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The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life." ― Bryce Courtenay.
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The dust-devils recede and the silence booms with the voices of those who have left. All is undone but those actions that can never be undone. You are left in the aftermath, the pieces falling are grains too small to pick up. The only way out is through.
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The group runs several projects which includes a Nursery and Primary School.
These schools, and all the schools that have got a WFP feeding program, use fire wood. That means that somebody has got to collect that firewood. So, children are instructed to carry a piece of firewood at least twice a week. Failure to abide by the rules leads to punishment, so fear of this means that the children will cut any branch along the way to school.
During early 2012 (January to march) a program to train women how to make briquettes has been set-up and delivered by James Ochieng, who also works with The Hut of Orphans of Kenya http://thehookenya.blogspot.com/
The first step for us is to ban the use of firewood in our school.
A pilot program at the center will train as many Women as possible. This will lead into development of stoves that use briquettes for the schools. Samples were developed in Wao, South Sudan, using high quality dry leaves, which are abundant during the dry season.
The group has an average of 271 registered women in Awiel East County alone. 70% of these women collect firewood for sale at the market. 100% of homes use firewood for cooking. An alternative fuel can provide relief for the women and children and a better income opportunity, while minimizing deforestation effects.
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Portland fire officials say a woman was severely burned in a fire Sunday morning.
At 11:49 a.m. Sunday, the Portland Fire Department responded to a report of a fire on Burnside Avenue.
City of Portland spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said when firefighters arrived at the scene 10 minutes later, they found a house on fire and the woman who lived there outside the home with severe burns.
According to Clegg, the woman, who is in her 50s, was severely injured. Emergency crews took her to Maine Medical Center, and the woman was later taken by Life Flight to a Boston-area hospital.
Clegg said firefighters were able to quickly put out the fire, despite having to dig out a nearby fire hydrant, following yesterday's storm.
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In an earlier post I referred to the fact that the SDLP was born out of a campaign that employed civil disobedience and the new party continued to employ that tactic.
There is a helpful reference to this in Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland by Dr John Daniel Cash (p 158), which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1996:
This policy of internment drew hostile responses from both the SDLP and the Provisionals. ... [The SDLP] constructed their campaign of dissent in liberal forms. Continuing to advocate non-violence, they extended the civil disobedience campaign which they had renewed after their withdrawal from Stormont in July. In the following terms they called on civil servants to resign and announced a 'rent and rates' strike against local government institutions:
In view of recent comments by SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell is he now prepared to condemn the campaign of civil disobedience initiated by its founding fathers in 1971?We call on all who hold public positions in Northern Ireland, whether elected or appointed, to express their opposition by immediately withdrawing from those positions and to announce their withdrawal publicly and without delay ... We call on the general public to participate in this protest by immediately withholding all rent and rates. We expect one hundred per cent support from all opponents of internment.


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Voting Rights Act of 1965 left a complicated legacy
- Supreme Court%27s decision this summer fundamentally altered playing field
- Officials throughout South vowed to implement voter-ID policies that had been blocked
- Activists likely to pressure Congress to fortify the weakened law
WASHINGTON — When it comes to securing the right to vote, the March on Washington and the many protests it spawned in the South may have worked too well.
Within two years, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, creating an extraordinary solution to Southern discrimination that consigned some states and municipalities to federal supervision.
But 48 years after that, the Supreme Court noted this summer that the South has, in many ways, surpassed the North in terms of equality for African Americans. Black turnout exceeded white turnout nationally in the 2012 election, including in most of the states originally covered by the law.
"There is no doubt that these improvements are in large part because of the Voting Rights Act," Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged. "The act has proved immensely successful at redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process."
So successful, in fact, that Roberts persuaded four of his conservative colleagues to join his opinion declaring the geographic coverage formula unconstitutional and rendering moot the law's most powerful weapon against voting discrimination.
His reason: Congress' continued reliance on 1960s registration and voting data and discriminatory practices to determine which states, in the words of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, should be "under the trusteeship of the United States government."
The Roberts ruling was perhaps the most historic of the Supreme Court's term, despite the attention showered on the justices' two same-sex marriage decisions that followed. It fundamentally altered the playing field for Americans exercising their fundamental right to vote. Within hours, officials throughout the South vowed to implement voter-identification policies and others that had been blocked by the federal government.
When marchers return to the nation's capital this month, they will have a new cause — to put pressure on Congress to fortify the weakened Voting Rights Act with a revised coverage formula targeting what Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in dissent were "second-generation barriers" to voting.
"The court criticizes Congress for failing to recognize that 'history did not end in 1965.' But the court ignores that 'what's past is prologue,'" she said, quoting William Shakespeare. "And those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
'Perpetuation of racial entitlement'
What preceded the Voting Rights Act were a series of events no one wants to repeat: literacy tests and poll taxes designed to block blacks from voting; beatings and jailings for those who defied racist authorities.
The law treated states differently, setting up an eventual constitutional challenge. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia emerged with what those states now consider a scarlet letter — a requirement to clear any changes in voting procedures with the Justice Department or a federal court. The law was reauthorized in 1970, 1975, 1982 and 2006 with only minor changes — most recently by votes of 98-0 in the Senate and 390-33 in the House.
To Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the lopsided votes only show that lawmakers are scared to vote against a law universally hailed as having reduced racial discrimination in the last half of the 20th century. During oral arguments in February, he called it "a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement."
Finally this year, the court's five conservative justices had had enough. "The tests and devices that blocked access to the ballot have been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years," Roberts said in his opinion, issued in late June. And the Justice Department, which objected to one in seven proposed voting changes in the first decade after the law's enactment, now balks at fewer than one in 600.
Moreover, about 12,000 blacks have been elected to political office nationwide, including some of the largest numbers in Southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, which have the largest black populations. That's partially because the Justice Department has insisted on the creation of legislative districts with black or ethnic majorities.
In his opinion, Roberts noted that two southern cities with particularly woeful pasts — Philadelphia, Miss., and Selma, Ala. — now have black mayors. Philadelphia Mayor James Young credited his election to the changes brought about by the Voting Rights Act.
