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For the first time in the 15-year competitive history of the Sun City Photography Club, a novice has walked off with the top prize in the year-end show.
B.J. Campbell topped nearly four dozen monthly winners to carry off the Best in Show award for "Survivor," a photo of a battered scrub pine overlooking the Grand Canyon. It was pure happenstance that she even took the photo last October because she was on her honeymoon with husband Frank Larose.
"We went to Sedona and for one night we were at the Grand Canyon and wandered around," Campbell said. "We took a tour and like all tours, the bus stops, you take a look and you come back. But then I said, 'Wait, Frank. I want to take a picture of that tree. I just love that tree.'"
Campbell moved to Sun City in June 2006 and then into her home that December when construction was finished. Among the new activities she pursued was photography.
"I really enjoy it. I was an art major in college but I've never done anything in it. Then I got to photography and — whoa, finally — this is what I love," she said. "I can just see it and take a picture of it."
When she submitted "Survivor," the theme of the club's monthly contest was trees and forests. There was no question what she was going to submit.
"It just came out so well. I didn't play with it much at all," Campbell said. "It was a spur of the moment shot. I really like trees and it was the coolest tree."
At the show, the winners of each monthly contest in the novice, intermediate, advanced and expert classes were pitted against each other and the winner at each level had a chance to be voted Best in Show.
"It was just so exciting. I didn't hear it, but Frank heard them announce 'We have a big surprise — the best in show for the year is a novice picture,' and I was just blown away," she said. "And Frank was so proud of me, which made it even better. He's the one who titled it. It just gives me more confidence in myself."
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When Nancy and Dick Hoff put down laminate flooring in their home, they had plenty of confidence in doing it themselves but asked friends to help install it because it involved several rooms. When the job was done, the Hoffs repaid the labor by taking the couple to Jekyll Island. It gave Nancy Hoff another place to shoot photos and the result was winning the year-end Best in Show for advanced photographers.
"I take my camera every place because you just never know when the right moment will come upon you. We were walking around the Jekyll Inn and there were all these lovely live oaks and I couldn't help myself, so I took one or two or a couple dozen photos," she said. "There was the tree, all covered in resurrection fern and the Spanish moss and a gentle breeze going through and I took a few shots."
When she returned home and put them on the computer, her initial response was "wow."
"I worked on that a little bit and felt really good about it. I like macro photography — close-ups — and that was what I chose to do for that particular contest," Hoff said.
She has had a camera in her hand most of her life, she said, taking photos of her children at birthday parties and graduations.
"But when I moved here in 1999 I started making photographs," Hoff said. "When you make a photograph, you think about what you want the picture to be when you are finished. You think about the background, is there a tree coming out of someone's head, things like that."
She joined the photography club after moving to Sun City in 1999 and started learning about the craft by taking the many classes offered. Hoff then goes out, applies what she's learned, shoots what strikes her as a great view and then comes home to sort out the hundreds of shots on her computer. Her own backyard offers her plenty of photo opportunities.
"My husband and I live across from a lagoon and I sit out there early in the morning and take hundreds of photographs," Hoff said. She's been a little busy lately and hasn't really scanned through those images.
"For the past three years I have been director of education at the club and my term was up Dec. 30," Hoff said. "I have more than 20,000 photographs on my computer. Now I'm going to have time to sit down and delete a lot of those photographs."
To join the Photography Club, come to the next meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at Hidden Cypress. The theme for January is "Food." Winners will be selected in each of the four categories and the first place winners will be eligible to enter the 2012 Photograph of the Year competition. New members are encouraged to enter.


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Amanda H Edmonds (nee Davis) was born in Alabama in 1861. In 1892, she married Augustus Newell Edmonds and returned with him to Hill County, Texas. Augustus Edmonds was widowed and had 8 children by his first wife. Amanda and Augustus had two more children (Loyd and Blanche).
About half of the public trees on ancestry.com show her to have died in Hill County, Texas; the other half show her to have died in Fayette County, Alabama. She is clearly buried in Texas (Grandview Cemetery, Johnson County, Texas) as I have seen and photographed her grave marker. Augustus (who died years later) is buried between Amanda and his first wife Elizabeth McDuff. It is easy to think that the report of death in Alabama might be a mistake. However, the fact that she is buried in Texas, does not mean that she died in Johnson County, or even in neighboring Hill County.
Here is the story:
For Christmas 1901, Augustus, Amanda, Loyd, and Blanche travelled back to Fayette County, Alabama, to visit family.
Augustus's sister Ella wrote:
On December 23rd, we looked out from our humble home and saw the hackman drive up to the gate; and oh, how our hears were made to leap with joy, when we saw that the passengers were our dear brother, wife and two little children….But alas! In a few days all the family were sick, caused by the sudden change of climate. And how said it is to say that death claimed for his victim the Wife, the Mother, our sweet sister."
An account in her hometown newspaper in Itasca, Texas, indicates that she lived only 30 hours after becoming "suddenly ill with congestion of the bowels". Some suggest that it may have been appendicitis, but that doesn't fit with her sister-in-law's account that the entire family was ill.
On a recent trip to Fayette County, Alabama, I found a photocopy of the original death register. It lists her death on January 5, 1902 of "congestion of stomach".
Augustus relayed information of his trip back to Texas in a letter to the editor of the Fayette Banner newspaper, published on January 21, 1902.
Please allow me to inform my Fayette friends, through the columns of your paper, of my safe arrival at home from Alabama, with my wife a corpse, on Wednesday the 8th. We were met at the depot by a great number of people, who marched to the grave to pay the last tribute of respect to my bosom companion who departed this life at 8 o'clock p.m. on Sunday the 5th….I wish to specially thank Propst Bros. and J. P. Dickinson for their noble deeds of kindness to me. I, perhaps, would have had to bury my wife at Cordova, had it not been for brother Dickinson. At that point we were transferred from the Southern to the K. C. R. R., a certificate had to be signed, and I thank God that brother Dickinson volunteered to sign it and let me through with my little children and corpse of my wife. My home is a lonely home now; a vacant chair at the fireside, at the table, at church and at Sunday school, and everywhere I go I miss Amanda. But there is one consoling thought and that is, she is at rest from the cares of this troublesome world and that I was permitted to bury her where she so much desired to be.
There you have it. Amanda died in Fayette County, Alabama, and her body was returned with her family via railroad to Texas, where she was buried in Johnson County, which is neighbors to where she lived in Hill County.
In my records, I now enter a Death fact and a separate Burial fact. I find that I often have evidence of the date of death but not the place, and of the place of burial but not the actual date. However, this technique helps me avoid adding incorrect details to my family tree.

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Monday, December 9, 2013
10 comments:
- Brandi B. said...
I HATE holly!!! It hurts like a mofo. It hurts fresh, it hurts dried on the ground when wearing flip flops! It NEVER composts!!! Ouch ouch ouch. OWWWWWCH!!!
But I do love poinsettias. And Z! Ain't she just purdy with all that lovely seasonal red and green!
- December 9, 2013 at 9:36 PM
- LOS said...
"mofo"? hmm ... BL
- December 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
That is a scary song. My folks had it on album, but I can't recall anything but that song.
- December 9, 2013 at 11:04 PM
- Crafty Green Poet said...
I've hear many Christmas songs but never Have a Holly Golly Christmas.
Zoe is adorable, as ever,
- December 10, 2013 at 12:30 AM
- Brandi B. said...
...been thinking about it...
I love the festive look of holly, and it is so pretty when powdered with snow.
But it is VERY painful with those spiky leaves.
We have a holly tree in our front yard. When we moved in, there lived the world's meanest, loudest, meanest bluejay EVER in that tree.
So what came first? The painful leaves or the crankiness?
I have not seen him around in a while. Maybe his wife murdered him in his sleep????
- December 10, 2013 at 4:51 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
RG, we really appreciate the education, and of course the lovely pictures that just happen to feature sweet little bunnies. I wanted to thank you for getting me to look into your poet. I know we are a discouraging lot...never heard of this...don't like that...which brings me back to your poet. Remember the part about the grain of sand? He lived quite a life. I hope you can reach out to CGP, and save her from a benightedness that is wrenching especially at this time of holiday joy, and so as not to neglect the holly controversy, I would like to add that our birds would never eat the berries. This raises a lot of questions about holly species, and, of course, the real question...what is it with the blue jays in Oklahoma?
- December 10, 2013 at 7:22 AM
- Brandi B. said...
When we moved from Fort Worth to Norman, OK some 22 years ago, I found a bluejay that been in an altercation with a cat. He was not hurt, just stunned. He had attacked the cat, and when the cat finally stopped running for it's 7th or 8th life, it gave that bird a good whack and ran away. Having been just a girl and not knowing a damned thing about anything, I picked up the bird hoping to nurse it back to health.
