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As the "Twilight" film franchise draws to a close, Ashley Greene has no intention of letting the sun go down on her career.
To that end, the 25-year-old star headlines "The Apparition," a thriller in which she crafts something of an anti-clichéd horror heroine, with her character making reasonable, rational decisions even as the apparently supernatural circumstances grow even more terrifying. Greene shares her thoughts on the film, saying goodbye to playing Alice Cullen and the youthful family home videos she hopes you'll never see.
How did you approach doing a horror movie like "Apparition"? Did they make you do a lot of screaming?
Well, I think the thing that what attracted me to this film, and to Todd Lincoln [the director], was that we didn't to make a film just like any other and make it about kind of cheap scare tactics – We didn't want to make a slasher film. We wanted it to be a little more elevated, and wanted, I think, the unknown to be the most terrifying thing. Because that's what terrifies me: not knowing what you're up against and what's going to happen and what you can possibly do, because no matter what do something horrible always seems to happen.
I felt like a lot of times it just wasn't necessary to be screaming the entire time, and I wanted Kelly to be smarter than that. I wanted her to not run up the stairs instead of out the front door. That was something that was important to me, and so I felt like if you limit the amount that you're running around screaming that it's more impactful. I feel like I was just trying to imagine myself and how I react whenever I get scared or terrified and think someone is in my house or whatnot. I don't run around screaming, and so I just thought that it was unrealistic to make it that way.
Since most of this movie is psychological and you're supposed to be worked up thinking about frightening things, was it hard to shake at the end of the day? Did it ever go home with you?
I was okay. I think generally after an intense scene I definitely had a moment where everyone kind of knew not to talk to me. I walked outside and it was freezing – it was February, so it was snowing and crazy, and in wardrobe which is definitely not a jacket. I had to walk outside and literally have two or three minutes to myself to kind of calm yourself down, because I think it's almost muscle memory. Your body kind of reacts and your hands are shaking and it is a hard thing to shake off. I didn't really have much time to assess things because we were literally working 16 hours a day, and I was in virtually every scene.
As the "Twilight" series ends and you start headlining movies like this, how do you hope to grow your career after having the advantage of playing a character like Alice that people loved – and that you had some magic with, too?
I think right now it's very fun because there are so many things that I haven't done and so many characters that I haven't played. Of course I want it to be well-rounded. I'm interested in playing basically every single different character. I certainly want to play a villain at some point because I think that's very fun, and the polar opposite of Alice. The great thing about Alice is that she is so lovable and relatable, so it definitely is an advantage because I feel like I can now take on those characters without actually having people think that's actually who I am, or what I'm like. You run in to that sometimes, where people just assume that you're like your characters.
Is there a specific genre that you're dying to be a part of?
I think I definitely want to do an action film. We kind of dabble in that in "Twilight" and I was always the one who was there with Jeff [Imada], the stunt coordinator, even when I didn't have to be, going, 'Okay, teach me how to do this! Teach me how to do that!' because I did do martial arts when I was a kid. I was extremely competitive and loved it. So I always try and do my own stunts for things.
I'm sure that even with your passionate fan base that you're still surprised from time to time. What's the last time you had a really great moment with a fan?
Not that it happens all the time, but it's happened a few times with a fan, either meeting them or fan mail. I do go through all my fan mail and sign it! Actually, we did last night – me, and my two friends who are in town, we were like, 'Okay!' and we all went through it. Hearing that you have some kind of impact on someone and changed their life for the better and gave them inspiration or passion for something, or allowed them to believe in themselves, that's something that's really important to me. That's kind of something that I get from people sometimes and it's great. I work with something called Empowerment and it's to stop dating abuse and violence. It's basically to empower women and young girls. That's always very special to me, whenever someone says, 'Your message or what you're doing or what you're saying has impacted me and made me be able to do this, or allowed me to feel like I could speak up for myself.' That's always very touching to me.
When did you know that this was an occupation that you not just wanted to pursue, but probably didn't have much choice to pursue. Were you driven to it?
I was looking back, and I was like, 'Yeah, I guess the signs were there,' because in Jacksonville there's not really a market for acting. I was like a competitive cheerleader and dancer, and looking at home videos clearly liked the spotlight and was a ham as a child. I went to this magnet law program and realized that it wasn't necessarily law that I loved that much, although, it's interesting. We would do mock trials and it was a whole performance of it, and so I think there was always that in me – wanting to be a performer – there. And then I took a commercial class and really liked it and someone said, 'You're really good at that. You should try an acting class." And I took the class and fell in love with it. I think part of it was my teacher was extremely passionate and he radiated love and respect for this craft.
How embarrassing are those home videos of you as a kid? And are they on YouTube?
They're not! They're at my house. I'm actually transferring them to DVD because they're all on VHS. The other day – this so sad – I had friends over, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, we should watch these,' and then I realized I don't have a VHS player, so I could not watch them. So I was like, 'Gosh, I have to get these transferred.' They're not on YouTube. But I'm sure that they're going to end up on a talk show one day. They're hysterical.
How difficult is it to say goodbye to Alice, and literally, the family that the project has been?
I always say that the premiere, it's really, really going to hit and impact. Comic-Con was when I was like, 'Oh, wait.' That was the first event that was the last event that we were going to do for "Twilight," and I was like, 'Wow. It's crazy.' It has been such a huge part of my life and my career. It basically started my career. You do get comfortable and you do become a family with these people. So it's a little weird knowing that we're not going to go back to that, but I like to be positive.


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WASHINGTON - When Congress comes back from its current two-week recess, members of both parties will be invited to the White House to celebrate what is, in the context of these times, almost a miracle: the signing of the Serve America Act of 2009.
Congress adjourned Friday for the Easter break with the usual sounds of partisan struggle filling the air, as the House and Senate rushed the budget resolutions for next year to passage. Nothing that one party proposed found favor in the eyes of the other. Tempers were, once again, rubbed raw.
