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Three Shades of Joy
By Marsh Chapel
Easter Sunday
The Lord is Risen! He is Risen indeed!
The joy of Easter comes in three shades. The resurrection is "a transformation, a revelation, and a transition into newness." So said Valentinus (Treatise on Resurrection), who had his own troubles with semi-organized religion, near the year 150ad. We begin in 2008 where the Easter 2007 sermon ended. Valentinus may have been trying to summarize the earliest teaching on Easter, found in the then scattered books of the yet to be collected New Testament. He may have read what Peter, Paul, and, today, Mary had to say about the matter. Peter, Paul, and Mary. It has a nice ring to it. Hear the good news: The joy of Easter comes in three shades, and means three different things to three different kinds of people, or to you in three different hours of need. But count it all joy.
On this hallelujah day, we keep for ourselves the advice of one Missouri chicken to another about how to lay an egg on the highway: Do it fast and lay it on the line. So here it is.
First, Easter is the resurrection of body. Of belonging in life. Today is the resurrection of the body, of community.
You are not alone. Ortega was right: 'Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias'. John Donne was right: No man is an Island. The African proverb is right: It takes a village. Dr Johnson was right: Keep your friendships in good repair.
Church is the worst sort of organization there is—except for all the others. The body needs the body to be the body.
Something happened. At dawn. Early. Out in the country. 'He is risen. He is not here.' Here is the religious resurrection of Christ. The resurrection of the body. Now in the creed, this phrase, 'the resurrection of the body', can refer to the daily rebirth of the church, the ongoing life of the Body of Christ—the church. The church. The astounding remarkable, historical, actual fact of the church. The daily Easter miracle that the church survives. We have lived in 13 parsonages in 50 years, served 7 churches, and attended 35 annual conference sessions. I guarantee you this: it is a miracle, and not a minor, that the church survives at all, this human 'representation and distortion of the divine' (Tillich). But it does! Against all odds. Beyond all comprehension. Well beyond any reasonable calculus of what ought to have happened. The church is of God. And will be preserved to the end of time. Through the daily resurrection of the body. Of Christ. Easter is about genuine belonging that crosses the line of death.
Religious resurrection. Beyond: A religion of shared experience and the common faith of John Dewey. Beyond: A religion of shared existence and the common ground of Howard Thurman. Beyond: A religion of shared expectation and the common hope of Marsh Chapel's preaching during our decade. A poem calling us into the beyond.
Last week on Commonwealth one of our students wore a shirt reading: 'A Chorus Line'. In a twinkling I was back almost thirty years.
We took our youth group to New York City 25 years ago. The drive was difficult, our lodging was imperfect, we were late arriving, the show we saw was "A Chorus Line", full of words and gestures that I thought would have me defrocked before I was frocked. So at midnight we sat in a circle uptown to review the day. I expressed my concerns. No one said anything. Then Kathy Likens said: "I am just so glad to be here. I mean, I have never been here. I have never been in New York. And I have never been on Broadway. We were on Broadway! And here I am. And it is so great! I wouldn't trade this for anything, to be here with you all. I will never forget it as long as I live." It is a beautiful thing. To be. Here. Together. Hers was the joy of belonging, and the eclipse of loneliness. There is a real, bitter loneliness that can visit young people. Some of the loneliest folks anywhere are freshman and sophomores in college.
Being human requires community. You need genuine love. You need real compassion. You need honest companionship. All of these you will find right here. In the church. He is risen! In his basin, towel, tears, stripes, agony, death and cross, an entirely divine seal has now been set. The empty tomb, the resurrection of the body, the religious resurrection of Christ, Peter's shade of joy, is our joy too.
Second, Easter is the resurrection of truth and meaning in life.
Words matter. Dollars matter. Decisions matter. You matter. You count. Here is the spiritual meaning of Easter. Over time, truth emerges. There is a self-correcting spirit of Truth loose in the universe. You can count on it. And it matters. We might linger, briefly, at 1 Corinthians 15.
So, Paul. If Christ be not raised from the dead, we are of all people most to be pitied. Because then nothing really, lastingly matters. There is no real failure. There is no real loss. There is no real consequence to anything. Yet, in fact, acclaims our earliest witness, things do matter. As our own experience, honestly construed, does too. You do count.
Christ is risen Resurrection is about life. Meaning. Truth. What matters. What counts. Your choices this year about sex, money, religion, vocation, work, family, politics—they matter. Or as the Apostle trenchantly puts it: "if the dead are not raised, why am I in peril every hour?. If the dead are not raised, 'let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die'.
Paul was not a disciple. He was an outlaw not an in-law. Paul misses all the family stories: shepherds, kings, Mary, healings, sermons, temple, parables, all. He never heard Jesus say, 'I by the finger of God cast out demons'. In fact, he never heard Jesus say anything, as far as we know. No wonder he never got the word, or accepted the word, about the empty tomb. Which he did not.
Paul does not mean, by resurrection, an empty tomb. No. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, says Paul. For those this morning who hear the tradition of Peter, and his shade of joy, and the account of the empty tomb, and say, 'Why can't some people just let a story be a story?' there is a further joy. What a friend you have in Paul. Who knows and says nothing about an empty tomb. He's your man. He says 'resurrection'. And what does that mean? The incursion of grace, the invasion of heaven, the apocalypse of love, the end of the old world, the opening the new, a new heaven and earth. "To live by such faith, it is clear from the biblical depictions, is to be on trial as part of a mission in the earth that remains countercultural insofar as the culture embodies the powers of domination opposed to love and freedom that the power of Resurrection brings". (C Morse)
But Paul, how are dead raised? You yourself have said no to flesh and blood inheriting the kingdom. Just what do you mean?
We may argue with Paul…
It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
OK, Paul. I understand physical body. I mean, I know losing sight, hearing, memory, daily deterioration—that I got. I am with you. But what do you mean by spiritual body? And don't say it's a mystery.
Lo I tell you a mystery.
I knew you would say that. I mean I just knew you would use the word mystery. It is so like you to do that. What does it mean? And don't use that metaphor of sleep, how we emerge from sleep, as from a dream.
We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed.
See, I knew you would do that. I mean honestly, when I think about the difference, the daily transition from sleeping to waking, I am amazed. I think about the dreams I can remember. How colorful they are. How creative. How real. How strange. And how totally unlike the waking world. And yet they are real. In some ways fiercely so. So you talk about change. Good. I guess. And what may I say is that? But please don't use another metaphor, and no philosophy please.
The perishable must put on the imperishable.
See, there you go again. Perishableimperishable, weaknesspower, dustheaven, mortalimmortal. And how is that to be?
The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised and we shall be raised imperishable and we shall be changed!
Paul, Paul, Paul…I guess I see what you mean…. Who are we, really, to question the resurrection. Easter is the solemn assurance that it is not we who question who question resurrection, but resurrection that questions us.
Some of our younger adults this morning are truly wrestling with this matter of meaning, wrestling with doubt. Is it true? Is the faith of Christ true? Is it to be trusted, held, affirmed? If it is not, if not resurrection, then what? Adolph von Harnack viewed our Scriptures as sources not norms. Sources of historical information, not norms of spiritual faith. He also carried this warning, that the greatest danger may not be doubt, but entrapment. If you become trapped in a truth too small, you are in greater danger than that which some doubt about a truth much larger may inflict. Better what he called a measure of 'persistent uncertainity' than a full measure of unqualified belief. Better the freedom of honest doubt than the prison of false certainty.
The truth of the Gospel, and the spiritual resurrection of Christ, Paul's shade of joy at Easter, is our joy too.
3. Mary
Third, Easter is the resurrection of possibility. This is resurrection in its most personal mode. It is John who knows Easter best because he needs it least. He leaves Easter to Mary and the garden. For John, the cross alone has accomplished the mission of Christ. It is finished. And the great waves of grief that the community then knew are overwhelmed by the joy of faith.
