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The book felt split primarily between the lives of Anna and her lover, Vronsky, and their distantly related acquaintances Levin and Kitty. Anna lives a much more liberal and upper-class lifestyle (due to her decision to leave her husband and child for Vronsky) while Levin and Kitty have a slow-paced, more traditional marriage running the family farm. I especially enjoyed scenes in which the women's lives were juxtaposed amongst one another - particularly because their interactions (the 'whore' vs the 'madonna') still somehow felt deeply relevant to our current society. I'm still amazed at how little our interactions and roles have changed despite how far off these characters seem from my own life. Levin, who is an obvious stand-in for Tolstoy, while not awful is a bit on the dull side and has some very long-winded passages.
If you consider yourself a writer or an avid reader, this book is worth your time if only to study Tolstoy's mastery of language. And I'm sure I was still missing some of the depth due to subtleties being lost in the translation. Each scene, no matter how simple and mundane was lovely to read and incredibly easy to get lost in. I was surprised to find the depth and humanity that Tolstoy gave to his female characters. I felt they were represented sympathetically and fairly the majority of the time - although I thought the ending was extremely rushed and did not give Anna (or any of the other ladies, to be fair) her due. I was really loving the book the majority of the way through, and it would have earned a solid 4 from me had it not ended as unresolved as it did. The amount of time given to Levin at the end vs. Anna and her family seemed self-indulgent and not as carefully planned as the rest of the book. Perhaps it was done for a reason that I'm not understanding, but I wanted more of a resolution after dedicating so much time to the story.
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Lions overcome Murdock
By Graham Entwistle SPORTS EDITOR
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After nearly pulling out its second win of the season on Tuesday of last week at Maynard, the West Boylston High School boys basketball team got the job done at home last Friday.
With the win, West Boylston owns a 2-11 overall record and is 2-6 in the Wachusett League D. Murdock fell to 1-14 overall and 0-7 in the loop.
The Lions began the week by falling just short, 61-58, against 11-2 Maynard, a notable improvement over a 30-point loss to the Tigers earlier in the season.
We played very, very well (against Maynard), West Boylston coach Phil Lagerstrom said. Maynards a good team, but we played with them.
Were playing much better, now, he said. About two weeks ago, we just said, Were starting all over again. Lets play better than we did, and we have.
Against Murdock, the Lions trailed, 13-9, after one quarter and held a one-point edge at the half, 24-23. Senior captain Steven Gould played a large part in keeping West Boylston in the game during the first half, pouring in all 12 of his points on 5 of 6 shooting at the foul line, coupled with a 3-pointer and two baskets from inside the arc.
The third quarter turned out to be the difference in the game, as the Lions outscored the Blue Devils, 28-14, to claim a 52-37 advantage.
West Boylston junior Spiro Perdikomatis and sophomore teammate Musa Lindsay provided a spark off the bench in the third period, both offensively and defensively. Perdikomatis had seven of his eight points during the quarter, while Musa sank a pair of technical free throws and hit a long jumper at the buzzer.
The Lions then held off the Blue Devils in a sloppy and chippy fourth quarter.
Senior captain Mike Pace heated up in the second half, scoring 13 of his team-leading 18 points. Sophomore Tyler Peters also got the hot hand, putting in eight of his 12 points in the closing half, many on easy baskets off of steals.
Murdock junior Jack Murphy, a nephew of West Boylston Principal Larry Murphy, had a game-high 22 points during the contest.
We played pretty well in the second half, and had a great third quarter, Lagerstrom said. Musa (Lindsay) gave us a lift. He hasnt got a lot of minutes, but hes been working really hard in practice. I thought Id throw him in there, and he did a great job.
Spiro (Perdikomatis) played Jack Murphy, whos the leading scorer in the league and did a nice job on him, he said. Tyler Peters had a lot of steals.
I thought our bench, in general, did a good job tonight, Lagerstrom added.
In the Maynard game, Pace scored 21 points and Peters had 13.
Junior varsity boys
The West Boylston junior varsity boys also pocketed a win over Murdock. Their 63-25 victory over the Blue Devils boosted the Lions JV to 5-7 on the season.
Eighth-grader Tom Silva led the locals with 14 points, and freshman Ryan Noel was right behind with 13. Freshman Noah Duplin was also in double figures with 10 points, while sophomore Derek Jakubiak scored nine.
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The West Boylston girls basketball team made the long journey to Winchendon a fruitful one, downing Murdock, 54-28, last Friday night.
Sophomore Katelynn Rizzuto scored 15 points to lead the Lions offensive effort, senior Amy Peterson had 11, and junior Michaela Hayes added nine.
With the win, West Boylston improved its record to 8-4.
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Returns the number of elements in a sequence.
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'Declaration <ExtensionAttribute> _ Public Shared Function Count(Of TSource) ( _ source As IQueryable(Of TSource) _ ) As Integer
Type Parameters
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The type of the elements of source.
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- Type: System.Linq.IQueryable(Of TSource)
The IQueryable(Of T) that contains the elements to be counted.
Return ValueType: System.Int32
The number of elements in the input sequence.
