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The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals. According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.
Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas's origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. Christian authors of the time do note a connection between the solstice and Jesus' birth: The church father Ambrose (c. 339–397), for example, described Christ as the true sun, who outshone the fallen gods of the old order. But early Christian writers never hint at any recent calendrical engineering; they clearly don't think the date was chosen by the church. Rather they see the coincidence as a providential sign, as natural proof that God had selected Jesus over the false pagan gods.
It's not until the 12th century that we find the first suggestion that Jesus' birth celebration was deliberately set at the time of pagan feasts. A marginal note on a manuscript of the writings of the Syriac biblical commentator Dionysius bar-Salibi states that in ancient times the Christmas holiday was actually shifted from January 6 to December 25 so that it fell on the same date as the pagan Sol Invictus holiday. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Bible scholars spurred on by the new study of comparative religions latched on to this idea. They claimed that because the early Christians didn't know when Jesus was born, they simply assimilated the pagan solstice festival for their own purposes, claiming it as the time of the Messiah's birth and celebrating it accordingly.
More recent studies have shown that many of the holiday's modern trappings do reflect pagan customs borrowed much later, as Christianity expanded into northern and western Europe. The Christmas tree, for example, has been linked with late medieval druidic practices. This has only encouraged modern audiences to assume that the date, too, must be pagan.
There are problems with this popular theory, however, as many scholars recognize. Most significantly, the first mention of a date for Christmas (c. 200) and the earliest celebrations that we know about (c. 250–300) come in a period when Christians were not borrowing heavily from pagan traditions of such an obvious character.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Date for Christmas: When was it decided and did Christians steal it from the pagans?
Last year Biblical Archaeology Review ran an article that Andre McGowan in which he provides a historical outline for how December 25th came to be the day the church celebrates Jesus' birth. It is a well-written, balanced article. McGowan argues that the popular notion that Christians stole the day from the pagan's may not be all that accurate. Here is an excerpt.
Read the rest of the article here.
Thanks to Derek Leman for the link.
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Wow.... didn't we just have our vacation???? This month and next is shaping up to be a holiday packed month - this week alone we have "holiday in lieu of the election", "hari raya", "teacher's day" - the girls only go to school 1 day this week and it's their term excursion! O the fun!! And the whole of next week is term break.....
Unfortunately, we are deskbound with some deadlines so it was only sporadic mornings that we can spend time with the girls. The weather has been incredibly kind though, the whole weekend was super cool and rainy!! Perfect weather for long long snoozes in bed (although it would have been even better if there was no early alarm clock in the form of the girls!). After polling (no, he was not elected), we indulged in curry fishhead (well, me rather as V is so not a spice loving person). G is shaping up to be a "peranakan in training" as she loves spicy food and will gamely try anything.
Some highlights of the month of August:
Our dear friend's dd turned 2, and she had the most wonderful cake ever! Cake's from here - www.crummb.com (sooo nice right... :) Since they have relocated to Hongkong, we hardly get a chance to catchup, so it was really nice to just chill and yak non-stop while the girls get hyper on cake and helping to open up the pressies! They even spent the whole afternoon there with a very generous birthday girl who shared all her presents!
How many architects does it take to cut a stacked cake?
G's list on what she wanted off the cake.... (i like the last sentence)
Group shot - this is what 4 architects with their respective offspring look like.
The girls and the cake.
K looking sleepy
We usually spend sundays now with the girls either at ECP or Sentosa, so that they can ride their bikes and we can have some outdoor time. Unfortunately, this Sunday, poor G fell off her bike and her lower lip took the brunt of the fall - resulting in a rather large graze below her lip. Lots of TLC was required and of course she was jumping about in no time with seemingly no traumatization towards riding again (phew!)The bruiser of a lip. It's totally healed now! I'm always amazed at the resilience of the kids and their healing speed!
K at ECP with her favorite iPad / iPhone game.
Have a great (cool!) week ahead and hopefully I will get to take nicer outdoor photos soon if the rain stops!

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Every so often I leave my "sheltered" life as a mother of 6 and venture into the blogosphere to read what others in public education are saying . A few blogs that are always worth my time and interest are Jenny D., Joanne Jacobs, and Education Wonks. I'd encourage anyone interested in educational issues to make a trip every so often to their sites. EdWonk also puts together a great carnival every week from different educational bloggers.
And a special thank you to Joanne Jacobs for giving a plug to the new homeschool blogger portal by The Old Schoolhouse.


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Ideally located down a nice, quiet, family friendly street you'll find this fantastic home which immediately distinguishes itself with lovely low maintenance landscaping for impressive street appeal. Be further delighted by the variety of fruit trees including apple, mandarin, peach and delicious Satsuma plum for fresh and healthy treats. Designed for your convenience, the entry of the home welcomes you with plenty of space to store your coat, shoes and handy umbrella.
Step in to the dining and kitchen area featuring LED down lights in the hub of the home where you can cook up a storm of culinary delights with fresh vegetables from your very own garden. The U-shaped kitchen features a gas cook top, retractable range hood, oven and microwave, double sink with Puratap, raised breakfast bar, charming profile cabinets and a water temperature controller for your safety. Flow seamlessly in to the spacious formal lounge with sensational tile flooring and a combustion fire place so you can entertain your esteemed guests in style and comfort or spread out and relax to your favourite shows.
Three generous bedrooms are found down the sleeping wing of the home boasting built in robes for all your clothes storage needs while the master features direct access to the centrally located two-way bathroom for your complete comfort & convenience. Be further delighted with the versatile laundry which is ideally located at the other end of the home for peace and privacy. Featuring ample storage space, laminate bench top and the must have trough, a greatly appreciated 2nd toilet is perfectly positioned to service the living areas of the home.
The WOW Factor is the sensationally spacious back yard which boasts plenty of space for a swimming pool, rumpus room and granny flat for extra rental appeal or simply enjoy this fantastic landscape with a vast variety of features rarely found on one block. The abundance of free and fresh fruit continues including cherries, lemons, navel oranges, avocados, passion fruit and grapes while you can grow your favourite vegetables in the many raised garden beds on offer with full irrigation available throughout.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Mizuno Wave Run - Sep. 9, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Merdeka and some running
When we reach Klang area I thought the driver already knew the place as I've shown him the map, we already asked some locals around but the driver still clueless and just drove around the place at the same time the meter begins to rise which is hurting my wallet every minute. At that moment I started to become impatient and from a hunch told the driver to follow the car what may have been runners inside. At last I reached the place what seem to be 30mins drive became 1 hour and paid the driver costing me around 60bucks (RM).
I arrived at Stadium Sultan Sulaiman inside was a 400m. track oval this was starting point of the race, I still have 1 hr to waste so just take photos of the place have talked to a local who just return from running after several years. After awhile I already deposit my things and went to checked myself inside the oval. Right there I begin my warm up running a few laps & do some serious stretching. By the way I'm also sporting my new patella knee support so I feel confident running this event. Thanks to Rick for some links.
Waiting for the start
It was daylight as the runners mostly apple green (color of the official vest) already piled up and waiting for the start time. As I was taking photos of the crowd I noticed runwitme the blogger runner who runs with his camera, after finally meeting him we are directed to the starting line.
The countdown began and off we go. I started slowly though I really wanted to go fast since I've missed running a lot. I think I'll save it later for the final meters. our running route was not much of a scene we just run on paved roads & on highways. While running I find time to take some photos and at the same time for me to rest. I just want to take it easy since it was a comeback run and I'm still preparing for the SG Marathon. After some run & shoot I reached the water station at 5km. to refuel myself. The water station is also the site of the Klang Pacers Club. Then I continue to run trying to spot some nice places to have some souvenir photos I just pass by an Old Masjid (Mosque) and nothing more. Finally at 1 km remaining I tried to pace other runners to give me some drive to finish. After crossing the finish line I'm glad to have run again received my sweet medal & certificate from that moment I almost forgot to stop my watch. I finished at around 1hr & 6min. later on I met again Runwitme and his friend who gave us a ride back home. Thanks to you guys! :)
My finisher medal & certificate.
With a hang over of Merdeka, last Friday I get a chance to witness a slice of history as Malaysia marks its 50th Independence Day with a theme of Malaysiaku Gemilang "Glory to Malaysia". The grandest celebration in line with Visit Malaysia 2007, from Thursday evening to Friday morning the celebration was at its fullest. I've watched the final celebration with long & colorful parade from people representing different labor force to floats and its military personnel. If the ground is busy with colorful parade so as the skies as some of the fighter jets are doing some awesome air shows.
After the parade I went to Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) where the closing ceremonies are taking place. I was greeted mostly of the youth performing over there. Later on I heard the departure of our president GMA I didn't know that she was there and failed to catch her a photo. So to Malaysia my 2nd home I wish you another 50 years of Hari Medeka.
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The Texas Department of Information Resources and state CTO Karen Robinson released the state's new strategic IT plan this month. Although these types of documents are filled with their fair share of goals, organizational charts and project summaries, there are interesting tidbits to be found.
Here are a few excerpts and statistics that caught my eye. And browse the document yourself in the embedded player below.
"With an increasing number of government-specific private cloud offerings, advances in cloud security, and expected economic benefits, there are potential advantages of moving into the cloud. Even though cloud services are still relatively new in government, the model has been tested and is mature enough to be adopted for Texas government."
"DIR anticipates that the Texas Legislature may consider open government, privacy, and information technology security during the 83rd Legislative Session. One subject of legislation may be state use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, etc.).
"This may require clarifications to existing public information and open meetings laws that were created before social media existed. Regardless of whether existing open government laws are amended to account for this new form of communication, it is likely that the Texas courts will issue decisions that impact the state's use of information technology and social media."
In a recent survey, 69 percent of the Department of Information Resources' customer agencies responded in a survey that they rated DIR's customer service as positive — a 10-point decrease from 79 percent in 2010. The DIR attributed much of this outcome to problems with the state's old data center services contract, which was split up among three vendors in a new contract awarded in March.
There is significant opportunity for improvement, the DIR said in the strategic plan. "The advantages of consolidation — including improved services, standardization, security, and disaster recovery — have not yet been achieved; however, the completion of the reprocurement and the new multivendor business model moves DIR closer to achieving those program objectives. DIR expects that with the new contract, service delivery and customer satisfaction will improve, aging infrastructure will be refreshed, and consolidation to the state's data centers will be completed."
Forty-five percent of the Department of Information Resource's 188-person work force is eligible to retire in the next five years. Eighty-six percent of employees are age 40 and older.
Seventy percent eligible Texas local government entities use DIR services, a percentage that's expected to remain constant through 2017.
Texas state agencies and institutions of higher education invest more than $2.8 billion annually on technology resources. The Department of Information Resource's budget for the fiscal years of 2012 and 2013 (biennium) is $537.5 million.


