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Maggie was a pound-puppy. She may have been lost or abandoned but not abused. About three years old, probably a lhasa apso and maltese mix. She is queen and she knows it.
Maggie runs with her dog friends every morning. They are a tight-knit group, the "Alston Little Rascals". If a strange dog wants to horn in on the distribution of treats, he gets sent packing!
If your dogs wants to read about what Maggie and her friends are up to, they can follow her blog at http://AskMaggie.AlstonLittleRascals.com/.


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Saturday, May 8, 2010
Cottage Garden Class Sneak Peek
Here is a sneak peek at part of the Cottage Garden Class for next week. Isn't it gorgeous. I really like these colour combos of Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry (our newest In Colour), Orchid Opulence and Pale Plum. The stamp set works beautifully with the Cottage Wall Designer Series Papers which are available now in our Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue. I know its a bit mean to only show you some of the picture but there are some ladies out there who don't like to see what they are about to make in my classes. I promise I will post a full picture of the whole class after next weekend. If you would like to come the class is on Friday at 7pm 14/5/10 and again on Saturday 1pm 15/5/10. Cost is $15.00 and includes all supplies. Just bring your craft scissors for some cutting out of flowers. Look forward to seeing you. Tina
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If there is one issue the major political parties can always agree on is redistricting -- at least in this respect. If Republicans control the state house when it comes time to change the district lines delineating the areas local, state and federal officers will represent, their prime objective is not to ensure that the "one man one vote" principle is upheld but how to maximize political power.
Ditto for Democrats.
The process is one of the main reason there is gridlock in the House of Representatives. Our lawmakers have been elected from districts where the majority of the electorate reflect their own political ideology. There is no need to compromise. There's no need to listen to other voices because the echo of their own voice is enough to get them re-elected.
Thirteen states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington have said there is a better way. Twelve of the states have turned over complete control of the redistricting process to groups other than legislatures. In Alaska, the governor appoints two members. The president of the Senate and speaker of the House each have one appointment as does the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Here is an interesting twist. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures. "At least one member must be a resident of each judicial district." And none can be a public employee or official.
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California adopted, by way of Proposition 11 four years ago, a commission selected by lottery from a pool of 60 registered voters. The commission must have five Democrats and five Republicans and four independents. Arkansas only has a three-member commission while Missouri has separate committees for the House and Senate totally 28. Two states, Maine and Vermont, utilize advisory commissions and five states employ backup commissions. In Iowa the legislature still votes on redistricting plans, but the nonpartisan legislative staff develop maps without using any political or election data. They don't even have the addresses of the incumbents.
At least these states see a better way. Sure, Georgia has the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office, but it's stacked with partisans. It's time for Georgia to begin the conversation people under the Gold Dome don't want to have. The present system, no matter how dysfunctional, is working for them, but if we continue down the same path -- moderation and compromise -- will disappear from the legislative lexicon.


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Good Karma Sale
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Happy Holidays everyone!
We have decided to participate in an event created by Kim Krans of The Wild Unknown named aptly Good Karma Sale from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th November. There seems to be a shift amongst some in our world wanting to slow down, breath and think about our actions and the consequences of them. The concept is to pay it forward. Participating retailers will donate a portion of their proceeds from the holiday weekend sales to a charitable organization of their choice. This resonated with us and we are participating filled with hope for a change.
Neighbor is supporting Prospera: Inequality and a lack of economic mobility define today's economy, putting the American Dream out of reach for the vast majority of low-wage workers. This is particularly true for the many immigrants employed in the U.S. service sector, who, despite their determination and tenacity, often struggle to make ends meet. Some of the hardest hit are the women and mothers striving to not only earn a livelihood, but also to support their families and ensure a quality education and bright future for their children. Prospera partners with low-income Latina women so they can achieve economic prosperity through cooperative business ownership.
Good Stock is supporting The Sold Project: Many organizations focus on rescue. and rehabilitation, at The SOLD Project, the focus is on prevention to help ensure that children are never exploited to begin with. Over time, SOLD has identified key factors that place a child at risk—like poverty, lack of education, and the absence of positive role models—and has developed a holistic prevention model to address those risk factors, the Freedom Project. The Freedom Project is focused in northern Thailand where they offer educational scholarships to children who couldn't otherwise afford to stay in school. And every weekday, their local Thai staff provides after-school programs, classes, mentorship, and other tools the kids need to succeed in life and avoid the path to exploitation.
By partnering with and investing in local communities, we're helping these kids break the cycle of poverty and achieve things they'd never previously dared to dream. It's incredible to see the hope within them begin to emerge.
We hope everyone has amazing holiday season filled with the spirit of giving.
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A new study has suggested that our lives really do flash before our eyes right before we die.
Researchers from Jerusalem's Hadassah University have studied people who have claimed to have had "near death experiences" and found that the parts of the brain which store our memories fail last…
But that's just the beginning. Via The Telegraph:
Participants said that there was rarely any order to their life memories and that they seemed to come at random, and sometimes simultaneously.
"A representation of life-events as a continuum exists in the cognitive system, and may be further expressed in extreme conditions of psychological and physiological stress"
The study found that many of the flashbacks involved intensely emotional moments…
Yep, and as you read on, the whole thing sounds exactly the same as what people have described an ayahuasca/DMT trip is like:
Those involved in the study said they lost all sense of time, with memories flying back at them from all periods of their life.
One wrote: "There is not a linear progression, there is lack of time limits… It was like being there for centuries. I was not in time/space so this question also feels impossible to answer."
"A moment, and a thousand years… both and neither. It all happened at once, or some experiences within my near-death experience were going on at the same time as others, though my human mind separates them into different events."
Another common feature were extremely emotional experiences – often from somebody else's point of view. One respondent said: "I could individually go into each person and I could feel the pain that they had in their life… "I was allowed to see that part of them and feel for myself what they felt."
Another said: "I was seeing, feeling these things about him (my father), and he was sharing with me the things of his early childhood and how things were difficult for him'. Every person in the study said they were left with a new perspective on their life events and on significant people in their lives."
DMT is widely considered to be one of the most potent psychadelics known to man. It is well-established that the pineal gland, also known as the third eye or "all-seeing eye," releases massive quantities of the chemical dimethyltriptamine just before death AND that the brain, otherwise mysteriously, still functions for several minutes after we die.
Ayahuasca is a South American plant brew that contains DMT in a digestible format… in other words, a simulated "death trip". Many travel to countries like Peru where shamans prepare it for spiritual quests. Those who have gone on such a journey have reported the exact same effects as stated above — a reliving of their life resulting in a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual death, cleansing, and rebirth. The reports are just like what a person who has had a near death experience recounts, including a loss of a sense of time, lights in tunnels, heaven, seeing dead loved ones, reliving memories, and finally, gaining a whole new perspective on their lives and connection to others around them and God afterward.
On an aside, here we also have life imitating art, as real-life near death experiments are overlapping with a recently-released hit Netflix series on extreme near-death experimentation called OA (the mirror of "Alpha Omega"?)
…filled with occultic symbolism as discussed in the video below by The Daily Sheeple's own Joe Joseph:
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Shabachi;2628827 wrote: WoW also just launched an apex system called WoW tokens. Even the biggest subscription MMO sees that this model is how MMOs fund themselves. Sorry folks but the sub only era is dead.
Generally yes armor and weapons come from raids, but there are certain crafted pieces that are better than raid pieces. I won't pretend AA isn't p2w, but based on the arguments people throw around on these forums WoW is now under the same umbrella.
