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Bonifacio (Pasyo) Solon Silva
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"To the cockpit went the poor man to risk what little he had in order to make money without working, as well as the rich man who went to amuse himself with the money left over from his parties and the thanksgiving Masses; but at least the latter was staking his own money and his cock was trained with great care, perhaps with even greater care than his own son, his successor in the cockpit, so this was no ground for complaint." –Jose Rizal (Noli me Tangere)
Son of Benito Barcenas Silva and second wife Severa Solon Limbaga.
Cockfight aficionado and unofficial town layman circumciser;
Every day every summer vacation time, troops of primary to elementary-grade pupils would make a beeline to Bonifacio Silva's house and asked to be circumcised; every Sunday the whole year before that, Bonifacio Silva himself also made a beeline to the sabungan to make holy St. Peter's favorite bird; Carcar will always remember him for those two skills he shared with the town;[1]
An apocryphal anecdote about Pasyo had him going to confession. His previous confession was probably his wedding day, the story continues, so he had to recall hard how to start. But soon "Bless me father for I have sinned, my last confession was…" "Go on, when was your last," goaded the priest in the confessional. "Easily 20 years, Father (actually the Visayan version was 'Hayahay lang 20 ka tuig, 'Dre)." By then the priest, also a cockfight enthusiast, had already recognized his voice, "Pasyo ikaw na (is that you?)" "Yes, Father." "That talisayon of yours last Sunday was mismatched…(ten minutes of cockfight fare in the confessional)…Sigue, see you on Sunday." "My penance, Father?" "Ah, okay, one Our Father." Apocryphal? Maybe, we all know about the Seal of the Confessional but, come to think of it, layman Pasyo was not bound by that seal.
Bonifacio Silva died on his seat at the cockpit. Bearing out Rizal's keen social eye, Pasyo's son, Cesar, took over the raising of fighting cocks.
Married to Anselma Embrado Cui with 2 children.
[1] Bonifacio Silva's heritage: Nobody has counted how many boys he had circumcised in his lifetime; and on cockfighting, his godson, Manuel Bonifacio T. Yap, providentially born on Bonifacio Day, and who lived next door, became champion twice in a row in the annual Philippine International Cockfight Derby at the Araneta coliseum the first two years the format had been upped to 8 cocks from 6, even sweeping all 8 in 1970, the first year.
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Well, I guess I was succesful relocating my small home server to openbsd, the board (Epia MII12000) has AES hw accel using padlock, and basically runs a nginx, php-fpm, mysql stack for some personal webservers, ssh server for outside access, exim for a few emails, netbsd-iscsi for backups, minidlna to stream music and video, a 2mbit/s gogoc tunnel for ip6. So far everything ok, it is probably faster than it was before, except sftp and scp file transfers are a lot slower than before, also nginx uses a lot more CPU than before transferring large files.
I have read that openbsd is bringing some innovation to openssl but I did not follow what is going on ....
The openssl padlock engine is disabled, even if a comment in /usr/src/lib/libssl/crypto/Makefile:
CFLAGS+= -DOPENSSL_NO_HW_PADLOCK # XXX enable this?
openssl speed -evp shows that padlock instructions are used by evp functions, but are nginx, exim and ssh using them?
openssl speed -engine cryptodev instead is ~5/6 times slower, probably not using padlock.
# openssl speed aes-192-cbc type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-192 cbc 4832.23k 5069.21k 5150.03k 12997.93k 13014.90k # openssl speed -evp aes-192-cbc type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-192-cbc 26500.36k 99317.35k 268582.62k 464052.28k 589470.85k # openssl speed -engine cryptodev aes-192-cbc type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-192 cbc 4778.00k 5014.26k 5122.80k 12946.75k 13032.20k #
Will nginx use padlock? should I set ssl_engine cryptodev; or not?.
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I'm not an expert on this but there are some questions regarding the integrity of some of the chips. The OpenBSD code has been audited.
Your decision may come down to whether you trust the padlock vs the performance gains.
IIRC the problem is with the via rng, but it is simply bugged :-) it is based on thermal effects, and when the load is high and the CPU temp high vthe via rng returns mostly 1s, it is easy to check on a board using it :-) rngd (which I used before) can detect this condition and switch to another source (I used aveged). But randomness is not the problem for me ATM (I think at least).
IIRC libressl should have supported padlock and AESNI, I have no political reason to use those CPU extensions or not, but some speed could be welcome to use iscsi over ssh tunnels and file transfers over SSL :-)
And nginx using so much CPU is also requiring using more Watts of electricity and that is bad for the environment (and my wallet). Imagine how much CO2 are releasing in the atmosphere all those CPU doing AES encriptions in software
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Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vtbnblog.
Teams on the Rise… Teams on the Slide
Just over 38 percent of the conference schedule is in the books and two teams — Saint Louis and Virginia Commonwealth — have emerged as the teams to catch. Three other teams — George Mason, Duquesne and Dayton (!) — are falling out of contact with the rest of the conference.
Rising – Teams that are finding their groove
- Saint Louis — Skeptics who groused that the Billikens' early conference success came compliments of an easy draw have to pause for reflection after this week. Wins over Dayton, a rallying St. Bonaventure, and most recently Richmond (by 20 points) confirm that the Billikens are unlikely to slip against the conference's middling teams and will continue to set the pace in the conference race for at least the next two weeks. A good deal of ink has extolled and analyzed Virginia Commonwealth's HAVOC, but Jim Crews' smothering defense — ranked #1 nationally by Ken Pomeroy (and a runaway #1 in conference play, over eight points per 100 possessions better than #2 VCU) — that provides the winning edge for the Bills. A combination of consistent two- and three-point field goal defense and strong defensive rebounding has powered Saint Louis' defense in sharp contrast to VCU's gambling, steal-oriented, press-and-trap approach that tolerates fouls as a byproduct. Saint Louis by contrast does not foul. Jordair Jett, the Bills' thick but quick point guard, combines with undersized forward Dwayne Evans to provide the Billikens with an adequate, but hardly prolific, offense. The defense — for now — is enough. Their February 15 date with Virginia Commonwealth, the first of two games they will play with the Rams in the final three weeks of the regular season, is the opening shot in what may well become a three-game set that will be decided in the conference championship game at the Barclays Center. Read the rest of this entry »


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Sentencing has been scheduled for a former manager at Iowa egg farms who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe a federal inspector.
U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett this week ordered Tony Wasmund to appear Feb. 12 in his courtroom in Sioux City.
Wasmund has been free pending sentencing, where he will face a maximum of five years in prison.
Wasmund was a supervisor at the network of companies owned by Jack DeCoster, whose operations in northern Iowa were blamed for a 2010 salmonella outbreak that caused the recall of 550 million eggs.
Months before the outbreak, Wasmund authorized giving $300 in petty cash to another employee to bribe a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector to allow sales of shell eggs that had been withheld for failing to meet federal standards.


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Life gets teejus don' it?
