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Some Are Not Meant to Understand
Posted July 1, 2011 at 6:31PM in Christian Life.
Today, as I was working my way through my Scripture readings, I came across the tough chapter of Isaiah 6. In the passage, the prophet Isaiah tells of a vision in which he sees the Lord sitting on His throne (v. 1), surrounded by seraphim, praising God to one another (v. 2-3). Isaiah explains:
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away; and your sin atoned for."
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." (v. 4-8, ESV)
Whenever I had heard this passage read prior to now in most churches, the reading of the passage stops here, with verse 8. The reading does not continue through the remainder of the chapter. In one case in particular, I can remember being asked to read from this chapter for a Scout Sunday at the church that hosted the troop in which I was a member six or seven years ago. Then, like the other times, the reading stopped abruptly with verse 8. (more…)
An Evening with Dr. James I. "Bud" Robertson
Posted June 25, 2011 at 2:31PM in Christian Life.
I haven't posted here in awhile, but following a very inspirational evening on Wednesday night, June 22, I cannot resist making a very brief post. As many of you may know, I have recently accepted a full-time position working as Historian and Information Technology Specialist at Pamplin Historical Park. One of the perks of the historian component of that role is the ability to attend a number of events featuring a number of very notable historians of the War of Secession period. For instance, this weekend I am traveling to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where I will attend Peter Carmichael's Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. The Institute will feature historians such as Gary Gallagher, Joe Glatthaar, A. Wilson Greene (of Pamplin Park), and Carmichael himself.
This past Wednesday, Dr. James I. "Bud" Robertson, recently retired Virginia Tech history professor and noted "Stonewall" Jackson scholar, gave a keynote talk to a group of Tech alumni in our banquet room at Pamplin Historical Park. I was invited to attend to listen in on the talk, and to provide assistance with Dr. Robertson's audio/visual needs. Dr. Robertson's talk focused primarily on whetting the appetites of the audience for an upcoming book that he will soon have published, which highlights some of the "little known facts" of the Late Unpleasantness. The talk was brilliant, and very educational, however, when it came time for him to address questions from the audience, the questions asked — and his responses — caused my ears to really perk up. (more…)
GNOME 3 (Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Beta TC.1) Test Drive
Posted April 7, 2011 at 1:54PM in Technology.
Last night I downloaded the test candidate for the beta Fedora 15 netinstall CD. I ran the install overnight, and ran Fedora 15's implementation of the new GNOME 3.0 desktop environment through its paces this morning.
This is a video I made near the end of the morning. The goal was to give a brief overview of the primary functions of the GNOME 3 environment, from launching applications and managing workspaces and favorite applications, to shutting down your computer.
Back when I was running GNOME 2 (notice the past tense!), I wasn't sure that there was an better, faster way to get things done with a computer. Open source software continually amazes, and just when you start thinking that things can't get any better, any faster, or any more efficient than they already are…they do! GNOME 3 is certainly not an exception to the rule, and I hope you'll consider enjoying its benefits as your own needs for technology suggest appropriate.
A (Somewhat) Cynical Approach to the Scientific and Historical Method
Posted March 15, 2011 at 4:55PM in History, Politics.
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, author and science historian Thomas S. Kuhn asserts that scientific study and research revolves around paradigms, or "universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners."1 His premise is that these paradigms hold true as a center for accepted fact and research for scientists until the paradigm's potential to bear fruit is decimated, or until there are too many questions to answer and mysteries to solve to go on working within it. It is at these times that paradigm shifts or, to use the author's terminology: "scientific revolutions" occur. During these revolutions, scientists construct new paradigms to entertain their research.
Kuhn's attitude towards scientists and their work is often quite cynical. One is led to wonder at the fact that he willingly takes such an attitude, while at the same time being reliant on the profession he is criticizing to make a living. For instance, he asserts that the normal scientist "often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of [his] basic commitments."2 Essentially, he is arguing that scientists side-step or ignore experimental evidence that is contrary to, or might lead them away from, the accepted paradigm. This is a very different attitude toward the scientific process than the scientists themselves like to promote. Kuhn suggests that the present scientific processes seem
an attempt to force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible box that the [currently accepted] paradigm supplies. No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others. Instead, normal-scientific research is directed to the articulation of those phenomena and theories that the paradigm already supplies.3
Finally, Kuhn warns that an attempt to understand certain facts about how the world operates from a science textbook will most certainly prove misleading, as "a concept of science drawn from them is no more likely to fit the enterprise that produced them than an image of a national culture drawn from a tourist brochure or a language text."4
While I do not claim to be a scientist, or for that matter, to know much about scientific research, discovery, and theory, I cannot help but observe some similarities between Kuhn's assertions about the hard sciences and my own experiences in the field of history. In the spirit of the liberal arts philosophy by which my undergraduate education has largely been influenced, I should like to present those observations.
If scientists form paradigms that facilitate the discovery of experimental results and the formation of theories that are convenient for study at a given time, historians conduct research and derive conclusions based on what is convenient to study and conclude at a given time. Certainly, the political, social, and religious atmosphere of the time period in question stands largely to influence what is determined "convenient" for the two respective fields. For instance, when the political climate shifts to favor environmentalism, scientific study will form paradigms that suggest that, without significant lifestyle changes, the human race will harm the earth, possibly so severely that it will contribute to its own destruction. In history, when the political and social climate focuses its attention significantly on issues of race and gender, the historian will conduct his work in such a way as to select sources and make assertions about how far society has progressed in those areas over time, and how far it has yet still to progress to reach the desired apex. Similarly, when society seeks to glorify militarism, the historian is likely to select sources and draw conclusions that proclaim the glory and aggressive bravery of years gone by.
If Kuhn argues that the scientist is selective of the experiments he conducts—and even the results he observes and reports, based on the paradigm within which he operates, the historian is likewise selective of the studies and research he conducts—and the findings he reports, based on the sociol-cultural environment in which he operates. Indeed, the historical record is so diverse that it is possible to make convincing arguments for virtually any notion about history one desires. During a time of war, there is evidence to justify almost any cause the historian desires. America was victorious during World War II, and so today students around the world are taught of the wartime atrocities committed by the losing nations, Japan and Germany, because America was victorious, and so it is popular to glorify the United States and her allies at the cost of the losing powers. If the Allied Powers had lost that conflict, it is doubtless that today schoolchildren around the world would learn of the undesirable conditions of the Japanese Relocation Camps, and the wartime atrocities of her own soldiers and nuclear weapons technology.
