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U.S. President Barack Obama reacts as 14-year-old Joey Hudy of Phoenix, Ariz. launches a marshmallow from Hudy's "Extreme Marshmallow Cannon" during a tour of the White House Science Fair in the State Dining Room on Feb. 7.
Barack Obama hosted a White House science fair Feb. 7, featuring projects designed by more than 100 students from across the country. The projects included a robot that helps senior citizens connect with their families via Skype, and a portable disaster relief shelter that could be used to house people who have been displaced from their homes.
During his visit to the fair, Obama helped 14-year-old Joey Hudy fire off the Extreme Marshmallow Cannon, one of the Phoenix student's inventions.
"The Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this," Obama joked. Afterward, he told his audience that shooting a marshmallow through the air gun was "very exciting."
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River, Oh River, Flow Gently For Me
₪҉₪My life is not perfect.My life is not easy.My life is not good.But then again, since when has life been any of those things?If my life was perfect, if it was easy, if it was good, I would not be me. And despite my flaws, I love being me.I love being myself, because it's what I am best at. More than that, it is what I must do. I must love being me and I must be me because nobody can love my little sister the way I do. She is only four years old, and she needs love. She needs taken care of.I may only be ten years older than her, but I'm the one who takes care of her. Mother has been gone for almost two years now. Father is working, working, always working. I've come to accept that, though. We need the money, for the rent and food and to pay taxes. I'm not old enough to get a job yet, and even if I were, my little sister still needs me. My little Christina needs me.I doubt Christina even remembers Mother. Her parents, my grandparents, came over from Somalia when she was in her late teens. The town they moved in to, Drovensburg, had a large immigrant population, so they fit right in. But Mother never liked where we lived. There were packs of large, dangerous boys that roamed the streets from dusk 'til dawn. And she was right to fear them, because they ended her one drunken night."Nali?" Christina's tiny voice rouses me from my trance. We are sitting on our old couch, watching our small television. "Nali, can we go outside? I don't want to watch telly anymore."I glance at the battered clock on the wall as I point the remote at the TV to switch it off. It's lunch time, but there isn't food to spare for lunch. We usually save it for a big dinner with Papa."It's too hot out, 'Tina," I tell her distractedly. Usually, the children's pastor from the local church came around with food handouts in the summer. A lot of us in the low income neighborhood didn't have enough food for three meals a day, and the church went to grocery stores and collected their extra foodstuffs and tried to make the world a better place by sharing."Are you hungry? I can boil some rice for you," I say, gazing at her thin frame. Too thin. If anyone needs the food, it's her. Not me, not Papa."Yes please," Her adorable face with huge eyes lights up at the mention of lunch. "Thank you, Nali!"I unfold myself from the couch and pad into the kitchen with my bare feet. I hear Christina fiddling with the volume on the TV as I automatically start setting up the stove to make rice.And I catch myself singing softly, and out of habit. My mother never knew much English. But she did have one lullaby that she always sang to us.
"Hush now, my babyBe still love, don't crySleep like you're rocked by the stream"The white, fuzzy noise of the TV from the other room clicks off. I expect Christina to come and join me in the kitchen soon, like she usually does.
"Sleep and remember
My lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dream"I turn away from the sink with a pot full of cold water and yelp as I almost slam into Christina. She'd been standing right behind me."Christina!" I'm about to scold her gently, but I stop when I see her face is wet. "Did I spill water on you?" I ask, reaching for the hand-towel that needs washing.She shook her head, and I peered closer. "What's wrong, 'Tina? Why are you crying?""I…I know that song, Nali," She whispered."I sing it to you all the time, you should know it," I smooth her hair that's woven into tight corn-rows that end in pig tails as I walk towards the stove. "No, Mommy sang it to us. I remember," She told me with surety beyond her four years, following me to the stove.
Drift on a riverThat flows through my armsDrift as I'm singing to youChristina was barely two and a half when Mother last sang that for us. "You can remember that?"She nodded. "She was singing in my dream last night, Nali."
I see you smilingSo peaceful and calmAnd holding you, I'm smiling, tooI pour a small helping of rice from the old plastic bag into the water and fiddle with the dials on the stovetop. "Nali, does mommy still love us?"How can I answer something like that?I stand with my back to Christina, watching the rice cloud up the water, which is only just beginning to bubble. My inability to form words, to explain things like this to her, weighs heavily upon me. The silence is even heavier.I don't know how much she remembers of our mother. I don't know how much she understands about the forces that turn the world, like life and love and death.
Here in my armsSafe from all harmHolding you, I'm smiling, too"Nali?" I can still hear the tears in her voice.I take a deep breath, and turn to face her again, my pent up frustration welling up in my eyes. I want to give my little Christina the world, I have always wanted to. But how can I, if I can't even explain a thing as universal as love to her?I let out the breath in a ragged exhale, and sink down to the dirt-stained off-white tiled floor with my back against the cool oven door below the stove. I pat the floor next to me, taking another deep breath.My voice is too hoarse to sing the beautiful lullaby justifiably, but I sing anyways.
"Hush now, my babyBe still, love, don't crySleep like you're rocked by the stream"Christina scoots from the floor next to me and wriggles her way onto my lap. She blinks at me, her eyes still asking the question. Does Mommy still love us?"Christina, you know what a river is?" She nods at me. "Mother loved rivers. She could compare anything to a river. And that's why she loved the lullaby so much, the River Lullaby."
Sleep and remember this river lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dreamI'll be with you when you dream"She liked to think of existence as a life-long love song. Like a river, she told me once," I said. Mother had also told me that she saw death as a waterfall. It's inevitable, but you just continue on existing afterwards, but on a different plane. But Christina wouldn't understand that.I fall into silence again, trying to simplify things for her again, then speak, "Christina, can you pretend we're on a raft? A raft floating on a river that doesn't end? You have yours, I have mine, can you see it?""I can see it, Nali. In my head," She smiled. "We're right next to each other."I return her smile, and continue, "Okay, now I want you to picture a trail of rose petals on the river ahead of us." Rose was Mother's name. "You can pick them up out of the water, if you want. It's a calm river.""What are the flower petals for?""You see, mother got swept up in a current and was whisked ahead of us. Very far ahead of us on the river. But as she was carried along, she left a trail of promises, the petals. And her trail of petals is her promise to wait for us, wherever she is.""So she does love us?""What do you think?""Yes,"
Here in my arms
Safe from all harm
Holding you, I'm smiling tooI gently heave Christina off of my lap and stood to check the rice."Your lunch is almost ready, 'Tina. Go sit at the table," I tell her. The sound of the chair scraping on the floor mingles with the clinking of dishes as I fish one out for her and then grab a spoon as well. "Nali, are you eating?""No, I'm not hungry," I tell her, and the lie tastes sour in my mouth and churns my stomach.
Sleep and remember
This river lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dreamI place the shallow dish of rice in front of Christina and sit down next to her at the table.But she doesn't move to pick up her spoon yet. The expression her face is one of a perplexed four year old. "Do you need your booster seat?" I ask her. Her booster seat is last year's telephone book, naturally."Nali, what about for real?" She wants to know."I'm sorry?" I do not understand what she is asking."The river is 'magination," She explains. "So the petals and promises are too.""Oh, no! No, no, that's not how I meant it," I insist. "The river and petals represent something very real. The river is being alive." Mother and her endless metaphors in her beautiful and exotic native language had made that clear to me. I'm not sure how much of this Christina understands.But bless her heart, she wants to know, "Then what do the promise-flower-petals mean for real?""Well, they're still promises. But instead of flower petals on a river, they're dreams, like the one you had last night, where Mother was singing to you."
