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The Efficacy and Safety and Tolerability of Laquinimod in Subjects With Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) (CONCERTO)
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Drug: Laquinimod 0.6 mg
Drug: Matching Placebo
Drug: Laquinimod 1.2 mg
Phase 3
|Study Type:
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Multinational, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Parallel-group, Placebo-Controlled Study Followed by an Active Treatment Period, to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Two Oral Doses of Laquinimod (0.6 mg/d or 1.2 mg/d) in Subjects With Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS)
- Time to Confirmed Disease Progression (CDP) in Period 1 [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]CDP is defined as an increase in Kurtzke's Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) of 1 point or more from baseline for subjects with baseline EDSS of ≤5.0, or an increase 0.5 points or more from baseline for subjects with baseline EDSS of 5.5. The EDSS rates a person's disability due to multiple sclerosis severity, ranging from 0 (normal neurological exam) to 10 (death due to MS). The higher score represents more severe disability. The outcome measure is the time recorded from Baseline until the subject meets this definition of CDP.
- Percent change in brain volume [ Time Frame: Change from Baseline to 15 Months ]This is a measure of brain volume and will be assessed by an MRI. Brain atrophy is defined as the percent change in brain volume from baseline to month 15
- The time to first confirmed relapse during Period 1 [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]
- Number of Participants with Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]
- Number of Participants with Abnormal Vital Signs [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]
- Number of Participants with Abnormal ECG Findings [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]
- Number of Participants with Abnormal Clinical Laboratory Parameters [ Time Frame: 24 months (Period 1) ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Laquinimod 0.6 mg
Two capsules, one containing 0.6 mg laquinimod and the other containing matching placebo, to be administered orally once daily during both Periods 1 and 2.
|Drug: Laquinimod 0.6 mg
Experimental: Laquinimod 1.2 mg
Two capsules containing 0.6 mg laquinimod to be administered orally once daily during both Periods 1 and 2.
NOTE- As of January 2016, this arm has been discontinued.
|Drug: Laquinimod 1.2 mg
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Two capsules containing placebo (matching to the 0.6 mg) to be administered orally once daily during Period 1.
|Drug: Matching Placebo
Detailed Description:
Eligible subjects with confirmed relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis will be randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio into one of the following treatment arms: Laquinimod capsules 0.6 mg, Laquinimod capsules 1.2 mg and matching placebo. The study will be comprised of two treatment periods:
Period 1: Double-blind Placebo-controlled (DBPC) period: not more than 24 months of once-daily, oral administration of either laquinimod 0.6 mg, 1.2 mg or matching oral placebo.
The Sponsor will declare closing of Period 1 for all subjects when 260 events of confirmed disease progression (CDP) have occurred or when all ongoing enrolled subjects completed 24 months in Period 1 (whichever occurs first).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must have a confirmed and documented MS diagnosis as defined by the Revised McDonald criteria, with relapse onset disease or a relapsing-remitting disease course.
- Subjects must be ambulatory with Kurtzke EDSS score of 0- 5.5 in both screening and randomization visits.
- Subjects must be in a stable neurological condition, relapse-free and free of any corticosteroid treatment [intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM) and/or per os (PO)] or adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), 60 days prior to randomization.
- Subjects must have experienced at least one documented relapse in the 12 months prior to randomization.
- Subjects must be between 18 and 55 years of age at screening, inclusive.
- Subjects must have disease duration of not more than 15 years. Women of child-bearing potential (for example women who are not postmenopausal or surgically sterilized) must practice an acceptable method of birth control for 30 days before taking the study drug and two acceptable methods of birth control during the duration of the study and until 30 days after the last dose of study medication. Acceptable methods of birth control include: intrauterine devices, barrier method (condom or diaphragm with spermicide) and hormonal methods of birth control (e.g. oral contraceptive, contraceptive patch, and long-acting injectable contraceptive).
- Subjects must be able to sign and date a written informed consent prior to entering the study.
- Subjects must be willing and able to comply with the protocol requirements for the duration of the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with progressive forms of MS.
- Subjects with Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO).
- Use of experimental or investigational drugs and/or participation in drug clinical studies within 6 months prior to randomization.
- Use of immunosuppressive agents,or cytotoxic agents, including Cyclophosphamide within 6 months prior to randomization.
- Use of either of the following within 2 years prior to screening visit: natalizumab (Tysabri®), rituximab, ocrelizumab, atacicept, belimumab, or ofatumumab.
- Use of teriflunomide (Aubagio®) within 2 years prior to randomization, except if active washout (with either cholestyramine or activated charcoal) was done 2 months or more prior to randomization.
- Previous treatment with glatiramer acetate (Copaxone®) Interferon β (either 1a or 1b), fingolimod (Gilenya®), dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera®) or intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) within 2 months prior to randomization.
- Chronic (more than 30 consecutive days) systemic (IV, IM or PO) corticosteroid treatment within 2 months prior to randomization.
- Previous use of Mitoxantrone (Novantrone®), Cladribine, or alemtuzumab (Lemtrada®).
- Previous use of laquinimod.
- Previous total body irradiation or total lymphoid irradiation.
- Previous stem cell treatment, autologous bone marrow transplantation or allogenic bone marrow transplantation.
- Use of moderate/strong inhibitors of CYP3A4 within 2 weeks prior to randomization.
- Use of inducers of CYP3A4 within 2 weeks prior to randomization.
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
- Serum levels ≥3x upper limit of the normal range (ULN) of either alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) at screening
- Serum direct bilirubin which is ≥2xULN at screening.
Subjects with a clinically significant or unstable medical or surgical condition or any other condition that cannot be well-controlled by the allowed medications permitted in the study protocol that would preclude safe and complete study participation, as determined by medical history, physical examinations, ECG, laboratory tests MRI or chest X-ray. Such conditions may include:
- A major cardiovascular event (e.g. myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, de-compensated congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolism, coronary revascularization) that occurred during the past 6 months prior to randomization.
- Any acute pulmonary disorder
- A CNS disorder other than MS that may jeopardize the subject's participation in the study, including such disorders that are demonstrated on the baseline MRI.
- A gastrointestinal disorder that may affect the absorption of study medication.
- Renal disease.
- Any form of acute or chronic liver disease.
- Known human immunodeficiency virus positive status.
- A history of drug and/or alcohol abuse.
- Unstable psychiatric disorder.
- Any malignancies, excluding basal cell carcinoma, in the 5 years prior to randomization.
- A known history of sensitivity to gadolinium (Gd).
- GFR ≤ 60 mL/min at the screening visit.
- Inability to successfully undergo MRI scanning.
- Subjects who underwent endovascular treatment for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)within 3 months prior to randomization.
- Known hypersensitivity that would preclude administration of laquinimod capsule, such as hypersensitivity to: mannitol, meglumine or sodium stearyl fumarate.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01707992
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|Study Director:
|Teva Medical Expert, MD
|Responsible Party:
|Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01707992 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 28, 2012
|Last Updated:
|December 1, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting
Pathologic Processes
Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, CNS
Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Demyelinating Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
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Most of the roosters we teased up were running parallel to the beaches just outside the surfline. From Cabo San Lucas points West the beaches are pretty much unfishable owing to the lack of a continental shelf - some of the most spectacular 'dumpers' you will ever see.
