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Centerville's Archway Trail runs adjacent to a new road on a former railroad corridor that connects downtown to a recently developed neighborhood. The wide, paved trail is one of several open...
|0.6 mi
The Buck Creek Trail runs between Buck Creek State Park and Plum Street by Wittenberg University. At its eastern end in Buck Creek State Park, the trail makes a loop and heads into 2 different...
|6.1 mi
The Canal Feeder Trail begins at Graceland Cemetery on the south end of Sidney and continues southwest on a former historical canal towpath dating back to the 1840s. The paved trail parallels the...
|2.4 mi
The Cardinal Greenway, the longest rail-trail in Indiana, connects Marion, Muncie, Losantville, Richmond and a host of other small towns in rural northeastern Indiana. The trail takes its name from...
|62 mi
The Celina Coldwater Bikeway is an early rail-with-trail project from the 1980s. Long a popular trail, users follow the Penn Central Railroad between the village of Coldwater and the city of Celina,...
|4.61 mi
The Creekside Trail is part of a network of more than 340 miles of trails that travel throughout Ohio's scenic Miami Valley. The route follows a nature-filled corridor offering many opportunities for...
|15.2 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete
The Dayton Kettering Connector combines a historic rail-trail and bike lanes, and shared road riding for 7 miles between the two municipalities. The off-road portion is 1.9 miles long and sits in the...
|1.9 mi
The East Bank Path sits, as its name suggests, on the east shoreline of Grand Lake St. Marys, a whopping 13,500 acre man-made reservoir that is Ohio's largest. The trail travels 1.4 miles south from...
|1.4 mi
The Franklin Township Greenway Trail runs on flat terrain through conservation, agriculture and residential areas just beyond the southern shoreline of Grand Lake, Ohio's largest inland lake. Portions...
|6.5 mi
The Great American Rail-Trail highlights some of the country's most iconic landmarks, well-known geography and storied history across a 3,700-miles-plus route between Washington and Washington....
|3743.9 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
The Great Miami River Trail is the backbone of one of the nation's largest paved trail networks, spanning 340 miles throughout Ohio's Miami Valley. The route connects beautiful natural areas, small...
|86.2 mi
How can a trail be great and little? When it connects two of the Miami Valley's most popular regional trails, the Great Miami River Trail in the west, to the Little Miami Scenic Trail in the east. The...
|7 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete
Hydraulic Canal Run begins in picturesque French Park, where stands of mature trees provide the perfect shady spots to picnic. From here, you can also connect to Piqua City Linear Park, a rail-trail...
|2.3 mi
The 7-mile Iron Horse Trail (open in two disconnected segments) utilizes approximately 2 miles of former Penn Central right-of-way, providing users a pleasant route through neighborhoods, as well as a...
|7.6 mi
The James Ranch Connecting Spur provides an important link between two major trails spiraling out of the trail hub of Xenia. On its east end, the trail connects to the Little Miami Scenic Trail, which...
|1.2 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete
The Lima Rotary Riverwalk trail follows the southeast bank of the meandering Ottowa River between Heritage Park southwest of Lima and Schoonover Park northeast of city center. At its north end, the...
|13.3 mi
The Little Miami Scenic Trail is a jewel in the crown of Ohio rail-trails, spanning just over 78 miles from the outskirts of Cincinnati to Springfield over historical bridges and through tranquil...
|78.1 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete
The Mad River Trail offers a paved route connecting a handful of parks along its namesake river in northeastern Dayton. The scenic pathway is also part of one of the nation's largest network of paved,...
|7.1 mi
The Miami & Erie Canal was built between 1825 and 1845, an engineering marvel stretching from Cincinnati to Toledo. This canal was heavily used until competition from the railroad caused the decline...
|36.6 mi
|Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Henry County segment of the National Road Heritage Trail runs for nearly 5 miles over two segments. One runs from N. West Street in Raysville east to CR 425 W in Ogden (2 miles); the other between...
|5 mi
|Crushed Stone
Connersville's Nickel Plate Trail is situated in rural eastern Indiana, not far from the state's border with Ohio. Its trailhead is located at the intersection of 32nd Street and Park Road and, from...
|0.75 mi
The Ohio to Erie Trail is a colossal project, not just for the state of Ohio but also nationally. Dreamed up more than 25 years ago, this route will eventually connect the Ohio River in Cincinnati to...
|271.9 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
Piqua City Linear Park was constructed on an abandoned railroad bed from the city's easternmost point to its westernmost point. Midway, it connects to the Great Miami River Trail and is part of the...
|5.5 mi
The 29-mile Prairie Grass Trail is one of four rail-trails that radiate from Xenia Station, the hub of a vast, paved trail network in southwestern Ohio. The site is a former Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)...
|29.2 mi
Seamlessly spanning the 35.5-mile distance between the Ohio communities of Bellefontaine and Springfield, the Simon Kenton Trail presents visitors with ample opportunities for recreation and wildlife...
|35.5 mi
|Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Steve Whalen Boulevard Bikeway is a short neighborhood trail in East Dayton. The trail parallels the boulevard of the same name, starting at its intersection with Hamilton Avenue, and then heading...
|0.7 mi
The Stillwater River Bikeway winds through Dayton's northern suburbs, following the tree-lined eastern shore of its namesake waterway for much of the way. Two disconnected segments of trail are...
|7.1 mi
The paved Tecumseh Trail skirts the quaint city of New Carlisle. The trail takes users through some beautiful wooded areas along a former railroad corridor and connects to Smith Park. At the popular...
|2.4 mi
The Tecumseh Trail Multi-use Pathway offers a pleasant route, partially on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Saint Louis freight mainline. The rail route was also once used for Lincoln's...
|14.5 mi
The Towler Road Spur is a short but pleasant route in the trail hub of Xenia, Ohio. Although the paved pathway parallels the roadway, it's separated from traffic by a wide grassy median dotted with...
|0.6 mi
The short Union City Gateway Trail is significant in that it was the first trail to cross the Indiana–Ohio border. A highlight along the paved pathway is the beautifully landscaped park on both sides...
|0.72 mi
Celina's West Bank Trail follows the shoreline of the Grand Lake St. Marys, Ohio's largest inland lake, and offers beautiful views of the lake and Rotary Lighthouse, as well as providing access to...
|2.4 mi
The White River Greenway in Muncie follows the course of its namesake river through the city between W. White River Boulevard at W. River Road and N. Gavin Street at Bunch Boulevard. The trail...
|5.6 mi
D Street Trailhead Park is nestled along Richmond's waterfront on the East Fork of the Whitewater River. From the park, travelers can go north on the Cardinal Greenway (which, at 62 miles, is...
|3.5 mi
Wilbur Wright Trail will one day extend from New Castle (in Henry County) to Losantville (in Randolph County), where it will connect to the Cardinal Greenway, the longest rail-trail in Indiana. The...
|2 mi
Ohio's Miami River Valley, with 340 miles of off-road trails, is home to one of the nation's largest paved trail networks. Heading northwest from Dayton, the Wolf Creek Trail is one piece of this...
|16.2 mi
The Wright Brothers Huffman Prairie Bikeway runs from South Street in downtown Fairborn, along the north side of Kauffman Avenue adjacent to an active rail line, to National Road. At that point, the...
|4.6 mi
|Asphalt, Concrete
The Xenia–Jamestown Connector links these two eponymous communities and travels east beyond Jamestown to the Greene–Fayette County line at Rosemoor Road. It's part of Ohio's Miami River Valley trail...
|15.7 mi
This is a great trail for indiana. There is a chunk of the trail near the brady street crossing in muncie that heaving of the asphalt is occuring. After experiencing one especially bad heaved area, i will say that people riding bikes at a higher speed really need to watch these. They will jump you and your bike unexpectedly. I am hopeful that whomever is responsible for this portion of the trail will grind these down or replace the heaved sections entirely. There should not be these safety issues present on a paved trail.
Rode from Bellfontaine to about 2 miles West Liberty. Only encountered about 5 other people/groups of people. Lovely views - rural setting with lots of farmland. Saw some cool birds, groundhogs, rabbits and a lil toad. My only complaint is that the trail would be so much better if it were paved. This part of the trail is made with crushed stones. I have a hybrid bike and rode on the trail pretty easily, but the noise is quite awful and some of the little rocks got in my eyes (I recommend wearing sunglasses even if not sunny). There is also little place to rest or stop - I rode 9.5 miles one way and there was only one bench. I will ride again for the views, but probably won't be a regular for me until/unless they pave the trail.
My first time in this trail. Fully enjoyed it. Well taken care of with easy access at many places along the trail. Indiana drivers were very accommodating at intersections. Now I want to ride another section of this trail.
