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"Brad had the better car; he had me beat," said Earnhardt, who has known his share of late-race misfortune. Take the third race of the season at Las Vegas, when he ran out of gas on the final lap, enabling Keselowski to win.
"I've lost some in some strange ways, so it feels good to win one like that," Earnhardt said.
Earnhardt's triumph in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' Pocono 400 gave him two victories this season, his first multiple-win campaign since 2004 when he won six times. He has seen and appreciated the gradual-but-steady strides his team has made.
"The difference between running fourth at the end of this race and running second is a very small thing," said Earnhardt, praising the effort of his crew chief Steve Letarte in the process. "In years past, it was someone else seizing the opportunity. We'd be third or fourth, watching it happen.
"Each year we've seen a progression of performance. What I'm seeing us do and how I'm seeing us run makes a lot of sense to me. We've been fast every week. We started (to improve) toward the middle of last year. We haven't peaked, but we're certainly doing some of our best work right now."
Keselowski led 95 of Sunday's 160 laps and led Earnhardt by more than one second when his engine temperature forced him to take decisive action with five laps to go. Keselowski tucked in behind the lapped car of Danica Patrick, hoping to draw the debris off his grille.
"I felt really bad for Brad to see him in a situation to be that desperate," Earnhardt said. "He's a good friend … he had it won. We weren't going to get to him. I could not believe he was going to do that when I saw him go up the race track behind the No. 10 (Patrick's car). His temperature had to be super-hot for him to do that."
Keselowski said he was desperate and felt he had no choice.
"There was debris on the grille, so I had to do something," Keselowski said. "(Maybe) I should have just ran it to see if it would have blown off … but I had to make some kind of move or the car wasn't going to make it. The car was starting to blow up. It was going to break or I was going to get passed because we were really down on power in the straightaway.
"I took a shot to clear it off and not lose time, but I misjudged it. (The move) made enough difference for me to lose the lead in the process. When I got down in the corner and the car finally got sideways, I realized I'd made a mistake."
In 28 previous Sprint Cup starts at Pocono, Earnhardt had managed seven top-five finishes including a pair of second-place finishes despite what he thought were some excellent cars.
"We've had so many opportunities slip away," he said. "We've been so close. So it feels so good to get into Victory Lane here. I used to come here as a kid because it was a summer race. I just always wanted to win at this place. We've had some good cars here, so it feels good to finish the deal."
Kurt Busch finished third, polesitter Denny Hamlin fourth and rookie Kyle Larson took fifth. Hendrick driver Jimmie Johnson, winner of the previous two Sprint Cup races, started 20th, overcame a pit road collision with Marcos Ambrose that dropped him as far back as 31st, and wound up sixth.


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Half a century after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, disagreement runs deep regarding his place in American Catholic history. Conflicting images of the man — fallen hero of the Camelot myth, cynical and manipulative rogue, or perhaps something harder to define — compete for Catholics' allegiance.
They compete for the allegiance of non-Catholic Americans too. Yet for Catholics, the ambivalence has a particularly sharp edge. Kennedy was one of our own. Both his death and the meaning of his life are matters of special poignancy for us.
This much at least is clear: Fifty years after his death, Kennedy remains an enormously popular figure. For Catholics, his election had signaled removal of an ancient stain and realization of a long-deferred dream, and his death by an assassin's bullet barely three years later took on something like the aura of martyrdom in many Catholic minds.
Shocking moment
Here was one of those traumatic events that stamp memory with the indelible recollection of where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news.
I was in a crowded newsroom where a line of wire service machines along one wall softly rattled out a steady stream of stories on huge rolls of paper. Abruptly the machines paused, then went crazy. Alarm bells rang signaling the imminent arrival of momentous news. The machines began clacking furiously. Someone snatched the first bulletin off one of them and read it aloud:
"President Kennedy was shot today in the streets of downtown Dallas …"
The people in that newsroom were stunned. I thought, "Surely he'll be OK."
Millions of Americans must have been thinking the same. For many, the thought became a prayer. But it was not to be. At 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States — the first, and so far the only, Catholic elected to that office — was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Surreal aftermath
In the days that followed, grief-stricken Americans watched transfixed as a series of almost surreal events unfolded on their television screens. Some were deeply moving, others merely horrifying.
Pre-eminent among the horrifying events was the killing in Dallas police headquarters of Lee Harvey Oswald, the president's assassin. Oswald, a misfit leftist, was shot in front of the cameras by nightclub operator Jack Ruby, who was apparently outraged by what Oswald had done.
Oswald's killing in outlandish circumstances fed rumors that still persist that the presidential assassination was a product of some vast conspiracy — left wing or right wing, depending on who was telling the tale. Fidel Castro, the CIA, the Mafia and the KGB — for all anyone could tell, all of them and others besides — had joined in a murderous cartel to eliminate the president.
Happily for the country's sanity, Kennedy's funeral was conducted with dignity and grace, providing a moving catechesis in the faith of his Church in the face of tragedy and death. Eschewing a homily during the Mass in St. Matthew's Cathedral in downtown Washington, D.C., Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan, a Kennedy family friend who later became archbishop of New Orleans, read excerpts from the late president's writings and talks followed by his inaugural address. Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston presided at the Mass. At a Mass in Boston before flying to Washington, the cardinal, who sometimes was called the Kennedy family chaplain, said of Kennedy, "we shall not see his like again."
Legacy of Camelot
Since then, the Camelot image of Kennedy and the Kennedy years has grown entrenched with the passing of time.
Among American presidents, Kennedy occupies the topmost ranks on the popularity scale, and his attractive wife and family remain objects of intense interest and passionate devotion. Although historians rate Kennedy as a fair to middling president at best, the Camelot version depicts his presidency as a golden age of extraordinary achievement cut short by untimely death.
But the reality of the Kennedy years — as well as their implications for American Catholicism — is much more complex. In large part, it's a tangle of misperception, political calculation and unintended consequences — the legacy of a politician of consummate skill and a lifelong Catholic whose Catholicism existed alongside a strong Machiavellian streak. He made it a point never openly to defy the Church, yet — almost certainly without intending it — managed to undermine it just the same.
Political ambitions
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, the second of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Both parents were from politically prominent Irish-American families, and Rose Kennedy's father, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, had been mayor of Boston.
Growing up deeply resentful of the anti-Irish, anti-Catholic prejudice he'd encountered among Boston's WASP elite, Joe Kennedy made a fortune as an investor and corporate wheeler and dealer. Fortune Magazine ranked him among the top 20 wealthiest Americans. In time, he also became an influential figure in the Democratic Party, serving as President Franklin Roosevelt's first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as ambassador to Great Britain.