Posted by Old Shep on April 24, 2004
In Reply to: Life gets teejus don' it? posted by Lotg on April 24, 2004
: My father used to use this quite often and I always assumed it was a quote from an old Dad and Dave movie. Now for you non-Aussies, or for anyone half my age, you've probably never heard of Dad and Dave movies. But they were old pre-talkie movies, that made the transition into talkies. And remember, it was only an assumption on my part that, that's where he got it from.
: I think it's actually a quote from a poem that probably wasn't Australian in origin. In fact, the reference to 'mule', 'hound dog' and 'pork and beans' and much of the terminology, makes me suspect an American origin. It doesn't really sound Australian, but it does sound American to me. I found this poem on a website, but it didn't supply the origin:
: Life Gets Tedious , Don't It?
: The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
: The hands on the clock keep going round,
: I just get up and it's time to lay down,
: Life gets tedious, don't it?
: My shoes untied but I don't care,
: I was'nt figuring on going nowhere,
: I'd have to wash and comb my hair,
: And that's just wasted effort.
: Water in the well gettin' lower end lower,
: Can't take a bath for a month or more,
: But I've heard it told and it's true I'm sure,
: That too much bathing weakens yer.
: Open the door and the flies come in,
: Shut the door and yer sweating again,
: And in the process, I cracked my shin,
: Just one darn thing after another.
: Ole brown mule, he must be sick,
: I jabbed him in the rump with a pin on a stick,
: He humped his back but he did'nt kick,
: There's something cockeyed somewhere.
: Ole mouse chawing on the pantry door,
: Been chawing there for a month or more,
: When he gets through he's gonna be sore,
: There aint a darn thing in there.
: Hound dog howling so forlorn,
: Laziest dog that ever was born,
: He's howling cause he's sittin' on a thorn,
: And he's just too tired to move over.
: Tin roof leaks and the chimney leans,
: There's a hole in the seat of my old blue jeans,
: I 'ate the last of my pork and beans,
: Just can't depend on nothin'.
: Cows gone dry and the hens won't iay,
: Fish stopped biting last Saturday,
: Troubles piling up day by day,
: And now I'm gettin' dandruff.
: Grief and misery pain and woes,
: Bills and taxes and so it goes,
: And now I'm gettin' a cold in the nose,
: Life gets tasteless - Don't it?!
: ...This poem actually spells the word 'tedious' properly, but I always remember my dad making a point of pronouncing it 'teejus'.
: Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
This was no poem, this was a song: the original hit version was by a country singer called Carson Robison. It reached # 14 on the US national charts in 1948. Tex Williams also recorded a version at, or around, the same time.
- Life gets teejus don' it? ESC 24/April/04
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Researchers, doctors and laymen alike have long known of the power of the placebo. When people believe a sugar pill is going to cure their ills, they tend to feel better after taking one. Of course, if the malady is more serious than a head cold or anxiety, a sugar pill may trick your mind into believing in its curative powers, but the rest of the body won't be so easily be fooled.
The placebo effect depends upon the hyping and selling of a worthless bill of goods, and that's something that charlatans can deliver. Once you have a crowd believing that your jar of colored water will cure all their aches and pains, statistically about one-third of those who buy your product will be completely satisfied and spread the news of your miracle cure for you. By the time the remaining two-thirds catch on, you -- the fraud -- have moved on to the next town, the next cure or the next world.
For thousands of years, there wasn't much of a difference between scientific medical practices and medical quackery. The world was flat, the sky was poked full of holes and your diseases were caused by demons inside of you. There were many, many opinions on how to get those demons out.
Sometimes the practitioners believed in the miracle cures being touted, and sometimes fame and acclaim were the motivating factors (the money was just a nice benefit). Regardless, some medical quackeries throughout history stand out from the rest, and we'll look at 10 of those in this article. Take our word for it: This article will leave you feeling satisfied, refreshed and miraculously healthy.
The Original Snake-oil Medicine: Snake Oil
In 1905, there were more than 28,000 -- and possibly nearly twice that number -- patent medicines produced or marketed in the United States [source: Young]. These mixtures, potions and concoctions were generally useless but cost a pretty penny. There were a lot of ineffective medicines on the market, and behind each one was a silver-tongued scam artist.
One managed to establish brand-name recognition that lasts to this day. Clark Stanley billed himself as the "Rattlesnake King," gathering crowds by killing rattlesnakes while delivering his pitch. For 50 cents a bottle, you could cure your toothaches, neuralgia, ankle sprains and pretty much everything else. Stanley claimed his snake-oil medicine came straight from an Indian medicine man and that his blend of snake oils worked miracles.
When the Feds seized a shipment in 1917 and tested it, it was discovered that his snake oil was about 99 percent mineral oil and 1 percent beef fat, with traces of red pepper and turpentine thrown in the mix to give it a more medicinal smell. His business was shut down, but "snake oil" lives on in our lexicon to this day.
Child-calming Patent Medicines
It wasn't until 1962 that a drug had to be both safe and effective to be sold on the U.S. market [source: FDA]. In the 19th century, such standards were nonexistent, so the market was flooded with ointments, balms and tinctures that might be either safely ineffective or functionally dangerous. Falling into the latter category is an assortment of medicines that were purported to calm upset babies, allowing the infant -- and its parents -- to sleep soundly through the night. Such medicines abounded, with reassuring names such as Soothing Baby Syrup, Hooper's Adodyne: The Infant's Friend, Dr. Fahrney's Teething Syrup, Dr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Kopp's Baby Friend.
Desperate (or maybe just curious) parents eager for a full night's sleep turned to these patent medicines. They worked as advertised. A glance at the contents of Kopp's Baby Friend (fairly representative of all such nostrums) will tell you why: Its label boasted 8.5 percent alcohol and one-eighth grain sulfate of opium per ounce. The suggested dosing on the Kopp's label was on a graduated scale to account for your infant's growing size and tolerance to opiates -- "Dose for child 1 week old, 6 drops; … 1 month, 15 to 18 drops; … 12 months and over, 1 1/2 teaspoonful…"
There were reportedly many child deaths due to these narcotic formulas and likely many more miniature addicts. The American Medical Association publicized the dangers of using such products, and the popularity of narcotic infant soothers began to wane in the early 1900s.
Electromagnetic Coils
Before the FDA gained oversight of medical devices in 1932, business was fairly brisk for some outlandish and generally useless cure-all contraptions. From the 1860s to around the 1940s, one such device peddled to the people was an electromagnetic coil that -- you guessed it -- supposedly could cure pretty much everything. Not only did it improve your health, but it made you feel younger and even look more attractive, according to advertisements for the devices.
The devices had many different names (the I-ON-A-CO, the Theronoid and the Magnetone were all marketed in the 1920s and '30s), but all worked (wink) on basically the same principle: Iron in your body assists the transfer of oxygen between cells, and electricity supercharges the iron, thus providing your cells with more oxygen. Or something like that. The important part was that the results were "miraculous."
While electrical currents are still used today (though at higher power and lower expectations) to ease muscle ache and tendonitis, these early devices gained plenty of accolades from early users for curing everything from cancer to gout. Users of electromagnetic belts benefited greatly from the placebo effect. People believed the devices would make them feel more energetic and youthful, and so that is how many of them felt after using the devices.