"Due to the history, without the federal intervention, we would not have what we have today," he told USA TODAY in February. "Whether it's overbearing now, I'm not here to judge. I'm just here to say I am a recipient of what fair-voting laws should do, and that is give every individual a level field."
But to civil rights veterans, including some who marched on Washington a half century ago, events such as the Shelby decision show the need for increased vigilance.
"This has been a really, really tough summer for race and civil rights, and people are really hurting," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "People want an expression. They want to articulate a different vision of America."
Texas seizes opportunity
Last year's election cycle, while lacking in the violence and fear tactics that characterized the 1960s, did feature what civil rights groups call state efforts at electoral subterfuge. In Texas, Florida and South Carolina, the Voting Rights Act was used to help block photo ID laws, redistricting maps and limits on early voting that could have disadvantaged minorities.
Within hours of the court ruling, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced plans to implement a voter ID law previously blocked by the Voting Rights Act. Other states also prepared to move ahead with laws requiring new forms of ID at the polls, limiting early-voting hours and restricting voter-registration drives.
Attorney General Eric Holder last month went to court in an attempt to require Texas to get approval from the federal government before making changes to the state's voting process.
"This is the department's first action to protect voting rights (since the Supreme Court decision), but it won't be our last," Holder said. "We cannot allow the slow unraveling of the progress that so many throughout history have sacrificed so much to achieve."
The state efforts may not be motivated by race, but by politics — with race as a casualty. "A lot of this is about maintaining political power," said Spencer Overton, a law professor at George Washington University Law School. As a result, he said, the Voting Rights Act, like the 15th Amendment — which guaranteed the right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color or previous servitude — may be needed forever to prevent as well as remediate discrimination.


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Pope Benedict XVI seeks prayers in wake of resignation
VATICAN CITY (RNS) In his first public comments since his surprise retirement announcement, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday (Feb. 13) asked Catholics for support and prayers to support him "in these days which are not easy for me."
As he does every Wednesday morning, Benedict presided over the weekly general audience in the Vatican, speaking in front of around 3,500 faithful and tourists.
But before broaching the topic of Lent and Jesus' temptations in his brief Ash Wednesday talk, the 85-year old pontiff tried to explain his decision to become the first pope in 600 years to step down from the papacy.
Benedict said he had felt "almost physically" the strength of prayers to support him in recent days, and asked believers to pray for him, for the church and for his successor.
Looking emotional but in good health, the pontiff said he took the decision to resign "in full freedom" and "for the good of the church."
He said he was "well aware of the gravity of such an act, but at the same time aware of not being able to carry out my (papal) ministry with the physical and spiritual force that it requires."
Benedict stressed that, in taking the historic step, he was supported by the "certainty that the church belongs to Christ, who will never stop guiding it and caring for it."
Later on Wednesday, dozens of cardinals and archbishops, together with priests, nuns and Vatican diplomats flocked to St. Peter's Basilica for Benedict's last Vatican Mass before his retirement.
While the pontiff only passingly referred to his resignation in the Ash Wednesday rite, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State, acknowledged the church's "sadness" in an address to Benedict.
"We have all understood that Your Holiness acted out of love for God and for the Church," he said as the pontiff looked on the verge of tears.
Wednesday's rites will be among Benedict's last public events before he steps down on Feb. 28.
According to the Vatican's chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, Benedict will keep his usual schedule in his final two weeks as pope, including meetings with visiting bishops and heads of state.
On Thursday, Benedict will meet with Rome's clergy, a traditional papal appointment during Lent.
Benedict has granted special audiences to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, with whom he forged a strong relationship in past years, and to outgoing Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who is currently engaged in Italy's bitter electoral campaign ahead of general elections later this month.
The pope will also attend a Vatican spiritual retreat from Feb. 17-23 before presiding at the Wednesday general audience on Feb. 27, his last public appearance as pope. "We are expecting on a large turnout," Lombardi said.
On his last day as pope, Feb. 28, Benedict will meet cardinals for a farewell audience in the Vatican before flying by helicopter to the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, outside of Rome, where he will stay as the cardinals chose his successor.
According to Lombardi, church law states that a conclave should be held 15 to 20 days after the end of the previous pontificate. "Cardinals must reflect and gather information in order to be prepared when the conclave arrives," he said.
Benedict's future status features prominently among the unresolved issues the Church faces in the coming weeks.
His title as former pope, his place of residence and even whether he will wear a pope's white vestments "are not trivial questions, as they have a symbolic and juridical significance that must be taken into account," Lombardi admitted.


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'Ultrasound' of Earth's crust reveals inner workings of a tsunami factoryUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of Japan is particularly good at generating devastating tsunamis, such as the 1944 Tonankai event, which killed at least 1,200 people. The findings will help scientists assess the risk of giant tsunamis in other regions of the world.
University of Hawaii at Manoa Professor Gregory Moore along with Geoscientists from the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and The University of Texas at Austin used a commercial ship to collect three-dimensional seismic data that reveals the structure of Earth's crust below a region of the Pacific seafloor known as the Nankai Trough. The resulting images are akin to ultrasounds of the human body.The results, published in the journal Science, address a long standing mystery as to why earthquakes below some parts of the seafloor trigger large tsunamis while earthquakes in other regions do not.
The 3D seismic images allowed the researchers to reconstruct how layers of rock and sediment have cracked and shifted over time. They found two things that contribute to big tsunamis. First, they confirmed the existence of a major fault that runs from a region known to unleash earthquakes about 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep right up to the seafloor. When an earthquake happens, the fault allows it to reach up and move the seafloor up or down, carrying a column of water with it and setting up a series of tsunami waves that spread outward.
Second, and most surprising, the team discovered that the recent fault activity, probably including the slip that caused the 1944 event, has shifted to landward branches of the fault, becoming shallower and steeper than it was in the past.
"That leads to more direct displacement of the seafloor and a larger vertical component of seafloor displacement that is more effective in generating tsunamis," said Nathan Bangs, senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin who was co-principal investigator on the research project and co-author on the Science article.
