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To the Moon
Lars Monia '15
After only one year at Rhodes, Lars Monia was given the keys to the moonbuggy, so to speak. The Great Moonbuggy Race is a NASA project for high school and college students who build simulated lunar rovers. It's a challenge, says NASA, "to inspire them in Engineering and explore Engineering opportunities and possibilities."
Monia was asked to recruit other students, put together a team to manage, and was given a prospective budget by Physics chair Brent Hoffmeister.
"Hosting a team for the first time was pretty challenging," says Monia. "I had to teach everyone how to do the engineering programs and how the design process works and what the project even was—what in the world is a moonbuggy?"
He appreciates the help he received from Glen Davis, the manager of the Physics shop, saying, "there is no way we would have gotten this done without him." The team, named Rookie of the Year in the 2012 Great Moonbuggy Race, is out to take top honors this spring.
Monia, who has known he wanted to be an engineer since the fourth grade, came to Rhodes with a two-year drafting certificate acquired while in high school in Cape Girardeau, MO. He also came with the idea of entering a dual-degree program in engineering with Washington University, though he's reconsidered and is now looking at an opportunity with the U.S. Navy in its nuclear submarine officer program, with graduate school to follow.
He works very closely with Hoffmeister and Michael Sheard, professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, who, he says, "has faith in me." Both men have given him the opportunity and room to run with his ideas and have become role models for his ultimate goal.
In addition to being an engineer, Monia says, "My real dream is to be a professor. I've always wanted to teach and that's the aspect I take on with anything I do. If I'm going to lead a project, I like to teach other people how to do it and teach the team how to work together … I have more fun teaching than doing anything else."
With a prospective double major in Physics and Math, he's jumped into his college academics with classes in Physics and Calculus. As a future teacher, however, he sees the value in a well-rounded education from Rhodes and has taken piano with plans to take art classes later on.
"I like to create," Monia says. "I like to play music and do art and build moonbuggies, but at the end of the day I'd rather teach somebody else how to do the same things."
Staying Connected
Charles Robertson Jr. '65
For Charles Robertson, a Rhodes education began not when he walked on campus for the first time as a freshman, but when his parents did as students. Thanks to Charles William Robertson Sr. '29 and Lola Ellis Robertson '33 being scientists themselves, Charles Jr. may have been looking at a preordained career.
"I had some interest in Engineering, but by the end of my senior year in high school I was pretty much hooked on Physics," Robertson says. "My father, though a biologist, had a significant interest in the physical sciences and encouraged my interest in Physics."
Once on campus, Robertson was under the watchful eye of professor Jack Taylor '44, whom he credits for the good, solid department, and Professor Fritz Stauffer, who "was a significant player in the careers of all the graduates in my, and other, classes. He had a very complex life, and could draw on those experiences in guiding and advising students."
During Robertson's college years, Physics occupied the basement of Kennedy Hall, the place where the major came alive for him. "For me, the big value in the Physics Department was the stuff we had to experiment with," he says. "I did a number of experiments on my own, some of which were beyond the usual, it seems. I cannot imagine taking Physics and doing only the formalized laboratory experiments and not going beyond my own. It was the 'going beyond' that made me what I am today, I believe."
That "going beyond" propelled him to graduate school at Florida State University, where he was able to do a lot of instrument design work, the same kind with which he's involved to this day.
Robertson, a founder of NanoDrop Technologies, sold the company to Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2007. Under his leadership, NanoDrop pioneered microvolume instrumentation techniques that allow scientists to quickly and easily quantify and assess purity of small volume liquid samples such as solutions of proteins and nucleic acids. Not one to sit idle, though, he explains, "I'm supposed to be retired, but as I often put it, I've flunked retirement for the third time." He has recently gone to work with another instrumentation company.
A Rhodes trustee, Robertson has more than kept up with the sciences at Rhodes. In honor of one of his mentors, in 2005 he and his wife, Patricia, both members of the Benefactors Circle, established the Jack H. Taylor Fellowship in Physics. In addition, there is the Dr. Charles W. Robertson Jr. Endowment for Student Research and Engagement in Physics and a state-of-the-art Zeiss Confocal Microscope System he provided the Biology Department. He stays in contact with science faculty, always dropping by to talk shop when he's on campus. Grateful for his untiring support, in 2008, the college awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal.
"It was very good for me to be pushed into the liberal arts studies; if I hadn't been, I would have hung out in the world of science and engineering and shunned the liberal arts," he says. "I think the breadth of the whole of a Rhodes experience is very valuable as one moves through life and career."
Opening Up the World
Harry Swinney '61
Sid Richardson Foundation Regents Chair
The University of Texas at Austin
Harry Swinney heard about Rhodes College—then Southwestern—from several people, including the family doctor, James Gladney '38, in his Presbyterian church in Homer, LA.