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Jersey Sponsorship
Diamonds Rugby Club, proudly wearing their newly sponsored jerseys, played hosts to Jansenville in a league fixture.
The second team beat Jansenville 15-0 and the 1st XV had an exciting game, running out victors with a 34-13 score line.
However, it was the new gear that had the tongues wagging – the logo on the jerseys NCCC. NCCC is the abbreviation for Noupoort Christian Care Centre, the sponsors of the jerseys that the players wore with pride.
With unemployment being rife in Noupoort, when an organisation such as NCCC steps in to make a difference, then surely other businesses can follow suit to assist the youth in sport and keep them away from a criminal lifestyle.
Thank you Noupoort Christian Care Centre for making us proud!


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Sale alert! Prestige Branded Fragrances and Cosmetics Annual Warehouse Sale
Top of the morning dear readers! Although I do realize I am posting this late in the morning already hehe my apologies. This is just a short post to let you know of deals that definitely smelled good! I went to Prestige's Branded Fragrances and Cosmetics Annual Warehouse Sale yesterday.
the damage!
from left to right, top to bottom: Banana Republic Alabaster gift set for her (50ml perfume, 100ml lotion and bag), Banana Republic Classic for Men 125 ml, Mont Blanc Legend 100ml, Loewe Quizás, Quizás, Quizás Arena 50ml, Loewe L Loewe 50 ml, GAP Body for Women 50ml in Velvet Bloom, Lavender Tea, Coconut Tuberose, Mandarin Jasmin, Washed Cotton and White Amber
i got Banana Republic Classic for Men and Mont Blanc Legend for my hubby, which were S$35 and S$39 respectively. the Banana Republic Alabaster gift set and Loewe perfumes goes to moi, which were S$29 and S$39 respectively. the GAP colognes, which was S$6 a piece, will go to my lady relatives back in PH. i'm still contemplating if i will get some more because they're value for money!
my colleagues and i arrived there by 12:30ish and the place was jampacked with people! we were perspiring as we go back and forth hoarding perfumes hehe. i didn't bother to buy any makeup this time as i bought some from Paul and Joe and Givenchy last year but haven't really been using them most of the time. not to say that they're not good, but they're not overly fantastic either. i don't want to buy stuff i will later not use and end up throwing or selling cheaply so i passed. i also saw some Jessica Simpson items. i didn't see Ferrari this time - i even overheard some men looking for it.
are you going or have gone already? what are you getting or have gotten? last day of sale is on Friday so if you're keen, go now!


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...since I wrote I was officially on vacation! So, what have we been up to? After safe travels, we've settled in and have done ALOT of yardwork -- I think my feet are tatooed with red Kihei dirt! As I mentioned, the property was empty for over a year and as a result, most everything needs some TLC -- cutting back, raking and clean up especially. We've also planted several areas around the house, adding much needed color and greenery -- including our first very own PALM tree!
The decks are much more inviting with some potted plants, comfy furniture and a few very Hawaiian tikis that we've enjoyed at sunset this past week. A couple of rainy days gave me the chance to do a little painting and decorating inside. The house really just needs our own 'stamp' and that is coming along nicely -- I already feel very much at home here :)
This is the front deck -- the potted plants make an inviting corner for outside eating and provide a bit of privacy from the street -- I love the way the fronds blow in the breeze. Sunset viewing from this spot is wonderful!
We found a shop that specializes in gorgeous imported Indonesian pots and urns. This huge glazed red urn and two smaller containers filled with tropicals and a Pygmy palm welcome at the front door. We're in the middle of planting the area just behind them with a twin Manilla palm and some lower shade plants -- this will finish this area and really add some softness to the rock wall and edge of the driveway. Manilla palms have some great red berries part of the year which should complement the containers.
It hasn't been all work however...we've lounged at the beach four or five times, enjoyed some lovely meals and more than a dozen Maui sunsets -- it's all good!


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Armed men raided the house of Emmanuel Chiroto, a senior member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and recently elected mayor.
They burned down the house with petrol bombs and kidnapped his wife, Abigail, 27, and their four-year-old son, Ashley. The boy was released a few hours later, but Mrs Chiroto is still missing.
The incident bore all the hallmarks of a state-organised operation designed to break the MDC's organisation by targeting its key figures. Five of the MDC's local organisers have been murdered.
Read the whole thing here.
Ir is sobering to recognize that throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa Mugabe is a hero because of his racist, Maoist, anti-colonialist past and that nobody in the region is willing to take action to depose him, and the carnage continues, and so it goes, and so it goes.


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Such remarks even led me to pray to God to make the man He intends for me to be ready for me, and to be the man I need. In the same prayer, I ask God to make me the woman that man needed and would love.
Later, when asked why I'm still not married I would say, "God's not finished with him yet." and later still, "Apparently it's a lot of work to prepare a man for me!"
I had great ideals and great intentions.
I still do. But these days people seem to think I'm expecting too much.
But, I really do know what sort of husband I want. Someone who is going to be invested in marriage. Someone who will communicate with me about marriage's ups and downs and work to keep the passion, the love and to keep God first in our lives.
I honestly don't want to be married to a man who I couldn't trust to do those things. Therefore, I am still not married. It's as simple as that.
These days, everyone wants to tell me that I shouldn't be holding out for a perfect man. You all know how I feel about that comment (and I heard it again this week! Don't get me started!). I honestly don't think I'm looking for perfect. I am looking for someone who takes marriage seriously.
Just when I started to think no such man exists, look what I found...
I Am Husband.comand
Trey Morgan.netThese are men who blog about marriage. About good marriage. About honoring their spouses and honoring God.
Just the sort of men I'm looking for... except I am holding out for a single/ available man - not one who is married!
I'm going to add them to my blogroll because I want their influence here at SingleSolitaryThings. I like the good energy... and I want SST readers to know that there are real husbands out there!!!
I will not listen to the people who say I'm expecting too much.
Why would I settle for a man who is less than what God wants for me?
I will remain single before I marry a man who doesn't expect to commit fully and equally with me.
Ladies... I expect you to do the same.


