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(CNN) -- Gov. Jay Nixon is criticizing the "over-militarization" of the police response to protests that have been spurred by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Nixon appeared on most of the political talk shows on Sunday, calling the tactics of the St. Louis County Police "aggressive" and expressed relief that the Justice Department is conducting its own investigation into the young man's death on August 9.
"There are times when force is necessary, but we really felt that push at that time was a little aggressive, obviously, and those images were not what we were trying to get to," he said on ABC's "This Week," referring to the policing using heavily armored military vehicles.
"And in those situations where folks are rolling up heavily armored and they're pointing guns at folks, that's impossible to have a dialogue," Nixon said.
The governor, however, offered praise for members of the community who have been protesting Brown's killing during an encounter with police.
Despite a shooting that left one person wounded and the arrest of seven people after a midnight curfew went into effect Saturday night, Nixon said the curfew was implemented peacefully and mostly without incident.
"Thousands of people spoke last night. Thousands of people marched and not a single gunshot fired by a member of law enforcement last night, and the members of community (were) tremendous helpful last night to get through what could have been a very difficult night," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
After days of heavily armed police patrolled the streets of Ferguson with a heavy hand and periodic use of force, Nixon ordered Missouri State Highway Patrol to take over the police response on Thursday.
The head of the Highway Patrol, Capt. Ronald Johnson, is African-American and from the area. He took a different approach than Ferguson policy and dramatically softened the aggressive stance.
Critical words about harsh tactics
Nixon is the latest politician to criticize police tactics that created a war zone atmosphere in Ferguson, a town of 22,000 near St. Louis.
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday the situation needs to be "demilitarized," and on the same day, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is considering a presidential run, released an opinion piece on Time's website saying many police departments around the country are too militarized.
Democratic Rep. Lacy Clay, who represents Ferguson in Congress, said on "State of the Union" Sunday that "a militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America."
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, also agreed that the reaction of police to protests was imbalanced.
"It appears that they may have reacted a little quickly on that force continuum when they decided to deal with ... the protesters," he said on CBS News' "Face the Nation."
While Bernard Kerik, a former New York City Police commissioner, said the show of force was too excessive while protestors peacefully demonstrated, he said the police have a responsibility to protect personal property.
"You can't let thugs take over the city. We saw that the other day. The police had to respond," he said on CNN, referring to instances of looting.
On police militarization in general, Kerik said the increased militarization of the police started in the 1990s during the height of the war on drugs and continued after the 9/11 attacks and has continued because of mass shootings in schools and public places.
"It's absolutely needed," he said.
The legal process
Accounts of exactly what happened when Officer Darren Wilson confronted Brown on August 9 vary widely. Police said Brown struggled with the officer and reached for his weapon. Several witnesses said Brown raised his hands and was not attacking the officer.
Nixon also criticized the Police Department's release of a convenience store surveillance video that shows a man fitting Brown's description allegedly stealing a box of cigars just before Brown was killed.
Nixon said he was "unaware" the tape was going to be released and "we certainly were not happy."
Nixon said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" that the tape release is an attempt to "besmirch a victim" and "to tarnish him."
"It appeared to, you know, cast dispersions on a young man that was gunned down in the street," he added on "This Week."
Nixon also raised doubts about the special prosecutor in charge of the case, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, who has been asked by Ferguson community leaders, including Rep. Clay, to step aside because of what people say is his impartiality toward the police.
"He's an experienced prosecutor. And this is his opportunity to step up," Nixon said on CNN of McCulloch, who has been in the position since 1991. "It's important we get this right. This is a big matter."
McCollogh has defended the police response and slammed Nixon for sidelining the Police Department and putting the Highway Patrol in charge of security, calling the move "shameful," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Offering little confidence to the local investigation, Nixon said he pleased that the Justice Department is conducting its own parallel inquiry, noting that the FBI is sending 40 investigators.
"That's the kind of independent, external, national review and investigation of this that I think will assist everyone in making sure we get to justice," he said.
Nixon's criticism of the Police Department and shaky confidence of the local prosecutor Sunday comes as the Department of Justice announced a second, independent autopsy would be conducted on Brown's body.
The healing process
As the people of Ferguson seek answers and demand a fair investigation, the factor of race has once again become part of a national discussion that cuts deeply.
"We all know there's been a long history of challenges in these areas (of Missouri)," Nixon said. "And our hope is that, with the help of the people here, that we can be an example of getting justice and getting peace and using that to move forward."
But Nixon admitted that it will be a challenge because of "deep, long-term wounds" that won't be easy to heal.
Actor and activist Jesse Williams discussed a dark history that black Americans face.
"Police have been beating the hell out of black people for a very, very, very long time before the advent of the video camera and despite the advent of the video camera there are still a lot of incredible trend of police brutality and killing in the street and justice is never served," said the "Grey's Anatomy" actor and board member of the civil rights organization The Advancement Project.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who was an instrumental figure in the civil rights movement, called on the police chief and Ferguson's mayor to "literally apologize to the community."
Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown University, said he wants more leadership from President Barack Obama, the country's first black President who was a community organizer in predominately African-American neighborhoods of Chicago.
"This President knows better than most what happens in poor communities that have been antagonized historically by the hostile relationship between black people and the Police Department," he said on CBS. "We need presidential leadership. He needs to step up to the plate and be responsible."
The White House said the President was briefed on the situation in Ferguson again Sunday morning.
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Being all acrylic they'll last outdoors for years. The new emblems are the same length as the old ones, but the new lettering is smaller because the logo is part of the total emblem, and that makes the emblems appear smaller than the old ones. But we're happy with it, they look real nice! It's a SklpperLiner again and not just 'the houseboat'...
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François Rabelais Long Fiction Analysis
(Survey of Novels and Novellas)
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François Rabelais is universally regarded as one of the major figures in the Western literary tradition, in the company of Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Miguel de Cervantes, yet he is more often praised than read. Indeed, in the judgment of scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, "Of all the great writers of world literature, Rabelais is the least popular, the least understood and appreciated."
The difficulty of Rabelais, the quality that discourages many modern readers from making headway in his work, is not the strategic obscurity of a James Joyce or an Ezra Pound; rather, it resembles the difficulty that one experiences in "getting" a joke, the humor of which is not immediately apparent. To read Rabelais is essentially to laugh, but humor is notoriously elusive, dependent on a wide range of local cultural assumptions and linguistic practices and thus quick to be lost in time and in translation. Here, there is a comparison with Shakespeare: One vein of Shakespearean humor, closely related to the humor of Rabelais, is accessible to the modern reader only via scholarly explication of wordplay, allusions, implicit cultural assumptions, and so on, but Shakespeare remains highly readable even when many of his bawdy puns, for example, are entirely missed.
The difficulty in grasping the spirit of Rabelais's jokes, their underlying intent, is confirmed by ongoing critical debate. Even such a fundamental issue as Rabelais's attitude toward Christianity and the Church has been the subject of bitter controversy. Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel there are frequent satiric jabs at the rites and institutions of the Church. While Rabelais ridicules monasticism and the Papacy, however, and while his parodies of Christian ritual could be deemed sacrilegious if not blasphemous, he stops short of the open atheism of the Enlightenment.
