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The Secret Beyond Matter
Darwinist Propaganda Techniques
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They Apply a Comprehensive Policy of İntimidation Against Those who Deny Evolution
Darwinism is propped up by what can only be described as despotism, imposition, coercion, and fraud. The only reason why Darwinism has occupied the agenda for so many years is the Darwinist dictatorship, a system that rules the world. Darwinism has been imposed by this dictatorial regime and been accepted by the power of compulsion. Darwinist indoctrination has spread in ways that people are unaware of, and vast masses of people have fallen under its sway. As a result of the sly tactics employed by this vile dictatorship, Darwinism has quite literally become undeniable across the world.
Darwinism currently enjoys a vast level of protection from the various states of the world. It is supported by official institutions in a great many countries and even forcibly imposed. Those who oppose the spurious religion that is Darwinism are silenced by the most despotic methods. There are hundreds of examples of this. This policy of intimidation, in which professors and scientists have been removed from their posts for criticizing the theory of evolution, has been fully exposed in recent years. Students are unable to progress from one year to another, and people in institutions of state have had their careers ruined. Universities have become part of a dictatorial regime in which only a Darwinist education is given and acceptable.
People are prevented from rejecting Darwinism, because otherwise the adherents of the religion of Darwinism would have no other way of propping this groundless theory up. A lie is spoken very loudly, and to expose it as a lie is regarded as a crime. A theory heralded as scientific, yet having nothing whatsoever to do with science, has become a superstitious and dogmatic belief officially and openly protected against rejection. But the most striking thing is that this is done so flagrantly, with no attempt at concealment at all.
That is why nonsense such as, "Darwinism is supported all over the world" is completely meaningless and no attention should be paid to it. The systematic and cunning activities of the Darwinist dictatorship make such support obligatory. Some people have to appear to agree with this false theory in order not to lose their jobs or careers, while students are compelled to give answers supporting evolution in order to pass their exams. The greatest intellectual tyranny in history is enforced worldwide by the Darwinist dictatorship.
They Condition People With the Lie that Vast Masses of People Believe in Evolution
When one grasps the scale of the dictatorial Darwinist regime one can better understand why it is that evolution appears to be supported all over the world. Some people generally believe in the legitimacy of whatever the majority happens to believe in. They want to believe that the majority is right. The fact is, however, as revealed in the Qur'an in the words, "If you obeyed most of those on earth, they would misguide you from Allah's Way..." (Surat al-An'am, 116), that the majority are generally subject to a mass conditioning that turns them away from Allah's path. The important thing is to heed the Qur'an and one's conscience, rather than the majority. It was the mindset of the majority that led to the mass slaughters of the First and Second World Wars, this sociodynamic critical mass that led to the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, and that shed so much blood in communist Russia. This twisted perspective, deeply rooted in Darwinist ideology, was responsible for these world wars and the resulting deaths of more than 200 million people. This majority culture, this groupthink, is one of the most deceptive and dangerous elements in the arsenal of the Darwinist dictatorship.
But how have the majority been brought to believe in Darwinism despite all its illogicality? The reasons are these:
As we have seen, Darwinism enjoys support, not because it is scientific, but because it is inculcated by means of imposition and coercion, and protected across the world by the Darwinist dictatorship. The fact that the majority support this false theory must not and should not deceive people; some of the people are unaware that Darwinism is the greatest fraud that has ever been, while others appear to support Darwinism only out of fear of losing their jobs or attracting criticism from people around them.
There are of course some people – albeit a small minority – who do honestly adopt Darwinism as an ideology, a false religion. As Allah reveals in the Qur'an, these people have been created to deny Allah and side with superstition. In the Qur'an, Allah tells us that these people will never believe, even if they were to witness genuine miracles. The existence of such people must not, therefore, deceive anyone. Almighty Allah describes these people as follows in the Qur'an:
Even if We sent down angels to them, and the dead spoke to them, and We gathered together everything in front of them right before their eyes, they would still not believe unless Allah willed. The truth is that most of them are ignorant.(Surat al-An'am, 111)
These people, explicitly described in the Qur'an, are in fact well aware of their wrongdoing. They realize that Darwinism is false and wrong, and that it is Almighty Allah who created them and all things. But even though they accept what the Qur'an says in their hearts, they still object and deny it all because of their pride. In another verse, Almighty Allah says:
And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them. See the final fate of the corrupters.(Surat an-Naml, 14)
They Try Not to Lose Supporters by Threatening Them with Exclusion From Society
Darwinism has been comprehensively defended by the Darwinist dictatorship for the last 150 years, and is protected by law in a number of countries. Those who subscribe to the theory are praised, while those who reject it are ridiculed or sacked. The theory is also taught on a compulsory basis in schools. For these reasons, it is not at all a simple matter to openly state that one rejects Darwinism in such a climate. Such people are immediately excluded and removed by others, under the powerful impact of Darwinist conditioning. This is one of the most important psychological deterrent methods employed by the Darwinist dictatorship in order to hold onto its adherents.
It would be a very significant event for someone who has spent a lifetime specializing in evolution, and maybe even become a professor, to one day announce that he rejects Darwinism and has seen the invalidity of evolution. If a professor announces that he now rejects evolution, he is well aware that his whole career has essentially come to an end, that he will be removed from his post in the university, that the great majority of his friends, largely made up of Darwinists, will swiftly turn their backs on him, and that he will also be subjected to intense negative propaganda. That is how it has always been. Professors we have already cited have lost their jobs, friends, and colleagues for that very reason. Unpleasant defamation campaigns have been set in motion on the internet about some of them in order to prevent them finding work again, while others have been declared to be "intellectual terrorists" by employers.
Rejecting the theory of evolution brings with it major life changes for someone who has spent years as an evolutionist and may even have built a career on it. For such a person, all the ideological scourges that Darwinism brings with it are invalidated in a moment. Communism, fascism, atheism, and many other such perverse beliefs all become instantly worthless. For example, from the moment a satanist sees the invalidity of Darwinism, being a satanist will be meaningless, as satanism is a false religion based entirely on elitism and social Darwinism. The moment a terrorist capable of ruthlessly murdering other people realizes the invalidity of Darwinism, he will also realize how illogical and incompatible with good conscience his actions were. The perverse ideological foundation that justified killing suddenly vanishes in a puff of smoke. For that reason, rejecting Darwinism changes the whole perspective, values, and lives of people who based their lives on that perverse ideology.
This policy of exclusion against those who reject Darwinism is perhaps the most effective psychological weapon to which Darwinists resort. Some people who believe it will be to difficult for them to overcome that policy of exclusion have had to appear to be evolutionists, despite not truly believing in it. There are a great many people who have had to appear to eagerly espouse evolution when evolutionists are present, when holding conferences or writing books and articles about it, despite clearly seeing its illogicality. There has been a particular rise in recent years in the number of people who clearly see the existence of Allah, but who are unable to express that thought in the presence of their atheist friends.
This policy of intimidation must not alarm the people in question because the supposed dominion of the Darwinist dictatorship is temporary and weak. As Allah has promised, superstition will certainly disappear and the truth will be victorious. What needs to be known is that Allah is always alongside those who genuinely turn to Him, who heed their consciences and who are prepared to risk social exclusion by espousing what is right and true. It is the friends of Allah who will inevitably be victorious. Our Almighty Lord reveals in a verse that:
If Allah helps you, no one can vanquish you. If He forsakes you, who can help you after that? So the believers should put their trust in Allah. (Surah Al 'Imran, 160)
They Try to Give the Impression that Large Numbers of People Support Evolution by Arranging False Polls and Statistics
When asked for scientific evidence, Darwinists generally reply as follows: "But evolution is regarded as fact all over the world!" When they say that, Darwinists imagine that all the questions hanging over evolution somehow disappear, that people will be satisfied with that reply, and that by saying this it will be enough to ensure acceptance of Darwinism. Indeed, this method of psychological conditioning has had a huge effect on some people who attach little importance to the fact that the theory of evolution is not backed up by any scientific evidence and who regard general opinion as more significant.