Back east around the Sea of Cortez things settle down and reports of hot action on Roosters, Jacks etc. acording to seasons. Kayak fishing is supposed to be hot on the inside. Would be great to get back down there sometime.
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I'm just back from a few days a bit further south from there. Was trying my luck each daybreak in the surf, always saw fish & bait but didn't start hooking up until I started a more agressive retrieve. Jacks and pompano were common most mornings (bunch of other fishies that I still can't identify). #1 white deceivers and 1/0 - 2/0 angel hair flies, light blue over white and a fast retrieve got there attention. Have a feeling that poppers would also have been productive.
BTW, ff'ing from a yak would have also been very effective as the day went on....
Adrian, aren't the roosters very structure oriented? Work around the rockpiles and points?
Across the Sea of Cortez on the Baja side, the Sardina rules supreme as baitfish of choice along with Cabillitos, anchovies and mackeral. I would bet that they are also to be found in big numbers on the mainland Pacific side.
The sardinas can be anything from an inch up to 5 or 6 depending on time of year. When I was there in the late fall they were small and we fished two inch olive/white clousers for 20lb yellowfin
Cabillito is a deeper bodied "Big-Eye" baitfish 5 to 7 inches or bigger. Some type of bunker immitation would probably fit the bill.
Roosters can be notoriously finicky - the "Pacific answer to Permit" - lots of excited follows but few conections and lots of bad language
Grant Hartman of Baja Anglers favors a one inch edgewater popper (master blaster?) - top half black, bottom half white with a red face and the biggest stick-on eyes you can find. The tail is a mix of white and brown bucktail with a few strands of flash. He's taken many world records with this fly.
Need help with Mazatlan fishing
A friend of mine is heading down that way. But he's mostly winging it, not hiring a guide. Supposedly heard of some good spots to fish for roosterfish (?) that he wants to try for.
I'm looking for anyone who has a link to flies used for fishing down there in North Mazatlan. I was going to tie him up some flies if I can get some pictures of some. Any help would be appreciated.
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Shares of Pandora Media (P) were up more than 4% today, closing in on the company's fresh all-time high on Friday, thanks to a bullish note from Needham & Co.
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Description ADULT Uniform gray-brown on back and upperside of inner wing, contrasting with dark outer half of wing and trailing margin of inner wing. Cap is dark and neck and underparts are whitish, with faint yellow flush on cheeks seen at close range. JUVENILE Variably gray-brown, with some individuals being rather dark. Note relatively long and rather wedge-shaped tail; pale morph juvenile has pale belly and nape with a hint of a darker breast band. Compared to juvenile Parasitic, bill is stubbier, outer half being darker than inner half (dark-tipped in juvenile Parasitic); pale morph juvenile is grayer overall than juvenile Parasitic, and pale "wedge" is often obvious on nape.
Dimensions Length: 21" (53 cm)
Habitat Common and widespread Arctic tundra breeding species. Otherwise, exclusively pelagic and mostly offshore, even during migration. Winters at sea, mainly south of equator.
Observation Tips Easy to see on Arctic breeding grounds. Pelagic boat trips, typically venturing beyond sight of land, are required to see migrants (commonest May and Aug-Sep). Only very rarely seen from land or inland on migration, usually after severe gales.
Range California, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Great Lakes, Florida, New England, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Northwest
Voice Utters harsh anxiety calls on breeding grounds, but otherwise silent.
Discussion Elegant and distinctive seabird. Shares some characters with Parasitic, but relatively easy to identify, even distantly. In flight, has rather long, pointed wings that lack white patch seen on Parasitic's outer wing. Adult has extremely long central tail streamers. At close range, note dainty bill. Sexes are similar.


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For historical purposes, here's the haul, thanks to my family and girlfriend:
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TUPELO – Calls spiked Monday to heating repair companies in Tupelo as cold weather moved into the region.
"We had at least three times as many" requests compared with last Monday, said Sharon Sheffield, who schedules appointments for M&M Heating and Cooling. "We were still getting air conditioning calls last week."
People always wait until the last minute to test their heating units, she said.
"It happens the same way every year," Sheffield said. "It'll gradually level off as people get over the initial shock of this weather."
Bob Wiley, president of Comfort Engineering on North Gloster, reported the same bump.
"Of course Friday we were twiddling our thumbs," he said.
But the temperatures started changing Friday as a cold front moved in. Temperatures dropped into the 40s in Tupelo, and many homeowners turned on their central heat for the first time this season.
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She said employees spent Monday fixing "mostly simple stuff," such as gas pressure problems or issues with automatic ignitions.
"We've had 50 or more calls," she said. "It's sort of like the heat in the summer."
Wiley said most of the calls now are from residential customers who found the problems over the weekend. He suspects he'll have more commercial calls later this week as offices find problems with their units.
And while business was up Monday, Wiley said he still is busier in the summer than in the winter.
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After a sadistic persecution by the office of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and prosecutors Steve Heymann and Scott Garland, the 26-year-old Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment on January 11.
Swartz, like so many computer prodigies, was a college drop-out — Stanford, in his case. He was also a key contributor to the development of Rich Site Summary, or RSS. Now ubiquitous, RSS gives users the ability to keep pace with new postings on individual sites, or — more ambitiously — to aggregate from a huge array of far-flung locations.
Swartz's efforts also propelled the success of Reddit, the hugely popular social news site that collectively interviewed President Obama last summer.
The common denominator in Swartz's technical efforts was access. Not surprisingly, his social activism focused on efforts to make as much information as possible freely available to as many as practicable.
If Swartz's brain was touched by genius, his heart was expansive — filled with a utopian dream of a world made better by unfettered access to information. The Phoenix applauds Swartz's efforts to make public documents widely available — as well as documents that should be public, but aren't. But we suspect we hold a different view when it comes to commercial copyright.
Debating copyright with Swartz is now — sadly, tragically, outrageously — impossible.
The case against Swartz — based on a narrow, almost unreasonable reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — was hardly airtight. Swartz was accused of downloading, without authorization, a huge cache of scholarly articles from a nonprofit company, JSTOR. Contrary to what has been reported elsewhere, Swartz did not hack into the system — at least not as the term is widely understood.
For whatever reason, it appears that JSTOR was willing to forgive and forget Swartz's raid on their content, perhaps because JSTOR was planning — as they now have — to make the archive available to the public, much of it at no cost.
But MIT wasn't forgiving. To its everlasting shame, the university lacked the sense of proportion, the sense of decency, the sense of restraint, to tell the US Attorney to go to hell. All those brains, and it turns out that MIT had its head stuck up its ass.
As for the US Attorney, even by standards of prosecutorial overreach — an increasingly alarming phenomenon — the behavior of Ortiz and her henchmen was morally repugnant, characterized by Soviet-style hyperbole that sought to portray Swartz as a master criminal, an archfiend, a menace to American society, and a threat to the very pillars of Western civilization.
MIT may have lost its sense of proportion, but the Justice Department, as is frighteningly so often the case, had none to begin with.
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Athletes on the six Hope College spring sports
teams have been recognized for outstanding performances by the
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) coaches.
Hope teams had an outstanding spring season, winning an MIAA
championship in women's tennis and co-championship in baseball.