Usage NoteIn Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IQueryable(Of TSource). When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see Extension Methods (Visual Basic) or Extension Methods (C# Programming Guide).
source is Nothing.
The number of elements in source is larger than MaxValue.
The Count(Of TSource)(IQueryable(Of TSource)) method generates a MethodCallExpression that represents calling Count(Of TSource)(IQueryable(Of TSource)) itself as a constructed generic method. It then passes the MethodCallExpression to the Execute(Of TResult)(Expression) method of the IQueryProvider represented by the Provider property of the source parameter.
The query behavior that occurs as a result of executing an expression tree that represents calling Count(Of TSource)(IQueryable(Of TSource)) depends on the implementation of the type of the source parameter. The expected behavior is that it counts the number of items in source.
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Dim fruits() As String = {"apple", "banana", "mango", _ "orange", "passionfruit", "grape"} Dim numberOfFruits As Integer = fruits.AsQueryable().Count() MsgBox(String.Format( _ "There are {0} items in the array.", _ numberOfFruits)) ' This code produces the following output: ' ' There are 6 items in the array.
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There should be an IQ test required for voting.
There should be a "property", or equivalent, requirement for voting.
Oh wait....maybe we can start with a fucking CITIZENSHIP requirement for voting!
What a concept, eh?
Did you see the story in the
voters are making the difference in close elections...in favor of Democrats?
Allow me to put that a different way. Democrats are winning elections they would have lost, except for the illegal voting of people who are NOT CITIZENS of the United States of America.
America-Hating-Progressive-Leftist-Democrats are being elected by people who are
not Americans
...to political positions in America to rule and ruin us all.
As the man says, "Good-bye Sweet America."
If we don't change our ways right damn now....can there be another end result?
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Friday, October 24, 2014
That's "Our" Obola...
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They Just Can't Stand It
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Caption of the Day
Sho nuff.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Everybody loves to say how much we've evolved, but the real measure of whether or not a species has evolved is if they can look their DNA in the eyes and say, 'Fuck you, I can do better than you think I can.' "
- Rebecca Trotter's Dad
Correction: This should have said: "
Justin Halpern's Dad
Rebecca was "quoting".
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From the Mailbag
"During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
So it's worth noting, and is somewhat frightening, that during the same amount of time our current administration couldn't build a freakin' web site.
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The Gospel of Grace...
...or, The Problem With THE LAW...
What is called The Law, came to the chosen people from God in the form of the
Ten Commandments.
But that's not an accurate name for them.
Because really, they could be published in a modern magazine column titled, "
Ten Things That Will Improve Your Life".
(Can't you just see that in bold type next to the sexy starlet on the cover of
Every so-called "Commandment" is an expression of an attitude and/or behavior that will enhance your life, the life of your family, and that of your whole community.
They are not directions on how to "please God", or "get to heaven". They're guidelines to make your earthly life a good one, a happy one, a prosperous one.
But being middle eastern people who just got out of generations of slavery in Egypt, where "loving" gods weren't thick on the ground, but despotic pharaohs and blood-thirsty, arbitrary pagan gods were, they soon came to see these as "COMMANDMENTS"; rules that you better not disobey for fear of God's wrath.
And, naturally, there were men more than willing to use and abuse this propitious development for their own advancement and power.
And so, as the Law progressed, as law is wont to do, it became less a guide for a happy life, and more a demand for strict adherence to complicated, demanding, rules in order to be approved of by a stern Taskmaster God - and his rich, important, self-righteous Priests.
It's a lot like our own situation.
We have a simple, easy to understand, clear, concise Constitution that has become, through the agency of foolish, greedy and power-mad men, millions of pages of laws, regulations, centralized power, agencies, principalities, groups, committees, and a special class of ruling Priests that make the entire edifice unstable, abusive, rigid and inhumane.
Which is exactly what happened to the lovely
Ten Guidelines for a Happy Life
Until we find ourselves in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, where the Law had become so oppressive that it imprisoned people's spirits and declared them guilty before a
Judging King God
rather than free and beloved in relationship with a
Loving Father God
THIS is what God sent Jesus to deal with.
And there is not a better metaphor for it, than Jesus clearing out that Temple.
Remember, it was often the Pharisees that Jesus preached at/about and condemned—those faces of The Law as it had become, that shut the people out and claimed the approval of God only for themselves.
Jesus was sent to us to tell us that it is
our obedience to THE LAW that makes God love us. He came to give us the Good News that God loves us no matter what. That we are His children, and He loves us like a father loves his children…and while we could be better sometimes—okay, a lot of the time—He loves us nevertheless, and will never forsake us. He promises, through Jesus, that He will always be there for us. All we have to do is realize it.
God didn't send Jesus to change or overturn or supersede the
Ten Ways to Improve Your Life
. He just wanted all the man-made dross and detritus that had accreted to them scraped off and thrown away—and a lot more love added.
He just wanted to Set Us Free.
And that's the Gospel of Grace.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the
truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Post Christianity Christianity
As I've mentioned a few times here, I am not a
Christian. However, I am a
Christian, and a "defender of the faith", in that I see that the tenets and followers of Christianity have built the most free, most prosperous, most decent civilization in the history of mankind.
