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The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency's Board of Commissioners has approved a plan to reallocate $7.1 million in federal money from flood relief to downtown riverfront redevelopment.
Another $1.3 million will be redirected toward the construction of a new affordable housing development on Jefferson Street. The plan will also require approval from the Metro Council, a process officials expect to begin this month, and a final review from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The funds come from a $33 million grant the city received from HUD after the May 2010 flood.
At the MDHA board's meeting Tuesday, the agency's director of community development, Angie Hubbard, told commissioners that applications for housing assistance have "seriously declined." She also expressed frustration at cases in which MDHA's hands are tied because of a HUD rule that doesn't allow the agency to reimburse flood victims who spent their own money on home repairs before the federal money came in.
"That was very discouraging to us," Hubbard told The City Paper. "Where we are now, three years from the flood, people are either back in their house through other means that we can't help, or they've walked away. If there are still people out there that may have tried to get a loan or got denied or something like that, or for whatever reason didn't put any money in, we can still help."
The reallocated funds are meant to go toward flood mitigation — which could include a promenade and a flood wall — as part of Mayor Karl Dean's plan to revitalize the west bank of the Cumberland River. Dean's $300 million capital spending plan, approved last month by the council, included $25 million for the project.
This flood damage money is now slated to be added to the $25 Million already approved in the 2013 Parks budget for the West Bank project and will help beautify and and protect downtown.
So money earmarked for flood repair is now being used for beautification of downtown while flood damaged roads, buildings, fencing, and RV hook-ups remain untouched at the Fairgrounds.
Must every large chunk of money spent in our county be focused downtown?
MDHA stands for Metropolitan Development and Housing.
Let's focus these disaster relief funds towards completing mitigation of flood damages in our county and send a large portion of these funds to fix Fairgrounds flood damages.
Join the movement to Save Our Fairgrounds (Fb) (.com)
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"Well, here we go again!" Backwards. Or better yet, Backwoods.
This will be Great for the Barge traffic(The Ingrams)(The Opry Tourboats/Bud Adams/Gaylord) and the Rich Southern Land Barons(Morales/Mandrell etc), but it does little for "Jefferson Street Joe" "Ghetto Joe" or :"Jody...from Salemtown."
Reverse the allocations. Send 1m downtown and the 7m to Jefferson Street for THE BLACK MUSEUM.
One Heart!
There are homes in my neighborhood which are abandoned and ruined due to the flood, I've pointed this out to my Councillor but it's not downtown.
Funny how a downtown park can get millions but Beaman Park can't get a penny for trail expansion even though it's just a matter of marking and cleaning up old farm roads for most of the distance.
I laugh that MDHA was responsible for the money to begin with. This is money that should have been handled by Metro government. Once again, Metro moves funding for all of Davidson needs to the off-budget enterprise from hell. Of course, this movement of money to downtown pet projects (with a token thrown toward Northern council members) may have been the plan all alone when Metro shirked..eh.. granted oversight to the MDHA shadow government.
I was flooded out of our house...no Govt (other than FEMA) has ever contacted me to see if I need help or $$ for repairs. I pay taxes, I would like 60k of this 1.3M to just break even.
I'm amazed at how Nashville voted for a Democrat candidate and got a Republican mayor.
The funds come from a $33 million grant the city received from HUD after the May 2010 flood.


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In Jerry Linser's apiary rehab clinic, he holds one of his clients between his fingers.
"I know where you've been," murmurs Linser to a honeybee, as he gently lifts it to the bee screen around his face. "You have a honey-tummy full of stuff, I can see it."
Linser was tending to one of the 150,000 residents of his Bee Ranch in Grant, checking to see how they survived the harsh winter. In an effort to reverse declines in bee populations, Linser is among the hundreds of Minnesotans who have jumped onto the beekeeping bandwagon.
One sign of the buzz around beekeeping is the success of the Stillwater Honey Bee Club, which has jumped from four members to 160 in 14 months. The University of Minnesota Extension Service has seen an increase in beekeeping interest, and Bob Sitko, who teaches at Century College, said his beekeeping classes are "overflowing."
Their mission: saving mankind's best friend in the insect world.
In the past, Linser said, about 10 percent to 15 percent of bee hives in the U.S. died over the winter. In the past several years, the die-off has soared to 40 percent to 80 percent.
Why all the buzz kill?
Bee mites, pesticides and lack of food are three big reasons.
The mites, tiny parasites that attack bees, are widespread. "It's the wood tick of honeybees," Linser said.
Common pesticides are suspect, including neonicotinoids. These are among the most popular insecticides in the world, spread widely on commodity crops and available in garden centers.
Linser said the neonicotinoids appear in pollen, where bees can pick it up and take it back to their hives.
Bees' food sources are disappearing. Bees depend on nectar from flowers, but as suburbia sprawls into natural areas, another source of pollen vanishes.
A neatly mowed lawn? "That is like the Sahara Desert to a honeybee," Linser said.
The so-called bee-pocalypse is alarming because bees are natural gardeners. As they fly from flower to flower, they transfer pollen — which fertilizes plants and allows them to reproduce.
"Without bees, there would be no melons, no berries, no nuts," said teacher Sitko, one of the founders of the Stillwater club. Bees are responsible, he said, for about a third of the world's food production.
Bees are so valuable that they have become immigrant farm workers. Roughly half of the nation's domesticated bees are annually trucked into California, where they are essential to fertilize the state's almond crop.
Last weekend, Linser suited up for his chores, donning a white bee smock, complete with a built-in zip-up helmet.
He loaded some green grass into his smoker, which is like a coffee can with a bellows to fan the flames inside.
Carrying a bucket of tools, he entered the bee pen, about the size of a double garage. He passed through the electric fence, which keeps bears and other critters away.
With the steady monotone buzz of thousands of bees in his ears, he began to check each of the 19 hives. He already had ordered 18,000 replacement bees, about 6 pounds of insects, to make up for the bees lost over the winter. The box, sent from California, included tinier boxes, like thrones, for the queens.
By each hive, Linser squirted a few puffs of smoke to calm the bees. He noted with satisfaction that one experiment had worked — a hive he insulated last fall survived the winter with few casualties.
Speaking from inside the bee helmet, he explained that he is doing genetic engineering of his own. He picks out which bees to breed, looking for bees that are disease-free, docile, tough enough to survive winter, and good honey producers.
At one hive, Linser suddenly stood up straight. "Oooh," he said. He held up an index finger with a bee hanging on, stinging him. The finger swelled up like a bratwurst.
Other people might have reacted by, say, putting on gloves. But not Linser.
His relationship with bees is not just about business. Even with a swollen finger, he continued to pick them up and feel them wiggling — almost affectionately. He wanted to encourage them, feed them, comfort them and talk to them.
He tenderly held up a small worker bee. "Why, just look at you," he said proudly, "all covered with pollen."
Bob Shaw can be reached at 651-228-5433. Follow him at twitter.com/BshawPP.
Here are a few tips from the Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association, the Honey Bee Club of Stillwater and the University of Minnesota Extension Service:
— If you see bees clumped together in a mass, don't interfere with them. Bees swarm before they find a permanent home. Call the Swarm-Chasers hotline at 651-436-7915, and a member of the Honey Bee Club will make a free house call to take the bees to a safe location.
— Eliminate garden pesticides. The Extension Service recommends avoiding pesticides in general, but particularly neonicotinoids, which are common in pesticides sold in garden centers. Check product labels.
— Grow plants that bees like, including bee balm, anise hyssop, lupine, asters, Autumn Joy sedum, sunflowers and herbs such as thyme and oregano. In open areas, clover and alfalfa also feed bees. For more bee-friendly plants, visit the website of the Extension Service, extension.umn.edu/garden/honey-bees/.
Bob Sitko, beekeeping instructor and founding member of the Honey Bee Club of Stillwater, has compiled some remarkable facts about bees:
— Bees don't hibernate. They swarm into a ball in the winter and wiggle from the outside to the center and back out. That generates a constant 93 degrees in the ball's center.
— If a spider wanders into a bee hive, the bees can't sting it. Instead, they swarm around it until the heat from their bodies kills it.
— If a mouse wanders into a hive, bees will sting it to death. Then they preserve it with a coating of a substance they produce called propolis, which keeps the corpse intact for as long as two years.
— When it is time to breed, a queen will take flight — the only time in her life she will leave the hive. In midair, she might mate as many as 15 times.
— When it's time for a hive to have a new queen, the bees start to feed a few young bees a substance called royal jelly that transforms ordinary bees into egg-laying queens.

