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August 2003 – Lilly is named First-Team All-WUSA, the only player to earn First-Team all league honors in all three WUSA seasons. She would go on to earn All-Star and Best XI accolades during two seasons in WPS as well.
August 1995 – Lilly plays professional indoor soccer with the Washington Warthogs of the CISL, becoming the first woman to play on a men's professional team.
December 1991 – Lilly wins the Hermann Trophy and Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year awards despite missing the playoffs and NCAA Final Four to play in the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup.
October 2004 – After winning her second Olympic gold medal, her hometown of Wilton, Conn., names a street after her: Kristine Lilly Way.
December 2005 – Lilly is named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year, 12 years after winning the award for the first time in 1993. (She wins again in 2006)
Sept. 20, 1998 – Lilly starts her 62nd consecutive game for the USA against Brazil in Richmond, Va., setting a record that still stands for consecutive games played.
Nov. 4, 2006 – Lilly scores the winning goal in the Peace Queen Cup Final in South Korea as the USA defeats Canada, 1-0. (She also scores both goals in the Four Nations Tournament-clinching game the previous January and scored the winning goal in the championship game of the CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament.)
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May 21, 1998 – Lilly becomes the most capped female player in the history of the world, passing Heidi Stoere of Norway, when she plays in her 152nd game against Japan in Kobe.
Oct. 10, 2004 – Lilly becomes the fifth player in world history to score 100 career international goals, tallying against New Zealand in Cincinnati.
Aug. 26, 2004 – Lilly starts her 40th consecutive match in a world championship for the United States in the USA's 2-1 victory against Brazil to win the Olympic gold medal.
May 22, 2010 -- Lilly scores against Germany in a 4-0 victory for what would be her last goal in a U.S. uniform. The goal makes her the oldest and the youngest player ever to score for the U.S. Women's National Team. She scored her first goal when she was 16 years, 22 days old and her last when she was 38 years, 264 days old.
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In a small studio on the far edge of Glendale, a worldwide flow of music is in a moment of transition. On the turntable is a 45rpm disc of spectral, hypnotic sounds from 1980, as radio DJ Lee Joseph begins winding down his two-hour show on LuxuriaMusic.com. The record is "I'm Sorry," a vinyl artifact of outsider music by the all-female art-punk band the Inflatable Boy Clams, a quartet as obscure as the music is exotic.
Standing just outside the doorway is Kat Griffin, whose "Madly Cocktail" show is up next. She's brought about 200 jazz CDs with her. "Hey, Lee! Felacity played that on Saturday," Griffin says with a laugh, mentioning Friday host Felacity Dickman. "Yeah, we were cracking up. It's awesome."
The studio at Luxuria Music is a one-room operation, in the corner of a suite of creative office space in the old Tropico neighborhood of Glendale. One soundproofed wall is covered in a black-and-white leopard print, and station banners designed by a pair of Disney artists (both fans of the station) hang nearby. The look and vibe of the space match the music being broadcast: mid-century sounds ready for the chill-out room, ranging from jazz and exotica to pop and early punk.
"We're preserving and presenting music to people that we're all passionate about — we're record collectors, historians, music geeks," says Joseph, with black sideburns down to his chin and a necklace of stars dangling over his chest. He is also owner of the Burbank indie label Dionysus Records, and his radio playlist today was dedicated to female-fronted acts. "All of us believe it's really important to preserve this music and keep it going. You always get new people hearing this old stuff."
The move into this shiny studio three weeks ago represents a step-up for the all-volunteer station. Luxuria's last studio was in a century-old apartment building near Dodger Stadium at the crossroads of the 5 and 2 Freeways and the Los Angeles River, an area known in some circles as a favorite spot to dump a body. In the next bedroom was a roommate and his dog.
"Nobody is getting paid here and they do it out of a labor of love," says station owner Cliff Chase. "They give a lot of their time and they donate equipment because the station is so important to them."
Luxuria Music began in 2000 as just one musical stream in a collection of online radio stations owned by Enigma Digital, including heavy metal stalwart KNAC.com and EDM outlet Grooveradio.com. A year later, the company was bought by Clear Channel, which spun off some of the radio properties and pulled Luxuria's plug.
One listener who noticed was Chase, a Bay Area software sales engineer who had once studied radio and television. Chase missed the music enough to buy the LuxuriaMusic.com domain name. For his general manager, he recruited Chuck Kelley, one of the original station's creative founders and a music consultant on Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction."
"We worked together to relaunch it," says Chase, 50. "I was running it out of my garage in San Francisco for about three years."
Though the station's entire music stream was initially programmed by automated computer (the Luxotron 10000), live DJs were reconvened in 2006 in Los Angeles. The current nighttime and weekend schedule fills about a third of each day with live hosts, from "Listen! Listen!" with singer-songwriter Tiffany Anders on Tuesdays to "The Michael Quercio Paisley Underground Consortium" every Sunday. Daytime and overnight hours are programmed automatically with the Luxotron.
To make the move to Glendale, live broadcasts were shut down for seven weeks over the holidays. Luxuria Music reopened with live hosts at its new studio on January 5th. "Cliff and I pulled an 18-hour day to make sure that the studio was plugged in," says Griffin. "It was our Christmas miracle."
Chase has longterm plans to expand the station's stream onto smart phones and through automobile Internet access, while adding more DJs and expanding the music library. Those improvements will depend on the station's annual fundraising drive, coming in February, which Chase hopes will help lead Luxuria to "at least the break even point and pay off our debt over time." Equipment purchases owe much to listener support, including a turntable donated by Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy.
Inside the new studio, the end of Lee Joseph's "Over Under Sideways Down" show has come and gone, and Griffin is now behind the microphone, monitoring the station's active chatroom on a computer screen. As usual, she's turned the room's video camera towards the wall. "I'm a radio person," she explains. "I don't need the camera."
She spins a series of uptempo jazz tracks — including Lee Morgan's "Latin Hangover" and Dave Pike's "Aphrodite," followed by a funky instrumental from 1969 called "Hikky-Burr" by Quincy Jones. You won't often find the likes of Miles Davis or John Coltrane on "Madly Cocktail," though Griffin revers both bebop giants. Her show is designed less for brooding than it is party jazz. To include a bit of "Kind of Blue" or "A Love Supreme" into this upbeat mix would be "sacrilege," she insists.
"If we're playing music that thousands of people want to listen to, then we're not doing our job," she jokes of the music on Luxuria. "We're definitely reaching for a special group of people."
Her husband is Allen "Charmin'" Larman, another host at Luxuria. Both are devoted radio and music veterans, with years of experience at a variety of local broadcast and online radio outlets. "We can't afford to buy a house because we buy records. That's the kind of crazy people me and my husband are," Griffin says happily. "Some people have kids. We have radio shows."


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Less drum "circle" than inspired cluster-f#%!, this popular, long-running, public Venice happening usually gets its groove on by late afternoon Saturdays, coalescing on the beach at about Brooks Ave. Come, drum, dance, spin, flail, inhale the exotic bouquet.
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In the hours leading up to a full-fledged drum circle there's often a warm up—a drum circle on-deck-circle—taking place on a beach-side grassy knoll near Ocean Front Walk and Breeze Ave. There you'll find an assortment of rhythm-crazy revelers, conga players and bongo beaters. Lots of folks who march to the beat of a different drum as you'd expect at a Venice Beach drum come together.