Whatever its faults...by any adversary's measure (including mine)...that is simply the bald truth.
The American Constitution is the direct result of the influence of the Christian concept of "Equality before God".
And seriously, short of heaven, it just doesn't get better than that.
That being said...
I have some problems with the whole Christian story. I don't understand what appear to me to be unnecessary complexities and contradictions and what appear to be logic fallacies.
Except as they reinforce the divinity of the Christ and his mission, without which there wouldn't be much holding Traditional Christianity together, I don't see their point.
Of course, the problem with asking Christians, Christian clergy, Christian apologists and Christian historians and Christian Biblical scholars about the veracity or logic or likelihood of the correctness of the story, is that they, naturally, have a vested interest in it being true as the world currently understands it.
But if you approach it from (what I hope is) a disinterested point of view, it just doesn't hang together.
I don't want to insult any Christians....which is why I opened this post with my honest admiration of all the good wrought by their beliefs...but I just can't quite buy those beliefs as they are presented and seemingly understood by the Christian community of the World.
* * *
Here are a few of my observations.
Fundamental to Christianity is the need for ATONEMENT for the grave sin of Adam (and Eve?)
Without Adam's (and Eve's?) monstrous, horrifying, shocking, appalling, heinous, vile, hateful, abominable disobedience of God, Jesus doesn't have to
"Die. For. Our. Sins"
But...what is this foul SIN of Adam (and Eve)?
From where I stand, it looks like evolution.
I know that some people believe that the entire Bible is literal truth. But many others understand it to be figurative in part, historical in part, and metaphoric in part.
I submit that Genesis is figurative.
Genesis seems to be telling us that Adam and Eve were living in an innocent time of pre-humanity. They lived like animals (in a good way) and ate like animals, and ran around naked, like animals. And just enjoyed being alive, generally hung out eating and sleeping and never worrying about much of anything, especially the future...like animals.
It was, kind of like, you know, Paradise!
But then, one day, they "ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil." Which I think is a figurative way of saying they reached the stage of evolution (or the moment God touched them on the forehead and "poof!") when they developed the ability to REASON, think abstractly, think creatively, developed free-will and self-agency.
Now, Christians says that through Adam (and Eve?), Sin entered the world.
Well, yeah.
Give man free-will, the ability to scheme - I mean "reason" - and some of things he thinks up are going to be bad, selfish, greedy, mean, cruel, thoughtless...
I don't think Adam (and Eve?) sinned. I think they just grew up. And growing up into Self-Awareness Self-Motivation, Self-Agency and Creative/Abstract thought...leads to a lot of possibilities for bad ideas and bad behavior - as well as Good ones.
And don't we just know it.
The Bible also says that God told them that if they ate of the Tree, they would surely die*. But it's obvious that they did not die, at least not right then. So, more figurative language. I think it means that when they became able to REASON, they became aware of their own mortality.
This would make you sad. This would be a major drag. So it sort of ruined the perfect happiness they had before.
Paradise Lost...
So. (Still according to the Traditional Christian Dogma) We are mortal because Adam (and Eve?) sinned by eating an apple.
So. We are destined to suffer eternal torture in hell because Adam (and Eve?) sinned by eating an apple after God said "Don't Eat It!)
AND...so the story goes, God loves us so much....(?)...that he sent his only begotten (on whom? just wondering) Son to die for our sins, and redeem our souls from this sickening, gruesome, sadistic, punishment
unearned by every single human being who has ever existed on planet earth
...except Adam (and Eve?)
Just a reminder, for centuries, Catholic Dogma had it that un-baptized babies who died, and all the people in lands where the Word of God was never heard—so they couldn't be 'saved'—went straight to Hell. Forever. Eternal punishment. Amen. Praise the Lord.
Now that just pisses me off. I find it hard to stay "nice" about it. When I think of all the horrors, terror, dread, distress, and nightmares this so-called Truth has given true believers, (Think of the terrified children! And mothers of still-born children, And parents whose children fall away from the Church, and husbands and wives and friends who are not believers that Christians must believe will be consigned to eternal fires of Hell.
Think of the kind of person you become if you believe that most of the people you will ever meet, like, befriend, even love, will spend eternity suffering in the eternal fires of hell being tortured by the Devil and his demons.
Crazy? Paranoid? Brokenhearted? Hardhearted? Cold? Distant? Suicidal? Fallen-Away Christian?
Personally, I'd rather have my beating heart cut out by an Aztec priest...and be done with it.
It's a shorter and kinder end.
* * * *
So, in my Post-Christianity Christianity all of this is bunkum.
There was no Original Sin by Adam (and Eve?) that brought Death and Sin into the world. There is no Original Sin to taint every new soul born into the world.
There was just Adam and Eve gaining Reason. The Genesis story is sort of: "Evolution in a Bite"
So...there is no need for The Atonement.
Jesus of Nazareth does not have to
"Die. For. Our. Sins".
Doesn't mean he wasn't born on Earth.
