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In my mind, a compassionate professional there to give medical attention, advice and a smile.
That doesn't sound unreasonable, does it?
We had our third visit today and it still doesn't feel right. I've learned to navigate her thick accent but the problem seems to go deeper.
She's there to take measurements and track progress but thats about it. My questions are answered with few words and I feel like I need to lead her to get the details I want.
I told her we started solids and was hoping for some guidance about it's progression but got nothing.
When the issue of teething came up she couldn't get Hannah to open her mouth so she didn't bother looking inside.
And our number one problem - sleep - was basically a white or black answer of crying it out with no grey areas for teething. I think she was even confused when I brought up Ferber's name.
So I think it's time for a change.
Do you agree?
I'd love to hear about your pediatrician's interactions with you and your little ones. Am I expecting too much?
On a happy note, I'm proud to report a 15.5 lbs., 26 inch very strong and healthy 6 month old!


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29 shots and counting as of 9pm ET this evening.
I was amazed how much my follies grew overnight. Thursday the largest was 19... today (Friday) the largest was 23. The majority are in their 'teens'. Dr. T wants me to stim one more day (today) to ensure I have as many mature eggs as possible; I went back to the RE's office for another dose of free injectibles to get me through today (if you are counting, that's 4 trips to the RE in the last 2 days, good thing it's only 5 minutes away). I'll go back in the morning for my third consecutive morning date with 'Wandy' and expect to get the green light to trigger tomorrow. This would put my retrieval on Monday.
I'm quite certain my ER will be Monday so I went ahead and notified work that my 'outpatient surgery' is Monday so I'll be out. I coordinated with teammates to cover my responsibilities, it will be fine. I'll work some on Sunday to prepare to be out.
The good news is that if I have a 5 day transfer, as the doctor wants, that will be Saturday... so my 2 days of bedrest will not impact work! And if it's a 3 day transfer... I guess I'll just say I had a post-op follow-up and the doctor ordered bedrest for a couple of days. It's actually the truth.
I'm anxious to have the retrieval now. I'm definitely regularly feeling the big follies on the left, it's not bad... just a constant reminder. Until then, I'll simply hurry up and wait.
MicroPreemie Mom, Single Mom by Choice, Infertility survivor (CCRM Success). Ella born at 25 weeks! It's been a wild ride!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Hurry Up & Wait!
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The workof Diarmiad MacCulloch is clearly an entry into properly understanding both theinfluence of Plato on Hellenism and from that foundation, the influence ofHellenism on the emergent Christianity and from there to the emergence of therationalism of the Christian enlightenment.
It isstartling to think that we owe the scientific and industrial revolutions andthe structure of Christian philosophy directly to the ideas of one man whonever wrote a book. His name wasSocrates.
Likemany, I have perused the sources and have learned that these influencesexisted. This work clearly outlines thecontinuities and relationships and is a must read if one wants to increase onesinsight in the history of ideas and philosophy.
The Gospel according to Plato
National Post December 23, 2010– 8:56 am
In the first of fourbook excerpts, religious scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the deep historical and philosophicalroots of the Christian faith.
Socrates wrote nothing himself, and we hear hisvoice mediated through writings of his pupil and admirer Plato, mostly indialogue form. While he was teaching in Athens, his was an insistently andinfuriatingly questioning voice, embodying the conviction that questions cannever cease to be asked if human beings are to battle with any success againstthe constant affliction of public and private problems. At Socrates's trial,Plato portrays the philosopher as insisting in his speech of defence that "theunexamined life is not worth living." It was Socrates's questioning of thehalf-century-old Athenian democracy that was a major cause of his trial andexecution; his trial is the central event around which Plato's dialogues arefocused, making it as much a trial of Athenian society and thought as it was ofSocrates. The grotesque absurdity of killing a man who was arguablyAthens's greatest citizen on charges of blasphemy and immorality impelled Platoto see a discussion of politics as one facet of discussions of justice, thenature of morality and divine purpose — in fact to see the two discussions asinterchangeable.
Western religion and philosophy have remainedin the shadow of those exchanges: Western culture has borrowed the insistenceof Socrates that priority should be given over received wisdom to logicalargument and rational procession of thought, and the Western version of theChristian tradition is especially prone to this Socratic principle. Yet he wasalso to find his most mischievous disciple in a 19th-century Danish Lutheranwho overturned even the systematic pursuit of rationality: Søren Kierkegaard.
Plato's influence on Christianity was equallyprofound in two other directions. First, his view of reality and authenticitypropelled one basic impulse in Christianity, to look beyond the immediate andeveryday to the universal or ultimate. In his dialogue The Republic, herepresents Socrates as telling a story which in more than one sense illuminatesthe Platonic view of the human condition. Prisoners are chained in a cave,facing a wall; their bonds are fixed in such a way that the wall is all theycan see. Behind them a great fire roars, but between them and the fire is awalkway, on which people parade a series of objects, such as carved images of animalsor humans, whose shadows fall on the wall under the prisoners' gaze. Thebearers pronounce the names of the objects as they pass and the echoes of thenames bounce off the wall. All the prisoners can experience, therefore, areshadows and echoes. That is what they understand to be reality. If any of themare released, the brightness of the sun's real light is blinding, and makestheir sight of any of the real objects less convincing than the shadows whichthey have come to know so well, and the echoing names which they have heard.
Human life is an imprisonment in the cave. Theparticular phenomena we perceive in our lives are shadows of their ideal"Forms," which represent truer and higher versions of reality than the oneswhich we can readily know. We should not be content with these shadows. Anindividual human soul should do its best to find its way back to the Formswhich lie behind the world of our clouded senses, because there we may findarete — excellence or virtue. The path is through the intellect: "Excellence[arete] of soul" is our chief purpose or direction, because beyond even theForms is the Supreme Soul, who is God and who is ultimate arete.
Plato's second major contribution to Christiandiscussion is his conception of what God's nature encompasses: onenessand goodness. Plato took his cue from Socrates's radical rethinking on thetraditional Greek range of gods (the "pantheon"), looked beyond it and madeethics central to his discussion of divinity.
The pantheon portrayed in both Greek myth andthe Homeric epics can hardly be said to exemplify virtue: The origins of thegods in particular make up an extraordinary catalogue of horrors and violence.Hesiod's Theogony named the first divinity as Chaos; among the divinities whoemerged from him, representing the cosmos spawned out of chaos, was Gaia, theEarth. Gaia's son Ouranos/Uranus (the Sky) incestuously mated with his motherand had 12 children, whom he forced back into Gaia's womb; Gaia's youngest son,Kronos/Cronus, castrated his father, Ouranos, before in turn committing incestwith his sister and attempting to murder all their children. How unlike thehome life of the Christian Trinity. Matters only marginally improved in thegeneration of Zeus. If one were compiling a school report on the behaviour ofthe Olympian gods, it would have to include comments on their lack of moralresponsibility, consistent pity or compassion.
Greeks generally looked on this disconcertinglack of moral predictability among their divinities with cheerful resignation,and did their best to secure the best bargain available from them by dueceremonial observances at home or in temples or shrines. Now Plato presented avery different picture of the ultimate God. His perspective looking beyond thetraditional pantheon has a further dimension, which does actually in effectlimit the way in which he envisaged the goodness of God. Although Plato'ssupreme God is unlike the fickle, jealous, quarrelsome gods of the Greekpantheon, his God is distanced from compassion for human tragedy, becausecompassion is a passion or emotion.
For Plato, the character of true deity is notmerely goodness, but also oneness. Although Plato nowhere explicitly draws theconclusion from that oneness, it points to the proposition that God alsorepresents perfection. Being perfect, thesupreme God is also without passions, since passions involve change from onemood to another, and it is in the nature of perfection that it cannot change.This passionless perfection contrasts with the passion, compassion and constantintervention of
'sGod, despite the fact that both the Platonic and the Hebrew views of God stresstranscendence. Israel
There is a difficulty in envisaging how Plato'sGod could create the sort of changeable, imperfect, messy world in which welive — indeed, have any meaningful contact with it. Even the created wholenessof the Forms would most appropriately have been created by one other than theGod who is the Supreme Soul: perhaps an image of the Supreme Soul, an imagethat Plato describes in one of the most influential of his dialogues, Timaeus,as a craftsman or artificer (demiourgos, from which comes the English term"demiurge"). Creation was likely to extend away from God in a hierarchy ofemanations from the supreme reality of the divine.
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National Post December 24, 2010– 8:57 am
In the second of fourbook excerpts, religious scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the deep historical and philosophicalroots of the Christian faith.
By the time Jesus Christ was born in Palestine,the Hellenistic world was being ruled by another wave of imperial conquerors,who had come from the west, but who did little to challenge the cultural superiorityof the society which they had found — quite the reverse. Their rule, unlikeAlexander's, lasted for centuries, and the memory of it has hauntedChristianity ever since.
It was around the mid-eighth century BCE that
Rome became a walled city with a king, rather like a polisin archaic .The monarchy was overthrown in 509 BCE and thereafter the Romans had such apathological fear of the idea of kingship that no one bore the title "King ofthe Romans" again until a Christian ruler from what is now Greece Germany reinvented it a millennium and a halflater, far from and therefore deaf to the ancient taboo. Rome
There followed a generation of conflictbetween an aristocracy (the patricians) and the people (plebeians), just as in
.However, the result of this war was opposite to the outcome in Greekcity-states such as Greece Athens or : The aristocrats won and theconstitution of the Republic (res publica) which they developed influencedRoman forms of government down to the end of the empire. The plebeians lostwhatever power they had possessed under the monarchy; there were still popularassemblies, but their role was without substance. Real power lay with twoconsuls, officers chosen annually from among the patricians, and with theSenate, an assembly of patricians; even here, junior senators had little say inthe running of affairs. Ordinary people had influence on policy only throughthe popularly elected tribunes, who were honoured and sacrosanct during theiryear of office. Tribunes looked after the legal rights of the people, and evenin the later Republic, when popular rights had dwindled still further, theystill vetoed legislation proposed by the Senate. Corinth
Otherwise, the
starkly contrasted with the development of democracy in the Athenian mould. Itsunequal balance appealed greatly to aristocrats in Christian societies, onceChristian societies came into existence, and we will meet several such"Republics" (or, in an alternative English translation, "Commonwealths") asalternatives to monarchy, in both Latin and Orthodox Christendom: Venice,Novgorod, Poland-Lithuania, the 17th-century England of Oliver Cromwell. Roman Republic
Roman Republic's difference from developedGreek city-states probably arose because of 's continual yearning to expand: a statemore or less permanently at war either to maintain or to expand its frontierscould not afford the luxury of real democracy. Why was Rome 's expansion so remarkably successful?Plenty of other states produced dramatic expansion, but survived for no morethan a few generations or a couple of centuries at most. The western part ofthe Roman state survived for twelve hundred years, and in its eastern form theRoman Empire had a further thousand years of life after that. The answerprobably lies in another contrast with Rome : The Romans had very littlesense of racial exclusiveness. They gave away Roman citizenship to deservingforeigners — by deserving, they would mean those who had something to offerthem in return, if only grateful collaboration. Occasionally whole areas wouldbe granted citizenship. It was even possible for slaves to make the leap frombeing non-persons to being citizens, simply by a formal ceremony before amagistrate, or by provision in their owners' wills. Greece