That is why the Darwinist dictatorship tries every possible means to give the impression that evolution is accepted all over the world. One method is to organize false surveys and statistics, and then use these polls to show that large numbers of people believe in evolution, and then publish their survey results to loud fanfare in the press organs under the control of the Darwinist dictatorship.
Someone looking at the results of the polls in question may well think that only a very few people reject evolution, particularly in countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Under the influence of the mass psychology we have already discussed, they may imagine that this false majority believing in evolution is on the true path. But this is a deception. In fact, no such poll has ever been held. These results are fraudulent figures invented for the purpose of being announced in press organs under the control of the Darwinist dictatorship. As always, Darwinists deceive people, this time by these fake polls and figures.
Polls have been conducted in many countries and people have been genuinely asked what they think; but the results obtained are the exact opposite of what the Darwinists claim. People actually reject evolution and believe that Allah creates all things. And these levels are growing all the time. One of the largest verifiable polls conducted showed that Turkey heads the list of those rejecting evolution.3 The second country in terms of rejection of evolution was the United States of America.
Therefore, it must not be forgotten that if high levels of belief in evolution are suggested in a poll, or any statistical research in Darwinist publications, then the results are fraudulent. In fact, polls conducted all over the world, especially in the United States, Canada, and European countries such as Great Britain, show that evolution has been abandoned to a very significant extent.
They claim to not to be "bothered" by anti-Darwinist Activities
One of the most terrifying things for a publishing group spreading Darwinist propaganda with all of its might is without doubt the success of anti-Darwinist activities. Books, articles, exhibitions and conferences setting out the proofs of the fact of creation are enjoying a worldwide success which represents a grave threat for these Darwinists. The publishing groups in question makes no mention of this success, the work of large numbers of people. They generally prefer to appear to attach no importance to that success and say, "It does not bother us at all."
But in truth, the Darwinists are in a state of panic. Conferences around the world describe how Darwinists are unable to account for even a single protein and exhibit fossils that totally refute evolution, while molecular biology utterly eliminates the possibility of evolution. Thousands of people listen to this information with great amazement. This information is also passed on by word of mouth to hundreds of thousands more. People who see this evidence can no longer believe in Darwinism. Therefore, saying "........we are not bothered" is a defense mechanism intended to neutralize this huge defeat and cover it up.
This is actually a very childish reaction, much like the way that a small child, having been punished by his father, will try to give the impression he is unaffected by saying, "I don't care," Darwinist publications exhibit the very same reaction. But their trickery is being exposed and the theory of evolution they espouse with such fervid desperation is collapsing before everyone's eyes. It is therefore impossible for Darwinists to be unaffected by that collapse; of course they will be affected, and terrified by it.
Darwinists' terror will grow still further, because all the scientific evidence is increasingly showing the fact of Creation. The corrupt hegemony of the Darwinist dictatorship is coming to an end. This age will be one that manifests our Almighty Lord's title of the Hadi (the Bestower of guiadance), an age of faith. Every superstitious faith launched in opposition to belief in Allah will inevitably vanish. Almighty Allah says in one verse:
Say: 'Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Falsehood is always bound to vanish.' (Surat al-'Isra, 81)
They Try to Cast a Spell Over People with False Illustrations and Reconstructions
By now, we are all familiar with an ape-man that for many years has appeared in the pages of newspapers and magazines, that was for years taught in school books as if it were true, and that people were told represented important evidence for is an entirely false chronology. This fake ape-man was depicted walking with a stooped gait and an animal-like appearance holding a heavy club in his hands and with a whole social life. It was also been given an almost unpronounceable Latin name: Hesperopithecus haroldcookii.
Hesperopithecus haroldcookii was illustrated time and time again in the pages of the world's best known magazines. Reconstructions of it were produced and exhibited in prestigious museums.. Nobel prize-winning scientists discussed it at conferences, doctoral theses were written about it, and scientists frequently debated as to what kind of social life it enjoyed, where and how it lived, where it walked and how it spoke. It was also better known by another name: Nebraska Man.
One very important point here is that all of these fictitious scenario concerning Hesperopithecus haroldcookii, which Darwinist scientists studied and taught their students for years, was revealed to have been all invented on the basis of a single pig tooth.
Nebraska Man is an example which illustrates the scale of the frauds Darwinists perpetrate through visual conditioning, but it is by no means the only one. All the Darwinist pictures of fictitious ape-men, with all their characteristics such as enjoying social lives, hunting and fishing, playing with their children and whatnot, are sometimes based on nothing more than a single finger bone, a shoulder blade or a tooth. Parts of fossil skeletons are sometimes unearthed, but then such fantastical reconstructions are produced that the result is a fully fledged ape-man. But this is a complete deception.
Reconstructions and evolutionist drawings are used to mislead people and create the impression that there really is such a thing as evolution. As we have seen with Nebraska Man, the various pictures and reconstructions are based solely on the imaginations of the people producing them. No such ape-man ever, ever existed. Indeed, all the skulls and skeletons discovered either come from human beings, or else from extinct species of apes or monkeys. But the pictures and reconstructions produced provides the framework for the subsequent conditioning.
All the ape-men, dino-birds, and life forms trying to move from water to dry land that one sees in Darwinist newspapers, magazines and TV programs are fictitious. If nothing else, they certainly reflect the imaginative power of the artists concerned. When they are exposed as frauds, they are quietly set aside. The Darwinist press is very careful that nobody should realize the scale of the fraud being perpetrated. But policies of concealing frauds of course bears no fruits, and all Darwinist deceptions are being exposed, one by one, and all the time.
When Evidence Refuting Evolution is Discovered, They Either Ignore or Else Try to Destroy it
Darwinists have used all these forms of mental conditioning for the last 150 years and engaged in false fossil propaganda exactly as they chose. Since they had a monopoly of schools, universities, renowned scientists, magazines, newspapers and visual media they could deceive people as they wished. That included evidence refuting evolution.
Since fossils from the Cambrian Period serve as one of the main proofs that life began suddenly and with an extraordinary complexity, and would certainly spell the end of Darwinism, they were hidden away for seventy years by Charles Doolittle Walcott, the Darwinist paleontologist who found them. This is a startling and significant indicator in terms of understanding the scale of the Darwinist fraud.
Similar events have taken place quite frequently in subsequent times, and nobody was even aware of the more than 350 million fossils completely refuting evolution, and discovered to date. Of course, Darwinists did to these fossils what they did to the Cambrian ones. Because all of these fossils meant the same thing; each one was proof of Creation.
For years, Darwinists only ever mentioned two or three types of "living fossil," in a bid to give the impression that living fossils consisted of these alone. But then people came to realize that there are fossil specimens dating back millions of years of all the life forms alive today. In other words, the great majority of fossils were living fossils showing that present-day life forms are identical to those living millions of years ago.
Since the fictitious subject of the evolution of man was the most sensitive, and the most open to Darwinist speculation, Darwinists engage in widespread fraud when it comes to fossils showing the history of man. Fossils showing that man has never evolved are generally kept hidden away, or even destroyed entirely. Because if even one of these enters the agenda, that will be enough to spell the end of the evolution deceit. That is why false fossils are always brought up in this context and made the subject of constant speculation.
In Order to Maintain Their Ideology They have Even Proposed the Idea of Space Creatures
It is utterly humiliating and ludicrous for a Darwinist scientist to stand up and say, "Space creatures brought life here!" Someone who pays close attention and is aware of the true face of the Darwinist deception will immediately see that such statements are an expression of utter wretchedness and despair. Because the single greatest problem for Darwinists is that of the origin of life. Quite unable to account for how even a single protein could have formed by chance, and aware of how helpless they are on that subject, Darwinists have sought a way out by hiding behind the idea of creatures from space.
