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Who's Who
Joe Hayes
Executive Director, UAF Alumni Association Chair , System Governance Council
Hayes earned his bachelor's degree in political science from UAF in 1997. While at UAF he served as student body president and student regent. Hayes was the first-ever African-American UAF student body president and UA student regent and at graduation he received the Joel Wiegert Award as the outstanding senior man. Hayes served as chief of staff for Rep.Tom Brice from 1997-2000 and served in the Alaska State House from 2000-2002. While in office, he served on the Labor and Commerce and State Affairs Committees as well as the Special Committees for Military and Veterans Affairs and Administrative Review. As executive director of the UAF Alumni Association, Hayes reports to a 11-member board and is responsible for daily operations of the association including membership, fundraising, legislative outreach, advocacy and coordination of the annual alumni reunion.
PO Box 750126, 201 Constitution Hall Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 907 474 7081 (business) 907 474-6712 (fax) firstname.lastname@example.com
Cathy Cahill
President, UAF Faculty Senate (2011-2012) Member, Faculty Alliance Member, System Governance Council
Cathy Cahill received her B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of California in 1990, her M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Washington in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Desert Research Institute in 1996. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UAF where she teaches General, Physical and Environmental Chemistry. She is also a member of the Geophysical Institute and her current research focuses on the sources, transport, transformation, and impacts of atmospheric aerosols. She has served on the Alliance since 2009.
82 Reichardt Bldg, PO Box 756160 Fairbanks, Ak 99775-6160 907-474-6905(business) 907-474-5640(fax) firstname.lastname@example.com
Keni Campbell
Alumni Relations Manager, UAS Alumni Association () Member, System Governance Council
Keni Campbell joined the University of Alaska Southeast Office of Development & Alumni Relations in 2006 as Alumni Relations Manager. Previous to working for UAS she worked for the Alaska Council of School Administrators, a professional association for school superintendents. Keni has been an Alaskan since 1982, and has lived in Juneau since 1995. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Alaska Pacific University (class of 1993) and maintains State of Alaska teaching credentials. She has been married to Sergeant David Campbell of the Juneau Police Department for 20 years and has two teenage sons who are on the verge of entering the UA educational system.
11120 Glacier Highway Juneau, AK 99801 907-796-6569(business) email@example.com
Monique Musick
President, Statewide Administration Assembly (2011-2012) Vice Chair, Staff Alliance Member, System Governance Council
Monique Musick was born and raised in Ester, Alaska. She discovered photography in high school and has done it ever since. She attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and in 2001, earned a Journalism degree with an emphasis in photography. Following graduation she became the designer and production manager for Mushing Magazine. When the magazine was sold to new ownership, Monique leased the building and opened her own photo studio and gallery. Three years later the Publication Specialist position opened at Statewide and she came to work for UA Public Affairs. Here she gets to do what she enjoys: photography and graphic design. Monique became involved with SAA in 2009 shortly after coming to Statewide. She enjoys being an active member of system governance, supporting co-workers, and participating in policy review. She continues to run her photo business from home. In addition to photography she enjoys sports, outdoor activities, prospecting, music and time with friends.
PO Box 755340 Fairbanks, AK 99775-5340 907-450-8103 (business) 907-450-8101 (Fax) firstname.lastname@example.com
Robert Boekmann
UAA Faculty Senate, President
Alejandra Buitrago
Union of Students of UAA, President
Sharon Carter
UAS Rep; Sitka Student Body, President
Jarmyn Kramlich
USUAS- Juneau, President
This is my second year as the President of the United Students of the University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus (USUAS-JC), and I was elected in the Fall of 2012 as the Speaker p.t. for the Coalition of Student Leaders. I grew up in Pullman, Washington and decided to come to UAS because of its natural beauty. This is my third year at the UAS Juneau campus. I am working towards achieving a Bachelor of Arts and majoring in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Political Science, while my secondary concentrations are in Psychology and Sociology. I enjoy hanging out with friends and listening to music. I encourage any student from any campus to reach out to me if you have questions or concerns regarding the University of Alaska.
Rachel Morse
UAA Alumni Relations, Interim Director
Ayla O'Scannell
ASUF Senate Chair
Ayla O'Scannell has served as a senator on ASUAF since April 2012. In Septmeber of 2012 she was elected Senate Chair and was later elected the UAF representative for the Coalition of Student Leaders. Ayla is in her third year at UAF studying Political Science.
PO Box 73925 Fairbanks, AK 99775 (907)-947-1587 firstname.lastname@example.com
Denise Reeve
MSC Student Gov. Council, President
Jennifer Reynolds
UAF Faculty Senate, President
Gwenna Richardson
UAS Staff Council, President
I have been in Alsaska since 1996 via the Army. I am married, retired from the military, and working for the Ketchikan Campus as the Human Resource Technician since 2000. I completed my Bachelor's in Liberal Arts majorying in Administration Management and Accounting fromExcelsior College, Alabany, New York in July 2005(taking most of my required classes from UAS). I served as tje Ketchikan Memebr - At- Large from 2006-2008, UAS Vice President from 2009-2011 and now UAS President of Staff Council. I am a memeber of Staff Alliance and serve on the Joint Health Care Committee, Staff Health Care Committe and various subcommitttees. We are going to be presented with change opportunites and I am looking forwrd to assisting Staff with the information and the ability to advocate for them along with the other Staff Council members. I am looking forward to working with everyone and I am glad to be part of a team that is there to be the voice of staff.
Connie Dennis
UAA Classified Council, President
Juella Sparks
UAF Staff Council, President
Michael Stekoll
UAS Faculty Senate, President
Dr. Michael Stekoll is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Alaska SE with a joint appointment with the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Stekoll received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from UCLA in 1976. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1976-78. The University of Alaska hired him as an assistant professor of fisheries in 1978. He teaches classes in organic and biochemistry, water pollution and marine algae. His research has focused on aspects of nearshore biology and ecology including the effects of pollution and the techniques of mariculture. He has been a lead investigator in several projects relating to marine macrophyte ecology in Alaska. He has been department chair over several years, has served on the Faculty Alliance 2001-2003 and 2011-2013, and he was chair of the UAS Faculty Council 1998-99 and 2002-2003.