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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Our Requirement To Others - Our Requirement to Ourselves
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Developing Desire
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Why We Shouldn't Want to Sin (pt. 3)
Why I Shouldn't Want to Sin (pt. 2)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Why I Shouldn't Want to Sin.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
"American Idolatry"
I was browsing the internet today and I came across this article and I thought it was pretty interesting! - Thought I'd share it for today's thoughts:
One of the most popular TV shows in this country is called American Idol. Ever since it first aired, I've jokingly referred to it as American Idolatry. I say jokingly, because we understand that an "idol" doesn't necessarily carry the same meaning as it did in ancient times.
Today, when most people think of the term "idol", they might think of a person, someone who is greatly admired, or looked upon as a role model. Back when I was younger, if you asked me, I would tell you that my favorite baseball player, Ken Griffey Jr., was my idol. He wasn't someone I worshiped as a god, but someone I greatly admired.
That said, what about the basic (and Biblical) definition of an idol, an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed, (cf. Lev. 26:1) does this have any bearing on our lives today?
I mean, America is "one nation under God", where the primitive practice of idolatry is long gone, right? So we can just ignore any New Testament passages warning of the sin of idolatry (Gal. 5:20; 1 Cor. 10:14 "flee idolatry"; 1 Jn. 5:21 "keep yourselves from idols") because that's not really a problem today, right?
I would argue that today, perhaps more than ever, we have a problem with idolatry in this country. Our "American Idols" are not so much statues of wood or stone (cf. Isa. 37:19; Dan. 5:4, 23; Acts 17:29), but a number of things to which Americans devote themselves, and ultimately place before God (cf. Ex. 20:3-5; Deut. 6:14).
We need to be mindful and careful of the things that we give our time and attention to.


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The origin of mountain streams is like the origin of tears -- potent to the understanding but mysterious to the sense. -- Mary Austin
" Quarry Flight" ©2008 by Maureen Shaughnessy. All Rights Reserved
I'm trying to catch up with all my friends in blog land... I tend to fall behind. As always, I love your photography. I hope this finds things going well for you.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
These Boots Were Made for Talkin'
5 comments:
- karisma said...
Fatter calves???? Sweetheart, buy smaller boots!!!
Now you've got me thinking! The only thing that could have made me insecure would perhaps be my mouth! It had a bad habit of saying what my brain was thinking! Hang on! It still does! Oh well!
What can I say? Ive never been one to really care what others think of the way I look! Whatya see is whatya get!
- November 11, 2008 at 5:35 AM
- Amy said...
My thighs. My hips. My butt.
- November 11, 2008 at 6:45 AM
- Kelley with Amy's Angels said...
What makes me feel like a gwaky kid again? Nothing physical--but recently I've noticed a number of my high school classmates on facebook. And seeing some of those folks again have made me feel like the insecure kid I was in 10-12 grade. 18 years later and I'm still intimidated by some of these people! Sheesh.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:05 AM
- Mia said...
my fat calves
- November 11, 2008 at 8:19 AM
- Janis said...
One word Cellulite, always had it even when I was younger and a lot thinner. always hated my legs and hair. It has taken all these years to finally except this is what God has given me.
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If you drive far enough north along the remote west coast of New Zealand the road eventually ends in an anti-climatic parking lot. This is the trailhead for one of the ends of the Heaphy Track. Luckily we had parked our van here before the hike and caught a bus to the other end of the trail. We decided to spend a few days exploring the area surrounding the tiny town of Karamea, which sits just a few miles from the end of the road. Thanks to a guidebook called New Zealand Frenzy we found some beautiful and less touristy places to explore. This book is now called our New Zealand bible.
|The giant tunnel of Oparara Arch.
|Oparara Arch
Caves were the name of the game for most of the exploring around Karamea. There are a number of caves with glowworms inside. If you don't want to pay to go on a guided tour to see these critters then this is the place to go. Headlamps are a must for getting through these smaller caves.
|Glow worms in the Tunnel Cave along the Fenian Caves loop.
|Moria Gate Arch.
There is also a host of giant caves and arches, which I would argue are actually natural bridges, to explore.
|Looking out the Moria Gate Arch.


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There used to be a television programme I used to watch as a boy, called Read, Write, and Draw. Vincent Price was the host, and he must have been over eighty at the time. I couldn't have been more than twelve.
I watched it religiously. Not that it was on at any particular time. I would catch it, when flipping channels in the afternoon, or mid-morning if I stayed home sick from school.
The set of Read, Write, and Draw was dressed to look like a kitchen for some reason, and old Vincent Price would be standing there in an apron, or a smock. The premise of the show was always obscure to me, other than the fact it did involve reading, writing, and drawing. Vincent would read stories aloud, in that familiar, haunting voice of his; he would then ask children to send in more stories for him to read—and after every story he would assign whoever was watching to draw him a picture, using the story he had just read as the inspiration, and to please send it in. Once every episode he would take time to present these drawings, holding them up to the camera and describing what he saw in the scrawls of crayon and magic marker: here is a cat, and here is George Washington and the cherry tree, and here is a firetruck. His hands would shake. He would always read out the children's names and their ages too, before unveiling a drawing. Tobias, age 6. Bridget, age 10. And his hands would shake.
I would always wonder at this point whether I was the only one watching. I would always wonder if Vincent Price himself hadn't made these drawings alone, with his shaky hands, shortly before the cameras began to roll.
At the end of every episode he would read out a Florida address where this was all apparently filmed, and where his audience were meant to send in their pictures. And he would read the address very purposefully, taking almost dramatic pauses after every word, then each number of the zip code. The assumption being, I thought, that children everywhere were in front of their TV screens, crayon or magic marker in hand, taking this address down.
I never did. I never took down the address or sent a drawing for Vincent to hold up to the camera. But I watched the show religiously. Meaning that I would watch and listen to the very end, always to the very end, every time I caught Vincent Price standing alone in that kitchen. Feeling guilty if I didn't bear witness, feeling that I needed to understand, feeling that this was important but not quite understanding why.


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CHICAGO — Hours after a state review team found a financial emergency in Detroit, state Treasurer Andy Dillon said he believes the city can be restructured successfully without bankruptcy.
Dillon said the city's long-term liabilities, estimated at around nearly $15 billion, pose the biggest threats to the city's future. The problem rests largely with the unfunded retiree health care liability — nearly $6 billion — and pension debt, rather than with revenue and general obligation bonds, Dillon said. "The city's funded debt, at $2.5 billion is manageable," Dillon said Tuesday afternoon at a press conference announcing the review team's report. "It comes down to the unfunded liability for health care and how unfunded the pension funds are — those are significant strains on the city," he said. "But I think we can navigate our way through this and avoid a [Chapter] 9."
Under the state's new emergency manager law, which takes effect in March, an EM can unilaterally amend or terminate labor contracts.
The review team's report on the Motor City's chronic cash shortfalls and general fund deficits was not new, though it featured a new emphasis on the current city charter as a significant obstacle to progress.
"We put a lot of time into a 200-page charter document, and whether it would not in fact be an impediment to a restructuring," Dillon said. "It would be very difficult to restructure the city and adhere to all the requirements of the charter."
The report found an ongoing cash flow shortfall that is on track to reach $100 million by the end of the fiscal year and that the city has had a general fund deficit every year since 2005.
Dillon said the city masked many of its deficits with long-term borrowings, and that without the bond issues, the general fund deficit would now be at $937 million instead of $327 million.
Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed the six-member team in mid-December, asked it to take a close look at the city's long-term liabilities, estimated at around $14.9 billion. The report breaks down the debt, which includes $6.1 billion of non-general obligation bonds — much of which is revenue bonds payable by water and sewer fees — and $5.7 billion of other post-employment benefits liability. Pension certificates of participation account for $1.4 billion of debt. General obligation bonds total $963 million. The general retirement system unfunded liability is $640 million, according to the review team report.
Detroit has operated under a consent agreement with the state since April 2012, the last time the state found a financial emergency in the city. Dillon said the consent agreement has not been able to solve enough problems, though the city has made progress during the past year.
"This may be an appropriate evolution. We did try a consent agreement, and now we know where the weaknesses are," Dillon said.
Like other members of the review team, Dillon said he hoped for a partnership with the city.
"It doesn't have to be adversarial," he said. "A lot of the ingredients for the turnaround in the city are in place. I believe strongly Detroit is fixable and will see brighter days ahead."
Snyder now has 30 days to review the report and decide whether to appoint an emergency manager or take an alternative route, such as crafting a new consent agreement. If he opts to appoint an emergency manager, the city has 10 days to appeal the decision.
Dillon said the six-member team's finding of a financial emergency was unanimous.


