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Im dealing with bulling again. Bullies arn't smart people! They dont think about the consequences; they seek power; outside power at the expense of the victim! They feel nothing for the victim; They see the victim as a 2 dimensional object; nothing more! They don't care who or what it is; its simply something to beat up on! They see it as a boxing bag; thats how they see the victim; they have fear and aggression and use it against a victim to socially better themselves; become more popular! Im afraid Im caught up in it again in several areas!
I was warned by God; by source energy to leave a few places; I did not want to! I had it made, I just needed to put in my time; but it has been ruined by these people! I don't respond to them; they are stupid; I will end up in D.O.C.! Thats what you get when you intermingle with this filth! They are trouble; sociopaths! So, nothing will ever change; their predator nature will continue; you end up having to go to them to stop it; this puts them in control; you are answering to them! If you don't like it! you go to the cops; But now, your rapped in the sociopaths world taking responsibility for them and what they do in society! so, you cant win; the best thing; leave and never go back!
The sociopaths I met, some in recovery, try to gang up next to you and get to know you; play you and own you; and they will do this in public places. They think their taking you over! They think this is 8th grade junior high school; they have no concept of adults! adult world!
Its a war! unfortunately when your in the middle of the system; you got your hands tied! Im a grown man dealing with bulling issues and long term PTSD, I don't have time for this! The only thing you can do is leave! Im not a parol officer for people like this! they know; I know what they are and they get a tendency to be in my face and try to shut me down through intimidation so they can continue to live out their fantasy of freely controlling the environment! its inconvenient for me! Ive dealt with sociopaths for a long time; I know how they operate! They are arrogant and stupid and don't think first when they act! They just take over other human beings if they think they can get away with it! Im not suggesting some psychopaths are not smart! Ive known some! they are planners! However, most of the bullies Ive met are bottom dwellers! At the tar end of the barrel.
They will challenge me because they are stupid! threatening them is stupid; their are smart enough to understand a real threat! They only learn through force; or violence or being restrained in a cage./ Ultimately, you either get the cops involved or you take care of business yourself or you leave! Im going to leave! Its to bad, free lunch at some of these places! It was nice! not now! Im not a baby sister for sociopaths! especially dumb ones! Its a real hard deal; you have to leave and not go back!
I was warned by God a while back to leave these places! I almost did, but I came back! So, I will go back to God for directions! what direction do I go in!
The sociopath runs on the ability to use fear to intimidate! that is their hope! What they dont know; the normal person is not scared of them; the normal person is scared of the problems they are starting to create that will end up in a bigger set of problems for everyone! They are deliberately starting social fires that cant be put out! I will end up in front of the judge! Why bother with it, its not worth it!
In the beginning;
Dealing with junior high bulling! When I was younger, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade! I could not deal with it! actually, it started in 3rd grade! I could not deal with it! any of it! I never learned how! I was helpless and felt helpless; so, when Im getting bullied now, Im getting bullied when Im attempting to come out of my shell to work on bulling! the problem is; bullies move in and the area is not safe anymore! I back down to people now because of entanglement as an adult with the law; most bullies are to stupid to understand such things! When I back down, it appears Im scared of them or frightened of them; when they see this; they take more advantage, and it gets worse, it turns into a psycho game of control and intimidation! They are predators and think about such things! they see me as nothing; as an object they can play with; they see no value and have no feelings; and never will! Ever! They are not concerned about the consequences of ruining me or my life; they could care less; they see me as fun or sport!
I personally dont care who these people are! the problem is; Im trying to work through my personal stuff and they are destroying the environment for such things; To bad! and Im blaming them, when in reality, it is the child in me trying to make unsafe places into safe places! I dont control what goes on in places! I need to be in control of what is going on to feel safe! For the most part, I felt safe because I felt in control! I felt it was safe place! but its not safe anymore! Now Im mad! I have to get up and move! and Im mad about it! nothing I can do!
Im working on bulling issues from the past! so, I dont have the personal facilities within myself to deal with any bullies! Im a grown man and I would go to war on them and destroy them immediately, However, they have social security numbers tagged to their foreheads! They are owned by the state; if I touch what belongs to the state, I go to the state jails! One could say; why not do things underhanded?, under the table; Im not interested in being an outlaw right now! and Im not interested in the bullies enough to put out any effort! They are looking for contact; they are looking to cause problems with other people because they are being found out! I see them and know what they are! they have crossed personal lines because they think Im weak because I dont respond to them! in reality, Im not responding to them because of the district attorney's office would be breathing down my throat! I have no interest in bringing the judicial system into my life; certainly not over a few retard sociopaths! its not worth my time! In the end; one learns in this system; you have to walk away from the sociopath! Do not try to interact with them or work with them; do nothing! they are degenerates! worthless! waist of could space and time! They have no social rules or conscious!
So, Im in urgent waters! I dont know what to do! or to do yet! Im in fear; the small child in me is being attacked; and Im not sure how to handle it!
I need to get past the adolescence stage of my life; I have to learn how to protect the child that is in me! and right now; Im not doing a very good job of it! Im at a lose of knowledge! I want to move on; be nice to myself, but move on so I can meet women! Im interested in an Asian-soulmate! and it will not go away; ever! I dont know why, or what it means! the "energy me" from the universe wants an Asian girlfriend/wife! Im trying to catch up so I can meet her! Im attempting to work through the gap from where Im at now to where I want to be! and I want to have her in my arms! who is she! I have to come up to speed to find out!
Its like this; Im like a child sitting in a room next to a computer screen who has this dream; Im 7 years old and I dream of driving up to the land of where my honey is; My Asian-soulmate, I get out of the car and we squeeze each other!
So, In reality, Im a 3 year old that someone has to show how to change the TV channel! Im defenseless; and I'm dreaming of an Asian-soulmate! And I have no idea how to make a dream a reality! And I give up! But now, I dont want to give up anymore because its simply to painful! I would rather face the horrible things I need to face to get my life back then go back to a broken life! and Im trying to deal with the de humanization of the whole thing!
Part of me is sophisticated; part of me is an 11 year old boy behind an xbox that has never left his room! Has no confidence in the outside world and is not strong enough to know of an outside world or want to know or handle such things!
Fitting into the group as a follower and not a leader;
Im in follower mode; Now, when Im with a group of men; Im a follower on purpose; Im trying to learn! Im purposely in learning mode; Im simply trying to fit in with other men in a group! I have enough smarts; and more leadership qualities, but thats not why Im interacting with with them, its more social family! Im trying to fit in; be a brother within the tribe, learn to be smart, learn to be part of things; its emotional survival that Im looking for! or attempting to learn! and Im learning from the very beginning! a huge dichotomy exists here!
The work is about trusting a higher power; source energy Jesus christ0- maxo-! Holy one!
My work is with God; the lord!
Im learning to trust God; that is what its all about! working with God, putting my focus on God and not worrying about the outside world or the outcome!


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Carl Freer founded Gizmondo back in 2002, the idea for the ultimate handheld gaming system stemming from a child tracking product he had been developing. Three years later he resigned from his position as Chairman of the Board, the company and product both having failed miserably. Now three years later, Freer is spearheading the relaunch of the Gizmondo, ready to take another shot at the market. In a talk entitled "High Tech Ventures in Mobile Gaming and Media" at Georgia Tech, Freer will discuss his experience starting and running high tech companies, with a focus on the failure and forthcoming rebirth of the Gizmondo. Let's see what the man has to say.
Currently waiting for things to get started. The event, part of GA Tech's GVU Center Brown Bag Lecture series. GVU stands for Graphics, Visualization and Usability.
YAY! Administrative announcements. Turn off your cell phones, clean up your trash. etc.
Blair, the man introducing Carl comes out waving around a Gizmondo. He's been using it for research for two years. He invited Carl to the school upon hearing about the rebirth of the handheld.
Carl takes the podium, looking fit! Starts with a survey. "How many of you have Googled Carl Freer? " Laughter. "How many of you believe what you read?" Bigger laughter.
"Gizmodo is, in my opinion, the first multi-function handheld device." Um, okay! Adding gaming to the system was originally simply a way to drive sales of the device.
"From my point of view the product didn't fail - the company failed."
He calls himself a living example of what you shouldn't do. Really? Never!
Question from the audience - Will the Gizmondo change from the original version?
"We decided that we wanted to get the product out on the market quickly, and the spec of the current Gizmondo is good enough."
They'd like to incorporate new tech, but the time to market would be extended by a year.