There is one very important point we have already stressed regarding Darwinists: some Darwinists will deny the existence of Allah "... even if they see miracles," as we are told in one verse. This is a characteristic of some unbelievers described in the Qur'an. Even though these people are well aware of the facts and the truth, the Qur'an tells us they will still deny it because of the vast scale of their pride.
The space creature deception raised by certain atheist Darwinists was born from exactly that state of affairs. The fact that proteins cannot come into being spontaneously is just one of the proofs that life was created. But since it is some Darwinists' intention to deny the existence of Allah (surely Allah is beyond that), they ignore this highly significant fact about proteins. And instead of admitting the existence of Allah, Who is mighty enough to create even a single protein with the most amazing complexity, they have become the defenders of this utterly illogical claim. This is extraordinarily brazen-faced, and in fact an admission of great weakness. The Darwinists who make this unbelievable claim are utterly humiliating themselves for the sake of their perverse religion.
In doing this, Darwinists never reflect on how they will be unable to answer the following question: How did this fictitious and complex molecule they make this claim about come into being? Even if it were somewhere in the vastness of space, it could not have come into being by chance; thus, there has to be an intelligence far superior to that of human beings that created it. That alone spells the end of this dubious Darwinist claim. Other claims made by Darwinists, such as organic molecules arriving from space and being caught in something like a cold trap used in the Miller experiment and eventually giving rise to a living cell, are equally preposterous.
Even if all the organic molecules constituting a cell, even if all the proteins in it that could never come into being by chance were all present at the same time, and even if all the conditions claimed by the Darwinists applied, it would still be impossible for a cell to emerge by chance. Darwinists are unable to produce even the smallest components of the cell, not even in a conscious and controlled manner and under whatever laboratory conditions they desire. They are unable to account for even a single protein. Darwinists are just playing games with people. Their deceptive idea of "space creatures" makes their perspective towards human beings very clear indeed. They imagine that they can still impose evolution, the great deception of the last 150 years and which they now fear they may be losing, by means of such nonsense, and that people will simply accept it.
Darwinists can strive all they like, but all the claims they come up with for the purpose of encouraging denial of Allah (surely Allah is beyond that) merely humiliate them further. Because Almighty Allah, Lord of the worlds, has promised in verse that He will bring down all those who deny Him:
... know that you cannot thwart Allah and that Allah will humiliate the unbelievers. (Surat at-Tawba, 2)
They Try to Silence Activities Demonstrating the Invalidity of Evolution, not with Scientific Evidence, but by Shouting the Opposition Down
Darwinists are afraid of science. They are terrified at the facts revealed by science becoming known to all and spreading across the world because everything truly scientific demolishes and refutes evolution.
For that reason, Darwinists can never RESPOND TO ANYONE WITH SCIENCE.
◉ Aggression is their only response to scientific evidence.
◉ They oppose conferences against evolution that reveal scientific evidence, not with evidence of their own, but with placards and protests.
◉ They try to close down exhibitions displaying scientific facts – genuine fossils. They seek to burn books containing scientific evidence.
◉ They take people who try to have scientific evidence that exposes the fraud of evolution being taught in schools to court.
◉ They reject invitations from adherents of creationism to face-to-face debates with horror and terror and never, ever accept such challenges.
◉ Instead of responding to scientific evidence with evidence of their own, Darwinists reply with despotism, aggression, brute force and great hue and cry because they possess no scientific evidence and this is the only way they know of keeping their theory propped up.
Darwinists hide behind concepts such as democracy, rights, liberty and freedom of thought at every available opportunity, but when the invalidity of their claims is exposed, they suddenly become bigoted and aggressive. They immediately disregard the concepts of freedom of thought and speech, democracy, and intellectual freedom they have been sheltering behind. They immediately become utterly intolerant, and even highly aggressive, when evidence revealing the fact of creation is brought forward. Indeed, when it comes to ideas, it is the Darwinists themselves who are the most closed minded, bigoted, and perverse of all. Far from being a scientific conclusion, Darwinism is a false and perverse belief that science actually refutes. Since it is based solely on ideology and a superstitious belief system, its supporters can only seek to keep it alive through methods more suited to hooligans than men of science and education.
For many years now, Darwinism has intimidated people with this despotic policy. If it is that Darwinism dominates institutions of state across the whole world today, the sole reason for that is the tyrannical and aggressive policy of intimidation in question. If a Darwinist comes to a scientific conference holding a placard instead of scientific evidence, if he tries to silence opposition by shouting rather than making scientific statements, if he imagines he can intimidate opponents of evolution by attacking them, and if he is removed from a scientific conference under police escort, then that alone is enough to expose the true face of Darwinism. Reports of the collapse of Darwinism have initiated an extraordinary panic among Darwinists. No despotism will now be able to keep the Darwinists' false religion propped up. This is the law of Allah. Our Lord Allah, Who knows all things, reveals in one verse that believers will always emerge victorious:
Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away! Woe without end for you for what you portray! (Surat al-Anbiya', 18)


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Beef Board Elects 2012 LeadershipBeef Board Elects 2012 Leadership
Wesley Grau, Weldon Wynn and Kim Brackett elected Cattlemen's Beef Board officers.
February 9, 2012
The Cattlemen's Beef Board seated new members and elected 2012 officers, as well as members of its Executive Committee and the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, during its annual meeting in Nashville Feb. 4.
During its final meeting at the 2012 Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, the Beef Board unanimously elected New Mexico seedstock producer Wesley Grau to serve as 2012 chairman of the Board, Arkansas cow-calf producer Weldon Wynn to serve as vice chairman; and Idaho rancher Kim Brackett to fill the position of Beef Board secretary/treasurer for 2012.
After being appointed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dec. 28, 2011, a total of 29 Board members were seated for service on the Beef Board, after taking the oath of office from USDA Marketing Specialist Craig Shackelford during a CBB meeting on Feb. 2.
New members seated and the states they represent include Thomas Alger, Texas; Patrick Becker, N.D.; Andrew Burtt, importer; Sarah Childs, Fla.; Stephen Edwards, importer; Kim Holzner, importer; Cristobal Hutton, importer; Barbara Jacques, Okla.; Leon Kreisler, Mo.; Paul Looney, Jr., Texas; Stacy McClintock, Kan.; Linda Nielson, Mont.; Perry Owens, Kan.; Lyle Peterson, Mont.; Sugie Sartwelle, Texas; Gary Sharp, S.D.; Leo Sutterfield, Jr., Ark.; Doug Temme, Neb.; Sherry Vinton, Neb.; Richard Winter, Texas; and Terry Wyatt, Okla.
Reappointments and the states they represent include: Hughes Abell, Texas; Kim Brackett, Idaho; Joyce Bupp, Pa.; Wesley Grau, N.M.; Ted Greidanus, Southwest Region; Hank Maxey, Va.; Daniel Smith, Ky.; and Phyllis Snyder, Colo.
New Beef Board Officer Team
Newly elected Beef Board Chairman Wesley Grau is a partner in Grau Charolais Farm and Ranch and also raises wheat. He served as vice chairman of the Beef Board for the first half of 2011 before filling a partial term as CBB chairman during the second half of the year. He is also past president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, past president of the New Mexico Beef Cattle Performance Association, member of the American International Charolais Association and NCBA, and past president of the New Mexico Wheat Growers Association. Wesley has served as chairman of the Operating Committee and CBB Executive Committee, chairman of the Joint Producer Communications Committee in 2010, and previously served on the Joint Advertising Committee and the CBB Administration Subcommittee.