Doesn't mean he wasn't crucified
Doesn't mean he wasn't resurrected.
Doesn't mean he isn't God's Son.
Doesn't mean his life and death and resurrection are not the most amazing things in the history of mankind.
It's just a different story.
* * * *
What if we consider all creatures God's children?
Is it plausible to imagine that there were some creatures created before Man?
Is it plausible to imagine that they were spiritual beings rather than corporeal beings?
Might we, just for convenience, call them "angels" ?
Might we assume, because they are spiritual, therefore have no material bodies, that they are what we would call "immortal" ?
Might we call them the older siblings of Mankind...who are also God's children?
Might we assume that there is a "birth" order among the angels. That some were created before others?
Might we assume, say, that there was a First Born and a Second Born....the two oldest brothers to the rest of the Children of God?
What if they were Lucifer and Jesus respectively? (of course those are not their real names...but just for identification purposes...I'll call them that)
What if after all the Old Testament relationship with the Chosen People, God decided it was time to send a representative to His People to lead them to the next stage in their relationship; to send them not just a human prophet, but a real, actual messenger from Heaven?
Now, what if God said to Jesus..."Listen, Son, I need you to be born on Earth as human and teach the Good News about Me to my people. It might be dangerous, because your body will be mortal, and people can be dangerous. But I really feel like a direct emissary from Heaven is what they need to grow in their relationship with Me and each other."
And Jesus, being a good son, said, "Sure, Dad. I'll do it."
...What if Lucifer, the actual Firstborn. Beautiful, strong, righteous, mighty, shining Lucifer, the Light Bearer of God, and older brother of Jesus...
...went, "What the...? He's choosing the Kid to go on this important mission? What am I, chopped liver?"
And let jealousy and anger overtake him?
(Oh...did I mention that the first creatures of God - those angels - had free-will too?)
What if Jesus was born as a natural child to Mary and Joseph Carpenter and grew up in beauty and grace - being the Son of God and all...as well as being a human, and when he was about 30, knew it was time for him to begin his ministry to God's people.
And what if Lucifer, who was watching and waiting and biding his time, began his campaign at the same time.
What if, in his jealousy, envy and anger, he got the idea that if Jesus failed...if he got more followers than Jesus, his Father would see that He should have picked him for this historic mission, instead of his little brother, and all would be right with the world again. So he went to work.
He whispered, he slandered, he tempted, he promised...he poured his poison into the ears of anyone who would listen, and it was often those who were also disposed to feel threatened by and jealous of Jesus because of the multitudes who were hungry for his Good News that God was a loving Father who wanted nothing but the best for his children, that He was not a distant King of Rules and Punishment and Law...but a Loving Father God of Mercy and Forgiveness.
All those who lived and prospered under the old ideas which gave them power and made them feared and important...hated the new guy and his blasphemous "Everyone is Equal in the Eyes of God" crap that was threatening to knock the pedestal of special status and privilege right from under their feet.
Well, you know what happened next.
And when Jesus died, and went to heaven sorrowful that he had failed his Father because he didn't live long enough to reach everyone with the Good News, and Lucifer delighted by his success, joined him to gloat over his victory and get the appreciation of his Father for his success in the contest...got rather the surprise of his life when God told him to, "Get the Hell out of Heaven!"
Which He meant quite literally...
And he had to find new digs...and it ended up being known as Hell.
(God knew what he was talking about.)
With Lucifer banished, God sat Jesus down and told him that he was a good Son, and not to feel bad about not being able to finish the job. He had a great idea that was going to blow everybody's mind and they'd NEVER forget either Jesus or his message of Good News about a loving Father God.
God was gonna resurrect Jesus' human body, and Jesus could go back and inhabit it just long enough to prove to his grief-stricken loyal followers...and thence to the rest of the world... that Jesus really was God's true messenger, and that what he told them was the undisputed Truth.
So, Jesus returns to Earth, showing up in what should be his dead body, but is alive and well...and scares the shit out of his friends (wouldn't it just!) until they are convinced it's really him, and he tells them that THIS...this immortality...this rising from the dead...is what God has in store for everyone. That death isn't the end. That hope is alive. That God wants to hang out with his kids, and for the family to be happy.
Everyone will be saved. (There is no eternal punishment of any kind). Amen. Praise the Lord.
People, DOES IT GET BETTER THAN THAT???
Talk about happiness, and hope, and love, and peace and joy!
And that's what they were supposed to say. And most of them did. But it got a little mixed up in the translations and the cultural references, and we got a story that's a little heavy on guilt and punishment, death and torture and eternity...instead of hope and life.
* * *
Okay. I know some will say, "Wow, Gun, nice story. But what about all the criminals and killers and evil people. What happens to them? Are they gonna just waltz right into heaven. If so, why be good? What's the point, if what you do doesn't matter to salvation?
Well, of course what you do matters. In a lot of respects. First, you'll feel good. Being good has that effect. You'll be in touch with God right here and now. That's a plus. And you can really call Jesus, "Brother"...with all the respect and love and benefits thereof.
But I didn't say there wouldn't be a price to pay for being evil. I just said there was no eternal Hell. Big difference.