Sleep and remember this river lullaby
I'll be with you when you dream"She loves us very much, Christina. You need to understand that.""I know," she says to me. And then something that wrenches my heart. "I love you too, Mommy."
I'll be with you when you dream
₪҉₪A/N-Disclaimer: Lyrics are from the movie 'Prince of Egypt', they are not original. The story was inspired by two little girls I met IRL and had a chance to talk to.
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There are striking parallels between Barack Obama's re-election victory last week and that of George W. Bush in 2004.
Both incumbents began with mediocre job-approval ratings; each had a political albatross — the Iraq war for Mr. Bush, the economy for Mr. Obama — and both managed to define the race and the opposition before their slow-to-react challengers could. They both won narrowly, with about the same margin in the popular vote, though Mr. Obama did much better in the Electoral College.
The architects of the successful campaign this year, David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, emulated the strategy and success of Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove eight years earlier.
The danger for Mr. Obama is that the parallels will continue to apply after the election. Failing to appreciate the need to change internally and adopt bipartisan compromise, Mr. Bush failed to realize his second-term agenda. Successful second-term presidents — Ronald Reagan, for example — realize the new political calculations and govern differently.
Two signs of trouble for the incumbent several months from now: If the narrative on filling crucial posts at the State and Treasury Departments and the White House centers on Mr. Obama's comfort level, and if the political base, which re-elected him, isn't complaining.Continue reading the main story
The fiscal issue — taxes, spending and debt — is the gateway through which all subsequent actions have to follow.
If the president and Congress cut a credible deal, a lot of options flow for both parties; if they don't, the next two years will be like the last two.
The Democratic White House and the Republican House of Representatives both believe they have political chips. A cocky post-election Team Obama revels in a commanding victory; this evokes shades of the false mandate that George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney claimed.
House Republicans retained almost all their seats, brushing back attacks for their positions on Medicare and tax cuts for the rich. They have no fear of this White House.
Democrats say they're willing to go over the so-called fiscal cliff and allow all the Bush-era tax cuts to expire and, if they can't unlink them, drastic automatic spending cutbacks to take effect. Fears of an economic cataclysm would force Republicans to eventually back down, they say.
Privately, more than a few Republicans say "bring it on." If a showdown forces a severe economic downturn, each side will blame the other; ultimately, failure to act would hurt the party controlling the White House, they figure, and the political cycle points to Republican gains in 2014. This would be reckless, not irrational.
The only way to avoid this outcome would be major cutbacks in Medicare and tax increases exceeding the $800 billion that the House speaker, John Boehner, was willing to negotiate a year and a half ago.
On taxes, if Republicans insist that the top rate cannot exceed the current 35 percent, they have to give a lot on loophole closers as well as on increasing capital gains taxes, and/or the estate tax, both of which primarily benefit the wealthy.
At the beginning of the second Reagan administration, the president outsourced economics to his new Treasury secretary, James A. Baker III, and his deputy, Richard Darman. Over a year and a half, they brilliantly negotiated a tax-overhaul measure that cut personal rates and broadened the base, but also raised capital gains taxes and corporate taxes.
Today's Republicans say they'll never cut a deal unless they get permanent changes in health care costs, especially Medicare. They will push to introduce a system of vouchers or premium support, as advocated by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate and the chairman of the House Budget Committee. That is a nonstarter for Democrats, who trashed the idea throughout the campaign.
That forces the White House to devise serious alternatives like significantly enhancing competitive bidding, cracking down on overpayments, changing co-payment arrangements, reducing benefits for wealthier retirees and raising eligibility ages.
The president can rely on smart political sharpshooters and experienced policy experts, including the White House chief of staff, Jacob J. Lew, and the National Economic Council director, Gene Sperling. The president has had those assets for the past several years, without moving Republicans.
He needs a game changer, a major figure with influence in the business community who could help pressure recalcitrant Republicans.
The reality is that the Republicans are most dug in and resistant to the need for a sensible compromise. The exit polls in the Nov. 6 elections showed that 60 percent of voters rejected the Republican argument that tax increases on the wealthy are a bad idea.
One possibility is to enlist as a special negotiator the man who helped bail out the president this autumn, former President Bill Clinton. There is no one who can better frame the economic/fiscal issue or knows more about dealing with the Republicans, who said all year how fondly they remembered the Clinton years.
Mr. Obama's confidants will argue that a major presidential responsibility cannot be outsourced. Some already resent the narrative that Mr. Clinton helped turn the election for the president.
The rhetoric from both sides in recent days on avoiding the fiscal crisis is positive, and rosier than the reality. If the president sticks with the regular order, look for no deals or a small-ball deal, then the issue will hang over his entire second term.Continue reading the main story


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This post was originally going to be about National Blood Donation Month. I wanted to encourage you to donate blood and help those in need. But, in the wake of the Haitian Earthquake tragedy, the always important need for blood donations seems even more urgent.
There I was, getting ready for work this morning as CNN told the story of a 15 day old baby who's mother was killed in the earthquake, her father was too distraught to leave the house, and her uncle was literally running through the streets yelling for a doctor who could tend to the baby's head injury. Doctor and reporter, Sanjay Gupta tended to her, but her story is one of literally millions right now.
Knowing that this month is National Blood Donation Month, I thought, surely blood donations are needed for Haiti. However, I discovered that is not the case. All blood requests at the present time are being met. Of course at the local level, there is always a need for blood, and I encourage you to donate this month, but I couldn't help but wonder if the coincidence of a publicized month of donation requests could be helping with the fulfillment of blood needs in Haiti. Perhaps in a time of despair and need, our simple American publicity has actually been timely and useful.
While donation requests are currently being met, if you would like to donate blood to the Haitian disaster, all blood requests are being handled through the Armed Services Blood Program. There are only 20 blood donation centers in the US, but if you live near one, please consider donating to through them.


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Mobile device management and security minimize the risk of consumerization
When employees bring their own devices to work (BYOD) and use them to share files and data inside and outside the office, it is difficult for IT to maintain visibility and control. This has created a new trend, called the consumerization of IT, which includes BYOD, the use of third-party cloud services and applications such as cloud storage and social media.
This trend is being driven by simple, accessible, and pervasive technology that frees people to work anytime, anywhere. According to Gartner, the "consumerization of IT" will be the most significant trend affecting IT for the next ten years. And, it includes mobile device management, application management, data protection, IT security—and more.
Enterprises can take advantage of BYOD and consumerization with a strategy to reduce security risks, financial exposure, and management chaos. This strategy helps IT balance the risk against the benefits of consumerization with a solutions infrastructure and BYOD program to help IT:
See how Stan, a cybercriminal, takes control of an executive's smartphone for industrial espionage.
BYOD, mobile apps, file sharing, and social networks let data out and malware in to your network.
This infographic shows where you're at risk
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Up to 40% of companies polled say BYOD reduces costs.
See how they measure their savings
Gain visibility and control of mobile devices and data in motion
As popular new consumer technology floods the enterprise, the consumerization of IT offers the potential to increase employee productivity and reduce overall IT costs. However, it also challenges IT with new security risks, financial exposure, and operational complexity. How does IT maintain visibility and control of the ever evolving array of mobile devices and the consumer apps that proliferate with BYOD?