Where this highly original view of citizenshipcame from is not clear; it must have evolved during the struggle for powerbetween the patricians and the plebeians after the fall of the kings. In anycase, the effect was to give anever-widening circle of people a vested interest in the survival of
. That became clear inone dramatic case in the first century of the Common Era, when a Jewishtent-maker called Paul, from Rome Tarsus, far awayfrom Rome in Asia Minor,could proudly say that he was a Roman citizen, knowing that this statusprotected him against the local powers threatening him. It might have been hispride in this status of universal citizen which first suggested to Paul thatthe Jewish prophet who had seized his allegiance in a vision had a message forall people and not just the Jews.
The story of the
Roman Republic is one of steady expansionthroughout the Mediterranean. Rome must havehad contact with Greeks from its earliest days, but it started castinginterested and acquisitive eyes on the Greek mainland during the second centuryBCE. The paradoxical cliché (no less true for being so) about the consequenceof this advance was suavely expressed in Latin by the Emperor Augustus'sadmirer the Roman poet Horace: "Greece, the captive, made her savage victorcaptive, and brought the arts into rustic Latium."
The Romans became fascinated by Greek cultureand philosophy, which complemented their own highly developed skills inmilitary affairs, administration and matters of law. Greek became just as muchan international language as Latin for the
Roman Empire.Indeed, it was the lingua franca of the Middle Eastin the time of Jesus, and it was the language which, in a rather vulgarmarketplace form, most Christians spoke in everyday life during the Church'sfirst two centuries of existence. By the sixth and seventh centuries, Greek wasousting Latin as the official language of the surviving Eastern Roman Empire, with the strong encouragement of the ChristianChurch. That was an achievement unparalleled among languages of supposedlydefeated peoples, and a tribute to Hellenistic cultural vitality andadaptability long after the end of the various Hellenistic monarchies.
The Roman rule which Jesus experienced hadundergone a great transition, from Republic to imperial monarchy. It issurprising that the Republic had postponed trouble for so long, but itsstructures proved increasingly inadequate to cope with running its bloatedempire. Rising poverty, land hunger and an accumulated popular sense ofinjustice came to a head around 100 BCE. Seventy years of misery andintermittent civil war followed, ending with the defeat of one party boss byanother in 31 BCE, when Octavian won a naval victory at Actium against MarkAntony and his ally the Ptolemaic queen of
, Cleopatra. Octavian, adoptedheir of the assassinated general and dictator Julius Caesar, achieved supremepower within the Roman state in a series of unscrupulous maneuvers; he now hadto hang on to his power and bring back peace to the shattered state. Hislasting success came through meticulous adherence to all the old forms of theRepublican constitution. Egypt
Behind the facade, Octavian carried out arevolution in government. Careful to avoid the hated title of King, he arrangedthat the Senate should give him the harmless-sounding title of First Citizen(princeps), while renaming himself Augustus, a symbol of a fresh start afterthe wretchedness of civil war. This is the name we find used for him in theChristian scriptures, the New Testament. To show his good intentions, Augustusalso graciously accepted the office of tribune, the only officer in the oldconstitution who still commanded any affection among ordinary people, but healso assumed a traditional military title of honour which Julius Caesar hadheld, commander — imperator. Now he was the first of the Roman emperors, with asuccession which lasted until 1453. This was the title that mattered: Itsignified his control of the army, which had traditionally bestowed the honourby acclamation, the real basis for imperial power from now on. The virtuallyperpetual warfare which so dominated the Roman past meant that the bestjustification for holding power in the Republic had been a track record ofmilitary success: hence the importance of the imperator title. Augustus madesure that his various publicists magnified a personal record as a militarycommander which was in reality decidedly unimpressive.
For all that his own military prowess was dubious,Augustus and his successors tore down political frontiers all round the
Mediterranean, and by controlling piracy, they made itcomparatively safe and easy to travel from one end of the sea to the other. Thefirst great exponent of a worldwide Christianity, the Apostle Paul, made themost of this, and so would the Christian faith as a whole. Without the generalpeace brought by Roman power, Christianity's westward spread would have beenfar more unlikely.
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Judaism's most successful sect
DiarmaidMacculloch, National Post ·Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010
The first Jewish texts to say much about thesoul appear in the Hellenistic period, like the so-called Wisdom of Solomon,probably written between the mid-second century BCE and the early first centuryBCE. The Book of Daniel (or at least most of its text) is almost certain tohave been written as late as the second century BCE. It is unprecedented inJewish sacred literature in spelling out the idea of an individual resurrectionof a soul in a transformed body in the afterlife -- though still not foreveryone.
Naturally, such developments within Judaismwere highly controversial and provoked continuing argument; yet by the timeChristians were beginning to construct their own literature, their writersclearly found such talk of the individual soul and of resurrection completelynatural, and it became the basis of that Christian concern with the afterlifethat sometimes has bordered on the obsessional.
At this historical stage, Rome was distantfrom Judea, and relations remained friendly for about a century -- until theRomans invaded Judaea in 63 BCE as part of their mopping-up operations aroundthe conquest of their real prizes, the Seleucid and Egyptian empires.
Finding no convincing or compliant Hasmoneancandidates for a Jewish throne, in 37 BCE, the Romans displaced the lastHasmonean ruler and replaced him with a relative by marriage, who reigned formore than three decades. This puppet king, an outsider whose forebearers camefrom the territory to the south of Judaea which the Romans called Idumea (
), wasHerod "the Great." Edom
Herod rebuilt the Temple with unprecedentedmagnificence, making it one of the largest sacred complexes in the ancientworld; the quality of his masonry in the visible surviving sections of itsmonumental precinct wall can still be admired. Yet he got little thanks fromhis subjects, who were equally ungrateful for his attempt to please them withsuch foreign innovations as Greekstyle public sporting contests, gladiatorialcombats or horse racing in newly built arenas. Complications continued afterHerod's death in 4 BCE because his sons took the extensive territories that theRomans had allowed him to build up and divided them between themselves. Duringthe first century CE the Romans experimented with a mixture of indirect rule
through various members of the Herodian familyand direct imperial rule of parts of
through a Roman official-- Pontius Pilate was one of these. Palestine
Judaeaitself, there were at least four identities for Judaism -- Sadducees,Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots and probably many lesser sects. Even though theytolerated each other's existence, each saw itself as the most authenticexpression of Jewish identity. Perhaps one way to understand the differencesbetween them is to realize that they took distinguishable stances towards theHellenistic world ruled over by the Romans, and toward all the temptations awayfrom Jewish tradition that it embodied: They represented different degrees ofdistance or accommodation.
The Sadducees provided the elite that ran the
. They had donewell out of successive regimes, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and they continuedto do well when the Romans were in charge. It was therefore not surprising thatthey were the most flexible of our four groups in relation to outsiders. Forthem, it was enough to keep the basic commands of the Law in the scriptures andnot to add the complex additional regulations that governed the everyday Temple
life of the Pharisees and made Pharisee lifeobviously distinct from the world of non-Jews around them.
Significantly, being conservatives andminimalists in their view of Jewish doctrine, Sadducees had little time for thecomparatively recently evolved discussion of the afterlife; Jesus is portrayedas on one occasion teasing Sadducees on this subject, to the pleasure of somePharisees. Both Jesus and Paul can be identified by their backgrounds as closerto the Pharisees than to any other religious grouping.
For the group known as the Essenes, even thedistinctiveness which the Pharisees maintained was not enough to keep them frompollution in semi-colonial
.The Essenes left ordinary society by setting up their own separate communities,usually well away from others, with their own literature and their owntraditions of persecution by other Jews. Sometimes it has been suggested thatthe early Christians were close to the Essenes, but that seems unlikely. Esseneseparation from the rest of Judaism was a matter of principle, whereas theeventual Christian separation was a result of Christianity's failure to becomethe leading force within the Judaism of the first century CE, and Christiansbecame eager to move out into the world beyond Palestine . Palestine
The Zealots held a militant version of thesame Essene theme of separation: For them, the only solution to the humiliationof Roman rule over the Jewish homeland was to take up Maccabean traditions ofviolent resistance, and it was they who gave impetus to the successivedisastrous revolts which by the mid-second century CE had shattered Jewish lifein Palestine.
Out of that destruction emerged a group whichat first seemed just another minority answer to the problem of Jewish identity.Now it did much toward the permanent shaping of that identity, as well asbecoming a world religion in its own right.
The Jewish sect that became Christianityborrowed the sacred literature created by the Jews and shaped Christian beliefin its founder-Messiah along lines already present in the sacred books of theTanakh (the canon of the Hebrew Bible). Christian history thereafter is shotthrough with and shaped by the stories of the Tanakh. They became particularlyuseful when Christians allied with monarchies, for the Christian New Testamenthas little to do with kings, while the Old Testament has much to say aboutthem.
When Christians created a sacred book of two"Testaments," they turned their brand-new belief system into onewhich could stand on an ancient sacred tradition and claim to be the mostancient religion of all.
-Excerpted from Christianity: The First ThreeThousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Published by arrangement with Viking, amember of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. ©Diarmaid MacCulloch, 2009. Christianity:The First Three Thousand Years was the winner of this year's $75,000 CundillPrize in History at
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For now, anyway. I heard a blurb on Maine Things Considered the other day and finally got around to posting this. Rep. Kevin Glynn (R-South Portland) is proposing a bill to move Maine from the Eastern Time Zone to the Atlantic Time Zone, citing increased economic and health benefits. (That's if I remember the quote from Maine Things Considered correctly. I also couldn't seem find a copy of the bill text, it's LR-518. Link to Kennebec Journal article.)
It would seem to me that changing time zones would cause more economic havoc than good. Sure, having an extra hour of daylight would be good for the Ski Companies and after-school activities, but being an hour different from the rest of the Eastern Seaboard could mess up commerce in general, travel, tourism, etc. Whatever.
I'm not sure what it would do for general health, either. Let people be out and about later, maybe. And keep kids a little safer in (and allow more time for) after-school activities. But on the other hand, right now the sun is just up when elementary school kids are out waiting for the bus at 7.30 or so. However, if we move an hour ahead, it will be as light at 7.30 as it is now at 6.30, which is not very.
I just don't really get it. The bill to make Moxie our state drink, that's one thing – but being the only state on Atlantic Time? (Ok – so it's not as weird as Maine Time.) Bragging rights, that's what we get. Why can't we just brag about Moxie?