But rash comments in an interview at the height of Battle of Britain in 1940, expressing the view that "democracy is finished in England" — and perhaps also in the United States — ended Kennedy's ambassadorial career along with any hopes he might have had of one day being elected president. Thereafter his political ambitions turned to his sons. When the eldest, Joseph Jr., a Navy pilot, was killed in action in 1944, that meant John.
Though raised a Catholic, the young man had received a thoroughly secular education and his religious views tended to be superficial and legalistic — not uncommon among lay Catholics of the day.
During the war he commanded torpedo boats in the South Pacific, earning high marks for bravery in rescuing crew members when his boat was sunk. In 1946 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1952 to the Senate. In 1956, he contested with Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for a slot on the Democratic ticket as Adlai Stevenson's running mate. Kennedy lost, but his strong performance situated him in the front ranks of the likely contenders for the party's presidential nomination four years later.
As Kennedy and his advisers saw it, he had two strikes against him. One was the idea that Joe Kennedy was trying to buy the election for his son. The other was being Catholic.
There was little to be done about the first — the senior Kennedy did bankroll his son's career to the hilt. As to the second, political scientists at the University of Michigan were later to conclude that the religious issue had been "the strongest single factor" in the election. Nationally, they said, JFK lost 6.5 percent of the votes of Protestant Democrats and independents because he was Catholic. By way of compensation, though, Kennedy got 80 percent of the Catholic vote. Joe Kennedy thought the figure should have been higher and blamed the American bishops, except for Cardinal Cushing, for not doing more to make that happen.
Mixed record
The three years of the Kennedy presidency were crowded with drama. He projected an immensely appealing public image of youth, vigor and dynamic leadership that inspired an upsurge of idealism among young and not-so-young Americans. The idealism was soon to dissolve in reaction to America's involvement in the war in Vietnam, but for as long as it lasted it redounded powerfully to Kennedy's advantage.
People in those years sometimes spoke effusively of the "two Johns" — Kennedy and Pope John XXIII, the much loved pope of the Second Vatican Council who died less than six months before the American president.
On matters of substance the Kennedy record was mixed. In the international field, the administration got off to a rocky start with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961. Engineered by the CIA and approved by Kennedy, the invasion was an attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow the Castro regime. But the invading force, lacking American air cover it apparently expected, was overwhelmed by the Cuban military. The fiasco left the United States with a black eye and fostered an impression of fecklessness and inexperience on the part of the president and his advisers.
Things lurched farther downhill at a summit meeting in Vienna between Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The Russian leader was aggressive and bullying and treated the American president with something very like contempt. Kennedy told New York Times Washington bureau chief James Reston it had been the "worst thing in my life," adding: "He thinks because of the Bay of Pigs that I'm inexperienced. Probably thinks I'm stupid. Maybe most important, he thinks that I had no guts."
The deterioration of the U.S.-Soviet relationship reached a near-terminal state in October 1962 when Khrushchev, apparently emboldened by his perception of Kennedy as weak, sought to gain a new strategic advantage in the struggle with America by placing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Kennedy responded with a naval blockade and declared his intention to intercept the Russian ships that were carrying the weapons. The two nations teetered on the brink of nuclear war until Pope John and others helped broker a deal under which the ships turned back while the U.S. agreed to pull some obsolescent American missiles out of Turkey.
Not everything was sweetness and light between the United States and the Soviets after that, but in July 1963 the two powers did manage to agree on a limited nuclear test ban treaty. It may have been Kennedy's finest foreign policy achievement.
On the domestic front, the big issue of the Kennedy years was the campaign for African-American civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy was genuinely supportive but often cautious for fear of alienating Southern segregationists who played a large role in the Democratic Party. During a White House meeting not long before the famous March on Washington in August 1963, he was cool to the idea and warned King against "the wrong kind of demonstration at the wrong time."
Summing up the 35th president in his widely praised book "President Kennedy: Profile of Power" (Simon & Schuster, $44.99), historian Richard Reeves says he was "a gifted professional politician reacting to events he often neither foresaw nor understood, handling some well, others badly, but always ready with plausible explanations."
Public persona
Like many holders of the office before and since, Kennedy presented a public face that often failed to match reality. That was true, for example, regarding his health. Asked if he had Addison's disease, a potentially terminal failure of the adrenal gland, he said flatly, "I never had Addison's disease." But he did. According to Reeves, Kennedy received the last rites of the Church at least four times as an adult, and was "something of a medical marvel, kept alive by complicated daily combinations of pills and injections."
So also of his relations with women. Like his father, Kennedy was a womanizer who, despite his image as a devoted husband and father, was serially unfaithful to his wife. Before a 1963 audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, he passed the night in a commandeered villa with a woman who was brought in for the occasion. The next day, he and the pope spent 18 minutes talking about world peace.
During his three years in the White House, Kennedy avoided confrontations about his religion while taking stands opposed to official Church views on issues like aid to parochial schools and U.S. diplomatic recognition of communist-ruled Yugoslavia. Few Catholics raised objections. To a great extent, the religious issue had been worked out during the 1960 presidential campaign, and what the president did later was essentially what he'd said he would do.
The Houston speech
What that would be was signaled by Kennedy in an interview with Look magazine well before the campaign even began. "His theme is that religion is personal, politics are public, and the twain need never meet and conflict," wrote journalist Fletcher Knebel. Reactions in the Catholic press were quick and strong. "To relegate your conscience to your 'private life' is not only unrealistic, but dangerous as well," said Ave Maria, a Catholic weekly published at the University of Notre Dame.
But the issue of Kennedy's religion would not go away, and once the campaign got underway the Catholic issue heated up, coming to a boil in early September 1960. A group of 150 prominent Protestant leaders headed by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a popular preacher and author of the best-selling "The Power of Positive Thinking," issued a statement calling the Catholic Church a "political organization" and declaring that neither Kennedy nor any Catholic could "withstand the determined efforts of the hierarchy to work its will in American political life."
The candidate moved fast to respond. On Sept. 12, 1960, speaking to an audience of Protestant ministers in Houston, Kennedy delivered one of the most important speeches of his career — and also one of the most significant American political declarations of the century. In it he sought to disarm suspicion that he would be influenced by his faith in performing his duties as president. On the crucial subject of conscience he said this:
"Whatever issue may come before me as president — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision … in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates."
Kennedy's words were an unconditional affirmation that autonomous individual conscience takes precedence over any other source of moral guidance. Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray, the preeminent American moral theologian on church and state, later called the position that "I have a right to do what my conscience tells me to do, simply because my conscience tells me to do it" a "perilous theory" that ends in "subjectivism" contrary to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.
