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Description Variable colors - gray, green to brown. Dark round markings on dorsum. Males have a large vocal sac.
Dimensions 5-7cm. (2-2 3/4")
Voice Loud barking sound. Given near water.
Breeding March-August. Gathered at permanent water source.
Habitat Summer months in treetops. Winter it burrows underground amongst moist vegetation.
Range Virginia to Florida Coastal Plain. also along Gulf states- Kentucky & Tennessee.
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (Tupelo, MS; 1:1 Fund)
By: Chris Kieffer
November 10, 2012
A new program will help low-income Mississippi students build college savings funds.
The 1:1 Fund was launched this month to allow donors to provide matching funds for nearly 9,000 children in two test markets --Mississippi and San Francisco.
The plan is to expand nationwide and make it available to as many as 100,000 children by 2015.
Plans for growth
In Mississippi, the program currently is open only to pre-school children in Jackson and in Washington County, but expanding throughout the state is in the works. It operates through the Mississippi College Savings Account Program, a pilot program launched two years ago with funding from the Kellogg Foundation.
Families can open a deposit-only account with a $50 contribution. Funds are matched, and the money can be used for post-secondary education costs.
"It has been such a fantastic program," said Ernestine Bilbrew, vice president for program development at the Mississippi Community Financial Access Coalition, one of three partners that comprise the MCSAP.
Second to last
Mississippi ranks second to last in the nation in the percentage of residents with a four-year college degree at 19.5 percent, according to the Corporation for Enterprise Development.
Bilbrew said the program also works with parents to teach them sound financial habits.
"We know we can only be successful if parents are successful," she said.
Dollars from donors go into a pool that is used to match contributions from families, Bilbrew said.
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Faves of 2011
Inkcrush is hosting Faves of TwentyEleven Book Awards this entire week. A week of books--ohlala!
Here are my faves of 2011:
1. Favorite Book Read in 2011: Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
2. Most Powerful: Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
3. Brilliantly Funny: Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
4. Most Beautiful Story: The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
5. Delicious Rainy Day Comfort Read: Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (I hadn't read any of them until this year!)
6. Adrenalin-fueled, Unputdownable Award: Divertgent by Veronica Roth
7. Atmospheric & Vivid Setting: The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
8. I-So-Want-To-Go-There: The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
9. Would Make the Best Movie: Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar
10. Best Under-Appreciated, Hidden Gem Book: The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis
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- L.G.Smith said...
I've got to get a copy of Divergent. Heard it is amazing.
Also, Daughters of Rome and The Russian Concubine sound like books I'd like. Here's hoping there's a Barnes & Noble gift card in my stocking this year. :)
- December 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Jemi Fraser said...
THere have been so many new and fabulous books out this year! Great choices :)
- December 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Vicki Tremper said...
I haven't read most of those, but I loved Divergent!
Happy Holidays, Stephanie!
- December 19, 2011 at 5:01 PM
- Jade said...
What! You've only just read Harry Potter?!?! How is that possible??? And I love your new header. Could that be the fabulous Theodora?
- December 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM
- Renee Yancy said...
Yes, is that Theodora? Great pic! Have you heard anything from Josh yet?
- December 20, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Vicky Alvear Shecter said...
You're so right that THE COURSE OF HONOR by L.Davis is under-appreciated. I love that book! I also thought Beatrice & Virgil was extremely powerful and was kind of amazed at the vitriol it received when it was first released...and now I must add some of these to my TBR list.
- December 20, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- Stephanie Thornton said...
L.G.- I think you'd love both books. I devoured both of them!
Jemi--Tell me about it. My TBR pile is taller than me!
Vicki--Divergent was a nice surprise. I didn't really intend to enjoy it as much as I did.
Jade--I boycotted Harry Potter for a long time and then decided to read them for the first time with my daughter. Unfortunately, she lost interest after Book #3 (she's only 5 so we'll cut her some slack) so I had to keep reading on my own. I loved them!
Renee--Yep, that's Theodora. I love that painting. (Although I fear it's terribly inaccurate!)
Vicky--I found Course of Honor this summer and devoured it. And I loved Beatrice and Virgil so much I'm making 39 students read it this spring. It's truly mind-boggling!
- December 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM
- Vicki Rocho said...
Ashamed to admit I haven't read any of these. Yet. Is it okay if I add yet?
- December 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- Miranda Hardy said...
I've got to catch up on my reading. I haven't read a one.
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Many people thought it was dead, they were wrong, AMV France Iron Chef is back for a 20th party where you'll have to show how good you can be with some restrictions.
Since it's been a while we didn't coordinate this Iron Chef, we decided to "dedicate" this one to oldies and even bring some of old school editors into the organization. It wasn't that easy to bring back some people from the death and let's say they sure hope the new generation will amaze them
The IC isn't about making some old school videos but it was just to bring something funnier trying to contact people we haven't seen for a while and well, an old vs new sounds kinda cool
So yeah, that's how it is, 3 very old editors will be the one taking a look to your creations, their experience, their step back about the evolution of AMV-Making might be a great experience for all us. Then, Atvaark, Nostromo and Willow :--) will be the judges for this 20th IC, it's up to you to convince new gen is the best!
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- You can choose to edit alone or with friends, ALL VIDS WILL BE JUDGED TOGETHER, the only thing is "1 editor = 1 minute"
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| The eccentric Los Angeles Lakers forward has filed papers to the Los Angeles County Supreme Court to officially change his name to "Metta World Peace." "Metta" is a Buddhist term for the virtue of kindness, and Artest, who received the 2011 NBA citizenship award, may be trying to channel, in his own way, a more wholesome image. Still, this is also the basketball star who once admitted to downing halftime whiskey shots and thanked his psychiatrist after an NBA finals win.