This is how fake news come to life.
Truth is, WoW for a long time had a cash shop for just cosmetic mounts and small pets. They even used special pets in order to fundraise money for people in need of aid.
NONE! of the sold items gave the slightest in-game advantage and a mount was available for as cheap as €10 - there were exceptions but those were equally not affecting the game.
Truth is also that there is now the "WoW Token" that you can buy for real money and sell in-game much like AA or Eve Online. These tokens can be used by players to obtain a subscription for 30 days.
That is where the similarities end.
You cannot buy the best gear in-game, not even half comparable to raids, for in-game gold you get from the WoW Token.
At best you may be able to buy 1-2 gear pieces that are better than what the lower difficulty level raids will give you.
You cannot compete with anybody if you just rely on that. And there´s the difference to AA, which is also based on game mechanics.
Even if you could buy an mythic erenor WEAPON equivalent in WoW, people that do it the normal gear progession would easily wipe the floor with you, because the weapon is only like 20-40% of your combat effectiveness.
Where in AA the weapon is like 60-80% combat effectiveness.
But you can´t, those few craftable weapons you can buy on the AH (and thus theoretically by selling a WoW Token) are nowhere near the competetive stuff and you still need to grind for that armor.
Grind in PvP or PvE Raids which require teamplay and exceptional handling of your class, not the dumbed 1-2 buttons in AA boss fights.
You basic statement, that WoW is now basically on par with AA in business model is so far from the truth, you´d have to fly 15 years at lightspeed to actually reach this nonsense.
Also, the in-game gold in WoW is rather easy to obtain, just by doing dailes and simple mob grinding.
Ya know - where mobs actually give you the loot when you kill them, not random drops of casino boxes you have to spent a gate resource named "labor" on. (and wonders.... the economy did manage quite well, without such a paygate)
Shabachi;2628835 wrote:WoW has gear specifically catered to PVP. last time i played there was a stat that only existed on gear you got from grinding the arena and battlegrounds. However you could walk in to those same places with raid gear, or crafted gear that was better and still stomp people until the pvpers could grind up enough points to get the highest set of the pvp specific gear.
I'm aware of gearscore differences. The point I was trying to make is most of the p2w threads point at the apex system and screech at it because they assume apex is what causes the p2w issue yet it gets celebrated when it is released in WoW. I am aware that with an investment of $3000 you can buy enough apex to get yourself an amazing set of gear and do really well for yourself in archeage. Any other points will move away from the topic at hand. I just wanted to point out that even the pinnacle of the subscription based mmos has moved away from that system which means future MMOs will most likely not be released in a subscription based fashion since there is no longer an industry leader setting an example.
So you played WoW like 2-3 years ago, when there was a short period of time, when you could actually walk into arenas with your PvE gear and be on par.
That was quite quickly fixed back then and nowadays the system is different.
Edit: An rightly so - the PvP crowd complained about this, the devs did listen and within one PvP season this was fixed - a pvp season is a rather short period of time and not comparable with the usual "content" releases XL does for fixing stuff (2.0 /3.0 /3.5), or breaking it even more.
Blizzard listens and applies useful changes.
But then again Blizzard is selling a game that is not designed around just one core game mechanic - the cash shop.
What has always been true about WoW (after Vanilla) is that specialized PvP gear gave you a real edge in instanced and open world combat - gear you could NEVER buy directly or indirectly (apex, wow token).
There is absolutely no way you can compare the WoW Token to Apex and the impact has on the game.
Because WoW = 0 Impact --> Archeage = Fully buyable Best in Slot (BiS) gear, when available on the AH.
Doesn´t really matter if you have to invest 3k or 30k to buy that gear. Thus, it´s fair to say AA is p2w.


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Sanford Middle School turns itself around
Steve Brandt, Star Tribune, February 18, 2013 – Fresh from college and a suburban upbringing, Ann Mack was ready to quit by spring break of her first year teaching at Maria Sanford Middle School in Minneapolis.
She'd never seen a fight growing up in Eden Prairie schools. Student fights at Sanford were almost daily events. The school was rough, halls were chaotic.
Mack decided she'd had it. She sought out teaching colleague Eric Sparks in the middle of his baseball practice and told him, "I'm done." But she wasn't. "He talked me off the ledge."
Fifteen years later, Mack is a mainstay at the Longfellow community school and has seen it transform from a nearly closed dumping ground with some of the state's lowest test scores to a school that's winning back kids from the mostly white area whose parents once shunned it. Enrollment has doubled in seven years, and scores are reaching district norms.
That turnaround happened because of the dedication of a long-term principal, staffers who stayed loyal when they could have switched to a less demanding building, and a strong network of parents who adopted the school. It wasn't easy.
"Turning around the Queen Mary is certainly very easy compared to turning around any school," said Karen Seashore, a University of Minnesota professor specializing in educational organizational studies. That takes stability and patience, she said.
"I was deeply impressed by the faculty's commitment, openness, persistence and the results they got," said school-reform advocate Joe Nathan, who worked with the school for several years to boost reading scores.
But now the leader of the school's turnaround, Principal Meredith Davis, is leaving at the end of the school year, her 15th in the building. "You don't get a principal like Meredith Davis very often," said science teacher Chadly Koppenhaver. "There's a culture here at this school that's hard to describe or get into a flow chart."
Changing population
Sanford's stable faculty contrasts with a more mobile student body. When Davis arrived as assistant principal in 1998, Hmong and Lao were moving through, but the school was also enrolling large numbers of East Africans, especially Somali refugees. The early refugees had some schooling, but later arrivals spent years in camps without quality teachers or curriculum, according to Said Salah Ahmed, a former Sanford teacher.
Somali-speaking students at Sanford account for nearly one in five Somalis in middle grades in Minneapolis, drawing mainly from the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. About half now were born here; others immigrated. Some of the latter are middle-school-age kids who show up with first- or second-grade skills. It's overwhelming work," said Abdullahi Mohamed, who teaches math to students learning English.
But although East Africans represent a significant chunk of Sanford, their numbers are roughly equivalent to Latino and American-born blacks. Whites are now the largest group but make up just over a third of students; lack of a dominant group helps the atmosphere, Davis said. But what many students share is poverty, even though the percentage has dropped from three-quarters of students in 2005 to less than two-thirds.
But those students are increasingly offset by middle-class neighborhood kids, many white, to such an extent that Davis worries about what she describes as a bipolar student body. The number of kids not eligible for subsidized meals has tripled in seven years. Sparks, who teaches social studies, said the range of ability in one classroom makes it hard for teachers to tailor curriculum to so many differing needs.
Cracking down
Relative stability took years. After suffering through five principals in 1997-1998, Sanford first had to get control of its students. Teachers started leading lines of kids to their next class, and monitoring hallways. The school cracked down hard on discipline to set a tone. By 2005, enrollment dipped to 379, Davis was toying with changing the school's name to escape its reputation, and district leaders tried to shutter Sanford. The school was saved when Somali parents flooded the school board in support of the school, bolstered by testimony from Nathan.
Area parents started to notice changes, after years in which some parents sent students far across the city to Anwatin Middle School. Val Ausland was an early leader among parents of Dowling Urban Environmental School fifth-graders considering their next move in 2005, Sanford or a K-8 school. They caucused, met with Davis and teachers, and wanting to keep together for middle school, sent 45 students to Sanford, and volunteered their time there. The proportion of Dowling students following them has risen steadily, Ausland said. Parents like Sanford's practice of looping, which it has followed longer than most city middle schools — keeping faculty in key subjects with the same students all three years. "Those kids get so close to the teachers that there's no slipping through the cracks," Ausland said. White enrollment rose from less than 100 students then to 262 now, and total enrollment doubled to 766 by last fall.
