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The Arkansas attorney general's office has approved the wording of a ballot proposal that would raise the state's minimum wage to $8.50 per hour by 2017.
The proposal by the group Give Arkansas a Raise Now got the nod Friday and can begin gathering voter signatures. Organizers want to get the measure on the November ballot.
The initiated act would raise the current minimum wage of $6.25 per hour to $7.50 per hour on Jan. 1, 2015.
One year later, it would go up 50 cents to $8 per hour and would top out on Jan. 1, 2017, at $8.50 per hour.
Backers of the measure need 62,507 verified signatures of registered voters to place the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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By Jenny Clover
KIGALI (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Rwanda was on Tuesday working out the logistics of transferring a Congolese warlord to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after Bosco Ntaganda walked off the street to face war crimes charges.
Ntaganda stunned embassy staff in Kigali when he gave himself up, a seemingly meek end to a 15-year long career that saw him fight as a rebel and government soldier on both sides of the Rwanda-Congo border.
He specifically asked to be transferred to the Hague-based tribunal, the U.S. State Department said.
"We're completely working to facilitate his transfer to The Hague," said an official at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali. "We are still figuring out how it's going to work."
Neither the United States nor Rwanda has an obligation to hand over the commander nicknamed "the Terminator" to the ICC as they are not signatories to the Rome Statute which set up the independent, permanent court in the Netherlands to try people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Washington broadly supports the ICC, but testimony by Ntaganda, who has fought in a string of Rwanda-backed rebellions in Congo's east, may be damaging for the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, a close U.S. ally.
Rwandan-born Ntaganda faces charges of recruiting child soldiers, murder, ethnic persecution, sexual slavery and rape during the 2002-3 conflict in northeastern Congo's gold-mining Ituri district.
A U.N. panel of experts said Ntaganda was most recently a leader of the year-old M23 rebellion - an insurgency in eastern Congo that experts have said was backed by senior Rwandan government and military officials.
One of Africa's most wanted men, Ntaganda's fall came after a split within the M23 rebel movement in past months left the rebel commander increasingly sidelined and, eventually, defeated on the battlefield.
It was still not clear how Ntaganda crossed into Rwanda and then proceeded on to the capital supposedly undetected.
Foreign diplomats in Kigali suspect he may have had help from high-powered allies inside Kigali - a belief echoed by Congolese on the hectic streets of the capital, Kinshasa
"To have somebody who worked for Rwanda for years and years, you don't throw him away like that. You have loyalty," said a Kigali-based diplomat.
The prospect of Ntaganda standing in the dock at the ICC may not be particularly comfortable for the Rwandan authorities.
"He could put things on the table to make things easier for himself and get a lighter sentence. He's dangerous to them," said the diplomat.
"There's a verbal tradition here so it's unlikely much evidence is on paper. But it's not comfortable, they don't need that."
Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said the decision to send Ntaganda to The Hague was "not Rwanda's business" as he was on U.S. soil.
With an international arrest warrant hanging over him, Ntaganda was considered an obstacle to a possible peace deal with the Kinshasa government that a rival, more powerful faction of M23 had shown signs of warming to.
His removal from the battle theatre raises hopes of improved stability in a region where vast mineral resources have fuelled two decades of conflict across colonial-era boundaries which cut through ethnic groups and local politics.
Rwanda and Uganda, who U.N. experts have accused of supporting M23, have both repeatedly denied involvement.
Many Congolese are skeptical.
"Rwanda said it had no part in the conflicts in Congo. This person was found on its territory, making it all the way to the embassy. This proves there was complicity," government employee Jule Ebombo said on the streets of Kinshasa.
Wars in the central African nation have killed about 5 million people in the past decade and a half and many eastern areas are still afflicted by violence from a number of rebel groups, despite a decade-long peacekeeping mission.
"Accountability must not stop with warlords like Ntaganda but should also include those who are backing them," said Timothy Longman, the director of Boston University's Africa Studies Center.
(Additional reporting by Richard Lough in Nairobi, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Edmund Blair and Paul Casciato)


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In my second blog post I wrote about our pets raw diet and some information about their holistic lifestyle. The little gremlins seem to be a favorite by everyone who views their pictures or reads about them so I plan on keeping everyone posted as to how they are doing as well as discuss successes and any stumbling blocks with their lifestyle. We recently have made some changes to their diet so I wanted to update everyone :).
Our three pets, Malachi, Maikoda and Milo are still doing very well :). They are all three still raw and love their Primal pet food. Despite their love for their food, Malachi, the black and white male, developed an inflamed annal gland....ewwww, I know gross. In light of helping others to navigate a healthy, raw or holistic diet for their pets, I felt I should share what we learned, despite the unappealing symptom :). An inflamed anal glad often develops with dogs when they are not getting enough fiber. You know that commercial with the dog dragging its bottom across the carpet!? That's often what dogs do that have this symptom. Luckily Malichi never did the butt drag... Phew!
My husband and I take our pets to holistic vet, Jim Coddigton of The Country Vet in Navato. Dr. Coddington is very kind and knowledgeable. I love that he has alternatives to pharmaceutical medications, such as herbs and acupuncture. He lets us know when there is an herbal option and when he feels a medication may be necessary. Dr. Coddigton talked to my husband about our dogs diets and what they are eating. He told my husband that unfortunately the raw foods for dogs that are out on the market are not a perfect food and often lack enough fiber. Of course this depends on the particular dog and their individual needs. I was a little surprised at first because we often give our dogs fresh roughage mixed in with their food, but around the time this problem developed, we had been slacking with mixing in their fresh roughage. We were very busy because we had just moved and I figured they were getting a complete and balanced meal, and that what we added was just extra good stuff :). Silly me, as of course just like humans, dogs benefit from variety. Our vet suggested a dehydrated brand that he feeds his dogs.
I took this information to heart and researched the brand he suggested. The ingredients actually ended up being nearly identical to the raw food with the exception of potato. This particular brand was also not organic and, if possible, I like to keep my pets on organic food, as commercial animal products (especially pet grade) often contain hormones, antibiotics and many toxins. Our pets also LOVE their food, so my husband and I decided to first try to add more fiber to their current food and see if they did well. Our vet also suggested this option, but in the form of psyllium husk.
We have been slicing up sweet potato or squash on our mandolin and storing that for a couple days at a time in the fridge. The thinly sliced/chopped pieces enables the sweet potato to be easily digested. Dogs in the wild eat roots and tubers as a part of their natural diet. This gets mixed into their food along with any other roughage we have been eating, such as carrots, zucchini, greens and celery. I also have been saving the pulp from juicing (when it is safe for the dogs) and rotating that into their food as well. They still have been loving their meals and Malachi's situation has resolved. Yay!
Ironically, this little incident shows that dogs are omnivores and need more vegetation that many realize. I stated in my past post that there are many dogs that actually thrive on vegan diets, if done carefully and with supplements. Our cat didn't need any changes to his diet. Cats are carnivores and do much better with a higher percentage of flesh.
I would also like to add that we rotate the different types of Primal meat so our pets get a viriety of nutrients. For a couple weeks they will eat chicken, then they may eat duck and the next salmon. All our pets do not do well with the larger animals meats so we do not feed them bovine or sheep meat. It is important to observe your pet carefully for any sign of allergy or intolerance to particular foods. I have heard of many dogs and cats being sensitive or allergic to bovine, so this is something to monitor when feeding your pet. Signs of sensitivity include loss of hair, itching, vomiting, diarrhea, sneezing, runny nose and watery, runny eyes. Also, trust your pets instincts if for some reason they avoid a particular type of food or do not eat very much of it, later becoming sick. Here is a quick list of foods that are not safe for pets: all parts of the avocado, chocolate, apple seeds, grapes and raisins, green tomatoes and tomato leaves and stems, onions, spicy foods, caffeine (not great for humans either) macadamia nuts, persimmons, salt, spinach and milk (most adult cats and dogs do not contain the enzyme to break down the sugar lactose in milk products). There are other possibilities, so it is wise to do your own research and always monitor your pet for their individual needs.
Lots of love and light from the Margraf clan ~ XOXO


