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Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?wiffle May 15, 2012 11:40 PM (in response to sophie)
My suggestion is to charge a set amount for your house. Don't discount. That way, if the renters want to sleep in every bed, you won't feel bad for the extra work.
In our home, we have very different beds in each room. I don't mind if we even have a single renter sleep in each bed because the rate is for the whole house. Maybe one bed is much more comfortable and it makes their vacation that much better.
I know of some owners who lock off additional bedrooms for small families or single renters, but I don't want to deal with that.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?stjvilla May 16, 2012 8:45 AM (in response to sophie)
It doesn't make much sense for one couple and 2 toddlers to use all 5 beds, but people usually think "I paid money to rent the house so it's all mine to use." If this is the case then we think wiffle has a good suggestion - charge one rate only. In our house we have 2 bedrooms but one is in a separate "pod" which we can lock, so we advertise a 2-person rate if they share a bedroom. Also, you might want to put some linens away in the locked owner's closet as people will always use every towel in the house if they are out.
However, did it look as though more people were there? Use of towels, paper goods, etc.? Neighbors viewed more than 2 adults? Not that you can do anything about it now. But wiffle's suggestion would work there too.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?msdebj May 16, 2012 11:10 AM (in response to sophie)
We charge a flat rate for our home, no matter the number of guests. I've found on ocassion even 2 people can manage to make as much work as 8-10.
As for extra towels, etc. my housekeeper puts out 2 bath, 2 hand & 2 washcloths per person for a 2-3 night stay and double that for 4-6 nights. We do have a washer and dryer in the home. I found out quickly that guests would use very towel I put out .
Here's an inexpensive trick I use when we have more than 4 guests staying in our 3 bedrm, 2 bath place to help them keep thier towels seperate. I bought wooden clothspins and numbered them 1-10 with a paint pin (10 sets of each number cost abt, $8) . I keep them in baskets in each bath with a note telling guests to choose their number for their stay. They can just snap them on the towels to know who's is who's. We have both towel racks and pegs, and most people love this.
It seems to have cut down on the amount of laundry being done, especially during week or longer stays.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?wiffle May 16, 2012 12:08 PM (in response to msdebj)
That is a good idea, DebJ. I have some towel racks and also a hook rack. I have thought of adding a small number or symbol to each hook.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?wiffle May 16, 2012 12:25 PM (in response to sophie)
I was just thinking a little more about your post.
They used the linens for the sofa bed?
I would guess that they had way more people or the kids were making a fort (2 year-olds NOT). Or, they were cold?
You said that the contract was for two people, yet they also had two children - I would make that rental agreement for FOUR people, or two adults and two children, however you want to word it. But kids should count on the agreement. I don't differentiate between kids and adults in my rental agreements, but some do.
Some people are just dishonest and will take advantage of you to save a few bucks. So yes, they will rent a house that is too big for the number of people in the contract and then beg a discount or lie if you have a rate that varies by the number of people. Some people look for that sort of situation so that they can cheat you.
I had mentioned in a prior post the idea of locking off the additional bedroom(s) if you choose to rent a smaller portion of your house. When doing this, it is ideal to use a dual keyed deadbolt (needs a key to open it from both sides) and DO NOT leave the key with the renters (only you and your housekeeper). That way, they can't just jimmy a simple interior door lock (even a child can pick the lock to the bathroom) and they also cannot lock themselves out, or have the kids lock themselves in.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?sophie May 16, 2012 12:33 PM (in response to wiffle)
The contract was for 2 adults and 2 small toddlers and I do have a pack and play on the property. I assumed that one couple plus 2 toddlers would sleep in the king in the master and either the pack and play or the kids twin room. BUT.....all 4 bedrooms were used and the sofa bed! I only left 2 towels and for each adult and 2 extras for the babies so if there were extra people, they didn't have any towels!. I learned my lesson early on not to leave tons of towels because they use every single one!
Is it appropriate to ask sleeping arrangements before they checkin or should I just suck it up and make up all the beds for each and every checkin no matter how many people?
On a happy note, I had the schlage link lock system put in this week for my locks and thermostat. It is absolutely amazing!
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?wiffle May 16, 2012 12:42 PM (in response to sophie)
I would make up all the beds, but make a single rate for the entire house so that you don't feel taken advantage of when they use the whole house.
The whole house should look nice for them, and they may prefer the lighting or location of a different bedroom than what they might select from photos. Or someone could be having hot flashes and want to sleep separately, or an argument, or someone gets ill. You just never know. If the beds are there I would expect them to be used, and if the beds aren't made up, people will sleep on them anyway, which is yucky.
Re: 2 people used 5 BEDS and ALL linens? What's up?msdebj May 16, 2012 12:43 PM (in response to wiffle)
Our contract does require the total number of guests: ____# adults _____ #children under 18., with ages.
It helps me know how to make suggestions for local activities, among other things.(We offer a Pack and Play on request for wee ones)
It also insures (somewhat) our ability to enforce our contract if more people show up than what was agreed on in the contract. Our contract has a clause stating that all monies and the Damage Deposit will be forfieted (and immediate eviction actions will be taken) if we find more guests in residence than the signed contract stated.
Never had to enact it, but it is a deterrent.
Just a few of my suggestions that work for me.


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Keeping pets safe during the Christmas season
Mom blamed us kids but we knew better. Our family dogs ate a good half of the fresh cranberry and popcorn garlands we made for our Christmas trees, but we never could quite catch them at it.
If you have pets, you know decorating for the holidays can be a delicate balance between keeping the holiday spirit pretty and not making last minute panicked vet trips. Here are 10 tips to keep everyone safe:
1. If you have a live cut Christmas tree, plan on giving it extra water twice a day. I don't know anyone who can keep a dog, or cat, from regularly drinking out of the tree stand, regardless of how many other freshly-filled water bowls are around.
2. Silver tinsel may be traditional but some pets eat the shiny strands. Hang the tinsel high, or skip it altogether.
3. Same thing goes for holly with red berries and fresh mistletoe. Those berries are poisonous so keep them where pets and children can't reach them.
4. Although poinsettias have the reputation for being poisonous, they are not. I would still keep the plants away from inquisitive noses; eating the white sap "latex" can lead to a bad tummy ache.
5. It's not just plants. One year I made gingerbread cookies and tied them all over my artificial tree. Mom came to visit and brought one of her foster dogs, Raven, a lovely well-behaved black lab mix with her. The next morning, Mom said Raven wasn't feeling well. One look at my tree and we knew why. Raven had consumed various parts off most of the low-hanging gingerbread cookies.
6. If you add edibles to live wreaths and table swags, make sure they are not within pet reach, or close to burning candles. Cats and dogs are tempted to chew on greenery and can loose whiskers if they get too close.
7. If you decorate outside bushes with popcorn garland, don't be surprised if you find neighborhood dogs, squirrels or wild turkeys dragging them off.
8. Tree skirts are also an invitation for mischief. Place a towel under it to collect splashed water, and make sure you have a couple of heavy gifts to anchor it. One of my cats will hide for hours under the skirt and then get tangled in the tree stand as he tries to pounce.
9. Speaking of gifts, I can't remember the last time any of my presents ended up with their original ribbons. My cats will spend hours prying off those stick-on ones. I now remove them myself. No point in making their new favorite napping spot under the tree bumpy.
10. Every cat I've known will also try to, at least once, climb the Christmas tree. When she was a kitten, my oldest cat Margaret would hide half way up the tree and bat at me as I walked by. I tried to act surprised but a very white cat in a very dark green tree can be seen for miles.
Now that she's older, I still let Margaret check out the tree before I decorate. That way if she wants to try to climb it, she gets it out of her system.
Well, that's the theory...
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins shares her gardening adventures at http://www.gardeningcharlotte.com. Copyright 2012 used with permission by Rolla Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Contact Charlotte at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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You Are a Colon
You are very orderly and fact driven.
You aren't concerned much with theories or dreams... only what's true or untrue.
You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched.
You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren't subject to whim or emotions.
Your friends see you as a constant source of knowledge and advice.
(But they are a little sick of you being right all of the time!)
You excel in: Leadership positions
You get along best with: The Semi-Colon
Monday, April 7, 2008
I Am Colon, Hear Me Roar
Well, I guess if Lori Thornton at Smoky Mountain Family Historian, Jasia at Creative Gene and footnoteMaven can play, so can I. It turns out that as a result of taking the What Punctuation Mark Are You? quiz over at Blogthings, I am a colon. No jokes please.
Posted by Thomas MacEntee at 8:22 PM
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- footnoteMaven said...
So, we're the perfect compliment. A colon and a semi-colon.
Now, what can we get up to?
Shades Of The Departed
- April 8, 2008 at 12:01 AM
- Thomas MacEntee said...
Hah! When I saw that part of my "fortune" I knew you'd be tracking me down! You are as much an instigator as I am!
- April 8, 2008 at 6:24 AM
- Randy Seaver said...
Me too...
My first reaction was who will be the first to call me an a-hole... but only you know about this so far - don't tell anyone, please!
I took the test but haven't blogged about it. I fail to see how a 5 question test can be this discriminating, frankly! Even a Myers-Briggs test has a limited number of questions, but at least they play each option off against the others.
Cheers -- Randy
- April 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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Father accused of killing 7-week-old daughter
A North Fort Myers man is charged with killing his seven-week old daughter, according to deputies.
On March 23rd, around 4:05 p.m., deputies responded to 18601 Palm Creek Drive in North Fort Myers after getting a 9-1-1 call about an unconscious infant.
When they got to the scene, deputies learned the child had been taken to the hospital.
Because of the nature of the injuries, detectives from the Major Crimes Unit were notified and sent to the hospital.
Deputies say medical evidence and information from emergency room workers showed the child suffered severe head trauma, including multiple skull fractures.
Officials with the ER said the child, Jada Cantrell, died as a result of her massive traumatic head injuries.
Jada lived at home with her mother, father and grandfather.
Detectives say the baby was at home alone with her father, 21-year-old Steven Cantrell, at the time her injuries occurred.
When questioned, Cantrell allegedly gave detectives conflicting explanations about what happened to the infant.
Deputies say none of the explanations Cantrell gave were plausible.
Based on the documentation of the scene, recovered evidence, witness statements and the victim's documented fatal injuries, detectives arrested and charged Steven Cantrell with one count of First Degree Felony Murder.
Cantrell has had frequent encounters with law enforcement. He was arrested in February on a probation violation; the month prior Cape Coral police arrested him for giving a false ID to an officer. He pleaded 'no contest' and appears to have been sentenced to 'time served,' but it's not clear from State Attorney's Office website records.
In November 2010, he was charged with robbery in Lee County. That case was dropped at the request of the victim.
In August 2010, he was arrested for aggravated assault and property damage. The State Attorney's Office chose not to file formal charges.
In September 2009, Cantrell was arrested by deputies for robbery, burglary, grand theft auto, theft, trespassing and probation violation. He pleaded 'no contest' to the robbery and trespassing. There was no information on the other charges.
In July 2009, he was arrested by deputies for resisting an officer with violence, giving a false ID to a deputy, resisting an officer without violence and domestic violence battery. Cantrell pleaded 'no contest' to resisting without violence and domestic battery. There was no information on the other counts.


