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This is a slightly distorted reflection of Vicki and me in a Christmas decoration in the window display of the Salvatore Ferragamo store in Florence, Italy. There's a larger reflection of me in this picture too. The Christmas Tree is from Picnik.
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Nostalgia: Remember Elegantly-Dressed Men?
In this stylish drawing of a man, you don't see a skinny jacket that is bursting open to expose sad trousers that hang at the hip, a bulging shirt and too-long tie. What we see here is a man who wears his trousers at the right length, ones that don't pile-up like discarded potato sacks on top of his shoes, and which come up to the actual human waist, thereby visually lengthening his legs. And we see the gentleman's traditional accessories: hat, gloves and walking-stick, all of which serve a purpose, including protection from the elements, enthusiastic pigeons, dirt, germs, roving animals, and whoever may dare to attack him or anyone else in his immediate vicinity; the gentleman is always well-prepared for a stroll down today's mean streets. Alas, this picture is clipped from an advert by Burberrys that appears in one of my 1930s Sphere magazines. Today's men, in general, look like short, dumpy cads in clothes that are designed to distort human proportions. (Add the slovenly yet popular three-day growth beard to complete a tragic modern image.) Never in history has so much sartorial splendour been readily accessible, and yet men have seldom looked worse. It doesn't cost any more to dress correctly than it does to do it badly, especially since some of the ghastliest clothes are going for the highest prices. There are few contemporary examples of elegant dressing in trendy venues and magazines. Help yourself by not following fashion, but instead by looking toward the best elements of the past for useful examples of tasteful masculine dress.
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(visited by Karsten Reuss and AC GC)
25-Mar-2004 -- On March 25th we wanted to visit Ilha do Farol (Farol Island) and stay on the famous beach of the island : Praia da Ilha de Farol , which is known for being on of the prettiest beaches of Brazil. Since there was a confluence on the island we also decided to make a visit. It didnt seem to be such a difficult task according to what we had read on this page from previous confluence hunters.
To get access to the island seemed to be the hardest task. The Brazilian Navy controls the island and people are required to obtain an authorization in the city of Arraial do Cabo in order to be allowed to go there. We stayed in the Navy for about 1 hour filling forms and explaining what we plan to do there. Getting an access for 10 minutes is easier and several tourists do it in order to stand on the great beach of the island(picture #5). However it is more problematic if one wants to stay for a longer period of time and leave the beach to go into the forest. The island is a nature resevere and it is a bit dangerous to leave the beach area due to snakes, scorpions and other animals living inside of the virgin forest. Most of them never come to the beach since the sun heats up the sand too much while the ground stays colder inside of the forest. For this reason I used long pants to make the visit even though it was around 30°C (86°F) and very sunny.
After we had obtained the permit in Arraial do Cabo we went to the seaport of the town and asked the fishermen to take us. Finally we managed to get a boat. The boat trip took about 45 minutes and the fisherman left us at the Navy Post directly at the beach Praia da Ilha de Farol.
When we turned on the GPS it seemed really easy to visit the confluence, the distance was only about 700 meters. Following the GPS we walked across the beach and took picture #5. We finally had to climb a few sand dunes that were pretty high. After climbing the dunes we saw some scrubs and many thorns on the sandy ground, but since we had long pants and closed shoes this was no problem. However a few meters further the forest began (see picture#4): trees started to grow and suddenly the vegetation began to get really dense. Here the beach ended, the ground was not sandy any more, but full of leaves from the trees. Amoung the trees there were some cacti and many many thorn bushes. Most of the island is covered by a virgin tropical dry forest with a unique flora that only occurs in the region around Cabo Frio, because it receives fewer rain than the surrounding areas of Rio de Janeiro state and plants adapt in different ways here. As we were about to find out this forest type is unfortunately much harder to cross that the moist forests of Brazil due to many plants growing under the trees that have thorns. But this didn't take our motivation away, the GPS showed only a distance of 280 meters now....so close, some thorn bushes shouldnt be able to stop us now!
When we entered the forest we found out the opposite. The vegetation was so dense and throny that the plants held us back from continuing to walk...in some parts we had to crawl in others we had to push the bushes away what was really painful because of all the thorns.