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The Debt (2011) BRRip XviD-Reims
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Genre: Drama | Thriller
Director: John Madden
Writer: Matthew Vaughn (screenplay), Jane Goldman (screenplay)
Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson
Ratings: 7.1/10 from 4,776 users
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The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.


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|Flying my sweet kite...whoops how come it is on the ground?!
|Pretty awesome right!?
|got some skills
|hope I don't blow away
|kite flying is super fun!
|Rylee and her friend Elliot hangin out at the park just 3 months apart
|where did you get those fingers from?!
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History is a good thing, but it's just that, history
|Manchester City haven't always been as fashionable as they are now.
Hi. My names's Ash.
"Hi Ash!"
And, um...
"It's okay, we're all friends here, take your time."
Thanks. I'm, um, a football supporter and I, uh... [clears throat] I don't... I don't support a team in the Premier League.
A hush descends on the room, there are a few quizzical looks, a couple of sad nods and shakes of the head and even one quiet but audible gasp.
Yes, friends, this is what it often feels like to support a "lower" league team. You are an aberration. You're fooling yourself, You must have a Prem team, you simply must! How do you even live?!
It's hard not to hate football almost as much as I love it because of precisely this kind of fandom.
Like Sloan once sang, "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans."
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to watch all kinds of football. I'd be lying if I didn't say I appreciate and often enjoy a hard fought game in the top tier or the You-don't-have-to-be-Champions League. But it's the superiority complex of many fans, the attitude that my opinion cannot count because I don't support a 'proper' team. Because I don't deck myself out in every possible combination of club clothing at any given moment. Because the team I support had the temerity to have their heyday before the Premier League juggernaut really got going. (Often conveniently ignoring the fact that that applies to their team too). Because I happen to think that, in comparison to truly world class players, objectively, your star player and man-crush isn't that good and it's not because the national team manager is "playing them out of position." Because it can't possibly be that without the absurdly talented (and equally absurdly expensive) foreign import there to make your hero look good, he frequently fails on the biggest stage. Because at some point, the World Cup - the biggest stage - became overshadowed by club football.
And because I've never stopped supporting the team I grew up following; from dizzying never-again-attainable-heights and mind-numbing, soul-scarring lows. Instead, presumably, of keeping half an eye on them and hitching my wagon to the latest crop of fancy-dan, stepover merchants. Convincing myself that the Man Citys and Uniteds of this world are and have always been 'our' rivals, instead of the Countys and Albions.
The thing is, rightly or wrongly, I think your opinions are just as suspect for precisely the same reasons.
As I've mentioned, football did not start in 1992. Many clubs had success before this time, some of that number have had some since.
But the lopsided way some fans harp on about history is often perplexing. It's no good glorying in the exploits of Wolves or Forest or Leeds. The majority of their success came pre-Premier League and they're not a part of it now. An important distinction from, say, Liverpool who've had some success since the League's foundation but who would have seen winning the Football League Cup as the least of their achievements 25-30 years ago.
I'm not usually one for anecdotal evidence, but bear with me just this once. I was lucky enough to live in Nottingham in 1979/80. Most of the kids I went to school with followed Liverpool. You'd think it impossible that a club with so much history and success, not to mention unbridled enthusiasm from the media would have fans that genuinely feel they are somehow underdogs and that the football establishment is out to get them but, they're out there, I've met some of them. Like I said, it's very hard not to hate football sometimes. Having history is often a good thing but it's just that, history. For all the success and trophies, it can often be a millstone around supporters necks. They struggle to reconcile with the mediocrity (or worse) of the present and so the club can never realign itself to the new football reality and be as good as they remember it.
That reality for the vast majority of clubs is either find a very rich owner with no desire to make money from the club but still happy to throw vast sums at it or be content with mid-table obscurity and the occasional tilt at a domestic trophy.
Success or failure can often be relative but year-in, year-out, fans of "unfashionable" clubs get bombarded with hyperbole about how terrible it was that a 'big' club missed out on Europe. It's hardly comparable with relegation or administration but you'd think they were cakewalks compared to missing out on all that
m̶o̶n̶e̶y quality football.
And the 'big' club moniker is bandied around in ever more perplexing ways. There's no solid definition. Amount of fans? Trophies? Richest owners? Man City have three stars on their crest because it looks more 'continental', not because of European success. Forget Wolves or Leeds or even Forest being considered big clubs, the new football hierarchy would exclude old giants like Ajax and Celtic.
I think a lot of the blame, if that's the right word, can be partially attributed to the creation of the Premier League and most to the media. Now armchair fans across the globe are not only treated to seeing their team every time they play but are also bombarded with facts and figures and hyperbole that strains credulity and makes a run-of-the-mill wet Wednesday night mid-table clash seem like the World Cup Final. It's no wonder there's no sense of proportion. And then we all get to do it again next week.
I can genuinely remember a time when fans would get behind any English club that got into Europe. Not hardcore support or changing allegiances but just hoping for a good show from one of our own. The football landscape has changed so irrevocably that i find myself actively wishing for some 'home' clubs to be knocked out just to get their fans and the media to shut up for a bit.
It's because of this constant coverage, the belief that certain teams are untouchable or the evergreen 'to good to go down' (tell that to Rangers, Pompey, Leeds, Charlton, etc.) that nothing matters as much, that history is only relevant when it's your club, that records only count post-1992 or since the creation if the Champions League, that spending incredible amounts of money on fair-to-middling players is somehow acceptable, that getting into the top four is an achievement on par with winning... anything at all.
It's because of these things that I'll watch top flight football but I'm sometimes glad the team I follow isn't a part of it.
"But the skill, the showmanship, you don't see that in the lower leagues."
You mean showboating? [clears throat]
"Well I bet you don't see goals as good."
I'll take that bet.
"It can't be exciting with nothing to play for."
Wrong and wrong.
-Ash Hawthorne
(Ash is a guest writer for the Geezer; he is the author of the Miserable Batsteward blog and you can follow him @VieuxPoissons.)


