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The first two parts of this series dealt with exposing the Protestant tenet of sola scriptura as the illogical falsehood it is, and establishing the Scriptural, historical truth that it is the Church that Christ founded – the Roman Catholic Church is this specific, visible Church – which is the real root of authority. The Church produced the Bible[1] and not the inverse.
How can we be sure that the Catholic Church is, in fact, the Church of the New Testament? We do have the vast body of historical evidence demonstrating the unbroken line of Peter from his first successor to the present day as well as detailed information on the apostolic succession of other bishoprics[2], but we have something else as well: The Four Marks of the True Church. These marks are evident (visibly so) only in the Roman Catholic Church.
The marks of the Church were first enumerated at the First Council of Constantinople (381), the second ecumenical council of the Church[3]. The council produced a new version of the Nicene Creed[4], which contains the teaching, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." This council, which was called primarily to condemn the Arians and other heretical, schismatic sects, sought to identify the marks by which the true Church can be known.
The Church is divine and reflects the divine characteristics of her Founder. Christ is One with His Father; one God in Three Persons. He is, as God, perfectly holy. He is universal as the creator of all that exists and in that the fruits of His Redemption are available to all men[5] and He desires the salvation of all[6]. Lastly, Christ, being the One who created apostles and gave them their mission, is the root of all that is apostolic.
Since joining the true Church is a generally necessary requirement for salvation, it must be visible and readily identifiable as the true Church through just these divine attributes. As that most excellent pontiff Leo XIII declared in Immortale Dei, "Now, it cannot be difficult to find out which is the true religion, if only it be sought with an earnest and unbiased mind; for proofs are abundant and striking. We have, for example, the fulfillment of prophecies, miracles in great numbers, the rapid spread of the faith in the midst of enemies and in face of overwhelming obstacles, the witness of the martyrs, and the like. From all these it is evident that the only true religion is the one established by Jesus Christ Himself, and which He committed to His Church to protect and to propagate."
Of course, papal encyclicals carry no weight with non-Catholics, nor do, for the most part, even early ecumenical councils with most Protestants of the evangelical/fundamentalist bent (which constitute both the area of Protestantism experiencing the most growth in modern society and that which is most virulently anti-Catholic). However, therein do we see the gross inconsistencies at the very heart of the Protestant position: Why does the Protestant accept the decisions of the Catholic Church with regard to the canon of Scripture – to the very definition of the Bible that he holds as the root of authority – as well as accepting the core Christological dogmas (almost always without being cognizant of their origin), but not a teaching such as this? In fact, the books of the New Testament were not first defined until the regional Council of Rome in 382[7], one year after Constantinople[8].
The Church Is One
The true Church is One in both its structure and its doctrine, as attested to, first of all, by Scripture[9]. Christ says, "there shall be one fold and one shepherd[10]", He prays, "keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are[11]", and, "they all may be one, as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee[12]". Christ's prayers are perfectly efficacious; they are always granted completely and fully by the Father.
Likewise, Scripture refers to the Church as a "family" or "house" repeatedly – a family household is on in structure, with a single, visible leader.
We have seen previously that the Church of the New Testament is a visible Church, and a visible Church that is One must have a visible head on Earth where the Church in Exile resides. Thus did Christ name Peter and his successors as His vicars (stewards) a type of which was the steward of the Davidic kingdom.
In fact, to the ancients of the early Church, thoroughly accustomed as they were to strong families with singular (patriarchal) heads, monarchal governments, and, most of the early Christians being Jews, strong roots in the Davidic dynasty and the Seat of Moses, a Church without a cohesive, unified hierarchy or without a singular, visible head would have been a monumental oddity indeed[13].
St. Paul echoes Christ's teachings and prayers as well[14]. That Scripture proclaims a Church that is One is not really in dispute; the Protestant would say that the invisible church of the elect is indeed united. However, how much sense does this really make in the face of reality? There is little need to dwell on the fact that to call Protestantism fragmented in both structure and doctrine is a serious understatement - and this has been the case since its very inception. St. Francis de Sales put it well, addressing the Calvinists of his time: "As soon as God takes a people to Himself, as He has done the Church, He gives it unity of heart and of path: the Church is but one body, of which all the faithful are members... there is but one spirit animating the body... your first ministers had so sooner got on their feet, they had no sooner begun to build a tower of doctrine and science which was visibly to reach the heavens, and to acquire them the great and magnificent reputation of reformers, than God, wishing to traverse this ambitious design, permitted among them such a diversity of language and belief, that they began to contradict one another so violently that all their undertaking became a miserable Babel and confusion.[15]"
It should be noted that this lack of unity in structure implies a lack of authority in actuality which plays to (and was created by) human weakness; human nature, wounded by the Fall, tends to rebellion (protestation) which the Protestant structure readily facilitates. Coupled with very serious heresies and the lack of true sacraments,[16] there can be little doubt that Protestantism has caused directly the loss of innumerable souls and stands as one of satan's greatest victories over man.
Even the Church's most bitter enemies rarely dare to assert that she is not one in structure, as there can be no doubt that the Catholic Church possesses a single, visible earthly head presiding over a single episcopate. Since anti-Catholic polemicists frequently fail to understand the nature of Church authority, they may assert that she lacks, based on visible disagreements within her ranks, true unity in doctrine. However, of course, the fact that a single body of doctrine exists (which is nothing more than the Apostolic Deposit of Faith expounded) does not prevent obstinate doubt and heresy – sins against the Faith – from arising within her visible ranks[17].
Never has the divinity of the Church been more evident than in our time where, despite the ravages of diabolical disorientation in the form of neo-modernism that does go "to the top", not one iota of doctrine has been changed. This is not possible, and even the innovators know it.
The Church Is Holy
Before we examine the holiness of the true Church, an examination of the general state of morality among the earliest Protestants according to the first and most prestigious Protestant innovators should prove interesting.
In fact, Martin Luther complained bitterly that the people were, on the whole and in almost every specific area imaginable, less moral, less holy, than they had been before his revolution[18]. He states that, for example, his preachers "lead such a bad life… that they do more harm than good."[19] There are literally dozens of such quotations from Dr. Luther in this volume, complaining how his new breed of Christians had no respect for Scripture, no respect for the teachers of Scripture, contempt for the Eucharist (the true teaching regarding which Luther himself had insulted, of course), were greedy and neglected the poor, drank heavily, took their own lives at an increased pace, and more. (Yet, what should the man who uttered the diabolical command to "sin boldly" have expected?)
Of course such anecdotal evidence is of little value in a theological debate. What we can demonstrate, with relevance, is that in the Catholic Church the highest forms of sanctity and piety have always been praised and encouraged and that the identity of the true Church has been verified by miracles, more or less continually from apostolic times to the present.
It is well known that one of the immediate aftermaths of the "Reformation" was priests & nuns renouncing their vows in droves to marry. In fact, only the Catholic Church supports, as always, the Biblical teaching that virginal consecration is a higher calling than that of matrimony (which, of course, is still holy).