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Thursday through Saturday, 5/29-5/31, Shipley & Halmos is hosting its seasonal sample sale featuring up to 75% off present and past seasons' stock. We've been told to expect varsity jackets for $250; blazers for $125-175; wovens for $65; tees for $30; polos for $40; and shoes for $75-$100.
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In the midwestern US, it's a summer of life-threatening heat and humidity. The northeastern US will see dew points in the upper 70s, near record level highs, according to the Weather Channel. In Brazil, a freak cold snap actually brought snowfall to the southern states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. While it is winter in the southern hemisphere, Brazil is sandwiched between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator. Frosts are common. Ice storms are common. Snow is not.
Farther east, China's northwest saw temperatures over 100 degrees to as high as 113 last week. More than eight of the region's prefectures have been scorched by heat waves since the beginning of the month.
Last year it was Russia and India's turn, with deadly summer scorchers causing massive wildfires and thousands of deaths. The summer of 2010 was the deadliest for Russia, and the hottest ever for India, with temperatures in some parts of the country reaching 122 degrees in north India.
According to the guys who brought us outerspace and the moon walk, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies says the earth is not cooling, it is getting warmer. It's not a pressure cooker. The world is not boiling over. In fact, temperatures have risen about two degrees on average since 1880. So if the average earth temperature back then was 70 degrees, it is now 72 degrees.
Most of the warming occurred after 1975, when we started burning fossil fuels in greater numbers, especially in emerging markets and the US.
Why should we care about two degrees of warming?
The global temperature record represents an average over the entire surface of the planet. The temperatures we experience locally and in short periods can fluctuate significantly due to predictable cyclical events (night and day, summer and winter) and hard-to-predict wind and precipitation patterns. But the global temperature mainly depends on how much energy the planet receives from the sun and how much it radiates back into space -- quantities that change very little. The amount of energy radiated by the Earth depends significantly on the chemical composition of the atmosphere, particularly the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, NASA scientists say, adding that:
A one-degree global change is significant because it takes a vast amount of heat to warm all the oceans, atmosphere, and land by that much. In the past, a one- to two-degree drop was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age. A five-degree drop was enough to bury a large part of North America under a towering mass of ice 20,000 years ago."
See: A World of Change by the NASA Earth Observatory.


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Chapter 18
"You tell him?" Helen asked as they dumped their trays of half-eaten salads and empty bottles of water into a trash can near the exit of the cafeteria. An old woman asked for her autograph and Donna smiled as her eyes widened in surprise. Helen smiled politely and took the piece of paper, raising her eyebrows at Donna before signing her name.
"Your first one?" Donna asked, avoiding the subject.
Helen nodded. "They don't usually recognize me unless I'm standing with him. So, you tell him?"
"No, but we agreed we need to talk," she said, balancing a turkey sandwich and Lipton iced tea in one hand and her cell phone and Josh's wallet in the other. She hoped he'd feel up to eating and knew he'd only complain about hospital food, so she thought ahead, getting him something healthy he'd eat without whining.
"Hmm…" Helen said, a sandwich for Matt in her hand. They'd sent Ned to the hotel to work on travel plans. Josh was going to spend the night at the hospital, so they were going to be in Miami an extra day.
"What do you mean, hmm?" Donna asked.
Helen shrugged. "I just didn't think you'd chicken out."
Donna's eyes opened wide. "We're going to talk," she said in a voice that reminded her of Josh's squeak. "He's hurt, it can wait a little longer."
Helen pushed the door to the stairs open with her back, letting Donna walk in before it shut behind them and they started up the flight of stairs to the main floor. "Can I ask you something? I know we don't know each other, but…"
"You can tell my life's a mess, and you can't help medaling just a little?" Donna cut in good-naturedly.
Helen smiled. "Something like that. I mean, you did tell me of your undying love before telling anyone else in the world, I feel invested in it now."
Donna laughed. She liked this woman. Liked her a lot. It was kind of like hanging out with CJ, but without having to worry about work protocol. Josh wasn't taboo here, they were just two girls talking, which should've seemed weird considering this woman might soon be the First Lady. Donna was glad she'd gotten the chance to get to know her a little before the titles and the formality kicked in. "Well by all means then, ask away."
Helen stopped walking, prompting Donna to do the same. She looked at her for a long moment before speaking. "I wouldn't give a day with Matt back. Not a single day. Why are you willing to give up so many of them with Josh?"
And there it was, the other perspective, the wind knocked out of her like a punch to the gut. For years she'd told herself to wait. Wait until they were out of office, wait until it wouldn't be quite so hard, wait until they'd both done whatever it was they needed to do with other people, wait until they didn't work together. And then it was wait until the primaries are over, wait until he realizes how badly he hurt you, wait until you can repair what the two of you have done to each other, wait until you aren't working against each other. There's always time. Just wait… wait… wait…
But this woman didn't see that. Of course an argument could be made for wait, but there it was like a lightening bolt. Could any of those reasons be reason enough? Had they ever been reason enough? When it was put that simply, no. No reason was worth spending every night for the last eight years alone instead of with him. No reason she could think of was ever reason enough.
She looked up at Helen with a huge smile on her face. "So…that talk needs to happen today?"
Helen nodded. "Yes it does. Now, it's possible that I was eavesdropping when you quit your job today, so let's talk about you coming to work for me when we win this nomination."
"I see Javert's gone," she said triumphantly, walking into the curtained area along with Helen. Josh and Matt were discussing the possibility of a press conference or a local morning show since he hadn't gotten to speak that afternoon.
"Who's Javert?" Josh asked, looking up confused.
"Josh," Helen admonished. "Don't you know Les Miserables?"
"The musical? No," he said, shaking his head in disgust.
"Well, it's still touring. We're gonna find a show near us in some city somewhere and the four of us will go."
The congressman sighed and hung his head before standing up, kissing his wife on the cheek and taking the sandwich out of her hand. "What'd I tell you Josh?"
Josh nodded, the idea of double dates popping into his head. "Yeah," he said, glancing at Donna.
"Javert is the corrupt police officer. Where's yours?"
"Ahh…" Josh said slowly. "He left. Mentioned something about the President and the FBI. You know anything about that?" he asked with raised eyes.
She smiled innocently. "Now Josh. You asked me not to call the President. How would I know anything about that?"
"So I should've been more specific is what your saying?"
"Toby's my friend. I often confide in him. If he chooses to then confide in the President who chooses to take action, that can hardly be considered my fault."
"Yes, hardly."
"Very crafty," Helen said smiling. Donna looked at her smiled wickedly.
"Very sneaky is what you mean," Josh shot back.
"Sneaky, crafty, however you'd like to phrase it. I've made a good decision," she said, winking at Donna. "Now, I've got Donna's room key. Matt and I are going to her hotel to get her things and bring them to our hotel. We'll put them in your room…since you won't be using it tonight."
"Josh," the congressman said. "We'll make sure dinner's here by seven."
"Dinner?" Donna asked.
He looked at her and smiled. "I'm not missing any more dinners with you." Then he turned to the congressman. "Thank you Sir. For everything."
"Your welcome." They turned to leave and Donna smiled down at Josh. He reached out for her hand, but she turned at the last second and followed them out.
"Congressman," she said once they were in the hallway.
He looked back at her and saw a look of trepidation on her face. Kissing Helen on the forehead, she went to the door of the emergency room and waited. "Yes?" he asked when it was just the two of them.
"I…" she trailed off, trying to apologize for her actions that day but not quite sure how to.
"Would've done anything you had to do," he said smiling. She nodded, tears springing to her eyes. "You're going to make a good addition to the team, Chicken Fighter," he said with a wink.
She smiled back and wiped the one tear that had escaped away. "You always gonna call me that?"
"I think it has a certain flair to it," he said before turning and catching up to his wife.
She'd gone out into the hallway to apologize to the congressman, and when she'd gotten back, he'd been out cold. So she'd pulled the chair in the corner over to the bed and she'd rested her hand on top of the covers near his, so her fingers could brush his and she could feel he was there.
And then she watched him, watched him sleep, his face relaxed and his brow not furrowed. It was a rare look for him, contentedness, and she tilted her head a little to the side and just stared. The machines in the room made their noises, taking his heart rate and pulse occasionally, and he snored lightly, but still, it seemed so quiet compared to the chaos of the riot from just a few hours before.
She took a deep breath. This was the first time she'd been alone since it all started, and each moment started replaying itself. The confusion when she was talking on the phone with Toby and he told her something was happening. The way her fingers shook when she was frantically trying to get in touch with Josh that first time. The way her heart raced just a little when her phone rang and his name flashed on her screen, the way it stopped for just a second when he told her where he was.
She closed her eyes, willing herself not to cry again, but then she heard his words. 'Damn it Donna. I didn't sit in that room and make a thousand promises to any god who would listen just to lose you like this. Get in the fucking van!' And then, when she'd told him she was safe, the quieter sound of his voice, a sound not meant for her, but for Someone she wasn't even sure he believed in. 'Thank You God.'
A tear slid down her cheek but she didn't wipe it away, didn't notice it really. Her mind fast-forwarded to begging police officers to go in and find him. To frantic phone calls to Toby and appalling behavior to Matt Santos, a man who'd helped her for one reason only; Josh had asked him to.
And then she was in the van the moment she realized he could have left but didn't. He could've been safe the entire day, but had refused to leave without her. The woman who'd treated him horribly over the last three and a half months… longer really. But he loved her enough to try to be her hero. And more tears slipped down as she remembered it wasn't the first time he'd had to rescue her.
She fought to keep Cliff Calley out of her mind and focused on the day again. The absolute horror that hit her when Josh stopped answering his phone, the words over the walkie-talkie, 'Still having a hard time hearing you Davidson. Someone's down in the pavilion?' 'Yes, bleeding badly and unconscious.' And then, without thought, the feeling of running. Running as fast as she could to get where he was.
She knew now the man bleeding and unconscious was a police officer who'd died on his way to the hospital, but it didn't matter. Donna was back there, trying to get on the ambulance, the congressman's strong hands around her waist, pulling her away from it as it drove away, the feeling of Ned's arms closing around her. She looked down at her hands. They were shaking.
And just like that she was at the hospital, standing next to a desk listening to the congressman talk to a nurse. 'Grey matter.A police officer on the scene told me there was grey matter. "They didn't expect him to make it.' She sucked in a deep breath as she sobbed, opening her eyes and focusing on his face. His beautiful, beautiful face. Swollen nose, black eye, bandaged forehead… she'd never seen anything as beautiful in her life, except maybe the site of him pale and weak on the edge of death after surgery.
He opened his eyes then and she started crying even harder. It was too much. The day, the separation, almost losing him…again. She was shaking and crying and he put his hand on top of hers and watched her silently while she tried to calm down. A few tears gathered in his eyes too, and he wiped them away with his other hand.
"Shh… I'm fine now," he said quietly a minute later.
She shook her head. "I almost lost you."
He squeezed her hand tightly. "You're never gonna lose me."
She looked at their joined hands. "But what if I did? What if I lost you and I never told you?"
"Told me what?" She looked up at him, their eyes locking. "Told me what?" he repeated quietly.
"Told you I love you? What if I lost you and I never said that?"
He smiled slightly. "Donna, you've told me you love me a thousand times," he said, taking their joined hands and using his thumb to brush tears off her cheek.
She leaned into his touch and his thumb brushed over her lips, letting her hand slip from his and fall softly back to the bed. "Every time you told me not to drink too much but then took care of me when I was drunk anyway, every time you watched me from my office door, when you tied my bowties and told me you wouldn't stop for red lights and when you smiled at me when we were in Will's office in New Hampshire. When you asked for me before your… surgery…" he was crying then too, tears slipping down his cheeks. "And then again when you woke up."
"I needed you," she whispered.
"I needed you to need me," he whispered back.
"Because I love you. Because I've always loved you. You're everything to me, don't you know that?"
She turned her head and kissed his palm before whispering, "Yeah, you've told me a thousand times."