I brought the demon creature into the house, where my stepdad was watching t.v. In true redneck prophetic fashion, and without even looking up, he tells me that I will be "hatin' life when that bird comes 'round".
He was a big, healthy, strapping specimen of bluejay, and when he did find his bearings, I was lucky that he went for my hands first, and not my eyeballs.
- December 10, 2013 at 7:53 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Brandi, I have been visiting Speedy, and, about those salmon, he has pointed out that you are correct. No one likes a wet blanket, however it is Auntie Rating Time, and he has some news for you! Thanks for the Chat Room, RG. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
- December 10, 2013 at 11:48 AM
- Mr. Mick and Jade said...
A diva must always be surrounded by beautiful flowers, and Miss Zoey is no exception. :D
- December 11, 2013 at 12:38 PM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
I apologize for not making it a little clearer that the scary song I referred to was "Ghost Riders" and the one CGP has to hear is "Holly Golly." The poet I was glad RG introduced me to was the fellow who wrote about Sam McFee.
- December 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM


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PetSuites in Sharonville, OH is looking for an experienced General Resort Manager to join our team.
PetSuites is an upscale Pet Resort and Spa featuring boarding, daycare, and grooming services to dogs and cats. Our focus is always treating pets (and our people, be they clients or employees) as we would want to be treated. We are a bustling pet resort that offers many of the comforts of home as well as the ability to customize each pet?s stay to best accommodate his/her needs. It is our goal to be THE vacation destination for pets in the Sharonville area. Our PetSpa offers a complete menu of grooming and bathing services for both dogs and cats, and we offer doggy daycare 7 days a week. PetSuites is an industry leader with over 16 years of experience. We are a growing company that is founded on the principles of treating pets and their people well. We offer a unique work environment and competitive compensation.
This position includes a flexible schedule with the ability to work 4 (10 hour) days, many weekends, and holidays IS A MUST. This position includes both the management of, and hands on involvement in the pet care, customer service, and grooming departments. Some relocation costs may be paid by PetSuites.
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We are located in the Sharonville suburb, 25 minutes from Downtown Cincinnati. A family friendly community in a great location right off the highway and close to many attractions including Kings Island.
The General Resort Manager is a leader and an integral member of the General Resort management team. The General Resort Manager partners with the Manager of Regional Operations to provide a smooth and profitable operation by driving revenue and managing costs while creating a resort culture based on high quality guest care and exceptional customer service.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
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Creates the resorts schedule and manages labor costs to budget.
Participates in the weekly, monthly and annual planning and budget maintenance process.
Establishes goals for the resort and staff.
Acts as a champion for change and identifies, documents, shares, and promotes best practices.
Plans and leads employee meetings.
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Educates employees on resorts financial policies and procedures, and client compliance program responsibilities.
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Monitors computer systems and works with HelpDesk to resolve technical systems/equipment issues.
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Recruits new employees and participates in the selection process.
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Manages front office staff including grooming and boarding staff.
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Drives client visits through strategic client communication and local marketing efforts (i.e. Community).
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Manages client relationships; effectively resolves client issues and escalations.
Oversees client follow-up procedures, including reminders and call backs.
Utilizes client service initiative measurements to evaluate resort and staff performance.
Ensuring payroll is accurately completed and submitted for all resort staff.
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Reconciles daily cash and monitors the petty cash.
Continually drives revenue and manages costs to budget.
Performs invoice audit reviews.
Manages inventory and oversees the semi-annual inventory process.
Controls all facility and administrative costs.
Utilizes and implements the NVA Incentive Bonus Plan to meet hospital goals.
Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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Must be able to handle multiple tasks and remain flexible with assigned duties.
Capable of championing change and driving innovative programs in the resort.
Must be able to work well in team environment.
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The ability to coach, correct, develop and motivate employees.
Demonstrates excellent time and task management.
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Qualifications: Education/ Experience
3-5 years' experience in a Manager role.
2-4 years customer service experience.
Experience in a pet resort/hospital setting in positions of increased responsibility a plus.
Possess a valid drivers license and proof of insurance.
Access to reliable transportation.
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It is the policy of the company to afford equal opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability or status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran.


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Arctic Monkeys | RUG212 | Released: 15/10/05
Life's not always that sweet. First there's that girl you met down the local nighterie. You know, the one who reduced you to a quivering lump of jelly when your eyes met over a snakebite-sodden dancefloor. The one giving you the eye all night and then giving you the cold shoulder the minute she thinks you might be interested. Not that you should worry about her, though. Because even if you did get with her she'd be gone in five minutes when some bigger, older and more loutish bloke swaggered along. Life, as they say, just isn't always that sweet.
So there's "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", which manages to pack cutting humour ("Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand/Lighting the fuse might result in a bang."), the anthemic frenzy of early Oasis and the odd twisted Shakespeare reference into the grim tale of failing to pull at your local Ritzy. Then there's "Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts", a rowdier cousin to The Smiths' "I Know It's Over" which articulates perfectly the crushing inevitability of losing your teenage girl to a bigger brute. There's a touch of Johnny Marr in the guitar work, a sprinkle of John Cooper Clarke in the delivery ( "They've got engaged/No intention of a wedding/He's pinched your bird/And he'll probably kick your head in.") and a lifetime's worth of pain and frustration bubbling away underneath. The result? Two of the most gloriously original pop songs you'll hear in 2005. Sometimes, life really couldn't be any sweeter.
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- Side A01. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
- Side B01. Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts


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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Conclude Limited Run 3/3
The critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play its final performance on Sunday, March 3rd at 3:00 PM. The production, which began performances on Thursday, September 27, 2012 and officially opened on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street) will have played 159 performances.
Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200 or at the box office of the Booth Theatre.
One of America's most acclaimed theatre ensembles takes on one of the greatest plays of the 20th century in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directed by Tony Award nominee Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park), the production features the original Steppenwolf cast led by Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, the playwright and the star of the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning smash hit August: Osage County. The two face off as George and Martha, one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee's hilarious and provocative masterpiece. They are joined by Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks as the unwitting young couple invited over to George and Martha's for an unforgettable night of cocktails and crossfire.
This production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? originally ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company from December 2, 2010 - February 13, 2011 before transferring to Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, where it ran from February 25 - April 10, 2011.
The Broadway production features the original Steppenwolf creative team: Todd Rosenthal (set design), Nan Cibula-Jenkins (costume design), Allen Lee Hughes (light design) and Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (sound design).
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is presented on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Susan Quint Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Kit Seidel, Amy Danis & Mark Johannes, Patty Baker, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, Richard Gross, JAM Theatricals, Cheryl Lachowicz, Michael Palitz, Dramatic Forces/Angelina Fiordellisi, Luigi Caiola & Rose Caiola, Ken Greiner, Kathleen K. Johnson, Kirmser Ponturo Fund, Will Trice, and GFOUR Productions. Richards and Frankel previously teamed up with Steppenwolf (Artistic Director Martha Lavey and Executive Director David Hawkanson) to present ensemble member Tracy Letts' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning production of August: Osage County and Superior Donuts on Broadway.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Estonian Soda Bread with Ricotta Cheese
When I say "Soda Bread", will you think of Ireland? Wikipedia seems to do so, and there are plenty of Irish Soda Bread recipes out there in the foodblogosphere (Elise, BakingSheet, Kalyn, Andrea, SmittenKitchen, Tea). There's even a Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread !!
However, soda bread is a traditional bread here in Estonia as well. Although nowadays most Estonians think of rye bread when they think of bread at all ('bread' in Estonian - 'leib' - actually only means rye bread; when you use wheat flour, you'll get 'sai' and not 'leib'), traditionally barley played a more important part in the staple diet of Estonians. I recently discovered this rather coarsely ground organic Estonian barley flour (Eesti Mahe), which is excellent - with a lovely nutty taste and even lovelier texture.
Soda bread is of course best eaten warm, with butter and drizzle of runny honey, for example. But as this soda bread contains curd cheese (you can substitute ricotta), it was soft and tender on the following day as well. And the best thing about soda bread is - apart from its lovely flavour - that it can be on your table within 30 minutes or so.
Estonian Soda Bread
Makes one 23x23 cm bread
200 g ricotta* or curd cheese
2oo ml milk
1 egg
200 ml (115 g) barley flour
100 ml (70 g) plain/all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
(Add 2 Tbsp sour creme, if using ricotta cheese)
Combine ricotta/curd cheese, milk, egg, salt and sugar in a bowl. Combine barley and wheat flour with baking soda, then fold into the ricotta and egg mixture. Pour in the oil and mix until combined.
Butter a spring form with butter, or line with parchment paper (I use 23x23 cm skillet, lined with paper). Spoon the batter into the form and bake at 200 Celsius for about 25-30 minutes, until the bread is lovely golden brown.
13 comments:
- Meeta said...
I have not yet tried making soda bread. But there is hope as i plan to start baking bread to help me get over my bread fear factor.