St. de Sales had this to say: "...every one down to the ministers marries, every one labors to gather together riches, nobody acknowledges any other superior than force makes him submit to - an evident sign that this pretended church is not the one for which Our Lord has preached and draws the picture of so many excellent examples. For if everybody marries, what will become of the advice of St. Paul (1 Cor VII), 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman'? If everybody runs after money and possessions, to whom will that word of Our Lord (Matt VI) be addressed, 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth'... If every one will govern in his turn, where shall be found the practice of that most solemn sentence (Luke IX): 'He who will come after me let him deny himself'? If then your Church puts itself in comparison with ours, ours will the be true spouse, who puts in practice all the words of her beloved and leaves not one talent of the Scripture idle; yours will be false, who hears not the voice of the Beloved; yea, despises it."[20]
Indeed, and, again, without making any subjective judgments regarding individuals, Protestantism in its root nature rejects the hightest forms of the sacred outright. It rejects holy obedience by refusing submission to Christ's vicar a priori; it rejects piety by spitting upon the holy virtues of virginity and poverty, etc. Protestantism is, as the word implies, non serviam.
On to the miraculous. Christ Himself told us that there would always be miracles in the Church[21] and even that the Jews of His time would not be obligated to believe in Him if it were not for the miracles He performed. Thus, the existence of the miraculous is a testament to the identity of the true Church.
Volumes can and have been written regarding the astounding number of Catholic miracles that have come into existence at a continual pace throughout the past two millennia[22]. Unlike so-called miracles in Protestant sects, to earn the term from the official capacity of the Church involves a high level of rigor. For example, though there are many thousands of entirely credible reports of miraculous cures from the Marian shrine of Lourdes, 67 of these events have been officially recognized by the Church after extensive study by multiple experts has concluded no natural explanation is possible. The story is similar regarding the thousands of thoroughly-researched miracles submitted as proof of sanctity in canonization causes.
This author has witnessed personally such astounding, incomprehensible, glorious, miraculous phenomena as the Eucharistic Miracle in Lanciano, Italy, as well as the incorrupt bodies of saints centuries old.
In today's Protestant societies (such as the United States), the word "miracle" has been essentially redefined to mean something highly unlikely, yet not demonstrably outside explanation by natural causes. It is no wonder, really, that atheists and other scoffers deride such claims so readily – to use the term miraculous to describe something that at least possibly is not is a disservice to true religion.
This is not to discount entirely the existence of grace among non-Catholics, which certainly includes happenings that may strain credulity as naturally explicable (never mind the movement of faith). However, God reserves the truly, indisputably miraculousas testament to the true Church and no other, and with that assertion, it is the Catholic Church and she alone that presents this mark.
The Church Is Universal
St. Augustine (who is held in considerable esteem in many Protestant sects, despite the fact that he was quite thoroughly Catholic) said this: "…so, lastly, does the name itself of Catholic [prove the true Church], which not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has alone retained; so that though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church is, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house" (Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental, 396, 4.5, emphasis mine).[23]
As is fairly widely known even among Protestants, the word Catholic is derived from the Greek katholikos which means, literally, whole, or general, or, more widely, universal. Christians have always known by "instinct" that the true Church is universal in time & place. Early heretics wished to be known as Catholic as they knew enough of the true Church to wish to usurp her, but modern Protestants, now so far removed from the roots of Christianity, no longer know to desire such legitimacy[24].
The Church has been called Catholic since at least the very early second century A.D., when St. Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of the Apostle John, made his famous observation: "Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."
The Great Commission is universal in time and space: "Make disciples of all the nations… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am will you always, until the end of the age."[25] Only the Catholic Church can claim to have met this command.
St. de Sales, in the aforementioned work, lays out an irrefutable argument regarding the universality of the Catholic Church that can be summarized as follows[26]:
- The true Church must be universal in time, meaning she must have been established by Christ Himself, exist now, and have existed perpetually until now. All the early Reformers acknowledged freely that the Catholic Church was the true Church for a time; they acknowledged that Christ established the Church[27].
- The Catholic Church exists now and no one can make any reasonable assertion as to precisely when she fell into heresy (nor by what means, nor how such a monumental event was missed by historians, etc.)[28].
- In direct contrast, every Protestant sect has a known beginning and is thus not universal in time and thus not the true Church. Even if the fanciful dream of many a sect that it was the Apostolic Church were true in any particular case, every sect making such a claim also acknowledges that it did not exist visibly for a great span of time (more than a millennia) and thus still fails the test of universality.
The saint summarizes thusly: "Now, if Tertullian already in his time bears witness that Catholics refuted the errors of heretics by their posterity and novelty, when the Church was only in her youth – "We are wont,' says he, 'to prescribe against heretics, for brevity's sake, on the argument of posterity' – how much more right have we now? And if one of the Churches must be the true, this title falls to ours which is most ancient and to your novelty the famous name of heresy."[29]
One of the most beautiful Scriptural attestations to the universality of the Church is this prophecy of Malachi:
"For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts."[30]
The Fathers of the Church interpreted this prophecy as being fulfilled by the Holy Eucharist in the Catholic Mass[31], the singular Sacrifice of Calvary re-presented always and everywhere for adoration, thanksgiving, propitiation, and petition.
As with unity, Protestant arguments that theirs is a universal Church depend upon it being also invisible which, as we have seen, is an assertion overwhelmingly contradicted by Scripture and the reality of history. To be frank, there is really no aspect of Protestantism[32] that is universal in any sense at all that it has not taken from the true Church. Faith in Christ is universal indeed, but He said, "If you love me, keep my commandments"[33] and commanded all to obey the visible leaders of His Church[34]. Individual Protestants very often imagine, in this author's experience, that their particular church, sect, or creed is the truth, and all believers therein constitute the true Church, but, of course, this is simple emotionalism that contradicts reason on multiple fronts. As the Scripture says, the heart is deceitful[35].
Neither are the orthodox churches in schism universal in time or place; they have a demonstrable boundary in the former and are perpetually limited in the latter.
The Church Is Apostolic
There are no doubts among reasonable, educated people that the modern Catholic Church has maintained apostolic succession throughout her existence. Concerning the Petrine See the full history of succession is known to us,[36] with considerable histories for many ancient bishoprics founded by apostles extant as well.
Apostolic succession as a necessary mark of the true Church is, of course, denied by the majority of Protestants; given that their ecclesiastical communities do not and cannot possess it, this is not surprising. As we have seen, however, the existence of the office of the episcopate is apparent from the New Testament alone; this is yet another of many examples of Protestant doctrine contradicting Scripture directly.
The Anglican community claims apostolic succession, but their holy orders lacked from the time of Edward VI proper form and intent, as explained by Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae,[37] relating to the nature of the priest as the one who offers the Sacrifice:
"But the words which until recently were commonly held by Anglicans to constitute the proper form of priestly ordination namely, 'Receive the Holy Ghost,' certainly do not in the least definitely express the sacred Order of Priesthood (sacerdotium) or its grace and power, which is chiefly the power 'of consecrating and of offering the true Body and Blood of the Lord'… in that sacrifice which is no 'bare commemoration of the sacrifice offered on the Cross.'"[38]
(It is unremarkable that the theological errors of the new church of England, especially concerning the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which they converted into a mere "Lord's Supper,"[39] would "leak" into their new sacraments as well.)
The Orthodox communities in schism do possess valid holy orders and valid apostolic succession; they are apostolic in that sense. However, true apostolicity requires more – it requires submission to the Prince of the Apostles, the See of Peter, regarded as prime and having jurisdiction over all churches since the inception of the Church. (The Orthodox communities are defective in the qualities of unity and universality as well.)
The Catholic Church and the Catholic Church alone is and always has been fully apostolic, possessing and guarding the apostolic Deposit of Faith and carrying out the apostolic mission.