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| Fortunately, spontaneous name-changes aren't as permanent as tattoos. Cincinnati Bengals wideout Chad Johnson changed his name to Ochocinco at the beginning of the 2008 season, before deciding to take back Johnson this January. He had changed his surname so that he could wear his nickname on his jersey, but like "Jr." or "Peanut," it just got old. "I don't have a choice right now," he told ESPN. "I've done enough with the Ocho thing."
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| Prince's 1993 flip was actually a strategic jump through a legal loophole: The artist changed his name to breach a contract with Warner Brothers that was valid only for "Prince." The unpronounceable "symbol of love" was the artist's new alias of choice, forcing the public to refer to him as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince." "I was born Prince and did not want to adopt another conventional name," Prince explained. "The only acceptable replacement for my name, and my identity, was the Love Symbol, a symbol with no pronunciation, that is a representation of me and what my music is about." Once the contract expired, Prince was free to go back to his birth name.
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I'd like to know who would be interested in me putting together a forum?
For the event, I want to try and get a case of not-yet-widely-released Episode 3 Action Figures.
The first 24 would be out and most people would have them already. However, I have some friends at online vendors as well as major retail distributor warehouses. I might be able to buy a case or two for the event.
I'd spring for any of you attending to get a free action figure you don't already have - fresh from the case. The catch is, I will systematically crush each card and bubble before handing them to you. We're going to be opening them and sniffing them as a community, all at the same time, to get the full effect. These are not for someone's carded wall. You can display them after you've shoved them up your right nostril.
I will be inviting a representative of Hasbro to the event, so as to witness our satisfaction with actually having ease at finding new figures versus their later-year distribution problems they always seem to have.
The event will recreate a scenerio at Wal-Mart, just after 7am (regardless of the time I get a room for the forum at the Celebration). I'll be hanging up a large yellow happy face to help set the mood for the event.
I will then administer an eye test to the Hasbro representative. Backwards the letters on the eye chart will spell "I will ship more new figures." The Hasbro representative will be there to inform us that their company is not releasing figures that are too toxic for children to inhale.
I am also trying to secure 50 wrapped Mouse Droids directly from the company for the event. You will each receive an individually wrapped Mouse Droid with its scent preserved, upon admission to the event.
I will have a "Got Mouse?" shirt made for this occasion, but I can take orders if any are interested. The cut-off time for T-shirt orders will probably be in mid-March so the printer has time to get them done. I'm figuring a black T-shirt with white letters saying "Got Mouse?" on the back and maybe the SirStevesGuide.com logo on the front, provided Steve is not too embarrased to be hosting the Mouse Droid Sniffers' Association on his website.
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Due to a nationwide shortage of the influenza vaccine, University Health Services will not be able to offer flu shots this year to the general population of the University community as it has in previous years.
The vaccine will be made available only to students with serious medical conditions that render them at greater risk to severe complications of influenza, said Dr. Daniel Silverman, the University's chief medical officer. University Health Services will contact those students immediately to schedule appointments for immunization.
On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a public advisory warning of the vaccine shortage. Health Services was notified today by its pharmaceutical supplier that it would not receive its shipment of the vaccine, Silverman said.
"Our immediate objective is to immunize students with those medical conditions who are most vulnerable to influenza and are at risk for its most severe symptoms and complications," Silverman said, noting that influenza is much more serious than the common cold or flu symptoms suffered by most healthy individuals during the winter months. "Healthy people have a much greater ability to ward off influenza if they follow simple preventive practices such as frequent hand washing, covering their cough and not sharing drinking containers and eating utensils."
The CDC issued an advisory to health care providers to limit vaccinations to individuals in high-risk populations. Vaccination priority groups include individuals 65 years and older, children 6 to 23 months and all people with compromised immune systems or chronic diseases such as cancer.
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17 August, 2012
On World Humanitarian Day, we remember our colleagues who have been killed while working to help others. In 2011, 308 humanitarian workers were killed, injured or kidnapped. Most of them were local staff, and most of them were targeted because of their work.
This year, we are marking World Humanitarian Day by celebrating the most basic principle of humanitarian work: People Helping People. Join your voice with Beyoncé and hundreds of millions of people around the world by pledging to help someone on 19th August at http://whd-iwashere.org/.
For inspiration, and to remind everyone of the extraordinary things ordinary people are capable of doing, we asked professional aid workers to tell us a story about someone who inspired them in a crisis.
I met Jean Ronald Borgella when I was working in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. He was actually my driver, and whenever we were in the car we got chatting. I soon realized that this was a young man with an enormous heart, big dreams and endless commitment to support underprivileged children.
He had been working as a professional athletics coach before the disaster, having represented Haiti internationally in track and field. He was from a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, on the road to Leogane (the epicentre of the earthquake). His family and house survived, but his neighbourhood was terribly affected. After the quake, he decided to set up his own organisation called Cour.rire, which is a combination of the French words courir (to run) and sourire (to smile). His aim was to help underprivileged kids by providing training in athletics and sports activities as a way of building back their confidence, supporting the parents in providing childcare while they struggled to earn a living, and helping them overcome the trauma of the disaster and the challenges of poverty.
He started in his own neighbourhood, but then started going to other communities and to camps. And he was completely doing this out of his own initiative and in his own time – going to local businesses, trying to get support wherever he could. Really, it was all he could talk about. He said to me "You have to come and see one of our meets." So I did.
We went to Leogane, and what I witnessed was amazing. There were literally hundreds of children and their families just pouring into this field and being so enthusiastic. It was around the time of carnival, so the kids were all dressed up and painting masks and faces, and the mums brought food. His team had organised everything – painted a track, got the kids uniforms, organised prizes, built track boundaries. The races were like those in a standard athletics meet: 100 metres, 200 metres, relay etc. It was a bit chaotic, but here was a sense of real joy and pride. You could see the impact on the morale. It was transformative.
