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Apr 18, 2015
Saracens edged out in St-Etienne
Saracens dreams of a second European Cup final were dashed in St Etienne on Saturday night.
Wesley Fofana's try early in the second half proved to be the difference between the two sides in what was a brave and battling performance from the Londoners against an ASM Clermont Auvergne side cheered on by a crowd of 41,500.
Two Charlie Hodgson penalties had given Saracens a 6-3 lead at the interval, but the score from the French international centre with the second half just three minutes old was the old score of the game.
There was only two minutes on the clock when Clermont has their first attempt to put points on the board after working an opening for Brock James, but the fly-half's drop goal went wide.
But as the game wore on, Saracens had more of the ball and Charlie Hodgson gave his team the lead with a drop goal after a spell of pressure in the Clermont 22.
However, with the game 20minutes old Clermont thought they had scored through Nalaga but terrific defensive work from Chris Ashton prevented the try in the corner.
With 26 minutes on the clock, Clermont did draw level when James struck a penalty from the 22.
After missing a similar kick at goal five minutes earlier, Hodgson didn't miss with his attempt on 36 minutes to give Saracens a 6-3 lead at the interval.
Clermont came out firing in the second half and with just three minutes on the clock, they had crossed the line. Pressure in the Saracens 22 stretched the defensive line and James' chip over the defence was collected by Wesley Fofana to score. James added the conversion.
After a 10 weeks absence through injury, Owen Farrell came off the bench on 50minutes and he chipped at the lead on 65 minutes with a penalty giving Clermont a 10-9 lead going into the final quarter of an hour.
But with eight minutes left on the clock, James struck another three points to restore the four point lead.
Saracens did enjoy much of the possession in the second half and had chances to break clear but it turned out to be a frustrating afternoon for the Men In Black with things just not clicking.
All thoughts now turn to the Aviva Premiership and Saturday's all-important clash against Northampton Saints at Stadium MK.


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My major knitting project these days has been this:
The bright little Noro Matsuri blanket that I started back at the beginning of February is about 15 more rounds short of being finished. I'm actually going to be a little sad to be done with it--the yarn is so very yummy to knit with! In fact, I made it a little bigger than the pattern says just so I could order two more skeins. (OK, actually, I had to order two more skeins because I misread the pattern, but it wasn't as vexing as it would ordinarily be!)
In addition--as sort of as a break from the blanket--the other evening I popped out this tiny hat.
The pattern is called Pajunkissa, which means Pussy Willow in Swedish, I think. (I looked it up when I started the project, but I'm being lazy right now!) I couldn't find a head small enough to model it on, but when it's all stretched out it does look like little Pussy Willows twining up the hat. (Ravelry info here.)
You can kinda see it, right?

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Most leaders' visions fail, not due to a leader's inadequacies, but due to the leader's lack of communication," said Margaret Reynolds of Reynolds Consulting, LLC in Lee's Summit, MO. Reynolds shared her expertise with me recently during an interview.
She added that it's not that leaders don't communicate, but that they don't beat the drum regularly enough. "Leaders need to communicate often, regularly and consistently," she recommended.
"In terms of how to communicate so people get it, it is pretty widely accepted that story telling is the most effective," explained Reynolds. Leaders need to paint a vision where people see it often. She recommends that leaders share their vision at least seven to 10 times with their employees, and to make it clear to everyone what specifically each person can do each day to help achieve the collective mission.
Reynolds' other advice to leaders is to be one whom:
•listens with respect
•communicates effectively
•removes obstacles
•shoulders the blame
•shares the glory


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America through Euroweenie Eyes
This is the story of the rise to power, and future prospects, of the American New Right, i.e. the Christian/capitalist Right (as opposed to the anti-Christian/anti-capitalist European New Right); more narrowly, as manifested in the trajectory of the Bush dynasty; and more broadly, as it manifests America's peculiar civilization and national characteristics. I began reading it regretful that "America has failed to produce a xenophobic 'far Right' on anything like the same scale as Europe has" (p. 12). By the end, I was regretting that America has no secular and egalitarian Left. What the authors reveal about the "liberal" ~ "progressive" Left is largely inadvertent, because they share too many of its prejudices; but they have just enough detachment to make their book worth reading.
The New Right was primarily the brainchild of Bill Buckley, whose National Review, founded 1955, formed a nucleus of anti-Communist, traditionalist (primarily Catholic), and libertarian intellectuals into a self-styled "conservative" movement. In the authors' account, the mass base for it was prepared by the the shift of America's center of gravity from the liberal Northeast towards the more dynamic West and the restive white South. These three forces coalesced in the candidacy of Barry Goldwater, the very model of a modern conservative, a Westerner, and an opponent of the Civil Rights Act (on limited-government, not white-supremacy, grounds; but the conflation of the two was old hat in the "states'-rights" crowd). What they overlook is the generational dimension, which transcended both ideological and regional differences.
The three-pronged assault on mid-century America was first launched in 1964. On the Right,
Goldwater's troops...quietly took over the party's moribund machinery in the South and created machinery where none had previously existed in the West, flooding the Republican convention in San Francisco with Goldwater delegates. "What in God's name has happened to the Republican Party?" Henry Cabot Lodge [of Massachusetts] exclaimed, leafing through the list of delegates: "I hardly know any of these people." [p. 55]
Goldwater's radical "conservatism" was decisively rejected -- except in his native Arizona, and five states of the Deep South, which had been solidly Democratic for as long as the Democratic Party had existed; harbingers of things to come.