Lasting consequences
Almost 50 years after Kennedy spoke, another prominent Catholic, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput (then archbishop of Denver, now of Philadelphia), addressed another group of Protestant ministers in Houston about the significance of that earlier event. Calling JFK's assertions "sincere, compelling, articulate — and wrong," he said Kennedy "profoundly undermined the place not just of Catholics but other religious believers in America's public life and political conversation."
Christians, Archbishop Chaput said, "have a mandate to share [the] Gospel of truth, mercy, justice and love. ... Real Christian faith is always personal, but it's never private."
Countless American Catholic politicians have followed the path marked out by John Kennedy in his 1960 Houston address and the three years of his presidency. JFK did not have to confront issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, but, whether they realize it or not, Catholic officeholders and candidates who lend their support to these things now take their lead from him.
Before and during the White House years, John Kennedy was repeatedly photographed attending Mass. There was never any question of his disavowing the Church, much less quitting it. Along with being witty and glamorous, he was unapologetically Catholic. And all of that — the glamour as much as the religion — went a long way to silencing the ancient slur that a practicing Catholic couldn't serve in the nation's highest office. Catholics were understandably proud.
But this story has a darker side.
Kennedy was a working model of a Catholic politician distancing himself from his faith on matters of public policy. Then as now, the issue wasn't taking orders from the pope and bishops — something those supposedly power-hungry ecclesiastics neither expect nor even want — but how to apply Christian principles and values to real-world politics. Kennedy's innovative and influential approach was to offer assurances he wouldn't even try. We are still living with the consequences of that.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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When Edgar Martirosyan showed up at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday with a stack of pizza boxes in hand, he thought he was delivering a few pies to some hardworking Oscar staffers.
But Martirosyan, co-owner of Big Mama's and Papa's Pizzeria on Sunset Boulevard, soon found himself being led onto the Oscar stage by host Ellen DeGeneres. With 43 million viewers watching at home, he was instructed to hand out slices to some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Julia Roberts and Jared Leto.
"I was shocked," Martirosyan said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. "When I realized I was onstage, I didn't understand what was going on. Like, 'What am I doing here?' "
The 30-year-old's journey to Hollywood & Highland began Saturday, he said, when he received a call from an Oscar staffer asking whether he would be able to handle a delivery to the Dolby the following day. He was told he'd be getting the order after 5 p.m. Sunday.
When Sunday evening rolled around, Martirosyan was slammed. He doesn't usually deliver pizzas himself -- that stopped five years ago, when he went from an employee to co-owner of the Hollywood outpost of the pizzeria. But because of how busy it was, he decided to help out and drive over to the Dolby himself.
Even though he had to pass through a number of security barriers, he never imagined he would end up as part of the telecast.
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"They told me it was going to be for the writers," he said.
When he finally got backstage, he was told to wait, and suddenly DeGeneres appeared. She introduced herself to him, and then the host told Martirosyan to follow her without saying where they were going. She didn't give him any instructions on how to behave or what to say, and before he knew it he was in front of the Hollywood elite.
Born in Armenia, Martirosyan moved to Moscow at the age of 10; there, he grew up watching some Hollywood films, including Roberts' "Pretty Woman." Needless to say, he was starstruck when he found himself handing her a slice of cheese pizza. "She was actually more beautiful in person," he said with a laugh.
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And then, just as quickly as he'd found himself in the spotlight, he was back at work. When he walked into the pizza shop, his employees greeted him with screams. Reporters from local news outlets and paparazzi had also gathered outside the restaurant.
On Monday morning, Martirosyan filmed an interview with DeGeneres for her talk show in Burbank, while his Facebook page was covered with comments from friends congratulating him on the Oscars appearance.
Elsewhere on Facebook, Big Mama's & Papa's -- which has 20 locations in California -- was touting the accomplishments of the franchise owner. Referring to his journey as the "American Dream Come True!," a post describes how Martirosyan went from delivery driver to franchise owner.
In fact, Martirosyan said, he started out even lower on the food chain at Big Mama's -- handing out fliers on behalf of the business on the street.
"I always loved to cook and had a real interest in learning to make pizzas," he recalled. "So I became a cook, and then a manager, and then an owner. Business wasn't that good -- it wasn't that clean when we came, and I'm really picky. So I started to clean everything up and grow the business."
As for how all the attention from the Oscars will affect sales, Martirosyan said he was trying not to get ahead of himself.
"Of course, extra orders are very good," he said. "But I'm very calm. I'm not going crazy now. I'm really chill. This is just another, regular busy day." One in which he, ahem, reached for the pie in the sky.


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Solaris Enterprise - A New Free Alternative
Quick, think of an enterprise stack that runs on the x86 hardware you have lying around, provides email, calendaring, single-sign-on services, and all the other day-in day-out needs a business needs. I'll bet you are thinking of some Microsoft software, Exchange will figure prominently, and ActiveDirectory. Perhaps you will break out some of the functionality to non-Microsoft software, for example maybe Apache rather than IIS, but in essence the solution most people think of is Windows based, and (for the most part) requires windows and office throughout the rest of the network infrastructure to take advantage of the features.
The Microsoft stack is well proven, well marketed, and, well, kind of expensive. Also as a developer who prefers Unix/Linux to develop on, I find myself as a third class citizen with the Microsoft stack. Active directory and single sign-on are frankly more trouble than it is worth to get working with Unix. Exchange usage comes down to either IMAP for email and Outlook Web Access for calendaring. Certainly it could be worse, but it could also be a lot better.
What would be really nice is a full enterprise solution that provides all of the same functionality of the Microsoft stack, doesn't penalize users for moving off of the "recommended" OS. While we are wishing, lets throw in low cost, easy install, and easy migration from whatever we are using now. Reliability and security are also desirable, especially given the seemingly constant stream of attacks, worms, viruses and so on against IIS, exchange, outlook IE, etc.
Now, what if I told you that much of this wish list is already available, right now, for download? It might not be a surprise to everyone, but Sun has released Solaris Enterprise for anyone to download, experiment with, and use for real day-to-day operations, for free. As they point out, it is the only Open alternative to the full Microsoft stack that runs on commodity hardware (x86/x64) that matches the features. As a Linux enthusiast I am not quite so sure of this claim, but I do know that matching the Microsoft stack feature for feature on Linux, while it might be possible, would be quite a lot of work.
What's included?