The Nankai Trough is in a subduction zone, an area where two tectonic plates are colliding, pushing one plate down below the other. The grinding of one plate over the other in subduction zones leads to some of the world's largest earthquakes.
"The tectonic setting is much different than Hawaii, so although the work has no direct impact on understanding Hawaiian tsunamis, our work will provide insights that will be useful for our colleagues studying convergence processes in the Sumatra-Java, Aleutian, and especially Cascadia (offshore Washington-Oregon) margins," says Greg Moore, lead author on the Science paper and co-principal investigator on the overall research project. "All have experienced great earthquakes that generated large and destructive tsunamis."
In 2002, a team of researchers led by Jin-Oh Park at JAMSTEC had identified the fault, known as a megasplay fault, using less detailed two-dimensional geophysical methods. Based on its location, they suggested a possible link to the 1944 event, but they were unable to determine where faulting has been recently active.
"What we can now say is that slip has very recently propagated up to or near to the seafloor, and slip along these thrusts most likely caused the large tsunami during the 1944 Tonankai 8.1 magnitude event," said Bangs.
The images produced in this project will be used by scientists in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE), an international effort designed to, for the first time, "drill, sample and instrument the earthquake-causing, or seismogenic portion of Earth's crust, where violent, large-scale earthquakes have occurred repeatedly throughout history."
"We are now in the "ground truth" stage in which we are drilling deep into the splay fault region to test the physical properties of the rocks in this environment," says Moore. "The 3D seismic data allowed us to pick the best sites for drilling and will now allow us to extrapolate the drilling results away from the drill holes. The drilling phase in Nankai is scheduled to last for at least 5 years. We also plan to conduct a seismic experiment next year or the year after in which we put seismic sensors down a drill hole and record surface seismic energy in the vertical array along the borehole. This will give us a much more detailed picture of the rocks around the borehole, especially deeper in the hole where we hole to drill at the end of our drilling project (perhaps as much as 6000 m (20,000 ft) below the seafloor."
"The ultimate goal is to understand what's happening at different margins," said Bangs. "The 2004 Indonesian tsunami was a big surprise. It's still not clear why that earthquake created such a large tsunami. By understanding places like Nankai, we'll have more information and a better approach to looking at other places to determine whether they have potential. And we'll be less surprised in the future."
The other co-authors are Asahiko Taira and Shin'ichi Kuramoto at JAMSTEC, Emily Pangborn at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin and Harold Tobin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Funding for the project was provided by the National Science Foundation, Ocean Drilling Program and Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology.
Release by J.B. Bird at the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, with additional information by Tara Hicks Johnson, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Paper: Three-Dimensional Splay Fault Geometry and Implications for Tsunami Generation G. F. Moore, N. L. Bangs, A. Taira, S. Kuramoto, E. Pangborn, H. J. TobinScience 16 November 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5853, pp. 1128 — 1131, DOI:10.1126/science.1147195http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5853/1128
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Network primetime ratings numbers are in for Sunday, and it looks like animated programming was up for the night while every broadcast drama saw a drop. Here's a look at the highlights:
- This week's episode of The Simpsons marked the show's annual Treehouse of Horror, but the ratings were down from last week's episode with a 3.1 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.52 million viewers.
- Fox's other Sunday mainstay, Family Guy, came away with a big win as the Nielsen Ratings-centered episode scored a 3.4 rating, topping all scripted programming for the night.
- ABC's staple Once Upon a Time took a drop this week, landing a 3.3 rating and 9.62 million viewers which is down 15% from its season two premiere.
- Revenge was also down, landing a 2.6 rating and 8.27 million viewers, down 19% from last week's 3.2 rating.
Hit the jump for the full rundown of the scripted programming ratings for Sunday, October 7th, including The Cleveland Show, American Dad, 666 Park Avenue, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, and more.
- Sunday favorite Once Upon a Time was down 15% from last week's episode, scoring a 3.3 rating and 9.62 million viewers versus last week's 3.9 rating.
- The drama Revenge was also down, scoring a 2.6 rating and 8.27 million viewers against last week's 3.2 rating.
- The new series 666 Park Avenue took a rather steep drop, scoring a 1.7 rating and only 5.08 million viewers, down 19% from last week's 2.2 rating.
- CBS' dramas were also down, with The Good Wife garnering a 1.7 rating and 8.95 viewers, off from last week's 1.8 rating.
- The Mentalist is struggling in its new timeslot, scoring a series-low 1.6 rating and 8.6 million viewers. It's important to note, however, that the episode started late on account of an NFL overrun.
- The Halloween annual Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons hit a 3.1 rating and 6.52 million viewers, down from last week's season premiere rating of 3.8.
- A ratings-themed episode of Family Guy was the highest-rated scripted program of the night, earning a 3.4 rating and 6.74 million viewers, up form last week's 3.3 rating.
- American Dad hit a 2.6 rating in the demo and 5.18 million viewers for a gain over last week's 2.5 rating.
- The season premiere of The Cleveland Show garnered a 2.2 rating and 4.43 million viewers, up from last year's premiere rating of 1.8.
- Finally, Bob's Burgers garnered a 2.3 rating in the demo and 4.84 million viewers, down from last week's 2.6 rating.
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15 famous fictional New England locales
Between giant shark attacks and tyrannical babies with British accents, the world of pop culture has taken a creative twist on New England at times.
With the nomination of "Moonrise Kingdom'' at this year's Academy Awards and Seth MacFarlane (creator of one of the most famous, fictional New England towns) set to host the show on Sunday, we thought it would be fun to check out a few popular, fictitious New England locales featured on the big and small screens through the years — whether Oscar nominated or not. While other real-life towns — like Gloucester in the film "The Perfect Storm'' — have been made famous by the entertainment industry, here we take a look at 15 made-up places in this land we call New England. — Matt Juul, Boston.com Correspondent
Nominated for best original screenplay at this year's Academy Awards, Wes Anderson's quirky romantic comedy "
Moonrise Kingdom
'' takes place on the fictional island of New Penzance.