For me, what's so impressive is that this guy had such an enormous vision, and motivation that was grounded in reality.He understood the realities of the everyday challenges they face, but he also saw the potential in every single child. He wanted them to feel they had a role and they could have goals to aim for, to dream about, to work towards. He also saw sports as a way to build discipline among the kids and draw them away from drugs and gangs. And he did all this while holding a day job and being responsible for a huge extended family.
He's actually switched now to doing part-time jobs, so he's got time for this. His commitment was incredible – I've never seen anyone so driven. What was really moving was that although he was struggling financially himself, he still felt incredibly privileged: that he had had the chance to train, to compete overseas, and he felt he ought to give back. He wanted the poorest kids to have the chance to do that, because it had done so much for him. He's still training them in Leogane – now he's talking about getting the kids into national-level competition and ultimately to the Olympic team and the Paralympic team. I wouldn't put it past him. I wouldn't put anything past him! He's a true champion.
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"Emerge! A Global Bazaar," which celebrates international development initiatives, cultures and the arts, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in the Chancellor Green Rotunda.
The bazaar will feature a variety of handcrafted goods from around the world, made available through support from the Grassroots Business Initiative of the World Bank and from Global Goods Partners, a nonprofit organization that promotes development initiatives in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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"I'll bet you five dollars you can't," says Grampa Bubba. "It's too wiggly and limp to put back in that little hole." The kid runs into the house and comes back out with a can of hair spray. He sprays the worm until it is straight and stiff as a board, and proceeds to put it right back into the hole. So I handed the kid his five dollars, grabed the hair spray, and shuffled off into the Doublewide. Thirty minutes later, I stroll out and hand the boy another five dollars. "Grandpa, you already paid me," says the kid.
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Posted December 18, 2001; 06:26 p.m.
Sasa Olessi Montano, director of the Center for Community Service , has been appointed to serve on Gov.-elect Jim McGreevey's transition team for New Jersey's Department of Human Services.
The Department of Human Services serves more than 1 million New Jersey residents each year. Its budget is nearly $8 billion, it employs more than 18,000 people and it contracts with more than 1,000 community-based service agencies.
The transition team will discuss the major challenges facing the department and make recommendations to the governor-elect for improving services and reducing service duplication.
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I fixed PHP's FriBidi extension. This involved a lot of source-reading, as FriBidi lacks a decent up to date documentation.
By doing this I also closed 2 (!) bug reports :)
There's no school next week so i'll have time to implement some more things i want in the extension (and also converting it to the new parameter parsing API).
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- The same mold can be used over and over again.
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Walmart workers at various stores around the country are on strike today, protesting poor working conditions and alleged retaliation for their attempts to organize.
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Go back in time with Tupelo High School Madrigals' 37th annual Singe Feaste.
The Madrigals will provide the music, and the food will be catered by Park Heights.
The show is at 7 p.m. tonight-Saturday at All Saints' Episcopal Church.
Tickets are $20.
For more, call (662) 842-7909.
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Wear your ugliest, craziest holiday sweater to West of Shake Rag's Cozy Christmas Sweater Show for a chance to win prizes.
The improv comedy troupe will presents its third annual, family-friendly Christmas show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Link Centre's Black Box.
It's $5, and that includes popcorn.
Call (662) 690-4011 for more.
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Bring your own chair or use one at The Lyric Oxford to catch a series of films at the venue.
The next screening is of the Danish mystery "Terribly Happy," on Wednesday.
The Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" screens at Dec. 19, followed by the comedy "Sleepwalk with Me," on Dec. 26.
All movies start at 7:30 p.m.
Learn more by calling (662) 234-5333 or visiting thelyricoxford.com.
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Sippin' Cider, a cider contest between downtown businesses, kicks off a weekend full of holiday events in New Albany.
Sippin' Cider starts at 5 p.m. Friday; call (662) 534-3438 for more.
Santa on the Caboose and the annual Christmas Coffee is 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Union County Heritage Museum and is free.
"The Nutcracker" will be presented at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Magnolia Civic Center, and tickets are $12/adults, $7/children. Call (662) 539-6010 for more on the performances.


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Southwest Goes Wireless On the Ramp, Saving Dollars and Lives
Tags: New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA), safety, Southwest Airlines, spotlight
It was technically too late, but they are lucky. The only reason the two planes did not collide was that the widebody's wing rose 3 feet higher than that of the narrowbody aircraft beside it.
Frighteningly, this type of situation is not uncommon by any means. Aircraft scrape fellow planes, tap light poles, cause injuries and even fatalities to those working the ramp more often than the public hears about. On a cold, loud, busy ramp at night, the difference between injuries and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage is measured in fractions of a second. With 27,000 ramp accidents that take place in the industry each year, that averages out to one per thousand departures. As such, communication between wingwalkers, tug drivers and pilots is paramount to keeping people safe.
With that constant threat in mind, Southwest Airlines recently took a big step in improving ramp safety by implementing a wireless ground communication system by Oregon-based Flightcom. It's almost too easy: Take the plug-in headset tug drivers use to talk to pilots and replace it with a wireless system that now lets the wing-walkers in on the conversation as well. No one is in the dark anymore about when and where the plane is moving, which engine is starting, and there are no delays in relaying information when something goes wrong and the plane needs to stop NOW.
The kit consists of three headsets, one for the driver and two wing-walkers. There's also the "ComHub" wireless base that plugs into the nosegear, painted a highly visible color to prevent it from being forgotten on the aircraft. After use, it all piles into a portable, hard-case/charger that can be rolled around or affixed to a tug tractor or gate.