11120 Glacier Highway Juneau, Alaska 99801 907-796-6279 (business) 907-796-6447 (Fax)
Chris Terry
USUAS - Ketchikan, President
Shauna Thorton
KRC Student Union, Past President
Shauna Thornton has been a member of the KRC Student Union for several years, and a member of the Coalition of Student Leaders for the past two years. She successfully led the KRCSU to rally against cuts to the campus budget saving the campus hundreds of thousands of dollars, and was one of the leaders in Juneau for need based financial aid.
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1500m 4:40.22
3000m 9:45.87
3000m steeplechase 10:22.81
5000m 17:03.52
10000m 36:33.75
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2k steeplechase 7:00
1,500m 4:46
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2011-2012: In cross country, fifth on the team and 53rd overall at NCAA Northeast Regional to help the Bulldogs to a sixth-place finish...Competed at Heps...Scored in her first collegiate meet, the Fordham Invitational...Competed at HYP and the Princeton Invitational...Sixth on the team at the Paul Short Invite, where the Bulldogs beat the nationally ranked Duke Blue Devils…In indoor track, competed in the 3,000-meter run at ECACs, placing fourth in 9:45.87…Also placed 12th in the 5,000-meter run at Heps…In outdoor track, qualified to compete in the NCAA Regional in the 3,000-meter steeplechase…Ran a season-best 10:28.63 in the steeplechase at Heps, good for fifth…Won the steeplechase at HY…Competed in the 10,000-meter run at the Raleigh Relays, placing 13th…Ninth in the 3,000-meter run at ECACs in 9:57.17…Set the Yale record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:22.81) at the New Balance Boston Twilight Meet, earning a spot in the U.S. Junior National Championships, where she placed fifth.
High School: Two-time All-American in the steeplechase (2009-2010)...2010 All-American in the 5,000m... All-State and All-Federation in XC (2009-2010)... All-State in the steeplechase (2009-2011)... Third at States in XC and steeple 2009... Two-time NY state sportsmanship winner... A News 12 Scholar Athlete.
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A twin engine airplane crashed near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport Friday afternoon, killing all three people on board.
Witnesses said the Piper smashed into a warehouse parking lot shortly after 4 p.m., destroying seven vehicles and a boat.
Television pictures showed the wreckage of burned out hulls of vehicles and a pile of twisted metal in the middle of the vehicles.
"The plane is in pieces," said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Division Chief John San Angelo.
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No one on the ground was injured, he said, and the names of the victims on the plane were being withheld, pending notification of kin.
Television reports said the men may have been pilots taking the plane out from Fort Lauderdale Executive for avionics checks.
The small twin-prop Piper airplane left the airport shortly after 4 p.m. and appeared to have developed trouble soon after takeoff, San Angelo said.
It tried to turn back to the airport but didn't make it, and clipped a tree before crashing in the parking lot of a flooring warehouse near Powerline Road and 53rd Street.
The airport did not receive any distress call from the plane before it crashed, said Shannon Vezina, spokesperson for the City of Fort Lauderdale.
Witnesses said they saw smoke billowing from the wreckage for miles around.
John Strasswimmer, a Delray Beach surgeon, was driving south on Interstate 95 near Powerline Road when he saw a plane spiraling out of control in the air. He quickly pulled over to the side of the interstate.
"My heart sank," he said. "It was devastating."
A block away, Rick Blackburn was working on a race car with some colleagues at the South Florida Custom and Collision Center when they saw the plane bank on its side in the air.
"We heard a pop, and then bam! It hit the ground," he said.
They jumped in a pickup truck and drove to the crash site, but Blackburn said he knew they couldn't help when they looked at the burning wreckage.
"At first you go there thinking you may be able to help somebody," he said. "But once you got there, you knew there was nothing you could do."
The intense heat blew out nearby windows.
Ebbey Davis, who rode with him, said people were scrambling to get vehicles out of the lot before they caught fire.
It took 40 firefighters about 30 minutes to put out the flames, said Matt Little, spokesman for Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.
"It's not just the plane in flames," he said. "It's seven cars and a boat, and all the fuel that's involved."


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Arnold Schwarzenegger may have a girlfriend.
Yep — he was spotted writing her name with little hearts around it on his Pee Chee folder.
Schwarzenegger has been spotted out and about multiple times with Heather Milligan, a 38-year-old Southern California physical therapist who works with a number of NFL athletes, according to the New York's Daily News.
The 65-year-old actor and former California governor dined with Milligan last Friday at Babalu in Santa Monica, and they were spotted driving around Brentwood the next day. TMZ reported the pair had brunch together.
That's right — brunch. Don't you kids think you should slow down a bit?
A source told TMZ that, though Milligan is a physical therapist, "She is not in the normal group of people who treat him."
The News also reported that on Tuesday, Milligan deleted a "Happy Birthday" tweet to Schwarzenegger that she had posted last July.
Good thinking. We wouldn't want anyone to get wind of this relationship.
Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, split in 2011 following the revelation that he had fathered a child with a housekeeper. The action star later acknowledged that he had "inflicted tremendous pain on Maria and unbelievable pain" on their four children. Various reports since then have indicated Schwarzenegger wanted to reconcile with Shriver, but it seems like that bird has flown.
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Q. What is meant by the verse, "And he [Jesus] said to him [the penitent thief], 'Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise'" (Lk 23:43, RSV).
Darryl, via email
A. Attempting to interpret this verse raises several issues. The first centers on the word "today." The Greek word used for today is quite distinct. It means "this day," "now," "the present day." As presently punctuated, the verse states Jesus' promise to be carried out that very day.
But that day Jesus did not go to "Paradise" (more about this term later). He went into the tomb where he was buried for three days. Moreover, according to John 20:17, after His resurrection Jesus said to Mary, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father" (Jn 20:17). So, three days after His death, He had not yet ascended into heaven.
Furthermore, St. Paul lists a number of Jesus' post-resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians 15:5-7.
If Jesus did promise to take that thief to paradise that day, He did not keep His promise.