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King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have a long history in videogames, from the sorta-classic (Knights of the Round) to the plain old crappy (Merlin Racing). Never before, though, have Arthur and crew appeared in a game that's so ... realistic.
Rather than basing its story off Malory's or White's interpretation of the Arthurian legends, Krome's licensed King Arthur game is based on the recent movie's story, which puts a much more historical and everyday spin on things. So Arthur becomes a Roman knight abroad whose ties to England are stronger than he suspects, Guinevere is a Woad (think Celt) princess still fighting the Roman colonizers, and so on.
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The Dynasty Warriors model of placing a lone soldier in the middle of a huge enemy horde with little more than a few simple combos to make his way seems to be the accepted method of adapting large-scale conflicts to videogame form at the moment, and King Arthur's epic battles follow suit. So what does Arthur have that Lu Bu doesn't?
He has a horse, for one thing. King Arthur's battles aren't all on foot; scenes shown from early on in the game have him mounted on a steed against a legion of Woad infantrymen (and infantrywomen). The horse not only gives him greater mobility, it affords him a second weapon against the hordes swarming all over: It can use its hind legs to strike out at foes approaching from the rear.
When Arthur (or one of the four other playable characters; Guinevere, Lancelot, Bors, and Tristren) isn't riding tall in the saddle, he relies on more traditional sword-slinging to mow down the enemy. The better you do in a level, the more points you earn towards new combos, and barring those, each character has his or her own "signature move" to wipe out several attackers at once.
Other aspects of the game are there to help your victory along, too. The environment offers destructive potential; players can both pull strategically-placed rocks down onto the enemy and take advantage of roaring fires here and there by knocking enemies into them. There are also times when you'll be joined by an AI partner, and the two of you can work together to wear down heavily armored soldiers.
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All this chaotic melee follows the movie pretty closely. The story directly follows the movie's, to the point where levels were determined by reading the script and deciding which cinematic moments would make the best action sequences for a game. The principal actors (Clive Owen as Arthur, Keira Knightley as Guinevere, and Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot) lend their faces (if not their motions) to the characters, and the movie's stuntmen were motion-captured for the combat animations.
But there's one part of the game that you definitely won't remember from the movie, and that's the one-on-one battle arena. As you play through the single-player campaign, you unlock more characters to play as in a simplified fighting engine. The total roster comes to 11, with five more knights and three boss characters rounding out the cast. It's not quite as robust as the regular game, let alone a dedicated fighting game, but it has its moments.
It seems odd for a game so closely tied to a film license to be released months after the film is out of theaters, but if the game can carry its own weight, Konami shouldn't have anything to worry about. We'll all find out for sure when it arrives in time for the DVD this November.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The battery that caught fire in a Japan Airlines 787 in Boston earlier this month was not overcharged, but government investigators say there could still be problems with wiring or other charging components.
An examination of the flight data recorder indicated that the battery didn't exceed its designed voltage of 32 volts, the National Transportation Safety Board says.
Investigators are continuing to look at the battery system and plan to meet Tuesday with the manufacturer of the charger for the 787's lithium ion batteries.
A charging issue may still be the culprit.
All 50 787s that Boeing has delivered to airlines have been grounded since Wednesday, when a Japanese flight made an emergency landing after its pilots smelled something burning and received a cockpit warning of battery problems.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Jan. 28, 2010) - After nearly upsetting No. 20 Louisville a week ago, the ETSU men's tennis team looks to break through the win column this weekend, as the 62nd-ranked Bucs travel to William and Mary for a 5 p.m. contest Friday inside the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center in Williamsburg, Va.
ETSU (0-2) returns to action after falling in its first two dual matches last week. After a near astonishing win at Louisville last Thursday - in which the Bucs fell 4-3 - ETSU struggled two days later in Knoxville as instate-rival and fifth-ranked Tennessee breezed past head coach Yaser Zaatini's squad 7-0.
Individually, ETSU is led by its No. 2 doubles team of sophomore Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) and freshman Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela). The Buc pair is currently ranked 52nd in the latest ITA poll. Overall, Gille and Bandres lead the Atlantic Sun Conference with four wins this spring.
William and Mary (5-3) welcome the Bucs as they open a six-match homestand. After ripping off four wins in-a-row to start the season, the host Tribe has struggled lately losing their last three-out-of-four contests.
The key for ETSU will be its ability to get off to a quick start. In all five wins the Tribe has picked up the doubles point while going unbeaten at home this spring. In its three loses, William and Mary dropped matches to No. 2 Virginia, No. 30 Norte Dame and No. 47 Northwestern after getting swept at all three positions in doubles.
Individually, senior Keziel Juneau leads the way for W&M. Juneau has been on fire lately as the 118th-ranked letterwinner sits with a 6-2 record, with his best win coming against 18th-ranked Casey Watt of No. 30 Norte Dame.
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TechCrunch has got its hands on a picture that may well be from an iPhone running iOS 5. The picture shows a notification bar at the top of the screen, under the time. The notification bar shows two new twitter mentions. Now this could very well be a fake; based on previous information that Twitter may be baked into iOS 5. We don't know and neither does TechCrunch at this stage.
They do note that the iPhone shown could be European; as the weather icon shows 23 degrees and sunny rather than the US 73 degrees. The icons are in the correct out of the box order, however, the camera icon has changed to black from silver.
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by Cwi Kozuch
Translated by Dr. Hannah Berliner Fischthal
The Zionist-Socialist movement in Zagłębie dates its activities to after the first World War with the founding of various groups, such as Hechalutz, Hashachar, Poale Zion, and Tzirei Zion.
The goal of the Zionist-socialist minded workers, members of assorted groups, first became crystallized in 1920, after the split of the Poale Zion party. That goal was to immigrate to Palestine. Already by 1920 the first Zionist groups in Dąbrowa had left Poland, travelling all routes, to make aliyah to Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). These included Hersz-Lejb Liberman and later Barzilay, Jakob Sliwka, Abram Grosfeld, and Jakob Federman. In 1925, when Poale Zion (right wing), Tzirei Zion, and other Zionist groups united, the foundation of Zionist-socialist activities in Dąbrowa was laid. The founders of the party were Noach Krempl, the brothers Siwek, Josef Izralewicz, Herszl Frajlich, Mordechai Ben Wolf Rozenblum, Pejsach Zygrajch, and others. The top leaders of the youth-party organization Freiheit [freedom], which had educated reserves for future party members, were Mosze Szwimer, Herszl Kozuch, and the Wajszalc brothers.
With consolidated work from both Zionist bodies in the areas of culture and
socialist and Zionist enlightenment, the party became an important factor in
Jewish life in Dąbrowa, resulting in: active participation in elections to
the Zionist congress; fundraising; participation in the Palestine workers fund;
creating symposiums about worker problems and topical political discussions,
led by local friends, such as comrades Szymon Gutman, Abram Tenenbaum, Josef
Izralewicz, and others. Visiting us from the Poale Zion chapter in
Warsaw were comrades Ritow, Rajs, Najtstat and Szpicman.
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[The banner reads: The Freiheit should live]
The participation of the party in the first May Day demonstration, in connection with the Polish Socialist party, resulted in Zionist prestige and influence over Jewish and everyday life in Dąbrowa.