The softball, men's tennis and women's track teams all finished
second in their respective races while the men's track team ended
in a tie for third place. Hope swept the year-end honors of the
MIAA capturing both the men's and women's all-sports awards and
the new Commissioner's Cup for the best cumulative finishes in
all sports for men and women.
Senior outfielder Ryan Tanis of Holland (Holland Christian
HS) was voted the most valuable MIAA baseball player marking the
fourth time this decade that the honor has been presented to a
Hope player. He played on three MIAA championship teams. This
season he batted a career-best .361 in all games and had a team-
high .598 slugging percentage behind 11 extra base hits,
including six homeruns. He batted .333 in MIAA games and was
among the league leaders in total bases (44), runs scored (22),
RBIs (19) and homeruns (6).
Two of three individual honors awarded in men's tennis went
to Hope athletes. Junior Erik Berg of Lansing (Lansing HS) was
presented the Stowe Sportsmanship Award while senior Robert
Brandt of Holland (Grand Rapids Christian HS) received the
Lawrence Green Scholarship. It is the third time in four years
that a Hope player has been presented the sportsmanship award.
It is the second consecutive year that a Hope player has received
the academic award which honors the memory of the late Lawrence
"Doc" Green, longtime athletic trainer and coach at Hope.
The championship baseball team had six players receive All-
MIAA honors. Senior shortstop Dean Esteves of Hudsonville
(Hudsonville HS) was voted to the first team for the third
consecutive year. He was joined on the first team by Tanis and
sophomore shortstop Sean Bateman of Saline (Saline HS). Voted to
the All-MIAA second team were senior second baseman Matt Klein of
DeWitt (DeWitt HS), junior outfielder Ben Fellows of Lansing
(Lansing Eastern HS), and senior pitcher Adam Labbe of Cadillac
(Cadillac HS).
The Flying Dutch softball team also had six players earn
All-MIAA honors. Voted to the first team were sophomore pitcher
Kim Grotenhuis of Hamilton (Hamilton HS), senior outfielder
Christa Murphy of Midland (Midland HS) and sophomore catcher
Carrie Scott of Centreville (Centreville HS). Voted to the All-
MIAA second team were junior outfielder Angie Ciesielski of
Linden (Linden HS) and senior pitcher Lisa Larzelere of Omaha,
Neb. (Westside HS).
In men's tennis, junior Paul Lillie of Roseville, Minn.
(Roseville HS) was voted to the All-MIAA first team for the
second year in-a-row while teammates Chad Bollinger, a junior
from Petoskey (Petoskey HS), and Kai Bouchard, a sophomore from
Hinsdale, Ill. (Hinsdale Township HS) were voted to the second
In women's tennis, junior Jennifer Smith of Holland (Holland
HS) was voted to the All-MIAA first team for the second year in-
a-row. She was joined on the first team by sophomore teammate
Julie Murray of Spring Lake (Spring Lake HS). Sophomore Krissy
Kooyer of Holland (Holland Christian HS) was voted to the second
Seven athletes were voted to the All-MIAA track and field
teams. Junior Paul Berke of Park Ridge, Ill. (Maine South HS),
the league champion in the 10,000-meter run, is the only Hope
honoree on the All-MIAA men's team.
Voted to the All-MIAA women's team were freshman Sarah
Burgess of Niles (Buchanan HS), junior Jennifer Ernst of
Westerville, Ohio (Westerville South HS), senior Becky Timmer of
Pella, Iowa (Pella HS), freshman Elizabeth Chapman of Marquette
(Marquette HS), junior Kim Richardson of Sanford (Meridian HS),
and sophomore Emily Sowers of Grand Rapids (GR Christian HS).
Ernst was the conference champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters,
Burgess captured the gold in the shotput, Sowers repeated as
league champion in the discus and Kim Richardson took first in
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LOL, I remember when that was shown in the UK! SMEGGING HILLARIOUS! I'm sure you've all seen the hillarious Episode I spoof they did, we'll it's like that !!!
It's deffo worth a watch when it's on !
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
"There's a gentleness about a total Star Wars geek that is sublime."- Rick McCallum
My DVD Collection
That was hysterical! I love Dawnie French to pieces!
For those of you who have no clue what we are talking about, but bothered to click on...
"Phenomenally funny Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) and Dawn French (Murder Most Horrid) pop up in a gallery of guises, presenting a mix of hilarious send-ups, ridiculous dance routines and wonderfully inventive sketches.
French and Saunders has won a host of awards including four British Academy Awards. It is also the show that spawned the worldwide success Absolutely Fabulous."
Their sketch comedy show had some really hilarious bits. A standout sketch was a parody of a Bjork video in which (rather large) Dawn French portrayed the mad pixie queen herself...!


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First trout on a fly?
My first trout on a fly rod was very memorable. Yeah, I had trolled them up on streamers, and piled my line into the currents so I could strip the fly back and hit a few that way - but I mean the selection, the cast, the retrieve, the hit, the fish.
Mine came in stillwater, a stocked fish but glorious for me just the same. Don't even get me wound up on commentaries about the damage native populations sustain from truckfuls of finless pellet-fed heiffer trout pushing delicate fry from their fragile domains, eating them at will, sucking the food source dry, etc. I didn't mean to talk about that.
But that spring day, the promise of a new season was in the air and the bright green buds were pushing colors from the gray fingers of winter-stripped trees along the pond, and the birds were singing their sweet songs. I had gotten into this intense obsession about catching trout without Pautzke's Balls o' Fire or marshmallows after I saw the old timers on Walden and Whites and Scargo and Cliff Pond gently lay funny looking fat lines toward the sipping rings of trout, finding fish after willing fish while I and the rest of the forked stick crowd sat like Norman Rockwell's mischevious boys on buckets wishing we had a rock in our hands. These splashes would drive me crazy, I just had to figure it out.
I had an old fiberglass rod someone gave me and set out stubbornly to defeat this conquest, getting rides to the pond from my sister who had only just gotten her license or even taking the bicycle on the highway to get there. We even hitchhiked (I'm dating myself there, eh?). Eventually, I would be ornery enough to bring the flyrod even though I couldn't cast to save my life and the whole thing felt like I had two left feet on my arms whenever I tried.
But I tried and I tried, buying flies with my spare change whenever I could, at Sears, at Zayre's at any shop that my folks brought me to or that a bus went to. When I tied them on they seemed so stupid, wet, and ineffective. It really took me a long time to get a clue.
One day I was standing on a stone wall at the waters edge with my flyrod, feeling stupid. From the corner of my eye I saw the unmistakable speckled form of a trout, cruising just below the surface. It turned and rushed over to a spec on the surface, hesitated and gently sucked in something. I looked at my fly - which I now know as a blacknosed dace streamer and thought "that ain't somethin, gotta find the something!" and dug thru the box. Seeing as I was surrounded by gnats, it only occurred to me then that they could be feeding on them. I selected a tiny gnat and proceeded to tie it on. Being unaware of things like tippet and bloodknots, the leader was cut down by streamer abuse and I could barely get the line thru the eye. The knot looked bigger than the fly. I tried it anyway. When the fly began to sink every cast I stopped to think things over.
Looking in my corny green fabric creel, I found a spare not-a-knot leader. Wasting no time, I replaced the leader I had with the new one using a whatchamacallit knot. It was bigger than my fly too, but the tippet was as light as a spiders web and I got excited about the sense of renewal.
