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MEQUON, Wis. - Playing in their first game back after exactly five weeks away from live competition, the Concordia University Wisconsin men's hockey team will return to the rink for two games against Finlandia University, starting on Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Ozaukee Ice Center.
For any fans unable to make it to Friday's game, live video/play-by-play and live stats will be provided.
The Falcons' last game was over a month ago on December 9, when they hosted Gustavus Adolphus College in what was the grand opening of the new sheet of ice at the OIC.
This weekend will also serve as a special occasion at the home of the Falcons, as one of the most historic items in all of sports, the Stanley Cup, will be in the building for public viewing on Saturday.
On the ice, CUW (1-10-2, 1-6-1 NCHA) will hope to start the season's second half on a high note after some solid performances didn't turn into positive results during the first half of the year.
The sophomore duo of Russell Johnson (Monticello, Minn.) and Shay Klitzke (Annandale, Minn.) has led the team offensively thus far, as Johnson leads the Falcons in goals with nine, while Klitzke holds the team-lead in assists with seven.
Freshman goaltender Josh Lehr (Appleton, Wis.) has also had a nice start to his first season in a CUW uniform, posting a .899 save percentage against some top competition.
Finlandia (1-11-0, 1-7-0 NCHA) will also be playing in their first games back after a five-week spell away from game action, and will be looking to get off to a fast start after a disappointing first half.
The Lions are led sophomore forward Collin Saint-Onge, who has scored six goals to go with six assists so far this season.
Friday's game will begin at 7 p.m., before Saturday's action starts at 2 p.m.


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This post discusses the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) unnumbered and describes the configuration procedures for the Mellanox Spectrum installed with Cumulus Linux OS.
Unnumbered L3 interfaces are interfaces
unique IP addresses. In BGP, you configure unnumbered interfaces using
Extended Next Hop Encoding
(ENHE), which is defined by
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. BGP unnumbered interfaces provide a means of advertising an IPv4 route with an IPv6 next-hop. Prior to RFC 5549, an IPv4 route could be advertised only with an IPv4 next-hop.
BGP unnumbered interfaces are particularly useful in deployments where IPv4 prefixes are advertised through BGP over a section without any IPv4 address configuration on links. As a result, the routing entries are also IPv4 for destination lookup and have IPv6 next-hops for forwarding purposes.
Once enabled and active, BGP makes use of the available IPv6 next-hops for advertising any IPv4 prefixes. BGP learns the prefixes, calculates the routes, and installs them in IPv4 AFI-to-IPv6 AFI format. However, ENHE in a Mellanox switch (running Cumulus Linux) does not install routes into the kernel in IPv4 prefix-to-IPv6 next-hop format. For link-local peering enabled by dynamically learning the other end's link-local address using IPv6 neighbor discovery router advertisements, an IPv6 next-hop is converted into an IPv4 link-local address and a static neighbor entry is installed for this IPv4 link-local address with the MAC address derived from the link-local address of the other end.
1. Enable the IPv6 neighbor discovery.
# net add interface swp1 ipv6 nd ra-interval 5
# net del interface swp1 ipv6 nd suppress-ra
2. Create a loopback interface (router ID).
# net add loopback lo ip address 22.214.171.124/32
3. Create a loopback interface for adding a network, which can be advertised over the BGP connection.
4. Configure BGP with an Autonomous System (AS) number of 65000.
# net add bgp router-id 18.104.22.168
5. Configure BGP unnumbered with "group name as Fabric".
# net add bgp bestpath compare-routerid
# net add bgp neighbor fabric peer-group
# net add bgp neighbor fabric remote-as external
The first mention of a regular circle at 2 Great Coram Street is to be found in the February 1869 issues of Human Nature and of The Spiritual Magazine of that time, the latter linking the seances at Great Coram Street directly to the formation of the Spiritual Institute, with which Cogman and James Burns were closely involved:
Herne is named as one of the mediums -- at the time, Herne is a "trance medium," and there are several mediums sitting -- at Great Coram Street as of June 1869, in the October 1869 issue of :
The Coram Street seances appear to cease in August of 1869, and it is about a year -- August of 1870 -- until we see Herne in the Spiritualist record, sitting for (failed) seances at the Spiritual Institution in Southampton Row.
At this time -- early April of 1871 -- Herne is a trance medium, a direct voice medium, and a medium for physical manifestations, including the usual range of telekinetic effects, levitation, and apportation. He has not yet had any direct experience of sitting in a locked physical cabinet, but will do so in October of 1871, during work with Catherine Berry (see, for example, her , p. 85); he (and Williams, it should be said, locked in together) is able to produce partial spirit-forms at the margin of the cabinet.
In May of 1871, Herne is apported to Mrs. Guppy's house, as I've mentioned already . This is followed in June of 1871 by Mrs. Guppy's apportation to Lamb's Conduit Street.
In September of 1871, Herne and Williams travel north, to Newcastle, where they leave a strong impression on a newly-converted Spiritualist, Annie Fairlamb (Mellon Gleave), who noted in for May 28 of 1904 that her exposure to Herne and Williams' physical manifestations while in Newcastle was "my initiation into our movement."
At roughly the same time, the German expatriate musician Christian Reimers, having sat without impact with Mary Marshall, has his skepticism "smashed to pieces" by his experiences in Lamb's Conduit Street, becoming a staunch promoter and defender of Herne and Williams.
I'd like to be able to argue that Herne developed Florence Cook as a materializing medium, and I suppose there's a case to be made for that view, but it's important to note that Florence was controlled by Katie Cook as early as July of 1871: well after Katie controlled both Herne and Williams, but before the Spiritualist record shows either Herne or Williams working with Cook.
1872 is a brilliant year for Herne's mediumship. He and Williams are sitting gratis, weekly, at the Spiritual Institution, keeping regular hours at Lamb's Conduit Street for promiscuous seances, and performing privately for various wealthy Spiritualists, including Catherine Berry, who continues her locked, barred cabinet seances with the mediums. Mrs. Edmiston and Emily Kislingbury launch their Saturday Evening Seances for Spiritualists at the Lamb's Conduit Street rooms in January of 1872, mixng food, drink and musical entertainment with dark seances, for avowed Spiritualists only.
In April of 1872, Herne and Williams' spirit controls transport the American medium Lottie Fowler from am omnibus traveling down Oxford Street, to the seance rooms in Lamb's Conduit Street; for reasons that are not clear (perhaps Lottie Fowler's lack of reputation, or her foreign-ness) there is more scrutiny applied to this event, in the Spiritualist periodicals, than to Herne's transportation to Mrs. Guppy's house, or Mrs. Guppy's transportation to Lamb's Conduit Street.
Also in April, Herne begins working with Frederick Hudson, the photographer (who has been working with Mrs. Guppy for some time), and with a Mr. Dixon of Albany Road, as well as with several amateur photographers. Charles Williams is also involved in these activities, on occasion (see for example Henry E. Russell's article "An Afternoon with the Spirits at Kingston-on-Thames," in for October of 1872). The work done with Dixon is assisted, on at least one occasion, by "'M.A.,' a gentleman who recently communicated an account of extraordinary phenomena to the Medium and [the] Liverpool Mercury" -- that is, M. A. Oxon, the Rev. William Stainton Moses. Herne's spirit photography work is broadly endorsed, and by unexpected parties, including J. Enmore Jones (who changes his mind about Hudson in late April of 1872), Henry Bielfeld, and William Howitt, who wrote in the that he had visited Hudson with one of his daughters and
In May of 1872, J. Enmore Jones, who was unsettled by his discovery that "sham ghost pictures" could be produced on photographic plates by ordinary means, writes to the MD to say that he has done just that, and "I now state, as I stated in a note to Mr. Hudson, Spiritualists will no longer be satisfied with less than clear portraits of deceased relatives." Shortly thereafter, Hudson himself puts a notice in the MD that "In consequence of annoyance and reports, Mr. Hudson declines taking any more ghost or spirit-photographs unless under special conditions." By mid-June, the MD is uncertain about which position -- pro or con -- to take on Hudson, but the is not, pronouncing Hudson a fraud.
Herne was out of town, with Williams, working in and around Manchester in June of 1871. Williams returned to London before Herne, and in early July, while Herne is still out of London, Charles Williams writes to the MD (July 5 1872), to say that "having been advised by many that it was to my interest to dissolve partnership with Mr. Herne on account of his supposed proved complicity in a cheat, I have plainly, and as man to man, asked him whether such has been the case, and having received his denial, an willing to place credence in him." Williams goes on, in that letter, to complain about the mediums' treatment by W. H. Harrison in the pages of the Spiritualist: "He, believing that he has discovered incontrovertible marks of fraud implicating Mr. Herne, withdraws the shadow of his Aegis from us, and, more than than, throws most unnecessarily other insinuations at us in the columns of his paper, almost stating that, in consequence of these things, our genuine power to obtain manifestations has left us, and that we had lost the "voice." Williams denies this --- while admitting that "on former occasions we had temporarily lost the power and had been obliged to got to Mrs. Berry to recover it -- and winds up the letter by denying that he and Herne stole a crystal of some kind from Lizette Mackdougall Gregory.