In this three-part series of articles we have seen that the Protestant cornerstone of sola scriptura is illogical and un-Scriptural, and beyond any doubt would have been regarded as a preposterous notion by not only every Christian living in the first three centuries of Christianity, during which "Bibles" did not even exist, but for more than another thousand years after that, before which they were not readily accessible.
We demonstrated next that it is the Church that Christ founded, which itself defined the New Testament, that is the root of authority, and that this Church is visible, perpetual, and infallible.
Lastly, we have demonstrated that the four "marks" of the true Church as defined by the early Christians (the same ones who defined the canon of the Bible and the Christological dogmas that virtually all modern Christians accept) are possessed by, and only by, the Catholic Church.
As this article was nearly completed the author happened upon an essay by a Protestant preacher castigating Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ for its "unbiblical additions". The author clearly took as an assumption not even worth discussing the notion that every single detail of Our Blessed Lord's Passion was captured by the Gospel writers – this even despite the fact that Scripture itself tells us directly that that is not so. By this distorted, diabolical logic does this man show sad disdain for honor given to the Blessed Virgin, and such is the stuff Protestantism is made of.
The false ecumenism[40] of the Church enshrined by that enigma of an ecumenical council, Vatican II, has gone nowhere and will go nowhere because truth and falsehood can never be reconciled no matter how much positive emotion and diabolical disorientation is stirred in to the mix. The diehard Protestants never stopped understanding that – only the Catholics did.
Proclaiming the basic truths of the Catholic faith is not, or need not be, some sort of haughty "triumphalism" (as our present holy father has put it), but, rather, a response to the simple acquiescence to truth that all human beings are called to. This has nothing to do with subjective judgment of individual Protestants, which is never licit, no matter they seem to us invincibly ignorant or deviously stubborn. Offering prayers for their conversion in the spirit of true charity is the antidote for that.
[1] The Holy Ghost is, of course, the primary author of Scripture but the Church, which is divine, under the infallible guidance of the Holy Ghost defined the canon. That it did so is a matter of historical fact.
[2] See, for example, William Jurgens, Faith of the Early Fathers, Liturgical Press, 1979
[3] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308a.htm
[4] Or, according to some scholars, endorsed a particular existing form of the Creed.
[5] Of course, not all accept the grace offered to them and thus are lost.
[6] With His antecedent will; the just punishment of the reprobate is not frustrated.
[7] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
[8] Of course, there are Protestant denominations, such as modern Lutherans, who recite this Creed, which poses the question as to which "catholic church" they hold allegiance to, and why.
[9] http://scripturecatholic.com/the_church.html#the_church-V
[10] John 10:16
[11] John 17:11
[12] John 17:21
[13] The democracy of Protestantism , carried forward further by masonry, is another modern error that raised its head in the Church (in the form of "collegiality") via Vatican II.
[14] Romans 16:17, 1 Cor 1:10, 1 Cor 12-13, 1 Cor 10:17
[15] Francis de Sales, The Catholic Controversy, TAN Books, 1989, 123-124
[16] Save baptism and marriage provided valid form, matter, and intent.
[17] Such sins against Faith sever the soul from the Church.
[18] Martin Luther & Henry O'Conner, Luther's Own Statements Concerning His Teaching And Its Results, Benzinger Bros, 1884, p50-57
[19] Ibid, p51
[20] Francis de Sales, The Catholic Controversy, TAN Books, 1989, 146-147
[21] Mark 16:17
[22] For example, Joan Carol Cruz, The Incorrurptibles, TAN Books, 1991
[23] http://www.ewtn.com/library/PATRISTC/PNI4-4.TXT
[24] Many prominent Catholic converts, such as apologist Steve Ray, attest that as even learned Protestants they paid virtually no attention to the early Church, and that that is typical of Protestantism in general. There is a reason; as Cardinal Neumann famously said, "To be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant".
[25] Matt 28:19-20
[26] Francis de Sales, The Catholic Controversy, TAN Books, 1989, p149-152
[27] They then, of course, insist that the Church "went bad" at some point, which is a direct contradiction of Christ's promises regarding Her – She is to be infallible and eternal, prevailing always against "the gates of Hell".
[28] Fundamentalists of a certain stripe argue that Constantine with his edict of the 4th century created the Catholic Church, but the early Reformers knew better, and educated modern Protestants understand that this is a preposterous assertion that disintegrates with the barest knowledge of early Church history.
[29] Ibid, 151
[30] Malachi 1:11
[31] See, for example, http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/father/fathers.htm
[32] All varieties of "Bible Christians" are Protestants too by any reasonable definition; they reject the Catholic Church and trace their theological roots to the Reformation whether they are aware of it or not.
[33] John 14:15
[34] Luke 10:16, Matt 18:17
[35] Jeremiah 17:9
[36] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
[37] http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13curae.htm
[38] Ibid, 25
[39] Michael Davies, Cranmer's Godly Order, Roman Catholic Books, 1995
[40] True ecumenism has as its premise the goal of returning non-Catholics to the true Church


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Fri, 11 May 2018
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Fri, 30 March 2018
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Fri, 16 March 2018
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Fri, 2 March 2018
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Fri, 16 February 2018
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Fri, 2 February 2018
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Fri, 19 January 2018
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Fri, 5 January 2018
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McCain won Missouri, and John Hodgman said, "I don't believe it. You know my motto-show me."
Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia won the American League MVP award. Oh yeah, a couple months ago we were watching baseball!
McCain won Missouri, and John Hodgman said, "I don't believe it. You know my motto-show me."
Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia won the American League MVP award. Oh yeah, a couple months ago we were watching baseball!
All that other stuff didn't seem real, but today on a bright, clear New England afternoon Johnny Pesky hoisted the 2007 championship flag over Fenway Park, got kissed on the cheek by Manny Ramirez, and shouted "Play Ball!" Let the games begin.
Ez and I are pals with two of the nicest people on the planet. Maybe I've mentioned…
Yesterday Amy and I took a longstitch journal workshop at Paper Source in Cambridge. Once again, the gluing was a little challenging, but I'm quite pleased with the results, and it was fun. Amy's is really nice. Here's mine:
After bookbinding, we grabbed a warm drink and had a lovely chat. It just goes to show how wonderful Amy is… she let me babble away and actually seemed interested and was listening to all of my random thoughts. They amount to something in the end, I hope.
We joined forces with Ezra and Doug for a relaxed dinner at Cambridge Common, and then because they are the most hospitable ever and because our place is still a wreck we headed over to Amy and Doug's comfy home to visit with Theo of the big fluffy paws and to watch the Red Sox…er… sock it to the Indians. Doug let me wear his Ortiz jersey so I could feel that I was doing my part apparel-wise. Amy was working on her knitting–a super soft looking pale purple piece that looks positively edible. During the 2004 season I was working on the throw blanket I made for our living room, and the act of knitting helped me channel my nervous energy in a productive way–especially during the playoffs. Last night I didn't anticipate wanting to knit, so I didn't bring any knitting with me. Well, Amy, the knitting angel, offered to let me dig through her stash! I picked a couple of beautiful blue, green, and light purple variegated skeins and started knitting away. It turned into a spur of the moment moss stitch and wide rib scarf. On size 11 needles (which she was kind enough to let me borrow!), it's going ridiculously quickly. Needless to say, I am deeply indebted to Ms. Lewis!! Amy, I owe you a serious stash raid!!
Oh, and since the Sox kicked some booty, Ez and I are going to Game 7 tonight!!! Whoop!