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I've noticed some funny stories coming from resellers lately. When you find something hot, you usually want to keep it to yourself. Why would you share with others what sells best for you? Maybe it's because I grew up around the flea market, where resellers are like rabid dogs. As soon as you find out what sells well for someone else, you need to get it for yourself.
This happens to my parents on a regular basis. My dad once sold a particularly type of glasses, and he did really well at it. Another vendor decided that he wanted to sell the same glasses, but my dad wouldn't tell him where he got them. The seller eventually purchased some from my dad, and then a few weeks later showed up with his own supply. It turned out that he followed him from the store to his supplier, just to find out for himself. I've also watched as my dad sold out of certain items, only to have other vendors start bringing in the same thing a few weeks later. The prices drop from $20 to the point where no one is selling anything, and everyone has the same thing sitting on the shelves.
I read a lot of blogs online, and I have to giggle when I see what some people claim they sell. Maybe not what they sell per say, but definitely what they say they sell it for. I saw someone boasting about selling a Barbie from the 1970s for over $70 on eBay. I sold a similar doll and barely hit $30 on it, and mine was in better condition/originally packaging. Frankly, that doll isn't worth much. Since he claimed he sold it recently, I did a search for recent auctions. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the most that doll sold for in the last month was $27.
It makes me a little sad when I see these BS stories. A lot of people want to make money from home, selling on eBay or other sites. When the "veterans" jump in with stories of big picks and big price tags, other people try to sell the same things and barely make any money. It kind of reminds me of the people on Storage Wars, who put over inflated price tags on everything...


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On February 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and February 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Edison & Ford Winter Estates will hold its annual Edison Garden Festival. Dozens of vendors from all over the state of Florida will have exotic and tropical plants and trees, along with garden art and supplies for sale.
The Edison Ford Garden Shoppe will be open and stocked full of unusual, native and heritage plants that have been proven to thrive in Southwest Florida. Ceramic flower pots, garden art and gardening gift items will also be available.
Plant vendors will be selling palms, vegetables, bromeliads, hibiscus, butterfly plants, African violets, orchids, air plants, herbs, succulents, cactus and many hard-to-find species, as well as garden supplies and gift items, including mulch, trellises, pottery, cut flowers, hats and jewelry.
This family event will have numerous kids' activities, including photo opportunities in a Model T Ford with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. There will also be a kids' craft table where they can make corn husk dolls and origami flowers.
The festival will also feature music and refreshments will be available for purchase.
Parking and admission to the Garden Festival is free (tours of the homes, museum and lab are not included). For more information, call 239-334-7419 or visit www.edisonfordwinterestates.org.