The Solaris Enterprise System is a bundling of:
- Solaris 10 - which has been free for a while and has been capturing mind share well, despite a few catches (more on this later),
- The Java Enterprise System (JES) which likewise people have already been able to download and experiment with for while, although were expected to get "honest" before using commercially - to the tune of $140 per seat. The JES includes much of the functionality you would expect from the Microsoft stack including calendaring, email, web serving, single-sign-on and identity,directory services, intranet portal, instant messaging, etc. Also the Java Application Server is included.
- The N1 grid provisioning and management software. A nice bonus in the form of a ready-made grid computing system, all included in the price (free)
- The SOA software from the SeeBeyond acquisition in the summer of this year (announced at JavaOne). The importance of the inclusion of this software for free should not be underestimated. It is now named the "Java Integration Suite".
Figure 1: The Solaris Enterprise System.
Why Free?
This actually should not come as a great surprise to anyone who has been following Sun's moves recently. Jonathan Schwartz has repeatedly promised to free and eventually open-source all of Sun's developer and developer-related software, and he and Sun are making good on that promise. The stated reasons are to grow market share and increase volume, and as Jonathan notes, free is an important way to do that (there are others - again more on this below). The plan is to get the software out there, in use, and then sell support for it, a model that works for a number of smaller open-source companies right now (like JBoss, MySQL, etc.)
It is also a brave move. When you give away software and sell the value add, the value add has to be valuable enough to sell. You can't write some software, achieve lock-in, and then rest on your laurels and vague promises for years while extracting licensing fees. Instead you have to make the software good enough to be used, and the value add (support, etc.) even more compelling to sell it. I like the model, it has an honest feeling, and there is less opportunity (if not incentive) to achieve lock-in.
So, free, as a friend of mine delicately puts it, gets butts into seats, then you sell them the hot-dogs and ice-cream.
Moreover, free does allow the curious to just download and use the software without the worry of being hit with licensing fees or, worse, having to get those fees past the company bean-counters at some point in the future after investing time to make it all work.
However, I also think that free software that you run yourself is not always the cheapest or most compelling option. Heresy you say for a self-professed Linux guy? Maybe so, but the SugarCRM or SalesForce.com examples show that sometimes the cheapest or most compelling solution is a rented one. A monthly fee gets you the services you need, with little to no lead or setup time, and someone else has the headaches of keeping it all working (someone who already knows the system).
I do believe there is room for both models in the marketplace. Free software that can be downloaded and used for an enterprise network is attractive to many companies, especially for those with the expertise to run it (or who are willing to invest the learning time necessary), and individuals may do this off of their own backs in order to bring in some of these tools. Other companies though, particularly the small ones - say 10 to 100 employees - might prefer to simply let someone else do it. Sign up for a fee based on seats, CPU hours, data size or other models, and avoid the expense and time of a resource to do the setup and management.
So to back up to an earlier statement, free is one way to get volume, but eliminating time and effort is another, and I wonder if this is not potentially a more compelling way to grow a market right now.
Having a separate analysis section is a bit odd, because I think I have sprinkled a fair few of my opinions through the article already, but here I will go in to some of the points and statements in the announcement that interest me.
A statement that I have heard Jonathan state several times, is that developers don't buy stuff, they join stuff, and I agree with that to a point.
In fact, as a developer, my focus is to enjoy my discretionary time. Of course there is the non-work related stuff like hiking and cycling, but when it comes to examining new software and applications, the free argument is certainly there, but so is the fun argument.
My own belief is that rather than just joining stuff, developers like to play with stuff. In other words, when freed from the confines of their work focus, any extra-curricular investigatory work tends to go not only into what is free, but also what is interesting and fun.
I believe this is an important point. As a developer, I tend to quickly drop a technology, no matter the price, if it is not scratching some itch that I have, or if it is just more trouble than it is worth. I do this in order to move onto something else that is potentially more fun or useful.
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Inspiration for tonight's dinner? Two schools of heat-beating combine forces for an ultimate summer meal.
In the fight-heat-with-heat corner, we've got hot and spicy grilled shrimp, which take just a few minutes on the grill and really couldn't be simpler. Helen even says you can serve them on a toothpick. So Mermaids-esque! In the cold-foods-fight-heat corner, dymnyno's lightly creamy zuccaghetti (tangled shreds of zucchini masquerading as pasta).
Together? A very summery study in coolness and contrast.
The Menu
The Grocery List (for 4-6 with leftovers)
8 small zucchini (about 2 pounds)
2 pounds large shrimp (16 to 20 count), peeled and deveined
3 tablespoons tarragon leaves
3 tablespoons chives (minced)
1 handful cilantro
We're assuming that you already have salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon, cream (or half & half), sugar, garlic, Worcestershire Sauce, and Sriracha lurking around your kitchen. If not, add them to the list!
The Plan
1. Marinate the shrimp. They need some time to mingle, so definitely do this first, ideally right when you walk in the door. Luckily, it simply involves popping all the shrimp in a bag with some tasty flavoring agents and takes all of 5 minutes.
2. When you think dinner is about 30 minutes away, slice the zucchini and salt it. Let it rest for 30 minutes while you fire up the grill and skewer the shrimp.
3. Once the shrimp are skewered, mix up the dressing for the zuccaghetti. Set aside while you grill the shrimp.
4. Toss the zucchini with the dressing and serve up some sizzling hot shrimp alongside a nice pile of soothing green zuccaghetti! And there you have it!
This meal would make great picnic fare, too, so if you're so inclined, you could pack up the goods and take it down to the park for some full on mid-June, late-sunset bliss.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Jed Lowrie... Outfielder?
(First of all - hi. The County Clerk did me the honor of inviting me to be a contributor here, and this is my first post; I go by Cockroach. I'll mostly be filling in occasionally when one of the regular guys needs a hand, but I'll also chime in from time to time on my own. I'm not why you're reading this, however, so enough about that...)
This was a big week for Astros fans. Two ugly losses notwithstanding, the national buzz surrounding this club was the most positive it's been in quite some time, following a draft that has received almost universal rave reviews. Everyone's favorite second baseman/unit of measurement is starting to receive a good deal of national attention, as well, but he's arguably not even the team's MVP to this point. That would be the fellow who homered for the third straight game today - a man named Jed.
