my beautiful child!" Mademoiselle de Mirancourt cried.
There were tears in her pretty, patient eyes. For if youth finds age pathetic with the obvious pathos of spent body, and of tired mind which has ceased to greatly hope, how far more deeply pathetic does age, from out its sad and settled wisdom, find poor, gallant youth and all its still unbroken trust in the beneficence of destiny, its unbroken faith in the enchantments of earth!
Meanwhile, Julius March—product as he was of an arbitrary system of thought and training, and by so much divorced from the natural instincts of youth and age alike, the confident joy of the one, the mature acquiescence of the other—in overhearing this brief conversation suffered embarrassment amounting almost to shame. For not only Katherine's words, but the vital gladness of her voice, the sweet exuberance of her manner as she bent, in all her spotless bravery of white and rose, above the elder woman's hand and kissed it, came to him as a revelation before which he shrank with a certain fearful modesty. Julius had read of love in the poets, of course. But, in actual fact, he had never wooed a woman, nor heard from any woman's lips the language of intimate devotion. The cold embraces of the Church—a church, as he too often feared, rendered barren by schism and heresy—were the only embraces he had ever suffered. Things read of and things seen, moreover, are singularly different in power. And so he trembled now at the mystery of human love, actual and concrete, here close beside him. He was, indeed, moved to the point of losing his habitual suavity of demeanour. He rose hastily and descended the library steps, forgetful of the handful of chap‐books, which fell in tattered and dusty confusion upon the floor.
Katherine looked round. Until now she had been unobservant of his presence, innocent of other audience than the old friend, to whom it was fitting enough to confide dear secrets. For an instant she hesitated, embarrassed too, her pride touched to annoyance, at having laid bare the treasures of her heart thus unwittingly. She was tempted to retreat through the still open door, into the library, and leave the review of the Long Gallery and its many relics to a more convenient season. But it was not Katherine's habit to run away, least of all from the consequences of her own actions. And her sense of justice compelled her to admit that, in this case, the indiscretion—if indiscretion indeed there was—lay with her, in not having seen poor Julius; rather than with him, in having overheard her little outburst. So page: 33 she called to him in friendly greeting, and came swiftly towards him down the length of the great room.
And Julius stood waiting for her, leaning against the frame of the library ladder—a spare, black figure, notably at variance with the broad glory of sunshine and colour reigning out of doors.
His usually quick instinct of courtesy was in abeyance, shaken, as he still was, and confused by the revelation that had just come to him. He looked at Lady Calmady with a new and agitated understanding. She made so fair a picture that he could only gaze dumbly at it. Tall in fact, Katherine was rendered taller by the manner—careless of passing fashion—in which her hair was dressed. The warm, brown mass of it, rolled up and back from her forehead, showed all the perfect oval of her face. Tender, lovely, smiling, her blue‐brown eyes soft and lustrous, with a certain wondering serenity in their depths, there was yet something majestic about Katherine Calmady. No poor or unworthy line marred the nobility of her face or figure. The dark, arched eyebrows, the well‐chiselled and slightly aquiline nose, the firm chin and throat, the shapely hands, all denoted harmony and completeness of development, and promised a reserve of strength, ready to encounter and overcome if danger were to be met. Years afterwards the remembrance of Katherine as he just then saw her would return upon Julius, as prophetic of much. Quailing in spirit, still reluctant, in his asceticism, to comprehend and reckon with her personality in the fulness of its present manifestation, he answered her at random and with none of the pause and playful evasiveness usual to his speech.
"I am very glad we have found you," Katherine said frankly. "I was afraid, by the fact of your not coming to breakfast, that you were overtired. We talked late last night. Did we weary you too much?"
"Existence in itself is vexatiously wearisome at times—at least to feeble persons, like myself."
Katherine's smile faded. She looked at him with charming solicitude.
"Ah! you are not well," she declared. "Go out and enjoy the sunshine. Leave all those stupid books. Go," she repeated, "order one of the horses. Go and meet Richard. He has gone over to look at the new lodge. You could ride all the way through the east woods in the cool.—See, I will put these tidy."
And, as she spoke, Katherine stooped to pick up the page: 34 scattered chap‐books from the ground. But, in the last few moments, while looking at her, yet further understanding had overtaken Julius March. Not only the mystery of human love, but the mystery of dawning motherhood had come close to him. And he put Lady Calmady aside with a determination of authority somewhat surprising.
"No, no, pardon me! They are dusty, they will soil your hands. You must not touch those books," he said.
Katherine straightened herself up. Her face was slightly flushed, her expression full of kindly amusement.
"Dear Julius, you are very imperative. Surely I may make my hands dirty, once in a way, in a good cause? They will wash, you know, just as well as your own, after all."
"A thousand. times better. Still, I will ask you not to touch those books. I have valid reasons. For one, an evil beast in the form of a spider has dwelt among them. I disturbed it and it fled, looking as though it had grown old in trespasses and sins. It seemed to me a thing of ill omen."
He tried to steady himself, to treat the matter lightly. Yet his speech struck Katherine as hurried and anxious, out of all proportion to the matter in hand.
"Poor thing—and you killed it? Yet it couldn't help being ugly, I suppose," she answered, not without a touch of malice.
Julius was on his knees, his long, thin fingers gathering up the tattered pages, ranging them into a bundle, tying them together with the tag of rusty, black ribbon aforesaid. For an unreasoning, fierce desire was upon him—very alien to his usual gentle attitude of mind—to shield this beautiful woman from all acquaintance with the foul story set forth in those little books. To shield her, indeed, from more than merely that. For a vague presentiment possessed him that she might, in some mysterious way, be intimately involved in the final development of that same story which, though august, was so full of suffering, so profoundly sad. Meanwhile, in his excitement, he replied, less to her gently mocking question than to the importunities of his own thought.
"No," he said, "I let it go. I begin to fear it is useless to attempt to take short‐cuts to the extinction of what is evil. It does not cease, but merely changes its form. Unwillingly I have learned that. No violent death is possible to things evil."
Julius rose to his feet.
"They must go on," he continued, "till, in the merciful providence of God, their term is reached, till their power is exhausted, till they have worn themselves out."page: 35
Lady Calmady turned and moved thoughtfully towards the far end of the room, where the sunshine still slanted in through the open casements of the bay‐window, and where the delicate, little, spinster lady stood awaiting her. Amorous pigeons cooed below on the string‐course. Bees droned sleepily against the glass.
"But," she said, in gentle remonstrance, "that is a rather terrible doctrine, Julius. Surely it is not quite just; for it would seem to leave us almost hopelessly at the mercy of the wrong‐doing of others."
"Yes, but are we not, just that—all of us at the mercy of the wrong‐doing of others?—The courageous forever suffering for the cowardly, the wise for the ignorant and brutish, the just for the unjust? Is not this, perhaps, the very deepest lesson of our religion?"