Mack now mostly teaches a skill-building class called AVID, aimed at preparing students for the rigors of high school and beyond. They write, they discuss, they work on adult skills with e-mentors from Xcel Energy, and they read. Mack has an easy camaraderie with students born from mutual respect.
One of those students is eighth-grader Sadiq Mohamed, whose mentor has helped him learn to talk professionally and keep a conversation going.
After spending sixth grade in classes tailored to students learning English, he switched to mainstream classes last year and hopes to attend Roosevelt for its medical curriculum. The loss of his kidney to an infection in 2008 fired a desire to be a surgeon.
Students like Mohamed benefit from a faculty that largely has bought into an approach they describe varyingly and almost mystically as "Sanfordization," a term Davis coined. Some describe it as a welcoming indoctrination for new faculty; others say it's an approach where teachers leave egos at the door and pitch in together to get things done. But Davis is why many stay.
"She is 100 percent supportive and she always has the teacher's back," Mack said. Sparks, coming up on 20 years at Sanford, asked, "Why should I leave something that works?"
As Davis nears 65, uncertainty looms. The district is about to survey teachers and parents about what they want in a new leader before advertising the job; representatives of those groups will interview finalists. Davis also reassured a faculty she said provided her best ideas. "Hang in there. It's going to be fine," she told them recently. "If the United States government can survive changing leaders every four years, then Sanford can survive."


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Salerno Duane Auto Group is proudly sponsoring the Metro Classic 2018 taking place on Friday-Sunday February 9-11 at Kean University (1000 Morris Avenue) in Union, New Jersey!
Harwood Arena, located on campus, will be home to this high school basketball showcase where 14 teams from schools in 5 states will compete in 12 games played for charity over the 3 days. The organization that will benefit this year is the New Jersey Police Surgeons.
The New Jersey Police Surgeons is a non-profit organization working alongside first responders to provide basic medical assessment to law enforcement personnel injured or in need of medical attention during an emergency. They also offer tactical medical support to the police department in accordance to state & federal regulations and provide health/wellness lectures, screenings & preventative programs as requested.
The schools being represented at 2018 Metro Classic High School Basketball Showcase include:
- Union Catholic High School
- Montverde Academy
- Linden High School
- Roselle Catholic High School
- Gill St. Bernards School
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- St. Thomas More School
- Covenant College Prep
- North Bergen High School
- Long Island Lutheran Middle & High School
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- Hunterdon Central Regional High School
- Mary Lewis Academy
- Christ the King Preparatory School
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- Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference Collegiate Scholarship Fund
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Spellbound: An Encounter That Left Them Wanting More
She had craved for him for many years; they studied in the same school. In fact, they were classmates. Although John wouldn't have noticed her back then, all pimples and awkward. This now beautiful and sexy lady was overwhelmed with joy when John, her former classmate joined her church group. She swore to do her best to win his heart. '' I must take advantage of this opportunity,'' she said to herself.
After Sunday church service, she requested John to remain behind because she wanted to tell him something special. Being a new member, there was no way he could refuse. After all, he was in the house of God; he therefore expected nothing bad.
The woman told John that the church usually conducts Fellowship prayers every Wednesday. She therefore asked him to attend. He agreed.
John kept his promise and showed up on time. The woman could hardly concentrate; she kept looking at John. It was obvious that he blew her mind. John was a tall and handsome guy, same as he was in school. His wore a tight shirt which revealed his big chest and well-built body. The woman wished she could be in a position to touch his chest.
After the prayer session was over, she gave him a handshake that lasted a few seconds too long. They went out together and sat on a bench under a tree.
"I'm sure you don't remember me", she said to him. " Of course I remember you", he replied, much to her shock and delight.
John smiled as he looked straight into her eyes, which made her heart leap in her chest. Flirtation then began in earnest.
She wanted to see if she could shock him so she immediately let him know that she likes men who can experiment with different sex styles. Those who can hit her pussy hard. Men who can make her moan uncontrollably. She wanted to have someone who can make her wet and release juices from her honey pot. As she described what she wanted she began raising the hem of her skirt. She smiled, expecting a look of shock.
John looked at her and just grinned. He glanced at her exposed yummy thighs and began to caress them; they were soft and sexy. He got an instant erection. He reached for her breasts and cupped them through her blouse. She immediately became horny and wet. She wanted him in the worst way. She reached to unzip John's pants but he refused. She started rubbing him through his pants, driving him wild.
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Powell Stays Ala. School Prayer Law
Washington--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. last week ordered that prayer in Alabama schools be stopped until a federal court challenge against the practice is resolved.
Justice Powell issued a one-paragraph order that stayed a Jan. 14 decision by Judge W. Brevard Hand--a federal district court judge in Mobile--upholding the state's two school-prayer laws.
In his ruling, Judge Hand said the Supreme Court was wrong to ban school prayer from schools.
Justice Powell's order also reinstated a previous injunction that stopped school prayer in the state pending outcome of the case.
The Justice responded to an application for a stay and injunction filed with the Court by a lawyer for Ishmael Jaffree.
Mr. Jaffree is a Mobile lawyer who brought suit against the prayer laws on behalf of his three school-age children. He is appealing Judge Hand's decision in the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, a court that falls under Justice Powell's jurisdiction.
Mr. Jaffree contends that the practice constitutes state establishment of religion.
Alabama has a law allowing a "period of silence" for meditation or voluntary prayer, and another law containing a "suggested prayer" written by the son of former Gov. Forrest H. (Fob) James Jr., who worked actively for school prayer during his administration.
In his opinion, Judge Hand said, the Supreme Court "erred in its reading of history" when it struck down school prayer in 1962.
He said that the framers of the First Amendment did not intend the Establishment Clause to "erect an absolute wall of separation between the federal government and religion."
He also said that the framers of the Constitution only wanted to bar the federal government, and not the states, from establishing religion.
Both Judge Hand and the appeals court had refused to stay the ruling pending the outcome of the appeal, thus allowing classroom prayer to resume.--ah
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Located deep in the rugged, wooded hills of southern Missouri, the area now included within the boundaries of Ripley County remained sparsely settled throughout the nineteenth century. Although officially organized in 1833, the county did not assume its present size until 1872.
When Congress created the Territory of Missouri in 1812, what eventually became Ripley County lay within New Madrid County. Three years later, Lawrence County was established, which include all of southern Missouri west of the St. Francis River as well as a portion of northern Arkansas. The seat of justice for Lawrence County was located at Davidsonville in present-day Arkansas. The administrative configuration of southern Missouri changed again in 1818 with the creation of Wayne County. This massive county included nearly one-fifth of the area lying within the Missouri Territory, Greenville became the county seat.
In 1833 the General Assembly established Ripley County from a portion of Wayne County. At its creation, the county included the area comprising present-day Ripley, Carter, Shannon, Oregon, and Howell Counties, with Van Buren as the county seat. The county was named for War of 1812, General E. W. Ripley. Over the next twenty-six years, Ripley's boundaries decreased as new counties were formed-Shannon (1841); Oregon, which include today's Oregon and Howell Counties (1845); and Carter (1859). The last boundary adjustment occurred in 1872.
Because most of the population was in the southern half of the county, voters decide to move the county seat to the newly platted Doniphan, nearer to the center of population and a wooden courthouse was built. This building served the county until Union troops burned it, and most of Doniphan, in 1864. Fortunately, William Russell, a county official, had earlier removed the county's record books from the courthouse and placed them in a cave south of town. They remained hidden until retrieved by the county clerk in 1867.