Before reading Kuhn, I might have been tempted to look on my own field with cynicism, while risking being convinced that the hard sciences are more solid and reliable. But, with Kuhn's convincing assertions in mind, I am more aware than ever of the diversity of evidence available to both fields. If Kuhn is correct, and historians and scientists alike conduct their research, select evidence, and form conclusions based on what is convenient and popular, I wonder if their fields are not so different after all.
1Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Ill.), x.
2Ibid., 5.
3Ibid., 24.
4Ibid., 1.
Manna Feast: The Sufficiency of God's Word, and His Awesome Faithfulness
Posted February 27, 2011 at 4:57PM in Christian Life.
I love the Word of God! It is the responsibility of those who have been elected by God to feast regularly on His Word. For me, this means striving to spend at least some amount of time each day intentionally seeking God through reading and praying over Scripture. Most days, I find that, by His never-ending, never-waning grace, God provides some morsel of Truth through that study that gives me food for thought and prayer through the day. Often, that Truth is a convicting one — exposing to me some area of my life that needs to either be purged in order to allow for a greater reliance on God, or to something that needs to be turned over to God, or given over to Him more fully.
While virtually every time I intentionally seek God through His Word is fruitful in some way, there are days when the "manna feast" is so abundant that I am awe-struck: completely dumb-founded by God's glory, goodness, and the all-sufficiency of His Word as food for His people. Today was one of those days. There are those who are skeptical that the Word of God is all-sufficient, providing guidance and instruction for every aspect of the life of a Christian. However, I am convinced that the more a person, experiencing God's spiritual regeneration, spends time with Him in prayer, and spends time in the study of Scripture, the more they become rightfully convinced of the contrary: For the Christian, Scripture is all-sufficient.
My time in the Word today has left me so full that I could not help seeking, with His help, to allow some of that fullness to overflow onto this page, in hopes that what will be shared might contribute to a similar abundance of comfort, joy, and fullness in Him in you as well.
My readings today seemed to emphasize two great Truths. I'll focus on one of them today, in the interest of length, and Lord willing, offer some thoughts on the second tomorrow.
God's faithfulness to His promises is uncompromising. He unreservedly seeks His best for His people, and His ability and willingness to protect them is unquestionable.
This reminder began as I read Proverbs 25, an awesome chapter of Solomon's wisdom. In verses 21-22, we read, "If he that hateth thee be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt lay coals upon his head, and the Lord shall recompense thee."
As I read this, I was reminded of similar words from Paul in Romans 12. There is no doubt that Paul knew his Scripture! "Recompense no man evil for evil: procure things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as in you is, have peace with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with goodness." (Romans 12:17-20)
Together, the consistency of these two passages reminded me that we are not to seek sufficiency in ourselves, but instead, to place all trust in God. Self-sufficiency would suggest that we should take vengeance ourselves on those who do us wrong, or on those who hate us. Self-sufficiency suggests that we cannot trust that anyone can handle our problems, or settle our score but us. Self-sufficiency leads us to hate and destroy others, rather than to love them.
God-sufficiency says instead: Let God handle the situation. Give place to God's wrath (Romans 12:19). After all, He is the stronger, abler party, and His power to convict is much greater than any act of self-vengeance we might dream up. So, instead, we should respond to our enemies with love. We are to feed them when they are hungry, provide them drink when they thirst, and give them clothes when theirs are tattered (Luke 6:29; Matthew 5:40; Matthew 25:31-46). When we do this, we have the assurance, given us by Paul's admonition in his letter to the Romans, and by Solomon's words in the Proverb, that God will handle the vengeance Himself. Our love for our enemy, as evidenced by the fruits of generosity it produces, allows God to repay by "heap[ing] coals of fire on his head." After all, vengeance is His (Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19).
This theme came up again when I turned to my reading in the Psalms for the day. In Psalm 70, David is in trouble. He's in a bad situation, and his enemies are troubling him. But, he refuses to place his trust in his own strength, and seek to be triumphant by his own power. Instead, he turns his trust to God, knowing that if his enemy is to be rightfully defeated, his defeat must come at God's hands alone. Let's read:
O God, haste thee to deliver me:
make haste to help me, O Lord.
Let them be confounded and put to shame,
that seek my soul:
let them be turned backward and put to rebuke,
that desire mine hurt.
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame
who say, Aha, aha.
But let those that seek thee,
be joyful and glad in thee,
and let all that love thy salvation,
say always, God be praised.
Now I am poor and needy:
O God, make haste to me:
thou art my helper and my deliverer:
O Lord, make no tarrying.
We need not doubt that God will be faithful in His promises to protect and guard those He loves. For "we know that all things work together for the best unto them that love God, even to them that are called of his purpose" (Romans 8:28).
Finally, I think one of the awesome things about the Old Testament Scriptures (and a good reason why we, under the New Covenant, should still spend time in the study of God's work under the Old Covenant) is that the Old Testament is filled with examples of God's faithfulness to His Word, His ability to fulfill His promises to His people, and His ability to defend them from the evil of their enemies. My reading in the Old Testament today was Joshua 21. Towards the end of the chapter, I was reminded, once again, of God's all-fulfilling faithfulness to those He loves:
So the Lord gave unto Israel all the land, which he had sworn to give unto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. Also the Lord gave them rest round about according to all that he had sworn unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them: for the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed nothing of all the good things, which the Lord had said unto the house of Israel, but all came to pass. (Joshua 21:43-45)
Brothers and sisters, don't doubt the faithfulness of God. What He has said He will do, He will do. When He promises He will protect you from evil, with your trust, He will do it. Find rest in the fullness and sufficiency of His Word, and of these promises!
Reflective Thoughts on The Powers to Lead, a Book by Joseph Nye
Posted February 8, 2011 at 6:39PM in Christian Life.
The oft-unrecognized and important distinction between two opposing forms of leadership
In the preface of his work, The Powers to Lead, author Joseph S. Nye, Jr. offers up the following definition of power: "Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes one wants." I highlighted that statement when I read it, because it struck me, not in a positive way, but in a negative one. Such an outlook on power seems to necessitate such selfishness on the part of the beholder, an attitude that not only suggests that a powerful person must think himself right, but that he must want to make certain his righteousness so badly that he will "affect others," manipulating them to give him what he desires most.