This year's Beef Board Vice Chairman Weldon Wynn owns Wynn Beefmaster Farms and Wynn Rice and Soybean Farm. In addition, he and his wife own and operate Wynn Insurance Agency. He is an active member of his community and industry, including service on the board of directors of the Pine Bluff National Bank of Star City; former emcee and judge of the National Beef Cook-Off; National Beef Ambassador judge; past president and active member of the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association; member of the University of Arkansas Animal Science 2000 Advisory Council; past president, treasurer, and fair manager of the Lincoln County Fair, among many others. On the Beef Board, Weldon served as secretary/treasurer during the first half of 2011 before being elected to fill a partial term as vice chairman during the second half of the year. He has also served on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, the CBB Executive Committee, the Joint Advertising Committee, for which he served as vice chair in 2010, and the Joint Beef Industry Budget Committee.
Newly elected CBB Secretary/Treasurer Kim Brackett is a cow-calf/stocker from Castleford, Idaho. She has been an active member with the Idaho Beef Council, serving as chair, vice chair and treasurer; Idaho Cattle Association, serving as committee and sub-committee chair; and the 71 Livestock Association. Kim was an active member of the Beef Board and the Joint Producer Education Committee during her first term. She was reappointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in December 2011 to serve a second consecutive three-year term.
CBB Executive Committee
The 12-member CBB Executive Committee includes the Board's three officers and eight members elected at large. The CBB elected the following members to its 2012 Executive committee: CBB Vice Chairman Weldon Wynn, who will serve as chairman of the Executive Committee; and members Wesley Wynn (CBB chairman); Kim Brackett (CBB secretary/ treasurer); Anne Anderson of Texas; Dean Black of Iowa; Laurie Bryant, an importer; Will Frazee of Iowa; Linda Gilbert of South Dakota; Brian Healey of Oklahoma; Hank Maxey of Virginia; and Eric Smith of Alabama.
The Executive Committee operates under the direction of and within the policies established by the full Board and is responsible for carrying out Beef Board policies and conducting business and making decisions necessary to administer the terms and provisions of the Act and Order between meetings of the full Board.
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The Beef Promotion Operating Committee was created by the Beef Promotion Research Act to help coordinate state and national Beef Checkoff Programs. The 20-person committee includes 10 members of the Cattlemen's Beef Board, among them the Board's three officers and seven others elected directly by Beef Board members.
CBB members elected to the 2012 Beef Promotion Operating Committee during the annual meeting in Nashville include: Chairman Wesley Grau; Vice Chairman Weldon Wynn; Secretary/Treasurer Kim Brackett; Joyce Bupp of Pensylvania; Spencer Ellis of Wyoming; Chuck Kiker of Texas; Kristy Lage of Nebraska; Jimmy Maxey of California; John Schafer of Minnesota; and Gary Sharp of South Dakota.
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Over the past two years, the Buffalo Sabres' Hockey Fights Cancer fund has donated $10,000 to Flashes of Hope, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for children's cancer while honoring the unique life and memories of every child fighting cancer. Several Sabres players went to Roswell Park Cancer Institute this past summer to visit with patients that benefit from Flashes of Hope.
Members of Camp Good Days will join other cancer patients from Carly's Club, ECMC, Roswell Park and WNY Hospice Essential Care throughout the game in suites donated by the Sabres organization and players. The kids will get to watch the team take the ice from the tunnel at intermissions and will meet the players after the game. Jason Nipcon, a pediatric cancer survivor, will be dropping the ceremonial puck at the start of the game.
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A transformation of the Mexican public university should necessarily entail the renovation of its forms of government, we discuss how the development, that the public university has experienced in recent decades, has not been accompanied by modifications and improvements in governance. This has resulted in incomplete reforms, with undesired effects and, in many cases, without achieving the desired changes. This is illustrated by the responses to a semi structured questionnaire, applied by telephone interview, to a group of 73 scholars belonging to a total of 35 universities, showing the persistence of authoritarian and undemocratic models of governance that discourage the participation of the community, and therefore, run against the supposed spirit that inspired the policies of modernization.
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Rainbows in the Midst…
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6
I woke up with this scripture on my mind. I thought it apropos given the aftermath of the Allume Conference and Hurricane Sandy.
It was a blessing to be able to attend the Allume Conference and finally meet Tricia Goyer (who is an absolute sweetheart), Mary DeMuth, Sarah Markley, Sarah Mae, Jessica Heights, Christin Slade, Kelly Thorne Gore, Rachel Wojnarowski, Christy Stroud from Tyndale Publishers, Revell Publishers, Zondervan Publishers and so many other wonderful people.
We drove three hours to get to Pennsylvania, checked in and headed over to register. I was given a beautiful bag filled with goodies.
It was my first time attending this conference, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But I was definitely excited with the line up.
Darren Rowse (a.k.a. ProBlogger) and Ann Voskamp were on the top of my list. I never heard either one of them speak before.
I was really touched by what Darren Rowse shared at his key note. He didn't speak about how to make money with your blog, but more about his testimony and faith.
I enjoyed listening to Sarah Mae and Jessica Heights key notes as well. I love their hearts.
My hat goes off to Sarah, Jessica and their entire team for all their hard work and pulling off such an amazing conference. It truly was a success.
After awhile, it began to feel more like a Christian woman's conference than a blogger's conference which was refreshing.
My favorite place was the Prayer Room which was sponsored by The Seed Company.
Isn't the prayer room beautiful? I spent my free time there to unplug, pray and write in prayer journals. The Seed Company blessed us royally.
The highlight of this conference for me was hearing Ann Voskamp speak for the first time. I never read Ann Voskamp's blog or her best selling book, One Thousand Gifts. I only heard wonderful things about her through the grapevine. Now I know what they were all talking about.
Prior to her keynote, there were two videos shown by (In)Courage and Compassion International which moved me. I love to support causes helping disadvantaged children and Compassion International does amazing work.
After the videos, Ann Voskamp began to speak and tears rolled down my face. What she spoke about pierced my heart. I was riveted and touched by her every word. What an anointed woman of God. I pray I could get a copy of her key note, because I want to hear it again. I felt God used her to confirm what He was speaking to my heart throughout the conference.
Unfortunately, I had to abruptly leave right after she spoke due to Hurricane Sandy. We left and drove home to prepare for the impending storm. I do not believe I have to reiterate how devastating this hurricane was to our city. It was truly unprecedented. Please keep us in your prayers.
I am grateful the Lord is still in control and on the throne. Despite the devastation, I chose to see rainbows in the midst of the storm. I continue to pray for all those who were affected.
Please let me know how I can pray for you today. Please leave your prayers in the comment section below.
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Few musicians have meant more to the history of country music than the legendary mandolin player Bill Monroe. He's no longer with us, but his legacy remains very much alive and for proof, you need look no further than the number of tributes and celebrations surrounding Monroe's 100th birthday.
To mark the event, which passed September 12, there are a number of projects are paying tribute to Monroe's pioneering work, including concerts, a documentary, a musical, CDs, and — if you've got the travel budget — some unique museum exhibits.
One of the biggest events is taking place at Vanderbilt University on September 28, where an all-star lineup including Ricky Skaggs, the Del McCoury Band, Roland White and Nashville Bluegrass Band will gather to perform in Monroe's honor
This week, the Bluegrass Hall of Fame has booked a tribute concert series with artists including Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, Jesse McReynolds, Bobby Osborne, and J.D. Crowe, and they'll also be premiering a documentary and musical inspired by Monroe's work.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Hey, It's Okay Tuesday
To be amused that Larry King has a kid who is 55 and another one who is 10. And to sort of wonder who would hit that, when he looks a little bit like a prune.
To really like the movie As Good As It Gets. Everytime I watch it, I always debate getting a dog like the one in the film. Then I remember that tiny dogs can be very annoying and change my mind.
To have enjoyed the movie How Do You Know? even though Owen Wilson's nose is distracting.