"Oh no, no!" Katherine cried incredulously. "There is something at once deeper and more comforting than that. Remember, in the beginning, when God created all things and reviewed His handiwork, He pronounced it very good."
Julius was recovering his suavity. The little packet of chap‐books rested safely in the pocket of his coat.
"But that was a long time ago," he said, smiling.
They reached the bay‐window. Katherine took her old friend's hand once again and laid it caressingly upon her arm.
"Pardon me for keeping you waiting, dearest," she said. "Julius is in fault. He will argue with me about the date of the creation, and that takes time. He declares it was so long ago that everything has had time to grow very old and go very wrong. But, indeed, he is mistaken. Agree with me, tell him he is mistaken! The world is deliciously young yet. It was only made a little over twenty‐two years ago. I must know, for I came into it then. And I found it all as new as I was myself, and a thousand times prettier—quite adorably gay, adorably fresh."
Katherine's voice sank, grew fuller in tone. She gazed out over the brilliant garden to the woodland shimmering in the noontide heat. Then she looked at Julius March, her eyes and lips eloquent with joyous conviction.
"Indeed, I think, God makes His whole creation over again for each one of us, it is so beautiful. As in the beginning, so now," she said; "behold it is very good—ah yes! who can doubt that—it is very good!"
"Amen. To you may it ever so continue," Julius murmured, bowing his head.page: 36
That evening there was a dinner party at Brockhurst. Lord Denier brought his handsome second wife. She was a Hellard, and took the judge faute de mieux, so said the wicked world, rather late in life. The Cathcarts of Newlands and their daughter Mary came; and Roger Ormiston too, who, being off duty, had run down from London for a few days' partridge shooting, bringing with him his cousin Colonel St. Quentin—invalided home, to his own immense chagrin, in the midst of the Afghan war. On the terrace, after dinner, for the night was warm enough for the whole company to take coffee out of doors, Lady Calmady—incited thereunto by her brother—had persuaded Mary Cathcart to sing, accompanying herself on her guitar. The girl's musical gifts were of no extraordinary order, but her young contralto was true and sweet. The charm of the hour and the place, moreover, was calculated to heighten the effect of the Jacobite songs and old‐world love‐ditties which she selected.
Roger Ormiston unquestionably found her performance sufficiently moving. But then the girl's frank manner, her warm, gipsy‐like colouring, and the way in which she could sit a horse, moved him also; had done so, indeed, ever since he first saw her, as quite a child, some eight or nine years ago, on one of his earliest visits to Brockhurst, fighting a half‐broken, Welsh pony that refused at a grip by the roadside. The little maiden, her face pale, for once, from concentration of purpose, had forced the pony over the grip. Then, slipping out of the saddle, she coaxed and kissed the rough, unruly, little beast, with tears of apology for the hard usage to which she had been obliged to subject it. So stout, yet so tender, a heart, struck Roger as an excellent thing in woman. And now, listening to the full, rounded notes and thrumming of the guitar strings, in the evening quiet under the stars, he wished, remorsefully, that he had never been guilty of any pleasant sins, that his record was cleaner, his tastes less expensive, that he was a better fellow all round, in short, than he was, because, then, perhaps—
And Julius March, too, found the singing somewhat agitating, though to him the personality of the singer was of small account. Another personality, and a train of feeling evoked by certain new aspects of it, had pursued him all the day long. Katherine, mindful of her somewhat outspoken divergence of opinion from his, in the morning, had been particularly thoughtful of his pleasure and entertainment. At dinner she directed the conversation upon subjects interesting to him, and had thereby made him talk more unreservedly than was his wont. Not even the most saintly of page: 37 human beings is wholly indifferent to social success. Julius was conscious of a stirring of the blood, of a subdued excitement. These sensations were pleasurable. But his training had taught him to distrust pleasurable sensations as too often the offspring of very questionable parentage. And, while Mary Cathcart's voice still breathed upon the fragrant night air, he, standing on the outskirts of the listening company, slipped away unperceived.
His study, a long, narrow room occupying, with his bedroom, the ground floor of the chapel wing of the house, struck chill as he entered it. Above the range of pigeon‐holes and little drawers, forming the back of the writing‐table, two candles burned on either side of a bronze pietà, which Julius had brought back with him from Rome. On the broad slab of the table below were the many quires of foolscap forming the library catalogue, neatly numbered and lettered; while his diary lay open upon the blotting‐pad, ready for the chronicle of the past day's events. Beside it was the packet of chap‐books, still tied together with their tag of rusty ribbon.
It was Julius March's habit to exchange his coat for a cassock in the privacy of his study. He did so now, and knotted a black cord about his waist. Let no one underrate the sustaining power of costume, whether it take the form of ballet‐skirt or monk's frock. Human nature is but a weak thing at best, and needs outward and visible signs, not only to support its faith in its deity, but even its faith in its own poor self! Of persons of sensitive temperament and limited experience, such as Julius, this is particularly true. Putting off his secular garment, as a rule he could put off secular thoughts as well. Beneath the severe and scanty folds of the cassock there was small space for remembrance of the pomp and glory of this perishing world. At least he hoped so. To‐night, importuned as he had been by scenes and emotions quite other than ecclesiastical, Julius literally sought refuge in his cassock. It represented "port after stormy seas,"—home, after travel in lands altogether foreign.
He took St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei from its place in the bookshelves lining one side of the room. There should be peace to the soul, surely, emancipation from questioning of transitory things, in reading of the City of God? But, alas, his attention strayed. That sense of subdued excitement was upon him yet. He thought of the conversation at dinner, of brilliant speeches he might have made, of the encouragement of Katherine's smiling eyes and sympathetic speech, of the scene in the gallery that morning, of Mary Cathcart's old‐time love‐ditties. page: 38 The City of God was far off. All these were things very near at hand. Notwithstanding the scanty folds of the cassock, they importuned him still.
Pained at his own lack of poise and seriousness, Julius returned the volume of St. Augustine to its place, and, sitting down at the writing‐table prepared to chronicle the day's events. Perhaps by putting a statement of them on paper he could rid himself of their all too potent influence. But his thought was tumultuous, words refused to come in proper order and sequence; and Julius abhorred that erasures should mar the symmetry of his pages. Impatiently he pushed the diary from him. Clearly it, like the City of God, was destined to wait.
The guests had departed. He had heard the distant calling of voices in friendly farewell, the rumble of departing wheels. The night was very soft and mild. He would go out and walk the grey flags of the terrace, till this unworthy restlessness gave place to reason and calm.