John gives us four resurrection accounts in chapter 20: Absence, Presence, Recognition, Mission. Today our Easter Gospel is the gospel of absence. Here is Mary weeping…they have taken away my lord …grief…in the ordinary, in the voice, in the name, in the garden, in the gardener, when your name is truly called MARY. The spell of her grief is broken by the spoken. Her grief is broken by the spoken power of an intervening word. She hears. Heart to heart.
A few days ago I had the pleasure of making three visits in the back bay—a home, an office, a school. There is freedom and joy in pastoral visitation. Along Marlborough street I saw a banner, 'cor ad cor loquitur'. It means heart speaks to heart, and I could ferret that out, but the verb looked wrong. Its ending, I mean. So I phoned up my Latin teacher, who doubles as my mother, a multitasking person still. She explained that the verb is deponent, passive in form, active in meaning. Personal resurrection comes slant, comes latent, comes deponent. Grief is a life work, but it allows of some resolution. It does. Though that resolution may be passive in form, it is powerful, active in meaning. It comes in a word spoken and heard. Today is a day of personal resurrection from ongoing grief.
Here we are together. And listening along the North Shore by radio. And on the internet down in Sarasota. And in Australia by the same stream. Now it is just a further, short leap, symbolized by our memorial insert, to say that by resurrection faith I see you, too, just outside the wall of sight, the doorway of hearing, the threshold of touch. You can silently provide their names…
The whole of the second half of John is shot through with grief. The good news of Easter is that grief is succeeded by joy, a joy as mysterious and full as our grief has been real and shared. And this is the whole record of Scripture as well…
Wise men from the east at last find a star and a child and they rejoice with great joy.
Common shepherds hear tidings of great joy, meant for all people, and are shaken to their boots.
Some seed falls on good ground and…you and you and you…receive the word with great joy.
A servant is faithful over a little, and is set over much, and enters…the joy of the master.
There is more joy in heaven over one who repents than over 99 who lack nothing.
Even the evening of his death, Jesus sings with joy his affection for his disciples.
And early women go to the tomb, and finding it empty are turned upside down and leave with fear and great, great joy.
For Mary it is not the belonging, nor the believing of resurrection that are paramount. It is the joy of becoming! Easter, by Mary's report—and who would know better?—is the unkillable possibility of the Christian life, the power and empowerment of authentic human life, the unmaskable potential in every space for love.
But some of it is "up to you". As Augustine said, "the God who made you without you will not justify you without you." The resurrection is personal possibility, for you.
The possibility in the gospel, and the personal resurrection of Christ, Mary's shade of joy, is our joy too.
The joy of Easter comes in three shades, and means three things to three different kinds of people, or three people in different settings, or three moments in the lives of various people, or three sets of ears on three different days.
Resurrection is the transformation of community, the revelation meaning and the transition into newness that is possibility. Communion, Meaning, and empowerment.
Easter is community for those seeking belonging. Easter is truth for those hungry for meaning. Easter is possibility for those seeking faith.
The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed. Amen.
Oh, I almost forgot… One other thing…. Just a thought. Take it for what it is worth.. …If love can prevail in a culture of selfishness…If truth can survive in a world of mendacity…If faith can persist in a time of fear…
It makes you wonder, doesn't it? It makes you wonder, it makes the joy wonder heavenly and the hope of heaven wonderful…
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So Christmas is about a week away. How did that happen? I left off in October enjoying a warm weekend in Palm Springs and all of a sudden it's frosty and freezing — yes, we get cold weather and frost in Northern California, it may have finally finished the citrus tree in that I butchered with a trim a few months ago. But you didn't miss much around here. Our first house closed escrow in the middle of October and was officially sold (yay!), my husband and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary (with no trip for the first time), I had my hair chopped off again, I hosted a baby brunch (don't call it a shower) at our house for a close friend, then took her maternity photos (then she delivered on Thanksgiving four days later.), hosted Thanksgiving and then cut down our first Christmas tree. We've also been spending time with friends and family, stressing about the plans for the house, and working our butts off at our jobs.
While my parents were visiting for Thanksgiving I coerced them into coming along to cut down a tree. There are tree farms near us that hand you a saw and let you loose to choose a noble fir or Monterey pine of your choice. I sought out a tall, narrow tree and this Monterey pine fit the bill.
My dad, all business when it comes to Christmas trees. 🙂
This really feels like our first Christmas tree since we've only ever had teeny, potted ones if we had one at all. We didn't even have ornaments despite this being our seventh Christmas together.
I feel fortunate that we will be spending this Christmas with family and friends.
Now if only these guys could fix our house's heating system as easily as they can cut down a Christmas tree!
Believe it or not, we're still waiting to finalize our house construction plans, hopefully we'll know more in the new year. I'm still working my patience muscles and the holidays are a welcome distraction.
Have you ever cut down your own Christmas tree or are you a fake tree family?


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I used to tail my log files in the console/terminal with "$ tail -f somelog.log". But this is not really working if you have Eclipse in fullscreen mode (in Mac OS X). I recently stumbled across a very nice plugin, which basically let's you do the same thing in a "Window-View" just like the Console- or Outline view of Eclipse. The plugin supports also multiple log files, so you can easily switch between a debug an normal log file. Furthermore you can define some rules (word or regex-match) which then can, if they match, change the particular line's back- and foreground color… exceptions can't hide 🙂 To install this extension copy the following URL and go to Eclipse > Help > Install new Software and install the "Log Viewer Feature". Restart eclipse and open the Log Viewer with Window > Show View > Other > Log Viewer. You then need to add all the log files you want to tail and create your custom rules (see picture for more infos). Please also visit and star this project on it's Google Code site.
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"In most of his 42 books, the much-admired Mosley has given us desperate characters constantly tested by circumstances and fate. Until now, none of his other series or stand-alones have come close to matching the kudos that have been showered on the Rawlins series. But Debbie's on stage now, and her brutally elegant story and its shocking conclusion will stun you."
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Creta June Baumgartner
May 17, 1926-July 27, 2013
Age: 87
Residence: Evans
Creta June Baumgartner, 87, of Evans, died Saturday, July 27, 2013, at Life Care Center of Greeley. She was born on May 17, 1926, in Weldona, Colo., to George Sherman and Orpha May (Jacobson) Aker.
Creta grew up on her parent's farm. After her marriage to Dave Baumgartner on May 21, 1954, in Cheyenne, Wyo., she became a farmer's wife and homemaker. Dave died on Aug. 29, 1992.
She loved all animals – especially dogs and cats – and was always willing to rescue them. She enjoyed cooking for her family.
Creta is survived by her sons, Robin Greenhagen (Lois) of Smithville, Mo., Larry Greenhagen (Gloria) of Greeley, and Duane Greenhagen and Ronnie Liner, both of Evans; brother, George Aker (Norma) of Carmichael, Calif.; seven grandchildren, Robin Greenhagen Jr. of Smithville, Suzette Muehlbauer of Maple Valley, Wash., Michael Greenhagen (Brandy) of Greeley, Stephen Greenhagen of Greeley, Barry Greenhagen of Arizona, Carrie Greenhagen of Texas, and Terry Greenhagen of Commerce City; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Dave.
Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association or Weld County Humane Society, both in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 28th St., Greeley, CO 80634.
Please visit www.stoddardsunset.com to sign online guest book.
Margaret "Peg" Kruger
Nov. 14, 1939-July 27, 2013
Age: 73
Residence: Greeley
Margaret 'Peg' Louise Kruger, of Greeley, died on July 27, 2013, at the Hospice of Northern Colorado after a long journey of health issues. Peg was born on Nov. 14, 1939, in Jackson, Mich. Her parents were Russell C. and Marguerite Lucille (Biggs) Mercer.