But eight days earlier, when the Senate approved a slightly modified version of the House-passed national service act by an overwhelming 79-19 vote, the atmosphere was completely different. Democrats were congratulating Republicans, and Republicans were praising Democrats.
Some of the enthusiasm for this bill can be explained by its subject matter: the array of programs that offer everyone the opportunity to participate in community and public service projects, either on a full-time or part-time voluntary basis.
Every president since the end of World War II has endorsed these programs and expanded the repertory, one way or another. Barack Obama and John McCain, who agreed on few things during the election campaign, both called for expanding volunteer opportunities.
But the impetus for this spring's bipartisan success came from the friendship and partnership of two other senators: Orrin Hatch, the conservative Republican from Utah, and Ted Kennedy, the liberal Democratic lion from Massachusetts.
Early last year, just as the partisan emotions of the presidential campaign began to rise, the two began talking to each other about their shared interest in national service. The topic was natural for both of them. Kennedy's brother, the late president, had made the proposal for the Peace Corps a centerpiece of his 1960 campaign and had signed the law making it a reality. Hatch, like other young Mormons, had spent two years as a volunteer missionary for his church.
They quickly agreed on a bill that would combine two quite different approaches to national service.
As Hatch said during Senate debate, they decided to marry efforts to expand traditional voluntary, part-time community service, endorsed by generations of Republicans, with increases in government-subsidized, full-time service programs devised by Democratic presidents, beginning with the Peace Corps.
As Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, who took over managing the bill because of Kennedy's illness, recounted to the Senate, the bill triples the size of AmeriCorps - the full-time, government-subsidized volunteer program - to 250,000 slots over the next eight years.
Expansion of the full-time programs is needed because last year, 35,000 college seniors and graduates applied for the 4,000 available slots in Teach for America while 13,000 people tried to get into the Peace Corps, which could accept only one-third of them.
But most of the estimated 61 million Americans who volunteered time last year gave up only a few hours a week to a local church, school, food bank or community group - doing things that are increasingly important in these hard economic times.
Thanks to Hatch, many provisions of the law are aimed at increasing opportunities for those unpaid volunteers, including help to these organizations in recruiting, training and deploying the volunteers, and to the volunteers themselves in finding organizations that need them.
Despite all the good will, 19 senators - all Republicans, including the party's two top leaders - voted against the law. The arguments were spurious. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, for example, said "this new federal bureaucracy would, in effect, politicize charitable activity around the country."
But John Bridgeland, the former director of George W. Bush's domestic policy council who lobbied for the bill, said its supporters included AARP and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Often, passage of a bill leaves the winning side exhausted and the losers bitter. Working together on this bill left most Republicans and Democrats feeling good about themselves.
They could feel that way more often if they would just work past the excessive partisanship.
David Broder is a columnist for The Washington Post. Reach him via e-mail at email@example.com. © 2009 The Washington Post Writers Group.


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The Oklahoma Sooners will bring three AP First Team All-Americans into the College Football Playoff this year, including Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield. Mayfield was named a First Team All-American by the Associated Press on Monday, and he is joined by fellow Sooners offensive tackle Orlando Brown and tight end Mark Andrews.
Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith, and Clemson defensive end Clelin Ferrell were also named to the AP's First Team to combine to match Oklahoma's First Team total. Other First Team All-Americans included Heisman finalist and Doak Walker Award winner Bryce Love of Stanford, Biletnikoff Award winner James Washington. Lombardi Award winner Saquon Barkley of Penn State was named to the First Team as an all-purpose player, and the nation's leading rusher, Rashaad Penny of San Diego State joined Love as a First Team running back.
Quarterback — Baker Mayfield, senior, Oklahoma.
Running backs — Bryce Love, junior, Stanford; Rashaad Penny, senior, San Diego State.
Tackles — Orlando Brown, junior, Oklahoma; Mike McGlinchey, senior, Notre Dame.
Guards — Quenton Nelson, senior, Notre Dame; Braden Smith, senior, Auburn.
Center — Billy Price, senior, Ohio State.
Tight end — Mark Andrews, junior, Oklahoma.
Receivers — James Washington, senior, Oklahoma State; Anthony Miller, senior, Memphis.
All-purpose player — Saquon Barkley, junior, Penn State.
Kicker — Matt Gay, junior, Utah.
Ends — Bradley Chubb, senior, North Carolina State; Clelin Ferrell, sophomore, Clemson.
Tackles — Hercules Mata'afa, junior, Washington State; Maurice Hurst, senior, Michigan.
Linebackers — Roquan Smith, junior, Georgia; Josey Jewell, senior, Iowa; T.J. Edwards, junior, Wisconsin.
Cornerbacks — Josh Jackson, junior, Iowa; Denzel Ward, junior, Ohio State.
Safeties — Minkah Fitzpatrick, junior, Alabama; DeShon Elliott, junior, Texas.
Punter — Michael Dickson, junior, Texas.
Quarterback — Lamar Jackson, junior, Louisville.
Running backs — Jonathan Taylor, freshman, Wisconsin; Kerryon Johnson, junior, Auburn.
Tackles — Mitch Hyatt, junior, Clemson; Isaiah Wynn, senior, Georgia.
Guards — Cody O'Connell, senior, Washington State; Will Hernandez, senior, UTEP.
Center — Bradley Bozeman, senior, Alabama.
Tight end — Troy Fumagalli, senior, Wisconsin.
Receivers — David Sills V, junior, West Virginia; Michael Gallup, senior, Colorado State.
All-purpose player — Dante Pettis, senior, Washington.
Kicker — Daniel Carlson, senior, Auburn.
Ends — Sutton Smith, sophomore, Northern Illinois; Nick Bosa, sophomore, Ohio State.
Tackles — Ed Oliver, sophomore, Houston; Christian Wilkins, junior, Clemson.
Linebackers — Malik Jefferson, junior, Texas; Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, senior, Oklahoma; Dorian O'Daniel, senior, Clemson.