Remember the description of Hell is eternal fire?
Here's what that really is.
The pure light and truth of God shining into your soul.
If you've lived in the light your whole life, it'll be a sort of strong, warm hug from the Lord.
But if you'd lived in the darkness of sin, it will be a searing, blinding, blowtorch of a light, that will show every corner of your nasty little soul in a way that you will not be able to deny what's there.
And THAT will feel just like Hell. The heat will not be physical, of course, but psychic. And because, first and foremost, you are a Child of God, you will not be able to stand what you see there, the knowledge and awareness of it will burn you with shame and sorrow and you will want it gone. That is called "repentance"...and when the process is done...you'll be ready to enter the pearly gates.
I'd say the duration of the process will depend on just how wide and deep and labyrinthine the darkness is, and how stubbornly the individual remains in denial.
But hey, do you think you, no matter how cool and evil you think you are, can stand up to the cleansing light of God? Yeah, good luck with that.
So, yeah....everyone will be "saved."
Remember, God's pure light and truth is eternal.
An eternal fire
. And it will shine eternally on His children. But it won't burn and hurt forever. Just until the process of cleaning up that nasty, dark little soul of yours is complete.
The Fire is eternal. The pain and suffering is not.
* * *
Oh, one last thought. Lucifer will be saved too.
Yep. In the end he will repent too. He will miss his Father, and his Brother and all of the goodness they represent more than he loves his anger, and his pride.
And he may be the very last. I like that scene: We'll all be in heaven, looking over the wall, watching him approach the gate, horns in hand.
Witnesses to the Last Act of Deliverance.
He's standing there. Wanting to come home, but knowing how evil he has been, and what horrors he has instigated, worried that he might be even beyond the forgiveness of God.
The Gate opens, the light shines out, and Jesus walks out and says, "Hello, brother."
Lucifer falls to his knees in the silence of despair, until Jesus speaks the next words, "Welcome home."
He remains kneeling, head down in submission...and the Father comes out to join them. He puts out his hand and touches Lucifer's forehead...and there plays the eons of evil, like a movie in fast motion that Lucifer has done - for all and himself to see.
And he burns like a star in the righteous light of Truth.
And when it's over. Lucifer, too, cleansed by repentance, is delivered.
So, that's my story. It's a Christianity that makes sense.‡
And I like a happy ending.
"The Wages of Sin is Death"
is a familiar warning. And, of course, the reference is to Adam's (and Eve's?) sin, through which all succeeding generations suffer the consequences of whatever it was they supposedly did that was worse than Hitler's murder of millions of Jews, or Stalin's murder of millions upon millions of people...or Mao's murder of hundreds of millions of people...
...because, after all,
sins were NOT visited upon any subsequent generations. Just sayin'.
‡ "Making sense" can have, for me, elements of the supernatural. The story just has to hang together.
You can't have a loving God that damns people to eternal torment for anything. At all. Ever. Creatures who live in "time" can only commit "temporal" sins. So "eternal" punishment would be the product of a vicious sadist—neither just nor loving. You can have that God. I don't want him.
And one more important logical fail: In the story of Genesis, God supposedly tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the Tree in the center of the garden. We find out later that this is the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil".
If they ate the apple, before they ate the apple how would they know it was wrong? If you see what I mean...
If they ate the apple, before they knew the difference between Good and Evil...
...how could they be accused of doing Evil?
How could they have known that's what they were doing, if they hadn't yet eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
See what I mean? It's circular reasoning. According to the Catholic Church (at least when I was in it), you can't commit a sin before you are 7 years old. (That's when you can receive First Holy Communion) It is considered the "age of reason". Until then, you are unable to distinguish good from evil. You're still just living within your appetites.
Wouldn't that be the same for Adam and Eve, before they reached the age of Reason, i.e., ate the apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
So how can what they did be a "sin"?
Doesn't hang together.
And without the "Fall"...there is no requirement for "Atonement".
And everything unravels.
Take it or leave it. It's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
Praise the Lord.
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Friday, October 17, 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Badassery in the Angelic Hosts
Looking up images of Michael the Archangel.
There's a VERY limited selection. There is one pose that is replicated ad nausea in different eras, in different media, in slightly different aspects...but nevertheless the same:
And he's always got that sword.
C'mon, people, it's the 21st century. Surely he'd have an AK or at least an AR...
Could somebody get on that, please?
I'll stay tuned.
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The Media are: Pimps for Progressivism
And it turns out many of the "liberal" churches are too.
Be careful what brand of Christianity you embrace. Many of churches that are emptying are cheerleaders (whores?) for Progressivism; for "Peace" (at any price); for environmentalism; for class warfare; for collectivism.
The idea of a Christian Soldier and your INDIVIDUAL soul has been entirely lost to these emasculated eunuchs afraid of their own shadow, who believe in turning the other cheek while your country/wife/daughter/son is being raped.
Yeah, I'm a child of the 60's. I knew some of those in College. One of them was my boyfriend until I found out.
Even then, I wanted a actual man.