I set out to find these fish again, and luckily they were still rising. It took a while before they came within my range (20 feet max) but they did. I laid the fly on the water with a delicate kersploosh, and then I thought.. now what? If I move the fly, it sinks. If I don't I feel stupid. I sat there a little longer, and the wind began to move my line. The fly formed a tiny little wake as it slid to the side, and I decided that the spaghetti like trail of line that lay between me and the fly was not going to do me any good, so I began to retrieve some line using a motion that remotely resembled something I now know as "stripping".
Then it happened... with a subtle slap, a flash of scarlet and silver, and a moment of disbelief, I had a rainbow on the line as I fuddled to pull in the slack and feel the fish in person. And feel I did! When I made contact, the fish bounced the rod with a vigor that nothing with a trailing egg sinker could produce, and I let out a strange noise that you could never spell. After a little nervous give-and-take, I slid the flooping trout onto the sandy gravel and pounced on it like a cat.
Yeah sure, I ate it - but I was a kid, and you've never seen someone so damn proud of a little stocker trout. For some reason, every spot and scale of that fish radiated with the sheen of accomplishment, and I'd swear it's pale pasty flesh was exquisite if you'd asked me then.
Well, millions of false casts later I've been pleased to say that I have been fishing the same kelp beds as orcas on the Olympic Peninsula, and swinging Spey flies in the same waters where Haig-Brown caught his first steelhead. I've laid crazy charlies into the patchwork of turtle grass and fine coral sands to entice bones on the Keys, and wrestled big 'cuda from the deep dark trenches on an 8wt. I've seen bluefish blitzes a hundred yards wide and cruising stripers so big that I was afraid to cast, and hope I've got a whole lot more to go before it's all said and done, but in the scope of things that little rainbow was a milestone I should never forget or forsake.
Every one's a keeper, in the mind's eye.
RE:First trout on a fly?
Ah the first trout on a dry fly. You'd have to be a cold one indeed to let that memory slip away. This is piece of a post I wrote to "another" board.
There have been many who have imparted their fly fishing wisdom to me over the years but this is a tale of my cherry trout and one special man. He is nameless to me and he would have no idea how his few minutes of generosity affected me. I was seventeen and I had just become the proud owner of a 7 weight berkley fiberglass fly rod and a very simple single action martin reel. It was nearing dusk on the Mohawk river in upstate New York and the trout were greedily slurping flies from the surface. I made cast after cast to no avail and I was getting quite frustrated. An old man walked up to me and asked what I was using and I showed him the big bushy thing at the end of my line. He said I could fish all night with it and probably not catch a thing. He then dug into his vest and pulled out a magnificent assortment of flies. Truly a treasure and wonder to my eyes. He selected a fly, clipped the monster off my line and with hands shaking from age or some other unkind ailment he tied the new one to my line. He missed the tag and clipped the line and muttered something about damned old eyes. He handed me the fly and another like it off the patch on his vest and said I could probably handle tying it on myself. He watched me cast a few times then gave me a quick lesson on line mending and the importance of a drag free drift. I started getting rises to my fly but I kept missing them. He said I was being to rough and all I had to do was lift the rod to set the hook. Cast, cast, cast and finally I did it right! What a thrill it was and soon a beautiful 10 inch brown trout came to my hand. Grinning I looked up to the old man and he was not there. I wish he could have seen me catch my first trout on a fly. I can't remember if I thanked him and if I did it was not enough so I try to make up for any lack by following his example and being generous with what life has taught and given me. Who knows, someday somebody might write something like this about some old guy who shared with them and they will be writing about me. Kind of makes me smile to think about it.
Tight Lines,
RE:First trout on a fly?
I flat out don't remember. Grrrr. It was probably a brookie in the way upper reaches of the Squanacook, or evan up beyond that in good old Willard Brook. It took me a long time to "trust" that I could produce on flies. So my conversion from spin tackle was back and forth in those teenage days way back (hint: I'm 3 months older than Juro, and he's an old cow now, so that oughta tell ya). But I really enjoyed your stories above. Brings to mind something. I've always had a knack for brookies. Crawling on your belly, behind boulders, long cast under alders, bushwacking etc. If there in there I can present a fly and hook them. But i never could get the hang of Browns on size 18 and smaller flies. Or, for that matter, any size. One of these days....Bob D, show me the way.
Terry (who suffers from CRS)
RE:First trout on a fly?
Still mourning the passing of my father in law but what better way to improve my mood than to relive my first trout on a fly. It was a brown trout taken on a #10 Haystack on the Ausable in New York. It was about 13" and probably a holdover fish (maybe even wild) judging by its perfectly curved and pointy fins. I fumbled around trying to get a half decent cast upstream. He missed (or maybe I missed) the first whack, but he came back and he was mine. I almost swang it across the road on the hook set <g> That's got to be over 20 years ago... late seventies, and remember it as if it was yesterday.
RE:First trout on a fly?
Poor me, first fish on the fly was a little little... The thing was only about 4 inches. Still it was caught by a ten year old version of me. The fly was a sherry spinner, fished wet. It was my first time with a fly rod so the fact that I was drowning dries was not surprising. What was was catching a fish. The hungry thing burst out of the water after it! I had let the line drift all downsttream so that I was fishing with no style, not wet nor dry, and the wake the fly caused when the fly swung up to the top and around changed that beautiful baby trout into deadly killer.
It was beautiful, gorgeous red spots, a little wild gem. That was April 1983, my first day flyfishing, my first on the fly. I'd love to do that day again.
No angler, no matter how good, can catch a fish everytime, but then no fish, no matter how cunning, can resist a fly everytime...
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heard from a few people about my previous diary entry, which made it into the salon article. it's good to know people still care despite all the ranting that goes on sometimes (some of which i've mentioned in previous postings here).
got my newpkgs script working again finally. stupid typos..... i need to figure out a better way to get that info. right now it is very hackish.... it's one of those projects i keep on telling myself i'd get to, but never do. *sigh*
spent some time working with joey and culus yesterday to speed up dpkg-preconfigure. found out that forking is terribly expensive, despite some things i have previously read. we ended up speeding it up about 3x with inprocess unpacking of the config/template stuff, but the program that is used to do it is about 36k after various optimizations. g++ really sucks when it comes to dealing with templates. culus has an idea that we should just make a non-templatized string class and link all our stuff against it. maybe i'll give that a shot this weekend.


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In the Greek NT, 1 Thessalonians is listed literally as "To the Thessalonians." This represents the Apostle Paul's first canonical correspondence to the church in the city of Thessalonica (cf.1:1).
Author and Date
The Apostle Paul identified himself twice as the author of this letter (1:1; 2:18). Silvanus (Silas) and Timothy (3:2,6), Paul's traveling companions on the second missionary journey when the church was founded (Acts 17:1–9), were also mentioned in Paul's greeting (1:1).Though Paul was the single inspired author, most of the first person plural pronouns (we, us, our) refer to all 3. However, during Timothy's visit back to Thessalonica, they refer only to Paul and Silvanus (3:1,2,6). Paul commonly used such editorial plurals because the letters camewith the full support of his companions.