Critics such as Abel Lefranc have argued that Rabelais was in fact a thoroughgoing rationalist who, unable to express his convictions openly, presented them in a humorous guise. According to such critics, Rabelais thus anticipated the skepticism of the Enlightenment. On the other hand, critics such as Lucien Febvre, who devoted a massive volume to a refutation of Lefranc, have argued that Rabelais's satire was directed against institutional abuses of the Church, not against the heart of Christian belief.
Although such questions may never be definitively resolved, one helpful approach to Rabelais's humor is that taken by Bakhtin, who places Rabelais in what he calls the carnival tradition, a tradition of folk humor with roots in the ancient past, encompassing such festivities as the Roman Saturnalia and still vital in the Middle Ages: "Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval men, even in the time given over to them. Large medieval cities devoted an average of three months a year to these festivities."
Bakhtin suggests that it is Rabelais's indebtedness to this folk tradition, an expression of popular culture still largely unexplored by literary scholars, that accounts for the relative failure of modern readers to appreciate his work. In the carnival atmosphere, all of the sacred values of medieval society were parodied in a ritualistic manner—often with the full participation of the clergy. Rabelais's humor is thus characterized by the systematic inversion typical of carnival: parody, blasphemy, gross physical images, and so on.
By placing Gargantua and Pantagruel in this context, Bakhtin shifts the emphasis from an interpretation of Rabelais's values—that is, the personal beliefs informing his work—to the folk tradition of which his work was the supreme expression even as it marked the decisive break between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages.
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Situated on the north end of Vancouver Island, Mount Cain offers a unique experience to skiers, snowboarders and backcountry skiers. At Mount Cain you'll find deep powder, 21 runs, with 1499 vertical feet of terrain. We're open three days a week (weekends and select Mondays) which permits the powder to accumulate all week. Mt. Cain has few line-ups and the welcoming atmosphere of a family oriented mountain.
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The most vibrant parishes focus as much on ministry to the poor as they do on ministry in the liturgy, says the founder of JustFaith Ministries.
In 1988 Jack Jezreel reluctantly became a parish social minister as a means to an end: to earn enough money to start a farm. "I realize that peace-and-justice work will always be done by only a handful of parishioners, it will most likely remain on the periphery of parish life, and it will be eyed suspiciously by most parishioners," he wrote in his job application for Church of the Epiphany in Louisville, Kentucky.
To his surprise, however, JustFaith, the social justice program that he developed for the parish, took off. "People get very excited about their faith when they connect it with mission and serving the poor," Jezreel says about his program's success.
JustFaith Ministries is now a national organization that has transformed the faith of thousands through its parish-based programs. Jezreel's goal is to change Catholics' perception of parish life. "How do parishes move from only gathering, to gathering and sending forth?" he asks.
Jezreel knows that justice work never ends. JustFaith continues to develop new programs to reach more people and parishes. "Sometimes with 20,000 graduates, there's a temptation to think 'This is just fabulous,' until you realize that the church in the United States has 70 million people, and 20,000 is only a drop in the bucket," Jezreel says.
As for farming? It is still Jezreel's passion. "There's something holy about sticking one's hands in the dirt and knowing it came from a God who loves us," he says.
Why should social ministry be central to parish life?
Fundamentally the gospel seems to suggest a pattern of gathering and sending. Jesus gathers disciples and then sends them. Then his disciples gather and send.
If you look at church history, I think the church at its best has been doing this. Communities of women and men religious, for example, are places of personal and spiritual development as well as of mission.
What does "gathering and sending" look like in a parish?
In terms of gathering, I'm talking about things that are very familiar to the parish: sacramental celebrations, the RCIA, religious education, social celebrations, fish fries, and potlucks.
It's all about preparation. But all of that nurturing, community building, education, and celebration leads to a sending forth. In the gospels Jesus speaks of the reign of God, and in the tradition we speak of Catholic social teaching.
The problem is that when churches don't have a mission-this reign-of-God-related vision about what we're to commit our lives to-then they become static. The parish becomes preoccupied with itself.
The second problem is that when that sending component gets lost, then the gathering loses its moorings. We don't know what we're gathering for. We don't know what we're preparing for and being educated for. We don't even believe what we're celebrating in the liturgy.
The gospel and the Second Vatican Council both suggest that parishes should be very deliberate not only about gathering, which they currently do very well, but also about the sending, which is in some way still rather undeveloped, especially in terms of Catholic social teaching.
How is your vision different from what we have now?
Traditionally the gathering has happened in parishes, and the sending has happened in agencies. We have these tremendous organizations-Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development-and the interesting thing is they all work outside of parishes.
I think the future of social ministry in the church is a collapse of these divisions. Parishes will still depend upon the remarkable work of organizations such as Catholic Charities and the St. Vincent de Paul Society, but we'll see parishes that are characterized by a significant investment in that work.
Have you come across Catholic parishes that are accomplishing that?
The parishes that are energizing and life-giving have recognized this intrinsic link between the inner journey and the outer journey, between spirituality and active engagement in the world. These parishes will light the way for the rest of the church, but I don't know but a handful of parishes around the country that have been so deliberate about this that they integrate it into everything.
How do you make social ministry central to the identity of the entire parish?
If we turn this into practical terms, seeing gathering and sending forth as equal elements means that half the parish budget is for gathering and half the parish budget is for sending. Half the parish staff is for gathering; half the parish staff is for sending. Half of the parish's activity is gathering; half of the parish's activity is sending.
That's the vision. You have to claim what you want to see a parish become before it can become that. In the meantime what do we do? What if a parish divided itself up into groups of 12-that seems like a nice number-and each group becomes a mission-based community or mission team?
For example, there is a non-Catholic church called Church of the Savior in Washington. When you join it, they ask for the usual information, and then they ask you what mission team you want to be a part of. And if you say, "I don't really think I'm that interested, I just really like the music and liturgy, and I enjoy everybody here," they'll tell you, "I'm sorry, but you can't join the church."
The point is not that they're elitist. It's just the way they understand the gospel. Yes, the community gathers and prays as a church normally does on a Sunday morning, but the church is also called to be about something more.
At the end of our Catholic liturgy, the presider says, "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord." That's not "Go in peace and feel holy this week."
When you hear it in the context of the gospel, it means sharing Good News with the poor and vulnerable. It means somehow our task is to honor the reconciling, healing, transforming work of God in the world.
So having an active peace and justice committee is not enough?
Absolutely not-unless everybody's a member of the committee.
This gospel component is for everybody. Jesus suggests in Matthew 25 and in many other places that this engagement with our brothers and sisters in harm's way is one of the terms of our salvation. In other words we discover God's life to the fullest exactly in the embrace of suffering and care for our brothers and sisters. It's a necessary dimension of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
How does the JustFaith program affect participants' faith?
People tell us all the time that the program has deepened their faith and made it compelling in new ways. A man once said halfway through the process, "I'm 58 years old. I've been going to Mass every Sunday of my life. How come I've never heard this before?"
JustFaith asks a lot-but more than 20,000 people have been through the program, so it's not impossible. There are a lot of books to read, videos to watch. You're going to have some immersion experiences, retreats, and substantial prayer week after week. You mix all those things together with building community, and you end up with a pretty compelling experience.
The program was crafted originally to sort of mimic the RCIA process. My experience with RCIA was that because it allowed a nice stretch of time and it challenged people to make a pretty substantial commitment, you simply allow enough space for the Holy Spirit to work. By asking people to invest a lot of themselves in it, they get a lot more out of it.
