text: solid sound festival The Neighbors Are Back: Jeff Tweedy And Wilco Return For Solid Sound By JD Allen • Jun 23, 2017 Solid Sound Festival Listen Listening... / 3:22 Some 8,000 people are expected to make the pilgrimage to the three-day Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams this weekend — the first of the summer. Nels Cline On Solid Sound And MASS MoCA By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 22, 2017 nelscline.com Listen Listening... / 11:46 The Solid Sound Festival - Wilco's music and arts festival - takes place this weekend at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and Nels Cline - one of Rolling Stones' top 100 guitarists of all time - will perform at least 3 times -- twice with Wilco and once with Julian Lage, Scott Colley and Tom Rainey in a quartet called The Nels Cline Four. Nancy And Beth Kick Off Solid Sound At MASS MoCA By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 20, 2017 nancyandbeth.com Listen Listening... / 15:01 The Solid Sound Festival - Wilco's music and art festival, invades MASS MoCA's newly expanded campus in North Adams, MA this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. At 6:30 p.m. on Friday, the first act will take the stage in Courtyard C -- and that act is Nancy And Beth. You may know them better as Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt. The former of Will and Grace and Parks and Recreation fame with a number of Broadway shows on her CV and the latter an Austin-based musician with the band Ghost Songs and cast member on the much loved TV series Friday Night Lights. Mullally and Hunt as Nancy And Beth released their self-titled debut in April. Record Crowd Turns Out For Solid Sound Festival In North Adams By Jim Levulis • Jun 29, 2015 Facebook: MASS MoCA Listen Listening... / 3:37 Over the weekend, the population of North Adams swelled by more than 7,000 as people packed hotels and pitched tents, in town for return of the Solid Sound Festival. Your New Best Friends: Jeff And Spencer Tweedy At Solid Sound By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 25, 2015 Listen Listening... / 22:53 Established in 2010, the Solid Sound Festival kicks off at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA tomorrow evening. The art and music festival is curated by Chicago-based rock band, Wilco, and even now they are in the area rehearsing while countless excellent people put the finishing touches on what is sure to be an amazing weekend of eclectic music, eye-popping art, world-class comedy, food, friends, and fun. Wilco will play a special acoustic set on Friday night, a plugged-in set on Saturday night, and then Jeff Tweedy's still-pretty-new band, Tweedy, will play a concert with friends to wrap up the festival on Sunday. Jeff and his son - and skilled drummer - Spencer formed Tweedy last year and released an album, Sukierae, in September. Spencer has also played drums on albums produced by Jeff over the last few years including Mavis Staples' One True Vine. I sat down with them in North Adams yesterday to talk with Jeff and Spencer and was struck by their congenial and respectful their relationship is -- and thrilled to also note good-natured ribbing. To borrow a Wilco title - they have The Whole Love - it's contagious and it's cool. Just like Solid Sound. Possess The Immediacy Of The Moment: Parquet Courts At Solid Sound By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 24, 2015 parquetcourts.wordpress.com Listen Listening... / 11:55 The next in our series of Solid Sound Festival interviews features Parquet Courts. The indie rock, post-punk band based in Brooklyn, New York formed in late 2010. The band's members are A. Savage, Austin Brown, Sean Yeaton, and Max Savage. They'll perform on Saturday at Solid Sound. Potential Fuel For Songwriting: Richard Thompson At Solid Sound By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 24, 2015 Listen Listening... / 13:01 The Solid Sound Festival returns to MASS MoCA this weekend. The Richard Thompson Trio will play in Joe's Field on Saturday. Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time, Richard Thompson is also one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for Songwriting on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2011, Thompson was the recipient of the Order of the British Empire - personally bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Most recently, the Americana Music Honors & Awards nominated him for "Artist of the Year". Yesterday his new album, Still, was released yesterday on Fantasy Records. The album was recorded in The Wilco Loft in Chicago and is produced by Wilco front-man Jeff Tweedy. Be Alert And Tuned-In To The Vibes: NRBQ At Solid Sound By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 23, 2015 Listen Listening... / 13:32 The Solid Sound Festival will take place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The family-friendly music and art festival is curated by the rock-band Wilco and each day this week on The Roundtable we are speaking with one of the featured artists. Today, we welcome Terry Adams from NRBQ. The band will play in Courtyard D on Saturday afternoon. NRBQ was founded in 1967. They are known for its live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock, pop, jazz, blues and Tin Pan Alley styles. With a varied career and many think outside-the-box projects, NRBQ has made music and had fun doing it for almost 50 years. Return Of Solid Sound Festival Expected To Boost North Adams Economy By Jim Levulis • Jun 22, 2015 Facebook: Solid Sound Festival Listen Listening... / 4:17 The first full weekend of summer brings the return of Solid Sound Festival to MASS MoCA. Some 7,000 people from near and far are expected to take part in the three-day event in North Adams. Not Just A Warm Body With A Voicebox: Paul F. Tompkins At Solid Sound By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 22, 2015 Listen Listening... / 28:51 This Friday, the 2015 Solid Sound Festival will kick off at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA. The music and art festival is curated by the rock-band Wilco, a Grammy award winning group that has been trying to break your heart and loving you, baby, for 20 years. On Saturday The Hunter Center at MASS MoCA will host "John Hodgman's Big Time Comedy Thing" with an astounding line-up of amazing comedy acts including Hodgman himself and Tig Notaro, Jessica Williams, improv group Superego and Paul F. Tompkins. (Lest ye fret about comedy not working in the midday summer sun - know that the Hunter Center is indoors and is perfect for stand-up, sketch, and improv.) Paul F. Tompkins' career launched from writing and acting on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David. His television work includes hosting gigs and guest appearances on just about everything funny and he's the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, a new Earwolf Podcast called Spontaneanation and regularly appears on Comedy Bang Bang and Thrilling Adventure Hour. It's safe to call him a staple of the comedy-podcast genre (which we're here to assure you is a real thing). He hosts No, You Shut Up! on Fusion, and the web-series Speakeasy for Made Man. Solid Sound Returns To North Adams After Year Hiatus By Jim Levulis • Mar 4, 2015 Facebook: MASS MoCA Listen Listening... / 0:41 MASS MoCA has unveiled the lineup for its Solid Sound Festival coming up in June. MASS MoCA's Season Lineup Features Performance Range And Return Of Solid Sound By Jim Levulis • Dec 11, 2014 Jim Levulis / WAMC Listen Listening... / 3:18 As MASS MoCA embarks on another major expansion, the contemporary art museum announced its winter/spring performance and visual arts lineup. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Lucius By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Listen Listening... / Our time as an official presence here at Solid Sound is nearly at an end. But before we go - we're going to really get you revved up for the festivities by letting you get to know Lucius. They are a fabulous band with a catchy indie-pop sound and we are very excited that they are joining us this morning. The members of the band are Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig, Danny Molad and Peter Lalish, and Andrew Burri and they join us to talk and to perform live. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Culinary Events By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Listen Listening... / Food is a major part of any successful weekend long festival. Solid Sound will have amazing food (and drink) all weekend long. We're going to learn now about a couple of individual super-special curated culinary events - the proceeds from which will benefit the education programs here at MASS MoCA. We are joined by Jodi Joseph, MASS MoCA's Director of Communications; Nancy Thomas, Owner of Mezze Inc. restaurant group and co-producer of MASS MoCA Culinary Events; and Chris Weld, owner of Berkshire Mountain Distillers. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Urban Birding By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Greg Saulmon Listen Listening... / 9:49 Greg Saulmon is an online editor at The Republican and MASS Live and is a respected local naturalist and photographer. He has lived and worked in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts for more than 30 years. He is running several Urban Birding walks during the Solid Sound Festival with information on how to see and identify birds in cities. Urban Birding guided walks will depart from Courtyard A at MASS MoCA on Saturday and Sunday and Sunday at 10 am. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Storey Publishing By Alan Chartock & Joe Donahue • Jun 21, 2013 Storey Publishing has been helping readers practice creative self-reliance for 30 years. They are a longtime creative tenant on campus at MASS MoCA and will be hosting a variety of other lifestyle workshops, activities and demonstrations throughout the Solid Sound Festival. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Jeff and Spencer Tweedy By Alan Chartock & Joe Donahue • Jun 21, 2013 Rich Orris Listen Listening... / The Solid Sound Festival is curated by the rock band Wilco. So it stands to reason we'd have a member of the band on our show today - and we do! Jeff Tweedy joins us to talk about Solid Sound and other Wilco goings-on. Then, after a quick break, his son Spencer joins us, too! Spencer is the drummer for The Blisters - the band is playing this Sunday at the festival. They've been together for 10 years and put out an album on their website earlier this month. The album is called "Finally, Bored" - but we have a sneaking suspicion that Spencer is anything but. (The kid is busy is what we're saying.) 2013 Solid Sound Festival - DownStreet Art By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Listen Listening... / 10:07 Downstreet Art kicked of their 6th season last night with a celebration in downtown North Adams, MA. Presented by Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' and Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, DownStreet Art provides North Adams with a summer of creative events. The public arts festival will run through Oct. 31. This summer's events, which are free and open to the public, will include gallery openings, a dance party on Main Street, a wandering light show, a community reading of Frederick Douglas's famous Fourth of July address, new murals in the downtown, and musical performances. We are joined by Leslie Ferrin, Director Ferrin Contemporary and on the DownStreet Art Curatorial Committee; Melanie Mowinski, Artist, Founder Press Gallery, Art Professor MCLA; and Jonathan Secor, Director MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, which runs DownStreet Art. