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Praise Ye the LORD
(Psalm 148:1-5) Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [be] above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
(Genesis 1:1-19) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
(Psalm 136:1-9) O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever: The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever: The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
The Root of the Righteous
(Proverbs 12:12-14) The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit]. The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
(Proverbs 13:2, 3) A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
(Proverbs 18:20-22) A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
(Proverbs 12:2-7) A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit. The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
(Proverbs 31:10-27) Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
The Law of the LORD
(Psalm 19:7-10) The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
(Psalm 119:1-3) ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
(Psalm 1:1-6) Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
(Psalm 18:30, 31) [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
(Psalm 95:1-6) O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also. The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land]. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
(Psalm 96:4-6) For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Honour and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary.
(Psalm 97:9) For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
Before Honour is Humility
(Proverbs 26:1-3) As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
(Proverbs 26:8) As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a fool.
(Proverbs 22:4) By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life.
(Proverbs 10:27, 28) The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
(Proverbs 15:29-33) The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat. The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] humility.
(Proverbs 13:18-21) Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil. He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
(Isaiah 5:20-23) Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
(Proverbs 17:13-15) Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.
The Wise
(Proverbs 1:5) A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
(Proverbs 9:8-10) Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
(Proverbs 15:12-18) A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast. Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.
(Proverbs 14:6) A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy unto him that understandeth.
(Proverbs 10:12-23) Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding. Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction. The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty. The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise. The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
(Proverbs 17:10) A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
(Ecclesiastes 10:12, 13) The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness.
The Eye of the LORD
(Proverbs 29:2) When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
(Psalm 11:4-7) The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup. For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
(Psalm 33:5-19) He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance. The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
(Psalm 34:9, 10) O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].
(Psalm 147:9-11) He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry. He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
(Psalm 36:5, 6) Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds. Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
My Lord and My God
(1 Timothy 2:1-6) I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
(Romans 10:6-9) But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
(Mark 16:9-16) Now when [Jesus] was risen early the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. [And] she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told [it] unto the residue: neither believed they them. Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
(John 20:24-29) But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust [it] into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.
Servants to God
(Romans 8:5-9) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(Romans 7:5-7) For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
(Romans 6:14-23) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(John 8:31-36) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The Mouth of the Righteous
(Proverbs 11:27) He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
(Proverbs 17:20) He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
(Proverbs 11:18-20) The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward. As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death. They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.
(Proverbs 10:6-11) Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
(Proverbs 6:12-19) A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
(Proverbs 19:8, 9) He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish.
(Proverbs 14:5) A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
(Proverbs 12:17-22) [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment. Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.
The Son of God
(Luke 1:26-35) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord [is] with thee: blessed [art] thou among women. And when she saw [him], she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
(Matthew 2:1-15) Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard [these things], he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found [him], bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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On a night in which players and spectators could literally see the hot, humid air that enveloped Prince George's Stadium, Bowie Baysox catcher and Lipscomb University product Caleb Joseph could not be faulted for being one of the last players to leave the clubhouse after spending all nine innings behind the plate amid virtually unbearable conditions.
Selected in the seventh round of the 2008 amateur baseball draft by the Baltimore Orioles, Joseph has gradually climbed through the minor league system. He spent the latter part of the 2008 season at short-season Aberdeen, spent all of 2009 at single-A Frederick and has been with Bowie since the outset of the 2010 season. Through Wednesday's game against Harrisburg, Joseph is batting .264 (74 for 280) with 13 doubles, six homers and one triple, scored 34 runs and driven in another 33.
As a junior in 2008 at Lipscomb, Joseph batted .342 with 17 home runs and 89 hits, establishing new school single-season records in both categories that still stand. One year earlier he led the team in batting average (.335), doubles (25), home runs (8), total bases (125), on-base percentage (.395) and slugging percentage (.566), while second on the team in hits (74) and runs scored (45).
Joseph started all four seasons at Franklin High School and was selected to the Tennessee High Schools All-State team in 2005 when he was also chosen as the Mid-state Player of the Year. One year earlier at Franklin, Joseph had earned All-County honors at Franklin and was selected as the Mid-state offensive player of the year. He then chose Lipscomb over the University of Arkansas, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Belmont, primarily for the chance to play early and often at a school in his home state.
"Basically, I chose Lipscomb because I thought they were about to turn the program around," Joseph said. "I thought that I could go there and play right away. There's a long family history there. It worked out really well for me. I was part of some really good teams and I got plenty of playing time. It was an honor to get drafted. Everyone dreams of playing in the major leagues. I know Matt [Wieters] is up there now, but I want to stay ready and stay focused, because you just never know."
Bowie manager Gary Kendall is in his first season with the Baysox, but coached Joseph three years ago when both were at Aberdeen.
"Caleb does a good job back there," Kendall said. "For a guy that played three years of college and then had only one season in short A and one year at single-A, he's learned the pitchers quickly and made the adjustments. We had him batting 3-4-5 last year, but I think he's more comfortable around 6-7-8 where he's been batting most of the year. He's been hitting up around .270 most of the season and anytime you can get that from a catcher that's smart and good defensively, you have to be pleased. I think he's done a great job with the staff."
Bowie hitting coach Denny Hocking has gained an appreciation for Joseph this spring, although he admitted he would like to see the Lipscomb product adhere to one batting stance at the plate and then stay with it.
"Caleb knows the game and he works hard at every aspect," Hocking said. "He's great with the pitchers and he's hitting the ball well this year. I would still like to see him be more consistent at the plate. He changes his stance often. One day he looks like Derek Lee and the next he'll look like Gary Carter. He's having a solid year behind the plate and at the plate, but I'd just like to get him to develop more consistency with his stance."
But Joseph contends he is hardly making a rebellious statement by changing his stance.
"It's all of matter of feeling comfortable at the plate," Joseph said. "When you're batting fourth or fifth the expectations are a lot higher. I feel good batting in the six or seven spot in the order."
Baysox second-year pitching coach Kenny Steenstra has watched the Baysox staff work with Joseph in 2010 and 2011 and through that span of roughly 250 games he has also liked what he's seen from the Lipscomb University product.