Another problem, Our 12 channel GPS didnt work anymore, because the sky was covered by all the trees... how should we orientate in this forest without a GPS? And how should we find the confluence?
After 5 minutes we had to face that there was no chance to make any progress so we went back to the sand dunes and the GPS worked again : 280 meters. We were at the same point than before, just that we had received some scratches from the vegetation.
Carol decided to stay at the beach, but I didnt want to accept that I could not reach the confluence being so close.
So I made a second attempt : I entered the forest from another part of the beach that was more to the north. Additionally before entering I looked exactly in what direction the confluence was, it was 350 meters from here.
When entering the forest a second time I had to face the same problem, the GPS stoped working.... I was fighting my way through the bushes and received many scratches...then I found a lightning,
I held up my GPS hoping it would find new satellites...and suddenly I read 190 meters ! I was close like never before and full of new motivation. Unfortunately this motivation soon ended when I came to several huge stones in the forest. In combination with all those thorn bushes it was abosulutely impossible to continue. Additionally the GPS didnt work again. So I had to go back, the second attempt had failed.
Third attempt. Already really tired and full of scratches I decided to try to access the confluence from another part of the beach more to the south now. Here the vegetation was less dense, only some bushes and some cacti since the ground was still a bit sandy and not so fertile, but the distance was bigger : about 500 meters... I climbed up a lot until I was about 100 meters above sea level... but it didnt help much, in front of me I looked towards the forest again and it was even denser than in the earlier attempts. The ground here was full of bromelias and walking was impossible without falling all the time.
Being frustrated I when back to Carol and rested at the beach for 10 minutes. Then I decided to make one last attempt from a different part of the beach.
Fourth attempt. I found a some kind of tiny track about 400 meters from the confluence that lead me into the forest. Many stones were covering the gound and it seemed as if I was following a small river bed, that had no water anymore. Here it was a bit easier to walk. Unfortunately the track ended soon and my GPS stoped working again, but I had memorized the direction. Also I decided to move on the direction of the sun and the terrain (I knew the confluence was more than 100 meters above sea level and that I had to go up etc) After 20 minutes of fighting my way through the vegetation and after many new scrates in my arms and many new thorns in my pants I found a place without trees. The bushes were really dense, but the sky was partially free. I held up my GPS towards the sky and waited 5 minutes : 200 meters ! I had gotten closer !!
I made note of the direction it pointed to and continued...now it was difficult like in the earlier attempts, but I didnt care any more. I crawled and crawled into the direction I believed the confluence was, but I had no confirmation, the GPS didnt work again. While crawling I saw eggs of repitles and I remembered that the guy of the navy had warned us to be careful with some snakes.
After about 1 hour inside of this forest I finally came to a place again where the trees didnt cover the sky completely : I held up my GPS towards the sky. But it received only 2 satellites, I waited some minutes and it didn't get better. Then I tryed different directions and suddenly it found the position, 70 meters from the confluence and an accurancy of 12 meters ! I couldnt believe it !!!! I finally was within 100 meters of the confluence. Maybe I had been even closer than 70 meters some minutes ago, but there was no way to get to the confluence directly, since the GPS barely works in such a dense vegetation.
Quckily I took GPS pictures, before it lost its connection again. Then I took pictures of all directions. Many pictures didnt turn out, because it was too dark, but fortunately I took many.
After the sucess I wanted to walk back quickly, but it still took 40 minutes because the vegetation kept on blocking me from going on.
Finally I came back to the beach, all my cloth were spoiled and I had to throw them away afterwards (see picture #6).
The rest of the afternoon we stayed at the beach and we swam in the ocean. The salt water helped to desinfect all the wounds I had received.
Later in the afternoon the fisherman came and brought us back.
I was glad to have managed this confluence, it was definetly the hardest I ever reached.


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In episode 64 of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author Myke Cole about his upcoming Shadow Ops series from Ace.
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I really enjoyed this interview, especially where he talks about outer versus inner motivation. Personally, I think *everyone* wants outer motivation too, whether they admit it or not, and there's not a thing wrong with that.