Humility has been a trait that I have actively sought in my friends, one that I greatly cherish in them, and something that I desire to see more greatly manifested in my own life. Nye's work is effective in presenting an assessment of what makes a great earthly heroic leader. He suggests that to be a great earthly leader, one must maintain an effective balance of hard and soft power in order to manipulate subordinates to achieve the goals that are set before them – the goals of the leader. This seems a reasonable suggestion in a world filled with selfish desires and an over-abundance of people who seek, more than anything else, to fulfill some so-called American Dream of financial prosperity and physical gratification and comfort. Indeed, what better leader than one who can successfully manipulate followers into believing that his dream is their dream, that if they do things his way, their own desires will be satisfied, and that uncompromising service to his every whim will produce the greatest profit, the greatest pleasure, not only for the leader, but for each person who serves him as well.
These concerns and evaluations seem reasonable for current and aspiring worldly leaders, and, as Nye discusses, for worldly leaders such as Jim Jones who put up a facade, at least temporarily, that his aspirations were spiritual. However, as a Christian who has learned through my spiritual walk to devalue things of this world, it was inevitable that Nye's book would challenge me to assess how worldly leadership compares and contrasts with spiritual or religious leadership. While Christians make much of the notion of servant leadership, or the idea of serving God and His creation and the people who comprise it as a way to point others to His service, as I read Nye's book, my own cynical nature prompted me to question this notion, and to consider whether so-called servant leadership is simply a disguised form of the worldly leadership Nye discusses. (more…)
"Handbag Game" — An Open Letter
Posted October 5, 2010 at 6:50PM in Christian Life.
Hello everyone,
Well, it appears that the mischief has begun again. Many of you doubtless remember last year, when so many women got involved in a "game" in which they posted their bra colors on Facebook, for the whole world to see. Dyllan Shaw, a friend of mine, took the initiative and posted a note regarding this unfortunate activity. I'm going to do it this year.
Yes, things have gotten going again to raise so-called "awareness" about breast cancer. Women are apparently being encouraged to post what are apparently sexually explicit and suggestive status messages regarding the placement of their handbags. If only the suggestion that results from the wording used in these messages were so innocent!
Those of you so-called "christian" "ladies" who have done this — and you know who you are — I am ashamed of you, shocked, and appalled. You are better than this. You are above this. Please, start acting like it.
As a young man, I struggle daily to combat sin and to live a life that is pleasing to my Father. Your activity — no matter how innocent its real meaning might be — sends a false, suggestive meaning that does not edify your brothers or your sisters in Christ. If you truly want to raise breast cancer awareness, please do it with modesty, maturity, and decency. Lead (and live) by example. I plead with you in love as a brother who cares for you as a child of God — don't provoke your brothers (or your sisters) to sin.
If you aren't a harlot, please stop acting like one.
With love in Christ from a fellow stranger and pilgrim on the earth,
- Adam
"Then said he to his disciples, It cannot be avoided, but that offences will come, but woe be to him by whom they come. It is better for him that a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were cast into the sea, then that he should offend one of these little ones." (Luke 17:1-2)
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." (1 Timothy 4:12)
"Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak." (1 Corinthians 8:9)
Brothers in Christ who value purity above pleasing men (and women) (Galatians 1:10), please feel free to repost this letter, edit it as you see fit, and sign it. It's time to be Godly men and take a stand for what is right, no matter the cost. God bless.
Letting Go
Posted April 21, 2010 at 11:03AM in Christian Life.
I received the below from my mother yesterday afternoon. I hope that some others who may be reading this find it as beneficial as I have. Not all of it is necessarily True for how I believe God would have us to approach things, but much of it, I think, is consistent with the Christian worldview.
Fellowship & the Workings of Providence
Posted April 16, 2010 at 11:20PM in Christian Life.
The last couple of weeks have brought great blessings from the Holy Spirit. Let me share some of them with you.
Several weeks ago, I made contact with the Lansings, who I've mentioned in several of my previous posts, for Christian accountability. I won't write about specifics here, but one suggestion that I was given was that my presence on Facebook seems to have been a loophole for Satan in my life. I responded by voluntarily turning over my password to be reset by my friend Ben, who agreed not to let me back into Facebook until he felt comfortable that my presence there would bless God.
What has been incredible about my absence from Facebook has been that it has not only honored God by making it more difficult for Satan to succeed in tempting me in the one area, but it has also kept him out of a number of other areas of sin in my life that I was not even fully aware of when I was on Facebook before — but now they are exposed and Satan has been set on the run. The other great thing about taking a Facebook sabbatical is that I have learned how much time I had been spending there before. While certainly not all the time spent there could be considered time in service to the flesh, it is certainly true that a significant portion of it was. It has been nice to have the time freed up for study of the Word, Park projects, and yes, even some academic work. (more…)
Why I Don't Go to JMU
Posted April 11, 2010 at 2:38PM in Politics.
Towards the end of my four years at the Governor's School, when I began searching for colleges to attend, one of the significant reasons I ultimately chose Bridgewater College was because it was not only religiously affiliated, encouraging "Christian values," but because it was a dry campus.
I spent a great deal of my early life living with an abusive alcoholic stepfather, and my mind had been trained to panic at the scent of beer and other alcoholic beverages. It was ingrained in me how harmful alcohol could be, and I vowed to be a tee-totaler when I grew up. I most certainly wanted to ensure that I could do my best to avoid the rowdy, violent, and debaucherous harlotries that come with most college parties.
When I came to Bridgewater, I was very disappointed, because, though it claimed to be a dry campus, it seemed that little was done to enforce those regulations. However, recent events have reminded me that, imperfect though it may be, an officially "dry campus" still does much to maintain a habitable, respectable campus community. (more…)


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One of our favorite games of E3 will soon be playable by you. THQ has announced that a two-level Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine demo will be released for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC on August 23, followed by a PS3 demo on August 24. Those who have already preordered the game on Steam will get the demo on August 18, a few days early. The Steam promotion will correspond to a game discount on the service. Finally, those in the Space Marine 'Honour Guard' community will get the demo a day early, on August 22.