"Caleb does a great job working with the guys," Steenstra said. "He's very smart and he knows the game and he's gotten familiar with the hitters. He calls a good game back there and I think he and the pitchers get on the same page quickly. He's developed a really good chemistry with the entire staff. You don't see too many of the guys shaking him off during a game."
Bowie southpaw pitcher Mike Ballard, a mid-season arrival who did not suffer his first loss with the Baysox until last Wednesday [July 27] morning in a 6-3 setback to the visiting Harrisburg Senators, has quickly gained an appreciation for working with Joseph.
"I've only been here since June 2, but he's great to work with," said Ballard, who is 5-1 since joining the Baysox staff and had walked only five batters in his first 60 innings on the mound with Bowie. "He does a great job calling a game and he sets up well back there. Anytime you can get on the same page with your catcher before the game starts it makes things a lot easier for both of you. He knows the hitter's strengths and weaknesses and he understands how to set-up the hitters."
On a night in which players and spectators could literally see the hot, humid air that enveloped Prince George's Stadium, Bowie Baysox catcher and Lipscomb University product Caleb Joseph could not be faulted for being one of the last players to leave the clubhouse after spending all nine innings behind the plate amid virtually unbearable conditions.

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Depression Links
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Mental Help Net
- Depression/Bipolar Disorder Self-Help Guides and Books
Anonymous Online Depression Symptoms Quiz
To find out if you have symptoms of depression you can take this free, anonymous depression-screening quiz. Screening tests, such as this one, are not intended to provide a diagnosis for clinical depression. But it may help identify any depressive symptoms and determine whether a further evaluation by a mental health professional is necessary. As with any other illness, you should seek professional mental health and/or medical attention if you think you might have symptoms of depression. More than 80 percent of people with depression improve with treatment.
To access this free screening from any campus or residence hall computer, click here.
Understanding Antidepressants
If you're wondering about medication for depression...or your doctor has prescribed it for you, you might have some questions about what antidepressants can (and can't) do, about the proper way to take them, and about the sorts of side effects that you might experience. This brochure will give you an overview of some of these issues, but our real hope is that you'll feel free to have a more in-depth discussion of this information with your Barnard Counseling Services clinician (or your outside mental health provider).or your doctor has prescribed it for you, you might have some questions about what antidepressants can (and can't) do, about the proper way to take them, and about the sorts of side effects that you might experience. This brochure will give you an overview of some of these issues, but our real hope is that you'll feel free to have a more in-depth discussion of this information with your Barnard Counseling Services clinician (or your outside mental health provider).
About Depression
All of us feel down at times, and most of us have experienced moods that we would describe as "depressed." In depression, these feelings become so overwhelming that daily functioning becomes difficult or even impossible. Depression can take different forms in different people, but it commonly includes symptoms like:
● feeling sad or depressed most of the day for
● weeks or months
● lack of emotional response ("I feel numb") loss of interest in the things you usually enjoy
● feelings of hopelessness
● a sense of worthlessness and self-blame
● difficulty concentrating
● changes in appetite, sleep, and/or energy level
● thoughts of death or of hurting yourself
Many people with depression can be treated successfully without medication. However, when people experience symptoms that are particularly intense and/or prolonged, medication can have an important role in treatment. Antidepressants will not "fix" everything, but they can help to lessen your symptoms so that you begin to function better — and that can let you work through other problems more productively.
How Antidepressants Work
Many different factors can have a role in causing depression, such as genetics, chemical changes in the body, external events, life circumstances, and cognitive and interpersonal styles. Research suggests that, for some people, depression is linked to the functioning of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Antidepressants are thought to correct imbalances in these chemicals. All antidepressants, however, take time to work: therapeutic response typically occurs within two to four weeks after treatment is started. In addition, treatment often involves "fine-tuning" of your medication. Because each person responds uniquely, your doctor may recommend a change in dosage, or of the medication itself, during the treatment process.
The Importance of Counseling
We believe that the most effective way to use antidepressants in the treatment of depression is in combination with psychotherapy. As explained, medication can help improve many of the symptoms of depression, but it can't change the events, thoughts, behaviors, or interpersonal patterns that may also be contributing factors. Working through issues in these areas is a fundamental part of treatment, and also builds a foundation for the maintenance of your recovery later on. By working with a therapist who is collaborating with your doctor (or with a psychiatrist who sees you for therapy as well as medication), you can begin to explore, understand, and resolve personal concerns as the medication helps to relieve some of your physical and mood-related symptoms.
What About Side Effects?
Like many medications, antidepressants may cause side effects that are mild and temporary in most people. Common side effects include nausea, diarrhea or constipation, dry mouth, drowsiness, light-headedness, sleep changes, nervousness or over activation, and changes in sexual interest. While more severe side effects are not common, they are possible. Your doctor will talk to you about the side effects associated with your particular antidepressant, and during follow-up sessions, will ask you about your response to the medication. You should immediately report to your doctor any unusual side effects, or those that interfere with your ability to work or study.
Interactions With Other Medications
When taking an antidepressant, it is important to be aware of the potential for interaction with other drugs (prescribed or over-the-counter) that you may be taking. Be sure to talk to your doctor about any medications, supplements, or herbal products that you are using. You will also need to let your other health care providers know that you are taking an antidepressant before you receive any subsequent prescriptions. In particular, antidepressants can interact with antihistamines, cold and allergy medications, diet pills, thyroid medications, blood pressure medications, and other psychoactive medications that you may be taking. Finally, the use of alcohol, which is a potent depressant, can reduce the effectiveness of your treatment, and is to be avoided.
Making the Decision
If your counselor believes that your depression might respond well to medication, she/he owes it to you to suggest it. Even when antidepressants are suggested, however, the final decision is yours. Whether you find yourself leaning toward or against trying an antidepressant, be sure to explore all your thoughts, questions, and hesitations about medication with your counselor or doctor.
1. Are antidepressants addictive?Currently-prescribed medications approved for the treatment of depression are not considered addictive.