Because of the chaos and destruction brought about by the Civil War, Ripley Countians did not replace the courthouse until 1871. A two-story brick courthouse resulted from the $10,000 bond passed by the county's citizens and housed the administrative offices until destroyed by fire in January 1898.
Ripley County's current courthouse was designed by William F. Schrage of Kansas City and built in 1898 1899. A central tower, later destroyed during a 1929 tornado, dominated the two-story brick structure. Federal relief workers undertook some repairs and renovations of the courthouse during the 1930s. Not until an extensive remodeling project completed in the 1970's, however, was central heating incorporated into the building. The century-old courthouse is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and celebrated its centennial during the 1999 Labor Day Homecoming Festivities.
Ripley County Government
Ripley County is a Third Class County administered by a three member County Commission. One Commissioner from each of two County Districts join a Presiding Commissioner elected at large for terms of four years. The County Commission allocates the County property taxes, road taxes and sales taxes which are levied for County purposes. It has general supervision of the County public roads and maintains the Courthouse and other County buildings. It oversees the budgets of a number of independently elected officers such as the County Clerk, Sheriff, Prosecuting Attorney, Coroner, Public Administrator, Assessor, Collector, Treasurer and Surveyor.


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About the Poem
Society can be cruel. What "society" will accept is nominally judged by the masses and already accepted as "normal" by the masses. But what of those who are different? This poem is about the "Freak Shows" that used to travel the United States in the 1920's and 30's. The characters mentioned are real people that society labeled "freaks" for being different, a practice that still goes on way too much today.
A Few Visitor Comments
i absolutely love this poem. why do i like it? well i dont think the words i could say would give it justise but i can try. it puts all the people who have abnormalties or difigureations into perspective and allows you to view them as a real person who has feelings and thoughts too. it allows all the people who have ever made fun of any one like that to realize how crule they have realy been and feel the burden of guilt in 10 fold im not trying to say im perfect or anything because i too have done the same but this poem made me feel very ashamed and aware of how shallow i have been and if you ask me if the poem could do that to me it could do it to any one and deserves to be published 100 percent of the way. so i just wanted to express just the extent of my appreciation for this poem
WOW! Very good poem! That last line really serves a strong punch. Curiosity, discomfort, surprise and 3 cheers! This poem took me through a range of emotions. I LOVE IT! PLEASE keep up the good work!
I love this poem. It goes with all sorts of issues being different (mentally, or physically). People are sucked into what the tv, magazines, or radio tell you you should look, act, and think like. When really they are the weirdos, for they are like everyone else. they will never have their own opinion, for it has already been made by someone else. You should find yourself, and think out the box. Do what you think is best for you, not what other people want. Dont be a follower, be a leader-even if its just for you. when people stare and laugh, its only because their nieve, and scared to be different. They walk with the herd, when you walk the short cut. Be yourself!
Right on, Michael! More people need to understand how being 'normal' is purely relative.
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Carnival Of Guilt
|by Michael Anderson
I was greeted well enough at the door,
Giving my ticket to the clown.
I saw attractions by the score,
Still, none seemed to slow me down.
I heard laughter all around me,
Yet, I felt a silent jeer.
No, it didn't take me long to see-
I was not welcome here.
Heads were turning, eyes were burning,
Suddenly, all laughs were gone.
Only silent glares and my stomach, churning
In repulsed fear, pushed me on.
I walked faster, yet so did they,
What this horde wanted, I did not know.
Running to the nearest door on my way,
I found myself at "The Freak Show".
Sneaking backstage, in hopes to hide,
I saw a two- headed man in a fight-
Against himself, each head taking a side,
And neither side was right.
Both looked at me, without words being said,
Each pointing their given hand to a door.
Smiling, as if somehow my thoughts they read,
They knew what I was here for.
Walking inside, with what I saw-
Thought, defunct, my human eyes.
Though inside I was struck with awe,
I tried not to show surprise.
A four legged woman walking-
With a man who had no legs at all,
Living, loving, laughing and talking-
As if he stood ten feet tall.
A bearded lady singing, soft in tone-
To a man with two noses.
A man so skinny he looked to lack bone-
In the mirror, practicing poses.
I stood, amazed, at the shapes he took,
As my misdirected thoughts ran.
It seemed he could make himself to look-
Like anything but a "normal" man.
As if sensing my questioning mind,
A boy approached, beginning to speak.
Saying, "Stay, safely, here awhile, you will find-
The answers that you seek."
I looked down, seeing each arm without hand,
But pinchers like a lobster, instead.
He said, "There's things the world won't understand-
That can be grasped, here, full- fled. "
He gestured to a snake-skinned man-
And said, "Beauty, truly is in the eye.
Viewed by the world, a charlatan,
Won't you give the magic mirror a try. "
So I stepped over and took my view,
Beheld a man without a face.
It was suddenly so clear, I knew-
I had finally found my place.
And every night people stop just to stare,
And maybe we raise their self-esteem.
Some pity us, thinking it's not fair-
Some think we're just here to scheme.
But I recall the other side, I know-
What leads you to jeer and jilt.
And what you see as "The Freak Show"-
Is just your carnival of guilt.
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Friday Five Faves!
- Feathers! Ohyeah. Lovesit. I suppose you could credit that to people like Artsymama and Carole Wingert and the likes, but for me my fascination for feathers started when Eli used one in a wicked cool layout of hers along w/a bookcover and stuff a good while ago. It's been on my mind for quite some time and a few days ago I craved in and bought myself some feathers. YEY. I'll show some stuff w/that shortly :)
- Rangers!! Oh yey. I got an idea for a new class, a technique-based one, I can't wait to develop that idea into a fullfledged class - hopefully it'll be doable :) And their new white crackle paint is too wicked cool and their Ink Applicator a must. Why did I wait so long to get one??? Thank you Rangers!!
- Um, can I go with Hambly again?? Cause. Really. Their papers are just so cool. Shame it's not easy to get the papers here in Norway - Hambly in Norway is like, transparencies and rubons :(
- Fog! I'd love to get this straight. The photographing of this that is. I'll see if I can share some more photos soon, but ugh, mine looks so....dull..
- My kids playing together. Four years separates my children. Yet they play together so beautifully (and pretty wildly too). Yes. Adrian is starting to know when he can make Amalie cry and do that for fun (with words - like telling her no she's not a girl and keep insisting until she cries out of desperation :p Or by withholding a toy or thing she wants. Sometimes this backfires as she reacts by hitting him and then he starts to cry :p Still working with her re. the hitting and with him re. consequences of his actions - aka why did she hit him in the first place :p). But still he is the evercaring and protecting bigbrother to her, and playing with her a lot. Watching them interact together...sigh...I really hope this will last..
I had the most sweetest moment last night: watching both kids erupt in wild cheers, hands in their air and jumping up and down when I told them I'd make them waffles for nightfood. *aw*
And then my husband decided he wanted to make this chocolate-sauce he's been talking about for ages, so he and Amalie left to the grocerystore to buy icecream and sugar (as I used the last of the sugar in the house on the waffles). Cool. Turned out yummy too.
Hønemor challenged me to do this 7 truths about myself. Right. Have done some of these before but hey, it's cool to be able to talk more about yourself and have a legal excuse to do so uh? I think.....:p
So here goes...