The Greek version of this verse has no punctuation. The commas in Luke 23:43 are the result of guesswork on the part of translators. I agree with some modern commentators who contend the comma before "today" should come after. Thus: "I say to you today, you will be with me in Paradise." This would reflect a common Hebrew idiom used for emphasis: "I declare to you this day, that you shall perish" (Dt 30:18, RSV); "'I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you" (Acts 20:26, RSV).
Now, "Paradise." There are varying opinions about the meaning of the term. I find persuasive what the New Oxford Annotated Bible offers. In a footnote to Luke 23:43, this version notes, "Paradise (like 'Abraham's bosom' in 16:22) was a contemporary Jewish term for the lodging place of the righteous dead prior to resurrection."
Q. Why do Catholic publications capitalize the name of satan [sic]? An organization that promotes devotion to the Blessed Mother brought this to my attention. By capitalizing his name the Catholic publications have put him on the same level as Jesus. My personal opinion is, he shouldn't be on anyone's level. Even my spell-checker wants me to capitalize it.
Annette, via email
A. It is simply common practice to capitalize all names of persons and particular places. The capitalization of names has nothing to do with the status of the persons so designated. The capital "s" in "Satan" only tells us there is a certain being known by that name. Nothing more.
Q. How is it best to explain to a Protestant why he can't receive communion in the Catholic Church?
Karen, via email
A. First of all, make it plain that this restriction does not mean the Church is passing judgment on non-Catholics. Rather, the rule reflects what the Church teaches about receiving Communion at a Catholic altar.
In receiving Communion, a Catholic implicitly and publicly affirms his or her solidarity with the Church and her teaching. Tragically, there remain serious doctrinal divisions between the Church and all non-Catholic traditions. It would be dishonest of a Protestant to come to a Catholic altar, therefore, because he or she does not hold to the Church's teaching.
By the same token, it would be dishonest of a Catholic to receive communion in a non-Catholic Church. He or she would thereby publicly state his or her oneness with that particular denomination, which would be untrue.
Q. When and why were the Old Testament and the New Testament divided into chapters and different verses? When I look at many of them there seems to be no rhyme or reason why they stop or start. Some verses are short, others much longer. I have learned (and re-learned) so much from The Catholic Answer. Thank you.
Patti, via email
A. The Bible was divided into chapters and verses to enable readers to find their way in this large volume of material. The Old Testament now consists of 1,074 chapters and 27,570 verses, and the New Testament 260 chapters and 7,956 verses. Imagine trying to find your way in the Bible without these divisions.
Mordecai Nathan, a Jew, divided the Old Testament into chapters in 1445. He and another scholar named Athias generally are credited with the numbering of verses in the Old Testament.
Stephen Langton, an archbishop of Canterbury, worked out our present chapter divisions around the year 1227. In 1551, an English printer, Robert Stephens, subdivided the New Testament chapters into verses. His version has been further refined in modern versions of the New Testament.
Q. Can you help me understand Matthew 5:39: "But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well." I have struggled to explain this to my children. I wonder why Jesus would say that we should not resist an evil person. Our daughter is named after St. Maria Goretti who resisted an evildoer, and it cost her life. For this she is honored as a saint.
Gary Giorgio, Wadsworth, Ohio
A. To understand Our Lord's words we need the context provided by the preceding verse: "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'" (v. 38; see also Lv 24:20 and Dt 19:21). The Chosen People were Semites, among whom vengeance was commonly practiced. It resulted in endless strife and crimes. At first glance, the "eye for an eye" rule may seem bloodthirsty, but in fact it outlawed the ancient practice of vengeance — that is, it specified that punishment could be no greater than the crime.
By His teaching (verse 39) Our Lord is not telling us we must not resist evil. Rather, He is telling us the spirit in which resistance is to be offered: a spirit of forgiveness in which retaliation can have no part. This spirit is reflected in Romans 12:17: "Do not repay anyone evil for evil; be concerned for what is noble in the sight of all."
Q. Could you explain what exactly the Unitarians believe? I can't figure it out.
Daniel, via email
A. My seminary training began at Harvard Divinity School. One day I was stopped by a fellow seminarian who had come to Harvard a fundamentalist and had been led to become Unitarian. He asked me, "Have you heard the Unitarian creed?" "Nonsense," I said, "you people don't have a creed." "Yes, we do," he insisted. "I believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man in the neighborhood of Boston."
Those who are affiliated with the Unitarian movement are free to believe anything they like. William Ellery Channing is generally regarded as the founder of the Unitarian denomination. A sermon he preached in Baltimore in 1815 is, for them, the Magna Carta of Unitarianism.
As their name indicates, they reject the divinity of Jesus Christ. They hold Him to be an exalted moral teacher. The Unitarian tradition embraces an ironic inconsistency.
They believe and try to practice what Jesus taught, but they reject what he said about himself. For Unitarians, if His claims for himself are false, why should one trust His ethical teaching?
Q. Can you explain for me what Jesus meant when he made the comment in Luke 23:27-32 that the wood being green, "what will happen when it is dry?" Also, can you list the spots in the Old Testament that prophesy the coming of Jesus? I think there are a number of them in Isaiah and at least one in Deuteronomy.
Alan Reifenheiser, via email
A. The wood of which Jesus speaks is a symbol for the city of Jerusalem. Wood which is green is not good for burning. The inhabitants of Jerusalem still have time and opportunity to respond in faith to the Messiah. Jerusalem's continuing rejection of the Messiah will make it dry and inflammable.
In these words Our Lord seems to have in mind Ezekiel 15:1-8, in which the prophet declares the rebellious city (Jerusalem) will be punished by fire. In addressing "Daughters of Jerusalem" Jesus may be identifying them with the righteous Israelites named by Ezekiel (see Ez 14:22) who will escape coming tribulation.
Clearly, he is urging the women not to weep for him but for the sins which were bringing about His passion.
Now, for the instances in which the Old Testament prophesies the coming of Jesus. I cannot give you a carefully drawn list of these prophecies, because there are so many. Before noting the most important ones, I must refer you to Google under "Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah." One listing gives 44 prophecies, another gives 324.
The most important prophecies concerning the Messiah come to us through the prophet Isaiah.
In the latter half of the Book of Isaiah we find four Suffering Servant songs: 42:1-9; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; and 52:13—53:12. The latter song is the Old Testament's ultimate statement about the Messiah. Its depiction of the Servant's suffering and redemptive death remarkably anticipates the details of Our Lord's passion.