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On Nov. 16, a basket raffle featuring crafters and a bake sale will take place at St. John's Episcopal Church in Wilson. Proceeds from the event will benefit Home Away From Home, a small, privately run feline shelter in Wilson.
General basket raffle tickets are $5 per sheet of 25. The "Lucky Number" raffle is $5 per person. Winner need not be present to win.
A shelter representative will be on hand. Other activities include a pet reiki session ($10 for 10 minutes).
To donate a basket, gift card or baked good, call 716-998-8808 and leave a message (this number is for donations only).
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 431 Lake St.


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The simplest way to winning a basketball game is to score more points than your opponent.
For the Columbia Basin College women, that was actually a hard thing to do Saturday in a 75-48 loss to Chemeketa in the first round of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges tournament at the Toyota Center.
"We couldn't hit a shot," said CBC coach Cheryl Holden. "It was just one of those games. We couldn't shoot, but we kept playing hard."
The Hawks came out of the chute fast, taking an 11-9 lead.
But things began to go wrong, as the Storm went on a 14-0 run, led by sophomore Hannah Fredrick, who scored 10 of those points in that run.
"My sophomores had the experience from last year," said Chemeketa coach Jesse Ailstock.
Indeed, Ailstock started four sophomores who played here last year as freshmen and knew what to expect.
"I don't care who you are. As a freshman, you're going to struggle when you come here (to this tournament)," said Chemeketa sophomore Jordan Klebaum, who scored a game-high 22 points. "I'm telling you last year, I probably hit one three-point field goal the entire tournament here."
What a difference a year makes.
KleBaum hammered six treys against the Hawks — five in the second half as the Storm easily pulled away. And many of them were NBA distance.
"I've been working a long time on that," said Klebaum. "I went to a high school (Oregon City) where basketball is everything, and I hardly ever played. So I worked my butt off on shooting."
Now, says Ailstock, Klebaum is being looked at by Division I schools because of her shooting.
By halftime, Chemeketa led 32-17. The Storm was 5-for-9 from the 3-point line, and CBC was 0-for-13 — a difference of 15 points.
"I told the girls at halftime that hopefully some of your shots will start falling," said Holden. "This (tournament) is not easy. But they did everything we asked them to do."
They hustled. Half of CBC's 48 rebounds were on the offensive boards, and it forced 23 turnovers.
But the Hawks' shots just would not fall.
By the time the game ended, CBC was 3-for-30 from the 3-point line, just 10 percent.
"I just told them after the game 'You've got a choice,'" said Holden. "The highest we can finish is seventh."
It'll mean three straight days of early morning games.
CBC will play Tacoma at 8 a.m. Sunday in a loser-out contest.
Meanwhile, Chemeketa plays Bellevue in a noon quarterfinal contest.
Kelsey Yenney led CBC with 13 points, while Alicia Jones added 10 points and nine rebounds.
Fredrick added 16 points for the Storm.
CHEMEKETA — Briana Stacona 5-8 1-2 11, Hannah Fredrick 6-13 1-3 16, Taylor Munson 0-0 4-6 4, Kim Tillery 1-2 0-2 3, Jordan Klebaum 6-14 4-4 22, Codi Shull 1-1 0-0 3, Haley Guest 3-6 3-6 9, Dani Kastrava 1-5 4-6 7. Totals 23-49 17-29 75.
COLUMBIA BASIN — Alicia Jones 3-6 4-6 10, Kellie Ross 3-15 0-0 8, Kelsey Yenney 6-12 1-1 13, Sierra Higheagle 1-13 0-1 2, Hannah Depew 2-5 2-2 6, Dana Cardenas 0-2 0-0 0, Kara Wenstrom m1-10 0-0 2, Kalli Williams 1-4 0-0 3, KeiOsha Avery-Winchester 2-8 0-0 4, Brenda Bingham 0-2 0-0 0, Kim Harrod 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 19-79 7-10 48.
Halftime—Chemeketa 32-17. 3-point goals—Chem 12-20 (Klebaum 6-11, Fredrick 3-3, Shull 1-1, Kastrava 1-2, Tillery 1-2, Stacona 0-1), CBC 3-30 (Ross 2-12, Williams 1-3, Bingham 0-1, Yenney 0-2, Higheagle 0-6, Wenstrom 0-6). Rebounds—Chem 48 (Fredrick 8), CBC 48 (Jones 9). Assists—Chem 14 (Fredrick 3, Munson 3, Stacona 3), CBC 8 (Ross 2). Turnovers—Chem 23, CBC 14. Fouls—Chem 13, CBC 20.


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The race to be the first US carrier to update their Galaxy S III to Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is officially over. As of this morning, Sprint was the first to cross the finish line in offering the latest major Android update to S III users on their network.
Not long ago, Samsung released a statement telling US Galaxy S III users to expect an update to Android 4.1.1 in the coming months. In the past, that meant you had at least a month to wait — if not closer to three or four. But here we are, just one week after Samsung's announcement, and Sprint is already sending out the update to Jelly Bean to S III users everywhere.
Android 4.1.1 for the Sprint Galaxy S III will include access to Google Now, expandable notifications, Android Beam, automatic widget resizing, camera enhancements and more. Of course it won't be stock Jelly Bean, but Samsung has added some useful features in the latest version of Touchwiz.
No word yet on when we can expect Jelly Bean to hit other carrier-branded devices. We'll be keeping an eye out. Sprint S III users, have you received the update yet? First impressions?