Passing along the narrow passage, he opened the door on to the garden‐hall. And there paused. The hall itself, and the inner side of the carven arches of the arcade, were in dense shadow. Beyond stretched the terrace bathed in moonlight, which glittered on the polished leaves of the little orange trees, on the leaded panes of the many windows, and strangely transmuted the colours of the range of pot‐flowers massed beneath them along the base of the house. It was a fairy world upon which Julius looked forth. Nor did it need suitable inhabitants. Pacing slowly down the centre of the terrace came Richard and Katherine Calmady, hand in hand. Tall, graceful, strong in the perfection of their youth and of their great devotion, amid that ethereal brightness, they seemed as two heroic figures—immortal, fairy lovers moving through the lovely wonder of that fairyland. As they drew near, Katherine stopped, leant—with a superb abandon—back against her husband, resting her hand on his shoulder, drew his arm around her waist for support, drew his face down to her upturned face until their lips met, while the moonlight played upon the jewels on her bare arms and neck and gleamed softly on the surface of her white, satin dress.
To true lovers the longest kiss is all too sadly short—a thing brief almost in proportion to its sweetness. But to Julius March, watching from the blackness of the doorway, it seemed a whole eternity before Richard Calmady raised his head. Then Julius turned and fled down the passage and back into the chill study, where the candles burned on either side the image of the Virgin Mother cradling the dead Christ upon her knee.page: 39
Gentle persons, breaking from the lines of self‐restraint, run to a curious violence in emotion. All day long, shrink from it, ignore it, as he might, a moral storm had been brewing. Now it broke. Not from those two lovers did Julius turn thus in amazement and terror; but from just that from which it is impossible for anyone to turn in actual fact—namely from himself. He was appalled by the narrowness of his own past outlook; appalled by the splendour of that heritage which, by his own act, he had forfeited. The cassock ceased, indeed, to be a refuge, the welcome livery of home and rest. It had become a prison‐suit, a badge of slavery, against which his whole being rebelled. For the moment—happily violence is shortlived, only for a very little while do even the gentlest persons "see red"—asceticism appeared to him as a blasphemy against the order of nature and of nature's God. His vow of perpetual chastity, made with so passionate an enthusiasm, for the moment appeared to him an act of absolutely monstrous vanity and self‐conceit. In his stupid ignorance he had tried to be wiser than his Maker, preferring the ordinances of man to the glad and merciful purposes of God. In so doing had he not, only too possibly, committed the unpardonable sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost?
Poor Julius, his thought had indeed run almost humorously mad! Yet it was characteristic of the man that the breaking of his self‐imposed bonds never occurred to him. Made in ignorance, unwitnessed though his vow might be, it remained inviolable. He never, even in this most heated hour of his trial, doubted that.
Stretching out his arms, he clenched his hands in anguish of spirit. The sacerdotal pride, the subjective joys of self‐consecration, the mental luxury of feeling himself different from others, singled out, set apart,—all the Pharisee, in short, in Julius March,—was sick to death. He had supposed he was living to God—and now it appeared to him he had lived only to himself. He had trusted God too little, had come near reckoning the great natural laws—which, after all, must be of God's ordering‐common and unclean. Katherine was right. The eternal purpose is joy, not sorrow; youth and health, not age and decay; thankful acceptance, not fastidious rejection and fear. Katherine—yes, Katherine—and there the young man's wild tirade stopped—
He flung himself down in front of the writing‐table, leaning his. elbows on it, pressing his face upon his folded arms. For in good truth, what did it all amount to? Not outraged laws of nature, not sins against the Holy Ghost; but just simply this, page: 40 that the common fate had overtaken him. He loved a woman, and in so loving had, at last, found himself.
The most vital experiences are beyond language. When Julius looked up, his eyes rested upon the bronze pietà, age‐old witness to the sanctity of motherhood and of suffering alike. His face was wet with tears. He was faint and weak; yet a certain calm had come to him. He no longer quarrelled—though his attitude towards them was greatly changed—either with his priestly calling or his rashly made vow. Not as sources of pride did he now regard them; but as searching discipline to be borne humbly and faithfully, to the honour—as he prayed‐both of earthly and heavenly love. He loved Katherine, but he loved her husband, and that with the fulness of a loyal and equal friendship. And so no taint was upon his love, of this he felt assured. Indeed, he asked nothing better than that things might continue as they were at Brockhurst; and that he might continue to warm his hands a little—only a little—in the dear sunshine of Richard and Katherine Calmady's perfect love.
As Julius rose, his knees gave under him. He rested both hands heavily on the table, looked down, saw the unsightly packet of dirty chap‐books. Again, and almost with a cry, he prayed that things might continue as they were at Brockhurst.
"Give peace in my time, O Lord!" he said. Then he wrapped up the little bundle carefully, sealed and labelled it, and locked it away in one of the table‐drawers.
Thus, kneeling before the image of the stricken Mother and the dead Christ, did Julius March behold the Vision of the New Life. But the page of his diary, on which surely a matter of so great importance should have been duly chronicled, remains to this day a blank.


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Pittsburgh symphony turns to Kickstarter to help fund NYC showJanuary 13, 2014 11:53 PM
It's going to take more than practice for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to get to Carnegie Hall this year.
The PSO on Monday afternoon launched its first campaign on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter. Over the next 47 days, the symphony hopes to raise at least $30,000 to support its participation in the Spring for Music festival, which takes place in May at New York's Carnegie Hall.
"It's definitely the wave of the future, so we're excited to try it," said Jodi Weisfield, vice president of development.
Symphony officials thought Spring for Music would be an ideal time to experiment with Kickstarter, as the campaign would showcase hometown support for the orchestra at a festival that presents groups from across the continent.
"We wanted to try crowd-funding, but we just hadn't found the right project," said Ms. Weisfield.
Since 2009, Kickstarter has made an enormous impact on arts funding. In fact, the website was responsible for more arts-related giving in 2012 than the National Endowment for the Arts, according to the Washington Post.
Last year, 3 million donors from all seven continents pledged $480 million to Kickstarter projects, according to the website.
The symphony is not the first professional orchestra to launch a Kickstarter campaign. Last year, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra successfully raised more than $13,000 to support digitization of its archives, and the Nashville Symphony generated more than $15,000 to record an album of music by Joan Tower.
In the Pittsburgh area, 340 projects have been funded, according to the Kickstarter website. Local chef Kevin Sousa made waves last week by raising more than $300,000 to start a restaurant and training facility in Braddock.
Spring for Music is an annual festival that aims to showcase the quality and creativity of North American orchestras. In addition to the PSO and New York Philharmonic, the festival will feature orchestras from Cincinnati; Rochester, N.Y.; Seattle; and Winnepeg, Canada. The PSO's performance, which will go on regardless of the campaign, would close out the festival, which is ending after its fourth year due to its own funding issues.
As with all Kickstarter campaigns, the PSO will receive funding only if it reaches its target amount. And donors receive incentives at different levels of giving.
For this project, those chipping in $10 or more will receive an emailed note of thanks from PSO music director Manfred Honeck and a photograph of the PSO's performance. Along the way, donors will attend a PSO rehearsal, collect recordings, receive a copy of the 1984 movie "Amadeus" signed by actor F. Murray Abraham and more.