Cornerbacks — Jalen Davis, senior, Utah State; Carlton Davis, junior, Auburn.
Safeties — Derwin James, junior, Florida State; Justin Reid, junior, Stanford.
Punter — Johnny Townsend, senior, Florida.
Quarterback — Mason Rudolph, senior, Oklahoma State.
Running backs — Ronald Jones II, junior, Southern California; Devin Singletary, sophomore, Florida Atlantic.
Tackles — David Edwards, sophomore, Wisconsin; Jonah Williams, sophomore, Alabama.
Guards — Beau Benzschawel, junior, Wisconsin; Tyrone Crowder, senior, Clemson.
Center — Frank Ragnow, senior, Arkansas.
Tight end — Jaylen Samuels, senior, North Carolina State.
Receivers — Steve Ishmael, senior, Syracuse; A.J. Brown, sophomore, Mississippi.
All-purpose player — D.J. Reed, junior, Kansas State.
Kicker — Eddy Piniero, junior, Florida.
Ends — Austin Bryant, junior, Clemson; Mat Boesen, senior, TCU.
Tackles — Vita Vea, junior, Washington; Harrison Phillips, senior, Stanford.
Linebackers — Micah Kiser, senior, Virginia; Tremaine Edmunds, junior, Virginia Tech; Devin Bush, sophomore, Michigan.
Cornerbacks — Andraez Williams, redshirt freshman, LSU; Jack Jones, sophomore, Southern California.
Safeties — Armani Watts, senior, Texas A&M; Quin Blanding, senior, Virginia.
Punter — Mitch Wisnowsky, junior, Utah.


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Dinner Tonight: Squash and Mushroom Hominy Recipe
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I'll be honest—I don't eat much hominy. I have nothing against it, it's just not in my weekly rotation. When I do have it, it's usually in a fine bowl of Mexican posole. But the South also has a way with those fat corn kernels, and this recipe from the Matt and Ted Lee's epic Southern Cookbook jumped out at me because it looked both filling and vegetable heavy. Thanks to the bacon, it's not vegetarian, but still qualifies as a meat-light meal.
At first I worried for this dish. When it was about 99% done, it tasted bland and watery. Nothing stood out. Luckily, at the very last second you add some parsley and lemon zest, and suddenly the dish comes alive. It has this haunting citrus nose, with a hearty base thanks to the squash and mushrooms.
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- Yield:4 people
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- ¼ pound thick-cut bacon, diced
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup chopped yellow onion, from about 1 large onion
- 4 cups hominy, drained, from one 30-ounce can
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 pound cremini mushrooms, stems discarded, chopped
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 small squashes, cut into ¼-inch thick half moons (about 3 cups)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice, from ½ lemon
- ½ cup fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
Add bacon to 10-inch cast iron pan set over medium-high heat. Cook until firm and barely crisp, about four minutes. Turn off heat. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Remove all but two tablespoons of fat from skillet.
Add olive oil to the pan and turn heat to medium. Toss in onions. Cook until translucent, four to fives minutes. Add hominy and cook until it has absorbed most of the liquid in skillet, about five minutes. Pour in broth, stir well, and then add mushrooms and black pepper. Stir again, reduce heat to medium low, and cover. Cook until mushrooms have darkened, and are tender, about five minutes.
Add squash, stir well, and then cover pan again. Simmer vigorously until squash is very tender, about five minutes. Remove lid, add lemon juice, and simmer until liquid is thick, about five minutes. Turn off heat, add parsley, lemon zest, and cooked bacon. Stir well. Serve immediately.
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Zen den: Living the Zoloft life
ADDRESS: 106 Vincennes Court
NEIGHBORHOOD: Key West
SIZE: 2,932 fin. sq. ft., 628 unfin.
LAND: 1.978 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Judy Campbell, McLean Faulconer Inc., 295-1131
When you've lived in a house for 30 years, you know its workings pretty well. You know the cabinet door that sticks, the way the gutters on the back fill up with pine needles two days after you've had them all cleaned, and how to put just the right twist on the gas knob to get that left front stove burner to catch.
That's why it was surprising to hear the owner of this '70s redwood "contemporary" say, "There's not one thing about this house I would change."
Once we were inside, it was obvious what she meant. The no-nonsense (but dramatic) style of the house– a "pre-cut" Kingsbury model that was American Home Magazine's "House of the Year " in 1972– creates a feeling of soothing reassurance that everything is all right. We could almost hear Stevie Wonder crooning 1973's #5 song, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
The house will delight folks with a penchant for clean lines, order, and simplicity. The recessed entry door opens to a small raised "hall" beside which the living room drops down a foot. Technically, it's a "sunken" living room, but there's nary a plush-pillows-on-leather surround sofa in sight.
The first-floor plan is open: with the three large front windows at your back, you look straight through to the dining area and out into the back garden. Between the two rooms, a wood-burning fireplace and soaring two-story white chimney provide a breathtaking focal point.
The agent calls the second-level windows high above the living room a "vaulted ceiling," but, like "sunken living room," the image the term conjures– most recently, of immense wasted space in overdone new subdivision mansions– does not do justice to the lovely effect of this design. On the day we visited, the slanted afternoon light softened the stark white of the living room and chimney, making it less austere.
The small kitchen off the dining room is functional, everything within easy reach, another feature the current owner praises. Beyond the kitchen, sliding doors across the back of the family room lead to a large deck. There's a half bath in addition to the full ceramic tile bath (with whirlpool) off the master bedroom.
The open stairs to the second level provide a startling view of the first floor, revealing the kitchen as a "box" in the middle of what– with the removal of only three walls– could be a totally open main level. Fun to think about, even if the remaining kitchen would have no cabinets!
Upstairs in the two bedrooms and bath, the owner has indulged her passion for color sublimated in the pristine monochrome of white downstairs. Here, bold red and blue paint and busy patterned wallpaper make it clear that the space is reserved for children.
The large basement (with unfortunate plywood paneling that probably could be easily removed and replaced) provides a fourth bedroom, third full bath, and storage, as well as exit to the driveway and separate two-car garage.