Peg grew up in Battle Creek, Mich, and graduated from Battle Creek Central High School. In 1960, she graduated from Bronson Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Kalamazoo, Mich., with an R.N. degree. On June 10, 1960, she married John M. Kruger at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sturgis, Mich.
Peg was preceded in death by her parents; brother, P. James Mercer (Angola, Ind.); and an infant brother, Michael John Mercer.
Survivors are her husband, John M. Kruger; daughter, Judy K. Chester and children Justin and Jordyn of Haslet, Texas; daughter, Susan L. Saint Vincent and her husband Verne and daughter Samantha Payne of Elizabeth, Colo.; daughter, Cheryl L. Reisman and her husband Michael and their children, Jacob and Amy of Mills River, N.C.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mark's Funeral Chapel, 9293 Eastman Park Drive, Windsor. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Hospice of Northern Colorado, 1801 16th St., Greeley, CO 80631. Online condolences may be made at www.marksfuneralservice.com.
Mary D. Martinez
May 6, 1951-July 26, 2013
Age: 62
Residence: Eaton
Mary D. Martinez, 62, of Eaton, Colo., passed away July 26, 2013, at Hospice of Northern Colorado. She was born May 6, 1951 in Las Lunas, N.M., to Rose Weimer.
Mary is survived by her better half, Pedro Villavilla; children, Victor, Vincent, Rosemary, Ruth, Virginia, Jesse and Joe Martinez; 23 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; mother, Rose Weimer; brothers, Leroy and Felix Weimer; and sister, Liza Corona.
The family would like to thank everyone who remembers Mary.
No services are planned at this time.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.adamsonchapels.com.
Jack Paul Renfroe
Nov. 29, 1939-July 27, 2013
Age: 73
Residence: Eaton
Jack Paul Renfroe, 73, of Eaton, Colo., died of congestive heart failure, July 27, 2013, at Greeley's North Colorado Medical Center. He was born Nov. 29, 1939, in North Platte, Neb.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Karen (Cederburg) Renfroe, whom he dearly loved and who he is reunited with in the presence of his Lord and Savior.
Jack was dearly loved by his son, Sen. Scott (Pamela) Renfroe of Greeley, and their children Olivia, Sylvia, Vivian, Derek, and Spencer; and his daughter, Randee (Bobby) Morris of Greeley, and their children, Brittany and Jared. He will be missed by his brother, Dr. Jerry Delano Renfroe of Edmond, Okla.; sisters, Barbara Anne Ziervogel of Apple Valley, Calif., and Linda Kay Velte of Geneva, Nev.
He is preceded in death by his father, Samuel Waudell Renfroe; mother, Agnes Vera (Kimberly) Renfroe; brother, Donald Rabon Renfroe; and sister, Susan Elaine (Renfroe) Harrison.
Jack generously, and selflessly, sought to share his blessings with his family, friends, employees and church. Jack was a loyal, dedicated and hardworking businessman, but he always put his family first. He was a living example of Proverbs 22:1: "A good name is more desirable than great riches: to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."
Jack grew up in North Platte and attended the Berean Fundamental Church. He graduated from North Platte High in 1958. His classmates called him the gentle giant. He was accepted to the University of Nebraska on a football scholarship, where he went on to graduate in 1964, earning a degree in civil engineering. He was a dedicated member of the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity and enjoyed many memories with his brothers. He was an avid Huskers fan.
On July 6, 1962, Jack married Karen M. Cederburg in North Platte. After their marriage, they lived in Lincoln, Neb., and Kansas City, before choosing to settle their family in Greeley in 1966. Once in Greeley, Jack was a project engineer for Nelson, Haley, Patterson & Quirk, a consulting engineering firm. He helped design buildings, bridges and water-treatment plants all over northern Colorado. He also was an inspection engineer on the construction of Kodak in Windsor.
He left NHPQ in 1972 and founded his own concrete construction company. His company, Foundation Builders, Inc., celebrated its 41st year in Greeley this summer. The company builds commercial and residential projects specializing in foundations and flatwork. His company has constructed more than 7,000 home foundations in northern Colorado.
Jack was also involved in several other business ventures. He was one of the developers of Pheasant Run subdivision, Cedarwoods subdivision, and Weber West Subdivision in Greeley and Maplewood Estates in Eaton. He was a director of New Frontier Bank. He was a partner in Renfroe Farms, JRSR LLC, SWR Investments, Maplewoods I, and Brunner Renfroe LLC.
Jack attended the Eaton Evangelical-Free Church and supervised the construction of its major facilities expansion in 2003.
Jack loved being involved with his grandchildren and their activities. Rarely a weekend would go by without a grandchild spending the night with Papa Jack. He also enjoyed watching and traveling to Nebraska football games. He was writing a book on the family history of the Renfroes and Kimberlys. He traveled to Georgia yearly for research.
Jack will be remembered for his caring sense of humor that brightened the day of many. He was blunt and to the point. His word and handshake could be trusted, and he believed in doing every job right with the highest quality.
Papa Jack will be always loved, forever in our hearts, and with us in spirit.
Public visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, at the Eaton Evangelical Free Church, 1325 3rd St., Eaton. Graveside services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, at Linn Grove Cemetery, followed by a memorial celebration of Jack's life at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Eaton Evangelical Free Church, 1325 3rd St., Eaton.
Jack had a heart for the youth ministries where he attended church. Jack would be honored for memorial contributions to be given to further their ministry opportunities. Contributions can be made to EEFC Youth Ministries, in care of Moser Funeral Service, 3501 S. 11th Ave., Evans, CO 80620.
An online obituary and guest book are at www.moserfuneralservice.com.


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Diane Michele Nelson
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
I began fieldwork in Guatemala in 1985 exploring the impact of civil war on highland indigenous communities with a focus on the more than 100,000 people made into refugees and 200,000 people murdered in what the United Nations has called genocidal violence. Since then my research has sought to understand the causes and effects of this violence, including the destruction and reconstruction of community life (Guatemala: Los Polos de Desarrollo: El Caso de la Desestructuracin de las Comunidades Indigenas CEIDEC1988). In A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala (University of California Press 1999) I describe the relationship between the Guatemalan state and the Mayan cultural rights movement. When asked about indigenous organizing many Guatemalans call it "a finger in the wound." How do material bodies those literally wounded in 35- years of civil war, and those locked in the fear-laden embrace of sexual conquest, domestic labor, mestizaje, and social change movements relate to the wounded body politic? My work draws on popular culture like jokes, rumors, global TV, and subjugated dreams of a "new race" as well as contemporary theories of political economy, subject-formation, the post-colonial, memory, and ethnic, national, gender, and sexual identifications. It explores the relations among Mayan rights activists, ladino (non-indigenous) Guatemalans, the state, and transnational contexts including anthropologists. My new project grows from my interests in cultural studies and cyborg anthropology and explores science and technology development in Guatemala and Latin America more generally. I am focusing on laboratory and clinical research on vector and blood-borne diseases like malaria and dengue and the intersection of this knowledge production with health care in the midst of neo-liberal reforms and popular demands.
Nelson, D. M. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Duke University Press, 2009.
Nelson, D. M. Under the sign of the Virgen de Tránsito. Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 1–28. Open Access Copy
Nelson, D. M. A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincenntenial Guatemala. University of California Press, 1999.
Nelson, D. M., and Carlota McAllister. "Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future." War By Other Means Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala, Duke UP, 2013.
Nelson, D. M. "100% OMNILIFE: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War." War By Other Means Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala, Duke UP, 2013.
Nelson, D. M. "Mayan Pyramids." The Guatemala Reader, edited by Levenson Grandin and Levenson Oglesby, Duke University Press, 2011.