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Our second application only reads from the store. In this case, the store should be opened as read-only.
We perform these activities by creating a single class that is responsible for opening and closing our store and environment. This class is shared by both our applications. To use it, callers need to only provide the path to the environment home directory, and to indicate whether the object is meant to be read-only. The class implementation is as follows:
package persist.gettingStarted; import java.io.File; import com.sleepycat.je.DatabaseException; import com.sleepycat.je.Environment; import com.sleepycat.je.EnvironmentConfig; import com.sleepycat.persist.EntityStore; import com.sleepycat.persist.StoreConfig; public class MyDbEnv { private Environment myEnv; private EntityStore store; // Our constructor does nothing public MyDbEnv() {} // The setup() method opens the environment and store // for us. public void setup(File envHome, boolean readOnly) throws DatabaseException { EnvironmentConfig myEnvConfig = new EnvironmentConfig(); StoreConfig storeConfig = new StoreConfig(); myEnvConfig.setReadOnly(readOnly); storeConfig.setReadOnly(readOnly); // If the environment is opened for write, then we want to be // able to create the environment and entity store if // they do not exist. myEnvConfig.setAllowCreate(!readOnly); storeConfig.setAllowCreate(!readOnly); // Open the environment and entity store myEnv = new Environment(envHome, myEnvConfig); store = new EntityStore(myEnv, "EntityStore", storeConfig); } // Return a handle to the entity store public EntityStore getEntityStore() { return store; } // Return a handle to the environment public Environment getEnv() { return myEnv; } // Close the store and environment. public void close() { if (store != null) { try { store.close(); } catch(DatabaseException dbe) { System.err.println("Error closing store: " + dbe.toString()); System.exit(-1); } } if (myEnv != null) { try { // Finally, close the environment. myEnv.close(); } catch(DatabaseException dbe) { System.err.println("Error closing MyDbEnv: " + dbe.toString()); System.exit(-1); } } } }