Mr. Abraham will be the speaker in the PSO's performance of "Mozart's Death in Words and Music," an arrangement of the composer's "Requiem" by Mr. Honeck. Fans who fork over $5,000 will be able to meet Mr. Honeck and Mr. Abraham, who played Antonio Salieri in "Amadeus," following the concert.
The orchestra committed long ago to play in Spring for Music, but "Kickstarter is an important piece of the puzzle to help fund the tour," Al Jacobsen, senior manager of corporate and tour sponsorship, wrote in an e-mail.
The total cost to tour is $300,000, said Mr. Jacobsen. By contrast, this past summer's European festivals tour cost an estimated $1.5 million.
The symphony has an official policy of not using money from its operating budget on tours. For this trip, the symphony will draw on the festival's artist fee and corporate sponsorship, in addition to the potentially successful Kickstarter campaign. So far, Lanxess Corp. has signed on to sponsor the Spring for Music concert.
The orchestra has no announced plans for an international tour before 2016. Orchestra officials have said they are keen on eliminating the organization's deficit, which stood at roughly $1.5 million at the end of the 2013 fiscal year.
To give to the PSO's Kickstarter campaign and see a video featuring symphony musicians and Mr. Honeck, visit www.kickstarter.com/profile/pittsburghsymphony.
Elizabeth Bloom: firstname.lastname@example.com, 412-263-1750 or on Twitter @BloomPG. First Published January 13, 2014 2:19 PM


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We woke up this morning to a fresh couple of inches of the white, fluffy stuff, so it seemed like the perfect day to work on our snow themed letters to our Compassion International kids.
I copied each child's personalized stationary onto cool blue paper and added a couple of sparkley snowflake stickers from Dover. I took all of the pages out of the stained glass snowflake coloring book, also from Dover, so I would have one for each of our seven children.
I enlisted the help of my special paper snowflake cutters while I prayed for the first letter recipient and wrote her a letter.
Most of the time, I write very personalized letters to each of our children. When I do theme letters like this, though, I tend to stick with the same ideas to share. I told about how we have to dress to go outside and play in the winter and what we like to do outside. I told each of the kids how God makes every snowflake different and unique, just like people. I told each child how special and unique they are and then shared Psalm 139:14. "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."
Are you planning to send a Winter themed letter soon?
You might like this cute printable snowflake paper to print your Compassion stationary. You could also send this snowflake coloring sheet. What about a snowflake matching game? I plan to send the matching game next month, when I have more printer ink.
When the first letter is written, I gather all of the other things I plan to send to that one child.
I wrote the child's name and number on the back of the photo. Generally, I am sure to write that info on every thing I send, but in the case of the paper snowflake and coloring sheet, I didn't know exactly how to do it without ruining the item. I paper-clipped the bundle together securely and hope that the two unlabeled items stay together with the letter and photo.
When each letter is finished, I do the same thing. Each bundle for each individual child is paper-clipped together and they are all put into one big manilla envelope, ready to be mailed!
Have you sent any neat Winter themed items to your Compassion International kids lately? I'd love to hear your ideas! What did you write about this month?


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Current mood: working
Current music: none
Entry tags: web2.0, timeline, mit, simile, xml
Web 2.0 Goodness
One of the groups I work for,
href="http://simile.mit.edu/">The Simile Group, released
a javascript program for visualizing temporal data. It's
called href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/">Timeline. It
allows you to plot XML data on a graphic and then to click
and scroll that graphic (like Google Maps).
I have a list of patches I want to write for the program.
One itch is that it doesn't do a good job with layout when
events are non-concurrent but share start and end days.
Another is that it doesn't support the idea of events
happening as part of a larger event in concurrence with
events that are not part of that larger event with out
significant screen real estate consumption. You really need
700px's in height to see my Timeline and use it easily,
already. We'll see if I can find the time for the patches.
Overall, it's a cool app though. The API is well developed
and makes good use of the OO paradigm.
It would be worth while to play with. It would have been
nice to see on CNN.com during Sept. 11, for example. The
documentation and source code are available from the href="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/">Timeline page on
Simile's Website.


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Faldir Chahbari and Warren Stevelmans Pick Up Wins in Spain
- Written by Rian Scalia
This past weekend, promotion Real Fighters held an event in Malaga, Spain and the show played host to some familiar kickboxing talent from Europe.
A -70kg tournament was the main showcase on the card, as 4 fighters battled it out for the 5000 Euro prize. In the first semi-final, Jonay Risco took on Mike's Gym fighter Rachid Belaini and took a decision in an extra round to advance to the finals. In the other semi-final, it was an all Spanish affair as Javier Maiz took on Fran Palenzuela. Palenzuela beat Maiz and advanced to the final, making it an two Spaniards in the final. Palenzuela took a decision over Risco to win the tournament. It was a quick turn-around for both men, as they both fought and lost to Naruepol and Yodsaenklai Fairtex respectively in China on June 18.
Two relatively high profile super fights also took place on the card. Faldir Chahbari took on late replacement Sergio Sanchez in a -72kg bout. It was a close fight but the experienced Chahbari was able to pull through and edge out a decision over 3 rounds. This win makes it four in a row for Chahbari, and maybe warrants a step up in competition for the Dutch-Moroccan.
Coming off his win over Yavuz Kayabasi for It's Showtime in Madrid on June 18, Zeben Diaz took on Warren Stevelmans. Diaz took the first round handily, dominating Stevelmans. Never one to quit, Stevelmans stormed back in the second round. The referee stopped the fight after the second round when Diaz appeared not able to continue after resting his arms on the ring ropes. We don't know if it was questionable stoppage or not yet, hopefully a video comes out. Stevelmans now has two wins in a row, and this can make up for his loss to Rafi Zouheir in the finals of the K-1 MAX Madrid Tournament.


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11.14: Roles in an Ecosystem
Can you pick out the organisms at the bottom and at the top of this food chain?
What's at the bottom of the food chain? A bit of the food energy comes from above, where plankton photosynthesize. Most comes from the coral. Coral are animals that live with tiny zooxanthellae that also photosynthesize. Of course, you know what's at the top of this food chain!
Roles in Ecosystems
All ecosystems have living things that play the same basic roles. Some organisms must be producers. Others must be consumers. Decomposers are also important.
Producers are living things that use energy to make food. Producers make food for themselves and other living things. There are two types of producers:
- By far the most common producers use the energy in sunlight to make food. This is called photosynthesis. Producers that photosynthesize include plants and algae. These organisms must live where there is plenty of sunlight.
- Other producers use the energy in chemicals to make food. This is called chemosynthesis. Only a very few producers are of this type, and all of them are microbes. These producers live deep under the ocean where there is no sunlight. You can see an example in Figure below.
Microbes use chemicals to make food. The chemicals pour out of a crack on the ocean floor at a mid-ocean ridge. What consumers live in this ecosystem?