Q. A word in the Eucharistic prayer still bothers me, though we've had a year to get used to it. It's the word "many": "the blood of the eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many." We continually declare in the Nicene Creed that Jesus Christ is the savior of the human race. Scripture assures us that Jesus is the redeemer of all. I recognize that "for many" is the correct translation of "pro multis." How can we reconcile the universality of salvation with the restriction of "many"?
Name withheld by request
A. A number of passages in sacred Scripture plainly affirm the universal salvation Jesus Christ has accomplished. To note just a few, recall John 6:51; Romans 8:32; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 1 Timothy 2:4,6; 1 John 2:2.
Yet we do have Our Lord's own words about the benefit of His salvation: "This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many" (Mk 14:24). The clearest Old Testament forecast of the Messiah is the fourth Suffering Servant song (Is 52:13—53:12). At the climax of this song we read "he bore the sin of many" (53:12, RSV).
From the beginning of our Eucharistic liturgy many, many centuries ago, it has always used the phrase "pro multis." The post-Second Vatican Council liturgy gave us the phrase "for all." This was not a translation; it was an interpretation by liturgists who "reformed" the ancient liturgy.
Four hundred and fifty years ago the Church taught us how, in your words, to reconcile universal salvation with the restriction of "many." The Catechism of the Council of Trent (1556) gave this explanation:. "For if we look to its value, we must confess that the Redeemer shed His blood for the salvation of all; but if we look to the fruit which mankind have received from it, we shall easily find that it pertains not unto all, but to many of the human race."
The assumption is that not all human beings will respond to God's offer of salvation. See the question in this column on what is a Universalist, which takes up where this answer leaves off.
Q. I am confused about something in the Garden of Gethsemane. If the apostles were all asleep during Jesus' agony, how do we know anything about it?
A. This is a good question. Scripture tells us Our Lord spent some time with His apostles and others after His resurrection, yet before His ascension. I assume that He shared with them the details of His passion.
Q. How do I refute a friend's claim that Easter is nothing more than a pagan festival taken over by the Church?
Name withheld by request, via email
A. You can point to the events which Easter celebrates. When Christ died on the cross, His apostles were totally defeated, hiding in seclusion.
By Christ's resurrection this handful of ordinary working men were transformed into powerful evangelists who took the Gospel of Christ to much of the known world.
By that Gospel thousands and thousands, and eventually millions, of lives were given access to heaven through Christ and His Church. That Church has become the only truly universal institution in the world. And it is still expanding its outreach today, bringing new life to the world.
Pagan festivals, however, are one-time things, human celebrations. They have no lasting positive consequences.
Q. Is suicide ever morally justified? Say, for example, a Special Services soldier is about to be captured and subsequently tortured by the enemy. The soldier is aware of highly sensitive information, which is likely to result in the deaths of others if he were to reveal it. The enemy is aware of this, and they are determined to capture him alive. To prevent this, would suicide be morally justified?
P.T., Indiana
A. The Catholic tradition rejects the notion that "the end justifies the means." It is never permissible to commit an evil act even for a good end. Regardless of the state of the person who takes his own life, suicide itself is a great evil.
If the hypothetical soldier were a devout Christian, God could give him the strength to resist torture, even to the end. That torture would by a kind of martyrdom, with the eternal blessings which martyrdom brings.
Q. Why did Christ cry out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (see Mt 27:46, et al.)? What did He mean by that? Was He in despair?
A. This cry which burst from our divine Savior's lips in His agony is the opening of Psalm 22. With indescribable suffering the Messiah was undergoing the most cruel, the most ignominious, death the ancient world inflicted on its criminals. Yet His outburst was far more than a cry of desolation. We must keep in mind Jewish practice of citing the psalms. To quote the opening of a psalm was implicitly to refer to the entire psalm.
Though the psalmist feels God is not responding to his cry for help, three different times he speaks to the Lord as "my God." As we read toward the end of Psalm 22, the earlier desolation turns to trust and victory and even glory. The risen Lord rhetorically asked the two disciples He met on the road to Emmaus, "Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" (Lk 24:26).
One thought more, a personal opinion: Throughout His earthly life Our Lord was in perfect communion with the Father. The one ultimate dimension of human suffering He had not undergone was to have felt deserted by God. I believe that in those last moments on the cross His divine nature enabled Him, at least momentarily and clearly, to feel abandoned by God.
Only momentarily, for by that final identification with deepest suffering the Incarnation was complete. And only by that final identification.
Q. If you are living with someone and are not married, can you still take Communion? Both are Catholics and attend the same church. Is fornication a mortal sin?
A. Today, the euphemistic term for unmarried persons living together is "cohabitation." It is mortal sin not only in the sexual dimension. It is mortal sin because those persons necessarily are using one another for their selfish ends. Each may have conscious feelings of love for the other, but they refuse publicly to commit their lives. Apart from that commitment, they can never know true marital love. Cohabitation is a case of "I love you today, baby; let's not talk about tomorrow."
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A. The Catholic Church condemned Universalism as a heresy in 543 in its dealing with the Origenists. In His relationship with us, we know God goes to great lengths to respect our freedom. Assume that however strongly a person resists God in this life that at the end of that life God says, "I win!" and takes that person into the glory of heaven. This assumption clearly denies free will.
The Catehism of the Catholic Church tells us the sin of Satan and his angels will be forever excluded from heaven. "It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable" (No. 393). That teaching itself takes for granted the reality of an eternal condemnation.
Why did Jesus repeatedly warn against the danger of being cast into hell? Read again Matthew 5:22,29-30, with parallels in Mark 9:43-47, Matthew 7:22-23 and Luke 12:5. Or note the teaching about the reality of hell in James 3:6 and 2 Peter 2:4. Is all this merely an idle threat? What other than the reality of eternal punishment did Jesus have in mind when He said about His betrayer, Judas Iscariot, "It would be better for that man if he had never been born" (Mt 26:24, et al.)?
On one occasion Jesus was asked, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" His answer was, "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough" (see Lk 13:23-24).