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Life has not gotten any less boring since I last wrote an official post, but I did get to have some "fun" today.
Aside from the countless amounts of laundry that I've been doing, the endless hours spent on the internet, and the countless dishes done to help my mom out while she's been at work, I got to go to my younger siblings' spring concert tonight. They were adorable. And my younger brother's chorus sang "Blackbird" by the Beatles. Truly an amazing song.
Afterwards, I went to the store with mom and got some ice cream treats for everyone before coming home to watch "The Other Guys" with my dad and brother.
Which was followed by Skyping with my lovely KMC:
Good times, as always. Making me ache for summer to not be so brutally long. *WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SAYS THAT??????* Oh right, college students who are about to live 3000 miles from their soul sisters. Like me. But I'll enjoy my summer in California nonetheless. I do love me that California sunshine after all.
Now I'm off to shower and fold the laundry before heading to bed. Sweet dreams! Hope your day was as fun as mine!
Peace, ♥ , and happiness! :)


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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Muammar Khadafi addresses Obama on June 11,2008
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from the "more info" section of this youtube video from Memri TV:
The Muslim World Awaits The Conquer of the USA from within.
No more Need to Battle us With Weapons, Politics seems to be Open, the Peaceful submission, with the LIE attached - "I'm not really doing this to you", says Obama, what other lie are we willing to believe?
Just AS the MOORS conquered SPAIN for 800 years. Does the US intend to become the next Islamo/Christian battle ground?
Khadafi holds Obama to a promise of repatriating Palastinians completely in Israel AND revealing Israels nuclear capacity, under threat of ASSASINATION. Is this what it means to be a Muslim - to be a traitor to your Country- or face assasination? Jihad says so!!
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30th book down, only 10 more to go!
Three Times A Bridesmaid... by Nicola Marsh
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It's the kind of complicated romance I like. A girl needed a pretend date to hide behind and get her friends off her back... And then the flirting happens, and she's thinking is he acting or is he genuine?
I love it! It's a little close to something I've been writing myself, so it was interesting to see how this author did it.
Again, as a tender romance, it still had its moments of hotness, without actually making it to the bedroom. And sometimes the playing hard to get is so much more fun to read than when they eventually get there.
Bryce is a wonderful, charming and funny hero, knowing exactly how to push Eve's buttons.
My only teeny tiny criticism about this story, was sometimes it got confusing who was speaking. The author could have done with clearer speech tags at times, (she tended to not use any) but it didn't spoil it. The sexual tension it oozed made up for it!
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After all, a marriage of Stephenie Meyer wildly popular series of comic books and without doubt one of the hottest media narrative that today seems a lot in the sky vampire, right? (Read some of our ideas for a Twilight comic series Splash Page blog.).. Carroll was asked by a fan if there would be graphic novel based on the vampire love story anytime soon.


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Toward the end of March, with our nation at war, the Rev. Ignacio Castuera, pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church in Watts, stood in the pulpit and told his congregation, "The most important and first thing we can do as a religious people is to go to our knees and pray." Thursday was a day that calls us, as a nation, to prayer. It was our annual National Day of Prayer. The tradition of setting aside a day for prayer is older than our nation.
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December 21, 2004
Give grandmother a 'b' for 'band!' As a concerned grandmother, whose grandson is a member of the Newport Harbor High School marching band, it seems to me that the well-deserving football team gets all the accolades while the band plays its heart out with no acknowledgment. It's time to give them some credit. The football team and the band need each other. MARGARET MCKENZIE Newport Beach Slocum's name better without Rodman link Regarding the Pilot's Saturday story, "Rodman's club takes on new look, owner's name," I think changing the name of the restaurant Josh Slocum's to Rodman's is a great idea.
Players' prayer was a great scene To Steve Joslin...
December 22, 2004
Players' prayer was a great scene To Steve Joslin, regarding the 2004 Newport Harbor Football team and his Dec. 15 "Huddling for prayer" letter, please forgive us for creating a culture of adults with the hardness of heart to publicly criticize young men calling out to God in humility, thanksgiving and in raw human emotion. Contrary to those who reinterpret our Constitution to further their own agenda of a Godless society, this country was founded upon the principles of religious freedom, not the exclusion of faith from public life.
There is always time to pray
May 10, 2003
"Prayer is for the religious life what original research is for science -- by it we get direct contact with reality. We pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." -- P.T. FORSYTH Last Thursday was a great day in many ways. It was the first of the month, it was the first of May, and it was May Day. I love May Day. When I was young, my friends and family members often gave or received May baskets, May flowers or big tasty May cookies.
Vanguard kicks off semester with prayer While most...
January 16, 2003
Vanguard kicks off semester with prayer While most college students would be praying for winter break to continue, scholars at Vanguard University are taking a different approach. Vanguard University will host a community day of prayer today to kick off the spring semester, and is dedicating 24 hours to unite as a body and worship God's wisdom, officials said. The day will begin with chapel at 9:30 a.m. today, when students, staff and faculty will proceed with the walk of prayer around the parameter of the school and civic center.
The Moral of the Story
November 4, 2000
"Let there be no limit to what we take to God in prayer, so that there may be no limit to God's reign and rule in all of life." -- Roger Hazelton A friend of mine has a wooden plaque with the words "Life is fragile, handle with prayer" carved into it. I love that sentence because it reminds me not only to pray daily, but that there truly is power in prayer. That phrase made me think back to last spring when I participated in a National Day of Prayer ceremony.
Thursday's Senior Golden Wedding Ceremony on the Heritage...
July 25, 2004
Thursday's Senior Golden Wedding Ceremony on the Heritage Stage at the Orange County Fair involved many couples from around Southern California. It was refreshing to see couples that have been able to make their marriages last for more than 50 years, especially with our country's high divorce rates. While watching the ceremony, the feelings these people had for their spouses was evident in their eyes and in the expressions they made to each other. At the end of the reading of the vows, the pastor led them in a group prayer.
Readers should lay off the boys becoming men
December 19, 2004
Frank X. Muscatello The two letters, "Public game an improper place for private prayer" and "God doesn't have a favorite team" published in Friday's edition of the Daily Pilot Mailbag are perfect examples of so-called "grown-ups" in a frenzy to have their opinions expressed and imposed without full knowledge of the facts surrounding the incident that they are addressing. In the first letter, writer Larry Platt posed the following questions: Why is the Newport Harbor football team "huddling" for prayer?
In Theory
June 12, 2010
Has God ever failed to answer your prayers? As a religious and/or spiritual leader in the community you likely have preached about the power of prayer, but can you honestly describe one instance from your personal experience when you did not get what you prayed for? Did that disappointment shake your faith in the concept of an almighty being, and how did you overcome this? As Patton's army entered Belgium, inclement weather slowed the advance. Patton ordered the chaplain to write a prayer for good weather.
Fairgrounds hosts county's largest Eid al-Fitr celebration
January 10, 2000
Amy R. Spurgeon More than 14,000 Muslims gathered together Saturday to celebrate the end of Ramadan at the Orange County Fairgrounds -- the largest gathering in the county and the first time in at least five years that the celebration has been in Costa Mesa. In a day of celebration called Eid al-Fitr, they gathered in community prayer, reflecting on the past month spent fasting between sunrise and sunset as a sign of self-discipline and self-control.
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From last time: I'm still not sure what I think of Far From The Madding Crowd. At times I love it, and at times I just got frustrated with it. But I do love the way it ends; and it seems that this redeems the points I don't like. Especially this, nearly the last paragraph– my favorite quote from it:
"They spoke very little of their mutual feeling, pretty expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which rises, if any arises at all, when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each others character, and not the best till further on."
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The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy: This is such a bizarre, hilarious book. . . I loved it. I actually read this coming back from New Zealand (and forgot to include it in last month's list), and it took me about two minutes to finish it. Well, that's what it seemed like anyway. And it's a big plus for me is that I can finally understand the references my brothers make!
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
The Only Pirate at The Party: Lindsey Stirling's biography is funny. All mirth; not much matter. It was a quick, fun read, but I doubt I shall be reading it again soon. All the same, it was very interesting to hear her story.
"I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I'm an artistic monster."
"I want to live my life in chaos, surrounded by Mini-Mes who think I'm a weirdo but love me unconditionally. In the meantime, I could settle for a kitten. Just one–or twelve."
Harry Potter: The Sorcerer's Stone: When the new illustrated Harry Potter came to the bookstore where I work, I decided I had to read it. Because this book is gorgeous. And now I don't want to read the others until I can read the illustrated versions! But I probably won't wait that long. I really did enjoy this; the way the story started was surprising, and delightful, as unexpected as it was. I've had people telling me for years that I 'need' to read the Harry Potter books, and I've always resisted–I can understand why they think I would like it now that I've read the first one. I'm not going to become a die-hard Harry Potter fan, but I do love a good book.
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
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The Red Badge of Courage: This was so short, it amazed me. It ended before I was ready for it to end. It's not a happy book, being about a young man in the middle of a war, and his feelings, and experiences, but the writing. . . the way Stephen Crane captures the pain endowed in a war, the suffering, and the longing for home; how this young man starts out wishing to fight, and then changes as he sees battle, his friends dying, and being so far away from the family he loves. It's a beautiful snapshot of a horrible thing.
"The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop."
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Lord Peter Views The Body: (reading) I mentioned last time that I hadn't found the fourth Lord Peter Wimsey book yet, as I had been listening to the audiobooks from our library, and they had neither audio nor physical book. Well, as I was not about to skip the fourth book, I just found a copy to buy. And now I understand why this was the one our library didn't have–it's rather unlike the others. Still perfectly wonderful of course, it is, rather than being one long story, a series of short stories–each one different, some long, some short, all amazing.
"How clever we've all been. How topping everything is. How rich you're going to be. How late it is, and how hungry I am."
"We won't let any headless horses get the better of us. Perfectly indecent, goin' about without heads."
I actually have a new audiobook I'm listening to, and another book I'm reading. . . but I'm going to leave those until next month, when I'm not just beginning the books. What books have you been reading? Do you have any suggestions for me? I love hearing from you!