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Jason Middlebrook and Susan Cross By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Karen Pearson/Mass MoCA Listen Listening... / 12:54 One of the MASS MoCA's current exhibitions is Jason Middlebrook: My Landscape. The pieces contained include new works from Jason's series of painted hardwood planks begun in 2008 and will debut an awe-inspiring, hanging mobile that functions like a fountain within the gallery. 2013 Solid Sound Festival - Joe Thompson and Alex Crothers By Joe Donahue & Alan Chartock • Jun 21, 2013 Listen Listening... / 15:50 This is the third Solid Sound - and our third time broadcasting at MASS MoCA from the festival. (We've taken the museum over two other times, but who's counting? … It's us. We are counting.) We're set up in fine fashion in The Knuckle at MASS MoCA - just outside of the Sol LeWitt galleries and within leaping distance of many of the other attractions and stages on campus. But we won't leap - we'll politely walk around - this place is about to be full of enthusiastic music and art fans and we wouldn't want to leap onto any of them. Joining us to tell us about some of what goes into making this festival purr are Joe Thompson, Director of MASS MoCA and Alex Crothers, promoter for Higher Ground Music. Tune for Today "My Old Friend" - Sam Amidon Sam Amidon By Sarah LaDuke • Jun 19, 2013 Listen Listening... / 15:39 Sam Amidon will perform this Saturday afternoon in Courtyard C at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA as part of the Solid Sound Festival. Enveloped in traditional music while growing up in Vermont, Sam's most recent album, Bright Sunny South, is a continuation of his particular method of folk music delivery. At first listen, his music seems to follow the singer-songwriter model. His background is wrapped in the Appalachian folk-music tradition, and his songs feature expressive vocals and fast, finger-plucked melodies. But a singer-songwriter he is not. Sam Amidon composes new tunes for traditional folk ballads and an array of cover songs that he's attentively made his own. Tune for Today "Mother" - Low Low will perform at the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA next month. Lucius: Far from Just Sitting There By Sarah LaDuke • Feb 20, 2013 www.ilovelucius.com Listen Listening... / 11:06 Lucius is Brooklyn based quintet – dually fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Leassig. It was announced last week that Lucius is playing the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA this coming June – but we'll have a chance to see them in the region before then. Jess and Holly – along with bandmates Dan Molad, Peter Lalish, and Andrew Burrl are playing at The BSP Lounge in Kingston, NY this Thursday; The Outer Space in Hamden, CT on Friday, and The Log in Williamstown, MA on Saturday. (The Williamstown show is sold out. ) The New York Times referred to Lucius' music as "luscious, luminous, lilting lullabies" – that's high praise (and a lot of alliteration) from The Grey Lady – and Paste Magazine says the rootsy female-driven dynamic is dangerously powerful.


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The assassination of three Kurdish women activists in Paris reminded me of those novels. They were killed execution style with a single bullet to the back of the head (actually two were killed like that and the third victim had stomach and chest wounds).
There was speculation that since there was a digital keylock on the outside door and the door to the apartment had no sign of forced entry, the victims might have known their killer and opened the door for him. (Actually, this detail was leaked by the Turkish ambassador to France, possibly to support the thesis that the killing was an inside job.)
Most pundits seem to agree that the main target was Sakine Cansiz (whose last name, in a sad irony, means "inanimate" in Turkish). She was one of the founders of Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK and was known as a close ally of the PKK's incarcerated leader Abdullah Ocalan. Apparently, the other two women were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
There are two scenarios being discussed in the Turkish media. One is the Kurdish point of view, which holds that the assassination was the work of the so called "deep state" this clandestine organization that operates within the state to further some dark nationalistic goals.
The other hypothesis was advanced by the Turkish government and it maintains that this was an internal affair where a faction unhappy with the recent peace process was trying to undermine the process.
The question is, whose argument makes more sense. And if neither is tenable, then who might be behind these murders.
Was it "Deep State"?
First things first, when people whisper the words "deep state" what they are actually referring to is an intelligence and military apparatus created by NATO during the Cold War. You might have heard of the Gladio operation, and the Turkish version was known as "Counter-guerrilla." The Turkish branch was quite active and it is widely believed to have played a significant role in the 1971 and 1980 coup d'etats.
That's "deep state."
Lately, every foreign reporter in Turkey seems to be told that there is a shadowy, ultra-nationalistic "state within state" kind of structure. This fits well with the government narrative as used in the Ergenekon trials. And since no one remembers history or the Gladio operation, it is beginning to sound like a real and independent entity. When overhearing the term everyone knowingly nods and acquiesces but it actually means something quite concrete.
It is true that this "deep state" or more accurately these Gladio interfacing intelligence and military structures were not fully controlled by the civilian governments. It is also true that their units did not always operate within the legal system, as they undertook (among other things) assassination operations in Europe and Lebanon against ASALA. The same units were also active during the 1980 and 90s in the southeast in violent operations against Kurds. (Their presence and the collusion between state structures, contract killers, drug smugglers, elements within PKK dramatically came to the fore during the Susurluk incident).
But there are several reasons that make me doubt that this was a "Deep State" operation.
1) Following a major recent restructuring the Erdogan administration became the first civilian government in control of the state intelligence organizations (the two main ones are MIT and JITEM but there are a number of smaller organizations within the armed forces. JITEM is usually presumed to be the most visible part of the "deep state" apparatus.) In fact, Erdogan trusts the new MIT so much that, on several occasions, he asked the Agency's leadership to undertake secret talks with the PKK.
In this newly restricted intelligence space, I seriously doubt that these units can maintain their power and organizational capabilities. And more importantly, even if they continue to exist, I doubt that they can undertake such a momentous operation without stepping on some tripwires. Within intelligence organizations, because of the built-in secrecy and need-to-know-basis information flow, we have the impression that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. But we forget that there are layers of budgetary and administrative tripwires in these organizations and it is extremely difficult to undertake complicated operations if the senior management is not in on it.
2) Let's assume for a moment that my restructuring and control of the intelligence community premise is incorrect. And let's stipulate that there are indeed powerful "deep state" units acting independently. Even if all of this were true one should remember that their actions still take place within the Gladio framework. While Gladio was a NATO operation, it has always been understood that it was run by the US. In this specific instance, a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem is not something the US would want to disrupt. This entire blog is based on the opposite hypothesis.
Therefore, unless you pretend that the deep state is an autonomous organization with its own nationalistic agenda and with unknown shadowy leaders (and I realize that many people believe that) it makes very little sense to assume that a Gladio unit would act against the interests of the United States.
3) As a BBC reporter remarked recently, there has always been an understanding between the PKK and the Turkish intelligence agencies about operations in Western Europe:
It is the first time that such a senior member of the PKK has been killed in Europe. There has been a tacit agreement between the PKK and the Turkish government that no such high-profile attacks would be carried out against either senior PKK members or senior members of the government.In fact, I know that a similar agreement exists between the PKK and Turkish government regarding Canada. It is considered an R&R space that can be used only for fund raising. I believe similar deals are in place in many other countries as well. To annul such agreements would mean opening the door for political assassinations of senior Turkish diplomats. PKK is well organized in Europe and certainly capable of hunting Turkish dignitaries and bureaucrats with relative impunity. I cannot see how the environment of FUD created by these murders would justify such a huge risk.
During the 1980s, there were some attacks believed to be from within the Turkish state against members of the militant Armenian group Asala, but there have been no political assassinations targeting the PKK
4) Even if there is a Gladio unit acting independently, killing Cansiz is hardly the best way to disrupt the peace process. Why not place a bomb in a shopping center in a Turkish city and claim it for a murky Kurdish group. Overnight the entire public opinion would turn against the peace process. I am not sure how the murder of a female activist serves the hypothetical purposes of a Gladio unit.
5) The reaction from the PKK was unusually muted. As the current leadership is in Qandil mountains in northern Iraq, most media outlets reported that Qandil was going to wait the completion of the official French investigation before commenting on the incident. This is an extremely soft reaction. If the "deep state" was involved we would have heard serious accusations from the PKK leadership.
Was it an Inner Fight?
The AKP government was very quick to declare this an inner factional fight within the PKK, between those who opposed the peace talks and those who favor them.
Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling party, said the attack appeared to be the result of "an internal feud" within the PKK, but did not provide any evidence to back that up. Celik also suggested the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks.Also, as I mentioned at the outset, the Turkish ambassador leaked some details to suggest that the victims knew their killer and let him in.