"The Space Marine demo features two very different areas of the game," writes THQ. "The first pits the player against an Ork horde outside the gates of a munitions factory. Armed with six devastating weapons, including the iconic bolter and lethal chainsword, the player will get to experience Space Marine's seamless mix of melee and ranged combat first hand as they take on the rampaging invaders. The second area gives players a taste of the exhilarating Jump Pack sequences where the game's hero—Captain Titus—takes to the skies to rain death from above."
Our impressions of the game at E3 were overwhelmingly positive. It's a game that grows on you, borrowing a bit from the Gears of War series (which, we've learned, borrowed from Warhammer first), but adds more melee and moves at a faster pace. Check out our impressions of the game to learn more. The E3 trailer is also worth a gander, if you're interested.
Space Marine hits digital and retail shelves on Sept. 6.

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Episode 259 is the fifty-ninth episode of the second season of Deal or No Deal, and the ninety-eighth episode overall.
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- Autumn Goolsby's carryover game didn't have such a happy ending. Her game peaked at $54,000 in the third round, but things started going downhill in the very next round when she eliminated top remaining amounts $500,000 and $750,000 on back-to-back picks. Her deal crumbled to $14,000, but after a brief recovery, lost her last six-digit amount ($100,000) on the next pick. After rejecting a $3,000 deal, she then wiped out the only sizable amount left — $25,000 — with five cases left. Left with four amounts of $750 or less, she immediately accepted a $150 offer. Her case had $750, while 1 cent, $1 and $100 were also still on the board.
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With the price of bacon and sausage said to increase within the next few months, making your own bacon will become not only a fun side project, but also a cost cutting tool.
The only difficult part about this recipe is having to wait five days for your bacon.
Although pork belly is sometimes difficult to find at local grocery stores, many will order in pork bellies on special request.
I hope you and your family are enjoying a wonderful holiday week. As we wind down the holidays, and if you have a live cut Christmas tree this year, the question may arise, "What should I do with my Christmas tree?"
Instead of pitching that tree in the trash, consider recycling it.
One way to recycle the tree is to use it as a wildlife habitat and spread some holiday cheer to the birds.
Not only will the birds appreciate the gesture, but a tree in the yard covered with bird-food ornaments brightens the winter landscape.
We are now in the midst of the holiday season. I hope that you are enjoying a more relaxed week and will have time for some family activities or time with those special friends.
Family time is so very important today. Sharing meaningful times together with your children, playing, talking or eating a family meal together can make a difference in their lives.
These times together strengthen family bonds and create special memories for both you and your children.
Victoria Crutcher, 4; Ella Martin, 7; and Taylor Lair, 11, all of Carrollton, pictured left to right, won The News-Democrat's 2012 Holiday Coloring Contest in their age categories and received $20. Winners were announced at the annual Carrollton Main Street Program's "A Christmas Carroll."
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Dysejaculation and pain from the groin and genitals during sexual activity represent a clinically significant problem in up to 4% of younger males after open inguinal herniorrhaphy. The aim of this questionnaire study is to assess the prevalence of dysejaculation and pain during sexual activity after laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy on a nationwide basis.
The study population comprised all men aged 18-50 years registered in the Danish Hernia Database (n = 1,671) who underwent primary laparoscopic herniorrhaphy between January 1, 1998 and November 30, 2009. Questionnaires regarding dysejaculation and pain during sexual activity were mailed 3 months to 12 years after surgery, and 1,172 patients were included for analysis.
The response rate was 68.7% (n = 805). Dysejaculation occurring after laparoscopic repair was present in 25 patients (3.1%). Pain from the groin or genitals during sexual activity was reported by 88 patients (10.9%), and 19 patients (2.4%) reported that the pain had impaired their sexual activity to a moderate or severe degree. Older patients and patients with longer follow-up had lower prevalence of pain during sexual activity.
Dysejaculation and pain-related impairment of sexual activity is a significant problem after laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy. The role of improved laparoscopic technique with use of glue fixation of lightweight meshes to reduce the risk of developing these complications needs to be evaluated.
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Safety and Efficacy of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair: Comparative Study with Conventional Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair.
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Does Tension-Free Herniorrhaphy or Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy Achieve Equal or Better Recurrence Rates and Lower Costs While Achieving Equivalent Outcomes for Hernia Patients?
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Sitting close to the old Boblo docks in Amherstburg, Ontario, lies this lighthouse. The area has a number of islands, but I don't know if this lighthouse is operaional.
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The New Republic's Scores
- Movies
For 458 reviews, this publication has graded:
39% higher than the average critic
2% same as the average critic
59% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
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Mixed: 152 out of 458
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Its very existence as a film sets up expectations that wouldn't exist within a book -- another reason I'd bet that there would be more pleasure in reading the screenplay. I can't remember ever thinking that previously about a film. (1998 May 23, p. 26)
- The New Republic
Still, it never quite realizes the oneiric quality because, paradoxically, of its best achievement--the performances of the two boys. They are vital, insistent. Their beings contradict the dreaminess and make us ask the questions mentioned above.
Just a series of episodes: it has no trace of the structure that has supported drama and comedy for two millennia.
The trouble, which becomes quickly and oppressively apparent, is that the screenplay has no point except its plot. No theme, no intent of anything like Oliver Stone weight, is ever manifested.
All in the cast are competent, and some of the slaughter scenes make us ache, but the overlaid material does not enrich, it impedes.
The one attraction in the picture is DiCaprio's performance: easy yet strong, confident, humorous.
Formally, Boyz is just one more old-time bad-neighborhood picture. Instead of, say, Manhattan's Lower East Side in Prohibition days, it's an LA lower-middle-class black neighborhood afflicted with drugs. And Singleton's control of his picture's flow is much less firm than was the other directors'. [2 Sept 1991]
- The New Republic
The disaster is John Malkovich in the key role of Valmont... From the moment he steps out of a carriage at the start, he walks and gestures like Malkovich. He has done nothing to bring himself to the part, not even bothering to learn how to pronounce "mademoiselle." ("Madam-uhzell," says M.) [2 Jan 1989, p.24]
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We can almost hear the way he (Keitel) will speak a line before he speaks it. The triteness of the role and its performance, instead of dramatizing the contrast between this philistine and the artist, makes the confrontation between the two men a smug setup.
Combination of comedy and gravity is certainly common enough, but it requires a sure hand and perceptible intent. This screenplay has some neat touches, but it never makes up its mind.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is sometimes slipshod in its making and juvenile in its travesty, and of course it has no interest in overall fairness to Bush. But it vents an anger about this presidency that, as the film's ardent reception shows, seethes in very many of us.