In 1938, when elections were to take place in the Jewish kehila [Jewish community] of Dąbrowa, the party received, besides its limited number votes from the current half-Fascist and anti-Semitic Poland, a mandate in the kehila leadership, obtained with the help of the Agudah. Israel Klajman, the candidate of the party, represented its interests in the community. His representative became Lajb Wajszalc in the council. Their representations in both forums, in the spirit of the party, called forth recognition by the workers in Dąbrowa.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, party activities were interrupted.
Some of the comrades left the Polish realm, which according to the
Soviet-German pact, was incorporated into the Soviet Republic. Few of the
comrades I mentioned remained alive. A few survived German concentration camps
and are now located in Israel. All the others were cut down together with
Dąbrowa Jewry in the Auschwitz death camp.
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From the early twentieth century all the way through WWII, propaganda was a pervasive part of life in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the most iconographic medium used were hand-painted posters, championing the figure of the socialist worker in a would-be utopian communist society, and decrying everything from the bourgeois class to (later) fascism. The most striking element of these pieces was the stark simplicity of their designs, with bold, hand-painted imagery and strong, clear text. One look at the promotional artwork for Vatra's twenty-plus-years later sequel to Rush N' Attack, Ex-Patriot, and it's pretty evident that this is exactly the kind of look they were going for.
But the game is confused. Though it's a nice thought, for what it's worth, that it appears they wanted to use this sort of art style to help sell the aesthetic and mood of the game, it doesn't make sense. If Ex-Patriot is supposed to be a re-visitation to the Reagan-era Cold War and all the Hollywoodized-Red 80's stereotypes that come along with it (and despite being set in present day, it basically is), the use of such propaganda had switched hands, now being the tool not of the crumbling Soviet empire, but the revolutionaries who wanted to end it. The last major use of nationalist posters and signage was during a brief revival during the 1960s, when the USSR was still heavily involved in the Cold War—that particularly characteristic Soviet atmosphere didn't really exist in the same way it had earlier in the twentieth century by the time of Gorbachev's presidency.
Though this has no bearing on Ex-Patriot itself, it is emblematic of its muddled design. The original Rush N' Attack (or Green Beret, as it was initially known in the arcades) was a run and gun shooter that felt a little like Contra, only with a heavy focus on melee. Ex-Patriot sets itself up like a stealth game, which is a good idea considering you're generally limited to your prison shank. Playing as Morrow, an escaped military POW and part of a crack spec ops team sent in to extract another prisoner who's been rotting in the gulag since before the fall of the Berlin Wall—you can sneak up on enemies and perform bloody stealth kills, as well as hide in the shadows to avoid guard patrols. That's all well and good, but the game doesn't really actually play like a stealth game.
There's no Metal Gear-esque alert system that respawns enemies if you're seen; you can't hide bodies of the dead, so if there's more than one guard patrolling an area it's impossible to not arouse further suspicion; perhaps most offensively, the enemy AI is so atrociously, insultingly stupid that there's really no point in even sneaking around. Walking on just about any surface in the dilapidated prisons, barracks and underground facilities that make up Ex-Patriot's bland palette of level design creates clunky footsteps, which none of your enemies can hear, even when you're right behind them. Without a risk-reward system for playing stealth, there's no incentive, so right off the bat half the game's mechanics are basically thrown out the window. I almost immediately abandoned skulking in the darkness for aggressive assaults on my adversaries, and the only difference was that I was probably able to get through the game quicker. The brain dead enemies only serve to make the dull combat something to do as you move from point A to point B. Yawn.


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THE iconic Vulcan bomber will not appear at RIAT this year.
Chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust Robert Pleming said he was "deeply disappointed" the aircraft would not be appearing at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford this July.
He said that RIAT organisers waited to see which other aircraft and display teams would be attending the air show, before deciding whether or not to invite the XH558.
The Vulcan team was offered a static position for the aircraft with a nearby site for trading but members decided that it would be best not to accept, in case visitors expecting to see the XH558 flying complained when they realised it would not be going up in the air.
The Vulcan to the Sky Trust has reassured supports that, while the aircraft will not be on display at RIAT this July, it will be at other displays later this year.


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She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.
— Proverbs 31:14-15
The dining table was draped with a festive Christmas tablecloth, and set with fine china and crystal, but my kitchen was a wreck.
Potato peels were strewn all over the floor, the butternut squash puree decorated uncharted realms of my kitchen counters, and dirty dishes were piled precariously in the sink. I stood in the midst of it all in my stained sweatshirt, with partially applied make-up. With one eye on the clock, I was cleaning at a feverish pace. I had 30 minutes to go – those critical last moments when the kitchen slave heroically morphs into a gracious hostess.
That's when the doorbell rang. Like a deer caught in the headlights, I surveyed my options. There was no way to pretend I was ready. "Who in the world shows up a half-hour early to a formal dinner?!" I complained aloud.
Opening the door, I saw two of my smiling guests, their breath evident in the chilly night air. Incredulous, I announced shrilly, "You're early!"
Their eyes widened with surprise as their smiles shrank. "I'm sorry," the man began abjectedly. "I, um, thought you said – or, um, I at least heard you say – that it started at six o'clock."
"No, I said six-thirty!" I replied anxiously, before looking back to the living room. "I suppose you could come in now, but I'd probably put you to work first."
"No, no – that's okay," he said quickly, backing down the sidewalk. "We'll just drive around and come back in thirty minutes."
When this couple returned (a safe forty minutes later!), they were greeted by a calm, smiling hostess in clean clothes and immediately ushered into a candlelit room to enjoy the fire by the twinkling Christmas tree. "I'm so sorry about my cranky kitchen maid – she was completely out of line," I told them. "You just can't get good help these days!"
Here's the moral of the story: Don't make your guests feel guilty when they show up at your door. It's the opposite of hospitable. (But I bet you guessed that by now.)
If you've ever tried entertaining as a single woman, you've no doubt felt that same wave of panic moments before your guests arrive. I have yet to successfully balance mingling with my guests and getting a warm, edible meal on the table in a timely way. We often eat at the late hour that fashionable Europeans do. I keep fine-tuning the process, but there's only so much advance prep I can do with the Bon Appetit recipes I love to cook. I'll start the cleaning and prep even a day ahead, and still rush around at the last moment. Over the years, however, I've learned my priorities needed to be corrected. But when push comes to shove, we're always better off to be gracious to the guests and cut corners on the food.
The Free-Range Gourmet
Proverbs 31:14-15 shows the effort that the virtuous woman makes to cook: "She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens." This wise woman ministers to many others from her home. She "is like the ships of the merchant" – ranging far and wide to obtain what she needs, but her focus is on her home and those who live and even serve there. It is a priority for her, so she rises while it is still dark to feed everyone.
Do you think "food from afar" is a pizza delivery? Do you ever range far and wide to find interesting items to cook – even for yourself? What does your kitchen pantry hold? A few cans of tuna and some cereal, perhaps? You may eat pre-packaged frozen meals when you are alone, but do you ever cook for others? If you were to get married in just a few months, would you have the skills to cook three meals a day every day for your family? Can you cook intuitively or do you have to rely on a recipe for most dishes?
In our microwave society, you can easily feed yourself without much effort. People eat in their cars and at their desks, but rarely at home. It's not hard to find something to put down our throats as we run from event to event, but that's not what we see in our wonderful role model. She's not rummaging around the freezer looking for something to nuke and consume. She's making an effort because the kitchen table is the heart of the home.