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|The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, after 1510
Vincenzo Catena
Italian, c.1470-1531
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overall: 32 x 43 in. (81.3 x 109.2 cm)
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Like many artists from the Veneto, in North-Eastern Italy, Catena frequently portrayed The Holy Family seated in an extensive landscape. Such a setting provided the necessary context to their journey, while reflecting the growing taste among painters and patrons for imagery of the landscape. Here, the serene, idealized version of the Venetian landscape has equal weight with the genre-like figures: St. Joseph dozes quietly while the Madonna and Child provide the sole element of psychological interaction as they sit in mutual awareness. The painting is dated after 1510 when Catena's forms became softer, more ample, and luminous. This change is likely due to the welcome influences of Giovanni Bellini and Titian.
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An information source about Scottish country dancing activities in Canada and the United States of America (USA).
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Ger3 Axis Schrittmotoren Nema 23 Stepper Motor Driver Board CNC Controller Kit. For CNC Router Milling Engraving Machine. (Dual shanft 270Oz-in 1.8A 76mm Length 3.0A). DC switching power supply 1 x. TB6560 MD430 Low noise of stepper motor driver.
MD430 is a compact single axis bipolar 3.0A/phase stepper motor microstepping driver with step and direction inputs, DIP switch settable step mode (full, half, eight and sixteenth--S3/S4), torque (100%, 75%, 50%, 20%--S5/S6) , work current (0-3A--SW1/SW2/SW3) and decay mode (0%, 25%, 50% and 100%). 1 Single-chip motor driver for sinusoidal microstep control of stepping motors.
2 Power on in indication led. 3 3Amps-34Volts(Supply voltages:12-34DC). 4 Full step, half step, eight step and sixteenth step(selection with dipswitches).
5 Torque (100%, 75%, 50%, 20%). 6 Work Current (0-3A selection with SW1/SW2/SW3).7 4 Wire, 6 Wire, 8 Wire stepper motors can be used. 8 Two phases bipolar driver. 9 Easy wiring with standard screw terminals.
10 Step frequency up to 100khz. 11 Fuse protection on power supply rail(protects the board, but also your power supply and motor). Suitable for all kinds of small and medium-sized automation equipment and apparatus For example, laser machines, laser engraving &cutting machine, laser subsurface engraving machine, laser handicraft cutting machine, (nonmetal materials) laser marking machine, laser seals engraving machine and photosensitive seal machine.
5 axis CNC Breakout board interface adapter board. 1, full support for MACH3, KCAM4, EMC2, the PC software to support parallel port control. 2, leads to all the parallel port of all 12 data transmission output pin, which can control the five stepper motor driver. 3, with 5-way input interface, you can access the limit switches and emergency stop switch, reset knife;5 input LED indicates the status of the input.4, all the way with a 12A relay control, normally open, normally closed leads, user-friendly connection. 5, power supply with 5V USB power supply or external power supply to facilitate the access of external power supply;On the external drive enable signal amplification, filtering, enhancement processing. 6, the pulse, the direction of signal shaping, enhanced with a carrying capacity, data transmission speeds reach 10 MBit / S. 7, the output pin with extension interfaces can 2.54mm pin 2.54mmXH-Block.
1, the use of new imported Japanese Toshiba TB6560 chip (disguising). 2, The base used dense teeth radiator, cooling super, to ensure the stable operation of equipment. 3, the input signal using a high-speed opto-isolation to ensure not losing steps, which the pulse direction signals with the same level of 6N137, dual high-speed optocoupler.
4 a variety of semi-flow mode and the semi-flow current selection, the use of more flexible. 5, Decay mode is adjustable to ensure the motor running smooth. 6., Sophisticated appearance size cooling pad size: 75mm 65mm, four mechanical installation positioning hole size is: 67mm 58, mounting hole diameter is 4mm.7, Set method detailed table on the board, easy to use. 8, With anti-reverse circuit, even if not careful the power plug back and will not burn the chip, the use of safer. Step angle accuracy:+ - 5%(full step, not load). Resistance accuracy: + - 10%. Inductance accuracy:+ - 20%. Temperature rise: 80deg Max(rated current, 2 phase on). Ambient temperature ----------20deg ---- +50deg. Insulation resistance:100ohm Min, 500VDC. Insultion Strength--------500VAC for one minute. Motor lead wires: RED: A+ GREEN: A- YELLOW: B+ BLUE: B- 4.