Paul's authorship has not been questioned until recently by radical critics. Their attempts to undermine Pauline authorship has failed in light of the combined weight of evidence favoring Paul such as: 1) the direct assertions of Paul's authorship (1:1; 2:18); 2) the letter's perfect correlation with Paul's travels in Acts 16–18; 3) the multitude of intimate details regarding Paul; and 4) the confirmation by multiple, early historical verifications starting with Marcion's canon in A.D. 140.
The first of Paul's two letters written from Corinth to the church at Thessalonica is datedca. A.D. 51. This date has been archeologically verified by an inscription in the temple of Apollos at Delphi (near Corinth) which dates Gallio's service as proconsul in Achaia to A.D. 51–52 (Acts 18:12–17). Since Paul's letter to the churches of Galatia was probably written ca. A.D. 49–50, this was his second piece of canonical correspondence.
Background and Setting
Thessalonica (modern Salonica) lies near the ancient site of Therma on the Thermaic Gulf at the northern reaches of the Aegean Sea. This city became the capital of Macedonia (ca. 168 B.C.) and enjoyed the status of a "free city" which was ruled by its own citizenry (Acts 17:6) under the Roman Empire. Because it was located on the main east-west highway, Via Egnatia, Thessalonica served as the hub of political and commercial activity in Macedonia, and became known as "the mother of all Macedonia." The population in Paul's day reached 200,000 people.
Paul had originally traveled 100 mi. from Philippi via Amphipolis and Apollonia to Thessalonica on his second missionary journey (A.D. 50; Acts 16:1–18:22). As his custom was upon arrival, he sought out the synagogue in which to teach the local Jews the gospel (Acts 17:1,2). On that occasion, he dialogued with them from the OT concerning Christ's death and resurrection in order to prove that Jesus of Nazareth was truly the promised Messiah (Acts 17:2,3). Some Jews believed and soon after, Hellenistic proselytes and some wealthy women of the community also were converted (Acts 17:4). Mentioned among these new believers were Jason (Acts 17:5), Gaius (Acts 19:29), Aristarchus (Acts 20:4), and Segundus (Acts 20:4).
Because of their effective ministry, the Jews had Paul's team evicted from the city (Acts 17:5–9), so they went south to evangelize Berea (Acts 17:10). There Paul had a similar experience to Thessalonica with conversions followed by hostility, so the believers sent Paul away. He headed for Athens, while Silvanus and Timothy remained in Berea (Acts 17:11–14). They rejoined Paul in Athens (cf. Acts 17:15,16 with 3:1), from which Timothy was later dispatched back to Thessalonica (3:2). Apparently, Silas afterwards traveled from Athens to Philippi while Paul journeyed on alone to Corinth (Acts 18:1). It was after Timothy and Silvanus rejoined Paul in Corinth (Acts 18:5), that he wrote 1 Thessalonians in response to Timothy's good report of the church.
Paul undoubtedly had multiple reasons for writing, all coming out of his supreme concern for the flock from which he had been separated. Some of Paul's purposes clearly included: 1) encouraging the church (1:2–10); 2) answering false allegations (2:1–12); 3) comforting the persecuted flock (2:13–16); 4) expressing his joy in their faith (2:17–3:13); 5) reminding them of the importance of moral purity (4:1–8); 6) condemning the sluggard lifestyle (4:9–12); 7) correcting a wrong understanding of prophetic events (4:13–5:11); 8) defusing tensions within the flock (5:12–15); and 9) exhorting the flock in the basics of Christian living (5:16–22).
Historical and Theological Themes
Both letters to Thessalonica have been referred to as "the eschatological epistles." However, in light of their more extensive focus upon the church, they would better be categorized as the church epistles. Five major themes are woven together in 1 Thessalonians: 1) an apologetic theme with the historical correlation between Acts and 1 Thessalonians; 2) an ecclesiastical theme with the portrayal of a healthy, growing church; 3) a pastoral theme with the example of shepherding activities and attitudes; 4) an eschatological theme with the focus on future events as the church's hope; and 5) a missionary theme with the emphasis on gospel proclamation and church planting.
Interpretive Challenges
Primarily the challenges for understanding this epistle involve the sections that are eschatological in nature: 1) the coming wrath (1:10; 5:9); 2) Christ's return (2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23); 3) the rapture of the church (4:13–18); and 4) the meaning and time of the Day of the Lord (5:1–11).
I. Paul's Greeting (1:1)
II. Paul's Personal Thoughts (1:2–3:13)
A. Thanksgiving for the Church (1:2–10)
B. Reminders for the Church (2:1–16)
C. Concerns for the Church (2:17–3:13)
A. Thanksgiving for the Church (1:2–10)
B. Reminders for the Church (2:1–16)
C. Concerns for the Church (2:17–3:13)
III. Paul's Practical Instructions (4:1–5:22)
A. On Moral Purity (4:1–8)
B. On Disciplined Living (4:9–12)
C. On Death and the Rapture (4:13–18)
D. On Holy Living and the Day of the Lord (5:1–11)
E. On Church Relationships (5:12–15)
F. On the Basics of Christian Living (5:16–22)
A. On Moral Purity (4:1–8)
B. On Disciplined Living (4:9–12)
C. On Death and the Rapture (4:13–18)
D. On Holy Living and the Day of the Lord (5:1–11)
E. On Church Relationships (5:12–15)
F. On the Basics of Christian Living (5:16–22)
IV. Paul's Benediction (5:23, 24)
V. Paul's Final Remarks (5:25–28)
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The Woonsocket Animal Shelter, sponsored by and in conjunction with the RI VMA (RI Veterinary Medical Association) will hold a Rabies Clinic.
Location: Woonsocket Animal Shelter
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Date: May 4, 2013
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Black Bean Nachos
Serve your best nachos yet at your next fiesta! The key: a thin, even layer of tortilla chips with lots of yummy toppings that are evenly spread over the top, so each chip is loaded with flavor. Here, hearty GOYA® Black Beans, zesty GOYA® Jalapeńo peppers, fresh scallions and juicy tomatoes are covered with a coat of creamy, melted cheese. Serve with Pico de Gallo and guacamole for a side dish that is sure to get the party started.
Serves 4
Prep time: 10 min.
Total time: 15 min.
6 oz. tortilla chips
1 can (15.5 oz.) GOYA® Black Beans, drained and rinsed
2 medium tomatoes, cored, seeded and finely chopped (about 1 cup)
4 GOYA® Whole Jalapeńo peppers, thinly sliced (about Ľ cup)
1 scallion, thinly sliced (about Ľ cup)
1˝ cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
Chopped fresh cilantro, for garnish
GOYA® Pico de Gallo, for garnish
Frozen GOYA® Guacamole, thawed, for garnish
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These cute and spicy little breads, wrapped festively, are a great solution for a low-key holiday gift exchange at work.
For a crunchy praline topping, mix 1/3 cup packed brown sugar, 1/3 cup chopped pecans and 1 tablespoon softened butter or margarine until crumbly, and sprinkle over the batter before baking.
To make regular-sized loaves, grease just the bottoms of 2 loaf pans, 9x5x3 or 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2 inches. Bake 50 to 60 minutes.
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The University of Mississippi completed the state's first liver transplant in 22 years earlier this month.