Gizmondo will be the same except for an upgrade to the NVIDIA graphics chip.
Next year they are working with NVIDIA to completely restructure the PCB. Development is already started.
"We could never compete with Sony or Nintendo in content."
Freer is going over the benefits of the product being open source.
Freer's sons are here. His 12-year-old asked to come watch his dad make a fool of himself. Oh those kids.
Part of the strategy of Gizmondo is creating a platform that people can use to create their own games.
They want to create centers of development throughout technical university campus, offering hardware and such for free in order to foster creativity and growth.
They'll be hitting the blogs and forums pretty hard with the information about developing as the Gizmondo. Oh yay!
One of the reasons the company failed he said is long lead times for components. Retailers won't prepay, so they couldn't keep up financially with manufacturing.
They have a new manufacturing with a Chinese company that will let them pay as they receive the product, allowing them to get paid for the units immediately.
We're going to start selling the Gizmondo online before retail.
They've been talking to companies like Barnes & Nobles about carrying the product for use as a book reading device for young children.
They're not going to be spending $10-$15 million on EA to secure their new titles. He says he spent way too much on securing games. He spent $15 million on three EA games, not including development costs. Damn!
They will be focusing on areas of development that are less competitive. He mentions the PSP. "We feel that the Gizmondo...can be used in areas the PSP cannot."
"I'm taking a step back. I'm putting the product out there and letting you guys handle development."
The SDK will be completely free. Hail SDK!
He claims keeping the original Gizmondo closed source was a fatal mistake.
He says the Gizmondo started as an anti-theft device for cars. Freer was a car dealer at one point...go figure...who had a bunch of cars stolen. The device was a GPS / GSM tracker. Then, due to a series of child abductions in England the focus shifted to being a child tracker.
In 1997 Freer was named the Swedish entrepreneur of the year. "The press forgot about that." Whoops.
Now he's moved on to the main talk, tips about getting your own ideas into the open market.
"I think it's key to find and understand your limitations."
His first point - Empower your audience - make sure they can understand what you are creating. Have a hook that grabs their attention.
Create compelling experiences. Slowly sinking into the less interesting bits of his talk.
Now he's showing a CGI ad for the Gizmondo to illustrate creating a compelling experience. The good old bumblebee video.
They tried to make Gizmondo look bigger than they actually where. Sometimes you have to embelish things, but being ethical and honest is very important.
Again, the man said, "Being ethical and honest is very important."
Now he's showing a video for his streaming mobile video company, featuring music by The Cardigans.
Look at the market. "If you feel like it's half-done, it's probably 75% done."
"I've had 13 startups, 9 have been alright, the rest have not. I've learned more from the failure."
Blowfish Works...a mobile video player you download to your phone..is launching next month. Over 1.2 million people have signed up for the service before launch. They'll be launching on Facebook a week before the main launch. Exciting. Gaming important? Nope. Moving on.
Could the Gizmondo integrate a phone? Version one will not.
Version 2 will have the ability to process sound and voice telephony.
"I would be very happy if the Gizmondo remains an entertainment device."
He doesn't want to deal with the VOIP issues.
The current Gizmondo will have a lifespan of 3 years.
"If we do well our roadmap entails expanding the hardware and supporting full telephony."
When the company went bankrupt Freer was hit with a gag order, not allowed to talk to the press. The fact that he couldn't defend Stefan Eriksson . "You can take the gangster out of the ghetto but can't take the ghetto out of the gangster." Ouch.
The facts of the failure. Yes there were high salaries - "Which by the way were market rate..."
Carl himself didn't draw a salary.
Apparently they had talks with some big companies about acquisitions.
He couldn't defend himself. On Eriksson's famous car accident - "I was sleeping, but I felt like I was sitting on the front end of the car when it happened."
Freer learned the lesson of guilt by association in regards to working with Erikkson. "When you're in the public light you have to find alternatives."
The definitive reasons the Gizmondo failed - We were public too early so we were victims of day trading. The second failing was not opening the device to open source. The third was spending big bucks for EA. The fourth was a far too rich renumeration policy. Make sure you have the money before hand - don't expect you'll gather capital as you go along.
Now he's talking about marketing, and just like when I went to college, I am starting to doze off. What a lovely, nostalgic feeling!
And now it's done! There you have it folks. The Gizmondo marches on with Freer banking on it's varied functionality and open-source nature to get it into consumer's hands, with another version already in the works. Good luck, Carl!

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DOVER -- With assistance from her music teacher, Brenda LaForce, Meredith Eib will prepare remarkably challenging music that she will perform under the leadership of prominent conductors in the biennial All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus. Eib is a student at St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
Students will spend three days rehearsing with one of four conductors during the Easter Division Conference of The National Association for Music Education (NAFME) to be held in Hartford, CT in preparation for performances on April 7, 2013.
The NAFME All-Eastern Honors Ensembles, consisting of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, treble voice chorus, and jazz ensemble, are organized by members of The National Association for Music Education.
The 2013 NAFME All-Eastern Honors Ensembles will perform for an audience of thousands on Sunday, April 7, 2013, at the Bushnell Center from the Performing Arts, Mortensen Hall, In Hartford, CT. For program and ticket information please visit www.nafme-eastern.org.


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A longtime friend and colleague just completed a major and special speaking event, giving a sermon at his church. But when I was telling him how well he'd done on the video, he admitted he hadn't looked at it and didn't want to--so much so, he hadn't even listened to the audio.
He has that in common with the best in the business: Any professional newscaster, actor or performer will tell you that they hate how they look and sound when recorded, so it's no surprise we ordinary mortals do, too. But if you're lucky enough to be recorded when you speak--whether you do the recording or someone else does--you've got a golden opportunity to learn things you might never otherwise know about how you speak You don't have to record your speech, but if it's made available, take the opportunity. Or rig your own ultralight camcorder or a pal with a smartphone, and take charge of your own recording.
Rather than torture yourself with how bad you think you look, focus instead on these cues and clues that would be hard to discern without help from a camera. This list is what I coach my clients to look for when viewing video of their speaking, whether it's in practice or the real deal:
- Visual "ums:" Instead of saying "um" when you're pausing to think, you may look to one side or up or down; make a repetitive gesture over and over; or move in a pattern, if you're on your feet and away from the lectern. It might be putting a hand to your face, a wink, a grimace. Watch for those patterns--freeze-frame if you need to catch them--and work on buying yourself time to think with new phrases, or work more on your message in advance and practice. Hint: It helps to watch the video sooner rather than later after your talk to catch this slip-up, since you'll be better able to remember what you were thinking at the time your visual "um" occurred--and that may help you avoid repeating it next time. Often, the visual "um" happens when you haven't quite got your message down, or forgot something you wanted to include, just like a verbal "um."
- Invisible gestures: You may be gesturing like a windmill, but if it's below the height of the lectern or out of camera range, all the audience will see is your body moving slightly. That's great if you're gesturing to keep your speech fluid, since gestures help you avoid "ums" and stumbles. But if you wanted your gestures to help get your point across and hold the audience's interest, make sure we can see them. Typically, that will mean gesturing at shoulder or chest height. Practice will make that more comfortable for you.
- A body with a mind of its own: Some speakers planted in one place will sway from side to side, and some who like to move around wind up drilling a path into the floor as they pace back and forth, back and forth, in an unrelieved line. Either one calls for a change: You may need to focus on keeping your core body stable, or move in different directions if you like to roam the audience. If you are going to move your body, it's just like gesturing: Make it purposeful. Try planning places where you pause verbally and stop physically, to break up repetitive moves.
- How you react to interruptions: Listen for those unexpected noises--door slams, crying babies, sneezes--during your talk. How do you react? It's a great chance to catch your immediate reaction, and to think through how you might handle that next time. While you're at it, pay attention to how you react when you're asked a question; your face may give a different answer than your mouth does, showing apprehension, for example, when you don't need to do so.
- Expressions that match your words: Your face is part of your connection with the audience, but it gets confusing, at best, if you look like you're grimacing when giving praise or sad when talking about something exciting. Since it's not at all unusual for speakers to feel disconnected from their facial expressions, video helps you focus and fix that. Hint: Most people's mouths, when at rest, are either flat-lined or slightly downturned, making you look bored or sad. Smiling, even a little, corrects that natural downward turn. You get to decide how much to smile, but smile at least somewhat.