We shouldn't wait until marriage is on the horizon to cultivate domesticity. In Titus 2:5, we find that older women are to train younger women to be "working at home." This is one of Scripture's commands to women. Period. Granted, this passage does assume that most women will be wives, but it also assumes that we need instruction to prepare for that role. We need training to love our husbands and love our children. We need to be taught how to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, and kind, as well as how to be submissive to our husbands. Single women are included in that training. We are to be trained in all aspects, even though we may not be called by God to fill those roles, immediately or ever. In that light, we're no less exempt from the charge to be working at home than we are from the commands to be self-controlled, pure, or kind.
Home, Sweet Mission Field
Why does Scripture put this emphasis on the home for women? Why does the paragon of feminine virtue in Proverbs 31 invest so much of her time and resources into her home and its residents? Because our homes are a mission field. As Alexander Strauch, author of "The Hospitality Commands," notes:
Lacking sacred temples or a special class of priests, the first-century Christians naturally made the home their base of operations. … Indeed, the first Christian congregations conducted all or most of their meetings in homes because they did not own buildings. This necessitated that some members of the congregation open their homes to provide places in which the church could meet. The home thus became a hub for evangelism and teaching. … For the early Christians, the home was the most natural setting for proclaiming Christ to their families, neighbors, and friends. The same is true today. If you and/or your local church are looking for ways to evangelize, opening your home is one of the best methods for reaching the lost. Most of us, however, are not using our homes as we should to reach our neighbors, friends, and relatives. Tragically, many of us don't even know our neighbors. Yet through hospitality, we can meet our neighbors and be a lighthouse in spiritually dark neighborhoods.
In fact, our ministry through our homes is so important that women are included in all four of the major "hospitality commands" in the New Testament:
- Romans 12:13, written to all in the church at Rome, says: "Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality."
- 1 Timothy 5:9-10 is specifically written about widows who seek the charitable support of the church: "Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work."
- Hebrews 13:2 commands all believers, "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
- 1 Peter 4:9 was written to persecuted Christians scattered throughout Asia Minor: "Show hospitality to one another without grumbling."
Did you ever think of your home as an outpost for your church? You can use your home for a variety of ministry purposes – from inviting newcomers to lunch after the church service, to inviting your neighbors over for a Bible study, to celebrating milestones with your friends over dinner. Though it might be a little bit more work to do this as a single woman, it's quite possible to do – and let's not forget, it's fun. There's an immediate reward for hospitality in the relaxed smiles of our guests and their appreciation of our generosity.
People, Not Presentation
This Greek word in 1 Peter 4:9 for "hospitality" is philoxenos, which means "fond of guests." Not fond of Martha Stewart ambition, a Town & Country room, or a gourmet meal. Fond of guests – even those who arrive a half-hour early! Though home design shows are everywhere on cable TV now, and our houses are getting bigger while the occupants are getting fewer, our culture is about entertainment, not hospitality. That's why I selected the opening illustration that I did, and wrote: "If you've ever tried entertaining as a single woman, you've no doubt felt that same wave of panic moments before your guests arrive." I suspect this is universal, but my anxiety is not due to my concern about the people coming. It's because I'm worried about my presentation. I want the kitchen to be spotless, the candles to be lit, the flatware to be gleaming, the music to be inviting, and the aromas to be enticing. The reason I shooed my guests away that cold December evening was because I wasn't ready for the inspection of my presentation. I was overcommitted because I wanted to impress them with an elaborate four-course meal from Bon Appetit. I wanted to entertain them, but I wasn't acting like I was fond of them.
Cultivating a love for the home means acquiring practical skills and training so that you can intentionally make your home a mission field, not a museum nor a crash pad. If you're single and live by yourself, this means all your ministry will be to those who live outside your house. If you're single and have roommates, this means you minister to your roommates and to those outside your home. If you're a parent, this means your mission field is first in your home to your children and then to those outside your home. It takes some effort and forethought to do this, especially if you're only home a few hours out of every day. Romans 12:13 tells us to "seek to show hospitality." The NIV translates it as "practice hospitality." But the original Greek is better rendered "strive for" or "pursue" hospitality. Again, as the author of "The Hospitality Commands" writes:
Thus we are to actively pursue, promote, and aspire to hospitality. We are to think about it, plan for it, prepare for it, pray about it, and seek opportunities to do it. In short, the Romans 12 passage teaches that all Christians are to pursue the practice of hospitality. … Brothers and sisters, allow me to ask you the following questions. Do you eagerly pursue opportunities to practice hospitality, or is it something that you do only on holidays and during special events? Do you understand the important role that hospitality has within the Christian community? Do you see the relationship between brotherly love and hospitality? Beloved, only when we understand that the Spirit of God commands us to practice hospitality will we be adequately motivated to sacrificially open our homes to others.
If that sounds overwhelming, perhaps this little thought will encourage you: Some of the most hospitable women in Scripture were single. Consider the example of Martha and Mary. Their home in the modest village of Bethany was the site of several Bible accounts. We know of at least three occasions when Jesus visited their home – the famous account where Martha is frazzled, the time Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and when He ate at their home just six days before His final Passover. As one commentator notes: "… after Jesus left His natural home at the age of thirty to enter upon His public ministry we do not read of Him returning to it for rest and relaxation. It was to the warm, hospitable home at Bethany to which He retired, for He loved the three who lived in it, Martha, Mary and Lazarus – in this order – which is something we do not read concerning His own brothers and sisters according to the flesh." Another outstanding example was Lydia (Acts 16:14). She was the first European convert to Christianity, and her home was presumably the gateway to the rest of the continent.
With Just a Little Bit of Practice …
If you need encouragement to cultivate your domestic skills, let me assure you that I was no Bon Appetit afficionado in my early single years! I lived on happy hour appetizers and fast food. My cooking was so bad that my family called it "fish wads and pudding lumps" – a nickname earned after a spectacularly bad Mother's Day meal. My apartment looked like New York City when the sanitation engineers go on strike. My home décor was early Goodwill with a touch of Target. No one around me ever talked about home and hearth, so I didn't give my lack any particular thought.
When I became a Christian, I noticed how much effort the ladies I knew put into their homes. Candles in the bathrooms! Real linen napkins! Matching dinner dishes! I felt like an anthropologist in a foreign culture. But it inspired me to do the same. In short order, I was buying furniture and clipping recipes. After a few years, I was bold enough to even throw elegant dinner parties for my pastors and their wives, which I enjoyed doing immensely.
If you want to grow in your hospitality or domesticity skills, here are a number of practical issues you can consider:
- This is a great opportunity to pursue an "older woman" in the Titus 2 mentoring model. Consider the women around you. Whose homes do you enjoy visiting? Whose hospitality has blessed you? Ask these women to show you how they do it! Don't be shy to ask for training. It's honoring to these women that you want to emulate their examples.
- Start small. Have friends over for coffee or tea, and conversation. It's not the meal you provide that makes a memory, it's the focus on your guests. Sometimes it's a lot easier to do that than when you don't have an elaborate meal planned.
- If you're not a great cook, practice. I bet you'll find many supportive friends who would willingly consume your practice! A great basic cookbook to have is "The Joy of Cooking." It removes the mystery to cooking. I like "The New Basics Cookbook" for the same reason. It's also fun to take cooking classes with your friends, especially classes about international cuisine.