Beware of Christophobes. They're everywhere. And some of them are running the Main Line Christian churches in America and the rest of the Anglophere.
There's one thing to say about Mooslims. Even if their so-called "religion" is actually a
Satanic Death Cult
: They take their religion seriously, and they're passionate about it.
Of course, they're also peanut-dicked. Especially anybody in ISIS.
Talk about needing to COMPENSATE.
Just sayin'
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Why Not?
I think I'll run for Congress.
My platform will be simple:
"Government is the problem. If you elect me, I'm going to do everything in my power to rip it down and all the fat, bloated, gluttonous, vampiric politicians-for-life with it."
How're my chances?
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014
This Must Be Read
From American Thinker.
A Culture of Incompetence
Bruce Walker
Obama's left never accepts responsibility for anything. Weaned on the sour milk of thuggish, tenured academicians and marinated in the surreal stew of lawyer-land, the odd creatures that infest our White House have no notion of work or honor or duty. This manifests itself in different ways.
Mendacity has been elevated almost to a secular religion. Obama, his officials, his armies of minor minions prevaricate with such aplomb that one wonders if they truly know when they are lying or telling the truth. The disgraceful trail of obfuscations, dissimulations, and quarter-truths are invariably defended by the administration's flacks with the mantra "we have seen no evidence." Of course we have not! The evidence has been destroyed or hidden or lied about.
Politicians lie, of course, and have as long as government has been around, but the sheer audacity of fabrications (the video that "caused" the Benghazi attack) rise to the level of Orwellian thought control, compounded by the utter indifference of the establishment media to calling out these lies.
Profound isolation from the governed is also a hallmark of our pathetic president and his hapless helpers. How could Obama, with a straight face, adopt Reagan's "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" line and assume that ordinary folk would yip for joy?
But the starkest manifestation is the culture of incompetence that pervades everything surrounding Obama and his friends. The botched rollout of Obamacare, for example, led naturally to more noisy activity and more hilarious promises – but these are precisely the sorts of things Obama considers real work. The hideous crimes of the Veterans Administration, carbuncles that even candidate Obama noted when he ran for president, suit him better unchanged, because that allows him to claim future victories against malfeasance and maliciousness in the VA.
Obama and the left desperately need intolerable incompetence to infest every crevice of American life. When things work well, who needs these people? This is transparently clear and well understood, at least by sensible people, but a more opaque truth is the nasty fact that when leftists produce competent and honest governance, the demand for leftists drops just as much.
Pain, misery, despair, confusion, hopelessness, and fear are the only sustenance of leftists. All but the most diabolical leftists refuse to chant the old black magic of Bolshevism. And here are the precise linguistic formulations of those Marxist spells: "The worse, the better" and "The more innocent, the more guilty."
So Obama and his cabal instead graciously embrace a slovenly, casual, and dismissive incompetence. They plow, they seed, and they sow a culture of incompetence. Obama has surrounded himself with the most breathtakingly banal and ignorant and dull-witted caste of retainers of any president in our nation's history. His own utter lack of any executive experience – or, indeed, any experience at all in any productive work for which he could be held accountable by anyone – simply blesses the inevitable incompetence, errors, idiocies, and boneheaded blunders that seem to follow every step he takes.
The Frankenstein quilt-work of his presidency, a haphazard glop of minor disasters and serial deceptions, has now become a true monster. As Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to tell him, a nuclear Iran may mean our end, or at least great cities in radioactive smolders. As doctors have doubtless told him privately, pandemics can slaughter huge chunks of mankind and dissolve civilization. As even a Democrat stalwart like Panetta seems to have told him, radical Islam on the march is another world war.
His frantic Democrats may even now be trying to end his sleepwalking, at least in time to preserve their chance at electing his successor. Surely none of this really matters to him at all. The worship of failure, the culture of incompetence, is deeply rooted in the sort of transcendent nihilism that is the lightless soul of leftism today. Obama is simply its present avatar.
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Pretty Simple
Okay. Can we agree that government is the problem?
Government is the problem.
Government has always been the problem.
Government will always be the problem.
Government cannot solve the problem...because...
Government is the problem.
To any sane, intelligent, reasonable, observant, non-somnolent person, this is patently obvious.
It's a pretty simple message. It's a pretty clear message. And it's a pretty easily documented and demonstrated message.
Why then can't "our side" get it across clearly to every voter?
If I was to guess...I'd say it's because the "Establishment" Republicans don't believe it. They like government, as long as they are running it, profiting from it, or getting paid by it.
Wow....who does THAT sound like?
Who do we turn to?
The Redcoats are running things.
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We were so pleased with our accomodations -- they exceeded our expectations. The cottage interior is cozy and comfortable, done in" pure Michigan" knotty pine; the full-size kitchen and outdoor grill are perfect for enjoying local foods your way (but if cooking's not your thing, Bud's and The Hofbrau in Interlochen are two great casual dining options); the heating system worked well on the chilly weekend of our stay; ditto the nice hot water, something we don't always experience Iin rentals. The bedrooms were small but comfortable. There's a nice view of and easy access to quiet Bass Lake. The property is just minutes away from Interlochen and is also a convenient base camp for day trips to Benzie County, the Leelanau Peninsula and Traverse City. The only caution I'd offer about the property is to be careful using the rustic stairway down to the dock, just because one of us was nursing a temporary infirmity.