- Gestures that match your words: If you gesture for every word, you're missing the chance to emphasize some of them to good effect. Try counting your gestures and putting them in two groups: purposeful and repetitive filler--since one gesture done over and over and over again can feel like another kind of visual um. Then work on cutting out the filler gestures. Overall, however, it's better to gesture than to keep your hands immobilized.
- Your posture and body language: Are your shoulders up around your ears, or slumped? Are you leaning in one direction? Are your arms crossed in a defensive posture? Is your head down when you should be looking up at the audience? Turn off the sound for this review, and see what your body language says.
- Do you really look nervous? Do you look at ease? You may be surprised: Most speakers find they feel nervous, but don't look as if they are. If you're not sure, ask a friend to watch and tell you what she thinks, but 99.9 percent of the time, the audience can't tell that you're nervous.
- Can you hear your message clearly throughout? To find out, you may need to just listen to the audio once, then watch the video. Do you find it hard to follow your progression? Did you forget to include a key point? Did your gestures, movement, facial expressions and props help get that across? What can you notice that will help you next time in terms of clarity and focus?
- What did you do that was wonderful? You may need some outside perspective on this, but try looking for your successes in the video. Did you nail a great laugh line, pause with effect, gesture with aplomb? What did the audience like and react to positively? Did you stay on time? Take the time to note what went well, so you can make a point of doing it again.
Andrew Dlugan's great Six Minutes blog included the original version of this post in his roundup of the best public speaking articles in the blogosphere for the week of June 5, 2010. Thanks, Andrew!
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Lawmakers Tour Agricultural Businesses
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MEXICO - Missouri lawmakers traveled across the state the week of October 20th, making stops at several agricultural businesses.
Missouri Biotehnology Association CEO Kelly Gillespie said the tour's goal is to provide information for lawmakers, so they can be informed when making decisions about agriculture. There is no specific legislation the tour targets.
On Wednesday, legislators stopped at the Missouri Plant Science Center in Mexico to learn about soybean processing. The center is the only one of its kind in the United States where researchers work with businesses on new technology.
Russell Runge, Mexico Assistant City Manager, said it's important for legislators to see the importance of agriculture in Audrain County and other rural areas. He said new companies can grow and work with the plant.
"We think that those companies will be agriculturally based for the most part and would benefit us with numerous jobs and investment for the area and we see it as something that is going to be significant growth potential for the future," Runge said.
Rep. Jay Houghton said the tour has been helpful in learning about genetically modified organisms.
"We've got a lot of biotech companies in the state of Missouri. Through their research we are not only helping agriculture, but we are also helping the general public with health stuff as far as cancer research and things like that," Houghton said.
Lawmakers also visited the POET Ethanol Plant in Laddonia, MU Bradford Research Farm, and the Kit Bond Science and Technology Incubator. The tour ends Thursday in St. Louis.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Streep's success: Stick a fork in her...
The movies are getting kinkier. On the heels of Humpday (no local booking scheduled), which is about "two straight dudes bonin'," comes Julie & Julia, in which the climax is about a woman boning a duck.
But seriously...Two habitual Oscar nominees rise to this year's shortlist in the title roles of Julie & Julia, based on autobiographical books by Julie Powell (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Meryl Streep).
Screenwriter-director Nora Ephron tells their stories on parallel tracks, allowing similarities in the narratives to develop organically and sometimes occasion a cut from one to the other. Only once does she yield to the temptation of flash-cutting between the two in a montage.
The legendary Child is introduced in 1949, arriving in France with her diplomat husband Paul (Stanley Tucci). (Perhaps forgetting which movie they're in, someone says Julia was 40 years old and a virgin when she met Paul. Actually she had just turned 34 when they married in 1946.) Looking for something to occupy her time ("Wives don't do anything here"), she enrolls in the Cordon Bleu to learn to cook.
We meet Powell and her husband Eric (Chris Messina) in 2002 as they move from Brooklyn to Queens. Working a post-9/11 government job taking calls from distraught, angry people all day, Julie unwinds by coming home and cooking dinner. Having given up on writing a novel but needing a creative outlet, she starts a blog. The idea is to cook all 524 recipes in Child's masterwork, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in 365 days, and write about the experience.
Child's goal is slower to define itself. She's unable to find a good French cookbook with an English translation. (Larousse Gastronomique would coincidentally be translated into English in 1961, the same year Child's book is published.) While toying with the idea of writing her own cookbook "for servantless Americans," she meets two French women, Simone "Simca" Beck (Linda Emond) and Louisette Bertholle (Helen Carey), who have already started such a book but need a collaborator to help Americanize it; so they become "Les Trois Gourmands."
Julie and Julia both face obstacles and put strain on their marriages, despite incredibly supportive husbands, and both prevail in the end. Each story has a natural, almost inevitable conclusion, yet Ephron has trouble wrapping up the movie. She builds some suspense around whether the women will ever meet (Child lived until 2004, two days short of her 92nd birthday, so it's a possibility) and dithers around, constantly reemphasizing how much Julia influenced Julie.
Extraneous characters also stretch the movie beyond its optimum length. Jane Lynch appears as Julia's similarly tall and boisterous sister and Mary Lynn Rajskub plays Julie's best friend and confidante.
Despite some little bumps, when Julie & Julia is on a roll, which is most of the time, it rocks. It might qualify as a dramedy but the comic elements are far stronger than the dramatic ones.
Streep captures Child's humanity while also doing an uncanny impersonation that can't help being somewhat caricatured, considering the woman's over-the-top personality. (For comparison, a clip from Dan Aykroyd's 1978 SNL version of "The French Chef" is included.)
Adams finds a lot of humor, even in Julie's "meltdown over aspic" and her frustration at having "to murder a crustacean" to make Lobster Thermidor, but she makes her serious moments register too.
Appropriately for a story of two women with the shared belief that butter makes everything better, Julie & Julia goes down like butter. Julia could be speaking of the movie when she says, "Even if it isn't perfect– no excuses, no explanations."
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This movie is magic! It's Nora Ephron at her best, teamed with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams who are always the best. Intelligent dialogue, engaging story, endearing characters. Makes me want to cook, or at least cook up something quirky in my own life. This is a feel-good go-see!
You may want to wait to see it at home. Hadn't been to a movie theater in ages and sitting through 20 min. of commercials, and another 15 minutes of previews is my idea of hell --oh, and the previews get increasingly violent. This is my idea of child abuse, and yes, the movie is wonderful, but my advice is wait till you can bring it home. The only movie theater I'll be attending from now on is Vinegar Hill.


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Foghorn Leghorn
Director: Robert McKimson
Actors: Mel Blanc
Genres: Family, Animation, Short
Country: USA
Release Year: 1950
Duration: 6 min
Synopsis: Foghorn Leghorn[3] is a large, white adult Leghorn rooster with a stereotypically Southern accent, a "good ol' boy" speaking style, and a penchant for mischief. The first half of his name is a joke about him being loud and obnoxious, while the second half refers to a breed of chicken (a white leghorn). He first appeared in 1946 in a Henery Hawk film titled Walky Talky Hawky. All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson, and the rooster vies with the Tasmanian Devil as the most popular character associated with the director. Many of the gags involved Foghorn and a canine nemesis (formally known as The Barnyard Dog within Warner today, though on early model sheets his name is given as George P. Dog) engaging in one-upmanship through a series of pranks. Unlike other Looney Tunes rivalries—with the notable exception of the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner series—Foghorn is often the initial aggressor out of self-amusement and subsequently on the 'losing' end of gags. Most common among them was Leghorn's taking up a plank of wood, while ambling along humming "Camptown Races" (the only intelligible words being "DOO-Dah! DOO-Dah!"), coming to the sleeping Dog with his front half inside his doghouse, picking up his tail and rapidly spanking the dog with a plank of wood. Occasionally, Foghorn sings the song, but replaces "Camptown ladies sing this song..." with "Lump-teen-dozen and a-doo-dah day...". He does not sing any other part of the song, reverting to humming after the DOO-Dah's. Foghorn Leghorn loses his feathers very often in the episodes, usually revealing his bare skin or his boxers. The dog would give chase, usually with his leash still attached to his collar, until the leash stretched taut and his barking was replaced by an anguished howl. At times, when the dog would continue to bark, he would also yell, "Aaaaaahhhhh, shuuutupp!!" In rare cases, it's the dog that starts the series of pranks; as such it is somewhat difficult to tell who started the feud. This gag was passed down to the Leghorns' grandson in Feather Bluster, where Foghorn was puzzled as to why the kid was behaving that way and the Dog was all too happy to remind him: "Ain't nothin' wrong with 'im, Foggy, 'cept that he takes after you." He was joined in a few episodes by a weasel called 'Bill' who initially attempted to eat him but ended up joining forces to outwit the aforementioned canine. Other recurring themes throughout the cartoons included the attempts of the diminutive Henery Hawk to catch and eat Foghorn, and the rooster's efforts to woo the widowed hen Miss Prissy (often by babysitting her bookish son, Egghead, Jr.)