How do you get from a small group of committed leaders to a parish-wide mentality?
In some cases it's the ripple effect. Somebody gets fired up, whether by the Jesuit Volunteer Corps or a mission trip or JustFaith, and starts to create a structure for social ministry in the parish, as described in the U.S. bishops' 1996 document Communities of Salt and Light: Reflections on the Social Mission of the Parish.
Does starting such a structure just mean increasing volunteer opportunities for parishioners?
In some cases it means creating the structure in which commitments can be made.
For example, when I first started JustFaith at Church of the Epiphany in Louisville, Kentucky, a dozen people came out fired up, and a couple of them started new committees. One was about environmental concerns, and as soon as that committee was offered, 12 people from the parish joined it. Now you have 12 people involved who previously had no expression for their commitment to social ministry.
Out of that first year of JustFaith, we also had two sharing-parish projects evolve that engaged 100 to 200 people. It's all about creating opportunities so that people in the parish can get involved in deliberate ways.
At JustFaith, however, we have moved from thinking that "committee" is the primary expression. We think this work is best expressed by communities, not committees.
It's all about taking or forming a small faith community, which is very familiar language to most Catholics, and focusing not only on education or prayer or community-building, but on all of these-plus engagement.
At the end of the day, there are a lot of things that I can't and won't do by myself, not because I'm not interested but because it's just not something that I would presume to do on my own. But if there are people who are my brothers and sisters who are willing to go with me, I'll do it. I don't think I'd go to Haiti by myself, for example, but I'd go with 10 other people.
Do you have to go outside the parish to do social ministry work?
We try to nurture relationships within that parish, and that nurture involves everything from getting together with friends to being attentive to the needs right within our community. In other words the gospel doesn't start outside the parish. But the critical piece is that it doesn't stop within the parish.
One of the things that's clear in Catholic social teaching is that when we ask the question, "Who is my brother and my sister?" the answer is "everyone." Who are we responsible for and who do we care about? Everyone-everyone in our parish and everyone outside of our parish.
What are the main challenges to justice work in parishes?
My experience is that most resistance to the social mission of the church is simply unfamiliarity. A book first published in 1985 makes the claim that Catholic social teaching is our best-kept secret. That's still true today.
In many ways it's just a matter of education. People don't know what the popes have written. They don't know about the remarkable work of Catholic agencies serving the poor.
I think that one of the exciting pieces about the tragic news of the earthquake in Haiti is that some Catholics are recognizing for the first time what a remarkable organization Catholic Relief Services is. Even though Catholic Relief Services has been around for a long time, a lot of Catholics don't know what they do or even that they exist.
In fact five years ago the estimates were that only 5 percent of the Catholic population knew what CRS was. Today it's 22 percent. Still, fewer than one in four Catholics even know that CRS exists, and that needs to change. When you learn about such organizations, you can't help but be inspired and proud.
Isn't there a sense that Catholic social teaching is just a liberal thing?
Most people come to church with some kind of political inclination. Our faith challenges us to look at the world through the lens of the gospel and then make political choices based upon our faith instead of trying to make our faith fit our politics.
The Catholic Church is working on issues of poverty, such as housing and nutrition, and at the same time it is speaking on behalf of the rights of the unborn. Does that make the church liberal or conservative?
The church's commitment is to life. Sometimes it may look liberal. Sometimes it may look conservative. Sometimes perhaps it looks green. That's not the point. The point is what is faithful.
The two biggest outreach committees in most parishes are right to life and peace and justice, and they don't seem to mix. Should there be more overlap?
It's a big church, and there are a thousand things to get engaged in. I don't have any aspiration of trying to turn everybody who's interested in environmental concerns to also be primarily interested in poverty issues.
What I would aspire to in a parish is that everybody who works on issues related to the gospel respect what everybody else is doing. People can't do everything. But in the church, we say we are one body. The foot is not the eye, and the eye is not the arm, and all the parts of the body have a place. We don't all have to be doing everything.
For my part I'm not terribly engaged in what's going on in the Congo, but I'm glad that there are people in our parish who are because it's a critical need. At the end of the day, I just have to realize I'm one guy and I can't do it all. I take pleasure and joy in working in a community where lots of people are doing lots of different things.
Do I need to make sure that everybody's doing the thing that I'm doing? I think in some ways that speaks to a lack of humility and a disrespect for the charism and the gifts of other people in my community.
That sounds ideal, but what about when there's more tension between the various groups in a parish?
This is where pastoral leaders need to draw people together in conversation. The critical piece is dialogue. As soon as we separate ourselves, then no doubt we have problems.
One of my worries is about what's going on in American society now, where we only associate with people who think like us. The tremendous cost of that is that you have huge divisions in society.
These same divisions can then begin to express themselves in parishes. People presume that if you don't think like me or you're not as committed to a particular issue as I am, somehow you are the enemy, and that's terribly unfortunate.
Ministers in the church have to be very deliberate these days about engaging a wider conversation that doesn't allow that to happen, but there's no magic bullet to solve this challenge.
How do you connect the justice work to spirituality?
How do you disconnect justice from spirituality? They cannot be talked about apart from each other in Christianity. When we talk about spirituality, we often mean the inner journey, the experience of communion with God. And the gospels make it clear that this is necessarily linked to our sense of communion with each other.
To the extent that I refuse to be attentive to my brothers and sisters, I have turned a blind eye to God, even while I might be using God language. To the extent that I say I will not love my brothers and sisters, it is really another way of saying I will not love the God who made me.
But it's difficult to be engaged in the world unless one has also developed a rich spiritual life. Two characteristics of the saints jump out at me: One is they always seem to be connected to the poor and vulnerable, and two, they always seem to have a disciplined prayer life. That's not an accident.
None of us is probably up for canonization in the JustFaith office, but our experience tells us that we do our best work when we're grounded in prayer and when we're connected with our brothers and sisters in harm's way. When we get disconnected, our prayer becomes shallow, and when we don't pray, our work becomes cynical and crabby. When you look at human suffering too long without a rich prayer life, there's the prospect of becoming burned out and losing hope.
By grounding ourselves in a prayer experience in which there can be some sense of quiet and presence and openness to God, we are refreshed and restored.
This article appeard in the June 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 6, pages 22-26).


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Beautiful Beachfront Properties on Kiawah Island
Kiawah Island's pristine shores are dotted with incredible beach houses that will blow you away. Take a look inside three of the finest coastal homes near HGTV Dream Home 2013.
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Entertaining was a key factor in the design of this lavish oceanfront mansion. The luxurious pool, high-end kitchen and spacious game room are all ideal for seaside soirees.
Tuscan-Style Mansion: Game Room Pool Table
A beautiful wooden pool table serves as the focal point of the game room.
Tuscan-Style Mansion: Game Room Bar
Tucked in the corner of the game room, the bar is stocked with all the necessities for an unforgettable party.
Tuscan-Style Mansion: Seating
The home's earthy color palette allows the nearby ocean to become the center of attention.
Tuscan-Style Mansion: Kitchen
A spacious central island makes the kitchen a great place to hang out — even between meals.
Tuscan-Style Mansion: Master Bedroom
Located on the third story of the home, the master bedroom has a private porch that overlooks the ocean.