Q. There seems to be a difference between Elohim and Yahweh in the Old Testament. Is that true? What do the names mean?
Elaine, via email
A. Indeed there is a difference in these two names. The word Elohim ("God") is consistently used in Genesis 1. Yet starting in Genesis 2:4 the sacred text uses the term Yahweh ("the Lord God") to refer to our Creator. This difference reflects the change in subject matter in early Genesis. Chapter 1 reveals God as creator, while Chapter 2 speaks of His personal relationship with His creatures. This pattern is consistently followed in later sections. Elohim names the transcendent God and Creator; Yahweh names the God in personal relationship with His children.
Psalm 19 offers a clear example of this distinction. The first part of the psalm speaks of God ("Elohim") as creator and His relation to is creation. In the middle of the psalm the psalmist begins using Yahweh when his subject is God's relationship with the Chosen People.
YHWH (English version of the Hebrew) is known as the "sacred Tetragrammaton." The latter word comes from the Greek word for "four letters." The vowels "a" and "e" have been added to the Tetragrammaton for purposes of pronunciation in English.
This word is sacred to religious Jews. They never utter it. They use instead the term Adonai in reading the Torah. The U.S. bishops are sensitive to this Jewish practice. They have asked Catholics not to use the term Yahweh in speaking of God.
Father Ray Ryland, Ph.D., J.D., serves as chaplain for several national Catholic apostolates, an adjunct professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and an assistant pastor at St. Peter's Church in the same city.
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Zach Sussman didn't want to search the Yellow Pages or pay $50 for an Angie's List subscription when he needed a handyman.
The idea of strangers recommending a service provider didn't appeal to the 30-year-old from Minnetonka.
"I don't trust anonymous people's reviews when I'm hiring someone who's going to be in my house," he said. "It's a matter of security."
So Sussman used a start-up website, BeHeroic.com. The Twin Cities-based business takes a different approach to finding a good auto mechanic, plumber or other service provider.
Heroic lets friends form their own user group, a mini-version of Angie's List or Consumers' Checkbook, where they know and trust everyone in the group. They sign in through Facebook to gain access to reviews written by their friends.
It taps into recommendations from people whose standards, interests and biases are known because they're friends or family, said Dan Linstroth, 28, one of Heroic's four co-founders. "I can understand the context of my friend's recommendation, but I may not understand an anonymous five-star rating."
Millennials are three times more likely to turn to social channels than boomers when differentiating among products or services, according to a Bazaarvoice.com survey. They want feedback from experts and people with common interests, including personal connections, although not exclusively.
And they prefer to get their information indirectly. "They turn to online rather than human communication," said Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and management consulting firm.
Heroic's model is to encourage people to start by connecting with three Facebook friends and writing three reviews of service providers that have given great service, said Linstroth. (Users also can correspond via e-mail instead of Facebook.) The company, which was launched in February, now has about 1,000 reviews and about 1,800 users and plans to offer a mobile product later this year.
It's a small fraction of the number of subscribers at Angie's List (48,000 in the Twin Cities) or Twin Cities Consumers' Checkbook (8,000), but that doesn't bother Dennis Malinis of Minneapolis, a user since March.
He realizes that the business is in its infancy, and that it takes time to build a base. "I'm a supporter of all things local," he said. "I like that it's based in the Twin Cities and that it's free."
Malinis also likes the idea of being the megaphone for small businesses. "I really wanted to promote the dog walker I use and get the word out about how happy I am," he said.
He's written half a dozen reviews of businesses so far, including a painter and a house cleaning service.
Linstroth said the site made a deliberate decision to include only positive reviews. There are a lot of high-quality skilled service workers who are humble and aren't good at marketing, he said.
"We wanted to pass the word around for those great businesses, like the bike repair guy who works out of his basement."
While Heroic doesn't deliberately focus on one- or two-person businesses, that's been the majority of businesses that have been reviewed so far.
Users writing only about the good eggs, not the bad apples, makes for a smaller number of reviews, eliminating the average and below-average companies. Most of the companies listed at Heroic have only a handful of reviews.
That's troubling to Robert Krughoff, founder and president of the nonprofit Center for the Study of Service, which publishes the ratings magazine Consumers' Checkbook in seven metro regions, including the Twin Cities.
A larger sample of reviews improves the consumer's odds, he said. Twenty people giving a company good reviews is preferable to one person's kudos, who may have just had good luck, he said.
Krughoff said the most-helpful consumer reviews are for hotels or products, but service providers can be trickier. That, he says, is why 10 or 20 or more reviews are better than a handful.
"Some consumers wouldn't know a good plumber from a bad one," he said. "The important thing if you're using Facebook friends as evaluators of service is to narrow the group down to friends who are consumer-savvy and don't want to waste money."
What about the business trying to stack the deck by writing its own reviews? Linstroth said that businesses can't be listed until a user recommends them, and Heroic checks e-mail addresses and Facebook profiles for any company connection.
Like many Internet start-ups, the company is still "pre-revenue," according to Linstroth, but they are considering a premium model that would charge businesses for deeper features.
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Port 465 Restaurant – A brand new indoor/outdoor restaurant opening in the downtown Chicago area near Navy Pier and the Chicago River on 465 E. Illinois St. The restaurant will serve great American food (steaks, chops, seafood, pastas, etc.), and has an atmosphere of elegance, comfort and fun. The restaurant will accommodate everyone from families, groups of friends, special dinner occasions, and will also function as a place for drinks at the restaurant's two large bars. Restaurant has 12,000 square feet of space with a seating capacity of 300 people and an overall capacity of 500 people. Restaurant also has plenty of windows that overlook the adjacent river.
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When the weather is cooperating, nothing is more cost-efficient than no-till rice and soybeans for Weiner, Ark., farmer Scott Matthews. But when it rains every week during harvest for a few years in a row, the system can literally get stuck in a rut.
Matthews is the operator of Matthews Farm Partnership and farms 1,400 acres of rice and soybeans in a one-in, one-out rotation. He started no-tilling his rice in 1984, and soybeans, after the second year of Roundup Ready technology.