To attain these results, one needed to first purchase the coil, then, in the comfort of one's own home, place the large coil of insulated wires around the waist, plug it in to a normal electrical outlet and receive the cure. Unlike our next item, it was refreshingly harmless.
Radioactive Water
At the beginning of the 20th century, springs that produced naturally hot "mineral water" were (and still are) quite popular. In 1903, it was discovered that many of these springs had radioactive water, so the natural conclusion was that radioactivity was good for you.
Soon these hot springs were being advertised as radium spas, and an entire industry was built on the supposedly curative powers of radiation. Reputable medical journals stated that radium slowed aging and cured insanity [source: Frame]. Once the U.S. surgeon general announced that radium could cure everything from malaria to diarrhea, the hucksters were off to the races.
So how did it work? Drinking radiated water carried the powerful life force of radioactive energy throughout your body, where it charged cells and rid the body of its waste.
There was no fancier way to be healthy in the 1920s than to take a long soak in a radioactive bath at a radium spa. Some enterprising souls began marketing radiating water crocks that allowed consumers to radiate their own water. Items like the Revigator and the Radium Emanator were embraced by Americans -- the Revigator sold several hundred thousand units in 1929 alone. These handy and chic household devices could quickly make your water radioactive, enabling you to drink the six or so daily glasses of it as recommended by the manufacturers.
Before long, you could purchase radioactive beauty cream, toothpaste and ear plugs [source: Frame]. When well-known proponents of the water began falling ill and dropping dead, the radium craze began its decline.
Historical Baldness Cures
In the 19th century, men lost their hair at approximately the same rate they lost their money on baldness cures. Unfortunately, many hustlers had a far better understanding of generating sales for worthless products than of reseeding a barren scalp.
A tonic marketed as Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer promised to feed the starved roots of your hair and to destroy the bacteria that allegedly caused hair loss. The formula for the tonic came from a mysterious Sicilian who, according to huckster Reuben P. Hall, once crossed paths with the proprietor. Hall must have crossed paths with another Sicilian later on, because the ingredients of the tonic changed around the turn of the century. One of the ingredients, lead, not only helped bring color to the hair, but also ensured that darkened hair would be admired by doctors and undertakers alike, since many customers fell ill to lead poisoning after using the product.
A competing baldness cure was Burnett's Cocoaine. Using the sort of sleight-of-hand that now gets street-level pharmacists killed, the makers of Burnett's Cocoaine didn't add cocaine to their product, but rather coconut oil (also spelled, ahem, "cocoa-nut oil"). No matter what was in the product, it didn't restore hair with the speed its trade name implied.
Animal Magnetism
Magnétisme animal was a special ability to correct imbalances in the universal fluid that flows through everything in this world, according to Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century German physician who first studied this universal force-fluid in Vienna. Once his beliefs were no longer welcome in Vienna, Mesmer opened shop in Paris in 1777 and found plenty of ready believers.
Mesmer advanced the idea that health problems were caused by blockages in the body that prevented this life-fluid from flowing where it needed to go. Through the use of magnets, Mesmer believed he could clear up these blockages. Mesmer then discovered that he himself didn't need the magnets -- he, as it turned out, was one of the few who possessed animal magnetism.
Mesmer put on full-blown productions, featuring chanting, music, special lighting and stagecraft. During his sessions, he would make magnetic passes over the patient's body, allegedly redirecting the flow of the fluid, and serving as a conduit for the forces of the universe to find their proper way into the patient. When the time was right, the patient would have what Mesmer called a magnetic crisis, which meant the problem would quickly worsen in the form of a jolt of sorts, and then be cured. The effect of the presentation was so intoxicating that its effect now claims his name: mesmerizing.
Mesmer was eventually investigated on order of King Louis XVI, and soon after, he left Paris for parts unknown. As the next page will prove, it takes more than a magnetic personality to make it in this world -- it takes an electric hairbrush.
Electric Hairbrushes
While most quackeries have at least some truth to their claims (for instance, radioactive water was truly radioactive), the same can't be said for Dr. George A. Scott's electric hairbrush. Uncharged and unchargeable, this "electric" hairbrush that debuted in 1880 was in fact slightly magnetized. Regardless, plenty of people bought the devices that carried the promise to cure almost everything. Dr. Scott must have realized that it was a stretch to believe an electric hairbrush could cure blood poisoning, so he developed electric flesh brushes, as well as electric curlers (healing electric curlers, that is).
Scott was wise enough to caution owners of the electric brush not to share it with anyone, which would diminish the brush's powers. So, if you complained that your electric brush didn't work, you could be told to look closer to home for the reason your electric brush has lost its power. Additionally, the "one-person, one-brush" rule naturally meant that everyone in the household had to have his or her own brush.
Instructions for his brushes also advised, "People of sedentary habits and weakened nerve powers will find it a valuable companion" [source: American Artifacts]. Perhaps the good doctor hoped that his preferred clientele would be too lazy and upset to demand refunds. In any case, the electric brush fell out of favor sometime around 1890. Next, we'll learn why sometimes men should just be satisfied with being all man.
Testicular Implants
In 1917, a Kansas man confided to his doctor that he was suffering from impotence. The patient noted that his goats, however, seemed to have all the sexual vitality in the world. What would happen, the desperate patient asked the doc, if you put the goat's reproductive glands in me?
Well, if you're a lifelong fraudster who just bought a medical degree from a mail-order catalog, you have no choice but to perform the transplant, and that's just what Dr. John R. Brinkley did. The patient believed he was cured, and word got around fast. As the good doctor whittled away on the local goat population and spliced onto the town's human male population, word spread around Kansas (and probably around goat pens as well). Before long, people came from far and wide to pay Dr. Brinkley to place goat glands onto or into the human testicle, which would in essence absorb the goat glands and begin functioning again, according to Brinkley.
There's no press like great press, especially when you're running a questionable goat-testicle-implanting business and your latest satisfied customer is the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Of course, by this time, not only could the operation cure impotence, but high blood pressure, mental illness and everything else. Brinkley bought a radio station and began beaming out 1,000 watts of his message of hope, and listeners responded. Before his practice was shut down, Brinkley grafted goat testicles onto 16,000 men -- a world record [source: Schwarcz]. Next up: Let it bleed.
If you think waiting for hours in a small examination room for a doctor is a frustrating experience, imagine waiting for your doctor to check his astrological charts to determine when he could schedule your next bloodletting.
Based partly on an ancient Greek belief that all forms of sickness were results of imbalances in the humors (phlegm, yellow bile, black bile and blood), bloodletting has been the quackery of choice for more than 2,500 years. To make it in the quackery business as long as bloodletting did, you have to make bold statements about curing sickness -- and occasionally change the explanation of how the cure works. Bloodletting, according to different proponents through the ages, allows your blood to breathe, pleases Jesus and Yahweh, removes demons and works in relation to the constellations in the sky.