So… by chance I decided to sign myself up for the Red Sox playoff tickets lottery. Those selected in the lottery would have the opportunity to purchase a maximum of two playoff tickets. Ez and I have only been able to go to one game this year. I figured it was a long shot, but thought, "why not?" Yesterday I got an email telling me that I had been selected in the lottery and would have a chance to buy ALCS tickets. So then the wringing of hands began.
The tickets went on sale today at noon. After much struggle with the online system, I managed to get two rather fantastic seats… for game 7. So here's the deal Red Sox–you gotta prevail in the ALDS and THEN you gotta take the ALCS to 7 games. Okay?
We spent our Labor Day weekend with Kim, Glenn, and Hope. They left this morning. Can't believe they're gone already! We had much fun.
Hope is such a cutie, as ever. She seemed to like the stuffed badger from Ezra's Forrester days, and that clicky triangle toy we gave her when she was just a wee thing is still racking up the miles! I'm proud to announce that she has clearly inherited the boogie gene. Like her Mommy and Aunt Terri, she loves to dance, and she's not bad for a(n almost) 2-year old! She seemed to enjoy Stevie Wonder.
We oohed and aahed at Henry Bear's Park on Huron Ave., found a treasure or two at Poor Little Rich Girl in Davis, visited the Frog Pond on the Common and the ducks in the Public Garden, ate yummy Indian and Italian food, and grilled with great success.
Stir in all the happy sports news… Red Sox no-hitter, Michigan losing to Appalachian State (yip!), and Penn State shellacking FIU, and my happy cup runneth over.
I finally finished the jacket for Hope and gave it to her over the weekend. Here's the photographic evidence.
…and I was afraid it would be too small! Huzzah! Note also that Hope is now walking!
So we were in Pennsylvania for my
Mom's retirement party. The weather was fabulous–sunny and bright and
pleasantly temperate. We got to see the fam…
play with Hope…
Ezra making the funniest face EVER
and go to Otto's (mmm, beer). But of course, the main event was the
retirement party. Mom seemed to like our gifts–a locket from Kim,
Glenn, and Hope, and a retirement starter kit (sewing box, book, gift
certificates, etc.) from me and Ez. The party was at the Civil
Engineering Lodge at Stone Valley, which turned out to be very nice
given the pretty weather.
Marty, Mark, and Mom (Poor Mark is losing both of his fellow third grade teachers in one year!!)
I got my hair cut, and got in some fun thrift
shopping, too (loot includes three scarves, some antique Christmas
postcards–since I can't leave State College without some, and a swell
blazer/jacket that was only four bucks!).
Now we're back home and the kitties are content. Thanks to Amy and Doug for looking in on them! Speaking of which…
Last Tuesday they joined us for our first Red Sox game of the year.
Unfortunately, the Sox lost, but it was still quite fun. First there
was revelry at the blissfully uncrowded Boston Beer Works–it helps to
get there early.
This was followed by actual baseball.
Greetings from rainy Happy Valley. I suppose it's not as rainy as the world of the Curtisian. But it's rainy-ish.
I am watching the Red Sox and Orioles on ESPN, and Mark Loretta is hitting everything Lopez is giving him. Mark Loretta is on my good list. Lowell, too. ESPN, while not as bad as Fox, ain't no NESN. (Did I just write "ain't no" on purpose? Yes. Yes, I did.) Remy and Don are just much more entertaining, and a good bit more informative, too. And I'll bet they didn't skip out in the middle of the 3rd inning to show Barry Bonds doing NOTHING in Houston. Do we have to drop everything every time this jerk is at the plate? They've just informed me that they think we do. (*Groan*)
It's quiet here, but then again, it's pretty quiet at home, too. I made 30 phone calls today for work, and I feel like it wasn't enough. Must crank (not crank call, but crank out the calls). Most people I called were very nice and cooperative, but one very sour woman was enough to end my phone calling for the day. No need to be rude. I'm just doing my job like she is. And no, I am not selling anything.
I made dinner tonight–penne with asparagus in a light pink sauce and a little salad with arugula and tomatoes. It was good, though I think a tad more kick would have been welcome. I'll have to try it again at home.
Is it just me, or are the Red Sox doing more spitting this year than they have the last couple of years? Baseball or not, it's gross. Whenever I see the guys chewing gum instead (Nixon, Loretta), I applaud.
EDIT: After I posted this, I saw Nixon spitting something, and ESPN showed Varitek (not you, JV!) stuffing his lip (ugh). One of the commentators actually said something about it, as though it was JV's little reward after his home run. As Mel Cooley would say, "Yech!"
Happy Easter, friends. I am spending the day with my honey, removing dead leaves and shiny things with barcodes from our yard. Later we will probably throw the windows open and watch the Red Sox with cool drinks in our hands while our cats' little noses twitch away with the breeze.
Spring greens and dancing shadows to you!
ESPN is reporting that Miguel Tejada wants out of Baltimore AND that he wants to play for the Red Sox. Well, darn it, what are we waiting for–it's a no brainer. Sign him up!!
Last Thursday night Ezra kindly joined me for the Hail Social/Rainer Maria show at the Middle East. I am loving Hail Social–their whole album is quite infectious, and the only disappointment at the show was the crowd. The place was a bit empty. I guess a lot of folks still don't know about Hail Social. Part of me wishes I'd taken my camera, because it seemed like I would have been able to take loads of pictures. Oh well–maybe I'll take my camera for Of Montreal on Sunday. We did have Ezra's camera and managed to get a few pictures–mostly of Rainer Maria. They were decent. I'm not a huge fan, but it was an OK show.
Friday night my parents arrived for a weekend visit. It's always nice when they come up here to visit–it tends to feel more relaxed than other visits for some reason. On Saturday we grilled in the afternoon and attempted to go to the night's baseball game. That didn't quite work out, but I was able to get a promise that they'll plan ahead to go to a game with us next year. Sunday we drove up to Ogunquit. I thought we should check it out since it's just one exit past Kittery and we'd never really been there. We parked in Perkins Cove (we had the magic touch with parking spaces all day) and walked around, taking everything in. It's very cute, and after a couple of downpours on the highway on the way up, it turned out to be a gorgeous day.
We drove back along Route 1 past the little houses and many antique shops and stopped for some "Back to School" shopping at the outlets. Then (of course) we took the folks to the Portsmouth Brewery for dinner. I think they enjoyed the day. I know they really like Maine, so I wanted to get up there, and I wanted to go somewhere new (Ogunquit). They left after breakfast this morning.
It's another gorgeous day. I was going to do some work (yeah, I know, despite it being Labor Day), but then I had to get outside, so I went for a jog. I'll probably still do a little work anyway–but just a little.
Maybe you've noticed that I haven't written much about all of the terrible things that have been happening in the world lately. It's not that I don't know or that I don't care. I do care–it's always there, but I can't dwell on it all the time. I guess I care too much.
Not quite the same… but essentially on target, is this poem by Anne Sexton that I love. Here's a bit of it:
"Is life something you play?
And all the time wanting to get rid of it?
And further, everyone yelling at you
to shut up. And no wonder!
People don't like to be told
that you're sick
and then be forced
to watch
down with the hammer."
(But coming to the same…)
"Today life opened inside me like an egg
and there inside
after considerable digging
I found the answer.
What a bargain!
There was the sun,
her yolk moving feverishly,
tumbling her prize —
and you realize she does this daily!