What was so wrong with America? The economy was booming. The government was solving social problems. Communism was being held at bay abroad. This faith was shaken in the next few years as the country began to spin out of control. The other handmaiden of modern conservatism was the man who thrashed Barry Goldwater at the polls -- Lyndon Johnson. [p. 62]
In the Center, the triumphant mid-century liberals just couldn't leave well enough alone. The Civil Rights Act, whatever its own merits, presaged the "Great Society" that, whatever its intentions, ended up
dividing the country and shattering the Roosevelt coalition. When Johnson left the White House in January 1969, he handed over the key to the Republicans. Western conservatives -- some admittedly more conservative and Western than others -- held the White House for twenty of the next twenty-four years. [pp. 63-64]
After the well-meaning but counter-productive efforts to impose racial equality from above, the most immediately divisive issue was our escalating yet indecisive involvement in Vietnam.
For many activists, the Vietnam War was the greatest evil of the day -- and the counterculture was a natural accompaniment to a life of protest. For many rank-and-file Democrats, however, the anti-war movement was an abomination....The antiwar protesters, most of whom would be given student deferments rather than being sent to fight, were even more unpopular than the war itself. Far too many of them seemed [sic] not just hostile to this or that American policy, but to America in general. [p. 66]
In 1968, the Democrats fractured, with die-hard segregationist George Wallace reaching out to working-class whites in the North. When Nixon took over, his historical role was to provide damage control. His Administration was not conservative, in the new, ideological sense.
Hard-liners moaned that Henry Kissinger practiced a brand of realpolitik that drained foreign policy of any moral content. What most of the world interpreted as smooth operating -- disengaging America from Vietnam and striking a deal with China -- they saw as appeasement. [p. 70]
On the Left, the Democrats proceeded to launched their own equivalent to the Goldwater candidacy, which proved a Godsend to the Nixon Administration.
The 1972 Democratic convention that nominated George McGovern was a world apart from the one that sent Johnson into battle against Goldwater in 1964. Reformism had mutated into radicalism, with something of [sic] an anti-American bent. Four-fifths of the delegates in 1972 had never attended a Democratic convention before. The place was full of postadolescents [emphasis added]....All the while, the country was falling apart. [p. 67]
The Great Society's most significant and damaging long-term consequence, however, was mass immigration, which the authors implicitly consider an act of God, not of policy. This did not become an issue until 20 years or so after Nixon wiped up the floor with McGovern, only to spend his cut-short second term trying to provide damage control for the misdeeds of his own underlings.
The New Right continued to gather strength from the general revulsion against the Great Society and the New Left, which finally made it credible and viable, being the only halfway-coherent alternative. The authors pay due attention to the "neoconservatives" (i.e., old-school liberals), "social conservatives" and Evangelical Protestants, Southern whites and the California tax revolt, as well as an inordinate and invidious account of the conservative paymasters (in contrast, they only make passing allusions to how the Democrats get their money).
This was the movement, led by Ronald Reagan, that swept into government and turned the country around.
Reagan's record was not quite as perfect as conservative nostalgia suggests....Some conservatives grumbled, but who on the Right could really doubt that Reagan's big successes -- winning the Cold War, revitalizing the country's economy and restoring America's sense of pride [Reagan did little, if anything, for morality, but did wonders for morale] -- outweighed such failures? [pp. 92-93]
The election of Bush I was essentially nothing more nor less than a referendum on the Reagan legacy, and Dukakis was as hapless as Mondale or any of the Republican sacrificial lambs that had gone up against FDR. For two years he coasted on the strength of that legacy, and then he blew it.
Here is how the authors summarize the Bush I Administration:
A decent pragmatist shepherded the Atlantic Alliance through the traumatic [sic!] end of the Cold War [well, for the Commies it was traumatic, I guess], punished Saddam Hussein by mobilizing the United Nations [then left him alone to crush rebellions we'd encouraged, and thumb his nose at us for the next 12 years], moderated the excesses [?] of the Reagan era and laid the groundwork for the long Clinton boom by making unpopular decisions [i.e., breaking his election-year promise of "No New Taxes"]. That view is the one that most Americans and Europeans now share, and Bush's approval ratings have risen steadily since he left office. But it is decidedly not the view of the conservative movement.
With the son's installation in the White House in 2001, it was easy to forget how much the father was loathed by the Right. [p. 96]
Pat Buchanan's challenge in the '92 primaries, however, did not merely chastise Bush for his betrayal of doctrinaire conservatism, but raised new issues. He became the first Republican in generations to return to the party's protectionist roots. "With the Cold War over, he argued, America needed to keep out of imperial entanglements" (p. 102). He also sounded the alarm over mass immigration, which earns him the authors' snide dismissal.
The 1992 election was one of a kind: the choice between a weak incumbent, an ostensibly moderate Democrat, and a non-ideological spoiler only goes to show how thoroughly the Reagan Revolution had changed the world, and the most noteworthy accomplishment of Clinton's first administration was the Republican takeover of Congress, which reined in the short-lived Democratic resurgence.
(Incidentally, the '92 election was the first time I ever paid any serious attention, and even actually voted. Jimmy Carter being the first President I remember, my own preference was not for the Republican, but against the party of Jimmy Carter -- and so it would be until 2004. Buchanan's message certainly resonated with me, but I could not take the pundit seriously as a candidate. In retrospect, I prefer Perot, if only because he ran against the deficit and NAFTA; but he was just too freakish. Richard Brookhiser had him pegged as "an angry old toddler.")