A contiguous 0.65-acre lot adds to the appeal of the property, although it's not buildable, part of it being crossed by a stream. Annual membership in the Key West community association is $15, and all the roads are state maintained, a real plus considering the large assessments levied on some subdivisions for road maintenance and upgrades. The Key West club offers all recreation facilities, including the de rigueur swim team.
Touring what seems in some ways almost like a relic of simpler, more innocent times has a curious effect on a visitor. One wonders what it would be like to live in 1972's House of the Year. Would we be tempted to leave our Mac disconnected, our Cuisinart in the box, return our iPod for a credit?
Probably not, but it's a pleasant diversion to think about how much living in calm, understated, manageable surroundings might change one's whole world view.


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Yesterday it was the CEO of one of the nation's largest fast food chains and today it's Mr. 47% — the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. As the Los Angeles Times reports:
"Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, splitting with party leaders and some top business groups on what's expected to a major issue in this year's midterm elections.
'I … part company with many of the conservatives of my party on the issue of the minimum wage,' he said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
'I think we ought to raise it because, frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay, and I think communicating that is important to us,' he said.
It will be fascinating to see if Republican officials choose to follow the lead of their former party standard bearer (and former far right presidential candidate Rick Santorum — who also endorsed a hike) or instead remain true to the Koch Brothers and the far right think tanks that question even the existence of the minimum wage. North Carolina House Speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis seems to have made his bed with the latter camp for now. Stay tuned.


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Broadcasters To FCC: Now That Our Audience Is Gone, Can We Swear More?
from the last-ditch-shot-at-a-pyrrhic-victory dept
Broadcasters are understandably sick of the fellas at the freaking FCC. It's 2013, but shows on the public airwaves are still forced to follow a weird pastiche of morality rules seemingly cobbled together from the standards of multiple different generations and interest groups. Not only are these rules extremely questionable in a country with free speech, they are plainly obsolete: everyone has easy access to the whole perverted rainbow of obscenity, and enforcing a moral standard of media is clearly a matter of personal and family responsibility. Public TV networks no longer have the influence on culture that they used to, given competition from cable, online media, and other things over which the FCC has no control — and, surprisingly enough, the broadcasters themselves are now making that very argument:
ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC also say that rules are archaic because the networks have lost so much cultural clout. Fox says in an FCC filing, "Americans today, including children, spend more time engaged with non-broadcast channels delivered by cable and satellite television, the Internet, video games and other media than they do with broadcast media." In a separate filing, NBCUniversal observes that "Broadcast TV is not a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of 21st Century Americans." Broadcast network affiliates' total day share of viewing "was just 28 percent in the 2010-2011 television season – compared to the 53 percent viewing share held by ad-supported cable programming networks." CBS also notes that "the day when a child watching television was almost certain to be watching broadcast television has long since passed."
Looks like someone at the TV networks realized what year it is too. We may need to update the NBC business model:
Of course, what goes unmentioned is the fact that escaping FCC regulations is clearly part of a plan to regain relevance. Which is entirely fair. There are a bunch of reasons for the decline of network television, primarily technological, but the fact that so many top-level stars, producers and showrunners are flocking to the less-restrictive world of cable and the internet certainly can't be helping. Look at a huge network hit like Seinfeld: after that success, and with a virtual carte-blanche to experiment, of course Larry David would make his next show for a cable network like HBO. And as Julia Louis-Dreyfus once remarked in an episode of said show, "I want to be able to say fuck," so it's hardly a surprise that a show like Veep ends up on HBO too. Plus Veep's creator, Armando Iannucci, hails from the UK with its early watershed hour, at which point broadcast shows can do pretty much whatever they like — it's hard to imagine him wanting to work within the confines of FCC regulations either. That's a whole bunch of talent creating successful, critically-acclaimed shows — and not creating them for NBC, the network that spawned the breakout hit that got the ball rolling in the first place.
Let's hope the FCC listens. The networks have a whole lot of work to do if they want to regain real relevance, and they haven't always been good at it, but I have no desire to see them further hindered by obsolete morality rules pushed by the busybodies at the Parents Television Council (who, it will surprise nobody to learn, vociferously oppose these filings). Let's give NBC a chance to make the next Eastbound & Down or Lucky Louie. Let's let ABC scrap Dancing With The Stars in favor of Katherine Ryan's more innovative The Voice competitor, The Ass. And let's let PTC president Tim Winter squirm in the home theater throne from which he judges all that is wrong on the air, as the epidemic of pixellated nudity becomes an explosion of Game of Thrones-style sexposition. The broadcasters have enough problems already.
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Story highlights
- A plea deal would avoid a trial, but the defense attorney says he has concerns
- Floyd Corkins stands indicted in August shooting at the Family Research Council
- The terrorism charge he faces has never been prosecuted before
Prosecutors are offering a plea bargain to Floyd Corkins, the man accused in the August shooting of a building manager at the conservative Family Research Council. But a defense attorney declined at a hearing Monday to immediately accept the deal and was granted a continuance in the case.
The proposal includes admitting guilt to three of 10 counts in a federal indictment, including a charge of Committing an Act of Terrorism, which has never been prosecuted in the 10 years since the law was passed by the District of Columbia.
Public defender David Bos said in open court he had some concerns and asked for a delay in the case.
Corkins has been held since the August 15 wounding of Leonardo Reno Johnson, who survived the attack that took place in the ground floor lobby of the Family Research Council's headquarters.
"I don't like your politics," Corkins allegedly told the worker, according to an FBI document filed in the case.
The FBI affidavit helped provide the basis for an indictment, and describes surveillance video taken in the lobby. A man authorities identified as Corkins pulled a 9 mm handgun from a backpack, had words with Johnson, and began shooting. Authorities found additional ammunition in the backpack, along with 15 sandwiches from Chick-fil-A.