Anderson and company scouted several coastal locations around North America before deciding upon the Narragansett Bay area in Rhode Island as the film's primary backdrop.
Set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Quahog, Fox's hit animated sitcom "
Family Guy
'' is influenced heavily by Oscar host and show creator Seth MacFarlane's time as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Several times an episode, you can see the Providence skyline, with the One Financial Center, 50 Kennedy Plaza, and the Bank of America Tower, in the distance.
Spooner Street, home to the dysfunctional Griffin family (pictured), even has a real life counterpart located near the edge of Roger Williams Park in Providence.
Shutter Island, the setting for Martin Scorsese's 2010 psychological thriller of the same name, thankfully does not exist.
However, Peddocks Island, one of Boston harbor's largest islands, is quite real and was one of several Massachusetts locations used in the film.
Stars Hallow, Conn., the fictional setting for the mother-daughter drama "Gilmore Girls,'' was inspired by a chance trip to Washington, Conn., by creator Amy-Sherman Palladino.
Palladino was so awestruck by how well the people of Washington knew each other that she wrote the dialogue for the pilot the next morning.
Captain John O'Hagan and the rest of the Vermont State Troopers (pictured) of the 2001 comedy "
Super Troopers
'' patrol the mean streets of the fictional town of Spurbury, Vt.
Despite being set in New England, filming mainly took place in Beacon, N.Y.
Director Steven Spielberg's 1975 Academy Award-winning seaside thriller "
'' has a setting that should look quiet familar to New England natives, despite it being set in the fictional Amity Island.
The popular Massachusetts summer colony of Martha's Vineyard served as the movie's primary filming location, specifically in the small fishing village of Menemsha.
If you are looking for a town brimming with teenage angst and high school drama, look no further than Capeside, Mass., the fictional home of Dawson Leery (played by James Van Der Beek) and company (pictured).
The real "
Dawson's Creek
'' (1998-2003) was filmed along Hewlett's Creek in Masonboro, N.C., although several scenery shots shown in the series' opening credits were filmed in Martha's Vineyard.
The Briarcliff Mental Institution, the spooky setting for FX's "
American Horror Story: Asylum
,'' is yet another frightening, fictional locale based in Massachusetts.
While star Jessica Lange (pictured right) played up the New England accent in her portrayal of the tyrannical Sister Jude, the show was actually filmed just outside of Los Angeles.
Stepford, Conn., the idyllic, fictional town featured in author Ira Levin's 1975 science-fiction thriller "
The Stepford Wives
'' has been brought to the big (and small) screen a number of times through the years.
The 2004 adaptation, starring Nicole Kidman, was primarly filmed in the western Connecticut towns of Darien and New Canaan.
"Wings,'' NBC's classic '90s sitcom starring Tim Daly, was set in the fictional Tom Nevers Field airport, a tiny two-airline airport in Nantucket.
Exteriors of Nantucket Memorial Airport can be seen in the show while interior scenes were filmed at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Calif.
Metro-North Railroad commuters, fear not! If you do happen to doze off during your next ride through Southern Connecticut, you won't be transported to the fictional, 19th century town of Willoughby, à la this season one episode of "
The Twilight Zone
"A Stop at Willoughby'' is said to be creator Rod Serling's favorite episode from the first season, as he once lived in the actual town of Westport, which is mentioned several times in the episode.
Acclaimed horror author Stephen King uses his home state of Maine as the backdrop for many of his novels, creating a whole network of fictional towns and locales.
Castle Rock is one fictitious location that King has used in many of his works, including the 1979 horror novel "The Dead Zone.'' The book was adapted to film in 1983 and starred Christopher Walken (pictured).
A murder-mystery novelist who solves real murders? The premise of the novel for the acclaimed '80s series "
Murder, She Wrote
'' helped to get star Angela Lansbury (at left) nominated for a total of 10 Golden Globe awards and 12 Emmy awards.
While the show was set in Cabot Cove, Maine, exterior shots of the fictional town were filmed in Mendocino, Calif.
Set in the fictional town of Winter River, Conn., Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy "
'' had its exterior shots filmed in picturesque East Corinth, Vt.
The film won an Academy Award in 1989 for best makeup and was also nominated for best visual effects.
Comedian Adam Sandler's 2002 animated-comedy "
Eight Crazy Nights
'' featured a zanier side of the New Hampshire populace.
Set in the fictional town of Dukesberry, the film was panned by many critics, but it did earn Sandler a Kid's Choice Award for best voice in an animated movie in 2003.
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Riva's Chorus was a trio of telepaths who had lived with Riva since his childhood and who were extraordinarily attuned to his thoughts and emotions. Riva himself was deaf, a hereditary condition of the ruling dynasty of his planet, Ramatis III, and the chorus interpreted his thoughts and spoke on his behalf.
The trio each spoke for different aspects of Riva. The "Scholar/Artist" spoke on matters of the intellect and creativity, providing analysis and insight. The "Passion/Warrior" (aka "Warrior/Adonis") aspect spoke only when Riva's spirit was moved or excited. And "Balance" (aka "Harmony/Wisdom"), the only female of the trio, held the other two together, providing harmony and wisdom.
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The Vikings and Jets play each other Monday Night, and Rex Ryan made a few tails wag this week when he said he would have tried to get Favre to play for the Jets for another year had they not been able to trade for Mark Sanchez:
"There would have been some major recruiting done," Ryan said of Favre, who now quarterbacks the Minnesota Vikings (1-2), who will be visiting the Jets on Monday. "I can say that absolutely. And, maybe no one knows it or whatever, but I can promise you that's how I was feeling."
There's no doubt that the Jets are better off in the long term now that they have Sanchez in the fold, but Ryan's comments allow us fans to do that thing where we try and imagine precisely an alternate universe where Favre was the Jets QB in 2009. You already know Sanchez led the Jets to the AFC Title Game last season (as Favre led the Vikings to the NFC Title Game). Would the Jets have gone further with Favre in the fold, presumably playing as well as he played for Minnesota?