Southwest Airlines currently has the headsets in action at half of their 73 airports, and expects to have them deployed through the entire system by April. Marc Stank, who is Southwest's Senior Manager Safety, Standards, and Regulatory Compliance, Ground Operations (fit that on a business card!) tells NYCAviation that in just the few short months since beginning use of the headsets, a number of ramp incidents have already been prevented.
In fact, the cost of the devices is earned back within only 12 weeks. A worthy investment in an industry that already is challenging to make a buck in. The bills for such accidents pile up fast. The total cost of ramp accidents cost insurance companies $10 billion annually. Remember last April when that Air France A380 spun the Delta CRJ around at JFK in April of 2011? Imagine the revenue lost when a 500-seat aircraft is grounded for a few weeks. A cut-up wingtip means not only the cost of a repair, but the loss of revenue when an aircraft is sitting on the ground not making money.
Flightcom's Executive Vice President Reed Stager is excited, and rightly so. "Flightcom has been serving the aviation industry for 29 years," he tells us. "While Southwest Airlines is the first to deploy Flightcom Wireless systemwide, other airlines, including Piedmont and US Airways, use them at some locations for de-icing or ground support to improve communication effectiveness, team productivity, and safety." In addition, the headsets offer a high level of hearing protection from the loud sounds of the airport ramps.
NYCAviation Columnist David Williams, a former airline pilot who currently works in aviation safety, praises the devices. "In high volume airports with minimal ramp space, like LGA and DCA, this technology would increase safety dramatically," says Williams. "The tug driver, who is in control of the aircraft, will have far more accurate and timely information on the status of the ramp and aircraft."
In the interviews that I conducted with both Flightcom and Southwest, I couldn't find any downsides. This type of technology keeps planes flying, workers working and gets passengers to their destination, with improved safety and cost effectiveness. How can you argue with that?


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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre – most of the complex over the sacred ground marking the tomb of Jesus is a complicated combination of medieval and Byzantine architecture. Deep below the surface are remains going back to a First Temple-era stone quarry and the world-famous and rarely viewed "ship inscription," probably carved by a long-ago pilgrim.
The City of David – King David's "fortress of Zion" (2. Sam. 5:7), the ongoing excavations include a royal palace, Warren's Shaft, the "water fortress" of the Gihon (1 Kings 1:33), the Second Temple-era Pool of Siloam (John 9:7) and a 2,000-year-old street that once led up to the Temple.
The Jerusalem Archaeological Park and Davidson Visitor Center – a "still-life" of the original Herodian street, revealing Roman destruction, Robinson's Arch, the Southern Wall and steps to Hulda's Gates; and the Davidson Center, in the basement of an eighth-century-CE palace with its virtual-reconstruction, high-definition interactive model.
The Tower of David Museum – located at the Jaffa Gate inside the rooms of Jerusalem's Turkish citadel, abutting the huge tower which despite its name was constructed by Jerusalem's master-builder, Herod. Each of the many rooms features exhibits devoted to a different time-period, clarifying the capital's complex history.


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Mangold's paintings of the mid-1960s are closely aligned with Minimalism in their object-like treatment of the painting support and impersonal paint application. In the pictures which he called 'Walls', begun in 1964, he eliminated painted images and cut asymmetrical 'doors' and 'windows' out of wood sheets and sprayed the surface with paint to produce a nuanced monochrome. 'Areas', which he began in 1965, were even more Minimal. Composed of standard masonite panels butted together, the support as physical object could not be overlooked. As Mangold said, 'whatever other structural decisions were made I knew the work would have a seam very four feet'.1 In the summer of 1966 Mangold further increased the contribution of the support in the 'Area' paintings by shaping it. The painting ¼ manila curved area — a typically dead-pan inventory of the physical attributes of the work — is composed of two sheets of plywood-backed masonite butted together and cut along the bottom edge to form a quarter segment of a circle. The surface is painted with oil paint thinned with turpentine and sprayed on with an airbrush. The colour is brown manila.
Although on previous occasions this painting has been published and exhibited with the date 1967, the artist has confirmed the inscribed 1966 dating on the reverse of the painting as contemporaneous and correct.2 The 1966 date is also confirmed by the fact that ¼ manila curved area appeared in Mangold's second solo exhibition at Fischbach Gallery, New York, which opened in October of that year.
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Posted April 16, 2001; 02:29 p.m.
Outdoor Action will be featuring a series of presentations throughout April and May.
"Lost Forever" is a documentary drama recounting the life of adventurer, artist and writer, Everett Ruess and his mysterious disappearance in November of 1934. This film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Frist 302.
"Wild Traditions: A Look at Forest Predators of the Northeast" is a photographic journey presented by Angie Kociolek of the Predator Conservation Alliance . The slide show is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 23 in Robertson Hall, Bowl 6.
"Climbing Big Walls" will be presented by Bobby Starke '01. He will show pictures of the climbs he has done while discussing life on the wall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 6.
"Peaks of Peru: Adventures of an Andinista" is a presentation by Naomi Haverlick '01 of her ascents of the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca of Peru. She will show her slides at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
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Pillsbury test kitchen home economists have heard it all. When they told me some people were adding melted ice cream to a cake mix, I couldn't believe it. Well, that's precisely what I did with this fun recipe. Choose your flavor and let the ice cream melt. The only trick is that you must have 2 cups of melted ice cream. For super-premium ice creams with little overrun, that's 1 pint frozen. But for less expensive brands with a lot of air piped in, you'll need to begin with more than a pint.
I made this cake with several flavors of ice cream and our favorite was a super-premium from Ben & Jerry's — Cherry Garcia. With cherry and chocolate pieces and the cream and the eggs in the ice cream, you need little else. Your liquid, your fat, and your flavorings are all in the melted ice cream. This recipe works well, too, in a 13- by 9-inch pan.