Low Country Modern
This stylish contemporary home sits on a scenic salt marsh that stretches all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. In the back of the house, wraparound porches on both the first and second stories overlook the gorgeous pool.
Low Country Modern: Entryway
Naval-inspired details can be found throughout the home, from the stairway rails in the entryway to the gangway leading to the office.
Low Country Modern: Living Room
The homeowner put a great deal of thought into the design of the living room fireplace, trying several styles before settling on the final patina of the metal.
Low Country Modern: Master Bedroom
The master bedroom opens to a third-story porch that overlooks a marsh, a golf course and the ocean.
Low Country Modern: Master Bathroom
The master bedroom and bathroom were designed in a studio-inspired style, with few walls separating the rooms.
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A massive walk-in closet offers plenty of storage space and is even equipped with its own vanity and bathroom.
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Located across from the master suite, the circular office offers a panoramic view of the ocean and surrounding landscape.
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Set just steps from the ocean, this beachfront abode blends cozy cottage style with luxurious touches.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Living Room
In the living room, sunlight streams in through three floor-to-ceiling French doors during the day. At night, you can enjoy the warmth from a one-of-a-kind rustic stone fireplace.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Master Bedroom
On the third floor, the master bedroom boasts a prime view of the beautiful surroundings. The crashing waves of the Atlantic are close enough to be heard, yet far enough to ensure privacy.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Master Bathroom
Wall sconces flank the matching vanities in the master bathroom, providing soft task lighting.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Bathroom
One of the best views in the house can be found in this second-floor bathroom, particularly from the window-side soaking tub.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Back Deck
With a pool and an outdoor fireplace, the large back deck is perfect for kicking back by the ocean.
Cottage-Style Mansion: Private Boardwalk
A private boardwalk provides direct access from the home's backyard to the ocean.


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Jesuits and their lay colleagues are involved in a variety of ministries that honor and celebrate the sanctity of life, from prison chaplains to physicians to accompanying refugees. This week, meet Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa, who works in television and radio ministry at Eternal World Television Network.
Father Mitch Pacwa: Reaching Millions with the Church's Message
Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa didn't plan on a career in media, but through his television ministry at Eternal World Television Network (EWTN), the world's largest religious media network, he reaches more than 220 million homes in 144 countries.
As a child growing up in Chicago, Fr. Pacwa didn't dream of hosting a television show. "I wanted to be a cowboy," he recalls. But when he made his First Communion, he began to admire the priests in his parish."I thought, 'I'll do that too.' That was all that it took," he says.
At first, Fr. Pacwa felt a draw to become a diocesan priest and he attended high school at Quigley North in Chicago, a minor seminary. "But during my junior year, one day I was thinking about it and it just came to my mind that I'm not going to be a diocesan priest, and then a little while later I thought, 'I'm going to be a Jesuit.'
"I'd never seen or met a Jesuit in my life!" says Fr. Pacwa. "But I did remember in the third grade watching a movie about St. Ignatius Loyola. That plus the story of St. Francis Xavier evangelizing people also impressed me."
He applied to the Jesuits but wasn't accepted the first time. So Fr. Pacwa headed to Loyola University Chicago, applied again and was accepted after his freshman year, entering the Society of Jesus in 1968.
As a novice, he worked with street gangs as a community organizer at Holy Family Parish in Chicago. After witnessing a murder, Fr. Pacwa realized that community organizing wasn't the right fit for him. He studied philosophy at the University of Detroit Mercy and then taught at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati for two years. After theology studies at Loyola University Chicago, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1976.
Next he taught for two years at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Ill., before earning his Ph.D. in Old Testament studies at Vanderbilt University, where his broadcasting career began. It started when he heard an anti-Catholic radio show on a local station in 1983, and he complained to the station.
"They said I could come on their live call-in show and explain Catholicism. So I did it, and they got such a response to that show that they kept asking me to come back," he recalls.
Eventually some Catholics in Nashville asked Fr. Pacwa to do his own radio show, and from there he was invited to EWTN as a guest on "Mother Angelica Live" in 1984. Mother Angelica, the founder of EWTN, enjoyed his appearance and during one of the breaks she told Fr. Pacwa she wanted him to come back. Despite fulltime teaching jobs at Loyola Chicago and, later, at the University of Dallas, Fr. Pacwa kept coming back. EWTN, which is based outside Birmingham, Ala., has been his fulltime home since 2001.
"I didn't plan on any type of career in the media at all. I wanted to teach. I still love teaching very much," Fr. Pacwa says.
Currently, Fr. Pacwa hosts two television shows a week and a weekly call-in radio show, "Open Line," which is broadcast on EWTN's 350 radio stations in the U.S.
On "Threshold of Hope," he explains various writings of the church, such as Blessed John Paul II's Faith and Reason encyclical. "I've certainly learned a lot from doing the show," he says. "I find it tremendous to do that as a service. I often explain to people that my education as a Jesuit was a gift of the people of God. They donated money so that I could go to school, and I have a responsibility to use this education for the service of the church because ultimately this education is theirs."
On his other show, "EWTN Live," which was formerly "Mother Angelica Live," Fr. Pacwa interviews guests who perform a variety of different ministries in the church. EWTN's programming also highlights the Catholic Church's pro-life values. "One of the things we do at EWTN is cover the March for Life in its entirety every year," Fr. Pacwa explains.
"We frequently have programs in which we cover what is at stake in these issues regarding human life, not just the events of the March, but all kinds of events, movements and individuals who are strongly committed to promoting the right to life," Fr. Pacwa says. "It has been a privilege to be part of that kind of effort."
In addition to his work at EWTN, Fr. Pacwa also leads pilgrimages to and writes books about the Holy Land and travels around the country to give retreats. He's often on the road 20 to 25 weekends a year."One of the other arguments for priestly celibacy," he says, laughing. "If I had a wife, she would have killed me."
Fr. Pacwa is also an avid hunter. He sees no conflict between living pro-life values and hunting. "Animals don't have immortal souls — humans do," he says.
Fr. Pacwa recently began offering hunting and fishing retreats, which have attracted retreatants who Fr. Pacwa says he would not reach through a regular retreat. "Various men's groups started asking me to do this. A number of the guys who come on the retreats say, 'I would never go on a retreat, but this I'll go on.' "
It's not uncommon to see Fr. Pacwa at the Bass Pro Shops in his clerics. "I was walking out of a sporting goods store once, and a man and little boy walked in and the boy did a double take and said, 'Where does he go to church? I want to go there!' "
Fr. Pacwa knows some people don't approve of hunting, but he says there are ethics that he follows."We choose animals to help the herd and make sure it flourishes." He also stresses sharing the fruits of the hunt with those in need. "Last year, two of my bucks were sent out to be made into jerky for the troops in Afghanistan. Two other bucks went to a prison ministry." He also fills the freezers of some poor families near him in Alabama with meat from his hunts.
Through his various ministries — his TV shows, retreats, pilgrimages and books — Fr. Pacwa says that"it's such an honor to be able to teach so many people around the world. I only hope that I can do this well as long as possible."
On the web: Father Mitch Pacwa, SJ
Do you want to learn more about vocations to the Society of Jesus? Visit www.jesuits.org/become for more information.