The immigration issue did not die: it was taken up by another champion, this time from the moderate wing of the GOP. Pete Wilson, Governor of California, was unreliable on issues dear to the heart of the Yahweh/Mammon Axis; but coming up from behind in a tough race for reelection,
he fought an unyielding rearguard action that focused on two issues -- capital punishment and immigration. In particular, Wilson, who had long grumbled about the amount of money the state had to spend on on illegal immigrants, supported Proposition 187, which sought to suspend welfare payments to illegal aliens. The result was short-term success: white voters passed Proposition 187 (though it fell foul of the [liberal] courts) and reelected Wilson comfortably in 1994. One in four Latinos [sic] actually supported the proposition. [Of course, that means three out of four Mexicans were in favor of giving public handouts to people who shouldn't even be in the country in the first place.] But the long-term cost to the Republicans of being identified with Proposition 187 in a state as multicultural as California proved immense. Two years later, Bob Dole managed to win only 6 percent of the Latino [sic] vote, compared with Ronald Reagan's 45 percent in 1984. [p. 124]
Let us pause in amazement at the tortured logic of this argument. First of all, Wilson won, despite opposition from the vast majority of Mexicans; and in doing so, proved two things: (1) immigration control is a winning issue, and (2) "Latinos" are Mexicans first and Americans last -- if Americans they are at all, in any meaningful sense. Ronald Reagan's vaunted 45% was a landslide loss in the same year that he won a landslide victory among the population at large.
If Hispanic voters are such a dubious constituency for the GOP, the only intelligent strategy is to stop even more of them from getting into our country and our voting booths. But of course, the authors have the interests of neither the GOP nor the USA at heart. Unfortunately the Republican establishment has been stupid enough to follow the lead of Bush II, who (the authors approvingly note) was busy "wooing Latinos, not vilifying them." The result? "George Bush won 43 percent of the Latino vote in 2000" (p. 240). In other words, for all his sucking up to foreigners, 57% of them still voted against him.
The most telling detail the authors inadvertently offer, without comment, is this quote:
"We were being called lazy and loafers," says Gregory Martinez, a Los Angeles-based writer. "There is no more antiwelfare voter than a Mexican immigrant."
Which they demonstrated -- how? By identifying themselves with, and voting in favor of, foreign parasites.
And, as even the authors admit:
This is not to say that Latinos are like to move en masse into the Republican fold. The flow of poor South American immigrants into low-paying jobs will always provide a flow of recruits into the Democratic Party. Nevertheless, the likelihood is that the Latino vote will split increasingly along class lines, as the more established Latinos follow the pattern of Italian-Americans [whose influx was restricted, by Republicans, in 1925]. There is no reason why the Republicans cannot make inroads into the Latinos provided they don't shoot themselves in the foot by supporting restrictive policies on immigration [even though continued immigration "will always provide a flow of recruits into the Democratic Party"]. Bush, who won one in three [woo-hoo!] Latino votes in 2000 (compared with Bob Dole's one in five in 1996), is certainly aware of this. [p. 241]
Why are Republicans stupid enough to swallow this bullshit? In a word: "values," which is to say, culture, which is to say, ethnicity.
Something even more important than ideology holds the Right together: culture....The Right Nation relies on rallying like-minded people around culturally charged questions of one sort or another. These questions sometimes seem opaque and sometimes downright silly but they all boil down to one bigger question: "Are you one of us, or one of them?" [p. 196]
For all his pandering to Mexicans, Bush II came across to the Republicans' conservative white core as "one of us," as opposed to "one of them," i.e. liberal whites. The authors credit this mostly to his personal mannerisms -- precisely the sort of thing that grates on the Left Nation's nerves, for equal and opposite reasons -- and particularly his old-fashioned religiosity.
For one reason or another, the central battleground of the Culture War is abortion. This is fitting, since the issue is purely symbolic. It suffices for those on either side to grandstand for their respective core constituencies and vilify each other, puffed up with moralistic outrage that is simply fraudulent: like it or not, abortion is here to stay, so for all practical purposes it's a non-issue. The main consequence is that it divides Americans in the face of the Mexican invasion. Wilson "supported abortion choice"; the Bushes were "antiabortion." To champion the civil rights of fetuses, the Republicans tacitly chose to give their country away.
So much for the division within white America. What about black America? Again, the issue is purely symbolic, i.e. fraudulent -- in this case, because black Americans are so monolithically Democratic. The Democrats can take their support for granted, but (though one is tempted to paraphrase James Baker's perhaps apocryphal, but certainly incisive comment about the Jews: "Fuck them. They don't vote for us anyway") Republicans can't simply write them off:
The politics of race are particularly complicated ... probably less to do with winning black votes than holding on to moderate white votes....Respectable people fear the charge of racism just as keenly as they used to fear the charge of loose morals. This is a problem for a party with deep roots in the South. [pp. 262-263]
"Probably"? You think?
Despite George W. Bush's many concessions to multiculturalism ... the Republicans plainly have a problem with blacks. In 1960 a [whopping] third of the black electorate [woo-hoo!] voted for Richard Nixon. In 2000, scarcely one in ten of a much richer black population voted for Bush. [p. 271]
This gap is accentuated by the fact that basic Republican policies often carry, from a black point of view, at least [emphasis added], a racist edge....Meanwhile, the more the Republicans woo black voters the more fiercely the Democrats defend their patch, often accusing their rivals of racism. [p. 277]
As long as black America is stuck in a mental time-warp where white supremacy is still a live issue, this can never change. On the other hand, as the authors also note, "there are plenty of independent voters (of all colors) who moved to the suburbs to escape things rightly or wrongly associated with black America ... the reservoirs of goodwill toward black America are hardly limitless" (p. 262). It will be interesting to see what happens now that the balance of power has been tipped from black Americans to Hispanics (primarily Mexicans) as America's biggest minority.
This long diversion from the main narrative reflects the stalemate of the Culture War, which was abruptly transformed by 9/11 and its consequences. For those capable of seeing what was right in front of them, the terrorist attack on American soil showed that open borders are literally life-threatening. For the country at large, at least short-term, it called forth the will to strike back at our enemies abroad. The authors' analysis of this response is perhaps the most worthwhile part of the book.