Turkish media outlets started mentioning that Sakine Cansiz had an ongoing feud with important figures within the PKK:
Known for her opposition to the alleged head of the PKK's armed-wing, Syrian citizen Ferman [sic] Hussein, Cansız was also known to be in disagreement with the PKK's alleged financial head, Zübeyir Yılmaz. According to claims that have been reported in the Turkish media, Yılmaz had committed sexual harrasment against Sakine Cansız.Fehman Hussein (or Huseyin) is also known under his code name Bahoz Erdal and he is the controversial head of PKK's armed wing. Most notably, he is a Syrian Kurd. Other media sources did not mention sexual harassment but suggested that that Zubeyir Yilmaz threatened Cansiz after she reportedly criticized Bahoz Erdal. She mentioned the threat incident to another senior leader (Sabri Ok) and he removed Yilmaz from his post as head of German operations. (But Yilmaz refused to move back to Qandil and he is supposedly still in Germany.)
There are also allegations that Bahoz Erdal was adamantly opposed to the peace process.
The overall insinuation in that media narrative is that (a) there was bad blood between Cansiz and at least two senior PKK members, and (b) if that was not enough, one of those members was desperate to stop the peace talks.
It is all a bit too convenient. In cases like these, disinformation is the norm. So I try to assess the reasoning behind these suggested explanations.
What I don't understand is why killing Cansiz should disrupt the peace initiative. Admittedly, she was an important person for the PKK. But she was quite marginal in the peace process.
Now, if her killer could implicate Turkey, then I can see how it would create Fear, Doubt and Uncertainty. (And some people suggested that the killer left bullet cartridges behind for that purpose: if the gun was used in another murder, it would link that one to the current assassination).
But that is a tough thing to pull off for several reasons. First, two of the women were under DGSE surveillance. So, unless they lost him before he entered the building, he is now known to French intelligence services. Moreover, while CCTV cameras are not ubiquitous in Paris (unlike, say, London), there are quite a few in the Gare du Nord area (it is a major international train hub, including the Eurostar). Avoiding both the DGSE agents and CCTV cameras and killing three women would have been a very tricky business.
I also know that Ocalan is very much in favor of these talks, as they are his only ticket to freedom. PKK is organized around a serious personality cult and he controls everything even from his isolated prison cell. While there may be many factions opposed to the peace process inside the PKK, as long as Dear Leader is in favor, I don't think any of them will act against his wishes.
Who is the Culprit, then?
In a situation like this I follow the logic of crime novels. Find the actor with the most to gain and chances are you found your killer.
My money is on Syria.
If you have been reading this humble blog, you know that I firmly believe that the Syrian problem cannot be solved without the participation of Kurds. And that is why I have maintained for over a year that Turkey will be under a lot of pressure to initiate a peace process with the PKK.
As you may know, in Syria, the PYD, under orders from the PKK, is stopping the Kurdish National Council from joining the fight against Assad. Thanks to PYD's tacit support of the regime, Assad's troops were able to leave the Syrian Kurdistan to go fight elsewhere. PYD also stopped the peshmerge-trained Kurdish fighters to fight against Assad.
If through peace talks, the PKK and by extension the PYD are neutralized, the current Syrian stalemate will be shattered. For one thing, the US will be more willing to give heavy weapons to Kurdish forces as they would be less likely to end up in Jihadist hands.
Also, the US will be deploying Patriot missiles (manned by US soldiers) on Syrian border starting from the beginning of February. The Patriot missiles constitute a serious deterrent for the Syrian army to conduct operations near the Turkish border. At the slightest incident, they could see their entire air force destroyed. And since this is done under NATO auspices, to retaliate massively would require no Security Council resolution.
Assad sees the endgame. His only play right now is to keep the Kurds off the conflict theater. So far he managed that. But the peace talks represent a problem. Disrupting them would enable Assad to prevent the Kurds from joining the insurgency. The only way he can do that is by creating a situation where the bargaining sides suspect the other party to be the one who is not negotiating in good faith. Since both Kurds and Turks have good reasons not to trust each other killing an important but inconsequential member of the PKK could yield the desired result.
Assad knows that either side will accuse the other and he is right. Right now, facts are not on anyone's mind. Turks believe that the PKK is trying to implicate them to get the upper hand in negotiations. And Kurds believe that the "deep state" is methodically assassinating the PKK's senior leadership.
If my crime novel speculation is reasonable, then her alleged feud with Bahoz Erdal (Fehman Huseyin) the Syrian leader of an armed PKK faction becomes more relevant. With his presumed involvement, an actual Syrian murder plot could become an inside job. Or at least one that could be presented as such.
Which might explain the PKK's meek reaction to the murder of these three activists.
We'll see.

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So we are completely under contract with the house I posted yesterday. But there is now a curve ball. We may have the opportunity to buy back our old house for $25k less than we sold it (and it is worth about $20k more than that with the market appreciating).
There is a price difference in the two houses, but we could afford either. I am at a loss as to what to do. I love our old house. I love my friends there and how close it is to the freeway, water park, and pretty much everything -- but it is far enough away from everything too.
I would paint inside for sure, so I would get to "fix up" a house either way. The other one is closer to family and most shopping. And although the price difference is not a problem, it is nice to save more money every month. Our old house has more potential for value (from an investment standpoint).


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...a graceful, touching, ironically titled tale. - John Updike A new edition of her classic novel to coincide with the publication of her other works in the African Writers Series. Nnu Ego is a woman devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life to them -- with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. This story of a young mother's struggles in 1950s Lagos is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy, and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria.
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October 05, 2016
I visited this facility
Greenville Place was very good. We had lunch, and it's very good; they even had a gluten free dessert for me -- a special dessert. The rooms were nice but small. The staff was very friendly and nice too. The location and the surroundings were good. There seemed to be activities going on while we were there. The manager that met us was very attractive.
May 22, 2016
I am a friend or relative of a resident
My mother-in-law is at Greenville Place. The place is very clean and the staff is very friendly. She ended up in a room that is newly renovated, and she really loves it. As far as I know, they take really good care of her. She really enjoys bingo, but they don't have many activities that they say they would. They have quite a quick turnover of their activities directors, so there are not many activities going on. Their dining area is nice. When she first started there, they had a male chef. She loves the food and brags about it all the time, but I don't know why he left. The person who is doing the cooking now is not quite as impressive.
March 11, 2016
Please do NOT send your loved one here! They don't like pets, They are under new management which is horrible. They have lots of empty rooms now because of it. They don't care about our loved ones. All they seem to care about is money, which is not well spent here!
September 08, 2015
I am a friend or relative of resident
My aunt has lived at Greenville Place for about a year. Like most, she did not want to leave her home in Greer. She had a slow adjustment period and at first did not like it. Recently they hired some new staff and the changes have been great. The new leadership is a welcomed change and is making positive changes each and every day. The entire atmosphere is much more positive and encouraging than in the past. I would highly recommend Greenville Place
July 28, 2015
I am a friend or relative of resident
My father lived here for approximately 6 months, and his care was minimal at best. His bed was NEVER made, his room was NEVER cleaned, and his bathroom was filthy. These are just a few of the things that were unsatisfactory. The staff has recently had a tremendous change with new management, new head nurse, and new CNA's. With the exception of very few, they can do nothing but find excuses as to why nothing is being done. The new director remains behind a closed door and has never even taken the time to introduce himself to the residents or spend any time with them. The food was awful! My dad was miserable. We finally got him out of there! Nice floor plan but that is all I can say positive about this place! DO NOT PUT YOUR LOVED ONE HERE!!!!
April 05, 2015
I am a friend or relative of resident
Save yourself countless headaches and sleepless nights that result from worrying about your loved ones and DO NOT put your loved one here! Greenville Place has one of the nicer floor plans out of several similar assisted living establishments in the area, but the director takes absolutely NO responsibility for the conduct of her employees. My grandmother has been a resident here for 7 years and has had several issues with two of the same employees regarding verbal abuse, threats, not being fed meals on time or at all, or not being administered her medicine, to name a just a few examples. When approached about this issue on multiple occasions, the director basically refuses to address the topic. Several Certified Nursing Assistants have quit their jobs here at Greenville Place due to altercations with these same two belligerent employees, and still the director refusing to address their conduct! For over $3,000 dollars a month, you would think your elderly grandmother would be in better hands. Absolutely disgusting. Avoid this place and its careless managers and employees at all costs.
March 30, 2015
I am a friend or relative of resident
I was so nervous about putting my loving grandmother in a home. I went to several other livings,but none of them didn't meet my expectations, until I went to Greenville Place. Right when I walked, I felt relieved. The atmosphere in the memory care building was very calming. I met with the program director of the memory care building, And she took me on a tour of the facility and showed me the rooms which were very nice and spacious. The staff I met were really nice and knowledgable in caring for the dementia and alzheimer's residents. I am so thankful that I visited here. I can finally have a peace of mind knowing that she will be well taken care of.