Switching power supply 350W, Input:100-120VAC or 200-240VAC, 50/60Hz, Output:24v/10 A, single output switching power supply. Item must be in it's original condition and no physical damage. Customers satisfaction is very important to us. The item "Ger3 Axis Schrittmotoren Nema 23 Stepper Motor Driver Board CNC Controller Kit" is in sale since Friday, July 30, 2021. This item is in the category "Business & Industrie\Automation, Antriebe & Motoren\Elektromotoren\Schrittmotoren".The seller is "kuku218" and is located in Zuerich . This item can be shipped to European Union member countries, Switzerland, United Kingdom.


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I also dislike the way that Christians, especially (but not only) in the USA, have become identified with some key causes that all seem to revolve around making other people behave in certain ways. This has unfortunately led to people believing that that's what Christianity is all about --- when actually one of the most important truths is that just doing things is not the way to make things right between us and God.
So, I thought I'd really like this article by Jay Bakker, which leads with:
What the hell happened? Where did we go wrong? How was Christianity co-opted by a political party? Why are Christians supporting laws that force others to live by their standards?
In fact, there's little in there that I would specifically disagree with. But there's a problem with it as a whole: it implies that Jesus was about nothing but unconditional love. That is an error in another direction, and it's also a common one. His parables and lessons do talk a lot about love and forgiveness, but they also talk a lot about hell, judgement, and "I have come not to bring peace, but a sword". To paraphrase a common Christian saying, he does have a message of "come as you are, not as you should be" --- but he doesn't want you to stay that way.
The problem with Jesus is that he doesn't fit into boxes. He doesn't seem to countenance the imposition of a morality state, but he also won't be coerced into being a comfortable anything-goes Saviour. He never conforms to the image we demand of him. That's uncomfortable and disconcerting ... but it's one of the things I love about him.


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Skating Her Way to Nationals
Washington College junior Molly Gallagher is on her way to the U.S. Synchronized Figure Skating National Championships after beating out competition from some of the nation's best collegiate programs. Gallagher skates with the Chesapeake Captains, a Harford County team comprising 13 full-time students from schools that also include University of Maryland, Loyola and Towson universities and several community colleges.
Gallagher and her teammates will make the impressive journey to the pinnacle of collegiate-level skating in their very first year of existence as a team. In early February, they competed in the Eastern Sectional Championships in Hershey, Pa., facing tough competition from experienced varsity teams including Cornell, Michigan, Delaware, and Massachusetts. Their performance earned them one of just 12 coveted berths at the National Championships in Colorado Springs, Col., which begin on February 27.
A Human Development major with a certification in Elementary Education and a minor in history, Gallagher is also a Peer Mentor and the secretary of Caring for Kids on campus. After winning a Centennial Conference championship with Washington College's varsity softball team in 2013, she now devotes all of her attention to synchronized skating, travelling across the region (and now the country) to skate with her team.
"I chose WAC to get away from skating, but quickly realized just how much I missed it," says Gallagher, who has been figure skating for 11 years. She loves it here at Washington College and has met her best friends on the softball team, she is quick to add. But she knows she belongs on the ice, even if she now has to drive 90 minutes every Sunday afternoon to get to it—her team has been practicing at public rinks in her hometown of Abingdon and in Reisterstown, Md.
The Chesapeake Captains are one of only two collegiate-level teams in the country not affiliated with a single college or university. Without the campus ice rink, allocated practice time and athletic-department funding other competitors enjoy, Gallagher and her teammates are responsible for organizing and funding travel, competition fees, ice time and coaching in order to compete. Just ten days from the start of the national competition, the team was still fundraising through its website, chesapeakesynchro.com.
Everybody at Washington College wishes Molly and her team the best of luck in Colorado!