Yours looks lovely and brown!
- 7:13 pm, March 19, 2008
- Kalyn said...
I am laughing because if Meeta has bread fear factor, then I must have it too! Love the sound of this bread. I'm intrigued by barley flour, which would be good for my diet, and I love the idea of ricotta here too. Thanks for the mention. I admit I was rather proud that I actually produced bread that looked good enough to be featured on the blog. (Will wonders never cease, Kalyn actually made bread!)
- 9:22 pm, March 19, 2008
- Wendy said...
This looks wonderfully moist and tasty and I simply have to eat it soon. With honey. :)
- 10:07 pm, March 19, 2008
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- 10:28 pm, March 19, 2008
- katiez said...
I normally make my soda bread with yogurt (initially because I couldn't get the buttermilk - now because I like it better.) Now I'll have to try the ricotta - which I happen to have a bit of in the fridge!
- 10:58 pm, March 19, 2008
- neil said...
At least the Irish aren't like the French. They would have slapped an AOC on it and you would never again be able to utter soda bread and Eastonia in the same breath! Your flour sounds great, I'll look out for some.
- 11:39 pm, March 19, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
The traditional Irish soda bread was the first quick bread I learned to make, and you're right, it's nothing like this one. I'm looking forward to making the Estonian version, especially as it uses barley flour, which is an ingredient on my list of things to try.
- 1:36 am, March 20, 2008
- h said...
Off the topic, sort of - curd cheese aka kohupiim. What do I replace that with in the States? I read somewhere that mixing ricotta w full fat sour cream can be used as replacement. Have you heard of that being done?
- 9:43 pm, March 20, 2008
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
I've been looking for barley flour here but it's looking like I have to order it from King Arthur.
This looks gorgeous Pille. Much more moist than the recipe I've always used. Would really like to try this with the ricotta.
- 2:52 pm, March 21, 2008
- ScienceMel said...
Hi Pille! For those of us who are a wee bit dense, why is it called soda bread? Lots of quick breads use baking soda, I thought...
- 2:09 pm, March 25, 2008
- Pille said...
Meeta – you're such an excellent and accomplished cook, I cannot believe you're afraid of making bread?
Kalyn – barley flour (esp. coarsely ground high-fibre one) has a GI around 55 or so, which makes it's good for you, no?
Wendy – it was absolutely wonderful with honey (and butter, of course).
KatieZ – I made another one just a few days later, using fermented milk (kefir) instead of curd cheese – also excellent!
Neil – luckily, we speak a incomprehensible language here in Estonia, so we'd get away never uttering the words "soda bread" out loud (just "odrakarask") :)
Lydia – try to find a good high-fibre barley flour – I really think the grainy texture enhanced the bread.
H – I used ricotta when still living in the UK – sometimes adding a bit of sour cream, sometimes not – depending on what I was making.
Tanna – I've heard good things about King Arthur flours – I'm sure their barley flour's good.
ScienceMel – well, I think all quick breads using soda would also qualify as 'soda bread' then?
- 2:36 pm, March 25, 2008
- Antipo Déesse said...
Dear Pille,
You seem to have omitted just one step in the method: when do we add the milk please?
I'm in the middle of the recipe now, so I'll add the milk to the ricotta & egg mixture, and I'll let you know how it turns out!
- 4:39 pm, April 20, 2008
- Becki said...
Now the soda bread I wasn't too crazy about (neither were the kids). It couldn't have been because of the ricotta, so I guess I'll have to blame that on the barley flour. It just made the bread taste a little bit too bitter for me.
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Savory Muffin Recipe: Mushroom Cream Cheese Muffins
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This morning, I prepared a batch of savory cake batter. I flavored it with fresh herbs from the garden, goat cheese, cream cheese, garlic and shiitake mushrooms. I baked them later in the day and had already prepared a garlic herb goat cheese spread to go along with the savory treats. It was "un délicieux en-cas", which literally means in French a "delicious in case of [I get hungry]"!
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A sociologist's perceptive look at "theistic evolution"
Recently, I have been reading Warwick U sociologist Steve Fuller's Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism, and was intrigued by his comments about "theistic evolution", as understood by members of the American Scientific Affiliation and promoted by Francis Collins in The Language of God:
Theistic evolutionists ... simply take what Collins calls 'the existence of the moral law and the universal longing for God'' as a feature of human nature that is entrenched enough to be self-validating. But is their dismissal anything more than an arbitrary theological intervention? If humans are indeed, as the Darwinists say, just one among many species, susceptible to the same general tendencies that can be studied in the same general terms, then findings derived from methods deemed appropriate to animals should apply to us as well. Collins' own comprehensive but exclusive training in the hard sciences may explain why he believes in a God who communicates straightforwardly through the natural sciences but appears less willing to cooperate with the social sciences, including such biologically inflected fields as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Instead Collins finds intuition, anecdote, theology and sheer faith to be more reliable sources of evidence. Why God should have chosen not to rely on the usual standards of scientific rigour in these anthropocentric matters remains a mystery. (p. 104-5)
Collins is unlikely to understand the problem Fuller raises - why should anyone take Collins's faith as anything more than an evolutionary glitch?
I am glad that a sociologist is researching the debate, because ASA-style theistic evolution makes sense only as sociology. It doesn't make sense intellectually. As I have said elsewhere, it is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist (= how you can continue to believe in God even though the universe shows no evidence of design). But everyone realizes that the universe shows evidence of design. Design theorists must explain it, and materialists must explain it away.
The other, less benign role of theistic evolution is to confuse traditional religious people by implying that, for example, "you can believe in Darwin - and Jesus too!" Well, Darwin didn't.
The way you believe in Jesus and Darwin too is by keeping yourself in a permanent state of confusion about the basic issues, or, Collins-style, not really understanding them. Some clergy are happy to help.
A friend alerted me to this article which nicely illustrates the muddle in progress. The article features the efforts of the Vatican to address the current Darwin cult. My friend asked me for a comment, and I replied,
Well, I hope the reason they are trying to play all sides of the table (except Dawkins's) is that they know that "evolution" is in a state of meltdown.Basically, I think Fuller is right. Theistic evolution is for people who find "intuition, anecdote, theology and sheer faith to be more reliable sources of evidence" when it comes to religion, and flee the implications of design in nature. No wonder the atheistic evolutionists use them but don't respect them.
If not, they will soon find out. I think the Church's antiquity is partly the result of avoiding taking a position until necessary - and there is always the Galileo affair to remind us of what happens when we fail to adopt that course.
From the news article: "In his article, "Darwinism From Different Points of View," he explained that Darwinian theories of natural selection are only completely unacceptable to the church when they are used to become the basis for justifying certain social policies and ethical choices."
The main problem here would be instantly identified by ID godfather Phil Johnson: If Darwinian theories are a correct account of our origin and nature, then it is reasonable to use them to justify social policies and ethical choices.
To refuse to focus on whether the Darwinian account is true raises the possibility that we regard our own bases of action as a pleasant fiction and theirs as an unpleasant one. But that is a matter of taste, surely, and the subject should be put to a vote.
If, on the other hand, we can say Darwin was wrong about human nature (for that is the point at issue), we can reject the proposed social policies that depend on them without further consideration. More important, we can defend our own proposed policies as proceeding from a correct estimation of human worth, not merely our preference.
About that question, the most obscure backwoods six-day-creation crank is far more clued in than many a Jesuit prof, I fear.
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's new album, "The Great Escape Artist," was still a work in progress last May when the band appeared on an outdoor stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jane's was the musical entertainment at an exhibition opening for director
's work as an artist and filmmaker, and singer
was dressed for the part, wearing the Mad Hatter's Victorian top hat and coat from Burton's reimagined "Alice in Wonderland."
During the short set, Farrell poured wine into plastic cups held up by fans and took deep sips from the bottle. "The most important thing in this world is to live a truthful life," he shouted. "Are you with me?"
The crowd, of course, was right there with him. The bigger question: Was the band on board? Jane's broke up in 1991 at the height of its popularity and fought during several failed reunions over the next two decades. In fact, the band's new CD is only the fourth studio album for these godfathers of alternative rock. With such a tumultuous history, it's no wonder that today Farrell's mind is on the future. Or what's left of it.
"Time's a wastin' for us," Farrell said of Jane's Addiction recently over lunch on the Hotel Shangri-La's rooftop overlooking the ocean off Santa Monica. He's a healthier, more polished provocateur now, decades removed from the sometimes emaciated, wild-eyed frontman he was in the boho '80s, but Farrell remains dependably blunt and enthusiastic. He's also a husband and dad, and during the interview, his wife, Etty Lau (costar in the E! reality series "Married to Rock"), and two young sons sat at a nearby table. "We wasted so much time fighting and doing other things. This is a critical period in our life. We have to focus laser-sharp, define who we are, the music that we make, the show that we produce. If we do that, we'll set ourselves up to be where we always belonged in the world of music."