When monks and priests got out of the bloodletting business, barbers stepped in, willing to take an inch off the top and the foot off at the ankle. Trained doctors in that time didn't practice surgery, and only took up the practice once there was a reestablishment of independent roles for the barber and the surgeon. (Barbers kept the red-and-white pole in the breakup, however.)
When the first president of the United States, George Washington, fell ill in late 1799, he had more than half his blood removed in the course of 10 hours, certainly bringing about a speedier demise [source: Vadakan]. Falling out of favor by the 1850s, bloodletting was still practiced in the United States into the 1920s [source: Starr].
The first modern lobotomy performed to cure mental illness occurred in 1935. Further experimentation by a psychiatrist, Dr. Walter Freeman, resulted in a 10-minute method that separated the frontal lobe by accessing the brain with an ice pick by way of the eye sockets. The results were incredibly random. Some patients claimed to feel cured of mental illness after having the procedure, while others were left in a state of passiveness, regression or neurological devastation that required around-the-clock care for the rest of their lives.
Freeman hyped lobotomies as a cure not only for mental illness but also headaches and misbehaving children. Freeman traveled the country, performing lobotomies wherever and whenever he could. He performed the haphazard surgery so quickly that he once lobotomized 25 people in a single day [source: NPR].
The procedure peaked in usage sometime in the 1950s and tapered off shortly after that, due to serious misgivings among the medical and psychiatric community, as well as the emergence of psychoactive drugs that alleviated many of the symptoms of mental illness Freeman claimed to be able to cure. After lobotomizing around 2,500 people, Freeman retired and died five years later [source: NPR]. His final patient died of a brain hemorrhage after being lobotomized.
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- American Artifacts. "Theronoid Electromagnetic Solenoid." http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/thero.htm
- Bakken Library and Museum. "Gaylord Wilshire and the I-ON-A-CO." Apr. 6, 2007. http://www.thebakken.org/artifacts/wilshire.htm
- Boeree, George C., PhD. "A Brief History of the Lobotomy."2001 (Dec. 10, 2008) http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/lobotomy.html
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. "North Side: Eben M. Byers." (Dec. 10, 2008) http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n106.html
- Cunningham, Peter. "This may hurt: an odd tale of testicular transplants."
- Irish Times. May 17, 2008. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0517/1210889113265.html
- Custis, George Washington Parke. "Recollections of Washington." http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washington.htm
- De la Pena, Carolyn Thomas. "The Body Electric: How strange machines built the modern American." New York University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-8147-1953-8
- Dittrick Medical History Center. "Cupping Set c. 1810." http://www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2/museum/artifacts/group-A/A-1cupping.htm
- Drugstore Museum. "Patent Medicines." 2004. (Dec. 10, 2008) http://www.drugstoremuseum.com/sections/level_info2.php?level=3&level_id=26
- Fadely, Don. "Hair Raising Stories." (Dec. 22, 2008) http://www.hairraisingstories.com/Products/BURNETT_C.html
- Ford, Graham. "Phlebotomy: The Ancient Art of Bloodletting." (Dec. 10, 2008) http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/phlebo.htm
- Frame, Paul W. "Radioactive Curative Devices and Spas." Oak Ridger, Nov. 5, 1989. http://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/quackstory.htm
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The Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia will hold its Annual General Meeting & Lecture on Saturday, May 10 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Akins A/V Room, Nova Scotia Archives, University and Robie Strrets, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The lecture will be given by Terrence M. Punch, and Terry will be talking about his latest publication, Montbeliard Immigration to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752. Do you have the surnames Bailley, Burgoyne, Boutilier, Dorey, Jodrey, Patriquin, Dauphinee, Jollimore, Langille, or Tattrie somewhere in your family background?
Come hear about where they, and other Montbeliardais, came from. You may learn some surprising facts; for example, at the time of the immigration to Nova Scotia from 1749 to 1752, Montbeliard was an independent Lutheran state.
Light refreshments to follow.
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Police officer Erik Kerasiotis, 46, wasn't supposed to be on the front lines the night of the riot. Tasked with logistics for the night, he was thrust into the action after he fell off the back of a command team truck driving through the intersection of Nelson and Howe as the game was ending and the destruction was just beginning.
All alone, he linked up with a nearby RCMP riot squad comprised of members from various municipalities; he became their "middle man," helping them communicate with the Vancouver police department's command team amid ongoing radio problems that night.
It was chaos.
The officers pushed down Nelson Street toward Granville, firing smoke grenades while trying to get bystanders and families out of the way.
"That was the thing that surprised me the most — you've got this huge riot erupting, and families with their children and kids just standing there taking pictures, while the police are firing smoke grenades and getting in physical face-to-face confrontations with people," Kerasiotis recollects.
"Instead of leaving and going to a place of safety, they were just standing there watching."
The group took over the intersection of Granville and Nelson as they were pelted with projectiles from the crowd.
Kerasiotis was knocked down by a rock that hit him in the neck, just below the ear: "a perfect baseball pitch."
While on the ground, a radio command came through to deploy tear gas, at which point Kerasiotis jumped up to try to pull nearby families through the police line before the gas was released.
"Even that was hard because a lot of people were saying, 'Oh, we want to watch — it's our right.' "
About 9:30 p.m., after an hour of trying to get the southern portion of the Granville strip under control, Kerasiotis and his unit moved toward Georgia Street. The scene there was shocking. Rioters "had this sense of 'You can't make us move — we're not doing anything wrong,'" he says, "as they're kicking out windows and knocking over bus stands."
Running on adrenalin, Kerasiotis remained on the scene for another two hours, when he was taken to St. Paul's Hospital to be treated for the concussion he'd suffered from the rock earlier in the night.
The next morning, as he arrived at the VPD's Cambie Street headquarters, Kerasiotis was touched by a sticky note someone had pasted onto a cruiser windshield, thanking him for his work in the riot. A TV reporter approached him, and Kerasiotis gave a short, emotional interview that he does not remember giving.
He worked for the next two days, but Kerasiotis — a veteran of undercover work in the city's Downtown Eastside — took himself off duty after he inexplicably ran a red light while patrolling the city's west side.
Today, Kerasiotis works on the west side of the city. He has no lingering effects from the concussion, although he can't remember small chunks of that night and the next couple of days.
He has been put forward for a commendation from his department for his work during the riot.
Despite criticism that the police didn't do enough to stop the riot, Kerasiotis says he's proud of the restraint he and fellow officers showed.
"It would have been so easy to just lose it and go flying into a crowd swinging a stick and just losing control," he says. "Every single one of the guys kept control, which probably made the night a whole lot safer than it could have been."
Police could sense something was going to happen while watching the level of public inebriation grow during the game, Kerasiotis says. It "had that feeling — that vibe — that this could turn into a gong show."
The "gong show," he believes, could have been mitigated if SkyTrain had stopped bringing drunken people into the downtown core.
"I keep using the word 'gong show,' because it's the best explanation, the best description, I have of it."
He says a sense of entitlement is the only reason so many young people joined the riot.
"They think they can do anything they want, because it's their right, without repercussions or really caring about how it's going to affect somebody else," he says. "Being drunk and with a group of people doesn't give you the right to destroy somebody's home, somebody's business or injure somebody."