All these mystical elements are so sententiously handled and bump into one another so clumsily that they make the film seem nutty. But because spirituality is the theme of Bee Season, we are obviously not meant to laugh at it. Well, I wish I could get Jehovah's reaction to the picture.
Candor about homosexuality is now so widely accepted as part of theater-film possibilities that plays and films offering not much more than such candor seem dated. In that sense Love! Valour! Compassion! is an important, if dull, milestone. [09Jun1997 Pg 30]
- The New Republic
The best performance comes from Stanley Tucci as the Runway art director. Tucci presents a homosexual man without a trace of cartoon--shrewd, skilled, and weathered without being worn. It is a well-judged and accomplished piece of work.
Midnight Run is two films. One is a succession of bright, razor-edge, nutty dialogues between two men. The other is the plot that keeps them together, which is stale and full of boring violent-comic action. [29 Aug 1988]
- The New Republic
None of the film is exciting, and, despite the preeningly smooth flow of the story, little of it is interesting.
Less would have been more. Still, CSA has some laughs, most of them bitter.
The picture's effect: the sexual element is trenchant, while the status of Muslim youth registers strongly.
Nicholson, one of the best actors in American screen history, is miscast again… He is quite visibly uncomfortable in his role. It needed an actor who could easily be viciously stuffy, like William Hurt. Nicholson struggles for the core of the man but never gets it. [Feb. 2, 1998]
- The New Republic
The danger in Hong's procedure is obvious. Dramatists learned long ago that it is risky to include a static character because he may so easily bore the audience.
The actors understand completely why they are there. The editing, complex because of several time strands, is more than skillful. But the screenplay by von Trotta and Pamela Katz suborns its subject.
This sort of investigation has been done so masterfully by Sam Peckinpah in "The Wild Bunch" and Oliver Stone in "Natural Born Killers" that, in a sternly utilitarian sense, we don't need Cronenberg. He is not, as far as I have seen, in their class. He proves it again in A History of Violence.
Built on one of those particularly ludicrous plots in which, just before the end, we are meant to believe that a long succession of coincidences was really a diabolical scheme. [23 Feb 1998, p. 24]
- The New Republic
Black comedy? Black enough, but they muffed the other word. Robert Benton and Harold Ramis, put on dunce caps and go stand in the corner.
I could have managed to bear all the film's shortcomings if it weren't for Clooney. Where was he during the making of this film? His face is there, he knows his lines, he moves as needed, but any traces of the intelligence and rapport, the subtlety and understanding, that have marked his best work are excruciatingly missing. Clooney behaves as if he discovered after he had committed to the film that he really didn't like the script as much as he thought he did but would go through with it anyway. The result is puppetry.
Malkovich has done considerable directing in the theater, but nothing in the acting here shows acuteness of choice or subtlety of touch.
The $25 million of his own that Gibson is said to have put into this film may be conscience money, and the savagery in the picture may--consciously or not--be Gibson's way of saying that violence is not always valueless.
Brazil doesn't add up to much, not only because its cautionary tales are familiar, but because it has no real point of view, nothing urgent under its facile symbols. And the story winds on and on looking for a finish. Three or four times I reached for my coat prematurely. [17 Feb 1986, p.26]
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Literal-minded to the last, I felt nothing but pity for Tom Cruise, fanged, wigged and costumed, trying hard with his considerable talent to make his sanguinary appetite real. [12Dec1994 Pg. 24]
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And as film, Apollo 13 is dull… Partly it's because there are no characters, no room for any substantive character development… Apollo 13 is staffed with human puppets. [31 July 1995]
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Ricoh GXR/A12 50mm Review
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Studio Tests - 33mm F2.5 Macro GR lens
NOTE - These tests use RAW files converted with ACR 5.6 for the MTF50 calculations, and as we've noted elsewhere in this review, this appears to be a sub-optimal combination. This means that comparisons with other lenses should be viewed with caution - we suspect the Ricoh's numbers are being underestimated.
Ricoh were keen to stress to us the quality of the 'GR' series 33mm F2.5 Macro lens, and our tests show that their confidence in the optics is well-founded. There's very little to complain about here at all - the corners are slightly soft wide open, but this unlikely to be a problem in practice, as these areas of the frame will probably be either out-of-focus, or simply pictorially unimportant, anyway.
|Wide open at F2.5, sharpness is very good in the center and across most of the frame, just dropping off somewhat towards the extreme edge and corners. Close the aperture down a couple of notches to F3.3, though, and the corners sharpen up nicely. Performance is then impressively high and even across the frame, until diffraction starts degrading the image at small apertures. As usual on APS-C apertures smaller than F16 should probably be avoided, unless extreme depth of field is essential.
|Chromatic Aberration
|Chromatic aberration is very low indeed, with just-about-noticeable red/cyan fringing at the corners. If you shoot in JPEG, the camera will automatically correct this anyway.
|We consider falloff to become perceptible when the corner illumination falls to more than 1 stop less than the center. At a maximum of 2/3 stop wide open, there's really nothing to see here.
|Distortion is (as we'd expect from a lens designated 'Macro') very low indeed, at a near-imperceptible 0.4% barrel. In the shooting menu you've got the option to turn on distortion correction, but this doesn't have any effect (it appears to be a body function which has been implemented for use with other camera modules).
Macro Focus
|Macro - 40 x 26 mm coverage
106 px/mm (2686 px/in)
Distortion: Low
Corner softness: Excellent
Equiv. focal length: 50 mm
The A12's macro mode lets you focus from a minimum distance of 7 cm (30 cm in standard mode) which is approximately half life-size. This is not quite as good as the best dedicated macro lenses for SLRs, but still allows for interesting macro photography (photographer's skills permitting). Image quality at such short subject distances is still excellent but the macro mode is slightly let down by its Auto Focus performance. It's very slow, tends to hunt and frequently requires several attempts to lock on, making manual focus the better solution for this type of photography.
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- 3 Specifications
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- 6 Body & Design
- 7 Operation & Controls
- 8 Operation & Controls
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Baton Rouge, LA -- Water will find a way. The old saying holds true for more than just the leak in your old roof. It explains a lot about the ever-changing course of a vast interlaced network of rivers, streams, brooks and storm-waters in the fragile land areas known as floodplains.