— George Gabriel '14


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Essay – Meeting Dad Again (By Donal Mahoney)
Meeting Dad Again
by Donal Mahoney
My father emigrated from Ireland to the United States in the early 1920s. He had been released from Spike Island by the English who "occupied" Ireland at that time. Spike Island was the "Guantanamo" of that era, located just off the coast of Ireland. It was there the English warehoused prisoners of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
My father had been imprisoned by the English at age 16 for running guns through the marshes of County Kerry to aid the rebels fighting to free Ireland from the rule of the English. Young Irish lads were recruited for duties like this because they would be less apt to be captured by the English–or so the IRA thought. My father was not coerced into doing this. He volunteered for the duty and would have done it again if the English had not insisted that he and other prisoners leave Ireland as a condition of their release.
On arrival in America, he found work as a grave digger in Brooklyn, NY. Later he boxed professionally and sang in night clubs that catered to Irish immigrants. After he got married, he moved with my mother to Chicago where he was hired by the Commonwealth Edison Company. There he spent almost four decades as a lineman, often working as a "troubleshooter" who was called out in the middle of the night whenever a storm knocked out the power. He liked this work and was very good at it or so I was told by his peers when I visited him in the hospital. They had gathered in the hall outside his room after he had survived an electrical accident that occurred high on a pole in an alley. He survived 12,000 volts, an incident that got his name in the Chicago Tribune.
In January 2012, decades after my father had died, my wife discovered a photo of him on the Internet. It showed him as a prisoner on Spike Island, circa 1920. He was a farm boy, poor as the chickens he fed as a child, but the English dressed him up nicely for the photo that accompanies this story. Perhaps they didn't want his age to show and to a degree they succeeded in that. You would think they had treated him well but they broke both his legs with rifle butts and let him sit on an earthen cell floor for a long period of time.
In the photo, my father is in the first row, third from the left. He is identified as "J. O'Mahony," which was the family name until he became a citizen of the United States. On that occasion, the judge suggested he change his name to "Mahoney," which was "more common" in the United States. My father agreed to the change but it was a decision he would rue for the remainder of his life. More than once he told me, "I should never have done it but I was a greenhorn, what did I know?"
My poem, "Meeting Dad Again," below, was written many years later after my father and I reunited in Chicago briefly after he had been out of my life for awhile. His two years on Spike Island as an adolescent had taken a toll. He suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) before that ailment had been identified and named. Despite this problem, however, he was a sober Irishman who labored hard in Chicago for decades to save money to put me through college. His goal was to make certain I would never have to "work with my hands." He didn't have to worry. I can operate a hammer but have no manual skills beyond that.
My poem records our reunion when my father, back in town unexpectedly, phoned me at work and, to my surprise, asked that I meet him for lunch. He suggested a cafeteria that was then a Chicago landmark. No fancy restaurants for him, even though in retirement he could afford a touch of the posh. I can't remember for certain but I doubt that he let me pay the check. He knew that I had bills as the father of five stair-step children.
The lunch went well. Conversation was light. I did not ask him where he had been or what he had been doing and he asked only pleasant questions about me and my children. He showed no mood swings to indicate that he had once been a guest of the English, a confinement that affected him far more, I believe, than absorbing 12,000 volts. The voltage crippled his hand and gnarled his arm but the English crippled and gnarled his nervous system. On this day, however, he was in fine fettle, as he liked to say. This time he was more interested in seeing me than my report card.
Meeting Dad Again
Thirty years later, Dad came back
and we met for Ham and Yams at Toffenetti's.
Pouring his tea, he told me he had
to restore power once
at a newspaper warehouse
and the storm broke again
and the lightning cracked his ladder.
He spent the whole day, he said,
sitting in that dark warehouse,
waiting for the lightning to stop
and for the truck to bring a new ladder.
He had a great time, he said,
sitting next to a flickering lantern
and reading for hours the Sunday comics
printed and stacked
six weeks in advance.
Donal Mahoney
Author Bio:
Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He has had fiction and poetry published in various publications in the U.S. and elsewhere. Among them are The Galway Review (Ireland), The Recusant (England), The Missing Slate (Pakistan), Guwahatian Magazine (india), Bluepepper (Australia), The Osprey Journal (Wales), Public Republic (Bulgaria), and The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey). Some of his earliest work can be found at http://booksonblog12.blogspot.com and some of his newer work at https://www.antarcticajournal.com/donal-mahoney-recent-works


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Unite coronavirus COVID-19 advice
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Twenty six years ago, a Savannah teenager named Ronald Speir enlisted in the 117th Air Control Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard.