The recipient Karen Battle of Jackson, who suffered from autoimmune hepatitis, received her new liver on March 4.
Dr. Christopher Anderson, UMMC associate professor of transplant surgery and division chief of transplant and hepatobiliary surgery, began building the team of specialists and meeting the regulatory requirements to restart UMMC's liver transplant program more than a year ago.
At the end of January the United Network for Organ Sharing, the governing body for organ transplantation in the U.S., approved UMMC's liver transplant program.
The liver program marks the second-to-last step in building University Transplant's complete abdominal transplant programs. The team broke a UMMC record last year with 103 kidney transplants. Now, only pancreas transplantation remains, which Anderson said may come later this year.
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The Easter bunny can bring more than jelly beans and chocolate eggs.
The Diabetes Treatment Center at North Mississippi Medical Center will host a one-night cooking class, "Hop Into Healthy Eating," on Monday.
The class will start at 6 p.m. in Room 21 on the first floor of NMMC's East Tower. Participants will be taught how to cook healthy meals and desserts. Samples of each dish will be available for tasting, and recipes will be provided as well.
Fee for the course is $10. To register or for more information about the class, call (662) 377-2500.
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Teens interested in the North Mississippi Medical Center's annual summer volunteer program must apply by April 1.
This program is designed for students who may be interested in pursuing a career in health care or who simply would like to make a difference in someone's life. Eligible students must have completed the ninth-12th grades by June 1.
Volunteer opportunities abound in many areas of NMMC, including the main campus in Tupelo and sites in Baldwyn and Pontotoc. Program dates are June 4 through July 12.
Applications are available at area school guidance offices or from the NMMC Volunteer Services Department and must be postmarked by April 1. Students are also required to submit a cumulative grade report with their application. Finalists will be interviewed and notified of selection. Students selected for the program will be assigned specific work hours and expected to keep their schedule with the exception of illness or vacation.
For more information about the summer volunteer program, call Carla Enis at (662) 377-3131 or (800) 843-3375.
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I am thinking about slowly getting into customizing . I was windering if anyone has somnesuggestions for some easy first try head-swap customs that you would recommend--i.e. something in the army builder vein
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Zakk Wylde Discusses Pride & Glory, His New Band (and Album), in 1994 Guitar World Interview
Here's an interview with Zakk Wylde from the July 1994 issue of Guitar World, which featured the Allman Brothers on the cover. To see the Allman Brothers cover -- and all the GW covers from 1994 -- click here.
Zakk Wylde crosses his arms behind his head and leans back into the grassy backyard of his suburban Los Angeles home.
"Some people just don't understand," he sighs. "They say, 'You're crazy to leave Ozzy, Zakk. You could have played arenas forever. Now you're going to have to play small clubs.' Well, fuck you. I'm not in this for a rock star lifestyle. I'm in it to play my guitar. And I'd play it in a toilet if that's the only place people would come hear me."
A noble sentiment, to be sure. But if Pride & Glory, the self-titled debut of Zakk' s new band, is any indication, don't expect to see him in a men's room near you anytime soon. The album is a wild, wide-ranging romp: Headbanging heavy metal stampers rub shoulders with swampy Southern rockers; an Ozzy-style power ballad segues into a lushly orchestrated Elton John-style piano number; gentle country rock tunes explode with distorted heavy metal harmonica breaks. All are part of Pride & Glory's odd musical equation.
"I just love so many types of music," Zakk says with a shrug. "I love the Allmans and I love Sabbath. I love the Eagles, and I love Zeppelin. And I don't see why other people shouldn't also like all this stuff."
Pride & Glory's musical hybrid may seem perfectly natural to Zakk now, but it's actually a testament to the growth he underwent during his eight years with Ozzy Osbourne. In 1987, when he was plucked from a bar band in his hometown of Jackson, New Jersey, and thrust into Osbourne's exalted guitar seat, Zakk was a Black Sabbath fanatic and an eager young guitarist who gravitated towards "anything fast."
As he matured as a player and a person, however, Zakk became more and more obsessed with country chicken pickers like Albert Lee and Southern rock bands like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Soon Zakk formed "Lynyrd Skynhead" with the rhythm section of White Lion, who opened for Ozzy in the late-Eighties. Like Zakk, bassist James Lomenzo and drummer Greg D'Angelo were looking for a musical outlet from their day gigs; Skynhead, which played strictly covers, was just the ticket.
A series of club gigs followed, as did "Farm Fiddlin,'" an outrageous country metal cut that was a highlight of Guitar World's 1991 compilation CD, Guitars That Rule The World. Somewhere along the way, Brian Tischy replaced D'Angelo and Lynyrd Skynhead became Pride & Glory.
After Zakk completed work on Ozzy's Live & Loud album last year, he bid his mentor farewell and began to concentrate on his new band. "Oz is like family," Zakk says. "I still talk to him all the time and I've already recorded stuff that will be on his next album. But it's been over a year since I toured with him and I didn't want to be in a rocking chair before I made my own record. He understood what I had to do."
Pride & Glory journeyed to Seattle to record their debut album with Rick Parashar (Temple Of The Dog, Blind Melon), who helped the band capture the raw, spontaneous sound they sought.
"The recording went great," says Zakk. "But that was last fall and now I'm just itching to get out there and start jamming again. Since we finished the record we've been doing all the promotional stuff -- interviews, photo shoots, meetings. I've had it with all that; I just want to play my guitar.
GUITAR WORLD: Do you think you'd be doing the kind of material you do in Pride & Glory if you had never hooked up with Ozzy?
No way; my music would never have ended up like this. Before I was with Ozzy, all I listened to was Sabbath. I was familiar with Southern rock because a couple of my buddies and their older brothers listened to it when we were hanging out together. When I heard the Allmans or Skynyrd on someone' s Panasonic tape recorder, I thought they were cool, but I didn't own any of their records. I was a Sabbath man all the way.
But once I was in a band with Ozzy, I couldn't listen to Sabbath all the time anymore -- l wanted to listen to other things. Also, being on the road, away from home for the first time, I missed my buddies, and listening to Skynyrd and the Allmans reminded me of hanging out and drinking beer with my buds down at the sewer plant.
And now you've put it all together on Pride & Glory. It's a very ambitious album. For one thing, it has 14 cuts ...
Yeah. Some people told us that we should "save something for next time." What next time? I'm not arrogant enough to even assume that we'll have a second album. And I have to have enough faith in myself to assume that when the time does come I'll be able to come up with another batch of good songs. Plus, albums have gotten so expensive now that I think you owe it to the buyer to include a lot of music. If someone's busting their ass to come up with 15 bucks for your record, you should give them their money's worth. So I didn't hold back. If you don't like a song, skip to the next one.
The album begins with a banjo riff on "Losin' Your Mind." Did you write that on banjo or guitar?
I did it on acoustic guitar first and then realized that it would be cool on a banjo. I don't really know how to play a banjo, so I just tuned it like a guitar. I tuned it so that all the fingering was in one spot -- on the third fret. And that about sums up my banjo skills. I can struggle along with Irish folk songs, but that's about it. I mean, I couldn't kiss Roy Clark's ass. If he asked me, "Can you play banjo?" I'd be like, "What's a banjo, dude?"