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A TV reporter who's been after Casey Anthony for years badgered her mercilessly as she emerged from seclusion to attend a bankruptcy creditors meeting in Tampa.
Orlando WFTV reporter Kathi Belich, who made a name for herself shouting "Casey, did you kill Caylee?" in 2008, picked up where she left off Monday. Belich was one of several members of the media who chased Anthony into the courthouse while her attorney acted like a tackle escorting a running back.
Here's a description of events shown in the video above by the Orlando Sentinel.
"Casey, did you get away with murder?" Belich shouted. "Did you get away with murder? Do you think you'd be better off if you pay a price?"
Anthony attorney Cheney Mason could be heard angrily saying, "Get out of the way." Anthony wasn't talking.
After the intense entrance, Anthony spoke at the hearing, saying she was unemployed, didn't pay rent or utilities and is "living off the kindness of others." She said she didn't have any offers for book or movie deals. In her bankruptcy filing, she listed $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in debts.
After a nationally watched trial, Anthony was acquitted in July 2011 of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, although she was convicted of providing false information to police. This was her first public appearance since then.


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Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are in talks to star in David O. Russell's new film.
The 'Silver Linings Playbook' stars have been tapped to reunite with the film's director in his upcoming feature, currently known as 'American Bulls**t', which follows a group of US congressmen who were killed in real-life 70s FBI sting Abscam, reports Deadline.
'The Dark Knight Rises' actor Christian Bale is also set to star, playing con man Melvin Weinberg who works scams in New Jersey along with his partner in crime and mistress, Maxine Gardner (Amy Adams).
Jennifer will play Christian's wife in the film, while Bradley will star as FBI agent Jimmy Boyle, who busts Melvin and Maxine and offers them a role in a sting to catch crooked agents and politicians.
Jeremy Renner and Louis C.K. are also on board the project, with other roles still being cast.
The film is being developed by Sony Pictures and will be produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle through Atlas Entertainment. Megan Ellison is also producing and has been developing the script through her company Annapurna Pictures.
Jennifer and Bradley will also star together in 'Serena', which is due for release later this year.


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Autumn breathes the last gasps of the season,
as leaves of brown and gold drift from the treetops –
a blanket of decaying warmth.
Grey skies steal the color from the day,
mourning the end of another time of year.
The darkness envelopes and caresses
lulling the earth to sleep,
held in the cradle of the slough.
Winter awaits.
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OLIVEBRIDGE — Four-year-old Neve Glover of Saugerties, with a serious face that belied her cute white winter hat and bright pink outfit, spun a hand drill into a maple tree ripe with rich sap flowing inside.
OLIVEBRIDGE — Four-year-old Neve Glover of Saugerties, with a serious face that belied her cute white winter hat and bright pink outfit, spun a hand drill into a maple tree ripe with rich sap flowing inside.
Neve was one of hundreds expected to come to the Ashokan Center's fourth annual Maple Fest by the time the late-winter event was over Saturday.
"We're smack-dab in the middle of the maple season," said the Ashokan Center's executive director, Wayne Turner.
Sunday marked the first Maple Fest since the center finished its three-year, $7.25 million campus facility upgrade in December.
The harvesting of the center's sugar maple trees is a chance to celebrate community and bring families into the outdoors at a time of year where cabin fever and gloomy weather can take its toll. "March can be a doldrums time. Not when maple's coming out of trees," said Turner.
Visitors were able to roam freely through the campus' four new buildings. Musicians set up in the new performance hall and visitors stacked piles of buckwheat pancakes in the dining hall — with freshly made maple syrup, of course. The new buildings were built almost entirely from trees that were on or near the 374-acre property.
Throughout the campus, the theme of the fest was education. In the blacksmithing shop, kids donned smocks and goggles to hammer glowing hot iron into cool fire pokers.
"It's a great opportunity to be part of nature and try something they've never done before," said Julie Martin of Plattekill as she watched her group of kids join in the blacksmithing.
But the main attraction was down a muddy trail to the sugar shack.
It was the perfect time to hold the Maple Fest. When the nightime temperatures fall below 20 degrees and rise above 40 during the day, the sugary sap races up the property's hundreds of maple trees. Blue tubing, like spider webs tapped into the veins of the center's trees, lead downhill to the sugar shack, where the clear sap drips into a bucket.
The sugar shack's manager, Justin Plank, said the early season maple runs are light in color when boiled down, but they get darker later in the season as the mineral content increases.
The sugar shack holds the boiler that evaporates 30 gallons of water an hour out of the sap. In New York, syrup has to be 66 percent sugar to be sold. Ideally, for every 40 gallons of sap you get 1 gallon of syrup.
"It's a lot of work, but it's worth it," said Plank.


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Lawyer for Snowden's dad: Julian Assange a 'sideshow'
Julian Assange's involvement in Edward Snowden's case is a "sideshow," a lawyer for Snowden's father said Monday.
"Mr. Assange really is a side show to some degree," Bruce Fein said on "Fox & Friends." "We are still working for a direct communication link between Lon, his father, and Edward, so that his father has a confidence level that decisions being made are fully informed by Edward and genuinely Edward's. We don't have that direct link yet."
Fein called Fox host Eric Bolling's report that Snowden's father, Lonnie Snowden, wants his son to come back for a full trial "misleading."
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"At the outset when you suggested that the father would like to have his son return for a full trial, I think that's a little bit misleading. The father wants to make certain the son knows all his legal options what is available at the outset when you suggested that the father would like to have his son return for a full trial,back here so he's fully informed," Fein said.
Fein, who worked in the Ronald Reagan administration, said Snowden's father is trying to work together with the Department of Justice to find a way to bring Edward back to the United States to face trial. Snowden's father is sending a letter to the DOJ with suggested conditions for an agreement, including not detaining Snowden before a trial, not being subjected to a gag order and that the trial's venue would be Snowden's choice.


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Watch or Download Wine Country (2019) : 720p 1080p Full Movie Online Free Download A group of friends head to the land of oaky Chardonnays and big, bold Cabernet Sauvignons for one member of the squad's 50th birthday party.
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 17: How the Balloon Was Launched. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 17: How the Balloon Was Launched (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
October 25, 2016 by W. Blaine Dowler Bedtime in the Public Domain, L. Frank Baum, Podcast, Wonderful Wizard of Oz Books


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As you may just have heard (we've been a tad over-excited…) data visualisation maestro Aaron Koblin came into to talk to us yesterday. He kicked off with a showcase of his work, from his exquisite grad school visualisations of flight paths (see post below) to his latest embryonic projects for Google labs. Along the way he showcased extraordinary visualisations of the ebb and flow of information in cities and around the globe, experiments in crowdsourced sound design and perhaps his most famous project, the Radiohead "House of Cards" promo.
In showcasing his extraordinary portfolio he touched on a number of powerful and provocative themes which we followed up on in our interview. Themes around the power of social context to make data compelling, the power of data visualisation to embrace the complexity of our lives today and the tension between the human and the machine present in crowd-sourcing engines. He also shared his key learnings from life at the front line of data visualisation:
Looking at everyday things in new ways completely changes your perspective: there is no "mundane" data when you set it in context.
Use multiple visualisation techniques: there's more than one way of seeing things
Stay true to the data, not the "real world" : There is a random-ness to data-it will make patterns you never anticipated. Respect the random-ness.