I'd known she was a purifier
but I hadn't thought
she was solid,
hadn't known she was an answer.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift."


text: This past weekend, we shot a senior session at Maudslay State Park in Newburyport with Collin. Collin is going into his senior year at Pentucket High School and will be studying classic composition next fall once he makes his choice of schools. Collin is a youth leader at our church and works with the middle school youth group. Maudslay made a perfect backdrop for the shoot as Collin is an avid hiker and outdoorsman. We walked all the way to the back of the grounds, discovering some new landmarks that neither of us had seen before, so not only was it a great shooting session but an enjoyable walk as well. Enjoy!


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Ending 'don't ask, don't tell' will take time
As promised, the Pentagon has begun examining how the ban on gays serving openly could be eased and then repealed, but a complete repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy is probably years away.
The two officials appointed to lead a yearlong internal assessment - Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, and Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson - met for the first time on Feb. 9.
As that study gets under way, officials were expected by mid-March to suggest ways to relax enforcement of the law. Of particular interest is minimizing cases of "third-party outings," where a service member is kicked out after being reported by others to be gay.
The protracted timeline is about more than giving military leaders time to assess the impact on troops and put new rules in place. The multiyear process also is a strategic way of getting troops used to the idea before they have to accept change. Politically, the timeline puts off congressional debate over lifting the ban until after elections this fall.
Reversing the military's policy on gays, which is based on a 1993 law and would require an act of Congress, would mark the biggest upheaval to the military's personnel policies since the 1948 executive order on racial integration.
The goal, according to senior defense and military officials, is to avoid the backlash that could result from imposing change too fast. While officials expect resistance from only a minority of service members and believe that it could be contained with discipline, officials fear isolated incidents of violence could erupt as a means of protest.
President Obama, who says the ban is unjust, is counting on a major cultural shift among American voters in the 17 years since it went into effect. Then, Democratic lawmakers joined the military in resisting a proposal by President Bill Clinton that would have let gays serve openly.
According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, three-quarters of Americans say that they support openly gay people serving in the military. The 75 percent figure is far above the 44 percent of Americans who said so in May 1993.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, defense secretary in the first Bush administration, said Sunday he supports a review of the policy.
"When the chiefs come forward and say we think we can do it, it strikes me it's time to reconsider the policy," he told ABC's "This Week."
Cheney, who has a lesbian daughter, said he thinks society has moved on from staunch opposition to gays serving in the military.


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Mayor Fried is a Foodie/
Last week Mayor Jerry Fried visited the Kettle Kitchen. Did we chat about the intricacies of municipal government, the development of South Park Street, or the budget? Not a chance!
Turns out, Mayor Fried is a foodie. In a former life, following college, he worked his way up from fry cook to chef. So during his visit, the Mayor prepared (drum roll please . . .) Chinese food! Specifically, Chongqing hot pot, which is a traditional dish of Sichuan province.
A hot pot is a communal way of cooking and eating. People gather together around a small boiling pot of broth and dip thinly sliced raw meat, fish, or vegetable into the boiling broth until cooked.
To prepare this meal, the Mayor arrived with a unique two-sided pot, in which he prepared a spicy broth on one side and a mild broth, made from homemade veal stock, on the other. When the broths were boiling, cod, scallops, chicken, and assorted vegetables, like shitake mushrooms, arugula, and bell peppers were added individually to the broth. We then enjoyed the food with traditional condiments of freshly chopped cilantro, raw chopped garlic, sesame oil, and vinegar.
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A recent article was written concerning the Oxford Club giving four smart investment strategies. The Oxford Club is an international and private network of entrepreneurs and investors. They provide their member's time-tested and exclusive strategies and principles made to beat average returns in several asset classes and outperform the stock market. The Oxford Club covers commodities, stocks, bonds, base metals, precious metals, mutual funds, real estate, cryptocurrencies, and exchange-traded funds.
Being established nearly three decades now, the Oxford Club's team of research and strategists perform intense research on different asset classes to determine investment opportunities with the least bit of risk and the largest potential returns possible. And even though investment is not guaranteed, their strategies can assist you to earn higher returns this year no matter the status of the markets.
The four key investment strategies are as follows:
An Investment Diet that's Well-balanced
- An Investment Diet that's Well-balanced- diversity is crucial to long-term success in investing, but you should diversity among risk levels, sectors, and numerous stocks.
Possessing an Exit Strategy
- Possessing an Exit Strategy- being a good investor also includes knowing when to sell. It's very important to know how and when you plan to sell before buying.
Size Matters
- Size Matters- The Oxford Club employs a position-sizing formula to see the amount to invest in a certain stock and different assets' classes differentiated by risk. The success of their members came from their investment positions' resizing and rebalancing.
Reducing Investment Costs
- Reducing Investment Costs- through the fees of fund managers and the tax collector, and fees, such as a back-end load, a front-end load, and surrender penalties, should be avoided. The Oxford Club also teaches their members how to create a portfolio which leaves a very small amount to the IRS for taxation, thus holding stocks long enough to prevent short-term capital gains, taking smart and full advantage of tax-deferred accounts of investment, using capital losses in terms of taxes, and avoiding rapid investments' turnover minimizing incurred tax liabilities.
About The Oxford Club
The Oxford Club is an international and private network of knowledgeable and trustworthy entrepreneurs and investors. Their object is to assist their members to protect and grow their wealth. They have over 157,000 members in more than 130 countries.
The original name of this organization is the Passport Club. They launched in 1989 and took their current name in 1991 reflecting their combination of modern technology and old-world sensibility.


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From the Veritas forum
"I would place Dawkins (and Dennete) in the broad tradition of naturalist explanation of religion that includes Feuerbach, Marx, and Freud. Whatever the benefits of religions might be, these writers believe that they arise entirely inside human minds. No spiritual realities exist outside us. Natural explanations may be given of the origins of belief in God. In the end, this is a circular argument, which presupposes its conclusions. It begins from the assumption that there is no God and then proceeds to show that an explanation of God can be offered which is entirely consistent with this."
Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicut McGrath
The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine
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"World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down." The volume has received wide coverage, fueled much passionate debate and caused not a little confusion. Alister McGrath, along with his wife Joanna, are ideal to evaluate Dawkins's ideas. Once an atheist himself, he gained a doctorate in molecular biophysics before going on to become a leading Christian theologian. He wonders how two people, who have reflected at length on substantially the same world, could possibly have come to such different conclusions about God. McGrath subjects Dawkins's critique of faith to rigorous scrutiny. His exhilarating, meticulously argued response deals with questions such as Is faith intellectual nonsense? Are science and religion locked in a battle to the death? Can the roots of Christianity be explained away scientifically? Is Christianity simply a force for evil? This book will be warmly received by those looking for a reliable assessment of The God Delusion and the many questions it raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning."
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Eddie L CoatsOctober 20, 2017
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Mrs. Eddie Lee "Moonie" Coats, 80, of 323 Ashcroft Drive, widow of Bennie C. Coats, Sr. entered into eternal rest on Friday, October 20,2017 at NHC-Greenwood. Born in Callison, she was the daughter of the late M.C. Williams and Elizabeth Hampton Williams. She was a member of Flint Hill Missionary Baptist Church and was a 1955 Brewer High School Graduate. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Cheryl "Top Cat" Quarles, five brothers, Roosevelt, Willie Frank, Lenward, Elijah and James C. Williams, one sister, JoAnn Coats and one grandson, Antonio "T.B." Coats.