Nelson, D. M. "Los efectos especiales del horror." Re-Pensando La Violencia, edited by Julian Lopez García and Santiago Bastos, University of Cordoba, Spain, 2010.
Nelson, D. M. "Los Efectos Especialdes de los "Mecanismos del Horror"." Guatemala, Violencias Desbordadas, edited by D. M. Garcia, Julian Lopez et al., Universidad de Cordoba, 2010, pp. 153–83. Open Access Copy
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Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898) was a German-Prussian statesman of the late 19th century, and a dominant figure in world affairs. As Ministerpräsident, or Prime Minister, of Prussia from 1862–1890, he oversaw the unification of Germany. In 1867 he became Chancellor of the North German Confederation. He designed the German Empire in 1871, becoming its first Chancellor and dominating its affairs until he was removed by Wilhelm II in 1890. His diplomacy of Realpolitik and powerful rule gained him the nickname "The Iron Chancellor".
After his death German nationalists made Bismarck their hero, building hundreds of monuments glorifying the symbol of powerful personal leadership. Historians praised him as a statesman of moderation and balance who was primarily responsible for the unification of the German states into a nation-state. He used balance-of-power diplomacy to keep Europe peaceful in the 1870s and 1880s. He created a new nation with a progressive social policy, a result that went beyond his initial goals as a practitioner of power politics in Prussia. Bismarck, a devout Lutheran who was loyal to his king, promoted government through a strong, well-trained bureaucracy with a hereditary monarchy at the top.
Bismarck had recognized early in his political career that the opportunities for national unification would exist and he worked successfully to provide a Prussian structure to the nation as a whole. However, his Reich of 1871 deliberately restricted democracy, and the anti-Catholic and anti-Socialist legislation that he introduced unsuccessfully in the 1870s and 1880s left a devastating legacy of distrust and fragmentation in German political culture.


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News is super, super scarce. But voting ends today in the Castle vs Supernatural battle on E! online that MJ mentioned. So try to get in a few final clicks, if you can.
Buddy TV is running their Fan Favorite contest for 2010. Lucifer is up for Best Villian and Castiel is up for Best Non-Human.
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On return from a long spell away from the Internet, I was going to recommend that you read Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with Hillary Clinton, and not just the setup but the transcript as a whole. But such a recommendation is hardly necessary, since for several days the interview has been making news worldwide.
There are two ways to think about the political and policy implications of Hillary Clinton's deciding to say what she did, during this strange limbo period when she is clearly preparing to run for president but has more to lose than gain by officially saying so.
• One approach would be to think that we're primarily witnessing a media event—journalists doing what journalists do. It's in our nature as reporters, even when representing an institution as august as a 157-year-old magazine, to highlight what has changed rather than what's constant, what is controversial rather than what's agreed on, the one juicy, taken-in-isolation sentence that will make people stop and say, Did you see that? And it is in nature of the political commentariat to seize on any sign of rancor or big-shot melodrama.
Therefore if our Atlantic site runs a headline suggesting that Hillary Clinton is all but blaming Barack Obama for the ISIS/ISIL menace ("Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS"), or if we emphasize the few places where she departed from his policy rather than the many more where she supported it, maybe we're just revealing the way we journalists think. When politicians start complaining that some comment was "taken out of context," this is the point they're trying to make. And in fairness, anyone who reads the whole transcript will find that the tabloid version of her comments—weakling Obama lost Syria!—is cushioned in qualifiers and complexities.
If this is the way the Clinton camp feels about our presentation of the interview, they are perfectly well versed in all the the formal and informal ways of getting that message across. Indeed, just this afternoon, a little while after I started typing this item (but several days after the interview ran), the first such indication appeared, in a "no criticism intended" story via Politico.
• The other approach is to think that Hillary Clinton, as experienced a figure as we now have on the national scene, knew exactly what she was saying, and conveyed to an interviewer as experienced as Goldberg exactly the impression she intended to—including letting the impression sink in through several days' worth of op-ed and talk-show news cycles before beginning to offset it with an "out of context" claim.
That impression is a faux-respectful but pointed dismissal of Obama's achievements and underlying thought-patterns. It's a picture of the president approximating that of a Maureen Dowd column. It also introduces into Democratic party discourse the "Who (re-)lost Iraq?" "Who lost Syria?" "Who lost Iran?" and "Who is losing the world?" queries that the Republicans are perpetually ready to serve up. All this is presumably in preparation for Clinton's distancing herself from a "weak" Obama when she starts running in earnest to succeed him.
If the former interpretation is right, Clinton is rustier at dealing with the press than we assumed. Rustier in taking care with what she says, rustier in taking several days before countering a (presumably) undesired interpretation.
I hope she's just rusty. Because if she intended this, my heart sinks.
It sinks for her, that she thought this would make her sound tough or wise; it sinks for the Democratic Party, that this is the future foreign policy choice it's getting; and it sinks for the country, if this is the way we're going to be talked to about our options in dealings with the world.
The easiest and least useful stance when it comes to foreign policy is: Situation X is terrible, we have to do something. Or its cousin: Situation X is terrible, you should have done something. Pointing out terribleness around the world is not even half of the necessary thought-work in foreign policy. The harder and more important part—what constitutes actual statesmanship—is considering exactly which "something" you would do; and why that exact something would make conditions better rather than worse; and what Pandora's box you might be opening; and how the results of your something will look a year from now, or a decade, when the terribleness of this moment has passed.
E.g.: Yeah, we should have "done something" in Syria to prevent the rise of ISIS. But the U.S. did a hell of a lot of somethings in Iraq over the past decade, with a lot more leverage that it could possibly have had in Syria. And the result of the somethings in Iraq was … ? A long story in the NYT tells us that the current leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph himself, drew his political formation from America's own efforts to "do something" in Iraq:
"He was a street thug when we picked him up in 2004," said a Pentagon official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. "It's hard to imagine we could have had a crystal ball then that would tell us he'd become head of ISIS."
At every turn, Mr. Baghdadi's rise has been shaped by the United States' involvement in Iraq — most of the political changes that fueled his fight, or led to his promotion, were born directly from some American action. And now he has forced a new chapter of that intervention, after ISIS' military successes and brutal massacres of minorities in its advance prompted President Obama to order airstrikes in Iraq.
Of course everyone including Clinton "knows" that you should only do something when it's smart and not when it's stupid. In her books and speeches, she is most impressive when showing commanding knowledge of the complexities and contradictions of negotiating with the Russians and Chinese, and why you can't just "be tough" in dealings with them. In those specifics, she can sound like the description I just came across, in Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers, about some pre-World War I Balkan leaders: "It is a characteristic of the most skillful politicians that they are capable of reasoning simultaneously at different levels of conditionality. [One Serbian figure] wanted peace, but he also believed—he never concealed it—that the final historical phase of Serbian expansion would in all probability not be achieved without war."
But in this interview—assuming it's not "out of context"—she is often making the broad, lazy "do something" points and avoiding the harder ones. She appears to disdain the president for exactly the kind of slogan—"don't do stupid shit"—that her husband would have been proud of for its apparent simplicity but potential breadth and depth. (Remember "It's the economy, stupid"?) Meanwhile she offers her own radically simplified view of the Middle East—Netanyahu right, others wrong—that is at odds with what she did in the State Department and what she would likely have to do in the White House. David Brooks was heartened by this possible preview of a Hillary Clinton administration's policy. I agree with Kevin Drum and John Cassidy, who were not. Also see Paul Waldman.
But really, go read the interview. Either way, the presumptive nominee has, under Jeffrey Goldberg's questioning, shown us something significant.
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The congressional visit coincided with the SPIE annual conference in Baltimore on May 5–9, where Ziemann presented her paper, "Hyperspectral target detection using graph theory models and manifold geometry via an adaptive implementation of locally linear embedding." She spent the day following her presentation meeting with congressional staffers representing Vermont, Maryland and New Mexico with SPIE members from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a defense contractor from Albuquerque, N.M.