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Photo showing main street in Val D'Or looking towards Catholic Church. They still have angle parking on main street.
This is facing opposite direction and you can see the Chateux Louis, a favorite bar/hangout in Mike's youth. Even Barry remembers this landmark and frequented it while stationed in the Air Force during the sixties.


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Saturday, July 17, 2010
It's a Love Thing
I happen to love making pies from scratch, crust and all.
I don't remember how I learned to make pie crust. I think my mother taught me once, but back then I found the process tedious. Years later when I wanted to make a pie I had to use my "Joy of Cooking" to teach myself again. In those days, some 25 years ago, I always used lard for the crust, which makes it very flavorful and flaky, but is incredibly unhealthy.
Around the fourth of July I was watching Martha Stewart make pies crusts on her show – berry pies – and that got me thinking about a fresh blueberry pie. Mindful of Martha Stewarts' instructions, as I began to make my pie crust I chilled the shortening, the flour, the water, and the bowl and the utensils for mixing the dough.
Once everything was well chilled I began the slow and arduous process of cutting the shortening into the flour, the really old fashioned way, using two table knives. A friend of mine was over and she asked why I didn't just mix the flour and shortening with my fingers? Oh, I said, the heat from the fingers would make everything too warm and it wouldn't mix correctly, the pie crust would be mushy. So I continued cutting the shortening and flour until the combined ingredients were about the size of peas. Add water, mix and form a ball, and then put it back in the refrigerator until chilled again.
The next step is to roll out the pie crust. And here is where I encountered a bit of a problem. I didn't have a rolling pin. I mean I DO have one, but at the moment its packed away and in storage....a minor detail I'd forgotten when I started to make this pie crust.
How to roll out a pie crust without a rolling pin? I suppose I could have put the crust back in the fridge and run out to buy another rolling pin. But I didn't want to take the time, the berries were mixed with sugar and cornstarch, the oven was lit. So I had to improvise with what I had on hand.
After considering a couple of options I remembered that I had a Rubbermaid one quart container that was tall and cylinder shaped like a rolling a pin. I thought that would work. And, while it was a bit light and lacked the density of a rolling pin, it did manage to roll the crust out well enough. In the end I had to do a little smushing of the crust to even it out in the pie tin. As I filled the crust with blueberries and baked it I worried that it would be a disaster. But I have to say it was actually one of the better pie crusts I've ever made. Emeril Lagasse would call it a "Love thing" the labor of love that goes into making our food from scratch.
Making a pie crust, or any labor of love food from scratch, is definitely a Martha-like activity. In our Gospel this morning we hear the familiar story in Luke of Martha entertaining Jesus and his companions, working herself into a tizzy. She becomes frustrated with her sister Mary who instead of helping Martha, prefers to sit and listen to Jesus teaching. It's unclear why Martha doesn't just call Mary aside and say something to her; the story tells us that Martha complains to Jesus about her sister. In response Jesus tells Martha to leave Mary alone, let her listen. As we hear it today it almost sounds as if Jesus is chiding Martha, but that's not exactly the case. Remember, Jesus talks and teaches in parables, which always have layers of meaning beyond the details of the story. One way we know that Jesus is not chiding Martha but pointing us to see a deeper meaning in the story is when we put this one in the context of the stories that come before and after it in the Gospel of Luke.
Just before this story we have our reading from last Sunday about the Good Samaritan, the man who was beaten and left on the side of the road to die, but was helped by a stranger passing by. And next week we have the story of Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray and talking about the ministry that comes out of prayer. Combined with today's readings we realize that we are in the midst of some serious teaching. Jesus is teaching us how to be disciples, how to listen to Jesus, how to follow Jesus' teachings, and how to be like Jesus, how to be his hands and heart in the world.
The story of Martha complaining about Mary is meant to help us see that being in a relationship with God and becoming a disciple of Jesus is a both/and process – we need to be able to both listen and do. At first this may not be apparent, for it seems as if Jesus is saying that what Mary is doing it better than what Martha is doing. But we know from many other sources in scripture, including the story of the Good Samaritan that we heard last week, that Jesus places a high value on hospitality, on care for others, and that is what Martha is doing. We now know that Jesus also places a high value on listening and learning and growing into discipleship and that this process includes both men and women. This reading clearly indicates that Jesus supports the women who become his followers. They in fact become quite diligent disciples, think of the women who follow him to the cross and then go to the tomb to care for his broken and crucified body, the women who first see the resurrected Jesus.
Let's go back, for just a minute, to Martha's complaining. Even as we know that Jesus places a high value on hospitality, what are we to make of Martha's complaint in this reading? I think the point Jesus makes is that we are to care for others and offer gracious hospitality but not get anxious about it. We are not to work ourselves into such a frenzy doing and caring that we lose sight of Jesus, of God, of the people around us, and of what it means to love as God does. In other words we need to care for others as Martha does but with the spirit of Mary – a mindful listening caring spirit. In a world of overwhelming problems: oil spills, weather disasters, economic failure, two wars overseas, civil wars and famine devastating countries around the globe, it's hard to not become overwhelmed and worked into a tizzy.