This is where it gets fun. Check out some of the Jets games last season. I see at least two close games the Jets lost that were a direct result of Sanchez committing multiple turnovers: Week 6 versus Buffalo (five picks in a 16-13 loss), and Week 15 against the Falcons (three picks in a 10-7 loss). Let's assume Favre would have won those games (again, assuming you get the 2009 Favre, and not the 2010 Edsel model). Those two extra wins, as a minimum hypothetical, would have given the Jets the AFC East title.
But then you look at the standings that year, and it's not clear that division title would have actually HELPED New York. Instead of going to an overachieving Cincy team to open the Wild Card round, they would have hosted New England, which I would argue might have been more difficult, even knowing how badly the Pats played against the Ravens in that round. Had they won that game, they would have gone to San Diego to play the Chargers, the same circumstance as last year, when they won. Then they would have gone to Indy to play the Colts.
Would Favre have been able to get the Jets past the Colts? No. Look at his numbers from the NFC Title game. A worse passer rating than Sanchez against Indy. More picks. There's nothing that suggests the Jets would have won a title with Favre last year had they kept him around. And who knows if he'd have played as well down the stretch without the comforts of a Dome.
For all his histrionics, both the Packers and the Jets have brighter futures now thanks to getting rid of Favre and moving on with their lives. And a year from now, both teams will probably look on with grins as the Vikings begin the very long, tortured process of trying to replace him.


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Garrison – First Impressions
Over the last couple of days, I've spent some time setting up my Garrison. As you'd expect there's a real Orcish feel which looks pretty bland but I'm hoping some sort of customisation (albeit minor) will come later on. Personally, I'd love to have some sort of racial or class feel but that may just be wishful thinking.
So far I've set up the initial stage of my barracks and gained one follower but it appears further blueprints may be purchased after the relevant level is achieved. The only exception is the Alchemy Lab at level 90.
It's important to note the garrison doesn't just end at the barricade wall so you'll have to travel a fair way past the gate before you unphase.
At the moment you have your own personal mailbox, innkeeper, training dummies and two primary quartermasters located inside the main garrison. The fishing trainer, farmer and several other npcs may be found out back.
Yesterday I came across a friendly ogre while questing in the Burning Glacier (just west of the Garrison). He offers you three chat options to trade, visit your garrison, or fight. The second option will cost you 10c before he appears as a regular npc during subsequent visits, located to the left of your Town Hall.
I expected him to sell some sort of random blueprint but was disappointed to see an ordinary looking hat. Curious to see if there was anything unusual, I tried it on:
This is better an any Congo line I've seen in Org and by the end, I felt like I was playing Snake.
After two days, I've sent my only follower on several short missions and will be getting a second one very soon.
Meanwhile, it's been a very expensive and life-threatening task collecting all the rares and artifacts around the place, particularly this one that burrows.
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1764 Tryphena Foster and William Overton were married in Kildwick, West Yorkshire. They are the paternal grandparents of Mary Overton (1808-1853) who is the wife of my 3rd great grand uncle William Dawson (1806-1855)
Florrie Musgrove – Happy Birthday
Florrie Musgrove is my maternal grandmother – or "nannie" as she was always known – and today is her birthday. She was born on 6 January 1897 at Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire.
Florrie was the third child of Joseph Musgrove and Elizabeth Ann Musgrove (nee Turner). She had nine siblings
John Robert Turner Musgrove (born c1892)
Thomas Musgrove (born c1894)
Mary Elizabeth Musgrove (born 1898)
James Musgrove (born 1901)
Joseph Musgrove (1903-1904)
Leah Musgrove (born c1905)
Isabel Musgrove (born c1906)
Alice Musgrove (born 1910)
Joseph Musgrove (born 1912)
When Florrie was born the family lived at Foredale Cottages just outside Horton in Ribblesdale. These cottages were built for the workers of the local limestone quarry which is where Florrie's dad worked. Here's a link to more information about the cottages.
I mentioned the problems I had finding Florrie's birth certificate when I talked about St. Catherine's House, this is because it was registered under Florrie Mosgrove.
By the time of the 1901 census the family had moved to Clitheroe in Lancashire and were living at 50 Taylor Street. Joseph is described as a limestone quarryman and had presumably moved to Clitheroe to find work in the local quarries.
In the 1911 census the family were living at 119 Lowergate, Clitheroe. By now Florrie is 14 years old and she is working as a "ring spinner" in a cotton mill.
Some time during the next six years Florrie met and fell in love with Fred Musgrove, a local chap from Clitheroe. They were married on 16 September 1917 at the United Methodist Church, Moor Lane Clitheroe.
Their marriage certificate also threw up another anomaly. The father's names have been written on the wrong lines – so Florries father is shown as Thomas instead of Joseph. Yet another example and reminder of the importance of always checking and checking again the information from official records.
Witnesses at the wedding were Florrie's brother John Robert Musgrove and Fred's sister Ellen Halstead.
Over the next 18 years Florrie and Fred had eight children
Kathleen Musgrove (born 1918)
Thomas Musgrove (born 1920)
Joseph Harry Musgrove (born 1922)
Hazel Musgrove (born 1925)
Elizabeth Musgrove (born 1927)
Stowell Musgrove (born 1929)
Alice Musgrove (born 1930) – my mother
Mary Musgrove (born 1935)
My mum describes Florrie and Fred as very loving parents. Both were hard working and fiercely loyal to their children. Unfortunately Florrie suffered from bronchial asthma for many years so I am quite sure life must have been really hard.
Florrie died on 18 May 1971 at the age of 74 and is buried at Clitheroe Cemetery.


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I have decided that perhaps atheism is not the correct term for the way I view the world . I think it should reflect that as far as I can see the concepts God or gods are both undefined as God is supposed to be defined as that which cannot be defined . And how can something that by it's very nature not be defined by anyone be a concept at all? How can I define myself as an a-theist when in fact I am pro fact and pro conceptual driven reality and therefor am not so much an atheist as an advocate of the world and reality and I am driven by the passion to do things in a manner in accordance with the laws of the real world . So the whole debate about the non-concept God or the non-concept gods is exactly like the debate about Santa Claus or ghosts or the Easter Bunny .