The band meant to get here sooner. Since reuniting again in 2008, Jane's Addiction has been increasingly active, touring and playing local shows at a pace reminiscent of its early days as a fast-rising underground rock band in Los Angeles. But plans to record another album were delayed as a series of bassists rolled in and out, beginning with a short-lived reunion with founding member Eric Avery, followed by six months with former
With Tuesday's release of "The Great Escape Artist" on
, those delays are finally over, and the album's first single, "Irresistible Force (Met the Immovable Object)," is already enjoying heavy airplay on the influential KROQ-FM (106.7).
The core Jane's trio of Farrell, guitarist
and drummer Stephen Perkins appears more united than ever, long past the youthful tensions that caused its original breakup. "It's good," says Farrell, 52, describing unprecedented mutual respect among them. "It only took us 25 years."
Between reunions, Navarro spent much of the last decade on non-musical projects. He hosted an Internet
and a radio show, released an autobiography, became co-manager of adult actress Sasha Grey and even directed an adult film starring her, "Broken," in 2007. After the short life of the post-Jane's band Panic Channel, Navarro's playing could most often be heard at the local live shows of Camp Freddy, an all-star cover band.
"We've stopped a number of times," Navarro, 44, says of Jane's. "And every time I reflect on what those reasons were, all of those reasons are insignificant now. I've had to be bashed over the head with learning that lesson that everything passes ultimately."
The new album is a smooth departure from the original Jane's Addiction sound, layering the essential elements of modern hard rock and the searing, eccentric vocals of Farrell with electronics and atmosphere. On the track "Splash a Little Water on It," the band unfurls an emotional wall of sound, as Farrell sings a dark tale: "What was she thinking trying to keep up with you, every habit you have? Oh, it's 'cause she loves you so, don't tell her she's not looking so good."
There are some intense moments of guitar on "Words Right Out of My Mouth," which closes the album, but far fewer of those grand gestures elsewhere, which Navarro welcomed. He's been listening to a lot of Massive Attack and
, and found himself drawn into a more minimalist approach.
Another key influence was the presence of Dave Sitek, of the acclaimed Brooklyn art-rockers
, who arrived to play bass and collaborate as a songwriter, without becoming a member of the band. Sitek was the suggestion of Rich Costey (
), who produced the album.
Before the full band worked with him, Perkins met with Sitek in a rehearsal space at SIR Studios in Hollywood to experiment for a couple of days. "I wrote to Dave and Perry telling them I was excited: This is reminding me of playing with
. It's dangerous and relentless, always searching, like Coltrane," recalls Perkins, 44. "He's a fun guy to spark ideas for music. He said … 'Let's jam for a month!' His personality on the instrument is always pushing."
Sitek was also a forceful voice in the room, weighing in on sounds and direction, but with none of the baggage a full band member would carry. Without turmoil in the bass position, the band may never have collaborated with Sitek, whom Navarro calls "an abrasive Baltimore dude who says what he thinks."
"He was instrumental in helping me not over-think things," the guitarist adds. "We had very similar desires musically, and we also butt heads quite a bit, which is fun and brotherly. We rode each other a little bit. It was nice to have that relationship in the studio."
Sitek was later invited to tour with the band, but passed and returned full time to TV on the Radio. Back in bass position is Chris Chaney, who played on 2003's "Strays" and was in the band when it broke apart that year. Navarro brought him into the studio at the end of sessions for "The Great Escape Artist" to add a ribbon of cohesiveness on bass from track to track.
"That was the missing piece," Navarro says.
The album was recorded at Eldorado Studios in Burbank, on the same consoles used for the band's first two studio albums, 1988's "Nothing's Shocking" and 1990's "Ritual de lo Habitual." Tracks were then sent to Farrell to record his vocals at home in Santa Monica. The album's first single, "Irresistible Force," began on acoustic guitar and drums, then was amplified with a swirl of keyboards and brooding effects, fueled by the Joy Division album Navarro was listening to that day.
The song was then emailed to the singer. "A day later it comes back to us with the very vocals that are on it today," says Navarro. "A song like that came together in three days. It was such an exciting process to work like that."
There were signs of that excitement during their LACMA show earlier this year. The band's traditional encore of "Jane Says" was a surprisingly warm close to an otherwise stormy set of raw
and punk attitude. Perkins, bent over his steel drums, tapped out a tropical rhythm and sang along like a fan. Navarro was on acoustic guitar, and Farrell walked over to put an arm around his shoulders, a band of brothers at last. It's a unity that can now be felt throughout Jane's new album.
"Over the course of time, it just adds up to me that this is a great band," says Farrell. "We understand how fortunate we are to be in this position. We lucked out, man. All we've got to do is be great. " He laughs. "Not so easy, but definitely within our grasp. That's what this record was meant to do."


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Songwriter Robert Sherman and his writing-partner brother Richard won Academy Awards for their work on "Mary Poppins" and contributed songs and scores to many other films. The brothers wrote irresistibly upbeat songs that spoke to everyday people. "You can't help but smile when you sing or hum a Sherman brothers song," film critic Leonard Maltin said. Above, Robert Sherman, right, with his brother Richard, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in 1963. He was 86.Full obituary Notable deaths of 2011
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Patrick Manley remembers watching a commercial for a car dealership that concluded its advertisement by proclaiming its location along the Golden Mile in Springfield.
Just a boy at the time, Manley asked his mother where the Golden Mile got its name. His mother did not know.
Two decades have passed, but Manley finally found an answer when he and Brendan O'Riordan began researching their latest documentary, "The Golden Mile." According to their research, the nickname was coined when one of the myriad car dealerships used the term in a print advertisement.
Their film will document the history of the Golden Mile, a stretch of Baltimore Pike mostly running through Springfield. Manley and O'Riordan are producing the film as a follow-up to their 2010 documentary, "Bazaar of All Nations."
"We found a lot of interesting historical information about Baltimore Pike itself," Manley said. "As far as roads go, it's up there. ... There's going to be a lot of stuff that people may not be aware of, in terms of the importance of this road over 200 years."
The film will feature various historic establishments along the Golden Mile like Playtown Park, Charlie's Hamburgers, Gino's, Ferraro Cadillac and the Alpine Inn, among others.
The Alpine Inn, Manley said, was a popular venue for Republican Party events, but the Democrats also utilized it. Robert F. Kennedy even stopped there when paying the county a visit in the 1960s. Now, Best Buy sits on that plot of land.
"Obviously, we can't cover every single thing on that strip as it is, but we're trying to get as much interesting information about the history of the development of the area," Manley said. "A lot of it had to do with the car dealerships."
Though many classic establishments have closed, the Springfield Inn remains, having undergone several iterations since the building was constructed in the 19th Century.
"That's really been a mainstay of the strip," Manley said. "In the old photos, there's nothing there but farmland and that building."
The film also will delve into the road's early history, including its connection to the Revolutionary War. Manley said he is trying to confirm a report that Baltimore Pike originally began as a Native American trail.
"Baltimore Pike and Chester Pike, for that matter, were heavily travelled roads all the way back to pre-revolutionary times," Manley said. "Over the years, and especially as automobiles developed, Baltimore Pike almost became a model of paving and making roads usable and attractive for cars. There's some interesting stuff we have with that."
The film evolved out of the "Bazaar of All Nations" documentary the pair had completed three years ago. As they were researching that documentary, Manley said people would bring up memories from Playtown Park or some other local establishment not directly related to the Bazaar.
"We would get little side stories on other things down Baltimore Pike," Manley said. "We kind of filed that away in the back of our minds that, in the future, maybe we would do something on that."
Manley and O'Riordan, both Collingdale natives, are producing the film for White Lyte Productions, which also backed "Bazaar of All Nations." Melissa Whitely, a New Jersey native, is directing the film.
There is no specific time line to complete the film, Manley said, but he expects it will take at least two years. They currently are completing the necessary library research and beginning to branch off to conduct personal interviews. The filmmakers also are searching for anyone with a unique story involving an establishment along the Golden Mile.
"Some of the best stuff comes from anecdotes and things that don't appear in newspapers," Manley said. "Some of the best photos we got (for the "Bazaar of All Nations") didn't appear in newspapers. It's people's personal accounts, candid shots and little mementos picked up along the way."
Sal Triolo grew up in a house across the street from Playtown Park, which he described as a "miniature Knoebels," noting the Ferris Wheel, Tilt-a-Whirl and train, among other rides. He could hear the park's roller coaster from his house on summer nights, he said.
Triolo, who responded to a Daily Times request for personal stories, said he spent hours playing pinball and Skeeball at the park's arcade. Afterward, he and his friends would head to Charlie's Hamburgers.
"We used to go there and grab two (burgers) with the works," said Triolo, who now lives in Chester County. "They had great black and white shakes."