The following week, Herne writes to the MD to defend his reputation:
We have only one known photograph of Frank Herne, and it happens to be a Hudson spirit-photograph, of Frank Herne and his "double," from Plate V of Georgina Houghton's (1882), which I included above.
When pressed, Herne suggested that the spirit in this photograph was not his spiritual body, but the spirit of his younger brother William, whom Herne said was dead. As far as I can tell, both of Herne's brothers -- William and John Thomas -- were alive and well in 1872. In fact, Herne places a notice in the January 3, 1873 issue of the MD, seeking "some eligible situation from which to make a start in life," for one of them.
The Hudson scandal has a very long tail ; it recurs for years. And the demand for spirit photography -- and for Frank Herne's participation in it -- does not abate, either. W. J. Champernowne conducts a significant batch of experiments in spirit photography at Kingston on Thames in August of 1872, with Herne and Williams as mediums, and declares that his results prove that genuine spirit photographs can be had, through Herne's mediumship. But C. P. B. Alsop has, I think, a plan to pluck Charles Williams -- and in so doing, pluck Frank Herne -- from the tarpit that spirit photography has become, by the fall of 1872, and he implements that plan in a letter published in the MD for August 9, 1872:
(We are close to the source, in August of 1872, of
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. Jennie Ferris Holmes is in London, with Nelson Holmes, and while the MD is recording the first full-form manifestations in Lamb's Conduit Street,
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Dr. John Dixon, Thomas Shorter, Amy Burns and others testify, in August, to the veracity of the form manifestations being produced at Lamb's Conduit Street -- with more than a few echoing C. P. B. Alsop's observation that the forms materialized outside the cabinet, while Herne and Williams are bound, look exactly like the spirits in Hudson's spirit photographs. By the end of the month, the chicken-hearted Burns remarks that "Messrs. Herne and Williams are obtaining manifestations of a higher order than have yet been obtained in England." Herne and Williams respond to the rising demand in an entirely pragmatic way: by raising their prices, restricting the total number of sitters per seance, and in particular by reducing the number of strangers -- that is, people likely to break conditions -- at each sitting.
(To understand just how involved these mediums and their promoters were with one another, at this time -- how they were literally in and out of one another's houses -- I encourage you to read "Materialized Spirit-Form Seances" in the December 13, 1872 issue of the MD.)
After trips to Yorkshire and the South of England in December of 1872 and January of 1873, Herne starts 1873 in Lamb's Conduit Street with Williams, contending with the effects of the massive demand for sittings for spirit faces and forms. Burns remarks in the MD at the end of January (1-24-1873) that "The public mediums in London are so crowded with visitors at present, that, though made heartily welcome everywhere, I seldom muster presumption enough to occupy space which might be far more usefully appropriated by an investigator. For this reason no special reports have of late been given as to what takes place in the rooms of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes; and Messrs. Herne and Williams have found it utterly impracticable to restrain their audiences within the limits of proper conditions, so that visitors have had to complain of the disadvantages incurred by the presence of such crowds at the seances."
At the end of January, perhaps exhausted by the crowds, Herne and Williams head north, to Newcastle.
(The US medium who will become known as Madame Louise Firman has arrived in London, at the end of January, and opened her rooms at 33 Percy Street, Bedford Square, where she conducts seances with her family, including her young son Alfred.)
In Newcastle, the demand for sittings for form manifestations is no less pressing; tickets to the pair's Newcastle events "notwithstanding the high charges of admission, were 'swallowed' up in a very short space of time." In Newcastle, for the first time I can locate in the record, Herne and Williams produce spirit-faces in a promiscuous public seance not held in Lamb's Conduit Street. In the Old Freemason's Hall in Newgate Street "at which there were present from twenty to twenty-two people, including three ladies....not all believers....
But the two are at odds, and Catherine Berry writes to the MD in early April of 1873 (4-4-1873) to say that she has never been entirely satisfied with manifestations of spirit faces and forms, that she is now convinced that some mediums' manifestations are not genuine, and that new test conditions are required:
Herne and Williams continue to run up against one another. More than one correspondent is curious to understand how it is that the same spirit controls -- John King, Katey King and Peter -- can be present at both men's circles, sometimes at the same time. Herne puts some distance between Williams and himself in July of 1873, returning to the places -- and the people -- he and Williams dazzled in Wales, the previous year. There, in late July, while Herne is restrained, the control Katey King (the younger) materializes in partial light next to Herne. Later, at Land's End, Herne is controlled by a female spirit who speaks Cornish, and he exhibits automatism under control.
Herne is back in London at the end of August of 1873, and recommences his public seances at the Spiritual Institution, under Catherine Berry's stewardship. In September he gives seances in Nottingham to a Spiritualist society that had form manifestations with the Holmeses, but which is at that time aware that the Holmes' mediumship is in question, and "many of the friends here have been, for some time, anxious to have similar phenomena repeated under conditions which would render collusion and trickery impossible." Herne obliges. In November, he sits in Brighton and Eastbourne for a period. Otherwise, he is giving regular seances at the Spiritual Institution for the balance of 1873. His seances are classical pre-form physical manifestations seances, with much direct voice, and occasional apports.
Herne remains out of London in early 1874, and may have been ill; he places a notice in the March 13, 1874 issue of the MD reading "Mr. Herne begs to inform his friends that he has returned to London for a short time. -- All communicates to be addressed to Herne's Oak, Rockmead Road, South Hackney. -- His health will not permit him to accept evening engagements; he will be glad to give day seances or receive his friends at the above address." He has been in, and is intended to return to, Brighton, where he is performing at public promiscuous seances, at 5s. a head. Robert Cooper and other prominent Spiritualists attend these, and the Brighton papers cover the seances, favorably.
In May of 1874, Herne makes a claim, while in Brighton, that -- it it is true -- is staggering. In its entirety, the MD's coverage of that claim reads as follows:
Until mid-year, anyway. Beginning in May of 1875, Herne's seances resume their focus on form materializations, and begin producing full-form manifestations of John King and Katie King (the elder), as well as Cissy, who is a young black female control who had begun appearing at Herne's seances only recently, having been a feature of Miss Catherine Wood's seances for some time.
In September of 1875, Herne lets it be known that he intends to travel, to New Zealand, for an extended trip, which apparently comes to naught.
In its December 17 issue, the MD notes, briefly that "Mr. Herne, of London, will give his first of a series of seances at the Spiritual Centre [the facilities of the Liverpool Psychological Society], 33 Russell Street, Liverpool, on Saturday 18th December at 8 o'clock. Admission, 20s. For six, 10s. for three and 4s.for one sitting."
In its December 31, 1875 issue, Burns included a short paragraph on these seances:
Harrison's account of the Brutal Outrage in Liverpool (capitalization quickly became de rigeur) was picked up by a half-dozen provincial papers as Yet Another Example of Fraudulent Spiritualism.
Herne returns from Liverpool in January of 1876, to the warmth of the Spiritual Institute. Whatever physical harm he sustained in the Outrage in Liverpool, it was insufficient to prevent "Mr. Herne and party" from being present "on the evening of New Year's Day" at the Spiritual Institution's New Year's soiree. His materialization seances at the Institute continue, and, in late January of 1876, Herne is the first London medium to channel Samuel Guppy, who died at Cork, Ireland on January the 18th. Bastian and Taylor materialized Guppy a day or so later at their materialization seance, where the spirit was recognized: by Herne, among the sitters. Burns -- who was apparently also present -- noted that the spirit of Guppy "was a facsimile of the original spirit-photograph taken by Mr. Hudson," a remark so knotty, when you think about it, that it can hardly be picked apart.
1876 is a quiet year for Herne, despite the fact that Catherine Berry's is published. But it is also a fateful one. In October of 1876, Frank Herne, and the recently-widowed London medium Caroline Bassett (Caroline Elizabeth Kyle 1824-1891) both sit for a series of seances with the influential and well-funded Dalston Association of Inquirers into Spiritualism. Bassett's husband and principal promoter, the English Spiritualist William Edwin Bassett (1830-1876), died in June 1876 (their child William having died in 1873), and Caroline Bassett -- who has worked with Florence Cook, Mrs. Guppy, and many other mediums in Herne's immediate circle -- is making her way in the world as a fee-taking medium, having been, while her husband was alive, "non-professional."
In April of 1878, Francis Gideon Herne and Caroline Kyle Bassett marry, inaugurating the second phases of one another's careers in English Spiritualism.
Along with the medium comes her developers (often, mediums themselves), her sponsor (who introduces her into public Spiritualism), her siblings, peers and coadjutors (who are developed with her, or who operate with her) and her promoters (who wave the flags and bang the drums, and do, or don't, stick with the medium through the ups and downs of the medium's career).
I've reached the point in my potting of the Great Materializers when I can no longer avoid the Two at the Top: Francis Gideon Herne and Charles Edward Williams. And with these two, come their two crowds, about which I need to say something, before tacking the Two themselves.
In miniature: Catherine Berry is significantly responsible for developing Frank Herne, and Joseph Adcock and Christopher Pierpont Brook Alsop are largely responsible for developing Charles Williams.