2. Will the medication change my personality?Medication will not change who you are as a person. Antidepressants assist people in experiencing the full range of emotions without feeling overwhelmed. This may seem like a personality change, but it is more accurately a sign that you are recovering your ability to react to people and situations in a non-depressed way.
3. My friend is being treated for depression, and her doctor did not suggest medication for her. Why did mine suggest it for me? Is it because my problems are really bad? Depression takes different forms in different people, so that two people who have depression can have completely different symptoms. Antidepressant medication is for depression where specific types of symptoms are present. Similarly, an antidepressant that helped a friend or family member may not work for you. Your doctor will assess your unique symptom pattern to determine whether a particular medication (or any at all) is indicated for you.
4. How long will I have to take my medication? Your doctor will continuously assess the effects of your treatment, but typically, people take antidepressants for 8 to 12 months or longer. It can be tempting to stop taking your medication as soon as you feel better, but stopping too soon without "tapering off" can result in the return of your symptoms.


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Many local FFA members competed in various events last week at the State FFA Convention at Kansas State University. Some members walked away with several awards and scholarships.
Carrie Carlson of Center was honored as she finished her term as the state FFA vice president.
Vance Klassen of Hillsboro and Cade Harms of Marion-Florence were named to the state FFA chorus directed by Zac Malcolm of Clay Center. They were part of two performances during the convention on May 28 and Friday.
Aidan Cairns of the Marion-Florence chapter was named to the state band and preformed in two concerts at the convention on May 28 and Friday.
Public speaking
Heath Goertzen of Goessel placed fourth in a public speaking contest where he had to talk about a the impacts of climate change on agriculture production after only 30 minutes to prepare.
Nicholas Meyer of the Marion-Florence chapter placed third in a prepared public speaking contest.
Members of the Centre FFA chapter took second place in the scrapbook competition on Thursday. The scrapbook showed the chapter's accomplishments and activities during the previous year.
Meyer, Clint Kroupa, and Alicia Maloney earned state proficiency awards for their work in developing programs that will prepare them for careers in agriculture.
Mackenzie Deines, Kevin Lewis, Grant Srajer, Bryanna Svoboda, and Timothy Vinduska of Centre and Clint Kroupa, Caitlyn Maloney, and Meyer all received state degrees, which is the highest honor the Kansas FFA Association can bestow.
Members earning degrees have been FFA members for two years, earned at least $2,000 or worked 600 hours in an agricultural experience program, as well as academic stipulations, and community involvement.
Ty Simons of Center and Cody Delk of Hillsboro each received a $1,000 scholarship from Ford.
Meyer received a $1,000 scholarship from Orscheln Farm and Home Stores for his work in farm-related activities, community involvement, and scholastic achievements.
Meyer and Bret Voth of Marion-Florence received scholarships from the Universal Technical Institute for placing in the top three in the agricultural mechanics career development event at state.
Justin Deines of Centre, and Chase Meisinger and Ethan Oborny of Hillsboro each received a scholarship from the National FFA Foundation, which awarded $133,000 in scholarships to Kansas FFA members this year.
Cassidy Hill of Centre received a scholarship from Kansas FFA Alumni to attend the Washington Leadership Conference this summer at Washington, D.C.


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UnNews:NSA bored with your conversations
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
13 November 2007
FORT MEADE, Maryland -- Agents in the highly-secretive wiretapping division of the National Security Agency, also highly-secretive, really wish that you would spice up your phone conversations.
"We're a taxpayer funded organization." says NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander. "In order for us to provide value for your tax dollars you're going to have to loosen up on the phone."
The NSA, whose annual budget is classified, spends what some refer to as "...an assload of money just to listen to you bicker with your ex-wife." Others prefer to call this assload of money "a whole bunch" just in case there are children listening. NSA documents acquired via the Freedom of Information Act reveal that there are, in fact, children listening. These children are employees of NSA Jr., a sub-department of the NSA whose budget is also classified, but rumoured to be a somewhat smaller assload of money. Analysts who cover NSA Jr. don't have to soften their budget-analysing speech, as the Baby NSA program, which uses newborns to spy on those who predict the budget of the children who spy on those who predict the budget of the adults who spy on you, has not yet been stood up. A cursory analysis indicates that the Baby NSA department's budget will be an even smaller, and potentially adorable, assload of money.
"You can't pinch pennies when you're trying to catch Al Qaeda," continues Lt. Gen. Alexander "and you definitely can't skimp when you're trying to filter through millions of phone calls for the few saucy ones where people admit how horny they are when they are told by the people on the other end of the line just exactly what they are wearing. We're fighting a war, here."
"If you really want to help us, and as good Americans you do," interjected NSA Deputy Director Mr. John Inglis, "all you have do to is preface every phone call with a quick summary of what you are about to talk about. Keep it simple; start out with your exact location, followed by a quick physical description of yourself, then move on to a terse summary of the planned conversation, like 'I am going to bomb New York', or 'Honey, I am so hot for you right now', or perhaps something about the temperature and moistness of your nether regions. Here at the NSA we're concerned with the safety of the Free World. As such it's vital that we know what you are going to blow up or what type of underwear you are slowly sliding down your silken legs and just how erect your tight pink nipples are."
The United States of America, aided by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, operates ECHELON, a widely-known top secret program that intercepts a wide variety of electronic communications worldwide. While details on the system are clouded by bafflegab, obfuscation and misinformation, it is known that the system scours telephone conversations and e-mail messages for terrorist codewords for things like "bombs", "bombing" and "bombers". Commonly used codewords for these things include "breasts", "lingerie" and "booty call".
"And stop calling your parents. We're tired of uncomfortable conversations with your mother about your continuing failure to provide her with grandchildren, and we simply don't want to hear your father lazily inquire about how your car is running. Just because we don't need a warrant to listen to your conversations doesn't mean that we're spying on you just for kicks. That would be sick. Now, tell the person you're calling what you're wearing." closed Agent X, a data-mining operative, bottle of lotion at hand.