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*** Bogut ***
Just started scrimmaging , no touch on shots , but shooting for the start of the season to be on the floor 'ie- running and playing' :applause:
Re: *** Bogut ***
is his shooting form going to be affected for rest of his career? if this is temprorary maybe he can improve his left hand finishing even more.
Re: *** Bogut ***
many great athlete's work with their other hand to become even more efficient in basketball skills.
My guess this whole season , we will see his point production drop, his shot blocking , rebounding and assist's per game go up.
Bogut is a smart center , and I think if he feels his percentage of making or taking a shoot is less than his comfort level , he will pass on the shot.
Buck fans all know his biggest weakness is free throw shooting.
I can only hope his coachs and trainers work with him getting his shooting wrist and technique down - and practice it right at the free throw line.
if he goes up to a reasonable shooting percentage of 70% , the Bucks can easily live with that , because he gets to the line more frequent than the average center in the league.
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He may suffer for the first half of the season. But I can honestly see this incident making Bogut a better basketball player in the long run. Having to rely more heavily on his other hand could make him a more complete player.
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Although these are some of my favorite tales from when I was a child growing up, it turns out that most people have never heard of them. It helps to know the tales before seeing the art work (though you can always just skip past all of the words and dive right into the art, if you wish).
The Original Grimm's Tales:
The Twelve Brothers
by Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm
Once upon a time there were a king and a queen. They lived happily together and had twelve children, all boys. One day the king said to his wife, "If our thirteenth child, which you are soon going to bring into the world, is a girl, then the twelve others shall die, so that her wealth may be great, and so that she alone may inherit the kingdom."
Indeed, he had twelve coffins made. They were filled with wood shavings and each was fitted with a coffin pillow. He had them put in a locked room, and gave the key to the queen, ordering her to tell no one about them.
The mother sat and mourned the entire day, until the youngest son -- who was always with her, and who was named Benjamin after the Bible -- said to her, "Dear mother, why are you so sad?"
"Dearest child," she answered, "I cannot tell you."
However, he would not leave her in peace, until she unlocked the room and showed him the coffins, already filled with wood shavings.
Then she said, "My dearest Benjamin, your father had these coffins made for you and your eleven brothers. If I bring a girl into the world, you are all to be killed and buried in them."
As she spoke and cried, her son comforted her, saying, "Don't cry, dear mother. We will take care of ourselves and run away."
Then she said, "Go out into the woods with your eleven brothers. One of you should climb the highest tree that you can find. Keep watch there and look toward the castle tower. If I give birth to a little son, I will raise a white flag. If I give birth to a little daughter, I will raise a red flag, and then you should escape as fast as you can, and may God protect you. I will get up every night and pray for you, in the winter that you may warm yourselves near a fire, and in the summer that you may not suffer from the heat."
After she had blessed her children, they went out into the woods. One after the other of them kept watch, sitting atop the highest oak tree and looking toward the tower. After eleven days had passed, and it was Benjamin's turn, he saw that a flag had been raised. It was not the white one, but instead the red blood-flag, decreeing that they all were to die.
When the boys heard this they became angry and cried out, "Are we to suffer death for the sake of a girl! We swear that we will take revenge. Wherever we find a girl, her red blood shall flow."
Then they went deeper into the woods, and in its middle, where it was darkest, they found a little bewitched house that was empty.
They said, "We will live here. You, Benjamin, you are the youngest and weakest. You shall stay at home and keep house. We others will go and get things to eat."
Thus they went into the woods and shot rabbits, wild deer, birds, and doves, and whatever they could eat. These they brought to Benjamin, and he had to prepare them to satisfy their hunger. They lived together in this little house for ten years, but the time passed quickly for them.
The little daughter that their mother, the queen, had given birth to was now grown up. She had a good heart, a beautiful face, and a golden star on her forehead.
Once on a large washday she saw twelve men's shirts in the laundry and asked her mother, "Whose are these twelve shirts? They are much too small for father."
The queen answered with a heavy heart, "Dear child, they belong to your twelve brothers."
The girl said, "Where are my twelve brothers? I have never even heard of them."
She answered, "Only God knows where they are. They are wandering about in the world."
Then she took the girl, unlocked the room for her, and showed her the twelve coffins with the wood shavings and the coffin pillows.
"These coffins," she said, "were intended for your brothers, but they secretly ran away before you were born," and she told her how everything had happened.
Then the girl said, "Dear mother, don't cry. I will go and look for my brothers."
Then she took the twelve shirts and went forth into the great woods. She walked the entire day, in the evening coming to the bewitched little house.
She went inside and found a young lad, who asked, "Where do you come from, and where are you going?"
He was astounded that she was so beautiful, that she was wearing royal clothing, and that she had a star on her forehead.
"I am a princess and am looking for my twelve brothers. I will walk on as long as the sky is blue, until I find them." She also showed him the twelve shirts that belonged to them.
Benjamin saw that it was his sister, and said, "I am Benjamin, your youngest brother."
She began to cry for joy, and Benjamin did so as well. They kissed and embraced one another with great love.
Then he said, "Dear sister, I must warn you that we have agreed that every girl whom we meet must die."
She said, "I will gladly die, if I can thus redeem my twelve brothers."
"No," he answered, "you shall not die. Sit under this tub until our eleven brothers come, and I will make it right with them."
She did this, and when night fell they came home from the hunt. As they sat at the table eating, they asked, "What is new?"
Benjamin said, "Don't you know anything?"
"No," they answered.
He continued speaking, "You have been in the woods while I stayed at home, but I know more than you do."
"Then tell us," they shouted.
He answered, "If you will promise me that the next girl we meet shall not be killed."
"Yes," they all shouted. "We will show her mercy. Just tell us."
Then he said, "Our sister is here," and lifted up the tub. The princess came forth in her royal clothing and with the golden star on her forehead, so beautiful, delicate, and fine.
They all rejoiced, falling around her neck and kissing her, and they loved her with all their hearts.
Now she stayed at home with Benjamin and helped him with the work. The eleven went into the woods and captured wild game, deer, birds, and doves, so they would have something to eat. Their sister and Benjamin prepared it all. They gathered wood for cooking, herbs for the stew, and put the pot onto the fire so a meal was always ready when the eleven came home. She also kept the house in order, and made up the beds white and clean. The brothers were always satisfied, and they lived happily with her.
One time the two of them had prepared a good meal at home, and so they sat together and ate and drank and were ever so happy. Now there was a little garden next to the bewitched house, and in it there were twelve lilies, the kind that are called "students." Wanting to bring some pleasure to her brothers, she picked the twelve flowers, intending to give one to each of them when they were eating. But in the same instant that she picked the flowers, the twelve brothers were transformed into twelve ravens, and they flew away above the woods. The house and the garden disappeared as well.
Now the poor girl was alone in the wild woods. Looking around, she saw an old women standing next to her.
The old woman said, "My child, what have you done?" Why did you not leave the twelve white flowers standing? Those were your brothers, and now they have been transformed into ravens forever."
The girl said, crying, "Is there no way to redeem them?"
"No," said the old woman, "There is only one way in the world, and it is so difficult that you will never redeem them. You must remain silent for seven whole years, neither speaking nor laughing. If you speak a single word, even if all but one hour of the seven years has passed, then it will all be for nothing, and your brothers will be killed by that one word."
Then the girl said in her heart, "I know for sure that I will redeem my brothers."
She went and found a tall tree and climbed to its top, where she sat and span, without speaking and without laughing.
Now it came to pass that a king was hunting in these woods. He had a large greyhound that ran to the tree where the girl was sitting. It jumped about, yelping and barking up the tree. The king came, saw the beautiful princess with the golden star on her forehead, and was so enchanted by her beauty that he shouted up to her, asking her to become his wife. She gave him no answer, but nodded with her head. Then he himself climbed the tree, carried her down, set her on his horse, and took her home with him.
Their wedding was celebrated with great pomp and joy, but the bride neither spoke nor laughed.
After they had lived a few years happily together, the king's mother, who was a wicked woman, began to slander the young queen, saying to the king, "You have brought home a common beggar woman for yourself. Who knows what kind of godless things she is secretly doing. Even if she is a mute and cannot speak, she could at least laugh. Anyone who does not laugh has an evil conscience."
At first the king did not want to believe this, but the old woman kept it up so long, accusing her of so many wicked things, that the king finally let himself be convinced, and he sentenced her to death.
A great fire was lit in the courtyard, where she was to be burned to death. The king stood upstairs at his window, looking on with crying eyes, for he still loved her dearly. She had already been bound to the stake, and the fire was licking at her clothing with its red tongues, when the last moment of the seven years passed.
A whirring sound was heard in the air, and twelve ravens approached, landing together. As they touched the earth, it was her twelve brothers, whom she had redeemed. They ripped the fire apart, put out the flames, and freed their sister, kissing and embracing her.
Now that she could open her mouth and speak, she told the king why she had remained silent and had never laughed.
The king rejoiced to hear that she was innocent, and they all lived happily together until they died. The wicked stepmother was brought before the court and placed in a barrel filled with boiling oil and poisonous snakes, and she died an evil death.
The Six Swans
byJacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm
A King was once hunting in a large wood, and pursued his game so hotly that none of his courtiers could follow him. But when evening approached he stopped, and looking around him perceived that he had lost himself. He sought a path out of the forest but could not find one, and presently he saw an old woman, with a nodding head, who came up to him. "My good woman," said he to her, "can you not show me the way out of the forest?" "Oh, yes, my lord King," she replied; "I can do that very well, but upon one condition, which if you do not fulfill, you will never again get out of the wood, but will die of hunger."
"What, then, is this condition?" asked the King.
"I have a daughter," said the old woman, "who is as beautiful as any one you can find in die whole world, and well deserves to be your bride. Now, if you will make her your Queen, I will show you your way out of the wood." In the anxiety of his heart, the King consented, and the old woman led him to her cottage, where the daughter was sitting by the fire. She received the King as if she had expected him, and he saw at once that she was very beautiful, but yet she did not quite please him, for he could not look at her without a secret shuddering. However, he took the maiden upon his horse, and the old woman showed him the way, and the King arrived safely at his palace, where the wedding was to be celebrated.
The King had been married once before, and had seven children by his first wife, six boys and a girl, whom he loved above everything else in the world. He became afraid, soon, that the step-mother might not treat his children very well, and might even do them some great injury, so he took them away to a lonely castle which stood in the midst of a forest. The castle was so entirely hidden, and the way to it was so difficult to discover, that he himself could not have found it if a wise woman had not given him a ball of cotton which had the wonderful property, when he threw it before him, of unrolling itself and showing him the right path. The King went, however, so often to see his dear children, that the Queen, noticing his absence, became inquisitive, and wished to know what he went to fetch out of the forest. So she gave his servants a great quantity of money, and they disclosed to her the secret, and also told her of the ball of cotton which alone could show her the way. She had now no peace until she discovered where this ball was concealed, and then she made some fine silken shirts, and, as she had learnt of her mother, she sewed within each a charm. One day soon after, when the King was gone out hunting, she took the little shirts and went into the forest, and the cotton showed her the path. The children, seeing some one coming in the distance, thought it was their dear father, and ran out full of joy. Then she threw over each of them a shirt, that, as it touched their bodies, changed them into Swans, which flew away over the forest. The Queen then went home quite contented, and thought she was free of her step-children; but the little girl had not met her with the brothers, and the Queen did not know of her.
The following day the King went to visit his children, but he found only the Maiden. "Where are your brothers?" asked he. "Ah, dear father," she replied, "they are gone away and have left me alone"; and she told him how she had looked out of the window and seen them changed into Swans, which had flown over the forest; and then she showed him the feathers which they had dropped in the courtyard, and which she had collected together. The King was much grieved, but he did not think that his wife could have done this wicked deed, and, as he feared the girl might also be stolen away, he took her with him. She was, however, so much afraid of the step-mother, that she begged him not to stop more than one night in the castle.
The poor Maiden thought to herself, "This is no longer my place; I will go and seek my brothers"; and when night came she escaped and went quite deep into the wood. She walked all night long, and a great part of the next day, until she could go no further from weariness. Just then she saw a rough-looking hut, and going in, she found a room with six little beds, but she dared not get into one, so crept under, and laying herself upon the hard earth, prepared to pass the night there. Just as the sun was setting, she heard a rustling, and saw six white Swans come flying in at the window. They settled on the ground and began blowing one another until they had blown all their feathers off, and their swan's down slipped from them like a shirt. Then the Maiden knew them at once for her brothers, and gladly crept out from under the bed, and the brothers were not less glad to see their sister, but their joy was of short duration. "Here you must not stay," said they to her; "this is a robbers' hiding-place; if they should return and find you here, they would murder you."
"Can you not protect me, then?" inquired the sister.
"No," they replied; "for we can only lay aside our swan's feathers for a quarter of an hour each evening, and for that time we regain our human form, but afterwards we resume our changed appearance."
Their sister then asked them, with tears, "Can you not be restored again?"
"Oh, no," replied they; "the conditions are too difficult. For six long years you must neither speak nor laugh, and during that time you must sew together for us six little shirts of star-flowers, and should there fall a single word from your lips, then all your labor will be in vain." Just as the brothers finished speaking, the quarter of an hour elapsed, and they all flew out of the window again like Swans.
The little sister, however, made a solemn resolution to rescue her brothers, or die in the attempt; and she left the cottage, and, penetrating deep into the forest, passed the night amid the branches of a tree. The next morning she went out and collected the star-flowers to sew together. She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits, so there up in the tree she sat, intent upon her work.
After she had passed some time there, it happened that the King of that country was hunting in the forest, and his huntsmen came beneath the tree on which the Maiden sat. They called to her and asked, "Who art thou?" But she gave no answer. "Come down to us," continued they; "we will do thee no harm." She simply shook her head, and when they pressed her further with questions, she threw down to them her gold necklace, hoping therewith to satisfy them. They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but in vain! and even her rich dress did not make them desist. At last the huntsman himself climbed the tree and brought down the Maiden, and took her before the King.
The King asked her, "Who art thou? What dost thou upon that tree?" But she did not answer; and then he questioned her in all the languages that he knew, but she remained dumb to all, as a fish. Since, however, she was so beautiful, the King's heart was touched, and he conceived for her a strong affection. Then he put around her his cloak, and, placing her before him on his horse, took her to his castle. There he ordered rich clothing to be made for her, and, although her beauty shone as the sunbeams, not a word escaped her. The King placed her by his side at table, and there her dignified mien and manners so won upon him, that he said, "This Maiden will I marry, and no other in the world;" and after some days he wedded her.
Now, the King had a wicked step-mother, who was discontented with his marriage, and spoke evil of the young Queen. "Who knows whence the wench comes?" said she. "She who cannot speak is not worthy of a King." A year after, when the Queen brought her first-born into the world, the old woman took him away. Then she went to the King and complained that the Queen was a murderess. The King, however, would not believe it, and suffered no one to do any injury to his wife, who sat composedly sewing at her shirts and paying attention to nothing else. When a second child was born, the false stepmother used the same deceit, but the King again would not listen to her words, saying, "She is too pious and good to act so; could she but speak and defend herself, her innocence would come to light." But when again, the old woman stole away the third child, and then accused the Queen, who answered not a word to the accusation, the King was obliged to give her up to be tried, and she was condemned to suffer death by fire.
When the time had elapsed, and the sentence was to be carried out, it happened that the very day had come round when her dear brothers should be set free; the six shirts were also ready, all but the last, which yet wanted the left sleeve. As she was led to the scaffold, she placed the shirts upon her arm, and just as she had mounted it, and the fire was about to be kindled, she looked around, and saw six Swans come flying through the air. Her heart leapt for joy as she perceived her deliverers approaching, and soon the Swans, flying towards her, alighted so near that she was enabled to throw over them the shirts, and as soon as she had done so, their feathers fell off and the brothers stood up alive and well; but the youngest was without his left arm, instead of which he had a swan's wing. They embraced and kissed each other, and the Queen, going to the King, who was thunderstruck, began to say, "Now may I speak, my dear husband, and prove to you that I am innocent and falsely accused;" and then she told him how the wicked woman had stolen away and hidden her three children. When she had concluded, the King was overcome with joy, and the wicked stepmother was led to the scaffold and bound to the stake and burnt to ashes. The King and Queen for ever after lived in peace and prosperity with their six brothers.
And now the art work (;
|I like underpainting in yellows....now that I think about it, almost all of my paintings start in a coat of yellow.
|Starting to add the first layer of the darkest shadows.
|Continuing the base layers.
|Starting to add the highlights.
|Adding my symbols to the background (:
|The finished first layers.
|Close up on my Princess's face at this point.
|Close up on her Chimera pocket watch.
|Drawing in the raven that will bridge the gap between 2d and 3d. At this point, there are up to 15 layers in any given section.
|Close up on the lilies.
|And now the princess is bound to the stake, ready for burning. It is also symbolic of the way legislators are trying to bind women's bodies and women's rights.
|It's a terribly blurry picture (Sorry about that) but it gives you a clear idea of the under painting for the raven's tail.
|-Almost- done painting!
|It's time to add the statistics.
On average, a woman spends 5 years pregnant, postpartum or trying to become pregnant...and the other 30 years trying not to get pregnant.
|This is the finished painting with the 3 dimensional paper crow projecting from it.
|Here are his feet and legs waiting for the upper portion of his body.
|And this is an in progress picture of his top half.
|I -love- how it looks like she's actually holding the paper as she casts the cloak out to turn her brother from a raven into a man.
|Close up on his jacket.
|Close up on the raven hanging from the ceiling
|Close up on the Raven projecting from the painting.
|The finished installation for Senior Thesis.
|All in all, it took 8 hours to set these pieces up in the gallery.
You can also watch my storytelling performance where I tell the steampunked version of the tales.