So I see we are all stating where we stand . I myself hold the following convictions .
1. Leave me alone !
2. All people should be able to do anything to themselves that they want to do .
3. Ultimately there is no way to stop rule 2.
4. I don't care about anyone else's goals and or ambitions or lack there of except when it interferes with rule 1 .
5. The only exception to rule 4 is people I have personally agreed with to help pursue goals and or ambitions together.
6. I really mean it.
So at the heart of Craig's arguments seems to be his willingness to support people who can't or don't want to work. So does that mean all my useless loafing relatives can come move into his house eat his food and defecate in his yard?
There are two kind's of businessmen in this county (women also) . The kind who asks for nothing from the government and succeeds or fails on his own merits . And the other kind the kind that succeeds with a small portion of his own money and a huge government loan . These second type are usually the type that steal you blind , run their companies into the ground and defraud investors . When dealing with any man/woman it is important to figure out what type of person is running the company and invest accordingly .
As to the so called social support network so lauded on other groups . Also known as the welfare state or nanny state . This was a huge con from when it was first created . The federal governments very own Ponzi scheme .
At the time it was created very few people lived long enough to ever collect. It is ironic that some of the same policies that are now costing us so much money ( Medicare and Medicaid ) are leading to everyone living longer . So we have about ten more years before the last of the baby boomers hit 65 this is the watershed moment . And Obamacare won't help matters any . Increased regulation of medical treatment and providing massive government funding for new state of the art expensive technologies is the very thing that led to the massive rise in healthcare costs in the first place .
If you were drinking a glass of water and you found out it had poison in it would you not immediately put it down and seek help ? Or would you finish the water and go back to the same well and consume more ? I think everyone can see my point .
Over the years even though the Republicans have claimed to deregulate things and be for less and smaller government . It is patently untrue . George W. Bush enacted more regulations in his eight years than Clinton did . The supposed deregulation of the Energy companies was a shell game with little real effect . Except in California where it cased a massive bureaucratic screw up and huge revenue losses . The only true solution to polluting companies isn't just deregulation . It's Deregulation plus the sale of every piece of so called government property in the U.S.A to private individuals . They would then be responsible for the use of the land and could be sued for allowing their pollutants to infringe on any one else's land . The so called public ownership of certain lands ends up meaning that people feel free to pollute it . This goes all the way from some idiot dumping a pile of trash in the desert to huge companies dumping toxic waste in the wilderness .
As to recycling I think it should be encouraged everywhere . It turns out you can recycle almost anything . I think even the long chain polymers and toxic waste products can be recycled and rendered reusable . It is of course all a question of money . There is a city in New Jersey that recycles all of there aluminum and other metals there tires batteries and trash . They have zero waste and they have a clean beautiful city and they even truck in other peoples trash to run their trash burning power plant . That also has soot scrubbers on it I believe . This should be a much better solution than New York City for instance that has barge loads of trash continuously taken out to sea and dumped . Anyway that's all for now.
We're almost on the same page. Do what you like as long as you're not hurting anyone else. The rest is negotiation, but dammit, those negotiations are complicated. I think that freedom should include, for example, the freedom to smoke weed, which endangers no one but me, but not the freedom to drive on public roads while stoned. (If anyone is curious, I don't smoke weed.) People should be free to have consensual sex with other adults, in any combination they want. But the right wing wants the freedom to exploit workers, to pollute the environment in the pursuit of short-term profits, and to defraud the public. Which of these behaviors is harmful to others? The right was all a-twitter a few weeks ago over new government efficiency standards for incandescent light bulbs. They insisted it's their right to buy whatever kind of light bulbs they want--and I would agree, if it weren't for pollution and climate change.
There's an old saying that "my right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." I think your right to swing your fist ends considerably short of my nose. Where it ends exactly could be the subject of a lengthy debate. Where does your right to pump black smoke into the air end, or your right to inject carcinogens into the ground water? Where does my right to ride my motorcycle at 110 end? Where does a woman's right to control her own body end--if it does? My right to burn my trash in a barrel in the back yard? I was once part of a faculty committee investigating the harassment of members of a new student organization: a gay/straight alliance. They thought they had every right to crowd around the entrance to the meeting room shouting "Fag! Fucking dyke!" to the students trying to enter. Some I spoke to thought it was just free speech. Hmm. One guy said there were posters on campus with the number 666 on them. The posters, he said, were harassing him, so why couldn't he harass the queers? If the government, in the form of the campus police, stops the harassment, are they protecting the rights of the gay/straight members or violating the rights of the protesters?
So we agree on most everything, but I stick by my original point that the joys of free market capitalism are myths. When there was laissez faire capitalism, there were also robber barons and stock manipulators, all getting rich on insider information. There were also widespread illiteracy, ignorance, and poverty because short-term profits always outweighed the greater good. The preamble to the Constitution clearly states the reasons for creating the Constitution. One which we all know is to "provide for the common defense." Another, which you seldom hear mentioned, is to "promote the general welfare." That one, it seems to me, gives government broad latitude to make regulations for the common good. However much we may distrust our government--and believe me, I do--we would be fools to trust BP or Union Carbide or Monsanto.
Okay, I'm not an anarchist libertarian, I'm more of a minarchist. Almost all of my beliefs, social or political, stem from my belief that everyone has a freedom to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's freedom to do as they please. Simple but I can't find fault with it personally. Anyway, what I'm saying is I do believe that the government should enforce crimes that exploit other people or, otherwise, are not victimless. I do believe in government regulation, just not to the extent that you propose.
If I had to make a choice between freedom and security, I will always choose freedom. The there will always be corrupt individuals in big business but the most I or anyone else can do is educate people. Let people know that they should research options and find a product that suits their needs and coincides with their beliefs. If people don't listen, which is likely, then it still isn't the governments job to step in and force them to do so.