To minimize the operational costs of BYOD, enterprises need solutions with broad platform support that consolidate management and integrate with their existing endpoint security infrastructure. Mobile device management, mobile application management, mobile security, and data security help ensure visibility and control of BYOD and IT connectivity.
Most mobile malware relies heavily on user interaction to initiate—which means a bad app can spread to millions of smartphone users instantly when shared in social networking sites. Educating mobile device users about prevention is the first step toward the consumerization of enterprise mobility—whether mobile devices are running Google Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows Phone, or other operating system. The video, infographics, and primers below can help.
Find out by taking a mobile security assessment.
You'll gain insight and get tips to reduce risk.
Are you exposing critical data? Learn what kinds of mobile data can be lost and how to protect it.
Open the "Android Menace" infographic to see the growth of malware targeting the little green robot and learn more about Android threats.
In this ebook you'll see what happens when Android apps want more than they need.
Enterprises require a unified security management solution that gives IT visibility and control over mobile devices and applications. Then they can realize the benefits of consumerization by protecting company- and employee-liable devices, across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
In addition, enterprises are experimenting with ways to reduce the operational costs of on-boarding and supporting BYOD. This requires mobile security that protects employee-liable devices as well as control over which devices can access corporate resources.
IT organizations are developing mobile device management policies for the provisioning and de-provisioning of employee-owned devices, which will help protect company and personal data, applications, and access. In addition, deploying password enforcement and encryption technology is as essential as a remote lock and wipe capability to protect data when employees lose their mobile devices.
To secure IT connectivity, Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ provides a cloud-client security infrastructure that stops threats before they reach your endpoints and mobile devices. It correlates global threat intelligence to prevent users from clicking on links to web sites that harbor malware, or from downloading bad apps, or opening links in phishing emails.
The risks from employee-liable devices challenge IT readiness. Without a BYOD plan, you might be letting in malware.
The cloud is one of the driving forces behind consumerization, with mobile devices accessing data from private clouds, social networking, or other cloud services and applications. Mobile device management (MDM), cloud-based security, device locator services, remote wipes for lost or stolen devices, and more—should all be part of a BYOD plan. With a BYOD program tailored to the needs of your organization, IT can safely exploit consumerization to increase employee productivity, attract and retain good employees, and gain business agility.
Context-aware security can protect data across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Mobile data can be protected via encryption and control over who can access and share data across network, servers, and clients, as well as removable storage. With integrated data loss prevention (DLP) across endpoint, messaging, and cloud, IT can gain BYOD productivity and reduce the cost of protecting data across heterogeneous platforms. Data privacy and compliance are also better served with the capabilities above.
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I came to know Rivka over forty years ago, through the learned book that her husband, Rabbi Irwin Haut, wrote about the agunah problem. Whether she influenced him to write or whether his work inducted her into the world of agunah activism, I do not know, but she became increasingly passionate about helping agunot, hands on as well as dealing with the theoretical-halakhic issues.
Jewish Law
How to cite this page
Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Law." (Viewed on November 15, 2018) <https://jwa.org/topics/jewish-law>.


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At our garden center, many homeowners tell us they want trees and shrubs that grow quickly to create a mature effect in their yards.
For the short-run, planting fast-growing trees and shrubs, even in smaller sizes, is appealing because they are affordable and fill spaces rapidly.
Fast-growing trees are certainly appropriate for many applications, and they can be a necessity for certain functions (screening, hedging, windbreaks, creating quick shade, etc.). But the years pass rapidly; it�s hard to envision how quickly some plants can outgrow their spaces, often exceeding our original expectations.
Fast-growing plants generally require more water and maintenance to keep them healthy and manageable. And unless the area is ample, they can outgrow their space in a relatively short time, often creating potentially expensive challenges.
For a variety of reasons, choosing some slower-growing trees and shrubs for your yard may be a prudent decision for longer-term enjoyment. Plants that stay smaller take up less space in the garden; they are easier to maintain; they tend to live longer; they are more appropriate in scale, especially in small gardens; greater variety can be utilized in the same amount of space to better enhance texture and color in your yard.
Proper spacing at installation helps optimize the appeal of the plants in your garden. But determining how quickly your plants will grow, how large they will become and how soon, can be a confusing exercise. To assist in making the right selections, the American Conifer Society has published some useful definitions for conifers (needled evergreens) that will help simplify your choices:
n�Miniature conifers grow 1 inch or less a year, reaching less than 1 foot in 10 to 15 years;
n�Dwarf conifers grow 1 to 6 inches a year, reaching 1 to 6 feet at 10 to 15 years of age;
n�Intermediate conifers grow 6 to 12 inches a year, reaching 6 to 15 feet in 10 to 15 years;
n Large conifers grow more than 12 inches a year and reach from 15 feet to hundreds of feet in 10 to 15 years.
While these size- and growth-rate guidelines are designed for conifers, you�ll find that this concept is also useful for many other types of trees and shrubs. Understanding what size your plants will attain over time is a key consideration in optimizing the usefulness of your garden. Ask the horticulturists at your local garden center for advice; they are well equipped to discuss which plants will best suit your needs for both immediate enjoyment and long-term value.
R. Wayne Mezitt is a third-generation nurseryman, a Massachusetts certified horticulturist and chairman of Weston Nurseries of Hopkinton and Chelmsford, www.WestonNurseries.com. He has served as president of the Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association, the New England Nursery Association and the American Nursery and Landscape Association, based in Washington, D.C. He recently formed "Hort-Sense," an advisory business.
Gardener's Journal: Slow-growing plants for smaller spaces
At our garden center, many homeowners tell us they want trees and shrubs that grow quickly to create a mature effect in their yards.


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This project is a residence for a couple in their thirties, built in Abiko City. The client desired a gallery-like concrete-made space where their pleasure of designed furniture stands out .
- Architects: fuse-atelier
- Project: House in Abiko
- Location: Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- structure: reinforced concrete
- Storeys: three above grade
- Site area: 101.00m2
- Built area: 48.54 m2
- Total floor area: 80.01 m2
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Hundreds of my relatives served as soldiers during the Civil War, but one had an especially interesting connection to Charleston. He is Pvt. Joshua Richard Goodwin Jr. of Company A, 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Joshua wasn't an officer, he had no leadership responsibilities and perhaps he sometimes was an unwilling recruit at the start of his military career. But he witnessed and participated in a significant event: Joshua was present and serving as an enlisted man with his unit while it was charged with the security and oversight of the construction of the Confederate submarine Hunley during the spring and summer of 1863 in Alabama.
Joshua's military records indicate he was conscripted Sept. 21, 1862, in Jefferson County, Ala., and was present on the 21st company's muster rolls dated Dec. 31, 1862, to April 30, 1863, at Mobile and May-June 1863, during which time his commanders and company were involved in overseeing work on the famous experimental submarine and guarding it at the Thomas Park and Thomas Lyons Machine Shop.
The underwater vessel's inventors and builders first launched it for sea trials in July 1863 in Mobile Bay and shipped it the following month to Charleston for Confederate naval service.