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Skip to comments.It is Time to Excommunicate the Politicians
Posted on 11/22/2003 6:47:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
To put it bluntly, I have a few reservations about canon 1398. A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication, the canon states. Please do not mistake my reservations as support for abortion. In no way do I condone this intrinsically evil act.
A Traumatic Choice Made Under Duress
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is gravely contrary to the moral law as well as an abominable crime (2271). Yet my experience in ministry has taught me that most women who abort a child act under some sort of emotional, mental and/or psychological duress.
Despite what many feminists claim, I seldom come across an abortion that is freely chosen that is, chosen without coercion from some outside individual or organization. Sometimes this pressure comes from a boyfriend who refuses any responsibility for the pregnancy. Other times, parents seek a quick fix for their teenaged daughters. Get rid of it or get out of the house! is, sadly, the execution decree of all-too-many grandchildren. But even more reprehensible, in my opinion, is the coercion a distraught pregnant mother finds among the very womens organizations that claim to uphold her freedom of choice. As my friend Mark Shea often reminds me, abortion is the principle sacrament of initiation into the culture of death. Therefore, a woman often discovers when dealing with feminist pregnancy crisis centers that her "choices" do not include bringing the child within her womb to full term.
Thus abortion is a traumatic choice often made under duress. As the reality of the choice to end the life of ones child sets in, the woman is left in need of the Churchs help and compassion. For once her child is dead, the woman will find neither help nor compassion from the abortion industry. Yet, alone and ashamed, her perception of canonical censures only further drives her away from the Church in many instances. This compounds the problem.
These women know abortion is wrong. They feel it in their soul every time they see a mother with a stroller pass by on the sidewalk. Their heart cries out with every advertisement for diapers that flashes across the television screen. What these women need is Christs healing touch in the confessional, as well as sustained pastoral support from pro-life organizations like Project Rachel. This is the approach Christ took with the woman caught in adultery: He did not excuse the sin, but He did not turn away the sinner. He invited her to repentance and forgiveness.
Well-Aimed Canonical Censures
Nevertheless, I feel no such compassion toward those who profit whether financially or politically from abortion. As a canonist, I firmly believe in the use of canonical censures to combat this intrinsic evil. Yet these canonical censures should be aimed where they are most deserved. Thus in reflecting upon the carnage wrought by the culture of death over the past thirty years, the Church must strengthen and enforce canonical censures against the so-called "Catholic" politicians, doctors, pregnancy counselors, nurses and lawyers who continue to support and protect an industry dedicated to the willful butchering of children in the womb.
Of course, there is no need to excommunicate the doctors, nurses and other medical staff directly involved in the abortion industry the Code of Canon Law already provides for their automatic excommunication. As canon 1329 §2 states: In the case of a latae sententiae penalty attached to an offence, accomplices, even though not mentioned in the law or precept, incur the same penalty if, without their assistance, the crime would not have been committed, and if the penalty is of such a nature as to be able to affect them. " Since the abortion would be impossible without the direct assistance of the medical staff, this makes them direct accomplices to the abortion. So they are automatically excommunicated if they happen to be Catholic. No canonical trial is necessary. The competent ecclesiastical authority need only declare the penalty.
Unfortunately, the canonical situation is a little more complex when it comes to Catholic politicians who support abortion. For their participation in the scandal of abortion is more indirect. The politicians and lawyers draft, legislate and protect laws that permit this evil. Most do not, however, directly participate from the abortion chamber. Therefore the automatic excommunication envisioned by canons 1329 and 1398 would not apply to these lawyers and politicians since, in keeping with the principle of canon 18, Laws which prescribe a penalty... are to be interpreted restrictively.
Nevertheless, a competent Church authority may use other means to impose excommunication upon pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Moreover, there are other penalties the Church may impose. At the very minimum, the Church can and should prohibit pro-abortion lawyers and politicians from receiving Holy Communion. In fact, any bishop may invoke canon 1399 to do so. Besides the cases prescribed in this or in other laws, the canon states, the external violation of divine or canon law can be punished, and with a just penalty, only when the special gravity of the violation requires it and necessity demands that scandals be prevented or repaired.
Rights are not Absolute
Now some canonists will object to my interpretation of this canon, arguing that reception of Holy Communion is a right of Christs faithful. However, this right is in no way absolute. As canon 223 §2 states: Ecclesiastical authority is entitled to regulate, in view of the common good, the exercise of rights which are proper to Christs faithful. One is hard pressed to see how permitting pro-abortion Catholic politicians to go unchallenged contributes to the common good either of the Church or of society as a whole. Rather, abortion destroys the common good in that it destroys the right to life. This is the right upon which all other rights, as well as the common good, are based.
Moreover, canon 912 states: Any baptized person who is not forbidden by law may and must be admitted to Holy Communion. In short, canon law provides an exception for to the right to receive Holy Communion, namely, for those who are forbidden by law. Canon 915 clarifies one such exception as follows: Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
In the end, there is no absence of canons that permit a competent ecclesiastical authority to deny Holy Communion to obstinate pro-abortion Catholic politicians. What the Church needs is the will to enforce this proposed course of action. Undoubtedly, some will denounce such refusal of the sacraments as too severe. Yet what is the alternative? For according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, through abortion irreparable harm [is] done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society (2272).
Pete Vere, JCL, earned his ecclesiastical licentiate in canon law from Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. In his spare time, he volunteers as a Deputy Regional Director for the International Order of Alhambra a Catholic family organization dedicated to serving the needs of the mentally and developmentally challenged.
Canadian Prime Minister Taunts Church: "I Am A Catholic And For Abortion"
Catholic Church asks Tom Daschle to stop calling himself a Catholic
On Catholic Politicians and Faith
Vatican Urges Catholic Politicians to Vote Along Church Lines
Senator Santorum on Being Catholic and a Politician
William E. Simon, Sr. and Jr. Devout Catholics, Philanthropists and Politicians
Deadly Dozen senator taken to task over claims of Catholicism
THE BISHOP AND THE SENATOR [author links to FR thread regarding Daschle in her online column]
Blood On Their Hands: Exposing Pro-abortion Catholic Politicians
MI Gov Granholm Proclaims June "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month"
Colorado Governor To Media:'WE LOVE OUR CHURCH' [Gov. Bill Owens
U.S. Senator Brownback and Commentator Dick Morris Join Catholic Church
PRIEST REFUSES COMMUNION TO KNEELING PRO-LIFE POLITICIAN [Richard Black, Virginia]
Kerry [Catholic} says he'll filibuster Supreme Court nominees who do not support abortion rights
Pope to MPs: Stop gay marriage
Vatican - Considerations regarding ... homosexual persons
Prelate says politicians who back abortion shouldn't go to Communion
Bishop draws fire for targeting Chrétien
Kennedy likens Vatican stance on gay unions to 'bigotry' (oh, go get a job, you little creep)
Ignorance or Malicious Intent? "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to..."
George Weigel on Authentic Catholic Citizenship, and the Duty of Catholic Politicians to Behave as Catholics
Conservative Catholics urge Church to challenge "dissenters"
[Robert F., Jr.] Kennedy to speak at Festival of Faiths (Environmentalism as religion)
Catholic Bishops Eye Possible Crackdown of Pro-Abortion Pols
May His judgment come swiftly to the heretics and blasphemers throughout The One True Church.
A member of the country's most legendary Roman Catholic political family, representing the most Catholic state in the nation, Kennedy said he refuses to follow the Vatican's edict, issued last week, imploring Catholic lawmakers to oppose same-sex unions.
"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination," Kennedy said yesterday in an interview.
I strongly disagree with the statement that the Kennedys represent a legendary Roman Catholic family. At best, this gaggle of misfits represent hedonism.
If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.
Evidence of post-abortion trauma is increasingly attested to by psychologists, counselors and those involved in post-abortion ministry. We now know, for example, that women hurt by abortion may have some or many of the following symptoms:
Some, especially young girls, experience symptoms soon after the abortion. Counselors tell us, however, that it is more common for the symptoms to occur over the course of five to twelve years after the abortion before a woman seeks help.
Project Rachel is the name of the Catholic Church's healing ministry to those who have been involved in abortion. Its name comes from Scripture:
In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning,
of bitter weeping!
Rachel mourns her children,
she refuses to be consoled
because her children are no more.
Thus says the LORD:
Cease your cries of mourning,
wipe the tears from your eyes.
The sorrow you have shown shall have its reward...
There is hope for your future.
Jeremiah 31:15-1
Project Rachel operates as a network of professional counselors and priests, all trained to provide one-on-one spiritual and psychological care for those who are suffering because of an abortion. Although most dioceses use the name Project Rachel, some programs are named differently. In addition to individualized counseling, some programs include support groups and retreats. Founded in 1984 by Victoria Thorn in Milwaukee, today Project Rachel programs can be found in 140 Catholic dioceses in the United States, as well as in dioceses in other countries.
A single phone call to a Project Rachel program (see map--LINK) puts you in touch with those who can help. Also, the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing (NOPARH) sponsors a nation-wide referral service for those seeking help after abortion. For a referral contact NOPARH at 800.5WE.CARE, or access its website at www.marquette.edu/rachel.
In addition, Rachel's Vineyard is a retreat program which helps those suffering after abortion in a group setting, usually over a weekend. Retreats often are sponsored by local Project Rachel offices, as well as counseling centers and retreat houses. For information or retreat schedules contact www.rachelsvineyard.org or call 1-877-HOPE-4-ME.
Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list
IMO--This is the problem at the core. The bishops have everything in place and the proper authority to act, but less than a handfull have the WILL TO ACT.
They are more afraid of offending men than God.
Post-abortion trauma is so very real, yet continues to be pooh-poohed by "experts" (such as Planned Parenthood and their supporters). I've worked with recovering alcoholic women and it's amazing how often a past abortion has strongly contributed to their addiction problems and also kept them so deep in guilt, sorrow and shame that they lost all sense of worth in the eyes of God. Good links to Project Rachel! Maybe someone is out there waiting to hear that.
The Kennedy tribe is representative of American Catholics, not American Roman Catholics, in my view.
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text: Mordechai Jefferson Carver, aka 'The Hebrew Hammer', is an Orthodox stud, who goes on a mission to save Hanukkah. When Santa Claus' evil son Damien is pushed over the edge by his father's liberal policies, he does away with the Christian patriarch. Subsequently stepping into his father's role, Damien launches a campaign to eradicate the Jewish Holiday. The Hammer joins forces with Esther, the gorgeous and dangerous daughter of the world's top Jewish leader, and his friend Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, to topple the evil Santa and save Hanukkah for future generations.