The banjo riff is joined by a heavily distorted guitar line, both of which run throughout the song. You could say that sort of sums up what Pride & Glory is all about.
Yeah; I think that's a pretty good representation of the band. It's got the heavy guitars and the serious Marshall sound as well as my Southern bit. That's why we're making it the first single, instead of something like "Horse Called War," which is very heavy. I could have done that on an Ozzy record.
It could have been on an Exodus record; it's got virtually a thrash rhythm. Did you ever get into thrash?
Not really. When I was teaching guitar, Metallica was just getting really big on an underground level, and kids were always bringing me tapes and asking me to teach them Metallica licks. So I learned how to play their stuff pretty early. But I always found the slower stuff -- like Sabbath -- to be heavier


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"A White Heron" Sarah Orne Jewett
American short story writer, novelist, and poet. The following entry presents criticism on Jewett's short story "A White Heron" (1886).
"A White Heron" is one of Jewett's most well-known and often anthologized short story. In it, Jewett presents a nine-year-old girl's reaction to the intrusion of a young man into her feminine and natural world. The variety of narrative techniques, symbols, and imagery, as well as the ambiguous ending, have elicited much critical commentary by scholars. Several feminist scholars view this work as Jewett's rebellion against the realistic literature that male authors made the mainstream literature of the late nineteenth century. Although many of Jewett's short stories were first published in the Atlantic Monthly, the magazine's editor, William Dean Howells, declined this work for being too "romantic." Thus this favorite work, which Jewett referred to as "her" and professed "to love," was first published in 1886 in book form in A White Heron, and Other Stories.
Plot and Major Characters
"A White Heron" opens in the evening as young Sylvia is searching for a milk cow astray in the woods of New England. She is startled by the sudden appearance of a young man with a gun, who proclaims that he is an ornithologist and has come to this rural land to hunt, kill, and stuff birds for his pleasure. When he entreats Sylvia's aid, she leads him to her grandmother's farm. Sylvia has come to live with Mrs. Tilley to both escape the industrial city where her mother struggles alone to support the family and to be a help and companion to her grandmother. The young stranger both charms the grandmother and interests the granddaughter and enlists their help, by offering much needed cash, in locating the nest of a rare white heron. Although the next day Sylvia docilely accompanies the young man on his quest, they fail to find their prey. At dawn on the following day, Sylvia awakes and scales a massive and ancient pine in search of the heron and its nest. From her vantage point atop the tree, Sylvia glimpses the heron, its nest, and its mate, and she experiences an epiphany. When she returns to the farm later that morning, Sylvia guards her secret.
Major Themes
Jewett was known as a local colorist whose stories often portrayed the ordinary aspects of life in works where mood or atmosphere preceed plot in importance. While the colorist elements are evident in "A White Heron," Sylvia's choice, or action of remaining silent, is the crucial element in the story. Commentators have interpreted Sylvia's choice between revealing or not revealing the location of the heron in various ways: expressing the conflict between urban/rural life, between child/adult perceptions of the world, or between male/female modes of artistic creation. Several critics see the work as a modern fairy tale in which the female declines to be rescued by a princely man, an ornithologist whose goal is symbolically to hunt and conquer women and display them in his home.
Critical Reception
Although contemporary commentators on "A White Heron" express qualified praise, it was not until the 1970s that critics seriously analyzed the story. Several scholars considered the possible influence of prior works, particularly Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island and Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" on "A White Heron." The fact that Jewett expressed the personal importance "A White Heron" held for her has caused critics to treat it as a personal artistic credo and feminist document. They analyzed feminist subtexts, reversals of traditional fairy-tale formulas and coming-of-age stories, flight imagery, and narrative techniques. Several scholars explored the story's psycho-sexual and other symbols using Freudian or Jungian methods. Although critics debate various interpretations and the effectiveness of Jewett's efforts, they agree that "A White Heron" is worthy of study.
Principal Works
Play Days: A Book of Stories for Children 1878
Old Friends and New 1879
Country By-Ways 1881
The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore 1884
A White Heron, and Other Stories 1886
The King of Folly Island, and Other People 1888
Strangers and Wayfarers 1890
Tales of New England 1890
A Native of Winby, and Other Tales 1893
The Life of Nancy 1895
The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories 1899
Stories and Tales (novel and short stories) 1910...
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Katharine T. Jobes (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "From Stowe's Eagle Island to Jewett's 'White Heron,'" Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 8, December, 1974, pp. 515–521.
[In the essay below, Jobes traces the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island on Jewett's art, particularly her self-definition as an artist.]
Sarah Orne Jewett pointed out the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Maine novel The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862) on her own writing and provided what has become the standard explanation of that influence. In her 1893 Preface to Deephaven, she acknowledges graciously that The Pearl of Orr's Island was the first work to show...
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Richard Brenzo (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Free Heron or Dead Sparrow: Sylvia's Choice in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron,'" Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 1, March, 1978, pp. 36–41.
[In this essay, Brenzo explains the symbolism of Sylvia's climb up the pine tree.]
The use of a juvenile narrator or a child's point of view seems especially common in American literature (What Maisie Knew, Huckleberry Finn, "I Want to Know Why"). This technique provides a unique, often humorous view of the foibles of adult society, and, more profoundly, portrays the struggles of the child as he or she grows and tries to form a relationship with that society. In this tradition is one of Sarah...
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Theodore R. Hovet (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "America's 'Lonely Country Child': The Theme of Separation in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron,'" Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 3, September, 1978, pp. 166–171.
[In the following essay, Hovet analyzes "A White Heron" from a Freudian perspective, determining that the work portrays both the conflict between urban society and the natural world and also the separation of the adult world from that of the child.]
When she was forty-eight years old, Sarah Orne Jewett thought back to 1857 and wrote, "This is my birthday and I am always nine years old." As F. O. Matthiessen shows, the "whole fading world" of pre-Civil War America as...
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Theodore R. Hovet (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "'Once Upon a Time': Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron' as a Fairy Tale," Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 63–68.
[In the essay below, Hovet demonstrates how "A White Heron" employs the fairy tale structure as defined by Vladimir Propp.]
Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" is one of the most admired of nineteenth-century American short stories. It has frequently been praised for its delicate artistry and, more recently, for its treatment of the heroine.1 In spite of its enduring critical reputation, however, the structure of the story has not been carefully analyzed. As a result, Jewett's use of the...
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Michael Atkinson (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "The Necessary Extravagance of Sarah Orne Jewett: Voices of Authority in 'A White Heron,'" Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter, 1982, pp. 71–74.
[In the following extract, Atkinson points out how Jewett portrayed the action in "A White Heron" from different viewpoints, including that of the main characters, the great pine tree anthropomorphized, and directly as the story's narrator.]
"A White Heron" seems a simple story of simple people, in a simple time. Seems. But if we look more closely, we see that Jewett has used diverse and unusual devices to give this much anthologized1 story the satisfying impact which puts us...
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Louis A. Renza (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "'A White Heron' as a Nun-such," in "A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, pp. 73–117.
[In the excerpt below, Renza discusses the pros and cons of a radical feminist reading of "A White Heron." Furthermore, he explores the father-daughter relationship and the psychosexual imagery evident in the story.]
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet Because they liked me "still"—
Still! Could themself have peeped— And seen my Brain—go round— They might as wise have lodged a Bird For Treason—in the Pound—
Himself has but...