You don't have to use all the data : sometimes seeing patterns is about what you leave out
Set the data free: open-source and let other people play with your data
Following his talk, very graciously agreed to be interviewed by Labs about our (and your) burning questions around data visualisation. It was a fascinating conversation for us and we hope for you. So over to Aaron….and many thanks to those who submitted questions for him.
Why do you think the world has suddenly gone crazy for data visualisation? 18 months ago it was a struggle to get anyone interested in data and now it's the new rock and roll…
I guess it's really the times that we live in, now you have tools like Twitter and Facebook and things that are widely used not just by the nerds but by everybody. Popular culture has also just all of a sudden embraced the power of storytelling through data and the relevance of all the data to their lives. All kinds of things have happened that simply weren't possible before – the author you look up to, the musician, etc. they're sharing all kinds of things – you can be intimately living their lives along with them and you see all different types of applications.
Do you think it's partly about the explosion in the amount of data currently available, the data trail we leave behind us now or the fact that companies have more data than they can process so they end up giving it away?
I think ultimately the biggest change is that the data is now relevant to people's lives. Before most of the data was about infrastructure at best and a lot of it was locked away or presented in aggregate form. When you're presented with a huge lump sum number that has no context it's just not interesting, but now when you get these granular stories, things that are saying at this specific point in time here's the way that things changed, just by giving it that context and social relevance it becomes interesting.
Perhaps the big difference between what you do and the bar chart or the single number that it really embraces complexity rather than trying to reduce everything-ur lives are complex and this gives you a deeper understanding of that, not simpler, but richer
I think what's really nice is when you can have that kind of simplicity but then allow for investigation. Not necessarily forcing it into this sterile reality, but being able to present a story clearly and convincingly and simply but then allow for justification where you can say this is why, it's fine to give a summary number but then be able to say this is why the number exists.
So do you think data visualisation should be about immediacy or intrigue? Should it be "I see that and I get it" or "I see that and I don't get it so now I'm going to play with it"?
Definitely it boils down to your purpose. I think there certainly is a place for scientific visualisation. There still is a necessity for that type of clarity and objectivity but there's also a place for design and I would argue for art, that to be able to use data to tell stories and to tell the right types of story requires different kinds of techniques and different means. Often times I think the whole medium-is-the-message sense of actually using the system to think about the system can be valuable and fun and productive
What do you think is so fascinating about seeing one medium like music or dance portrayed through another?
I think that's also something that's really picking up because of digital culture. Now that everything has become digital it's so easy to run it through a completely different process. You can make it, just tweak the algorithm and sound becomes image and image becomes motion. It's kind of a natural process, it makes a lot of sense, especially for people like myself who are visual thinkers and learners. I think translating a lot of these concepts and numbers and pure abstractions into something tangible, something to be seen and experienced and interacted with means the world, because for me it makes a completely different kind of sense. A lot of times that kind of experiment can reveal the underlying structure and point out the way that it makes sense.
You talked letting the data do the talking and really embracing the random-ness of the data; do you think that's what makes data visualisation so compelling as art, because art is very seldom truly random?
I think it really gives character, because I think it's really that kind of intricacy and detail that builds character and in a sense it's the errors and flaws that make art. If you look at creative practice – like with the Sheep Market project for instance, if every person drew a perfect sheep they would all be the same and it would be a horrible project. It's actually seeing the ways that people fail, the different intricacies and character that comes from the individual that adds a lot. You see that in all data visualisation, it's the little variations that gives the character and makes it interesting.
On the crowdsourcing sheep project, you talked about it potentially being a very fragmented and alienating experience but you've drawn it into a coherent whole-there's a certain ambivalence there
I think it was the juxtaposition of those two qualities that makes it interesting for me. On the one hand you look at this huge grid that looks very much like a matrix of computer created content, but then juxtaposing it with each individual, looking down at the fine level you see there are actual little people in there. I've always been interested in microscopes, I bought a few microscopes and I have a family friend, Gary Greenberg, who makes these amazing oblique-lighting microscopes. Basically microscopes that produce images that are more like beautiful photographs than back-lit medical tools. He used to let me play with them and it was amazing fun. This notion that there's a device that can completely transform the way you see something is really inspiring. You can look at the whole thing but you can also drill down and it's a totally different world.
The wisdom of the crowd versus crowd-sourcing is a fascinating topic. The wisdom of the crowd seems to kick in when the crowd doesn't know it's being watched, whereas with crowd sourcing it can sometimes just feel like mass-sourcing. Do you think the future of crowd-sourcing is genuinely collaborative, with the crowd consciously working together and making things better?
I think you already see that happening with all the Wiki projects which are really inspiring. To some extent I think it's because the motivation is different, it's not really about money. Money really complicates things. With the sheep the people who I had paid two cents felt totally ripped off and were really mad at me but the people who knew what the project was were asking if they could give me free sheep! So they had a completely different perspective on the situation which was interesting to note. I think the weird thing about crowdsourcing is that to some extent it feels like the inevitable evolution of capitalism which is just something to think about.
Which is weird, because on the other hand you could argue it's socialism in action….
Right, it's both – it boils down largely to the approach of working with the crowd. There probably needs to be a better disambiguation for actions involving the masses. There's wiki-style collaboration, the kind of thing you see with open source projects, people working together to make something massive. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the current incarnation of the Mechanical Turk, where you have individuals being harvested for isolated menial tasks, and somewhere more towards the middle you find things like CrowdSpring – more of a massive sifting of the crowds.
There are some themes which seems to recur in your work, such as the energy of cities or some themes about the flow of information. Is that about themes that interest you or is it about the data sets that are readily available?
I wouldn't yet say readily available, it's still really tough to get at some of that data, but I think I am generally interested in all kinds of data that have anything to do with our lives and revealing the way that we live and build systems. So to me it's something I've always been drawn to and part of it obviously is because I grew up in this computer and game culture and I've always been interested in algorithms and the way things work and the process behind things. There were a lot of films growing up about information and visualising information that inspired me a lot.
What tends to come first for you, the data set or the visualisation technique?
Based on the projects that I've done it's usually either that I'm presented with an awesome dataset or it's that there's a data set I'd really like to create. I guess that's answering it by saying both. So with the mechanical turk projects it was more about being interested in that tool and wanting to create data that would reflect the tool.
Does the software you use have a big impact on the way you work? You talked about the impact of the Processing tool?
I think it definitely has. The nice thing about Processing is that it's an open source tool so it's constantly being added to and growing and because it's open source it makes it much easier not to be heavily influenced by it. I think because you can modify it to an extent that's much more thorough than if you were using a closed source tool. In the sense that there's all kind of things people have written that you can use but also in the sense that if something doesn't work the way you want it to you can rip it apart and make it different and make it work the way you want.
We are living in a golden age of data availability right now. Does it bother you either that there is such a rich data trail available about our lives or that people may start withholding data on that basis?
I think that we will see people change, at least in terms of personal data, I think we'll see people change their interest in sharing as much as they are. But I think that will probably come in the form of not necessarily less data acquisition just less public data sharing. I think what we'll probably see is better disambiguation between aggregated public data and individual public data where I'll be willing to opt in to something to share my information but not with my name on it and I think that that will end up being really valuable for all kinds of social studies and applications. But I think that will also potentially be less damaging to individuals as we see more of that. I feel bad for the younger generation that's growing up right now. A lot of the stories that they're bonding to their existence, will leave trails that will last with them for the rest of their lives. Forgetting is a wonderful ability, and one that technology is not currently adapted to.