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Seven Saints for Seven Virtues
By Jean Heimann (Servant Books, 2014)
About the book:
To live a virtuous life might seem like a daunting task, but we are fortunate to have examples to follow—the saints who have faced sin through the embodiment and exemplification of virtue. Readers will meet seven saints who lived seven virtues, and will discover concrete ways that they can live those virtues in their own lives. Each chapter includes:
- A quote from the saint
- A personal reflection on each saint
- A brief biography
- A discussion on the spirituality of each saint, and concrete examples how to emulate this saint and grow in the virtue that saint models
- A prayer to conclude each chapter, asking for the intercession of that saint
Seven Saints for Seven Virtues covers a wide range of spirituality and life circumstances, demonstrating that everyone, in every role of life, has the opportunity to live a virtuous life.
Fearless: Stories of the American Saints
By Alice Camille and Paul Boudreau (Franciscan Media, 2014)
About the book:
The lives of the saints who helped build the Catholic Church in the United States—Frances Cabrini, Isaac Jogues, John Neumann, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Damien de Veuster, among others—are marked by strength, courage, determination, and sanctity. But as this thoughtful and engaging book points out, these saints also could be foolhardy, obstinate, stubborn, and dismissive. In other words, they were a lot like everyone, with a mixture of different qualities and characteristics.
What makes the stories of the thirteen men and women in Fearless so compelling is that a distinctly American way of holiness begins to emerge from their lives and their work. These were people who walked the streets of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Denver. They traveled along California's coast and into the Southwest, penetrated the heartland of Indiana and Missouri, and reached out into the territorial islands of the United States.
Captivating illustrations for each saint highlight the depth of their souls, and give readers an idea of the strong characteristics exemplified by these men and women.
Fearless will bring the reader through the history of the Catholic Church in America in an intimate and personal way, with the stories of the saints and blessed who helped Christianity become part of this country's fabric. These men and women did not set out to be saints, only to live out the Gospel as they best knew how. They followed their hearts and God's will to build a better place for the people of the New World.
Memoirs of a Happy Failure
By Alice von Hildebrand (St. Benedict Press, 2014)
About the book:
Alice von Hildebrand is a household name to millions. But little is known of the story of her life, notably the thirty-seven years she spent at Hunter College in New York City. There, despite systematic opposition that might have defeated even the strongest of souls, she endured with grace and devotion, leaving a mark on a generation of students through her defense of truth through persuasion, wit, and love. By showing her students how truth fulfills the deepest longings of the human heart, she helped to liberate countless students from the oppressive relativism of the day, enabling many of them to find their way to God. Now, for the first time, discover the details of Alice von Hildebrand's compelling and influential life, including:
- her thrilling escape from Europe that was nearly halted by a Nazi ship
- her early days in America and her dedication to education and cultivating wisdom
- her marriage to the great philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,
- her victories and defeats at Hunter where she combated a culture dedicated to relativism
and much more
The Memoirs of a Happy Failure is a fascinating and essential glimpse into the life of one of contemporary Catholicism's most compelling minds. It is the story of courage, faith, and the grace of God acting in the world.
The Catholic Family Handbook
By Lawrence G. Lovasik (Sophia Institute Press, 2012)
About the book:
Time-tested strategies to help you strengthen your marriage and raise good kids
Here is a crucial book for you if you want to shield your family from the effects of our selfish secular culture, which destroys families and poisons relationships.
Fr. Lawrence Lovasik, the renowned author of The Hidden Power of Kindness, gives faithful Catholics all the essential ingredients of a stable and loving Catholic marriage and family — ingredients that are in danger of being lost in our turbulent age.
Using Scripture and Church teachings in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, Fr. Lovasik helps you understand the proper role of the Catholic father and mother and the blessings of family. He shows you how you can secure happiness in marriage, develop the virtues necessary for a successful marriage, raise children in a truly Catholic way, and much more.
Let Fr. Lovasik strengthen your marriage and family as you discover:
- Three things you can learn from the Holy Family about living as a family today
- The secret of gaining God's blessing and peace upon your family: do you know it?
- Four crucial lessons no school can teach to your children (only you can!)
- Why marital happiness is not automatic, but must be earned (and how to earn it)
- Common mistakes fathers make that can damage their families irrevocably
- The primary requirement for family happiness: does your family measure up?
- The secret of overcoming the anger that can disrupt any relationship
- Eleven simple steps you can take to bring harmony to your marriage right now
- Are you selfish? Sixteen searching questions to ask yourself in order to find out
- Four qualities that every good parent has: can you name them? Do you have them?
- Sex education: how to navigate this minefield in a way that is good for your kids
- Plus much more that will help you imbue your family with Catholic values!
Catholic and Married: Leaning into Love
By Art and Laraine Bennett (Our Sunday Visitor, 2014)
About the book:
"And they lived happily ever after." Only in fairy tales, you say. But there is life after the honeymoon-messy, challenging, happily-married life. That's the great promise of Catholic marriage, and if you're married or considering marriage the joy is there for you, too.
Many Catholics today share the culture's unease-fear of divorce, the prevalence of cohabitation, the wounds of past relationships all conspire to make til-death-do-us-part seem like a risky proposition. But the authors of Catholic and Married all agree, marriage is the adventure of a lifetime.
In these sometimes funny, tell-it-like-it-is chapters, this diverse group of men and women offer you their insights and advice on:
- Children - the gift that keeps on giving
- Marrying young - objections and object lessons
- Contraception - an honest discussion on a touchy subject
- Parenting skills - it's not rocket science (it just feels like it sometimes)
- And much more!
These stories will encourage you to lean into love. Hold nothing back. And experience the Catholic marriage God intended for you.
The Gift Of Repentance: God's Call for a Change of Heart
By Kevin Perrotta (Word Among Us Press, 2015)
About the book:
Repentance is a gift—because coming to the realization of ourselves as sinners opens our hearts to the gospel. And while consciousness of our sins is uncomfortable, it is also a cause for hope. In those feelings of guilt, says popular Scripture commentator Kevin Perrotta, God is calling us to return to him.
The first three sessions of this Bible study are designed to spur readers to reflect on their own experience of recognizing their sins and taking action against them. The second three sessions focus on Jesus, who calls us to grow in love beyond anything that is easy or comfortable for us—and enables us to do it by nourishing us with himself.
Meditations for Lent
By Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Sophia Institute Press, 2014)
About the book:
Lent is hard, and it's so frustrating when we lose focus and surrender to our weaknesses time and time again. That's why all the great saints encouraged meditation as a sure-fire way to place yourself in God's presence and grow closer to Him. Through meditation, we take our eyes off ourselves, and we walk faithfully in the hands of God.
There is no better time to begin—or to renew—the habit of meditation than during the Season of Lent. If you want to combine the spiritual benefits of a holy Lent with the bountiful harvest that regular meditation brings, then your soul is crying for Meditations for Lent. These brief but powerful meditations are collected from the voluminous writings of 17th Century Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet.
Bishop Bossuet is considered to be among the best homilists in the history of the Church, and his great piety and eloquent writings have been cherished by Catholics for hundreds of years.Now they're available to you in English, for the very first time! In these pages, Bishop Bossuet will take you on a stunning inner pilgrimage to an unforgettable encounter with Jesus' tender love for you as he freely gave His life for you on the Cross.
Each meditation is short, and it is a robust complement to the daily readings at Mass during the Lenten season. Read Meditations for Lent and you won't arrive at Easter Mass distracted, exhausted, and frazzled, having neglected your sacrifices and your ordinary prayers, too. Instead, you'll find yourself walking joyfully into church, ready and eager to adore the resurrected King.
And your soul will be what it should be: a fit dwelling place for the Redeemer.
Magnificat Lenten Companion 2015
About the book:
Are you looking for a way this Lent to return to the Church or to develop a more fervent practice of your faith?