Being mindful and intentional as we care for others will be affirmed in our reading next week when we hear about Jesus going off to pray, taking time out from doing in order to regroup, listen, and move out in a mindful way. The teachings last week, this week, and next affirm that discipleship is a process that includes both listening and doing. Discipleship is about living into the charge to love God, love self, and love others. You might say, as we are practicing the art of discipleship, of balancing listening with doing, that it is as "simple" as apple pie, because it's a love-thing.
3 comments:
- Rev Nancy Fitz said...
good stuff. I'm trying to focus on the balance. Love your image and wish for a piece of pie. . .
- Sherry Peyton said...
LOL Terri, we probably make the same crust, as I too finally learned how to make a good one through Joy of Cooking. I do use the food processor to mix however. I don't have quite the patience you do.
Thanks for a wonderful treatment of Martha and Mary. That has always been a difficult periscope for me and I like the way you interpolate it with the good Samaritan. Lots of good thinking on this!
- Ruth Hull Chatlien said...
This was so helpful to me. I've been struggling with my Martha tendencies lately, and it helps to be reminded that what I need is balance, not to reject the Martha part of my personality.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Lisa and Cory
Lisa and Cory had a fantastic wedding at Austin Country Club. Many thanks to:
Austin Country Club
Pearl Events - Becky Navarro
Westbank Floral
Michelle's Patisserie
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Featured on Chez Wedd!
Robin and Tommy's wedding was featured on Chez Wedd! I loved their wedding at Camp Lucy! Check it out!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Jennifer and Don
Jennifer and Don celebrated their beautiful wedding at the Four Seasons! More details from their beautiful reception coming soon!
Monday, November 7, 2011
Important Details!
Jennifer and Don had a beautiful Four Seasons Wedding and their kids were a very special part of this day! I happen to LOVE photographing kids in action so this was fine by me. The details of this wedding were also spectacular! I'll post more soon.
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I guess I should start with a bit of an introduction. My name is Andrew McKinlay. I grew up and live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - the middle of the prairies. Not exactly what most people would think of as an adventurous place. My earliest claim to "adventure" comes from my parents. I was born in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. My parents lived in East Africa for 10 years, but they left when I was only a year old so I can't claim any memories of Africa.
My favorite brand of adventure is mountain climbing. People think that's a little strange for a person from the prairies. My mother claims it's a result of being born next door to Kilimanjaro - the highest mountain in Africa. Neither of my parents were climbers. My father tried to climb Kilimanjaro once when they were living there, but turned around short of the summit. That was the beginning and the end of his climbing career. But they were supportive of my adventurous streak from an early age. Of course, that support got tempered by fear for my safety as my adventures got more serious. I remember before my first Himalayan trip asking my father what he thought of me going to a big climb in Tibet (Changtse). His response was short and sweet: "Don't be ridiculous!" But in the end I think he was proud of my accomplishments.
My first big trip was to Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Not wanting to go on the "tourist" route, we chose Catacomb Ridge on the East Buttress. We trained hard, climbing in the Rockies in the winter to get used to conditions but we had no idea what we were getting into. Our third person cancelled, leaving just two of us. Then we couldn't land near the base of the route as planned which meant to lot of dangerous glacier travel with two people. We barely managed to get on the route itself. But it was a great learning experience. A few years later we went back and had a great time succeeding on the West Buttress "tourist" route.
When I was younger I had typical fantasies about becoming a world famous mountain climber. When I succeeded on my first 8000m peak (Broad Peak) it fueled these fantasies. By then I knew I'd never be a world class rock or ice climber, but I did seem to do pretty well at altitude. We were even asked to give a presentation on our climb at the Annual General meeting of the Alpine Club of Canada. But my lack of success on the following three 8000m expeditions (Cho Oyu, Manaslu, Shishapangma) pretty much eradicated any remaining fantasies. On the positive side, we managed to get someone to the top on three out of four 8000m peaks (all but Shish). From a team leaders point of view I guess that's pretty good.
My climbing partner on all of these trips was Shelley Ballard/McKinlay. I proposed in base camp at Broad Peak soon after returning from the summit. We got married later that year. I joke that it was the lack of oxygen at altitude but I think it had more to do with narrowly escaping getting killed in a storm on the descent from the summit. Seven people were killed in that storm next door on K2. It was a sobering experience and it reminded me we don't live forever.
Unfortunately, on Shishapangma Shelley started to have problems with the altitude. It didn't seem to be life threatening (i.e. it wasn't cerebral or pulmonary edema) but puking all the time doesn't make for a fun time. So we gave up on 8000m peaks for a while.
Instead, we visited East Africa to see where I'd been born and to climb Mt. Kilamanjaro (highest in Africa). We successfully climbed the Western Breach route.
Our next big trip was to Chile and Argentina where we climbed the False Polish route on Aconcagua (highest in South America).
It was nice to be successful on Kilamanjaro and Aconcagua after our lack of success on the last three 8000m expeditions.