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Southern "Georgia Peach Cake" with a twist
By FREDA GABLE cookin4me
This recipe was adapted to our liking from an old Peach coffee cake Recipe we had, and we were in a hurry for a desert for a gathering, and I was short items to make the from scratch cake, and this is what I came up with, It worked so well, Its now a family favorite. The JELLO Hs the EXTRA PEACH FLAVOR that really makes this Cake so flavorful, This is the "Twist", I came up with,to make this extra Peachy Flavorful. This takes no time at all to prepare. It tastes so much better and with More Flavor if you use "FRESH PEACHES", or even Nectarines.
Hope You'll enjoy as well as my family does.
Janet got "Chocolate Covered Cherry Mice"
You observe situations before diving in, choosing words and actions wisely. You're the loyal friend and...TAKE THE QUIZ and find out what Halloween treat you are!
Directions Step-By-Step
Serve with Ice Cream,Whip cream, Cool whup or Just Pdr Sugar. . . this is sooo, good served still warm, with cream or Ice cream. . . . ENJOY!
About this Recipe
Sandi Moorhead Beaner - Sep 15, 2010
Sounds wonderful...........have you ever tried it using regular peach jello instead of sugar-free?
FREDA GABLE cookin4me - Sep 15, 2010
No,Sandi, Sorry, I have not tried the regular Jello in this. I would be concerned that the Sugar might not disolve as well as it does in the Sugar free. This Might be my only concern. I could try it next time and than I'd know or sure. Worth a try. . .
Eddie Jordan EDWARDCARL - Sep 16, 2010
WOW! This cake look's sooooo good I'm going to make it for fellowship dinner on Sunday. Thank you for this recipe. ( GOD BLESS ) and keep cooking.
FREDA GABLE cookin4me - Sep 16, 2010
Great Idea Eddie, I'll bet you get rave's on this. Let me Know what others think of it. . .Thanks for Making this cake for a special occasion.
Deborah Mackrodt DebiCooks - Sep 20, 2010
I have a question..is the 2 sticks of butter softened or melted? I have all the ingredients and just want to make sure.


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This readalike is in response to a patron's book-match request. If you would like personalized reading recommendations, fill out the book-match form and a librarian will email suggested titles to you. Available for adults, teens, and kids. You can browse the book matches here.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian: This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
If you like Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, here are some suggestions of books dealing with men and the sea, from times gone by.
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Peter Blood, a physician and English gentleman, turned pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels, Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his men.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captain's Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin: New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying. Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.
If you enjoyed "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin, you may enjoy these titles for the great writing, the philosophical undertones and a dash of romance:
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
"In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja. She set out her husband's gifts as they arrived and welcomed all the most faithful guests of the garden to come and hear what he had written - letters which told nothing of his experience of the camps but described an imagined land called the Antipodes, where all the game pieces that cluttered the sets and drawers of the garden collection came to life to guide the doctor through his fateful and wondrous last adventure."-catalog summary
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
"Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, 'Corelli's Mandolin' is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, 'Corelli's Mandolin' is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving."-catalog summary
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan is a collection of five stories set in various African countries that reveal the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
If you liked Say You're One of Them for the chance to stand in another person' shoes, you may enjoy these titles:
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
"Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, a man of uncertain parentage in a country that demands racial purity, follows a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius."-catalog summary
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human.
From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory. Elsewhere, a young man leaves home to collect drinking water for his family and, in the face of danger, must weigh the value of generosity against selfish survivalism. A third man, older, sets off in search of bread and distraction and instead runs into a long-ago friend who reminds him of the city he thought he had lost, and the man he once was. As both men are drawn into the orbit of cello music, a fourth character-a young woman, a sniper-holds the fate of the cellist in her hands. As she protects him with her life, her own army prepares to challenge the kind of person she has become. A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo', poignantly explores how war can change one's definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance. (catalog summary)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability.
If you like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, here are some other titles you may enjoy:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.(worldcat.org)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by a totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch." (worldcat.org)
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore: "For beta male Charlie Asher, proprietor of a shop in San Francisco, life and death meet in a maternity ward recovery room where his wife, Rachel, dies shortly after giving birth. Though security cameras catch nothing, Charlie swears he saw an impossibly tall black man in a mint green suit standing beside Rachel as she died. When objects in his store begin glowing, strangers drop dead before him and man-sized ravens start attacking him, Charlie figures something's up. Along comes Minty Fresh-the man in green-to enlighten him: turns out Charlie and Minty are Death Merchants, whose job (outlined in the Great Big Book of Death) is to gather up souls before the Forces of Darkness get to them...." (Publisher's Weekly Review)
Christopher Moore, author of, The Stupidest Angel, and Practical Demonkeeping, is a master of sarcastic and absurdist humor. If you enjoy Moore's caustic wit, you might also like these titles.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . and all Hell breaks loose. (catalog summary)
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Described by the author as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high-living of a brief visit to Hollywood," The Loved One is an outrageously comic novel about the commercialization of death itself. Mr. Joyboy, the ultimate embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet named Dennis Barlow. This bizarre triangle is played out against an ironic and macabre backdrop: a full-service funeral home for Hollywood's departed greats called Whispering Glades, and a pet cemetery, Happier Hunting Ground – both the final resting places for deceased loved ones. (book description)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami: "Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria." (Book Summary)
If you like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, then you may like these selections:
Bharati Mukherjee's entire collection:
Wife, Desirable Daughters, Leave It to Me, and The Holder of the World.