One of his most vivid memories came in 1968, when Robert Kennedy stopped at both the Bazaar and Alpine Inn. Kennedy came rolling through town in a Cadillac convertible, Triolo said.
"His motorcade came down Baltimore Pike West toward Media," Triolo said. "We all ran out to see him, and we shook his hand."
Tim Scholl also grew up near the Golden Mile. Though the various locally-owned businesses have given way to a number of chains and franchises, he said Baltimore Pike always promoted a gaudy atmosphere.
Still, he spent his share of nights at Thunderbird, which included a miniature golf course, go-carts and a trampoline. Like many residents, he also has fond memories of childhood trips to Playtown Park.
Scholl said his brother recently found a number of 33 mm Kodak films that their father shot when they were growing up in the 1960s. He said he's confident the films will include footage of the amusement park, and he's anxious to get them converted to digital format.
"Every Easter Sunday after Mass, we would go to breakfast at Perkins Pancake House, and then we would go to Playtown Park," said Scholl, who now lives in Media.
Manley and O'Riordan are likely to uncover many similar accounts as they research their film, but they are not in a rush to complete it.
Manley said they are taking their time with the production of "The Golden Mile." The filmmakers had hurried to complete the Bazaar film, he said, because they wanted its debut to correspond with the 50th anniversary of the Bazaar's opening. He said that left everyone involved fairly stressed.
"We learned a lot," Manley said. "We kind of have a more focused approach to things. Last time, it was more everything and anything -- let's see how it falls together. Now, we have early drafts of outlines and things like that. It will be much easier on the back end to structure the film knowing what points we want to hit."
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Birdie Busch's music hardly fits into a specific category or genre. Her atmospheric folk has strains of country-blues, and rockability. She sings about magic, luck, the universe, and the human heart speeding off on dangerous missions. Birdie has had a long-time partnership with her bandmates, and will be here this Friday, playing XPN's Free At Noon. Now on her fourth album, Everyone Will Take You In, Birdie Busch has shared the stage with Regina Spektor, Dar Williams and Amos Lee. Birdie joins other local and talented Philadelphia musicians, like Devin Greenwood, Todd Erk, Chris Giraldi, Ross Bellenoit, and Craig Hendrix in the making of great music.
Her newest release, Everyone Will Take You In, is a group of songs inspired by her hometown. The project is the first release for the new label Be Frank Records, a Philadelphia label specializing in vinyl releases and digital availabilities.Birdie played this summer's XPoNential Music Festival. You can check out her photo gallery, and listen to her full set in the Festival Archives.
Don't miss the perfect way to kick off the Labor Day Weekend--a free performance by local favorite Birdie Busch, hosted by WXPN.
And, be sure to catch Birdie Busch at Johnny Brenda's at 9pm on Friday, September 17, too.
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2010 Everyone Will Take You In (Be Frank Records)
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ATLANTA - Justin Verlander pitched seven innings to win his fourth straight start and the Detroit Tigers beat light-hitting Atlanta 2-1 Saturday, leading frustrated Braves manager Bobby Cox to pick up a record-tying ejection.
Cox was thrown out of the game in the ninth inning by plate umpire Chad Fairchild. Cox's ejection gave him 131 for his career, tying the record set by John McGraw.
Cox came on the field as Fairchild tossed Atlanta's Brian McCann for arguing a called third strike from Todd Jones, who got three outs to earn his 18th save in 22 chances.
Cox already has the record for most ejections by a manager, since 14 of McGraw's came as a player.
Carlos Guillen homered for the Tigers, who have won six straight games.
Verlander (9-2) gave up a fourth-inning homer to Chipper Jones but did not allow another baserunner past second. Verlander, who set a season high with 12 strikeouts when he no-hit Milwaukee on June 12, struck out 11 while giving up only four hits and two walks.
The Braves (38-37) have lost four straight and eight of 11 to fall to only one game over .500 for the first time since winning their season opener.
The Tigers, who won a season-best eight straight games from April 29 through May 8, have constructed their current winning streak on the road. The Tigers lead the major leagues with 26 road wins.
The Braves, who began the day with their first streak of three straight shutout losses since 1988, snapped a string of 31 consecutive scoreless innings when Jones led off the fourth with his 13th homer.
Jones, who struck out looking in the first inning, hit a 3-2 pitch from Verlander over the wall in left-center.
Atlanta's Kyle Davies (3-7) gave up three hits and two runs in 61�3 innings before leaving with a strained left oblique.
Davies appeared to slightly slip, possibly hurting himself, when fielding a short grounder hit by Magglio Ordonez in the sixth inning. He left after trainer Jeff Porter came to the mound with one out in the seventh.
Davies threw 36 pitches in the second inning. He walked two batters and hit Ivan Rodriguez with a pitch. Sean Casey's single, the only hit of the inning, drove in Guillen. Davies struck out Curtis Granderson on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to end the inning.
Guillen led off the fourth with his 12th homer to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Davies then retired nine of the next 10 batters.
Cox juggled the top of his batting order. Willie Harris hit leadoff for only the second time this season, while Kelly Johnson moved down one spot. Slumping Andruw Jones hit seventh for the first time this season.
Cox said he wasn't planning more dramatic moves.
"You've got to stay with everybody," Cox said. "It's no time to start pointing fingers at people. We'll stay in this together."
Pinch-hitter Matt Diaz led off the eighth with a double off Tim Byrdak. After Johnson struck out trying to lay down a sacrifice bunt, Fernando Rodney retired Edgar Renteria and Chipper Jones.
Braves lose close game
ATLANTA - Justin Verlander pitched seven innings to win his fourth straight start and the Detroit Tigers beat light-hitting Atlanta 2-1 Saturday, leading frustrated Braves manager Bobby Cox to pick up a record-tying ejection.


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By Jean Lucien Vinet (1949)
Chapter VI -- THE MENTAL TORTURES OF CONFESSION
One strange prescription of Romanism which puzzles not only Protestants but Roman Catholics too, is the necessity of auricular confession to a priest in order to obtain forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation. We must state immediately that confession, as practiced in the Roman Church today, was neither commanded by Christ nor was it practiced by the early Christians. Auricular confession came into being many centuries after Christ and is therefore a pure invention of Rome.
The real reason behind this Roman prescription of obligatory confession of sins to a priest, is to keep all Roman Catholics under constant submission and authority of the priests of Rome. Confession, we must admit, has worked wonders in that direction. If a political party in our country could establish obligatory confession of all its members, the leader would have a complete knowledge of their most secret activities and could exercise a most effective authority over them all. The party would become the most united and most powerful in the country and could capture power easily.
Confession, in the Church of Rome, keeps individuals under control and its leaders can exercise a most effective authority over the penitents. It is indeed one of the most cunning inventions of Romanism. Possibly no one can realize this statement fully unless, like the writer, he has himself spent years operating this system of confession.
In order to provide priests with this incomparable influence over the people through confession, the poor Roman Catholics themselves have to pay dearly for that great invention. Indeed they pay dearly in inhuman, excruciating mental tortures. This brings us to the very subject of this chapter. We often heard preachers of religious revivals or missions in the Roman Church tell their audience the following story, in order to impress upon them the necessity of telling all their sins to the priest in confession without omitting the least detail.
"There was once," related the priest, "an old Roman Catholic lady who was dying. Outwardly this good old lady had been a devout Roman Catholic and had observed all the prescriptions of her Church. She was known to have approached frequently the sacraments of confession and Holy Communion. A priest was beside her and had just administered to her the sacrament of Extreme-Unction. Before she died, however, she managed to collect enough strength and courage to whisper this terrible admission to her confessor: `I'm damned... I'm damned...I have hidden a sin in confession since I was a young girl and I never had the courage to declare it. I spent my whole life in sin and sacrilege and in disgrace with God on account of my mistake in concealing a sin to the priest.' The preacher added that the good woman finally confessed all her sins and thereby died in peace with her maker."
This story, which is told to impress upon all Roman Catholics the importance of confessing all their sins to the priest, illustrates well the mental tortures and the distortions of conscience brought about in a soul by the spectre of compulsory auricular confessions of sins to a priest, especially by women and young girls. Can we imagine a merciful Saviour, who forgave sins through His love and blood on the Cross, demanding now that we must confess our sins to a sinful man in order to be forgiven? Can we imagine that Christ was prepared to damn the good old lady of the above story because she failed to narrate to a Roman priest some circumstances of the mistakes of her youth? It would be blasphemy to believe so. Only one thing saved the good woman and it was the mercy and blood of her Saviour, Jesus Christ, and certainly not her final confession to a man.
Auricular confession .to priests is indeed a pure invention of Romanism. It has been instituted, we priests know it so well, primarily to make it possible for the agents of Rome to control the most intimate reactions of human hearts and minds in the interests of the authority and prestige of a human political and religious system. By confession, Rome not only controls Governments, school boards, etc., when Roman Catholic members kneel down at the priest's feet in the confessional and receive instructions that will determine their decisions and actions.