She leaves to cherish her memories, one son, Bennie C. Coats, Jr. of Greenwood; three daughters, Deborah Gilliam, Donna Coats and Stephanie Coats, all of Greenwood; one sister, Ella Mae Brown of Greenwood; eight grandchildren; twenty-five great-grandchildren, five great-great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn her passing.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at Flint Hill Missionary Baptist Church, conducted by Rev. William H. Booker. The body will be placed in the church at 11:00 am. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.


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sesame soy tossed mixed greens, sprouts, cabbage, red pepper, cucumbers,
carrots, crispy wontons and black sesame
Sesame Soy Salad Dressing
Noodles and Company Copycat Recipe
Make 1 Cup
1 cup sesame oil
1/2 cup rice vinegar
2 tablespoons chopped ginger (fresh or in a jar)
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds
Toast sesame seeds in a dry, hot skillet just until they turn brown and begin to pop. Be careful not to burn them. In a food processor blend vinegar, ginger, soy sauce and sesame seeds. Slowly blend in sesame oil until emulsified.


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Help Me Choose
When you are choosing an Awning or Outdoor Blind it is important to factor its functionality, size, location and how the system can be adapted to the requirements of its users. Over time your awning will be exposed to humidity, rain, solar radiation, heat, and pollution.
It is just as important to understand the differences between the various systems and fabrics to ensure you make the right choice for your exact scenario.


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Make a Christmas Wreath
I have seen some fabulous wreaths on the internet, and all of them you can make for yourself! Which one do you like best? I just can't decide!
This first wreath is made from paper – the tutorial to make it is at The Red Thread
Another really lovely paper wreath is from Razzle Dazzle Crafting – I love the texture on this one:
This charming rag wreath made from strips of fabric comes from Create Studio – this would look so cute with a rustic theme Christmas!
Instead of cloth, how about making a lovely wreath out of cranberries! So beautiful! There is a tutorial to make yourself one at The Idea Room
Another wreath that looks good enough to eat – BUT ISN"T! is this fun gumdrop wreath from A Pretty Cool life.
Here is another really fun and easy wreath from Better Homes and Gardening – this would be so easy to make, and it looks so adorable!
Lastly, one of my favorite ones – because my grandma used to have one of these and I always loved it, a Christmas bulb wreath. Eddie Ross shows you how to make this one and it's a lot more easy than it looks! His turned out just gorgeous!


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Happy Monday!
I hope you all had a relaxing weekend. Mine started with a real housewife of ___ theme dinner party which was so much fun on Friday evening (check my IG for pics of my all sequins outfit) and a birthday lunch at world famous Peter Luger's on Saturday which was followed by some light shopping at Union Square, IMATS, and ended with a meetup with StyleHaul at Times Square. Sunday was my domesticated and lazy lounge day complete with laundry, cleaning and hours upon hours of Netflix. My camera died early on so I was not able to take pics at the events,womp 🙁
Yellow Jacket-H&M; Button down blouse Forever21; Floral skirt Old Navy; Belt NY&Company; Lace-up booties Lola Shoetique
Weather is finally starting to feel and look like Spring. So stay tuned for some spring fits!


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Does the decline of the Roman Empire portend America's? The eighteenth century historian Edward Gibbon once wrote, "The long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated. Decline of genius was soon followed by corruption…" Given the present condition of our civil society and the threats we face both within and without, some modern leaders and scholars have drawn relatable parallels between United States and Rome in its final days. But is this the case?
I Can See Russia (and now China!) From My Home
View image | gettyimages.com By Joel Post, Fellow, American Leadership and Policy Foundation Saturday Night Live is well-known for its political satire. One of the most popular skewerings in recent times had Tina Fey impersonating then Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, declaring that she could "see Russia from [her] home." Indeed you can see Russia, and […]
The State of The Union is Weak: A Call To Action
I recently had the privilege of attending a Security and Defense summit in South Carolina hosted by the Citadel. The gathering pulled in members and leaders from every branch of military and government. For many, it was a chance to voice their concerns off the record. Sadly, most panels and discussions demonstrated one disturbing and re-occurrent theme – America is losing.
Strengthening America's Foundations in this Generation and the Next
We are not the only generation of Americans to face overwhelming odds. In 1777, the American Colonial bid for independence teetered on failure. At Valley Forge, Washington's army dangled by a thread; diplomatic relations between the French and colonists had stalled; and elsewhere, the Continental Army experienced strategic losses including the British occupation of Philadelphia – America's largest city.
The hope of freedom was fading. Within the Continental Congress, some leaders began resigning the cause to fate. What turned the table on hopelessness?
Turkey: A Republic Failing?
While Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia and Egypt remain faltering democracies, no nation's declension is more alarming than Turkey's – a key Western ally that has enjoyed stability for more than five decades. In 2013, Turkey's internal struggles made international headlines when hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in the nation's largest cities to protest against Erdoğan's impingements on everything from freedom of the press to freedom of assembly. But the crackdown was not confined to the political realm.
ALPF Discusses Airspace Security with D.C. Press: Keeping Washington D.C. Airspace Safe Is Tall Order
The chairman of the American Leadership and Policy Foundation, David Stuckenberg, is a military pilot who writes about airspace security. Speaking via Skype, he said the present safety systems are inadequate. "We need to understand that we've been lucky and as technology increases and as drones proliferate people will increasingly look at these as weapons of opportunity or technologies that can be adapted for ill intent."
The Coming Age of Cis-lunar and Deep Space Power
Historically, military powers have endeavored to exploit the advantages afforded by holding the high ground on the battlefield. Beginning in World War I with the introduction of the airplane and the new perspective it offered, the high ground migrated to the air. By the late 20th century, war fighters had greatly advanced the application of airpower. Today, aided by technology, the high ground has shifted to space.
GPS Insecurity
A large variety of jamming devices – illegal to market and sell in the U.S. – are available on the Internet. Their use could lead to interference with the reception of signals from our Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satellites (GPS). Through frequency interference and manipulation, criminals, terrorists, and hostile powers can deny or scramble information in a manner that will damage communication, transportation and function of most digital technologies in the private and public sectors.
Drones in the U.S. National Airspace System – A Safety and Security Assessment
Since 9/11, the United States government has made extensive investments to safeguard citizens, cherished monuments, critical infrastructure and key government installations. Unfortunately, many safeguards are easily bypassed by overflight. On January 26, 2015, a small drone bypassed the fences and radar protecting the White House and crashed unceremoniously onto the south lawn.


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This last month has been CrAzY! So much has been done with even more to come.
We have been non-stop busy working to get ready for spring!
1,000-yard Electronic Target Rifle Range
Dirt work has been slow going thanks to the rain but our crews have been working every possible day they can. Now that we are out of winter we are starting to be able to move more and more dirt.
The firing line is getting there and should be done soon and ready for us to start building the covered firing line on. As for our Electronic Target system, we have been working closely with the engineer for a new system that is making a system that will blow all of the other target systems away! We are working with him to customize it for our range to ensure it is everything we need and you deserve. Right now we are keeping it hush-hush but we will be announcing it soon, with a video, so keep an eye out!