In the decade after the fall of Communism (and hence the obsolescence of anti-Communism), the conservative movement had wavered between two alternatives: Pat Buchanan's "America First" and Bush I's "New World Order." The election of '92 put the Republicans in the opposition, relieving them of responsibility for America's role in the world. The Clinton Administration pursued a typical Democratic policy of intervening anywhere in the world that our national interest was clearly not at stake.
The authors' Introduction does not entirely neglect the third leg of the New Right stool: patriotism, particularly expressed in a unilateral approach to national security and in "militaristic nationalism." "But how can you trumpet a strong military and a vigorous foreign policy and then insist on small government?" they ask (p. 15), in their irritating, archly ingenuous manner. Gee, I wonder: how can you support a bloated welfare state and then emasculate the military?
Be that as it may, Bush II came into office with three factions jostling for influence on foreign policy:
"democratic imperialists" like the neocons; "doveish [sic] pragmatists" like Powell; and "assertive nationalists" like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, who agreed with the neocons about America's need to look after its own interests more aggressively but who had no patience with nation-building, spreading democracy and the like ... after September 11, the neocon message, for better or worse, struck a mighty chord with the rest of the Right Nation. A neoconservative foreign policy soon became a conservative one. [pp. 202-203]
It must be said at once that the "neoconservatives" referred to here are not exactly the same as those referred to previously.
The current generation of neocons is the intellectual (and in many cases the biological) progeny of the disillusioned Democrats who founded neoconservatism in the 1960s. But there are also big differences. Few of the younger neocons had any roots in the Democratic Party in the way that the first generation did....Rather than seeing themselves as half conservatives, like the first neocons, those of the current generation see themselves as hyperconservatives, insisting that their party should be driven by principle, not expediency. [p. 205]
However, the authors don't even begin to explain how "neoconservative" somehow came to be used interchangeably with "Straussian." For my part, I like the label "democratic imperialists," because it's unambiguous and precisely descriptive, getting right at the core of what those people are about, and what's wrong with them. As the authors elaborate:
America's neoconservative foreign policy was not so much so much a question of conversion, let alone hijacking. Rather, the views of one hitherto eccentric part of the coalition suddenly coincided with the movement as a whole....
As far as the Right Nation was concerned, only two things mattered. The first was that America was in danger....The second was that America was now engaged in another battle between good and evil....
Rather than reacting with alarm to Bush's new "neocon" policies of unilateralism and preemption, the footsoldiers were relieved that they had finally found a set of ideas they agreed with....But the second "transformative" part of the neocons' solution -- not just exercising American power but spreading its values -- was always going to be a tougher sell ... fairly soon after Saddam was toppled, the gap between "democratic imperialism" and "assertive nationalism" began to emerge again....
For the assertive nationalists, every American body bag and every dollar spent showed the danger of foreign entanglements. [pp. 209-219]
For this "assertive nationalist," the turning point was in January 2004, when Bush II set the "War on Terror" on a back-burner in favor of officially opening our borders to practically anyone who wants to get into the country: a big "fuck you" to all of us concerned about national security (let alone cohesion), and the very opposite of the kind of galvanizing response to crisis that brings on an epochal realignment.
The link between immigration-restriction and national security would perhaps be more obvious if here, as in Europe, most immigrants were Muslim. The authors barely touch on this aspect of the rise of the nativist "Far Right" there (pp. 349-350). They also observe, with no hint of irony, that "Europeans do not feel in al-Qaeda's sights to the same extent that Americans do; and many think they would be safer if their leaders did not confront radical Islam in the same way that America has done" (p. 391). But, like the appeasement of fascism in the 1930s, present appeasement of Islam only postpones the inevitable clash, so that it will have to be faced in more desperate circumstances.
As for us, we find ourselves still stuck what the authors aptly call "The Fifty-Fifty Nation," in the throes of the Culture War between the two great tribes of white America (while black America sulks in the Democratic corner and Hispanics grow ever more numerous and obtrusive). The authors conclude with the illustrative contrast between
the two people who, in other countries, would be the nation's prime minister and its leader of the opposition: Dennis Hastert, the Republican Speaker, and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader.
The two typify the political clash we have followed throughout this book....Revealing even more of the country's political differences are the districts these individuals represent....Hastert's [in suburban Illinois] is as resolutely middle class as it is cheerfully middle American....San Francisco, by contrast, looks more like an aristocratic society. The city is home to some of the wealthiest people in the country....Yet the city also hosts one of the biggest concentrations of homeless people [i.e., bums], with between 8,000 and 16,000 people, many of them drug-addicted or mentally ill, living in the streets. [pp. 374-377]
Surely, the ingenuously scandalized observer would think, it is only rational to ameliorate such a condition.
Yet the left-leaning city has defiantly resisted aping the heartless conservative tactics of Rudy Giuliani in New York City. Far from being shown zero tolerance, homeless people [i.e., bums] in San Francisco get a monthly stipend from the government and free food from religious organizations. A recent ballot initiative [i.e., democracy in action] suggesting that the homeless be given care rather than cash was struck down [by the same unelected, liberal judiciary that blocked Proposition 187] on a legal technicality. [p. 379]
Let us pause to note that Giuliani, aside from being a stalwart champion of public order, is somehow still a liberal -- and in particular, pro-abortion; which for him, as for Pete Wilson, foreclosed any Presidential aspirations.
Traditionally, America has addressed the problem of inequality through material abundance and opportunity, rather than social leveling.