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Although I am very happy with the donor I chose - I realized I was a little sad that he did not donate more samples. I found out from the sperm bank that they only sold his vials to a very few families. While this may have some good sides to it - I feel my child may miss out on all of the fun associated with larger family ties.
I was interested to find that a friend of mine told me that she looked on Donor sibling registry, and found other half siblings for her child, but that None of those families wanted anything more that to be able to share very basic health information. In fact at the last SMC workshop I went to it was noticeable that the general feeling seemed to be against being in contact with other half siblings, so much so that someone felt the need to remind us of the value of at least sharing health information, and the general location where they might live - I guess so they avoid dating each other.
Can anyone enlighten me why people seem to shy away from getting to know their child's half siblings? I can understand the shock of finding that you share a donor with someone that lives down the road - especially if you don't like them that much - but surely that is the joy of having a large family, I know myself - I speak to some of my siblings a lot and others hardly at all!


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Friday, November 6, 2009
Thriving Fear and Sick Hyperbole
They Represent Republicans' Two Weapons Against Healthcare Reform Legislation
Yesterday, conservatives gathered in the thousands on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for a Tea Party-style protest against the healthcare reform bill currently moving through the House of Representatives. "This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen," House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio warned the crowd. Boehner then collapsed and was rushed to a local DC hospital, where he received treatment for what doctors there described as one of the worst cases of hyperbole they had ever seen.
Okay, I made that last part up.
As Boehner exhorted on the protestors, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff took on a criticism of healthcare reform posited by many conservative activists. Namely, that reform is completely unnecessary because healthcare in the U.S., in its current state, is just fine. Proponents often take their assertions a notch higher. Not only is U.S. healthcare better than that in foreign nations featuring socialized medicine, it is paramount.
Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, sneezing out a strain of calumny nearly as virulent as that of Boehner's, has said that Obamacare amounts to "the first step in destroying the best healthcare system the world has ever known."
However, Kristoff demonstrates that U.S. health statistics do not stack up so well against those of other industrialized nations, including the ones with socialized medicine. The only U.S. demographic group consistently getting healthcare equal to or better than their international peers are those over sixty-five years of age – the ones on Medicare, a government-run universal coverage healthcare program.
It is true, Kristoff concedes, that the wait to see some specialists or have certain operations performed is shorter in the U.S. than some foreign countries. Then again, one valid reason for this may be that foreign doctors do not face pressure from private insurance companies to push patients out of hospitals as quickly as possible. Is it better to get the fastest cure possible or the best cure possible? The answer, of course, is that getting both is best. The point remains that what we have today is, at best, a tradeoff and not a triumph over the rest of the planet.
I am not trying to make an argument here that U.S. healthcare system is horrible. In fact, it is effective on many levels. On the other hand, its clear superiority to the rest of the world, much as jingoistic national pride might wish to believe in such, simply does not exist. Even if what we have is good, better is demonstrably possible.
The reason this particular falsehood maintains so much traction, beyond our patriotic bias, must surely derive from poll after poll finding a majority of Americans with health insurance declare themselves satisfied with it and the level/quality of care they receive. Even so, at some level, we realize the need for improvement because the same polls also find a strong if seemingly contradictory desire by Americans for reform.
Why, then, do so many of us insist we are happy with what we already have and regard so skeptically any legislation currently being proposed? A recent Rasmussen survey found that fifty-five percent believe passage of healthcare reform legislation would increase the cost of healthcare and fifty-two percent believe it will reduce quality of care.
I believe the answer lies in the finding that a whopping seventy-two percent of those polled believe it likely companies will drop insurance coverage for employees in reform's wake.
For many years, American workers in all but the smallest companies received health insurance coverage at their employers' expense. It was a "benefit" for being a productive citizen of the most powerful nation on Earth at a time of economic largesse. The insurance provided was probably imperfect but with medical costs generally within the means of most middle class families, protection against catastrophic loss from a severe long-term illness was the only worry and this was, or at least appeared, covered.
The only people who did not have health insurance were those who were unemployed or held the lowest-skilled jobs and our culture often viewed either condition as an indictment against the effected individuals for being uneducated and/or unmotivated.
Then, as medical costs began to rise, companies began playing hardball with employee, including those in unions, over healthcare benefits. Either employees must begin contributing part of the expense for their coverage or the company would cut jobs. Loss of a job was a potential threat because few affordable alternatives to employer-based health insurance were rare. However, despite rising healthcare costs, the economy was growing at an unprecedented clip and unemployment was low, thereby allowing a kind of uneasy equilibrium to prevail.
In recent years, as the economy soured and jobs began vanishing overseas as a result of globalization and other factors, the threat of job loss became long-term and the loss of health insurance with it. Simultaneously, medical costs continued growing to the point that even relatively routine care became ruinous for middle class and even some affluent families.
Employer-based health insurance was more imperfect than ever yet Americans felt pressured to stick with it more than ever because the alternative was almost certain devastation and poverty. Workers also became resistant to any insurance changes, fearing switches by employers to new insurance providers to get better deals. A new provider could mean switching doctors or hospitals and/or introduced the possibility of denials for "pre-existing conditions."
Even worse, as unemployment soared and the cost of health insurance made it prohibitive in any form to more families, nothing changed in our underlying beliefs regarding them. Being unemployed and uninsured is still something more to be ashamed than outraged over, more a reflection on individual inadequacies than problems or unfairness in the system. In such a situation, it does not take much stoking by those opposed to reform, for various reasons of their own, to generate fear and panic among Americans about potential changes.
If genuine satisfaction on the part of most with the insurance they have today truly were the primary driver behind opposition to healthcare reform legislation, then I would have to agree that President Obama and Democratic Congressional leaders are suffering from mixed-up priorities or worse. However, I believe many Americans are inclined to rate their current coverage as "satisfactory" based not on its merits but due to vague but potent fears regarding its loss.
Part of the reasoning behind universal coverage and a public option is to reduce some of the shortcomings of the current employer-based system. Yet terror of the traditional "no man's land" that has existed beyond employer coverage for health insurance may well be a major driver behind public opposition to this solution. Boehner can talk all he wants about "threats to freedom" but the current system, intentionally or otherwise, has been all about limiting choices for years.
In light of this, Congressional Democrats more than ever need to place doing the right thing over doing what is popular. Fortunately, for Republicans, fear of losing popularity is a potent weapon against politicians facing re-election bids in 2010. It is certainly more potent than what is apparently their only other weapon in this fight – hyperbole.
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I don't think many Cedar Rapidians are hearing or receiving the message. They've got to stop using city water for anything except the absolutely essential for as long as we're told to during this flood and its aftermath.
I had lunch at a Cedar Rapids pizzeria Friday and the server asked if I wanted Mountain Dew, Pepsi, water …
No. Serving water should be taboo given the dire water situation in C.R. So should washing dishes, running washing machines, maybe even making coffee and tea. Local media have made note of the water situation, but I wonder if most people are listening. Are they holding off on taking showers?
Of course, what kind of dope am I? As a reader noted to me, the pizzeria probably is using more than a little water in food preparation.
I went to a supermarket after that lunch expecting to see bottled water sold out. It was a pleasant surprise to see water still in stock, and just as pleasant to see a lot of customers hauling 24-packs of it in their carts. But my gut says enough people are showering and using water in other ways to their hearts' content, and it will come at a cost. Hope I'm wrong.
I'm going to wash my hair with bottled water tomorrow. Better to feel filthy-rich than just plain filthy.