November 29, 2014
I am a friend or relative of resident
As an only child the heartbreaking realization that my momcould no longer live alone was almost unbearable for me. In the spring, I began my search for an assisted living and memory care facility that would meet my high expectations, Finding a homelike atmosphere with loving caregivers was my primary focus. After several months of unsatisfactory results, I visited Greenville Place. With fear and anxiety, my initial emotion upon entering Greenville Place was one of unexplainable peace. The administrative staff was extremely personable and compationate very patient with my ongoing questions. Finally, I found someone who understood my heart. After many sleepless nights, countless tears and ceaseless prayers, Greenvilleville Place became my mothers new home. I quickly learned that the CNAs were very dedicated, loving girls who tried very hard to make my moms transition as easy as possible. as the days months and even years have gone by, our experience with Greenville Place continues to be a very positive one. The entire staff is considerably knowledgeable of seniors and dementia and sometimes bizarre behaviors that it can cause. Since I do spend alot of time at Greenville Place, I am very aware of the daily routines. The entire staff treats all residents with kindness, respect and dignity. If I do have a concern about moms medication or care, my questions are always answered promptly. They are family to my mom.
November 15, 2014
I am a friend or relative of resident
Do NOT place anyone you care about in this facility. My grandmother lives here, and we often have to send family members to Greenville Place to ensure that she is receiving her meals & medications. The employees are not qualified to take care of the elderly, nor do they care about the residents. The employees spend the majority of their shifts talking on their cell phones or taking smoke breaks. The director of the facility is lazy and unwilling to address complaints. All we wanted was a good, safe place for my grandmother to spend her final years. It has caused my family nothing but stress. Never mind the "Southern charm" and "delightful wraparound porches" that they talk about in the facility description. The staff is absolutely HORRIBLE.
June 26, 2014
I am a friend or relative of a resident
We chose this Greenville Place because it's within our price range, and we were happy that it's a smaller facility and she could get one-on-one attention. We love her room because it has a big bedroom with a nice view. It has a kitchenette and wheel-in bathroom and shower for her. The dining area is very nice. So far, we are happy with the facility.
April 26, 2014
I visited this facility
I did like Greenville Place. I would love to have my mother over there, but I can't afford it right now. I thought that was a very caring place. Of all the places I've visited, I think that was the one I would pick for her. They have a caring and knowledgeable staff. They seemed very much interested in your loved ones. They took the time to meet with me and showed me different rooms. There are rooms that you have by yourself and some rooms shared. I met the executive director. She's been there I think eight or nine years; that I liked because at my mom's place, too many people hadn't been there too long. I did meet with their recreation director, and she seemed great. It's very clean and very nice. I loved it.
April 30, 2013
I am a friend or relative of a resident
Everything's fine at the Greenville Place. We like it. They have very nice rooms. The food's good. The dining room is very clean and spacious too. The staff members are attentive and the facility is close to where we are. We're pretty satisfied with this facility's services.
June 11, 2012
I am a friend or relative of a resident
Care givers are caring and helpful in the Memory Care facilty but are not trained in how to care for dementia residents. They should be more educated in how to talk to them and direct them and activites more related to their level of dementia. None of the employess have ever been to classes or clinics on caring for dementia people. I thought that would be required. It would make their jobs easier. Also facitlity does not have back up generator and power went out and it caused big problems. I thought I had asked all the correct questions before placing my parent here. Make sure when you are looking for facility you ask if ALL caregivers are trained and how they are trained working with dementia residents and also- ask about generators- ha! You'd think that was a given. I was told only in skilled care is it required.
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- 2-bedroom apartments
- Studio Apartments
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About Greenville Place
Live the high life in Greenville Place, where thoughtfully designed floor plans and myriad recreational and social opportunities await. Residents will feel the Southern charm of our Assisted Living and Memory Care community in Greenville, South Carolina, with wrap-around porches and plenty of southern-style rockers providing the utmost in relaxation. Residents are warmhearted, interesting people who enjoy the freedom of Assisted Living - freedom from the worries and dangers of solitary living and cooking and cleaning in surroundings that are kind and gracious - with the knowledge of knowing someone is always at hand if help is needed. Our multitude of ongoing programs, including baking and walking clubs and holiday-themed events, keep residents physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally stimulated. Our friendly and professional staff members are available 24 hours a day and offer support services including housekeeping and laundry, medication reminders and special nutritional counseling. Our ideal location, approximately halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, affords our residents plenty of options for dining, shopping, recreation and healthcare. And, with scheduled courtesy transportation to medical appointments and shopping destinations, our residents have the freedom to explore with the camaraderie to build lasting friendships.
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Abosolute vs. Relative Path
When we create a web-page at which there are some links (URLs) to images or other pages, links are written either in an absolute or relative way (commonly known as absolute and relative paths).
Suppose that we've a website whose domain name is http://www.shoubraeng.com and there's a web-page that's in the directory http://www.shoubraeng.com/pages/project/index.html.
Let's also assume that there's a subdirectory of the project directory called images.
Here's a description of the hierarchy (directories are written in bold):
|___ pages
____|____ picture1.jpg
____|____ project
_________|_____ picture2.jpg
_________|_____ index.html
_________|_____ images
_______________|_____ picture3.jpg
The index.html page is the web-page of interest. We're trying to make a background picture to it from the available 3 pictures. picture1.jpg is in the pages directory, picture2.jpg is in the project directory and picture3.jpg is in the images directory.
Now let's see the different ways to link to any of these pictures.
Absolute Path
The easy way is to use the absolute/full path of the image that looks like:
<body background="http://www.shoubraeng.com/pages/picture1.jpg"> or
<body background="http://http://www.shoubraeng.com/pages/project/images/picture3.jpg">
You might have guessed that it's called absolute/full because it contains the very specific path to the image.
One more note about absolute paths is that if the file is on the same domain of your web-page then you may not write the domain name but just start with a slash (/) like:
<body background="/pages/picture1.jpg">
Relative Path
It's called relative because it's described relative to the path of your web-page regardless of its position.
1- If you are linking to picture2.jpg that's in the same directory of your index.html web-page then – using relative path – you may just write its name as follows:
<body background="picture2.jpg">
Writing only the name of the image in the path tells the browser that it's in the same directory of the web-page that is being loaded now.
2- If you are linking to picture3.jpg that's in a subdirectory of your index.html webp-page, it will then look like:
<body background="images/picture3.jpg">
It should also be noticeable that starting with a directory name (with no / at the beginning) tells the browser to find the image in the subdirectory located in the directory of the web-page that's being loaded now.
3- If you are linking to picture1.jpg that's up on directory from the web-page it will then look like:
<body background="../picture1.jpg">
The double dots (..) here tells the browser to go up on directory to find the image.
Which is better … absolute or relative path?
Each is preferred at certain conditions.
Absolute path is better when what you link to is used in multiple pages across your website so that it doesn't matter where your page is. Suppose that there's a banner image that you use for all pages in your website … is it good to replicate the image in every folder of your website to use a relative path of it in every web-page there? Of course not.
Relative path is better when what you link to is very specific to the web-page and is located in the same directory containing that web-page or a subdirectory of it. Suppose a situation where you are writing an article web-page that contains many related pictures inside it. You've made a directory containing your article and a subdirectory containing all the article-related images. Now you are going to link to these images using either absolute or relative paths and you wonder which is better! Ask yourself the following question and it should reply you …. what if you later moved the article to a different domain? If were're linking to images in an absolute way then you will have to change all paths again to the new domain but if you were using relative paths then you will not have to change anything.
This is because what is relative here is relative there!
Ahmed Abdullah Hussein
What is a Software Technology?
What is a technology?
Here's how Wikipedia defines technology:
Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its environment.
Arrr … What animals!!!
But that is not what I was searching for. I was searching for that word "technology" that I always see in my study about Computer Software. I heard for example about Java technology, .NET technology, JDBC technology and many others.
Today I could make a very close definition of what is a technology when it's related to software.
So the question now should be: What is a software technology?
I think that a software technology is simply a set of software libraries or classes (from an OO view) written in some programming languages to facilitate the ability to manipulate something. Having such technology should provide abstraction or hide the very specific details of dealing with this thing to make it easier for the developer.
I'll say that Java, the programming language., is a software technology indeed.
Another example that I've read about it today and gave me the intuition about this topic is JDBC or Java DataBase Connectivity. It's mentioned that JDBC is a technology that enables database access and manipulation of different database drivers like those for MySql, Oracle, MSSQL, … while JDBC is simply some software classes written in java!
Got it!!!
One more thing … Don't you think that there's some similarity between a software technology the way I defined it and a general technology definition as Wikipedia mentioned?