Unsurprisingly, by most measures, America is the most unequal of the world's developed countries. One study by the Economic Policy Institute found that the gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent in terms of income was bigger in America than in any other country....Interestingly, the reason America was so unequal by this measure was not because its poorest 10 percent were particularly badly off...; it was because America's richest tenth had far higher median incomes....Social mobility is higher in America than in other countries, with 50 percent to 80 percent of the people in America's bottom quintile pushing themselves out of that bracket within ten years. [pp. 307-308]
As we have seen most vividly in San Francisco, liberals' idea of helping the poor is to cultivate a permanent underclass.
Here is how the authors sum up the Left Nation on the eve of the 2004 election:
Many modern Democrats do not simply disagree with George W. Bush: they loathe everything about him from (as they see it) his Neanderthal views to his self-satisfied smirk.....So there is no doubt that there are plenty of liberals in America. There is equally no doubt that those liberals are desperate to get the Republicans out of power. But liberalism as a governing philosophy is dead. [p. 356]
Nowadays, American liberalism has fragmented into two remnants: a collection of single-issue pressure groups (the teachers' unions, abortion rights activists, etc.) and an inchoate leftist protest movement, furious about the Right Nation's advances. It is no longer a self-confident governing philosophy capable of rising above the self-interest of those pressure groups or the self-indulgence of the angry Left. [p. 383]
Early on, the authors prepared to argue "that the stage is set for a possible realignment of American politics, to make the Republicans the natural party of government in the same way that the Democrats once were....Another Bush victory victory would cement their lock on power" (pp. 22-23). Towards the end, they ask pointedly: "What if the Democrats win the presidency in 2004?" (p. 357) and answer themselves: it wouldn't really matter. As it turned out, of course, another Bush victory didn't make much difference either.
It seems safe to say that the GOP's midterm gains in 2002 and the narrow but decisive re-election of Bush II were largely a reaction to 9/11, and thus only a momentary blip in the overall pattern of the Fifty-Fifty Nation. Subsequently, of course, John McCain (AKA Bush III) and the GOP Congress collapsed ignominiously in '08 -- which only let in another ostensible moderate who, just as promptly if not as thoroughly as Clinton, handed Congress back to the Republicans.
It took the conservative movement only 16 years to recover from Goldwater's defeat, and thereafter consolidate its gains. After more than 46 years, liberalism has yet to recover from Johnson's victory.
© 2011 by Karl Jahn


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Update Legacy's CAAT Program
Wednesday, 18 May 2016 by Lindsay Herling
We thought it would be fun to catch up with Shirley Gross, Development Director for Legacy Salmon Creek to get an update about the CAAT program. The Salmon Creek Business Group members have supported CAAT at past events, so wanted to share an updated with everyone. Legacy Health just finished a "mini" campaign to expand
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Mural unveiled for young Legacy patients
Monday, 13 August 2012 by Lindsay Herling
The 2012 Annual Golf Tournament funds helped Legacy Salmon Creek hire an artist to create a therapy mural for young patients going through therapy. Created along a staircase in the hospital, the images will help therapists by asking a kiddo to find the crab or another image, which is more fun than just going up
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April 28, 2015
BCF President Thomas A. Kinchen will present the Commencement Address at the May 2015 Graduation Ceremony.
The Baptist College of Florida (BCF) in Graceville will hold spring graduation on Friday, May 15, at 10:00 a.m. in the BCF Wellness Center. Fifty-four students who have completed all of the requirements necessary to obtain their degree will be on hand to greet family and friends who share in this tremendous milestone. The traditional commencement exercise marks the culmination of long hours of study, hard work, and sacrifice by graduating seniors during their time at BCF.
The excitement of this graduation is further enhanced by several students having family members who are graduating at the same time or family members that are already alumni of The Baptist College of Florida. For example, sisters, Chelsea and Kristen Spiers, will be receiving their degrees and graduating together; Christian Cochran's wife, Jared Schneider's wife, Courtney Livingston's husband, and Olan Strickland's daughter and daughter-in-law are all BCF alumni; Travis and Carlee Howard, husband and wife, will be graduating together; Kayla Ellis' father graduated from BCF; Michelle Johnson's sister and Spencer Higgins' brother and sister-in-law graduated from BCF; and Marli Goodman's father-in-law, two sister-in-laws, and her husband's grandfathers graduated from BCF. Goodman's husband, Lewis, is scheduled to graduate next year. Supportive families at BCF have always played an important part in the lives of students continuing their education and preparing for areas of ministry and service.
This semester, graduates will be receiving degrees in the areas of Business, Leadership, Christian Studies, Ministry, Education, Biblical Studies, English, History and Social Studies, Christian Counseling, Missions and Music. According to Thomas A. Kinchen, who is celebrating his 25th Anniversary as President of The Baptist College of Florida, BCF continues to produce graduates who are prepared to "Change the World Through the Unchanging Word.®"
To learn more about The Baptist College of Florida, call 850.263.3261 ext. 460 or visit the website at www.baptistcollege.edu.


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Recently I decided to reread the Harry Potter series. Although I have reread the first two books before this will be the first time I've reread the entire series. I'm excited about it. I've already pulled my beat up old paperback off the bookshelf and began. If you look over to the right at my Goodreads widget you can see I'm on The Sorcerer's Stone but I'll probably finish it today.