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While Jules was still putting out movies under the Pleasure banner, his skill at making strongly perverse movies with hot girls featuring scorching anal sex were soon noticed by Evil Angel Productions. Within a year of being distributed by the Evil Angel, Jules Jordan was outselling many companies and by a wide margin! Along the way, Jordan has received over 25 Adult Video News awards.
In 2006 Jules Jordan, the envy of the gonzo universe, parted ways with Evil Angel and founded the now infamous Jules Jordan Video. JJV, along with distributing Jordan's DVDs, releases the very nasty offerings of fan-favorite directors Mike John, Erik Everhard and Alexander DeVoe. Winner of ''Best New Production Company'' at the 2007 AVN Awards and ''Director of the Year'' for Jules Jordan at the 2008 AVN Awards, Jules Jordan Video is a major company to be reckoned with. Porn fans rejoice!
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Dear readers, feel free to have a go yourselves at this quiz via the comments box, where I'll post the answers in a few days.
1) Australia is called:
"The Land _________________"
"The Great _____________ Land."
"The Great _____________ Land."
2) According to the indigenous people of Australia, the world was brought into existence by . . .
a. a prehistoric race of people
b. God
c. songs
d. the Rainbow Serpent
3) If someone says they are 'fair dinkum,' they mean . . .
a. they know how to swim a little
b. they are telling you the truth
c. they were born in Australia
4) The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent took place in what year and by sailors from which European country?
Year: _____________ Country: ___________________
5) If someone asks you where the dunny is, what are they looking for?
a. the pub
b. the boss
c. the toilet
6) In Australia, a ranch is known as a _________________.
7) What do you call the Aussie favourite sponge cake cubes dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut?
a. Koala Cubes
b. Delights
c. Lamingtons
d. Croc Chocs
8) Name one well-known race held annually in Australia.
9) What two animals are on Australia's coat of arms?
10) How many of the Australian birds perched on Michael's TV can you identify? (For a clue, squeeze each one to hear what sound they make!)
11) Australia's national dessert is named after a famous ballerina and is made of meringue, whipped cream and topped with a selection of tropical fruits. What is it called?
a. Nurmova
b. Tropilova
c. Zilatmova
d. Pavlova
12) Name six well known Australian landmarks – 3 natural ones, and 3 of human construction!
1. _________________________ 1. ________________________
2. _________________________ 2. ________________________
3. _________________________ 3. ________________________
13) What is Australia's national anthem?
a. God Save the Queen
b. Waltzing Matilda
c. Advance Australia Fair
d. I Am Australian
14) If someone says let's 'crack a tinny', what are they going to do . . .
a. open the sun roof on the car
b. open a can of beer
c. race a boat
15) In eighteenth-century Australia, an outlaw (or highway man) was known as a ______________. Can you name a famous one?
16) From which Australian films are the following lines taken:
(i) "That's not a knife. This is a knife!"
(ii) "[It has] only two states of being: dangerous or dead."
(iii) "You know the law: Two men enter, one man leaves."
(iv) "You're terrible, Muriel!"
(v) "That is going straight to the Pool Room."
(vi) "Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be."
(vii) "And don't worry, Mademoiselle, we'll only be gone a little while."
Above: Friends: Darlene, Noelle, Eileen, Kate, Jim and Phil – Saturday, December 17, 2011. Darlene and her husband Tom feature in Catholics for Marriage Equality MN's recently released video series.
Right: Jim Smith, Catholics for Marriage Equality MN's Parish Inreach Coordinator, and MN State Senator Scott Dibble – December 17, 2011. Scott was another big winner in the Aussie Quiz that night! Oh, and he and his husband Richard also feature in C4ME-MN's video series.
Above: Hello, boys! From left: Raul, Andy, Mark, Paul, Walter
and Tim – Saturday, December 17, 2011.
and Tim – Saturday, December 17, 2011.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
Another Time, Another Place . . .
Sydney Sojourn
Christmas in Australia
Swallows' Ledge
Images: Michael J. Bayly.


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Obama Classmate Schools Geraldo Rivera About Obama's Indonesian Name Barry Soetoro http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/08/obama-classmate-schools-geraldo-rivera.html#.UCRsSrk4kVY.twitter
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Erick Erickson: Trump Should Focus More On Obama's College Records; Full WH Meltdown
What's 'Barry Soetoro' Hiding? 'It's time to call Obama's bluff. Romney should call a press conference and issue a challenge in front of the nation. He should agree to release more of his tax returns, only if Obama unseals his college records. Simple and straight-forward. Mitt should ask "What could possibly be so embarrassing in your college records from 29 years ago, that you are afraid to let America's voters see it? If it's THAT bad, maybe it's something the voters ought to see." Suddenly the tables are turned. Now Obama is on the defensive. Shouldn't the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama's records as Romney's? Shouldn't they be digging for Obama's dirt with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt's?' http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/obama-scandal-columbia.html
The Ignorant, the Pets, and the Dead: That's the Plan http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/the_ignorant_the_pets_and_the_dead_thats_the_plan.html#.UCQLSBK-reA.twitter
Rep. Steve King mulling bill to repeal everything Obama has signed.."I am bringing him to court, and we're going to defend the Constitution of the U.S. & the separation of powers" http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/242797-rep-king-mulling-bill-to-repeal-everything-obama-has-signed
Boss Emeritus to Romney: Nail Obama team for illegal coordination http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/09/boss-emeritus-to-romney-nail-obama-team-for-illegal-coordination/
Islam in action: Outrage: Sudan's Al-Bashir, Indicted for Genocide, is Nominated for Seat on U.N. Human Rights Council http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2012/08/islam-in-action-outrage-sudans-al-bashir-indicted-for-genocide-is-nominated-for-seat-on-u-n-human-rights-council-2454238.html
'Disgusting' Pro-Obama Ad Criticized by Democrat http://abcn.ws/MDlKhN
Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-camp-denies-knowledge-cancer-tale-told-may-195237581.html Serial Liar-in-Chief Obama's Absence of Character
Dick Morris: Democrats Would Invite Karl Marx To Speak At Convention http://t.co/eTXXvJln #tcot
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"With looming changes to organ allocation in the U.S., living donor transplants from older living donors may prove to be an important avenue for elderly patients awaiting kidney transplantation," researchers report in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Led by Dr. Jagbir Gill at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the research team studied 23,754 kidney transplant recipients 60 years or older at the time of transplantation, which was from 1996 to 2005.
Nearly one third received kidneys from living donors; 1,133 donors were older than 55 years and 5,873 were younger.
Among deceased donors, 1,219 met the standard donor criteria and 4,551 were "expanded criteria donors," defined as donors older than 60 or those between the ages of 50 to 59 with two of three adverse conditions: high blood pressure, a history of stroke, or terminal serum creatinine level greater than 1.5 milligrams per decaliter, a sign of kidney dysfunction.
After a more extensive analysis, the researchers found that graft survival was superior in all recipients of living donor transplants compared with deceased donor transplants," Gill's team reports.
Among living donor recipients, 4-year patient survival was only slightly better for younger donors than for older donors (84.2 percent vs. 82.4 percent). Corresponding rates in recipients of standard-criteria and expanded-criteria donors were 78.5 percent and 67.5 percent, respectively.
In further analysis, the relative risk of death was nearly tripled for organs from expanded-criteria deceased donors compared with those from older living donors.
Survival at 4 years was greater than 80 percent, even among recipients of kidneys from the oldest living donors (over age 65), the report indicates.
"New proposals to amend organ allocation are putting considerable emphasis on increasing the number of functioning years gained from each diseased donor kidney transplant," the authors note, a policy likely to result in even longer wait times for elderly patients who are already at increased risk of dying before an organ becomes available.
Therefore, they advise, "Our findings support the practice of living donor transplantation with appropriately selected older living donor in elderly recipients whenever possible."
Although older donors did not appear to suffer more complications than their younger counterparts, follow-up data were available for fewer than 25 percent. "Clearly," Gill and his group conclude, "there is a need for further prospective study of donor outcomes, and multiple centers are developing donor registries for this purpose."
SOURCE: American Journal of Kidney Disease, September 2008.
"You Have the Power to Save Lives – Sign Your Donor Card & Tell Your Loved Ones of Your Decision"
Register to be a donor in Ontario or Download Donor Cards from Trillium Gift of Life Network
For other Canadian provinces click here
In the United States, be sure to find out how to register in your state at ShareYourLife.org or Download Donor Cards from OrganDonor.Gov
Your generosity can save up to eight lives with heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas and small intestine transplants. One tissue donor can help up to 100 other people by donating skin, corneas, bone, tendon, ligaments and heart valves