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Adoption requests → Stalker-Online Wiki
What is your username? Drengor
Please link to the wiki here: http://stalker-online.wikia.com
How many edits have you made on that wiki? 100+
How many days/months have you been editing there? About three weeks... Since April 14th.
On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? HH Karnage bureaucrat, sysop 11 01:25, October 6, 2012 02:05, October 6, 2012diff
Any other information: The wiki was basically a 2 page shell created 2.5 years ago and abandoned. I have started creating a full wiki, but it has a long ways to go... :)
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Looking nice, Tiddles the Ocelot 16:15, May 9, 2015 (UTC)
Unofficial response: (Please wait for an official response by a staff member)Hey there! You've done a terrific job with your contributions. But since they are a little sporadic, remember to continue editing while you wait for this request to be processed (which can range from 1-14 days) and you'll be all set! Cheers! Joey (talk)


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- Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Christmas Carols, Snowflake Greetings
- Paper: My Favorite Things Jellybean Green, Webster's Pages It's Christmas 6x6
- Ink: My Favorite Things Jellybean Green, Stampin' Up Melon Mambo
- Accessories: gold cord, circle punch
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Curtain Call Reminder: Looking a Lot Like Christmas!!
I was having so much fun playing with my CAS-ual Fridays Stamps as part of the joint challenge between CAS-aul Fridays and Curtain Call that I made one more. I made three cards when the challenge started, but this card has been in my mind since then. I love that long sentiment and wanted to use it like an ornament hanger.
The stamps come from two different sets. The long sentiment and the poinsettia is from Christmas Carols and the circular Season's Greetings on my ornament is from Snowflake Greetings. I love that the fonts work together to give me more options!
The theme for the current Curtain Call is CAS-ual Christmas. You don't have to use CAS-ual Fridays stamps but you do get a chance to win a set. You have until 8 a.m. CST on Monday, November 25th to play along!
11 comments:
- Marisa said...
Fabulous as always, Kim :) Great combination of the sets.
- November 21, 2013 at 8:19 AM
- Stacey Schafer said...
in love with this, Kim!
- November 21, 2013 at 9:17 AM
- Shannon J said...
Eeek! Love the long skinny card, and brilliant to use the sentiment as the hanger - that caught my eye right away!
- November 21, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- Darnell J Knauss said...
Again. Wowza, Kims! I have no other words!! Hugs, Darnell
- November 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM
- snappy scrappy said...
Another beautiful one!!!
- November 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM
- Tracey McNeely said...
Kim this is such a lovely card, love the tall card too!
- November 21, 2013 at 12:22 PM
- cm said...
OMGorgeous! Everything about this card has me in a swoon...LOVE!!
- November 21, 2013 at 2:49 PM
- Sarah Gough said...
Loveeee this!
- November 21, 2013 at 6:21 PM
- Bobby said...
How clever of you to use the sentiment that way. I love the striped side panel, too.
- November 21, 2013 at 8:33 PM
- wienerhoneymooners said...
ADORE this long card! Ahhhhh sweet
- November 23, 2013 at 12:08 AM
- Monika/Buzsy said...
Beautiful! Love the long shape and the words used as the hanger! I will have to CASE this. :)
- November 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM
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Assignment #37
My Space
(This is a continuation of last Friday's email)
Goto your myspace page.
Yeh, I know, My Space has a bad reputation. Remember that wild bar back in college that you refused to go to until you were a junior? And then when you went you had a really good time? That's My Space. Yeh, things can happen and it ain't for kids but it is where things are happening.
One thing you should know is you get a friend by being signed in and clicking the "add to friends" link at someone else's page. You'll have to get an email verification and they have to accept you.
Probably one of the first things you should do is check out the GROUPS, Click on GROUPS on your myspace homepage. My Space has groups for everything. 172 groups came up when I put in Librarians. 2 Groups just on the movie
That's enough for today.Play!!


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It's what we do in AZ to help us deal with the sweltering heat. Swimming lessons, community pools, splash parks- you name it, we're doin' it! This week we went with Candice and some friends to Power Ranch pool- the kids loved it (Although Janie's face says otherwise, she did eventually warm up to the idea).
Clara and Clay just finished up their first session of swimming lessons. Clara has learned to be a great swimmer and Clay loves the water, he just doesn't like going under. He cried the first 3 weeks, and the last 2 days was loving it. There is hope!


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Space Needle!
Contrary to popular belief, winters in Seattle aren't a constant stream of depressing rain and clouds (although having grown up a desert rat, I quite enjoy the rain). The sun does occasionally make an appearance during the winter, as occurred a few weeks ago when we had nearly an entire week of incredible blue skies and sunshine.
Earlier this winter we purchased the Seattle CityPass, which lets you visit a bunch of touristy things for a ridiculously low price. With the appearance of blue skies, we seized the opportunity to use our ticket for the Space Needle.
Built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle quickly became the symbol of Seattle. At a height of 605 feet, the Space Needle offers amazing views of the Seattle city skyline, Elliott Bay, Mount Rainier, and the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges. One trip to the top and you'll quickly agree that this is the most beautiful city in the United States.
Downtown Seattle
Ships in Elliott Bay
Lake Union
Mount Rainier in the distance
The rest of the photos are here.


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Well, well, well. All I can say is check out the link below.
My personal thoughts on my children's education: I want the best for my kids. I expect that the elected officials that were elected by "We the People" do their best to ETHICALLY provide the best education for my children.
My thoughts regarding "old buildings": Just because a building is old does not make it un-occuable. Yes work needs to be done to keep them up and current with the latest building codes, but just because its old does not mean it has to go. Last time I checked a lot of the buildings in Rome, Paris, London, Washington D.C. were not built within the last decade. If the age of the building is your sole argument for school consolidation, then you need to come up with something else. Buildings can be modified and adjusted to meet current needs. Most of the time it is cost saving to do so.
My thoughts on the "Ford City Commission" (you know like the old New York Commision of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, et. al.): These guys need to be taught a lesson. It seems that every time I see these guys names in the news its not good. I'm just saying.
My thoughts on the Elderton situation: The board voted to close the school and it closed. I am sure that there were growing pains associated with the closure and relocation, but for the most part it seems as though it all worked it self out. Why go through the expense to re-open the building and re-assign the students. It is an ancient proverb that says: The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few or the one.
My thoughts on our responsibilities of citizens: We as citizens need to make informed choices when we enter the ballot box. If we don't we can expect more of what we are experiencing now.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Welcome to "The Sandwich". The intention of this blog is to be a sounding board for Armstrong County and Ford City area politics. I intend to post on these subjects in my usual irreverent manner. This blog is not only for serious subjects. If you want to update the masses on any of the "local celebrities/characters" please feel free. If you want to put something up here that you think may be funny and enlighten someone's day - go right ahead.
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After Majuli in Assam, the Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur is set to join the race for world heritage site status.
The Manipur forest department has moved the Centre to get the only floating wildlife sanctuary in the world that is home to the endangered sangai in the most coveted list.
"We submitted the proposal to the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage during a seminar held in Guwahati in October last year. The trust is examining the proposal and we are expecting that it will make the recommendation to Unesco for granting the world heritage status to our park," the principal chief conservator of forests, S. Singshit, said.
"Chances of the park getting the status are very high," he added. However, the journey to get it listed as a world heritage site would be a long-drawn one and testing.
Keibul Lamjao, which floats on Loktak lake in Bishnupur district, was declared a national park in 1977.
It is the last remaining home of the Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), locally known as sangai. It is unique to Manipur and is classified as critically endangered.
The last census carried out in 2003 by forest department officials recorded a sangai population of 180.
The Wildlife Institute of India began the next census in 2006 but could not complete it because of the law and order situation.
"Officials of the wildlife institute and the state forest department tried to continue the second phase of the census last year but could not because of an army operation in Loktak lake and the Keibul Lamjao park," Singshit said.
Police and security forces conduct flushout operations regularly at Loktak, as various militant groups take shelter here.
Singshit said the census would begin soon as the situation was improving.
The survey would be carried out by officials of the wildlife institute, the state forest department, experts of Manipur University and NGOs. Apart from sangai, the park is home to hog deer, common otter, Indian civet cat, viper, cobra, python, turtles and wild boar.
Moreover, it is home to migratory birds like common teal, coot, pintail duck, pochard, lesser whistling teal and cormorants.
Park officials have seized 234 traps laid for birds and animals inside the Keibul Lamjao park during anti-poaching operations since August last year.
They also nabbed two poachers, Heisnam Bira, 46, and Laishram Kripa, 40. The duo were, however, let off after being fined Rs 6,000 and Rs 2,000 respectively.
The river island of Majuli and Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh are among the 27 sites in India that are on the Unesco's tentative list for nomination as world heritage sites. Of these, 19 are cultural sites.
Union minister for human resource development Kapil Sibal advocated the case of Majuli, an island on the Brahmaputra, to be declared a World Heritage Site during his meeting with Unesco director-general Irina Bokova in New Delhi on Monday.
He underlined the need to preserve the unique character of the island.
Ikato Y Kiho, first Naga to join National School of Drama in New Delhi
I must be the perfect role model: Ikato Y Kiho is the first person from Nagaland to study in the prestigious