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My cake turned out beautiful. I used ducan hines cake mix, which I looked all over the box and couldn't find pudding anywhere and b&j's cherry garcia. I followed the recipe as is, without any alterations and I will admit, the cake turned out a little on the dry side (sorta crumbly), but wonderfully flavorful. I might try some adding a little oil next time, cause there certainly will be a next time. I frosted my cake with the Chocolate Marshmallow Frosting, and it seemed to overpower the wonderful ice cream flavors, but still oh so yummy.
I actually made a modified version of this that I also found on the Internet....used chocolate cake mix WITH pudding, mint chocolate chip ice cream and it tasted great and VERRY moist. The only difference between this recipe and the one I used is that I put in 1 CUP of water. Sounds like that would remedy many of the other commenter's complaints of dryness!
I made this with Duncan Hines white cake mix and a premium Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream. Incredibly easy to make, and turned out moist and delicious.
I was a little nervous given the mixed reviews but, wanted an easy cake for my daughter's birthday party with her friends. This turned out great! I followed JuliaHelene recommendations (thank you) and used a white cake mix withOUT pudding in the mix (not that easy to find these days) and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream. It was not at all dry and got rave reviews from everyone. I rarely make cake from a box mix but, this will be my go-to recipe whenever I do. (Oh, and the icing, delicious!)
Hi everyone, I have done this one several times now. I don't have any problem with it being dry. I just add a little bit of oil along with the egg [just to make sure it does not come out dry]. I have not tried it without the oil so I can not tell you if it would come out dry. And I do not use a lot of oil, about a tablespoon, if that. I used cookie D. with my mix and then used Cherry G. in the middle after i cooled down but the cherry was too much for my white cake. I have not tried mixing Cherry G in the mix. Maybe next time. ...my suggestion. Try it. It's different, a good different.
I really loved this recipe, but after reading all the reviews I have to admit I was a little worried. After reading the recipe that is here I think I know why - it's missing a lot of important data! 1. DO NOT use a cake mix that contains pudding in the mix. 2. Use WHITE CAKE MIX as this provided the best results 3. Use PREMIUM ICE CREAM, as in Haagan Daz or Ben and Jerry's. You need a solid two cups of ice cream and cheaper brands contain a lot air and lower quality ingredients. Don't skimp! I do a lot of baking and try lots of recipes and this one was really good (and easy!). For more information about the recipe I used (I made a coffee flavored cake) please see pictures on my blog at www.dozenflours.com
I have her cookbooks and use them on a regular basis. This recipe, unfortunately, is one that I would not make again. It is so dry and lacking of any flavor. Agree that it was a waste of $$ ice cream. But the frosting was very tasty and I've made that since. Her Darn Good Choc. Cake is her best recipe so I stick with that. You can't go wrong...
I made this with chocolate cake mix for a potluck and the response was great. I was worried about the comments mentioning dryness, so I boiled a handful of dried cherries and added the cherries and 2-3 TB of left over liquid. The result was very moist and dense and flavorful, and quite a hit with my co-workers. I had to pack up the last bit so that my wife can try it. I look forward to experimenting with other ice cream flavors.
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one trick that works for me..
leave the calls at home and hunt them like a deer..pattern them..
WillowRidgeCalls wrote:I can't agree more about patterning high pressured birds. You need to know your area like the back of your hand, and where those birds like to go and when they like to be there. What I've found is that hard pressured birds don't like to travel more than a few yards out of their normal routine areas, they will talk to you all day, but they won't budge off their line of travel unless they see movement of a hen.
Calling is very important on high pressured birds. Knowing what calls to use and how and why to use them is a big key to filling a tag. Late season birds that have been hunted 4-5 weeks have heard just about every call made to them, and that's why most folks say call very little, and for the most part that's the best idea. If you know what calls to use and why and how you should use them is a major key. I hunt public land and I don't start hunting until the 3rd week of seasons, the 4th, 5th, and 6th weeks have been my best seasons. As the seasons get later in the year the less I'll use a yelp and if I do yelp it will only be a couple quick yelps, most of my talking is softer calls like clucks or whines or purrs, and don't drag your calls out, keep them fairly short. If I'm cold calling then I'll yelp more often, lost call or 4-5 yelps in a series followed by some clucks, but if I'm working a gobbler I yelp very very little. What I like to do is get out early and wait for a bird to sound off, then set up on him. When he sounds off agian I cut him off with some hard cutts right on the roost. Most times that will get other gobblers going in the area. Make sure you only work one bird period, don't ansewer every gobbler that sounds off just the one you cut off, when he goobles again cut him off again with some softer yelps and tree talk and work that bird only. Let the other ones gobble their heads off, they will try to get you to ansewer their gobbles, DON"T, more times than not it's the boss Tom that will sound off first, work him and only him. A lot of times when you cut him off a boss hen will sound off, forget about that Tom and work that boss hen. You'll hear that almost all the birds won't cut a boss hen off, even the gobblers stay quiet until she's done talking, but not you, cut her off every time she opens her mouth. You may call non stop for 5-10 minutes but that's what it takes, challenge her for that boss Tom, and throw in a jake gobble or two, that will get that boss gobbler fired up. If you ansewer every gobbler that calls more times than not they will go the other way off the roost. The other gobblers know your there and they can pinpoint you exactly what tree your by, they will try to sneak in and steal you away from that boss gobbler, but most times they come in quiet. It's easier to tell which gobbler is which when they are on the roost, but when they are on the ground isn't that easy, that's why you don't call as often and keep your calling soft and low, make that bird talk to you, he won't gobble much on the ground so pay attention to what he sounds like so you can tell him from the others. Most old birds gobble 2-3 times on the roost then shut up until they meet up with that hen they are looking for. That is why high pressured old gobblers are harder to hunt, but if you learn to hunt one bird and only one bird, you'll do much better.