"In participating in the congressional visits, I provided the perspective of current STEM graduate students that will be entering the photonics workforce," said Ziemann, who expects to graduate in May 2015. "My graduate research is funded through the Department of Defense, and one of our concerns moving forward is the decrease in government allocated funding for academic research. There is a well-documented graying of the scientific and technical workforce in the aerospace community, and without stable academic funding the U.S. will continue to fall behind in these areas."
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Earlier this spring, Ziemann also attended a U.S. Department of Energy Conference on Data Analysis in Sante Fe, N.M., March 5–7, where she won first prize in the Statistics in Defense and National Security student poster award and $400 for her research, "Using Graph Theory Models and Manifold Learning to Analyze Cluttered Hyperspectral Scenes."
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Our Current Understanding of Classical Be Stars
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I will introduce Be stars as B-type stars with gaseous disks in Keplerian rotation. These disks form by mass ejection from the star itself and their evolution is then governed by viscosity. The observables and their formation in the disk will be discussed, as well as what we know about the central stars: they are the most rapidly rotating non-degenerate stars, they are non-radial pulsators, and they do not show magnetic fields. The pulsation is clearly (phenomenologically) linked to the mass ejection, but the physical mechanism responsible for the ejection and disk formation is not known. Finally, I will discuss several open questions of broader interest, including the (possibly absent) chemical mixing of very rapid rotators and the unexpectedly large viscosity of Be star disks.


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And Now i should make a function which tells us the amount of produced products and the single product price when we are given a number from keyboard
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(DEFUN ponm (I nom)
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Cyprus, IMF Reach Deal
Cyprus and the International Monetary Fund reached an agreement for a €1 billion ($1.28 billion) lifeline on top of the €9 billion bailout the island will get from its euro-zone peers. Charles Forelle reports.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Police in Concord, N.H., have arrested three people in connection with illegal drug sales.
They arrested Myk Neuner and Kelsey McCarthy at a Concord residence Tuesday. The two are accused of selling an assortment of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamines, and prescription drugs.
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Every week, you guys in comments do the yeoman's work of pointing out some of the stupid shit this show has been doing this season, and I have to nod and agree. And yet every week, I find that this stuff doesn't bother me nearly as much as it does some of you. That could be because I'm a homer for this show, or it could be because I view the show as a family conflict resolution delivery system, a way to get my nice weekly dosage of people having an earnest fight about something, then resolving it quietly and lovingly. What I'm trying to say is that, yeah, I had some issues with "Missing," but it was all worth it for a bunch of scenes where the characters were honest with each other about their disappointments. This is all another way of saying that the "Max goes missing after hopping a bus to Oakland accidentally" plot was a little dumb and seemed too interested in making Kristina (of all people) feel guilty for going back to work, but I didn't care because when Haddie erupted at her brother, it was awesome.
Let's get this out of the way first: No matter how much the episode tried to conclude with heartfelt scenes where Kristina and Adam told each other how much they meant to each other or where Kristina called up Rachel to let her know they were at least somewhat cool, the whole storyline where Max disappeared and Adam and Haddie couldn't get a hold of Kristina seemed specifically designed to guilt her for being a working mom. I'm fairly certain the Katims Kontingent didn't intend for this to be the case, but that's how it ended up playing, and no amount of late-in-episode scenes designed to combat this appearance could get away from the fact that there were lots of moments where Adam and Haddie needed to get her on the phone and they just couldn't because she was off having a high old time at work, working, and not thinking of the children because she was off WORKING in her WORK CLOTHES.
Again, this probably wasn't the intention, but it was how everything played, and it once again made Kristina unfortunately seem like the villain when she'd been nothing but reasonable all this time. (Indeed, one of the strengths of this season compared to last has been the show turning Kristina into something more than the impatient bitch she often seemed to be last season.) And I'm sure this sort of thing has happened at least once in every parent's life—something's wrong with one of the kids, and the other parent can't be found right that second. Still, it rubbed me the wrong way, and it probably made the stuff where Max got on the wrong bus feel more contrived than it actually should have been. I bought everybody being too busy to take Max to the museum and even him jumping on the bus unaccompanied (to a degree), but not figuring out that he was in the wrong place and figuring out a way to call home? That seemed off to me.
Anyway, the other storylines were better. (I'm pretending Joel and Julia don't exist for now, but we'll get to that.) Sarah and Mark took care of Nora for a day, and Mark, in particular, seemed to quite enjoy the experience, even if it wore him out. There wasn't a lot to this storyline, really, but it was worth it all for the look on Lauren Graham's face when Mark tells Sarah that maybe he'd kinda be interested in having a kid with her possibly someday. We're expecting this to be the thing to drive the two apart—since they've skirted so many other relationship killers already—perhaps because Sarah will slowly come to realize that Mark and she are just at different points of their lives. But it doesn't scare her! And the wonderful thing about it is the way Graham's face rotates from "He wants to have more kids?!" to "Doesn't that terrify me?!" to "It doesn't terrify me?!" to "Should I be terrified it doesn't terrify me?!" to "It doesn't terrify me!" It's practically perfect silent acting, and it adds to Graham's highlight reel in an already stacked season for her.
Next up on the docket is the Jasmine and Crosby business, which I thought was a nice examination of the remorse someone in a relationship feels after cheating from another perspective. Earlier this year, Crosby was the one feeling like shit after he slept with Gaby, and here, Jasmine was the one who realized how she was capable of hurting somebody else terribly. Granted, Jasmine doesn't need this shit piled on top of her, what with the way she already feels terrible about a bunch of other things. And also granted, in this episode, Dr. Joe (whom I will continue to refer to as Dr. Joe Prestige, even though that was just an NBC press site typo) was just about the nicest guy who's ever existed, even if he kind of smugly had to rub it in our faces. (It's okay, Dr. Joe. Your mother was a vampire slayer!) In particular, I loved the scene where Crosby tried to convince Jasmine that Dr. Joe was better for her than he was and that she shouldn't tell. I loved the brief moment of self-awareness where he apologized for being in her life, for constantly dragging her down into the shit with him. It was great and heartfelt and it was too little, too late. But that's how Crosby operates. He only does the right thing when it's convenient, not when it's right.
Anyway, that brings us back around to Joel and Julia, who found themselves confronted with Zoe's refusal to kick Troy in the nuts until he signed the baby release papers. At first, she was all, "Oh, Troy's not so bad. Why don't we just talk about this?" and Julia was all, "What's to talk about?" and the show lit Erika Christensen like she was in The Godfather or something and filmed her in extreme close-up. It was kind of terrifying! Later, Zoe dropped by and had the gall to talk to Sydney while Julia was being angry, and after Zoe again pitched that maybe Troy was an extortionist, sure, but a really nice extortionist, Julia got to say, "I would have been a great mother to your baby." She added, silently, "And nobody's going to want your baby now!" which isn't true but was probably what she was thinking.
I had hoped that maybe this was all over at this point, that the storyline had ended in a surprisingly dark fashion. It wouldn't have been exactly realistic, but things work out a little too often on this show, and it wasn't like the show was going to have Max get taken into the night by Oakland street toughs and turn into the frank examination of the dissolution of a family after the death of one of its members. Putting Joel and Julia through this might have been an interesting way to examine just how strong their desire to adopt another baby actually was. Instead, we're going to get the slightly neutered version of that, where Troy still won't sign, but Zoe is on Joel and Julia's side, now, and she's an amazing lawyer, so it'll get sorted out. This storyline has been hurt by being completely unrealistic about the whole adoption process, but even forgiving that, it hasn't had a lot of stakes. I was hoping the show had found an interesting way out, but I guess we're going forward with this for the foreseeable. Sigh.