The holy season of Lent speaks to our daily struggles and sorrows, showing how the answer to all life's troubles is found in the Mystery of Jesus Christ. This handy little booklet provides a series of original reflections to guide you through every day of Lent into the heart of that Mystery.
By spending a few moments meditating on the inspiring daily reflections and the short prayers that follow them, you will discover all that is true, good, and beautiful about the Catholic faith. Let the profound yet practical insights you will find in this little spiritual treasury form and focus your spiritual life, filling it with a new conviction and purpose.
This inspiring daily meditation guide for Lent is a customer favorite, year after year.
About the Author
Sarah Reinhard
When she's not chasing kids, chugging coffee, or juggling work, Sarah Reinhard's usually trying to stay up read just one…more…chapter. She writes and works in the midst of rural farm life with little ones underfoot. She is part of the team for the award-winning Catholic Mom's Prayer Companion, as well as the author of a number of books. You can join her for a weekday take on Catholic life by subscribing to Three Shots and follow her writing at Snoring Scholar.


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Culture Blogs
Explore ways in which you can easily deepen and sharpen your own practical magic by incorporating methods of divination and spirit-work. There's a little something for everyone in this hoodoo gumbo!
Using Tarot to Choose the Best Rootwork Approach
So you have a problem and now you're looking for the best conjure for the job.
Having a million options at your disposal is fantastic, but it's only helpful if you have a way to determine which options are going to be most likely to work for your particular set of circumstances. Sometimes all the various herbs, spells, candles, and condition products for one issue can be overwhelming! Money and love being some of the "worst offenders" for offering a perplexing embarrassment of riches when it comes to variety.
You know there's many approaches you could take, but which one is most suited for your particular set of circumstances? Should you take 3 days of baths, or 7? Is the Crown of Success vigil alone enough, or should you look at adding a Road Opener, and a Master vigil to the mix and place your picture in the middle of that trinity? Should you make a mojo to wear AND a honey jar after you've done all baths? Is lavender the herb you need, or rose? Will doll baby be best, or the skull candle route?
How do you know?
Divination, which should be one of the very first steps you take when evaluating the ins-and-outs of a situation before delving into remediation work, comes once again to the rescue!
There are, of course, many different oracles that one could use effectively for determining what remedies would be best suited. A pendulum can give a nice Yes/No-type answer, if the pendulum is a tool you are already familiar with and have some skill using.
But you can also use the tarot!
I personally love using the tarot to help determine my plan of attack, and then use the pendulum to suss out the nitty-gritty specifics of what specific herbs are most indicated.
I like to ask the tarot about workings and order of workings as a whole, as I not only get a basic yes/no, but also a bit of information about WHY yes, or WHY no. This then helps me form a more holistic picture of how a complete conjure job is going to go, and best to direct it.
It's quite a simple process. Think of the specific working your are inquiring about while shuffling, then draw one card - read the basic meaning of the card as the outcome to using that approach, and if necessary for hints as to what might be a better choice.
For instance, if I ask if a honey jar will help reconcile a rocky relationship and pull the Four of Cups, I can see that while it will help highlight some positives of the relationship, it will not completely overcome the negative patterns and perceptions which have overtaken the situation.
So the honey jar is still on the table as part of the working. It just can't stand alone.
Since cups are a water suit, I might intuit that some water-based works would help round out the working. So I could consider some Uncrossing baths and floor washes to help clean the couple's home from the negative energy from all the fussing and fighting, as well as dressing their bed-sheets by spritzing them with water that some Reconciliation bath crystals have been dissolved into.
With that revised plan - Uncrossing and cleansing, followed by honey jar and dressing of bedroom with Reconciliation - I would shuffle and draw again. This time I draw The Star! Getting closer, as The Star is all about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and having renewed hope. This is definitely moving things in the right direction. But I'd want to see if I could get an even better result.
The Star card again has water, but also carries a sense of "coolness" about it - stars come out at night when the temperature drops. It also brings to mind a sense of stillness and calm, since The Star often appears as one emerges from a stormy period in life. So Peace Water comes to mind, and Stella Maris figures of Divine Femininity. I might add asperging the home with Peace Water, and a petition to Our Lady, Star of the Sea or Isis (if a connection is felt to either of those figures by the couple involved, or by you as the consulting practitioner who may work on their behalf) or even by invoking the energy of The Star card itself - asking that the stormy waters of the relationship be calmed, so that the couple could once again traverse the ocean of life together peacefully and with love.
The new plan then is Uncrossing and cleansing, followed by the crafting of a honey jar, dressing the bed daily with Reconciliation, and regularly asperging the home with Peace Water, and placing this entire petition under the aegis of Stella Maris. I shuffle the cards and this time pull Ten of Cups - a card of familial joy and peace. A perfect ending!
You can follow this method for any type of case.
If you ever find the answers to be somewhat confusing, try being more specific with your proposed solutions. For example, if Uncrossing is clearly called for, but you got a "bad" result card, try out different numbers of days for the Uncrossing to be repeated - 3, 7, 9, 13. You may find that 3 days or 7 days aren't enough, but if you ask the cards about 13 you get a very clear "YES" answer.
If that doesn't help, then make sure you are coming at the solution from the correct angle by confirming that you've identified the true root issue of the situation. All the Attraction work in the world will only do so much good, if you've actually got someone with a deep-seated case of low self-esteem and behavior patterns rife with self-sabotage!
I mentioned earlier that I like to use my pendulum to get exact advice on what herbs, roots, curios, etc to use when I am crafting a ritual item such as a honey jar.
I could guess at rose for love and balm of gilead for reconciliation, but with so many love, blessing, and peace herbs to choose from, which would be best?
I've made a video on this very topic, which you are welcome to watch for more info about that part of the process:
Overall you'll find that when you consult an oracle for what way to approach a case you start seeing better results, with less guesswork along the way. You'll have a full plan of attack, rather than just cherry-picking remedies one by one and then waiting to see how far they chip away at your problem. You can quickly find out if your initial plan was a lemon (and that happens to all of us) BEFORE you invest your time, energy, and resources into a working that is simply not suitable, and find something that will get you closer to where you want to be.
Hopefully this has been helpful and can get you on the path to manifesting your goals in a more efficient manner.
Happy hoodooin' y'all!
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- Ron: "She's got to be joking. . . . She can't honestly think I'd wear ..."
- Harry: "Nice. Classy. You should definitely wear it in front of Fred and George."
- Ron: "If you tell them, I — I — I'll —"
- Harry: "Stutter at me?"
- — Ron Weasley and Harry Potter upon seeing the necklace[src]
In 1996, Lavender Brown sent her boyfriend, Ron Weasley a necklace for a Christmas gift. It was a thick gold chain, with large gold letters spelling "my sweetheart."[1]
Ron was horrified when he received it, astonished and appalled that Lavender could think he would ever like such an item. He showed it to Harry Potter, who was staying with Ron at the Burrow during the Christmas holidays that year; Harry burst out laughing and jokingly threatened to tell Ron's older brothers Fred and George about it. Harry then remarked of Ron's shock, "Have you ever let it slip that you would go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' around your neck?" Ron immediately shoved the necklace under his pillow. When Ron later laughed at the gift Harry received from Kreacher, a parcel full of maggots, Harry declared that he preferred it to the necklace Ron had received, which quieted Ron at once.[1] It is implied that Ron and Lavender's relationship was so shallow that she would not know what to get him since they spent most of their time snogging.
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the necklace displays a gold heart with an arrow through it, rather than the words "my sweetheart."
- In the film adaptation, the necklace was not given to Ron over Christmas, but after they returned to school, where Hermione Granger sees the necklace and states she has to go and vomit.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 16 (A Very Frosty Christmas)


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I keep reading about how Trump is going to be impeached. Meanwhile, I keep thinking two presidents were impeached: Andrew Johnson and William J. Clinton. Neither was removed from office. It was more like a bad mark on their permanent record than getting expelled. They were harder on Harry Potter than either impeached President.
This doesn't mean I had or have anything against Bill Clinton (I liked him a lot) except the whole thing about men and their zippers and how come they can't just keep them zipped — at least until they get out of office. Would it really kill them to not screw someone inappropriate for a few years? Men can be such pigs. But I digress.
I do not think Trump will be impeached. "Why not?" you ask.
Because the Senate doesn't want to. Even if Democrats utterly wipe the floor with Republicans in 2018 by winning EVERY available seat in the Senate, it does not mean the Senate will impeach Trump. And if they did, why does everyone assume that impeachment would unseat Trump? It hasn't unseated the two presidents who were impeached. The only thing that can unseat a president are "high crimes and misdemeanors" for which there exists no clear, current definition.