And yes, it is caused by interactions with human hunters that results in the turkey associating turkey calling with danger. It is not rocket science, and it has nothing to do with the size of an organisms brain. It is more of a "survival of the fittest" response that all organisms possess, from human beings to amoebas.
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What If Coca-Cola Made An Honest Commercial?
June 30th, 2014 | by Jennifer Kaplan
Imagine if tobacco companies said they were doing something responsible to protect you. How would you respond to that? That's one of the Coca-Cola obesity questions posed in a new You Tube Video: The Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial


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K-1 Press Conference Photos, Quotes
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The K-1 World Grand Prix Final 16 2012 is getting closer and closer, with it essentially being 12 hours away at the time of this post. The press conference went down in Japan with all the fighters on hand. The Final 16 consists of 16 fighters in eight fights, while there are five super fights, bringing the event to a total of 26 fighters.
We'll share some photos with you, along with some quotes from a few fighters at the press conference. Thanks to Autosoft Romania for the photos.
Catalin Morosanu on himself and how he matches up with Paul Slowinski: "What I can already say to Slowinski is that I have heavy shots."
Raul Catinas on his opponent Ben Edwards: "Edwards is a very strong fighter who is good with his punches, but I am in top form, especially since five months ago I won the SuperKombat tournament so I want to win in K-1."
Benjamin Adegbuyi on representing Nigeria: "I still have the tricolor flag of Romania with me and I hope to enjoy a victory that I dedicate to all my friends and fans in Romania."


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Monday, April 25, 2011
I got her and Keeghan into the doctor at 11:20 today. Our ped said that Keeghan sounded pretty good, considering. She didn't do another chest x-ray on him because she said it would surely still show pneumonia this soon. She checked his ears since he had an ear infection in his left ear on Friday night, and now he has an ear infection in both ears! Hopefully the Augmentin he is on will take hold quickly and fix it! All in all, he is in good spirits and is fever free, which is good! He just has a nasty cough still. I need to take him back in 2 weeks for another chest x-ray to make sure all is well.
As for Sincess Kennedy, she couldn't even walk into the office on her own. Dr. S listened to her and her breath was shallow, so she ordered a CBC and an x-ray, and sure enough, she has pneumonia too. She threw up in the office while we were waiting, which was expected. Thankfully, her blood sugar held up well and she was able to hold some lunch down and perked up a bit after that. She still has a high fever, but she's on Zithromax now so hopefully she'll be on the mend as well here soon.
I'm not too worried about Kellsey since she has the immune system of steel, and so far Kass and Kam seem to be fine and I've been telling them to keep their distance. As for me, I've been talking myself out of a sore throat today... As Frank pointed out though, I shared a hotel bed with Keeghan on his sickest night and then with Kennedy on her sickest night, sooooo... we shall see what the future holds for me!
If you haven't seen the first set of Alabama pictures yet, be sure to go look! More tomorrow!
5 comments :
- ourjoyfulljourney said...
Poor things! Praying everyone else stays well! :)
- Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7:36:00 PM MDT
- Christie M. said...
Poor kids! I hope they get well soon!!
- Monday, April 25, 2011 at 9:55:00 PM MDT
- lmworley416 said...
You know I'm praying hard for Kennedy especially, but also for all of you!
Psalms 59:16-17 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12:19:00 AM MDT
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Hi REnee
I've been meaning to share something with you... and now I remembered and I'm not too sleepy to do so, so... in spite of my feeling badly that you've all been sick, here it is. It'll give you happy tears, even if you have already seen it.
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- Becca said...
Oh, goodness, sounds like some seriously rough times!! I hope everyone's feeling better quickly. I thought Spring was supposed to bring health and wellness...ugh.
- Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 5:08:00 AM MDT


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I feel pretty sorry for all the LOTR collectors. I saw the Hobbit figures and actually paid some attention to them for the first time the other day. They're not only much smaller, but they look like carp. They could've at least kept them in the larger size for the sake of continuity with the previous toyline.
I got a few scattered LOTR figures, but no way will I get any of these abominations.


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Kanye West has upset Britain's royal family.
The rapper was reportedly the subject of a number of complaints from unspecified members of the monarchy who were infuriated by the star playing his music too loudly in his NZ$5100-a-night suite at London's Lanesborough Hotel - which is near Buckingham Palace - where he has been living with members of his entourage including Common, Pusha T and Big Sean.
Kanye's protege Big Sean told The Sun newspaper: "We went to London and we were right next to the Buckingham Palace and the royal family. There were members of the royal family staying below us.
"Kanye had rented out the top floor and we was banging that b***h out.
"Every room was a studio. The royal family below were complaining like, 'We got all this loud-ass rap music above us and weed smoke.'
"They paid all this money and you don't expect to get these kind of complaints."
Despite the complaints, Kanye hasn't spent all his time in the hotel.
Last month, he joined in the Jack the Ripper tour, which takes place in London's East End area and retraces the footsteps of the notorious and still unidentified serial killer from the late 1800s.
The Stronger hitmaker took part in the £15-a-head (NZ$28) trip to get inspiration for his clothing range, which debuted in Paris on Tuesday night.
A source explained: "He told the other daytrippers he is immersing himself in the history of the East End to get inspiration for his fashion range."
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Fox-Genovese delivers seminars on marriage, Dec. 1, 3 and 8
Posted November 21, 2003; 03:26 p.m.
Emory University professor Elizabeth Fox-Genovese will discuss traditional marriage as a social institution and its justifications in three lectures on Monday, Dec. 1, Wednesday, Dec. 3, and Monday, Dec. 8.