- Don't be afraid to select patterns for your daily dishes or fine china. It's not a jinx! If the Lord gives you a husband, he might like what you already have. If not, you'll have fun selecting a pattern together. I chose a china pattern years ago, and my friends generously gave me select pieces at various times. Now I have place settings for ten. People enjoy knowing what you collect.
- If you live with roommates, consider cooking for your household on a rotating basis. I have a set of friends who live in a townhouse they've nicknamed "The Abbey." Each week, one of the ladies cooks for the rest. Though their different work schedules often prevent them from eating together, they've agreed to set aside Monday Family Nights as a household priority — a time when they eat together and catch up on the news of the week. They also regularly plan for hospitalities.
- If you live with your family, offer to be responsible for the family meals on certain days. My friend Mindy makes dinner once a week for her family — a blessing to her mother.
- If you've moved around a lot and feel like no place is home, consider buying a home. Again, it's not a jinx! You can always sell it if you get married, and your profits will certainly bless your husband. Owning a home is usually a wise financial investment and it allows you to put down some roots and combat that lonely tumbleweed feeling. Often it is the only way you'll be able to create a guest room, too.
- Create a memento of your guests. Some people use guest books; I take photographs. I have photo displays of most of the people who have been at my home. They are a useful diversion for my current guests when I'm caught in the kitchen!
- Let your pastors know that you are willing to host visitors. I know a single woman in Wales who has had numerous people from the States (and possibly other countries) in her home. Allyson cheerfully tours the same Welsh landmarks and tourist hotspots with most of her guests, cooks for them, and laughs lots with them. She seemingly knows everyone in my international church network because of her hospitality!
- Team up to pull off larger events. My former roommate and I used to trade off being the "kitchen slave" (our joking term) for each other's dinner parties. Or share your resources. I once threw a formal New Year's Eve party at one man's house because it was large enough to accommodate everyone. He supplied the house and I supplied the party.
- Finally, don't forget to show hospitality to those who cannot repay you, for in this way you will be emulating your Lord and following His command (Luke 14:12-14).
When I hosted that infamous Christmas dinner party, I invited three couples to thank them for their friendship and investment in my life. All three couples were members of my church, and greatly invested in the church's ministry. Two of the men were my pastors. All three of the women were busy mothers with children ranging from pre-school to high school. Each of them was notable for the amount of time and service they poured into other people. So I counted it a great privilege that I could invite them all over for an evening where they were served. If any thought it was odd to be invited to the home of a single woman, there was no evidence of it. All of them accepted eagerly, and remarked repeatedly that they had a great time. If any thought it was uncomfortable to seat seven people, and not an even six, at the table, they gave no indication of it. Instead, they each seemed delighted to receive hospitality – even when one couple encountered the "cranky kitchen maid"! What a joy it was to use my home to gather together these friends and co-laborers in the Kingdom for a holiday dinner.
Ladies, may we never fear odd numbers around our tables, for our Lord is always with us. And may He richly reward us as we "contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality" (Romans 12:13).
Adapted from "Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred" by Carolyn McCulley. © 2004 by Carolyn McCulley. Published by Crossway Books, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission.
Carolyn McCulley works for Sovereign Grace Ministries in church and ministry relations. She is also an author ( "Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred") and blogger (solofemininity.blogs.com). Carolyn is also a member of Covenant Life Church where one of her favorite ministries is the single women's discipleship program. She highly recommends the resources for singles from the New Attitude conference and blog.


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The Southeast Steuben County Library will hold its festival on Sept. 18.
The Southeast Steuben County Library, 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza, Corning, will hold its festival from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 18.
The library will have a lineup of entertainment including artists, musicians, games and crafts. Nithya Krishnan will lead a Zumba workout from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Miss Sue will lead games and crafts for children from 5 to 7 p.m. and story time from 7 to 7:30 p.m.
Throughout the free event, visitors can watch art being made, listen to music and participate in chalk art on the pavement outside the library. In addition, there will be a Giant Knitting Nancy and the library's 3D printer.
Guests will have the opportunity to see what the library offers. For more information, call 607-936-3713.


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Malabi (Milk Custard with Orange Brandy Sauce)
Be your own Balaboosta and serve malabi at your next dinner party. It's a milk custard thickened with cornstarch and topped with an orange marmalade and brandy sauce that tastes as beautiful as it looks.
Excerpted from Balaboosta by Einat Admony (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2013. Photographs by Quentin Bacon.
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- Yield:serves four
- Malabi
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons rose water
- Orange Brandy Sauce
- 1 cup orange marmalade
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tablespoon brandy
- Peanuts or pistachios (optional)
- Sweetened coconut flakes (optional)
For the Malabi: Combine the milk, cream, and sugar in a large pot over medium heat. Once the mixture comes to a boil, remove from the heat. While you're waiting for your milk not to boil over, dissolve the cornstarch in the water. When the milk comes to a boil, quickly whisk in the cornstarch along with the rose water and immediately remove from the heat.
Pour the malabi into four individual serving cups or ramekins and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
For the Sauce: Mix together the marmalade and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to simmer and reduce to a little more than half, 20 to 25 minutes, stirring often to prevent the bottom from burning and the mixture from boiling over. If the foam looks like it's about to flow over, simply remove the saucepan from the heat for a few seconds and give it a quick stir before placing it back over the heat.
When the mixture has a thick, syruplike consistency, stir in the brandy and cook for another 5 minutes.
Remove the sauce from the heat and let cool in the refrigerator until ready to use. Just put it back on the stove over low heat and your sauce will melt right back to an ooey-gooey consistency.
To Serve: Serve the malabi straight from the cups with a generous drizzle of the orange marmalade sauce and throw in a handful of chopped peanuts or pistachios and coconut flakes if you wish.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge accepted a guilty plea Thursday from a Montana newlywed after she reached a surprise plea agreement and said she pushed her husband from a cliff in Glacier National Park.
The development came before a jury was set to begin considering the case against 22-year-old Jordan Graham.
In exchange for the plea to second-degree murder, prosecutors agreed to drop a first-degree murder charge and a count of making a false statement to authorities.
First-degree murder means a crime is premeditated.
Graham could face a maximum sentence of life in prison on March 27.
In accepting the plea, District Judge Donald Molloy told Graham to recount exactly what happened the night of July 7 when her husband Cody Johnson, 25, fell to his death.
Graham said she told Johnson that she wasn't happy and wasn't feeling like she should after getting married.
She said they argued and at one point he grabbed her by the arm. She said she brushed his hand away and pushed him, with one hand on his arm and one on his back.
"I wasn't thinking about where we were ... I just pushed," she told the judge.
She said she then drove back to Kalispell without calling for help because she was so afraid she did not know what to do.
Earlier in the day, defense attorneys wrapped up their case without testimony from Graham.
Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases Thursday. The plea agreement was reached before closing arguments took place.


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Stovall to address 'fiscal cliff' concerns at AAII session
People are talking about the nation approaching the "fiscal cliff" and wondering what Congress will do to prevent the package of automatic budget cuts and tax hikes when terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 kick in at the end of the year.
Sam Stovall, Standard & Poor's Capital IQ's chief equity strategist, will address the question when he speaks to the Connecticut Chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors on Thursday at The Waters Edge at Giovanni's II restaurant on Route 1 in Darien.