I think tobacco is a good example. You would be extremely hard pressed to find a single person, smoker or not, to tell you that they don't believe smoking is harmful. People are well educated about the effects of smoking. At that point, it is the individuals decision whether they want to smoke or not. The decision is effecting their own body, and it is their body to build or destroy. Same with fast food. I'm pretty fit (thanks to rigorous PT every morning at 0630), but every now and then, I want a #10 from Burger King; large, because I don't get to very often, but when I do, it's fantastic. Do I know that in excess, it's pretty unhealthy? Yes, but it makes me happy and it tastes good. The government should never be able to make it more expensive because they don't want me to eat it. I both smoke, eat fast food, and I can run 2 miles in 14 minutes. Does that mean it isn't harmful? No, it means I know it's harmful and I self-regulate. If someone does the same, weighs 300 lbs. and gets out of breath walking up a flight of stairs, then of course they're weak-willed, but it's not my job or the government's job to regulate their habits.
Also, it's illegal to impose a tax for the sole purpose of regulating behavior, yet the government does it anyway. Such as the tax recently put on cigarettes a couple years ago. Taxing big businesses because they sell harmful products is wrong. All it does is make it more expensive for the consumer, who is buying the product of their own volition. The companies aren't forcing anyone to buy the product. And that's where education comes in.
P.S.--Outside of the spirit of the debate, you probably should take jabs at Fox News. It's a news station made almost entirely of biased idiots. Having bias is okay, but not in the NEWS. Their job is to report facts and facts have no bias.
Just a note: Seeing the government from the inside is a wonderful way observe just how inefficient our government is. Not just in financial matters but in every aspect possible. I wish that was an exaggeration, but I swear, It's not.
Hey, I'm not offended. I don't expect the government to "hand out" jobs, but the Republicans have been promising since 1980 that Reaganomics would create jobs and that cutting taxes would create jobs by freeing up investment capital. Taxes are at their lowest since Ike, and the economy still suffers. What do they want? More cuts, less regulation, and freedom to destroy the environment. The cuts go to the rich, who supposedly create jobs, only now they create jobs in Indonesia and Mexico, not the US. Not all the rich are entrepreneurs; some are just investors, and investments in manufactured securities do very little to create jobs. The jobs to which I was referring are all the private sector jobs the right wing promises their policies will lead to, but which never seem to materialize.
Free market capitalism never worked the way we like to think it did because big money is always in power. Societies--even American society--consisted of a few rich and a whole lot of poor until the build-up for World War II (a shitload of government spending) and the social and economic programs of the New Deal (another shitload of government spending) built the American middle class, so what works and keeps people relatively happy is government regulated capitalism. Do we want sweatshops all over America, or do we want the government to protect workers from exploitation and unsafe working conditions? Shall we have children working in the coal mines again, or shall we have some government regulation? More realistically, shall we have the "freedom" to buy our gas guzzlers without seat belts, or shall we have life saving government regulation? Do we want the freedom to guess what's in our breakfast sausage (in Teddy Roosevelt's time it was the sweepings from the packing house floor) or do we want a government meat inspector to keep an eye on the process for us?
I'm not unhappy, by the way. I have a decent job as a college professor, though I worked very hard to get it and still work very hard to keep it. Maybe it is childish to strike my puny blow at Fox News, but on a larger scale, suppose more people were willing to forgo pleasure or profit for the greater good? Suppose no one was willing to sell cigarettes because they cause cancer? (The public health damage in the Third World, where governments neither regulate nor warn, and where American tobacco companies are putting their marketing efforts, is going to be enormous.) Suppose no one was willing to work for a bank that defrauds investors, or a lender that defrauds consumers? Pipe dreams, I know, a plot for a bad Ricky Gervais movie. When there's money to be made, no matter how harmful or vicious the work, someone will step up and make the money, even if they have to sell slaves or crack or defective body armor to do it. The faith involved in free market capitalism is the faith that the market is free. It's not. The choice we have is whether the government makes the rules in the interests of society or the corporation makes the rules in the interests of profit.
Kyle, I don't know where you're stationed, but thank you for your service. Stay safe.
PS: The only thing I found offensive was the implication that I might resort to name calling. I won't.
I don't expect to bring down Fox News by my refusal to support their advertisers. I know they don't care, and that it's a small gesture. It was only intended as an example of how difficult it is to know whom we are supporting with our consumer dollars.
There is no "faith" involved in free market capatalism. You don't need faith when its the only system that has proven to last, and keep people relatively happy. Emphasis on relatively, you're never going to appease everyone.
Other than that bit, I was with you right up until "where are the promised jobs?" and "I try never to buy from companies that sponsor Fox News." Okay, now I know why you're unhappy. You expect the government to hand out jobs, and you let Fox News decide your consumer habits. Really? Not just a tad childish? Think about that. You're not hurting Fox News. You think they spend they're overpaid time plotting about how to get you to buy their products? Short answer: No. They could give rats ass about you buying their products, yet you limit your options. All I am asking is that you think about how you're going about this "protest". I think your heart's in the right place but your head's not following.
And before you call me uber-conservative, or some other equally ignorant name, just to clarify, I am a libertarian.
Oh, and I'm in the Army. I live the government socialized healthcare "dream", and trust me, you can ask any military individual, it sucks something awful. We literally get excited about seeing civilian doctors and going to civilian hospitals.
P.S.--I don't mean to offend. If it came out that way, I apologize. Just trying to be honest.
The free market is a myth because corporations don't want a free market. They do whatever they can to tilt the playing field in their favor. As for researching who and what they are buying, that would be a full-time job in today's conglomerate controlled society.
As for Ross Perot, he did help to engineer the Nixon administration scam about POWs. There weren't any. There were far fewer MIAs by percentage in Vietnam than in any previous wars. Nixon's "peace with honor" program included the nonsensical idea that we wouldn't negotiate peace with Vietnam until our POWs were returned. Normally, POWs are returned when hostilities come to an end, not as a pre-condition for peace talks. Nixon managed to keep the war going for several years by lumping POWs and MIAs together so that we could claim that MIAs were really POWs the evil Vietnamese were denying they had. (There are always MIAs that are never accounted for in any war.) Nixon called them bargaining chips, though how anyone can bargain with something they deny having is beyond me. Perot, with the help of Admiral Stockdale (later his vice presidential candidate) and the admiral's wife, orchestrated the "grass roots" movement of POW families. It was a scam, and Perot's reward was a fortune in government billing contracts.