Rode this trail over the weekend and were surprised at the low number of riders on the outbound. The trail's asphalt pavement is in good shape and there is more shade that we expected. There are a few places for drinks and snacks when you reach Jamestown. Would recommend this ~25 mile ride.
This trail is amazing! It is peaceful, scenic with very little noise from traffic.
Caught the trail at Old Acadia Park in Spencerville. 8 mile ride up to Delphos where trail abruptly changed to grass. Nice crushed gravel, well maintained flat trail, no benches or rest stops in this section though. Canal on one side and fields on the other, a pleasant ride.
Such a nice trail going a good distance. It's behind my house and I see many people on it all the time. Great history information about the old railroad and Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg. Love seeing it used for is intended purposes.
This is the best trail I have ever ridden!
I rode the two segments of the Stillwater River Bikeway back in July of this year, but forgot to review here at TrailLink.
I rode this trail a month and a half after a devastating Category F4 tornado tore through the area. Before my trip to Dayton, I just couldn't believe that I kept reading online that the trail was still closed. However, when I rode the southern section of the trail the destruction of what must of been a beautiful tree lined river pathway became more and more evident as I traveled north from Island MetroPark. It will take decades for the trees to grow back to the same conditions you see along the northern section of the trail. The trail it self is in good shape but becomes somewhat rough as the trail shares the park road north of the Wegerzyn Center. Here the road is marked with a number of potholes and rough patches.
In contrast, the northern section of the Stillwater River Greenway in Englewood MetroPark was not affected by the Memorial Day storms. The trail here is heavily shaded but has an excellent surface. There is one significant climb if you want to travel south of the of Englewood Dam but it is eased by one switch back in order to pass by the dam's spillway. There are several beautiful lakes both above and below the dam. One slightly disturbing aspect of the trail in Englewood Park is that in some areas of the park you have to share the single lane roadway with cars. Fortunately, for a Saturday I didn't feel that the park was particularly busy.
It saddens me to think of how the weather has changed the face of the southern portion of the trail. Here's hoping that the damage caused by the Memorial Day tornado might spark the desire to connect the two sections in this trail. It might now be easier to complete the gap between the two sections of trail. First of all, the downed trees will have to be removed because as the piles of dead trees dry out they will become more and more of a fire hazard. Because these trees are such a jumbled and tangled mess, heavy equipment will need to be called in to remove the debris. This heavy equipment will create pathways for the equipment to move around in the debris field and perhaps these pathways can be turned into a good portion of the missing section of trail. Only time will tell.
I've ridden the Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) three times; first in July of 2013, again in May 2016, and most recently in October of 2019. It is interesting to note the progress that has been made in filling in the on-road gaps in the trail between each ride. However, it is frustrating to witness the glacial pace at which this trail is being completed.
Currently, the largest on-road gaps in the OTET exist between the end of the Sippo Valley Trail in Dalton and the beginning of the Holmes County Trail in Fredericksburg; between Killbuck and Glenmont on the Holmes County Trail, and between the end of the Heart of Ohio Trail southwest of Centerburg and the beginning of the Sandel Legacy Trail in Sunbury. There are a few smaller gaps in the OTET among which include, the bike lane in the Ohio River Trail in Cincinnati, the missing bridge over Little Miami River at the end of the Little Miami Scenic Trail needed to connect to the Lunken Airport Bike Path and a less than 1 mile gap between the Prairie Grass Trail and the Roberts Pass Trail in London.
The Ohio to Erie Trail is a paved trail except for the portion of the Ohio & Erie Towpath Trail that runs through northeast Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It is unlikely that the National Park Service will pave this portion of the trail due to the canal's historical significance in developing the Ohio territory and helping to expand our nation from the original 13 colonies.
This trail links the three C's of Ohio -- Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. These are Ohio's 3 largest cities. In between you will encounter a variety of cities and towns; rivers, wetlands, and forests; industrial, commercial, and agricultural areas; and different types of topographies. This variety makes the Ohio to Erie Trail unique when compared to the nation's other long-distance trails.
It is important to understand that the OTET is still a work in progress. While some locations have embraced being a part of the trail, others seem to have completely ignored it. Communities that embrace the trail offer bike friendly establishments whether they be bike shops, hotels, Bnb's, restaurants, or trailheads. There just are not enough of them. The state of Ohio should be looking into promoting such businesses along the trail. One thing that is certainly needed are more official, recognized campsites along the trail. Whereas riders of C&O/GAP Trail, or Missouri's Katy Trail can expect to see a campsite roughly every 8 to 12 miles, the OTET has some areas where such campsites are 60 miles apart. Such distances don't make the trail appealing those that would prefer to camp. It also doesn't give riders much wiggle room in their itineraries to explore around the trail or deal with the unexpected such as a flat tire. Perhaps more campsites and other amenities will become a priority once the trail is fully completed.
My complaints are not intended to be a trashing of this trail but rather constructive criticism designed to help improve this into one of America's great trails. With the Rails to Trails Conservancy designating much of the OTET as part of its route for the Great American Rail-Trail through Ohio, I'm hoping that improvement and completion of the trail will become more of a state priority. If you are considering riding the Ohio to Erie Trail, don't hesitate. It is worth every pedal stroke.
The Little Miami Scenic Trail (LMST) is one of my favorite trails in Ohio. It has length (78 miles), scenery, wildlife, trail towns, amenities, lodging, camping, dining and shade. I've ridden this trail numerous times but this is my first review of the trail. I consider my home trail to be the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail that runs through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Little Miami Scenic Trail probably should be considered my home away from home trail as it is so close to where my daughter lives. During my 2019 Ohio to Erie Trail ride, I rode the LMST from Xenia to Loveland and from Loveland to Avoca Park before having to road ride to get to Lunken Airport and the trail that circles the airfield there.
I rode part of the Simon Kenton Trail from Buck Creek into Springfield, Ohio back in July. The northern part of the LMST travels through Springfield and on to Yellow Springs before moving on to Xenia. Since this trail runs through both cities, farm land and the Little Miami Valley, there is quite a variety of scenery to look at. The city and towns vary as well. The trail towns range from some that have seen better days, to others that seem to be very trendy, and some that appear to be stuck in time. There is something for everyone along this trail. You won't be disappointed when riding this trail. Yellow Springs and Loveland are towns with restored train stations and dining and other amenities.
The trail surface is asphalt and is in very good condition with just a few spots where river bank slippage has caused some undermining of the riverside edge of the trail. The trail has numerous road crossings but once you get out of the larger cities you can ride for miles before having to cross another road. South of Xenia, because the trail parallels the Little Miami River in the narrow Little Miami Valley you feel as though you are in a much more isolated area than you truly are. There is plenty of wildlife. One of the highlights of my ride south from Xenia this time was having 3 deer cross the trail in front of me and ran down into a gulley that paralleled the trail only to race me along the trail route for about half a mile. My one complaint about the trail is this. The Little Miami River has been designated a National Scenic River. However, that designation must only apply if you are canoeing or kayaking on the river. From the trail you rarely get an unobstructed view of the river. Sometimes I think to myself, "Would it hurt to cut down a few trees here and there to let users of the trail enjoy the sights of the river, too?"
South of Loveland, the trail continues following the Little Miami River through Miamiville and Milford before reaching Avoca Park outside of Mariemont, Ohio. Once you reach Newtown Road you will have to ride out of the park and cross US-50 and ride through Mariemont to Wooster Pike before trying to connect to the Lunken Airport Bike Path. I should note that the Little Miami Trail does not end at Newtown Road. It actually passes under a bridge there and then goes across the Little Miami River and heads toward Lunken Airport. The problem is that the bridge that is supposed to be built over the Little Miami River to connect to the Lunken Airport Bike Path has not been built yet. I read about bridge construction of this bridge would start this summer, but there is absolutely no sign as to when this will happen. When this bridge is built the trail near Mariemont will be shorter and safer.
I rode the Prairie Grass Trail on October 4th as part of my southbound trip on the Ohio to Erie Trail (OTET) route. I awoke that morning at the London, Ohio trailhead where I had camped the night before. The city of London and the Friends of Madison County Parks and Trails have done a nice job of making a very friendly cyclists trailhead. There is an information/brochure kiosk in the picnic pavilion, water, electricity, a bathroom, 4 camping sites, and a bucket shower. One word of warning, if you camp here be aware that there are a number of trains that run through town at night and although the trailhead is not right on the tracks, you are close enough to the nearest crossing that if you're a light sleeper, I'm sure you will be awakened several times during the night.