- B. Brother "Privacy Shmivacy". the internets, November 11, 2007
- B. Brother Jr. "Rights Shmights". the internets, December 6, 2007


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Tuesday's report reverses a two-year rise in public satisfaction with government services.
Public satisfaction with government websites fell across the board in the last quarter when the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration's online health insurance marketplace, put government website performance front and center, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Satisfaction with government websites fell two points in the quarter from a score of 74 to 72 out of 100 on the American Consumer Satisfaction Index , while satisfaction with government services generally fell 3.4 percent to 66.1 on the ACSI scale.
Satisfaction with government Web and other services had grown over the past two years before rebounding this quarter. Just over one third of people polled by ACSI say they interact with the government most often online.
User satisfaction with the Health and Human Services Department, which manages HealthCare.gov, dropped from 69 to 66 on the ACSI scale. The index did not specifically track satisfaction with HealthCare.gov itself.
"Compared with the private sector, the federal government now lags nearly all industries in the index," ACSI said in a press release. "Only Internet service providers carry a lower customer satisfaction benchmark of 65. Still, the very best federal agency services continue to rival the private sector."
The government's best performers include the U.S. Mint and the Education Department's Free Application for Federal Student Aid office.
Tuesday's report was based on interviews with 1,448 users, chosen at random and contacted via telephone and email between Oct. 11 and Dec. 8, 2013.
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As you continue down the entry road (you are crossing the 15th fairway between Woody and the clubhouse) you come upon one of the most beautiful clubhouses in the golf world, which fits perfectly into the landscape with its beautiful ochre color.
The Country Club has a unique name not because they are pretentious but because they were the first country club in the U.S., and I would have to say that they did it right. It would be difficult to improve on anything they've done here. You approach the clubhouse around an oval driveway. Ahead of you is an old building that is the men's locker room. To your right are several other buildings - one used for curling, another houses the enclosed tennis courts, another for squash, etc. The place is a bee-hive of activity. Although it is only five miles from downtown Boston, when The Country Club was built it truly was a club located in the country with a variety of sporting activities including, originally, horse racing, which is no longer present. A club for all seasons, there is an ice skating pond with an associated club house down near the middle of the course.
The view from the 9th fairway
I was lucky enough to play The Country Club on a brilliant day, and it was very enjoyable. The course has the most varied routing I have ever seen. It follows the contours of the land and meanders its way around the property. More than a half dozen times I was surprised when the member or caddy pointed in the opposite direction of where I thought we were going to go to the next tee box. The course was designed by a variety of people; originally by Willie Campbell, with modifications by William Flynn, Geoff Cornish and Rees Jones with no singular influence being exerted. One of the features that you find throughout the course are the glacial rock formations that holes are routed through and around, such as the par five 11th hole, aptly called Himalayas, seen below. You hit your tee shot on this hole from a high, elevated tee to a crevice in the rock canyon on the left side of the fairway. Midway between the bottom of the canyon and the elevated green is a creek that runs through the bottom of the hole. Not the type of hole you see every day and one that really uses the geography present to maximum advantage.
Rocks from the last ice age feature prominently on the 11th hole
The terrain for the 18 holes is quite hilly and used to good effect, although it is not a terribly difficult course to walk. I know I am beating a drum on this topic, but I am again struck by how the world's great golf courses contain so many blind shots, which I really like. The #1 handicap hole, the third, seen below, is another case in point with a blind second shot to the green.
Blind second shot on the 3rd hole at The Country Club
View of the green, hole #3, from the fairway
The course also has a Redan hole, the short 12th, although it is a non-traditional version of the Redan. The hole plays from an elevated tee sharply down hill and is only 130 yards. Although it's not a typical Redan hole, I thought it was very good and guarded by a plethora of bunkers in the front. We had just completed playing the front nine and were walking down the hill back toward the tenth tee. The tenth and first tees essentially share the same very large tee box. If a group is teeing off on one tee box, good etiquette calls for you to wait for the other group to hit before you do so and vice versa.As we were coming down the hill there were about 15 young golfers mingling around by the first tee, all wearing khakis and crimson polo shirts. As we approached, I noted that they all looked perfect. Perfectly fit, perfectly groomed, good looking, confident and athletic. It was the Harvard golf team (men's and women's), with monogramed Harvard golf bags, who use The Country Club as their golf course. It really made me think how privileged they were. Let's see, you look like Richard Gere or Jennifer Aniston, you go to (arguably) the best college in the world, are athletic, smart and play on the golf team. Is it possible to have a brighter future? These kids have got life by the balls. If anyone has ever told you that life was fair, they were lying.
I had a good caddy at The Country Club, although I had a tough time understanding him with his heavy Boston accent. After my drive on the first hole I had "143 yaawds" to the green and somehow managed a "great paah" after missing the green.
The 17th hole at The Country Club is one of the most historic in the game. It is where Francis Ouimet won the playoff against Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in 1913 to pull off one of the biggest upsets in golf history by winning the U.S. Open at age 20 as an amateur, against two of the world's best. It is also the famous green where Justin Leonard made his monster putt during the 1999 Ryder Cup and then the Americans had the unseemly, but justified, celebration on the green. I would say that the green looks a lot different than it does on TV. The green is long and narrow and is two-tiered. The putt Leonard made is even more impressive to me now, having seen how much break there is, given the two tiers.
The greens at The Country Club are all small. Along with Inverness and Pebble Beach, among the smallest in championship golf. Another unique feature of the course are the small chocolate-drop style mounds that are present around some of the greens. They force you to play from an uneven lie as a penalty for a missed green.
Like other turn-of-the-century clubs, The Country Club jealously guards the traditions of the game, thankfully. The Country Club is an old-school place to play. Like at Oakmont, you need a medical exemption to take a cart. They believe, rightly, that you should walk if you can. This policy also has the positive impact of allowing them to continue to support the noble profession of caddying.