Sporting Clays
As some of you know we have been putting a lot of time and energy into tidying up our Sporting
Clays Courses and rebuilding the gravel cart paths that were destroyed by this winters vicious freeze and thaw cycles we had. All of our roads and cart paths have had a brand new base spread on them. The day before our last monthly shoot we had a nice flash flood that washed out one of our bridges and we were able to get that back in place before the shoot thank goodness. Thank you Mini-Excavator! With the help Gregg Piercey we were able to get not one, but two forestry grinders in to clean up some of the stations and begin to open up some pull over areas in the woods. We still have some work to do but it is coming along.
3-D Archery Course
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for our 3-D Archery Course, your wait is over! Now that we have corrected the beaver fiasco and everything has dried back out we have gotten back to work on our 3-D Archery Course! We have marked it out and are finishing up the walking path. The 3-D targets are on order and should be here soon. We even are building a
large 16′ tall shooting platform for those elevated shots!
Be careful though! During construction, a sasquatch has been sighted!
April Construction
We have gotten a lot done but we have much more to do! For the month of April, we have quite a bit planned. A few of the plans we have are:
- Finish the dirt work on the rifle range firing line so we can begin construction on the covered firing line.
- Open up the 3-D Archery Course
- Finish clearing out and tidying up the cart paths and complete all pull-offs and cart parking spots.
- Place the finishing layer of fine gravel on our cart paths and parking areas.
- Finish construction on the Skeet/Trap Fields and open them by the end of April.
- Seeding with native forage prairie grasses.
- and much, much more!
We have so much planned for this month so keep an eye out on our Facebook page and website!
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"A river cuts through rock, not because of it's power, but it's persistence" – Jim Watkins.
How important is a growth mindset? Do you believe in the power of that mindset?
Often we have students who really challenge us. They may have gaps in learning, retention issues, behavior issues, lack of experiences to build upon. We have to ask ourselves a fundamental question: "Do I believe achievement ability is fixed"? Until you answer this for yourself, you're just treading water. Counting off days and averaging scores until the year ends and your work with them is finished.
If you believe that with effort, opportunity, motivation and instruction, ability can be influenced, how are you conveying that to your students? Do they have a growth mindset?
I believe as educators, developing this in our students is our first job. It matters not how much you subscribe to the philosophy. What matters is how much they do. What steps do you take to create, support, and build this?
I put a lot of emphasis on effort. I recognize and reward even tiny steps forward. I announce to my students -daily- that today will be a great day for their mind (they love that). I don't always just accept what they produce. I ask for more. I tell them, "I will help you, I'll walk down this long bumpy road with you, but I won't stand idly by with you. You're going to have to walk along side me". I give them choices but having a fixed mindset isn't one of them. My room is sometimes loud. We have been known to stop and play Celebration by Kool & The Gang for a random kid accomplishing a random feat. I tweet quality work, and each student knows what quality means for them. They also have goals in place so what was quality today will look different next time. It must. Because we have a growth mindset. We expect to succeed. The journey is what looks different for each kid. Not the destination. The destination is achievement. For all.
I actually said out loud today, during a benchmark, "What matters today isn't your score. What matters is your thinking and how you describe it to me on that test". I actually stopped and thought to myself, did I just say that a benchmark score doesn't matter? Even more amazing, not a single kid looked at me funny or responded at all. They know that what I value is their thinking and their growth.
For those who are now nervous about "scores" and tests…. I'm pleased to report that despite my declaration that a score was meaningless, every student in my class improved from their last assessment. One student who scored a 25 on his previous STAAR test earned a 50% today. It's only December and he has doubled his score.
I don't always accomplish all the things on my plate on any given day. I'm not always on track with where the papers say I should be. But I never skimp on this. It happens daily, no matter what. It's a decision I must make every day and what I don't get done, it will be there tomorrow. It's just how I've evolved. It's the only way I know how to teach. We protect some things at the expense of others. We protect what we value. What do you protect?
I am convinced this is perhaps the most important influence you can ever have on a life. I challenge you to start building that growth mindset today. Turn your attention to that one most important job of all. Watch the vision develop into a reality.
Our students need it. For many, their success will depend on it. For some, the only way they will receive it is through you.
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I got this out of the Horror section but until late in the story I didn't know if it was going to turn out to be supernatural or human monsters. That would be telling though. Part of the fun is trying to work out that point.
The story had a lot of action once it got going. The first half is basically character development before things heat up. There was some foreshadowing that never really went anywhere and a few things didn't quite fit together, but I enjoyed the read. The only real niggle was one of the explanations near the end that was the reverse of known science. Let's just say that inbreeding tends to produce mutations and that's one of those everybody knows that facts.
There was also too little explanation of how the guardians managed to get close to the family without ever being seen. I was a little disappointed by the ending, but at least it tied everything up. The writing itself was good and made it hard to stop in the later chapters. I guess sometimes you just have to enjoy a read for what it is and not worry about realism.


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We've made the case for well over a year now that our "dollar strength" theme, is more like "other currency weakness" than any "policy divergence." In other words, it's the underlying weakness in European and Asian economies that are allowing their currencies to fall against the dollar; as oppossed to dollar strength coming from the Fed tightening policy. More likely the coming USD strength is due to unwinding hidden "carry" trades. The concept of TINA (There Is No Alternative to stocks) is a great example of the hidden carry trade. Many people own US stocks because they have a positive carry (i.e. a dividend yield of 3-5%). Of course, if your stock falls 20%, that's 4-7 years worth of dividends, and at a major economic, and stock market, bottom people will be worried about preserving capital, not collecting dividends.
The euro had a brief spike on Thursday to complete a second wave. We warned about EURUSD strength in a second wave, and Friday's collapse suggest its complete. We did up the degree one level, and a small wave (ii) bounce is due, but we are aggressively bearish looking for a move to below parity, and perhaps it's going to be a big move below it. RSI has registered yet another Sustainable Bear reading which confirms our bearish view. There may be some temporary support around the 1.08 level, which is some temporary structural support, but as long as prices remain below the wave 2 high, we're looking for a move lower straight away.
Given the extent of the drop post-Brexit, a triangle for wave ((4)) makes perfect sense. Triangles eat up a lot of time, and a general sideways move would allow the Sustainable Bear readings in RSI to subside enough to allow for a bullish divergence into the wave ((5)) low. The trend remains down, but it looks like we'll spend a little more time in wave (E) prior to something significant happening on the downside. Even then, we're not anticipating GBP leading to the downside. That said, we're not stepping in front of this train.
Aussie poked it's head above our previously labeled wave (ii) high validating our suspicion about the count. Thursday's violent reversal from below the wave 2 high leaves the top count intact, although we may have completed the alternate count's wave 2 high with a truncation as well. Either way, we're now bearish against the wave (ii) high. Notice that RSI didn't enter Sustainable Bull territory (upper blue zone) which suggests the rally isn't sustainable. It'll take a full five down, three up correction for us to get aggressively bearish again.
The rally up last week overlapped our suspected wave (i) low. In addition, the rally appears to be in five waves, which means the rally isn't likely complete. We're a bit confused on how to count the decline in a bearish manner, which means the immediately bearish count is likely wrong. We're going to wait for clarity rather than throw out too many guesses on which direction this one is headed, because that's exactly what they'd be – guesses.
Well, certainly, our count last week was off. The question is whether we're about to complete wave (c) to the upside, or if something larger is developing. RSI should help decide its fate this week, and until we see a clear wave pattern, we'll stand aside here too.