The Prairie Grass Trail is a flat, straight trail that passes through large farms and the towns of South Charleston and Cedarville before arriving in Xenia. The ride between London and Xenia was fine, but slow, I think this was due to the accumulated effect of riding for 5 straight days and a slight but constant headwind. This headwind has been a constant on the Ohio to Erie Trail ever since heading out of Columbus, Ohio and into the farmland of the western middle of the state. (I believe that if you are going to ride the OTET only once, riding northbound might be the best bet as you will normally experience a tailwind between Xenia and Columbus based on the weather patterns of Ohio.
There are almost no turns in this 29 mile trail. There are a couple of dips and small undulations along this bikeway -- hardly enough to be called hills, but a bit of a departure from ultra flat rail-trails. The trail surface is asphalt which is in good shape. There is little in the way of tree cover as you ride through many farms.
South Charleston and Cedarville are much smaller towns than London and Xenia. South Charleston features a large grain elevator and at this time of year there were many grain cars on the rail sidings waiting to be filled. There is a short 1.1 mile on-road "detour" around the grain elevators and the movement of grain cars around that facility. South Charleston, has a nice trailhead that features bathrooms, parking, plenty of bike racks to chain up your bike(s) a picnic table or two, and a few train cabooses to remind you that you are riding a rail trail. You come into Cedarville on the south side of town. You pass by the Community Park, where it certainly looks like you might be able to camp there, but it is not something I have seen mentioned in any post or information about the town. As you reach South Main Street, you will see Hearthstone Inn & Suites which displays banners that they are bike friendly. The reviews I've seen for the place are positive. As with many of the towns along this western midsection of Ohio, the tree cover seems to thicken as you enter these towns. Xenia was not different. The trail comes to an end at Hill and Detroit Streets (Rt. 68) in Xenia. From here a widened sidewalk guides you through 2 crosswalks before you reach trail again on the edge of the Xenia Station grounds. When you reach Xenia Station a sign lets you know you are nearing the largest intersection of paved bikeways in the state of Ohio. In my opinion Xenia Station is also one of the prettiest old rail stations along any rail trail in the state of Ohio. The Prairie Grass Trail is very nice trail.
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Jack Black is many things: an actor, a comedian, a singer, a guitarist, a writer, a trained butcher (NOTE: not actually true). But you know those crazy Hollywood multi-hyphenates. They're never satisfied doing just ninety things at once. And so Black will now attempt to become a TV producer by adapting author AJ Jacobs' book "My Life As An Experiment" into a comedy series. From Deadline's Nellie Andreeva:
Esquire Editor-at-Large Jacobs is known for immersing himself in a self-improvement project and then writing about it. In My Life As an Experiment, he provides a humorous account of his 10 month-long exercises in self-improvement—from assuming the identity of a beautiful young woman to outsourcing his life to a couple of Indian assistants, to living a life of Radical Honesty…
(Production company) Reveille's EVP scripted TV Carolyn Bernstein called the stories "tailor-made for television," noting that they "chronicle A.J.'s real-life adventures in immersion journalism and their unexpected comedic impact on his domestic life."
Oh, I don't think that impact is unexpected at all. Jacobs is a talented writer, but he is one of the pioneers of the new literary genre of Stunt Memoirs. A stunt memoir is when the author decides to do something WACKY for a certain period of time specifically so they can write a book about it. Jacobs is quite good at this (he also spent a year living according to Bible and a year reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica), but the contrived nature of stunt memoirs tends to make them, well, lame. I can't think of another word there. Maybe I should spend a year memorizing the dictionary. And then write a book about it.
Anyway, Deadline notes that Reveille is currently looking for a writer to write the pilot, which is odd given that Jacobs is surely available to handle the task. Either way, Black has a pretty solid track record when it comes to making television. He starred in both "Tenacious D," which was excellent, and "Heat Vision And Jack," the fabled Ben Stiller comedy pilot that never aired but is now considered one of the great unaired shows of all time. Black has a way of taking outlandish ideas and pushing them until they're beyond ludicrous, and he'll likely be able to do the same with Jacobs' book, taking it from just wacky to completely insane. That's always a good thing.

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Daniel Driscoll Writes-
I'm writing you in regards to our upcoming event called "New Year's Eve with Sober Connections" at the Blackburn Performing Arts Center at 1 Washington St in Gloucester MA. (On the Corner of Washington & Main about the restaurant Guiseppe's)
This Event is the vision of SoberConnections.net being hosted at the Blackburn Performing Arts Center. We at Sober Connections are striving to create activities for the sober communities here on the North shore, and hope to expand across the state. Our Social Website, www.SoberConnections.net has started picking up people from all across the country! Our goal with these events is to offer the sober community a sense of awareness that there are fun things to do without the use and abuse of alcohol and/or drugs. Our website provides a forum for people to find or share these events, whether it be simply a group of people heading to the movies, or a larger event like we are pulling together for this venue.
We are scheduled to open the doors around 7 PM to offer the live music, DJ, and Dancing from 7:30 -12:30 PM. Below is an excerpt of what we are sending people:
"Sober Connections New Years Eve Party
Come Join us for a night of Sober Festivities as we celebrate our 1 year anniversary and countdown the end of the year and usher in the New Year at the Blackburn Performing Arts Center in Gloucester, soon to be our new home for Sober Connections! This is a Family Friendly Event.
All are welcome! The only requirement is a desire to party without the use of alcohol!
Children under 10 are free!
We will be having local talented Musicians perform, like Marty Dunphy and Bob Ledger as well as others, We will be also having Dance Music, And Lee C will be organizing a few dances including a Line Dance for those of you have asked about it from our past events!
DJ DK will be rocking out the tunes with a a few songs hand picked from our younger crowd, and as always, VJ Mike will be making sure that your visual cortex's are assaulted properly watching our 100" large video screen.
Daniel D is again gathering Gift Certificates from the local merchants and other prizes for our end of night giveaways.. looks to be a Great Night!!
We do encourage you to think about our "Sponsor a ticket" program. This was designed so that people that couldn't pay for a ticket could get in with the donation of others. This has been very popular, and these tickets will be held at the door for those wanting to come but their budget is a bit tight. We all have been thru it in early sobriety, and have been to many wonderful events due to the generosity of others in sobriety.
We are also having a musical instrument Drive to help the Beverly School for the Deaf. They are looking for used musical instruments for the new music program they are bringing to these children, so if you have anything from a kazoo to larger instruments, please bring them to donate. They will be going to a good cause!"
Tickets can be purchased at the door, but we are hoping to sell out, so if you're looking to come, Advanced Tickets are available thru Ticket River at:
And if you want to promote our event to your friends, we are also located on Boston.com Here:
We hope to see you there!
If you have questions or need to get a hold of us, Feel free to email us back at email@example.com or Call us at:
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A close-up of a place setting using red and white transferware from my collection, as well as vintage silver baby cups and tiny hand-blown glass ornaments.
This is a Lucite console I placed in the dining room because it takes up so little visual space. Here I placed a few transferware berry dishes on a distressed gray pedestal, along with my 1950's vintage coffee urn and (yes another!) darling little dome. A tiny vintage coffee creamer looks sweet in this vignette I think. The large crystal drink decanter gets a lot of use during family get-togethers year round.
I had the headboard recovered in a pale tiger-stripe fabric I had languishing in storage and added a french stool and needlepoint pillow at the foot of the bed. Silk curtains were also fabricated out of more fabric from my "going-to-use-this-someday" inventory. The walls have been this color for a few years and I would really like to change them, but I guess I'll hold off a little longer.
I paired this sweet little French ladie's desk with a modern leather and nailhead stool that I think has a sort of Morrocan flavor. An original antique etching hangs above it. I didn't want anything too big there that would take away from the desk.
I brought this gilt Louis chair down from its previous home upstairs to brighten the room up a bit and added a grain sack rug under the tea table.
Here is a tighter shot of the chair. I have the matching sofa, also, which will have to continue living upstairs!


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New: Who's Spending on Berkeley Ballot Measures? The First Filing of Expenditures, and More
By Thomas Lord
Tuesday October 09, 2012 - 10:12:00 AM
The Berkeley Ballot Measure Browser has been improved with the addition of information about campaign donations and campaign spending. Want to get a sense of how much money has been spent promoting each measure, and who is funding the campaigns? Look for the "campaign committees" links on the left hand side.
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This is the Funniest Video I Have Probably Seen...and Intelligently Done
HT: Advocatus Atheist.
First published 8/15/2010
Its superb! But I also just discovered Betty Bowers through DC.
Hard to say which I like better.