Truth be told, Boston is not one of my favorite cities. I have always found it a bit uptight and stuffy. I was pleasantly surprised by my experience in Brookline. The club is family oriented, welcoming and not pretentious. Sitting in the dining room is a treat since the place drips with history. Most of the women sitting having lunch the day I was there were modeled after Julia Child: big-boned, elegant and proper. I also noted more than a fair share of men wearing bow ties at the club. No doubt, they still have a number of Boston Brahmins around with names like Saltonstall, Cabot, Peabody and Putnam!
The idyllic setting at The Country Club
"To me, the property around here is hallowed. The grass grows greener, the trees bloom better, there is even warmth in the rocks. And I don't know...but somehow or other the sun seems to shine brighter on The Country Club than on any other place that I have ever seen" -- Francis Ouimet


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The Great Ponsonby Art Hotel: A True Ponsonby Experience
More than a boutique hotel. A place to stay for those who have a passion for life and wish to enjoy Auckland.
The Great Ponsonby Art Hotel is one of the finest places to stay in New Zealand. Our crew will help you make your time in Auckland and New Zealand a wonderful experience. Ponsonby is known as the hippest strip in Auckland. We look forward to hosting you and making your time with us special.
Travel adds extra stress to the already demanding working day. And to make it worse, come evening, there's nowhere to call home. Luxury hotels present an impressive face - doormen at attention, reception staff in starched uniforms, soaring lobbies, indoor gardens...
But it's hard to feel at home in an environment shared with busloads of tourists or in an air-conditioned, beige and cream suite with all the warmth of a hospital ward. The modern traveler needs an environment which emphasizes comfort rather than the brand identity of an international hotel chain, a place to feel like a guest - not a battery hen.
The Great Ponsonby Art Hotel is in a quiet cul-de-sac, an easy stroll from the heart of Auckland's eating areas - an oasis of unique style and comfort in the inner city; a place where small is beautiful and where creature comforts mean more than design.
And our environment means the world: natural wood insulation; eco kitchen, cleaning and laundry; worm farm and compost, herb garden, fejoas from the hedges, free range/organic eggs, organic and Fairtrade coffee, select local suppliers, recycled paper, carbon offset scheme - sustainability at work.


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Tech changes museums?
What's the latest from Mashable on museums and technology?
How Tech is Changing the Museum, is the latest post from Mashable Tech highlighting three museum's approach to technology. As they note: "Museums are exploring digital and mobile technologies to enhance visitor experience. Initiatives go beyond technology within exhibits and installations, but also include more pervasive uses of tech to create interactive experiences for visitors throughout a museum, as well as remote experiences for those who cannot get there."
The case studies outline some cool work going on. There is a longer blog post about the Powerhouse Museum's experiences on their blog, and find out more about the work across our sector follow the hastag #mtogo on Twitter.
We're just about to launch our first app next week, DangerOz, so watch this space for more...


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How do I borrow an item that is checked out to someone else?
If an item isn't available, you can request that it be held for you through the online catalog. You can also request it by contacting your library. You will be notified by email or phone when the item is ready for pick-up.


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I feel more and more Americans are exploring the idea of living in paradise with a higher quality of life at a fraction of the cost
- Jerad Portner, CRREC
Tamarindo, Guanacaste (PRWEB) December 29, 2012
The country of Costa Rica - located in Central America and only a few degrees from the equator - offers an incredible selection of properties for sale including some fantastic bargains on lavish homes and condominiums.
Through the years the country has seen its housing market rise and fall with the effects of global and local economy, however as of late there has been a trend towards Costa Rica homes for sale.
Amongst the many advantages of investment in Costa Rica real estate - the most obvious being value for your dollar - the overall segment has remained relatively steady. Sure there were times where the market was soft however for the most part Costa Rica fended well through the global storm of economic turmoil and has in fact since shown signs of strong recovery.
Economists have forecasted a rise in real estate sales through 2013 as compared to last year. Tourist arrivals - often a good indicator of the success of many markets - have steadily risen since 2010 and early indicators are showing more of the same throughout the new year.
In 2011, the Costa Rica airport- Daniel Oduber International - in Liberia, Guanacaste, was expanded to facilitate the rising number of arrivals to the region. Additionally, the San Jose Juan Santamaria International airport was also renovated for the same reason. Clearly Costa Rica is preparing themselves for a prosperous 2013 season.
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"With economical and political uncertainty throughout the US - coupled with a weak housing market and rising mortgage rates - I feel more and more Americans are exploring the idea of living in paradise with a higher quality of life at a fraction of the cost back home."
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When W. H. Auden died, in 1973, no one would have imagined that thirty years later he would come back as the poet of another age, our own. He seemed miserable and seedy then, having made a failed return to Oxford after two decades on St. Marks Place in the East Village and become the model of a modern poet who had lost his way and got stranded on an island of his own pet phrases. The obituaries, though large, mostly quoted his lyrics from the thirties: "As I Walked Out One Evening" or "Lullaby" ("Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm . . .") or, more brazenly, the line from "September 1, 1939"—"We must love one another or die"—which he had pointedly cut from his own canon. The body of poetry that he produced after his emigration to America, in 1939, was pretty poorly regarded—Philip Larkin, once a disciple, had written a brisk, common-sense dismissal of it as "a rambling intellectual stew," while the greatest American reviewer, Randall Jarrell, another apostate, referred to the later Auden manner as one of a man "who has turned into a rhetoric mill grinding away at the bottom of Limbo."
Yet, at the beginning of the new century, he is an indispensable poet. Even people who don't read poems often turn to poetry at moments when it matters, and Auden matters now. In the eighties, his lyric "Stop All the Clocks" became the elegy of the AIDS era, sold on bookstore counters, by the registers. In the nineties, Robert Hughes led off his memorable polemic against postmodernism "The Culture of Complaint" with a long, marvelling quote from Auden's Christmas oratorio, "For the Time Being," where the liberal King Herod mourns the loss of rational consensus in the face of feckless sectarianism. In the past year, Auden has been everywhere, by the sheer force of popular will. Two of his lyrics about suffering and confusion—"Musée des Beaux Arts" and "September 1, 1939"—sprang to renewed life after last September 11th as the embodiments of our mood, posted on Web sites and subway walls. Even fashion models, and not just fashion models, now name their sons Auden, as they might ten years ago have called them Dylan, and pose with them on the cover of Vogue.