Lt. George E. Dixon, an officer in Joshua's company and unit, was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Hunley when it was sent to the coast. Unfortunately, he also was one of the eight crew members who perished when the submarine later sank in Charleston waters in 1864. It is unknown if Joshua or other members of his unit accompanied the Confederacy's hand-crank-powered 'Fish Boat' to the East Coast or if they knew about its initial success and sudden mysterious fate. No muster roll is on file for July and August 1863, but regimental records indicate Joshua's unit was generally stationed at Point Clear, Ala., during that time.
Of course, we know and Joshua's unit must have known from historical and news accounts and word of mouth that the Hunley created a sensation in Charleston on Feb. 17, 1864, after sinking the heavily armed U.S. steam war sloop Housatonic, which was anchored at the entrance to Charleston Harbor as part of the Union port blockade. Also well known is the story of how the 'Fish Torpedo Boat' and its crew of eight heroic adventurers suddenly disappeared in offshore waters shortly after the daring nighttime attack.
After the Hunley group left Alabama, Joshua, who continued to serve with his company there, was hospitalized in Mobile on Jan. 24, 1864, with a fever from which he recovered. He was later captured with his unit at Fort Morgan on August 23 of that year and held for about a year as a prisoner of war. He took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States at Elmira, N.Y., on July 7, 1865, and was released. A biographical note: Census records indicate Joshua lived with his parents, Sarah 'Sallie' Farrar and Joshua Richard Goodwin Sr., and siblings in Jefferson County, Ala., in 1850 and 1860, and headed his own family, including his wife, Cynthia Matilda Glover, and two children there in 1870. They eventually had 10 children. Joshua died at age 65 in his native county and was buried there in Old Blue Creek Baptist Church Cemetery with a grave marker inscribed with the following: 'Joshua R. Goodwin 1840 1905 Pvt Co A 21 Rgt Ala Inf Confederate States Army.'
Horace Lawson Hunley, the submarine's chief designer, who lost his life testing his experimental metal contraption in Charleston Harbor on Oct. 15, 1863, and several other crew members are buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
As a postscript, I mention two other relatives who served as soldiers during the 'Late Unpleasantness' also were laid to rest near Mr. Hunley in Magnolia Cemetery: Pvt. William H. Bramlette of the 6th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry Volunteers, a son of Nancy Childress and Larkin Bramblett, and Pvt. Reuben W. Burditt of the South Carolina State Troops, son of Janie Stone and Nathan Bramlett Burditt. Both soldiers died of disease in Charleston hospitals in the spring and autumn, respectively, of 1864 — the former before the Hunley arrived in town and the latter after it disappeared into the sea. Their war service is noted on their inscribed tombstones in the cemetery's Confederate Section.
Addendum from Deborah G. Dennis submitted 1/3/2011
The three soldiers featured in the above story and their parents all descend from distinguished old families of American Colonial and Revolutionary antecedents who lived in Virginia and South Carolina during the 18th century.
In fact, while Joshua Richard Goodwin Jr. of the Twenty-First Alabama Infantry was a native of Alabama and a conscripted Confederate soldier there when the CSS H. L. Hunley was being built in Mobile, his connection to South Carolina goes far beyond guarding and perhaps traveling with the "Fish Boat" in 1863 when it was shipped by rail to Charleston to join the Confederate service. Joshua's other interesting connection to the Palmetto State involves close family ties to ancestors who were South Carolina natives. Joshua is the son of Sarah "Sallie" Farrar/Farrow and Joshua Richard Goodwin Sr. and a grandson of Nancy Bramlett and Theophilus Goodwin who were born in and married in South Carolina and later moved their families to Jefferson County, Alabama. Many of the Goodwin descendants later served as soldiers from that state and other places during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Note: I have not been able to document the parents of Nancy Bramlett Goodwin but believe she descends in some way from Henry Bramlett Sr. of Prince William (later Fauquier) County, Virginia.
Mr. Hunley and the submarine's creators, developers and crew members, in addition to our relative Joshua Richard Goodwin and his fellow soldiers from the Twenty-First Alabama Regiment, all played a relatively small part in military operations of the vast dramatic panorama of the four-year war. Nevertheless, they all share a legacy and a larger role in history by contributing to the development of our national naval warfare. Their magnificent "Fish Boat" is distinctive in history for its amazing achievement as the first combat submarine in America and the world to sink an enemy warship.
Additionally, William H. Bramlette, the Confederate soldier who died of cholera in a Charleston hospital in 1864 during the war and is buried here in Magnolia Cemetery, also is a native of the Palmetto State. He is the son of Nancy Childress and Larkin Bramblet, also natives of South Carolina, and the grandson of Mary and Newton Bramlett of Virginia and Laurens County, South Carolina. Newton's parents, Elizabeth and William Bramlett, who are also Private William H. Bramlette's great-grandparents, moved to South Carolina from Fauquier County, Va., before the American Revolution. They settled in 1773 on a 300-acre royal William Bull land grant from King George III in Cravens District, now present-day Laurens County. Existing Land Memorials record William's subsequent trips to Charleston to pay his annual taxes. A few of William and Elizabeth's descendants served as soldiers during the American Revolution from South Carolina and many later served as soldiers from various states during the Civil War/War Between the States.
Reuben W. Burditt, the third Confederate soldier mentioned in the news story, who also died of disease in 1864 in a Charleston hospital and rests in peace here in Magnolia Cemetery, also is a native of South Carolina and has close extended family ties to the Palmetto State. He is the son of Janie Stone and Nathan Bramlett Burditt and the grandson of Elizabeth Bramlett and Reuben Frederick Burditt of Laurens County. His paternal great-grandparents, Marianne Bramlett and Frederick Burditt/Burdette, also moved from Virginia before the American Revolution to settle in Laurens County by 1775. At least fifteen of the latter couple's descendants served as soldiers from the Palmetto State in the Civil War/War Between the States.
Revolutionary War Notes: Frederick Burditt/Burdette, believed to be a native of Amsterdam, and his brother-in-law Henry Bramlett III both served as soldiers in the Revolution from South Carolina. Henry Bramlett III's brother Reuben, my direct ancestor, who also served in the Revolution but from Fauquier County, Va., was stationed at a fort on the Indian Line in the Upstate of South Carolina during his second tour of duty before returning to Virginia. He later married Elizabeth Brown and moved his family to Laurens County where two or three of his children were born. They then moved on to Kentucky and settled in 1818 in southern Illinois where he applied for and received a pension based on his war service in 1832 and later died in 1844.


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Twisters Past and Present: Interactive Tornado Tracker
By Climate Central
Tornadoes can happen anytime, anywhere in the world where conditions are right.
It just so happens that the U.S. is effectively the tornado capital of the world, with an average 1,200 tornadoes forming within its borders each year, according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Tornadoes have been observed on New Year's Day, New Year's Eve and every day in between, from California to Maryland, North Dakota to Texas.
With Climate Central's Tornado Tracker, you can track tornado reports so far in the current year and investigate reports during past years. The tracker plots tornado reports from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., and is updated multiple times a day to capture breaking events. (Keep in mind that tornadoes on the Tracker are just "reported" events, and have not yet been confirmed and that multiple reports can be sent in for the same tornado.)
Tornadoes happen when clashing air masses create an unstable environment, with some moisture thrown in there for good measure (though this doesn't always result in a tornado -- scientists don't fully understand why). Generally, the prime time and location for this set of ingredients to come together is during spring and early summer, smack dab in the middle of the country -- the proverbial Tornado Alley (though this is not a scientifically defined term). This is especially true for so-called supercell tornadoes, generally the strongest and most destructive, which are spawned...