Trying to capture an accurate picture of this evolving scenario is an on-going challenge for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The data is critical to keeping people out of harm's way, spotting potential risks and keeping National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) costs in line with up-to-date risk assessment.
FEMAs Map Modernization Program is part of an effort to gauge floodplain risks better by moving from manual cartography to real-time high-resolution digital satellite imagery that uses new laser-based sensing technologies (LIDR), Geographic Information Systems computer models and other data base tools.
One of the programs' main goals is to create a clear and accessible series of flood maps that accurately depict the risk premium in purchasing NFIP insurance.
"People tend to make good decisions when they have solid up-to-date facts," said Carlos Mitchell, federal coordinating officer for Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane Lili. "These new flood maps should help residents and businesses see their risks and lessen the cost of future damage by purchasing flood insurance and undertaking mitigation measures."
NFIP policyholders in participating communities are encouraged to visit local code enforcement officials for more information, especially when a resident applies for a building permit. Some of the most common questions include:
What factors determine flood insurance premiums?
Major factors include the amount of coverage purchased; the deductible; and the location, age, occupancy and type of building. For newer buildings in floodplains, the elevation of the lowest floor relative to the elevation of the 1-percent-annual-chance flood can also be used to rate the policy.
My house is not in a floodplain according to the current map, but the
new map will show it as being in a floodplain. Will I have to purchase
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Lending institutions that are federally insured or regulated, including local banks with FDIC deposit insurance must see evidence of NFIP coverage before they grant secured financing to buy, build, or improve structures in special flood hazard areas. If your property has such federally-related financing and you do not already have flood insurance, your lender may contact you once the new map takes effect and require that you purchase flood insurance. If you do not purchase the insurance within 45 days after being informed that flood insurance is required, the lender can force place the insurance and charge you for the cost of it.
If you dispute the lender's determination that your property is located in a floodplain, you and your lender can jointly request a Letter of Determination Review from FEMA within 45 days of being informed by your lender that your property is located in a floodplain. If you have insurance before the new maps take effect, the basis for rating that policy remains unchanged (i.e., you can use the rate that was charged to you when your property was located outside the floodplain).
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Around the Farm: June 15, 2013
Danny Salazar (Columbus SP)- 5 IP, 2 R(ER), 8 K's- Perhaps the most electric arm in the system posted a very solid start Saturday night. While limited to 88 pitches Salazar went deep enough to earn a win and show off his special stuff. Only four base runners in five innings and eight strikeouts is a very strong start. Who knows whether injuries will eventually force Salazar to the bullpen but either way he is incredibly interesting to follow.
Cord Phelps (Columbus 1B)- 3-4, 1 R - A second straight big night for the super utility, four-A player. After Cord's hot spring it looked as if he would finally cement himself as a major-league bench guy but he continues to struggle to establish himself on the Indians roster. Alas, any organizational production is good production.
Lonnie Chisenhall (Columbus 3B)- 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI - Another player who has struggled to establish himself at the big-league level continues to wreak havoc on International League pitching. With Reynolds' struggles, no doubt Chisenhall will be on his way to Cleveland again sometime soon.
- Chun Chen (Columbus DH)- 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI - Chen seams to continually fill the stat sheet somehow and even on a one hit night, found a way to contribute.
- Clay Rapada (Columbus LHP)- 1 IP, 1 H - A good outing as the Indians staff will constantly be monitoring how soon the Tribe can replace Rich Hill.
- Jose Ramirez (Akron SS) 0-3, 1 RBI, BB -Ramirez still snuck his way on base in an empty outing.
- Jesus Aguilar (Akron 1B) -1-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB - Two things you love to see from Aguilar: hitting for power and taking free passes. Aguilar is an interesting player with some upside but it is clear that his power will dictate whether he can make an impact at the big league level so nights like these are important.
- Carlos Moncrief (Akron CF) -2-4, 1 2B,1 HR, 1 RBI - Of the multitude of young guys at new levels this season, Moncrief has been one of the most impressive. This trend continued Friday night as his average sits at .289 with 9 homeruns.
- Giovanny Urshela (Akron 3B) -2-4, 2B - 8 of 9 Akron position players had hits including this strong outing from Urshela.
- Quincy Latimore (Akron RF)-2-4, 1 R, 2 2B - Latimore like the rest of the lineup was productive on Saturday night.
- Jordan Cooper (Akron SP) - 5.1 IP, 3 H, 7 K's, 3 BB - A very good performance from Cooper, someone who was well profiled by the IBI's Stephanie Metzger.
- C.C. Lee (Akron RP)- 2 IP, 3 K's - The best outing out of the many strong relievers throughout the system last night belonged to Lee.
- Tyler Naquin, Game 1 (Carolina CF)-2-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, K - Naquin continued to producedand while his strikeout rate is concerning, his results so far have been positive. One wonders how long it will be before he is called up to Akron.
- Francisco Lindor, Game 1 (Carolina SS) - 2-4, 2 R, RBI, Lindor has been incredible, there is not much more insight I can add other than to say that he looks like the real deal. A consummate professional, who has the skill and the drive to be an impact major leaguer.
- Joe Wendle, Game 1 (Carolina 2B) -2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI - Wendle is one of my favorite prospects to follow because he just continues to hit. He has at points been too old for his level but his production should draw more interest than it does.
- Mudcat's Offense, Game 2- 7-27, 1 R.The second game showed the Mudcat's potent offense go quiet.
- Francisco Jimenez, Game 2 (Carolina RP)- 2 IP, 3 H, 1 BB. Jimenez was solid in terms of run prevention but not particularly dominant. He just managed to work out of trouble.
- Dorssys Paulino, Game 1 (Lake County SS) -2-3, 1 HR, 1 RBI - As highlighted by Jim Piascik, Paulino's production has continued to increase from month to month as the weather warms. What is more is that he appears to be adjusting and improving something you always like to see when a young player struggles early.
- Eric Haase, Game 1 (Lake County C)-2-3, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI - Haase showed the sort of power you like to see behind the dish.
- Yhoxian Medina, Game 1 (Lake County 2B) - 2-3, 2 R, 1 3B. Medina has shown good plate discipline and has had success offensively in Lake County since his demotion from Carolina.