Consumers can't make their own food. Consumers must eat producers or other consumers. Figure below lists the three main types of consumers: herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. Which type are you?
Examples of the main types of consumers. Can you name other consumers of each type?
Consumers get their food in different ways Figure below. Grazers feed on living organisms without killing them. A rabbit nibbles on leaves and a mosquito sucks a drop of blood. Predators, like lions, capture and kill animals for food. The animals they eat are called prey. Even some plants are consumers. Pitcher plants trap insects in their sticky fluid in their "pitchers." The insects are their prey. Scavengers eat animals that are already dead. This hyena is eating the remains of a lion's prey. Decomposers break down dead organisms and the wastes of living things (See Figure below). This dung beetle is rolling a ball of dung (animal waste) back to its nest. The beetle will use the dung to feed its young. The mushrooms pictured are growing on a dead log. They will slowly break it down. This releases its nutrients to the soil.
Ways consumers get food. Do you know how earthworms get food?
- carnivore: Animals that only eat other animals for food.
- chemosynthesis: The process in which a producer makes food energy from chemicals.
- consumer: An organism that uses other organisms for food energy.
- decomposer: An organism that breaks down the tissues of a dead organism into its various components, including nutrients, that can be used by other organisms.
- grazer: An organisms that feeds on other organisms without killing them.
- herbivore: An animal that only eats producers.
- omnivore: An organism that consumes both producers and other consumers for food.
- photosynthesis: The process in which a producer makes food energy from sunlight.
- predator: A symbiotic relationship between two species in which one species benefits and one species is harmed.
- prey: An animal that could be killed and eaten by a predator.
- producer: An organism that converts energy into food energy.
- scavenger: Animals that eat animals that are already dead.
- Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat, and omnivores eat both.
- Predators are animals that eat a prey animal. Scavengers eat organisms that are already dead. Decomposers break down dead plants and animals into component parts, including nutrients.
- Producers create food energy. They are the base of all life on Earth. Most producers use photosynthesis but a very small number use chemosynthesis.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Competition, Predation, and Symbiosis at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1aRSeT-mQE (3:20)
- What is competition?
- What is predation?
- What is symbiosis?
- How do stable communities develop?
- What is succession?
- What is a niche?
- What does a niche include?
- What causes competition?
- Diagram all of the roles in an ecosystem. Give an example of a plant or animal that fills each role.
- Compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
- What role to decomposers play in an ecosystem?
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IS there any order to take certifications?
I have 6+ years of exp in Microsoft development & have Masters in Computer Science. I would like to change my track to ethical hacking. Where do I need to start with? Can someone post list of certifications to be taken in the order (like foundation, basic, intermediate & advance). As far Microsoft, they MCP -> MCAD/MCPD -> MCA -> MCM in order starting from developer to Master. Is there something like that here?
I would like to be a Pen tester/reverse engineer and having years of experience, I would like to be an independent consultant.


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I was asked about my response to the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate. I will admit I had mixed feelings about the debate which apparently is what most of the web felt. You have some that loved it, some that hated it and many that were ambivalent about it.
My initial response was wow, what a setup. It was an elaborate stage with a wonderful technology and a professional setup. But looks aren't everything…
My response quickly changed to one of disappointment. A definition of a debate is "a structured argument. Two sides speak alternately for and against a particular contention usually based on a topical issue." The topic at hand was "Is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?
Neither side seemed to focus on the topic. And while the debate seemed structured, the arguments were not.
Mr. Ham started in a good way by putting forth a definition of the term "science". He posited two kinds of science, observational and historical. Observational is the current method of exploring the universe. Historical then takes the observational and extrapolates it back to origins. He continued by speaking of secularists hijacking the word "science". They define science as naturalism and outlaw the supernatural. Ham then defined "origins" as creation vs. evolution. And that was what the debate was really about.
Mr. Nye opened with a story about his family and bowties. Entertaining but completely unrelated to the topic. Then he brought up science as shown on the popular TV show, CSI, an entertaining show, but with little to do with real-world science. He continued with a series of disjointed statements about the flood and billions of non-Christian's religious beliefs about creation. This debate quickly became unstructured.
What followed were both sides giving
good decent presentations of their particular model of origins.
Mr. Ham had the more cohesive presentation. He started with the need for defining science and evolution and stayed with that mostly. He strayed a bit with questions to Mr. Nye about where naturalism gets logic, and which technology requires a naturalist belief. He came back around to his two kinds of science argument from his opening. Then he focused on "evolution" as another hijacked word. The definition of evolution has changed over the years. He finished by stating that naturalism and evolution are just another type of religious worldview. In the middle, he had teasers of evidence of creation origins (see his website for more information).
Mr. Nye's presentation was at best disjointed and, at worst, very confusing. Even when he had valid scientific points, he put them together in an awkward way. His arguments centered on the short time frame in the creation model. He went from layers of ice to tree rings to number of species to working at Boeing to large boulders lying around the state of Washington. This jumping from point to point was hard to follow. Then he talked about how Noah's ark wouldn't work and they wouldn't be able to feed the animals based on the National Zoo which was imaged from a satellite in space which would baffle his grandfather (more head scratching). If you could hang with his line of thought, there were some evidences given that should be considered as one has time.
Now to be fair, this is a very difficult topic to debate. There are a lot of complexities involved with origins that can't be explained adequately in one or two hours. That is why many people think it is a waste of time trying to debate topics of creation/evolution.
You see, creation as defined by Ken Ham has the earth created in 6 literal 24-hour days about 6000 years ago with God guiding the entire process. Bill Nye defines origins as about 4.5 billion years ago with evolution
guiding allowing life's changes from slime to humans (and everything else alive today).
Let's just look at the timing. How long is 6000 seconds? If you do the math, 60 seconds per minute and 60 minutes per hour you get just under two hours (actually 1.667 hours).
Now how long is 4.5 billion seconds? Continuing with the math, it comes out to be just under 143 years. This is the difference you're trying to make scientists believe.
Two hours compared to 143 years.
If I hold to the young earth model, I cannot even come close to discussing spiritual needs and how God's love works with most scientists. The young earth model becomes a stumbling block for them hearing the gospel. So in my circle, I steer towards spiritual discussions and the gospel rather than origin debates.


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The NEW and first WildTalker Spittin' Feathers CD Volume 1 was a challenge. After 15 years of recording I had so much to choose from. One thing was for sure. The Original Spittin' Feathers that has 32 min of non-stop Turkey talk had to be included. It is truly a once in a lifetime recording. So I "re-mastered" it in HD Audio and cut out some repetive sections and the Plane...lol. It is now only 23 min long but the detail or clarity is what everyone will notice even if you have the original. It still remains today, the only time I have been able to record an Old Gobbler yelping and a must of any turkey hunters sound library.