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- Amuse means keeping yourself or someone else occupied in a pleasant manner, usually by doing or letting someone do something enjoyable.
To have children play video games in order to occupy them is an example of amuse.
- The definition of amuse means to appeal to someone's sense of humor.
To tell funny stories to entertain people is an example of amuse.
transitive verbamused′, amus′ing
- to keep pleasantly or enjoyably occupied or interested; entertain: we amused ourselves with games
- to make laugh, smile, etc. by being comical or humorous
- Obs. to engage the attention of so as to deceive; delude; bemuse
Origin of amuseFrench amuser from à, at + Old French muser, to stare fixedly, muse
transitive verba·mused, a·mus·ing, a·mus·es
- To hold the attention of or occupy in an agreeable fashion: amused myself with a puzzle.
- To cause to laugh or smile by being funny: amused the crowd with jokes.
- Archaic To delude or deceive.
Origin of amuseFrom Middle French amuser from Old French to fill with vain hopes, deceive a- to ( from Latin ad- ; see ad- . ) muser to stare stupidly ; see muse .
Related Forms:
- a·mus′a·ble
- a·mus′er
(third-person singular simple present amuses, present participle amusing, simple past and past participle amused)
- To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
- I watch these movies because they amuse me.
- It always amuses me to hear the funny stories why people haven't got a ticket, but I never let them get in without paying.
- To cause laughter, to be funny.
- (archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
- (archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
From Middle English amusen ("to mutter, be astonished, gaze meditatively on"), from Middle French amuser ("to amuse, divert, babble"), from Old French amuser ("to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought"), from a- + muser ("to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to"), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa ("idle waiting"), Italian musare ("to gape idly about"). Possibly from Old French *mus ("snout") from Proto-Romance *mūsa ("snout") (—compare Medieval Latin mūsum ("muzzle, snout")), from Proto-Germanic *mū- ("muzzle, snout"), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- ("lips, muzzle"). Compare North Frisian müs, mös ("mouth"), German Maul ("muzzle, snout").
Alternative etymology connects Old French muser and Occitan musa with Old Frankish *muoza ("careful attention, leisure, idleness"), from Proto-Germanic *mōtǭ ("leave, permission"), from Proto-Indo-European *med- ("to acquire, possess, control"). Cognate with Old High German *muoza ("careful attention, leisure, idleness"), Old High German muozōn ("to be idle, have leisure or opportunity"), German Muße ("leisure"). More at empty.