"I'm a little surprised with the reaction of the market since the election," said Stovall, referring to the sharp decline in U.S. stock markets, including a 277-point drop in Dow Jones Industrial Average last week. "Investors are saying `oh no' to the status quo. I think they are worried about the fiscal cliff, and they are taking matters into their own hands by selling stock now."
If Republicans and Democrats fail to compromise on taxes and budget cuts and nothing is resolved by the end of the year, the capital gains rate could more than double and the dividend tax could nearly triple, he said.
Economists have said that inaction could send the nation back into a recession.
But Stovall, who authored a book called "The Seven Rules of Wall Street," said he expects the lame duck Congress to take a delaying action, allowing the new Congress to reach a compromise.
Citing that the Standard & Poor's 500 index, gross domestic product and corporate earnings growth all fared well on the occasions since 1900 that a Democrat was in the White House, Stovall said earnings will grow between 4.5 and 15.5 percent in the five quarters following an "earnings trough" which started in the second quarter and extended into the third quarter of this year.
The status of the economies of Europe and China will play a key role in how the U.S. markets and economy do, as the government embarks on a cost-cutting strategy and companies buy back their stock, Stovall said.
Whatever does occur as the markets react to the aforementioned circumstance, Stovall offers some tried-and-true advice in his "Seven Rules of Wall Street" including:
Let your winners ride, but cut your losers short; as goes January, so goes the year; sell in May, then go away; there is no `free lunch' on Wall Street; don't get mad, get even; don't fight the Fed (at least not for too long); and there's always a bull market someplace.
Stovall is returning to speak to the chapter for the fourth time and has always attracted a large audience, said Ronnie Braun, AAII chapter president and program chairwoman, adding that investors are looking for some direction.
"A presidential election is always unsettling, as evidenced by how the stock market went down in the days after," she said. "I asked him to come after the election so he can give his ideas on the investment outlook."
He also is expected to present some ideas on exchange-traded funds in the international sector.
Stovall will speak at 7 p.m., followed by dinner at 8 p.m. Registration starts at 6 p.m.
The cost is $45 in advance and $50 at the door. Program only is $25. To register, call 203-245-1211 or email email@example.com.


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Sustainable supply chains are an increasing priority for companies, governments and other organisations around the world. And it's no wonder.
Not only are customers and consumers increasingly concerned with the environmental footprint of the goods and services they purchase, but research shows that organisations can enhance their performance by improving the sustainability of their supply chains.
For organisations making a commitment to sustainability, the supply chain should be a priority area. For example, Walmart found that 88% of its carbon footprint is in the control of its suppliers.
Abu Dhabi's Plan 2030 establishes a clear vision for sustainability as the foundation of any new development occurring in the Emirate and capital city of Abu Dhabi. This commitment is a reflection of the values and ideals of our nation.
The tenets of sustainable living in the Middle East is the guiding force behind Estidama.
More than just a sustainability program, Estidama is the symbol of an inspired vision for governance and community development.
A lot has changed in the past 5 years: global climate change has gained greater recognition as a concern; phthalate plasticizers, halogenated flame retardants, bisphenol-A, and other chemicals have emerges as health concerns.
Estidama has launched The Pearl Rating System, and green building has edged its way into the main stream vocabulary. However, this surge in green building, coupled with the relative youth of the industry, has resulted in many misconceptions or exaggerations of what makes a product or material green. The term used for this type of misconception is 'Greenwash'.
Masdar City is an emerging global hub for renewable energy and clean technologies that positions companies located here at the heart of this growing industry.
A place where businesses can thrive and innovation can flourish, Masdar is a modern Arabian city that, like its forerunners, is in tune with its surroundings.
It is a community where cutting-edge cleantech research, pilot projects, building materials and technology testing, and construction of some of the world's most sustainable buildings is currently is ongoing.
Masdar City offers a fertile environment that inspires creativity and growth to organisations operating in this strategic and dynamic sector.
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Make Yourself a Home Network Storage Server
"I was recently "voluntold" to clean up several years' worth of accumulated computer parts in my GeekCorner of the basement. I was generally fine with this, since even I had to admit that things had gotten a little out of hand over time.
The cleanup took a lot longer than I expected, but the resulting local decrease in entropy down there is definitely an improvement. And since most of the bits and pieces were intended for use in various long-neglected projects, getting rid of that stuff meant I could stop feeling guilty about never getting around to starting, let alone finishing, those projects. Like Paul Graham says, your property really does own you.
One item I did save from the get-this-out-of-my-house boxes was an Epia M10000 motherboard. VIA was the pioneer in developing the mini-ITX form factor, and their boards have been extremely popular over the years with those interested in creating small form factor computers.
The Epias are noted for their low power consumption and ability to be passively cooled; consequently they make great silent PCs. I had used the Epia M10000 for a while in a previous project, but it was now idle and ripe for re-use.
I'd been meaning to put together a low-power network file server, and this seemed like a good time to finally make that happen."


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The Biltmore Hotel & Spa, a 1926 Mediterranean Revival Hotel five miles from Coconut Grove, is lushly situated on five, well manicured, acres of landscaped gardens and greens.
The Biltmore Hotel Spa is designed to create a feeling of tranquility. The peaceful surroundings and décor, warm earth tones, low lighting and simple silence is the perfect combination for the weary traveler, to receive a much needed relaxing touch to the luxuriant feel of the Biltmore Hotel and Spa.
The Biltmore Hotel offers one of the worlds most celebrated and lavish spa experiences. I was lucky enough to receive a massage at the Biltmore Hotel my massage technician was a lovely young lady who gave me a deep tissue massage.
Beautifully designed with minimalist elegance, The Biltmore Hotel Spa is geared to immediately create a sensory escape transporting patrons to a Zen state for optimum tranquility. The pre and post-treatment room had very comfortable cots, privacy curtains, beautiful view, and a flowing babbling fountain invoking a peaceful feeling. There were plenty of beverages and fresh fruit available for one to enjoy. The massage rooms and the hallway leading to them were very inviting, elegant and created a feeling of relaxation on the way to the magnificent massage that I received.
The massage, itself, was so skillfully administered, that I was shocked that I was able to fall asleep at least three times during the hour. When I questioned my massage technician as to how, with a deep tissue massage, I was able to relax enough to be able to fall asleep she said that she likes to gradually give her treatment in a way that allows the muscles to relax so she can go deeper without the body reacting with tension.
The Biltmore Hotel Spa was an amazing experience, certainly enhanced by the fact that during the massage I heard the heavy rain pouring on the outside of the window I heard the rumbling of thunder and I was in this wonderfully appointed massage room receiving a blissful massage. The massage was one of the best I've ever experienced in my life. Carrying stress in the particular pressure point throughout the body is almost unnoticeable until the massage technician began to utilize the deep tissue technique and found those areas that would have gone unnoticed. I walked out of the room, feeling in a meditative state at peace and relaxed.
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The Biltmore Hotel & Spa, renovated from the original roaring twenties grandeur, has been modernized to include all the latest advancements in technology services. The richly appointed luxury suites feature European feather bedding topped with Egyptian cotton duvet covers, Frette robes and plush Bamboo Orchid towels. All suites have a comfortable sitting area with custom-designed furniture, oversized picture windows with views of the golf course, pool or elegant Coral Gables. It is elegantly luxurious. My article The Biltmore Hotel & Spa Review – Old World Glamour; Modern Elegance offers an inside peek into the luxurious decadence of The Biltmore Hotel & Spa.