To be thrilled that I don't have to cook dinner every night since I'm visiting my parents. And on Christmas, we're having prime rib. This is exciting, seeing as I can't afford prime rib. Nor do I really know how to cook it.
To have weird things pop into my head at times. Like today, Natalie wouldn't listen so I was taking deep breaths, because I'm working on not yelling so much. And as I was composing myself, the song Shall We Dance? from The King and I came into my mind and I was all, "Shall we dance, one, two, three and...."
To hope Natalie listens when we go to the zoo today and not try to join the bears in their pen.
To still be annoyed that I had to pay full price when registering the truck. Usually we get a military discount (normally we pay $30, that time I had to fork around $260) but because Tom is in Korea and technically not stationed in Wyoming, they made us pay the full price even though I explained we were still on military pay. The legal office tried to help, but we were told it was some dumb Wyoming rule.
To go into a bit of a shock to go from 30 degree weather in Wyoming to 70 degree weather in Texas. My body is all, "The eff is going on here?"
To be excited over going to The Melting Pot this week. I love it and want to marry the cheese fondue. Or the chocolate, depending on my mood.
To not be looking forward to taking all the Christmas stuff down when I get home. The tree likes to attack me as if to say, "No, no, I won't be taken down!"
To hate how everything has to be so PC these days. It makes my head hurt.
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- AnonymousDecember 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Ive neve been to the melting pot but Ive always wanted to go!ReplyDelete
So funny! We have a melting pot in L.A. I love it! Enjoy your vacation!ReplyDelete
Sorry about the truck registration. I don't think it's fair to treat military families that way. :(
I can't help but laugh when I think that Larry King has been married 7 times, when do you give up?ReplyDelete
lol same here about the prime rib! i cant wait to eat it ha.ReplyDelete
Couldn't agree more on the PC thing!! It's out of control!!ReplyDelete
I agree, the day after Christmas all the stuff goes away.ReplyDelete
The bad thing is - I haven't put up Christmas decorations since we've been on the road - 6 years. The good thing is - no decorations to take down.ReplyDelete
I didn't like that movie - thought it dragged a lot. I would rather they had spent more time with the relationship with Reece and Paul.
It is nice being in warm weather isn't it?
LOL! Great post. I hate taking down the tree too. Worst part of Christmas. Well that, and having to visit the in lawsReplyDelete
I have to agree that the PCness lately has been driving me nuts.ReplyDelete
Bummer about the registration.
Have fun at the zoo.
I loooove the Melting Pot! And really want to see How Do You Know, was it good?ReplyDelete
Scratch that, it was obvi good you enjoyed it. I need coffee.ReplyDelete
I always thought Larry looked a bit like a frog. One with red suspenders that doesn't turn into a prince.ReplyDelete
I'm in Houston, Texas. The weather is pretty dang warm here!!!!!ReplyDelete
Melting Pot is always fantastic and never the same when you make fondue yourself!
Normally I am SOOO on board with your observations but I absolutely hated "How Do You Know". It must have been the slowest paced movie without a point of all time. I was embarrassed I picked it to watch during my little getaway with my husband.ReplyDelete
I HATE taking Christmas down even more than I hate putting it up.ReplyDelete
But the number one thing I agree with you here is....I HATE PC crap, it just makes me insane! In fact, I dare say it's GAY! How is that? I have to constantly edit myself when writing so I don't use that term or retarded to express how something is. And frankly, sometimes those are just the best words to describe it. Pretty soon we're not gonna be able to say ANYTHING without it being somehow offensive. Everyone needs to just take a deep breath and realize we'll live! SHEESH!
Ok, now go enjoy your lovely 70 degree weather, not cooking dinner and your prime rib!
I don't like taking the Christmas stuff down -- the house seems short of cheer and warmth =(ReplyDelete
It's 70 in Florida today =) But last night it was 30...not really sure how to deal!
I love it's OK Tuesday posts -- they make me happy!
We must be connected in a cosmic way. I want to go see How Do You Know this weekend. We're having prime rib at my parents house (and more wine than I can afford.) And, The Melting Pot is my favorite restaurant. So, you are definitely OK in my world :)ReplyDelete
Lmao about the Larry King comment!ReplyDelete
70 degree weather, prime rib and The Melting Pot? Now that sounds like the kind of Christmas I could get on board with. :)
I'm SO jealous of you!! I've never been to The Melting Pot, but I SO want to. Have a Merry Christmas!!ReplyDelete
Mmmm, love The Melting Pot. But I would skip the meat course. Definitely not my favorite, and it's pricey!ReplyDelete
Promise me you won't marry a cheese fondue. Can you imagine being in the same bed as one of these? Ooh yuk. Separate rooms, separate rooms.ReplyDelete
All I can say about Larry King is ... CREEPY!ReplyDelete
I literally laughed out loud at your mention of Owen Wilson's nose. It really is quite distracting!
I have yet to try The Melting Pot and you are making my mouth water just talking about it!
Good luck at the zoo!
i can't wait to take christmas stuff down so G will quit messing.ReplyDelete
Oh, I love the Melting Pot. Dh and I had a discussion this weekend about the optimal # of people to go with to get the most cheese and chocolate.ReplyDelete
That really stinks about the truck!
We are having prime rib for Christmas too. My granddad is in town and he's a chef so he will be doing all the hard work this year!ReplyDelete
I think if my husband had his way the Christmas stuff would be gone by 12:01 December 26th :pReplyDelete
He should be thankful I'm willing to have it down by Jan 1. In my mind I like to follow the 12 days of Christmas and that takes you to...Jan 5th I think
Whereabouts in TX are you? Our winters are crazy and this week we are having this beautiful weather, but it definitely doesn't make it feel like Christmas.ReplyDelete
Owen Wilson's nose is extremely distracting.ReplyDelete
I always get excited for yummy dinners like that.ReplyDelete
I am not a fan of "drop kick" dogs; they tend to be yappy.
temp shock it might be.. but i bet it still feels mighty good in texas!!!ReplyDelete
have a wonderful day!
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2010 at 1:01 PM
Am I the only person alive who does not like The Melting Pot?ReplyDelete
Amen on the PC BS.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2010 at 1:22 PM
I HATE taking down Christmas decorations. They're much more fun to put up.ReplyDelete
I agree, I'm tired of being PC - I think maybe my New Years resolution is going to be saying it like it is.
I love these. I so agree about Larry King.ReplyDelete
My grandmother is making prime rib for Christmas too! How funny!ReplyDelete
Larry King - euw!ReplyDelete
I love the Melting Pot too - me and Hubby discovered it 4 years ago on our honeymoon and went twice. Sadly all the other USA holidays we have taken haven't had a Melting Pot nearby.
I aim to rectify that next time we visit!
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2010 at 5:12 AM
I love Owen Wilson!ReplyDelete
OMG, now all I can think about is how good prime rib sounds!ReplyDelete
I totally agree with you on the PC crap these days......makes my head hurt too!ReplyDelete
and Larry King......ISH!


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I got home just in time for my kids bedtime last night, after two nights and two days away from my kids. The longest since Margot was born.
It was awesome.
Packing up the car with four friends, listening to The Go Gos top volume, talking talking talking about spouses, kids, work, aging, life goals, insecurities, triumphs. Singing karaoke (the singing!! oh man we were so good) and dancing into the wee hours at a tiny town bar, tarot cards, soaking in hot springs, hiking, running, cheeks aching from laughter.
We were derailed by a blizzard on Friday night that forced us to pull off just outside of Butte. The rest of the weekend was spent in Ennis, the town where my mom was born.
The trip was perfectly timed for me as I have had this realization over the last few weeks that both Ruby and I need a little structured space apart. We're together always and we love that. And it is time for her to have a bit of her own thing, me to have a bit of space that is completely my own. I'm talking about a regularly scheduled babysitter, one day a week, while Margot is at school. For a variety of reasons I don't fully know just yet, it's been hard for me to get here, to taking this small step of predictable separation from my youngest daughter. I have a feeling I'll be writing more about it…
So a comfortable, supportive, indulgent, relaxing, hilarious weekend with four women I trust, admire and adore was beyond perfection.