But none of that matters because this show is worth it for those little scenes, for the look on Sarah's face when Mark talks about babies, or for the glee the family gets from seeing Zeek's commercial on the TV, or for the bit where Haddie loses it on her brother, and he still doesn't seem to give a shit. So long as Parenthood keeps nailing those moments, I'm willing to forgive it the weird contrivances and bad storylines that get it to the point where things fall apart and everybody starts yelling. Because those are the moments that almost always work.
Stray observations:
- Braverman of the week: Sarah, who not only found a job for her daughter but also babysat for Kristina and realized that she would be totally cool with having a baby with her younger boyfriend. Good times, Sarah!
- Speaking of Amber, she took something of a backseat this week, but she'll be working as Kristina's assistant going forward. I'm fine with this giving Amber something to do, but it is sort of bizarre that this city council race in Berkeley has apparently unlimited funds.
- All that said, seeing the Bravermans in the museum at the end as the nice hipster folk played reminded me of the reason I like this show and why I'll forgive it its occasional lapses into unfortunate Mat Kearney music-scored "Mark and Sarah play with a baby" scenes that seemed like they were out of a jeans commercial.
- "Your dad wants to give a speech here?"
- "So speaking of Amber trying to get a job, I slept with Jasmine the other day."


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I buy almond and other non-dairy milks often, but I also get into phases where I'm making my own almost exclusively. When I buy, I feel a bit of guilt over the packaging, some concern with the plastic, and there's also water from another land in the mix. When I make my own, I avoid all of these issues, but the leftover nut pulp generally has me scratching my head. I've used it before in an energy ball situation, but only a little handful in the whole batch and honestly? It doesn't add a lot. Since the nut's flavour is essentially "milked" out in the straining process, you really need to level-up with your add-ins, or just decide that you're going to treat it like a plain structural component.
That's where this very smart recipe from The Greenhouse Cookbook comes in. It takes nut pulp in all of its crumbly/not super flavourful glory, and turns it into something so great! You stir it up with plenty of citrus zest, juice, ginger, spice, maple syrup, and coconut oil. After a couple hours in a low oven, you get a crisp and crunchy grain-free granola, and your house kinda smells like Christmas! And even better: you get to enjoy it with fresh nut milk and revel in the brilliance of your no-waste breakfast.
If you peep my Instagram, you know that I'm a huge fan of Greenhouse Juice and what they add to the plant-based scene in Toronto. Their social media manages to make me laugh about green juice and aćai bowls because of its pun-y goodness and amazing 90's culture references. Their blog is a great recipe resource for the fully plant-based and the plant-flirts among us. They have the best product to back everything up (The Good is my spirit juice), and on top of ALL of that, Emma (the author of the book and one of Greenhouse's founders) and co. are some of the most genuinely nice people you'll ever meet.
I've made the Lemon Blueberry Hangry bites from the book as well, and the raw chocolate bars with fig base are next on my hit list. We got to sample them at the book's launch party and they were incredible. There are some beautiful savouries that I'm excited to try too, like the Summer Ratatouille with Creamy Polenta, Socca with Walnut Pesto and Arugula, and the Flax Crackers with Black Olives. If you love plant-based food that's just beautiful and naturally delicious, and you also just love good juice and smoothies, this book is a total slam dunk. Following the instructions is like hanging with a pal that happens to be looking out for your health AND your overall life enjoyment in the most charismatic/non-preachy way possible. Wouldn't it be amazing if every healthy cookbook was like that?
From: The Greenhouse Cookbook: Plant-Based Eating and DIY Juicing by Emma Knight
SERVES: Makes about 3 cups
NOTES: I only made 2 small changes to Emma's recipe here. In the book, this granola is sweetened with 3 tablespoons of maple syrup and 3 tablespoons of date paste. I didn't have enough dates on hand to make a batch of date paste worthwhile, so I just used the same amount of maple syrup. And where she suggests an orange, I only had a lemon. It all worked out! Last note: I think this would work best with nut pulp from almonds, brazil nuts, and hazelnuts. Cashew and seed-based pulp is minimal at best and kinda thin-seeming. You can save nut pulp in a sealed container in your fridge until you need it.
2 1/2 cups leftover nut pulp from making nut milk (almond, brazil nut, hazelnut are all good)
2 tablespoons orange zest
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons finely grated fresh ginger
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
6 tablespoons pure maple syrup (see headnote on using date paste)
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1 cup dried fruit
1/4 cup hemp seeds, whole chia seeds, or whole flax seeds
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the nut pulp, orange zest, orange juice, ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, maple syrup, sunflower seeds, sea salt, and coconut oil. Stir everything together to combine well.
Spread the mixture evenly onto the lined baking sheets and bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until golden, stirring every 15 minutes or so for even browning. Allow the granola to cool, and then stir in coconut flakes, dried fruit, and additional seeds (if using). Store in a sealed container for 1-2 weeks.


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|Lower Chambers Portrait Corridor
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The Lower Chambers Portrait Corridor is a corridor at Hogwarts Castle. Its walls are covered in portraits and tapestries. This corridor is poorly lit at night, as the portraits can't sleep with the lights on. There is also a framed mirror on one of the walls. [1]
In 1993, Harry Potter saw Peter Pettigrew's name on the Marauder's Map. As Harry had heard that Pettigrew was dead, supposedly murdered by Sirius Black, he rushed down from the dormitory in Gryffindor Tower to this corridor in an attempt to locate him. Pettigrew, transformed into his animagus form of the rat, Scabbers, passed right by Harry in this corridor, to the latter's astonishment. Severus Snape then caught Harry wandering the corridor at night, and was about to punish him until Professor Lupin arrived and covered for Harry.[1]
Known portraitsEdit
- Portrait of an old man
- Portrait of a mad old man
- Portrait of a young man
- Portrait of a sleeping hermit
- Portrait of a bearded man holding a book
Behind the scenesEdit
- This corridor is only named on the official Marauder's Map replica made by the Noble Collection. In the Marauder's Map in the actual film, the corridor has no name.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (On the film index map the name is given as -wer C- Portra- -dor)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (First identified as Lower Chambers Portrait Corridor in extra feature on Disc 2)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
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In some people's eyes, the idea of a perfect family is one boy and one girl. Of course, in real life, families don't come made to order and, whether you have all boys, or all girls, it doesn't matter, as long as they're healthy and happy.
Thanks to advances in fertility treatments that allow doctors to create or identify embryos of a certain sex, sex selection is technically possible, although not offered in Australia.
Choosing sex for family balancing
Although a few Sydney clinics did once offer it for reasons of family balancing, this practice was suspended in February 2005, following the release of an opposing clinical practice guideline (based on moral reasons) by the Australian Health Ethics Committee. Although sex selection is no longer available for reasons of family balancing, it is still available for medical reasons, such as preventing the transmission of a gender-linked genetic disease. This form of treatment is usually covered by Medicare.
Shettles Method
This method of choosing the sex of your baby is based on the theory that sperm bearing Y chromosomes (for boys) swim faster but don't live as long as the slower swimming, longer-living sperm bearing X chromosomes (for girls). It is said to be about 75 percent effective and involves timed intercourse on specific days of your cycle.
- Want a boy? Have sex as close as possible to your time of ovulation.
- Want a girl? It is best to have sex around 2-4 days before you ovulate.
Bear in mind, though in the boy/girl lottery of conception, you always have about a 50 percent chance of getting what you hope for anyway.
This article was written by Claire Halliday for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for during your pregnancy. Sources include Sydney IVF.