Since a CD is 60 min long, I had to choose what to include. I decided to have no talking.... just turkeys and others critters "talk on the Wild side" , which is the WildTalker Game Calls slogan. Volume One ended up with 14 New tracks never released. I approached this project as if a person only had ONE CD. So I needed sounds that covered both spring and fall. Plus reference sounds hunters ( competition callers and call makers ). Which include Barred Owls, Hawk,Crow and Woodpecker.
Special Tracks include Drumming. The Spit and Drum are sounds that every hunter "needs to be listening" for in the spring. Most of us have been caught off guard when we do hear it. The gobbler is already on top of us and has us "pinned down". One slight movement and it's game over. This track has 2 primary turkeys yelping but the gobbler is standing right next to the microphone. The spit and drum is very obvious. Yet he never quits drumming because he is locked down in Strut mode. By this I mean, if you listen close..... the drumming never stops. Sometimes the Spit is all we hear ( or hear first ). These sounds are clearly defined as to have them in your head and what to listen for.
Another track is for the Fall Hunter. It's a young hen ( jenny ) yelping in a KEE note.She was seperated from her flock. I have named this Kee Yelping. At first you don't hear the 2 note yelp. Then as her calling gains more desperation it becomes more clear.It's very important to have a caller in the fall so you can make this KEEN high pitched Kee Yelp of a young hen.
Every track has sounds not repeated on others. The goal was to give a wide variety of turkey of both age and sex,for cadence,tone and pitch. This includes clear,raspy,nasal,course and "emotion".
This project is complete and now shipping them.
This New CD was mastered in HD Audio and requires the best player and speakers you have. It has been optimised to play on your iPod,iPhone,iPad or MP3 player. For this you need a good set of earbuds or headphones,not the stock ones. I can recomend goods ones but expect to pay 50-100 dollars. ( just PM me)


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CFC HRCH Gunner, Flight Interceptor SH June 19, 1999 - April 30, 2014
I had to say good bye to my Big Brown Boy Gunner (Chocolate Thunder) . Old age finally caught up to Gunner and it was time to let him go. We had a wonderful life together and I would not trade it for anything. My vet Susan and my favorite vet tech Shannon came out to my house Wednesday to help Gunner pass peacefully at home on his bed. I was holding my big boy in my arms one last time and he pulled his head back to look at me with his big droopy eyes to say it was ok dad and gave me two big kisses. I was sad but relieved he passed so quickly and peacefully with my family around Gunner.
They made a clay mold of his front paws which was awesome! Gunner was cremated and he is back home with me now. He left me with many fond memories!
Gunner was the reason I got into the retriever games (HT, FT) I simply wanted a dog to pick up birds while duck hunting. I joined an HRC club with my new puppy. Luckily a few people at the club helped me get started and was hooked on the Retriever games! I purchased the Mike Lardy tapes after training with the group and I was amazed how quick my Brown Boy caught on to the concepts and started running HT. He achieved his HR, HRCH, SH titles before he was 2! We then attended a Mike Lardy Basics & Transition seminar in WI after which Gunner started training for FT. The next spring he ran his first FT event in the Qualifying at age 3 and earned a 2nd place at Acadiana in LA! That same year in 2003 he qualified the 03 Canadian National Open and went 7 series with Connie Swanson handling him! The next 2 years year's he trained with Dan Devos of Baypoint Kennels and qualified for the 04, 05 Canadian National Open going 8 series both years. The spring of 05 Gunner won the Southwest Ontario FT, which gave him his FTCH (CFC) title and receiving 2nd in the Amateur at Mountain Valley! In May of 07 Gunner & I won the Open at Wolverine RC, under Lynne DuBose & Glenn Lokay. I'll never forget how tough the last series was. It was a 25+ minute water marks in a big stick pond, and to watch him swim and front foot this 300+ retired bird was breathtaking. That same year in the Fall Gunner & I Won the Amateur under Al Wilson & Bill Smith, Jammed the Open at Midwest. Gunner went on to get several more Amateur placements and A Lot of Jams before retiring at age 10! Gunner came up 1/2 pt shy of his AFC, 5 pts for his FC. But that is okay as I had a ton of fun with my Big Brown Boy who was just supposed to pick up birds as gun dog. Gunner was always aiming to please me, and always giving 110%.
My most fond memories are of him being my best buddy at home and out Duck Hunting and all of our travels thru the US & Canada. He was always entertaining at home from 7 weeks until the end, as he would either clear out the closet of shoes or the bathroom rugs and have them piled in the living room or the back yard if you left the door open.
I am going to miss you Gun Boy, but I know you're up there in heaven with no more pain with your happy go lucky skip you had in your walk. Looking forward to one day of seeing my Big Brown Boy again.


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Here is why they lost:
- The economy, while not great, is getting better, with unemployment coming down ever so slightly at the right time.
- Anti-birth control stance. What woman in their right mind is going to give up the right to birth control or abortions? There aren't too many out there that want to turn back the clock and reverse Roe V. Wade.
- Threatened loss of entitlements. When you are out of work, either willingly or unwillingly, the specter of losing your entitlements is daunting.
- Healthcare: people want healthcare and don't think they should have to "pay" for it.
Here in Wisconsin, we did the unthinkable, we hired the most radical democrat in that Beatch Tammy Baldwin to replace Herb Kohl in the Senate. While Tommy Thompson wouldn't have been the greatest choice, he would have a heck of a lot more moderate then Tammy. Baldwin is actually worse than Nancy Pelosi.
Mark my words, the economy will take a nose dive due to the socialist policies that Obummer will continue.


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Race emphasizes fun, fitness rather than competition
By Scott Himelein, Special to the Citizen 09/21/12
Lilly Snow and Maura Graff were not concerned about their times or their place-cards. The 10-year-old best friends' only ambition at the 2011 Short Pump Mile was to run it side by side.
The two girls led for the entirety of their heat last September, matching each other stride for stride. As they approached the finish line, their swim-team coach, who was riding a bike along side the race, asked them what they planned to do about finishing. Who wanted to win?
They both said they had no interest in beating the other. It was then that Lilly and Maura elected to hold hands and finish the race together, as co-champions.
"You have to understand these races were fairly competitive, said Gina Snow, Lilly's mother. "And when Lilly and Maura did that, there were people who were absolutely in tears."
"That's something you would only really see at a kids' race," said Bridget Cuthbert, one of the event's organizers.
On Sept. 30, the Short Pump Mile & Short Pump Express Fun Run will return for its fourth year at the Short Pump Town Center. The first heat will begin at 7:45 a.m.
All children and teens 18 and younger are eligible to participate in the race. Registration is $15 per person.
The event began back in 2009. Cuthbert and others at NOVA of Virginia Aquatics helped propel the race into motion.
"It's modeled after the Great Train Race in Fredericksburg," Cuthbert said. "The director of that race, Debi Bernardes, approached NOVA and asked if we'd be interested in helping her organize this in Richmond."