Matthews says his later start in farming was a factor in adopting no-till. "Coming from the fertilizer/chemical side, I couldn't figure out why we were making some steps that didn't seem necessary other than that was the way we always did it. I would see these huge flat beautiful fields that looked like a desktop. I asked my dad (Joe Matthews) why we would take a field and make it rougher to plant. It didn't make any sense. I saw no-till as a way to save time and be more cost-efficient."
He talked his father into a no-till system, despite the fact that a lot of technology for the system was not yet available. "In 1984 there was no such thing as a no-till drill. So we took a conventional drill and made a no till drill. We always try to plant into soft ground. Just as soon as the ground would hold the tractor up, we went in and started planting rice."
This pushed rice planting up to early April and then late March, which were not typical planting dates at that time.
For Matthews, making no-till work requires thinking two to three steps ahead and never putting off until tomorrow what can be done today.
After soybeans are cut in the fall, Matthews will burn soybean stubble. "If the weather conditions are right, it will burn just like gunpowder across the field. It gives you a beautiful seedbed."
P and K applications go out at that time too. "I know it's kind of cost-prohibitive for some people to put it out in the fall. But a lot of companies have programs that will let you go to March 15 if you pay 25 percent down."
About a week after soybean stubble is burned, Matthews scouts for winter vegetation. "A lot of people don't realize it, but the winter grass has already started growing by the time the leaves fall off the beans. I'm very aggressive with burndown. If my fields are getting green in November, they will get sprayed."
Matthews applies Roundup for that burndown, but will use Valor "if the conditions are right. I've had very good luck with Roundup that time of year. If you get it out and on, you're not worried about how long it's going to take to kill." At that time, Matthews will put in any ditching the field may require.
In the spring, he'll take another look at weeds and when temperatures are right, he'll apply Roundup PowerMax.
His optimum planting window for rice is March 26 through April 5. He runs a John Deere 1590 John Deere no-till drill, equipped with Starfire GPS to allow around-the- clock planting. He plants both hybrid and conventional rice.
After planting, Matthews will apply Command and another shot of Roundup, build the levees and put in spills. "We try to do that in a real timely manner."
A pre-flood nitrogen application of 250 pounds to 260 pounds goes out by airplane. Agrotain goes on just about every acre, according to Matthews. "Some of my fields are so big that it may take me 7 to 10 days to flood them. Agrotain does a very good job."
At mid-season, he'll put a reduced amount of nitrogen on hybrids, 50 pounds to 60 pounds, and 100 pounds to 125 pounds on conventional rice.
Stink bug management
Matthews is very aggressive on stink bug management, knowing that the insects can have a huge impact on quality. Matthews may apply a fungicide for smut on rice, but not on hybrids.
When rice heads start to turn over, "we'll look at the DD-50s and determine a draining date. "We will rerun our PTO ditches with a high crop tractor, pull our spills and get ready for harvest," which begins when rice is under 21 percent moisture.
As rice fields are draining, Matthews is already thinking about planting soybeans into rice stubble the following spring. (While he burns soybeans stubble, he prefers to let rice stubble stand).
"When we cut rice, we like to get the levees torn down within 48 hours. We want to be proactive in getting our fields ready to no-till. We turned the dike plow around backwards, run it down and back, and then we run a 9 ½-foot disk, which fits inside the levee.
"Mother Nature will take care of the rest. If in the spring I'm not happy with it, I can take a box scraper and bust the tops of them little bit."
Rice straw is left as it is, Matthews notes. "We don't burn it, we don't flood it and we don't roll it. We need that rice stubble so that we'll have a mat of protection for the soybeans, and it will hold moisture. It's like mulching a garden."
Holding duck water on those fields can complicate matters, Matthews noted. "If you're holding duck water you still have your spills and your levees out there. It's going to be an issue. We want the ground dry at harvest. That's our best chance at no till."
Benefits from no-till included an increase in soybean yields of 8 bushels to 10 bushels an acre. There has also been an increase in efficiency in the rotation. "You're going from combine to drill to combine with less fuel costs and less tillage cost."
This year, Matthews had one of his best yields ever in rice, about 202 bushels across the farm. He hauls all his rice to Riceland Foods in Weiner, Ark.
Weather over the last few years has had a negative impact on both rice quality and his no-till program. "Our quality usually starts out good, then we catch a shower, and the rice gets wet and has to dry out again. My milling starts out outstanding, but every time it rains, it gets a little worse. When it rains eight or nine weeks during harvest, I don't know that any variety will do well."
Rains at harvest have also put Matthews's no-till program on hold after a great 10-year run of almost perfect no-till weather. "We got really relaxed thinking it can happen like that all the time, but it didn't. I'm a no-till rice and soybean producer, but had to buy new disk last fall, the first one I've had to buy in 17 years. All because of the weather.
"Last year it cost about 5,000 gallons to 6,000 gallons of diesel to put the crop in. A lot of times in no till, with we can put it in for a whole lot less than 1,500 gallons."
All Matthews can do is prepare and hope for the best. "We'll go back to our old conventional tillage and get the ruts out. It will take several years to get it back it back to the way we had it when we were no-tilling."
Resistant weeds such as horseweed and Palmer amaranth could also be a challenge to Matthews's no-till program. They haven't shown up in force yet, "so I don't know if I have an issue yet or not. But I'm going to have to do things on a small scale to make sure that I don't have some other issues that have cropped up."
But that's the nature of farming, Matthews says. "Farming changes so much every three or four years. Farmers used to never think too far ahead. But no-till makes you think. I can plan three or four years in advance of what I'm going to do. I got really lucky there with great weather for a long time."
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Success Secrets: Don't Tolerate "badness"
In my last post, I mentioned Hedge Fund giant Ray Dalio's intolerance of "badness" . It really does seem that it takes an intolerance of problems to build a truly great organization. Here is an article about commodity giant Glencore, which makes the same point. A key quote: "Those stresses are in part explained by a culture in which blunders are not tolerated.". Link posted at The Reformed Broker.


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As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy—killing over 100 people and producing upwards of $50 billion in damage along the U.S. East Coast—has reignited a long-dormant conversation on climate change in the media, it's important to note that this is not the only weird and wild weather the U.S. has seen this year.