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The University of Florida has plenty of memories, good and bad, of New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS — They are joined at the hip, but since we're talking about the Big Easy, I guess you could say they are forever sharing beads. Florida athletics and New Orleans don't have a lot in common except they have spent a lot of time together, kind of like ketchup and sauerkraut on a hot dog.
To say Gator fans have had highs and lows in New Orleans would be a Cajun understatement.
You want the best of times? Got it.
You want the worst? Ditto.
And the amazing thing is that they happened two years apart with the team housed in the same hotel both times.
And the opponent, well, maybe that's why it was the best and the worst.
Over the past 20-plus years, Gator athletic director Jeremy Foley has spent enough time in New Orleans to have voting rights. And that's just counting the two major sports: in football and men's basketball. When the Gators face Louisville on Jan. 2, it will be the 16th game since 1991 that a Florida football or basketball team has played in the city.
And during that stretch, there was the best of the best. You can argue for other games, other championships, but, to me, the best moment in Gator history came when the Gators beat Florida State in the 1997 Sugar Bowl to win UF's first national championship.
And the worst? Again, it's open for debate but it's difficult to imagine a worst postseason trip in any sport than what happened after the 1994 season.
Not only did Florida lose to FSU in the 1995 Sugar Bowl, but a bloody fight broke out between teammates two nights before the game. People who were there say they have never seen anything like the fight between defensive lineman Anthony Riggins and linebacker Darren Hambrick.
The two started an argument over a card game on the bus ride from the team hotel to the Superdome where they were to eat dinner on New Year's Eve. It continued to escalate inside and, according to sources who were there, Riggins stuck a butter knife to Hambrick's throat. Hambrick retaliated by breaking a glass and using its stem to carve up Riggins face.
"It was absolutely terrible," said James Bates, a sophomore linebacker on that Florida team. "I was sitting at the table next to where it happened. It was as bloody as you can imagine and to make matters worse, it's between two teammates.
"It just wasn't the way it's supposed to be."
Said wide receiver Chris Doering, "I just remember that nobody wanted to eat because they were afraid there might be some blood or glass in their food."
Two nights later, the Gators had three turnovers and lost "The Fifth Quarter in the French Quarter" to the Seminoles 23-17. By then, Hambrick was home and Riggins was preparing for reconstructive surgery to his face.
The game was almost a sidebar to the fight. But what happened in 1994 had a lot to do with what happened in 1996.
"My senior year, that team was incredibly close, like brothers," Bates said. "In '94, it just wasn't that way."
Steve Spurrier coached both Florida teams. In both cases, Florida had won games against Alabama to win the SEC in Atlanta. But the seasons were so different.
"The '94 game, that was just another bowl game," he said. "In 1996, that meant everything."
That's another thing about the contrast between the yin and yang of Florida's experiences in New Orleans. In '94, nobody wanted to play FSU. The memory of the Choke at Doak (when Florida blew a 31-3 fourth-quarter lead) was still too fresh. One prominent player even questioned to his teammates whether the Gators should win the SEC Championship Game because it would mean another game against the Seminoles and another trip to the Sugar Bowl.
In '96, everybody wanted another shot at FSU. The Seminoles had ruined the Gators' perfect season and to play them again could mean a chance to reach their ultimate goal — the national title.
That it would be against your biggest rival would make it that much sweeter.
"And we carried the party all the way to Bourbon Street," Bates said.
That's New Orleans. What better place to celebrate a big win? And there have been plenty for Florida teams (not to mention all of the times Gator fans stay in New Orleans for LSU games).
New Orleans will look familiar to a lot of people connected to UF athletics when they start to arrive Thursday as well as the sportswriters who cover the Gators. I'm not sure I could give directions to Tipitina's, but I know how to get to Bourbon Street.
There has been the good …
*Remember that the 2007 NCAA Tournament run started for the Gators in New Orleans. In fact, the scariest game they played in the second of their national title postseasons was a narrow win over Purdue in the second round.
*And the 1993 Florida football team turned in one of the most memorable bowl performances by a Gator team when it dismantled unbeaten West Virginia 41-7 thanks in part to the interception return of all interception returns by Lawrence Wright.
… there has been the bad …
*The 2000 football team had another chance for a win over a state rival but the Gators were handled by Miami 37-20. This trip was also marred by a fight when players on both teams scuffled on Bourbon Street several days before the game. Florida's Gerard Warren was led off in handcuffs, though not charged. "You've got to get a guy who wasn't a Gator or Hurricane to tell you what happened," Steve Spurrier said the next day.
*In 2003, with Florida in the midst of a postseason slump under Billy Donovan, the Gators went one-and-done in the SEC Tournament, losing to LSU 65-61. While it wasn't as deflating as the 22-point loss to Michigan State a week later, it was a bad loss.
… and the bizarre.
*The strangest bowl game I've ever covered had to be the Sugar Bowl after the 2009 season. Urban Meyer resigned, then changed his mind the next day, then gave a news conference in New Orleans where he looked like a zombie on Valium. Surely, Florida had no chance against unbeaten Cincinnati with the team in a state of chaos. But this was Tim Tebow's last game and Florida was really good. The Bearcats had no chance. The scene after the game was strange as well with Meyer zoned out and his wife, Shelley, looking at him with a pained expression on her face.
The best two New Year's Eve nights I've ever had have come in New Orleans — in '96 and '09. I've seen things I have never seen anywhere else and not all of them I want to remember.
And as Florida returns again to the land of oysters and speciality drinks and strip clubs and T-shirt shops and history and tragedy and jazz clubs and beignets I know this — memories will be made over the next week — good, bad or bizarre.
Maybe a mix of all three.