About Catherine Berry -- specifically, the lack of any organized sense of the trajectory of her life --
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. The coming-together of Herne and Williams represented, for her, the end of a period in her life, as a public Spiritualist and a widely-known developing medium whose particular gift was to amplify (and control) the power of young, usually male, mediums. After the rooms in Lamb's Conduit Street were opened in March of 1871, Catherine Berry wrote from her suite in the Hyde Park Hotel to James Burns at the , saying:
Herne and Williams met (for the second time, according to Herne), in the presence of Catherine Berry and C. P. B. Alsop, at a Williams' seance in Alsop's house in early March of 1871, and had, by the end of that month, gone into practice together, opening seance rooms in Lamb's Conduit Street.
So perhaps the place to start is here, with the founding of the Herne and Williams partnership, from the for April 15, 1871 (p. 157):
(For those of you who collect fun factoids, the probable reason for the location of the famous seance rooms at 61 Lamb's Conduit Street is, that C. P. B. Alsop's private residence was, at the time the rooms were taken, down the street at 13 Lamb's Conduit Street.)
Where Catherine Berry withdrew, following the launch of Herne and Williams as public mediums, C. P. B. Alsop, furniture and picture dealer, took a different tack. He leaned in on Herne and Williams' mediumship, becoming an early and frequent promoter of the two mediums and -- I surmise -- one of the people who brought form materialization from the US to England.
In July of 1849, a Christopher Alsop, commercial traveler, marries one Ann Ross, the daughter of a pawn broker, in Clerkenwell; I believe this is our Christopher, though one might gather from the marriage register that this Christopher's father is a "corn dealer" and still living.
After a period of time in the furniture trade (he and a man, George Mequire, who was perhaps his partner, patented the design for a clothes horse in January of 1862), and a stint in the book trade, Alsop is ordained as a Baptist minister in August of 1866, taking up the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Old Ford Road in Bow: an event that sets some of the faithful on their heels. One "Amor," writing to for November 1 of 1866 about Alsop's ordination, says:
It was in Cogman's circle that J. J. Morse was first exposed to Spiritualism, for Cogman was another developing medium -- a man of wide performative capabilities in physical manifestations, healing and trance speaking. Frank Herne was present in Cogman's circles in December of 1869 (taken thither by the tradesman to whom he was apprenticed); Catherine Berry and Mary Marshall were sometime visitor, as was Joseph Adcock (1819-1873, the working-class Spiritualist who was Charles William's first partner in Spiritualist investigations.
Joseph Adcock (also a carpenter, if memory serves) introduced -- essentially, handed off -- Charles Williams to Christopher Alsop, according to Charles Williams' own report (Spiritualist Newspaper, 5-15-1871) in September of 1870. Between September of 1870 and April of 1871, when Herne and Williams entered into partnership as public mediums, Williams was rapidly developed by Alsop, if we are to credit a reports from in March of 1871 (p. 153), which reads in part:
Alsop was in contact with prominent American Spiritualists in January of 1871, and he did take his family to the US, likely in August of 1871 (as noted in the Medium and Daybreak for August 25, 1871), after selling off his stock-in-trade, at reduced prices -- and after spending time (in mid July) at Mrs. Edmiston's country home, in the company of J. M. Peebles, J. J. Morse, Mrs. Guppy, Florence Cook and Herne and Williams.
It's a bit difficult to trace the family's movements while in the US, but we're sure the Alsops made it as far west as Huntington, Indiana, where Alsop preached a public "Universalist" sermon in late November of 1871 (according to the Indiana Herald of 11-28-1871), and Chicago (as noted in the MD for 10-13-1871).
He went as an unabashed Spiritualist, as he noted in a letter to the editor of the in January of 1871:
When the Alsops returned from the US is a bit of a mystery, at present, but we know that the Alsop family circle is back in operation at Great Turnstile in Holborn by November of 1872 -- Henry Smith records "one of the most extraordinary seances I have ever been privileged to attend" occurring there, in November (MD 11-29-182). Smith reports that, after a sitting for physical manifestations:
Christopher and his wife spend some time -- between May of 1883 and February of 1884 -- in Australia, in and around Sydney, having arrived there as far as I can tell, from San Francisco. Judging by a smattering of notices, advertising C. P. B. Alsop's addresses to Baptist congregations, followed by the sale of his private collection of fine art, "owing to Mr. Alsop's early departure from the colony," it appears Christopher and Ann made an attempt to settle down in Sydney, but found it unworkable, and returned to London.
Something happens to the Alsop family in 1887, when Charles Williams searches for him. C. P. B. Alsop disappears from the Spiritualist record after 1886, and the entire family appears to move to the United States in, I believe, the late 1880s, settling in Brooklyn and subsequently dispersing throughout the country. We have brief mentions of Alsop and his wife, leaving from and returning to US ports on both coasts, from 1888 until 1900, but no record of their domiciles, either in the US or in England, during that period.
Whether he relocates, or merely travels back and forth, C. P. B. Alsop dies in Brooklyn on August 31, 1902 and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Queens County, NY, as are his children Agnes and William Henry.
But, either way: every nineteenth century English medium was a crowd, and Christopher Pierpont Brook Alsop was a central figure in the crowd that was Charles Edward Loo Williams.
Newton Crosland, the Spiritualist and philanthropist, and husband of the popular novelist Camilla Toulmin, wrote to the on October 12, 1874 from Blackheath to say that, in his view, the BNAS should have no part in public seances:
Emily Kislingbury, by that time the secretary of the BNAS, wrote to from Chard, in Somerset, in mid-October of 1874, to bring Crosland -- and the discussion of the economics of the seance -- back into the center of the discussion.
Kislingbury's letter provoked a response, from a prominent figure in Spiritualism, which is worth replaying in its entirety.
All the scientific and literary men who have now come forward publicly as investigators, have, from time to time, been present at my stances; and I am sure they will corroborate what I say -— that mediums, as a rule, do not make conditions; otherwise, it at once levels them to the present day conjurors, which all true Spiritualists carefully avoid doing. I have no doubt -— in fact, I am sure -— Messrs. Maskelyne and Cook, when they performed before Royalty, some days since, took their apparatus with them, and made their own con ditions ; they cannot do without that which a medium can ; and now, if Royalty would command one of our best physical mediums to appear at Sandringham, having seen what Maskelyne and Cook require, they would at once put the matter at rest, by proving that there can be no comparison between the spiritual medium and the non-spiritual conjuror. As to the charge of mediums nolding seances at their own rooms, where else can they hold them? Unless, like myself, others will invite them to their houses, and pay them their fees. I am quite sure all the public mediums that I know will be very happy to visit any house where they are invited, but they must be paid. Their time is of too much importance to be frittered or given away.
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Tim DeChristopher: Sacrifice for the Climate
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There's an idea—permeating nearly all that we say and do about climate change—that people aren't willing to take real action to slow the warming of our planet, because it's asking too much: too much inconvenience, too much sacrifice, too much planning ahead.
Tim DeChristopher has come to believe the opposite: We need to ask more of ourselves, and of each other.
That conviction has motivated much of DeChristopher's activism, including his now famous decision, in December 2008, to attempt to stop the Bush administration's fire sale of oil and gas development leases by posing as a bidder. He knew his actions might well land him in prison, but felt it was worth the risk. Though that action was unplanned (he was mistaken for a bidder and played along), DeChristopher says he had gradually been "building up the general commitment to take this level of risk, to be ready when the time came."
Selected by the Yes Men, political pranksters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum: "We're sure Tim's version of monkey-wrenching would have made Edward Abbey whoop and holler with delight. His actions have inspired a generation of new climate activists."
At the time of the auction, DeChristopher was a student of economics at the University of Utah. He'd returned to school after more than five years working with teenagers—essentially wilderness therapy for "troubled" youth that most of society wasn't sure how to deal with. He gradually realized that the teens had good reason for their anger and apathy. They understood how dysfunctional their world already was and how difficult their future would become, and they didn't know what to do about it. "I started to feel like I was helping perfectly healthy kids adjust to a broken world," DeChristopher explained.
The experience led to his decision to study economics—to interrogate the beliefs by which we set our societal priorities, to find out why the world felt so "broken." At one point, he was posed an exam question about the very auction he would later disrupt: With only the oil and gas industry bidding on the parcels, would the price reflect the true cost of extracting the fuel? On the exam, he explained the environmental costs that would be ignored; later, when handed his bidder's paddle, he at first tried simply to drive up the prices of parcels. Only after accidentally winning one did he decide to try to win others outright.
Nearly three years later, DeChristopher is serving a two-year term at a federal prison in California (he was convicted of making a false statement and violating the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act). When he gets out, he has every intention of continuing to push himself—and the climate movement—to make bigger demands and take bigger risks. "Given the destruction of our democratic institutions that once gave citizens access to power, my future will likely involve civil disobedience," he told the court during his sentencing hearing. "Nothing that happens here today will change that."
DeChristopher has often expressed frustration with what he has called the "spineless strategies" and "sell-out compromises" of mainstream environmental organizations. He believes that thinking too small—focusing on minor regulations or incremental changes—can be a self-defeating proposition: Not only are you underestimating your own power, you're trading away your ability to increase it and inspire others to join you. In the face of the profound moral and existential crisis that is climate change, he argues, the best way to mobilize people is with work more worthy of their passion and the immensity of their mission.