It felt so good to get away.
And, man, it felt so good to hug my kids last night.
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What does "Young Hollywood" look like? According to Vanity Fair, it's pretty, thin, female and white.
Amanda Seyfried, Anna Kendrick, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Emma Stone, Mia Wasikowska, Evan Rachel Wood: There's not a single woman of color on the cover of Vanity Fair's "Young Hollywood" issue. Two of the ladies — Kristen Stewart and Amanda Seyfried — were already on the August 2008 "Hollywood's New Wave." issue. There were two women of color — Zoe Saldana, America Ferrara — on the cover of 2008's "Hollywood Issue," but apparently the next decade is not about diversity.
VF's "Young Hollywood" is much like the golden age of Hollywood: There was a fetishization of the lithe, gorgeous, virginal ingenue, whose virtues and ambitions were pure, and therefore desirable. You either wanted to be her or sleep with her. She was the photographed wearing white, and her "All-American" good looks meant that she was a WASP or a fresh-faced farmgirl. Certainly not black, definitely not fat, and never both. Looking at the March 2010 issue, has anything changed? Even Evgenia Peretz's descriptions of the actresses — "Ivory-soap-girl features," "patrician looks" "dewy, wide-eyed loveliness" — reinforce the idea that a successful actress is a pretty, aristocratic-looking (read: white) actress.
It's hard to say if fault lies with the editors of the magazine, or with Hollywood itself — trying to come up with some projects employing new, young Asian, black or Latin actors and actresses is a tough exercise. The few names which come to mind — Jaden Smith (The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Kung-Fu Kid), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire, Julian Schnabel's Miral, Woody Allen's next film), Gianna Jun (Blood: The Last Vampire, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) — are up-and-comers with just a few roles under their belts. The Hurt Locker's Anthony Mackie recently did a Q&A with VF.
Gabourey Sidibe — cover girl for the March issue of Ebony — is an obvious choice, though she admits in the accompanying interview:
"I don't try to live up to the standards of Hollywood or any of that – I know that I'm different and I celebrate it. In a weird way, I kind of really, really love being the alien in the room. I dig it."
And it's good that Gabby doesn't care about living up to Hollywood standards. Because judging from the VF cover, the "Hollywood" standards need to change.
Where Are The Hot, Young Black Women In Hollywood? [The Wrap]
It's Showtime! [Vanity Fair]
Related: Vanity Fair 'Hollywood Next Wave' August 2008 Issue [The Insider]
Gabourey Sidibe Is Ebony Magazine's Latest Cover Girl [ONTD via Brown Sista]
Q&A: Anthony Mackie on The Hurt Locker, Bolden!, and Getting Beat Up By Morgan Freeman [Vanity Fair]
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A Rebel's Recollections: Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911
For truly it is, this land is in paucity of such noble women. From my observations and recollections, 'tis the men, of today, who bear the fight of keeping our noble ancestry defended. Many, maybe most, do this without the full support of their womenfolk. With the exceedingly rare exception, women like these will never be seen again in this land.
DURING the latter part of the year in which the war between the States came to an end, a Southern comic writer, in a letter addressed to Artemus Ward, summed up the political outlook in one sentence, reading somewhat as follows: "You may reconstruct the men, with your laws and things, but how are you going to reconstruct the women? Whoop-ee!" Now this unauthorized but certainly very expressive interjection had a deal of truth at its back, and I am very sure that I have never yet known a thoroughly "reconstructed" woman. The reason, of course, is not far to seek. The women of the South could hardly have been more desperately in earnest than their husbands and brothers and sons were, in the prosecution of the war, but with their woman-natures they gave themselves wholly to the cause, and having loved it heartily when it gave promise of a sturdy life, they almost worship it now that they have strewn its bier with funeral flowers. To doubt its righteousness, or to falter in their loyalty to it while it lived, would have been treason and infidelity; to do the like now that it is dead would be to them little less than sacrilege.
I wish I could adequately tell my reader of the part those women played in the war. If I could make these pages show the half of their nobleness; if I could describe the sufferings they endured, and tell of their cheerfulness under it all; if the reader might guess the utter unselfishness with which they laid themselves and the things they held nearest their hearts upon the altar of the only country they knew as their own, the rare heroism with which they played their sorrowful part in a drama which was to them a long tragedy; if my pages could be made to show the half of these things, all womankind, I am sure, would tenderly cherish the record, and nobody would wonder again at the tenacity with which the women of the South still hold their allegiance to the lost cause.
Theirs was a peculiarly hard lot. The real sorrows of war, like those of drunkenness, always fall most heavily upon women. They may not bear arms. They may not even share the triumphs which compensate their brethren for toil and suffering and danger. They must sit still and endure. The poverty which war brings to them wears no cheerful face, but sits down with them to empty tables and pinches them sorely in solitude.
After the victory, the men who have won it throw up their hats in a glad huzza, while their wives and daughters await in sorest agony of suspense the news which may bring hopeless desolation to their hearts. To them the victory may mean the loss of those for whom they lived and in whom they hoped, while to those who have fought the battle it brings only gladness. And all this was true of Southern women almost without exception. The fact that all the men capable of bearing arms went into the army, and stayed there, gave to every woman in the South a personal interest not only in the general result of each battle, but in the list of killed and wounded as well. Poverty, too, and privation of the sorest kind, was the common lot, while the absence of the men laid many heavy burdens of work and responsibility upon shoulders unused to either. But they bore it all, not cheerfully only, but gladly. They believed it to be the duty of every able-bodied man to serve in the army, and they eagerly sent the men of their own homes to the field, frowning undisguisedly upon every laggard until there were no laggards left. And their spirit knew no change as the war went on. Their idea of men's duty comprehended nothing less than persistence as long as a shot could be fired. When they saw that the end was not to be victory, but defeat, that fact made no change whatever in their view of the duty to be done. Still less did their own privations and labors and sufferings tend to dampen their ardor. On the contrary, the more heavily the war bore upon themselves, the more persistently did they demand that it should be fought out to the end. When they lost a husband, a son, or a brother, they held the loss only an additional reason for faithful adherence to the cause. Having made such a sacrifice to that which was almost a religion to them, they had, if possible, less thought than ever of proving unfaithful to it.
I put these general statements first, so that the reader who shall be interested in such anecdotes as I shall have to tell may not be misled thereby into the thought that these good women were implacable or vindictive, when they were only devoted to a cause which in their eyes represented the sum of all righteousness.
I remember a conversation between two of them, – one a young wife whose husband was in the army, and the other an elderly lady, with no husband or son, but with many friends and near relatives in marching regiments. The younger lady remarked, – "I'm sure I do not hate our enemies. I earnestly hope their souls may go to heaven, but I would like to blow all their mortal bodies away, as fast as they come upon our soil."
"Why, you shock me, my dear," replied the other; "I don't see why you want the Yankees to go to heaven! I hope to get there myself some day, and I'm sure I shouldn't want to go if I thought I should find any of them there."
This old lady was convinced from the first that the South would fail, and she based this belief upon the fact that we had permitted Yankees to build railroads through the Southern States. "I tell you," she would say, "that's what they built the railroads for. They knew the war was coming, and they got ready for it. The railroads will whip us, you may depend. What else were they made for? We got on well enough without them, and we oughtn't to have let anybody build them." And no amount of reasoning would serve to shake her conviction that the people of the North had built all our railroads with treacherous intent, though the stock of the only road she had ever seen was held very largely by the people along its line, many of whom were her own friends.