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That's a headline on the front page of today's Washington Post. The story, which was written by Jonathan Weisman but could just as easily have been penned by the DNC, begins this way:
On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office, convinced, he recalled, that he had been the lone Republican to oppose the largest tax cut in two decades.
But Chafee's staff told him that one other Republican, who had largely avoided the grueling efforts at compromise, had joined him in dissent. That senator, John McCain, was marching to his own beat, Chafee said, impervious to pressure from either side.
Now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, McCain is marching straight down the party line. The economic package he has laid out embraces many of the tax policies he once decried: extending Bush's tax cuts he voted against, offering investment tax breaks he once believed would have little economic benefit and granting the long-held wishes of tax lobbyists he has often mocked.
The report continues in this propagandistic mode for a few more paragraphs.
John McCain may not be a whiz on economics (neither is Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton) but he's intelligent enough to understand that the following two decisions — (1) whether to support legislation that will lower tax rates in 2001 and (2) whether to support legislation that will raise tax rates in 2008 — are independent ones. In other words, raising tax rates is not the same thing as lowering them, and the economic environment in 2008 is not the same as the economic environment in 2001.
Some politicians favor virtually every tax cut; others always oppose cuts, at least for people who are economically well off. McCain, as is typical, falls in neither camp. Throughout his time in public life, he has supported some tax cuts and opposed others. Even Weisman acknowledges as much, though you need to read a long way to see it. And the minute one recognizes these simple matters of fact, logic, and economics, the Post's claim that "McCain offers tax policies he once opposed" becomes vacuous, and Weisman's anti-McCain hit piece loses its force.


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#1 Copper: a world trade in 3000 BC?03-29-2012, 11:17 AM
Copper: a world trade in 3000 BC?
Europes economy between 2000 and 1000 BC stood and fell with copper, used for the creation of bronze. At the same time, large quantities of copper were mined in America, though no-one seems to know who was using it. A question of a world economy, and supply and demand?
Philip Coppens
The Bronze Age is a period in Western European history typified by the usage of bronze. The Bronze Age may be a term used daily in schools across the world, but there is one major issue that is seldom debated: where did the required components, tin and copper, originate from?
Indeed, though it is undoubtedly the case that Europe had a Bronze Age, archaeologists have accepted that much more copper was used than what they have been able to attribute to European mines. So where did an extremely large part of the copper come from? The answer, as bizarre as it may sound, could be America. It is known that during the European Bronze Age, large quantities of copper were mined in North America. However, no-one is able to answer as to what became of the copper that was mined there.
If we were to add the two problems together, do we have the solution? Of course, the answer for the accepted scientific dogma is no, as it argues that there were no transoceanic contacts in the Bronze Age, and hence copper could not have been traded from the New to the Old World. But perhaps there is sufficient scientific evidence available that will alter the assumptions of the scientists.
The chief ingredient for bronze is copper. The era around 3000 BC saw more than 500,000 tons of copper being mined in the so-called Upper Peninsula, in the American state of Michigan. The largest mine was on Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior, near the Canadian border. Here, there are thousands of prehistoric copper pits, dug thousands of years ago by ancient peoples unknown. The Minong Belt on Isle Royale has a distance of one and three quarter miles in length and is nearly four hundred feet wide. The copper pits range ten tot thirty feet deep with connecting tunnels; one archaeologist estimated that their digging would take the equivalent of 10,000 men working for 1000 years.
After two centuries of speculation, no-one has ever satisfactorily explained where the worlds purist copper might have gone. Extraction from Isle Royal began in 5300 BC, with some even claiming that it began as early as 6000 BC. Evidence for smelting is known to exist from only 4000 BC onwards.
The exact size of the mined ore is perhaps never going to be exactly determined, but what is known, is that ca. 1200 BC, all mining activity was halted. But around 1000 AD, mining was restarted and lasted until 1320 AD. During this period, a moderate 2000 tons were removed.
In North America, not even 1% has been recovered. Some individual pieces weigh 34,000 pounds, which equals the weight of all bronze or copper artefacts found in the United States. Other stones, such as the Ontonagon Boulder, weigh 3700 pounds. One 5720 pound mass found near McCargos Cove was raised part way to the surface on cribbing in the same way others were found in other mines. The ancients were raising it, yet somehow, some of these huge stones were abandoned mid-task.
Octave DuTemple, one of the first archaeologists to investigate the site, stated that the miners left their tools behind, as if they had thought that the following morning, they would return to their quarry and continue their work.
These miners were experienced labourers. The mines were efficiently run, producing large quantities of ore that could be quickly transported to the surface. Between 1000 and 12,000 ton of material was removed from one mine, resulting in approximately fifty tons of copper. Their technique was basic, but efficient: they created large fires on the veins of the copper ore, heating the stone, then to poor water on top of it. This cracked the rock and with the aide of stone tools, the copper was removed from the rock.
About 5000 mines have been discovered, in an area that is roughly 200 kilometres long and five to ten kilometres wide. The area mined on Isle Royale measures sixty to eight kilometres. If all mines were placed in one consecutive row, it would measure eight kilometres, eight metres wide and ten metres deep.
Every mine that was opened in the past 200 years, showed some previous, prehistoric mining activity. This included mines where the copper ore did not protrude to the surface showing evidence of the advanced knowledge which allowed the prehistoric miners to identify subterranean ores. It also worked the other way around, for sites that showed evidence of ancient mining, were in modern times considered to be good omens, as they were often the best sites to find copper lots of copper.
How the miners knew which stones contained copper is a mystery. They obviously did, but where they learned, is not known. As it is not known who was responsible for the activity. Furthermore, if there were no transoceanic contacts, is it not highly remarkable that both continents, completely independent from each other, at the same moment in time, began to mine and use copper and tin, used it to create bronze, yet in America, did nothing sensible with it apart from some artefacts that have been recovered?
The Menomonie Indians of north Wisconsin possess a legend that speaks about the ancient mines. They described the mines as being worked by light skinned men, who were able to identify the mines by throwing magical stones on the ground, which made the ores that contained copper ring like a bell.
This practice closely resembles a similar practice that was used in Europe during the Bronze Age. Bronze with a high concentration of tin indeed resonates when a stone is thrown against it. The legend might have confused the start of the process with the result of the process. Even so, S.A. Barnett, the first archaeologist who studied Aztalan, a site near the mines, believed that the miners originated from Europe. His conclusion was largely based on the type of tools that had been used, tools which were not used by the local people.
It is clear that with a vast workforce possibly as many as 10,000 people some must have died. It is also likely that at least some labourers came with families. In short, there must have been a number of dead people, but where are the burials? The answer: nowhere. Where the dead were taken is another good question, as there is no evidence of cremation or burial near any of the sites or the Upper Peninsula in general. The only thing that was left behind, were their tools millions of tools. And this suggests that the workforce, though not necessarily from Europe, was most likely not local either.
But that it could very well be Europe, was given a boost when in 1922, William A. Ferguson discovered a harbour on the north coast of Isle Royale. Ships could load and unload, aided by a pier that measured 500 metres in length. This suggests that the type of ships that anchored here, were large ships and that there were many. The most likely explanation as to the purpose of this harbour was that they formed the point where the copper was loaded to be transported to other regions. The presence of the harbour further shows that the people working the mines were not local, as the local Indians only used small canoes.