- My stupid skin makes the most ugly scars. Ugh. Even the docs who promised me nicer scars for some re-opstuff were surprised by how ugly my scars turned out to be. *sigh*
- I can rehearse long, deep and witty conversations in my head and all that's coming out from my mouth is a stupid "uh" or "yeah"...
- Hm. I am not ready to reveal the most embarassing moments from when I was a child. Funny. It shouldn't matter by now but it's still kinda vivid and strong - the feeling of embarassement. So. No. Way.
- After several hours I had to do an emergency C-section with my oldest kid. I didn't really have the time to be afraid back then, I was too exhausted and it all happened so fast once they went for the C-sect.. - but I have to admit I do wonder at times what would have happened if they didn't rush to do this C-section all of a sudden...I later learned it was more serious than I realized back then.
- When I was little I used to pinch my sister and she'd go mad, hitting me and stuff -- drawing my parents attention and getting yelled at because all they saw was her fighting innocent little me.....(in fact, we used to fight a lot...physical fighting..I've never seen my kids do that...apart from Amalie hitting Adrian occasionally and Adrian retreating crying - but like 99% of the time they're the bestest friends...:p) Oh and we're good friends now me and my sis haha :)
- I get annoyed at scenes in movies where people usually always tug their duvets tightly around themselves or walk around in pyjamas after sex. Like, um, who does that?? And uh, you've just had sex with the other person in the bed/room, still you're like, afraid to show yourself naked to him/her? :p (I know I know....I'm allowed to snort at that tho!!)
- I have the amazing (??) ability that I'm able to sleep for 14-15 hours straight if allowed..(darn those kids :p)
Psst! Lazy Luxe Blogger strikes again...giveaway!!
Psps! How come I'm only able to email a very few of you who take the time to comment? Sometimes I like to reply to your comments by emailing you, but it's not possible on most? :( Thank you for all your comments though! :)


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Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), will be in New Orleans Tuesday. He will launch his book tour and mark the paperback release of his 2011 NY Times bestseller.
"Louisiana is a special place for me," he said, when we talked by phone earlier this week. "I picked New Orleans for my first stop because of its prominence in the whole creation of the book."
Pacelle's memoir, "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them," explores the bond between humans and animals, complete with its inconsistencies.
"We live in a moment of contradictions," he said. "We have more expressions of love and fascination for animals than ever before, but we also have so much cruelty, often happening on a mass scale."
During his talk at Garden District Book Shop, Pacelle will discuss some of the themes of the book.
"I make an argument that we humans have a moral intuition about animals," he said. "Kids have this incredible connection and bond with animals without needing anyone to instill it."
Sometimes, that intuition "gets off track," he said, but Hurricane Katrina helped put the human-animal bond on display for the nation.
"So many people responded, and so many people stayed behind because of their pets," he said. "That was a wake-up moment for America."
Pacelle begins the section on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from his vantage point in a Continental Airlines 727 about to take off from the Baton Rouge Airport.
Wayne Pacelle book launch
- What: Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, based in Washington, discusses and signs his book "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them"
- When: Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Where: Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St. Co-hosted by the Louisiana SPCA. Ana Zorilla, director of the LA-SPCA will introduce Pacelle. Laura Maloney, director of the LA-SPCA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and now chief operatiing officer at HSUS, will also be at the book-signing.
- Cost of paperback edition: $16.99. Those unable to attend can call the shop at 504.895.2266 and request a signed copy of the book.
Every seat was filled, and the passengers were rescued dogs headed for California.
"It was like something from a Far Side cartoon, complete with chipper flight attendants serving dog biscuits and water," he writes. "Given the desperate circumstances, everyone was quiet and well behaved, and the sound of the captain's voice had ears up and heads tilted. Not one of the 140 dogs on board was barking or whining -- not even the ones stuck in middle seats."
That funny and touching picture leads readers into the harrowing stories of people who stayed in the city because they weren't allowed to evacuate with their pets, of a 7-year-old boy who had lost everything except his little white dog and then had Snowball taken out of his arms, of families frantically looking for their missing dogs and cats, pigs, horses and other pets at the Lamar-Dixon shelter in Gonzales.
He tells the story of the biggest animal rescue mission in American history and how it led to the federal Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act, which requires every local or state disaster response agency receiving funding from FEMA to have a disaster plan for animals in place.
"Never again, when it came to disaster preparedness, would animals be completely overlooked and left behind," Pacelle writes.
This is one of many changes in law that HSUS has had a hand in during the nearly eight years he has been the group's leader. Several other animal issues he writes about have close ties to Louisiana, especially outlawing cockfighting.
"Louisiana had been a bit of an outlier before Katrina," Pacelle said. "But after the storm there was a new-found appreciation for animals, and we got momentum to address the issue of cockfighting. We passed a bill in 2007, and now Louisiana has strengthened that law."
HSUS has also provided grants to shelters across Louisiana and promoted the idea of spaying and neutering of family pets.
"We've helped build a stronger human infrastructure and financed improvements throughout the state," he said.
Pacelle, 46, started an animal advocacy group when he was a sophomore at Yale University. From the time he was a small boy he was "consumed by protecting animals and preventing cruelty to them."
He had planned to go to law school after graduation, but instead became director of The Fund for Animals, the animal-rights group started by writer Cleveland Amory.
"I just got sucked in," he said.
Now, as director of HSUS, he is the leader of the largest -- it has nearly 12 million members -- and most powerful animal protection group in the world. His group has campaigned to strengthen laws against cockfighting, dog fighting, puppy mills, keeping wild animals as pets, and a long list of other animal welfare issues.
"I've tried to turn it into a powerful mainstream force to drive change for animals," he said.
He feels the most important law HSUS helped pass was Prop 2 in California in 2008, which banned cages and pens so small that veal calves, laying hens and pregnant sows had no room to turn around.
"It was so significant because it showed that Americans cared about all animals, including animals that are raised for food," Pacelle said.
"The Bond" is eye-opening, disturbing and fascinating. I did not imagine that the director of HSUS, who helped write the dog fighting law Michael Vick was prosecuted under, would now be working with Vick.
"He and I have spoken to thousands of kids together, telling them not to go down the dead-end road of dog fighting," Pacelle said. "Who better to reach these kids than someone like Vick?"
I asked Pacelle what drives him. After reading about the horrendous conditions he has seen in factory farms, the cruelty he has witnessed in our country and beyond, I wondered how he keeps moving forward.
"You just want to turn away or shut down," he said. "But I feed off my emotional anger. I try to turn anger into action."
Seeing that action improve the lives of countless animals is what keeps him going.
"I celebrate the change that's happening for the better," he said. "I've seen incredible changes, just in Louisiana. That gives me a feeling of hopefulness."Sheila Stroup's column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday in Living. Contact her at email@example.com or 985.898.4831.


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Then there was that one time when the Tribeca Film Festival came to Distilled NY…May 1st, 2016
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HP to Retire OpenVMS as Early as 2020
I expected HP to place OpenVMS into a virtualization package then continue supporting that package on X86 servers "forever," but HP isn't doing that. HP says it will not carry OpenVMS forward to the next (last?) Itanium-based server hardware — which wouldn't actually require much work. HP says they'll end support for OpenVMS as early as 2020.
Yes, if you're running OpenVMS you should be looking at z/OS as a place to move your remaining OpenVMS-based applications. I would recommend starting that project within the next 12 to 24 months given HP's forecast timeline.
Now what does HP do about NonStop (formerly Tandem)?
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
Today I'm sharing a card made with So Suzy Stamp of the Month Club September Stamp! This stamp is so fun, I decided I would turn it into a wreath.