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The Lego Hobbit Boardgame has appeared for pre-order on toysrus.com. I know it's probably stretching the limits of what constitutes a new 'castle' set, but personally I really like the lego games. Both for parts and for game play. Some great micro-builds.
hobbitgame2 by andhe , on Flickr
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Crab, Salmon Jerky, Smoked Mussels, and More Bites from the Oregon Coast
We found many baskets of fish and chips and a fantastic cup of clam chowder while cruising along the Oregon coast, but that wasn't all. There were smoked mussels, steamed oysters from nearby Netarts Bay, salmon jerky, and many more delicious bites from the sea.
Smoked seafood could be found at markets up and down the coast: smoked oysters, smoked salmon, smoked scallops, smoked mussels, smoked whatever else was caught out in those Pacific waters. Josephson's Smokehouse in Astoria is a smoked fish wonderland, with both cold-smoked and hot-smoked sea creatures that are smoked daily, for sale at the shop or mail-order.
Ever tried salmon collar before? That was another smoked fish highlight, which we found at Bell Buoy in the town of Seaside (great name for a seaside town, right?). Collarbone isn't a cut of fish you see that often. It's the oiliest part of the fish, located right behind the gills. Peel back the fatty skin to find dark, smoky meat that's so intensely oily, my fingers were still glistening even after five napkins.
And let's not forget that crab a guy in hip-high orange wader boots caught for us at Kelly's Marina in Rockaway Beach.
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Sean Parker co-founded four category defining Internet companies by the age of 28 – Napster, Plaxo, Facebook and the Causes application on Facebook – transforming the way people across the world interact and share information. He is currently the Chairman of Causes and a Managing Partner at Founder's Fund, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco.
Together with Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, Sean co-founded Facebook in June 2004. Sean served as the company's first president, securing financing, assembling a world-class management team and spearheading the design of the site's transformational "news feed," "share," and "photos" features.
Sean recently established his fourth company, "Causes on Facebook," where in the role of Chairman, he oversees the company's mission to harness the power of emerging communication platforms to enable large-scale political and social change. Under Sean's leadership, the Causes application has become the fastest growing consumer Internet application in history, reaching 50 million users in just two years.
Prior to founding Facebook and Causes, Sean co-founded Plaxo, where he served as President, pioneering the use of "viral optimization" to deploy the Plaxo client software to over 20 million desktops. Plaxo was acquired by Comcast in 2008.
Sean's entrepreneurial career began at the age of 19, when he helped launch the revolutionary peer-to-peer file-sharing movement as co-founder of Napster.
Sean is also the co-creator of the "Series FF" stock concept, a pro-founder financial tool to facilitate liquidity for founders and better align interests between company founders and investors. In 2009 he launched (along with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch) the TechFellows program to honor excellence in technology entrepreneurship.
Sean has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences and panels across the world including the Aspen Ideas Festival, DLD, CES, Harvard School of Public Health and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He currently lives in San Francisco.
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In 1971, when the Court held in Cohen v. California that a state could not constitutionally make it a crime to use the word fuck in public, it used the word fuck. In 1978, when the Court upheld the FCC's rule banning the use of "indecent" words over the airwaves, it quoted in full George Carlin's monologue, including the words shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those words, according to Carlin, were the "ones that will curve your spine [and] grow hair on your hands." When the Court of Appeals decided this very case (twice), it had no qualms about using the actual words that were at issue in the case. But Justice Kennedy had to use ***s to avoid saying fuck.Hey, why did Professor Stone go straight from gruesome wounds to vaginas? Because he's not being careful and sensitive and anticipating all manner of complaints. He's being Carlinesque and confrontational.
This is not what lawyers and judges do. Lawyers and judges deal with the real world. They deal with murder and greed and rape; they deal with enhanced interrogation and brutality and gruesome wounds; they even deal vaginas (unlike some legislators these days).
... Especially in a First Amendment case, lawyers and judges have to be willing to say the words out loud, even if it makes them uncomfortable. To do otherwise is to deny the realities of the case before them. It is to put their own sensitivities above their obligations to their clients and to the law. It is, in short, unprofessional.Perhaps the Justices thought that to write out the words made them seem to have an unprofessional favoritism toward the folks who want to be free to (fleetingly) utter expletives.
When Melville Nimmer represented Paul Cohen in the Supreme Court in Cohen v. California, he knew he had to say the word fuck in the Supreme Court for the first time in its history. He also knew that Chief Justice Burger did not want this to happen. Sure enough, when Nimmer approached the lectern to make his argument, Burger leaned over the bench and instructed Nimmer, "Counsel, we are familiar with the facts of this case. You can dispense with them and move directly to your legal argument." To which Nimmer replied, "Of course, Your Honor. Suffice it to say that my client was convicted of disturbing the peace for wearing a jacket in public bearing the words 'Fuck the Draft.'" It was at that moment that he won his case, because lo and behold the walls of the Court did not crumble.But you see the enthusiasm there. It's not just about willingness to plainly state ugly facts, as in a murder case. Lawyers and judges who must describe brutal murders in plain English are not doing a murder. But to say "Fuck the Draft" in court is to do what Paul Cohen himself did — say "Fuck the Draft" in court. (It wasn't just "in public." He wore his "Fuck the Draft" jacket in a municipal courthouse.)
That Melville Nimmer anecdote thrills us — some of us — because we identify with the expression in those words: Fuck the Draft. The Supreme Court never helped anybody who tried to litigate against the war in Vietnam, so there was emotional fire and resonance to the utterance right there of the words "Fuck the Draft." Professor Stone portrays it as pure, stolid, emotionless professionalism, but I have my doubts.
That said, when I teach Cohen v. California to a law school class, I say "Fuck the Draft," and I say it sincerely believing that not to say it is prissy and unprofessional. And if you said to me Althouse, admit it, you have some fun there with the opportunity to say "Fuck the Draft" with impunity, I would say: The Supreme Court writes "Fuck the Draft," which makes it the affirmative act to avoid saying "fuck," and the default should be passivity.
Which of course means that if I teach the new case — FCC v. Fox Television Stations — I won't be saying "Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple," which is really what was said on TV by a person whom the Supreme Court amusingly (or professionally) refers to as "a person named Nicole Richie." I'll say "Have you ever tried to get cow s*** out of a Prada purse? It's not so f ***ing simple."
Actually, I don't know how to say that out loud. I don't know how to be passively professional about asterisks. Anthony Kennedy has left me in a quandry.
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Second-hand shopping has always been a good way to stretch a buck, but with the state of the economy, second-hand businesses are thriving.
Second-hand shopping has always been a good way to stretch a buck, but with the state of the economy, second-hand businesses are thriving.
According to Kim Pragle, the manager of the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Hornell, business has been booming.
"We bring in, on average a week, between $12,000 to $15,000," she said.
While clothes — which take up the majority of the store's floor space — are still selling well, Pragle said, as well as other goods, like Christmas decorations and books.
Pragle, who began managing the store in Hornell this summer, said there are many regulars at the store and new faces are appearing more frequently.
The other end of the business — donations from the public — have also been picking up.
"That's doing well," Pragle said, adding there are probably more donations now then there were in the past. "Some people think it's overwelming (bringing in large donations), but I say ,'thank you, it's job security.'"
To keep up business, she added, the Salvation Army is now picking up donations at donors' homes.
"You have a lot of elderly people that still want to donate, but can't get it here," Pragle said.
As business picks up, Pragle said, some of the most-regular customers are still picking their ways through the store's wares as they always have.
Shopper Luann Rodriguez of Hornell comes to the Salvation Army around three or four times a week.
"I'm a believer that people get tired of things and donate them," she said, "and then other people enjoy them."
While she also picks up other goods while in the store, most of the time she is after additions to her colored glass collection.
"I collected teddy bears for 25 years, and I decided it was time for a change," she said.
An area for-profit business specializing in second-hand goods also is performing well.
Stacey Evans, owners of SoHo Clothing Exchange in Hornell, has been keeping busy with her trade in slightly-used womens clothing.
"Business is fantastic," Evans said. "I'm the busiest I've ever been."