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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE,v.JOHN BELK, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. Honorable Edward M. Fiala, Jr., Judge Presiding.
Defendant, John Belk, was charged with two counts of felony murder predicated on the offenses of burglary and aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, during the commission of which two people were killed when their car was struck by the vehicle that defendant was operating during a police chase. At the end of the bench trial, defendant was convicted of two counts of felony murder and one count of aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle and sentenced to natural life imprisonment. The sole issue on appeal is whether aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle may serve as a predicate offense for felony murder. No issue is raised as to the sufficiency of the evidence establishing defendant's guilt.
The relevant facts adduced at trial are as follows: Sergeant Craig T. Kincaid, a police officer with the Blue Island police department, testified that on May 14, 1998, he was on patrol in his marked squad car when he received a radio dispatch of an automobile theft in progress as well as a physical description of that vehicle. He immediately activated his emergency lights and siren and drove to the vicinity of the crime. As he approached the intersection at 127th and Vincennes, he observed a vehicle matching the description given to him. That vehicle accelerated, and a police pursuit ensued. Sgt. Kincaid testified that the cars attained speeds as high as 100 miles per hour in an area where the posted speed limit was 30 miles per hour. At no time did the van defendant was driving apply its brakes or attempt to slow down. The witness also testified that defendant's actions in driving the van in a business area where there were many pedestrians were "reckless." When the van reached the vicinity of 111th and Western, it collided with the rear of the victim's car, killing the two people inside. The van that defendant was driving flipped upside down, at which time he crawled out and fled on foot. After a brief chase, he was apprehended and taken into custody.
A stipulation was entered into that while defendant was in the emergency room at St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers being treated for the injuries he sustained in the accident, a toxicological test was performed on him for the purpose of treatment and diagnosis. The results showed that his blood-alcohol content was 0.19, and under Illinois law intoxication occurs at 0.08, making defendant legally intoxicated at the time of the collision.
William Cosgrove, a retired fire investigator for the Chicago fire department, testified that when he first observed the stolen van on the date in question, it was traveling at an excessive rate of speed and being pursued by a Blue Island police car. Cosgrove did not see the impact. However, he described the van at the point he observed it as speeding "recklessly" down an alley. Throughout his entire testimony, he described the manner in which the van was being driven as "reckless."
Defendant argues on appeal that aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle is not an enumerated forcible felony under the felony murder statute or a forcible felony threatening violence against individuals, and that, therefore, given his level of intoxication and the reckless manner in which he operated the stolen van, his conviction should be reduced to reckless homicide.
Section 9-1(a)(3) of the Criminal Code of 1961s in part: "A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits first degree murder if, in performing the acts which cause the death *** he is attempting or committing a forcible felony other than second degree murder." 720 ILCS 5/9-1(a)(3) (West 2000). If the killing is in the course of an escape, it is within the operation of the doctrine. People v. Bongiorno, 358 Ill. 171 (1934). In Bongiorno, two men committed an armed robbery, which was interrupted by a police officer. One of the men escaped, but defendant was arrested by the officer. As he was being taken down a hallway, the other man, who had returned, shot and killed the officer. Defendant's contention was that he was not guilty of murder under the felony-murder doctrine because five minutes had elapsed after the robbery had been completed, and the prosecution's evidence did not show any plan or design to kill in the course of the robbery. In affirming the conviction, our supreme court said: "Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the conspirators designed to commit the crime of robbery through the use of a deadly weapon. That use included the intimidation of the victims and the means of the offenders' escape. Under such circumstances the intention to kill, if necessary, in obtaining and carrying away the loot is established. A plan to commit robbery would be futile if it did not comprehend an escape with the proceeds of the crime. *** Unless the plan of robbery is to terrify the victim, and, if occasion requires, to kill any person attempting to apprehend them at the time of or immediately upon gaining possession of the property, it would be inane and child-like.*** It is vain to argue that the killing was not included as a part, if necessary, in the commission of the crime which both *** had deliberately planned." Bongiorno, 358 Ill. at 173-74.
Later, the supreme court expanded this holding to include nonviolent crimes which served as a predicate offense for felony murder. In People v. Golson, 32 Ill. 2d 398 (1965), the defendant was convicted of murder arising out of a shooting death that occurred during the course of a theft from an automobile. Prior to the commission of the crime, defendant and his co-defendants purchased a gun. On the night of the crime, they set out with the intention of stealing from automobiles. They did not find any automobiles from which to steal, so they drove around looking for something else to steal when they came across a loading dock and stole a mail sack. After driving a short distance, they were approached by two postal inspectors who had driven up beside them and directed them to stop. The inspectors ordered them to get out of the car and during the inspection of that car were shot and killed.
The defendants in Golson argued that the felony-murder doctrine applied only in cases where conspirators have conspired to commit a forcible felony, which by its nature is dangerous to human life, and that, consequently, theft from the United States mails by stealth is a nonforcible felony not normally involving danger to human life.
Our supreme court, in affirming the convictions, held that the test to be applied in determining whether the felony-murder doctrine is applicable is not whether the felony is normally classified as nonviolent, but is whether, under the facts of a particular case, it is contemplated that violence might be necessary to enable the conspirators to carry out their common purpose. Golson, 32 Ill. 2d at 408-09. The court then determined that since the postal inspectors were shot a short distance from the scene of the theft while the conspirators were attempting to escape from the scene, there was sufficient evidence from which the jury could infer that they intended to forcibly resist any attempt to arrest them, either during the course of the crime or in an attempt to escape from the scene, and that such a plan came within the doctrine of felony murder since it was contemplated that violence might be necessary to enable them to carry out their common purpose.
In Illinois, a forcible felony is defined as "treason, first degree murder, second degree murder, *** aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, robbery, burglary *** arson, aggravated kidnaping, kidnaping, aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual." 720 ILCS 5/2-8 (West 2000). There is no question that aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle is not an enumerated offense under the forcible felony statute. What is at issue is whether, under the facts of this case, the crime of aggravated possession of a stolen vehicle involved the use or threat of physical force or violence against the victims.
Aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle occurs when a person is "the driver or operator of a vehicle and is not entitled to the possession of that vehicle and who knows the vehicle is stolen *** [and] who has been given a signal by a peace officer directing him to bring the vehicle to a stop, to willfully fail or refuse to obey such direction, increase his speed *** or otherwise flee or attempt to elude the officer." 625 ILCS 5/4-103.2(7)(A) (West 1998).
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Mum as a platinum blonde. She was naturally dark haired like me, but of course, in the mid 60s platinum blonde was the way.....
Jane, this tribute to your Mum is absolutely just beautiful and heartwarming. I looked at each page and admired it so. My mother died at age 54 when I was just 25. When I reached 54 (long ago) I realized just how very young she was when she died.
Great tribute scrapbook, Jane. I love it. Thanks for stopping by to say hi on my blog.
This is awesome, simply awesome. Actually made me cry a little bit. Your mother was so beautiful; such a tradgedy to lose her so young. You did you Mum proud my dear. Thanks for sharing her with us. Best, Curt
Oh Jane, you book about Mum is just wonderful. I agree with Curt - it made me cry a bit. I lost my Mom 5 years ago this month and miss her terribly. I do hold wonderful memories close, though, and have started a heritage scrapbook. I'm finding it very therapeutic. I love that this amazing little album is large scallops, and the colors are so soft and pretty. Your Mum was beautiful (like you). Thanks for sharing something so personal.
Another beautiful work of art Jane and a very fitting tribute to your mum. How I remember those styles & fashion statements!! My mumhad asimiliar platinum blonde hairstyle.
Thanks for sharing your precious memories of your mum & dad in the book below this!
Take care & Hugs
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Heart Press have decided to create a list of the top 100 best women in fiction and fans are able to get in on this.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Nice Going, NFL.com
Don't get me wrong, I'm usually geeked everytime I see a Seahawk player prominently profiled on a national web site, but the timing and headline for this feature on Shaun Alexander are just irresponsible.
For the NFL to put a picture of one of the true "good guys" of the league, under the heading "Repeat Offenders" on the day that Michael Vick is indicted on dog fighting charges is a joke.
Millions of casual sports fans will be clicking on NFL.com for news on Vick, and will be served up this misleading image and headline, which sets an instantaneous connotation in the visitor's brain, most of whom won't bother to click through to get the full story or understand the tongue-in-cheek nature of the headline.
I understand this story was probably written and published well before the Vick news broke, but given the inflamatory nature of the events surrounding the indictment, they should take this story down or change the misleading headline.
Oh yea, and the refs screwed the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL too!
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Brand new year with a kick off start of post birthday celebration for cousin's birthday, Carmen. She recommended this place for steamboat celebration. House of Steamboat aka 火锅之家 located at Bugis.
This steamboat place provides two areas of dining which is air-con area and non air-con area. We choose air-con area but then the air-con was not on until more people flocking into the shop.
There are different type of soup base for us to choose.
We ordered Mother Hen Chinese Herbal Soup and Fish Bone Chinese Herbal Soup on that day.We all can't take spicy stuffs so we go for the two choices.
In case you would like to know, below are the choices of soup base available :-
- Mother Hen Chinese Herbal Soup (Good aphrodisiac tonic soup)
- Fish Bone Chinese Herbal Soup (Good aphrodisiac tonic soup)
- Traditional Chinese (Ma-Lak) Spicy soup
- Authentic Tom Yam Soup
- Traditional Hot & Spicy Soup
- Traditional Chinese Herbal Pork Belly Soup
Some snapshots of the foods that are available for steamboats:-
There are varieties from luncheon meat, fishcake, meatballs, fish ball, vegetables and much more. Snapshots for your viewing pleasure :)
Mantou with evaporated milk which deep fried on the outer and soft in the inner of the mantou. The evaporated milk enhance the sweetness of the mantou.
There are dory fish slices, mutton & beef slices, pork slices and chicken slices.
The thickness of the meats are nicely slice and it is just nice to dip into the hot soup.
The meats are fresh and marbling is nice as well.
The overall dining experience was pleasant as the service was good. They respond promptly when we called for services or order.
Ended the post with a group photo of the dinning companions.
House of Steamboat
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I met Cameron outside MEC where he was looking for a loan of a hacksaw so that he could trim and finish mounting a front fender. MEC was the second bike store he went to, but both shops were too busy to help.
He is on tour from Detroit to Maine. Not wanting him to get the impression that all Torontonians are too busy to help, I had him ride back with me to the lab where he trimmed the fender with a Dremel, and then I sent him on his way.