- Jake Sisco, Game 1 (Lake County SP)- 5.2 IP, 2 R, 1 ER, 5 BB, 2 K's- While he sneaked out with limited damage, the walks are a huge concern as his control must improve as he continues to develop.
- Jorge Martinez, Game 2 (Lake County RF)-2-3, 1 R, 1 2B - Martinez has struggled mightily in his exposure to full season but his Saturday night proved to be productive.
- Jeremy Lucas, Game 2 (Lake County DH) 1-2, 1 HR, 1 RBI - Lucas helped provide enough offense for the Captains to steal a doubleheader sweep.
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Ranjeev Deol
Ranjeev Deol (born October 19, 1976 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian field hockey player, who plays for West Coast Kings HC.
He played club hockey in the Netherlands since 2003, first at HC Rotterdam then HC MOP and later on with HC Den Bosch and in Australia (Woodville HC). After his international career Ranjeev came back to The Netherlands and returned to HC MOP. After 2 seasons he left MOP and now he is playing for MHC MEP.
International career[edit]
Deol played in the 2008 Olympic Games (Beijing) and 2010 Hockey World Cup (Delhi) and played his first international senior tournament for the Men's National Team in 1998, at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.[1]
In 2000 Deol missed the Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the Canadians finished tenth.[2]
Personal life[edit]
His father Surjeet S. Deol competed in field hockey for Kenya at three Olympic Games: 1956, 1960 and 1964.[3] He belonged to village Boparai Kalan (ludhiana).[4]
International senior competitions[edit]
- 1998 — Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur (not ranked)
- 2001 — World Cup Qualifier, Edinburgh (8th)
- 2002 — Commonwealth Games, Manchester (6th)
- 2003 — Pan American Games, Santo Domingo (2nd)
- 2004 — Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Madrid (11th)
- 2004 — Pan Am Cup, London (2nd)
- 2007 — Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Malaysia
- 2007 — Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro Brazil (1st)
- 2008- Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Malaysia
- 2008 — Olympic Games, Beijing (10th)
- 2009 — Pan American Cup, Santiago Chile (1st)
- 2009- Champions Challenge, Salta Argentina
- 2010- Hockey World Cup, New Delhi India (11th)
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Jamie Lendino is the principal composer for Sound For Games Interactive, a premier creator of sound effects and scoring focused on interactive media. He has created custom music, ambient soundscapes, and adaptive audio for some of the biggest mobile, PC, and console games in recent years, including both licensed and original IPs. He is familiar with all current delivery platforms, and works closely with project leads and programmers alike to create stellar-sounding audio--always on time and on budget.
May 2010
Jamie was interviewed for a fourth book, Game Industry Career Guide, by Jeannie Novak and Michael E. Moore; it's available now, and is a good resource for anyone interested in getting into the industry for the first time.
September 2009
Jamie is featured in a third book for the game industry, Game QA & Testing, by Luis Levy and Jeannie Novak. He discusses the implementation and testing process for integrating audio assets in games.
October 2008
Jamie has appeared in two of Aaron Marks' new books, Game Audio Development and The Complete Guide to Game Audio, 2nd Edition. He said anyone looking to break into the industry should consider these must-buy resources--even though he's ever-so-slightly biased.
July 2008
Jamie designed all of the sound effects for Electronic Arts' Monopoly for the iPod. Venan Entertainment developed the game, while Apple and EA served as publishers. It's available now for the iPod Classic, the 5G iPod, and the 4G iPod Nano from the iTunes Store.
December 2007
Jamie created all sound effects and music for SpongeBob's Atlantis Treasures, a mobile game published by THQ Wireless. It's available now from major cell phone portals.


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Drake has a message, and it's a message for the ladies. "I came on this tour as a 24-year-old single man," the Canadian tells the crowd at his first-ever international show. "I enjoy such things as pussy, sex, sexual things, all of the above."
Gyrating his combat-trousered hips, Drake then proceeds to mime a speciality of his called the Drizzy Three Stroke, and suffice to say it doesn't involve baseball or biking.
Along with blowing the minds of the majority of the females in the audience, he's blown my image of him as a gentleman-rapper. But, crotch-thrusting inter-lewds aside, there's still plenty to be said for the idea that Aubrey Drake Graham is not like those other guys.
In a rap world where being "real" is prized above all else, Drake doesn't have a leg to stand on. The mixed race (African-American, Jewish-Canadian), multi-skilled (rapper, singer, actor) Toronto native acknowledges on his song "Show Me a Good Time" that "real hip-hop fans" find him "manufactured". And it's true that the wealthy Forest Hill area in which he was raised isn't exactly the 'hood. Instead, he was assisted by a solid grounding in music: his father drummed for Jerry Lee Lewis, and his uncle is the legendary Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham.
To make matters worse, he's done things backwards by moving from acting into rapping. Drake made his name by playing disabled former basketball star Jimmy Brooks in Degrassi: The Next Generation before becoming a Lil Wayne protégé and making his smooth ascent via guest spots and a Juno award-winning mixtape (the seven-track So Far Gone) to the point where his debut album, dotted with celebrity cameos, topped the Billboard charts (and did respectably elsewhere, reaching No 15 over here).
He makes a little speech tonight about how "fame is synonymous with hate", but Drake's had it so good it would make anyone sick, not just a confirmed hater. The trouble is, he's brilliant. That album, Thank Me Later – produced, cannily, by relative unknowns Noah "40" Shebib and Boi-1da – is an oddity in hip-hop terms, and rightly made many end-of-year lists. Its minimalist, muted sound, typified by songs such as "Karaoke" and the Alicia Keys collaboration "Fireworks", are cumulonimbus light.
But Drake also has his dark side. If you glanced at the zombie movie artwork on the merchandise, and the empty stage bathed in red light and smoke, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd been timewarped back to rap's short-lived Horrorcore phase (Gravediggaz, Bushwick Bill), and he justifies this imagery by vowing: "I ain't gonna sugarcoat this shit. I'm gonna give you my ups and downs, my dreams and nightmares." He makes good on that promise with "Resistance", in which his mind flits between hearing that a one-night stand resulted in an abortion and learning that his grandmother has just been moved to a nursing home.