DeChristopher believes that failing to respond to such a profound threat isn't just dangerous for environmental reasons, but also for psychological ones: The result, as he's seen, is too often anger, frustration, apathy, or despair. In contrast, DeChristopher says his decision to take big risks feels deeply right: It's a relief to stop pretending that everything is fine. It feels healthier to turn fear and anxiety into action than to ignore them.
Through DeChristopher's example, many others have found that difficulty can sometimes be easier to face than inaction. A few months before going to prison, DeChristopher spoke to 10,000 young climate activists at PowerShift. He excoriated "the cowardice of the environmental movement" and asked his audience why they were attending a conference when they could be out trying to close coal plants. He warned them that stopping climate injustice would be impossible without genuine sacrifice—of their school and career plans, of their comfort and convenience, of their clean records.
The crowd cheered.
Later in the summer, just weeks after DeChristopher began his prison term, some of those same activists were arrested in a protest that author Bill McKibben led outside the White House, trying to stop the construction of a pipeline that would carry oil from Canada's tar sands across the Great Plains. And a few weeks after that, America's major cities began to fill with ordinary people sleeping in parks and facing down police in defense of economic justice. Many of them were energized, not put off, to be making genuine sacrifices on behalf of their beliefs. From prison, DeChristopher congratulated them for not being afraid to express what they were feeling—and encouraged the climate movement to follow their lead.
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Great moments in "laughtivism" from Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the guys who duped the BBC, embarrassed Dow Chemical, and mocked Halliburton.
During his sentencing, activist Tim DeChristopher had the opportunity to speak, at length, to the court. This is what he said.
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Given that passions often run high among both lovers and haters of gas-guzzling cars, it's a hard question to answer (safely). And the truth of the matter is, I don't really know.
But over the course of decades, I've had the chance to put this question to all manner of experts in the field – the world's best automotive engineers and business executives, technology specialists and experts, top scientists, researchers, lab managers, technical authorities, designers and economic pundits, green activists, military and political leaders. Now admittedly, some of these individuals can be classified as biased or interested parties (after all, there's a whole industry out there with armies of employees dedicated to the promotion and welfare of the car engine), but my 'expert panel' represents a reasonably fair and measured sampling of the proverbial best minds on the topic. All speaking freely, usually off the record, so take this as you may.
And the overwhelming result of my private, unscientific, ongoing 'poll' is clear: despite significant advances in green or electric vehicle technology, the internal combustion engine is here to stay for the foreseeable future, at least to the end of this century.
So why's that, given the dam things been here for well over 100 years?
Lingering suspicion
Several things influence this consensus of opinion. One is that green technology –pretty much all of it of any significance – has been mandated by governments. If the green movement and subsequent green legislation hadn't driven the global car industry to cut exhaust emissions and go electric, we'd all still be cruising the boulevard with big-block V-8s up front. But could governments go the extra mile and truly convert the car business to an environmentally sustainable operating basis in the long term? The expert panel remains pessimistic.
Another factor seems to be the lingering suspicion, if not conviction, that the process of transforming basic technologies among large populations is more often than not a very slow process, one that requires considerable innovation and capital investment, two resources that always seem in short supply. Germany and Japan, for example, are now finding out how difficult (and dirty) it is to pull nuclear power off the grid.
A third, more technical, point is that oil and its derivative fuels still hold huge advantages over all of the alternatives for transport use (especially if you don't mind dumping the combustion trash into the atmosphere).
So backed by more than a century of steady and even intensive research, development and engineering efforts, the internal combustion engine today sets a high performance standard for low-cost, effective vehicle propulsion, one that has even partially cleaned up its act in recent years. Conversely, the growing use of fossil fuel-based electricity generation – China, for instance, the world's biggest car market, builds a new coal-fired power plant each week – tends to undercut the argument for more electric vehicles in terms of the technology's total environmental footprint.
Finally, although the 'experts' readily acknowledge and applaud the remarkably effective progress that green and electric vehicles have made in recent years, they tend to believe that electric propulsion is really not there yet as a substitute technology, and probably won't reach the market in a fully capable form that can go for 300 miles or more on single charge at an affordable price for some time to come.
How long that takes is anybody's guess. It depends to a great extent on your crystal-ball view of the global economic future. Probably decades, even without a Eurozone crisis or oil shortages. Note that the latter issue may or may not prove fatal to the petrol-driven car – thus potentially answering the question for good. And even when high-performance, affordable electric cars start hitting the roads, you'd have to wait for who knows how long until the entire auto fleet could be converted – until that day when the last exhaust-spouting car engine dies out…
Range anxiety
There are also a couple of related realities that people typically don't always think about, but that are worth mentioning.
Firstly, the most popular of the green/electric vehicles, gas-electric hybrids, burn fossil fuels in engines. And hybrids are regularly touted as the transition technology to the electric car. It is perhaps ironic that of all the alternative propulsion technologies on the market it is hybrid technology that has probably saved more transportation fuel than anything else tried so far. You'd expect such an efficient transportation technology to have a relatively long operational lifetime.
Second, no matter how electrified passenger cars get, trucks, their omnipresent counterparts on roads and highways are not going electric any time soon, that is, barring the emergence of some unforeseen, revolutionary high-capacity battery or other advance. Nobody knows, for example, how to efficiently propel heavy tractor-trailers, long-haulers and larger transports without burning fuels in big internal combustion engines, hybrid power plants notwithstanding. And medium-size trucks probably need engines as well. So the fuel station is probably a keeper.
For smaller trucks like pick-ups and SUVs, the issue is a bit cloudier. Most 'experts' don't think that electric batteries, even improved ones, will be able to drive small trucks in the short- or mid-term, so that's why the car companies and governments are still sticking with the poor cousin of electric propulsion family, the hydrogen fuel cell. Though long ignored by most, fuel-cell vehicles have shown that they can haul larger loads. But like electric vehicles and the public/private recharging infrastructure that makes it all run, fuel cell-powered vehicles and its hydrogen infrastructure would be costly to build, and have yet to materialise.
Still, I always try to be optimistic about the world's survival prospects and try to keep an eye out for potential breakthroughs. Thankfully one arrived in this week's Science magazine.
Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, UK have demonstrated an early form of an improved, high-power electrochemical cell – the lithium-air battery. Such a device could theoretically provide some four to ten times the energy density per weight that conventional lithium-ion batteries do, which would banish EV 'range anxiety' and make electric vehicles fully practical. Today's lithium-ion batteries can provide power for about 100 miles before needing to be recharged and nobody wants to be stranded with a dead battery.
"We need to go beyond the 300-mile driving range for EVs, so we need a transformational shift. Lithium-air batteries have the potential to provide it," says Peter Bruce, lead researcher of the study, who describes himself as a battery specialist "for longer than I care to think of".
Note the word "potential". Their findings are essentially a proof of concept. That said, it is this type of breakthrough that could prove to be a stepping stone toward a golden and perhaps achievable, goal.
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Its not so much SQLNinja in itself but the reasoning behind it's exclusion and maybe a general policy change to grey area software.
Its not even the fact that osnews carried this, its the fact that the fedora world is so concerned over this.
I mean it even says in the article that its already being carried in a third-party repo.
Then there is also the fact that their meeting only specifically looked at SQLNinja. He also notes that most of the feedback they received on their decision was in objection to blocking security tools in general which is not what they did at all.
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With less than a week to go until the first major of 2015, the excitement is building for the Masters. As ever, the tournament will be held at the Augusta National and will provide the sternest of tests for the world's best players. The field for this year's event will be as competitive as ever, with every player capable of putting in an outstanding performance, but the deciding factor will be consistency and mental strength. One good round is not enough to win the Masters. The Green jacket must be earned and, with the length and complexity of the course, players must keep up their concentration for the whole of the four days.
As recently as 2007, the Masters has been won with an over par score. Zach Johnson's victory by two strokes, despite carding a one over par 289, shows just how challenging the course is. It is hard to see such a high score walking away with the title this year but the players will know that they need their wits about them if they are to do enough to win. On recent form, it is possible to suggest that a score of 10 under par would be sufficient to win the title. But, with three of the last six tournaments going to play-offs, it looks sure to be tight at the top of the leader board. With betfair paying out on seven places, an each way bet could offer punters the best possible value. In this article we look at some of the contenders for those top spots.
Rory McIlroy
All eyes will be on 25-year-old Rory McIlroy going in to this year's Masters. The Northern Irishman enjoyed a scintillating run of form throughout 2014 and will be desperately looking for it to continue into this year. McIlroy finished tied for eighth place in last year's Masters but then went on to win the The Open Championship and the PGA Championship, leaving him just the Masters required to complete the career Grand Slam. Having burst on to the scene in the late 2000s, McIlroy's prodigious talent has long been evident for golf fans to see and his rise to the top of the sport has surprised few.