Jed Lowrie is doing things at shortstop that Houston has not seen in nearly three decades. Following today's game, Jed is sporting a .297/.373/.547 line with 28 RBIs and a team-leading 12 homers through 51 games. That factors out to about 36 homers and 86 RBIs with a .920 OPS on the whole season; that would be the highest OPS for any Astros player since Lance Berkman's shiny .986 in 2008. Baseball-Reference.com has Jed leading all Astros with a 2.0 WAR so far this season; FanGraphs has him at an even more impressive 2.6. He's doing it on the defensive side of the ball, too, with a UZR/150 of 10.4 this season, nearly matching the 10.8 of acknowledged defensive wizard Clint Barmes last season, and higher than any other full-time Houston shortstop not named Adam Everett since 2002.
The biggest prize in Jeff Luhnow's 2012 draft class is, of course, Carlos Correa - a shortstop, but even if he manages to reach the majors by age 20, we likely won't see him in Houston until 2015 at soonest. Luhnow led off the second round with another shortstop, however, in Nolan Fontana from the University of Florida. As a college draftee, we're actually more likely to see Fontana in Houston before Correa, and given that many had projected Fontana as a potential first-rounder, he's got the pedigree to bear that out. There's talk that Fontana may get moved to second base, but Jose Altuve figures to be entrenched there for years to come, and Jimmy Paredes sits there in AAA behind him. Already on the Astros' farm, Jiovanni Mier finally looks to be putting it all together this year down in Lancaster, three years after getting drafted. Jonathan Villar still has potential down in Corpus. Even if Correa eventually gets moved to third base, that's three or four additional candidates already in the shortstop pipeline, to say nothing of the other four shortstops Houston just drafted, including prep star and UT-commit C.J. Hinojosa.
So where does that leave Lowrie in Houston's long-term plans? Right where he is for this season and next, I'd assume, but 2014 will be Jed's final season before free agency, and one or more of the names above may be ready for the majors by then, too. Do we automatically assume then that Lowrie becomes trade bait, or that he's allowed to walk after his 2014 contract is up? Perhaps - if not Jed, then I'd expect at least one of these guys to be dealt to fill other holes by then. If Jed does indeed stay healthy and become a perennial .290ish hitter with 20-30 homers and a solid glove, however, maybe that's an asset worth getting creative to hold onto a little longer.
One assumes that Jonathan Singleton is Houston's first baseman of the future. Second base is Altuve's job to lose, with Paredes waiting in the wings. Third base is more uncertain, but could be Correa's, could be Paredes', could be new draftee Rio Ruiz, or even a wildcard guy like Matt Duffy. Chris Johnson and Brett Wallace are both under club control through 2016, and either could be a good DH candidate if they're not playing the infield. That's a pretty full infield. But what if Jed should follow in Craig Biggio's footsteps, should Jeff Luhnow decide to keep him around?
Biggio, of course, was asked to move to the outfield in 2003 to make room for the free agent signing of Jeff Kent. Granted, Craig did have some previous outfield experience in the majors, but 64 games over 15 seasons isn't very much. He was also 37 years old when he was asked to make the move, and Jed will only be 31 in 2015. I couldn't find any evidence that Lowrie has played the outfield before, even in college, but it's still not a move entirely without precedent - another Houston farmhand, Ben Zobrist, was almost exclusively a shortstop throughout his minor league career and his first two seasons in Tampa, before he began his conversion into utility man extraordinare in 2008 at the major league level. Is it unconventional? Certainly. But it also strikes me as just the kind of outside-the-box thinking that Houston's new leadership is likely to try.
Of course this is all purely speculation at this point, and admittedly at least two years premature. A lot can and will undoubtably happen between now and 2015, and I don't want to spoil the enjoyment of Jed's historically good season now by worrying too much about the future. But it's a fun "what if?" to think about, in any event. The Astros' two best players to this point in the season have clearly been Lowrie and Altuve, and I'd like to see both of them continue this for as long as they can. Based on this year and 2010, Jed has got the offense to be at home filling an outfield spot. So should we eventually see him crashing into outfield walls... remember, you read it here first.
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Wow, that was an awesome(and intruiging) post. I like the idea of Correa at 3rd, Lowrie at SS and CJ at DH. I know CJ has that freakishly high babip, but he has an above average LD% which boosts that average(babip). And CJ has been working his butt off with his approach and it's definitely shown. Paredes should be moved to CF - or another OF spot - if he stays with our org., if not, he's probably a solid trade chip. Great first post!!! As we all know, in Luhnow we trust.
- June 10, 2012 at 12:33 AM
CJ could prbly sustain his success, but at a lower level, for sure. Hopefully he stops vomiting soon and keeps improving. His k rate has gone down, too, so that's another + for him maintaing his babip. It'd be extremely nice ifbhe keeps improving that wOBP.
- June 10, 2012 at 1:15 AM
But doesn't he hold much more value at SS? You'd have to assume Astros would be willing to pay Lowrie to play LF as one team would be willing to pay for him to play SS.
- June 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Cockroach said...
Definitely, one of the younger guys could also move and leave Lowrie at shortstop, at least for now. With Paredes almost big-league ready, we may see that sooner than later for him. But if Fontana is as good as advertised defensively and manages to put up offensive numbers close to what he's done at Florida, that would give the Astros another plus shortstop and free up Lowrie's bat to move wherever they have a need.
- June 10, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Moving Lowrie is intriguing. Sure, I love his bat and realize they have to have it somewhere, but I am not in the camp that sees him as an acceptable shortstop, if there are options. He ends up diving and missing balls to his left that many shortstops field cleanly.
- June 10, 2012 at 11:26 AM
I think your analysis is very in depth, but I think the Delino DeShields Jr. angle has to be considered as well. Altuve looks entrenched at 2nd base, but if DeShields lives up to his potential, then the Astros will have some very difficult decisions to make. By 2015 most, if not all of the prospects that you've mentioned should be in the majors. Either DeShields or Lowrie could be moved to the outfield, probably CF, but then how would that potentially affect George Springer? If Altuve is performing at an All Star level, then DeShields could possibly be moved via trade for an established major leaguer. Either way, it's about time the Astros have talent in the minor leagues worthy of Hot Stove League talk.
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Wooden spoon spanking not abuse, says US court
San Jose, California: As far as a San Jose appeals court is concerned, parents don't need to spare the rod with their children. The court has ruled that using a wooden spoon for a spanking that causes serious bruising should not necessarily translate into a finding of child abuse.
In a ruling designed to establish legal precedent, the 6th District Court of Appeal overturned a trial judge's finding that a South Bay mother should be reported for child abuse for trying to resolve discipline issues with her 12-year-old daughter by spanking her so hard with a wooden spoon it severely bruised her.
The unanimous three-justice panel concluded that while the April 2010 incident may have been on the outer boundaries of parental discipline, the overall circumstances did not warrant a child abuse report. The Santa Clara County Department of Social Services had concluded the mother, Veronica Gonzalez, should be reported to the state Department of Justice for its child abuse database for a "substantiated" incident.