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This simple bird, hand-embroidered with appliqued flowers is now done. Phew. Took a bit longer than I had anticipated, but coupled with the yellow cabbage rose fabric -- I am SO pleased at how it turned out.
The bag itself was quite easy to sew. But thank goodness for the drawings because I am not someone who can just follow the written word. Draw it out for me and you got yourself one happy lady.
The inside of this bag is that aprony goodness that my GrAnna would have made and worn. Obviously no more explanation why that fabric went into this bag. Just one tiny draw-back about this bag -- it is too small for me to use. I tend to use a purse the size of a suitcase. My husband just looooooooooooves that.
But my girls DO like the smallness of it. And especially the wonky way the handle slides into the other handle as the closure. I just love the colors, the texture of the embroidery and the eclectic choice of fabrics. We'll see how well it does in the bag challenge.
Edit: Dandy will have our pics loaded for the bag challenge by this weekend. You can go to All People Quilt and take a look at the bags.


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During the final week of the semester, classes meet according to the alternative schedule that is published in the online academic calendar. Print copies are also available in the Office of the Registrar. The alternative schedule provides a format for comprehensive assessment of learning and for other instructional activities. The week of the alternative schedule is a required portion of the instructional time that comprises the full semester. Faculty and students are required to meet during this schedule period.
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The teacher, Natalie Munroe, was "reinstated because she has a legal right to her job." So... the teachers have their rights, but what about the students? According to the linked article, 60 students have requested that they not be assigned to her class. Now, the reason we know that is that the school's principal, Abe Lucabaugh, held a news conference. He took the initiative to announce that Munroe "has sacrificed her respect, her professionalism, and her ethical standing as an educator, role model and mentor for students."
"In exercising her right to speak and by blatantly refusing to apologize for her actions, she has created an unenviable position for herself..."Free speech, baby. Lucabaugh's got his speech too. How's he doing on respect, professionalism, and her ethical standing as an educator, role model and mentor? And what are the students — the "lazy whiners" — learning?
Unlike the teacher-blogger discussed in the previous post, Munroe has not deleted her blog —"Where Are We Going & Why Are We in This Handbasket." It's right here.


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Letter, Chas Chadwick to Hiram Hill Esq.
Author: Chadwick, Charles
Date: August 8, 1857
Charles Chadwick wrote from Quindaro, Kansas Territory, to Hiram Hill in Massachusetts. Chadwick told Hill that he had met with Charles Robinson the evening before and had discussed the matter of Samuel Simpson and his lands. Robinson seemed to think that Simpson would return to set things right with the Town Company. Chadwick expressed skepticism that this would happen, but believed Simpson could be contacted by sending letters to Boston.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 6
Item Number: 102208 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Chadwick, Charles; Fraud; Hill, Hiram; Quindaro, Kansas Territory; Real estate investment; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Simpson, Samuel Newell; Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory
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We asked people on Main Street about their favorite Easter traditions and memories.
Rachel Williams
What's your favorite Easter memory?
"When I was little we used to dye Easter eggs and hide them in the yard. One year, we missed an egg, and a snake got it, so my dad went to war with the snake. He was out there with a garden hose and a spatula going to war with this little garden snake."
Aaron Homan
What's your favorite Easter memory?
"I remember going to church when I was little. One year my dad dressed me up in a suit, and I felt awesome because I got to dress like him. Then, I went Easter egg hunting and got grass stains all over it, and I was in really big trouble."
John Michael Reutschle
What's your favorite Easter candy?
Is Easter your favorite holiday?
"It's my second favorite."
Have you ever seen the Easter bunny?
"No, all I see are his eggs and his baskets!"
Kendall Terchek and her grandma, Pat Shutello
What's your favorite Easter candy?
Kendall: "M&M's."
Shutello: "Jelly beans."
What's your favorite Easter tradition?
Kendall: "Searching for Easter eggs and Easter baskets."
Shutello: "When my family comes down to visit me from New Jersey. We always have Sunday brunch with mimosas."
Julian Goldhill
What's your favorite Passover tradition?
"Every year we do spring cleaning to start over, but it's really fun. You have to rid the house of grains and wheat. We put the dishes that we've eaten them off of down in the basement and we have a separate set that we use. Then, we scatter some crumbs around the house and clean those up and burn them to symbolize a final cleaning. After that we don't eat wheat or grains for eight days."
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I want to finish off my series of blog posts about living on the wrong side of the poverty line with a look at what it does to you as a person. The poor and unemployed are always criticized for having a bad attitude, for being lazy, and for being persistently negative. Well, when you live like that, it's pretty much impossible to keep a positive attitude for long. I only had a few months of much less income than I'm used to while I tried to start up a business, followed by two months of virtual unemployment when that failed, and it affected me really badly. I was depressed, grumpy, permanently on edge, and negative about absolutely everything. I've never experienced long-term poverty, and I hope I never do, but the terrifying reality is that for millions, both here in the US, and back home in Europe, this is their life.
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I mustn't
Once money becomes tight, you have to respond by cutting things out. You don't go out, you don't buy that tasty treat, and you don't splurge on luxuries. Then you start cutting deeper, and start denying yourself to basic food, medicine, and essentials, but you feel like it's the right thing, because you're trying to live within your means. Self-denial becomes your way of life. Your first instinct is always to say no, and that sets the tone for everything else. You're surrounded by adverts for things you can't have, and stories of your friends doing things you can't do, and you have to train yourself to respond by thinking, deep down, those things are not for me.
I can't
You soon start to realize that often, you're genuinely helpless. You're doing all you can, but it's not enough. If you don't have the cash, you simply can't pay that bill that's due tomorrow. If that guy who owes you money doesn't pay up, there's nothing you can do about it. If someone buys those games you put on eBay, you have some money for food: if they don't, you don't. You've left countless messages for the guy who promised you some freelance work this week, but if he's not calling you back, there's nothing you can do. It's exacerbated by people helpfully telling you that all you need to do is... with no understanding that if you don't have those few bucks spare, it's simply not possible. Everything gets filtered through the viewpoint of whether something's actually feasible with your limited resources and without the cooperation of others, and most of the time, the answer is no.
You also become painfully, horrifically aware of your personal limitations. You look at endless jobs, and initially you're sure you could do them but then you realize you don't quite meet the official requirements. You talk to people and they tell you that your resume isn't good enough, you need to go back to school, and you don't have the necessary skills. Sure, I can use Photoshop perfectly well, but I don't have an MA in Graphic Design with at least five years creating imagery for a major client, so I guess that doesn't count. It doesn't take long before you doubt your own ability so badly that it's paralyzing. You end up responding to every opportunity by thinking, I'd love to, but I can't.
I'm worthless
When you're struggling to stay positive, the last thing you need is other people beating you down, but that's usually what you get. Western societies have a very simple measure of someone's value. Money. When you haven't got any, you're quite literally worthless.