In recent times, it appeared that McIlroy's focus had shifted away from golf and a much-publicised split from tennis star Caroline Wozniacki seemed to hit his form. He also opted to take up a sponsorship deal with Nike which entailed him switching clubs and adapting to new equipment. With all of these factors taken into account, it was perhaps no surprise that McIlroy's form dipped and, after winning the 2012 PGA Championship, he endured a difficult 2013, failing to make the cut at that year's Open Championship. Thankfully for European golf fans, McIlroy is now back to his best and he was a pivotal member of last year's Ryder Cup-winning team, taking three points as Europe stormed to victory. McIlroy arrives at Augusta having finished 11th at the recent Arnold Palmer Invitational and having won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic back in February. If he is in the mood at Augusta, then he will be the man to beat.
Jordan Spieth
At just 21-years-old, Jordan Spieth is the new kid on the block when it comes to golf superstars but, despite his tender years, he is already making waves and he is well fancied to challenge for the Masters. Spieth is, by his own definition, enjoying something of a run of form of late, having won the Australian Open last November, then winning the Hero World Challenge in December and finishing tied for second in the recent Shell Houston Open. He could not be going to Augusta with much more confidence. His victory at the Valspar Championship in March made him the third youngest player in history to win multiple PGA Tour events, and expectations of what he could go on to achieve are rising rapidly.
Having only turned professional in December 2012, Spieth has only limited major experience, appearing three times in the US Open (once as an amateur), twice in the Open Championship, twice in the PGA Championship and once at the Masters. Spieth has so far failed to shine in all of the majors, barring the Masters. His best finish in the other three majors was a tie for 17th at last year's US Open. At Augusta, however, Spieth seems to have found a home and in his only Masters appearance he finished tied for second behind Bubba Watson. Had Spieth managed to hold on to the lead that he held at one stage during the final round of last year's tournament, he would have become the youngest champion in history. If Spieth can take the positives from his 2014 Masters experience and build on the confidence that he has gained, then he will take some stopping in this year's Masters. If he can handle the weight of expectation from the home crowd and keep his mind focused on the job in hand, then he could be a great bet to win a memorable title.
Sergio Garcia
If Spieth is golf's great young hope of the moment, then Sergio Garcia was certainly its great young hope in the early 2000s. The mercurial Spaniard has been one of the PGA Tour's most consistent performers over the last 15 years since turning professional in 1999 after shooting the lowest amateur score at that year's Masters. Like Spieth, Garcia seems right at home at the Augusta National and even registered an albatross on the par five second during a practice round in 2002. He also began his career at lightning speed, winning the 1999 Irish Open, just his sixth tournament after turning professional, and becoming the youngest PGA Tour winner since Tiger Woods when he won the 2001 MasterCard Colonial aged just 21.
Spieth will most probably hope that the comparisons with Sergio Garcia end there. For all that the 35-year-old Spaniard has achieved on the Tour, he has 11 European Tour wins and eight PGA Tour wins to his name, he has yet to lift a major championship. Garcia, who will forever be popular with European crowds because of his achievements in winning the Ryder Cup five times, has made 47 appearances in major championships but can only boast four top-two finishes (two at the Open Championship and two at the PGA Championship). Garcia's best result at the Masters came back in 2004 when he finished tied for fourth place. In last year's event he failed to make the cut.
There is no doubt that Garcia has the ability to win the Masters but, having failed to win a major on so many occasions, it is possible that his temperament could be called into question. Prizes are not given out for consistency, or for effort, but if they were Garcia would surely be in line for a major. It has been said for many years that Garcia will win a major but the longer his drought continues the harder it is to see it happening. A win for Garcia may not be too popular with the Augusta crowd following his public spat with Woods, but few golf fans could deny that Garcia is worthy of being a major winner. The question is, can he deliver at Augusta? It seems a very long shot but stranger things have happened.
Bubba Watson
Defending champion Bubba Watson really has got the measure of the Augusta National course and, regardless of his current form, he will be a tough man to beat at the Masters. Watson won last year's tournament by three strokes from Spieth and Sweden's Jonas Blixt, showing great heart and spirit to reclaim the lead from Spieth during the final round. Renowned as one of the biggest hitters on the tour, Watson's drive gives him a significant advantage at Augusta and has been one of the key factors in his success at the Masters over the years. As well as winning last year's event, Watson was successful two years earlier and will go into this year's tournament full of confidence.
Aside from the Masters, Watson's record in Major Championships leaves a lot to be desired. Watson has made 22 appearances at the other three majors but has only made the cut on 12 occasions. Last year he missed the cut at both the US Open and the Open Championship and only finished in a tie for 64th place at the PGA Championship. Watson's last tour victory came at the HSBC World Golf Championship in November. In his last tour appearance, the 36-year-old finished fourth at the Cadillac Championship in his native Florida.
Having worked hard to earn his tour card, and risen to prominence in the game slowly and without the kind of hype that surrounded Spieth, Garcia and McIlroy, it is easy to see why Watson may be popular with Augusta fans. Having played so much of his golf in the South Eastern United States, it is also easy to see why there may be some local support for the former University of Georgia student at the Masters. On the course, however, Watson is not such a popular character and a recent poll of pro golfers suggested that 25% of them would not help him in a fight. If there is one man that the whole field will be looking to beat at this year's event, it is Watson. In the past, Watson may have thrived on this ill-feeling and used it to his advantage. If he is to win in 2015, he will have to do it all again and will receive no favours from his fellow pros.
Tiger Woods
All eyes will be on Woods at Augusta next weekend. The 39-year-old's last tour victory may have been at the Bridgestone Invitational back in August 2013, and he may have suffered a huge loss of form and fitness in the weeks and months since then, but he has the quality and pedigree to make a real impression at Augusta. Woods is a 14-time major winner, the second highest total of any player behind Jack Nicklaus, and holds the record for the most consecutive weeks as the world's number one golfer. With 79 PGA Tour wins and 40 European Tour wins to his name, Woods has one of the most formidable records in the game but in recent times his form has been on the decline.
Over the last few years, Woods has made the headlines for all the wrong reasons, allegations of infidelity and personal problems have overtaken news of his golfing achievements. In addition to this, the four-time Masters winner has also had to overcome significant injury problems, most recently a back complaint which resulted in him being granted a leave of absence from the tour. Woods' absence, and his loss of form, has famously seen him drop out of the top 100 of the world golf rankings for the first time since 1996 – a year before he won the Masters for the first time. Woods has not won a major since the 2008 US Open and his best finish last year was a 69th place at the Open Championship.
If reports coming out of Augusta are to be believed, Woods is looking in great shape ahead of the tournament and has carded a number of impressive scores in the practice rounds. Given his lack of form, Woods will be down in the odds but he cannot be ignored and an each way bet could prove to be great value. Few players will want to find themselves paired with the Tiger in the closing stages of the competition. If he is playing his best golf and is in the right frame of mind, then he will be exceptionally hard to beat. If Woods cards a solid opening round, expect him to get stronger as the tournament goes on and he could record a fairytale fifth win at Augusta, ten years on from his last.


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Tyler Kepner on Crane and the Astros
Among the creamy nougat center...
Crane, on the actual housecleaning:
"I went through the whole building. I went through every closet. I hauled 14 trailers of junk out of here, just stuff that had piled up. I said, 'Why is this here?' Well, nobody had ever cleaned it out. It needed a housecleaning. I can drive an 18-wheeler, so I can back the truck in there if I have to."
Ed Wade had the depth charts of all 30 MLB teams on his office wall. Jeff Luhnow took them out:
"That board was in the office that I inherited back in December, and one of the first things I did was ask them to take it out. Depth charts are something that I can get online at the stroke of a button."
Ultimately, there is a lot in the article that gives some insight into how the Astros are thinking, such as avoiding the idea that players can be hot or cold, potential colors, how long the rebuild might take, and Crane saying "We're bigger than Dallas." Which is awesome.
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The idea that a player is hot or cold is a myth? Uh, OK, if you say so Mr. Luhnow. I am sure there is a poorly conceived statistical analysis to justify that one. Smartest guy in the room.
This type of wisdom will guide the franchise into the future?
- August 13, 2012 at 8:54 AM
It helped guide the Cardinals to a championship. Why is there any reason to believe it won't?
As far as first years go, Jeff Luhnow's has been masterful. From the Jed Lowrie (who should have been an all-star) for Mark Melancon swap, bringing in a slew of other organizations top 10 prospects for mediocre veterans and then landing four first round talents (three of which were considered "sure bets" to go to college; McCullers, Phillips and Ruiz)
Nothing to complain about and that was a Jim Crane quote not Jeff Luhnow.
- August 13, 2012 at 11:21 AM
It was a Luhnow qoute.
First of all, Luhnow was not the GM of the Cardinals. More related to his actual duties, he only picked only a few of the main contributors on that team. Pujols - no. Holliday - no. Berkman - no. Carpenter - no. It also discounts the managerial ability of LaRussa, who probably didn't suscribe to the nonsense that players don't get hot or cold. That is saber myth. No one that ever played sports actually believes that.
Luhnow may well be the smartest guy around, but that quote isn't an example.
- August 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM
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- August 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM
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Lorde 101: Who Is This 16-Year-Old New Zealand Singer Everyone's Talking About?