Wikipedia said it's a Concept or set of concepts and I've said it's a a set of Classes. Do you know what's a class in software? it is actually an abstraction of a Concept. There's even more similarity between the two definitions but I'll leave it to you as a homework 😉
– Ahmed Abdullah Hussein
أقصر طريق لمعرفه الله
إن التفكر في خلق السماوات والأرض هو أقصر طريق لمعرفة الله
وهو أوسع باب ندخل منه علي الله لأنه يضعك وجها الي وجة أمام عظمة الله
قال الله تعالى: " إن في خلق السموات والأرض واختلاف الليل والنهار لآيات لأولي الألباب (190) الذين يذكرون الله قياماً وقعوداً وعلى جنوبهم ويتفكرون في خلق السموات والأرض ربنا ماخلقت هذا باطلاً سبحانك فقنا عذاب النار (191) ". سورة آل عمران
ولعلك ستجد في المقطع التالي أحد آيات الله في خلقة
روي أن عائشة أم المؤمنين رضي الله عنها سئلت عن أعجب ما رأته من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فبكت ثم قالت: كان كل أمره عجباً، أتاني في ليلتي التي يكون فيها عندي، فاضطجع بجنبي حتى مس جلدي جلده، ثم قال: ياعائشة ألا تأذنين لي أن أتعبد ربي عز وجل؟ فقلت: يارسول الله: والله إني لأحب قربك وأحب هواك- أي أحب ألاّ تفارقني وأحب مايسرك مما تهواه- قالت: فقام إلى قربة من ماء في البيت فتوضأ ولم يكثر صب الماء، ثم قام يصلي ويتهجد فبكى في صلاته حتى بل لحيته، ثم سجد فبكى حتى بلّ الأرض، ثم اضطجع على جنبه فبكى، حتى إذا أتى بلال يؤذنه بصلاة الفجر، رآه يبكي فقال يارسول الله: مايبكيك وقد غفر الله لك ماتقدم من ذنبك وماتأخر؟ فقال له: ويحك يابلال، ومايمنعني أن أبكي وقد أنزل الله عليّ في هذه الليلة هذه الآيات : (إن في خلق السموات والأرض واختلاف الليل والنهار لآيات لأولي الألباب ….) فقرأها إلى آخر السورة ثم قال: ويل لمن قرأها ولم يتفكر فيها.
هذه الآيات التي أبكت نبينا صلى الله عليه وسلم أيها الأحبة وأقضت مضجعه ولم تجعله يهنأ بالنوم في ليلته تلك فكان يقرأها في صلاته ويبكى قائماً وساجداً وبكى وهو مضطجعاً، نعم إنها لآيات عظيمة تقشعر منها الأبدان وتهتز لها القلوب ، قلوب أولى الألباب الذين يذكرون الله قياماً وقعودا وعلى جنوبهم ويتفكرون في خلق السموات والأرض وليست كل القلوب كذلك ! فهلا تفكرنا في ملكوت الله ؟ وهلا أكثرنا من ذكر الله ؟ واستشعرنا عظمته سبحانه وتعالى ؟ لو فعلنا ذلك لبكينا من خشية الله عند سماع أو قراءة هذه الآيات ولكن لله المشتكى من قسوة في قلوبنا وغفلة في أذهاننا. اللهم أنر قلوبنا بنور القرآن ، اللهم إنا نسألك قلباً خاشعا ولساناً ذاكرا وقلباً خاشعاً وعلماً نافعاً وعملاً صالحاً.
How many things between X and Y?
I've noticed that there are 3 possible answers for the question "How many things between X and Y?".
I'll give 3 examples to explain what I mean:
1. How many hours do you take between 2 PM and 7 PM?
The answer is 5 hours which is 7-2.
2. How many numbers are there between 2 and 7?
The answer is 4 numbers (The numbers 3, 4, 5, 6) which is 7-2-1.
3. How many numbers would you speak out if you count from 2 to 7?
The answer is 6 numbers (The numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) which is 7-2+1.
So why is the answer different in each case?
In the first question, you are asked to count the number of hours between 2 and 7. Actually the hour meant in the question is a period. From 2 to 3 is a period of hour, from 3 to 4 is another period and so on. The answer then is Y-X that gives you the number of steps (periods) that you'll take from X to Y.
In the second question, you are asked to count how many numbers there are between 2 and 7. This time you're asked to count the numbers themselves that you would visit between 2 and 7 … not the steps you'll take. If you're taking 5 steps from point 2 to point 7, then there are 4 points between them (that's excluding the first and last point). So the answer is Y-X-1.
In the third question, it's asked to count numbers that you speak out when counting from 2 to 7. This is to say in other words, "How many numbers between 2 and 7, inclusive?". Let's conclude the answer in a new style … Do you mind that a one step forward needs 2 points and 2 steps forward need 3 points and so on…? This is true! … Well if you got how I explained the answer of question 1 then the answer to this question is Y-X+1 because the number of steps is Y-X between X and Y!
The answer for the question "How many things between X and Y?" is either Y-X, Y-X-1, or Y-X+1 and the answer depends on what things you are trying to count!
Challenge Failed, I succeeded
2 years ago and days before I'm enrolled in the department of Computer Engineering in my faculty, I had a big challenge with myself.
The challenge is very simple to describe, it's being of rank 1 on that department. I had that dream and I promised myself to do my best to achieve that.
And here comes the day, 16/07/2009, where the challenge result is declared that I'm not that one of an overall grade of rank 1 on my department.
Of course I felt so sad towards that but the fact that this challenge gave me a lot of benefits made me think again about it and find that even if I failed to achieve it, I succeeded!
How did I succeed?
I had a rank of 5 when I first got into that department with a difference of 245 marks than that mark of rank 1.
In the 1st year in the department (Computer 3rd), I could make a big jump from the 5th place to the 2nd place after ranking 1st on that year being the only student with a grade of Excellent (1326/1500) in that year.
And in the second year which is the 5th and last year of college, I couldn't make that big jump of the previous year, but I could be again ranked 1st on that year being again the only student with a grade of Excellent (1291/1500).
In short, I've been the only student who could get a grade of Excellent in the 3rd year and also in the 4th year of the Computer Department. I could reduce the difference between me and the first place from 245 to 69 and jump from the 5th place to the 2nd place.
On the other hand, I think I had some other achievements that make me think of success. I've been ranked 1st on TopCoder, Programming and Algorithms Contests website, during the last 3 years and could make it to blue which has been also a recent challenge.
I've also been to the ACM/ICPC ANARC 2008 Programming contest locally and regionally. That was the first time my faculty contributed in that contest and I believe we did a great job. BTW I should thank Abdullah Saad and Marwa Yusuf, my elder brother and sister and TA's in the faculty, for being with me … I wouldn't make it without you guys!
I was first employeed in my transition from the 3rd year to the 4th year as a Software Developer in Bedaya TV in the EMPC and had about 2 months in that job.
Finally, I have been elected by the faculty staff and IEEE members to be the IEEE Student Branch Chairman in my faculty in the last year. I had been involved in organizing a lot of activites and still working on some.
I'm not going to stop at this point. Life should be full of challenges, otherwise it's of no use to live it.
Alhamdulillah for that result, I dedicate it to my dear mother … I'll be a man of my word!
Topcoder Return
It's been a long while since I participated in a TopCoder algorithm contest. I decided to stop competing for 3 months during the final exams period of my last year in the college. I've also been so busy working on my graduation project.
I had completed my final exams and then discussed my graduation project on 20/06/2009.
Three days later, I got back to do another algorithm contest on TopCoder. I've been afraid that this long period of inactivity could have affect my performance badly especially because I was competing in Div I.
This contest had some circumstances that made it kinda a special one:
- The contest was the first after 3 months of inactivity
- The contest started at 4:00 AM
- I woke up 10 mins before the contest
- I had Petr in the same room of mine
- I could solve the 300 problem faster than anytime before in Div I SRMs
- After the contest, I had a new max. rating than ever before [1336] and ranked 15th on Egypt with this rating
A funny story in this match is that when I asked Petr about his solution to the 300 problem that seemed too long while mine was very short, This was the discussion between us:
Mindhunter74 > Petr: Does it really need all this code in the 300?
Mindhunter74 > Petr: Do I miss anything in my solution?
Petr > Mindhunter74: no 🙂
Petr > Mindhunter74: Your solution seems to be correct as well
Petr > Mindhunter74: I'm just too stupid
Petr is too stupid that makes him ranked first all over the world on Topcoder 😉
This my rating graph after this contest:
With this rating, I might hit the yellow area with a lucky next contest. But I do not think I'll make it very soon, I have to work harder to make it to yellow and be able to stay there too.


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April 21 - Citizen Sports Briefs
Published 12:00 am, Thursday, April 20, 2017
Fairfield's Hart wins championship with Shoreline Sharks
The U-14 Black (AA) Shoreline Sharks girl's hockey team - with Fairfield's Abby Hart on the roster -- recently won the USA Hockey's 2017 Tier II National Championship. Undefeated in state and regional before going national, the Sharks earned the title with a 2-0 win over the Wisconsin Black Cats at the Troy (Mich.) Sports Center.