Moreover, a GOP-dominated — or even a Senate with a substantial percentage of them — does not have to act on impeachment. Regardless of the outcome of any investigation, now or in the future, there is no mandate to do anything about it. And yet, despite the ineffectiveness of previous impeachment procedures, everyone is convinced that this time, it will be different.
Why? What would make this time different than before? What new law is on the books? What new interpretation of "crimes the president can commit" exists?
I'm as unhappy as anyone about the state of the nation, but I'm a pragmatist. The harder I look at it, the more I'm convinced this is another not-happening event. Senators aren't going to take him down. For way too many of them, it would be the same as taking themselves down.
If we are all very lucky, Mueller's investigations will take down many of his Trump's cronies. Which maybe will improve the situation a little bit. But eliminating Trump? You think so? If you think so, I'd like to hear why you think so. Based on what? Because I want to believe. I really do.
In the end, I believe that ending this disaster will rest with us. Voters. In 2018 and 2020. If we cannot stand together and sweep the bastards out of office, life in these United States is going to get increasingly ugly and frightening.
Talk to me. Tell me I'm wrong. Convince me I'm crazy or I just don't understand the situation.
I'm listening.
And from Garry Armstrong:
This has been primary conversation for Marilyn and me, which depresses the hell out of us, but one thing seems clear: The Squatter isn't giving up his land because of all the bad news and the threat of impeachment. Unless they nail him on treason, he's not getting out of Dodge. Unless they get Watergate type material on him, he won't give up the ranch. It'll take a great showing by the Democrats in the mid-terms and deep doo-doo for the Republicans for the Bully Boys to run their Jefe out of town.
Meantime, it's great fodder for late night comedy/ talk shows. As the revival tempo monologues pile up the missteps by Orange Head and his minions, the audience gets more and more excited, anticipating a climax that the Big Fat Bad Hombre is leaving. No! Not happening that way. Sorry to be a party pooper but reality bites.
Don't shoot the messenger. Men are cheaper than guns.,
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Anthropologie Cork Window Displays Celebrate Earth Day
Anthropologie Gets Creative With Corks For Earth Day
Anthropologie Gets Creative With Corks For Earth Day
If you've been shopping at Anthropologie lately, you might have noticed a jar on the checkout counter soliciting wine corks. As it turns out, the store clerks aren't hoarders, but they've been collecting those bottle stoppers for a special window display project to celebrate Earth Day (April 22). The bohemian retailer has teamed up with the Cork Forest Conservation Alliance (CFCA) to promote the use of natural corks and educate shoppers about the sustainable resource. To spark the dialogue, it'll be using more than two million corks in its famously creative window displays this month, and each display will be unique to the store, created by its in-house, visual artists. In addition to staff and shoppers, Whole Foods has also hopped on the bandwagon and agreed to donate corks.
But what, you ask, is to come of these millions of corks when it's time for Anthroplogie to wow us with another jaw-dropping display? The installations will actually be available for "adoption" after Earth Day, in exchange for a contribution to CFCA. Remaining corks will be returned to the organization and recycled through its Cork ReHarvest program.
Want to get creative yourself with all those spare wine corks you have laying around? Anthropologie will be hosting a free workshop series at more than 60 locations during Earth Week, where kids and adults can learn to make cork animals, craft recycled cork planters, and more. Just head to the shop's Facebook page to learn more details.
Come along and check out some of the outstanding cork window displays Anthroplogie's artist have crafted!


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Historically, catastrophic things happen-- war, natural disasters, technology, and the computer age.
The 70's were extravagant times. The Vietnam war ended, the economy was good, and frivolous spending was normal. Divorce rates increased. Drugs were the cocktail of choice. Polyester leisure suits and bell bottoms were in fashion. The Metropolitan newspaper industry was huge! Advertising agencies, and big PR firms were raking it in. Advertising was BIG money. People were living the high life.
High gas prices of the 70's began a new car trend for the 80's. The big boat gas burners slimmed down, and so began the increase and popularity of import autos. The 80's became the "me" generation. "DINK" was the new buzz word-- double income, no kids. BMWs were in every garage, Ralph Lauren replaced the polyester leisure suits for men and women. The mall was where we spent our shopping dollars, neglecting our small town main streets. Wal-Mart was the big corporate monster destroying small local business. We became work-aholics, conformed. Weeklies and Shoppers, Val Pack and other niche publications began to give metro newspapers a run for their money.
The 90's were ushered in with the Gulf War. SCUD missiles and recession were the topic of conversation. People became uncertain of their future, worried. They became less concerned about themselves and the material things that were once so important in the 80's. They longed for the "good old days" with the white picket fence, family, religion, and back to basics attitude. Community weekly newspapers were it. They offered the whole holistic package with good news and the "tribalism" we so desperately needed during the gulf war.
Shopping main street and locally became trendy again.
The late 90's into the new millennium gave us a new beginning, and a new war. Life seemed relatively normal again despite the war and our new president. The bigger the SUV the better. Real estate was on the upswing. Consumer trust was back. We wanted it all again. It was a Bull market. Metro newspapers continued to slide into oblivion as the computer technology provided us with instantaneous world and regional/national news. We've seen Craig's List, eBay and other internet sites take a hit on classifieds. Community weeklies are still strong, as they still provide the only source for hyper-local news-- they publish what matters to readers young and old.
From 2006 on, we've seen our high housing market go south, banks and financial institutions fail, and the stock market become the worst since the depression. The war in Iraq continues to drain us financially and emotionally. We've seen an increase of global awareness and concern for the planet. We're experiencing an economic reconstruction. Businesses must re-think what they do and how they do it. The new buzz word... "change."
Large businesses had been conditioned over the years to believe bigger is better, utilizing the metro newspapers for their print advertising vehicle to cover vast areas and population. This is no longer a viable option with the downward spiral of large metro newspapers. The shift is toward the community newspapers, which often provide additional zone opportunities for more circulation with strong readership.
We've already witnessed a huge transportation change. People are riding bikes, scooters, and alternative hybrid autos. Family, community, religion, schools and civic organizations are important during these uncertain times. We feel the need to unite and do what we can as a unit, and all fitting within the community newspaper feel good spirit.
Community newspapers should provide news briefs and important tidbits. They must embrace the concept of concise, and more news, business briefs, neighborhood and civic, club and church, and school news. These are all extremely important.
They should also provide some feel-good features. We don't want bad news all the time. They should embrace the uniqueness of their communities and the people who live there. There are so many great stories to share.
Businesses who recognize this marketing opportunity and embrace the reach and readership their community newspapers offer will find an easier path to riding out the economic turbulence and may even find themselves prospering during tough times.


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Around Siwa Oasis
Although the Siwa depression is some 82km long and up to 28km wide, cultivated areas amount to less than two thousand acres and the total population is only thirty thousand; in some areas both population and cultivation have diminished since salination turned ancient gardens into barren kharsif. Nearer town, dense palm groves and wiry olive trees are carefully tended in mud- and palm-leaf-walled gardens. Siwa has over three hundred thousand palm trees, each yielding about 90k of dates a year and requiring some 30l of water every day.
From Siwa's Midan el-Souk, you can follow a country road through the palm groves – a pleasant walk if it isn't too hot and you're not intending to venture far beyond AGHURMI and the ruins of the ancient Siwans' first fortified settlement. Raised on a hill 12m above the plain and entered by a single gateway, ancient Aghurmi had its own well, rendering it impervious to sieges, and was home to the celebrated Oracle Temple of Amun, whose former petitioners included Alexander the Great. The fortified ruins still afford a superb view encompassing the salt lakes of Birket Siwa and Birket Zeitun, Jebel Dakhrour and Siwa Town in the distance, and a great mass of palms.
Oracle Temple
Fakhry dates Aghurmi's Oracle Temple (signposted as the "Alexander Crowning Hall") to the reign of the XXVI Dynasty ruler Amasis the Drunkard (570–526 BC) but reckons it evolved from an older site dedicated to Amun-Re, which others have attributed to the ram-headed Libyan god Ammon. A hilltop citadel encloses the temple, along with deep wells that enabled the occupants to withstand seiges.