A year later, he still thinks about the "incredibly cowardly" person who threw the rock that hit him.
"A few seconds before that I was looking directly at Howe and Granville, and I just turned my head, luckily, which allowed me to get hit in the side of the neck and not in the front of the throat," Kerasiotis says. "And if I got hit in the throat that hard it probably would have killed me.
"I think about that a lot: the fact that I could have been killed just because some drunk guy wanted to throw a rock at a cop because he didn't see the person, he just saw the uniform, and thought it would be fun."


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I realized, Frosty the Snowman is like Jesus. He came from magic (virgin birth) and knew he would melt (be nailed to a cross), but he promised he would return.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Odd Christmas Song
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Heh Heh Heh
I got my social studies teacher to start singing The Beatles and The Monkees today. He actually has a good tastes in music, even if he doesn't know how to appear smart. The other day he put on the song "500 Miles" to as high as the volume could go, put on his Twisted Sister wig, air-guitared with his ruler, and forced us to sing it. Afterwards I said "Why did you do that? God! I love that song!" Then this girl said "Used to love it."
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Monday, December 8, 2008
My hands are getting cracked and dry. I hate when that happens. Yesterday Andelle, Pipsisewa (mom), and I went shopping at the thrift store. Andelle bought clothes for interviews and It's Acedemic. Pipsisewa bought wool sweaters that she could felt and turn into handbags or something. I bought jeans, a vest, and a dress.
And now the random Monkees song you've all been caring less about:
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
It's Beginning to Feel a lot Like...
Winter! Yesterday on a hike with Bonnie and other people at Mt. Aventine, it began to snow. Then me and mom decided to go to Dr. Mudd's house for "A Victorian Christmas." There were so many cookies... Last night I was listening to some Monkees tunes to decided which CD to ask for Christams. It's between Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones ltd.
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Friday, December 5, 2008
Interesting Day
Today was not that bad. Today in GTT, I think I did rather well on the test! In language arts there was a sub, and a really awesome sub! He let us sit wherever we wanted to. In social studies we played a game where we're on the Lewis and Clark expedition. In chorus our sub was a poet I remember I met earlier at a poetry night. On the bus ride home was when it got really interesting...
These two boys got really angry at each other. It started in the neighborhood, escalated at school, and ended in a fist fight on the bus. The seventh grader is a mouse who's really bad at lying and acts so tough. The eighth grader already has a record and never seems upset. What supposedly happened was the seventh grader ducked under the eighth grader's seat, drew on his shoes, then got back up and pointed to someone and said "They drew on your shoe." This caused the eighth grader to get angry and cause a ruckus, which made the bus driver to pull over and question the boys in the front. Luckily I was in the back. All the way in the back. The eighth grader started punching the seventh grader, yelling "Those are lies, those are lies! You just want to get in a fight." The seventh grader started crying. The bus driver called the school, so we had a two cops, Officer Cooney (our school policeman), and our principal Mr. Martin to come. We all knew the seventh grader was lying. We knew those tears were fake. The seventh grader would get beat up all the time on what we call "The Ghetto Bus." On the Ghetto Bus we had kids standing up, walking around, beating other kids up, kids eating, kids on their cell phones, etc. The seventh grader loved to get beat up. When a police officer came, we were like "Oooh!" When another came, we were like "What? No!" When Officer Cooney came, we were like, "Holy..." When Mr. Martin came, it was like "Oh My God! Mr. Martin!" Every time a car slowed down to look at us, we yelled "Yeah, keep going!" Eventually the eight grader and the seventh grader was driven home. We were all laughing that it all came from one kid drawing on another's shoe. I said to this one kid who I joke around with, "If you draw on my shoes, I'm sueing you."
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
I'm Sick And Tired
It just seems like hell today. In our house it's like religion is fueling the day: atheists vs. agnostics. Leo's been lecturing me and Mom started yelling at Andelle. Andelle's been watching newsclips about atheists and Prop 8. Dad found out that Grampy was asked his opinion about someone stealing the nativity scene in front of the Webster town hall. He said that people don't care about religion like they used to. I'm just tired of it. Mom was explaining thumbnail drawings, using pictionary as an example. She was talking about someone drawing the cross, to symbolize church. If someone doesn't understand, than you draw a roof or a stained-glass window. I was staring blankly out the window, and she got angry thinking I was snubbing her. I just can't take it! I have a big GTT test tomorrow, and I want to get some sleep. No more religion on this blog starting...NOW!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Unholy Crap!
Everything seems to be about religion, now isn't it? But before I get ahead of myself, let me talk about last night. I was finishing my science fair backboard. I cut things wrong, so I print everything out again. Then mom tells me I did everything wrong, so I had to rip everything out again, and then mom was talking about how I shouldn't write like a fifth grader, when I think she shouldn't be a control freak.
Today in chorus we had a sub. Not just any sub (Because any sub is good sub, except that old lady in the red coat with white hair, she's just...strange) This sub was evil. She didn't give us any warnings before she handed out MIRs (minor incedent reports), and the slightest thing would set her off. Then she said something about God, which got this evil girl to say "We can't say stuff like that, it might offend people in here." The sub asked "What people?" The evil girl pointed to me and my friend. My friend looked boldly at the sub, but I just had my head down and scratched my neck. It's a subject I don't like to get into. This girl in front of us turned around and said, "You don't believe in God? You're going to hell." The sub said "If you think that breathing isn't real because you can't see it, stop breathing. If you think gravity is not real, then jump off the top of this building." Then the sub went into this big lecture about how everything is made from a thought. Out there in the universe, there's a thinker who had a thought. I would've mentioned the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I couldn't. My breaths were coming out quick and heavy, my teeth were chattering, and I was sick to my stomach. My friend said that she wasn't knocking anyone's religion, but the sub said "I wasn't talking religion," which is a total lie. Thankfully, almost everyone agreed with me and my friend that that sub was crazy and should be fired (We said some other things that should happen to the sub, but they're not appropriate). On the bus, one girl who's in my chorus class and my girl scout troop leaned over me and asked "Why don't you believe in God? Do you believe in the devil? Of course you do." Thankfully I got her off of me. I'm going to get some ice cream to calm me down.
A song to help describe how I felt in this post, by his Awesome Micky Doodliness:
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
His Noodly Appendage!
My God! The christians in science strike again! They were asking me how I was going to get married, since "marriage is about God". Whatever.
After the bell rang, me and my friend were trying to find the Cart Lady to get permission slip for the environment club, all the teachers were like "Do you have a meeting?" One teacher saw us and said into a walkie talkie "Carl, rev the engines," which got me a bit P-ed off. I dragged my friend to the stairs.
Walking to the buses, she said "My Goddess is nature." I said "My God is Bob." I say I'm a pastafarian, then my friend says she's from the church of the flying spaghetti monster. Then we both yell "His noodly appendage!"
I'm now finishing my science fair backboard.
And now the latest song stuck in my head. And for the record, Micky Dolenz is mine!