FBI Special Agent Garrett Nabors, in writing the report filed the day after the shooting, noted that a senior executive of the fast food chain "recently announced publicly his opposition to same-sex marriage," and that the "Family Research Council is a Christian conservative policy organization which supports traditional marriage."
The affidavit quotes Corkins' parents as saying he has "strong opinions" about people "he believes do not treat homosexuals in a fair manner."
Corkins was not at Monday's status hearing and may not yet have been told about the plea bargain offer from prosecutors.
"No formal plea offer has been extended," Bos told the judge at the start of the proceeding, "but we are expecting one very shortly that could resolve this matter short of trial."
He added, however, that he had concerns.
U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts, noting an informal version of the offer had been e-mailed Monday morning, granted a delay until Thursday so that Bos could talk with Corkins about it "and come back with an intelligent response."
Federal prosecutor Patrick Martin then outlined the proposal in open court, saying Corkins would enter a guilty plea on "counts one, two and four" in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other seven counts in the indictment.
Count one is interstate transportation of a firearm; Corkins is accused of bringing a weapon from Virginia into the District of Columbia. Count two is assault with intent to kill while armed.
Count four, the terrorism charge, accuses Corkins, by carrying out the shooting, of having "an intent to intimidate and coerce a significant portion of the civilian population of the District of Columbia and the United States."


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Special Collections recently has acquired a number of interesting printed and manuscript materials, some of which are on display in our lobby through mid June. Highlights include:
Claus Nissen. Kräuterbücher aus fünf jahrhunderten: 50 Originalblätter aus deutschen, französischen, niderländischen, englischen, italienischen und Schweizer Kräuterbüchern. Mit historischer Einleitung und Bibliographie. München, Wölfle, 1956. Original plates from herbals, many hand-colored, published from 1485 to 1858-63.
Arthur and Kit Knight Beat Collection, ca. 1971-1984. A collection of manuscript material, photographs, magazines, booklets, and ephemera relating to the Beats and Beat history. Many of the items in the collection are publications issued and edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. (Mss 205).
Leaf Book. Containing 250-300 examples of printing from the mid-fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. Included is a leaf from a Shakespeare First Folio.
Frank Gruenthal Collection, ca. 1914-1918. German diaries and photograph albums, some from World War I, of a German Jewish ancestor of Gruenthal. (Bernath Mss 95).
Santa Barbara Picture Postcards. Picture postcards, black/white and color, of various Santa Barbara area scenes, acquired over the years from various sources. Includes Santa Barbara and Montecito residences and gardens, harbor and beaches, foothills, bird's eye views, Santa Barbara Mission, and former Riviera campus of Santa Barbara College (now UC Santa Barbara). (SBHC Mss 36).
Slavery Collection of U.S. Government Documents, 1817-1865. 126 chronologically arranged printed United States government documents dealing with slavery issues. Included are memorials, messages, reports, resolutions, many being numbered miscellaneous documents of the various sessions of the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives. Many are from state legislatures, North and South. Some are from the President of the United States. Several pertain to the American Colonization Society. (Wyles Mss 106).
Isabel Field Strong Scrapbook, ca. 1926-1930. Scrapbook of Isobel Field Strong, daughter of Fanny Stevenson and stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes photographs of Carpinteria area, and some of Serena, the Field home. (SBHC Mss 64).
Image caption: Family photo, from Frank Gruenthal Collection


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Twinhan VP-1020A
A DVB-S Budget PCI card by TwinHan Technology Co. Ltd
("DST-03T") (dst)
features: Card is capable of delivering the full unmodified TS stream to userspace. card driver: dvb-bt8xx interface: PCI PCI device id: 14f1:8804 PCI subsystem id: 1822:0001 Bridge: bt8xx frontend 1: LG frontend driver: dst Notes: The frontends on these cards are hidden behind an ASIC - no need to know the full details. The actual card type is determined by interrogating the onboard EEPROM.
The only frontend driver for this card is the dst module. The tuner component initialization routines are held in the ASIC in the form of firmware (not reloadable through software). The oldest card in the DVB-S family from Twinhan !
The only difference between the VP-1020 and the VP-1020A is in the color of the board and the firmware in the ASIC.
This card uses the bttv driver. Well suppported by LinuxTV drivers.
Required modules and parameters:
dvb_core dvb_shutdown_timeout=0 bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 bt878 dst dvb-bt8xx
Loading just dvb-bt8xx will normally autodetect the card and load all the above modules with the required parameters.
Kernel Hangup Problems with Twinhan / Brooktree 1020A
If your kernel freezes at startup with the following last messages:
bttv0: subsystem: fefe:0001 (UNKNOWN) bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
This means your card's eeprom has been corrupted. The card takes it subsystem id from this eeprom, fefe:0001 is an unknown id, which makes the bttv driver hang. Due to unknown reasons (or cheapness on TwinHan's part) the eeprom is not write protected, and something (maybe a buggy driver?) stomped over it.
But the eeprom being writable also means that one can fix the problem relatively easy. You need the i2c* programs from lm-sensors. Run
i2cdetect -l
to list all busses. Find the right one for your card and do
i2cdetect BUS
(Replace BUS with the bus you determined from now on.) The above should list available address spaces. This can be dangerous if BUS is wrong, but usually it is safe. The 1020 normally has only one active chip at 0x50. If this looks right try
i2cdump BUS 0x50
to dump the eeprom (usually safe). The (wrong) subsystem id will reside in the last 4 bytes, make sure it matches the one your system prints before the hang -- if you saw fefe:0001 that means 00 01 fe fe. If do not see the id there, or nothing resides at 0x50, stop here! The next command will write to the chip, and may damage the respective hardware irreperably! NO GUARANTEES! That said, a card with this symptoms is a doorstop anyway, so if you are sure you are not looking at another hardware, go ahead. To put the right id 1822:0001 there, run the following commands
i2cset -y BUS 0x50 0xfc 0x00 b i2cset -y BUS 0x50 0xfd 0x01 b i2cset -y BUS 0x50 0xfe 0x18 b i2cset -y BUS 0x50 0xff 0x22 b
The commands will complain about failing readback, but it should work anyway. Cross-check with another
i2cdump -y BUS 0x50
Once the bttv module is loaded again (e.g. at the next reboot) it should detect your card correctly. The same goes for the dvb-bt8xx module.