All of Non-Stamp Collector's stuff is amazing. I have over forty of his videos!
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The cartoon's end seems to be pretty accurate. Just read in TCD: Ezekiel 20:25-26 - "Morover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the LORD."
And the Christians are worshiping this guy.....?
That's an important passage, Keith. It features prominently in a couple chapters in my forthcoming book. The NIV tries to "solve the problem" by adding the word "over" in their translation, so it's not that Yahweh "gave them bad commands," it's that he "gave them OVER TO bad commands."
Of course, the Hebrew cannot be legitimately rendered that way at all, but it satisfies them I suppose.
Here's a non-funny non-video (intelligently done though)... see what you think...
Lvka, whoever you are, why do you insist on trying to answer everything I post, and what does your post have anything to do with the video. If you do not attempt to directly answer the questions or arguments in this video then you have done nothing to defend your faith.
Come on now, this time. Give it a go, will you? No more skirting the issue. Answer the questions in the video or don't bother posting here.
Of course, the Hebrew cannot be legitimately rendered that way at all, but it satisfies them I suppose.
Perhaps it's a case of small remedies satisfying small minds. The distinction here between "gave them" and "gave them over to" seems so minor in relation to the heinousness of what the 'The LORD' is saying that I'm surprised his followers bothered with it.
I agree with you of course. But for fundies it's the difference between God giving them bad commands, and God allowing them to do what their "wicked hearts" were inclined to do on their own. But as I said, either way, it's pretty shitty of God.
why do you insist on trying to answer everything I post?
I'm 27 and unemployed.
Answer the questions in the video
1. God saving plane from collision.
2. If what "people do while they're not wearing any clothes" is so unimportant, why do you decry rapes, incests, paedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, and so on?
[There's a similar verse in the Qur'an condoning polygamy and anal sex on the grounds that Allah is too high up to care about such things: but then why did He bother ordering the stoning of adulterers and homosexuals? it's interesting how groups who supposedly hate eachother (like atheists and Muslims) have so much in common (as far as double-standards are concerned)].
3. Christ died to destroy death. He rose to give us life. He lived a holy life to make us able to lead a holy life. He suffered to give us the power to overcome suffering. He was tempted to make us able to resist temptations. He suffered and died for others to make us able to die and suffer for others. He loved others more than Himself to make us able to love others more than ourselves: In short, He became like us so that we might be like Him. -- do you consider this a meaningful and satisfying explanation for the Cross and the Incarnation, or do you need more?
4. Hell and Heaven are internal states of the soul. (For instance, addictions lead to depression even in this life: it's not an external or 'imposed' punishment from God: it's simply evil bearing its own distasteful fruit and 'reward').
5. God regulated slavery to make it more humane (or as humane as possible), by forbidding all kinds of inhuman abuses: he neither created it, nor invented it.
6. Circumcision had a medical aspect, of bodily hygiene; it also symbolized renouncing excesses [since the foreskin was an excess] (see Christ's message of giving many alms to the poor and needy; fasting; being celibate; etc).
7. God did not create unclean animals (Genesis 1:24-25). The separation of the clean from unclean animals (or of the Sabbath from the rest of the week-days) symbolized the separation of Israel from the Nations. When the later was abolished, so were its symbols.
[Why was Israel separated from the Nations at first? For the same reason a company, for instance, creates (shapes) a team of well-trained experts, and then sends them to instruct others].
8. Everything DID came from nothing. (from atoms to feelings to dinosaurs to self-awareness...)
9. The 'misoginists' who condemned rape?
10. See #1.
11. Do you deny the massive world-wide floodings that occured at the end of the last ice age?
12. God should've stayed put and done absolutely nothing to stop the Egyptians from opressing the Jews and making them kill their sons? Or what are you suggesting?
13. God avenging the fratricides of a despicable murderer is a bad thing? How exactly, since when, and by what logic?
14. See #10.
15. How can God be blamed for the short-comings and failures of men? I don't get it...
Talking about humane slavery is like talking about humane rape.
Christianity sure does a number on the moral mind.
"5. God regulated slavery to make it more humane (or as humane as possible), by forbidding all kinds of inhuman abuses: he neither created it, nor invented it."
This is absurd. According to the laws of Moses (the supposed explicit instructions to Moses from Yahweh himself), a slaveowner was permitted to beat his slave, and if the slave died from the beating, the slaveowner was not morally liable, so long as the slave died slowly, and not immediately.
Much of that article seemed to rest only on assertion: god is the foundation of morality. Look at how the atheist can't say anything about immoral actions x, y, and z because they don't believe in god and thus don't have any moral foundations [completely ignoring other reasons and sources of moral systems].
Oh, and it's also hilarious how the whole thing starts out with:
1) a statement that it seems to be a "dogmatic atheism" that was held (an atheist by upbringing vs. one who was brought there through reason)
2) a nice diss to all other x-ianities except that of the Orthodox church. What a nice broad-sweeping categorization of "American Christianities" into the trash basket
Wait. God *regulated* slavery?!?!?!?
Author of the fucking moral laws of the universe, lawgiver to mankind, and the bees he could do was take some of the edge off of fucking slavery?
So those keeping score: Lincoln outlawed slavery. Yaweh "regulated" it.
I'll take Lincoln.
Why are the apologists for the creator of the universe so incompetent. Or are some things indefensible?
you are hideously wrong on most of your points, and just wrong on others. i am going to look at one, point 11) Do you deny the massive world-wide floodings that occured at the end of the last ice age?
simply put, yes. and so does every geologist on the planet. a worldwide flood is impossible: there is not enough water on the planet, and if it happened, the earth's crusts would have collapsed in from too much pressure. this is naive creationism. we have had many, many localised floods (see pakistan) that to the people involved probably seem like the whole world, especially is, as in ancient times, you would not have left your area, and had no idea of the expanse of such things with no access to aeroplanes etc.
anywho, see robert cargill, phd, a christian who recognises such a silly claim here: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/flood357903.shtml.
as for reasons why noah's flood did not happen as reported:
1 god did it because we were a sinful world. we still are, therefore it didn't work.
2 god killed unborn children and animals in the flood. what did they do to deserve the punishment. they had not committed evil.
3 it is virtually an exact replica of tablet xi from the gilgamesh, written 1000 years earlier. bloke receives exact dimensions to build a mssive ark for an imminent flood. takes animals and families on board to preserve life. lands boat on mountain after flood. releases dove and then raven. burns sacrifice whose odour pleases god. other parallels exist there too. now if this isn't dubious, i give up...it is clearly where noah's flood comes from.
4 china, egypt, babylon, mesopotamia, aborigines etc all have this legend, all predating hebrew one.
5 if deluge destroyed all, why do we have the writings and journals of people before, during and after the deluge?
6 flood accounts would mean everest was 15 cubits underwater. physically impossible. there is not that much water in the world.
7 the ark is physically bigger than a wooden vessel can be made, apparently by 50%.
8 clearly the gathering of all the animals is impossible, micro-organisisms and all, polar bears, penguins, condors, glowworms (how did they get there?)
9 ark's dimensions would have to be considerably larger to fit the animals.
10 population of 8 could not rebound in the fashion claimed. simply not possible.
11 rainfall would have to be 6 inches per minute. again, not possible. a category 5 hurricane gives 6 inches per hour.
12 the weight of the water would have disastrous consequences on the earth's crust, emitting noxious gases and eruptions, leading to potentially, a boiling sea!
13 there is no geological evidence for any of this
14 there are reefs that have been undisturbed in the world for 100,000 years. these would have been crushed and destroyed. they were not.
15 lots more evidence of fossil, radiometrics and isotopes etc mean that the flood clearly never happened.
16 how the hell did noah actually get all the animals on the ark without them trying to eat each other / the family etc?
17 asexual animals and hermaphrodites not accounted for
18 ventilation / food / faeces problems on ark
19 carnivores?
20 dna pool? no trace of this through dna analysis (ie we know we came from africa. the incredible human journey was a fascinating series)
21 all sea fish would have died from influx of fresh water.
22 all plants that do not rely on the seeds of noah to survive would die. there are many plants that reproduce other than seeds.
23 explaining it away as a local flood is contradictory to genesis, and would also not kill all the humans who were so evil. liquids find their own level, and so a local flood of that maginitude is physically impossible.
24 recent evidence suggests several explanations of flood story origin. one is a situation where some natural barrier in black sea broke, causing an inrush of water. i saw one, but have just thought that it could be apllied here, on a volcano program on the beeb the other week, wehre they have found that at one stage, the med was empty, with the atlantic held back by the gibraltar straits. these broke, and a monumentous onrush of water filled the med up in record time. i forget the figures, but it was phenomenal. it's amazing what science can tell you. usually some kind of fact.