Saturday at Hunter Army Airfield, Lt. Col. Ron Speir became commander of the 117th, a unit he called "the best damn air control squadron in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard."
"It's a very special honor for me," said Speir, who now resides in Richmond Hill. "Being a local Savannah boy and growing up here and enlisting in the squadron in 1987 and then spending almost 26 years here, and now being asked to lead squadron I grew up in, it's just a wonderful honor."
Speir is a full-time member of the Air National Guard. He assumes command of the 117th mere months before the 186-member unit makes its third major deployment since the 9/11 terrorist attacks — the 117th is headed to the Persian Gulf in November for a six-month stay in support of air defense efforts in the Gulf, he said.
Speir, who assumed command from Lt. Col. Victor Long, also a Savannah native, thanked his wife, Brenda, and daughters, Hayley and Ella, for their support and understanding. He also said there were some anxious moments as the days ticked down to his taking command.
"It's kind of like getting married. It's a relief to finally get it over with," he said. "I'm glad to get the guidon in my hands and accept the challenge."
Speir's resume is impressive. He graduated with honors from ASC — now Armstrong Atlantic State University — in 1991 with a B.A. in English and a minor in communications, and earned his commission in 1992. He began a full-time career in the Air National Guard in 1994 in Oregon, then returned to the 117th in 1998 where he's since served as everything from an operations training officer to the detachment commander responsible for managing the unit's 37-member full-time staff.
Speir also has deployed for NATO exercises in Denmark and Norway, and to Colombia, Honduras, Panama, the Turks and Caicos Islands as part of the war on drugs. Along with the 117th, he deployed to Kuwait for Operation Southern Watch in 2001to enforce the no-fly zone over southern Iraq.
Since 9/11, Speir has served in a variety of roles, including a 5½- month stint in Florida designing command radar for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Speir has also deployed with the 117th to Cape Canaveral to provide security for space shuttle launches. In addition, the unit deployed to Iraq in 2006 and to the Persian Gulf in 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Speir said becoming commander is more than just an honor and challenge. The job carries with it a tremendous amount of responsibility, he said, not least because the role of the Air National Guard has changed.
"This is not the same Air National Guard I enlisted in 26 years ago," Speir said. "We expect a lot more of our young airmen today and of our young officers. It takes long hours. It takes coming in Friday nights and doing things from home for free. I take on lot of responsibility to take care of our people. That's the most important thing to me because they take care of me to get the job done."
Twenty six years ago, a Savannah teenager named Ronald Speir enlisted in the 117th Air Control Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard.


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LBJ, Lady Bird love letters released
AUSTIN, Texas — The entire collection of nearly 100 love letters written between Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson during their 2½-month courtship in 1934 is being made available to the public for the first time beginning on Valentine's Day.
The letters at the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas show an impatient Johnson, then a 26-year-old congressional aide, eager to marry 21-year-old Claudia Alta Taylor. She was known as "Bird," was a recent graduate of the university, and the future president had asked her to marry him a day after they met in September 1934. She wrote she loved him but "don't know how everlastingly."
They would tie the knot 10 weeks later in San Antonio and were married for 39 years. LBJ died 1973, Lady Bird in 2007.


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A key requirement of any democracy is a majority of backbenchers not constrained by patronage or collective responsibility and so able to speak freely and force the government to account for their decisions.
The lack of a majority free of patronage and collective responsibility seriously impacts the governments ability to get policies right.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy Lyrics & Chords By Gang Starr
Punks will always scheme to, create a means
to take my kindness, for weakness, cause they don't seem to
respect my generosity, and what it's costin me
is headaches, I don't like fakes, or people bossin me around
You clown, it's time I beat you down
You tried to play me betray me and slay me, and now you'll drown
in the river, I'll give ya, reasons you should shiver
Cause when I get to wreckin and deckin, I won't forgive ya
You had the opportunity, for bein cool with me
You stabbed me in the back you duck, and now you're soon to be
disarmed, embalmed, I'll break off all your arms
and then your legs, you'll beg, I'll crack you like a egg
and spill your yolk, you joke, I'll duff you in the eye
and you'll say, "Why?" And bleeding and pleading, you'll start to cry
and I'll reply with a confident sigh, "There'll be no more Mr. Nice Guy"
No More Mr. Nice Guy
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Yo ?, this is somethin that I wanna tell to you, sell to you
and as I speak you girlies yell to your friends, "Yo it's him!