She always insisted, too, that the Northern troops came South and made war for the sole purpose of taking possession of our lands and negroes, and she was astonished almost out of her wits when she learned that the negroes were free. She had supposed that they were simply to change masters, and even then she lived for months in daily anticipation of the coming of "the new land owners," who were waiting, she supposed, for assignments of plantations to be made to them by military authority.
"They'll quarrel about the division, maybe," she said one day, "and then there'll be a chance for us to whip them again, I hope." The last time I saw her, she had not yet become convinced that title-deeds were still to be respected.
A young girl, ordinarily of a very gentle disposition, astonished a Federal colonel one day by an outburst of temper which served at least to show the earnestness of her purpose to uphold her side of the argument. She lived in a part of the country then for the first time held by the Federal army, and a colonel, with some members of his staff, made her family the unwilling recipients of a call one morning. Seeing the piano open, the colonel asked the young lady to play, but she declined. He then went to the instrument himself, but he had hardly begun to play when the damsel, raising the piano top, severed nearly all the strings with a hatchet, saying to the astonished performer, as she did so, – "That's my piano, and it shall not give you a minute's pleasure." The colonel bowed, apologized, and replied, – "If all your people are as ready as you to make costly sacrifices, we might as well go home."
And most of them were ready and willing to make similar sacrifices. One lady of my acquaintance knocked in the heads of a dozen casks of choice wine rather than allow some Federal officers to sip as many glasses of it. Another destroyed her own library, which was very precious to her, when that seemed the only way in which she could prevent the staff of a general officer, camped near her, from enjoying a few hours' reading in her parlor every morning.
In New Orleans, soon after the war, I saw in a drawing-room, one day, an elaborately framed letter, of which, the curtains being drawn, I could read only the signature, which to my astonishment was that of General Butler.
"What is that?" I asked of the young gentlewoman I was visiting.
"Oh, that's my diploma, my certificate of good behavior, from General Butler;" and taking it down from the wall, she permitted me to read it, telling me at the same time its history. It seems that the young lady had been very active in aiding captured Confederates to escape from New Orleans, and for this and other similar offenses she was arrested several times. A gentleman who knew General Butler personally had interested himself in behalf of her and some of her friends, and upon making an appeal for their discharge received this personal note from the commanding general, in which he declared his willingness to discharge all the others, "But that black-eyed Miss B.," he wrote, "seems to me an incorrigible little devil whom even prison fare won't tame." The young lady had framed the note, and she cherishes it yet, doubtless.
There is a story told of General Forrest, which will serve to show his opinion of the pluck and devotion of the Southern women. He was drawing his men up in line of battle one day, and it was evident that a sharp encounter was about to take place. Some ladies ran from a house, which happened to stand just in front of his line, and asked him anxiously, –
"What shall we do, general, what shall we do?"
Strong in his faith that they only wished to help in some way, he replied, –
"I really don't see that you can do much, except to stand on stumps, wave your bonnets, and shout 'Hurrah, boys!'"
In Richmond, when the hospitals were filled with wounded men brought in from the seven days' fighting with McClellan, and the surgeons found it impossible to dress half the wounds, a band was formed, consisting of nearly all the married women of the city, who took upon themselves the duty of going to the hospitals and dressing wounds from morning till night; and they persisted in their painful duty until every man was cared for, saving hundreds of lives, as the surgeons unanimously testified. When nitre was found to be growing scarce, and the supply of gunpowder was consequently about to give out, women all over the land dug up the earth in their smokehouses and tobacco barns, and with their own hands faithfully extracted the desired salt, for use in the government laboratories.
Many of them denied themselves not only delicacies, but substantial food also, when by enduring semi-starvation they could add to the stock of food at the command of the subsistence officers. I myself knew more than one houseful of women, who, from the moment that food began to grow scarce, refused to eat meat or drink coffee, living thenceforth only upon vegetables of a speedily perishable sort, in order that they might leave the more for the soldiers in the field. When a friend remonstrated with one of them, on the ground that her health, already frail, was breaking down utterly for want of proper diet, she replied, in a quiet, determined way; "I know that very well; but it is little that I can do, and I must do that little at any cost. My health and my life are worth less than those of my brothers, and if they give theirs to the cause, why should not I do the same? I would starve to death cheerfully if I could feed one soldier more by doing so, but the things I eat can't be sent to camp. I think it a sin to eat anything that can be used for rations." And she meant what she said, too, as a little mound in the church-yard testifies.
Every Confederate remembers gratefully the reception given him when he went into any house where these women were. Whoever he might be, and whatever his plight, if he wore the gray, he was received, not as a beggar or tramp, not even as a stranger, but as a son of the house, for whom it held nothing too good, and whose comfort was the one care of all its inmates, even though their own must be sacrificed in securing it. When the hospitals were crowded, the people earnestly besought permission to take the men to their houses and to care for them there, and for many months almost every house within a hundred miles of Richmond held one or more wounded men as especially honored guests.
"God bless these Virginia women!" said a general officer from one of the cotton States, one day, "they're worth a regiment apiece;" and he spoke the thought of the army, except that their blessing covered the whole country as well as Virginia.
The ingenuity with which these good ladies discovered or manufactured onerous duties for themselves was surprising, and having discovered or imagined some new duty they straightway proceeded to do it at any cost. An excellent Richmond dame was talking with a soldier friend, when he carelessly remarked that there was nothing which so greatly helped to keep up a contented and cheerful spirit among the men as the receipt of letters from their woman friends. Catching at the suggestion as a revelation of duty, she asked, "And cheerfulness makes better soldiers of the men, does it not?" Receiving yes for an answer, the frail little woman, already overburdened with cares of an unusual sort, sat down and made out a list of all the men with whom she was acquainted even in the smallest possible way, and from that day until the end of the war she wrote one letter a week to each, a task which, as her acquaintance was large, taxed her time and strength very severely. Not content with this, she wrote on the subject in the newspapers, earnestly urging a like course upon her sisters, many of whom adopted the suggestion at once, much to the delight of the soldiers, who little dreamed that the kindly, cheerful, friendly letters which every mail brought into camp, were a part of woman's self-appointed work for the success of the common cause. From the beginning to the end of the war it was the same. No cry of pain escaped woman's lips at the parting which sent the men into camp; no word of despondency was spoken when hope seemed most surely dead; no complaint from the women ever reminded their soldier husbands and sons and brothers that there was hardship and privation and terror at home. They bore all with brave hearts and cheerful faces, and even when they mourned the death of their most tenderly loved ones, they comforted themselves with the thought that they buried only heroic dust.
"It is the death I would have chosen for him," wrote the widow of a friend whose loss I had announced to her. "I loved him for his manliness, and now that he has shown that manliness by dying as a hero dies, I mourn, but am not heart-broken. I know that a brave man awaits me whither I am going."
They carried their efforts to cheer and help the troops into every act of their lives. When they could, they visited camp. Along the lines of march they came out with water or coffee or tea, – the best they had, whatever it might be, – with flowers, or garlands of green when their flowers were gone. A bevy of girls stood under a sharp fire from the enemy's lines at Petersburg one day, while they sang Bayard Taylor's Song of the Camp, responding to an encore with the stanza: –
"Ah! soldiers, to your honored rest,
Your truth and valor bearing,
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring!"
Indeed, the coolness of women under fire was always a matter of surprise to me. A young girl, not more than sixteen years of age, acted as guide to a scouting party during the early years of the war, and when we urged her to go back after the enemy had opened a vigorous fire upon us, she declined, on the plea that she believed we were "going to charge those fellows," and she "wanted to see the fun." At Petersburg women did their shopping and went about their duties under a most uncomfortable bombardment, without evincing the slightest fear or showing any nervousness whatever.