Identify your card model ...


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Emergency department-based brief intervention to reduce risky driving and hazardous/harmful drinking in young adults: a randomized controlled trial." Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res.. 2013;37(10):1753-62."
Evaluation of the hybrid III and Q-series pediatric ATD upper neck loads as compared to pediatric volunteers in low-speed frontal crashes." Ann Biomed Eng. 2013;41(11):2381-90."
Evaluation of Unintended Training Effects from Collision Scenarios in a Simulated Assessment for Young Novice Drivers.; 2013.
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Headway Time and Crashes Among Novice Teens and Experienced Adult Drivers in a Simulated Lead Truck Braking Scenario." Proc Int Driv Symp Hum Factors Driv Assess Train Veh Des. 2013;67:439-445."
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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, July 29
Picks of the day
- 12-for-23 (.522) vs. DET RHP Jon Lackey
- Hit safely in 13 of last 14 G
- 9-for-11 (.818) vs. NYY RHP Darrell Rasner
- .322 AVG since June 1
Yesterday's picks, results
Carlos Guillen (DET): 0-for-3, BB
Conor Jackson (ARI): 1-for-5
Top 5 current leaders
(yesterday's pick)
1. soxwhite24, 28 games (David Wright)
2. bgibbs14, 25 games (David Wright)
2. btoh2003, 25 games (Ryan Braun)
2. j.ves, 25 games (Carlos Beltran)
5. trevislunsford, 24 games (Conor Jackson)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48 games
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49 games
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56 games
Yesterday's results
Co-leaders lupah99 and sherbrookaz saw their 28-game streaks come to a halt last night courtesy of hitless efforts by James Loney (0-for-4) and Carlos Guillen (0-for-3). Guillen entered the game with a lifetime .410 AVG (16-for-39) against Cleveland righty Paul Byrd but was unable to collect a hit off the hurler, much to the chagrin of the 5.6% of fans that made him the day's most-picked player.
New leader soxwhite24 moved up from third place to the top spot, but not without some drama. The new leader's pick, David Wright, entered the top of the 8th inning at 0-for-3, but delivered a single off reliever Doug Waechter to complete a 1-for-4 night.
Fifth-place competitor trevislunsford surged onto the leaderboard thanks to Conor Jackson, who went 1-for-5 in Arizona's tilt with San Diego last night. trevislunford is the lone passenger on the Top 5 caboose just one day after five competitors were tied for fifth place with streaks of 24-games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Carlos Guillen (DET): 5.6%, 0-for-3
1. Albert Pujols (STL): 5.6%, 1-for-2
3. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 5.1%, 1-for-4
4. Matt Holliday (COL): 4.2%, 1-for-4
5. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 4.0%, 0-for-5
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I had Mark Teixeira tonight, but he just got traded.
How does that work?
If he gets in from the airport before the Angels game ends, and plays for that team, do I still get screwed and have those AB's count and have him go 0 for 1?
Or is the pick nullified cause I picked Teixeira as a Brave and not an Angel???


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Keeping things simple is a pretty good philosophy when it comes to food. These days, so many packaged products have such long ingredient lists that begs the question of why food has to be so complicated. Pure Organic has a different approach: minimal ingredients. For example, its chewy fruit and nut bars are made with no more than eight simple ingredients that you can easily find in your own pantry, such as dates, almonds, and nut butter. And yes, you could probably make something similar yourself, but it's great to have options you can trust on days when you don't have time to be in the kitchen all day.
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 2, 2006
John Toon
Research News
Summary Sentence:
Microbes may compete for food using chemicals
Full Summary:
Microbes may compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals that deter higher species from consuming valuable food resources -- such as decaying meat, seeds and fruit, a new study suggests.
Microbes may compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals that deter higher species from consuming valuable food resources -- such as decaying meat, seeds and fruit, a new study suggests.
Ecologists have long recognized microbes as decomposers and pathogens in ecological communities. But their role as classic consumers who produce chemicals to compete with larger animals could be an important and common interaction within many ecosystems -- and one that scientists often overlook, according to the authors of a paper published this week in the journal Ecology.
"There is the notion that these spoiled resources are not that important," said Mark Hay, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor of biology, who led a team of graduate students conducting the research. "But when you total them up, they are appreciable, especially in marine ecosystems."
"Microbes that can hold onto these resources and use them for their own growth would be advantaged over microbes that could not prevent their resource from being consumed by animals," Hay added. "If microbes could produce chemicals that prevented crabs or fishes from using these resources, then those microbes should gain an advantage and become more abundant."
As part of an interdisciplinary graduate training program funded by the National Science Foundation, Hay, two of his faculty colleagues and four Ph.D. students tested this notion with a field and lab study they began at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography near Savannah, Ga., in summer 2002. They were prompted by an assertion made in a paper published in 1977 by ecologist Dan Janzen, who suggested that microbes are rotting fruits, molding seeds and spoiling meat to make these resources repugnant to other animals, allowing microbes to consume them instead.
To test whether aged meat attracts fewer consumers than fresher meat, researchers baited crab traps with menhaden -- a fish typically used for bait -- that had been rotting in a pool of warm water - some of it for one day and the rest for two days. They also baited other traps with freshly thawed menhaden, which contained relatively few microbes. Then they set the traps in the marshes near Skidaway Island and caught hundreds of stone crabs, as well as other crab species, fishes and snails.
Many more animals were attracted to the freshly thawed bait than the rotten fish. "So we assumed that had to do with palatability," Hay said. "It could have been that the predators didn't smell the rotten fish, but that's not consistent with what we know about carrion on the roadway. It could have been that the predators smelled it, but didn't want it."