You can call her queen bee.
While everyone was distracted by Song of Summer champ "Blurred Lines" and its many hot weather competitors ("Get Lucky," "We Can't Stop," "Cups"), Lorde happened. What is Lorde, you ask? She's a 16-year old singer from way Down Under who last week became the first solo female artist in seventeen years to top Billboard's "Alternative" song chart. Since being released in May, the video for her first song, "Royals," has been viewed more than 6 million times. Her first album will be out at the end of next month. You should probably know who she is:
Who is Lorde ...
She's a teen from New Zealand ("a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland," to be more specific) who was discovered after a video of her singing Duffy's "Warwick Avenue" for her school's talent show was passed around and ended up with Scott Maclachlan, who soon became her manager. She was signed by Universal at the age of 12. Her real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor: "When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine — ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not."
... and why is everybody talkin' about her?
As we said above, she is the first female soloist to top Billboard's "Alternative Songs" chart since Tracy Bonham did with "Mother Mother" in 1996. But people were buzzing about her way before "Royals" was released in March: The song, which was inspired in part by Jay Z and Kanye's Watch the Throne, was originally passed around as part of a SoundCloud stream called Love Club EP that was downloaded more than 60,000 times.
Is she influenced by traditional New Zealand music?
Probably not. "Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders," she told FADER. "People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere."
Since she's 16, all her songs are about love and heartbreak and stuff, right?
"No, no. I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that."
So she's mature beyond her years?
Not exactly. She's still 16, for pete's sake: "I went to my prom," Lorde told Women's Wear Daily. "I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad." A teen through-and-through, she even has the Tumblr to prove it ("I think it would be impossible not to be an internet kid coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren").
So she's one of those artists.
Not really. We wouldn't go so far to call her Tumblrcore (see: Grimes, Kitty Pryde), but she certainly knows how to use a Tumblr properly. On a scale of famous young people, she's closer to Tavi than she is to Kitty.
Does she have "pop potential"?
Definitely. Her songs can be a bit gloomy, but they have extremely catchy hooks and lyrics and are just fun to sing: "But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom / Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room, / We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams." In addition, it would be unfair to ignore how beautiful she is (see: mermaid hair), and at 16 she's got a jump on the competition. She's also got the right famous admirers to help get the word out. Ryan Seacrest is a fan. So are Diplo, Selena Gomez, Jared Leto, Vanessa Hudgens, and Chloe Grace Moretz. A good rule of thumb is to never fully judge an artist before their first album (take Azealia Banks, for example), but we have a good feeling about this one.
So which song should I listen to?
"Royals" is the one everyone's talking about, so that one, obviously. Then check out her cover of the Replacements' "Swingin' Party," her second single "Tennis Court (below)," and this "Bravado" remix.
Okay, I'm into it. What's next?
Her first full album, Pure Heroine, will be out on September 30.


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An adjective to describe a person, usually male, who is deeply unattractive. The word must be said in a sarcastic tone of voice in order for it to have full effect. However, the word is not an insult.
He is most definitely a spody body
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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have sparked fresh dating rumors after they were spotted holding hands at The Rolling Stones' surprise show in Los Angeles on Saturday night (27Apr13).
Last June (12), the Pirates of the Caribbean star announced his split from Vanessa Paradis, his partner of 14 years, and the break-up was followed by speculation Depp had moved on with Heard, his co-star in The Rum Diary.
The blonde beauty then parted ways from her girlfriend, artist Tasya van Ree, but neither Depp nor Heard have commented on the romance reports.
However, the pair appeared close as they watched the Stones play at the Echoplex venue - Depp was pictured hand-in-hand with Heard as they moved around the crowd.


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"Is the pope a Catholic?" may be a rhetorical question. When it comes to cardinals, the answer is not so straightforward. Ilan Duran Cohen examines a particularly complicated case in this thoughtful, unpretentious biopic about an extraordinary Catholic prelate.
Jean-Marie (né Aaron) Lustiger (Laurent Lucas, who looks appealingly like Albert Brooks) converted to Catholicism in Nazi-occupied Orléans in 1940 when he was 14. Both his parents objected. Lustiger's mother was later murdered in Auschwitz, but his father survived the Holocaust and petitioned the rabbi of Paris to have his son's conversion annulled. Despite this disapproval, Lustiger persisted in his faith, entered the priesthood, and rose in the ranks of the Catholic hierarchy.
Cohen's film offers little insight into Lustiger's inner turmoil, and the scenes in which his Jewish and Christian identities clash lack depth. However, such a superficial approach seems to suit the subject, because Lustiger was more a man of action than reflection. As the film opens, he has already made a name for himself as a clerical up-and-comer when the new pope, John Paul II (Aurélien Recoing), makes him bishop of Orléans. Bonded by their Polish roots and conservative opinions (the film does not dwell on sticky issues of birth control, women's rights, or other controversies), the pope promotes Lustiger to archbishop of Paris, elevates him to the rank of cardinal, and makes him one of his closest advisers. At times the film seems like a buddy movie — in one scene the two spontaneously shed their robes and, wearing only skivvies, take a dip in the papal pool.
Lustiger's dual identity (the French title, "Le métis de Dieu," translates as "The cross-breed of God") is strained when in 1987 Carmelite nuns establish a convent on the grounds of Auschwitz. Lustiger is appalled, Jewish organizations pressure him to get the pope to intervene, but the pope sees the convent as a way of challenging Poland's then-communist regime. That crisis has faded in the aftermath of the subsequent collapse of the Soviet empire, but here it dramatizes the struggle of a man of integrity with conflicted loyalties, seeking to do good in a powerful, compromised institution.Peter Keough can be reached at email@example.com.


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Sue, a fellow family historian, has been on the trail of her ancestor Osceola Powell for years. Osceola is her "brick wall," and Sue's research has taken her down interesting genealogical trails. She suspects that her Osceola might have a connection with the Seminole leader Osceola, also known as Billy Powell.
|Signature of Osceola Powell, Sue's ancestor
Last week, Sue decided that it was time to commemorate her ancestor. She also decided to do it in a way that would "shake things up" and allow her to "strike out in an unexpected direction." So, how did she decide to honor her ancestor? A light bulb clicked on in Sue's mind after she read a news story about young parents' getting tattoos with the names of their children. Hmmmm, Sue had Osceola's signature on his daughter's birth registry. What to do with that signature?
Genealogy + creativity + skin + ink ( + a little bit of pain) resulted in....
|Yep! It's permanent!
I have relatives and friends with tattoos of the Irish flag and the Celtic cross. Why not an ancestor's name or likeness? Maybe a coat of arms, official or self-created? I think Sue is onto a new trend in genealogy.Can you imagine--tattoo booths at all the major conventions?


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Duluth native Rachael Kilgour fills the WDSE•WRPT studio with her smooth acoustic folk sound and her beautifully written lyrics. At the age of 24, Kilgour writes her own songs that cover many aspects of her life, from social activism to heartache, love, and a new family. She has made a name for herself as a singer-songwriter with her spot-on lyrics, captivating voice, and energetic delivery.
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May 17: Rendezvous Program to Explore Norway
Event Details
Date: May 16, 2013
Times: 3 p.m.
Location: The Back Alley
Ticket Info: Free and open to the public.
Join us for the final Rendezvous of the year as students from Norway tell us about their home country at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 17, in the Back Alley. The Rendezvous Program is organized by the International Programs Office as a way for international and domestic students to learn from each other.
The event is free and open to the public.
Students will speak about various topics such as food, culture, religion and politics.
Past events:
View photos from past Rendezvous events on Facebook.
- September 7: Germany
- September 21: Hong Kong/Burkina Faso
- September 28: Pakistan/Germany — The Germany presentation was given by one of our returned study abroad students, Jordan Erkens.
- October 5: Belarus/Egypt —Three young women, one from Belarus and two from Egypt shared a country-culture presentation about their homelands.
- October 12: Kazakhstan
- October 26: Russia/India — two Russian students and two students from India shared details on their countries.
- November 2: Columbia/Kenya — two Colombian students shared details on their homeland, and Senior Sam Evenson also spoke about his experience abroad in Kenya last spring. "Kenya is a country of contrasts, rife with economic disparities, its own linguistic divide, a colonial past and an ethnic-driven present," said Evenson. "Kenya, while certainly unique, is important for the insights it provides into what Africa is really like and what we may learn from it.
- November 9: Kyrgyzstan/Venezuela — Albek Patiev presented on Kyrgyzstan: "probably the only true democratic country in the whole of Central Asia, and the only one that has had a female president ... we have had two revolutions and two large ethnic clashes during the past 23 years." Wilfredo Petit presented about Venezuela: "Venezuela is like a paradise," said Petit. "We have glaciers, a desert, jungle and beaches. We have the tallest waterfall and the world's cheapest gas prices. The best thing about Venezuela is the people; they are friendly, humble, and willing to help. The women are amongst the most beautiful on Earth; we have won Miss Universe six times."
- November 16: Japan — Shingo spoke on his home country of Japan during International Education Week.