A Persian army sent to destroy the Oracle was obliterated by the desert; emissaries from the Athenian statesman Cimon (or Timon, as Shakespeare misspelt it) were told of his death as it happened; and Lysander tried bribery to win the oracle's endorsement of his claim to the Spartan throne. But the most famous petitioner was Alexander the Great. Having liberated Egypt from its hated Persian rulers and ordered the foundation of Alexandria he hurried to Siwa in 331 BC. It's thought that he sought confirmation that he was the son of Zeus (who the Greeks identified with Amun), but the oracle's reply – whispered by a priest through an aperture in the wall of the sanctuary – is unrecorded, and Alexander kept it secret unto his death in Asia eight years later.
Temple of Amun
In ancient times the Oracle Temple was linked by a ritual causeway to a Temple of Amun, which is known locally as "Um Ubayda". Probably founded by Nectanebo II (360–343 BC), who also rebuilt the Temple of Hibis at Kharga Oasis, a bas-reliefed wall and giant blocks of rubble are all that remain of this once-substantial XXX Dynasty creation after it was dynamited by a treasure-hunting local governor in 1897.
Cleopatra Bath
From the Temple of Amun follow the path on to reach Ain Juba, known to tourists as the Cleopatra Bath. A deep circular pool of gently bubbling spring water, it has no connection with the legendary queen but is a fine place to bathe if you don't mind spectators at the cafés surrounding the pool (there are changing rooms behind Tanta Waa) or lots of Siwan men bathing on Friday mornings and at sunset.
Tamusi Bath
Being fully visible to anyone passing along the trail, Ain Juba has always been shunned by local women in favour of the more secluded Tamusi Bath where Siwan brides once ritually bathed and removed their adrim (a silver collar signifying puberty) on the eve of their wedding day. Today, the spring-fed pool is barely less public than the Cleopatra Bath due to the presence of Ali's Garden, which serves tea and sheesha.
Jebel Dakhrour
Heading on from the Cleopatra Bath, bear left at the fork and take the first path on the right through clover fields and groves of palms to emerge in the desert near Jebel Dakhrour. This rugged massif hosts the annual Eid el-Siyaha and affords stunning views. In contrast to the verdant oasis and the silvery salt lake of Birket Zeitun, the southern horizon presents a desolate vista of crescent dunes and blackened mesas: the edge of the Great Sand Sea.
Visitors can experience a loud echo in the basin between the first and second peaks to the right, where Siwans often go to sing. Near the summit of Jebel Nasra is a crevice with a vein of red clay that's used to decorate pottery. Jebel Tunefefan (Mountain of Pillars) is named for three caves with man-made pillars, which were once dwellings and later tombs. Any Siwan in the vicinity can point you towards these two peaks.
Last but not least, immersion in the hot sand around Dakhrour is famously efficaceous for certain medical conditions; several places out here offer the chance to go sand bathing.
Fatnis Island and Birket Siwa
Another popular destination is Fatnis Island, on the salt lake of Birket Siwa. En route you'll pass the Abu Alif Bath, where farmhands wash; beyond the palm groves, follow a causeway across salt-encrusted pans onto Fatnis, where palms surround a large circular tiled pool, fed by fresh water welling up from clefts in the rock 15m below. A stall sells tea and sheesha.
Actually, Fatnis is no longer an island. Birket Siwa has receded and a barrage now divides it into a drainage reservoir and an intensely saline remnant (seven times saltier than the Dead Sea), which blackens the surrounding vegetation. Despite its faintly acrid smell the lake looks beautiful, with sculpted table-top massifs on its far shores.
Sidi Jaffar
The largest massif overlooking the lake is called Sidi Jaffar by Egyptians but was previously designated by British cartographers as Jebel Beida (White Mountain) and is still known to Siwans in their own language as Adrère Amellal. Whatever its name, this area deserves a visit just to see the amazing architecture of its two eco-lodges.
Adrère Amellal and Taziry eco-lodges
Beside the western shore of Birket Siwa is the extraordinary Adrère Amellal eco-lodge (access only with written permission from the Shali Lodge in Siwa Town): a vast, fantasy qasr-style hotel built entirely of kharsif, palm logs and salt slabs (used instead of glass). The brainchild of Cairene entrepreneur and environmental engineer Mounir Nematalla, the eco-lodge is designed to save energy and water and recycle waste products on its organic farm. Being the kind of hotel whose guests arrive by helicopter (or private jet into Siwa's military airport), it can be entirely empty for weeks and then suddenly filled with VIPs, gofers and bodyguards. When not booked out, they don't mind the odd visitor looking around, providing you get written permission first.
The smaller but otherwise similar Taziry Ecolodge, nearer the Maraki road, doesn't require prior authorisation for a visit.
Bir Wahed
Perhaps the best excursion Siwa has to offer is Bir Wahed (Well One), amid the outer dunes of the Great Sand Sea, which provides an affordable experience of this magnificent landscape, otherwise only available on deep-desert safaris.
Two salt-water ponds and a freshwater lake (where people usually swim on the way back) are followed by a magical hot pool the size of a large jacuzzi, irrigating a lush palm garden. The well was dug in the 1960s to find oil, but produced sulphurous water (37°C) instead. To soak up to your chest, puffing a sheesha, while the sun sets over the dunes all around, is a fantastic experience. Women may wear bathing costumes without offending any locals. The only downside is that mosquitoes are awful from dusk till dawn.
From here you can pursue a nature trail through limestone outcrops strewn with marine fossils, and enjoy sand-surfing or rolling down the sides of huge knife-edged dunes (sand-boards can be rented in town if the safari operator doesn't provide them). Excursions also usually feature some dune-bashing (driving over dunes at high speed).
Maraki is the collective name for several villages at the western end of the Siwa depression, separated from the main oasis by a rocky desert riddled with over two hundred tombs and caves. Although the area was intensively cultivated from Roman times until the fifteenth century, most of the existing buildings are modern breeze-block structures, as the old mud-brick ones were destroyed by a deluge in 1982, which forced residents to shelter in caves at nearby Balad el-Rum.
Balad el-Rum: the "Tomb of Alexander the Great"
In 1991, Balad el-Rum (Town of the Romans) made international headlines when Liana and Manos Souvaltzi announced their discovery of the "Tomb of Alexander the Great" beneath a ruined Doric temple. Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities initially endorsed the Souvaltzis' claim, but backed off after the Greeks failed to refute criticism that they'd misread vital inscriptions, revoked their licence and moved all the stones to a depository (not open to the public, though you might be able to look inside for baksheesh).
Girba Oasis and Shiatta
Beyond the military checkpoint at Bahaj al-Din a track runs off to Girba Oasis, which despite its many salt-flats (sabkha) provides grazing for the herds of the Bedouin Al-Shihayat tribe, whose main settlement is at Shiatta, 20km away. During the early twentieth century, both were halts on the Masrab el-Ikhwan (Road of the Brotherhood) from Jaghbub Oasis in Libya, whereby Senussi preachers reached the Western Desert oases (masrab is the Siwan word for a camel route, called a darb in other oases.)
Since the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Libya, the thinly guarded international border has been crossed with impunity by smugglers armed with AK-47s and RPGs, who have burnt crops to punish local sheikhs for providing information to Egyptian border guards stationed in the vicinity.
Shiatta's beautiful, deep-blue salt lake is thought to be the remnant of an ancient, less saline one that stretched as far as Aghurmi. Divers have found fossils of fifty-million-year-old crocodiles, an underground river (part of the aquifers and waterways beneath the Libyan Desert) and the submerged remains of a Roman or pharaonic solar boat that might have been used for ritual voyages to the Oracle Temple. Endangered long-horned and Dorcas gazelles sometimes graze around its shores. Bring a bottle of fresh water to rinse off the salt after swimming in the lake.
Around Birket Zeitun
The largest salt lake in the oasis, named after the olive trees that flourished around it in ancient times, Birket Zeitun is visible from Jebel Dakhrour, from where a causeway crosses acres of mud, attesting to the lake's slow recession. Only the far shore is inhabited, with villages that flourished in Roman times before centuries of slow decline set in.
Ain Qurayshat
The lake's increasing salinity is both the cause and result of depopulation: as fewer irrigation works are maintained, more warm water from the Ain Qurayshat spring flows unused into the lake, crystallizing mineral salts as it evaporates. The source is enclosed by an industrial-sized concrete tank where you can bathe – but be careful of underwater ledges.