He's shockin again!" This is the season for breezin with reason
because I'm in, charge of the attack on suckers who just rap on
wack track that lack that snap, while I just mack on
Honies who look good and, they all want the wood in
They push up, to get up close, to serve me puddin
And I just tell em, "Look here, I am not a crook there"
but I like to snatch em all, cause like a hook they're stuck
struck, they tried to press their luck
They wanna tease me and skeeze me and please me, to squeeze the bucks
from my pocket that is bulging, I'm not indulging
in lame games with phony dames, too busy buildin my fortress
Score this, drink while I pour this
I'm livin and givin my rhymes, so I'll ignore this
Garbage you are runnin, I am not the one and
you'll never get to vamp me tramp cause I'll be stunning your mind
I'll sign, my name on your behind and cool you off
like frost, I'm leary of the way you double cross
Get lost, I'll tell you you are fly and say goodbye
And burning and yearing you'll ask my why
And I'll reply with a wink of an eye, "There'll be no more Mr. Nice Guy"
No More Mr. Nice Guy
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Oh sure, you're, running back for me
I'ma great you defeat you and beat you, show you the door
Cause you ain't really welcome, you know you're seldom
thinkin of your fellow man, but you still til them
You wanna be a friend then, you keep pretendin
You're two-faced, so you'll taste, just what I'm sendin
POW, now, you're shaken sayin WOW
You stare, you fear, my wrath is too severe
I never let up so get up I'm fed up, and I don't care
I'll duff you in the eye and you'll say, "Why?"
While you're bleeding and pleading, you'll start to cry
and I'll reply, "Either do or you die,
cause there'll be no more Mr. Nice Guy"
No More Mr. Nice Guy
No More Mr. Nice Guy
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Tree Of Celebration
Moments happen in the blink of an eye and celebrating all of life's moments large and small are part of creating memories to last a lifetime. The Tree of Celebration reminds us to celebrate our achievements, milestones, friends and family no matter how large or small. It is through celebrating that we add colour, richness and joy to our lives. Dance, sing and have a good time- it's worth celebrating!


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1972 Chevrolet Camaro - White Lightning
A flashing streak of pure white heat
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A lightning storm is a thing of beauty. Everyone awes and oohs over the burst of light that comes crashing down at visceral speeds. And just like that, it's gone. The spectacle of glory has vanished. And then it hits you like a ton of lead in a 50-pound sack, and what Dan Bergmann won't tell you is that the roar you hear from his '72 Camaro comes not from a fancy fuel-injected LS motor, but rather the bellowing comes from an insanely built big-block.
The lethal combination didn't start out that deadly, in fact it was a bit more of an anemic sputter with a cough. "I bought the car from a friend for $1,500. It ran and drove, but within two miles I had to tear it down," Dan tells us. "I bought a 468 big-block from a local engine builder. That motor only lasted 312 miles before it spun a rear main and took out the crank. The builder said he'd cover the labor, but I was out the parts. It was then that I decided to order a Scott Shafiroff motor with a warranty."
The 540 sports a Merlin III block and a set of aluminum Dart 325cc heads; typical fare you'd find in a power plant that creates 662 hp and 682 lb-ft of torque. The block is distended with an Eagle crank and Mahle pistons creating a 9.8:1 compression ratio for conservative reliability. Dan topped off the Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake with a Holley comp series 850 carb fed by an electric Mallory 140 pump and a complimentary Mallory regulator. For good looks and space savings, Dan used March's pulley kit. Keeping the spark nice and crisp is an MSD Pro-Billet distributor, 6AL box, and a Blaster-2 coil just for continuity. The thunder comes courtesy of a Jet Hot coated set of 2-inch Hooker competition headers and a 3-inch stainless Magnaflow exhaust system.