I started with an A7 Kraft card, and cut a window out with a stitched circle die. I stamped the Coral stamp in Versa Mark using my Mini-Mist and embossed it in Nuvo Embossing Powder in Cool Jade. I stamped the So Suzy Let Your Dreams Set Sail Sentiment in Nuvo Embossing Powder Crimson. I covered the window with a piece of vellum with a starfish paper scrap. I finished it off with a few sequins for some color.
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What triggers the cessation of cell growth during regeneration? Has regeneration ever surpassed expected optimal growth?
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Mesenchymal stem cells will stop proliferating when they physically contact each other (otherwise known in cell culture lingo as "confluence"). Culturing these cells, it becomes obvious that once they reach that point, they refuse to continue to grow (proliferate). This is because they are repair cells and when an area in need of repair is fully covered, they get the signal to stop growing. In the appr0ximately 60 patients where we have ongoing MRI surveillance of the re-implant sites, there has been no evidence of overgrowth where the regeneration has surpassed "expected optimal growth".


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In Praise of Empire - Deepak Lal
Deepak Lal
(New York: Palgrave, 2004, 234 pages)
In Praise of Empires is based on the Henry Wendt Lecture Deepak Lal delivered at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, In Defense of Empires. He was preaching to the converted there, but the book presumably is meant to reach a broader audience. Whether he can convince anyone else remains to be seen.
Lal takes a no-nonsense approach in his writing. The evidence is clear to him, the necessary steps obvious. Unfortunately, things are not quite that simple -- and simply stating them like this doesn't make them more so. Still, one has to admire his gumption.
Lal's thesis is simple: America is an empire. Accept it -- and get on with it.
Lal believes empires are special -- and good. Specifically, they maintain peace and promote prosperity -- better, Lal argues, than any other system -- and much of the book is an historic overview of empires and their successes (contrasted to the failures of, especially, the Age of Nations and all those annoying multinational organisations). Especially impressive: the British Empire, creating "the first truly global economic space (.....) the first truly liberal international economic order" (whereby Lal emphasises he mean 'liberal' in the original sense of the word, not the perverted current American usage).
The historic overview is of some interest, though the small number of true empires and their very different circumstances should suggest that the conclusions one can draw are limited -- not that Lal lets that stop him. Historical evidence is hard to deny -- it happened, after all -- but history is also easily twisted, and Lal certainly presents it in light of the conclusions he's after; the book is certainly vulnerable to criticism that has a different take on history.
What Lal leads the reader to is, first, the fairly obvious: the United States is an empire, by far the most dominant -- and thus literally the leading -- nation in the world. And that's where the fun really then begins -- because:
The nub of my case is that the United States, even more than any other economically and militarily dominant powers in the recent past, has acquired an empire but is reluctant to face up to the resulting imperial responsibilities because in its domestic discourse it refuses to face up to the reality.
Lal has little use for multinational organisations (or, indeed, multilateralism in any shape or form). The United Nations ? "It is of little use and in a rational world would be wound up." The World Bank and IMF ? They've outlived their usefulness: wind 'em up. The largest NGOs ? They're "bureaucratic organizations whose interests lie in creating scares to maximize their income and thereby the salaries, perks, and size of their bureaucracies." The specialized UN agencies (from the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization to UNESCO) ? "It is time to shut them down."
Lal is correct that many of these organisations have become bloated, wasteful, and self-serving -- as most bureaucracies are wont to become -- but refuses to see almost any value in them. The better way he sees is to have the US play the part of the imperial power -- play it as he thinks it should be played, that is. That his idealism is no more realistic than that of those who think the UN and friends can save the world is not something he seems to be aware of. (In theory, after all, the multilateral approach can be made to sound quite convincing, but real-life conditions (as Lal gleefully recounts) prove otherwise; similarly, the unilateral approach can be blamed for all sorts of historic disasters (not that he dwells on these) -- and there's one aspect of the empire-solution that even he can't quite get around: all previous empires have collapsed. Lal offers excuses and explanations, but the fact that all empires have eventually failed is a devastating blow to his argument he never adequately deals with.)
Lal isn't entirely deluded, and much of the book does focus on the fact that the United States has historically been reluctant to assume the imperial role its strength would allow it to take, with occasionally catastrophic results. Particularly after World War I US policy led to global economic catastrophe -- and Lal believes also "led to the two greatest threats to the classical liberal order created by Britain: Fascism and Communism." Woodrow Wilson, in particular, has a lot to answer for -- so Lal.
Lal does recognise that American policies (and attitudes) have been confused -- an empire that isn't sure how to play the part -- , and he is certainly correct in warning that the resulting uncertain approach is dangerous. But In Praise of Empires is more a plea for the leopard to change its spots: a call for America to embrace the empire within, as it were, than realistic blueprint. The transformative leap Lal expects is simply not realistic.
Even the most sensible proposal -- that the US finally do away with its insistence on reciprocity in trade matters, and embrace the "economically correct principle of a unilateral move to free trade" -- does not seem feasible in the current political climate (nor in any future imaginable one, as long as special interest groups continue to play the role they do in American politics). There are some other appealing proposals -- specifically the idea of an "International Natural Resources Fund" (which could conveniently replace the World Bank and IMF ...) as a way of depoliticizing natural resource rents (that benefit only bad rulers and elites of resource-rich nations) -- but almost all are impractical and likely unimposable.
Lal thinks the US should do what needs to be done. Undeniably, it has the military power to squash, on some level, almost any opposition. As the recent misadventures in Iraq suggest, however, that only gets you so far. Lal acknowledges a failure in post-invasion preparation in that case -- but thinks the fault was in the setting of the original goal: the imposition of liberal democracy in a united Iraq. He understands that in this case: "there is no reason to hold this artificial state together" and that American interests would be better served with the imposition of a different model (three autonomous self-governing regions, for example). But the costs of following this very different agenda from the get-go -- especially in selling it to the American public (and voters), not to mention the international community are not something Lal bothers with much.
Lal thinks the US should flex its imperial muscle: forget the pressure groups, forget the international community. The current approach of kowtowing -- or at least going through some of the motions -- before taking action merely muddies the waters -- and prevents the US from doing what is in its best interest; time, he thinks, to go at it completely differently.
In Praise of Empires is an interesting political fantasy book. Lal offers interesting history and some sensible theory -- a significant chunk of the book is also a defence of globalization as being the way to go, with the emphasis here on the US taking a leadership role (as it has not) in its spread. The examination of current and future threats and competition (including the likely rise of China and India as imperial powers) is certainly of some interest and value. But too much is just too far removed from contemporary reality to be of much use. Even if an American government were willing to go down Lal's path it seems unlikely that it could overcome even merely congressional and public opposition to it; the efforts of the jr. Bush administration -- far from Lal's ideal -- show how much America's leaders' hands are tied.
Lal's wholesale dismissal of almost all multi- and supra-national organisations is also problematic. Despite their many faults, these organisations do serve a variety of purposes, though Lal is unwilling to acknowledge essentially any of these. Similarly, he does not dwell on America's frequent failures in its foreign adventures, most notably in Viet Nam, Iran, and now Iraq, but also in countless other small and large interventions over the past decades. Current (2004) support of Pakistan and numerous post-Soviet Central Asian states (in the course of the poorly defined so-called 'war on terror'), as well as continuing deference to Saudi Arabia suggest American political leaders may be congenitally incapable of (or institutionally prevented from) acting in the nation's best interest. Lal may know what's best for America (and he may even be right); American leaders certainly have never shown that they do.