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Stupid GTT
In Gateway Tech today, this stupid boy I sit next to had to be grouped with me since we sit next to each other. He got angry that he didn't get the teachers initials on his paper since he was busy walking around while I was doing to the work. He was asking me what music I like, thinking it was screamo or metal. I told him that I liked sixties, and he started singing Johnny Cash. I told him I didn't like Johnny Cahs, so he asked if I like The Beatles. I said yes, so he said "But they were in the seventies." Me, showing off my dork-ness, replied "No they weren't. They broke up in 1969." "But they were dorks, they wore glasses." "No, only John Lennon wore glasses." "They're dead." "No, only two of them are dead." "John Lennon was killed because he was a hippie." "Nuh-uh, his killer was mental." "I killed John Lennon." "No, unless you're name is Mark David Chapman." "You're a dork." "I know."
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This Blog focuses on Ancestor Stories, both the stories themselves about my family's ancestors and discussions of where they come from and how to prepare and share them. These stories may be non-fiction or fiction – we will always tell which is which, of course. Also see my KINNICK blog and The HOMEPLACE Series Blog, left sidebar, scroll down.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sharing Memories - Easter, through the years
Sharing Memories - Easter, through the years
This is my 72nd Easter, as I stop and think about it. Certainly seeing myself in the 1940 US Census this week, along with my parents at age 24 and 21, brought this to mind, if nothing else did.
Here we are in 1954, my 14th Easter, with Mom and Dad and 2 of my 3 brothers (at the time). Next younger brother was taking the photo!
I recently created a webpage, on Squidoo.com, named: Easter and Eggs, through the years, for me. It has been quite popular on that site, Pinterest.com, and on Facebook. It has photos and comments of my kids and grandkids' Easters as they grew up, and are growing up. Many of the traditions have remained. Is that true for you, as well?
I hope you'll take this as an excuse to think back over your years, with your family and friends, to think how Easter celebrations have changed, and stayed the same, as the years have passed by.
It has been a while since I posted a photo of the cabin... just put out the Easter banners, and red flowers are blooming... What better time? We are still here. Our 12th year with the cabin in the family. Time marches on... ;-)
Families are Forever! ;-)
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Tomorrow night at The Twisted Tail (2nd and South St. Philadelephia) Comedy, Food, Sports returns for another Philadelphia show. This month's show will feature the comedy of James Hesky along with 97.5 The Fanatic's Jason Ashworth. Hosted by Patrick Dodd, Comedy, Food, Sports is a talk show featuring discussions on the three topics between the host and his guests. For a little taste of the comedy you'll get check out this video from Hesky below.
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There's no magic formula for figuring out who will experience benefits from having cancer and who will not. Although some people notice positive aspects while on treatment (such as getting to spend more time with family members or feeling supported when friends visit or send gifts), often the positive personal changes aren't noticed until treatment is over. For some people, recognizing positive changes may happen many years after treatment; other people may never feel there were any positive changes from cancer. If others ask you about finding anything positive in your experience, don't make up positive things if you don't really think there were any for you. It is also okay to ask other cancer survivors if they found any positive things from their experience, just keep in mind that not everyone will.
We do know that there are some things about people and their treatment that seem to be related to how much growth or benefit they experience. For example, people who are older when they are diagnosed with cancer tend to find more growth or benefits after the experience. This may be because, as you get older, your ability to think about complex ideas grows, and the idea of finding something beneficial in having a life-threatening disease like cancer is complex. Also, people who are older when they are diagnosed with cancer may be more involved in treatment decisions and think more deeply about the impact of cancer and its treatment, including both positive and negative aspects. Another characteristic related to growth is how much distress people experience during their cancer experience. People who remember that their cancer was very severe or life-threatening tend to have more growth. It seems like the more challenging the experience, the more potential for growth. That is, the hardest times and worst experiences may actually lead to finding more positive things about your experience in the future.
People who are more optimistic in general also tend to see greater benefits from having cancer. This suggests that the way you look at life in general is similar to the way you look at your cancer experience. If you tend to look on the bright side of things most of the time, you may also have an easier time looking for the positives in having cancer.
Remember, not everyone experiences positive changes because of having cancer. Perhaps you feel that, while many people may have done helpful or nice things during your treatment and you may have learned to cope well, nothing can make it okay to have had cancer. You just plain wish it had never happened to you. Even if you have experienced positives, you may also experience concerns about your health or well being, and it is important to attend to both positive and negative consequences of cancer.


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(1) The removal of lead-based paint and lead-contaminated dust, the permanent enclosure or encapsulation of lead-based paint, the replacement of lead-painted surfaces or fixtures, and the removal or covering of lead-contaminated soil;
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(4) Projects involving the permanent elimination of lead-based paint or lead-contaminated soil; and
(5) Projects involving the permanent elimination of lead-based paint hazards that are conducted in response to federal, state or local abatement orders.
(b) "Child lead poisoning" means that the amount of lead circulating in the blood stream of children is at or exceeds the level defined by the United States center for disease control.
(c) "Child-occupied building" means any of the following structures built before one thousand nine hundred seventy-eight: Public or private buildings, or portions thereof, or a room in a residential dwelling or unit, any of which structures are currently visited, or intended to be visited, three hours a day twice a week or more often by a child age six or under, including, but not limited to, day care centers, kindergarten classrooms, schools, camps and recreational facilities.
(d) "Contained work area" means a designated room or rooms, spaces, or other areas, including a decontamination structure, where lead abatement activities are performed, separated from the uncontaminated environment in accordance with OSHA standards.
(e) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health or his or her representative.
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(g) "Elevated blood-lead level" means a concentration of lead in the blood stream as defined by the United States Center for Disease Control.
(h) "Industrial facility" means any factory, mill, plant, refinery, warehouse, building or complex of buildings or other industrial structures including the land on which it is located.
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(j) "Interim controls" means a set of measures designed to temporarily reduce human exposure or likely exposure to lead-based paint hazards, including specialized cleaning, repairs, maintenance, painting, temporary containment, ongoing monitoring of lead-based paint hazards or potential hazards, and the establishment and operation of management and resident education programs.
(k) "Lead" means elemental lead and all inorganic and organic lead compounds.
(l) "Lead abatement contractor" means any person who contracts to conduct any lead abatement activity.
(m) "Lead abatement designer" means an individual who designs lead abatement projects and occupant protection plans.
(n) "Lead abatement project" means an activity in target housing or child-occupied buildings intended to permanently remove or encapsulate lead-based paint, lead-containing dust, lead-containing soil or other lead-containing materials and decontamination of an area, but does not include interim controls which do not permanently eliminate lead hazards.
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Alumna Leads Inner-City Youth Writing Workshop
By Robert Schroeder
From the NLU Alumni Magazine
Tonika Johnson had earned her ticket out of Chicago's troubled Englewood neighborhood.
She punched her ticket by earning a seat at Chicago magnet school Lane Tech, following up with an undergraduate degree in journalism and a Master of Business Administration from NLU's College of Management and Business in 2005.
Johnson's ticket would be left unused.
The adult who had a chance to leave remembered the young girl living in Englewood who just wanted to write.