Cuthbert said Bernardes had wanted to make a race just for children – one that would teach them about the competitive aspects of racing.
NOVA of Virginia Aquatics is a youth swim club that trains more than 800 members and offers thousands of swim lessons annually in Richmond.
The Short Pump Run warrants the help of more than 50 volunteers, the majority of whom are NOVA swim parents. It's not a NOVA-exclusive event, however, Cuthbert said.
"The majority of the kids who run aren't NOVA [participants]," Cuthbert said. "We get the word out to physical education teachers, track coaches and school principals all around the area to get students there."
A diverse array of Richmond area schools have participated in the race in the past. The St. Mary's for Kids offers a School Participation Award, which is a $2,000 prize to the five schools that have the most runners participate.
"The money goes towards physical education programs," Cuthbert said. "There's a real emphasis on learning how to live a healthy lifestyle."
Last year, the top five participants respectively were Rivers Edge Elementary, Collegiate, Nuckols Farm Elementary, Shady Grove Elementary and Colonial Trail Elementary.
Overall participation in the run has gone from 450 children in 2009 to 935 in last year's event.
"This year, we're definitely shooting for over 1,000 participants," Cuthbert said.
Along with a participation award, there are also awards for those who finish in first and second in their respective heats. First-place finishers receive $100 gift certificates from Dick's Sporting Goods and second-place finishers receive $75 gift certificates.
Every child, no matter the outcome, also receives a participation medal and T-shirt at the end of the race.
"Before I saw one of the races in Fredericksburg, I wondered why so many kids would want to participate in a race," Cuthbert said. "But after you see the kids near the finish line, they get cheered on by those around them and have these big smiles on their faces, then you begin to understand. This is definitely an environment of participation over competition."
For race and registration information, visit http://www.shortpumprace1.com.
A safer way across
By Tom Lappas, Citizen Editor 04/21/2017 Transportation
A project years in the making is beginning to make life easier for wheelchair-bound residents in Northern Henrico.
The Virginia Department of Transportation is completing a $2-million set of enhancements to the Brook Road corridor in front of St. Joseph's Villa and the Hollybrook Apartments, a community that is home to dozens of disabled residents. > Read more.
New conservation easement creates wooded buffer for Bryan Park
Citizen Staff Reports 04/21/2017 Features
Five years ago, members of the Friends of Bryan Park were facing the apparently inevitable development of the Shirley subdivision in Henrico, adjacent to the forested section of the park near the Nature Center and Environmental Education Area.
As part of the Shirley subdivision, the land had been divided into 14 lots in 1924, but had remained mostly undisturbed through the decades. In 2012, however, developers proposed building 40 modular houses on roughly 6.5 acres, clear-cutting the forest there and creating a highly dense neighborhood tucked into a dead end. > Read more.
As part of the Shirley subdivision, the land had been divided into 14 lots in 1924, but had remained mostly undisturbed through the decades. In 2012, however, developers proposed building 40 modular houses on roughly 6.5 acres, clear-cutting the forest there and creating a highly dense neighborhood tucked into a dead end. > Read more.
Meet the men running for governor
By Megan Schiffres, Capital News Service 04/21/2017 Government
Virginia will elect a new governor this year.
The governor's position is one of great power and influence, as the current officeholder, Terry McAuliffe, has demonstrated by breaking the record for most vetoes in Virginia history.
However, during the last gubernatorial race in 2014, the voter turnout was less than 42 percent, compared with 72 percent during last year's presidential election. > Read more.
RISC to address reading, childhood trauma, job training at assembly
Citizen Staff Reports 04/21/2017 Features
On May 1, more than 1,700 community members representing Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities will gather at St. Paul's Baptist Church (4247 Creighton Road) at 7 p.m. to address elementary reading, childhood trauma and job training in the greater Richmond region. Community members will speak about each issue and proposed solution.
For three years, the organization has sought implementation of a specific literacy program in Henrico County that it believes would help children who struggle with reading. > Read more.
For three years, the organization has sought implementation of a specific literacy program in Henrico County that it believes would help children who struggle with reading. > Read more.
Henrico to begin update of zoning, subdivision ordinances April 26
Citizen Staff Reports 04/21/2017 Government
Henrico County is beginning a comprehensive update of its zoning and subdivision ordinances — the first such effort in six decades — and will introduce the project as part of the April 26 meeting of the Henrico County Planning Commission.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in the Board Room of the Henrico Government Center, 4301 E. Parham Road. The ordinance update project will be featured as the final item on the agenda. Project consultant Clarion Associates will give a presentation, and meeting participants will be able to ask questions and provide comments. > Read more.
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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Beginning Friday, April 24, senior Sam Zetumer, who is earning a certificate in theater and dance, will perform his senior thesis production, "Good Winks Here," a one-man show about a clown that is not a clown show.
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Sam Zetumer's senior thesis performance, "Good Winks Here," will be performed in the Berlind Theatre Rehearsal Room at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, and Thursday through Saturday, April 30-May 2. Tickets are available through University Ticketing at (609) 258-9220 or the McCarter Theatre Center box office at (609) 258-2787.
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Inspired by their experiences in and out of the classroom, on campus and abroad, Princeton seniors immerse themselves in thesis projects that are often remembered as the defining experience of their academic careers.
The University requires all students to complete a thesis, challenging them to develop as independent thinkers by pursuing original research in close collaboration with a faculty adviser. The April 13 and 20 issues of the Princeton Weekly Bulletin profile students who have met that intellectual challenge by producing rigorous, inventive works of scholarship in subjects such as religion, astrophysical sciences, mechanical and aerospace engineering, theater and dance, and politics.
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Following his muse to create an unconventional clown
Posted April 22, 2009; 06:23 p.m.
From the April 20, 2009, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
Senior Sam Zetumer likes to work in opposing realms.
He is a math major who is earning a certificate in theater and dance. He scribbles math equations on the chalkboard while waiting for rehearsals to begin. He currently is completing two senior theses: one on set theory, and one on clowning.
Zetumer enjoys immersing himself in two such different disciplines. Math requires him to "shut down external awareness," he said, while theater asks "that I exist in this communal space." Alternating from one to the other is "like going 60 and then going in reverse," he explained.
Beginning Friday, April 24, Zetumer will perform his senior thesis production, titled "Good Winks Here," a one-man show about a clown that is not a clown show — no juggling and no gags.
"It's about a weird human being who's struggling to find out how his world works and failing very badly at it," Zetumer said. "It's a style of clowning that's all about vulnerability."
Zetumer said his show is "about a weird human being who's struggling to find out how his world works and failing very badly at it. It's a style of clowning that's all about vulnerability."