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After the 2010 season, when the Phillies and former first base coach Davey Lopes couldn't agree on a salary, I asked the question, "How do you replace Davey Lopes?" The answer, really, is "you don't". Few base coaches have had as tangible an effect on a team as Lopes had on the Phillies, who took them from an above-average running organization to historically great. In 2007, the Phillies set a Major League record with a stolen base success rate at 88 percent and were found in the upper quartile in aggression as well.
The absence of Lopes, as well as the recurrence of the injury bug, contributed to the Phillies significantly cutting into their base running aggression last year. As a team, they attempted only 120 steals (though with a success rate at 80 percent), the tenth-highest total in the National League. Only two Phillies — Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino — attempted to steal 15 or more times, a drop off from four such players in each season from 2008-10.
The Phillies transformed from an offensive powerhouse to a team that values pitching and defense, partially due to necessity. As many have pointed out, the Phillies are an old team with players past their offensive peak that cannot manufacture runs with their bodies anymore. During the off-season, the Phillies remained homogenous when acquiring Jim Thome, Laynce Nix, and Ty Wigginton, none of whom are fleet of foot. Looking at the current roster, it is hard to see the Phillies making any significant progress in the running game, even with a healthy middle infield with Rollins and Chase Utley and a full season of Hunter Pence.
However, the Phillies are still pursuing a fifth outfielder. Victorino and Pence will start every day in center and right field, respectively, while left field should be composed of a platoon including Nix and John Mayberry. Domonic Brown is expected to start the season with Triple-A Lehigh Valley, leaving one spot open. Tyson Gillies is on the Phillies' 40-man roster, but don't expect much out of him as he took just 13 trips to the plate throughout the 2011 season with Single-A Clearwater.
Rumors circulated in late December around bat-first players like Jonny Gomes, Ryan Ludwick, and Cody Ross. I think that is the wrong approach — the Phillies already have a slew of bench bats. What they lack is speed from the bench. During games when Mayberry does not start, he would be the Phillies' best base-stealing threat late in the game. When he is already in the lineup, the next-best option would be… Dontrelle Willis. Even worse, two other pitchers would be next in line: Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee. All three pitchers would be superior pinch-running options to the likes of Wilson Valdez, Brian Schneider, Wigginton, Nix, and Thome.
What the Phillies should do instead is fill that fifth outfielder spot with a speedy outfielder like Juan Pierre or Willie Harris. Pierre, currently 34 years old, stole 68 bases in 86 attempts during the 2010 season with the Chicago White Sox. He didn't have a great showing last year, stealing 27 bases in 44 attempts, but his agility certainly hasn't declined. If he has a slight improvement in offense, he would be a league-average hitter and give the Phillies a great weapon on the bench. He would be in line for a significant pay cut, having finished up the last year of a five-year, $44 million contract. Comparable free agents that have already signed include Jerry Hairston (Dodgers, two years at $6 million), Willie Bloomquist (Diamondbacks, two years at $3.8 million), and Endy Chavez (Orioles, one year at $1.5 million). For Pierre, the Phillies would be looking at something between one and two years at $2-3 million per year.
Harris is perhaps an even better fit. He earned $800,000 with the New York Mets last year and is arguably just as good, if not better, than Pierre. He has great plate discipline, walking in at least 12 percent of his plate appearances over the last three years. His stolen base attempts don't reflect it — less than ten attempts in each of the past two seasons — but he possesses above-average speed and would not be a liability in the field (at least according to scouting reports; UZR tells a different story). Harris could be brought in on a one year deal between $750,000 and $1 million.
One other name to consider is Corey Patterson. The St. Louis Cardinals acquired him in a trade at the deadline last year, but declined his 2012 option. He's been a mercenary over the past three seasons, spending time with five different teams. At times showing the potential the Chicago Cubs saw when they drafted him third overall in the 1998 draft, Patterson has failed to live up to expectations. However, even at 32 years old, he still has speed, having stolen 34 bases in 47 attempts in the last two seasons. He doesn't provide much in the way of contact or on-base skills, but he has more power than Pierre and Harris, so he could be used late in the game when a double or home run would be helpful as well. Patterson earned $900,000 last year and is not in any position to ask for more, so he would fit within the Phillies' budget as they are ever mindful of the luxury tax threshold.
As presently constructed, the Phillies are a team that should finish at least in the mid-90's in terms of wins. Players like Pierre, Harris, and Patterson would not push them into a better playoff position. We have seen over the last three seasons, however, that one small thing can mean the difference between the Phillies watching the next round of the playoffs at home, or writing that chapter themselves.