But other than that, Johnny P, what evidence do you have about the Flood?
This video would be a lot more compelling if it didn't get so much of Christianity's details wrong.
You know how scientists always make fun of those Christian debunking videos because the details they get wrong undermine their arguments, and they shouldn't be wasting their time in MS paint making video stock if they can't be bothered to get a little research done first?
Turns out that if you get a religion wrong, the religious people in said religion won't pay any attention to you.
Commence pretending I'm religious just because I criticized you.
Well, I won't pretend that you're religious, but the fact is, there are all sorts of versions of Christianity, and this video gets a helluva lot of them exactly right. I know, because I've been a participant in several denominations that make precisely the claims he ridicules here.
as mentioned, read this excellent article:
it debunks (from a christian point of view, too) the global flood myth from the textual point of view, and then the scientific one.
"o, allow me present some scientific evidence: there could not have been a worldwide flood as described in the Bible because there is simply not enough water in the earth's atmospheric system to produce such a flood.
According to data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the amount of water in the earth's atmosphere could not possibly cover the earth.11 In fact:
One estimate of the volume of water in the atmosphere at any one time is about 3,100 cubic miles (mi3) or 12,900 cubic kilometers (km3). That may sound like a lot, but it is only about 0.001 percent of the total Earth's water volume of about 332,500,000 mi3 (1,385,000,000 km3)
If all of the water in the atmosphere rained down at once, it would only cover the ground to a depth of 2.5 centimeters, about 1 inch.
Additionally, because only 1.7% of the earth's water is stored underground,12 there is not nearly enough water in groundwater storage beneath the earth's surface to account for the amount of water necessary to flood the entire earth to the extent described in the Bible.
Simply put: there is not enough water in Earth's atmosphere to raise the ocean's levels over an inch, much less to cover Mt. Ararat with water from 40 days of rain. There is simply not that much water in the system.
Thus, in order to even entertain the possibility of a worldwide flood, one has to bypass all laws of physics, exit the realm of science, and enter into the realm of the miraculous, which many biblical literalists are willing to do. It is hypothetically possible that, say, the polar ice caps melted. This could raise the ocean levels beyond the 2.5 centimeters that all the earth's atmospheric water could were it to all rain down, but even then the thaw would only slightly affect the world's coastlines. Additionally, all scientific evidence points to larger polar ice caps in recent history, not smaller.13
Other fantastic scenarios could be offered to explain the flood. For instance, some might suggest that a colossal ice-asteroid could have burst into our orbit and melted, bringing with it an unconscionable amount of water into our atmosphere. But, even this desperate scenario poses a major problem for many biblical literalists who attempt to explain or prove the flood scientifically. The Bible says it "rained" and the "springs of the deep" opened, but mentions nothing about an asteroid. Likewise, were water to enter Earth's system, where did it all go? To where did the water recede? Earth's water cycle results in all water residing somewhere on Earth's surface in the form of oceans, ice, and freshwater lakes, beneath Earth's surface in subterranean reservoirs that produce springs and geysers, or in Earth's atmosphere as moisture. So even if water could enter Earth's closed system, where did it go?
Simply put: there is no evidence whatsoever for a worldwide flood. In other words, it's impossible. There is not enough water in the earth's atmospheric system to even come close to covering all of the earth's landmasses."
@John Haugeland
Please, then, evidence what it gets wrong.
@Lyka and Paul
furthermore, from the skeptic's dictionary:
If there were a universal flood, there should be a lot evidence left behind. The problem is that scientists who have studied floods and scientists who have studied the sedimentary layers of the earth can't find any traces of a universal flood. We should find the geology around the world "beginning with coarse-grained poorly sorted deposits of sand and gravel and boulders from the fast-water stage of the flood. Once a flood recedes, it can leave only one kind of deposit: a single layer of mud" (Prothero 2007: pp. 66). Instead, we find enormous variety around the world, but mostly we find sedimentary layers that were put down one upon the other over long periods of time. Donald Prothero writes that "in a supreme twist of irony," Ken Ham's Creation Museum in Kentucky:
is built upon the famous Ordovician rocks of the Cincinnati Arch, which span millions of years of the later Ordovician. If you poke around the slopes all around the area (as I have often), you will find hundreds of finely laminated layers of shales and limestones, each full of delicate fossils of trilobites and bryozoans and brachiopods preserved in life position that could never have been disturbed by flood waters—and each layer of hundreds represents another community of marine organisms that grew and lived and then was gently buried in fine silts and clays. There is no possibility these hundreds of individual layers of delicately preserved fossils were deposited in a single "Noah's flood." (Prothero 2007: pp. 62)
We'd also expect to find a universal flood would have done severe damage to the fossil sedimentary record, mixing fossils from all time periods as it ravaged the earth. But just as we do not find the universal layer of mud from such a flood, so too we do not find any rabbit fossils in the pre-Cambrian layer, nor any layers with both dinosaurs and humans.
there is also plenty more evidence against a global flood if you want it.
Johnny P, I was afraid that you might respond the way you did.
My first post was sarcastic! You marshalled a bunch of evidence, certainly persuasive in its entirety and maybe persuasive even by single points you made.
Sarcasm sometimes doesn't come across very well online, I know that, I was hoping anyway.
Your American ancestors raped and killed their slaves. -- Hence your subconscious comparison between the two.
But that's not implicit in the meaning of the term: -- let alone condoned by the Holy Scriptures.
Serving someone is one thing: being considered a non-human or a non-person is quite another.
The Bible speaks of ALL humans being made in God's image: NO exceptions. -- And the orders of stoning rapists made NO exception for when slaves were the victims. -- Period!
So, no: -- being a slave or a serf or a servant is NOT the same as rape, nor is the later implied by the former.
"post hoc, ergo propter hoc" is a fallacy:
unlike today, natural mortality rates were very high in antiquity, so when someone died, the fact that he was hit by someone else more than a certain number of days ago may NOT have been the actual cause of death... and to punish someone with stoning when he may have in fact been innocent would have been an aberration. -- in this case, when the cause of death was uncertain, the loss of his servant was viewed as punishment, IF he was indeded actually guilty of the man's death...
When the cause WAS certain (man dieing the same day, establisghing direct and undisputed connection between hitting and dieing) the master was killed by stoning, no excuses.
And when the master injured his servant [or anyone else], he was forced to repay him [and release him, if he was a servant].
pay attention to what people [in this case, me] say:
"world-wide floodings" does not mean "the whole world being under-water" for the same reason "world-wide killings" do not imply the whole of Earth's population being killed.
Now, to the point: it's not a mystery to anyone that flood-myths world-wide, including those of Noah and Gigamesh, refer to the world-wide floodings that happened at the end of the last ice age.
damn it, being a big sarcasm fan, i am annoyed i didn't decipher that one. i often fall foul of attempted sarcasm in posts. hey-ho.
that is unrealistic to think that that was an obvious distinction. either way:
1) world-wide floods are not concurrant
2) noah's flood claims to be worldwide. so your point is moot. biblically speaking, it was global:
And(E) the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it(F) grieved him to his heart. 7So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them." 8But Noah(G) found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
"I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[c] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth... For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
and so on.
so, if the bible is to be believed, it was global (there are more biblical quotes).
now, a localised flood could not physically do this: "And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[d] deep."
it's hilariously impossible. a localised flood would drain away and could never get that high, and 40 days of rain could never, not even remotely get that much water.
you can have as many ice ages as you like, but nothing, i mean nothing, could ensure that noah's flood happened. not even close. all the stats are impossible. plus noah was 600 and imaginary nephilim lived on the earth too, and the account is identical to the gilgamesh epic written 1000 years earlier.
other than that, though, it's a really plausible story. (i haven't even talked about the physical and technical impossibility of the ark).
myths aren't scientifically-accurate descriptions of historical events. -- But they DO refer to actual historical events. In this case, "Noah's Flood" refers to the end of the last ice age, during which massive, large-scale, world-wide floodings DID happen, and countless animals AND humans DID lose their lives.