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In the Name of Love and Science
|The Mask...
I have a mild form of obstructive sleep apnea. Mild in the sense that I'm not in danger of dropping dead due to a heart attack (I'm also fortunate that I don't smoke, and never have). But it is bad enough that it's causing issues with being able to operate during the day, and I've lost my cognitive "edge", that ability to quickly solve problems. And in a technologically driven world like ours is, that's bad news.
What's worse is the snoring. That drives my wife crazy some nights when it's really bad. Either she leaves, or she pokes me to wake up and makes me leave. And it's reached the point where I just sleep in another bedroom at night so she can have a decent night's sleep.
I discovered a lot of this at a downtown sleep center in late December of last year. The diagnosis was made, and continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, was proscribed. From my perspective it's the mildest, least invasive technique for this problem. In CPAP you're given a special mask and connected to a machine that keeps the air pressure up around your face so that the air passages stay open. Not only does it keep you from snoring but you experience more REM sleep and have normal blood oxygen levels.
|The Wires...
Last night was my second trip to the sleep center. That's where I was wired and fitted with a mask so that the techs could monitor my sleep while they tinkered with the CPAP air pressure to minimize the sleep apnea.
|The Center...
The facility was nice and comfortable, and I was wired up around 11:30pm. The only problem was I couldn't fall to sleep. With all the wires, the mask, and the sound of air flowing around the mask's seals like Darth Vader combining with the low but constant sound of the CPAP machine next to the bed, I lay on my back trying desperately to relax and fall to sleep. I kept trying until around 2:30am in the morning, at which point I thought "screw this" and rolled over on my left side. As soon as I did that I immediately fell asleep and the watchful tech's got a good four hours of sleep data (with a lot of it REM activity recorded). And they found the right air pressue for the CPAP machine.
Normally when I have a night like that (and I've had my fair share) the next day is horrible. This morning at 6:30am I was a lot better. I can remember when I could live on just four hours of sleep. But not since I turned 50.
With the new sleep data I'm headed back to the sleep specialist at the end of May. Hopefully at that time I'll be given my very own mask and machine and I can move on to the next stage of this experiment, using it at home. In the mean time I'll have to keep doing what I've been doing already. But the wife is definitely happier about this, both for my sake as well as her's.


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This is a basic run down of how to get started in mission running, im writing this with new players in mind to stop them making some of the mistakes I made when i started. I will write an advanced guide for mission running in the future.
ok so i will assume you have done the tutorial's and know how to fly your ship and that you have a frigate or destroyer and are looking to get into a cruiser..if your not you should be, if I remember right you are given a decent frig for completing one of the tutorial lines.
your first goal should be to get in to a cruiser and start working on your skills, this will take money which is mission running will come in.
the first thing you need to do is decide who to work for and stick to them..for now.
The reason for this is if you bounce between agents early on (as muggins here did) it takes for ever to gain standings, which you need to unlock better paying missions.
If you have joined a corp yet ask who they have good standings with and work for them, you will gain access to better missions via the corp standings. If you are still with a NPC (starter) corp open you charecter sheet select standings and see who you have the highest standings with, then bring up there information and search for agents available to you.
You should in the begining be able to acess only lvl 1 missions, look for t
he highest quality available to you, preferably in security. the reason to go for security to begin with is you will mainly be fighting pirates, which will award bounties when you kill them, these will be small to begin with but they will all add up and at higher levels the bounties are worth more than the missions.
The next step is to fit your ship for the missions, im not gonna go to indepth here, as good fittings for all ships can be found at www.battleclinic.com , also low level missions the setup is'nt to important, But the basic idea in a frigate is to fit yourself for speed, you want to fit a mod to repair your sheild OR armor, not both!! only tank one, both is a wasted slot. gallante and ammar tank armour caldari tank sheilds, and minitimar...well they are a odd mix.
fit the wepons that you recive a bonus too, lasers missiles or drones, and play to the strengths of the ship, if you need help look at the fittings sugested on battle clinc to point you in the right direction.
on Most lvl 1 and 2 missions you should be able to blast through with a frigate, some of the harder lvl 2's you may need a cruiser so start skilling for one as soon as you can, it doesnt take long to get in to a cruiser and they can take and deal a lot more damage than a frig or destroyer!
My next tip is as soon as you can train the skills to use a slavager, the salvage from the wreaks will net you a fortune to begin with and should help you buy a cruiser.
As soon as you can move on to lvl 2 missions, the differnce in pay and loot will make a big difference to your wallet!
My final beginers tip is ask your corp mates to run some lvl 4 missions with you as often as you can, the standings will go up very quickly doing this and you should make a few mill from each lvl 4 you help with.
have fun mission running i will write a more advanced guide when i get a little more time..


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Today, 1 shirt + 1 shirt = 1 shirt and 1 cardigan
I started out with these 2 shirts.
|A thin, black, bat-wingy number that I only got for the lace back.
|A faux-layered ensemble. Because clothing companies seem to think we can't layer our own clothes. :P
But the fabric of the faux tank was too pretty to just toss. Since I hated everything about the black shirt, except for the lace, I decided to use it as a fabric source for making a back for the faux tank. I used the front of the black shirt to make the new back, and ended up with this.
Now I have so many more options with these two pieces. :)


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My Country Awake
Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;- Rabindranath Tagore (Recited by Martin Sheen on The Actor's Studio)
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. - William Arthur Ward


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The days are long but the years are short. I can't believe a year has come and gone so quickly.
You are one year old and wish I could stop time and keep you exactly how you are right at this moment. Probably because you are my last but everything makes me emotional with you and I want to remember everything. How your chubby feet and tiny toes grip my cheek when I kiss the bottom of them. The sound of your baby voice and laugh. That look and squeals of excitement I get from you when I walk in the door after work. When you stare at me while I'm signing and rocking you to sleep. I never want to forget it. You completed our family and filled our hearts with even more love than we thought possible.
I've been thinking over the past few days about how to describe you and it's just not possible to put all of your personality into words but I'll give it my best. You are a complete and total nut. An absolute goofball. Constantly doing things to make us laugh and always making us ask, "what are you doing?!" You already have your dads gift of gab because you hardly stop talking. I swear you are trying to converse with us and try to repeat what people say. You are darn close to saying Bubble Guppies! You say "boo-ka boo-ka boo-ka" a lot right now, no idea what you are trying to say or where you picked that up from but it's funny every time. You still enjoy letting us hear your high pitched screams all the time...usually when we aren't feeding you fast enough or something really excites you. And man are they ear piercing! Your goat laugh has faded so we don't hear it as often but sometimes when daddy or JT get a belly laugh from you, it comes out. I could listen to your sweet voice all day.
You are so feisty. I often joke that you are the reverse of the Sour Patch Kids tag line, "first you're sweet then you are sour." For instance yesterday you snuggled your face in my shoulder (one of my favorite things you do) but then bit me. Or when you are so sweet playing with my hair and then a second later you pull it out. We are constantly working on "nice puppy" with you for Maisy. Luckily she's just as amazing with you as she was with Jaris.
You are a total mama's girl right now and I secretly love it. I get to spend an extra day and a half with you during the week and it's been so amazing. Just me and you...play time, running errands, napping, and usually a cheer practice. You love playing with daddy and if I'm not in sight things are fine, however I'm soaking up every second for now!
You are definitely a girl who knows what she wants and is not afraid to voice it. Which comes with a whole lot of sass! You want to do what you want, when you want to do it. You dance to the beat of your own drum and I think that's one of my favorite things about you. The way you sit in carts, hardly ever the right way. The way you nonchalantly cross your legs at the ankles all the time or put one leg over your knee when I'm trying to change your diaper. How you always grab your sleeve to snuggle with when you suck your thumb. You are just like me in that you HATE not being able to move your arms...if I don't get your bath towel off your arms fast enough I'm going to hear about it! When you laugh every time I put lotion on you. How you scoot on the wood floor rather than crawl. And so many other little quirky things you do!
You have 6 teeth: two on the bottom and four on top And we just discovered today that your bottom molars are coming in!
You dance (or bounce up and down rather) anytime music comes on.
You love the Bubble Guppies.
You light up when your brother walks in the room, none of us make you happier than he does. Which makes me a blessed mom.
I still have no idea what color your hair is going to be. It's slowly getting longer and initially it had a red tint but that is gone and right now it's blond but almost looks like it could go darker. It was super dark, almost black when you were born. Either way will be perfect with your blue/green eyes...you get those from your daddy. And you are starting to get curls in the back as well, especially when it gets wet.
Weighing in at 21 pounds and measuring 29" long.
You are an incredibly easy baby, I honestly can't remember a single time where I couldn't calm you down, or really even remember you crying hardly at all for that matter. Not one time have you ever cried yourself to sleep. I put you down awake and you just lay until you slip into dreamland.
Getting to be your mom has been amazing. You are pure sunshine and I've said this before but I'm obsessed with you. I can't give you enough kisses, I can't squeeze you enough, and I can't get enough time with you. You bring laughter, sweetness, feistiness, and so much joy to all 3 of us. Jaris loves you to "the moon and back times infinity" and we know you feel the same. You and your brother are our greatest blessings and the best thing we've ever done. While I would love to stop time now, I cannot wait for the future years of dressing you (which is already so fun), fun photo shoots, doing your hair, dance recitals, barbies, and more. There isn't a day that goes by where we don't thank God you are ours.
We love you sweet babes. Happy 1st birthday. - mom and dad