"It was a phenomenal tournament run, I am proud of what the girls accomplished," coach Ed Rodham said. "We played and beat teams from Alaska, Michigan, Colorado, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin to win the title. The dedication of our players and their countless hours of practice paid off. We headed into the tournament undefeated in our last 20 games of the season, giving us the powerful momentum needed to win the USA Hockey National Championship."
The Sharks (43-11-10) became the 16th team from Connecticut to win a National girls title since the championship tournament started in 1978.
First Step Basketball Camp taking registrations
Now in its 21st year, the First Step Basketball Camp for boys and girls entering first to fifth grades is now accepting applications for registration. Directed by former Ludlowe athletic director Dave Schulz, the camp takes place from June 26 to June 29 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Ludlowe HS gym. The fee is $150 which includes a camp ball. For information and a reservation form please email email@example.com or call 203-259-9833.
Fairfield Babe Ruth registration open
The Fairfield Babe Ruth Baseball Program is currently accepting registrations for the spring season from all players who reside in Fairfield between the ages of 13 and 18 (age is how old you are on 4/30/17). Teams for our 13-15 year old divisions have been formed but we still have a few remaining spots open. Please contact either Alvin Prusoff (203) 767-0361 or Mike Menkes (203) 334-0518 to register. Or visit: http://fairfieldbaberuth.leagueapps.com
Fairfield Wildcats Registration underway
Registration is now open for the Fairfield Wildcats Youth Football program. Children in our tackle football program compete with and against children in their own grade. The Fairfield Wildcats are the largest Youth Football League in Fairfield. The Fairfield Wildcats offer tackle football NFL flag football and cheerleading. The Wildcats are a part of the Fairfield County Football League (FCFL) and play all their games within Fairfield County. Our award-winning cheer program has three separate age divisions. Practice starts on August 14 and of our coaches are USA Football Heads Up certified. The registration link is: http://fairfieldwildcats.com/Registration/Default.asp?org=FAIRFIELDWILDCATS.COM


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It's that time of the month when we team up with our mini gal pal from the UK, Little Miss Alba . It's the holiday season and we thought it would be a great idea to do a stylishly fabulous giveaway. We teamed up with Little Remix to give one lucky winner this chunky wool coat styled by Scout and Alba in the photos. If you're not familiar with this brand then they NEED to be on your radar. Each piece is perfectly designed for the street savvy fashionista. Your little one will be an instant icon just from sporting any piece from the LR collection.
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February 20, 2004.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, -against- JOSUE BEDELL, Defendant
The opinion of the court was delivered by: ARTHUR SPATT, District Judge
Having previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment
exceeding one year, on February 27, 2003, the Government filed an
indictment against Josue Bedell ("Bedell" or the "defendant") on one
count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) for possessing a firearm.
Pending before the Court is a motion by Bedell to suppress a gun
recovered from his room and to suppress statements allegedly made by him
under custodial interrogation. In the alternative, the defendant requests
a hearing to determine whether the physical evidence
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and statements should be suppressed.
Bedell alleges the following facts in support of the instant motion.
The defendant states that he was a tenant in a room on the second floor
of 83 Heston Road, Shirley, New York ("Heston Location"). The defendant
claims that the Heston Location is a rooming house and that he was the
sole tenant and occupant of his room. Bedell contends that his room was
not a common area and that no other person had authority to enter or
allow entry to the room.
According to Bedell, on February 11, 2003, officers of the Suffolk
County Police Department entered the Heston Location to arrest him on a
charge of criminal contempt in the first degree under New York State law.
He claims that the officers forcibly entered his room without knocking on
his door or announcing their identity or purpose. The defendant states
that he did not consent to their entry. Upon entering his room, the
arresting officers recovered a .380 caliber semiautomatic pistol on the
After his arrest, the defendant states that he was taken to the 7th
Precinct in Suffolk County. Bedell contends that he was never advised of
his Miranda rights before being interrogated. In addition, the defendant
contends that he never made the statements attributed to him.
In its opposition papers, the Government alleges that on February 10,
2003, the defendant's girlfriend, Jamie Harris ("Harris"), filed a
complaint against Bedell at the 7th
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Precinct, alleging that earlier that day the defendant had assaulted her
in violation of an Order of Protection issued on January 28, 2003, by the
Honorable John Kelly, of the Suffolk District Court. On the next day,
February 11, 2003, the Government states that Detectives John Clark and
David Winter of the Suffolk County Police Department went to the Heston
Location to arrest him for assaulting Harris and violating the Order of
The Government alleges that Detective Clark had arrested the defendant
at his home and was aware that the Heston Location was a rooming house
and that the defendant was renting a room on the second floor. According
to the Government, when the detectives arrived at the Heston Location,
they knocked on the front door of the rooming house, at which time an
individual residing at the Heston Location answered the door and gave the
detectives permission to enter and look for the defendant. The Government
alleges that the detectives went to the room in which they knew Bedell
resided, and knocked on his door. The Government further alleges that
Bedell opened the door to his room, at which point the detectives asked
him to step out of his room, which he did.
The Government states that the detectives placed handcuffs on the
defendant and instructed him not to move. The Government further states
that the barefoot defendant told the detectives he needed to get his
boots from his room. The Government asserts that the detectives did not
allow Bedell to get his boots, but shined a flashlight into the room to
look for the defendant's shoes. According to the Government, the
detectives observed, in plain
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view, a handgun on the floor of the room near the defendant's shoes. The
Government states that they discovered later that the gun was defaced.
The Government contends that the detectives recovered the gun which was
located approximately six to eight feet from the door. Thereafter, the
defendant was transported to the 7th Precinct.
The Government further contends that at the precinct, the defendant was
orally advised of his Miranda warnings, and waived his right to remain
silent. According to the Government, Bedell told the detectives, in
substance, that the gun was not hidden because he was asleep before the
detectives had arrived and that he needed the gun because people were
after him.
A. The Defendant's Motion to Suppress the Gun
The Fourth Amendment provides that "the right of the people to be
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. . . ." U.S.
Const. amend. IV. This amendment encompasses the common law requirement
that a police officer entering a premise knock and announce his identity
and purpose before forcible entry. Wilson v. Arkansas, 514 U.S. 927,
934, 115 S.Ct. 1914, 131 L.Ed.2d 976 (1995). The "knock and announce"
rule extends to police officers entering a tenant's room in a rooming
house, as privacy expectations are high . . . even in private rooms."
Anabile v. Pellegrino, 303 F.3d 107, 119 (2d Cir. 2001). Evidence seized
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during a search may be suppressed if this rule is violated. See United
States v. Burke, 517 F.2d 377, 386 n.13 (2d Cir. 1975). However,
exceptions to this "knock and announce" rule exist "under circumstances
presenting a threat of physical violence" or "where police officers have
reason to believe that evidence would likely to be destroyed if advance
notice were given." Id. at 936.
An evidentiary hearing on a motion to suppress "ordinarily is required
if the moving papers are sufficiently definite, specific, and
nonconjectural to enable the court to conclude that contested issues of
fact going to the validity of the search are in question." United States
v. Pena, 961 F.2d 333, 339 (2d Cir. 1992) (citations and quotations
omitted). A defendant seeking to suppress evidence ...
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After surviving a bleeding brain aneurysm in December, Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes stressed the importance of learning and knowing the signs that something's wrong.
He made the decision then to work to educate the public on the warning signs of aneurysms and strokes.
On Thursday, the doctors who repaired Rhodes's aneurysm will speak at a free seminar, the "Brain Game," to let people know what to look for. The seminar will be at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel, 2101 N. Oak St. in Myrtle Beach.
Rhodes said he experienced symptoms that could have alerted him about the aneurysm in his brain had he ever known what they were.
"You're not informed like you have been for a potential heart attack," he said.
Dr. Imran Chaudry, a neurointerventional radiologist, and Dr. Christine Holmstedt, a cerebrovascular surgeon, led the team that repaired Rhodes' aneurysm at the Medical University of South Carolina and will share tips to help recognize strokes and aneurysms.
"There's no age criteria of strokes and aneurysms," said Rhodes, 70.
He was 69 when he was diagnosed while Councilman Randal Wallace's brother, Keith, was 26 when he died after an aneurysm burst in his brain last August.
"I'm trying to help give back to our community. Not just Myrtle Beach, the whole Grand Strand," Rhodes said. "I was very fortunate – blessed – to have survived this."


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Harley Davidson XR1200X — Part Two — Motorcycle Mojo Magazine
Taming of the Shrew
"Oh my God, did I get myself into?" It's a of utter disbelief as I thumb the of the race-prepped XR1200X for the first The docile V-Twin that powered the stock version of the is now snarling and barking at me out of its exhaust a rabid dog. Equally is the changed seating position; the fitted, high-performance Elka are longer than stock and the rear of the bike to a stratospheric
The view and reach to the ground me feel like I'm riding a instead of a motorcycle, but even this fully sinks in, I ride the bike into a The steering lock, altered for catches me off guard; it's so that the bike now has the turning of an aircraft carrier.