Science Made Simple: Take the Dog for a Walk
Oftentimes scientists and journalists make the simplest of scientific concepts sound incredibly complicated. Take the difference between climate and weather, for example. The old adage is that "climate is what you expect, weather is what you get," since day-to-day weather may depart significantly from average conditions. But that doesn't really tell you much about how climate is measured over the long-term, or when weather ends and climate begins. The explanation I like best comes from the comedian Stephen Colbert, when, during a segment with Climate Central's Heidi Cullen, he said: "Is not climate just made up of thousands of little weathers?"
Or consider this delightfully clear cartoon posted on Youtube that uses a unique analogy — a man walking his dog — to describe the differences between weather and climate. It's simple, to the point, and best of all, adorable. Check it out.
Monster Cyclone Phailin Poses Deadly Threat to India
One of the strongest tropical cyclones to form in the Bay of Bengal since 1980 is heading for the northeast Indian state of Odisha, packing winds of close to 160 mph and a storm surge of at least 10 feet, but possibly much higher. The storm, named Phailin — a Thai word for "sapphire" — has intensified after weakening for a time on Thursday. By some measures, it may already have become the strongest storm on record in the Indian Ocean. It is expected to make landfall in Odisha or the far northeastern corner of the Andrha Pradesh State on Saturday afternoon or early evening.
Enhanced satellite view of Tropical Cyclone Phailin as it approached the Indian coast on Oct. 11.
Credit: NOAA
The history of the Bay of Bengal region is littered with examples of tragic storms, and this one has the potential to kill thousands and displace many more. The storm is expected to be the equivalent of a Category 4 or 5 hurricane at landfall, bringing a life-threatening storm surge, heavy rains, and high winds to a broad swath of northeastern India. (Although named differently, tropical cyclones have the same characteristics as hurricanes and typhoons.)
The Bay of Bengal, which borders India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, has been home to the deadliest tropical cyclone disasters on Earth. A whopping 26 of the 35 deadliest tropical storms worldwide formed in the Bay of Bengal, the Capital Weather Gang blog reported. That includes Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar...
The Most Detailed Visuals of Hurricane Sandy, Revealed
Scientists have recently developed awe-inspiring visualizations of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states a year ago. The visualizations, created using state-of-the-art computer models, provide some of most detailed looks at any hurricane to date.
In this 3-D map of potential temperature, relatively cool air wraps around Sandy's core near the surface (purple and blue colors), while air parcels gain heat from moisture condensing into clouds and precipitation as they ascend through the storm's core.
Click image to enlarge. Credit: UCAR.
Scientists based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., used an advanced hurricane computer model to create mesmerizing images and animations that almost succeed in making the destructive and deadly storm appear to be a beautiful work of art.
The hurricane went through multiple phases. After rumbling through the Caribbean and striking Cuba, it veered north-northeastward just off the East Coast. The storm was officially classified as a post-tropical cyclone as of 7 p.m. EDT on Oct.29, 2012, only an hour before it made landfall, and after hurricane force winds had already begun buffeting the New York and New Jersey coastlines.
Climate Central posted the initial round of visualizations from this team in January. But now, a team including NCAR's Mel Shapiro, the National Center for Computing Applications (NCSA), Cray Computing, and the U.S. Office of Naval Research has produced addition simulations at even higher resolution.
The visualizations show how Sandy's life cycle was unique — going through multiple tropical and non-tropical phases as it interacted with the jet stream and surface weather features, such as a cold front draped along th...
'Atmospheric River' Smashes Records in Pacific Northwest
A barrage of unusually intense early-autumn storm systems swept across the Pacific Northwest this weekend, bringing hurricane-force winds and dumping enough rain to smash all-time monthly rainfall records from Seattle to Portland.
In Seattle and Olympia, Wash., Sept. 28 was the wettest September day on record. In Seattle, 1.71 inches of rain fell, which was more rain than typically falls during the entire month.
Water vapor satellite image showing the "atmospheric river" extending from near Hawaii in the lower left to the Pacific Northwest in the upper right. Arrows indicate the direction of moisture transport.
Credit: U. Wisc. via Facebook/Stu Ostro.
The rainfall was the product of a long, snake-like plume of moisture that stretched from near Hawaii to the gulf of Alaska, and it aimed squarely at the Pacific Northwest. These moisture plumes are sometimes called "atmospheric rivers," which are responsible for some of the most damaging flooding events along the U.S. West Coast, particularly in California.
Some of the moisture originally came from Typhoon Pabok, which was in the western Pacific several days ago, according to the National Weather Service.
The highest rainfall totals were recorded in mountainous areas, with 5-10 inches or more of rainfall commonplace in the higher elevations of Oregon and Washington. Lees Camp, Ore., for example, recorded 11.10 inches of rain from Sept. 27-30, and Tillamook, along the north Oregon coast, received 6.84 inches.
A weather station on Mount St. Helens recorded 15.30 inches of rain during the same period.
The Portland metro area saw between 3-4 inches of rainfall, which is extremely rare for this time of year. Oregon wine country was also aff...


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Lionel Messi praised Barcelona's focus after he scored four goals in a 5-1 demolition of Osasuna and became the youngest-ever player to rack up 200 Liga strikes.
Much of the pre-match talk circulated around Wednesday night's Copa del Rey clash with Real Madrid, but despite that distraction on the horizon, the Blaugrana maintained their concentration with a ruthless display aided by the first-half dismissal of Arribas.
"The important thing was to get this game going," he told reporters after the game.
"There was so much talk about the clasico before the game, but first we had to play Osasuna and focus on this game."
Messi's record-breaking haul came after Cristiano Ronaldo brought up his 300th club goal with a hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-0 win over Getafe.
Barca assistant Jordi Roura was asked whether he thought the Portuguese's efforts had motivated Messi's latest goalscoring spree, but instead preferred to focus on the Argentine's continued brilliance.
"I do not know if Messi was more motivated by Ronaldo's performance this morning, but I don't think he needs anybody else to motivate him," he added.
"I have run out of adjectives for him, when you see him do amazing things every day you get used to it, but when you step back and realise what he actually does then you see that he has no limit at all."


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Add some sparkle to your New Year's party staples with these easy upgrades. From cupcakes, to champagne flutes, to noisemakers, these craft ideas will help you ring in the New Year with flair.
Countdown Cupcakes
Attach gold or silver vinyl numbers (available at Staples or Office Max) to a toothpick or lollipop stick and insert into iced cupcakes. Complete the look with matching metallic cupcake liners and arrange the cupcakes in numerical order on a platter. As your guests devour the sweets, they count closer and closer to midnight.
Two days before the party, paint dried beans with metallic spray paint. Let one side dry for an hour, then flip the beans over and paint the other side. Salvage a few empty jars from your recycling bin and wash them. Spray-paint the jar lids to match the beans and let dry. Fill each jar halfway with beans and replace the lids. Kids (of all ages!) will enjoy shaking these noisemaking jars to ring in the New Year.
Napkin Rings
When you spray-paint your dried beans for the noisemaker, paint some small sticks, berry branches, or sprigs of pine. Coat both sides with metallic paint and allow to dry completely. Attach a tiny sprig to each guest's napkin using gold ribbon.