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As they ordered her to walk backwards toward them she told officers, "I'm pregnant, so I don't wanna get shot."
Viewers tweeted their disbelief at her actions, suggesting that perhaps trying to buy drugs wasn't the smartest thing she could have done.
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In 1915, New York City was a city on the rise. Its skyscrapers soared higher than any other buildings in the world, manifesting the surging ambition of a young country that was transforming itself with technological prowess. Europe was at war while American industry was generating jobs and products that promised to improve daily life. But American inventiveness extended beyond industry. In New York City, a handful of artists were striving to create American modern art.
This circle included the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who described the endeavor as a quest for "the Great American Thing."
O'Keeffe's phrase is the title of both a book and an exhibition: "The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935." Organized by the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, the exhibition will be an inaugural exhibition for the Figge from September 17, 2005, to January 1, 2006. The Tacoma Art Museum will present the exhibition from February 4 to May 21, 2006. Both the Figge and the Tacoma Art Museum are newly rebuilt institutions and share the ambition to provide their regions with exhibitions of national importance.
Published in 1999, the book and its companion exhibition present an overlooked chapter in the history of American modernism. Between the wars, artists on both sides of the Atlantic were creating a new visual language celebrating an America not of virgin wilderness but of ingenuity and invention. They used tools of the new styles--cubism, expressionism, and dadaism--to render America's sinuous, glistening, engineered world, from spark plugs and dynamos to factories, suspension bridges, and skyscrapers.
"The prevailing metanarrative is that modern art starts in the United States after World War Two," says Wanda M. Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University, author of the book and exhibition cocurator. "We want to reestablish the early story of modernism and the sense that New York had in the teens and twenties of rivaling Paris. The history of New York as an art capital starts here.
"These artists also created a certain identity for New York that we still depend upon as an index of its special-ness," continues Corn, "skyscrapers, the Brooklyn Bridge, Broadway. They helped to index the highlights of a tour around Manhattan. It's what we all do when we go to New York."
The exhibition presents more than 130 paintings, photographs, and sculptures as well as related objects such as books, consumer products, and films of the era. "What is so appealing about the book and carried through in the exhibition is the relationship between art and what inspired it," says Linda Downs, director of the Figge Art Museum, who proposed transforming the book into an exhibition.
Drawing from the themes in Corn's book, the exhibition brings together the different currents of first-generation American modernism. Its sections comprise: "The Modernists in Formation," "Transatlantic Exchange," "Engineered America," "Jazz America," "Ancestral America," and "Spiritual America."
"The transatlantics saw America in the hard lines of skyscrapers and the shiny surfaces of art deco cocktail shakers," says Patricia McDonnell, exhibition cocurator and chief curator of the Tacoma Art Museum. "They believed American culture was defined by its brand-newness, engineering ingenuity, popular culture, and jazz. They appreciated America as bold and young, not mired in tradition."
Some American modernists looked homeward, to a native architecture of the practical, from factories, grain elevators, and barns to the artisanship of an early America, including plain folk art. They also turned to nature--but not as representational artists. Instead of painting grand vistas, they rendered close-up encounters with the sublime, using the tools of cubism and abstraction that they also applied to machines.
While American enterprises built skyscrapers, the headquarters of American modernism initially were the Manhattan galleries of photographer Alfred Stieglitz. New Jersey-born Stieglitz became a fine-art photographer in Germany and then moved to New York, where he presented some of the first American exhibitions of Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso, and Brancusi.
"Our story begins when Stieglitz decides that his mission is not to bring European modernism to America, but rather to sponsor and support American artists who can make American art," says Corn. "They felt that their country had always been culturally inferior to Europe. But they believed that they had the smarts and the energy and the will to do something in New York. And Europeans helped them believe that."
Stieglitz nurtured and promoted his circle of "Seven Americans," a group that included himself, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, and a variable seventh member, whom Stieglitz referred to as "six + X." This person was often Charles Demuth.
The exhibition presents works of the Stieglitz circle and the broader avant-garde community, including Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and Max Weber; photographers Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, and Margaret Bourke-White; African American artists Romare Bearden and Archibald J. Motley Jr.; and artists with roots in both continents, such as Joseph Stella, George Grosz, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp.
When Duchamp moved to New York in 1915, he already had a reputation as an iconoclast. His painting Nude Descending a Staircase had caused a scandal at the monumental 1913 Armory Show, which introduced America to European modernists. He and fellow Parisian Picabia set about creating an American wing of dada, an anti-aesthetic movement that grew out of reaction to World War I. They found in American consumerism and engineering fresh material to express inner experience and satirize art-world pieties, including those of their American modernist allies.
Europeans were the first to recognize American technical ingenuity as a cultural force. In his Berlin studio, dadaist George Grosz pinned up a photo of Henry Ford. European-born architects such as Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius admired and sketched plain, practical American structures such as factories and grain elevators.
The exhibition demonstrates the convoluted interplay between European and American modernists. At home and overseas, Americans gained confidence in their own culture as they absorbed Europeans' fervor for American jazz, consumer products, and feats of engineering.
In the process, they distilled their shared experience into a new language. Decades before the soup cans of Andy Warhol and the flags of Jasper Johns, these early modernists incorporated the Stars and Stripes and brand-name products into art.
But the qualities that distinguished America could vary with the eye of the beholder. Some yearned for a preindustrial America. Inspired by viewing Native American artifacts in the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, Maine-born Marsden Hartley visited the Southwest. Back in Germany, he painted his "Amerika" series, which rendered American tribal motifs for a German audience.
Jazz was an American invention that captivated the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic. Here was music grounded in a syncopated, offbeat tempo but as open to new ingredients as a Creole gumbo. European fans packed American-style jazz clubs.
The exhibition's "Jazz America" section displays film clips of performances from the twenties and thirties by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington. Motley's Blues renders the energy and exuberance of a Chicago jazz club with cool curves and hot colors. Yet Motley painted the scene after visiting a Paris club, where people went to enjoy the new American music.
In this golden age of the ocean liner, artists frequently crossed the Atlantic. They celebrated their Le Havre-New York connection by painting the sleek machines that transported them.
Charles Demuth's Paquebot "Paris" is accompanied by photographs of the ship as well as cruise posters, souvenir programs, and postcards. The painting demonstrates a precisionist's focus on form.
Demuth uses the cool-tempered devices of mass media advertising, dadaist humor, and cubist geometry to create images of great warmth. In the "Engineered America" section, Demuth's Lancaster, 1921, and Buildings, Lancaster, 1930, are hometown scenes. In the later painting, a golden-yellow sign identifies a local business that stands in scale with the other mid-rise buildings on the street.
Demuth portrayed his friends by creating economical and precise visual poems on handmade posters. In Poster Portrait: Dove, Demuth uses symbols of sea and soil to evoke the earthbound experiences that inspired his friend, whose name hovers dove white in the sky.
Like transatlantic travel, New York looms large as a subject in the exhibition.
"By 1920, the new New York of skyscrapers, bridges, and bustling crowds had come to be a big subject for modernists on both sides of the Atlantic," writes Corn. "They took New York as their subject so that its greatness could be theirs."
The "Engineering America" section displays Manhatta, a seven-minutesilent film made in 1920 by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler. Their Whitmanesque hymn to a day in the city conveys the energy and grandeur of a young Manhattan and its builders. Commuters parade off the Staten Island ferry. Men wearing straw boaters stride along on the sidewalks, their raked shadows cutting an image of Jazz Age verve. In a slow pan, the camera ogles the flank of a skyscraper. Steel workers straddle the frames of new buildings. Even the tugboats move with spunk in this rhapsody to Manhattan.
But as Corn notes in her book, not every artist shared such euphoria. Edward Hopper painted downbeat, lonely scenes. The urban realists of the Ashcan School rendered close-ups of city life in its grit and occasional grace.
The Stieglitz circle cast long views of the city that focused on forms rather than people. Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator Building-Night, New York shears away most of the building's ornate trim and tiers and turns it into a shaft of pulsing light. She adds a touch of dada playfulness by putting the name of Stieglitz in lights, like a Broadway sign.
Dadaists crossbred art and technology. Duchamp's Traveler's Folding Item--an Underwood typewriter cover--stands near a noiseless Underwood typewriter of the period and Ralph Steiner's 1921 photograph, "Typewriter Keys." His close-up endows the prim buttons with the visual rhythm of a piano keyboard.
Looking homeward, artists also sought an authentic America beyond New York City. The "Ancestral America" section features works by O'Keeffe and Hartley, who explored Native American arts and rituals in Santa Fe and Taos, where O'Keeffe spent the last four decades of her long life.
Turning her eye from skyscrapers to animal skeletons, O'Keeffe transformed a clichéd icon of the American West--bleached animal skulls--into images of spare intensity.
This section also presents works of Romare Bearden and William Henry Johnson, who drew upon their African American roots in the rural South.
A new appetite for collecting Americana offered still another source of an authentic America: early crafts and artwork with a formal simplicity that appealed to modernists.
Known for creating icons of industrial art, Sheeler surrounded himself with traditional American furniture. He rendered these objects of daily life with a modernist's eye for structure. Born from an American love of the particular and real, Sheeler's images are simultaneously precise descriptions and revelatory abstractions, whether his eye is trained on a barn, a blast furnace, or the band of light across a Shaker table.
The section entitled "Spiritual America" unites all of the Stieglitz Seven, who shared a modernist strain of American transcendentalism. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, they sought experiences of the sublime in nature. But they rendered these intimate encounters with modernist tools that abstract and distill experiences.
Dove's Sunrise is a spare yet voluptuous rendering of the moment-by-moment mutations of the sun. O'Keeffe's Oak Leaves, Pink and Grey is a luminous, nearly touchable close-up of dying leaves.
Modernist values of economy and distillation extended to other arts, including literature. The exhibition brings out this point by displaying quotations from prominent writers of the day.
"Ezra Pound edited T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land with the principle to remove non-performing words," says Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and an exhibition adviser. "His act of compression increases the power of the poem. He was in sync with modernist, machine-age ideas from engineering that a machine is most efficient if its designer eliminates unnecessary parts. This exhibition demonstrates the importance and reach of America's material culture."
Critics may overlook this first chapter of American modernism but artists continue to learn from its pathfinders.
"Generations of artists across the twentieth century have turned to this pioneering group as a source of inspiration," says McDonnell. "Any number of contemporary painters still look back to them and find content and formal devices to emulate, including the incredible paint handling and pictorial vocabulary that they generated."


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Gamasutra has a great write-up of a Game Developers Conference Austin panel wherein Tracy Seamster of ZeniMax Online and Steve Danuser of 38 Studios talk massively multiplayer online game writing.
To me, MMO writing seems tough. There's just so much text to take into account like menu text, quest text and dialogue trees (to say nothing of scripting actual cinema scenes and race- or class-specific flavour text). Keeping the tone and pace of a game consistent across all of that and actually crafting a basis for a story or an instance sounds especially daunting. So no wonder both Seamster and Danuser had tons of examples of writing gone wrong in MMOs.
Here's a good bit:
Writers should "get over themselves", [Danuser]stated plainly. Instead of trying to saddle any single player with an epic destiny, the gameworld itself should provide a backdrop for collaborative heroism. Framing the narrative to promote teamwork, and creating narrative events that challenge the playerbase as a whole, allows for the epic tales writers crave.
Check it out, if you've got the time or possibly the aspiration to become an MMO writer.
GDC Austin: Writing for MMOs: You're Doing it Wrong [Gamasutra]


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House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders should convene a conference committee as quickly as possible to complete a farm bill conference report by late January or early February, farm groups said.
The groups, which include American Farm Bureau Federation, commodity organizations and several crop insurance associations, wrote Chairmen Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and ranking members Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., urging them to name the conference committee members quickly.
"As you know, this is the time of year when farm and ranch families, along with their lenders, need to make serious financial decisions for the upcoming crop year," the groups said. "Some farm families actually expect to head into the fields in just two months and, of course, fall-planted crops are already in the ground.
"So we cannot overstate the critical importance of completing the Farm Bill and having a safety net in place by late January or early February."
The groups said the believe both versions of the farm bill passed by the House and Senate provide a strong safety net for farmers and ranchers and meet "critical new needs" in the areas of conservation, nutrition, rural development, and renewable energy.
"We are especially encouraged by the bipartisan and overwhelming support for this vitally important legislation which you and the members of your committees worked hard to craft and move forward in the face of considerable challenges," the letter said.
Informal conference negotiations are expected to begin in early January. The House is scheduled to return from the holiday recess on Jan. 15 and the Senate on Jan. 22.
"The need to improve nutrition for children and low-income families, as well as the conservation, rural development, and renewable energy incentives advanced in the House and Senate Farm Bills add even greater urgency to the timely completion of this must-pass bill," the letter said.
"We applaud the bipartisan decision of Congress to move forward on the authorization of a full, five-year farm bill," it said. "Sound policy and long-term certainty are absolutely essential for everyone served by the farm bill and the versions produced by the House and the Senate offer both.
"As Congress prepares to adjourn for the year, we appreciate the three month extension of current law which will preserve the budget baseline and avoid disruption."
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Lively Stone Pentacostal to host appreciation program
Lively Stone Pentacostal Church will host an appreciation program honoring Bro. Patrick Loudrmilk at 6 p.m. Saturday. The event will be held at the church, located at 1204 N. Maple in Stuttgart.
First Missionary Baptist to hold youth conference
First Missionary Baptist Church in Stuttgart will host the SWAAG Youth Conference Aug. 8-10.
The SWAAG (Serving, Worshipping An Awesome God) conference will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday Aug. 8, 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10.
The conference will include a praise dance workshop, choir workshop and oratorical class. All youth in the community are encouraged to attend.
First Missionary Baptist Church, led by Rev. C.E. Hawkins Sr., is located at 606 N. Porter St. in Stuttgart.
Back to School revival planned
The New Creation Youth Group will host a Back to School Revival Aug. 9-10 at Lively Stone Pentacostal Church, 1204 N. Maple St. in Stuttgart.
The revival will be held at 6 p.m. nightly and will feature Minister James E. Tyson II, Dominion Youth Leader of Calvary International Ministries in Youngstown, Ohio.
For more information, contact Lamonica Turner at (870) 344-2191, Brianna Harris at (870) 830-9098 or Sontreka Johnson at (870) 456-0262.