Roman Catholics are indeed sadly mislead by Roman priests who teach them that Christ instituted confession when He said: "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven." Even if priests had the divine power to remit sins, it would still not mean that the actual auricular confession of these sins to a priest is a divine requisite. If a son has offended his father and has wandered away to a distant land, the paternal forgiveness it is true, could be extended to this son through the medium of a representative, if the father wishes to do so, but that does not mean that the sins and mistakes of this boy have to be narrated with all their details to the father's representative in order to receive the paternal forgiveness. Let the priests of Rome who claim to be representatives of the merciful Lord, speak to the sinners of the mercy of Christ but not submit them to the mental tortures of Romanism.
Before we study the confessional and the mental tortures it imposes on the minds and souls, especially of lady penitents, we must expose the Roman doctrine that determines what to say in confession and how to say it.
A Roman Catholic, says his Church, must, in order to obtain peace with God, declare all his sinful actions, omissions and his most secret thoughts and desires, specifying minutely the kinds of sins committed, the number of times and all the circumstances which might alter the gravity of a sin. A murderer is obliged to declare his crimes, a young girl her most intimate thoughts and desires and a child the least little mis- chiefs of his innocent life. Roman theologians have drafted a long list of sins to be confessed and many of these sins are actually unknown to many a Roman Catholic. They have divided sins into several classes such as "original", "actual", "capital", "venial", "mortal", etc.
We have seen men tremble, women faint and children cry when the time to confess their sins to us had come. A priest cannot hear confessions for many months before he realizes that this ordeal cannot be requested by the kind and merciful Lord. On the other hand, we have seen priests laugh and joke in referring to their embarrassed penitents. If we can say that Mass is a fraud of a financial order, it is also true that confession is an imposture of authority by which priests investigate the minds and souls of human beings. When an organization such as the Roman system can control not only the education, the family and policies of the Civil Government of its members, but even their very thoughts and desires, we do not wonder that it can prosper and succeed. Roman Catholics, whether they feel that they ought to admit it or not, are forced into submission to Romanism through the process of torturing auricular confession. Let us review the confessions of a child, a young lady and that of a married woman.
(a) CONFESSION OF A CHILD
That child might only be seven years old. He has been told that he must tell all his sins to the priest. If he does not, he will commit a sacrilege and should he die, he cannot go to heaven. He is naturally very confused as to what really constitutes a sin. He believes that many of his actions are serious sins. Some children think that some of the necessities of the body are grave sins to be confessed. However, a child is naturally shy and reluctant to tell what he has done or thought. The result is that he omits to declare certain things that are really not sinful but he thinks they are. His conscience will reproach him for having hidden a sin in confession and he will experience uneasiness of conscience and will probably end in believing that he cannot make peace with his God. Confession has ruined this child's soul. He has been misled and one more Roman Catholic starts a life of mental torture and misconception of the mercy of Christ. Romanism with its system of confession cannot very well be identified with the kindness of the Lord who said: "SUFFER [ALLOW] THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME."
(b) CONFESSION OF A YOUNG GIRL
We now have a shy Roman Catholic young girl, : passing through the stage of childhood to puberty, who is about to enter the confessional. She is naturally embarrassed and her state of mind is just what a sordid confessor wishes explore. The priest will now hear from a young woman the most secret thoughts and desires of her soul. Her mind and soul are crucified on the altar of Romanism and of its curious and sinful priests.
If the young girl is reluctant to speak, the confessor will ask the following questions:
1. "Was it with a man? Was he married? Was he related to you? Was he a priest?
2. Did you give full consent of your will to these thoughts, desires, etc? Was it a complete action? Was it against some laws of nature? How often did you consent to these thoughts, desires, actions, etc. ?"
Many other embarrassing questions are asked according to the sins accused. Many of these questions are left to the discretion and indiscretion of the confessor. Some questions asked are sometimes stupid and criminal. We know a rather young pastor of a Manitoba Cathedral, who "hailed from the East" as a specialist in the confessions of young women, who asked his young female penitents if they wore "panties" or some other variety of feminine underclothing. These shameful details of a confession are mentioned here to illustrate what is meant by the tortures of confession. Roman Catholics know very well that what we disclose is the crude truth.
We are fully acquainted with the practice of certain abnormal priests in the confessional. We have investigated some cases where the confessor learns of the weaknesses of a prospective victim in the confessional.
She becomes an easy prey to his passions and vice.
The practice of soliciting women penitents to sin in the confessional is, in fact, so common, that the Roman theologians have inserted in their theology manuals a long thesis which regulates the conduct to be followed by priests and penitents who have sinned in this manner. This is called in Latin "De solicitatione in confessionali."
The confessional, far from being a place of forgiveness of sins, is very often the scene of the most disgusting sex crimes.
(c) CONFESSION OF A MARRIED WOMAN
A married woman enters the confessional. She will tell a strange man secrets which she probably would not dare to reveal to her own husband. She is even bound to reveal certain secrets of her husband. This especially happens when a sin is committed with the consent of both husband and wife. In the Roman Church, birth control of all variety is a sin and must be confessed with all its circumstances. The husband might be of Protestant Faith and his Roman Catholic wife will have to disclose to the priest the most intimate relations of their marital life. The priest will know more about the wife than the husband. There are no more family secrets because Rome has required that hearts and souls should be fully explored by priests. In this manner, Romanism controls the whole intimate lives of married couples.
A married woman, who has any amount of natural discretion and honesty, will enter the confessional with apprehension and often despair. She fears that terrible and infallible questionnaire. It is impossible to describe the mental inconvenience she now experiences by the spectre of compulsory confession. One married woman who had not much to confess anyway, told us one day that this obligation of telling everything to the priest was "diabolical" and we could not admit to her at that time that she was absolutely right.
The questionnaire in the case of a married woman goes somewhat like this:
"How often do you perform your conjugal duties?
Do you refuse to perform them sometimes? Why ?
How many times ?
Are your marital actions complete?
Could conception take place?
Do you use contraceptives?
How many times?
Any thoughts, desires, actions for other men but your husband, etc., etc. ?"
Poor Roman Catholic women! We know so well that your kind souls are tortured to death by this terrible Roman obligation of telling, not only your sins, but also the most intimate secrets of your married life. You are free, of course, to practice the prescriptions of your Church. As an ex-priest, we will never even suggest that you be unfaithful to your convictions, but as an ex-priest we can also tell you that these mental tortures imposed upon your souls are not a prescription of the Saviour of mankind to obtain forgiveness of your sins, but are pure inventions of men to keep your minds and hearts under the control of a system, the torturous Roman religious organization.
Your secrets that you have confided to us in confession will be forever kept and never divulged, you may have no fear of that. Ex-priests who have had the courage to shake the shackles of Rome are naturally too honest to divulge secrets confided to them. But we must admit, that as a priest we had no power to forgive your sins.
No priest has such power. Christ is the ONLY Mediator between God and men. He alone can give grace and salvation. This is not my opinion only but it is the teaching of Christ Himself. "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE; NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY ME." (John 14:6).
If my dear Roman Catholic friends open their Gospel according to St. Luke, Chapter 5, Verse 21, they will read this:
How strange that St. Luke did not say that the Roman Catholic priests can forgive sins through the mental tortures of auricular confession.
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Hello everyone
I am very very new to Lisp. We only had 3 cases so far on lisp. This is out second assignment and i am a bit lost. Any help is appreciated. Please keep in my i have to do everthing with recursion. I can't use any variables except for the parameters.
Write a function called "notnums" that will take a list of arbitrary length and nesting complexity and return the number of non-numbers the list contains, anywhere (i.e., at any level of nesting) in the list. Your function should be able to handle the following input:
* (notnums '(a 9 (5 b) c (d (e 7))))
* (notnums '(7 a 8 b c 9 10))
* (notnums '(1 (2 (3)) y 5 (x) 9))
* (notnums '(a 1 (b 2) ())
* (notnums '(* b (a (- 2) c 3) (+ 5))
So far i have
(defun notnums (A)
(if (endp A)
(1+(notnums (rest A))))
This is the function i wrote last week to count the number of atoms in a list. I am trying to modify it for this assignment but i am totally lost.


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I urge you to reject Dow's application for cotton that is genetically engineered to survive repeated spraying of the herbicide 2,4-D.
Putting this crop on the market will drive up use of a dangerous herbicide that is associated with serious health harms. 2,4-D has been linked to cancer, reproductive toxicity and endocrine disruption.
The dramatic rise in glyphosate use in conjunction with Roundup Ready crops tells us that widespread planting of 2,4-D cotton will create a surge in the application of this hazardous herbicide.