I don't think I like supporting indigent people any more than you do, but it is a tiny portion of the budget, and the alternative is children starving to death in the streets and roving gangs of bandits overwhelming the police.
The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac probably started the panic, but it was unnecessary. They weren't failing. And the bonds that crashed were invented at Goldman Sachs. Mortgages are often bundled into bonds by the thousands, then rated by Moody's or Standard and Poor's. Such bonds are low risk--until you start overloading them with sub-prime loans. Mortgage brokers don't vet their clients as thoroughly as commercial banks did in the past because they make their money by initiating a loan, not by collecting the payments. Mortgages are often sold. The real scam was the credit default swap, which is just a fancy term for insurance. So a commercial bank writes a lot of mortgages. An investment bank (sometimes a separate division of the same bank) buys them up and rolls them into a bond issue. They then bribe the ratings agencies to pretend the bonds are AAA investments (very low risk) and sell the bonds, which are actually chock full of sup-prime mortgages, many of which will go into default. The investment bank then buys insurance on the bonds that they've already sold.
Suppose I sell you a house. I know it's got termites and a faulty, antequated furnace. So I bribe the inspectors. They are bonded, so you trust them. As soon as we close on the property, I buy insurance on the house, and I take out life insurance policies on you, your husband, and your kids. Maybe the furnace blows up. I collect on the house. Maybe the furnace leaks carbon monoxide into the house one night, killing you and your family in your sleep. I collect on the life insurance. (By the way, many corporations buy life insurance on their employees; they call it "dead peasant" insurance.) This scenario is essentially what occurred during the crash of 2008.
The SEC did screw up on the Madoff scheme, but so did a lot of professional fund managers. After 9/11, some 400 FBI agents were transferred out of white collar crimes to focus on terrorism and security. Government simply doesn't have enough people to monitor unregulated banks. When the dividing line between commercial banks (which make loans) and investment banks (which buy up and re-sell those loans) was erased during the Reagan years, it created new opportunities for fraud. The securities were designed to fail, and they were so complicated that even auditors didn't know what was in them. A handful of rich, powerful, greedy bastards brought about the crash. What might they have done with no government regulation at all?
Shit! I've missed the first period of the Detroit-San Jose game 7. Gotta go.
Um, I think I'm a liberal Democrat. (Don't shoot!) Government should stay out of our lives as much as possible, but I really don't mind supporting those people who can't or won't take care of themselves. Every society in history has had to deal with them, and in ancient Rome or Greece parents could sell their children into slavery or leave unwanted babies on the garbage heaps. Corporate thieves are much worse than a few welfare cheats. McDonald's gets hundreds of millions from the feds for "job training," even though their "training" consists of a short video. Capitalist hero Ross Perot became a welfare billionaire when he was awarded Medicare billing contracts for his part in organizing the supposedly grass roots POW-MIA organizations. Frankly, though I have never had a pleasant interaction with the federal government, I wish to hell someone had been governing the banks and bond traders who issued securities designed to fail and then bought insurance on them, bringing our economy down so a few frauds could get obscenely rich. I'm glad we have meat inspectors. We would all like to see the free market solve our problems, but the free market is a myth. Corporations have always tried to tilt the playing field in their favor, with or without government regulation. That's why 135 of the Fortune 500 companies have outsourced jobs and paid taxes to foreign governments, while bitching and moaning about American taxes, which they do not pay. The courts consider corporations people, so the Roberts court has ruled that the constitutional principle of free speech gives them the right to put as much money as they want into election campaigns, thereby ensuring that elected officials will always be in the corporations' pockets. Conservative organizations like the Family, ALEC, and the Discovery Institute are writing the idiotic laws that the GOP is trying to pass, even at the state level, which is why the labor movement has been targeted by so many governors in recent months.
By the way, my name is Craig. I believe in freedom in areas that don't cause harm to others, and regulation in areas that do cause harm. I guess that means something like the rams should be able to fuck other rams if they want to, but the wolves don't get to decide what's for dinner.
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Yesterday we got busy and prepared for Lent. I got Amy's help making our traditional salt dough crown of thorns.
This year I changed the recipe a little. I used : 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1 cup of cinnamon, and about 1 1/2 cups of water. Mix with a spoon at first, then dig your hands in to finish up the mixing. It's smells heavenly!! Roll the dough into three long "snakes" and then carefully braid. Form the braid into a crown and then insert toothpicks which are removed from the completed crown when sacrifices are performed. Bake at 250 degrees for about 4 hours.
I really like the color of our crown. We usually need to paint our it, but the cinnamon makes it a very nice brown.
We also have started our Lent "learning wall". Our Lenten countdown calendar can be found over at Catholic Icing. We are also enjoying this years Holy Heroes Lenten Adventure.
This great programs offers free videos, coloring pages and worksheets. I especially love the Holy Heroes audio rosary. It gives such deep meaning of the mysteries geared toward children. It is a wonderful program to get our children's hearts and our own hearts ready for the coming of Easter.


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Is there an iPad in your genealogy future
I had someone today stop me at the Mesa Regional Family History Center just to tell me how much they liked Reunion on the iPad. Looking around and seeing the huge increase in the number of smart phones, particularly iPhones, it is likely that someone you know will show up with either an iPhone or an iPad. The new iPad 2 is really impressive. Many people who do not want to pay for the monthly charge of the iPhone are purchasing iPod Touch with all of the same features and no monthly charge. You still need an Internet account and the Internet needs to be available by WiFi.
Going back to the Mesa Regional Family History Center, they just introduced free WiFi at the center. That means I can take my MacBook Pro to the Center and actually do some work while I am there. The times are really a'changin.
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