- November 30: El Salvador/Israel — Leticia Gonzalez Quintanilla from El Salvador and Samer Bitar from Israel presented about their homelands.
- December 7: Uzbekistan
- January 11: Sri Lanka and the Republic of the Congo
- January 18: Honduras
- January 25: China
- February 8: Costa Rica — student from there and a study-abroad student gave details on country
- February 15: countries of Ethiopia and Kenya
- February 22: Myanmar and Italy
- March 1: Ghana
- March 22: Bulgaria
- April 5: Brazil
- April 12: China — New York Times best-selling author Da Chen gave the audience a look into China during the cultural revolution.
- April 19: Pakistan and Kenya
- April 26: Vietnam and Nigeria
- May 3: Uganda/United Kingdom
- May 10: Indonesia/Saudi Arabia


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Physically-fit children 'brainier'
Physically-fit children are officially brainier than their punier peers, new research has confirmed.
Scientists found that aerobically fit nine and 10-year-olds had denser regions of "white matter" in their brains.
White matter consists of bundles of nerve fibres, or axons, that connect different brain regions.
Aerobically fit nine and 10-year-olds have denser regions of "white matter" in their brains, a study has found
Previous research has linked physical fitness in children to larger brain volumes of "grey matter" - the cell bodies of neurons.
US lead researcher Dr Laura Chaddock-Heyman, from the University of Illinois, said: "This study extends our previous work and suggests that white-matter structure may be one additional mechanism by which higher-fit children outperform their lower-fit peers on cognitive tasks and in the classroom."
The team used a brain scanning technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine five white-matter tracts in the brains of 24 volunteer children.
The system works by analysing water diffusion into tissues. For white matter, less water diffusion means the tissue is more fibrous and compact - both desirable traits.
Significant fitness-related differences were seen in several key white matter regions, including the corpus callosum which joins the brain's left and right hemispheres.
Two others were the superior longitudinal fasciculus, a pair of structures connecting two of the four major lobes in the brain's cerebral cortex, and the superior corona radiata which links the cerebral cortex to the brain stem.
"All of these tracts have been found to play a role in attention and memory," said Dr Chaddock-Heyman.
The research is reported in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Although the team did not test the children's mental performance, previous research has demonstrated a link between aerobic fitness and increasing thinking ability.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — The greatest closer in baseball history sits incognito behind dark sunglasses in a red fold-up chair halfway down the left-field line. He is nervous. Could he be more nervous than pitching against David Ortiz with the bases loaded in the ninth inning?
"Absolutely," says Mariano Rivera as he awaits the start of Iona College's baseball game against Fairfield, in which his 20-year-old son, Mariano Rivera Jr., is the Gaels' starting pitcher.
"I'm more nervous now. There's nothing I can do. You're not in control. You're nervous. I'm wishing and praying for him to do the job."
The man who has recorded more saves than anyone in baseball history cannot save his son. Not on the mound, anyway.
"To be honest, it's not what I can give, it's what he can do," he said.
Mariano Jr., a bearded, wiry, shorter version of his dad, has some New York attitude to him. He is his own man.
His father is a likely Hall of Famer because of his signature cut fastball, but his son refuses to even throw a cutter.
"I'm deliberately not throwing it," he says. "I tried to learn it, but I feel like that's something that is his pitch. I don't want to be remembered for his pitch, I want to be make my own pitch. I want to be the Mariano Rivera of my own accomplishments. I want to be my own player."
His father, stylishly dressed in a black quilted jacket and designer jeans, with a clean-shaved head, gives him plenty of space.
As his son starts his warm-up tosses, the antsy Rivera heads for the parking lot in City Park. Dodging cars, he plays catch with a couple of kids with a Pinky Ball. A jogger runs by, sees the trademark delivery, and does a double take.
The few fans in the stands leave him alone. One parent even tosses him a baseball glove to play with the kids.
"Just another parent," says one blasé New Yorker.
Rivera is having fun throwing the kids sky-high pop flies — until the first pitch. As seven major league scouts armed with radar guns take their positions behind home plate, the father heads back to his chair.
Scouts impressed
The last man to wear No. 42 in the major leagues admits his son used to have mixed feelings about him attending games.
"Sometimes he did not want me there," he says.
Mariano Rivera Jr. later explains why.
"I thought I had to be Superman,'' he says. "I wanted him there, but it was a challenge I had to overcome because on the days that he was there, I got real nervous. So I had to overcome those nerves."
The worst time was when he was 15 years old and pitching in Babe Ruth League.
"I asked him to come to the game. It was a day off for him and I didn't get out of the first inning,'' he says. "After every pitch I would just look at him for approval. I hit two guys. Walked two and just kept leaving the ball up in the middle. I maybe got one out.
"I remember that day I was upset and I didn't want him to come to any more games. I was happy that he was there, but overcome with all the emotions, so I didn't really perform the way I should."
Today, Rivera performs well. He hurls a two-hitter, blanking Fairfield, 5-0, over seven innings for his first collegiate shutout. Although he admits he was tired at the end, his fastball still reaches 92 miles per hour in the last inning. One major league scout is effusive in his praise.
"If his last name isn't Rivera, he's still interesting because he's loose and he's got a quick arm,'' says the scout who requested anonymity. "He's still skinny and he still has a physical projectability and a high baseball IQ.''
Last year as a freshman, Rivera was the team's fifth starter. This year he is the top starter for the 6-22 Gaels.
"We try to forecast what he's going to be like in five years," says the scout.
One play particularly impresses the scouts. In the third inning, Rivera gives up a leadoff double to Fairfield's Billy Zolga, who is then sacrificed to third.
Rivera then uncorks a pitch that bounces off the backstop. Zolga and Rivera race for home. Iona catcher Carmine Palummo fields a quick ricochet and fires the ball to the speedy, 155-pound Rivera, who dives to tag Zolga out.
"College pitchers don't make that play," says the scout.
Eyes on a big opportunity
Rivera is not like most college players with big league aspirations. A self-avowed homebody, he wanted to stay home with his family and not pitch in baseball meccas like Arizona and Florida.
The communications major lifts weights at 6 a.m. before classes. He's pitching year-round for the first time in his life and loving it. He's on the radar of both the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Through eight starts, he is 1-4 with a 4.67 ERA. In 44⅓ innings, he has 26 strikeouts and 15 walks, and has allowed 47 hits. He is still likely to be chosen in the June draft, although his dad has made it crystal clear he wants him to stay in school.
That's one save that the Yankee great may not get.
"I might have to go against his wishes on this one,'' says Mariano Jr., who would consider taking online courses. "This is an opportunity that I can't let pass."
His goal is to be a major league starting pitcher. He says he doesn't mind the famous name. People have so much respect for his father that he never gets heckled.
"I like my name. I wouldn't change my name at all. With that name comes a huge shadow, big shoes you have to fill, but I go every day living my life,'' he says. "I don't want to live under the shadows of my father. I won't take anything away from him. He's the greatest man I have known, on and off the field."
Father isn't a coach
Rivera says he used to regret that his dad spent a lot of time on the road.
"I didn't understand and it upset me,'' he says, "but, at the end of the day, he did it not for himself, or the glory of the game, he did it for us."
That made Mariano Jr. grow up fast.
"I have two younger brothers, so I had to step in and be the man of the house when he was gone," he says.
Of course, growing up in Yankee Stadium and playing catch with Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano was fun.
"All those guys treated me like I was their own kid," he says.
But he gives most of the pitching credit to the Iona baseball staff.
"He's a bulldog, it's fun to watch him grow. He's got no sense of entitlement because his name is Mariano Rivera," says coach Pat Carey. "If he stays healthy, yeah, he'll have the opportunity to make it to the big leagues. He's that good."
Carey says the Yankee great spoke to the team once, but he never interferes.
"He's a normal parent. He's not going to come here and tell us what to do," says Carey.
Rivera Jr. says he never has his father look at video. He just asks him for feedback. Things are mellow between father and son.
Mariano Sr. says his is proud of his eldest boy.
"I want him to be good and make it to the big leagues, but on his own terms, on his ability, his desires and his love and passion of the game.
"I want him to be himself."
The father says he has tried to teach his son that his spirituality is more important than baseball. Recently he bought an abandoned church from the city of New Rochelle for $1 and brought it back to life. His wife, Clara, is the minister at the renovated Refugio de Esperanza (Refuge of Hope).
"I helped put in the pews and cleaned the windows," says Mariano Jr.
Rivera Jr. knows it would be a thrill for his dad to see his son pitch in the majors.
"He would love it,'' he says. "But he's not, 'Oh if you don't strike this guy out, you're not getting dinner.' He's not that guy. He just wants the best for me.''
'I would play for the Red Sox'
Before the start of the last inning, Mariano Sr. stands and stretches and signals for the righthander — himself. Then he laughs, his Chiclet-white teeth gleaming in the sun.
Rivera Jr.'s on-field song is a mellow Christian rock song, "Walk Proud" — the polar opposite of his father's signature song, Metallica's "Enter Sandman." He doesn't like the Metallica song, either.
"Last spring break, we went down to Oklahoma and I came out and they played Metallica and I almost lost it," he says. "I hated it. I was really upset. I don't like to be compared to him at all. I really don't like that."