For instance: America, Japan and the Indonesian islands were connected to Asia *by land* before the end of the last ice age. In some regions of Romania, there are forrests of mountain-trees growing on plains. Etc.
noah's flood it no more 'refers to the flood of the last ice age' than Terminator Salvation refers to World War 1. The subject matter is the same - war / flood, but the actual event is different. noah's flood is out by some 10000 years or so. the details are completely different. the reality of what happened is completely different. the flood was not as big, the ark was physically impossible, and the animals living together on the ark provide about 100 reasons why it never happened.
the fact that there are some 500 flood myths around the world does not tell us that the myths happened. they tell us that large floods are relatively common, and that out of these events are born fantastical myths that have no connection with reality other than a flood.
it is like saying father christmas factually exists because we celebrate christmas every year.
flood myths do not factually exist because large floods exist.
it's not exactly "my own, private, and personal opinion" that flood-myths world-wide refer to the last ice age: it's what historians say.
you need to show me the evidence that historians say that the flood myths refer to the ice age. if they do, so what? the point i was making was not what the flood myths referred to as their nugget of truth for the basis of their myth, but the fact that they are myth. ie, not historically true. as a christian, do you believe the noah's ark account? because ALL historians and geologists see this as myth. because other than 'flood', the entire story is ...myth. it didn't happen. and that, Lyka, is the point.
Victorian London 'happened'. Sherlock Holmes was a myth.
Ps, as for evidence that historians believe that flood myths referred to the ice age, there are 4 rival hypotheses:
1)localised floodings from rivers or seas (black sea, med sea)etc
2) tsunamis from volcanoes (eg mt thera)
3) tsunami from meteorite (eg in Indian ocean)
4) draining of lake agassiz as a result of the ice age.
i cannot find anywhere that seems to think all the floods are a result of the ice age. in fact, it seem it is the least respected theory for deluge myths.
moreover, it is also worth noting that you do not even mean the 'last ice-age' since we are still in it. ice ages last massive amounts of time. you probably mean the end of the last glacial period, some 18,000 to 12,500 years ago. the reason why glacial periods are not seen as the historical bases for flood myths is that they take thousands of years to warm up - a small amount of time in geological time, but large in human history.
the sort of flood myths in the world's religions depend on quick floods, not ones that take thousands and thousands of years to take hold.
glacial period = ice age.
(glacial = icy; period = age).
myth. ie, not historically true.
accurate, you mean.
"Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of extra cold climate are termed "glacial periods" (or alternatively "glacials" or "glaciations"), and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres;[1] by this definition we are still in the ice age that began at the start of the Pleistocene (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist).[2]"
point remains.


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District 1 commissioner candidate Andrew Riddle has pulled back from his criticism of Commissioner Mike Edney's handling of a 1995 regional water agreement, pulling down campaign signs on the issue and apologizing for singling out his challenger.
District 1 commissioner candidate Andrew Riddle has pulled back from his criticism of Commissioner Mike Edney's handling of a 1995 regional water agreement, pulling down campaign signs on the issue and apologizing for singling out his challenger.
Riddle apologized to Edney during an ECO campaign forum last week, telling him directly, "You're a good man, a decent man, you've put your time in and I'm sorry." He also promised to take down a series of signs saying "Edney sold Mills River."
Throughout the District 1 primary battle, Riddle had blamed Edney for "selling the (county's) water rights to the city of Asheville" in 1995 when the city, Buncombe and Henderson County reached a regional water agreement allowing the city to pull water from the French Broad River near its confluence with the Mills River.
Edney defended himself by saying he was only one of four commissioners who approved the water pact, and pointing out that the agreement led to water infrastructure in Mills River and Fletcher that allowed millions of dollars in economic development and thousands of jobs.
"It was a board vote, not just Edney's," Riddle agreed Sunday. "I felt it inappropriate to single him out individually."
Although Riddle still disagrees with giving Asheville the intake, he said "my respect for this office and character of this campaign are more important. Admitting an error in judgment is often more important than being right."
Riddle said he still believes the county needs "new leadership, with a long-term plan incorporating the citizens' goals and objectives for Henderson County. One of them being acquiring back our water in Mills River."
Edney, who argues that Asheville only has access to any water leftover after Henderson County's needs are met, accepted Riddle's apology and chocked the issue up to his opponent's greenness.
"This is Andrew's first run at a campaign, so I think some inexperience has shown through on this and some other issues," he said. "But by the same token, running against an incumbent when there's really not issues out there – we're in great financial shape, we've got money in the bank, we have a good relationship with the schools – it puts somebody searching for issues."
Young vs. Lapsley
While the District 1 race grew more civil, the contest for the District 3 commissioner's seat became more heated. Following an exchange between incumbent Larry Young and challenger Bill Lapsley at an April 9 forum, Lapsley sent out a mailer to voters last week painting Young as interested in selling Pardee Hospital in 2010.
The mailer quotes former Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Moyer as saying "We have one county commissioner, Larry Young, who is advocating this (the sale) and I want to give him time to explain his thoughts."
The mailer says "Larry will say anything to stay in office. When it fulfilled his agenda in 2010, Pardee was his pawn. Now that his agenda is re-election, his story has changed."
Young maintained Monday that he "never, ever said I wanted to sell the hospital. In fact, I led the charge to change management when the hospital was not making money and we were worried it wouldn't survive."
He also pointed to a unanimous vote of the Board of Commissioners on Oct. 20, 2010, in which he supported a resolution stating "that this board has no present intention to sell the hospital and that the board's position at this time is that the hospital should not be sold."
Lapsley said he sent out the mailer to defend himself after Young accused him of lying about a sequence of events he laid out at the League of Women Voters forum on April 9. At that event, Lapsley said Young threatened to sell the hospital if Pardee board members didn't support a Wingate University proposal to train its pharmacy students.
Young admitted he leaned on board members to accept the Wingate proposal, as well as to reconsider the terms of a joint venture between Pardee and Mission Hospital to build a 130,000-square-foot outpatient facility on the county line.
"What it was, I told Bill Moyer, if we go into this joint venture with Mission as a one-sided affair and we're not an equal partner (in the facility), then they'll be a time we'll have to sell the hospital," Young said. "I was just trying to get them to see that we had to have an equal say-so. But I never said I wanted to sell the hospital."
Lapsley, who chaired the Pardee board then, remembers things differently. He said Young threatened to use his power on the Board of Commissioners to replace board members if they didn't go along with Wingate's demands, kill the joint venture and sell the hospital.
"The (Pardee) board was concerned about it, the employees were concerned about it, so Bill Moyer called a special meeting to address the rumors of the sale," said Lapsley. That was the Oct. 20 meeting his mailer referenced.
Young said that's all they were – rumors. He said the minutes of the Oct. 20 meeting "proves that I didn't want to sell the hospital, because I voted against it. And that's not rumors, that's fact."
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Love these two!!!
They look great on you! I think you should pick up OPI Black Cherry Chutney next.
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I was planning on giving Oktoberfest to my soon-to-be SIL, as she and my brother are going to Oktoberfest for their honeymoon... but that was when I thought it was the red one. I'm not sure I'm willing to part with it now, so I might have to buy her one of her own :)
... re: vampy shimmers - For me, OPI Tease-y Does It is THE vampy shimmer to end all vampy shimmers... but I think you've already got that one.
Both are gorgeous
Zoya Isla is one of my favorite glowy, vampy reds.
I need these two! Although I'm thinking they have dupes....
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Beautiful!!! I still try to convince myself I don't need any of these, but its getting harder ;-). My favorite vampy shade so far is Black Cherry Chutney from Opi - maybe you already own that!!!
These two polishes are the only ones I want from the whole collection. I just love dark vampy reds for fall!
Lovely! I haven't picked up anything from this collection yet, but these are the two I am most interested in! I have a feeling Oktoberfest will be coming home with me at some point, and maybe German-icure, too!
I want the "Every month is Oktoberfest" and also the grey-taupe-nude called anything with Berlin
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@Lynn - Me too!
@Rach - I think I've tried that before (???) but I don't remember...looks so pretty in online swatches!
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@Julie - You're welcome, but apologies to your credit card!
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@Trbobitch - Oooo that looks very pretty...
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@Yogi - I did cave and buy Berlin There Done That as well! (and Nein Nein Nein) I am weak.
A vampy RED right out of the gate. You go girl.


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I have a magnet on my back door that reads, "Cherish this moment. This moment IS your life."
As caregivers, we sometimes think we're living for our loved ones. We've put our life "on hold," and as soon as they're better, or after that die, we'll get our life back. Not a great way to look at caregiving–or your life. No wonder we feel resentment. No wonder we're always agitated, gripey, or zone out–we're constantly saying (whether we realize it or not, we're giving out the message), "I don't want to be here."
But what if "here" is all you've got? All you're ever going to get?
Remember that great line in the movie As Good As It Gets?"
Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson is plagued so badly with OCD that his life is nothing but self-imposed rules. He can't allow people or love into his life because they'll make a mess, cause him to step on a crack in the sidewalk, or mess up his arrangement of silverware. He falls in love with a waitress who has a "messy" life. Not enough money, a sick child, living with her mom and waitressing for a living. (The quotes are so, so good from this movie, check out a few here)
After almost losing the love of his life because he's so darn difficult, he decides he's got to get better, he's got to get help. He barges into his psychiatrist's office and demands to be seen. He looks around and sees an office full of scared and miserable people. People waiting for their life to start. Waiting for their OCD to go away. Waiting.
He can't wait any longer.
He blurts, "Wake up, people. What if this is as good as it gets?!"
So I ask you, what if your life right now, today, is as good as it gets?
Are you going to give up, go to bed and pull the covers over your head? Forever? No, you're going to make it work. Sadly, the end of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is death. So yes, there's a way out, just not a good one. But death is the way out for all of us, so don't let that get you down.
I love a little book that came out a few years ago, "Do One Thing Different" and the concept really stuck with me. When you're caregiving, much of your life is structured around meds, treatments, and rehab, so jumping into a full exercise routine or enrolling full-time in college really isn't an option. But you can change one thing. One thing that takes, oh, ten minutes a day–or less. Don't tell me you don't have ten minutes. Everybody wastes ten minutes–on tv, over-cleaning, or chowing down on something that's not even all that tasty.
For me, I'm concentrating on my waist. Sounds silly, but according to many health experts, your waist circumference determines how healthy you are. Women need to be under 35, and men under 40. Those are pretty generous numbers, (American size), and I'm fortunate to have a pear shape, but I figure that instead of going for a total body makeover I'd never achieve, I'd spend ten minutes a day doing exercises that focus just on my waist. Ten minutes. I'm not going crazy and saying I'm going to workout 2 hours a day when I'm know good and well that'll last about 2 days. I can coax myself into ten minutes working out in front of the tv instead of sitting in front of the tv.
The other thing I'm focusing on is brushing up on my Spanish. I may be spending time in South America this fall, and although I don't want to fork out $400 for Rosetta Stone, I went online and found several YouTube and iTunes Spanish lessons for free. I'm also going to a used bookstore in town, trading in some old books and buying some children's books in Spanish to read. So the way I look at it, these two small items allow me to exercise my body and my mind with little or no cash outlay needed.
When do I say, "That will have to wait until after my caregiving years are over."
Really? Is there some small way you could jump start process?
Remember, everything that has come into creation was once just a thought. Jack Canfield wrote an amazing book, "The Success Principles,"in which he describes years ago when he was only hoping to be a sought after speaker and author how he wanted to go to Australia to speak. He had never been asked to speak internationally, so it was unlikely he'd get a call from "down under." So he went to a travel store and bought a poster of Sydney's famous opera house and hung it in his office. Within a year, he was speaking in Australia.
Take it down to your level. Maybe you're dreaming of a vacation. Take out that seashell you picked up a few years ago and put it on your kitchen counter–just as reminder–and a way to lay claim to your own future. Check out a book from the library about where you'd like to go, or visit an online forum where other travelers have been there and suggest places to go and see. Daydreaming is great way to get your mind off the daily caregiving stress.
I know you can't just get in your car and drive away (although that was one of my favorite fantasies–I was going to drive to Key West, and still might!) But you can start with one small change. Don't put your entire life on hold–it won't even make you a better caregiver, just a fussier one.
I hope you'll take me up and drop me a line at email@example.com or leave a comment and share what one small change you've made.


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President's welcome
EULITA, the European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, was founded in Antwerp, Belgium, on 26 November 2009. It is a non-profit association, established under the Criminal Justice Programme of the EU Commission's Directorate-General of Freedom, Security and Justice (project number JLS/2007/JPEN/249). In its Mission statement on this website you will find in detail the objectives which EULITA pursues through its activities. (About us / Mission statement).
During its 7th General Assembly that was held in Vienna on 1 April 2017, the 30 full member associations that were either present or represented by proxy elected, for a mandate expiring in 2020, the new Executive Committee, whose members are: Daniela Amodeo Perillo, President; Geoffrey Buckingham and Jan Runesten, Vice-Presidents; Catherina Van den Brinková Štifterová, Secretary; Laura Izquierdo Valverde and Joanna Miler-Cassino, Members. Sandrine Détienne was co-opted as Treasurer by the 9th General Assembly held in Luxembourg on 29 March 2019.
The newly elected Executive Committee of EULITA will certainly continue to work along the path traced by the former members who managed to establish and/or to take part in several European projects, such as TRAFUT (Training for the Future), QUALETRA (Quality in Translation), LIT Search (that concerns national and/or regional registers of legal interpreters and translators) and JUSTISIGNS (focussed on identifying competencies for sign language interpreting in legal settings and providing training for sign language interpreters). In June 2015 a draft proposal for an ISO standard on legal interpreting was submitted by EULITA to ISO. Following the normal procedure through the ISO hierarchy, the revised text will be soon put to vote to become an international standard. You will find more details and reports on all these projects and proposals in the left-hand margin of this page.
It is now our purpose to participate in a new European project on training whose details are going to be discussed in the near future.
Since its origin, one of EULITA's priorities has been to promote cooperation between public institutions, legal services and legal professional orders as well as to introduce among them best working practices. In this respect, our natural partners are first of all the EU institutions as well as the European and international organizations and associations operating in this field: we will endeavour to improve our 'modus operandi' in order to develop even deeper contacts with these bodies and with all those involved in the implementation of the EU directives – 2010/64, 2012/13, 2012/29 among others – concerning these specific matters.
In our European and national legal orders, everyone must enjoy the right of defence, is entitled to a fair and public hearing and shall have the possibility of being advised and duly represented. For those who do not speak the language of the judge, these rights cannot be safeguarded without adequate interpretation and/or translation. In reality, we all know that these rights are not always guaranteed: one of EULITA's main objectives for the next three years will thus be to enhance our presence before the competent authorities and stakeholders in order to raise awareness about the essential role of trained translators and interpreters in legal settings, and in particular about the importance of a high quality level of legal translation and interpretation.
In this perspective, our purpose is to assure our full support to the national associations of legal interpreters and translators with the aim to find new ways of cooperation with their respective national counterparts – judges, counsels, universities. Several universities are indeed associate members of EULITA and many of them organize ad-hoc training for legal interpreters and translators. By the way, it would be desirable and appropriate to increase – in most of our countries – the number of these courses that are of fundamental importance to our professions.
Our VOLUNTARIAT programme is an activity which helps to build closer ties to academia, an indispensable partner for us, whose results in the research field have until now been extremely useful for the development of interpreters' and translators' performances.
All these activities will have a better impact and a wider effect if we continue to cooperate with sister organizations in the field of interpreting and translation.
Associations and organizations that are interested in legal interpreting and translation issues and wish to know more about EULITA are cordially invited to contact the EULITA secretariat (email@example.com).
Daniela Amodeo Perillo,
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An alleged drunken driver stopped in West Hartford on Thursday blamed the GPS on his cell phone for sending him the wrong way in Interstate 84 according to police.
West Hartford Police Officer Peter Senick was assigned to the DWI patrol when he saw a car go from Park Road onto an off-ramp on around 2 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, driving the wrong way despite the "Wrong Way" signs, police said.
Officer Senick immediately went after the man and stopped him about 200 feet onto the ramp, according to police.
The driver, identified as Robert Howe, 43, of Springfield, Mass., told Officer Senick that he was not from the area and was following the GPS on his phone, which led him to drive the wrong way on I-84, police said.
Howe's blood alcohol concentration was found to be .101 and .095, according to police.
He was arrested and charged with DWI and driving the wrong way.
Howe has been released on a $500 non-surety bond and is due in court on March 6.\


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This week, I've been posting some of the adventures our family had while at the beach. Some of the little kids had hours of fun with "loose parts" in the tidal pools. ("Loose parts" are usually defined as easily moved materials used in play, often real and found items from nature and the surroundings.) Our kids were initially using shells and rocks, but in our craft kit I found a baggie of police figures that I had stashed away, so I shared them with the kids to use in their play.
There was a whole scenario, played out over a couple of days. I'm not sure what exactly was the background story, but in any case, the kids were fully engaged for several hours at a time, making imaginary scenes and acting out their story.
Look for more highlights of our Beach Blast coming soon under the tag, Beach Bummin'.
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Tagged: David Cone
The Filibuster
Matt Cain this week threw what some people are saying was the best "perfect game" ever. Is it really possible to say that one perfect game is better than another and, if so, which one would you vote for?
Absolutism is relative. I think. No, I am sure it is. Maybe. I mean, this is the GREATEST BASEBALL-POLITICO BLOG OF ALL TIME, IS IT NOT!?!?!