"Sam's doing something very brave here — creating his own material and going out there, totally alone, to share his deep interest in clown work with an audience," said Tim Vasen, a lecturer in theater and dance and the Lewis Center for the Arts who is one of Zetumer's thesis advisers. "What he's doing is, first of all, funny, and also sometimes haunting, like the best clowns in the Bill Irwin/Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keaton tradition always are."
Vasen sees a common thread in Zetumer's twin pursuits.
"He's a systems nut — be it advanced math or physical technique," he said. "Clown work is also a system, and what Sam's doing in his rehearsals is playing with that system, testing it against the lights and chairs and umbrellas and floors and walls, almost like scientific research."
Zetumer studied physical comedy last summer when he took courses on clowning technique offered by the Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia. The company describes itself as a dance-clown-theater ensemble that seeks to break the boundaries of dance, drama, clowning, puppetry, music and text. His summer with the troupe was supported by the Lewis Center's Alex Adam '07 Award, which Zetumer won last year. The award funds summer projects that lead to the creation of an original work of art.
Zetumer first worked with members of Pig Iron during his freshman year, when they taught a physical theater class at Princeton that included clowning. After graduation Zetumer will move to Philadelphia to work for Pig Iron as an assistant stage manager.
A native of San Diego, Zetumer was drawn to Princeton because of the University's strengths in math and theater. For his other thesis, Zetumer is constructing a new version of set theory, which is an important foundational system for mathematics.
His adviser, Professor Edward Nelson, described Zetumer as "fiercely independent. He works hard on his own to resolve problems without asking for help."
During his time at Princeton, Zetumer has appeared in several theatrical productions, portraying Prince Shuisky in Alexander Pushkin's play "Boris Godunov" and performing in "The Winter's Tale," "All My Sons" and "Romeo and Juliet." But for Zetumer, "Good Winks Here" promises to be his most memorable role.
The piece "is serious work, but it's funny and touching," said Vasen, who described Zetumer as "extremely creative" and unconstrained. "Sam has always followed his own muse."
A math major, Zetumer also is completing a senior thesis on set theory. He often scribbles math equations while waiting for rehearsals to begin.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of document archival services firm Iron Mountain (IRM) are down $5.41, or 16%, at $28.99, in late trading, after the company filed a form 8-K with the Securities & Exchange Commission this afternoon regarding its planned conversion to a real estate investment trust, saying theInternal Revenue Service was studying whether the company's facilities constitute what it considers "real estate."
According to the company, it was "recently" informed by the IRS the Service has a new "internal working group" to examine the "standards the IRS uses to define 'real estate' for the purposes of the REIT provisions of the Code" and if any changes should be made. The work of that group may "impact the anticipated timing" of various requests Iron Mountain has in to the IRS for REIT conversion.
However, the company also was informed the IRS reached what's called a "tentatively adverse" view about the company's facilities, though it is not clear whether or not that will ultimately prevent the IRS from approving Iron Mountain's REIT request.
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Prior to the Company's learning of the formation of the Working Group, the IRS informed the Company that the IRS was "tentatively adverse" to providing a PLR that the Company's racking structures constitute "real estate" for REIT purposes. The Company understands that the designation of "tentatively adverse" can have one or more meanings under IRS procedures, including (1) the IRS being undecided pending receipt from the taxpayer of additional facts or additional analysis on technical points of law or (2) the IRS having a full understanding of the underlying facts and a solidified view as to applicable law and reaching a tentative adverse conclusion as to how the law applies to the taxpayer's facts. Due to the preliminary nature of an initial "tentatively adverse" designation, it is not unusual for the IRS to later issue a favorable PLR after an initial "tentatively adverse" designation.
As my colleague Michael Aneiro writes in a recent post on the Income Investing blog, the related area of data center REITs hasbeen a mixed bag of late, including names such as Dupont Fabros Technology (DFT) and Digital Realty Trust (DLR). Other companies that have been on a trail to go to a REIT status include Equinix (EQIX), which has been talking of a planned conversion come January of 2015, as I wrote in Barron's magazine back in February.
I should mention, too, that my colleague Bill Alpert did a skeptical feature on Iron Mountain back in September in Barron's print magazine. Bill noted how activist investors Elliott Management had pushed Iron Mountain to seek REIT status, making rosy proclamations such as "Business Improvements + REIT Conversion = Potential $52-$77 Stock Price" but actually sold their shares at $33, without even collecting the $5 special dividend the company was offering.
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Silva VS Leites was prob. the worst fight ive ever seen, it was really boring. I know both fighters were playing it smart but damn it really was crap to watch. It was also sad to see Liddell retire like that...
very disappointing fights last night. ole' chuck needs to walk away before he hurts himself. silva and leites didn't even have a fight. they had a gay-off. they both won. glad i didn't spend the money to order that one.
I'm not trying to see any results from last night, I couldn't watch last night but I already know the outcome of 1 thanks to friends posting it in their facebook status. Just wanted to say I'm glad this thread has come back up and hope it gets bigger. Also UFC Unleashed is on Spike right now for those that are interested.
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hopefully the rashad/machida fight will make up for that entire card.
i think machida wins 2nd round TKO. whats your take? i know both like to wait and counter punch just hope that's not the case
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1(25) Clay Matthews III., OLB, USC
2(44) Darius Butler, CB, UCONN
2(56) Kenny Britt, WR, Rutgers
3(87) James Davis, RB, Clemson
4(108) Kevin Barnes, CB, Maryland
5(161) Xavier Fulton, OT/G, Illinois
6(181) Jason Williams, LB/SS, Western Illinois
7(214) Darryl Richard, DT, Georgia Tech
7(237) Ryan Mckee, OT, Southern Miss
Anybody watch The Ultimate Fighter? It's kinda corny but it's a guilty pleasure. They're doing team USA vs team UK. I'm not shocked to say the US team is already making fools of themselves.
As for Evans vs Machida, I got Machida by TDO (Techincal Decision Out.)
i think it will be a real good fight. evans is always improving and machida is no joke. i think it will go into the fourth and rashad will gas and get caught with some good shots and that will be that. really looking forward to that card.
UFC 101 will be Anderson Silva vs Forrest Griffin....really looking foward for this and hoping Griffin kicks his ***!
Hey guys. Only just noticed this thread so thought I'd say hi.
I'm a big UFC fan and echo a lot of your opinions from last time out. Chuck pretty much got me into the sport and to see him vanish like he has over the last 18 months is so sad. I thought he'd showed he still had a little in the tank vs Wanderlei Silva but I guess that was an exception.
Looking forward to Machida vs Sugar. Bout time someone stopped Evans, he's a heck of a fighter but he's a bit dull for me, I'd like to see someone shock him and bring him back to Earth.
Anderson Silva vs Forest seems like a bit of a wasted headliner to me. I don't think there's any doubt Anderson will wipe the deck with Forest, they guy is just so strong with his all round game. He doesn't have any holes. I'd sooner have seen him fight a dominant 205 lbs guy, Chuck 2 years ago or even Rampage.