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Elizabeth Ammons (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "The Shape of Violence in Jewett's 'A White Heron,'" Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1, March, 1986, pp. 6–16.
[In the essay below, Ammons discusses the myths, narrative form, and themes of the story.]
Let us imagine that we live in a culture where time is a cycle, where the sand dollar lies beside its fossil (as it does). Where everything is seen to return, as the birds return to sight with the movement of the waves. As I return to the beach, again and again.
Imagine that in that returning nothing stands outside; the bird is not separate from the wave but both are part of...
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Terry Heller (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "The Rhetoric of Communion in Jewett's 'A White Heron,'" Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, September, 1990, pp. 182–194.
[In the following essay, Heller explores Jewett's use of tense shifts, apostrophes to objects in the story, and direct address by the narrator, techniques that were found in sentimental fiction of Jewett's time but which she largely eschewed.]
Readers have observed duplicity in the rhetoric of Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886). On the one hand the story realizes a number of the conventions of realistic narrative, yet on the other hand there are several violations of these conventions, especially at the level of...
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Jules Zanger (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "'Young Goodman Brown' and 'A White Heron': Correspondences and Illuminations," Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 346–357.
[In the following essay, Zanger compares and contrasts the themes, settings, narrative sequences, imagery, and dynamics of "A White Heron" with Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" and suggests that these works illuminate each other.]
It has become a commonplace of Sarah Orne Jewett criticism to observe, usually in passing, the parallels between her work and that of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some critics find stylistic similarities, others thematic ones; there is general...
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Karen K. Moreno (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "'A White Heron': Sylvia's Lonely Journey," Connecticut Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 81–85.
[In the article below, Moreno explicates "A White Heron" as a feminist quest myth in which Sylvia's journey has a psychological, physical, and spiritual meaning that can be interpreted using Jungian terms.]
In her short story "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett presents the quest myth in feminist terms. Since Sylvia, the protagonist, lives with her grandmother in the country, her bond with nature and the maternal is continually being formed and strengthened. Until the boy stranger, an ornithologist, enters the woods near her grandmother's...
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Further Reading
Cary, Richard. Sarah Orne Jewett. Twayne, 1962, 175 p.
Critical biography by a notable Jewett scholar.
Frost, John Eldridge. Sarah Orne Jewett. Gundalow Club, 1960, 174 p.
Extensive biographical study of Jewett.
Matthiessen, Francis Otto. Sarah Orne Jewett. Houghton Mifflin, 1929, 159 p.
Early critical biography of Jewett.
Eakin, Paul John. "Sarah Orne Jewett and the Meaning of Country Life." American Literature 38, No. 4 (January 1967): 508–531.
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But neither do you and that is my point
Yes they do and why might that be?
The couple established the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Charitable Foundation in 1993. It lay mostly dormant until 1999, when the couple deposited more than $3.6 million worth of high-tech stocks in it and began to make significant contributions.
Now known as the Tyler Charitable Foundation, it is scheduled to release its 2010 financial reports later this month.
"Mitt and Ann Romney are very involved in the community," said campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. "Some of their activity is public through their foundation, but that is not the only vehicle for their philanthropy. Their charitable giving is not something they generally talk about, but I think it's fair to say they feel an obligation to give back."
The foundation has been the Romneys' main vehicle for giving, whether to keep the lights on with a $10,000 check to a homeless shelter for veterans that couldn't pay its electric bill or to send relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina ($10,000) and the South Asia earthquake and tsunami ($25,000).
The GOP presidential hopeful has donated $127,000 in proceeds from his 2010 campaign book, "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." Seven charities serving children, cancer and MS patients and severely wounded veterans got donations ranging from $10,000 to nearly $33,000.
The businessman-turned-politician has also foregone payment for work he did as governor and as head of the Olympics.
As head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney took no salary for three years while donating $1 million to the games. Later, while he was entitled to $135,000 annually as governor of Massachusetts, he drew a salary of $1 a year for serving as the state's chief executive. And while he hasn't explicitly said so this time around, Romney vowed during his last campaign for the White House that, if elected, he would donate his $400,000 salary as president to charity.
While her husband was forgoing a paycheck, Ann Romney donated her time to a variety of causes. She has worked as a board member of New England Chapter of the MS Society to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, the disease with which she was diagnosed in 1998, and has been a long-time supporter of the United Way of Massachusetts. She also has served as director of the Best Friends Foundation, a controversial program that promotes abstinence-only sex education for inner-city girls.
Excluding gifts to the Mormon Church and BYU, the Romney foundation typically donated a bit more than $200,000 annually to charities over the last decade. But some years the couple gave relatively little. In 2002 and 2003, they donated $75,500 and $81,200, respectively
i don't care about that 47% of americans either........maybe i should seek my party's nomination next time!
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Louis Blanc in 1839, in "The organization of work". The origin of this phrasing has also been attributed to the French utopian Morelly, who proposed in his 1755 Code of Nature "Sacred and Fundamental Laws that would tear out the roots of vice and of all the evils of a society" including
I. Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.
II. Every citizen will be a public man, sustained by, supported by, and occupied at the public expense.
III. Every citizen will make his particular contribution to the activities of the community according to his capacity, his talent and his age; it is on this basis that his duties will be determined, in conformity with the distributive laws.
Some scholars trace the origin of the phrase to the New Testament. In the parable of the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus spoke of what we are given, according to our abilities; to test the commitment of the steward to his master. In Acts the Apostles' lifestyle is described as communal (without individual possession), and uses the phrase "distribution was made unto every man according as he had need":
Matthew 25:14-30: And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.Acts 4:32: All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.Others dispute that the Bible supports this idea.[citation needed]
Got any citations? Eh? JD
These quotes came from the internet where can be found almost anything to substantiate, refute or ridicule anything one cares to post.
Ain't it great? JD
It's always based individually on whose ox is being gored. Romney's comments were ill advise, NOT because it had too much truth to it, but he should have realized it would be skewed to mean what the pathetic MSP wants to make of it. Only the braindamaged Democrats on the SS rolls are calling him an out of touch cretin. The sane people in the electorate understand completely what he's saying. But it's hard to reach the sycophants with their head stuck where the sun don't shine.
Poll: 64% Agree With Romney On The 47%
Written By:
Rob Port
Sep 20, 2012
According to a new poll from Rasmussen, Americans strongly believe there is too much dependence on government:
Americans strongly believe that there is too much government dependency in the country today. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% of Adults think there are too many Americans dependent on the government for financial aid. Just 10% think not enough Americans are dependent on the government, while 16% say the level of dependency is about right.The problem with polls like this, of course, is that people are only nominally against government dependence. Farmers who get huge amounts of government subsidies are against the expansion of welfare programs. People on welfare may be against farm subsidies. Giant "green energy" companies, whose very existence hinges on government subsidies and mandates for their products, may not like other sorts of government economic intervention.
Which is why strong majorities can be against government dependence even as there clear overlap between those who are dependent and those who oppose dependency. It is how the entitlement has divided and conquered us. All of us want to shrink government, just not our favorite slice of government.
If we try Obamas way , even if he was to tax millionaires at 100 % it will only run the Gov for 3 months. He doesn't know what he's doing