The odd thing is that Auden's poems are often saying the reverse of what we have now decided to hear. "Stop All the Clocks" was written as a jaunty, Noël Coward-like ironic pastiche of a mourning song, unmoored from grief—no more meant to be taken seriously as an elegy ("Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone"?) than "You're the Top" is to be taken seriously as a love poem. The quote from "For the Time Being" that Hughes used so effectively to warn against the mess the world can become in the absence of rationality was first meant to demonstrate the opposite—the rational voice, after all, is Herod's as he orders the massacre of the innocents. And "September 1, 1939," far from being a call to renewed conscience after a period of drift, is actually a call to irony and apolitical retreat, a call not to answer any call.
But, past a certain point, poets can't be misread, not by an entire time, no more than an entire family can misread a father: the homecoming noises in the hallway are the man; the accumulated impression is the poet. What matters is the sound he makes. Auden's emotional tone is our tone, even if his meanings are not always our meanings.
That Auden tone, the one that matters most now, was made in New York between 1939 and 1948, when Auden came to this city and made it his home. In those nine years, he underwent an extraordinary transformation, which implicated every line on his face. He entered as the smooth-faced mysterious druid of the English industrial landscape, the Marxist lyricist who spellbound a generation, and he emerged as the boozy, creased, garrulous Auden who lasted. He taught, loved, wrote more journalism than seems quite possible, and produced the four long poems that remain the astounding heart of his work: "For the Time Being," a Nativity oratorio in modern dress; "New Year Letter," an abstract philosophical poem in Swiftian couplets; "The Age of Anxiety," a pastoral eclogue set in a New York bar and written in alliterative verse; and "The Sea and the Mirror," a commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest." At last, we have a big book in which we can step into the quarry of the ideas, good and bad, from which he mined those four poems, and that is the second volume of Princeton's complete edition of Auden's prose, edited by Edward Mendelson and called, simply, "Prose: Volume II, 1939-1948" ($45).
The essays are overwhelming in the number and variety of the subjects addressed, ideas aired, capital letters employed, and systems invented to prove a small point. When one recalls that they are merely the garden wall on which the ivy of the decade's poems grew, and that not even the whole wall is there—for instance, the recently collected lectures on Shakespeare and the long lecture series of 1948 on the imagery of the sea in Romantic poetry, "The Enchafèd Flood," are not included—they seem as lasting a monument to poetic energy allied to intellectual purpose as we possess. The essays are also a reminder of how many more places a poet could work out his worries in public fifty years ago. There are the now impossible to imagine short essays for Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar and Vogue; there are medium-length, middlebrow essays in the Times Book Review; there are long, chewy pieces for small magazines. There are lots of brief reviews for The Nation, and there are fine original essays on Tennyson and Kipling in particular, but for the most part these are review-essays. The reviewer is given a book on a subject—Baudelaire, Tennyson—by the editor, and gives back an essay not just, in the time-honored manner, on what the author should have thought about the subject, had he been as wise as the reviewer, but on what the subject should have thought about his own experience, had he understood it as well as the poet does. Not only is the biographer told what he should have thought about Tennyson and the Victorian age; Tennyson is told what he should have thought about the Queen.
Auden's mannerisms can be exhausting. Everything has to be explained in typologies, and usually in those capital letters. There are two eternal classes of men, six kinds of erotic love, four kinds of epic heroes. "As a European, Baudelaire inherited three main concepts of the human individual, two of them Greek and one Jewish," we read, and we feel for Baudelaire: what if he had wanted other ones, Armenian or merely French? Some of this is a mistaken, donnish idea of playfulness—Auden's whimsy was second nature to him, while the camp manner he learned in New York (calling the Almighty "Miss God") was willed—but far more of it is a sign of a constant need to bring order to the disorderly. And, even among the absurdities, sentences and ideas sparkle. "For a complete life a man requires six kinds of love," the reader is told, and he sighs and starts to count his fingers with his chin. "For his wife, for his children, for his friends, for his neighbors, for his work, and for God." But then this leads to: "In our time, the secularization of belief . . . the atomization of society . . . tend to deprive him of all but the first. If the average man today is obsessed with sex, it is partly because it seems to him the only sphere in which he is a free agent, in which his failures and his triumphs are really his; hence if he fails here, he has achieved nothing with his life." Philip Roth's early heroes couldn't have put it better.
There are so many subjects, and so many typologies, that it is surprising to see how reliably, in the end, Auden returns to a single theme: the reconciliation of the Christian idea that salvation depends on indiscriminate universal love, exploding categories and communities, with the classical idea that only small circles of friends and lovers can console us for the world's evil. All the essays (and poems, too) might be gathered under a single heading: How to Love All Mankind, While Politely Keeping It Out of Your Garden.
Auden and Christopher Isherwood had come to New York together in 1939—before the war began, but when it was obvious that it was on its way. This was widely seen in England as a betrayal. Evelyn Waugh invented a pair of hypocritical left-wing poets in his war trilogy only to get at Auden and Isherwood. (This was unfair. When the war began, Auden tried to be useful.) In 1939, Auden held a position that can only just be suggested by that of Bob Dylan in 1967: indisputably the voice of his generation, he also wrote in a style so cryptic and allusive that the generation puzzled over what exactly it was that they were supposed to be saying. Something about war and doubt and sex and mining machinery . . .
Arriving in New York, Auden changed, and quickly. He found that it was possible to make a real living, if not by writing poetry then by being a poet. More important, he fell in love with two young Jewish men, Jesus of Nazareth and Chester Kallman of Brooklyn, and wanted to make the two loves one. His return to Christianity began with memories of his mother's Catholic piety, and was pushed forward by his experiences in Spain—where, as he explained, though a passionate Republican, he had been more shocked than he could have imagined by seeing all the churches in Barcelona closed.