"We cannot say that the use of a wooden spoon to administer a spanking necessarily exceeds the bounds of reasonable parental discipline," Justice Conrad Rushing wrote for the court.
Ms Gonzalez and her husband, according to court papers, had grown increasingly concerned with their daughter's conduct at the time of the incident, citing the fact her schoolwork had deteriorated, she'd become "boy crazy" and was showing "growing interest in gangs".
The parents had decided to turn to spanking if the problems persisted, and the mother resorted to the wooden spoon after the daughter failed to come home until late at night on the April 2010 evening. Court papers show that other relatives later told social workers that spanking was a rarity in the family, and the mother testified she did not know she was causing any physical harm or bruising when she used the spoon.
The appeals court concluded that the mother's motivation for imposing discipline and lack of intent to inflict physical harm were important factors in overturning the child abuse findings.
"Nothing in the record suggests the mother should have known she was inflicting bruises," the 6th District wrote. Noting the family's reasoning for using the wooden spoon, the court added that "the spanking was entirely the product of a genuine and deliberate disciplinary purpose, i.e., to arrest troubling behaviour patterns exhibited by the daughter".
Lawyers for the county social services department and Ms Gonzalez did not respond to requests for comment.


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Kansas student testing is moving forward despite several hurdles, from computer problems to cyber attacks.
After the tests in mathematics, science and reading started March 10, system glitches prevented many schools from completing the federally mandated tests. Once those issues were fixed, the tests were victim of cyber attacks that sought to flood the testing system with unwanted traffic and block legitimate traffic.
By Thursday, the tests were moving ahead.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported officials say schools completed 77,500 annual state assessment tests on Thursday and Friday, which is more than the first three weeks of the testing season combined.
Marianne Perie, director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, says 25 percent of tests are complete and many more are partly complete.


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The bleeders were the Nevada sports books, suspected of having collectively lost maybe $3 million Nov. 9, when Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. As marvelously summarized by Joe Lupo, who runs the book at the Stardust, "This will probably go down as one of the worst fights we've ever booked, in terms of losing." Michael "Roxy" Roxborough, who runs Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which sets the betting lines for most of the casinos in town, suspects that Holyfield vs. Tyson may be the biggest loss they have ever incurred on any single sports event. How could it have happened?
One asks the question not because a long shot won–after all, this happens from time to time in sports and even life–but because the bookmakers' behavior this time seemed so remote from the theory undergirding their business. As every Nevada schoolchild knows, the theory begins with a firm statement that the odds being served up must not reflect the bookies' own probabilistic judgments. The quoted odds must, instead, be set at whatever levels will attract bets to both sides, leaving the house indifferent to which side wins and enabling it to earn guaranteed returns on the vigorish. The standard model is one wherein the bettor on one side of the proposition collects, say, $100 when his team wins (or beats the point spread), while the guy on the other side loses and pays the house $110.
The Tyson-Holyfield script showed that 1) Getting the house to the indifference point can be harder than you might think; and 2) A lot of those guys have trouble keeping their own judgments out of the odds. The problem around No. 1 is that the betting public can be hard to decipher. Roxborough's opening line in September was, in the local lingo, -25 for Tyson and +17 for Holyfield–a formula telling Tyson bettors that they needed to put up $25 to win $1 and Holyfield bettors that they could win $17 by putting up $1. This extraordinary imbalance was rendered plausible by the fact that, in recent years, Holyfield had been given a lot of trouble by relative stumblebums and, furthermore, he was now 34 years old (compared with Tyson's 30) and had a history of heart trouble. In contrast, Mike's post-prison record showed him terrorizing and disposing of four opponents in a total of 18 minutes. (One of the four fights lasted only 109 seconds and inspired the wisecrack that you'd better not invite Bruce Seldon and Mike Tyson to the same party, as the last time they were together, they almost came to blows.) A poll of 48 boxing writers produced only one–Ron Borges of the Boston Globe–who picked Holyfield. The betting line assumed that the Tysonites saw their man as invincible and would spring for a fast 4 percent return on their investment, while the other side needed a 1,700 percent return to lure them into action.
I t didn't exactly turn out that way. During September and October the line never budged, but the money coming in was overwhelmingly for Holyfield. At first, this did not seem especially alarming to the sports books, which had gone through similar sequences in other Tyson fights and always found that the wise-guy money on Mike poured in eventually. In the Seldon mismatch early in September, the avalanche of late money had driven many of the books to decrease the payoffs to Tyson bettors, who found themselves suddenly looking at prices like -22, up from -18.
In the Holyfield fight, the Tyson avalanche never came. And so, in the week leading up to Nov. 9, Roxborough and his customers began nervously sweetening the deal for Tyson bettors. By Nov. 4, a typical line was somewhere around -15 for Tyson and +10 for Holyfield. At fight time, some books were around -6 and +4. A swing of this magnitude–with Tyson moving from -25 all the way down to -6–was just about unprecedented, for boxing or any other sports-book event. And still the Tyson money did not show up. Robert Walker, who runs the sports book at the Mirage, was exaggerating only somewhat when he mentioned despairingly, the other day, that he'd never run into anybody holding a Tyson ticket.
Well, why weren't the prices pushed still lower–to -5 for Tyson, or even -3, or whatever it took to get the house books into something approaching balance? That sounds like a reasonable question until you focus on the fact that bookmaker betting is not like racetrack betting. At the track, the parimutuel system leaves all payouts being made at final prices. At the sports book, the house is still on the hook for bets made weeks earlier at different prices. And when those bets include huge amounts of money placed on a long shot, it is more or less impossible to attract enough favorite money to give the house the standard-model guaranteed profit. Sid Diamond, who runs the sports books at the seven Circus Circus casinos, said that he tried to load up on Tyson bets during the last few days and actually did get about $250,000 of them, but that he had to stop pushing down the price because it would have given him a "minus pool"–a guaranteed loss no matter how the fight came out.
Pushing the odds way down can give the bettors a chance at guaranteed profits. Even with Tyson at -8, there must have been wisenheimers who already had a $1,000 bet on Holyfield at +17 and now observed that they could lock in a guaranteed net of $1,000 by turning around and betting $16,000 on Tyson. The books could certainly have limited their losses by pushing the line down still further, but only at the price of giving up all hopes of a profit–not an attractive option.
And especially not when you bring into play your own gut feeling that Iron Mike will prevail again and get you out of this hole. Problem No. 2, as noted above, is that a lot of books have trouble totally overriding their own powerful judgments about sports outcomes.