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A distant cousin of the Stranger, involving atleast one glove, having the appearance of a gorilla's mitt. The subject shall proceed in to pleasuring him or herself whilst pleading for mercy aloud and taking moment to immitate his assailant's grunts. One might also fantasize about standing too close to the gorilla cage and/or being caught outside in the wilderness by some beast. This act is often performed in a private zoo type setting or while watching Animal Planet.
"Last night I was watching a documentary on mating rituals of other primates for school, so to get in the mood I decided to hook myself up with an Anonymous Gorilla."
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Week 2: Winter. What was winter like where and when you grew up? Describe not only the climate, but how the season influenced your activities, food choices, etc.
This challenge runs from Saturday, January 8, 2011 through Friday, January 14, 2011.
Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog (http://wetree.blogspot.com/) has yet another successful series on her hands: 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History (http://www.geneabloggers.com/52-weeks-personal-genealogy-history/).
No. It's not winter here in Australia. It's the middle of summer. The heat, humidity, bright sunshine, thunderstorms, cicadas singing, cats bringing mice in, bark falling off the gum trees, kids screaming and splashing in neighbours' pools; all these things tell us it's summer in Sydney.
Summer in Dubbo where I grew up was hot. Dubbo is in western New South Wales, in the middle of wheat and sheep country. It was a dry heat but it got much hotter than it does here in Sydney. I do not like the heat.
Christmas was a bit strange. We send each other postcards with snow and icicles and so on when outside it is pushing 40C. Some of us still have a big baked dinner in the middle of the day, heating the house up even more with the oven.
I much prefer winter. It is easier to keep warm in winter than to keep cool in summer. I like the cocooning thing, of closing the house up and keeping warm. I like the clothes better, too.
My mother grew up in Blayney, where it is colder than Dubbo. Her family all seem to remember the day it snowed and they all went up on the hill behind the house and played with the snow. They point to the hill and say 'remember when it snowed…'. So snow wasn't common.
I had never seen snow until I travelled overseas to Switzerland. Later I saw it at the Grand Canyon in the US. When I was 16 I went on a school excursion to Tasmania and we saw some old dirty snow on the mountain behind Hobart but I don't think that really counts. We scraped up what we could and made it into balls and threw it at each other.
Winter in Dubbo wasn't a big deal. It doesn't snow. It gets cold, but I don't remember it being a big issue. We had a wood-burning stove, the type that was enamelled and had little mica windows that you couldn't see through. That's how I learned to light a fire. It had to be lit when I got home from school, before Mum came home from work. We used to build cubby houses (sort of) out of the firewood before it was stacked away in the shed.
Later we moved to a house with an oil-heater. The tank was on the wall in the car port outside the lounge room wall where the heater was, and a truck would come and fill it once a year.
The only other difference about winter was the clothes. We would need a jumper, and perhaps a jacket. I had a black dufflecoat in high school, one of those ones with wooden toggles on the front. I didn't particularly like it so I swapped it with my boyfriend for his army greatcoat. A lot of my friends had dufflecoats too. And desert boots. Do they still make desert boots?
I've tried to find a photo from my childhood that shows 'winter' and I can't find any. Pictures of people in front of the heater in the fireplace are not very inspiring. This is a picture of me dressed up for work in front of the fireplace in a fuzzy jacket. I was about 15. The shiny black shoes had a red and a yellow stripe across them. Ah, those were the days!
The picture is interesting, though, even though it is not very wintery. You can see we'd been to Fiji, where winter means you may have to put on a light cardigan and it doesn't rain so much. We had a black and white TV that my uncle had given us when he bought a colour one. By the time my family bought a colour one I had left home and I got this black and white one.
The baby picture on the mantle piece is of me. I'm the eldest, and that's the price we have to pay. The mural on the wall came from my uncle too, from memory, but I can't remember the circumstances. The heater had a vent at the back that went through into the kitchen/dining room, so the door could be closed and the rooms both stay warm.
At least I've been prompted to do some more photo scanning!


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Danbury football team looks to get 'Bigger. Faster. Stronger.'
DANBURY -- As members of the Danbury High football team lugged away equipment and headed for the home locker room after a recent scrimmage, seven players lingered behind. Keeping them company were an assistant coach and about 300 pounds of tractor tire.
One by one, these players -- who weren't eligible to partake in the preseason's first game action -- bent and grunted and flipped the comically large hunk of rubber along the sideline, as if trying to squeeze a summer's worth of heavy lifting into a half-hour session. Which, given their collective shirking of summer workouts, was precisely the assignment.
Culture change gets tossed around a lot in sports. But at Danbury -- routinely home to one of the state's largest enrollments, though lately with little gridiron glory to show for it -- they are serious about just that: changing. Even if it means suffering a few more losses -- on the roster, in the standings -- for the sake of doing things right.
And since the 2012 holiday break, a 2-8 season marred by a seven-game losing skid behind them, the Hatters have boiled that sentiment down to three words: Bigger. Faster. Stronger.
"We instituted an off-season lifting program (code name: Bigger-Faster-Stronger) with certain goals," said Dan Donovan, the Hatters' fifth-year coach.
"These guys," Donovan said, referring to the tire-flippers, "are making up lifts. They're not allowed to participate until they make a certain number.
"It's going to hurt us with our numbers, but it's something we needed to do. We needed a change up here."
On the, um, flip side, the Hatters return a core of seniors -- many of them occupying key roles in a high-powered offense -- who are determined to end their careers on a winning note.
"We have a lot of guys back, guys who are dedicated," said senior receiver Elijah Duffy, who last year shared snaps with 2013 starter Anferny Ith. "These are guys who want to play."
Donovan estimates that "90 percent" of his players bought into the rigorous off-season program, which, in addition to a weekly weight-training regimen, consisted of meeting at the field throughout the summer and conducting practices without the supervision of a coach.
As for the other 10 percent?
"We're usually in their ear," Duffy said.
"We don't want them to hurt the team," added senior center Jacob Reich. "(The participating players) got a whole lot stronger. Even in the scrimmages so far, we can see how much stronger we are. A couple of years ago, we couldn't really hold our own against certain lines. But now we're pushing them back."
The "Faster" portion of BFS was largely in place. Now in their second year operating out of a spread offense, the Hatters are armed with the experiened offensive line, the self-assured quarterback and the array of playmakers necessary to trade points with the FCIAC's best.
"The whole purpose of this offense is to try to get our athletes in space," Donovan said. "If I can get my running back or my wide receivers one-on-one with somebody, we won't win every time but we will win a lot of the time."
Of course, winning a lot of the time has been a long time coming. Having finished at or below .500 each of the last eight seasons, dwindling numbers on the field have coincided with diminishing attendance for the Hatters.
Yet, in addition to heeding his training regimen, these seniors share their coach's passion for changing the trajectory of Danbury football.
"That was one of my goals since middle school, to be that senior team that brought back Danbury High football," Reich said. "With all sports, the school spirit has gotten low. If we have a successful football season, that'll definitely bring it back. That would just be an awesome thing, to go out swinging."