All are excellent reads, dealing with Indian immigrants to the US, what they must go through to assimilate, or not, as the case may be, cultural differences and mysteries. Desirable Daughters is her best as far as place, character development and narrative.
The Tales of the Otori trilogy:
The first is Across the Nightingale Floor, then Grass for His Pillow and the final is Brilliance of the Moon. They are set in feudal Japan (or possibly a similar, fictitious country) during the time of the Samurai, when warlords ruled the countryside and battles for territory and women raged. The library owns the first two on audio as well as in print and they were fascinating to listen to, partly because the right reader was chosen.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier: Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered." (Book description)
If you like Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, you might like these titles:
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
The Colleys are farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the family tries to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of "enemy collaboration." Yet as Adair soon discovers, fate can be a double-edged sword. (Catalog summary)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
With ravishing beauty & unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room & whose memories of passion, betrayal, & rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening. (Catalog summary)
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown: World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist.
If you like Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, you me be interested in some of the recommended books from book searches from another entry in this series, The Da Vinci Code, available here: http://www.librarypoint.org/bm_da_vinci_code
In addition to those books listed, here are some other titles you may enjoy:
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! (amazon.com)
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage--not by guns or bombs -- but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. (amazon.com)
The Locket by Richard Paul Evans "features Michael Romney, an aimless young man working in a rest home whose contact with the elderly Esther turns his life around.
If you like The Locket by Richard Paul Evans, you may like these books:
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
"...As we watch nine-year-old Eliza Naumann transform herself from underachiever to spelling prodigy, we endure the pain out of respect for one girl's courage and all-consuming love. Eliza's family is gradually breaking down in front of her: father Saul, whose self-absorbed passion for Jewish mysticism blinds him to the suffering of those closest to him; mother Myriam, whose quest for perfection leads her into kleptomania; and brother Aaron, who rebels against his faith and turns to Hare Krishna. Eliza attempts to put her family back together by an act of will, spelling her way to harmony, with an assist from her father's Kabbalah masters." (Booklist)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his 'meaningless' life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: 'Why was I here?'
Saturday by Ian McEwan "follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him."
If you liked Saturday, here are several titles you may also enjoy:
Agapé Agape by William Gaddis
"The late William Gaddis wrote four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told via a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. This "man in the bed" lies dying, thinking anxiously about the book he still plans to write, grumbling about the deterioration of civilization and trying to explain his obsession to the world before he passes away or goes mad.
Agape- Agape continues Gaddis's career-long reflection via the form of the novel on those aspects of the corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts. It is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction."-catalog summary
The Amber Photograph by Penelope Stokes
Diedre McAlister's mother is dying. But before she lets go of this life, she givers her daughter an old photograph and these parting words: "Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don't expect it to be what you thought it would be."And Now Diedre's search begins-a quest to find the only person who can provide the missing pieces, the truth. But that search will cost Diedre her naive innocence and expose her family's unknown dark side. It will shake up Diedre's world, threaten lives, bring out the shadow of her past, challenge her faith-and quite possibly save her life.
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STAG Industrial Research Coverage Started at Capital One Financial Corp. (STAG)
Research analysts at Capital One Financial Corp. began coverage on shares of STAG Industrial (NASDAQ:STAG) in a report released on Tuesday. The firm set an "overweight" rating and a $25.00 price target on the stock. Capital One Financial Corp.'s price target would suggest a potential upside of 6.70% from the company's current price.
Separately, analysts at Sandler O'Neill initiated coverage on shares of STAG Industrial in a research note on Monday, July 21st. They set a "buy" rating and a $27.00 price target on the stock. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, The stock presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $25.50.
Shares of STAG Industrial (NASDAQ:STAG) opened at 23.50 on Tuesday. STAG Industrial has a 52-week low of $19.28 and a 52-week high of $25.19. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $23.41 and a 200-day moving average of $23.65. The company's market cap is $1.299 billion.
STAG Industrial (NASDAQ:STAG) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 30th. The company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.36. The company had revenue of $41.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $40.28 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.33 earnings per share. STAG Industrial's revenue was up 31.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts expect that STAG Industrial will post $1.48 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently declared a monthly dividend, which is scheduled for Monday, December 15th. Investors of record on Friday, November 28th will be given a dividend of $0.11 per share. This represents a $1.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 25th.
STAG Industrial, Inc is an integrated, full-service real estate company focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of single-tenant industrial properties throughout the United States.
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