In trying to explain retrospectively why Tyson money never materialized in the quantities expected, the sports-book guys one talks to keep coming back to Mike's massive unpopularity, said to be driven by his rape conviction and arguably not helped by the huge Mao tattoo on his right arm. As an explanatory variable, Mike's lack of lovability seems weak, since he got bet on in all those other fights. However, it may account for the well-publicized call of congratulations from Sen. Ted Kennedy to the Globe's Ron Borges.


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After a massive 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti last year, architects and designers immediately took to the drawing boards to develop projects to reconstruct the devastated island. While many creative designs have been proposed, most of them require substantial amounts of time, materials and manpower. Enter The HaitiSOFTHOUSE. Created by a New York City-based team of four, architects Lonn Combs, Rodney Leon, Dragana Zoric, and artist Mark Parsons, in collaboration with Chicago-based textile firm Fabric Images, are determined to provide shelter for the citizens of Haiti. The team designed a flexible and sustainable home that they say can be assembled in a day or less, with just the help of few able bodies and a set of simple directions.
The HaitiSOFTHOUSE, a hexagon shape that at first glance resembles an elaborate tent, is comprised of a steel frame and high performance fabric that can withstand the rainy season and its strong winds. The structure can be anchored directly into solid ground or recycled concrete, and can comfortably sleep up to 4 people while providing room for storage. The structures can also be combined to create a roomier living spaces as well as an area for dining and relaxation.
The team has said the following about their beautiful and innovative design:
"Given the superior environmental performance and structural stability of the design, this system can be reused in various configurations and sites as needed, and the high-performance material can be recycled into smaller applications and integrated into the local economy."
The overall manifesto for the team is to make the most of the tragedy and help communities help themselves through local production and fabrication of the homes. Theses transfered skills will in turn aid the community during the phase of redevelopment, and continue to contribute in creating a more sustainable economy and environment.
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Reviewed by CK (age 7)
If I were in this story, I would like to be a duck because I love to swim in the water. I did not like the bugs in this book (like the flies). Bugs in the book made the book not so good. I liked reading this book a whole lot.
I think that other kindergartners maybe would like this book. It is good to read about moms who love their children. This is a good story about mothers who love their kids.


text: LegalEase: Are You Covered? September 27, 2013 10:16 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By John Dillard Farm Journal Columnist Email You've been sued. You're upset and angry. You feel betrayed and side-swiped. You don't feel like you've done anything wrong. You wonder why people can't settle their differences without resorting to lawyers and lawsuits. After you've run the gamut of emotions that accompany being sued, you resolve to defend yourself and your reputation. You vow to fight the case. But can you? The truth of the matter is that a legal defense is often expensive. Plaintiff's attorneys will often front the cost of litigation in exchange for a share of damages in a lawsuit. Defense attorneys, however, charge by the hour. Most farms are not in a situation where they can absorb a sustained lawsuit with tens or hundreds of thousands in attorney's fees. Moreover, your business might not be able to pay out damages in a lawsuit without suffering a substantial financial hit or selling off assets. Managing liability coverage is another way to manage business risk Liability insurance is a tool that many farmers use to limit their exposure to the cost of both defending a lawsuit and paying damages. Known as Commercial General Liability (CGL) policies, these plans generally provide coverage for injuries and damages resulting from your operation. Many companies offer CGL policies that are geared to farmers and ranchers. Coverage details. CGL insurance coverage varies from state to state and is dictated by the specific terms of the policy contract. However, a liability insurance policy typically requires the insurer to undertake two duties: defense and indemnification. The duty to defend is an obligation undertaken by insurers to provide the insured with a defense to legal claims made under a liability insurance policy. Under this duty, the insurer pays the expenses of the attorneys necessary to fight lawsuits. The duty to defend, which is relatively broad, is triggered if the insured can establish that there is potential for coverage under a policy. The duty to defend might exist even if it is ultimately determined that the policy's coverage does not apply to the claim or that the lawsuit was unmerited. The duty to indemnify obligates the insurer to pay costs of the insured party's liability up to the established policy limits. In other words, if you or your business are found liable for injuries or loss suffered by another, and that injury or loss is covered by the policy, the insurer must pay for your liability according to the terms of the policy. Unlike the duty to defend, an insurer's duty to indemnify is usually narrowly interpreted. Deciding whether an insurer has a duty to indemnify depends on whether the claim fits within the four corners of the policy contract. In addition to the duties to defend and indemnify, some states impose a duty on insurers to settle claims where it is clear that the policyholder is liable. Pollution exclusion. Farm CGL policies typically contain an exclusion of coverage for loss or injury resulting from pollution. The breadth and validity of the "pollution exclusion" varies by jurisdiction. Insurers of farmers facing lawsuits for nuisance odors and dust will oftentimes assert the pollution exclusion as a reason to deny defense and indemnification in these cases. Depending on your state, insurers might or might not be able to deny coverage in nuisance lawsuits based on the pollution exclusion. Most insurance companies offer pollution insurance as an add-on to CGL policies. Other considerations. CGL policies typically include protection for premises liability and operations liability. Premises liability includes injuries suffered by employees and third-parties while they are on your farm's property, such as slips or falls. Operations liability covers loss or injury caused by some aspect of your farm operation, such as machinery accidents. Insurance law varies from state to state. Frequent legislative changes and court interpretations make this a particularly fluid area. If you have questions about the extent of your liability insurance coverage, contact your attorney and your insurance provider. Staying on top of liability coverage is another way to manage business risk. Proper insurance allows you to defend yourself against lawsuits and can prevent headaches down the road. No stranger to dirty boots, John Dillard, an attorney with OFW Law, focuses his practice on agricultural and environmental litigation. Contact him at: E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: agweb.com/ag_in_the_courtroom Twitter: @DCAgLawyer Back to news


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Okay...now go back a couple of weeks when I told you that I found a super cute Halloween decoration at a local boutique called, Designer Blvd. I wish I would have snapped a picture with my phone, but I did not even think about it at the time. Anyhoo, it was basically blocks of wood that spelled out "Halloween"...the price tag, $70. WHAT?! Well, you know me (or maybe you don't), my first thought after experiencing sticker shock was, "that would be super simple to make!". Since I didn't even have to take a picture of the item I was going to be
Whatcha' think...pretty cute, huh? (Sorry about the quality of that second picture, don't know what was going on there). Trust me when I say, these pieces of wood have a very "primitive" look...they are not perfectly straight, but I thought that added to the character (yep, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!)