It is likely that the mines were only worked in the summer, with the workforce moving further south during the winter months or returning home across the ocean. This could explain the absence of buildings: people living here in the winter, need buildings in order to survive, but that is not necessarily so during the summer months. As there are no such buildings, it suggests no-one lived here. Equally important is the fact that there are no signs of copper melting factories, required for their future use. This means that the copper was used elsewhere, as copper required further handling for it to be useful.
Could we find out where they went in the winter months? Though Europe is a possibility, it is also unlikely. Their most likely habitat was probably Aztalan and Rock Lake, where some years ago, buildings and a temple were discovered just below the water surface. These sites are a mere fifty kilometres south of the snowline, which makes them ideal places to settle down for the winter. Their winter residence and summer work site were actually connected with each other via rivers.
It is also around Rock Lake that many graves have been discovered. No less than 70 funerary hills containing the cremated remains of thousands of individuals have been discovered there. One of the better preserved graves contains the body of a man with a hammer; a similar hammer was discovered at Isle Royale.
Copper nugget at Minong mine
So, is the problem of the copper trade fully answered with the discovery of their remains around Rock Lake? Or does it still leave room for a European component to this story?
The problem is that though Rock Lake seemed to house the workforce, nowhere is there any evidence that they, or other people nearby, used the copper. So the problem of where the copper went remains. Furthermore, the copper was definitely worthy of a transoceanic voyage. The copper around Lake Superior was the best and most important copper found in the world. In the period of 1000 to 1400 BC, the copper was exported to the Mexican Toltecs and perhaps even other civilisations further south. But who were the buyers several millennia earlier?
Copper mining started in 3000 BC, with already a high standard of extraction. Thousands of workmen were organised to work efficiently with tools that could move three tons of ore at one time. They also were able to dig up to a depth of twenty metres, without any problems.
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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
#2 The State of Our Knowledge About Ancient Copper Mining in Michigan03-31-2012, 10:42 AM
The Michigan Archaeologist 41(2-3):119-138.
Susan R. Martin 1995
Popular literature contributes to the persistence of fantasy and mythology surrounding ancient copper mining in Michigan. This paper points out some of the major elements of mis-statement and myth revealed in current popular books, and suggests why they are fallacious, using current archaeological data about copper mining as counterpoint. Michigan's prehistoric mining data are unique in the world. Their discovery, description and explanation make an exciting story, one of which the citizens of this region can be rightfully proud and of which they should all be aware. Professional archaeologists need to build a public support base through accessible and competently written accounts of the facts about Michigan prehistory. Our efforts have improved in the past ten years, but our publications still lag behind those of non-specialist authors.
My topic today is the world-famous ancient copper industry of the Lake Superior Basin. Since 1961 and Griffin's seminal publication of Lake Superior Copper and the Indians we have learned a lot, archaeologically, about prehistoric copper use (Griffin 1961) and its persistence through prehistory. Today I also want to talk about the persistence of fantasy and mythology surrounding ancient copper mining. Walk into any bookstore up north these days and you'll see what I mean. Mysterious books with lurid symbols and tales of trans-oceanic contact fill people's minds with archaeo- illogical constructs (Sodders 1990; Sodders 1991). I'd like to chide the professional ranks, myself included, for failing to promote real archaeology as successfully! Competently written accounts of our passion, the study of prehistory, should be out there for public consumption! The professional ranks fail to present an effective public counterpoint to archaeo-illogic. Our efforts have improved in the past ten years, but our publications still lag behind those of non-specialist authors. Some of this is due to the nature of our data; they are fragile and require careful analysis and documentation, something that casual authors clearly can put aside, along with meeting standards of scientific evidence. Some of this is due to the reward structure of academic life, which tends to stress preaching to other specialists rather than expanding our public support base. But some of this is due to having our heads, in addition to our trowels, in the sand; this we are trying to change. I hope to help correct this shortcoming vis a vis copper in the next year or so, with accessible publications for an interested and literate readership. The Society for American Archaeology's Public Education Committee has made great strides in organizing a national campaign for archaeological literacy. There is now a growing nationwide network of archaeological information so that interested schoolchildren and others can readily find factual data (MacDonald 1994). Educational materials are available for primary and secondary students and many people, amateurs and professionals alike, are working hard to disseminate these materials to interested people in our state. Plus our state museum system and funding systems are trying hard to do their parts.
Here at home however, popular books which are widely available and by all accounts financial successes, help to perpetuate the myths that stand for the truth about Michigan prehistory. These myths are dangerous for the following reasons:
1) They detract from the pressing need to preserve archaeological sites. Some of these publications announce that the sites are already destroyed (Sodders 1990:27-28), which is absolutely false. The trouble here is that the public may be persuaded to disregard important site protection issues based on wrong information.
2) They put people's energies into false hopes of splendid and snazzy discoveries (which encourages site looting) rather than into productive activity, such as training in excavation, analysis of artifacts, and site preservation and protection.
3) They're so sensational that people are liable to devalue the facts in favor of the fantasy. Archaeology gets a bad name when it takes away people's pet myths, even if they're irrational!
4) These authors overlook the requirements of science, particularly those about testing hypotheses objectively, yet offer speculations as though they were scientific fact. This failure to distinguish fact from fiction disadvantages people in a culture such as ours that prides itself in generating literacy but also succeeds in the generation of misinformation! Telling truth from myth is an important skill for citizenship, no matter what the subject.
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Interesting. I reiterate: I do not believe the "consensus" on North American or World history. I sincerely believe that the timelines of our folks histories, including the Bible, and our cultural memories are way off, by thousands of years.
My attitude changed completely when I saw a map of the Arctic without the ice. It was an "A ha" moment. Many things suddenly became clear to me. Why every ancient or "First Peoples" of every place on earth imagines themselves to have always been where they are. Transoceanic travel would not create such a cultural memory. People traveling short distances at a time over long periods of time would explain this. The American Indians think they have always been here, because they have in a sense. They have never all packed up and moved from one continent to another- they drifted downward as did we all. Atlantis is under ice. The cradle of civilization is under ice. Our ancestors didn't originally cross the Atlantic in ships, they crossed the Arctic in small boats and on foot.
It has never made sense to me that primitive human beings would migrate into the ice zone, following herds or whatever. Humans don't like ice, we like to be warm. Clearly a great deal has changed over time. I am particularly intrigued by the Orange Peel Theory, ie the idea that the crust of the earth or the earth itself shifted rapidly, changing climates almost over night and causing great migrations. Part and parcel to this theory is that the ruins found in parts of the Americas are not 4000 years old, but 40,000 years old, made not by visiting Egyptians, but by the ancestors of the Egyptians.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
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so here we are about four-and-a-half months since pandaria went live and i started building my pet battle army. i was thinking about how much things have changed since those first few hours when i set out into elwynn forest, and i found myself wondering what had happened to those six pets that were my spearhead on the drive to level 25. which ones was i still sending into battle on a regular basis, and which had drifted off to the sidelines? time for a review, i think.
morbinex. fell in love with this guy and his hard-hitting wind-up back in beta, and he was still a great beastslayer as we leveled up. unfortunately, he's only an uncommon, and as i got closer to 25 the gap between him and the rares became more and more noticeable. haven't used him in months now. i'm thinking it's time to put him at the front of the line for my next mechanical battle-stone, and restore him to his former glory.
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