In fact, 2012 has been a year of record-breaking weather across the U.S.: the worst drought in decades, unprecedented heatwaves, and monster forest fires. While climatologists have long stated that it is not yet possible to blame a single extreme weather event on climate change, research is showing that rising temperatures are very likely increasing the chances of extreme weather events and worsening them when they occur.
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Intermediate Olympic - 26 Week, 2 Race - RPE Training Plan
Olympic Distance - Intermediate Level 26-week, 2-Race Series Triathlon Training Plan
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- Week 1Expand
- Time: 45m
- Speed day
- wu: 250 alternating each 50 swim and kick
- main: 400, 4 x 100, 300, 3 x 100, 200, 2x100
- long intervals are RPE 4, 100s are at RPE 7-8
- (alternate, remove 1st 400)
- cd: 3 x 75, each slower than last
- Time: 1h 30m
- 90 minutes, hills. Find a hill that takes about 5 minutes to climb.
- Warm up and cool down 15-20 minutes each.
- Main: 6-8 repititions on the hill. Remain seated on all reps. You should hit RPE 7-9 but not an all-out effort.
- Complete stretch of legs and lower back afterwards.
- Time: 30m
- 30 minutes continuous recovery swim after bike workout.
- Time: 30m
- Very easy run today, constant at RPE 2-3.
- Time: 30m
- Long day
- wu: 200 continuous
- main: 1 x 2000 at RPE 4 (alternate 1 x 1700)
- cd: 4 x 50, each slower than last
- Time: 45m
- Recovery easy spin of RPE 2-3 ideally on trainer.
- Time: 1h 20m
- 80 minutes with strides every 10 minutes. Remember, strides should be easy speed effort. Stop if your legs are feeling exhausted.
- Time: 45m
- 45 minute recovery…easy pace.
- Time: 2h 00m
- 2 hours. Keep the pace at RPE 3 except if you need to climb.
- Week 2Expand
- Time: 1h 00m
- 60 minutes on trainer if possible. Easy pace, RPE 3.
- Time: 45m
- Race-specific
- wu: 5 x 50
- main: 2 x 1000, both are RPE 4
- cd: 250 easy
- Time: 1h 00m
- 1 hour, mostly easy pace, find some rolling hills if possible.
- Time: 30m
- 30 minutes easy run with strides every 5 minutes.
- Time: 1h 20m
- 80 minute long run combined with tempo effort.
- Warmup/Cooldown: 20 minutes easy
- Main: 8 x (3t, 2r) 3t efforts should be RPE 6-7(just under lacatete threshold). 2r at RPE 2.
- In the main set, the cryptic 3t and 2r means that there's 3 minutes at tempo or increased pace, followed by 2minutes recovery running. So in total for the main set, you'll do 40 minutes total.
- Time: 45m
- speed day--tough!
- wu: 300 continuous- (alternate 25 swim, 25 kick)
- main: 20 x 75 hold constant pace for each-so judge pace in the first few, RPE 5
- cd: 200 easy
- Time: 1h 00m
- Long day
- wu: 200swim, 200kick, 200pull, 200swim
- main: 1 x 1500, RPE 4 (alternate 1 x 1000)
- cd: 4 x 50, each slower than last
- Time: 2h 30m
- 2.5 hour long ride.
- Time: 30m
- 30 min easy run--not immediately after the bike.
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This intermediate program starts with lots of hours. Consistency is more important than the length of the individual workouts. If you find yourself skipping days due to fatigue, try reducing the time for each session rather than missing workouts.
Day 2
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Get the bike in first today....
Day 3
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This swim should be the next workout you do after yesterday's swim. Since it's low impact, I like to do these sessions back to back to help keep technique fresh…
Day 4
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Keep fluid intake high today and have a good recovery meal after the run session.
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Try to get this ride a couple hours after breakfast in the morning. Figure out what feels good for pre-ride nutrition and hydration. Make notes in your log to refer back to later when preparing for race morning.
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This week's single hard workout will be tempo effort on the run…not all out effort but a reserved and proud cruising pace--a confidence builder!
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Wk #1
1h 30m
1h 20m
2h 00m
Week Total
1h 45m
4h 15m
2h 35m
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1h 20m
1h 00m
2h 30m
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Bill Viola, widely recognized as a leading voice in video art, has been a pioneer in the use of the medium since the 1970s. His work frequently reflects his deep engagement with art and spirituality and often bears a formal and emotional kinship to late Medieval and Renaissance art. Union (2000), the first work by the artist to enter a public collection in New England, is installed in the Medieval gallery alongside works whose heightened emotional realism is similar to that which served as the artist's inspiration.
In Union, two flat display screens hanging side by side on the wall like framed paintings depict a nude female and male struggling in unison to reach upward. Although they undergo a shared emotional wave, the figures experience this intensity in isolation, never responding to one another. Viola's study of suffering and ecstasy is a visual record of conditions under which the mind and body become one (a union common to spiritual and sexual experiences). In video, Viola translates the single moment of traditional painting and sculpture into an action unfolding over time. The silent presence of the Viola and the figures' gestures—presented in ultra-slow motion—echo the attenuated body language and emotional gazes of many of the religious subjects in the Medieval gallery, including a crucified Christ, a mourning Virgin, and the Agony in the Garden.


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The average fixed line broadband speed in the UK has increased by 25 percent to 5.2Mbps, says Ofcom.
Speed research by the communication watchdog, which was conducted in conjunction with speed monitoring website SamKnows, revealed that in April 2009 the average download speed was 4.1Mbps.
This was 58 percent of average advertised 'up to' speeds, which was 7.1Mbps. However, the current average speed of 5.2Mbps is just 45 percent of today's average advertised speed with is 'up to' 11.5Mbps.
The watchdog said just under a quarter (24 percent) of Brits have a broadband package that offers a headline or advertised of 'up to 10Mbps' compared to just 8 percent in April last year, showing there is a growing gap between advertised and actual speeds, which Ofcom says is a real concern.
Ofcom's speed tests revealed that on average those on 'up to' 8 to 10Mbps DSL packages were receiving actual speeds of just 3.3Mbps, while those on 'up to' 20 to 24Mbps packages could expect an actual speed of 6.5Mbps.