Many poets had turned Christian in the preceding decades, of course; the example of Eliot was there before him. But Auden's Christianity was nearly the direct reverse of Eliot's. Where Eliot had looked to religion for order, authority, and tradition, Auden saw in it a radical levelling principle that eliminated hierarchies and distinctions between people—smart and stupid, even good and bad—and left them all sinners in a single boat. He wrote:
**{: .break one} ** The Catholic faith [i.e., the ideal Christian faith], while it condemns no temperament as incapable of salvation, flatters none as being less in peril than any other. In the same way [a Christian] has to make his public confession of belief in a church which is not confined to his sort, to those with whom by nature he feels at home, for in it there is neither Jew nor German, East nor West, boy nor girl, smart nor dumb, boss nor worker, Bohemian nor bourgeois, no elite of any kind; indeed there are not even Christians there, for Christianity is a way, not a state, and a Christian is never something one is, only something one can pray to become. **
Auden understood, with a clarity enforced by distance—he saw the shapes the blood was making, where up close one saw only the spill—that Europe's murderousness took a logical form. What had happened was not an outbreak of barbarism but the consequence of modern ideas, particularly the idea that the world could be made perfect by eliminating imperfections (the Jews, the bourgeoisie).
His Christianity offered, in contrast, no lost age of authority but a series of visionary moments—those Blakean moments when we intimate an order and numinousness in the universe which implies a divine order. (Edmund Wilson dismissed Auden's faith, not entirely unfairly, as "the mythology and animism of childhood.") Again and again, his "vision" is one of remembered grace. "We are always entering paradise but only for a moment," he wrote. And when he invokes Jesus he does so in the language of the nursery rhyme and the fairy tale. In "New Year Letter," concluding his own Christian hymn, he writes:
**{: .break one} ** O Unicorn among the cedars, To whom no magic charm can lead us, White childhood moving like a sigh Through the green woods unharmed in thy Sophisticated innocence. **
But this longing for the numinous was offset or at least complicated by the sex he got and the friends he made in those years. In early 1939, he fell in love with Kallman, a young and, apparently, very beautiful poet, the son of a Brooklyn dentist, and the early idyllic stretches of their affair inspired the most beautiful of modern love poems: "Warm are the still and lucky miles, / White shores of longing stretch away." Kallman was bright and warm and lucky, though not at all still, which turned out to be a problem. He was "out" in a way that Auden had never encountered before in someone he saw as a peer—with no self-doubt or even ironic self-inquiry about his sexual tastes. (Isherwood and Auden were out, too, but their outness consisted of remaining conspiratorially in, on the English principle that nothing is sexier than a secret society.) In two years, Auden went from the furtive English schoolboy's "buggerdom" to the bel-canto opera and camp of Greenwich Village and Fire Island. He and Kallman ended up in drag out on the Island, with Auden dressed up as a cardinal— a Firbank cardinal, but a cardinal.
Surrounded by other émigrés, Auden, who until that time had been very English, became in New York a European. This island unislanded him. His poems to Voltaire, Henry James, and Freud all date from his first two years in New York. (At the same time, he became much less "modern," leaving behind his earlier taste for cinema, pop music, "new styles of architecture," Pylons, and Bauhaus glass.) Fire Island, the New School, plenty of money from Vogue, and love with a dentist's son: to an Englishman abroad, it must have seemed like Paradise.
He was conscious in the forties that the world was as evil as it would ever be, but conscious, too, that he felt as happy as he would ever feel. At one point, he had to have several teeth removed, and he claimed to have had a dream while under the anesthetic. "It's the second time I've had it," he said afterward. "It's all about Chester and salvation. Now I know I can't be damned. The margin of salvation is ever so slight . . . but it's there." Chester and salvation were his theme, and they light from below the essays from the forties. He was too intelligent to confuse the two; but he was too much in love with both not to think that there must be a family relation. This gave his Christianity a curiously worldly cast. Most Christian mystic-poets, from Dante to George Herbert, have accepted unworldliness as at least a poetic premise, or pose: our community of believers in here, your bad world out there. But Auden didn't want to do that, because he didn't feel that way about it. The traditional Christian said fuck the world and love thy neighbor; Auden said love the world and fuck thy neighbor, a related but a distinct thought.
There is in this position, though, a catch, and a rather big one. Catholicism is inclusive; Fire Island is exclusive. All religious circles are open; all circles of friends are closed. Auden tried, conscientiously, to square this circle many times, and the most strenuous ideas in the essays largely involve that effort. The first and easiest way to do it was the way it's usually done: by insisting that erotic and selfish love provided a glimpse of ideal love—"eros" became "agape." His love for Kallman made him upgrade this vision into the more comforting bourgeois notion that erotic love produces married love, which produces community. But soon this view came to seem complacent—and the beloved object proved unfaithful—and so it was replaced with a more romantic view. Erotic love might exist only on its own terms, rather than as a step toward ideal domesticity, but it was still possible, he believed, only within a Christian context, even if it was a Christian heresy. Which was better than nothing, but a heresy it remained, however you gnawed at it.
Perhaps, then, it was not the ideal lover, who in any case strayed, but the ideal community in which he strayed—what if that world, however absurd, was the real community of saints in, so to speak, drag? He played with that idea for a bit, but gave it up as too exclusive, and too conceited. What if, instead, the connection lay in the body itself, in sex; what if the human body was God's metaphor and its experiences the map of God's will? The English poet Charles Williams explored this idea, and Auden seized on it almost before the ink was dry on Williams's poems. But that led right back to the first idea, that sex was God's way of making us religious, which seemed dubious enough . . . On and on the poet searches for a metaphor broad enough to contain his truth, wise enough to convince anyone else that it is one. (Mendelson, in his "Later Auden," teases out the life and death of these attempts with great sympathy.)