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This time from the decidedly conservative editorial board of the Washington Times:
Cindy McCain refuses to release her tax returns. This is not just a questionable political decision that threatens to haunt her husband's campaign for the next six months. It is also the wrong decision. Mrs. McCain needs to change her mind and release the returns as quickly as possible. How Republican John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee who rightly fancies himself the king of transparency on Capitol Hill, and his campaign strategists can permit this open sore to fester is unimaginable.
With a net worth estimated in the range of $100 million, Mrs. McCain would directly benefit from her husband's pledge to permanently extend the top income-tax rate of 35 percent (which was lowered from 39.6 percent in 2001), the top capital gains tax rate of 15 percent (which was lowered from 20 percent in 2003) and the top dividend tax rate of 15 percent (which was lowered from 38.6 percent in 2003). Mr. McCain opposed those cuts in 2001 and 2003, but now wants to make them permanent. The McCains may also derive great benefit from his promise to completely eliminate the individual alternative minimum tax. Until she releases her tax returns, voters cannot know for certain.
From the revelation today that Cindy owned mutual funds linked to Sudanese companies, to the idea that McCain has very little personal wealth himself after nearly 30 years of marriage, it's pretty obvious that she needs to release them. That's all there is to it. The sooner the better.


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If I had to be recognized for something, e.g. like those nicknames that we unexpectedly picked up in our younger years,what would fit? What would others choose? What would I choose?
These days, taking on a "persona", especially an online persona, seems to be something that we can actually choose for ourselves instead of waiting for someone else to assign to us.
Either way, it has to fit or we'll never pull it off (especially with video, photos, or with any kind of social media, it's got to be real). So if I could be anything, what would I be? What about you?
What would fit? I know I can't exactly call myself A "Crazy" Anything. No matter how much I would like to be, that is just not in me (not in any sense of the word).
I'm not wacky, eccentric, or crazy like "The Crazy Cat Lady" from The Simpsons. In that case I'm not even a cat or dog lover, (note: I like them, just don't love them). But frogs, that might be another story, maybe frogs is actually the story for me to go with here.
For me, the association with frogs comes from my status of seemingly forever being Single. From family, over the years I started getting frog-themed gifts on a regular basis. Surprisingly, I actually came to start liking everything about these frog gifts. I even started a Pinterest board on Frogs with Personality.
Yet, if "frogs" were to become "my thing", I still needed an adjective to complete the name. While I really like to be independent, and sometimes get up the nerve to do things that others may not do on their own, (like voluntarily leaving my job to explore other interests, e.g. described as "ballsy" in point #4 of this article on "4 Ways to Leave Your Job"), I freely admit that I do not live for extreme risk-taking activities just for the sake of the thrill of it; I do not get excited for the prospect of going skydiving or gambling or speed racing, etc. So, "Ballsy" was out. (Besides, that isn't even a word that's in my regular vocabulary.)
Yet I do feel I have a uniqueness to me that falls in the outer edges of that edgy-ness camp.
So, I considered taking on the adjective of "Rogue", at first because it rhymes nicely with Toad (i.e., a derivative of the frog theme that could work for me). But then I found that the definition wasn't perfect either.
I like how "Rogue" stands for someone who "separates himself from the herd". Unfortunately, "rogue" also has a negative connotation, i.e., "playfully mischievous", "corrupt, or dishonest," even "no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade."
Not perfect, but I think I can work with that, e.g., perhaps in the same way that a bald person is called "Curly", or a heavy person is called "Slim".
Aren't I better off being "The Rogue Toad" instead of "The Crazy Frog Lady"?
Either version does create interest, right? I just have to live up to it. But I won't know if I don't try. So, here goes with trying on "The Rogue Toad" to see if it fits.
So, now tell me. Do you think it will work? And, I'm curious. What is your persona How did you get it? If you could keep or change it, what would you do?