My reading has been dragging lately. Before I started this reread, I felt a burnout period was coming on. Despite that I've been reading good books, it's taking me longer to finish them and I've found myself dreading picking them back up. I usually average two or three books a week but lately I've been lucky if I finish one. I'm guessing this burnout period is coming because for the past several weeks I've pushed past my reading average, reading book after book and staying up all night to finish each one. This was bound to happen. You can only do that for so long before you crash. With the impending burnout coming on making me sluggish, I'm surprised at how much these books have managed drawn me back in. I expected the magic to be gone or at least diminished. This is my third time reading this particular book and I've seen the movie probably a couple dozen times so I wasn't exactly holding my breath hoping for a wonderful reading experience. I wasn't expecting that until the later books. Although, I guess I was hoping that a little or I wouldn't have started rereading them. I've found myself laughing and crying and remembering things I had forgotten. And it's been wonderful. Reading Harry Potter is like reliving all the good parts of your childhood.
I've gotten some surprising reactions from people who've seen me carrying around my old paperback though. One of my younger cousins saw me with it. A boy barely a year older than Harry is in this book. He recognized the book immediately, of course. We discussed the books a little and he told me he'd stopped reading after the fourth book because all the movies were out. While it's not exactly surprising that a kid would choose to just watch the movies instead of reading the books it is a little disappointing. I kind of wanted to shake him. This is Harry Potter! How did he not get swept up in the magic? I guess that's just something that happens when you're born during the Harry Potter years instead of growing up experiencing it like my generation did. I did get a negative reaction when a woman saw me reading and conversationally started to chat with me, stating how old my book looked. (We'll just put aside the fact that talking to someone who's reading is rude.) However, once I told her that it was Harry Potter she sneered at me and asked why I was reading that. That was really shocking. Who sneers at Harry Potter? I simply told her that I was rereading it because I want to and went back to my book. No need to explain myself to rude old ladies.
The Harry Potter series are arguably the most influential books of my generation. I grew up with him, Ron, and Hermione. I spent nearly half my life waiting for the next book or movie to come out. They brought millions of readers into a magical world where we could all be witches and wizards. We all waited on our Hogwarts letters. We were all seriously disappointed when they didn't come but we had Harry Potter to carry us through that disappointment, so it was kind of okay. So, it strikes me as weird when someone says they never finished the books or they sneer when they find out I'm reading them. I can't imagine not reading or not wanting to read a books that affected so many people. Plus, I like to think of Harry Potter as never really being over. I spend a lot of time on the internet and it never really seems to be done with him. Headcanons, gifs, and other people rereading are everywhere. J.K. Rowling released that short and everyone raced to read it. I think one of the fanfiction sites crashed because of it. It's weird to find that it's not that way in real life, since everyone on the internet does live in the real world.
I think it will be interesting to see people's reactions and my own as I continue my reread. Maybe next time someone sneers I'll ask them why. It might make for an interesting conversation. Or maybe I'll just continue my reread and ignore the negativity.
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Day 06 : Chame to Pisang (3,300m/10824ft): 5 - 6 hours
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Day 09 : Manang to Yak Kharka (4,110m/13,484ft): 3 - 4 hours
Day 10 : Yak kharka to Thorang Phedi: (4420m/14501ft): 3-4 hours
Day 11 : Trek to Thorong La (5416m/17764ft) to Muktinath (3,800/12,467ft)
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Day 14 : Drive from Pokhara to Kathmandu: 5-6 hours
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Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
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Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.
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Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Frasier Crane and that lady who was always yelling at Ray Romano are paired off in the latest incarnation of the classic three-camera, laugh-tracked comedy. In a stretch for both actors, Kelsey Grammer plays a pompous windbag and Patricia Heaton his shrewish, exasperated partner. The two are co-anchors on a local news station, along with all the usual TV news stereotypes, including a slutty weatherwoman and a politically incorrect sportscaster. Be sure to watch it… or, you know, rent all the shows this is ripping off on DVD.


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Listen up you proud Red State fools! - Stand Tall and be proud knowing that your Texan Nero just performed another wealth redistribution on you. While you were mindlessly cheering on waving your flags at your Texan Nero, he just gave $13 billion of your hard earned tax dollars to his Oil cronies who are making record profits while gouging you at the pump! So let me get this straight, while you were ranting and raving about the Godless, Socialist Democrats bent on distributing your wealth to the lazy poor, your Nero just redistributed your wealth to himself and his oil pals! So now you can be proud knowing that you are voting against your own economic self interest! Your Republican party knows that the Red States are the "the land of milk and honey" and oh yea fools! But they sure are proud of you!
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Listen up you proud Red State fools! - Stand Tall and be proud knowing that your Texan Nero just performed another wealth redistribution on you. While you were mindlessly cheering on waving your flags at your Texan Nero, he just gave $13 billion of your hard earned tax dollars to his Oil cronies who are making record profits while gouging you at the pump! So let me get this straight, while you were ranting and raving about the Godless, Socialist Democrats bent on distributing your wealth to the lazy poor, your Nero just redistributed your wealth to himself and his oil pals! So now you can be proud knowing that you are voting against your own economic self interest! Your Republican party knows that the Red States are the "the land of milk and honey" and oh yea fools! But they sure are proud of you!
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- Suzie Housecoat said...
Beach Boy,
I know you think that by constantly refering to Bush as "Nero" you come across as having some historical, long-term perspective on current events. Actually, it just makes you sound as nutty as the terrorist with whom you are so obviously enamored. In fact, after reading you postings the last few months, I honestly can't see any difference between your anti-American, anti-Bush sentiments and those of the terrorists. You WANT America to fail, you want our country and its citizens humiliated. You want to see the end of Isreal and of America's economic dominance in the world. It's evident in your writing! The only question is why? Why are your views almost identical to those of Islamic terrorist around the world?
Beach Boy? Joe? Anyone? Anyone?