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Two important wheat research organizations — the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) and the National Wheat Improvement Committee — held their annual meetings last week in St. Louis.
The USWBSI meeting was the National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, which is held each year to allow scientists working on Fusarium head blight, commonly known as scab, to share their findings.
Meeting activities included a poster session and presentations about the progress being made on research to combat scab infection and DON, the mycotoxin scab causes.
Scientists and stakeholders in attendance were particularly excited about discussions relating to new techniques they are using for genomic selection for Fusarium head blight resistance.
There was also increased interest in producing and releasing scab-resistant varieties for the hard red winter wheat region.
Fusarium head blight infections have not traditionally been a top concern for hard red winter areas, but are increasingly an annual problem.
The USWBSI meetings were followed by the first meeting of the newly-restructured National Wheat Improvement Committee (NWIC). NWIC recently reorganized to include an executive committee and regional representatives from each wheat region and class, as well as ex officio members and formal subcommittees.
Grower representatives attending the NWIC meeting included Mike Miller from Washington, Jody Bellah from Texas and Bob Wisness from North Dakota.
NWIC members heard reports from the group's four regional chairs focusing on state budget shortfalls and the net loss of researcher positions facing most state and federal programs.
Many members from around the country expressed particular concern about the loss of funding for the Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center at Kansas State University.
Dave Marshall, the acting national program leader for grain crops at USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), gave the group an update on ARS' budget situation. He told NWIC members about the dramatic implications the budget cuts will have to ARS staffing, including a continued hiring freeze that makes it impossible to bring in new or needed researchers.
ARS has taken deep cuts in recent years and, based on its FY2012 budget allocation, will be closing nine locations and one program entirely.
Despite these very real concerns, NWIC members also had positive discussions about the renewed interest in wheat research in recent years. Six private companies sent representatives to the meeting to give updates on their work.
And, NWIC members began planning for the group's annual fly-in to educate federal stakeholders about the importance of wheat research. NAWG Director of Government Affairs for Research and Technology Jane DeMarchi attended both meetings. DeMarchi is the secretariat for NWIC and a member of the USWBSI steering committee.
Art Brandli, a wheat farmer from Minnesota, and Dave Van Sanford, the wheat breeder at the University of Kentucky, are the co-chairs of the USWBSI. More about the USWBSI is available at http://www.scabusa.org.
An organizational chart for the new NWIC structure is at www.wheatworld.org/research under "Related Resources".


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Good grief, it's been nearly a week since I last blogged ... and I find Blogger's gone queer. Ah well, hey ho, I'm sure I'll get used to it. Lots to catch up on but where to start? let's begin at the beginning with the prison carol service.
Minor panic on first night as one of the participants came into the room where the service was being held and had a wobbly. 'I can't do this! Not with all these people!' We talked him into it and he stole the show.
He's a lad from Liverpool with a truly scrumptious Scouse accent and as he was reading lines for Mary's father it added a certain something. In fact as soon as he spoke the audience burst out laughing.
The theme of the carol service was the ripple effect. A lot of the men have been doing a course on restorative justice - thinking about the victim and others affected by your crime - so we carried this on using the birth of Christ as the stone dropped in the water causing ripples. We heard from the shepherd who declared that going to see this newborn baby was more important than his job looking after the sheep, and then from his boss who didn't agree and, in true Alan Sugar style, said, 'You're fired.'
Our Scouser had gained so much confidence by the second night that, in his role as boss, declared, 'You're fired! Now p**** off out of here!'
As one of the 'congregation' said, 'F***ing h***l, you can't use that language in church!'
Not your average church carol service.
We continued on with the ripple theme and heard the story of one of the men who took part in our carol service last year. He's now in another prison but I went to see him the week before and got his story, which he was happy for us to use. I'll put it on my long bits blog if you'd like to read it; it is very moving and hopeful. And even better is the fact that the man who read it introduced it by saying how pleased he was because he could relate to a lot of it and is going through a similar 'conversion'. I don't like the word conversion; it's more like redemption.
Now let's see how I get this new-fangled blogger to post.


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Thanks to Healing Iraq for pointing out the dangers of an emerging new "Iraqi Taliban" trying to assert themselves by beating and robbing kids listening to music.
"Monday, March 21, 2005
Mahdi Army Beats 2 Students to Death in Basrah
No one seems to have reported the latest events in Basrah. Not any of the news services or the blogs.
Students of the Basrah and Shatt Al-Arab universities in Basrah city have been on strike for the last three days as a reaction to the attack last week by Sadrists and Mahdi Army militiamen on tens of students organising a field trip or a picnic at Al-Andalus park, downtown Basrah.
Hooded men assaulted the students with rubber cables and truncheons which resulted in the death of a Christian girl, Zahra Ashour, and another student who came to her rescue after militiamen had tore off her clothes and were beating her to death. He was shot in the head.
Students say that their belongings, such as mobile phones, cameras, stereo players and loudspeakers, were stolen or smashed to pieces by the militiamen. Girl students not wearing headscarves, most of them Christian, were severely beaten and at least 20 students were kidnapped and taken to Sadr's office in Al-Tuwaisa for 'interrogation' and were only released late at night.
Students also say the police and British soldiers were nearby but did not intervene..."
Let's hope the tables eventually turn on these little fanatics, and the new and future Iraqi government puts them gently but firmly in their places.


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Some of our favorite My Florida Backyard native wildflowers have grown and spread prodigiously from seed alone, especially Blanket Flower (Gaillardia). Starting wildflower seeds is a little different (and much easier) than starting seeds of the more cultivated plants. Wildflower seeds can simply be sown where you want them, as long as you do it at the right time of year (December is great in Central Florida) and provide them adequate soil conditions for growth. For great information on sowing wildflower seeds and also a fantastic source to buy seeds you haven't been able to get your hands on, visit the Florida Wildflower Growers Cooperative website.
What wildflowers do you love to grow from seed? Do you have any "secret" seed sources you're willing to share? Come on, spread the wildflower love!