So: In Praise of Empires is interesting -- worth a look -- , but it shouldn't be taken too seriously.
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From Attaining Spiritual Maturity for Contemplation
According to St. John of the Cross
By Rev. Venard Poslusney, O. Carm.
Faults of Beginners
Completing the fourth through seventh capital sins.
When beginners are deprived of spiritual consolations they experience a sense of disappointment, vexation and complaint. These feelings are not sinful, but only imperfections, if they are not deliberately indulged. Some are so irritated by the deprivation of consolations that the smallest things upset them, and this reaches such a pass that no one can put up with them. St. John goes on to speak of another form of spiritual anger whereby beginners exercise an unholy zeal towards others, criticising them angrily in their thoughts, and at times in word, and setting themselves up as "masters of virtue." At other times, they are so impatient with themselves over their own imperfections that they would wish to see themselves become saints overnight. They resolve much, and promise a great deal, but as they are not humble and do not sufficiently distrust themselves, they fall much and accomplish little. This is so because they do no have the patience to wait for the necessary help that God will give when He so wishes.
Spiritual Gluttony
Most beginners are guilty of spiritual gluttony, and very few can be said to be free from this fault. In their spiritual exercises they are drawn more by desire for spiritual sweetness than for detachment and discretion. This leads them to exceed the moderation that should govern the practice of the virtues. So we see them killing themselves or shortening their lives with penances and severe fasts. They fail to act in accordance with obedience, but rather, in some cases, act contrary to obedience. They set bodily penance above the true penance of the will. But, because obedience obliges them to certain exercises of penance, some even lose the desire to perform them, so attached are they to their own will. Yes, sometimes they are convinced that what is for their pleasure and satisfaction must be the satisfaction and will of God. Thus, they use subtle and devious means to obtain what they desire from their spiritual masters.
Others, when they communicate, strive with might and main to produce sensible sweetness and pleasure, and when they fail, think that they have accomplished nothing. This reveals a low concept of God based to a great extent on the senses; they wish to feel and taste God as though "He were comprehensible by them and accessible to them." The same is true of their mental prayer which they think consists in "experiencing sensible pleasure and devotion, and they strive to obtain this by great effort, wearying and fatiguing their faculties and their heads." In the end, they fail to persevere in this most important exercise, for they practice it more from inclination and feeling, than from a desire for real progress in virtue and union with God. Such beginners, attached to consolations and sweetness as they are, are loath to practice mortification and detachment in sober earnestness. For them, St. John of the Cross has this advice, "the perfection and worth of things consist not in the multitude and the pleasantness of one's actions, but in being able to deny oneself in them." The passive trials of sense with its temptations, aridities and other crosses will eventually heal them of these imperfections.
Spiritual Envy and Sloth
As for envy, beginners experience real annoyance when they notice the spiritual progress of others and actually feel grief at being outdone in virtue. This in turn leads them to depreciate others when these latter are praised for their virtue. And when others fail to praise them, they are much disappointed because this is what they seek. With such faults as companions, it is not surprising that they also desire to be preferred above others.
Then, there is spiritual sloth which manifests itself in flight from spiritual practices which do not bring sensible pleasure and sweetness. Thus, they practice prayer with indifference, and are irregular in keeping the time set aside for it, because it frequently fails to bring them the satisfaction they seek. Consequently, they desert the road to perfection which demands that they give up their own will for the good pleasure and will of God. Such people measure God by themselves, and find it repugnant to conform their will to the will of God. Being attached to sweetness and consolation, they are lacking in the fortitude needed to bear the trials of perfection. Instead, "they run fretfully away from everything that is hard and take offense at the Cross, wherein consist the delights of the spirit."
Such is the description of the chief imperfections to be found in "the lives of those that are in this first state of beginners, so that it may be seen how greatly they need God to set them in the state of proficients." No one will deny that these faults and imperfections, described so vividly by St. John of the Cross, belong not only to religious beginning the spiritual life, but to all earnest Christians who faithfully walk on the road of perfection and undertake the serious and persevering practice of mental prayer. In fact, he must have definitely had certain lay people in mind when he, for example, speaks of beginners who like to own a great variety of sacred articles.
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The Versatile Blogger Award has come back around and Mary was kind enough to mention me again as one of her receipients:) I thought I would re-post my original thoughts on winning this award for my new readers, but change the blogs that I am passing this award onto.
So let's get started....
This morning while doing a quick check in through my blog roll. I was happy to see that Biblioblog received this Versatile Blogger Award, because I do so enjoy hearing about her sewing projects and travels. We have a few things in common....A love of sewing, A love of horses, we both have done some teaching( well she has done a lot of it, actually) and we both like to travel (she just actually gets to do some)
Then.....drum roll please.....she passed this award onto me, describing me as energetic, which I generally call frenetic, but energetic is so much nicer..... But that is Mary for you...Nice.
Thanks Mary, really I am quite touched this is my first award, and it's pretty special.
Along with the tag come certain rules:
- Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post; - Thank you Mary for thinking of me. If you want to see some lovely travel pictures, and garments go to Biblioblog
Share seven things about yourself on your blog;
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- My husband and I are both self-employed "artists" Well he is really the artist, a sculptor actually who does the most amazing work. He does product sculpture for Disney, Lenox, Electric Tiki, etc. which means people hire him to create 3 dimensional versions of their character art. In addition to this he does Figurative Fine Art pieces. He has incredible skill and a great sense of humor. We have been married 11 years.
- I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and was baptized 10 years ago. It's not something I discuss much on my blog, seeing as how it's primarily about my passion for sewing. So I am out in the Ministry every Monday, conducting Bible studies with interested and interesting people.
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- I have a beautiful daughter now 22 and living in Australia, having an adventure to remember. This picture was taken on her return from Culinary School in New York.
- Before moving to Wisconsin I had a business creating costumes for the theatre and film industry in Calif. I loved it, and I miss it still. I had the good fortune to work with Harry Blackstone Jr. and on films such as Honey I Blew up the kids and Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure. Working side by side with other creatives is addictive and inspirational on many levels.
- I often fantasize about moving to Europe and working in a atelier, becoming a mixologist, having a hobby farm, and being able to eat anything I want without gaining a pound or clogging an artery
- I am cold most of the time and it makes me cranky! and yet my husband still loves me and can laugh together about how this California girl ended up living in a place that has long winters and cool summers.
- I am never truly satisfied with anything I do...seriously it's pretty nuts. If I was not so compelled to finish things, nothing would make it on my back, or to my clients. When I was younger I just thought I was to lazy to get it right, and of course as I have gotten older my skills have improved, and I have a history of garments to look back upon and think " Why weren't you happy with that"? So I remind myself of this in the middle of every project.
- Pass this award along to recently discovered blogs
- The Dreamstress Leimomi Oakes is the Dreamstress, a textile historian, seamstress, designer, speaker and museum professional. Her posts are humorous and informative.
- The Little Red Squirrel is determined to live a handmade life with vintage flair. She is a talented sewist and knitter and like me is now learning how to crochet.
- the nest effect tiffany at the nest effect has helped me to get organized and declutter my life. She offers lots of free printables to help with this and lots and lots of great suggestions.
Thanks again Mary for the award and mention.


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Fat Thursday – Donuts and Crisped Cakes
February 7, 2013 in Basic Information, Food, General, History, Leisure, Lifestyle, Polish Matters, Travelling Poland
It's that time of year again – Fat Thursday is here, and as it's only 10 in the morning, many donuts are still awaiting The Polish Fat Thursday tradition, associated with Catholic Lent which will start next Wednesday, is somewhat similar to Mardi Gras and Pancake Tuesday as known by other nationalities. So what do we eat?