Confetti Champagne Flutes
Using a hole punch, punch small circles out of the leftover metallic vinyl you used to make the Countdown Cupcakes. Gold washi tape or double-stick tape with gold wrapping paper attached to one side also works. Stick the tiny circles to champagne flutes, so that they look like confetti or rising bubbles. After the party, simply remove the tape and your stemware is ready for the next holiday.
Number Cookie Ornaments
When you roll out your holiday sugar cookies, cut some out using number cookie cutters. Make a small hole in the top of each cookie with the tip of a knife. After baking, store the cookies in the freezer. The day before your New Year's bash, decorate with royal icing, sprinkle with edible glitter, and hang on the Christmas tree with ribbon. These decorations do double-duty: as guests leave the party, let them choose a cookie off the tree for a midnight snack!


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Posted: 2011.5.12
The State Bar of Wisconsin will recognize Kate Frigo 3L as one of two law school students who have made exceptional contributions to serving the legal needs of the state's immigrant communities. Frigo will receive a 2011 Outstanding Public Interest Law Student Award presented by the State Bar's Public Interest Law Section in June.
Frigo has maintained a dedication to helping immigrants throughout her time in law school. As part of her participation in UW Law's Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons program, she handled several cases with Spanish-speaking clients, including one in which she uncovered an important gap in the Department of Corrections' (DOC) approach to immigrants' prison wages.
This gap caused problems for inmates who worked and earned money but could not save it because they could not open a bank account under the DOC's policies, so they were unable to send the money to their families. Frigo developed a solution to the problem by negotiating and coordinating with several parties.
"One of the State Bar's central goals is to encourage attorneys across the state to provide public interest services to individuals and groups," explains Attorney Beth Richlen, chair of the Public Interest Law Section Board.
"Therefore, it's very encouraging and rewarding for me and my peers to celebrate the dedicated work of future State Bar members who find the time in their busy lives to serve the public while still pursuing their studies."
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2011: Three-year letterwinner … will serve as a team captain for the second-consecutive season ... expected to start in goal this fall ... currently ranks fourth all-time at W&L with 25 shutouts ... enters the season with a 0.58 career goals-against average and an .818 career save percentage.
2010: Started 16 contests for the Generals, recording 1,358:42 of action with an overall record of 7-6-2 ... allowed just 12 goals for the season, posting a 0.79 goals-against average and an .803 save percentage ... also recorded five shutouts.
2009: Earned Second Team NSCAA All-America
honors as a sophomore … also named the ODAC Player of the
Year while collecting First Team All-ODAC, NSCAA All-South Atlantic
Region and VaSID College Division All-State laurels … saw
time in 21 games with 20 starts on the season, tallying 1,835
minutes … added her name to the W&L record books,
posting the second-best shutout total (13) and third-best
goals-against average (0.54) for a season … finished the
season with an .833 save percentage (55 saves) … notched a
career-high eight saves while also recording two saves in a penalty
kick round to advance the Generals as ODAC champions in a 0-0 tie
against Virginia Wesleyan (11/7) in the conference championship
2008: Saw action in nine games with six starts during her rookie season … played a total of 654:06 in goal and recorded an .800 save percentage and 0.28 goals-against average … posted a 7-0 overall record with four shutouts … had eight saves and allowed just two goals … notched a season-best three saves in a 5-0 win over Sweet Briar (10/1).
High School: Four-year letterwinner in soccer and basketball at Kings High School … received the Kings Scholar-Athlete Award … helped lead her club team to the 2008 Ohio South State Championship.
Personal: W&L and ODAC Scholar-Athlete ... inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society ... active with SAAC, Reformed University Fellowship and peer counseling ... served as an intern in the office of US Senator Rob Portman this past summer ... spent the summer of her junior year doing development psychology research as a R.E. Lee Scholar ... sister, Jesse, played soccer at Denison ... politics and psychology double-major with a poverty studies minor.


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>>>> Design of BROCHURE for line of herbal supplements.
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- Use bits of these on the Product History page - left side (they can be converted to vector art or artistically manipulated in photoshop - probably should be)
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- Use throughout brochure
- Plants are matched to herbs contained in the products
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As a patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, you will be treated by a multidisciplinary team of specialists, including transplant medicine physicians, transplant surgeons, nurse coordinators, medical social workers, pharmacists and dietitans. Your referring physician, as a critical member of the team, will be included in your plan of care and treatment. At the center of this team is you and your loved ones who are involved at every step of the process.
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Ducks trade for F Lombardi
Anaheim, CA – The Anaheim Ducks added some offensive depth at Wednesday's trade deadline, acquiring veteran forward Matthew Lombardi from Phoenix.
Lombardi, who has 101 goals over 529 NHL games, was picked up by the Ducks in exchange for forward Brandon McMillan, a 23-year-old veteran of 91 NHL contests.
The 31-year-old Lombardi was a third-round pick by Calgary in 2002 and has played for the Flames, Phoenix, Nashville and Toronto during his nine NHL seasons. He has recorded 262 points and had a career-best 53 points with Phoenix during the 2009-10 campaign.
Lombardi had four goals and four assists in 21 games with the Coyotes this season.
McMillan, a third-round pick by Anaheim in 2008, had 11 goals in 60 games for the Ducks as a rookie in 2010-11, but he hasn't put the puck in the net while playing 31 games for Anaheim over the last two seasons.


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Big First Half Carries Vikings Over Dragons In Season Opener
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- The Augustana Vikings gave Jerry Olszewski a win in his first game as head coach.
The Vikings raced out to a 41-7 halftime lead, then held off Minnesota State-Moorhead 41-28 in the season opener for both teams at Kirkeby-Over Stadium.
Augustana got on the board first. Devon Alber intercepted Demetrius Carr on the Dragons first play from scrimmage, leading to a 41-yard Lucas Wainman field goal and a 3-0 Vikings lead.
Carr drove MSUM down the field on their next possession, completing a 41-yard scoring strike to Cory Ambrose to go ahead 7-3.
The Vikings defense and special teams took control from there. Chad Curry returned a fumble 34 yards for a touchdown and quarterback Trey Heid ran 34 yards for another score to give Augustana a 17-7 lead after the first quarter.
Wainman extended the lead to 20-7 with a school record 53-yard field goal in the second quarter. The previous record of 52-yards was set by Dave Koehn on Sept, 22, 1979 against Morningside.
Augustana's special teams came up big again when Tegan Brown blocked a Dragon punt and recovered in the end zone for a 27-7 Viking lead.
On the next play from scrimmage, Zach Sirek forced a fumble that was recovered by Brandon Mohr at MSUM's 31 yard line. Three plays later, Heid connected with CJ Ham on a 16-yard touchdown pass, giving the Vikings a 34-7 lead.
After the Dragons went three-and-out on their next possession, Dajon Newell broke loose on a 40-yard touchdown run with 1:13 left in the first half, giving the Vikings a 41-7 lead at the half.
If the first half belonged to the Vikings, it was all MSUM in the second. Augustana lost fumbles on its first two possessions. Adam Jiskra recovered the first in the end zone to make the score 41-14. Preston Prince caught a pair of two-yard touchdown passes from Carr to pull the Dragons within 41-28 with 11:18 left in the game, but that's as close as MSUM would get.
Heid finished his first start as Augustana quarterback going 18 of 26 for 166 yards with one touchdown and an interception. He rushed 15 times for 83 yards and a score. Ham finished the game with 66 rushing yards and a career-high 43 receiving yards. Matt Gerry led all Viking receivers with five catches for 46 yards.