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The Pink Panther had everything going for it. It had the great name, it had Mancini's theme and it had Monsieur Sellers playing himself playing Clouseau. It also had a famous jewel thief chasing a famous diamond called the pink panther. It also had the famous pink panther himself, he of the credits, a road accident victim on the way to Vatican in his first film, and eventually star of his own cartoon. I loved the pink panther, the panther I mean. Basically he was just a black panther who was pink. But he was mostly silent. So this isn't about him.
It's about the franchise. The French put it best. "Même si la franchise a débuté dans les années 60, celle-ci se refuse encore de mourir". Almost 43 years on, it is now middle aged. Sellers' detective spawned a host of imitation products, eventually ditching all the cast of the first film except Clouseau. Sellers' death didn't stop Clouseau. Roger Moore, Alan Arkin, Steve Martin and Geoffrey Rush have all played him and Roberto Mantigni invented his son. Others will follow as long as someone thinks "la franchise" is making money. Sooner or later, a female clouseau will emerge.
The male Clouseau was bumptious and accident prone from the first. Sellers accent when speaking English was plainly French. Oui, but it was not exaggerated. The plainness would go in later episodes as his accent became sillier and more "pronuanced". Diphthongs went wild every time Sellers opened his mouth. Monkeys became minkies in the Sellersverse. But in the first film, "The Pink Panther", he is almost restrained and very much aware of his power as l'inspecteur. Sellers remarked that Clouseau knew he was a buffoon; but he has an incredible knack for survival. Sellers lived the part of the role while on set and this would have enjoyed hamming it up as well as exercising genuine power. A French police inspector is no laughing matter, monsieur. There is now no role of "inspector" in any French Police force. In France, the Corps de commande et d'encadrement (Command and Management Corps) corresponds approximately to the lower commissioned ranks of a military force, or to what the British still call "inspector". This lot were previously known as "officiers de la paix" (officers of the peace) if they were they were in uniform but were "inspecteurs" if they were detectives. This change of name is likely to be the work of Clouseau!
Clouseau, the detective, combined native dim-wittedness with the important knack of being the wrong place at the right time. In "The Pink Panther" he is fortunate enough to catch the crooks in a road accident. Comic-style in the sixties without seatbelts, no-one gets killed. However his glory is shortlived. He was defeated by the prosecution lawyer who calls him as their only witness. Clouseau is set up to take the hit and gets imprisoned himself as the culprit. And yet, despite this overwhelming bungle, he emerges the other side, proud to be a hero. He took the one thing he could from the thief: his reputation.
This idea informs all the films that follow. Clouseau absorbs both the reputation and the identity of the diamond. The second film is indeed, "A Shot in the Dark". It wasn't a Clouseau film for starters. It was based on "L'idiote" a comic mystery by Marcel Achard. Achard was a French journalist and dramatist. Achard was most famous because of his birth. Achard need the dispensation of the pope and the president to be born. His father married his sister's daughter. Achard had his relatives all confused and as a result his plays were sentimental and melancholic. It was Blake Edwards first film after he directed The Pink Panther. Sellers on screen persona had so entraced Edwards he wanted to immediate re-write "A Shot in the Dark" to remove the melancholy and include Clouseau. Closeau as L'idiote was too irresistable. It was re-done in haste. Barely months after The Pink Panther was a hit, A Shot in the Dark was re-promoted as Clouseau's second on-screen adventure. Clouseau had two new doubtful allies. Bert Kwouk was Cato, a servant so evil and so well-trained, he could be relied to attack his boss at the most inconvenient time to keep him always on his toes.
And then there was Clouseau's own boss. Herbert Lom was the picture of hate for the "protégé" he knew was a bumbling clown. His Dreyfus was a choleric Commissioner. He too has had his rank expunged from the gendarmes. There is no role called Commissioner in the French Police (the ex-inspecteurs get promoted to brigadier-majors and beyond). Dreyfus's paroxysms of rage against the filthy good luck of his inferior office eventually turned him totally psychotic in later episodes. But the early brilliance of Cato and Dreyfus meant they stayed in the franchise. Producers were loving this. The second film outsold the first. They clamoured for more. Sellers wouldn't sign up for a third trip in 1968 so neither would Edwards. Cato and Dreyfus aren't there either. It went ahead anyway with Alan Arkin as Monsieur bumble. He is Clouseau in name only, honest but without the ineffable magic of the original. Nor was director Bud Yorkin a Blake Edwards who could coax genius out of his star. The film is about Clouseau on holidays in England. As a result M. Clouseau wasn't himself. He wasn't Sellers.
And so it was a rare fourth film in a franchise that could as justifiably take the tag of "Return". It took 12 years but "The Return of the Pink Panther" was a true comeback. It wasn't bolted on to a French play. It wasn't a cipher. And it heralded the return of Edwards, Sellers, Dreyfus and Cato in only the second film to have the "Pink Panther" name. All seven films that followed have kept the Pink Panther in the title. The Pink Panther struck again, the Pink Panther had revenge, he had romance. Sellers died in 1980. But even after his death, Clouseau was still "On the Trail of the Pink Panther" thanks to Sellers ghostly outtakes. A year later, Roger Moore took on Clouseau in "The Curse of the Pink Panther." He was cursed, but Clouseau spawned a son. Ten years later Benigni grew up to be the British-French detective's Italian-French "Son of the Pink Panther". In so-now 2006, it is deemed barbarous to dream up new ideas. So we finally have the remake. Clouseau is now the American-French detective Steve Martin. And MGM have announced a sequel with Kevin Kline as the new Dreyfus. The Pink Panther series has been totally re-booted. 2008 is the remake of the return.
La franchise se refuse encore de mourir.


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Contributed by Haresh Karamchandani
All the goods were shipped by Fedex and DHL and were received in time and supplied. We should be getting paid by the client in a few days.
We recently responded to a newspaper advertisement soliciting suppliers for Election Visibility Materials for the upcoming National Elections on October 11, 2011.
Our Head of Operations (HOO) felt that it was a good opportunity for the company to experience since we have excellent contacts in the manufacture and printing industry in the USA.
There was a pre-bid meeting at the clients' office which was attended by our HOO.
The client clarified that they needed us to quote for Printed T-shirts, Caps, Stickers, Folders and Banners. We were asked to present samples along with our respective quotes.
We got the samples manufactured by our US contact and air freighted them to Monrovia, which was presented to the client along with our bid.
As expected, our samples were the best in terms of quality and surprisingly our prices too were the cheapest on offer. The client selected NATC and then began the rigmarole of getting a suitable final design approved by them.
Below is the sequence of designs presented, amended, presented, and amended and amended until we arrived at the final approved design.
Design no.2: They said the ballot box was too boring and wanted something in 3-D:
I got my guy in the US to get more creative and present something more colorful and exciting with a 3-D ballot box, here was the next design:
Then the client wanted us to add the words Trust Fund; we obliged herewith:
Then the client changed his mind again and asked us to add the words Basket Fund, here we went:
Then the client decided that the words were too lengthy and should be cut down as follows, we obliged again:
Then the client wanted to add Project Managed By, we did so:
Then the client asked for some more creativity and we came up with the below:
All these changes in design cost us a lot of time and money, but we finally had a satisfied client. The manufacturer in the USA was paid and they began mass production of the following:
- 2010 pcs of 4'x 6' Flex PVC Banners
- 1000 pcs of T-shirts assorted sizes, both Polo and Round Neck
- 1000 pcs of Caps, Embroidered design!
- 5000 pcs of SAV stickers and
- 300 pcs of Folders
|Back of the Cap
All the goods were shipped by Fedex and DHL and were received in time and supplied. We should be getting paid by the client in a few days.
Moral of the story: Even though it's not your core line of business, if you are going to learn and experience something new and make some profit at the end then one must go for it.


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I didn't feel good at all this weekend.
And ThatManILove decided to show you a shot of his life from his perspective. Snoozy Saturday morning. These allergies, and the accompanying meds,
are kicking my butt.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Snoozebuckets Galore - Janie Down
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Amrish Puri stars as a jailbreaking bandit in the Indian Na-Insaafi. Thirsting for revenge, the bandit murders the policeman who arrested him, then rapes the officer's wife. Not content with this, he severely injures the judge who presided over his trial. Years pass: Now a successful businessman, the ex-criminal, travelling under an alias, returns to his homeland. Justice is eventually meted out by the son of the cop whom the bandit killed.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Love, Friday
This week I only wish I had a letter penned by my mother or my father.
I wish I had one. I don't-but I know their secrets.
Long ago I would sneak lookies at cards they left for each other on the wooden kitchen table.
At the bottom of the card, under a signature was always ILYTM in tiny capitals.
On his cards. On her cards.
I found out later, when I had the courage to ask, that it meant:
I Love You The Most
What little love letter quirks do you do?
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- Tara R. said...
My husband and I sign our names T.B. and E.B (not our real initials), nicknames we gave each other when we were first dating. I add 'aaf' on my letters and cards too - always and forever.
I've kept all our love letters. When we started dating, there was no internet, no email. We wrote real letters to each other - perfumed. You can't get that from an Instant Message.
- Saturday, January 30, 2010
when times are fighty i grad my loved one and i rap my arms around her and jump up and down. she in turn grabs on and jumps too. it's called "bouncing" one can only laugh when bouncing. it's a love note for sure
- Sunday, January 31, 2010
inside my wedding band rj had TWBNO engraved. and i didn't know until our wedding day. on a day after an enormous fight last night...i suddenly feel like lovin' on him! :)
- Monday, February 01, 2010
- krista said...
we started saying 'guess what?' and the answer was 'i love you.'
very early on, however, the 'guess what?' became a game where the other person would lose if they actually said 'what?'
four years and one baby later, 'guess what?' has turned into our shorthand for 'i love you.'
- Tuesday, February 02, 2010