Abu Shurouf
Better bathing can be found 35km southeast of Siwa Town at Abu Shrouf, where there's a large kidney-shaped pool of cool, clear, azure water with bug-eyed fishes, opposite the Hayat mineral water bottling plant. The village beyond is notable for harbouring all the female donkeys in the oasis, which are kept and mated here. In Siwan parlance, "Have you been to Abu Shurouf?" is a euphemism for "Have you had sex?"
Further out along the lake, AL-ZEITUN was once a model Senussi village tending the richest olive groves in the oasis until it was abandoned after an Italian bombing raid in 1940. Near the far end is a smoke-blackened Ptolemaic kiosk-temple where the locals once sheltered from bombs. Hundreds of Roman tombs riddle the hills between Al-Zeitun and Ain Safi, the last hamlet in the oasis before the Darb Siwa to Bahariya Oasis enters the deep desert.
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Publication Date: 4/26/2006
Citation: Sharma, M., Bhagwat, A.A., Patel, J.R., Mudd, C.L. 2006. The role of RPOS in alkali tolerance of enterohemorrhagic E. coli [abstract]. BARC Poster Day. Paper No. 34.
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Technical Abstract: The alkali tolerance of foodborne pathogens contributes to the survival of cells when encountering the alternating acidic and alkali conditions of gastrointestinal environments. The rpoS gene may play a role in the alkali tolerance of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). The objective was to determine if rpoS contributes to alkali tolerance of EHEC strains grown under alkaline or acidic conditions. E. coli O157:H7 (strains 52, 258, and 251), E. coli O111:H11 (strain 229), E. coli O26:H11 (strain 205), rpoS-deficient strain 52 (55), and strain 52 containing a plasmid with the rpoS allele (55-1) were evaluated. All strains other than 55 expressed RpoS. Stationary phase cells of each strain were grown under alkaline pH (8.0) or under acidic pH (5.5) conditions in LB or LB-MES broth, respectively, before being treated in 100 mM CAPS buffer (pH 10.2) for 4 h. When grown under alkaline conditions, strains 52 and 229 survived alkali treatment at significantly (P<0.05) greater percentages than all other strains. Strains 55 (rpoS-deficient) and 205 survived at significantly lower percentages than all others. When grown under acidic conditions, strains 52 and 229 survived alkali treatment at significantly greater percentages than all other strains. Strains 55 and 205 survived at percentages 10,000- and 100-fold lower than strain 52, respectively. The 10,000-fold difference in survival percentage between strains 52 and 55 indicates that rpoS may play a role in cross protecting cells from alkali stress after growth under acidic conditions. However, the presence of rpoS does not ensure that EHEC strains will be alkali tolerant, as evidenced by the similar responses of strains 205 (wild-type rpoS) and 55 (rpoS-deficient) to alkali treatment after growth under acidic or alkaline conditions. Differences in survival of EHEC strains exposed to alkali stress indicate that rpoS may not mediate the sole mechanism of alkali tolerance.


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At minimum, we would like the Training Log's Multi-sport view to include cumulative time spent on all supported activities, displaying them in different colored circles, as it does for running and cycling. That way those who snowshoe or cross-country ski in the winter, for instance, will at least be able to see how long they're exercising, as will those who are unable to run or bike, but can walk or kayak, for instance.
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If you're troubled by this discrimination against sports other than running and cycling within Strava, please leave a comment in this thread so the Strava folks realize how important it is.
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I've excerpted the following passages from: Hagee, John. Four Blood Moons: Something is about to change. Worthy: Brentwood, TN. 2013.
According to the back jacket of Hagee's book, he is "the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a nondenominational evangelical church with more than 20,000 active members. He is also the founder and president of John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts his radio and television teachings throughout America and in 249 nations worldwide. Hagee is the founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel."
I am not a member of his church, nor do I agree with much of his teachings, however, this book presents a clear biblical perspective of the Four Blood Moons theory. I have extracted only that which explains that theory for those who have heard of it, or haven't, and want to know more.
It is clear to me that the Four Blood Moons theory has historical merit. It's basic structure, I believe, cannot be disputed. I've left out from my extractions the biblical prophecy portions, which I believe to be Hagee's territory. I simply wanted to present the theory (in four fairly short parts) with it's basic historical and biblical structure, as it will be clearly eye-opening to those who read to the end.
Two blood moons have already occurred this year (the second one last night), and two more will appear next year. This "tetrad" of blood moons, occurring on the same Jewish feasts each time, has only occurred four times in roughly five hundred years.
Unless otherwise noted, all scripture passages are from the New King James Version of the Bible –SB
Section 3
The Four Blood Moons
Chapter 12
The Four Blood Moons and Two Feasts
I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath.
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and
awesome day of the LORD.
. . . "Have you ever considered the sun, moon, and stars in the study of prophecy?"
My first attempt was to open the NASA website and search for lunar signals. . . . I just kept searching and could find nothing to validate the connection of the Four Blood Moons to prophecy.
The Scriptures speak of "signs in the heavens," many of which have been confirmed by NASA. . . . But still, I could not find the connection to prophecy.
Then I thought . . . maybe these lunar signs are meant for Israel. God is the defender of Israel. He created Israel. Israel is His firstborn son (Exodus 4:22). So I chose the first date that came to my mind, which was the year of Israel's rebirth, and typed in the following statement: "Total moon eclipse in 1948."
. . .
Four "blood-red" total lunar eclipses will fall on Pass-
over and Sukkot in 2014 and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015, the same back-to-
back occurrences at the time of 1492, 1949 and 1967.
[Above quote from: Bill Koenig, World Watch Daily, Koenig International News, http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=104119&mcat=24&rtn=index.html.]
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There have been several Tetrads (four consecutive blood moons) since NASA first recorded their occurrences, but Tetrads linked to significant Jewish history have happened only three times in more than five hundred years. These specific occurrences could not be ignored. . . . they are about to happen for a fourth time.
. . .
In my book His Glory Revealed I explain the scriptural applications for the seven Feasts of Israel by giving their relevant historical account and their prophetic interpretations.
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The Hebrew word for feast is mo'ed, denoting "a set or appointed time." A very similar meaning is mikrah indicating a "rehearsal or recital." Each feast, like a dress rehearsal, offers a significant glimpse of God's prophetic plan. The combined feasts, divinely established shortly after the Israelites were redeemed from Egypt's bondage, would be a spiritual blueprint of what lies ahead for Israel, Jerusalem, and the rest of the world.
All Jewish holidays begin the evening before the date specified on most calendars. This is because a Jewish "day" begins and ends at sunset, rather than at midnight like the Gregorian calendar.
If you read the story of creation in Genesis I, you will notice that it records, "And there was evening, and there was morning, one day." From this, we conclude that a day begins with evening and ends the following evening; that is, sunset to sunset.
As I present the significance of the Four Blood Moons in the chapters to follow, I will mention two feasts that are directly associated with their past and future occurrences. In order to better understand their noteworthy connection, I will briefly describe them; they are Passover (Pesach) and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).
Passover (Pesach) begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. It is the first of the two major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance that occur in the Tetrad.
These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations
which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. On
the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the
Lord's Passover.
So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall
keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your gener-
ations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting
Agriculturally, it represents the beginning of the harvest season in Israel, but the primary observances of Pesach are related to the Exodus from Egypt after generations of slavery (Exodus, chapters 1-15)
The name Pesach comes from the Hebrew root Pei-Samekh-Cheit, meaning to pass through, to pass over, to exempt, or to spare. It refers to the fact that God "passed over" the houses of the Jewish people that applied the lamb's blood on the doorposts of their home as He slayed the firstborn of Egypt. Pesach is also the name of the sacrificial offering (a lamb) that was made in the Temple on this holiday.
. . .
The Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot) begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Tishri. The word Sukkot means "booths" and refers to the temporary dwellings that the Jewish people are commanded to live in during this holiday to commemorate the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters.
Say to the Israelites: "On the fifteenth day of the sev-
enth month the LORD'S Feast of Tabernacles begins,
and it lasts for seven days. The first day is a sacred as-
sembly; do no regular work. For seven days present
offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth
day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering
made to the LORD by fire. . . ." So beginning with the
fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have
gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to
the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest,
and the eighth day also is a day of rest. On the first day
you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm
fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before
the LORD your God for seven days. Celebrate this as a
festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is
to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come;
celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in booths for
seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in
booths so your descendants will know that I had the
Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of
Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Agriculturally, Sukkot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as the Festival of Ingathering. . . . The Feast of Tabernacles is ultimately a time of thanksgiving for God's provision.
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