At the end of the game, there is no father-son bonding moment. The old man is out of the parking lot quicker than Dave Roberts swiped second base off of him in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS.
The young Rivera has only love for the Red Sox. He says they worked him out last winter.
"I would play for the Red Sox," he says enthusiastically. "If the Red Sox drafted me, I would be there."
He's already almost mixed it up with a Sox fan at Fenway.
"We were in Fenway, my dad was pitching in 2012,'' he says. "There was this guy behind me and he was screaming. 'Overrated, overrated' for the whole two innings. I turned around and I said 'Shut up, before I make you shut up.' I got in his face because it's my father and I'm going to represent him whenever I can.
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By Dr. David Shelburne
You've probably seen the "gluten-free" labels in the grocery store on spaghetti sauce, cereal and snacks. Even restaurants label dishes on their menus as "gluten-free."
Gluten is a protein in wheat, barley and rye that more and more people are trying to cut from their diets. Recent studies suggest that large numbers of us may have sensitivity to gluten that causes problems with digestion, fatigue and headaches. But so far the science on gluten sensitivity is inconclusive. I want to talk here about a potentially life-threatening disease called with a proven link to gluten that is easily cured with a gluten-free diet.
In patients with celiac disease, gluten triggers an immune response that makes the body turn on itself. Antibodies attack the small intestine and interfere with the absorption of nutrients. The classic symptoms include diarrhea, weight loss, flatulence and bloating. In some patients, the symptoms of celiac disease are more elusive. They could develop anemia, osteoporosis, infertility, and even neurological symptoms because their bodies do not absorb the nutrients they need. Left untreated, celiac disease can lead to severe malnutrition.
These diverse symptoms can make the disease hard to diagnose. I grew up in Elkin, North Carolina and spent high school hanging around my father's medical practice in nearby Jonesville; shadowing doctors around the hospital and listening to them diagnose their patients' illnesses. I became a doctor because I like solving these complex problems.
The symptoms of celiac disease can easily be mistaken for other conditions of the digestive system. , and all share symptoms with celiac disease. When my patients complain of these symptoms, I talk with them about their diet and any connections they've made between the food they eat and the severity of their symptoms.
Blood tests for the antibodies triggered by exposure to gluten can help us diagnose celiac disease. There's one drawback to the blood tests. They only work in patients who have been eating a gluten-rich diet for at least a month. Patients who diagnose themselves and cut gluten from their diets are not producing the antibodies and will test negative for the disease. We can rule out the disease in patients who test negative for the antibodies, provided they haven't already gone on a gluten-free diet. When patients test positive for the antibodies, I refer them to a gastroenterologist who confirms celiac disease by taking a biopsy of the small intestines and checking for inflammation.
The gluten-free diet cures celiac disease but it's hard to sustain: no wheat, no rye, no barley and in some patients no oats. That means no pasta, bread or cakes, unless they're made with rice flour or other gluten-free ingredients. You can forget about beer, which is made with barley. And here's a long list of foods you may not think of when you think of wheat, barley, rye or oats:
It's best to read all labels and when in doubt eat something else. The good news is this: Fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, fish and dairy are all gluten free. Rice and corn make good substitutes for grains containing gluten. And potatoes, beans, nuts and other grains can be milled into flour for baking.
Living without gluten can be tricky but the diet works. Without exposure to gluten, the immune response goes away and the small intestine heals itself.
We used to think of celiac disease as a disease of infants. But now we understand it may manifest itself later in life. We know that there are inheritance patterns and that people with ancestors from Northern Europe are more at risk. Some patients with celiac disease have mild symptoms and can tolerate small amounts of gluten. But others become incapacitated by diarrhea, cramps and fatigue from a small exposure.
Many people have chosen a gluten-free diet. I look forward to seeing more studies on gluten sensitivity. In the meantime, there's nothing wrong with cutting wheat from your diet, especially if you feel that a gluten-free diet makes you feel better. But for people with celiac disease there's no choice. Their immune system won't tolerate gluten and those "gluten-free" labels mean the difference between illness and health.
Dr. David Shelburne practices family medicine at Reynolda Family Medicine with CepEsperu Baptist Medical Center.
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I've been playing the campaign & everything works fine (Awesome remake/revamp)
I played alpha 10, 11 & 3/4 of 12 in one go, saving at the mission complete page each time, Alpha 12 had 2 saves I had made during the mission, plus the autosave.
When I came back I couldn't load any saves for Alpha 11 or 12
So I replayed to 1/2 way through Beta 1 & saved in 4 different slots, unfortunately Alpha 11, 12 & Beta 1 don't load
Is this a known Bug?
Any work arounds?
Could someone post a link to a save for Beta 2 or 3?
P.S While this is the wrong area, 3.1 Beta 4 crashed half way though alpha 1 when I went to research,
Does it crash often? Because if crashes are rare I could play 3.1 though the campaign
Thanks for any help!


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Road Trips: Riding Solo Through Southern Illinois
There is nothing like hitting the open road. While many find it absolutely nerve-racking to be cooped up in a car for hours, zooming by miles and miles of cornfields and old, broken down farmhouses, taking big whiffs of cow manure into their lungs, and stopping to eat crappy gas station food, others like myself jump at the chance for a country road trip. Many prefer to go with a companion or two. I am one of those rare birds who love riding solo on the open road.
I recently got a call from my 86-year-old grandmother to come visit. When love calls, I come running. Mama Veeda is home to everyone in Centralia, Illinois. Her door stays open and there is always a big pot of something delicious and warm on her stove. The thought of her not being around one day just leaves a huge lump in my throat and I quickly rush that thought out of my mind. Though Centralia holds many fun childhood memories and countless generations, it is a town so small that if you blink, you will have missed it. Dirt roads, cornfields, old matchbox sized houses, trailer park homes, one gas station and one grocery store, Centralia is the type of town where you learn hard work, solid family values, and how to sit on a porch in the hot sun, sipping lemonade, swatting flies, and gossiping about the new neighbors.
It does not sound like much to most, but I love to visit my birthplace Centralia. Packing up the car for a good five-hour drive from Chicago, I get super excited. I prefer to drive it alone because I can roll down all the windows, play my favorite song over and over back to back for hours, and just go into a meditative state while driving. My imagination and creativity begin to flow looking out onto open road. I can figure out any dilemma I might be having without any distractions or having to entertain a passenger with conversation for five hours. In my mind it is just me and God out there.
However, this last trip to Centralia, my mother came along. I love my mama, but I do not like her on a road trip. For one, she prefers air conditioning over the wind. Air conditioning makes me physically ill. I get congested and need a rest after exposure to direct air conditioning. I tried to explain this to my mother, but I believe she thought I was exaggerating. She said it was too hot to ride for hours with the windows down. She was gagging at the smell of the horse and cow manure. She forced me to deal with the air conditioning and tried to convince me that I was not getting sick…while I was sneezing.
I am also one of those road trip drivers who hates to stop, unless I am driving cross-country. Then I enjoy stopping for a comfortable stay at a hotel in Vale, Colorado somewhere for one night, enjoying a nice waffle breakfast before getting back out on the open road. But for in-state road trips, I pack water and snacks. I only stop for gas and then I am quickly back on the interstate to peacefulness. My mother, however, needs to stop for restroom breaks and Subway and beverages and you name it. It interrupts my flow and takes me longer to get to my destination. And like all Mothers, she nagged and nagged for me to slow down every time I was even five over the speed limit, reminding me that a Black woman out here in the country with no witnesses should be looking out for the police or the Ku Klux Klan every minute to avoid being pulled over and never making it home. She does have a point there, but I was driving the legal speed limit. She argued I was speeding. I wanted to pull my hair out.
She complained about my choice in music for a road trip. I was going through a break-up with my boyfriend and wanted to listen to a love song by r&b singer Monica called Just Right For Me. She said,"If you play this song one more time, I am gonna scream! I can't take it!" All I had left on my mp3 was hip hop artists Rick Ross and Jay Z. The foul language made her question me for a good hour as to how and why I could listen to that kind of music. I explained it is hype music with bass to keep me awake and alert. She did not agree.
Oh my God! I could not wait to see the Welcome To Centralia sign. It could not come fast enough. With thirty minutes remaining to our destination, all I could think about was laying down in Mama Veeda's guest room alone with the lights out, listening to the sounds of crickets outside my window. We finally arrive and pull into Mama Veeda's gravel driveway. I stepped out of the car to look up at the country sky. It was filled with a kazillion stars. We do not see a night sky like this in Chicago. Mama Veeda opened her screen door, greeting us with open arms and laughter as always. Hugging her and seeing those beautiful brown eyes made the uncomfortable last five hours well worth it.
I looked at Mama Veeda and reminded myself that my mother will one day be 86 years old and I will look back on our road trips together, wishing I had enjoyed her while I had her. I suddenly felt guilty. The road trip back to Chicago, I made sure she was comfortable as my passenger and enjoyed herself. I did whatever she wanted. We laughed and told stories. I had a blast for the first time with a passenger riding along side me on the open road. It made for a smooth ride back. I will remember it forever.