The truth was that the two terms could never be reconciled in argument. They could only be dramatized in poetry. And what finally strikes the reader of Auden's essays is how often what is exasperation in his prose becomes eloquent in his poetry: a tension between community—expressed in the idioms of cosmopolitan, urban charm—and ideal love, expressed in the abstract language of theology. The dramatization is the essential situation that recurs in each of his poems: a small group of friends or pickups clinging to each other for comfort, booze, sex, and understanding, holding theological conversations in the eye of a storm, and glimpsing in childhood a better condition, which they recognize as a paradoxical hope—we can't get back, we can. They can be the men on the street of "The Age of Anxiety," or the group invoked in "New Year Letter." In "For the Time Being," the most successful of these poems, they are at once participants in the Nativity story and drunken New Yorkers.
Above all, the tension is made beautiful in the poems by the play between the virtuoso glee of the comic versification and the serious religious and political ideas. In "New Year Letter," for instance, the Swiftian couplets with their reasonable good-humored rhythm play constantly against the frank Goya-like catalogue of the war's horrors:
**{: .break one} ** Who, thinking of the last ten years, Does not hear howling in his ears The Asiatic cry of pain, The shots of executing Spain, See stumbling through his outraged mind The Abyssinian, blistered, blind, The dazed uncomprehending stare Of the Danubian despair, The Jew wrecked in the German cell, Flat Poland frozen into hell. **
The effect of this fugue of sad speech and formal meter is not Brechtian irony but Augustan lucidity: the troubles of a time made momentarily lighter by being seen clear.
In the forties, Auden became a new kind of liberal. No one saw better the limits of liberalism, but what drew him to liberalism was exactly that he could see its limits. His liberalism was tied to his Christianity through its pessimism—about the perfectibility of man and the possibilities of happiness. "Man is not, as the romantics imagined, good by nature," he wrote. "Men are equal not in their capacities and virtues but in their natural bias toward evil. No individual or class, therefore, however superior . . . can claim an absolute right to impose its view of the good upon them. Government must be democratic, the people must have a right to make their own mistakes, and to suffer for them." In an uncanny moment of intellectual parallelism, in 1940 he wrote an essay, "Criticism in a Mass Society," that anticipates Karl Popper's soon to be written "The Open Society and Its Enemies," and uses the same descriptive vocabulary. "There are two types of society: closed societies and open," Auden writes. "When we use the word democracy we do not or should not mean any particular form of political structure; such matters are secondary. What we mean or ought to mean is the completely open society." (The vocabulary seems to derive in both cases from the philosopher Henri Bergson, who uses it, however, in a far more metaphysical way.) Auden shared Popper's sense that open societies were built on skeptical faith rather than on fatuous confidence. "We may not know very much, but we do know something," he maintained, "and while we must always be prepared to change our minds, we must act as best we can in the light of what we do know."
Auden, in a pregnant fragment, even glimpsed what may be the only rational theory of art in an open society: art, he writes, "is one of the most powerful means of transforming closed communities into open ones, in moving people from passion to desire." Instead of inflaming a passion, an incoherent and irrational want, the artist disciplines it to a desire, something exact. He takes a feeling and makes it into a thought—or, at least, a thought-through feeling. This is high-sounding, but it is plain truth. Why were so many, after 9/11, drawn to Auden's poems save that reading them helped us to make the overwhelming passions of the time—fear, rage—into specific desires: to have a voice, to affirm a truth, to speak to a friend, to love more wisely. "For art had set in order sense / And feeling and intelligence, /And from its ideal order grew/Our local understanding too."
His belief in this larger end for poetry, many people have supposed, led him to pontifical gesturing. This was the accusation that both Jarrell and Larkin levelled at him—that he had become in America a merely rhetorical poet, in love with the sound of his own hobbyhorses and abstractions. "An Elks' Convention of the Capital Letters" was how Jarrell dismissed Auden's ideas, which ended, he said, in "a vague humanitarian mysticism." There's something in this—Auden is abstract, and he can be vague. But the abstractions add up. Auden isn't rhetorical, just intellectual. The rhetorical imagination tries to replace real things with abstract categories. The intellectual poet tries to connect individual cases into a common class. Rhetoric attaches great emotion to what turns out to be, in the end, only a name. Intellect gives names to real emotions.When Auden talks, say, about the "Age of Anxiety," he is giving a common feeling a proper name.
The parallel, if slightly contradictory, accusation, produced by Auden's assertions that poetry "makes nothing happen," was that, by insisting on poetry as a game, he reduced it to a plaything. But Auden didn't believe that art was worthless. He believed that it was useless, a very different thing. It didn't save lives or change elections. What it did was be poetry—it offered an alternative to the insistences, the mechanized passions, of mass society. This may be why poets such as Joseph Brodsky worshipped him, while poets like Jarrell and Larkin, so close in other ways, became apostates. Auden, the Eastern Europeans saw, wrote about big public subjects but in a voice that undermined ideologies. Larkin and Jarrell, after all, never had to worry about rhetoric; Auden was the most rhetorical figure they knew. The Eastern Europeans knew what real empty rhetoric sounded like; they had heard it every day of their lives. They recognized Auden as something better than a rhetorical poet. They recognized him as a public poet.
Auden squared his circles the only way New Yorkers can, which is by living in squares and talking in circles. Few writers have ever managed to inhabit so many levels of life. Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Auden did it. Where journalists write about what people are arguing about in public, and novelists about what they are talking about in private, only poets seem able to show that what people argue about in public is identical to what they talk about in private, that what we are arguing about is the sum of our own guilts, fears, anxieties, hopes. And only a handful of poets show that what people are talking about in public and what they are talking about in private is always a variant of what they say to themselves when they are alone, and that, Auden knew, is simply "I wish I were not." If he sometimes sounds in the forties as if he were speaking to us from a very high soapbox in a very big square, well, listen: we can hear him, still. ♦


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � A man and a woman are accused of removing a gun from a New Hampshire courthouse that was misplaced by a security officer.
Police said the Concord District Court officer reported her sidearm was missing from her holster Friday. She believed she misplaced her handgun while using the bathroom. The gun wasn't found.
Security tapes show a woman identified as 24-year-old Courtney Rojek of Pittsfield leaving the bathroom with a handgun minutes after the officer left. Rojek is seen placing the gun on a table and motioning someone over.
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