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The Esquire Man Has Always Been a Pig About Women
Esquire UK editor Alex Bilmes has kicked up a stir by making the subtext of his publication text—more specifically by saying at a conference in London that "I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in [women's] brains as well. We are not. They are objectified." His remarks may have seemed crude. But as a gallery of vintage Esquire covers pulled together by BuzzFeed makes clear, Bilmes was squarely in keeping with his publication's tradition. Apparently, gazing bug-eyed at a beautiful woman has always been a good look for sophisticated gentlemen, no matter the year or season.
Many of the early covers featured the Esquire mascot, Esky, a Claymation fellow with eyes open so wide they appear to be lidless, and a straw-colored moustache. Sometimes he's surrounded by beautiful women, burying him in sand at the beach or enjoying the spray at the prow of a boat. But far more often, he's stealing a peek, whether he's ogling the low neckline of his partner in a duet, ignoring his age-appropriate wife for a younger beauty, or using his job as a beauty pageant judge to cop a feel while measuring a contestant.
By contemporary standards, Esky looks like a perv, and even a little pathetic. But by the 1940s, everyone else had gotten in on the act that he pioneered. Football players at the line were distracted by a chipper cheerleader. In 1967, a so-called gentleman in a suit and hat cops a feel from a young lady in a sherbert dress. The magazine even started giving advice on things like "The New Intimacy," a story with a cover line that promised readers they'd learn "How to frisk, wallow, rub, etc..." A cover on an excerpt of Gay Talese's book on the sexual revolution, Thy Neighbor's Wife, is promoted as "Gay Talese On The Man Who Fell In Love With This Picture."
Once readers were trained up, Esky and his surrogates disappeared from the cover, and the women left alone on it began talking directly to readers. "So You Think You're Hip. We'll Show You Hip..." promises one braless temptress in a top hat and carrying a cane. A girl from 1980, looking directly out from the cover, is thinking "I have a good job and a condo on the beach. I run four miles a day and play tennis twice a week. I'm in perfect health, and my roller skates cost $100. I guess you could say I'm unhappy."
For a brief moment, it seemed, Esquire women were in conversation with the men who are reading about them. But it didn't last long. Women became items on a list in "Women We Love...And Women We Don't." Robert Mapplethorpe's vision defined a naked Susan Sarandon for "Unforgettable Women." And by 1995 Demi Moore's value was not as an actress, but as "The Last Pinup." By 1999, a woman wasn't even a whole person with "The Triumph of Cleavage Culture." Esquire men don't have to talk to the women on their magazine covers any more. The pin-ups, like the girls that Esky looked at and frolicked with, have been so reduced to object status they might as well be made of clay.


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Stacy Keibler Takes George Clooney's Dog For A Walk
Stacy Keibler goes for a hike at Fryman Canyon on Thursday (January 5) in Los Angeles.
The 32-year-old actress and former WWE wrestler, wearing GapFit, brought along a special workout buddy – boyfriend George Clooney's rescue dog, Einstein!
Over the weekend, Stacy and George soaked up the sun while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas with Alex Rodriguez and his new girlfriend Torrie Wilson, who's also a former WWE wrestler and one of Stacy's friends.
15+ pictures inside of Stacy Keibler walking George Clooney's dog…


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By Nancy Train Smith
Artist Nancy Train Smith on the Museum terrace with her "swimming" terra cotta fish.
Migration: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2013, is the final iteration of a project I have been working on for over 5 years, beginning with the Dartmouth Natural Resource Trust's decision to create The River Project, a show of landscape scaled work on the Slocum River Reserve.
Migration began in 2009 as a "school" of 130 terra cotta fish "swimming" through a field of tall grass and wild flowers on the Reserve. After the initial 10 month showing the piece was dismantled and moved to several other venues, including the Matt Burton Gallery in Surf City, NJ, and The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. Ultimately the piece was broken into smaller groups and now lives on in many private gardens up and down the East Coast. As I worked on the project the fish, as it were, continued to evolve. I began making more elaborate fish out of stoneware clay, firing them in Chris Gustin's anagama kiln in South Dartmouth, and also in an anagama at St. Pete's Clay in St. Petersburg, FL. An anagama kiln is fired exclusively with wood to a high temperature (2300 degrees) over a period of one week, and the atmosphere of the fire creates the natural patina seen on the Whaling Museum piece.
In the summer of 2012 this group of stoneware fish were shown together at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Edgecomb, ME, and faced subsequent dispersal. At that point the Collection Committee at the Whaling Museum stepped in, and to my delight acquired the whole school so that it could be permanently installed as they are meant to be. The piece is kept intact and this is the best possible outcome. Installation work like this does not really come to life until it is completed by strategic placement in the landscape. The placement is symbolic as it overlooks New Bedford's fishing fleet that speaks so eloquently to the identity of our area.
Placement on the terrace viewable from the San Francisco Room deck, while aesthetically perfect, came with certain structural challenges. In order for the fish to "swim" there had to be a system for holding them in place without being too obvious. The system, or armature, ended up being a collaborative effort involving my design and Olivier and Sons Metal Works craftsmanship plus the hard work of Museum staff.
The mastermind behind the design of the armature was Mike Olivier. Although I had made a rough model of the piece as I saw it, we both came to the conclusion that we had to lay it out in "real" space in order to see how to fabricate the support system. Mike gave me a role of tar paper, and sent me back to my studio to cut out "shadows" of the 34 fish. When I came back to his shop he had rolled out more tar paper to the exact dimensions of the roof, and I was able to lay the tar paper fish on it and move them around until I was satisfied with the placement. I stood on a 15-foot ladder to simulate the view from the deck. By recreating the actual space of the roof we could come up with an accurate representation of what we were going after. This was essential because once the steel was fabricated there were going to be no 2nd chances to get it right. Mike's ability to see exactly what needed to be done and to execute it with consummate craftsmanship was fundamental in the success of the project.
When everything was ready, we began the task of bringing the steel pieces in and up. Unfortunately after everything was laid out, I looked down from the balcony and saw that the piece was too parallel to the building, thus "killing" the dynamic sense of movement. I had to take a deep breath before I told Mike that we had to change the angle of the whole 750 lb structure! By the end of the first afternoon, we had the angle just right, and we called it a day.
The second day involved bringing the steel "staples" which hold the fish to the roof and cut each one individually to the correct height. Each staple is cushioned with vinyl tubing at every point where the ceramic touches steel.
Finally by the end of the third day all 34 fish were in place, and I had the thrill of seeing come to life what had existed only in my mind.
"Mostly, I want people to have a moment where they think about it and enjoy it… I want people to daydream; that's what I want."
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2010 ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention
2010 All WWPA 2nd Team
2008 WWPA All-Freshman Team
AS A JUNIOR IN 2010: Helped power the Bronco offense, starting in all 34 games... led the team with 59 goals...registered 22 assists...21 steals...and 15 kick outs drawn... Scored two goals while drawing three ejections against Princeton (9/10)… found the back of the net twice while assisting on two goals against George Washington (9/11)… registered three goals and two assists against Harvard (9/12)… scored four goals while adding an assist and a steal versus Chapman (10/1)… scored two goals against LMU (10/2)… scored three goals while adding a field block against Pomona (10/9)… scored twice against Occidental (10/9)… collected four goals, two steals and an earned ejection in a win over Bucknell (10/24)… found the back of the net five times while adding two steals and a field block in a win over Air Force (10/24)… scored a goal against Cal (11/11)… scored four goals while adding two steals against Claremont Mckenna (11/19).
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2009: The Broncos' sprinter ... started in 31 of 33 matches played and scored 30 goals with 37 assists ... led the team with 40 steals and also drew 11 ejections and one 5-meter shot ... scored four goals in season opener against MIT (9/11) ... recorded four goals and four steals against No. 14 Air Force (9/19) at the NorCal Invitational ... two goals against Pomona-Pitzer (10/3) ... scored twice in win over California Baptist at the Rodeo (10/24).
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2008: Named to the WWPA All-Freshman Team ... started in all 30 of the Broncos' matches... won 84 of 107 sprints for the Broncos ... scored 16 goals on 61 attempts ... added 12 assists ... tallied 22 steals and three field blocks ... drew 14 ejections and five 5-meter penalties ... scored his first collegiate goal against George Washington (Sept. 14).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2008 graduate of Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn. ... coached by Terry Lowe ... helped his team go 34-3 in 2007 and win the Eastern Interscholastic Championships ... named Eastern Interscholastic water polo MVP in 2007 ... fourth team All-American in 2006 and first team All-American in 2007 ... scored 228 career goals, had 143 career assists and 211 career steals ... part of the 2007 Youth National Team ... played in Italy, Croatia, Serbia and Greece with Greenwich water polo ... Junior Olympics All-American in 2004 and '06 ... also swam for Greenwich ... named state MVP in 2007 and '08 ... named Fairfield County swimming MVP in 2008 ... captain of water polo and swim team ... All-American in the 50 and 100 freestyle, the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and honorable mention All-American in three other events ... member of the honor roll, National Honor Society, student government and power nap club.
PERSONAL: Parents are Jim and Nancy Case ... has a younger sister ... enjoys listening to music, playing video games and body surfing in his free time ... major is mechanical engineering.