My original of street-testing a stock XR1200X and racing the track-prepped version of the in a professional race now seems the of a madman. Concerned for my safety and the of those around me, I decide to the XR1200X from Deeley Canada and get some practice during a track day being at Shannonville. It's not the track that will be used for the race, but it's close for me to get a feel for the bike and hopefully some confidence for the race.
Clearly, I am not the only XR1200X who needs some practice When I arrive at the track, I'm to find that half of the I'll be racing is here Even the defending Canadian Champion, Jordan Szoke, is on working on the setup of his Kawasaki.
The at the track puts the state of road racing into imagine showing up for a public day in Italy and sharing the paddock Valentino Rossi?
If I had any confidence at all racing an XR1200X, it is completely before I complete a single With the bike barely over, it's weaving so that I almost lose the end, and I realize that the most unstable motorcycle ever had on a track. Dejected, I straight back to the pits and out John Sharrard, owner of Technologies. The former pro racer and guru is an Elka distributor and to be at the track.
Rather than waste the part of the day trying to figure out the new I ask for his help and describe what the is doing. He looks over the and discovers that the rebound is turned all the way out. By the time made a few rudimentary adjustments, I have time for one partial lap the session is over.
It's to know that the bike is at rideable and that I have to work with.
The next two are cut short by crashes that out the red flag. With half the day gone, I realize that only managed seven hot – just enough to give me feel for the line through turn – not enough to give me any with the bike. I take the information that I've about its handling and pay Sharrard visit.
He has concerns with the XR1200X's distribution. "With the rider so far back, I don't think the wheel is weighted enough; try increasing the preload by four to raise the rear and load the Raise the rear? I can barely get my leg the bike as it is without shredding sinew in my groin, but I have in Sharrard's professional opinion and let him the changes.
I'm always amazed at the tuning a bike's suspension can on its handling. Only a few laps my first session of the afternoon, I that the extra preload has the overall stability of the bike; the setup still needs but for the first time I feel enough to increase my pace.
With my lap times dropping and building, I head into 10 hard, squeeze the front lever at my braking marker, and feel any resistance. "Crap," is all I can say as the pulls in all the way to the handlebar and the bike slow. On the edge of panic, I another gear and press on the rear brake while even more lean. I avert running off the track, and back to the paddock area on the brake while staying off the line.
The splitter for the front line has ruptured and covered the fender and wheel with fluid. My day is over. I would find out from Thomas Deeley's Racing Fleet that the stock splitter was to be replaced with an aftermarket that had been back-ordered. I'm disappointed with my lack of time and mediocre performance on the I'm thankful that no one was near me the brake line failed.
At the very least, I know I'm able to lap a track on the bike.
As I'm the bike onto the trailer, asks what the XR1200X is on the track. "It's like a bull by the horns and hanging on for life," I reply. "Every I manage to find a way to help the ride, it finds another way to me off. It reminds me of how my 1982 CB900F handled on the street years ago. In other it's a hell of a lot of fun."
than two weeks later, I to Shannonville for the Canada Day race Bleary-eyed from my 5:00 start to make the mandatory a.m. rider's meeting, I into the racer's compound and am a surprised by the sight. More resembling a gypsy encampment the professional paddocks I've at World Superbike and MotoGP every conceivable type of is in use, from the most of motor homes to the most of tents.
I half expect to see a goat to a tent pole and chickens at the ground in the encampment, but racers are to pop their heads out, one by to begin setting up for the day. MMM
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Mark Mayonnaise, Sep 14, 2012.
I like to recommend they wear more short skirts
Our IT guy is in my Jiu Jitsu class & he grabbed me in a full Nelson the other day.
ugly womenz making the moves on me, all others are welcomed & encouraged
It's interesting that you feel a full nelson hold is sexual
I was once accused of threatening a female co-worker of assault with a baseball bat - Some would say that's sexual, depending on the use ....
are you asking what form of sexual harassment i prefer to receive, or to give?
Maybe pk's into temporarily losing consciousness?
I dont want to have to hear anyone's crap about anything. I dont want to have to look at them, smell them or hear them at all.
I work at home
Didn't you grab a man's package recently?
And claimed it was an accident.
You ain't fooling anyone


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ATI (the graphics division of AMD) first released its new RV770 graphics processor back in June with the introduction of the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870. Both of these are excellent products—they're some of the best graphics cards we've seen in a long time, and deliver so much bang-for-the-buck that Nvidia has had to drastically reduce prices on its products to remain competitive, a move which Wall Street didn't like very much.
Whatever you may say about the Radeon 4800 series, this much is true: ATI was competing in the mid-range and performance graphics segments, with no product for the truly high-end (defined by "$400 and up"). At the time of the 4800 series launch, ATI laid out its new strategy: no more really big GPUs designed only to be used in those high-end products. Instead, it will stick two modestly-sized GPUs on a single card, similar to the Radeon HD 3870 X2 to address that market.
There's nothing inherently good or bad about this strategy. It is a series of tradeoffs like any other. ATI has been working hard on their multi-GPU scaling and compatibility, with nice improvements in both areas delivered in drivers earlier this year. Now that the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is finally here, it's time to put ATI's new strategy to the test. Is two RV770 GPUs on a single card the best way to cater to the high-end market? Continued…
Speeds and Feeds, Dual-GPU Tradeoffs
Here's a look at some of the specs of current high-end graphics cards. This is Nvidia's top two GPUs, and the top two from ATI.
|GeForce GTX 280
|GeForce GTX 260
|Radeon HD 4870 X2
|Radeon HD 4870
|RV770 x2
|Manufacturing Process
|Transistor Count
|Core Clock
|602 MHz
|576 MHz
|750 MHz
|750 MHz
|Stream Processor Clock
|1.29 GHz
|1.24 GHz
|750 MHz
|750 MHz
|Memory Clock
|2.2 GHz DDR
|2.0 GHz DDR
|3.6 GHz DDR
|3.6 GHz DDR
|Stream Processors
|Texture Units
|Render back end (ROPs)
|Frame Buffer
|Memory Interface
|512 bits
|448 bits
|2x 256 bits
|256 bits
|Memory Bandwidth
|141.7 GB/sec
|111.9 GB/sec
|230.4 GB/sec
|115.2 GB/sec
Those are some mighty impressive numbers in the 4870 X2 column, but that's just because it's really two 4870s crammed onto a single board. In fact, it's two 1GB 4870s, for a grand total of 2 gigs of graphics memory. Note ATI's aggressive pricing: It's more expensive than the GeForce GTX 280, but it's less than twice the price of a Radeon HD 4870, despite having four times the GDDR5 memory.
Addressing the high-end of the market with a dual-GPU board carries with it a series of tradeoffs—positive and negative aspects that are inherent to the process in today's graphics landscape. Here's a short list of pros and cons of having two GPUs on a stick approach:
- It's cheaper to put two small GPUs on a card than on one big one. Defects increase at a non-linear rate when chip size increases, and economies of scale kick in when you can address a bigger range of products with the same chip.
- It's easier to cool two smaller chips than one big one. Heat production is spread out to two areas.
- Whenever your driver team makes one of your single-GPU cards go faster, odds are that it'll make the dual-GPU card faster. Work to improve dual-GPU scaling also pays off. In short, there are more avenues of attack for software optimization.
- Two chips with their own memory controllers is an economical way to achieve really high memory bandwidth.
- You get the performance of two GPUs, but don't need a CrossFire/SLI capable motherboard. Just one PCIe x16 slot is all you need.
- Not every game scales well to multiple GPUs, so in some titles you pay a lot more but don't get much more performance.
- Twice as much memory is needed on the card because most graphics data has to be duplicated in the memory attached to each GPU.
- Multi-GPU rendering doesn't work in a window, so all your players that prefer windowed mode get the performance of a single GPU even though you paid for two.
- Multi-monitor setups don't like multi-GPU rendering, either. ATI manages this better than Nvidia by shutting off the secondary display and running dual-GPU on the primary, but it's still less than ideal. Especially if you want to run the game on both monitors at once.
- Dual-GPU cards tend to have higher power utilization, both at idle and under load.
- Dual-GPU cards are almost always long (10.5-inch for the 4870 X2) and won't fit in smaller PC cases.
The above tradeoffs are true for both Nvidia and ATI dual-GPU products, and it's true of two-card solutions, too. The RV770 GPU includes a "CrossFire X Sideport" that makes for more efficient communication between GPUs, and which ATI says should help improve scaling from one GPU to two. But neither ATI nor Nvidia has really come up with solutions to the common dual-GPU problems.
If "two GPUs on a stick" is going to be the way ATI addresses the high end of the market from now on (and the company confirms that is the case), it needs to work hard on three major areas in addition to the ongoing battle to improve performance scaling:
- Make multi-GPU rendering work just as well as a single GPU in windowed mode and on multi-monitor setups.
- Allow each GPU to read from the other's memory efficiently, so graphics data doesn't have to be duplicated in each memory bank and twice as much memory isn't needed on a dual-GPU card.