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Everyone requires the services of a dentist at some point of time or the other. Taking care of gums, teeth and the whole mouth is not just to keep the pearly whites look bright but proper dental care even results in overall well being. Various health conditions develop in the body due to lack of dental care. Premature birth, clogged arteries, diabetes complications, chronic infections and heart disease are the conditions that are linked directly with oral troubles. So, how should you find dentist in your area?
With online directories and guides available, you can have access to a huge pool of database of the popular dentists and the dental healthcare providers near you. This way, these guides make it easier for people like you to find the dentist in your local area in no time. The main motto of these directories is to help people find the most reliable and known dentist in your neighborhood that offers superlative dental care services. This in turn also helps the people to know important details about the different dentists and understand dentistry and the need for dental care.
You can easily search for dentist in my area through browsing "by state". Generally majority of dentists that are listed in the dental guides are even featured with their own sites so that people can get details about the dental services offered by the professional. Then, navigating the site of the dentist can further provide people with plenty of information about the professional, his or her clinic, techniques and equipment used and the staff. Details like dental training and education of the dentist, years of experience, qualifications as well as awards achieved can also be had from the site. You can even go through the patient testimonials to make your decision whether you wish to hire the services of the dentist or not.
When you find a dentist in your area, you can also compare services offered, reviews and ratings of the dental professional with others. Remember that you choose the best dentist and dental care services so that you can have healthy gums and teeth. On the dental directories and sites, the patients can even get details about office hours, fees charges and address of the local dentists. Thus, these guides are the perfect solution to have database of the nearest possible dentists, dental clinics and offices.
You can even read and write the reviews at these dental guide sites for any dentist and the best thing to note is that all reviews or testimonials are moderated and properly added by the patients themselves.
Indeed, from the dental guides, you can even find the dentist in your area with some specialty services in case you require the specialized cosmetic dental treatments. Cosmetic dentistry is much accepted these days and so, when you hire the services of a professional, experienced, specialized dentist, you can be sure of having the perfect dental services. So, wait no more and have healthy, shining teeth and gums now.
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Latitude. 33.2767°, Longitude. -83.4056°
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- church;
- a building for public Christian worship.
- Friendship Church (4.5km)
- Mount Calvin Church (4.9km)
- Calvary Church (6.2km)
- Eatonton Church (6.2km)
- Resseau Church (6.8km)
- First Baptist Church (7.3km)
- Central Church (7.4km)
- Bethleham Church (9.1km)
- Imperial Church (9.2km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Warfield (4.1km)
- Meda (4.7km)
- Hallwood (6.6km)
- Glenwoods Spring (historical) (6.9km)
- Note (7.1km)
- Eatonton (7.4km)
- Linchburg (7.8km)
- Clopton (historical) (8.1km)
- Hunts (9km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Mission Church (historical) (0km)
- Wheelers Mill (historical) (2.2km)
- South Putnam Industrial Park (4.6km)
- Saints Mission (historical) (5.4km)
- Uncle Remus Golf Course (5.6km)
- Brown Chapel (7.1km)
- Murder Creek Falls Hunt Camp (8.3km)
- Lees Chapel (historical) (8.4km)
- Martins Hill Church (historical) (8.8km)
- stream;
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- Blue Branch (2.5km)
- Reece Branch (3.6km)
- Little Branch (6.9km)
- Glady Creek (7.8km)
- Rocky Branch (8.2km)
- Baker Branch (8.3km)
- Murder Creek (8.5km)
- Hitchcock Branch (8.6km)
- Cold Branch (8.9km)
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Mission School (historical) (0.1km)
- Mount Calvary School (historical) (4.9km)
- Berean Christian School (6.3km)
- Putnam County Middle School (6.6km)
- Butler-Baker Elementary School (7.5km)
- Putnam-Jasper Training Center (7.5km)
- Gatewood Academy (9.1km)
- Putnam County High School (9.2km)
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- Carnes Lake (8km)
- Rooty Creek Structure Number 27 Lake (8km)
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- Rooty Creek Structure Number Five Dam (6.4km)
- Carnes Lake Dam (8km)
- Rooty Creek Structure Number 27 Dam (8km)
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- Crestlawn Memorial Gardens (6.2km)
- Pine Grove Cemetery (7.3km)
- post office;
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- park;
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- Buckhead, Georgia city city o
- Madison, Georgia city city o
- Newborn, Georgia city city o
- Greensboro, Georgia city city o
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Yesterday I was tossing out lunch boxes worn down too far to be saved and digging through the closet to inspect Epi Pen® carriers and holders for school. Some of our favorite and most beloved carriers have traveled their last trip to school and were retired. So…I decided to check out what is out there in Cyberland that could fashionably but effectively hold life saving Epi Pens®. Update September 2013: List of Popular EpiPen and Auvi-Q carriers and Holders.
There is a fine line between fashion and effective, the list below are companies that I have either tested out or friends use their products! I personally like to use carriers/holders that scream, "I'm holding medication in here". Although, in reality, children and teens don't want that plastered across their belongings so this list provides a nice assortment for many tastes and needs.
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- One Spot Allergy™ is a favorite amongst many food allergy moms–and they are having a 10% off your entire order Back-to-School sale right now (use coupon code BACKTOSCHOOL at checkout). One Spot Allergy sells three styles–an Epi Pen® carrying case, an Epi Pen® waist belt and a waterproof Epi Pen® holder (think kayaking, boating, etc.).
- Allergy Apparel™ is another fabulous, fashion forward and efficient Food Allergy Mom operated company that offers a huge assortment of painfully creative Epi Pens® totes, pouches and belts. I just discovered their Kool Epi Pen® Blanket. We hit 102° here in Reno, NV yesterday and I wish I had one of these little numbers in my kid's backpacks! My daughter's favorite carrier is still her bright blue camo belt (she is a tomboy by the way).
- Activeaide™ sells two great holders: a hard case and a hysterical animal carrier. My daughter tested out the animal carrier and LOVED it! I like the hard case to carry my in big mess of a purse. They also sell asthma inhaler pouches and children's asthma books.
- Allergy Haven is a sunny California based company that sells three styles of very hip epinephrine carriers: a tote, a strap and belt. They are quite unique and worth checking out. They even sell a single dose plastic bottles to hold Benedryl and nut free slap bracelets. This site really offers up some really unique but useful food allergy items on their Helpful Things page. They offer free shipping on orders over $25 in the continental US.
- Allergy Pack offers a holder that can hold two Epi Pens® plus an inhaler. My son uses Allergy Pack holders when he hikes-it's a family favorite.
- Pillow Sew Cute–sells, via ETSY (if you have never visited www.etsy.com, you simply must stop and check it out!), simple handmade pouches to hold medications–some can even be personalized.
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The DRAM market faces more doom and gloom as falling spot prices are compounded with testing and packaging firms shifting focus away.
There has been little in the way of good news in this area of the memory market of late, and as oversupply continues to push chip prices down there is not much optimism for a turnaround later this year.
According to Digitimes, spot quotes for mainstream 2GB DDR3 have plummeted below $1, while same-density effectively tested (eTT) chips nearing $0.70.
Blame rests partially in the decline for the desktop PC market, say some industry watchers.
If there is some hope of a market boost it will likely come with the move to the 20 nanometre process. This will help lower production costs as well as enabling more compact memory, which could capitalise on the boom in mobile computing.
Many DRAM firms are pushing on with plans to become more efficient as Samsung leads the way. It has been reported that it could prove too costly to jump to 20nm any time soon, but if reports are correct then a few companies might have been convinced of a need for a whip-round.
Not that much persuasion is needed any more. There was further bad news from Digitimes that packaging and testing firms in the PC DRAM market are looking for the exit door.
With Silicon Precision Industries (SPIL) having left the DRAM packaging and testing business to concentrate on backend services for logic ICs, equipment was sold to ChipMOS. But now ChipMOS has also indicated that it will be refocusing on LCD driver ICs and flash products instead of PC DRAM.
Meanwhile Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has let slip plans to reel in its DRAM packaging and testing arm, ASE Power Technology. If it keeps on suffering losses then it may end up merging with its parent company.
ASE Power had flogged some of its testing equipment to Powertech Technology (PTI) and Walton, two major memory packaging and testing firms.
Unsurprisingly in the merry-go-round of despair that is the DRAM market there are concerns for these two following expectations for an even weaker third quarter.


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Communication Studies Minor (18 Credits)
Required Core Courses (6 credits):
Please select two of the following:*
COM 100 Perspectives on Communication ORCOM 106 Introduction to Mass Communication
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Communication Studies Electives (12 credits)**
*Students must take at least one of these core courses at the lower (100) level and one at the upper (400) level.
** To be eligible, a course must have the COM designator in the University's catalog of courses. At least half of your minor must consist of courses at the 300-400 level. Students may use up to 6 credits of COM 459: Communication Studies Internship toward their 12 credits of COM electives. Finally, please pay attention to course prerequisites.


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Joseph Philbert is storyteller that uses photography as his medium. Based in the DMV area but a traveler of the world, Joseph has worked in many areas of photography including glamour, advertising, commercial, sports, fashion, weddings and magazine publications.
Joseph shares the knowledge he has gained over the years with others through workshops where he elaborates on photography skills, Photoshop editing and lighting techniques.
Joseph loves the art of light and shadow in his creative works and say "what you create is a reflection of what you perceive and how you make use of what you perceive."
His interest in Photography was realized during a workshop in Florida where on a whim, he took a Photography Seminar. Joseph says "I've always photographed family members and objects and thought it would be nice to advance my skills."
After that seminar he was inspired to improve his skills and found himself investing in equipment, practicing, being a shutter bug and taking more classes and seminars.