Now a professional photographer, Johnson is ensuring Englewood youth can pursue their own creative passions close to home through Media-N-Motion, a community workshop she co-founded in 2010 that features an eight-week after-school newswriting program targeting youth ages 9-15. The program builds skills in creative writing, interviewing and reporting, and publishing while exposing youngsters to the broader city. It culminates in the printing of a two-page broadsheet, Englewood Youth Times.
As a youngster, Johnson nurtured a passion for writing, but no outlets existed in Englewood to engage that passion, forcing her to travel alone to Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood and enroll in youth creative writing programs there.
"A lot of kids aren't comfortable at that age traveling that far outside their neighborhood, so that means they aren't exposed to a lot and therefore don't have access to a lot of the resources of the outside community," Johnson said. "I just remember being a kid, kind of like the ones here, who was interested in writing."
The program, based at the West Englewood Public Library, builds the basic skills of journalism and running a newspaper: brainstorming story ideas, writing an effective story lead, creating catchy headlines, proofreading and editing, and laying out the final product. From start to finish, the newspaper is entirely student-produced.
"A lot of times [kids] don't like to write, not because they don't want to, but they don't realize that writing is essentially talking on paper," Johnson said. "If they have the chance, they'll talk all day, so we wanted to create a program that helped build their confidence in writing."
The writing in Englewood Youth Times seems a bit whimsical at first — what other outlet reports on why Flamin' Hot Cheetos are so tasty yet so harmful to health? Put another way, the article provides a glimpse into the daily lives of children in a neighborhood where corner stores proliferate and grocery options are few.
In many ways, the goal of Media-N-Motion is to enlarge the insular world of neighborhood life. Realizing that the program's participants were hyper-local, Johnson has brought the rest of the city to Media-N-Motion, including organized field trips to media outlets like Chicago Public Radio or hosting community leaders to be interviewed by the youth writers.
"A lot of the programs here in the community deal with violence prevention for kids that may be further gone, but there's really nothing for a lot of the good kids that don't hang out on the corner, who are actually at home doing homework," Johnson said. "Those are kids people don't think exist in this community because they don't see them hanging out on the streets."
Next up on the ticket, Johnson envisions a future partnership with a local high school or college, creating local writing institutes to continue Media-N-Motion's work as part of organized education.


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U2 have been working on a new album for months.
The 'Elevation' rockers are writing tracks for their 13th studio album - with the working title '10 Reasons To Exist' - which will be their first release since 2009's 'No Line on the Horizon'.
Singer Bono told The Sun newspaper: "U2 have been back and they're really in fine fettle.
"They're mad for it at the moment and they really want to make a new record. And they don't care if it takes ten years - they don't care if it never happens again, they just want to get it right.
"Within the band we've been calling it '10 Reasons To Exist' - but I will tell you we might have at least six of them."
Bono added the band had halted recording in December as he got flu.
U2 - which also includes The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen - completed their 360 Degree tour, the highest grossing of all time, in 2011, and then took time off to rest and recuperate.
Bono took his family on a round the world trip of the world's most spiritual regions, which may have influenced him for the band's new album.
Speaking about the trip Bono said: "Because I wasn't busy with the band we kind of went wandering. Once in a lifetime sort of stuff, places like Africa and Central America.
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Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar has unveiled their latest $1 cocktail, a vodka raspberry lemonade. The cocktail is served in a 10-ounce mug with vodka, TROPICANA Lemonade, raspberry, and fresh lemon juice.
"This drink will give you even more reasons to wish summer lasted all year long," Applebee's said in a press release.
The restaurant chain says price, participation and availability of the Neighborhood Drink of the Month may vary by location, and guests must be 21-years old or over to enjoy responsibly.
"Our guests always enjoy a refreshing vodka and lemonade cocktail, and we're delighted to add raspberry to the lineup for the first time," said Patrick Kirk, vice president of beverage innovation at Applebee's. "The $1 Vodka Raspberry Lemonade is sunshine in a glass and light on your wallet - put that extra money toward your summer vacation."


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Black preachers divided on same-sex marriage, not Obama
WASHINGTON (RNS) The 200 or so African-American pastors gathered here for the Conference of National Black Churches feel strongly about the topic of gay marriage, some for, many against. But there's one thing nearly all of them agree on.
The issue won't distract black voters from supporting President Obama's reelection.
Bishop John Hurst Adams of the African Methodist Episcopal church, who dismissed same-sex marriage as a "wonderful program for population control," said he was nonetheless behind Obama.
"I love the president ... I'm going to support the president," Adams said to applause and shouts of "Amen" on Thursday (May 31). "I disagree with his statement." Last month, the president said he supported same-sex marriage.
The Conference is comprised of nine denominations that include more than 10 million Americans, and all nine oppose same-sex marriage, said Conference Chairman W. Franklyn Richardson, who moderated a session called "A Conversation About Same Sex Marriage."
But he also noted a diversity of opinions within churches on the topic.
Hilary O. Shelton, the Washington director of the NAACP, which recently endorsed civil marriage for same-sex couples, reassured the audience that churches retain the right to decide whom they will marry in religious ceremonies, no matter the civil law.
And he warned that African-Americans should not allow a repeat of the 2004 election, when he said Republican strategists were able to use Democrats' support of gay marriage to suppress turnout among black voters.
We have "to make sure that we don't allow that to prevent our folks from going to the polls on Election Day of November of this year and turning out in record numbers because someone decides to use Karl Rove's game plan on us once again," he said.
Amos C. Brown, pastor of Third Street Baptist Church of San Francisco, said he would not perform a same sex marriage but believes in equality before the law, including marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
"I'm a Baptist, not a bigot," Brown said. "Don't be diverted by these right wingers."


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Hey there,
My name's Andrew, I live in North Burnaby and I've actually been looking for a hitting partner as well. I'm pretty much in the same boat as you skill wise I'd say. I don't have any tournament experience, but I would rate myself as a ~3.5 player. I'm a base liner, and prefer rallying with pace.
Let me know if you're interested to hit!
Hey Guys,
I'm also looking for reliable hitting partners for practice and improving technique, especially serves. I usually hit at Central Park or Willingdon Heights.
Hi Anthony, good to hear! I keep telling myself I will practice my serves more but never do haha. Shoot me a text we'll work something out. Find my number in my previous post.
Hey Anthony,
I was actually just playing at Willingdon Heights park tonight haha. Yea.. I definitely need to work on my serve lol. I sent you a message, the more hitting partners the better!
if any of ya guys want to hit around in burnaby , I would certainly be interested! Let me know
I'm interested, too!
I'm a 4.0 in North Burnaby near Brentwood Tow Centre.
Edit: Holy Crap, this is a pretty old thread!
hey Adam -- I'm in the south burnaby area. Would love to play on any weekends or holidays. Friend me if interested.
Edit: ya, got tricked by the fact that there are new comments in an old thread! I am a 3.5 after a long hiatus,in South Burnaby if anyone wants to meet up.