Counting the species found in the traps confirmed the level of attraction to the various forms of the bait, but it didn't necessarily test feeding, Hay noted. "It could be that the rotten food is just as good, but a lot of the good smells have leached out in the water, so maybe it's just food that's harder for predators to find," he explained.
Researchers assessed their questions about feeding by conducting laboratory experiments. To eliminate food avoidance because of texture, they fed stone crabs, lesser blue crabs and striped hermit crabs noodle-like test foods made from pureed forms of either the freshly thawed menhaden or the rotten bait. Researchers found that, no matter the rotten bait's texture, stone crabs avoided eating the rotted, microbe-laden food, but readily consumed the freshly thawed menhaden containing few microbes.
"Even when the stone crabs were handed the rotten fish, they didn't want to eat it," Hay said.
Next, researchers tested whether microbes directly affected the palatability of microbe-laden, rotting food. They placed menhaden in two different pools for two days -- one group in seawater where microbes were allowed to grow naturally and the other in seawater with the antibiotic chloramphenicol added to suppress microbe growth. In the lab, stone crabs readily ate both freshly thawed menhaden and fish that had soaked in water with antibiotics, but refused to eat the rotten fish not protected from microbial attack.
To determine if reducing bacterial growth affected an animal's ability to find the bait, researchers also repeated the trapping experiment in the marsh, but used newly thawed fish, fish soaked in antibiotic treated water and fish aged without antibiotics. They found that both freshly thawed bait and aged, antibiotic-treated bait attracted animals more frequently than traps containing aged, microbe-laden menhaden.
Then researchers extracted various compounds from the microbe-laden bait to test whether chemicals produced by the microbes were indeed responsible for these feeding and attraction behaviors.
They found that chemical extracts composed of numerous compounds suppressed stone crab feeding when added to otherwise palatable fish flesh. But, of the several specific compounds they isolated and identified, none of the compounds by itself had this effect, Hay noted. So the researchers could not pinpoint a single compound causing the behaviors.
"But we can say the effect is chemical because we got rid of the nutrient and texture aspects of the bait and determined that it's something in this fraction of the bait's chemistry," Hay said. "It's either a complex mix of chemicals or perhaps something we destroyed during our lab test processes or maybe a chemical present in a very small amount that we failed to identify. There's uncertainty about this."
What's certain is that microbes are an omnipresent part of the ecosystem, Hay said. "They are not passively waiting on the bottom of the marsh floor for the rest of the community to deliver feces and other wastes that are not useful to anybody else," he added. "They are also trying to grab what they can at the start."
Hay hopes the research will make ecologists think more critically about the broad role of microbes in the ecosystem. Microbes are often omitted or relegated to a minor role in food web diagrams, but they should be depicted as direct competitors with larger animals, he said.
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Report #4 on my 2011 genealogy research trip to Panama
I think I just crushed through my first brick wall! As I described in my last post, Tio Lucho and I went through a box of old documents towards the end of my trip in Panama. Among these documents was one legal sized, yellowing sheet of paper that represents my most important genealogical research discovery to date. My grandfather's brother's birth certificate was a goldmine of new information. The most precious peices of information in Louis Vallee's birth certificate are reviewed here.
"Es hijo de Francois Isambert Vallee, cocinero, martiniqueño, y Josephine Cadignan, de Vallee, domesticos, martiniqueña."
Besides providing confirmation that Simon's given name was Francois Isambert, we also learned that he was a cook.
"Abuelos paternos: Theodore Vallee y Victoire Bapin. Abuelos maternos: Joseph Cadignan y Matilde Josephe."
Not only did we learn a little bit more about my great-grandparents, but now we have names for my great-great grandparents. This is my first instance of getting anything concrete about their generation! First of all, it provides confirmation about the nature of our connection to present-day Cadignans in Martinique. The fact that Josephine's father's name is Joseph lines up perfectly with the oral history passed down to Cadignans in Martinique to this day. When I first made contact with some Cadignans on Facebook they had quickly learned from the older generations that there had been a couple of sisters, daughters of one Joseph Cadignan, who had left Martinique for Panama. We reasoned that my great-grandmother Josephine must have been one of those two women. While I felt quite optimistic that these Cadignans were my Cadignans, I wouldn't let myself get excited until I had evidence. Given how rare this surname is and that my use of social networking to find Cadignans with ties to Martinqiue led to a group of people who all seem to descend from one particular set of siblings, I feel confidently and comfortably convinced that my Joseph is their Joseph, and that we are all family.
So how are we related? There are two Cadignans, Christian and Jean-Pierre (I call him JP), that I have had the most contact with. Christian's great-grandfather Francois and JP's great-grandfather Augustin were brothers. My great-great-grandfather Joseph was their brother! It wasn't until several days after we found Louis's birth certificate that I realized that we had discovered this document and discussed the logical inferences about my great- and great-great-grandfathers on…Father's Day. Seems fitting, no?
There was also one other major piece of new information in Louis's birth certificate, this time concerning Josephine herself.
"Asi lo declara Josephine Cadignan de sesentidos anos, madre…Panama, seis de marzo de mil novecientos cincuenta y tres."
For whatever reason, this birth certificate was issued in 1953, well after Louis's birth on August 25, 1915. A 62-year old Josephine was present at the time in order to give testament that her son was born on that date. We can use this information to estimate that she was born around 1891 and was around the age of 24 when she gave birth to Louis. Did you hear that? One more brick just hit the floor. ***Please see a subsequent post for a correction regarding this last peice of information.***


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Ryan Gosling stars as a young political consultant working on a presidential campaign who finds himself in way over his head after his libido and vanity get the better of him. Directed by George Clooney, who co-stars along with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
Taylor Lautner plays a young man who begins to suspect that he is not exactly who he's been told he is--a suspicion that's confirmed when a team of assassins shows up at his home. Co-starring Lily Collins, directed by John Singleton. Watch the trailer
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Juno Temple stars as a young southern girl in the '80s with a bad reputation who decides to run away from home with her fat gay friend, Clarke, and a bag of flour named Joan. Co-stars Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen and Dwight Yoakam. Watch the trailer
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I want generate adherent cells to suspension cells. I not mean trypsinyzing. Can anyone help?