You've got people telling you to your face that getting a job is easy, and anyone who can't get a job inside a week is either stupid or lazy or both. There's a screaming, ranting, well-funded news media telling you 24/7 that the poor are lazy, workshy, scrounging, useless bums who are ruining life for everyone else. I was even told by one kind-hearted soul that people without jobs "might as well just die because they're not contributing to the economy, so who cares if they can't afford medical care."
But, you have to shut your ears to the endless insults, screw up your courage and plough on, applying for job after job, and then...
... nothing.
I must have sent out over 400 job applications in two months. I received precisely seven acknowledgements (of which two were rejections). I applied for about 160 freelance gigs. I got four responses. In other words, 98% of the people I contacted - in response to their ads - ignored me. I wasn't even worth an email. I didn't merit thirty seconds of someone's time, let alone an interview or an actual job. The employers didn't even show up for half the phone interviews they arranged. Recruiters wouldn't return my phone calls. After twenty-five years in business, with a degree from Cambridge University, nobody would even talk to me.
Some days, I actually started to wonder whether I even existed. I used to check my email sent boxes to make sure I hadn't imagined the applications I'd been sending out. I shut myself off from friends and family, and spent all day hiding in my office. I kept telling myself I was looking for work, but in reality, I was simply unable to speak to people. I seriously started to doubt my own sanity at times.
It's pointless
Insanity, as it's often said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. But that's exactly what we expect job-seekers to do. I was spending fifteen or sixteen hours a day applying for jobs, chasing freelance gigs, and getting nothing back. Just keep going, people assured me. It's a numbers game. Sooner or later, something will come up.
Actually, that's bullshit. It's mostly a contacts game. It's very rare to get a job by simply sending out resumes. Most people get jobs through knowing someone and having an introduction. Every interview I got, bar one, was via an agency, not via sending off my resume. I'm fortunate enough to have enough skills and experience that an agency would actually take me on - though even they didn't respond to me until I got an introduction via a friend.
Eventually you start to realize you're wasting your time. Why bother spending all day, every day, playing the job-hunt lottery, getting more and more depressed, and achieving nothing? At least if you don't apply for anything today, nobody's going to ignore you, and you're not going to get your hopes up for no reason, right? And, in many cases, even if you do get the job, it probably won't be enough to cover the bills. So after a while, you think fuck it, I'll play a video game, surf the net, watch crap TV, and lie in bed. At least that's better than thinking fuck it, I'll go knock over a gas station and buy some crack, but frankly, you reach a point where that doesn't seem any worse than any other plan.
You'd maybe like to do something creative - after all, if I'd spent those 15 hours a day for two months solidly writing instead of chasing crap jobs, I'd have written a whole bunch of stories or maybe a novel. In retrospect, that would probably have been a smart move - my current portfolio of just three stories brings me in a few hundred bucks every few months, even after nearly two years, and maybe writing some more could actually add up to a significant, if insufficient income. But when your head is full of negative waves, you don't feel like writing, drawing, or whatever your medium is. It's not the blues, where you pick up your guitar and sing soulfully about the bad stuff - it's that mind-numbing blackness where you can't think about anything except getting through to the end of the day, and wondering why you bothered to get up. All that goes through your head, every single day, is I mustn't, I can't, I'm useless and I'm going to fail.
It's not surprising that so many people give up on themselves, on the system, and on their future. Being poor is a real test of mental endurance. You have to keep picking yourself up day after day after monotonous, soul-crushing, joyless day. Time and time again, you have to brave the self-doubt, the financial worry, and the barrage of negativity, ignorance and criticism from other people. You have to cut yourself off from a society that only values people for their economic status and purchasing power.
Your entire life is a cycle of worry followed by (if all goes well) debilitating relief. You don't sleep when you know that tomorrow, the electricity bill is due, and if you can't raise $200 from somewhere within the next few hours, they'll cut off your net connection (which hampers your ability to find work), your phone charger (ditto), your cold food storage, your cooking facilities, your cooling and heating, your lighting, and your sole source of entertainment - and then charge you more money you haven't got to reconnect it. And that's not an occasional thing - that's every damn night, every damn bill. And when you're tired and stressed, you don't present yourself well to potential employers. You know it, and that's another source of stress.
And yet, through all of this endless crap, you somehow have to keep trying to get yourself out of the hell you're in. You have to keep telling yourself it's a mother beautiful job and it's gonna be there, even when you see it blown to hell in front of your face time and time again. Sadly, there's only so much optimism you can draw on.
2013 has so far been much better. I had one interview, and I was offered a job starting the next day. After just four days of earning money, and with the confidence that I will be able to pay all my bills this month and have a little left over for some treats, I feel like a different person. I feel valued. I feel intelligent. I have confidence in myself once again. I feel healthier. I sleep soundly at night, and I have a reason to get up each morning. I'm gradually getting my creative mojo back. I smile.
I have hope.


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The Houston Dynamo and Brian Ching held a press conference on Tuesday announcing a special ticket package available for fans for Saturday's LA Galaxy game.
A significant portion of the proceeds from these ticket packages will go towards "The House that Ching Built," a Habitat for Humanity house in the Houston area.
"It's an opportunity for me to give back to a community that has given me and my team so much over the years," Ching said.
In exchange for $99, fans will receive two tickets, two Brian Ching scarves, and two passes to a postgame meet and greet with the Dynamo star forward. He's already raised $40,000 of $65,000 to $75,000 needed to build a Habitat for Humanity House.
"The commitment that Brian has made is $75,000 for a full house, and that is what we hope to build in October," noted Doug Garrison, volunteer board member and chairman of the Houston Habitat for Humanity. "I want to extend our appreciation on behalf of our board and staff and partner families for the example and substantial contribution Brian and his effort has produced. It takes a lot of people collaborating together. Not all professional athletes use their power of celebrity to do the kind of uplifting things that Brian is demonstrating with this effort."
"Some players get it and know they can take it to bigger and better things off the field and Brian Ching is one of those players," said Chris Canetti, chief operating officer of the Dynamo. "He's thrilled us time and time again with his goals on the field and now he's continued to do things off the field with the House that Ching built as his focal point and just one of the things that he is doing in the community."
Ching said he initially become invested in Habitat for Humanity after filming a Public Service Announcement for the organization.
"I was really touched and moved by what was happening there," said the Hawaiian native. "They were building houses for deserving families. The early part of my career, you don't realize the attention or help you can bring an organization. This is the first big project I have gotten involved in. Seeing the amount of attention I can draw to this organization is uplifting."


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When I go visit my parents I can still see the pencil lines on the kitchen doorway where my mom marked the growth of all the grandchildren. The kids loved to have her measure them and make their mark.
I want to create the same kind of memories for our grandkids so yesterday I stitched up a growth chart to hang on our wall. I found this fun monkey fabric in my stash and made it up as I went along. I still have to figure out how I am going to mark it. Any creative ideas?
27 inches and thirty inches tall so far. We have a lot of wonderful growing up years ahead of us.


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I can't help wondering whether Supreme Court Justice Scalia says weird things like this just for attention:
Speaking at the University of Tennessee College of Law on Tuesday, the longest-serving justice currently on the bench was asked by a student about the constitutionality of the income tax, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
Scalia responded that the government has the right to implement the tax, "but if it reaches a certain point, perhaps you should revolt."
Limerick Ode To Antonin Scalia
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Suggesting that students revolt
Over taxes ain't very adult.
It seems doltish Scalia
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