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Charlotte's Web, the E. B. White childhood classic, ends with Wilbur the pig eagerly waiting for Charlotte's baby spiders to emerge from their egg sac in spring. When they finally crawl out, they do something that seems pretty amazing to anyone not familiar with how some spiders travel long distances: they fly away. "One spider climbed to the top of the fence," White wrote. "Then it did something that came as a great surprise to Wilbur. The spider stood on its head, pointed its spinnerets in the air, and let loose a cloud of fine silk. The silk formed a balloon. As Wilbur watched, the spider let go of the fence and rose into the air.… 'Wait a minute!' screamed Wilbur. 'Where do you think you're going?' But the spider was already out of sight."
Charlotte's hatchlings were "ballooning," which is the method that some spiders, especially baby spiders, use to disperse themselves through nature. Richard Bradley, an entomologist at Ohio State University, says that the phenomenon happens all over the country in spring, summer and fall but that it is tricky to catch. "The key is weather," he wrote in an e-mail. "You need a relatively calm air or a slight breeze—ballooning doesn't happen often in wind. The rising air currents created by the sun heating the ground are the launching force for these tiny flights." Bradley recommends going to "exposed places with prominent launchpads," such as fence posts, stumps, small bushes or even an unmown lawn on a cool, clear morning, and looking for silk lines or lots of webbing. "If you find this, you might be in for a treat," he says.
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Our Cub Scout troop from our church is taking a weekend camping trip to the beach this weekend. Because my son has to work, I, Papa, will be taking the 7-year-old boy. I have the tent loaded up, sleeping bags, flash lights, munchies, laptop, and wireless card, all necessities for this trip, ready to go. I will be picking him up as soon as he gets home from school and driving 3 and a half hours to the campground.
Because I have to be back for church Sunday morning, we will only be staying the night and most of the day tomorrow. The others will be staying through to Sunday. On the agenda is a beach clean up. cook out, and some fishing. We will have a good bit of free time Saturday, so there is no telling what else we may do. I am trying to decide if I want to take the bikes and or the dog.
Those who know me know that me and kids are a weird mix. I love them and enjoy watching them when they are with others. So now I get to hang out with a bunch of them and get to spend the night in a tent with my own 7-year-old boy. I WILL HAVE FUN!
I am looking forward to fishing and taking the boy to the beach. If I take the dog, I look forward to trying to get her in the water. This is the little white dog and she is not a big fan of swimming, but loves to wade. I look forward to cooking breakfast in the morning. There is nothing like bacon and eggs cooked outside after a night in the tent. I am going to work hard and show the boy how to serve with a smile. I am looking forward to seeing how many strange pictures I can take and post on Facebook.
Last month I did a blog on how God was testing me and how for some reason I was being blessed with being around a bunch of Kids. Well, God is still blessing me. I have got to figure out what I am doing right. Perhaps it is time for a week of rebellion? Just kidding. I am learning patience and I am being given some time to make memories. After the death of my dog this month, God has shown me just how precious time with someone or something you love really is. So I am going to make the most of this. I am going to remember that when I was a kid, I didn't have a granddad that spent time with me. I am going to make some memories.
So please pray for my patience and pray that I stay focused on the blessing at hand. Pray that I remember to laugh before I scream and only scream if I am having that much fun. Pray that the 3 and a half hour ride down there and back goes quickly. Pray that it doesn't rain, but if it does, the wi-fi works. Pray that this time next year the 7-year-old boy remembers how much fun we had and wants to do it again.


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Huntington, IN
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The community of Huntington, located 25 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, was once a nucleus of canal activity. The number of boats passing through the town each day, and the number of people associated with these boats, offered a large clientele base interested in evening entertainment, causing the construction of The Old Opera House in 1880. This facility had no competition until 1904, when The Huntington was built for use by the vaudeville circuit. This three-story brick building was a masterpiece for the day, built for a cost of $40,000. The auditorium could seat 1098; 400 guests in the balcony alone. There was a large stage, dressing rooms, and an orchestra circle. Business offices occupied the street front. The second and third floors housed non-theater activities; the Elks' club occupied the second floor and the third floor was a spacious dance hall. While not designed to show movies, the building owners soon adapted the facility to allow for this new form of entertainment. The first silent-movie was shown in 1911. At this time a temporary projection room was added in the balcony and a large, removable screen was added. Early movies were usually shown at the end of a live performance as a way to get patrons to leave and this was no different at The Huntington. With the invention of "talkies" The Huntington adapted its venue from the vaudeville site to one that showed more movies. The nearby opera house did not accept the changes and closed.
Another remodeling occurred in 1939; this time, the changes were major. The interior was gutted and the front wall was removed, changing the front wall to an Art Deco façade. Two store fronts were put in, a ticket booth was added outside the main entrance, a second floor apartment was added, a state of the art projection booth, and additional seats were added. The lobby was decorated with an elaborate "Hall of Stars." This hand painted foyer donned the likenesses of the leading movie stars. The stage was removed and replaced with a small platform. The interior of the auditorium was decorated with a neo-baroque theme. No concession stand existed at this time.
Since then, the theater has changed ownership several times and during this period of ownership hopping the theater received many extensive modifications. The "Hall of Stars" was painted over with a solid color, a concession stand was added – tearing up the lobby and closing the center isle to the auditorium, and all of the Art Deco interior details were are removed or modified. In 1998, a multiplex theater opened in Huntington. The multiplex owners purchased The Huntington with the explicit purpose of closing the downtown theater; the theater showed its last movie in 1999 and the property went on the real estate market. Rumors began to circulate that the building was was going to be razed. In 1999, a Huntington couple (Mike Dinius and Jeannie Regan-Dinius) decided to purchase the theater to prevent this from happening.
The couple created a sole proprietor business, Retroview, Inc., to serve as the holding company. Goodrich Theaters, the company which sold the building, placed a covenant on the structure, as a condition to the sale of the theater, stating that first-run movies could not be shown in the theater for 25 years. This prevented any competition to the seven-screen complex on the north end of town. The business plan was to show classic movies, allow for not-for-profits to conduct fundraisers in the building, and to preserve the structure. Before reopening could happen, several maintenance issues needed to be addressed. The roof had started to leak and required patching, the concession stand floor had rotted so a new stand was built), the projection equipment needed to be repaired, the upholstered seats and carpet needed to be cleaned, and the center isle was opened back up. When funds were acquired, thanks to a bank loan on the equipment, the couple and their family performed the remodeling and maintenance. The theater reopened in October of 1999 and with the help of a former manager of the theater the owners learned how to run the theater's projection equipment and conduct themselves in the movie industry. They also hired two part-time employees to help them with the theater.
For 2 years, the two operated the theater but the business was not profitable enough to pay the bills and the mortgage. Since then, several groups have rented the theater for various uses, including a newly organized church. The church liked the large space and the theater's downtown location which allowed people to walk to church for services. The church agreed on a 15 year triple-net, rent to buy lease. The lease stipulated that the church cannot do any remodeling that will damage the character defining spaces of the theater; this will help protect the integrity of the interior. If the church does not purchase the building, future plans for the site include donating the property to the local theater guild or preservation organization so that they have a permanent home.