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Lincoln's First Solid Food from Lucas on Vimeo.
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I was so excited to introduce avocado to Sophie. It wasn't her first food, so she was used to eating other things with the same consistency. We got through about half of what I was planning on giving her. About 3 minutes later, she threw it all back up. We haven't tried it again since then. I was so disappointed, because it is definitely one of my favorite foods!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Try red jello and watch the reaction on his face. Also applesauce is good for a starter and Gerber cereal.ReplyDelete
Lincoln's face is too precious.ReplyDelete
We gave Lily some homemade rice cereal on Sunday, I still have to edit the footage. It was great.
Too, cute. We skipped baby food with Hudson and just let him nibble on whatever we were eating.ReplyDelete
He's so big! I haven't come by in over a month [*blush* I'm sorry!] and he's grown so much.
What a fun milestone, hey?


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Saturday, September 8, 2012
After a number of people have asked for assistance/ help in one form or another over the past couple of months, I've decided to run a separate blog and facebook page dedicated to sharing how I do things in and around our little homestead............ which I might add, is just a small home in a small country township on about a 1/3 acre of land. I have a hen house, herb garden, vegies, fruit trees, love to take care of home and family (our children are now grown and only our 22yr old daughter remains at home), make our own soap and other products (visit www.hazelmerecottage.blogspot.com for further details), work part time as a nurse in chronic disease management and love all things old fashioned! I hope this blog inspires you with your own homes!
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|Thursday, July 22 2010
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ANF -Saldik family went to Kurubaş village near Van city centre in order to have picnic together with their relatives living in the village.While the family was enjoying the whether and the nature, all of a sudden they heard shootings from Hacıbekir Garrison where was close to the picnic area.
Not long after the familie's daughter 16-year old Canan Saldık fallen flat on the floor. She was shot in the head. Although the family took her to Van university hospital Canan lost her life.
It is also reported that the bullets fired from the base hit the house belonged to Nejdet Orkin. Death of Canan caused tensions in the city.
In recent years dozens of children lost their lives around the military basis close to the civil settlements. While in 2009 Ceylan Önköl lost her life because of explosive fired from the military base in Lice district of Diyarbakir, Olcan Akyürek died in blast near to the Garisson in Ozalp district of Van. A couple weeks ago another child in Idil district of Sirnak herding his sheep lost his life unexploded ordnance.


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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. develops and operates the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant and retail concept in the United States. Its restaurants provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The companys gift shops offer various decorative and functional items, such as rocking chairs, holiday and seasonal gifts, apparel, toys, music CDs, cookware, old-fashioned-looking ceramics, figurines, a book-on-audio sale-and-exchange program, and various other gift items, as well as candies, preserves, pies, cornbread mixes, coffee, syrups, pancake mixes, and other food items. As of September 18, 2012, it operated 620 stores in 42 states. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Chicken Salad Salad
Cracker Barrel Copycat Recipe
2 pounds chicken breasts
2 ribs celery, cut in chunks
2 chicken bouillon cubes
2 (3 oz.) cans chunk chicken; shredded fine
2 tablespoons dill pickle relish
2 tablespoons onion, diced fine
1/4 cup celery, minced fine
2/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
lettuce, torn
cheddar cheese wedges
1 tomato, quartered
hard boiled egg halves
extra dressing
Cook chicken breast in enough water to cover with celery chunks and bouillon cubes. When tender, remove from broth. Refrigerate till very cold. Cut into bite size pieces and combine with canned chicken, relish, onion, celery, mayonnaise, sour cream, and Miracle Whip. Place scoop of salad on lettuce and surround by cheese, tomato and egg.
Notes: The picture above is actually for the Grilled Chicken Salad at Cracker Barrel but I wanted to show you how there present it to you at the restaurant. Pictured below is how the Chicken Salad Sandwich is served using the same recipe.
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9. Prince Phillip - Final Score: 29/40
Movie: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Smarts: Phillip is clever enough to trick his father into agreeing that he ought to marry the girl of his dreams, though a mere peasant. Score: 7
Bravery: He receives a lot of help from the three good fairies, but his bravery cannot be doubted when he faces Maleficent, transformed into a giant fire-breathing dragon. Score: 8
Determination: Phillip's personality is so easy-going that his determination, though relatively strong, isn't readily apparent, except when he hacks through the maze of thorns. Score: 7
Spirit of adventure: His riding unattended through the forest with his horse, Samson, suggests a love of adventure. Score: 7