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The Paper Kite butterfly, also called Rice Paper, tree nymph butterfly, or wood nymph (Idea leuconoe) is a distinctive black and white butterfly. The wingspan is 95 to 110 cm across. The chrysalis is yellow with black markings. It is from Southeast Asia. Classification: superfamily Papilionigiae, family Nymphalidae, subfamily Danainae, Genus Idea, Species I. Leuconoe..
Our visit to the Butterfly Sanctuary in Dunedin, I saw this child's joy as the Paper Kite butterfly landed on her hand, she was so delighted and had such a wonderful smile on her face. Such simple joys of Life.
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(pron. FAHST-NAWcht) The day before Lent in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Celebrated with masquerades, carnivals, and ceremonials. Prince Carnival presides over a Fools Court surrounded by councilors wearing high peaked hats and a badge of the Order of the Fools. Part of the Lord of Misrule. The days leading up to Lent are Die närrische Saison: The Foolish Season or die fünfte Jahrzeit: Fifth Season that is recorded from Elften im Elften: The Eleventh in the Eleventh: November 11 at 11:11am: Martinmass-Old Halloween to Aschenmittwoch: Ash Wednesday, Fasching. Lent itself is called Fastenzeit: Fast Time.
Crazy Thursday, six days before fast night, is the Schellenrühren: Bell Ringing Parade in Mittenwald. The Klausjagen Festival in Küssnacht, Switzerland features cowbells. Colognes Karneval parade is the day before fast night on Rosenmontag: Rose Monday. Rhineland Rosenmontagumzug: floats are broadcast yearly on German TV. The central float is known as a Hell in Nürnberg.
On Tuesday Munichs Viktualienmarkt holds the Marktfrauentanz: Market Women Dance. The Münchner Francaise, a 19th century contra dance, is danced at midnight. The Coopers Guild dances the Schäfflertanz: Hoop Dance on the Marienplatz once every seven years. Legend says after the plague of 1463 the coopers were the first people in the streets who tried to lure people out of their houses with revelry. It is danced for a month.
Austria has survived Empress Maria Theresias (1717-1780) ban on outdoor masquerades by moving them inside. Vienna is famous for having more than 300 balls. Hofburg Castle hosts the: Emperors Ball, Rudolfina-Redoute, Aerzteball: Physician's Ball, and the Vienna Kaffesieder: Coffee Brewers Ball. Viennas town hall has the Blumenball: Flower Ball; Musikverein hosts the Philharmonic, and the Zuckerbäcker: Confectioners Ball is at Austria Center. Musentempels Opernball: Opera Ball is for VIPs from around the world. (9, 12, 13)


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Swansea have signed Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll on a season-long loan deal.
The Swans have done business with Spurs once again this summer as Tom Carroll has joined the club on a season-long loan deal.
Gylfi Sigurdsson moved back to Wales with the Swans earlier this summer, with Michel Vorm and Ben Davies heading in the opposite direction and Carroll has now made the switch for the season.
The 22-year-old spent last season on loan at Queens Park Rangers where he made 26 apperances to help the R's gain promotion to the Premier League.
A loan spell in the Premier League is exactly what Carroll needs to help his development and he is viewed by many as one of Tottenham's most talented youngsters.
A move to Swansea will suit Carroll as he enjoys to play possession football with plenty of quick and short passes - a style that Spurs also like to play.
Carroll has made 23 first-team appearances for Spurs but Mauricio Pochettino clearly feels that a loan move will give him a better opportunity to develop as a Premier League player.
Tottenham have so many options in midfield and now Carroll has the chance to prove himself as good enough to play a part in the Spurs first-team on a regular basis in the future.


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Everything old is new again, goes the old refrain, and nowhere is that more true than in the auto industry. Though they may seem high-tech, primitive navigation systems first appeared in the earliest days of the 20th Century, and fuel-saving CVT transmissions date back even further.
Then there's the electric vehicle, which has suddenly became the hot topic on this year's auto show circuit. But if you'd been around for the first big U.S. car show, a century ago in New York, you'd have discovered there were as many battery-powered vehicles as those running on gasoline. Even Henry Ford got into the act, producing an electric flivver for his wife Clara, and asking old buddy Thomas Edison to try to come up with a longer-range battery.
"They've been around really for the past century or so, but they really haven't had mass-market appeal," suggested the industry pioneer's great-grandson, and now Ford Motor Co. executive chairman, Bill Ford Jr.
Will they now? That's the big question that the Ford heir raised at the close of this year's annual conference of automotive executives and engineers, the SAE World Congress.
The modern electric vehicle, using the latest in lithium-ion technology, "appears (to be) the biggest came-changer" in the industry, said Ford, during an SAE speech.
He noted that the maker is lining up five vehicles that can run, at least for moderate distances, on battery power alone – a figure that doesn't include conventional gas-electric models, like the Ford Fusion Hybrid.


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By Daniel Hirsch and Leslie Nguyen-Okwu
Google I/O, the tech titan's largest conference for developers, is underway at the Moscone Center. As with all things tech these days, such an event does not go on without a good helping of dissent.
We've received word that housing activists and union members will be on hand outside Moscone to challenge Google to the task of living up to their infamously tricky credo, "Don't Be Evil." In activists' minds, that means helping San Francisco mitigate the impact of Silicon Valley on housing affordability. It also may mean dressing in Star Wars costumes…
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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The empty flag pole is empty no more.
The American flag was flying once more at the city's Valle del Norte Community Center on Monday.
A neighbor named Clyde Aragon contacted KRQE News 13 last week, saying the center had not flown the flag for months.
He also said he made repeated calls to the city asking how come and that no one ever called him back.
On Friday, the city said staffers misdirected his questions and promised they'd have a new flag flying by Monday.


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The match-fixing scandal involving the South African national team "is to be investigated by an independent enquiry" backed by FIFA, according to the BBC. FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said, "This long-standing open case is harming South African football. It is vital this matter is concluded soon, with the culprits sanctioned under the zero tolerance policy." FIFA found the 2010 World Cup warm-ups against Bulgaria, Thailand, Columbia and Guatemala "had been fixed." This "briefly led to the suspension" of South Africa FA President Kirsten Nematandani, who was later reinstated. Valcke said, "It is critical that structures are set up in order to tackle similar cases should they happen in the future" (BBC, 4/5).
PLAYERS NOT TARGETED: The AP's Gerald Imray reported no players "have been implicated in fixing, with suspicions centred on the involvement of now-convicted match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal and his bogus company, which appointed referees for games and who may have manipulated them to feed illegal betting scams." Perumal "has been identified as a central figure in match-fixing in other parts of the world." FIFA "has strict rules regarding government involvement in football but also says it needs the help of governments to fight the now widespread problem of match-fixing." South Africa Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said, "The rise of match manipulation globally has become one of the most pressing issues facing football today. Therefore it is vitally important that national authorities such as ourselves play a full role" (AP, 4/5).


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Title: Warmth
Author name: DocJorgensen
Category: Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Angst.
Characters: James Herriot, Siegfried Farnon
Ships: None.
Rating: K
Spoilers: None.
Summary: James thinks about how nice it is to know Siegfried. One-Shot.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything, unfortunately.
Author Notes: I like James more than Tristan. Sue me.
Dedication: To toxophilate4, the brave soul who writes exquisite ACGAS fic and who is taking on "A Lamb To Slaughter".
Calls in the middle of night were the worst. But calls in the middle of a snowstorm, in the middle of the night, when I had to answer them, were absolute hell. The bring - bring of the telephone woke me from a sound sleep, and I rushed out to get the phone, my feet freezing on the flagstones.
A calving. Now, at 2 o'clock. What on earth was I doing, being a vet? Why not get a job that was warm and regular? I shook my head, and rushed to my room, dressing quickly. The Clayton farm was a long way off, and I could only hope to not get stuck in any snow drifts.
I shut my door quietly but to no avail. Siegfried opened his door, doubtless wakened by the noise.
"What was it, James?" His voice was warm with sleep, with just his dressing gown thrown over his pajamas.
"A calving, at the Clayton's." Siegfried frowned and looked as though he would step closer.
"In this weather?" I nodded. He stretched out one hand, and then rather awkwardly thrust it into his dressing gown pocket. "Well, be careful then, James."
"I will, Siegfried." I murmured quietly, and he returned to his room.
The calving took several hours, and I was frozen solid by the time it was done, caked in blood and dirt and God knows what else. The drive home was miserable and I was still stiff and blue with cold when I came in the house.
"Good God, James! You look awful." Siegfried cried as he saw me coming into the front entrance. I was in no mood to say anything at all. He took one of my arms and steered me to the parlor.
Quickly he wrapped me in an afghan, and shoving my shoulders, pushed me onto the couch. His grey eyes warm with concern, and worry, stared at me.
Several warm drinks later, I felt warmer, though Siegfried still watched me concernedly. He gently squeezed my knee, saying
"Yes, much thanks. I think I'll go run a bath." I got up, admittedly rather unsteadily, and staggered off to bathe.
I never told Siegfried that his waiting up for me, worrying about me even, was more warmth than an afghan, a warm drink or a bath could ever give.