Since she started the business two and a half years ago, she said, she has tripled her profit margin.
On Tuesday, Evans was busy expanding the store, preparing a separate section for shoes.
"I was running out of space," she said, adding she is pleased to be dealing with an expansion and her clientele as signs the business is doing well.
Another thing Evans, and her customers, like is the ever-changing stock in a second-hand store.
"I have people who come in everyday because they might miss something," she said.
And while she cites the economy for the boom, Evans said Christmas is not a huge part of the business.
"A lot of people don't shop second-hand for gifts," she said, adding she has been doing well with gift cards and the few new items she stocks.
The new items, mostly shoes and accessories, are purchased through wholesalers to keep costs down.
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A 38-year-old Ohio man who cut off his cat's paw with a knife because he wanted a "souvenir" will spend the next 18 months in jail.
A 38-year-old Ohio man who cut off his cat's paw with a knife because he wanted a "souvenir" will spend the next 18 months in jail after receiving the maximum sentence. Slagle on Thursday pleaded no contest to animal cruelty, assault and aggravated menacing charges stemming from the cat mutilation. Two women – both friends of Slagle – involved in the incidents appeared for the scheduled bench trial that did not occur because of the plea. One woman told Space she let Slagle's cat – named Goofy – live with her because Slagle's landlord charged more if a renter had a pet. The second woman, the victim of the assault and menacing charges, said Slagle pushed her to the ground and threatened to kill her when she went to his apartment to rescue the cat. She said he'd worked at the cat shelter in the past. "He said he was going to keep the paw for a souvenir," the woman said. She had tried to find the paw in his apartment to take it to the veterinarian. "I don't think he knew what he was doing," she said. "One second he was mean and the next second he was going to call and get the cat some help." Slagle told Judge Mary Wade Space he'd consumed 24 beers that day because it was his birthday and he hadn't drank in three days. He said he'd gotten into an argument with the woman who was keeping his cat and decided to leave, taking his cat with him. "The cat started squirming and everything built up," he said. "I don't know what happened." "If you didn't know what you were doing and you cut off a cat's paw, what would stop you from doing something to a human being? A child? A baby?" Space said. "These things frighten me. You could have done anything. If that doesn't terrify you into stopping drinking, I don't know what would." New life for Goofy The story has a happy ending for Goofy. Renamed Jewels, the cat was adopted by the staff at Town & Country Veterinary Clinic in New Philadelphia, where she was originally treated for her injuries, and now is the office pet. The Times-Reporter


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August 15, 2012
Clifton's Mike Nelson and daughters, from left, Lindsey, 9, and Lauren, 13, inspect a 1970 Ford Mach 1 Mustang during the 2011 car show.
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Clifton Car Show on Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2012
Featuring street rods, custom and antique cars, muscle and classic cars, and motorcycles, the 13th Annual Labor Day Car Show is Monday, Sept. 3, 2012 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., in Clifton.
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Citizens, civil society and philanthropic organisations have an essential and unique role to play in shaping the societies they live in. In Brazil, ICOS works to engage favela communities to promote citizenship and community engagement through the Urban Citizenship Labs. In the MENA region, ICOS has designed programmes to enhance the effective contribution of civil society organisations to the Tunisian political dialogue, and to support efforts to ensure that freedom of expression and freedom of the press become key tenets of Tunisian society. Also in the MENA region, ICOS is working to create a regional network to link and support existing organisations in the region on issues relating to the status of women.
ICOS supports policies and actions that help communities to protect children from violence. Working in very different cultural contexts, ICOS develops and implements unique and tailored programmes to respond to this key challenge by gaining an understanding of the deep-rooted causes driving the use of violence and taking into account cultural specificities. ICOS is currently working to develop community responses to violence against children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A positive urban environment can play a vital role in generating or maintaining social cohesion and well-functioning communities. ICOS uses its unique Policy Lab approach to ensure that social inclusion and social cohesion are key elements of urban planning and development. ICOS's participatory Urban Labs use Cultural Analysis to define culturally relevant urban development plans for developing cities, drawing on the 'tacit knowledge' of local people. ICOS is currently running an Urban Development Lab in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost Emirate of the UAE.
Preparing young people for the workplace and providing them with employment opportunities is a rising global challenge. ICOS uses its Cultural Analysis methodology to examine perceptions of young people with regards to their education and employment, to help governments, policy-makers, business leaders, education professionals and civil society to better respond to the needs of youth. ICOS also works directly with governments to help them shape their policies to respond to their education and employment challenges. ICOS is currently undertaking a follow-up study to one undertaken in 2010 in partnership with the Emirates Foundation (UAE) on the perceptions of young unemployed Emiratis with regards to their unemployment.
ICOS works in conflict and post-conflict zones using Cultural Analysis research to examine the perceptions of local people with regards to their own situation or their attitudes towards the political/security landscape in their country. The unique insight provided by this work is used to gain a true understanding of the reality on the ground and to develop realistic and sustainable policy recommendations.
ICOS has been conducting Cultural Analysis research in Afghanistan since 2005, resulting in the publication of over 35 reports on the situation in the country. Much of the research has focused on military-aged males to determine their susceptibility to supporting or joining insurgent groups and provide a longitudinal assessment to evaluate the effects of international military operations. ICOS has also conducted field research on local perceptions of the war in Iraq, and research to assess the impact of the war on terror in fuelling support for insurgent groups in Somalia.
A country or region's cultural heritage represents the deep-rooted identity of the people living there. Working with expert archaeologists, ICOS works to support communities in safeguarding and preserving their cultural heritage, particularly in challenging environments such as conflict, post conflict or low income countries where archaeological legacies can easily be overlooked.
ICOS Labs are an organic participative process that operates on three concurrent levels to:
- encourage a deeper understanding between all relevant actors of a selected field or issue;
- provide a platform for deliberation on the effectiveness of existing approaches to the chosen field of interest; and
- facilitate enhanced cooperation and deliverable results.
Consisting of phases of scientific research, data processing and dynamic group meetings, ICOS Labs catalyse knowledge and understanding, enabling a tailored and realistic action plans to be developed by ICOS Lab participants.
ICOS Cultural Analysis offers both a quantitative and a qualitative assessment of a given situation. The findings of tailored field research are examined through the lens of the local context to assess their significance in this environment. The resulting analysis enables a set of recommendations to be developed, proposing ways that the issues identified through the field research could be addressed at the local level and within the given parameters of that society.
ICOS combines state of the art GIS mapping techniques with social and political research and Cultural Analysis to gain insight into urban needs and challenges, and to provide new ways of understanding urban environments.
- ICOS Smart Data combines geographical information with unique data on citizen activities, perceptions and aspirations obtained from Cultural Analysis, providing valuable information about community life and needs (public services, infrastructure, etc.). This information can be used by urban planners and city managers to improve the efficiency of cities and quality of life for their residents.
- ICOS Maps provide detailed, up-to-date, accurate maps, logging Points of Interest to 1m accuracy using local trained GIS teams, offering valuable insight into previously uncharted conflict or post conflict zones.


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Photo Gallery | Smiles with Tutors
Sacramento -- Game On! Parents with children in SCUSD schools met Wednesday evening at the Serna Center with vendors from dozens of tutoring companies competing for business in the "No Child Left Behind" program.
Parents must decide no later than Nov. 6 on three tutoring companies they choose in the event their children qualify for free tutoring to help boost test scores. Enrollment Forms for this federally-funded tutoring program must be completed and returned to the child's school by Nov. 6. Parents must complete an Enrollment Form for each child who attends an eligible school.
Venders range from internet tutoring to one-on-one personalized tutoring to small group tutoring. Parents must research which three companies offer the type of tutoring they desire for their children. Most tutoring vendors have Internet web sites where parents can research information.
Choose Wisely.