Fox-Genovese, the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Emory, is delivering this year's Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Visitor Seminars. All will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 104 Computer Science Building.
The specific topics of the lectures are: "Marriage 101: Male and Female, Created He Them," Dec. 1; "Marriage 102: Different or Equal? The Compromise of Separate Spheres," Dec. 3; and "Marriage on Trial," Dec. 8.
Fox-Genovese is the founding director of the Institute for Women's Studies at Emory. Her most recent publications include: "Women and the Future of the Family" (2000); "Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a Historical Society" (1999), co-edited with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn; and "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life: How the Elite Women's Movement Has Lost Touch With Women's Real Concerns" (1996).
The lectures are sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics. For more information, visit the seminar's Web site or call Judi Rivkin at (609) 258-5107.
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An associate professor of law at Tel Aviv University, Segal is also an observer on The Israeli Press Council, chairperson of the Israel Diaspora Forum at the World Zionist Organization and co-chairperson of the Forum of Law and Society. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a PhD in Law from Tel Aviv University.
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What's amazing about the government's latest upgrade to the financial services provider regime is that the sector's regulator didn't already have the authority to directly control the registration process.
Under new rules released by Commerce Minister, Craig Foss, this week , the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) now has the power to "direct the [Financial Services Provider] Registrar to decline registration or to de-register an FSP where the FMA is not satisfied that registration is necessary or desirable".
Previously, ultimate authority for the FSP registration process rested with the Companies Office Registrar who could only remove entities from the list on the following grounds:
• the Registrar has been notified that an FSP is no longer operating or qualified to operate;
• an FSP bas been registered because of false or misleading information;
• fees are dishonoured, declined, or reversed; or
• the annual confirmation is not filed.
The FSP register, which began full operations in 2011, is intended to collect New Zealand's entire financial services industry under a single, digital roof.
Given that the FMA is responsible for stamping approval on the largest FSP sector, authorised financial advisers (AFAs), clearly the regulator did have a large influence on who made it on to the register in the first place - but not so much when it came editing out offending entities.
The new rules will no doubt speed up the FSP deregistration process for those like the temporarily-suspended AFA, David Ross, who come to the FMA's attention. As it happens, David Ross was deregistered as an FSP only on February 22 this year (as well as his firm Ross Asset Management), despite being first mentioned in FMA dispatches last November.
Although the FSP register is generally pretty good (and I recommend you check out all the financial services providers in your life here), there isn't much info on the reason for Ross' deregistration, which is a big oversight. For example, inattentive searchers could easily confuse David with Duncan Ross, who was also deregistered last October for what may be entirely innocent reasons.
There are a few other holes in the register too. It is impossible, for instance, to see how many advisers are acting under the auspices of Qualifying Financial Entities (QFEs), rather than as AFAs. This is important as QFE advisers can sell the entire range of their home-brand products without requiring AFA registration.
Furthermore, the FSP register doesn't include as a distinct group the, somewhat ironically-named under the circumstances, registered financial advisers (RFAs). RFAs, which encompass mortgage brokers, insurance advisers etc, are the most numerous group of financial advisers in the country - although exactly how numerous remains a secret, probably buried in an FMA spreadsheet for reasons known only to a select few.


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'Lost ballet' exhibition on display through Sept. 25
Posted April 3, 2005; 12:56 p.m.
The exhibition "'Le Pas d'Acier' ('The Steel Step'): Re-Creating a Lost Ballet" will be on display at the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts in Firestone Library through Sept. 25.
Organized in connection with the campus performance April 7-9 of Sergei Prokofiev's "Le Pas d'Acier," the exhibition includes a model reconstruction of the ballet's set created by theater historian Lesley-Anne Sayers and photographs and drawings of the original 1927 production. The gallery also showcases photographs, children's books, costume designs and program covers from the period drawn from the holdings of the library's special collections.
The Princeton production is represented by photographs documenting the re-creation process, costume designs, choreographic drawings by ballet reconstructionist Millicent Hodson, and a costume and props used in the April performances.
"Le Pas D'Acier" was written as a celebration of Soviet industrialization that Prokofiev hoped would endear him to Russian authorities. But budget constraints and a change in choreographers led to a scaled-down version of the ballet being performed in Paris in 1927 by the Ballets Russes. That production mocked industrial development instead of lauding it, causing a political scandal. Prior to the Princeton performance, the work had not been performed since 1931.
For three years, associate professor of music Simon Morrison led a team to re-create the ballet as it was originally conceived. They brought the ballet to life exactly the way Prokofiev intended it in three performances at the University's Berlind Theatre.
Paula D. Matthews, music librarian and curator of the exhibition, will give tours at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17; Sunday, Sept. 18; and Sunday, Sept. 25.
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Zeynep Ahunbay led me through the massive cathedral's cavernous nave and shadowy arcades, pointing out its fading splendors. Under the great dome, filtered amber light revealed vaulted arches, galleries and semi-domes, refracted from exquisite mosaics depicting the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus as well as long-vanished patriarchs, emperors and saints. Yet the overall impression was one of dingy neglect and piecemeal repair. I gazed up at patches of moisture and peeling paint; bricked-up windows; marble panels, their incised surfaces obscured under layers of grime; and walls covered in mustard-colored paint applied by restorers after golden mosaics had fallen away. The depressing effect was magnified by a tower of cast-iron scaffolding that cluttered the nave, testament to a lagging, intermittent campaign to stabilize the beleaguered monument.
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"For months at a time, you don't see anybody working," said Ahunbay, a professor of architecture at Istanbul Technical University. She had directed a partial restoration of the building's exterior in the late 1990s and is regarded by conservators as its guardian angel. "One year there is a budget, the next year there is none," she said with a sigh. "We need a permanent restoration staff, conservators for the mosaics, frescoes and masonry, and we need to have them continuously at work."