When I tell you what this cost to make, you will probably fall off your chair (keep in mind that $70 price tag!). The wood was less than $3, for a piece that I was able to cut 17 blocks of wood. I already had all of the paper from my scrapbooking/card making days, but we all know how cheap that is! Paint was about $3 and I already had the Perfect Paper Adhesive (you could use Mod Podge or any white glue for that matter!) So, whatcha' think now...even better, huh?
Since I want to share my love for Halloween, I am going to give away one Halloween themed, block word (the word of your choice!) to one lucky winner! You can enter by doing either one or both of the following:
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2 Week Specials, Care & Community in Jamaica by Kayla Ramos
I have always wanted to volunteer abroad and for days I searched for the perfect organisation. Projects Abroad's High School Special project really caught my attention. I love working with kids, so when I read the description about all the activities I became very excited. I chose Jamaica because of its culture and beautiful scenery. The Projects Abroad staff members were very helpful and answered all my pre-departure questions, making sure I packed everything I needed and making sure I knew who would pick me up from the airport.
My Jamaican host family
From the moment I arrived at my host family's house, when Mr Stewart said "welcome home" as he grabbed my suitcase, I felt welcomed and very much at home. Although Jamaica was in a drought, Mrs Stewart made sure we had plenty of water to drink and bath in.
We always had dinner together, but we could have breakfast at any time after 7am without having to wait on each other to be ready for the day. Mrs Stewart always made any kind of sandwich we wanted for lunch and there was a large variety of fruit to eat with our breakfast. She cooked us great Jamaican dishes for dinner such as saltfish and ackee, jerk chicken, red beans and rice, as well as pasta, barbecue chicken and hamburgers. At the end of our dinners, she would always place cake, sliced muffins, or other desserts on the table.
There were also three nights when they had some of their other family members over and had dinner with us. I enjoyed all the conversations we had as a family with the Stewarts... whether it was about our interesting days, Jamaica, or random stories about ourselves.
Projects Abroad staff
From day one, the Projects Abroad Jamaica staff made sure we felt comfortable in our host families, had enough to eat and drink and had enough supplies and materials at our placements. Whenever any of us needed anything from the supermarket, such as more snacks or water, the staff was always willing to take us. They often asked us how we liked Jamaica, our volunteer work and our social events.
Since we were High School Specials, all the staff were very protective and made sure the different project groups were together. We were always with at least one staff member, our host family, or our taxi driver at all times, which made us feel very safe in a country without our parents.
The two staff members at our placement did a great job coming up with creative, fun, and interesting activities for us to do with the children at our placement. The girls and I enjoyed our taxi driver, "Herbie". He taught us things about Jamaica, himself, and made our daily trips to and from our home and volunteer placement much more fun and interesting.
Volunteering in Jamaica
Our placement was a summer camp for children and the staff at our placement let us know the struggles of being a teacher for disadvantaged children; some of them don't have meals to eat at home sometimes, some don't get much love and support from their parents and most of them do not have access to technology or school supplies.
At the beginning of our first day at the placement, the children were shy for the most part, but it definitely did not take long until they were fighting to sit next to me. We did various arts and crafts projects throughout the two weeks for the children, had scavenger and treasure hunts, and played all sorts of games out on the field such as atoms, freeze tag, and dodge ball. In addition, we also taught the children classes on sign language, a wide range of etiquette and body hygiene.
We planted a vegetable garden at the front of the school and another day we had a sports day outside filled with sack races and relay races. On the last day we had a talent show and the children showcased a variety of performances before we gave out certificates and other awards.
Goodbye Jamaica
It was very hard to say goodbye to all the children, staff and other volunteers. It felt like the girls and I had been friends for years. If I could do it all over just to re-experience everything, I definitely would. Although we taught the children all sorts of things during the two weeks, I think I may have benefitted more from them. It was so heart-warming and fascinating just to see their big smiles and hear them laugh for just the simplest things. This trip allowed me to not only be exposed and learn so much about Jamaica's beautiful culture: the food, language, music, people and way of life, but also to volunteers from all over the world. It was the perfect balance between helping disadvantaged children, socialising with the staff and other volunteers and seeing and learning about the country. It was such a great learning experience that I will cherish in my heart forever.
Kayla Ramos
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With Valentine's Day now past, it is time to start looking to Easter. I have been wanting to do a hot air balloon for ages, (well another one, this is my second, but in a different style). I was inspired by Teresa Horner's recent post where she created an Easter banner for her mantle. She used the pastel colours of the Hearts and Stripes range, which made me think of all things fresh and new which of course is the epitome of Easter.
So, moving on, I created this gift basket style of hot hair balloon using a paper lantern for the top. I used the pastels from the Hearts and Stripes range to cover the basket, and to create a co-ordinating mini banner for the balloon as well as the basket. This was then adorned with bling.
I used Happy Days paper to fussy cut floral pieces to create the base for the floral cluster, then topped with Bella! florals. Some more bling accentuates the main floral cluster.
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The FBI took down a Christian militia group in Michigan on Monday.
The indictment said the Hutaree, who describe themselves as "Christian warriors," viewed all law enforcement as their enemy. It said they had planned a violent act to get the attention of the police, possibly by killing an officer at a traffic stop, and then attacking the funeral procession with explosives.
The arrests of the Hutaree members comes amid what the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama non profit that tracks extremism, has called "an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation." The organization has cited the economic downturn as a major reason for the change, and also contends that the far-right has been particularly animated by the election of the nation's first black president.
That is pretty disturbing. I agree with the author that a lot of these occurrences are related to nutball "conservatives" rather than nutball "Christians", however the two groups have quite a bit of overlap. I got a lot of flack a few days ago for saying religious people don't stand up against extremists in their own religion (only in opposing religions). It will be interesting to see the Christian response to these arrests. I suspect we'll hear a lot of the No True Scotsman* type arguments. "No True Christian would do these things", immediately close mind.
* From Wikipedia:
No true Scotsman is a logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of assertion to tautologically exclude the specific case or others like it.
Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again and this time finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says, "No true Scotsman would do such a thing."
—Antony Flew, Thinking About Thinking (1975)
Update: There's a related article today in the Washington Post, The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence.


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DETROIT-- The annual North American International Auto Show continues at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. The show is in its final few days for 2018 offering visitors the chance to check out what's available right now and what's coming in the future to dealer showrooms.
Community Wide visited the show during Preview Week. NBC25/FOX66 anchor Mike Woolfolk and Sinclair Broadcast Group automotive editor Jill Ciminillo host a special edition showcasing new models coming from the Detroit Three-- General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler.
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