But if the cheerfulness of the women during the war was remarkable, what shall we say of the way in which they met its final failure and the poverty that came with it? The end of the war completed the ruin which its progress had wrought. Women who had always lived in luxury, and whose labors and sufferings during the war were lightened by the consciousness that in suffering and laboring they were doing their part toward the accomplishment of the end upon which all hearts were set, were now compelled to face not temporary but permanent poverty, and to endure, without a motive or a sustaining purpose, still sorer privations than any they had known in the past. The country was exhausted, and nobody could foresee any future but one of abject wretchedness. It was seed-time, but the suddenly freed negroes had not yet learned that freedom meant aught else than idleness, and the spring was gone before anything like a reorganization of the labor system could be effected. The men might emigrate when they should get home, but the case of the women was a very sorry one indeed. They kept their spirits up through it all, however, and improvised a new social system in which absolute poverty, cheerfully borne, was the badge of respectability.
Everybody was poor except the speculators who had fattened upon the necessities of the women and children, and so poverty was essential to anything like good repute. The return of the soldiers made some sort of social festivity necessary, and "starvation parties " were given, at which it was understood that the givers were wholly unable to set out refreshments of any kind. In the matter of dress, too, the general poverty was recognized, and every one went clad in whatever he or she happened to have. The want of means became a jest, and nobody mourned over it; while all were laboring to repair their wasted fortunes as they best could. And all this was due solely to the unconquerable cheerfulness of the Southern women. The men came home moody, worn out, discouraged, and but for the influence of woman's cheerfulness, the Southern States might have fallen into a lethargy from which they could not have recovered for generations.
Such prosperity as they have since achieved is largely due to the courage and spirit of their noble women.
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29 September, 1992
David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents work their same tired leads, until one hatches a scheme to burglarize the office, steal the leads, and sell them to a rival. Featuring a cast that includes Al Pacino as the office's sales leader, Jack Lemmon as an elderly loser, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris as frustrated salesmen, Kevin Spacey as the harassed office manager, and Jonathan Pryce as a client, Glengarry Glen Ross is, at its core, a character study about a group of men whose time has passed.~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide


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TOWSON — The head of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Service's internal investigative unit is leaving for a federal job.
The agency announced the departure of Jesse Ballard, a 26-year veteran of the agency, on Friday.
The unit handles investigations of inmates, detainees, employees and others.
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has come under scrutiny recently after a sweeping federal indictment charged 25 people in a contraband conspiracy at the Baltimore City Detention Center, including 13 correctional officers.
But Gary Maynard, the head of the agency, says he wishes Ballard would remain.
The department says Ballard will personally train his successor until his last day in June. He is leaving to work for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.


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It's almost show time for a new private rocket on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
A commercially built rocket designed to launch unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station is counting down toward its first-ever flight test this week from Wallops Island, Va., a small island that is home to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and a young commercial spaceport. Liftoff for the rocket, called Antares, is currently set for Wednesday, April 17, at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).
"The team is beyond excited," Barron Berneski, spokesman for the Dulles-based Orbital Sciences Corp. that built the Antares rocket, told SPACE.com in an email. [See photos of the Antares rocket test flight preparations]
Berneski said Orbital Sciences engineers are currently working to replace a valve on the Antares rocket that thwarted an engine test firing on Saturday (April 13).
"Late in the countdown, at about T-16 minutes, the test was halted because the launch team had detected a technical anomaly in the process," Berneski said of the valve glitch in a statement. "A replacement unit will be installed within 24 hours with the goal of maintaining the April 17 launch date."
The upcoming Antares launch is the highest profile launch yet from the Wallops Flight Facility, which was founded in 1945 and currently serves as NASA's home for balloon science missions and small sounding rocket launches that don't reach all the way into orbit. It is located on the southern tip of Wallops Island, which it shares with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a staging ground for commercial rocket launches overseen by the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority.
Orbital Sciences plans to launch at least eight Antares rockets from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, nicknamed MARS, to deliver tons of cargo to the International Space Station under a $1.9 billion deal with NASA set in 2008. The company is one of two private spaceflight firms with a commercial cargo delivery deal. The California-based SpaceX, which has flown three missions to the station since 2012, is the other and has a $1.6 billion contract to provide 12 NASA cargo flights.
But unlike SpaceX, which launches its Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon space capsules toward the station from Cape Canaveral in Florida — a mainstay launching ground for American manned and unmanned spaceflight — Orbital Sciences picked the MARS site for Antares flights.
"MARS has completed construction and testing operations on its launch complex at Wallops Island, the first all-new large-scale liquid-fuel launch site to be built in the U.S. in decades," Orbital Sciences CEO David Thompson said in October 2012 when the company took control of its launch pad at the site.
Wednesday's Antares rocket launch will not carry a full-fledged Cygnus spacecraft when it blasts off. Since the mission is a test flight, it will carry a "mass simulator" designed to mimic the weight of a real cargo ship.
Orbital Sciences has dubbed the mission Antares A-ONE and expect the rocket to reach a maximum altitude of between 155 miles and 185 miles (250 and 300 kilometers) above Earth. The mission may also carry a set of tiny satellites for NASA, according to previous mission descriptions.
The Antares rocket is a two-stage booster designed to launch robotic cargo ships called Cygnus on one-way trips. The Cygnus spacecraft is a one-use vehicle and is designed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere at the end of its mission instead of returning cargo to Earth like SpaceX's Dragon capsules.
If all goes well, Orbital Sciences hopes to launch the first official Antares rocket and Cygnus flight toward the space station later this year.
"There's still a lot of work to do ahead of the launch, but after nearly five years from concept design to actual launch, it feels great to be at the finish line of the R&D effort and at the starting line for our next big new product line, serving not just NASA cargo delivery, but other launch markets as well,' Berneski said.
Visit SPACE.com for complete coverage of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket test this week.
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#14 Conner Scarborough took the mound against UNC-Asheville on March 19th, 2011.
#16 Benji Jackson reached first base in the 'Dogs win against UNC-Asheville on March 19th, 2011.
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Benji Jackson watches a ball and contemplates stealing second during the March 19th game against UNC-Asheville.
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#26 Jake Watts awaits a pitch on second base in the Diamond 'Dogs winning effort against UNC-Asheville.
#21 Adam McFarland tries to avoid a ground ball sent his way while running bases but is called out due to interference on March 19th, 2011.
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#39 Brad Collins attempts to throw out a runner at first base during the second of three games against UNC-Asheville.
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#19 Brock Wilson gets the call to pitch in the Bulldogs game against UNC-Asheville.
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#39 Brad Collins got a ringing double to centerfield for Gardner-Webb in their decisive win against UNC-Asheville on Saturday, March 19th, 2011.
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'Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny' The Times
Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back?
'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.'
'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only.
Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in South East Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it. Yes, it's a mid-life crisis, but let's be clear: a break isn't a break up - yet . . .
However, for Amy it's enough to send her - along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers - teetering over the edge. For a lot can happen in six-months. When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married? Will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then so is she . . .
The Break is a story about the choices we make and how those choices help to make us. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best.
'Just brilliant' Sunday Times
'Girl-power at its best. I laughed . . . I cried' Daily Mail
'Another belter. Full of brilliantly fun characters, genuine emotion and heaps of charm. We loved it!' Heat
'Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. A breezy, candid and deeply felt account of a wife, mother and career woman rediscovering herself' Metro
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has added a fourth pathway to possible sainthood.
Until now, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living a life of heroic values or — less frequently invoked — having a clear saintly reputation.
The Vatican announced Tuesday that the pope has issued a new law outlining a new route: people who lived a good Catholic life and who freely accepted a certain and premature death for the good of others.
While John Paul II streamlined the canonization process, L'Osservatore Romano noted that the norms for beatification have been in place for centuries.
Under the new category, a miracle must be attributed to the candidate's intercession prior to beatification, the first step toward canonization as a saint. Martyrdom, which stipulates being killed out of hatred for the faith, does not require a miracle.