Since 2,4-D is known to drift—directly and through volatilization—increased use poses a very real threat to rural economies and farmers growing crops not engineered to withstand application of this potent chemical. Conventional farmers could lose crops, while organic farmers could lose both crops and certification, resulting in an economic unraveling of already-stressed rural communities.
Dow's 2,4-D-resistant crops are engineered to follow the same shortsighted approach to farming taken by Monsanto with its Roundup Ready seed line. The Roundup Ready seed line is responsible for a dramatic rise in glyphosate-resistant "superweeds" that have afflicted millions of acres of farmland across the Midwest and South. Please don't make the same mistake in approving a new generation of herbicide-resistant crops that will lead to more superweeds, placing even more burden on farmers.
We urge USDA to reject Dow's petition for approval of its 2,4-D-tolerant cotton, and we call on your Agency to instead devote more attention to research and development of safe and smart 21st century ecological approaches to weed management. These approaches can protect public health, conserve the environment and assure sustainable crop production by America's farmers for generations to come.
Organic Consumers Association
This petition closed over 4 years ago
Cotton is already the world's "dirtiest" crop, due to its heavy use of pesticides. Now Dow wants to make cotton even more toxic, by unleashing a new genetically engineered cotton that resists...
Cotton is already the world's "dirtiest" crop, due to its heavy use of pesticides. Now Dow wants to make cotton even more toxic, by unleashing a new genetically engineered cotton that resists the deadly 2,-4-D herbicide.
Dow's 2,4-D is one of the two toxins used to make Agent Orange, the deadly chemical sprayed in Vietnam during the 1960s and known to be responsible for a host of severe illnesses and birth defects.
If the USDA approves Dow's new 2,4-D-resistant cotton, farmers will start spraying massive amounts of 2,4-D herbicide on a crop that already accounts for more than its fair share of the global use of pesticides and herbicides.
The deadline to tell the USDA you don't want 'Agent Orange' cotton is midnight on May 19.
Cotton is the world's dirtiest crop. Only 2.4 percent of the world's cropland is planted with cotton, yet cotton crops account for 24 percent and 11 percent of global sales of insecticides and pesticides respectively.
One of the toxins that isn't yet sprayed on cotton is 2,4-D. Why? Because 2,4-D kills cotton.
Farmers use 2,4-D to control weeds on soybeans, rice, corn, wheat and several other crops. But when 2,4-D drifts onto cotton fields, it can kill hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton.
That's a big problem for cotton farmers because 2,4-D, which is used on soybeans, rice, corn, wheat and other crops, is the third most widely sprayed herbicide/pesticide in the world. In fact, 2,4-D drift is the top cause of pesticide-related crop damage episodes investigated by state departments of agriculture in the U.S.
Losses from 2,4-D drift have caused some cotton farmers to call for ban on the herbicide.
But Dow thinks it has a better idea: genetically engineered cotton that resists 2,4-D. According to Dow, if cotton farmers would only plant Dow's genetically engineered 2,4-D-resistant cotton, they could solve their weed problems and the problem of crop loss from 2,4-D drift.
Penn State University researchers disagree, at least when it comes to 2,4-D's ability to solve cotton farmers' weed problems. Their 2012 study concluded that Dow's 2,4-D-tolerant crops will only generate new generations of superweeds, which will require yet another round of new and more toxic chemical cocktails.
Of course the chemical companies have known all along that weeds would quickly adopt resistant traits and evolve into superweeds. According to the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds, there are already 30 weeds that are resistant to 2,4-D.
Still, Dow is nearing approval of two other new 2,4-D-resistant crops—its Enlist brand corn and soy. Approval of those two crops means the use of 2,4-D could increase fifty-fold. Add 2,4-D-resistant cotton, and 2,4-D may be competing with Monsanto's Roundup for most-used toxin in the world.
2,4-D is highly toxic. Some formulations are contaminated with dioxins. According to the World Health Organization, dioxins can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and also cause cancer.
After investigative journalists ran a television documentary revealing dangerous levels of dioxin had been found in common brands of 2,4-D, the Australian government cancelled the registrations of some forms of 2,4-D and began reviewing the rest.
Even discounting dioxin contamination, 2,4-D ranks among the world's most dangerous herbicides. The Natural Resources Defense Council has pressed EPA for a ban. But the EPA is ignoring studies that show exposure to 2,4-D could cause cancer, hormone disruption, genetic mutations and neurotoxicity. Instead, EPA points to studies, financed by the 2,4-D manufacturers and conducted by Dow, that minimize health risks.
In Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, researchers have found higher rates of certain birth defects in areas with the highest use of 2,4-D.
Over the past 40 years, dozens of studies have been published linking 2,4-D and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 2010, approximately 65,540 people in the United States were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, nearly double diagnosed in the 1970s.
The more farmers use 2,4-D—or any herbicide or pesticide—the more these toxins end up on our food—and in our bodies.
Cotton might be hard to place into one of the four food groups, but it's a staple of the American diet, both as an animal feed and an ingredient in processed foods. Just look at the ingredients on a box of Ritz crackers. Cottonseed is there, and in many other foods, as a "trans fat," partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil.


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Cath Madden Trindle
Another controversial copyright case that has come to a conclusion is that of Shepard Fairey, the creator of the Obama campaign poster in 2008. Mr. Fairey was sued by AP for violation of copyright when he used a picture taken by an AP Photographer as the basis for his poster. In this case he argued FAIR USE saying the original picture had been transformed into a work of art.
There are many on both sides of that issue. Perhaps less controversial is the fact the in trying to prove his point he lied about the picture he used. The second picture included President Clinton and therefore only half would have been used. But back to the issue at hand. In using the picture Mr. Fairey made a great deal of money, so definitely not a non-profit use. He might rightly argue, however, that the worth of the picture increased when he used it for the poster, so perhaps could have won his case on that fact…..IF….and this is a big IF.
IF he had credited AP and the photographer when he released his work. He did not!!!!
This is a huge issue. As genealogists, much of what we gather and use might be considered a fair use, but only if you give credit where credit is due. Even when the material is no longer subject to copyright, use without crediting the source is unethical at best.
Mr. Fairey not only had to pay 1.6 million to AP (over 1 million of that out of his pocket) but he also has to do 300 hours of community service and is on probation for 2 years for tampering with evidence when destroyed information on his computer that showed which picture he actually used. This large a settlement isn't likely to happen in the genealogical world, but as we gather information online we are sometimes dealing with ……….


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OLYMPIA - Students who arrived in the United States illegally as children will soon be eligible to apply for college financial aid.
Last week, Senate Bill 6523 passed the House . On Monday of this week, Gov. Jay Inslee announced he will sign the bill into law tomorrow (Wednesday).
The Dream Act is a piece of federal legislation that would legalize the status of several million undocumented youth immigrants.
Washington joins three other states—California, New Mexico and Texas—in enacting a version of the Dream Act and extending state need-grants to students who arrived illegally in the United States as children. It is the first bill to pass both chambers this session.
"It means the world to me," said 19-year-old Dulce Siguenza. She arrived in Washington from Oaxaca, Mexico, when she was 7 years old. She attends South Seattle Community College, but she dreamed of being able to go to the University of Washington.
"This opens an opportunity for me to actually be able to do that," Siguenza said.
The measure passed the House on Tuesday with a 75-22 bipartisan vote.
"When we work together, when we dream together, we can do great things together for our state," said Rep. Zach Hudgins, D-Renton, chief House sponsor.
"This is about keeping our best and brightest here in Washington, and giving everybody a shot at the American Dream," he said.
The bill requires students to have lived in the state for at least three years and to have received a high school diploma in Washington state before receiving aid.
Rep. Mark Hargrove, R-Covington, said the bill was flawed and could hurt the middle class.
"Right now, the taxpayers in this state are on the hook for paying for the education of 6.6 million Washingtonians. If we pass this, they're on the hook for the kids of 7 billion people in the world," Hargrove said.
The Real Hope Act is nearly identical to the Washington Dream Act, which passed out of the House with a 71-23 vote on the first day of the legislative session.
While the House bill doesn't identify a funding source, the Senate version appropriates $5 million from the general fund to pay for the financial-aid disbursements under the state need-grant program.
Rep. Larry Haler, R-Richland, voted in favor of the measure but voiced his concerns on the House floor.
He said the appropriations made under this bill wouldn't necessarily reach the intended recipients. The $5 million would be pooled into the general fund for the state need-grant program.
"It's not guaranteed to go to them," Haler said. "We're dangling a promise out there, but we don't have the money to give to these students."
During the 2012-2013 academic year, $303 million was dedicated to the state need-grant program, which meant funding for 74,000 low-income recipients. However, more than 30,000 eligible students were unserved for one or more academic terms.
The state need-grant program received $605 million for the 2013-2015 budget. The Latino Educational Achievement Program estimated around 1,000 to 1,500 students would be eligible for funding under the Real Hope Act.