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
How to transform adherent cells to suspension (CHO cells)
Started by Pangea, Jan 04 2013 02:45 PMadherent suspension cell
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Posted 04 January 2013 - 02:45 PM
Posted 05 January 2013 - 03:13 PM
Some adherent cells grow in suspension when you use serum-free media. However, be aware that this can change the characteristics of the cells ! I also know that sigma at least has a serum-free medium for CHO suspension cells, but I think it's expensive and probably other serum-free media are also going to do the trick.
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Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,
Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange;
La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva,
Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.
Posted 06 January 2013 - 10:07 AM
There is a wealth of good information on the web about adapting CHO adherent cells to suspension culture and serum free medium, search for "adapting CHO adherent cells to suspension". You can find information from Invitrogen/Gibco,Thermo Scientific Hyclone, and other suppliers of
SFM... about adaption methods as well.
SFM... about adaption methods as well.
Edited by Denny, 06 January 2013 - 10:08 AM.
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UFO Update
Posted by dandare on December 10, 2007
Sorry for the lateness of the update……
The Ufo week has been reasonably quiet…. this is what i have picked up on, though.
To start us off, in chad.co.uk (posted 4th december,2007) it mentions "What were 'balls of fire' spotted in skies?".
"Witnesses have described the glowing balls zig-zagging across the sky and moving too quickly to be fireworks, planes or helicopters." (extract from article). Now the Ashfield Paranormal Investigation Team (TAPIT) have become involved, with people calling them up with sightings as well. Further on in the article it says "The mysterious balls were first reported in the skies above Alfreton last month, but they returned on Saturday when Warsop resident Tim Palmer spotted an unusual object at around 3.30pm".
The article from last month, can be seen here and the TAPIT site here .
At baltimoresun.com (posted 9th december,2007) "Bel Air man writes of UFOs in wartime". It is about a book being published by Keith Chester, called "Strange Company: Military encounters with UFOs in WWII".
ufodigest.com has a very interesting article on "Mystery of the Black Triangle UFOs" (posted 7th december,2007). The most telling part of the article comes at the end (after desciptions of triangular UFOs throughout the world, with the most well known cases quickly discussed; such as in Belgium).
It says "It would be irresponsible to completely rule out that at least some recent black triangle UFOs sightings are the result of secret, manmade aircraft using technology not yet known to civilian science. But considering the history of triangle-shaped UFO sightings, we cannot escape the conclusion that there is a mystery in our skies that so far has evaded easy explanations" (extract from article).
It also points out that trianglular ufos were around since the 1930's at least; makes you wonder, does it not?
At Spaldingtoday.co.uk, "Mystery lights seen over town" (posted 6th december,2007)…the town in question is indeed Spalding. I suspect these where possibly chinese lanterns, however there is not much information to go on in the article.
In the Canadian National Newspaper, (posted last week) it mentions "Pentagon orders Senator Barry Goldwater– don't ask questions about UFOS and Aliens". The article is written by Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, U.S. Space Shuttle Fleet KSC (Florida 1958-1992). His site can also be found here .
In the observer.guardian.co.uk it writes about "the many lives and loves of Shirley MacLaine " (posted 9th december,2007). It covers not just her book, but also there is an interview, which covers most topics….. mmm it's strange but also a bit intriguing as well.
Website of the week:
This week i would like to alert you too http://uforth.com/ your guide to ufo shapes and configurations…..


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The BMW M3 CSL doesn't do drift days; it lets its tail hang out whenever and wherever it pleases. Last August, a CSL opted to go slightly sideways of the racing line at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.
While other tracktards tried to perfect their racing line and eke out the fastest lap time possible, it looks like pegging the throttle on that blaring 360 horsepower straight-six and having a good ass time were the only goals for this M3 CSL driver.


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Elizabeth Hau was a younger sister of my grandfather, Raymond Hau. She died as an infant in 1909. Elizabeth is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co., WI.
Elizabeth Hau
Daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fuhrman) Hau
Born: June 23, 1909
Died: July 15, 1909


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
A moment comes like a thunderbolt, in which a flash of the undisclosed rends our dark apathy asunder. It is full of overpowering brilliance, like a point in which all moments in life are focused, or a thought which outweighs all thoughts ever conceived of. There is so much light in our cage, in our world, it is as if we were suspended amidst the stars.
Apathy turns to splendor unawares. The ineffable has shuddered itself into the soul. It has entered our consciousness like a ray of light passing into a lake. Refraction of that penetrating ray brings about a turning in our mind: we are penetrated by God's insight. We cannot think anymore as if God were there and we are here. God is both there and here. God is not a being, but Being in and beyond all beings.
A tremor seizes our limbs.
Our nerves are struck, quiver like strings.
Our whole being bursts into shudders, but then a cry wrested from our very core fills the world around us as if a mountain were suddenly about to place itself in front of us.
It is one word: "God."
Not an emotion, a stir within us, but a power, a marvel beyond us, tearing the world apart. The word that means more than Universe, more than Eternity.
We cannot comprehend it. We only know it means infinitely more than we are able to echo.
Staggered, embarrassed, we stammer and say, "God," who is more than all there is, who speaks through the ineffable, whose question is more than our mind can answer; "God," to whom our life can be the spelling of an answer.
– From Man is not Alone, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., an ally of his in the civil rights movement, an anti-Vietnam war activist, and a profound religious thinker of the 20th Century.
"He says before this paragraph that in general we resist the knowledge that's coming at us. We stay inside what he calls a cage and live on a "dainty diet" because we're apprehensive about what is waiting for us outside. But then, at a certain moment…something happens to us."
This is the Truth.
– Reposted with thanks from the My Inner Adult blog
Ya Haqq!