USDJPY still hasn't tipped its hand. Japanese stocks were strong last week, breaking the recent consolidation, but the currency hasn't. Even as the Chinese yuan continues to weaken, perversely the yen has remained fairly strong, especially given its untenable debt and central bank positions. When the yen weakness starts its going to get ugly, but we can't confirm its start yet. We're not bearish here, more like, "waiting to turn bullish." A push above 105.50 will likely activate the alternate as it may push RSI into Sustainable Bull territory. We're not going to ignore a signal like that at this juncture.
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Its game day once again and once again we have games on both Friday and Saturday. The U19s sit this week out due to an odd number of teams in their Savage Cup group, but all three senior teams are in action including a home debut for the Swifts. There is a tasty encounter in the Lisburn League where the U13s take on Cliftonville. We also have two junior teams at the Arena on Saturday morning.
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Firsts v Seapatrick
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This month I completed two books and two novellas. I'm pretty sure this is what devastation and pure failure feels like, and I never want to feel it again.
- Angelfall by Susan Ee
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- The Assassin and the Pirate Lord by Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass Novella)
- The Assassin and the Healer by Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass Novella)
I'll be reviewing these books in the very near future!
Though I may not have finished the next few books, I did read a few chapters, or get at least halfway through the following:
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- Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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1xRT is short for a single carrier radio transmission technology. A 3G wireless technology is based on the CDMA platform. 1xRT does have the capability of providing ISDN-like speeds of 144Kbps.
The IEEE standard for wireless communications accepted in 1977 and since then has been enhanced:
- Applies to wireless LANs with 1 to 2 Mbps in the 2.4GHz band using either frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) or direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS).
- An extension to 802.11 that provides up to 54 Mbps in the 5GHz band using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) encoding scheme rather than FHSS or DSSS.
- An extension to 802.11 generally referred to as WI-FI with transmission speeds to 11Mbps that includes a fallback to 5.5Mbps, 2Mbps, and 1Mbps in the 2.4GHz band range. It was ratified in 1999 allowing wireless speeds to Ethernet standard of 10Mbps. This is the most compatible industry standard today but could be replaced by the newer standards such as 802.11g or other ones to come.
- An extension to 802.11 that provides 20+ Mbps in the 2.4GHz band range.
Code Division Multiple Access is Qualcomm's digital wireless technology. Each call is distinguished by a unique code resulting in a higher use capacity. Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless use this technology in their wireless networks.
Cellular Digital Packet Data is a wireless transmission method that uses the analog cellular networks (AMPS). It allows information to be transmitted on on idle voice channels and transmissions are sent in packets. The data rate on CDPD is 19.2 kpbs.
Hypertext Transport Protocol is the set of rules for exchanging text, graphics, sound, video, etc. on the world-wide web. Web servers like Apache are simply HTTP servers that service requests from an Internet browser like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mosaic, etc. The port used for HTTP is 80.
Java is an object-oriented programing language from Sun and can be used to develop applications on the web. A major feature of Java is portability across networks and with any device using a Java Virtual Machine.
Java Beans
Java Beans is an interface that lets you build re-usable components that can be deployed in a network. These Java Beans can be combined with other components on the same computer or distributed across the network to form an application.
Java Database Connectivity is an Application Program Interface (API) for connecting programs within Java to the data in popular databases.
Java Message Service is an API that supports messaging between computers on a network. JMS provides a common interface to standard messaging protocols used to exchange data between computers rather than users.
Java Naming and Directory Interface enables Java based applications to access multiple naming and directory services such as LDAP, CORBA, etc.
Java Server Pages is a servlet-based technology for controlling the content or appearance of web pages. Servlets run on the web server and JSP is comparable to Microsoft's ASP.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources on the Internet or Corporate Intranet. Developed by Microsoft being very similar to Novell's NDS.
RSA Key Encryption
RSA is an Internet encryption and authentication system that uses an algorithm developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The RSA algorithm is the most commonly used encryption and authentication algorithm and is included as part of the web browser from Microsoft and Netscape.
Secure Socket Layer is the industry standard for protecting web pages. This protocol provides data encryption and server authentication, message integrity, and client authentication. SSL is built into major browsers such as IE and Netscape in two strengths: 40-bit and 128-bit with most secure websites using 128-bit encryption. When you connect to an HTTPS web server, you are using SSL.
Virtual Private Network is a private data network that makes use of the public telecommunications infrastructure, maintaining privacy through the use of tunneling protocols such as L2TP. VPN can promote better utilization of router/switch hardware and assist LAN Management.
WAP is the Wireless Access Protocol for use in cellular telephones, pagers, handheld devices, and wireless computer equipment. WAP provides a complete environment for wireless applications that includes a wireless counterpart of TCP/IP. WAP also uses WMLScript, a compact JavaScript like language that runs in limited memory. WAP supports input methods such as keyboard, voice recognition, finger pad, etc. WAP is device independent.
Wireless Equivalent Privacy and WEP 2 simply provides basic network security for wireless networking equipment. WEP in combination with 802.1x and a Radius Server running Kereberos 5 can significantly increase security, however, additional devices can be procured to make the wireless network even more secure.
Wireless Fidelity standard of 802.11b with speeds up to 11Mbps in a 2.4GHz band range.
Wireless Fidelity 5 is the standard of 802.11a with speeds up to 54 Mbps in the 5GHz band range.
Wireless Markup Language, formerly called HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Language) is a language that allows the text portion of web pages to be presented on cellular telephones and PDAs via wireless access. WML is part of WAP.
Date of Last Revision: 17 October 2002.
Extracted from different resources to include IEEE, www.xora.com, www.webopedia.com, www.wireless.com, and my own knowledge of wireless technologies.


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Georgetown in Georgetown County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
The Rice Museum
The rice culture in Georgetown County is one of the most colorful chapters in American History. Through maps, dioramas, artifacts, "The Garden of Gold" video produced by the museum, and other exhibits, the Rice Museum tells the story of the rice plantation era and a society based on one agricultural crop.
The Kaminski Building next door houses the Maritime History Museum, home of the "Browns Ferry Vessel." Listed on the National Register, this is the oldest vessel of colonial manufacture in the United States. This 50-foot vessel was built around 1700 and sank in the Black River in the Browns Ferry area of Georgetown County in 1730.
Other exhibits in the museum include the history of the Kaminski Hardware Company, Gullah history of the S.C. Low Country; the life of Miss Ruby Forsythe, one of South Carolina's great educators; and the story of Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress.
The Provost Gallery houses rotating exhibits of art and history, and the gift shop features local arts and crafts, as well as items from museum collections throughout the world.
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Marker series. This marker is included in the South Carolina Heritage Corridor marker series.
Location. 33° 21.933′ N, 79° 16.946′ W. Marker is in Georgetown, South Carolina, in Georgetown County. Marker can be reached from the intersection of Front Street and Screven Street, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Located on Harborwalk, next to the Clock Tower. Marker is at or near this postal address: 633 Front Street, Georgetown SC 29442, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 10 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Marquis de Lafayette (a few steps from this marker); Town Clock / Kaminski Building (within shouting distance of this marker); Sinking Of The USS Harvest Moon (within shouting distance of this marker); South Carolina's Third Oldest City (within shouting distance of this marker); Rice is King (within shouting distance of this marker); 718 Front Street (within shouting distance of this marker); 724 Front Street (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); 726 Front Street (about 300 feet away); 732 - 734 Front Street (about 400 feet away); Francis Marion (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Georgetown.
Also see . . . The Rice Museum. Known locally as The Town Clock, is located in the Old (Submitted on August 23, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)
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