Fat Thursday is traditionally the last Thursday before Lent. The 40 days of Lent, according to Catholic believe, begin with Ash Wednesday celebrations which in 2013 happens to be on February 13th. That makes this years Fat Thursday be today, on February 7th.
The main idea of Fat Thursday is to eat all the stuff you're not supposed to eat during Lent. Back in the old days it was also a way of getting rid of all the fatty and sweet food before the 40 day Lent period, during which it would have gone to waste. So, we east sweet stuff. Mainly the famous Polish "Pączki" (which, to a certain degree, resemble a donut with filling) and "Faworki" which are crisped cakes. You can see both on the picture above, which I made about an hour ago. They're all gone by now, I can tell you that
A "Pączek" is traditional only to Poland, I Think. At least I don't recall ever seeing it anywhere else. You can donuts with filling, yes, but that's not quite the same thing. A "Pączek" is yeast-base dough, deep-fried and sprikled with orange skin and icing. It is also filled with a variety of stuff. The Fat Thursday tradition would have you eat "Pączki" with a marmelade filling (mainly Strawberry or Raspberry) but today, you can get them with almost anything, including pudding, chocolate, egg-nog kind of stuff and many more. Everyone can get what they like.
If you're not feeling too comfortable in the kitchen, making these yourself may be a bit tricky. If you do want to try it, I have found a few recipies for them, for instance here, here and here. Yes, I know they're in Polish but Google Translate actually works pretty well on recipes, so do check them out. Maybe you can do your own little Fat Thursday back wherever you may be.
The second sweet thing is the "Faworek" which is a crisped cake. Also deep fired, but perhaps easier to make than a "Pączek". I remember doing those with my Grandma and my Mom as a kid. They would prepare the dough, but I'd cut, twist them and fry them The funny thing is, that I rarely see anyone eating the "Faworki" on days other than Fat Thursday. The "Pączki" are popular and always available on any regular day as well, whereas the "Faworki" tend to disappear and I never recall anyone eating or preparing them "just because" …
I found a few recipes for the "Faworki" as well – here, here and here.
So, OK, we eat things. But how does it work? Well, during Fat Thursday you will find the "Pączki" pretty much everywhere. In most work places, they will give them around for free. If not, almost everyone will bring some with them, generally in huge amounts (like 5 or 10 per person) so there are always left-overs. If you go to restaurant or café, your likely to get a complimentary "Pączek" to your order. Even some music clubs will have them lying around on the tables for people to eat.
Another thing that never fails to amuse me are the radio and TV stations. Every Fat Thursday you will find interviews with doctors, nutricians or whoever else might have something to say about food scaring people about the possible dangers of eating fatty, deep-fried and sweet stuff. And as much as may agree, could the healthy food police please give us a break once a year? It's not like eating two, three or even ten donuts will kill you all at once …
What do you traditionally eat before Lent? Leave a comment, let me know!


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Back in the spring of 2008, not so long ago but seeming like another era, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz journeyed to our sister city of Freiburg, Germany, a Madison-sized municipality of around 200,000. While there, he observed the Vauban neighborhood, a planned "car-light" area that espoused the latest in environmentally aware living. He came back bursting with plans for a northeast Madison neighborhood developed along the same ethic.
Isthmus columnist Rick Berg, charged with upholding the conservative end of the paper's opinion spectrum, had some derisive things to say about Cieslewicz's exuberance at the time, but to his credit, he decided to go see for himself. This week he writes about it in our cover story, "Down With Cars."
We're not going to call it a conversion, but suffice it to say that Berg's opinion, now powered by direct experience, has evolved. He finds much to admire, if not necessarily emulate, and yet maintains that there are cultural differences that make the experience not directly translatable.
Maybe yes, maybe no. But it is evident from his reaction that the debate over planning for a sustainable future now is not one between liberals and conservatives. Those are characterizations imported from other issues. The real divide is between those who look to what the future realistically promises and those who presume that the past is still with us.
If you follow Berg's story to the web at TheDailyPage.com, you can see a photo gallery of his trip to Freiburg. You will also find links to related stories and comments about Mayor Cieslewicz's plans for a green neighborhood in Madison.
While you're on TDP, get your tickets for "Martini Shaker," the Isthmus promotion, sponsored by Union Cab, that puts you on a grand martini tour Aug. 3-6. Click on the Martini Shaker ad on the homepage to get information and those tickets.


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Percy van Norton took a serum which made him into a "perfect human" with a range of superhuman abilities. But although he started out fighting crime, something went wrong, and he turned bad, ending up fighting as a Nazi as a member of the Battle-Axis, against the Invaders. At the end of the battle van Norton, along with the other Battle-Axis members, was defeated and captured.
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- This character is based on the Public Domain character Strongman that first appeared in Crash Comic Adventures #1 (May 1940) as a wartime hero. As a Marvel character, however, he is a retcon addition, not having appeared in a Timely book. The character had fallen into the public domain and was used by Marvel as a villianous member of the Battle-Axis for their 1990s mini-series The Invaders.
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The Register of Copyrights shall be a citizen of the United States with a professional background and experience in copyright law and shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.Andrew Albanese at Publisher's Weekly has already written an article on this. One of the things that stands out to me is that Albanese said:
The President would also have the power to fire the Register at any time.This is a change that requires deep thinking and a lot of input, because we do not want the Registrar to be beholden to any special interest or to lessen the exemptions/limitations already in place in Title 17. (In fact, I would argue that we need to expand those limitations.)
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Read more: Queen a legitimate target, says top dissident Republican
Read more: New dissident IRA group claim cop murder
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, has told dissident IRA factions that they are living in a fool's paradise when it comes to thinking violence can work.
He was speaking at a County Derry celebration of the 1916 Easter Rising.He also strongly criticised the dissident groups for claiming they were the true IRA.
"It is patently not possible to advance towards Irish reunification by any means other than peaceful and democratic processes." he said.
"Those who believe that Ireland can be reunited without the support of the Irish people are living in a fool's paradise."
McGuinness claimed the IRA who fought until the recent peace accord were not war mongers.
"They were a revolutionary force who when an opportunity to advance the struggle for Irish unity through peaceful means was established it removed itself from the political equation," he said.
"The IRA by its nature was of the people and for the people.
"It could not have survived and fought the British state the way it did if it was small and unrepresentative.
"People should be under no illusion, the small factions currently engaging in armed actions are not the IRA and they are not advancing national and democratic objectives by their activities."
He said: "Irish people are united in support of the Good Friday, St Andrews and Hillsborough agreements, attempting to overturn the will of the Irish people is not only futile it is stupid and selfish.
"Ireland can now only be reunited by the further development and outworking of the power sharing and all-Ireland institutions which were endorsed by the Irish people in the referendum in 1998. No act of violence will advance the cause of reunification by one millimetre.
"When taken in the context of a conflict resolution process, change can be traumatic. And this can be made even more difficult when there are those, both within sections of unionism and within the British political and military establishment who still want to hold on to the old ways.
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"There is much work to do. But we believe that we are in the countdown to a united Ireland. We believe that together we can make further progress and truly transform society on this island forever."
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"Sinn Fein is in this process to the end. We want the British government and the Irish government and the unionists to work with us and to finish the work we have all started.
"The length of the journey can be shortened and the ups and downs on the road can be smoothed out if we go at it collectively. If we do it together."
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