Bottling a bolt of lightning can be a hell of a thing to do, but Dan figured out that a well-built Art Carr 700R4 can do the trick. Launch is controlled by a 9.5-inch 4000-stall converter. Dan opted for the feel of a stick shift with a reverse manual valvebody crammed into the transmissions gut, which is probably a good thing because you don't want to have to put down your soda to shift gears while cruising the strip. The Precision Shaft Technologies 3 1/2-inch driveshaft reduces rotating weight and increases throttle response. Dan decided to keep the 8 1/2 GM rearend and fill it with 3.73 gears and an Eaton posi.
Dan lowered the front end with a set of 2-inch lowering springs from Global West, and a four-corner array of KYB shocks. A Hotchkis 1 3/8-inch sway bar aids in controlling body roll.
Taming the hurling mass of incendiary ordinance is a set of frame connectors and SSBC's Force 10 four-piston calipers and 11-inch rotors, which peek through a set of Vintage Wheel Works V45 wheels measuring 17x7 and 17x8 front and back, respectively. The fronts are covered in BFGoodrich Traction TA 215/50-R17 rubber for lateral grip, and the rears utilize Nitto NT05 275/40-R17 tires for straight-line authority.
The interior houses a six-point roll cage installed by Dan himself. The inside matches the exterior's sleek and classically updated look. Black and gray Corbeau Legacy seats and harness belts provide comfort and safety all in one. Covan's gauge panel with Autometer Sport Comp gauges are for keeping a steadfast eye on the engine vital signs. An Alpine CD deck pumps tunes through a set of stock front speakers accompanied by Pioneer 6x9 rears. The inner door panels and carpet are covered in OEM material, installed by Superior Upholstery in Elk River, Minnesota.
The exterior is dressed in PPG Dover White paint. Dan added a fiberglass VFN 4-inch cowl hood as his buddy Perry Heigl completed the bodywork and painting process. Perry's car, an equally wicked yellow '72, graced the pages of the April '11 issue of Camaro Performers.
"Building the car was the most memorable experience I've had. I love showing Perry [Heigl] my taillights every chance I get," jokes Dan.
Dan had to sell his '69 Camaro to get into his house with wife Sandra and was itching to get into another project, "I want to say thanks to my wife for letting me build the car, and also to Perry Heigl for everything he did!"
Dan, we are sure sorry to see your '69 find a new home, but if this is what you do for an encore, we certainly can't blame you for coming back for more.
The phrase catching lightning in a bottle means that one must complete a rare feat, and indeed this bottle is full to the brim with "white lightning."
A special thanks to Phil Gagne of the Pig's Eye Brewing Company for free reign of his brewery to showcase this awesome Camaro.


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The number of U.S. babies born to babies (teen mothers) hit record lows in 2011, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in the journal Pediatrics today. 20-somethings followed their lead, although the birth rate increased for ladies in their late 30s and early 40s.
The new data showed an eight-percent drop in teen births between 2010 and 2011; only slightly more than three percent of 15- to 19-year-olds had babies during that period. According to the study's authors, 3.6 million more babies would've been born to teenage girls over the last two decades if the teen birth rate hadn't been dropping since 1991.
CDC statistician Brady Hamilton, lead author of the new report, said the economy was a factor "that goes into people's decisions about having a child." But given that the vast majority of teenagers aren't exactly prudent about money management or family planning, perhaps this has less to do with finances and more to do with a little something that rhymes with smirth smontrol.
"I think the main thing behind this is increased contraceptive use, and better contraceptive use," Dr. Krishna Upadhya, who studies teen pregnancy at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore (but wasn't involved with the study) told Reuters Health. You don't say!
Upadhya also noted that there are still parts of the country where teens have a hard time getting their hands on long-lasting birth control (such as IUDs) and even condoms. That's why it's so important to combat Bible Belt logic/shame with solid statistics — and support from powerful places.
Last week, over 1,000 religious leaders from 35 different religious denominations signed an open letter published by the Religious Institute supporting family planning access for all women. "The commandment to 'be fruitful and multiply' is not exclusive to procreation, but also calls individuals to co-create a world characterized by justice and inclusion," the letter stated. "Our traditions affirm children as a blessing, not a requirement or an entitlement."
Amen — and children are particularly not a blessing when they're born to those whom are still children themselves.