Another version of the bill passed the state House last year; however, it was blocked in committee by Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, who chairs the Senate Higher Education Committee.
Bailey said the bill didn't address more than 30,000 students who qualified, but couldn't receive state need-grants due to a lack of funding.
"Adding more to that pool of students, in my opinion, was a false promise," she said.
When it was passed in the House earlier this year, Republican leaders said that the bill was not a high priority.
In an unexpected reversal, Senate Republicans introduced Senate Bill 6523—renamed the Real Hope Act—with Bailey as one of the chief sponsors.
"When we put money where our words are, it really makes a huge difference," she said.
The bill passed 35-10 with bipartisan support in the Senate on January 31, bringing closure to a near six-year effort by the Democratic party to pass a version of the Dream Act.
As the bill made its final passage through the House on Tuesday, Hudgins said, "A policy like this is good for the students, it's the right thing to do for young people, it's the right thing to do for our communities and it's good for our economy."
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Dialogue "Richard Russo" The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks with host Marcia Franklin.G
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Need to Know RAY SUAREZ ANCHORS. Medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay investigates readmission penalties, an element of the Affordable Care Act designed to reduce costs and lead to more coordinated healthcare once patients are released from the hospital. D
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Losing Lambert: A Journey Through Survival & Hope Kathy O'Hern Fowler, who lost her 16-year-old son to suicide in 1995, spent years struggling with the loss and grief. However, the life-altering experience led her to advocate for other parents who tragically find themselves in the same position. The touching and insightful film explores the heart-rending questions left in the wake of suicide, interviews parents struggling to cope with the pain and stigma, and offers hope for the future of suicide prevention.G
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Head coach Andrew Harris said despite the loss, it was encouraging to secure the doubles point against the talented Spartans.
"We decided to change up the doubles tandems going into this match today, and the guys responded really well," Harris said. "Unfortunately, we were not able to match Upstate today on the singles side. They are certainly one of the most talented teams in our conference right now, and you must give them credit for coming back after the doubles.
"The guys have another important match against Campbell, and we will be looking for a different result tomorrow."
The Bisons took an early 1-0 lead over the Spartans by capturing the doubles point by a score of 2-1.
Freshman Oliver Strecker and senior Joe McArdle posted the Bisons' only doubles loss when they fell at No. 1 to Ramiro Blanco and Matias Di Pasquale 8-6.
At No. 2, freshmen David Salazar and Miguel Cortez defeated Edgar Rodriguez and Gonzalo Blanco 8-6.
Sophomores Tanner Brown and Colby Shaw secured the doubles point with an 8-5 win at No. 3 over Marco Linconir and Gianluca Paino.
With a 1-0 lead, the Bisons headed into singles play but failed to pick up enough wins.
The Bisons' only singles win came at No. 6, where Shaw took down Ignacio Velez easily 6-1, 6-0.
Strecker fell at No. 1 to Rodriguez 6-2, 6-2 at No. 1, while Salazar was defeated at No. 2 7-5, 6-1 by R. Blanco.
At No. 3, Pierron lost to Di Pasquale 6-0, 6-4, and Brown fell 6-0, 6-1 to G. Blanco at No. 4. Cortez was defeated at No. 5 by Linconir by a score of 6-1, 6-4.
The Bisons headed to North Carolina after the loss. The Bisons will face Campbell on Saturday.
1. Ramiro Blanco/Matias Di Pasquale (UPSTM) def. STRECKER, Oliver/MCARDLE, Joe (LIP) 8-6
2. CORTEZ, Miguel/SALAZAR, David (LIP) def. Edgar Rodriguez/Gonzalo Blanco (UPSTM) 8-6
3. SHAW, Colby/BROWN, Tanner (LIP) def. Marco Linconir/Gianluca Paino (UPSTM) 8-5
1. Edgar Rodriguez (UPSTM) def. STRECKER, Oliver (LIP) 6-2, 6-2
2. Ramiro Blanco (UPSTM) def. SALAZAR, David (LIP) 7-5, 6-1
3. Matias Di Pasquale (UPSTM) def. PIERRON, Chad (LIP) 6-0, 6-4
4. Gonzalo Blanco (UPSTM) def. BROWN, Tanner (LIP) 6-0, 6-1
5. Marco Linconir (UPSTM) def. CORTEZ, Miguel (LIP) 6-1, 6-4
6. SHAW, Colby (LIP) def. Ignacio Velez (UPSTM) 6-1, 6-0
Written by Ashlan Williams, student assistant in Lipscomb athletics media relations.


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Hexagon Monogram Tutorial
I adore all of the hexagon quilts I've been seeing around lately. While I'd love make one of my own, my quilting skills aren't up for that challenge. Instead, I made a simple paper version over this wooden monogram!
I started with a 9" wooden letter that I found at the craft store.
Next, I cut 1" strips of craft paper using the X-ACTO paper cutter I received. I used coordinating papers from a collection but I think random colors and patters would also look great too!
I found a 1" hexagon pattern online, printed it and glued it to a pice of light weight cardboard to make a sturdy template.
Once I had my template and all of my strips ready, I cut and cut and cut and cut hexagons in all kinds of colors and patterns. I used an X-ACTO knife but scissors would work just as well. I would estimate that I needed about 50 hexis for this size letter.
When I had a whole pile of hexagons, I started gluing them to my letter. I took each hexi and rubbed it all over the top of my Elmer's glue stick to quickly and easily cover the entire shape.
One by one, I glued and then stuck the hexagons in a row, being sure I was alternating the colors and paper patterns. I attached the shapes right over the edges knowing I could clean that up later.
When the entire letter was covered, I flipped it over and used the X-ACTO knife and cutting mat I received to trim off the overlapping hexagons. This gave the edges of the letter a nice clean look.
Now I just need to find somewhere to hang it!
Keep an eye on Pam and Kira's blogs too! They were part of the series and I hear they will be sharing more about the experience on their blogs soon. You can see all of the amazing projects that were created over on Craftster. Swing by!
12 comments
- Leslie Andersen said...
Wow, you cut out all those hexes! It looks wonderful!
- April 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM
- ruby murray said...
Love love love this, I've been wanting to try a hexagon quilt project but way too lazy for all that sewing, now paper is something I get involved with, I can see one of these in baby G's nursery very soon!
- April 18, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Suzy said...
I love this do much!! It really looks fantastic!
- April 18, 2012 at 11:12 PM
- Suzy said...
I hate auto correct on my phone. So not do. Silly phone.
- April 18, 2012 at 11:13 PM
- rubyslipperz said...
Did I already say...that YOU are a CLEVER girl? Well, it bears repeating fur shore!!!
There are some cutters that will cut multiples of hexies at once...and...I can see this even done with fabric hexies, glued on and maybe, decopage?
GREAT inspiration...yep that's YOU =)
- April 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM
How fun! I love this idea:)
- April 19, 2012 at 6:53 AM
- Meredith said...
I love it, Lime!
- April 19, 2012 at 8:25 AM
- Suzy said...
*this is a test! I think I got it!*
- April 19, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Brenda said...
LOVE! Great work!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Zakka Life said...
Great craft and tutorial! And I love the colors/prints you chose for the hexagons.
- April 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Pam Fields said...
I love this! It is so fun. Pinning this under Letters, Numbers & Names oh my Pinterest Board. :)
- April 23, 2012 at 5:37 PM
- CraftyLikeLindy said...
Love it! What patience you have to have cut all those hexes out!
- April 27, 2012 at 10:40 AM


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Atrioventricular septal defect (ASVD) is a general term for a group of rare heart defects that are present at birth (congenital). Infants with ASVDs have improperly developed atrial and ventricular septa and adjoining valves.
The normal heart has four chambers. The two upper chambers, known as atria, are separated from each other by a fibrous partition called the atrial septum. The two lower chambers, known as ventricles, are separated from each other by the ventricular septum. Valves (e.g., mitral and tricuspid) connect the atria (left and right) to their respective ventricles. The valves allow for blood to be pumped through the chambers. Blood travels from the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery to the lungs where it receives oxygen. The blood returns to the heart through pulmonary veins and enters the left ventricle. The left ventricle sends the now oxygen-filled blood into the main artery of the body (aorta). The aorta sends the blood throughout the body.
The parts of the heart described above are formed from an embryonic structure called the endocardial cushions. In individuals with ASVD there is some combination of malformation of these parts of the heart. They may include a hole in the atrial septum, a hole in the ventricular septum, and/or abnormalities of the mitral and triscupid valves. ASVD may be classified as one of three forms: an incomplete (or partial) ASVD (atrial septal defect primum); a transitional form (atrial septal defect and small ventricular septal defect); or a more severe or complete form (large atrial and ventricular defects).
The symptoms of ASVD vary greatly and depend on the severity of the malformations (e.g., valve leakage between ventricles and ventricular size). About half the cases of ASVD occur in children with Down syndrome.
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