Mohr and Ben Skelly led Augustana defensively with seven tackles each.
Carr, a true freshman, was 30 of 45 passing for 369 yards and four touchdowns in his collegiate debut for Minnesota State-Moorhead.
Augustana goes on the road next Saturday to take on Minot State in a 6:00pm kickoff at Herb Parker Stadium.


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Editor's note: The Rev. Chris Barrett, pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Spartanburg, continues his fight with lymphoma. The following are excerpts from his blog, which can be read at http://marrowchristianity.blogspot.com
Editor's note: The Rev. Chris Barrett, pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Spartanburg, continues his fight with lymphoma. The following are excerpts from his blog, which can be read at http://marrowchristianity.blogspot.com
Compromised by lymphoma, my own bone marrow will soon be history. As I prepare to receive someone else's marrow in a transplant, I wonder about the marrow of my faith. What's solid? What's corrupt? Where are the signs of new life and growth?
We got into the lymphoma balloon without much warning. A perfunctory visit to the hematologist, during which he admitted he was unimpressed with any of my blood numbers. "Since you're here, though," he said, "I might as well examine you." I winced as his tar-stained fingers prodded for a second on my left side. "Hmm. Your spleen's a little bit big. That might be at least worth checking out."
A week later, with scans in hand, the news: lymphoma.
It would be weeks of surgery, bone marrow biopsies and scans before we knew which basket of which balloon we were in.
By that time, we were in the Medical University of South Carolina, and we were feeling as good about the journey as was possible under the circumstances. I'd be getting an experimental drug that had shown terrific promise in the first trials at MUSC and elsewhere. My job was to get in the basket of the lymphoma balloon and make any adjustments I was instructed to make along the way.
So I — and my family with me — piled in. We were both piloting the balloon and trapped inside it. It was not the vessel we had chosen or even would have chosen (if given a choice), but once in it, we held on and acted like we knew how to steer.
Our journey took a turn two months into treatment, as I was reappointed to a church in Spartanburg, closer to extended family. There were some unpredictable dips and even frightening moments, but everything indicated the balloon was going in the right general direction.
The plan called for treatments to conclude in October. We'd then land this lymphoma balloon in mid-November, when a two-day battery of tests would confirm that the magic medicine had done its job. Then I'd just be a notch in MUSC's research belt, and show up for scans every three months for three years.
Three weeks before my final scans: chaos. Drenching night sweats. Pain in my hips and shoulders. Scans showing massive involvement of the vertebrae. A drug-bleary midnight trip by ambulance to the Medical University.
Suddenly we're no longer bringing this thing in for a landing. We're adrift again, but this time it feels like our supplies are already low. We've abandoned the illusion of piloting anything and are holding on for dear life. I am, for the first time, terrified. I am, for the first time, unsure. I am, for perhaps the first time ever, suddenly and excruciatingly aware of my inability to do a damn thing to help myself.
I have long relied on the words of lament in Psalms and prophets to be my words in time of grief. I have long clung to Paul's description of the Spirit interceding for us with "sighs too deep for words." But right now I am in a place of delirium and want only to beat my head against the chest of God, to claim something or to be claimed by something or somebody.
I believe I am made for hope, but in these moments I feel ill-fitted for it. Will hope find me? Will I miss it as I hurtle along between Earth and heaven, adrift in this darkness?
While my white counts are low and I'm susceptible to infection, I'm staying at my parents' house. It removes the temptation to do too much with the children or to let down my guard and give our dog a big sloppy wet kiss. As you can imagine, moving in with my parents after 38 years of life and 10 years of marriage presents some challenges.
Yet it's one of the amazing blessings of this journey to have both my parents working as diligently as they are in caring for me. Add to that a wonderful mother-in-law who has been watching our three children for the past week-and-a-half by herself — and we've got an awful lot to be thankful for.
Now, having gratefully and lovingly acknowledged the work of others on my behalf (and I've only mentioned the top three), I do have an additional observation: The one not doing a very good job right now is me. I don't do well depending on others. I have difficulty making decisions to yield instead of push, to stay instead of go, to ride instead of drive. And yet those are the decisions I am constantly facing (and making) these days. ...
What would have been different about my life to this point if I had actually given sola gratia a try?
That may be a question I need to address later. But for now, at this moment in my life, and at this stage of my journey toward health, the only resolution I need is this. ... The grace of parents caring for a grown son. The grace of a wife who fulfills her vows every day, honoring and keeping her husband in sickness as she has in health. The grace of a doctor who gives me a cellphone number and tells me to call, whatever the hour. The grace of a church that keeps being a church even while their pastor is away. These are the signs I need, the outstretched arms and glowing countenances that since Moses have communicated that God's love for us is sheer, unmitigated, uncontrollable, unbelievable grace — sola gratia — words I may one day live by, but right now, they live for me, and fill otherwise empty hands.
Sixteen years ago, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. After six weeks of radiation, it was history, and I had moved on with my life.
Little did I know at the time, I'd one day face its souped-up, muscular and brutish cousin: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
So about a month after my diagnosis with this new and nastier lymphoma, my brother-in-law Thomas messages me on Facebook to ask this question: What do you call someone who keeps getting lymphoma?
I don't know, I replied, what do you call someone who keeps getting lymphoma? His reply: A lymphomaniac! ...
My immediate reaction was to double over in laughter and call my wife over to the computer to laugh with me.
For my brother-in-law had just accomplished what in my family can only be described as a coup de grace. He had combined word play, my personal health history, my current health crisis, my sometimes manic personality and in the space of five well-played syllables, he had poked gentle fun at the whole lot of it. ...
Now I can write a book, I wrote back between chortles — "Living with Lymphomania: A Very Short Story."
Well, the conversation went on from there, and in your estimation, gentle reader, it may have still had yet a ways to go in order actually to arrive anywhere in the vicinity of funny.
But there's something biblical, even theological, about a word like my brother-in-law coined that both names a reality and laughs at it.
Isaac, whose name means laughter, was the embodiment of the absurd notion that life could spring from the dead — namely an old man and old woman who were long past child-bearing (much less child rearing!) age.
Jesus, himself the Word made Flesh, remade words and reshaped vocabularies throughout his ministry:
He teased Nicodemus by saying "Be born another." Nicodemus heard it to mean be born "again," though it could easily mean be born "from above."
He nicknamed his star disciple "the Rock" without specifying whether it was a moniker of strength or a harbinger of his later tendency to crack under high pressure.
He even nicknamed the two rowdy brothers in his band, calling them "sons of thunder," which makes me think their fusses must have sometimes led to some grumbles, if not outright rumbles.
All of this leads me to the conviction that what my brother-in-law did for me is something God's been trying to help us do ever since Adam and Eve decided "to get serious" about gardening by trying some of the stuff God said was strictly for God. To help us learn to laugh at ourselves: our weaknesses, our fears, our illnesses, our sins. ... And what makes God laugh even louder and longer? When we get the joke, too. When we see that the joke finally is on death. And the punch line, delivered in person by the Word-Made-Flesh two millenia ago, reverberates through the ages like a deep and resonant laugh, inviting all who hear it to look into the darkness and chuckle: Now that's a Good One.
Getting a dismal diagnosis has a way of focusing your attention on the reality of death.