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Those who don't know (in your case) and/or don't understand (your Republican gurus case) history's failures are condemned repeat it! It is obvious to everyone (other than flag waving fools like you) that history is repeating itself! Too bad for all of us that your kind's idiotic reasoning will bring us all down. For better or worse we both belong to this great country. Your ignorant and reckless arguments that those who are anti-Bush are terrorist substantiates to me that, you are "the American Idiot" that I am talking about! I suppose now that over 50% of us are anti-Bush, makes us all terrorists! Sticking your head in the sand and only watching your beloved FOX network will make you feel good! Go ahead wave your flag! I am sure both Neros'; the Roman one and the current Texan one had their idiotic followers because one person alone cannot destroy an empire! – It is because of you American Idiots that the great America empire will be no more! Oh yes I forgot, God promised the world to America and all of the Middle East to Israel! The rest of us are all terrorists!
Beach Boy
- Joe Smoe: American Citizen said...
- Suzie Housecoat said...
Hello Boys!
Well, BB, if your ideology is identical to that of the terrorists, then I guess that doesn't make you an actual terrorist (I don't think you'd blow-up the BART), but it does make you part of the problem, as described by Tony Blair on July 26 (?).
"...there is all the difference in the world in us taking action against these terrorists and as will happen when military action is taken innocent civilians get killed. We deeply regret every one of those lives. They don't regret the loss of innocent, civilian life. They rejoice in it, that is their purpose. And all the instability in Iraq would stop tomorrow if these terrorists and insurgents stopped...Yes, it is true that of course they see these issues as linked in some way. Yes they do. But they also know perfectly well that we cannot give these people any shred of justification for what they do. ...Until we get rid of this frankly complete nonsense in trying to build some equivalence between what we are doing helping Iraqis and Afghans get their democracy and these people going in deliberately killing wholly innocent people for the sake of it, until we eliminate that we are not going to confront this ideology in the way it needs to be confronted and my point to you is this, it is time we stopped saying OK we abhor their methods, but we kind of see something in their ideas or maybe they have got a sliver of excuse or justification. They have got no justification for it.
And one other thing I want to say whilst I am on this subject if I might, neither have they any justification for killing people in Israel either. Let us just get that out of the way as well. There is no justification for suicide bombing whether in Palestine, in Iraq, in London, in Egypt, in Turkey, anywhere, in the United States of America. There is no justification for it period and we will start to beat this when we stand up and confront the ideology of this evil. Not just the methods but the ideas... It is nonsense, and we have got to confront it as that. And when we confront it as that, then we will start to beat it."
Doesn't sound like a man about to cut and run to me, huh Joe?
- Joe Smoe: American Citizen said...
Blair is Bush's lapdog and parroting the same tough guy bravado that Bush does, but in the U.K. the people as a whole are a lot more sophisticated, informed and media savvy unlike the RED STATE Rubes. As I said before there are many in the UK that believe Blair and his affiliation with the Shrub brought this to their shores. Blair and the UK had a problem with this cancer (the Jihadists) in it's midst for sometime and refused to do anything about it and now their hand has been forced. No amount of tough talk is going to save him in the long run. He barely won the election. Soon he will be finished politically in Britain and Britain will leave Iraq, as all the other members of the Coalition of the Intimidated and Coerced are about to do.
- Suzie Housecoat said...
So you're smart and anyone on the other side is uninformed, unsophisticated, intimidated or coerced?!! Get over yourself! You are not smarter than Tony Blair. And the very contradiction in your posting exemplifies the reason Kerry lost: You say that the cancer was there and Blair failed to do anything? Well, guess what! Somebody's doin' somethin' now - and his name is George Bush! And he's doing exactly what Kerry claimed he would do if elected - going to where the terrorist are and killing them. The difference is that Kerry never would have followed through on his tough guy talk. He would have delayed and appeased - another Carter and Chamberlin rolled into one.
Just curious - what exactly did you thin of Clinton and his foreign policy? I guess all was right with the world until Bush came along.
- Joe Smoe: American Citizen said...
There were no terrorists in Iraq until the shrub took us there. Saddam was contained. What is the Republican excuse for the war this week.
How the hell do you and the rest of your Republican Ilk know what Kerry would have done if he were in. He is a lot smarter than you and your kind and unlike your Fearless leader had the balls to serve.
If you revisionists remember Clinton tried to take out Bin Laden in august of 1998 in Afghanistan and then you clowns claimed it was a wag the dog thing. Then Bush was warned 40 times about the imminent strike from Al Qaeda, the last time a month before when he was slacking at his ranch. With Clinton we had the world with us, with the Half-wit everyone hate us and we will eventually be on our own in Iraq.
You Chicken hawks are all the same tough talk and no balls to back it up. Your Recruiter is waiting for your call he's tired of waiting for the Bush Twins to show up for service.
- Joe Smoe: American Citizen said...
Also, I'll tell you like you have told me in the past..ANSWER THE QUESTION: Who should America blame for the situation in Iraq and why has there been no accountability for what Iraq has become?
- said...
Suzie, your Red State fools still don't get it - Your Texas Nero is doing great both, I am glad that you think he is better than Clinton, because Bush's domestic policy has made this country richer than what Clinton did (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aGRYtgd3u35c&refer=home) and Bushes foreign policy has caused the rest of the world to hate us (yes even the Canadian and the English, the blood of hundred of thousands of people in his hands (of course yours, because you fools put him in office). But hey I am glad Bush is better than Clinton!


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The New York State Public Employment Relations Board on March 12 officially certified the UFT as the bargaining agent for educators at the New York French American Charter School in Harlem.
Most of the school's staff indicated their support for the union by signing union authorization cards last fall.
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Counseling 2: Sixth Session
My talk with Aaron helped me realize some things--not necessarily related to the topic I was supposed to discuss with him. I realized that one of the things I'm struggling with is that I can hardly bear the fact that a little girl was deeply hurt. The fact that the little girl was me seems peripheral to everything else. And I think a little of the desperation I feel is that I was there when the abuse happened, but I was helpless to do anything about it. And I REALLY want to change that. But I can't.