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Also in the news someone named their toe nail, larry. More on that later
Nathan Viney released a new story today, his continous violent writing has had some complaints.
"Your writing is violent! WHY CANT YOU HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT FLOWERS?"
"must your stories always be so violent and full of pain??"
The Daily Crumb's Answer is
The new short story can be found here:
Whirl Wind of the Well
It's almost as wacky as YOKE but possibly a little bit less wacky.
NOW: I've decided to investigate all the stories i have written and see how much violence is really in them.
The Mash Island Chronicles , Half Side:
The story concists of violent battles, but is also mixed with lots of friendly, light hearted things. One minute everything is happy and jolly.. and FUN. and the next some crazy guys are dieing. Brutal deaths, ok, you win that one.
The Mash Island Chronicles, unfinished story (gone from internet)
I think the story was named, Cretans Crawling. The story was finally of wonderful colourfulness... AND violence. It concisted of helicopters crashing, trains crashing, people being thrown around, being shot by arrows...
James Dodger and the Crown Room
This story was full of violence
BUT, it was very LIGHT hearted violence i find. Simple deaths and less detail.So.. yeh this one is a bit slower.
ok.. yeh a helicopter brings down the big ben and a london museum is flooded.. SO WHAT :P
SCRIPTS: Celebs in my studio 1 2 and 3
These comedy scripts had NO VIOLENCE AT ALL. Practically.... yep, there is ALOT of shouting at eachother though. :P
James Dodger and the Rain Bug part 1 and 2
hmm, yep. Death out of aeroplane, people being shot, but most of the story is actually an investigation into a robbery. It, like Crown Room is a very fun story.
Cloafe and the Pirates
Well... i like it. The story is of a wannabe knight in Mash Island (Connecting up to Mash Island Chronicles and MUNCH) There is, like you say, a bit of violence yes. A young guy dies, and most of the pirates die. There is alot of strain. Ending dont make sense though.
Price, Archer
OK OK GO AWAY! Yes.. this is the most violent story ive ever written, i think.. people dieing, being shot, in the brain and being set on fire. It's lovely really.
To conclude your point ill just let you know EVERYONE DIES at the end :)
Old woman, cant breath. .. .. you win again
Whirl Wind of the Well
Drunk guy, bleeding eye. not TOO much! Seriously, its very light hearted compared to my others. hee hee watch out for that kid with the fizzy coke by the way.
So thats it.
The only story ive ever written that dosent have violence is the Celebs in My Studio trilogy.
You win this battle, but i like writing twisted violent things so, nyah nyah!
And in other news hitler was seen venturing in a Disney shop.
- Nathan (munch) Viney
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In the second part of the Movie Gods project i will continue to review the different gods and their affiliation in the movie making business. Enjoy!
And for whoever needs it – Pray to your gods, it might save your movie part I
In the second part of the Movie Gods project i will continue to review the different gods and their affiliation in the movie making business. Enjoy!
And for whoever needs it – Pray to your gods, it might save your movie part I
Up until recently I have been working at a hectic pace on my graduation film project. It is defiantly one of the most stressing things that I have endured throughout my life, and it's not over yet, it simply got postponed. There was still too much to plan and had too many loose ends; And as if that wasn't enough, crew members announced a week before filming that they "abandon ship" and one of the actors told me that he doesn't have enough time to get ready for the date of shooting.
At that point I just felt that everything is going ablaze and hoped that in some magical way all of this will work out somehow.
I have never been much of a fan of zombies. Half rotten corpses that are advancing slowly toward their terrified pray were never my cup of tea. So when a friend of mine suggested that I start reading the walking dead comics, I was very skeptic about it. I thought that if you saw several zombie movies over the years then you know all there is to know about it. Oh boy was I wrong.
The beginning of the walking dead series is quite ordinary. An unknown man is waking up in a deserted hospital. He tears the needles that connect him to the medical machinery off his skin and starts walking through the corridors calling out help. And then he stumbles into a room full of zombies. As the terrified "Mr. Smith" starts escaping the hordes of undead I chuckled to myself. If there's something that's supposed to be so great about this comic it better show up soon. And so it was several pages afterward.
Today i got a message on Facebook from someone i don't know. I guess that's not too special by itself. But the user that sent me the message was a
girl whose profile pic was of her half naked body (it was taken from her waists down, and all that was covering her body were tiny panties). I wasn't sure when did i accept her friendship i don't pay too much attention to those friendship request messages anyway.
I'm tapping across the sparkling dance floor and Holding a young dame in my arms. The atmosphere is dazzling and the drops of sweat are mixing with pure joy. The dance floor is filled till 100% capacity. Bodies are moving to the same rhythm, jolting one into another. Smiles are dropping everywhere like shreds of burning stars.
That's how it's in the movies. That's how swing dancing is supposed to be. But it's much cooler than that. It's stumbling on some unsuspecting feet. Pushing too much or letting go too soon. It's laughing to yourself while shooting some embraced smiles towards your dancing partner. And last but not least, it's a place to meet girls (and boys too:P).
It seems that the end of the world is not the end of the world anymore. In the recent years it seems like there is a vast attraction to the concept of a mutilated world filled with shattered pieces of what once seemed to be life; the last human beings are trying to survive the horrific reality and keep their humanity in a world that has become savage and brutal; there are so many versions to this post-apocalyptic life, and it has even been described quite vividly in different religious beliefs.


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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Is MLK Day Weekend the Annual Low Point for the MSM's "Barbra Streisand"?
Weekend B.S.
In USA Today, the editorial section had the most vomit-inducing piece of garbage I've read in a long time. January 18th—"Whites killed MLK—now we honor him."
The Rev. Oliver Thomas is his name, and hating his own race his game. He brings up Ta-Nehisi Coates to argue how whites built this country by destroying blacks, and now we owe them—permanently. Blacks can just sit back and get repaid for our sins. He is a preacher—a preacher of anti-white rhetoric, and attempting to inflict guilt on today's white population for slavery—a tired point of view, if there ever was one.
The Japanese were treated in World War II as badly or worse than blacks—yet in 70 years since—have surpassed blacks in every financial, educational, and social standard you could think of, through hard work and studying. They didn't sit around and cry "racism." They succeeded as a race, because they're more intelligent and ambitious than blacks.
On Negro Nightly News last night, Lester Holt had a huge block of time devoted to the Academy Awards "neglecting" to nominate such films as Creed or the NWA film about rappers. Really? So any black film should be nominated just because it's "black"? Isn't that tokenism at its worst? No, according to Holt—it's racist and Hollywood types will be boycotting—never mind the president of the Academy is BLACK!
Just some of the B.S. I saw the last couple days.
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Negro Nightly News:Lester Holt shows Jamie Foxx "saving" a VERY appreciative white guy--who is then shown blubbering all over our hero Jamie--in front of as many cameras as possible.When he previewed the story I knew what Lester Holt was up to,but only because I see his "newscast" cum problack propaganda show most days.First he had to show Michigan governor Rick Snyder looking like he tried to poison Flint(because he s a racist)and then St.Jamie shown as a good guy black.A daily dose of jive news every day.I laugh at most of it because it s so obvious.
- Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 7:35:00 PM EST
Japanese-Americans # 1 wealthiest group in the nation. Indian-Americans # 2 and Chinese-Americans # 3. Proof there cannot possibly be any sort of racial discrimination in this nation. Those groups would not have gotten where they have if there was so much discrimination.
- Friday, January 22, 2016 at 10:21:00 AM EST


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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Quest for the West at the Eiteljorn Museum
P.A. Nisbet
'Quest for the West' at the Eiteljorn Museum, through Oct. 7
Like the visual arts of the totalitarian regimes of the last century, 'Western art' is like the pre-modern artworlds – i.e. it works to establish social values and meaning rather than to critique or undermine them. It's also an artworld unto itself, with it's own collectors and a dozen museums, several of which, like the Eiteljorn in Indianpolis, cultivate the genre with annual exhibitions of new work. Every year, 50 artists are chosen by the Eiteljorn, and about 150 paintings and sculptures put up for show and sale.
The Eiteljorn's annual show is distinguished by narrative and scenery meant to be uplifting with the simple and direct wholesomeness of an elementary school text book. It offers fantasies of hearty pioneers/cowboys and cute Indians that is too shopworn and politically incorrect for mainstream galleries. But it does reflect a living ideology of freedom, opportunity, and individuality that competes quite successfully against the nominalism, alienation, and self absorption of the contemporary artworld for the domination of American life. Occasionally, there is some sense of the artists' personalities or how each one feels about specific people and places.. But that kind of work can best be found across the hallway, in the Eiteljorn's excellent collection of Georgia O'Keefe and the early 20th C. Taos school.
Most of the paintings in the Quest show seem to be follow the study of photographs, since there's a cold, dry, flatness and the feeling that the artists were manipulating pixels rather than paint. While the sculptors, in the tradition of Frederick Remington, mostly focus on a broken, highly descriptive surface rather than the qualities of mass and space found in both modern and ancient traditions. And yet, there's no doubting the extraordinary skill as these artists maneuver like Olympic gymnasts through the complexities required by their subject matter. The cinematic American West is certainly there in all its bronco busting detail, but unlike the pioneers they depict, the artists don't seem to be breaking new ground or taking big risks. The pieces reflect the pleasant ambience of an upscale shopping mall or corporate office rather than a hard-scrabble frontier.
Turning his back on both contemporary fantasy as well as reality, P.A. Nisbet was my favorite artist in the show, as he recreated the effects of 19th C. landscape, including the infinite, spacious vistas introduced by English Romantics like John Martin. The eerie, obsessive perfection of Mikel Donahue's photo based cowboy genre scenes cannot be ignored, either. Every year there's at least a few pieces that deserve to be moved across the hall into the permanent collection, but most of them lack aesthetic intensity. It's too bad that 'Western Art' seems to be the only art game in town that tries to reach beyond the personal to present positive and convincing American ideals.
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