When it came to cable broadband, the results showed those on 'up to' 10Mbps broadband services were achieving actual speeds of 8.7Mbps and those purchasing packages with headline speeds of 'up to' 20Mbps were receiving actual speeds of 15.7Mbps.
Ofcom also said it found cable service, such as those from Virgin Media, offered average download speeds that were twice as fast as those achieved on DSL services with the same advertised speed.
According to the watchdog, some ISPs have moved away from using 'headline speeds' to advertise their broadband packages, however many continue this practice.
Ofcom says it has been in discussions with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which is currently reviewing the practice, as it believes speeds should only be advertised if some consumers are actually able to achieve them and 'up to' speeds should also include a typical speed range.
"Ofcom's research shows that average speeds have increased which is good news, but there is scope for a further step change in the quality of the UK communications infrastructure," said Ed Richards, chief executive of the watchdog.
"Actual speeds are often much lower than many of the advertised speeds which makes it essential that consumers are given information which is as accurate as possible at the point of sale; this is what the new Code is designed to deliver."
Chris Marling, editor of Broadband Genie said the average speeds make depressing reading.
"We have been calling for an end to 'up to' speeds for a long time now, as it is clearly a ridiculous concept. An average actual speed of 6.5Mbps on lines supposedly capable of 20Mbps or higher starkly confirms that. It was only a matter of time before the ASA and Ofcom were forced into action" said Marling.
"The UK's broadband suppliers had ample time to come to their senses, but once again waited to be regulated against before acting on their own accord. Only Virgin Media comes out of this round of testing with any credit, although O2 and BE can at least claim to be making the best of our groaning DSL network.


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What is this you say?
Whoever guesses correctly will win a Red Velvet Element/s from my Etsy store.
I think it's bisque dool parts.
:) Lelainia
That should read DOLL!! Yikes. (It's early here!)
I have to agree with Lelainia...that was my first thought also..bisque dolls !
Would they be some type of nativity scene figures, wise men, etc???
[Hope this isn't politically incorrect or insensitive, not meant to be at all]
Well I don't want to guess, just to say the book and the photo album are gorgeous and can't wait to see more of your current work ...
Happy Birthday dear one. I'm guessing I know what the secret project is, but I'll also guess what's in the box. I, like the others, say bisque dolls....seems to be the "thing" right now
Dear Judy,
What lovely gifts. TO go to lunch with friend who understand a gift that you would love! That photo album is sublime!
I guess your bubble wrapped secret has something to do with shoes!
oh, right. the "thing" right now. that's a good one. shaking my head. x
I don't think it is doll parts. But I am really clueless about what it is. If it is doll parts, they must be headless. Did I tell you, I'm clueless.
Love all your Birthday schtuf and hey..Happy Birthday.
Show us more of your project...please.
OOPS sorry about that I had to delete my comment as I mucked up my post, not enough coffee ;)
Oh my, the antique album, it's gorgeous, so ornate, good on your for spoiling yourself, you deserve it.
Your new project looks amazing, you big tease you!
I'm going to have a guess that your mystery object is chandelier crystals?
Glad you had a great Birthday and those books are divine.
Yep I think they are Bisque Dolls too although they could be wooden ballet shoe lasts. The one at the bottom has me stumped with the blue thingy showing through.
These would be for Steve too not me! Although I think you already knew that....LOL
Take Care and speak soon.
Dont do this to me Judy!!! you know your last give away drove me to sheer madness LOL.
Happy Birthday Dear Girl sorry its late.
You new project looks awesome I was drooling over then snipets.
How wonderful your freinds are to give you such a great present love all that your bought
Hi Judy, Your antique books and album are beautiful! I'm, like, *green*, lol.
I was going to guess Christmas Decorations (even though I know you are Jewish) but they look the right sort of shape and what do sparkly baubles have to do with religion anyway?
On another note - I adore the wonderful books you bought - where in Sydney is this antiquarian - I live in Sydney too and simply must know?????
I am also hoping that your work will go on display somewhere at some time in a gallery or perhaps the Jewish Museum in the city - I would love the opportunity to see it up close and personal - it's so moving and impactful.
What....am I a mind reader? Is there a clue there somewhere? I'll guess that there is metal in there somewhere.
I DO know however that I missed your birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY!!!!!
I am drooling over everything in this post. Your work, your choice of a gift for yourself (my birthday is in February BTW) your secrets.
What IS in the bubble wrap?
art supplies! chemicals.
I'm only guessing this because everytime I order varnish, it is shipped that way. Bizarre huh?
salt and vinegar chips!! LOL
Happy Belated birthday and the snippets you've added to your blog are scrumptious!
I love your birthday book and the photo album you treated yourself to. Beautiful! Also enjoyed the sneak peeks of what you are working on. I can't wait to see more!
Hmmm, I can't imagine what's in the bubble wrap, but it would be fun if it was full of bisque dolls!
Oh Judy,you are a temptress!!! I would so like to know what you are making. The album looks wonderful!
As to the box it holds bubble wrapped parcels (hehe),I see copper and I see blue ...I am going to vote for shoes, or perhaps Michaels's supplies arriving ahead of him ...
Judy you've excelled again, the 'project' looks magnificent, can't wait to see it complete. I know what's in the package so I won't cheat.
Hi Judy Happy birthday to you, we share the same day.
Love that antique book, that is very drool worthy.
I am going to guess it is a box of rusty elements and some piano paper wrapped in bubble wrap..
Happy belated Birthday cutie!!!!! Hope it was the best ever:D
your project is so inticing...i can't wait to see it when you're finished. and that photo album is beyond amazing.
I once missed the opportunity to buy a pair of bronze angel-wings at a flee-market in Brussels.... I was pissed-off with my husband - and he had all the money! Ah well! So I think your box is full of angel wings!
happy birthday a little late...i believe it is a door knocker ot handle part thing...happy thanksgiving from te USA my friend...rebecca
Your new project looks intriguing. Don't keep it a secret for too long, ok? :)
Oh and a belated Happy Birthday! Hope the year ahead is everything you'd wish. What lovely books you've discovered.
Wish I was there for your Birthday we will have to celebrate your half birthday in the spring complete with cake darling.
Lovely goodies and the book is to DIE for!
The doll parts are exquisite.