- Reduce power consumption, especially at idle, to be in line with single large GPUs.
Now that we know what the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is and what it can and can't do, it's time to see where the rubber meets the road: performance.
Benchmark Setup
We'll compare the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with Nvidia's top-of-the-line graphics card, the GeForce GTX 280, as well as with a single Radeon HD 4870 to determine scaling from one GPU to two. Since the clock speeds are the same as a single GPU card, we'll get a very good idea at how well ATI's multi-GPU scaling work has paid off. Note that the GTX 280 has been reduced in price greatly since its launch; down $200 from $650 to $450. That should make the price/performance comparison quite interesting.
We'll be testing the EAH4870X2 from ASUS, which basically adheres to the ATI reference design for the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
|Intel Core2 Extreme X9650 (3 GHz)
|Motherboard and chipset
|ASUS P5E3 Premium Intel X38 Chipset)
|2 x 1GB DDR3 1333MHz
|Hard drive
|Seagate 7200.10 160GB SATA Drive
|Optical drive
|ATAPI DVD-ROM Drive
|Integrated HD Audio
|Operating system
|Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1
We used ForceWare 177.41 drivers from Nvidia to test the GeForce GTX 280 card, and Catalyst 8.7 to test the Radeon HD 4870. The 4870 X2 isn't supported by any public driver just yet, so we used prerelease drivers supplied by ATI. We're primarily concerned with really high resolutions here—you don't buy a $450 or $550 graphics card to run at 1440×900.
Our test application matrix is comprised of the following titles, plus the venerable 3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage.
Company of Heroes— Relic's superb World War 2 RTS gets a refresh with the release of the Opposing Fronts Expansion. The benchmark hasn't really changed, however, and consists of an in-engine cut scene. We ran tests using only the DX10 mode.
Supreme Commander—This DX9-only RTS offers up huge explosions, hundreds of units and large maps. The benchmark features the game actually playing itself as three factions vie for control of a large island.
World in Conflict—Massive's new RTS offers up some of the best graphics of any RTS game, including some incredible explosion effects. The benchmark features two factions taking on each other for the control of a small town.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars—The latest multiplayer frenzy from id and Splash Damage feature humans and Strog vying for control of Earth, and is rare among popular PC games in that it uses OpenGL. We use a custom recorded timedemo for our benchmark.
Unreal Tournament 3—This latest update to Unreal Tournament features better single player, but the action is focused on multiplayer. We use a botmatch based on the Serenity map, which runs the new Warfare game type to test performance.
Crysis. Crytek's new first person shooter is one of the most strenuous games around. We'll test in DX10 mode, using the game with the 1.2 patch, using the island flyby benchmark test.


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The Loyola Greyhounds and the Rider Broncs will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Alumni Gymnasium.
Loyola was a 63-58 winner in their most recent outing at home against Fairfield. They covered the 3.5-point spread as favorites.
In their last action, Rider was a 69-60 winner on the road against Manhattan. They covered the 5-point spread as underdogs.
Next up:
Loyola home to Marist, Thursday, January 17
Rider at Saint Peter's, Thursday, January 17


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Ah! Love! Right grand? Have you ever been'in love'? Sure you have! Most of us has had the all consuming enthusiasms and needs for that special someone. I keep in mind feeling weak at the knees as far back as grade school, however alas! It did not end well and there have actually been some goes incorrect in the affairs of the heart since that point, including the not so frivolous object of marriage. Yes, I let it get so far as the weddings before recognizing that maybe those alarm bells were meant for me, and'Mr. Right' turned out not to be not so special after all.
Corte Madera CA 94976 Alcohol Counselor Which You Could Have Confidence In
The text of Prop T states that, "alcohol abuse counselor services are an essential element to San Francisco's Continuum of Care Plan, the official homeless policy of the City and County of San Francisco." The continuum of care plan is art of the recently-released "Five Year Strategic Plan of the San Francisco Resident Homeless Coordinating Board." That report came out previously this year and the Board of Supervisors embraced the report as official city policy on February 26. Mistermayor signed on February 29.
Do-It-Yourself Procedures
It is true that some addicts can go months and even years without letting their alcohol addiction counseling adversely impact their lives, however with addiction, things always turn bad in the end. Consider your loved one's dependency as a ticking time-bomb. They might appear alright now, but ultimately it is going to explode.
Although recovery can be a rough road, it does not suggest that regression is unavoidable. In truth, a promising figure is that over half of individuals who get treatment ultimately reach a state of continual recovery.
Students Respond: Sam's Daddy was part of the problem as he continued to drink, and he did not permit himself to benefit from the therapy sessions he went to. He might have belonged to the solution if he had permitted himself to take advantage of the anger management classes he went to and the alcohol counseling sessions he likewise participated in.
Alcohol Counselor In Corte Madera California 94976: Our Addiction Programs
Well I did have a couple of yes answers. When I finished the questions he said to me, Dan if you addressed 2 or more questions with a yes you might have a problem with alcohol. I thought to myself 2 from 20 why wasn't high school that easy? Heck 65% is passing in my book. Besides I am not an alcoholic! I never ever lost a task due to alcohol, I just quit showing up! I was always different!
No matter what the actual substance you're addicted to is, your life is most likely no fun. You feel you cannot get out of that grasp that that compound has on you and no matter what you do you keep going through regression after regression, and each time you go through one, it's more difficult and harder.
Independent Providers
You get up and you seem like crap because you do not feel your life deserves squat and even though you attempted different things to conquer the addiction, nothing attempted. Now, it's interesting but it seems that a few of those tips are incomplete nearly on function. They tell you to do something then as long as quickly as you do it, they have a propensity to ask you to spend for something or go through drug abuse treatment techniques.


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Ethiopia's youth has come under the spotlight recently for their role in a political protest that is seen to be threatening stability. But Ethiopia's youth bulge doesn't need to be a political problem. It can be converted to an economic muscle.
Over the past 12 years Ethiopia has been lauded as one of the fastest growing economies in the world with average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 10.8%. It has also seen a significant decline in poverty. In 2004 it had a poverty rate of 39% which had fallen to 23% by 2015.
But there's a cloud hanging over the country. In 2016 it was hit by a drought that affected 10 million people. And a new drought has emerged again this year.
2016 also saw an outbreak of political protest. Although things are relatively calmer now, the state of emergency that was declared in October 2016 has been extended.


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Emmitsburg Council of Churches
The Season of Epiphany
shine; for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you."
(Isaiah. 60.1)
In the pre-dawn darkness of a
recent Sunday morning I saw a light.
Of course I saw many lights
shining in the darkness of that early hour as I was
driving to Carlisle, Pennsylvania where I am the student
intern (the Vicar) at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. In the
yards of the many homes I passed I saw figures of deer
lit up with small bright white lights, there was a house
with two windows that flashed a red Santa in a green
sleigh, and there were many homes with their roofs
outlined with white icicle lighting or multicolored
lights outlining trees and shrubs. All of these were
interesting and I enjoyed the scenery as I made my way
along the road to St. Paul's. However, these Christmas
lights did not cause me to slow down nor did I need to
ponder more deeply about why these decorations were put
up each year.
"For darkness shall cover
the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord
will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over
you." (Isa. 60.2)
As I drove along I kept looking
up through the tree limbs and watching this one solitary
light I mentioned earlier. I thought that it was strange
to see this lonely light shining solo from its high
vantage point up on the ridge. At first it looked small,
but the more I watched it, the more I recognized that it
was made more brilliant because it was shining out of
the immense darkness of those mountains that appear just
to the west and north of Idaville along route 34. The
light was enhanced further as it contrasted with the
black ink covered skies above. The more I thought about
it, the more I concluded that it must be a very large
light because it had shined so brightly from so far
away; I wondered who put it there?
Whoever put up that light must
have been thinking about the many people who would see
it, they must have wanted the viewers to know about the
joyful coming of God's light to the world, the light
that we celebrate in the season of Epiphany. I thought
about the many people who live in the dark places of our
world. Darkness can exist in many dimensions of our
lives. It can be literal, as when we don't get enough of
the sunlight that our bodies need for good health, or it
can be spiritual, as when we become deprived of the
goodness and love that God made us in and desires for us
to have always.
Seeing the light up on the
ridge, and thinking of the community upon which it was
shining brought me a level of gratitude for the comfort
and hope represented by its brightness and rays. The
person or persons who had erected this light and who
were paying for the power used to make it shine were
demonstrating their love and concern for all who would
see it. Like Isaiah's verses written to the people of
Israel who desperately needed reassurance that they were
loved and sought after by God; so also, as many as would
look up into the darkness of the night and see this
light, these ones would be directed toward answers to
their questions about the Source of hope and love. May
we also become beacons of hope and love as we embrace
the light of Christ come to us in this season of
"Then you shall see and be
radiant; your heart shall thrill and rejoice . . . . for
the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, because he has glorified you." (Isa. 60.5,
Peace and good will to all!
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