Greeting her with a deferential salute, a workman beckoned us to accompany him through a massive wooden door, half hidden in shadow beneath an overhead gallery. Following the beam of his flashlight, we made our way across a pitch-dark antechamber and up a steep cobblestone ramp littered with fallen masonry and plaster. The incline may have been built to enable the sixth-century builders to cart construction materials to the second-story gallery. "There are problems here too," said Ahunbay, pointing to jagged cracks in the brick vaulting overhead.
Visible for miles across the Sea of Marmara, Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, with its giant buttresses and soaring minarets, symbolizes a cultural collision of epic proportions. (The name translates from the Greek as "Sacred Wisdom.") The structure stands not only as a magnificent architectural treasure but also as a complex accretion of myth, symbol and history. The landmark entwines the legacies of medieval Christianity, the Ottoman Empire, resurgent Islam and modern secular Turkey in a kind of Gordian knot, confounding preservationists who want to save it from decay and restore its former glory.
In addition to the obvious challenges—leaks, cracks and neglect—an invisible menace may pose an even greater danger. Istanbul sits squarely atop a geologic fault line. "There most definitely are seismic threats to Hagia Sophia, and they are great," says Stephen J. Kelley, a Chicago-based architect and engineer who consults on Byzantine churches in Turkey, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. "One tremor and the whole thing could come falling down."
"Conservationists are very concerned about Hagia Sophia," says John Stubbs, a vice president of the New York-based World Monuments Fund, which contributed $500,000 and raised another half million in matching funds for urgent repairs during the last decade."It's an unbelievably complex structure. There's the roof, the stonework, marble, mosaics, paintings. We don't even know all that's in play in there. But we do know that it requires ongoing, vigilant attention. Hagia Sophia is an utterly unique building—a key monument in the history of architecture and a key symbol of the city of Constantinople right through to our time."
Constantinople, as Istanbul was known for centuries, owed its importance to the Emperor Constantine, who made it the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in A.D. 330. Although an earlier basilica of the same name once stood on the site, today's Hagia Sophia was a creation of the Emperor Justinian, who rose from humble origins to become the greatest of the early rulers of the empire that historians would call Byzantium. During his 38-year reign, from 527 to 565, Justinian labored to bring harmony to the disputatious factions of the Eastern Orthodox Church; organized Roman law into a code that would influence European legal systems down to the present; and set his armies on the march, enlarging the empire until it reached from the Black Sea to Spain. He also erected hundreds of new churches, libraries and public edifices throughout the empire. Hagia Sophia, completed in 537, was his crowning architectural achievement. Until the 15th century, no building incorporated a floor space so vast under one roof. Four acres of golden glass cubes—millions of them—studded the interior to form a glittering canopy overhead, each one set at a subtly different angle to reflect the flicker of candles and oil lamps that illuminated nocturnal ceremonies. Forty thousand pounds of silver encrusted the sanctuary. Columns of purple porphyry and green marble were crowned by capitals so intricately carved that they seemed as fragile as lace. Blocks of marble, imported from as far away as Egypt and Italy, were cut into decorative panels that covered the walls, making the church's entire vast interior appear to swirl and dissolve before one's eyes. And then there is the astonishing dome, curving 110 feet from east to west, soaring 180 feet above the marble floor. The sixth-century historian Procopius marveled that it "does not appear to rest upon a solid foundation, but to cover the place beneath as though it were suspended from heaven by the fabled golden chain."
Magnificent as it was, Hagia Sophia contained none of its splendid figurative mosaics at first. Justinian may have acceded to the wishes of his wife, Theodora (who reputedly began her career as an entertainer and prostitute), and others who opposed the veneration of human images—later to become known as "iconoclasts." By the ninth century, those who worshiped such images, the "iconodules," gained ascendancy, commissioning artists to make up for lost time. Medieval pilgrims were awed by the mosaics, ranging from depictions of stylized angels to emperors and empresses, as well as a representation of an all-seeing Christ looming from the dome. Many of these images are lost; those few that remain are unique, says art historian Natalia Teteriatnikov, former curator at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., where a center for Byzantine studies is housed. "They cover almost the entire history of Byzantium, from 537 through the restoration of the icons and on up to imperial portraits from the late 14th century. No other Byzantine monument covers such a span of time."
For more than 900 years, Hagia Sophia was the most important building in the Eastern Christian world: the seat of the Orthodox patriarch, counterpart to Roman Catholicism's pope, as well as the central church of the Byzantine emperors, whose palace stood nearby. "Hagia Sophia summed up everything that was the Orthodox religion," says Roger Crowley, author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. "For Greeks, it symbolized the center of their world. Its very structure was a microcosm of heaven, a metaphor for the divine mysteries of Orthodox Christianity." Pilgrims came from across the Eastern Christian world to view its icons, believed to work miracles, and an unmatched collection of sacred relics. Within the cathedral's holdings were artifacts alleged to include pieces of the True Cross; the lance that pierced Christ's side; the ram's horns with which Joshua blew down the walls of Jericho; the olive branch carried by the dove to Noah's ark after the Flood; Christ's tunic; the crown of thorns; and Christ's own blood. "Hagia Sophia," says Crowley, "was the mother church—it symbolized the everlastingness of Constantinople and the Empire."
In the 11th century, the Byzantines suffered the first in a series of devastating defeats at the hands of Turkish armies, who surged westward across Anatolia, steadily whittling away at the empire. The realm was further weakened in 1204 when western European crusaders en route to the Holy Land, overtaken by greed, captured and looted Constantinople. The city never fully recovered.