I think so, but such a statement comes with the caveat that one would have a hard time quantifying it. Why is it the best? Because of Mr. Krause? Because of Mr. Lung? Because of the interns?
That's just the very beginning of a long list of things that makes RSBS the G.O.A.T.
But can we quantify what exactly makes one perfecto better than another? Not really. But it's fun trying. For example, Matt Cain's 14 strikeouts tied the MLB record for strikeouts in a perfect game (Sandy Koufax, 1965), which clearly demonstrates superior command and dominance over the opposition. Cain also threw 19 first pitch strikes and never got himself in a 2-0 count. Meanwhile, his defense did some dazzling. Both the 6th and 7th innings featured unbelievable catches in the outfield that, had they not been made, would have sunk the perfect game effort. The last out, a hard ground ball to third base that put Joaquin Arias in a stutter step also provided one final gasping twist to the accomplishment. All of the above, plus Cain's eery zen mound presence throughout it all, provide plenty of quantification for it being the "best" perfect game ever.
Still, it's relative. And maybe we see it as the "best" right now because it's fresh in our minds.
I recall Randy Johnson's 2004 effort against the Braves as being one of the most dominate games I've ever seen too. The Big Unit struck out 13 in that game and was throwin' nasty stuff all the while. David Cone didn't see a 2-0 count in his 1999 perfecto against the late Expos, a game where he also had to sit out for a 33-minute rain delay, on Yogi Berra Day, with Don Larsen in the stands!
But, for me, the best perfect game I've ever seen came on a lazy Thursday afternoon in July 2009, when Mark Buehrle pitched himself into the record books, again. What made that game so special, for me, was that I was watching it at work and by the 8th inning, I was watching it with the UPS man, the FedEx man and yes, even the mail man. When Dewayne Wise made "the catch" we reveled in our mutual south sidedness and gave each other big, sweaty man-hugs.
That's the sorta thing that only happens once in a lifetime, so I'll be hanging my hat on the Buehrle perfecto for the forseeable future. But that's just me.
You can hate me for that. Just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Shack PSA: Pre-Order Demigod, Join Beta Now
Pre-ordering the game on the Stardock Impulse digital distribution service grants immediate access to the game inspired by the Warcraft III modification Defense of the Ancients, according to an announcement on VE3D.
"This is a limited time offer," reads the announcement. "Signups for this cycle of the beta test close on Friday, September 19th." The beta will continue after signups close.
Need to learn more about Demigod before taking the plunge? Have a look at our hands-on preview of the game to see if it's right for you.
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This is a CUSTOMIZATION ADD-ON for the fabric hand fans sold in this store by Washable Hand Fans.
This item will NOT be sold separately. You must purchase an item to be embroidered with this item.
- Be sure to choose a fan that can be embroidered. Copy the FAN SKU and paste it above.
- Choose the proper number of characters (without spaces) but, you can type in up to 20 characters WITH spaces.
- Choose the thread color.
- Add the letters/name/phrase that you want embroidered in the proper text box of this listing.
- The quantity should match the number of fans/items to which this configuration should be applied.
- MORE THAN ONE of the SAME FAN and SAME EMBROIDERY: If you are purchasing more than one customized fan, be sure to set the quantity of the embroidery the same as the number of the fans purchased.
- DIFFERENT MULTIPLE FANS: You need to add the fan to the cart then add the embroidery listing to the cart, making sure you added the correct FAN SKU to the embroidery listing.
- THREAD COLOR: Use the options above to pick the hue (base color) and we will choose the shade/tone/tint that pops against the chosen fabric.
- FONTS SIZES: The sizing refers to height. The more characters you add, the smaller the characters will be and/or the text will be on two lines.
- DIFFERENT FONTS or SIZES: To add a different font to the same fan, purchase separate embroidery items (from this store) and add the same fan SKU to each embroidery item. You will be refunded the extra base setup fees.
- You will receive a computer mock up image of your chosen options. You MUST respond to that email for work to begin.
The base price of this listing is the digitizing setup fee and is non-refundable. Once work begins on the fan, it is non-refundable. If you are re-ordering a previously purchased design, please let us know with the previous order number and this setup fee of the new completed order will be refunded. Otherwise custom work is non-refundable and non-returnable.
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
December 10th, would have been the 85th birthday of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (12/10/1926 – 10/10/2008), the late and beloved Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. In his memory, this poem is dedicated.
Love is the answer
to every question
An ocean emerging
from a drop
This you taught us, by your
every action, every word,
The revealed science
of the heart, the key
to every door that is
never locked to anyone
To serve the One,
serve all, you said,
Eat but a little,
Feed the soul instead
As long as life
remains, and then
The drop returns
again to the Ocean of
Love, of love, of love
Ya Pir! Ya Haqq!


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Pew study: Kids are mostly kind to others online
A just released study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that "69% of social media-using teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social network sites."
The study, which was unveiled Wednesday at the annual Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington, was conducted by Pew in partnership with FOSI and Cable in the Classroom. The researchers interviewed 799 teens and their parents via cell phone and landline earlier this year.
Even some of the bad news isn't necessarily bad
In addition to the good news, there was what at first looks like a disturbing finding that "88% of teens have seen someone be mean or cruel to another person on a social networking site," but on reflection, I actually don't find that troubling.
Earlier this week I was in New Orleans for the International Bullying Prevention Association conference. As I walked down Bourbon Street in the famed French Quater one evening, I saw a couple of overly inebriated people yelling at each other in a mean way. They weren't being mean to me, I wasn't being mean to anyone and the vast majority of people around us (including many who were equally inebriated) weren't at all mean. Overall, it was a jovial and friendly crowd. Still, if a researcher asked me if I witnessed meanness, I'd have to say yes.
Like the 'real world'
In an interview, the study's lead researcher, Amanda Lenhart, said "What we're finding is that social media is a lot like the real world. We see people being mean and cruel to other people all the time. Sometimes we intervene, sometimes we don't. Sometimes it relates to us and sometimes it doesn't." She added, "the truth of it is when you drill down, teens don't actually see that type of behavior frequently, which is why we have the sense that the overall climate is positive."
Still, there are some kids who are deeply hurt by bullying and some kids can be extremely mean on and offline, so it remains a very serious problem for a minority of youth.
Parents matter
Lenhart also pointed out that "parents matter." The survey found that 86% get advice about how to be safe and responsible online from their parents. "Parents are an extremely important source about social responsibility online and on their cell phone." The study found that 58% of teens said that their parents had the most impact on them about ethical online behavior. "Parents really are quite important."
You can read a lot more about the study on my CNET News blog.


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Sweet tidings for downtown Lake Worth this summer when a new Hoffman's Chocolates shop is slated to make its debut, the first outlet in a long-planned expansion said to include Delray Beach, West Palm, Boca Raton and Boynton, among others. The Lake Avenue Hoffmans takes over the old Theatrics of Lake Worth space next to Fiorentino's, and will reportedly offer Hoffman's usual extensive array of chocolate treats, as well as ice cream, cupcakes and frozen yogurt. July is the projected opening date.
It's full speed ahead now for former Havana Hideout chef-owner Chrissy Benoit, who's signed a lease for the 1940-vintage Ruth Jones Cottage in Boynton Beach with an eye towards a June opening as a casual neighborhood restaurant called The Little House. Look for such features as the building's coral rock fireplace and Dade County pine ceiling beams to be retained, also for a roster of 32 draft beers and a moderately priced menu of eclectic modern American comfort food eats.
And not much detail here but the old Foxy's ice cream shop and café at 12 SE 5th Ave. in Delray Beach is set to become HiWay Burger. Nothing but a static-page website to go on right now, but word on the street is that it's a knockoff of the West Coast's wildly popular In-N-Out Burger. Hey, if you're going to copy, why not copy success?


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This morning, I was stopped at a stoplight on my way to work and I looked at the car ahead of me – and I laughed.
Let's see if you also see it:
The car is smiling – the snow on its bumper is, at least.
It was just a little pick-me-up on yet another freaking day when we woke up to snow (when is summer again?!)
Enjoy your day, all!


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Did you know that I don't eat meat? Because I don't (unless we're on a long car trip and I'm feeling vulnerable and there are chicken strips at the Dairy Queen that we've stopped at, but really, how often does that happen?). I also try not to craft with or wear animal products unless they're recycled (I use wool roving, but I know its source, and glue? Ugh, don't get me started on glue).
Even though I loooooong to dye silk scarves with Kool-aid. Does anyone know if there's an animal-friendly fabric equivalent to silk?