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Sunday, June 20, 2010
An amazing Father
Today is Father's Day, and while I am so thankful for all the fathers in my life, what I want to focus on right now is my Heavenly Father. I am a daughter of the King! Sometimes it's hard to fathom what that means, and how that can be. In fact, when I truly think about it, I am completely in awe. God sent His only son to die, so that I could be His daughter. So that YOU can be His son or daughter. None of us deserve to be called sons and daughters of God, but if we believe in Christ, repent of our sins, and receive His love, we are adopted into His kingdom! I am AMAZED by the love of God. As much as I love my children, and I know Jared loves them just as much, God loves us all infinitely more. Love is not just something God does, it is what He IS. He cannot act outside of love. Everything He does, He does out of love for us. And He does not simply sprinkle His love on us, He LAVISHES His love on us. My life is full of blessings from the Lord. Every day I realize more and more His great love for me, and in turn I fall more deeply in love with Him daily. Earthly fathers, no matter how wonderful, will fall. They will fail, at some time or another. God, however, cannot fail. He is perfect. There is no darkness in Him, only light. No matter what your earthly father is/was like, you can count on God the Father. No matter what you may have done in your lifetime, you can turn to Him, and He will completely and utterly forgive you. No matter what you may be going through right in this moment, He is there for you. He longs to hold you, to carry you through. Nothing is too big for Him. Nothing is too insignificant for Him. He cares. For you. He is the PERFECT Father.
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Tobias Picker's Fantastic Mr. Fox at Emerald City Opera
Jul. 11, 2016
Colorado's Emerald City Opera presents two performances of Tobias Picker's beloved family opera Fantastic Mr. Fox in a production directed by Erica Olden and conducted by Robert Frankenberry. The production features Picker's delightful 7-player chamber arrangement of the opera, with performances August 12 and 13 at The Larson Barn in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Hailed as "captivating and witty" (The Wall Street Journal), Picker's Fantastic Mr. Fox debuted in its original full orchestral version in 1998 with the Los Angeles Opera. A modern fable, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a story about good vs. evil, animal vs. human, and nature vs. technology. "There are a lot of grown-up elements in this opera, even though it's for children and adults," says Picker. "[Dahl] had a wicked imagination."
Emerald City Opera's production, headed by Artistic Director Andres Cladera, features Scott Ballantine in the title role, with Christina Hazen as Mrs. Fox and the trio of Timothy Madden, William Ottow and Todd Resseguie as Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Set design is by Johnmichael Bohach and costumes are designed by Anna Piano.
Further details can be found at emeraldcityopera.com.
For more information on Tobias Picker and Fantastic Mr. Fox, visit schott-music.com.
Tobias Picker
Fantastic Mr. Fox (1998, arr. 2010)
libretto (Eng) by Donald Sturrock, based on the book by Roald Dahl
chamber arrangement by Francesco Cilluffo
for 2 sopranos, 3 mezzo-sopranos, 3 tenors, 2 baritones, bass baritone, bass, four children and chorus
original orchestration: 2(1.afl,2.pic).2(2.ca).2(2.bcl).2(2.cbsn)-22.214.171.124-timp.2perc-hp.pno-str
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Exalted: The Legend of Denandsor
Enar the Bountiful
The Goddess of Rice
Species: Divinity
Gender: Female
Profession: God within the Terrestrial Bureaucracy.
Worshipped by Prelate Maiyun
Enar is usually pictured as a beautiful woman with long, flowing robes, locked in a perpetual dance.
Enar the Bountiful is the goddess of all rice, including barley rice and food made with the plentiful grain. She is worshiped almost exclusively in the East, where most of Creation's rice is grown.


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Friday, June 02, 2017
Watch :: Carl Barât & The Jackals' new video for 'Burning Cars'
Carl Barât & The Jackals, have revealed their new video for 'Burning Cars', taken from their latest EP 'Harder They Fall' which was released last week.
The video was directed by Barât and filmed and edited by Roger Sargent. Carl adds: "We (The Jackals) grew up in small British rural towns and all felt alienated with no sense of belonging. The videos for 'Sister' and 'Burning Cars' allude to that feeling of being - isolated, lonely and trapped and for a lot of people that's the way it is."
The band are playing seven club shows in May, June and July, along with appearances at several summer festivals. Tickets for the club shows are available from here
The full tour dates (supports for the club shows from Blackwaters and Lock):
01 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
02 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
03 Camden Rocks, London
24 Glastonbury Festival
06 Derby The Venue
07 Stockton On Tees KU Bar
08 Coventry Godiva Festival
01 Hertfordshire Wilkestock
16 Birmingham Beyond The Tracks
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For some time now I have been feeling lost. Like I am wandering through a fog soaked forest that I can't seem to find my way out of. I wanted out, I wanted a change. I needed to find the missing puzzle piece that would complete me and make me feel normal again.
I sat down and prayed. I prayed that God would place me where he wants me; show me where he wants me to be. The following week my friend invited me to go to church with her. I was hesitant at first but I knew she needed my support and a little Jesus couldn't hurt. I have been to this church in the past and it never really impressed me. The Sunday that I went it was like I was walking into a different church that I had never been to before. It clicked and I knew that God wanted me to be here and that I would be finding the missing piece to my puzzle. It's funny how God works. He will always answer prayers with a yes, no or not yet. I have been praying years for a church that I felt connected with. Little did I know that God was saying, 'not yet.' Perfect timing.


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The good thing about an unconference like EnterpriseCamp is that it doesn't attract too many of the testosterone-laden alpha geeks that many tech conferences do, so although there were only 3 women in about 40 attendees, I had a pretty good time on Saturday. Also, there was no chance of a line-up in the ladies room.
Nevertheless, I felt the need for something a little kinder and gentler, and finagled Damir into going to The Holiday yesterday afternoon. I have to admit, it was even more chick-flicky than I had anticipated: Kate Winslet and Jack Black as a couple? As the credits rolled up, Damir turned to me and said "I need to go to the pub right now and drink a beer. And maybe eat some chicken wings. Or shoot something." [Okay, I made up the shooting something part, but that was in the spirit of things] I reminded him that the season premiere of 24 was coming up in a few hours, and would have plenty of gratuitous violence to counteract the chick flick effect; that seemed to calm him somewhat.


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The Artist picks up the paintbrush with the experienced ease of One whose fingers have created many masterpieces. Though the canvas before Him is blank, He already knows how the curling swells of the brush will work to display His vision for this piece. The paintbrush submits to His seasoned hands willingly, following His direction with guided strokes. The paintbrush is unaware of everything the Artist wishes to express through this piece and finds itself dipped in unexpected colours as the Artist confidently continues to paint His vision. Arcs and swirls, stippled lines and blending colours begin to reveal pieces of a greater picture. The depths of the shadows and the dimensions of the shading add life and definition to the forming shapes.
As the paintbrush works in obedience to the Artist's leading, He can create exquisite displays of art beyond replication – but on its own, the paintbrush lays dormant. It cannot create on its own – cannot coax the colours into such perfect array or steady itself to master the most intricate details. If the paintbrush opposes the vision and direction of the Artist, the painting becomes unrecognizable as the beautiful colours smear into distorted streaks. It is only by the hand of the Painter that the masterpiece takes form.
Lord, let 2011 be Your blank canvas, and I the willing paintbrush for You to use to fulfill Your vision for this year.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
By the Artist's Hand
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I just read a quote from James Mulholland's book "Praying Like Jesus", and I thought of this post. The quote goes like this:ReplyDelete
What is the will of God? We often make this a selfish search. What does God want for me? What is the best path for me? However, in the context of kingdom of God, seeking God's will is always discerning our role in making earth as it is in heaven.
Great quote - it's so true!ReplyDelete
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Thursday, November 3, 2016
SoftBank Is Investing in a Microchip to Make the Singularity a Reality
SoftBank Is Investing in a Microchip to Make the Singularity a Reality: "In a press conference before his keynote address at ARM TechCon, Son revealed the key vision behind his business strategy: the Japanese CEO is looking to make the technological Singularity a reality. "I think a big paradigm shift is coming," said Son. "The biggest theme in my view is the Singularity. I think it is coming into reality in the next 30 years. For that vision, I am exercising that strategy.""
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