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I happen to love football, so it's kind of a sad moment when Super Bowl Sunday arrives. I always enjoy watching the game, but then it also means the end of football season. On the other hand, it also means I'll have a lot more time to read on weekends until the next football season starts.
Since I'm talking about books and football, here are a few you might want to read:
Coming Back Stronger by Drew Brees*
First Things First: The Rules of Being a Warner by Kurt Warner & Brenda Warner*
Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy by Peyton Manning & Archie Manning
It's Only a Game by Terry Bradshaw
Football for Dummies by Howie Long & John Czarnecki
Books for those who love contemporary romance and football:
It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars #1) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips*
Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars #2) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips*
Nobody's Baby But Mine (Chicago Stars #3) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips*
Any Given Christmas (A Sugar Shack Novel) by Candis Terry*
Blitzing Emily (A Love & Football Novel) by Julie Brannagh
Fourth and Goal (Seattle Lumberjacks #1) by Jami Davenport
* = Books I've read and can definitely recommend. The others are books I want to read.
I've read and loved all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' Chicago Stars Series and Candis Terry's Sugar Shack Series. I'm looking forward to reading the Love and Football Series by Julie Brannagh and the Seattle Lumberjacks Series by Jami Davenport. What can I say? I just love football.
I'd take time to list more football books, both fiction and non-fiction, but it's time to watch the Super Bowl XLIX Pregame. By the way, I'm rooting for the Seattle Seahawks this time around.


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Thursday, March 12, 2009
cat tale
Our two youngest, Tighe and Ronan, have grown into big boy cats. They have started to settle down a little but rest assured, if there is naughtiness going on in the house, you can still bet it's one of them. We've tried every sort of cat discipline you can imagine but nothing works. They just look at us with that little "huh?" look on their faces and run away, only to come back moments later to make a game out of it. As exasperating as they sometimes are, we forgive them most anything because they do things like this...
That's Ronan in the papasan chair with Fae, who was the runt of her litter. She was constantly ganged up on by her littermates which made her timid and shy, even with other cats. She's still the tiniest cat you ever saw in your life, and will hide at the slightest provocation but somehow Ronan and his brother Tighe have convinced her she need not be afraid of them. Ronan will snuggle up with her and Tighe will play a gentle little chase game with her and they are both so careful with her that it seems like they know that she needs special consideration. Cat love is a mysterious thing.
And here's another photo just so you can see the size difference. Ronan, who despite his somewhat dumpling-shaped physique, is really a normal sized cat. He is a year and a half old and Fae is almost 5.
16 comments:
- TD said...
Aww, Fae looks like Clancy.
- March 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Snarky said...
So tiny! So precious!
Do want cuddles!
Awwww adorable overload. I think I feel my brain leaking out of my ears now.
- March 12, 2009 at 1:29 PM
She is the tiniest kitty, ever ! 4 pounds tops, I'll bet. Loki weighs 9lbs 6oz and is a big furry guy now. Can't wait for you to meet him !
- March 12, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Robert said...
That's almost enough cats to make a decent dog!
- March 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM
- Lissa said...
Awwww, TINY kitty!! Those are always the most difficult cats at the shelter, since you KNOW you can just pop them into your fleece and sneak home . . .
(w/v: puzzlin. how apropos for a cat post!)
- March 12, 2009 at 3:21 PM
- Mark Alger said...
Wow! And I thought Rommie was tiny.
- March 12, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Rommie is not small. You just keep comparing her to Indo , the walking haystack. Cats and dogs? Can't compare them. Differnt everythings !
- March 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- Heath said...
The cute is sucking the air out of the room. :-P
And the thought of being in a room with that many felines makes my sinuses itch, eyes water and nose run.... yeeesh!
- March 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Bryan said...
Very cute meow meows!
- March 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Awww, what a cutie! It's wonderful of you to provide a good home to the little one.
And five cats! My Monte will not tolerate even one more cat in my home. Otherwise I would add a cat or two.
Brian C
- March 12, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- The Freeholder said...
Breda, I enjoy your blog. I like the guns, I like the librarian stuff, I like the politics.
But I love the kitties. Your Ronan looks like my Miss Thing, before the kittie diet plan. And Fae is just a cutie.
Yes, I am a cat person.
- March 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- Warthog said...
A place to live is really just a place to live, it's not really a home until a kitty moves in and takes over :)
- March 13, 2009 at 5:01 AM
- Sebastian said...
In the first picture, Ronan is looking at Fae as if he is plotting against her. In the second, Fae looks angry. Maybe it's just the way the flash catches her eyes.
Very cute kitties though.
- March 13, 2009 at 12:51 PM
- Tam said...
Fae is such a cutie!
- March 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Desmond ... has recently decided that he wants to be a lap cat. This is an awkward thing, considering he is probably close to 20 pounds and my lap isn't that big.
IOW, he's an overlap cat.
And there is something fundamentally wrong about a 5-yr-old cat that still looks like a half-grown kitten.
- March 13, 2009 at 3:28 PM
- mattcaron said...
Aww, Fae looks like my Socks!
- March 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM


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Special Friend Poems"Portrait of a Friend"
I can't give solutions to all of life's problems, doubts,
or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we will
search for answers.
I can't change your past with all it's heartache and pain,
nor the future with its untold stories.
But I can be there now when you need me to care.
I can't keep your feet from stumbling.
I can only offer my hand that you may grasp it and not fall.
Your joys, triumphs, successes, and happiness are not mine;
Yet I can share in your laughter.
Your decisions in life are not mine to make, nor to judge;
I can only support you, encourage you,
and help you when you ask.
I can't prevent you from falling away from friendship,
from your values, from me.
I can only pray for you, talk to you and wait for you.
I can't give you boundaries which I have determined for you,
But I can give you the room to change, room to grow,
room to be yourself.
I can't keep your heart from breaking and hurting,
But I can cry with you and help you pick up the pieces
and put them back in place.
I can't tell you who you are.
I can only love you and be your friend.
Why GOD Gave Us Friends
GOD knew that everyone needs
Companionship and cheer,
He knew that people need someone
Whose thoughts are always near.
He knew they need someone kind
To lend a helping hand.
Someone to gladly take the time
To care and understand.
GOD knew that we all need someone
To share each happy day,
To be a source of courage
When troubles come our way.
Someone to be true to us,
Whether near or far apart.
Someone whose love we'll always
Hold and treasure in our hearts.
That's Why GOD Gave Us Friends!


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We used to soap car windows and throw corn at doors or ring doorbells and run when I was a kid. Now a days, I pull my car up waaaaay under the carport close to the house and don't put my trash out until I hear the trash truck coming! Oh how times change.
But one thing is for sure, I know one mischievous little pig that will be kept well under wraps tonight!


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While Bush was President, the news media spin was that Iran's nuke program was not a threat and the only true threat was Bush's war mongering. The wikeleaks document dump this week made clear that Arab governments recognized the threat, were not convinced by the spin that Iran had stopped nuclear development, and were even stronger supporters of military action to stop Iran that Bush was. Naturally, the left has to push back and here is ThinkProgress' spin:
So, how much substance is there to ThinkProgress' claim that Arabs urged restraint? Their first example is Syrian President Bashar Asad. ThinkProgress neglects to mention that Syria is a client state of Iran and Assad could not afford to say anything other the Iranian line. Their next example is Oman. I looked up Oman in Wikipedia and the that the government there is the government there because of "the intervention of Iranian Imperial ground forces." In other words, it is not really an independent state either.
ThinkProgress has an impact that is not limited by the weakness of its arguments. VerumSerum has shown how MSNBC can use it as a "credible source" and, thus, report ThinkProgress' articles as objective "news" instead of just left/liberal talking points.
PREVIOUSLY on Iran:
•Obama and the Iranian freedom protests
• Obama angers Iran
• Web censorship debate in Iran
• Al Qaeda breaks with Iran
•Iran, Venezuela, and international crime
• Bollinger's delusion and the madness of liberals
•Iran holds hostage 15 British sailors
•Liberals, denial, and Iranian nuclear ambitions
•Jimmy Carter's legacy: a radical Iran


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gold butterflies and hearts on a silver chain
I really like doing chain maille. Don't see why it all has to be in precious metals though. This bracelet is a combination of silver and brass, of all things
And keeping to the theme of mixed metals, the above bracelet is made from stainless steel bike circlips, with a silver-plated and enamelled crash helmet.
A fun bracelet, this one is stretchy, one-size-fits-all, with Lucite calla lilies and leaves
and finally, the above is silver wire, strung with Honda 10mm mirror nuts and Czech glass beads. Soon, I will have a whole range of biker-oriented jewellery. Why shouldn't bikers be glitzy and fashion-conscious?


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Okay, I can't take credit for this. I've read this on Craigslist many years ago -- the posting is from 2005. Can't really give credit where credit is due (not like any one post on CL with their real name), so all I can say it, it's from CL, posting #67762042.
OK, so I've immersed myself in the fresh hell that is online dating. So far, I've gotten a lot of responses. But one thing I don't understand is the number of guys who use the interjection LOL in their responses to me.
Now, as I understand it, LOL means "laughing out loud." So I try to imagine these guys laughing out loud during their messages to me, and it makes them sound like idiots.
"Hi, my name is Jim. LOL"
"Nice pic, is it recent? LOL"
"I like to cuddle on the couch with my special someone LOL"
I mean, are any of these statements remotely amusing, even in an ironic sense? It would make more sense to randomly throw in the phrase WTF, which is often what I feel about online dating and my life in general.
"How cute that you named your twin daughters Tiffany and Brittany. What exactly does "separated but flexible" mean? WTF."
"Sorry, I'm not attracted to fat, cross-eyed men twenty years my senior. WTF."
Don't get me started on the substitution of "u" for "you." I could see it if I had 11 year old boys texting me, but not 40 year olds. I mean, WTF.