As a performer, he has an actor's facility with moving around a stage: like a master stand-up comedian, he doesn't even deign to face the crowd till the first big beat kicks in. Backed by a full live band, his set, end-loaded with hands-in-the-air party bangers, involves actual indoor fireworks, which only adds to the faint feeling of surrealness. In a way, it's odd that he's doing this sort of show at all, playing medium-sized theatres in the cold bits of northern Europe. It would be so easy for someone in his position to breeze over, play a couple of elite London showcases, then wait till he's big enough for the arenas. That's what those other guys would do.
But then, as Drizzy knows more than most, it takes different strokes.
Eliot Paulina Sumner, aka Coco Sumner, aka I Blame Coco, hasn't exactly led the hard-knock life either. The offspring of a tantric tryst between Sting and Trudie Styler, she's spent the majority of her 20 years flitting between homes in Malibu, Manhattan and The Mall (to name but three) and growing up in the peripheral vision of the public eye.
Being offered a deal by Island at the age of 17 was, therefore, presumably not purely down to precocious talent, and indeed, she hasn't made it this far without calling on high-profile help: the writing credits on her debut album The Constant include Amanda Ghost (James Blunt's "You're Beautiful") and Steve Kipner (Aguilera's "Genie", ONJ's "Physical"), and she's collaborated with Robyn and been remixed by La Roux.
All of which is potentially as irritating as Drake must be to hip-hop purists, and Sumner seems equally conscious of her situation: the opening line of her first single, "Caesar", is "I want to annoy/And I'm going to enjoy it!" In person, she's a lot more shy-eyed than that statement of intent suggests. Androgynously besuited, she's got the cheekbones of a model (she advertised Burberry), but hides behind tousled hair when her band do their thing.
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A Very Special Auction Item
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:03:16 -0500
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HI Everybody,
As we start working on next year's FIRST LOOK, I want to announce that we will occasionally have a few things here and there for auction. I will announce these to the lists when we have them. There will not be a big full-size auction like last year's, but as people donate to the cause, we will auction off their gifts at the HostaLibrary Auction Site. Starting tonight and remaining open for bidding for the next two weeks will be something I am donating myself.
At last sping's FIRST LOOK meeting, Mike Shadrack gave an after dinner talk about the life and plants of Eric Smith. It was a fascinating story of a man devoted to his craft. Mr. Smith also worked with other hosta crosses besides the tardianas and with other genera, most notably hellebores and kniphofias. Mike showed a large collection of Mr. Smith's own slides during this talk, and the one that really stuck with me was one of the seedling bed where the first tardianas were lined out in their second year. Among them was the original 'Halcyon' and the other F1's. In the foreground was a shadow. The sun was behind him that day when he took the picture, and Mr. Smith could be seen with his arms raised holding the camera up. In his memory, I've decided to contribute something a little different to the Hosta world.
This fall I used 'Frances Williams' (June-blooming) pollen on a tardiflora (October blooming) which I received from Alex Summers, thus repeating the most famous cross in the history of Hosta. I'm referring, of course, to the Eric Smith cross that gave us 'Halcyon' and the other tardianas. There are 33 pods set from this cross, and the seed is now ripe, having ripened naturally outside in our unseasonably frost-free temps here in New Jersey. I have not yet removed the pods from the scapes, but will do so if they start to open.
In addition to this item, I have made the reverse cross--------'Frances Williams' x tardiflora. The significance of using 'Frances Williams' instead of 'Elegans' is that gold tardianas should be included in the offspring. I won't guarantee it, but they should be there. There are well over two hundred seeds in this package. These two batches of seed will be combined as one lot in the auction.
The item auctioned as "FIRST LOOK Special Seed" will be composed of the entire production of both these crosses. The winning bidder will have full rights to all plants resulting from it. He or she will be the first person in thirty years or so to grow this cross on and see what Mr. Smith saw so many years ago, along with maybe a few "golden surprises". I did try this cross once before, for those who might have heard, and the seed failed to germinate after being stored for a lengthy time and mailed twice, once across the ocean. For this reason, FIRST LOOK will refund the money to the purchaser if this batch fails. Seed will be mailed immediately on receipt of funds, all of which will go into the treasury for next year's FIRST LOOK meeting.
If you know anyone who might be interested in these seeds, please pass the word to them. This is a one-time offer for all the seed, and I will not repeat the cross again. Thank You and Happy Bidding.
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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began
working together in 1979 co-producing a documentary for Paul's
television show, Watchworks. Called, The Arms Race and the Economy, A Delicate Balance, they found themselves in the midst of a swirling
controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan. Their acquisition of the first visas to
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1981, brought them into the middle of the most heated Cold War
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Following their exclusive news story for the CBS Evening News, they
produced a documentary (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) for PBS and in 1983 they returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline with Harvard
Negotiation project director Roger Fisher. It was at the time of the
first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 when Paul and Liz were
working on the film version of their experience under contract to
Oliver Stone, that they began to piece together the mythic
implications of the story. During the research for the screenplay many
of the documents preceding the Afghan crisis were declassified. Over
the next decade they trailed a labyrinth of clues only to find a
profound likeness in Washington's official policy towards Afghanistan
- in the ancient Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark - whose
origins began in the region now known as Afghanistan. It was a
likeness that grows more visible as America's involvement deepens. As
the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines in 1998 Paul
and Liz began collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. They contributed to the Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future book project. In 2002 they filmed Wali's first return to Kabul since her exile in 1978. The film they produced about Wali's journey home, The Woman in Exile Returns, gave audiences the chance to discover the message of one of Afghanistan's most articulate voices and her hopes for her people. They are featured alongside Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stansfield Turner, John K. Cooley, Benazir Bhutto, Noam Chomsky and Jack Blum in an award winning documentary by Samira Goetschel. Titled, Our own Private Bin Laden that traces the creation of the Osama bin Laden mythology in Afghanistan and how that mythology has been used to maintain the "war on terror" approach of the Bush administration. Ultimately their book Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story, City Lights, January 2009) lays bare why it was inevitable that the Soviet Union and the U.S. should end up in Afghanistan and what that means to the future of the American empire.
Gould and Fitzgerald have appeared on Democracy Now!, GRITtv, and
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818 403 1786 hard knocking mare ran 44 races and retired sound. no vices, pics available winner producer. hotbob is still racing. lovefromafar only…$17,500
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Purebred Friesian filly for sale. sire is Approved stallion Bene 476 and dam is By approved stallion Mintse 476 and by an imported dam by Tsjerk 328. …$11,000
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