The death that gets your attention at first, of course, is what Bonhoeffer describes as the "scary enemy" that will come for us all eventually. This is the mortality that wilts flowers and weakens flesh. This death's proximity is never so clear as when the doctor's computer screen glows with trails of white spots, the renegade cells adorning my vertebrae like so many Christmas tree lights. I sit with these twisted, ruinous strands of glowing cells waiting like last year's lights to be untangled and unfurled and brought out of the darkness. And that is the plan — to unpack them — though without an eye to Christmases future, but with the deliberate and ruthless efficiency of one who defuses a bomb. The goal is to forestall the death that these strands would portend. For the death that comes as our enemy — while unstoppable ultimately — may need to wait until other deaths have been died.
These other deaths have been much on my mind of late, the deaths that Bonhoeffer says are "grace and the completion of life." Dying these deaths has meant an inversion of my life's structure and schedule and economy. Dying these deaths has meant changing how I function and transforming how I understand myself. Dying the small daily deaths described by Bonhoeffer (and prescribed by Jesus and Paul) has meant acknowledging that my care belongs to hands and hearts beyond my usual (small) circle of caregivers. Dying daily has meant receiving in far greater measure than I am able to give. Dying daily has meant radically adjusting my role in the care of my own children and locating myself again as a vulnerable child in need of care. Dying daily has meant releasing the burdens of pastoral work to the capable hands of Christ's body, the church — which both cares for others while I can't and takes care of me and my family with little fanfare and abundant love.
All of these ways of dying have been costly in one way or another. Certainly I have had to relinquish control of many things I would ordinarily hold close. But the death of my grip on control has brought me a paradoxical sense of freedom, peace and life, that I think Bonhoeffer would recognize as the "passageway to the perfect love of God." For dying these small deaths — whether we're afflicted with lymphoma or not — is precisely the baptismal training we need to rehearse and be ready for the death that comes as our enemy, but does not finally defeat us. As Paul says: "We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's" (Romans 14:7-8). So here I am living, as the Lord's. And here I am dying, as the Lord's.
And however long I must wait for these two realities to be resolved in my own journey, I wait as one who has (by dying and rising daily) been taught this basic and existential truth: "Death has been swallowed up in victory" (1 Cor 15:54).
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It's safe to say Nicholas Kralev has spent a fair chunk of his life waiting in some of the world's best airline lounges. As a former correspondent for the Financial Times and Washington Times, Kralev learned how to play the road warrior's version of musical-chairs game – otherwise known as booking air travel. He earned enough miles and learned enough tricks to stretch his travel budget, from around four international trips a year to 10.
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On July 15th the latest Android super-phone was released by Motorola and Verizon Wireless. All hail the Droid X. The release was not without controversy though. The Droid X, while greatly raising the bar for Android phones in general, does so at the expense of the very power users and community that made the original Droid the gotta-have phone it became. Alienating this group may have far reaching consequences for Motorola.
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The same ole motorola :(
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One of the many reasons im a fan of andriod and the phones they are on is because it increses the lifespan of the phone this is read <decreases sales> These phones as users have posted are like mini pc's. Its not all about the hardware software is where all the functionality comes from. If i can upgrade the functionality of my phone by flashing a new rom that makes the phone more valuable to me. If motorola were honest they would sell a phone that you CAN customize and charge a bit more and one you CANT but make sure its known to be crippled. But instead they are being dishonest and underhanded and are alienating the very people who made the droid and android in general what it is today.


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Oklahoma State hired Mike Yurcich as its new offensive
coordinator and quarterbacks coach Thursday, bringing in an
assistant who helped Shippensburg put up big numbers in Division II
the past two seasons.
The 37-year-old Yurcich replaces Todd Monken, who left to become
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The Cowboys were fourth in the nation last year with 547 yards
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University of Pennsylvania before graduating in 1999.
"Coach Yurcich has 14 years of experience coaching quarterbacks
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A jury trial resulted in a DUI conviction of a Leavenworth man, according to a prosecution spokesman.
A jury trial resulted in a DUI conviction of a Leavenworth man, according to a prosecution spokesman.
Darrell Thomas, 62, was convicted Thursday for driving under the influence of alcohol, which is at least his third DUI conviction, according to County Attorney Todd Thompson.
Thomas was arrested May 16, 2012. A Leavenworth police officer observed that Thomas' vehicle was "hugging" the shoulder while traveling south on North Seventh Street, according to Thompson.
The officer followed the vehicle and saw it drift from the shoulder to the center line multiple times.
After Thomas nearly drove into the opposing lane of traffic, his vehicle was stopped in the 300 block of South Seventh Street.
When the officer approached the vehicle, he observed indicators that Thomas was intoxicated including an odor of alcohol and the defendant's admission to drinking that evening.
Thomas was asked to exit his vehicle, and he stated he wasn't going to submit to field sobriety testing, according to Thompson.
Ultimately, Thomas got out his vehicle, showing balance problems. He also faced his vehicle and put his hands behind his back, though he was never told to do so or that he was under arrest. He again refused all field sobriety testing as well as a preliminary breath test, according to Thompson.
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A dormant scandal over Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's alleged drug use flared anew Thursday when the city's police chief disclosed that a video purportedly showing Ford smoking crack cocaine had been recovered from a computer seized in a related drug probe.
Canadian media swarmed to Ford's suburban home to confront him over the video, which journalists from the Toronto Star and the U.S. gossip site Gawker had reported viewing in May. The mayor at the time vehemently denied that he used drugs or that the video existed.
Police Chief Bill Blair told the media earlier Thursday that an ongoing drug investigation netted a hard drive from which the video had been erased but was recovered by forensic experts. Gawker said the discovery had renewed a police probe into Ford's alleged drug use.
In its May report, the Star described the mayor as appearing "impaired" in the 90-second video segment, and said he could be heard making homophobic and racial slurs.
"The video files depict images that are consistent with what has previously been reported," Blair said at a news conference, referring to the Star and Gawker accounts in May. "It's safe to say the mayor does appear in the video."
The digital video reportedly depicting the mayor smoking something in a glass pipe was recovered by investigators Tuesday from a computer hard drive from which it had been erased earlier, the Canadian news reports said.
The discovery resulted from an investigation last summer of reports of the mayor's alleged drug use and frequent contact with accused drug dealer and friend, Alexander Lisi, according to the Star and other Toronto media.
Dubbed Brazen 2, the investigation involved weeks of clandestine surveillance of the mayor and Lisi. Investigators produced a 480-page "information to obtain" document to gain court approval for search warrants, the Globe and Mail said in its report on the revived scandal.
Blair announced at his news conference that Lisi, arrested earlier this month on narcotics charges, had been taken into custody again Thursday and would be facing an additional charge of extortion.
Reporters descended on the mayor's home after the police chief's revelations, but Ford refused then to discuss the matter, ordering them to "get off my driveway" before taking off in his SUV. Ford later held a news conference where he said he was constrained from commenting on the video by the ongoing investigation of Lisi.
"I wish I could come out and defend myself. Unfortunately I can't because it's before the courts. That's all I can say," Ford said.
Asked if he planned to heed the calls of other civic leaders that he step down from office, Ford replied that he had "no reason to resign."
Ford had denied he used drugs when the media reports first appeared, and declined to comment on the reported video, insisting it "does not exist," CBC news reported in an anthology of the mayor's responses to past allegations. Ford has repeatedly attributed the scandal to "the Toronto Star going after me."
Blair said the investigation of the mayor was continuing but that authorities lacked grounds at this point to bring charges.
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