Writing about the abuse in detail had a profound effect on me. Adult Samantha wants to dismiss the past--she doesn't want anyone else to have to think of the ugliness that lives in hidden corners of her mind. She doesn't want to know of similar experiences that have happened to others, as people try, misguidedly, to comfort her with those. The terrifying reality of her own past is enough without having to realize that abuse is common, that children are disregarded and disrespected, that she is only one of many little girls and boys who cannot cry because there are no more tears left. Child Samantha wants to tell everyone. She has been silent for many years. She wants people to know of the hurt and confusion. She wants to be held and comforted and protected. She pokes and prods at adult Samantha, giving her no peace. As I finally acknowledge and describe my experiences, I realize that what I have been afraid of for so long, is over. And I also realize that I'm ready to be finished with this.
I talked with Therapist about what I had done. He was surprised. He paid me a compliment, "You've got more guts than most of my clients." I was surprised. I thought that, like my first counselor, Therapist would tell me that looking too deeply at the past can do more harm than good. He talked about how I was taking charge of my life--I was no longer reacting, but becoming proactive in how I would deal with past problems. So I told him, I was having trouble applying the atonement--which I felt was the next step.
Former counselor talked endlessly about applying the atonement--it's wonderful, it can heal, it brings joy and peace...but she never addressed the problem I had--how do I do it? What's stopping me from handing my problems to Christ?
Have I mentioned that I'm in love with Therapist?
He asked me what I thought it was that was keeping me from letting go. I thought for a long time, then I said, "I know that Christ has already suffered my pain. He did it long ago. But it breaks my heart that anyone else has to feel what I've felt--NO ONE should feel that. I love Christ. I don't want him to have to feel that. I keep thinking if I don't hand it off, he won't have to. I know that's stupid, because it's over and done with--but I still don't want him to feel that hurt."
I waited for him to tell me all the things I say to myself: That's silly--the atonement has already taken place. Christ won't thank me for not taking advantage of his sacrifice. I can't change anything by holding onto my hurt. This is but one more futile attempt to change the past.
He didn't say anything like that. He said, "That sounds very empathetic, and it doesn't surprise me that you would feel that way. You've spent much of your life trying to help alleviate pain in the lives of other people. It sounds to me like you feel that, by allowing Christ to take on the pain you have suffered, you personally, are responsible for inflicting that pain on someone you love." I thought about that, and realized it was true, and it made me cry. I really did feel that way, and I didn't want that responsibility.
Therapist (by the way, I love him) was really kind--which is something I often believe I don't deserve. He asked me to think carefully. He said, "Who, really, is responsible for creating the pain you don't want to give away?" I admitted that my cousin was the responsible party. Then Therapist, who is insightful beyond anyone else I know, said, "If your cousin chooses to repent, do you think he should have that opportunity?" I thought for awhile, again. I said, "I don't think he will. But if he wants to, I hope he will. I don't think I'd be able to live with myself if I had done the things that he has. I hope he will." Therapist asked me, "Should he be forgiven?" That was easy...I'd done this with my last counselor, "Of course," I answered. "What he did was wrong, but I don't have any idea what, in his past, might have motivated him to mistreat me. Everyone deserves forgiveness." Therapist said, "Maybe it's time you gave his responsibility back to him." I asked him what he meant. He said, "Christ suffered the agony of paying the price for your cousin's mistreatment of you. He felt your pain so that he could heal you. You've been stopping the process, even though you believe in it, because you don't know how to let your cousin take the blame for what he has done. YOUR COUSIN is the one who has caused Christ's pain--you have not. He is the one who committed the sin--in this particular experience of your life, you have none, you are not responsible."
Sometimes we have "AH-HAH!!!" moments. As soon as he said that, I felt something inside me give way. It seemed as though a knot suddenly loosened, released. My head told me, Samantha, he's right--YOU are not the one who caused the pain. You don't have to take ANY responsibility for that. And as I thought more about this, I felt the most incredible peace come. And I think I can let go. It might take a little more time for everything to sink in. It might take a week or so to get used to the idea. But I think I can do this. I think I'm finally ready to let my cousin shoulder his own burden, to accept that the work to heal me has already taken place, to allow Christ's love to step in and comfort that broken child that is me.


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Old Lake Sign 17
Here's a new track to ring in the new year. It's a remix I did of the Frank C Stanley version of Auld Lang Syne. It's an Eight Bar Embryo track and it's called "Old Lake Sign '17 (8BE)". Let's find out how it came to be.
Bubbling Up
Inspiration came in a very ordinary way. Every year, I like to make an End of Year video which showcases the work I've published as well as what I hope to accomplish in the near future. Either last year or the year before, I used the previously linked public domain work as background music. However, given that I have another 365 days of production experience under my belt, I figured I could make a remix.
Long and Winding Road
This also happens to be the first track I made and released in REAPER. I'm learning this program because Ableton Live is charging too much for their upgrade. Editing in this new program is unfamiliar but immersion will serve me best. I find the warp algorithm to be very good and you can hear it all over the place in this track. The chord progression is Fmaj – Fmaj7 – Dm – C with a descending bass line. I used Battery and Absynth by Native Instruments for the groove and Kontakt for the flute parts which come in during the chorus. Patrons can get access to my presets as well as the project file.
Back to the Future
This track is going out before my End of Year 2017 video. That means you get one more video out of me before 2018. This year was challenging but I feel happy I made a bunch of stuff. I hope by this time next year I'll know REAPER better and will have released more music. Here's wishing you the best in all your endeavors.


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