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So the festive season is all but behind us.
I hope that all of my wonderful readers had a lovely day with friends, family and loved ones. I won't wish everyone a happy new year for reasons detailed in the comic below:
Copyright C&H
Anyone who knows me knows that I can be a bit of a Grinch. I don't like Christmas. This year however was pretty fricken sweet!!
I'd signed up to volunteer with Crisis but I didn't stay in London so I had to change my plans.
I found a lovely little place over in Slough called SHOC which is a centre for homeless people, addicts, immigrants and other people who have difficulties in life. I met some wonderful people there, service users and volunteers alike.
I have been meaning to get this blog up for a while but keep getting sidetracked by other, less important things! It was supposed to be a full blog but the moment has passed!
My next project is going to be looking at various other mental health issues. I had been predominantly focussing on Bipolar Disorder as that was my diagnosis. However, there are many other mental health issues, some of which you actually wouldn't believe!
I will sign off here but be sure to tune in again for my next blog!
Keep Smiling :(:


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Prateik Babbar finds love again!
"Hanisha and I were together for nearly three years," Prateik told Mumbai Mirror in November, "I am still fond of her. But she doesn't want me in her life any more."
And later, Prateik reluctantly admitted to a break-up in January. "That's over. It wasn't an easy task. But I am not chasing Hanisha any more."
But Prateik Babbar is undeterred. The actor has found love anew in 20-year old British model-actress, Amy Jackson, reports Mumbai Mirror.
"Prateik and Amy hit it off rather well right from the get-go. They have become rather close recently. They are definitely more than just good friends," a source revealed to the tabloid.
Amy, a Liverpool native, and Prateik met on the sets of Gautam Menon's romantic film Prem Katha.
The film is a remake of Gautham Menon's Tamil film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa and features Amy as a Malyali Christian.
As any off-screen love story in Bollywood goes, Prateik and Amy insist that they're just friends.


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Most of us have seen photos of the famous "Tollund Man" at the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark. Another bog man, although not quite as famous, is "Lindow Man" who resides at the British Museum in London. Similar ancient iron age bog people have been discovered in swamps and peat bogs all across Northern Europe. Some, such as Tollund and Lindow man, are remarkably well preserved. The natural tannic acid in the humus rich bogs and a anaerobic environment help to preserve skin and tissue.
|The well preserved face of Tollund Man
Some of these leather like mummies date back over 2,000 years and many show signs of ritual sacrifice or execution. Until recently most have been discovered inadvertently by folks digging for peat. Some historians and archaeologist suggest that preservation in a bog was not an honor. A body which does not corrupt does not release a soul to the afterlife.
|Lindow Man on display at the British Musuem in London
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A Danish archaeological team has discovered an entire "army" in a single bog. To this point 240 individuals have been recovered out of about 1,000 who were thought to be interred in this bog about 2,000 years ago. All are men between the ages of 13 and 45 years. Many of the bodies show clear signs of trauma from animals and from bladed weapons. The evidence of trauma, ages and sex and associated artifacts and weapons found in context, suggest that these were warriors, likely fighting during the Teutonic Wars. The presence of animal bite marks is curious and my indicate that they were not buried immediately, and were possible brought from the battlefield to this bog after the fight. Animals may have gotten to the bodies before they were collected or during the time they were transported. What the animal bites do conclude, is that they were not thrown into bog immediately after death as part of some ritual, but at some time post mortem. Were they brought here and thrown into the bog as some form of sacrifice or to dishonor them, or were these men placed in the bog to preserve and honor them?
This discovery will reignite the theories of bog interment. Hopefully some useful data will be recovered from these individual to tell us more about their violent end.
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We associate a number of writings in the New Testament with the name of John. There is of course the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation. Then there are the books we call 1, 2, and 3 John. Tradition associates all of these writings with a single person, the disciple John, the son of Zebedee.
Only one of these writings actually gives us the name John for its author, and that is the book of Revelation. The Gospel of John names an anonymous, "Beloved Disciple," as its chief source (e.g., John 21:24). The letters of 2 and 3 John only say that their author is "the elder." 1 John is more like a short sermon than a letter and has no names in it at all.
On the basis of style, the Gospel of John, the sermon of 1 John, and the letters of 2 and 3 John all have strong similarities. They also share some of the same themes. By contrast, Revelation is quite different, both in style and in the flavor of its content. Even in the earliest days of Christianity, these striking differences in tone and flavor were noticed. Dionysius of Alexandria, writing in the 200s, convincingly showed the likelihood that Revelation had a different author than the Gospel, letters, and the sermon we call 1 John. [1]
Dionysius even mentions that there were two tombs for John at Ephesus and suggests there might have been two Johns, one of whom wrote Revelation and the other of whom wrote the Gospel of John. This theory is strongly supported by the fact that another church father, Papias, also mentions two Johns, and he wrote as early as AD110! He even knew one of them. He calls one of these Johns a disciple, but the other he calls, "the elder." [2]
You can see why a few scholars in modern times have wondered if in fact the disciple John stands behind the book of Revelation and this other, "John the elder," stands behind the Gospel of John, the letters, and the sermon of 1 John. [3] Who would he be? Some have looked for clues especially from the Gospel of John. For example, the Gospel of John has a lot more to say about Jesus in the south, in Judea, than the other Gospels do. Could this John have been someone from Jerusalem?
The Beloved Disciple is known by the high priest (John 18:15). This is not likely something that would have been true of John the son of Zebedee, a fisherman from Galilee. But it might have been true of John the elder, perhaps someone from a priestly family. [4] The existence of two Johns would also explain how easily all these writings came to be connected to each other.
You can also see hints in the letters and Gospel of John of the situation around the area of Ephesus that was unfolding at the end of the first century of Christianity...
[1] Dionysius' contrast is found in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, 7.24-25. His arguments are as good as any literary analysis by a modern scholar.
[2] It is probably worth pointing out that this is a relatively conservative hypothesis, since many scholars would disassociate the Gospel of John from any immediate follower of Jesus. By contrast, this is a reasonable explanation based on sound evidence that still takes seriously the earliest traditions of the second century. It may not be correct, but given how obvious the differences in style and approach are between John and Revelation, we have to consider how strongly some oppose this line of thinking as a certain kind of stubborn traditionalism. In the end, such vehement opposition reveals a lack of interest in the truth rather than, as is sometimes professed, a zeal for the truth.
[3] See especially Martin Hengel, The Johannine Question, trans. by John Bowden (London, SCM, 1990), and Richard Bauckham, The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 50.
[4] Another writer named Polycrates, writing in the mid-100s, suggests that John was from a priestly family. It is tempting to think of John Mark, who was from Jerusalem. The difficulty here is that we already have a Gospel traditionally ascribed to Mark and the styles and approach of these two are almost diametrically opposite each other. Ben Witherington III suggests that the author of the Gospel of John might have been Lazarus, since John mentions how Jesus loved him. See John's Wisdom: A Commentary on the Fourth Gospel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995). This is ingenious but completely unattested by any early tradition.
Thursday, June 05, 2014
The John Question
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