"I asked my parents if I could visit Southwestern and they drove me there for a two-day visit in the spring of 1955," Swinney recalls.
He never considered any other option and enrolled with plans to obtain two bachelor's degrees in five years in the 3-2 plan, with three years at Rhodes followed by two at Georgia Tech. In his freshman year, however, he took a Physics class from professor Jack Taylor '44 and "became excited about the subject." It was a class that would turn his plans, and life, around. In honor of Taylor, Swinney in 2000 established the Jack H. Taylor Scholarship at Rhodes for students majoring in the physical and biological sciences.
Swinney went on to get his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. His first faculty appointment was at New York University. He then moved to the City College of New York, where he remained till 1978, when he accepted a position at the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Sid Richardson Foundation Regents Chair for the Department of Physics.
With accolades and accomplishments almost too numerous to mention, Swinney is a noted authority on nonlinear dynamics, instabilities, pattern formation, chaos, and phase transitions. He was the founding director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at Texas in 1985 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
It's a compelling career that began with a senior honors project in a former coal bin in the basement of Kennedy Hall, "which was nice and dark, good for optical work even though it was a bit dirty."
"I constructed an experiment to study the spectra of thin exploding wires," he says. "I often worked late hours in the night … I had hoped to achieve wire temperatures of 200,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but to my disappointment, the maximum temperature measured was only 10,000 degrees."
His experience at Rhodes also introduced him to outreach activities which, he says, continue to excite him. He co-directs an annual two-week UNESCO-sponsored "Hands-On Research Schools" for young career scientists from developing countries.
"Philosophy, History and English literature courses at Southwestern opened up a world to me that I would not have known if I had gone to 'Big State U' where I would have undoubtedly spent the minimal time on courses outside of Math and Physics," Swinney says. "At Southwestern I had friends from diverse fields instead of from only Math and Physics. The most direct effect of my Southwestern experience, aside from learning how to do research, has been that it taught me how to write a story. When I began writing scientific papers as a graduate student, I soon appreciated that my Southwestern education gave me a great advantage over most Physics grad students."
Reaching for the Heights
Brent Hoffmeister
Chair, Department of Physics
Research teams in Geneva, Switzerland, recently provided proof of the elusive Higgs Boson particle, making the kind of news that gets physicists, and future physicists, excited. Closer to home, Rhodes Physics professor and department chair Brent Hoffmeister is excited about newer courses being offered, including Nuclear Physics, Engineering Physics, Medical Physics, and Fluid Dynamics. This semester, a course on Accelerator Physics, the sort of science that gave the world the Higgs Boson, is being offered for the first time.
Passing along his passion for the sciences is paramount in Hoffmeister's teaching. "Personally, I like how teaching and scientific research have fused together to become the same sort of thing for me at Rhodes," he says. "I really enjoy involving students in my research, and I think it is an important experience for the students too. A great way to learn about science is to function as a scientist."
Hoffmeister did his undergraduate work at Wabash College in Indiana, and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. A part of the Rhodes family since 1996, he cites Physics professor emeritus Jack Taylor '44 as an inspiration, not only for himself, but for the department as a whole. "He had a huge impact," says Hoffmeister. "Jack has an incredible passion for Physics and for Rhodes. He created some truly engaging out-of-the-classroom opportunities for students that our Physics alumni still excitedly speak about 40 or 50 years later. Jack inspired me to seek similar experiences for our Physics majors."
Taylor took Physics students and faculty, including college president and physicist Peyton Rhodes, on a total solar eclipse expedition to Alaska in 1963, a tradition professors Bob MacQueen '60 and Jack Streete '60 continued, although to Hawaii, in 1991. MacQueen and Streete also involved students in a total solar eclipse experiment out of Panama City, Panama, in 1998. This time the experiments were conducted from a C130 aircraft specially modified for observing the eclipse. Through Taylor, the college began in the early 1970s a long and productive connection with the High Altitude Observatory, the solar physics research branch of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.
Hoffmeister likewise has reached for the heights. In 2006 and 2008, he helped supervise two student groups' experiments in NASA's Microgravity University, a program that enables undergraduates to perform microgravity experiments aboard NASA's DC-9 aircraft, the "Weightless Wonder," at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Spring 2012 saw a team of Rhodes Physics students in NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, AL. The competition is open to students from around the world who build their own buggies and propel them over a simulated lunar terrain.
Another "out-of-the-classroom" opportunity, called Memphysics, is a course Physics faculty at Rhodes designed to provide students the chance to engage in scientific education outreach to the Memphis community. "This course is unique because it lets the students become the teachers," Hoffmeister says.
Communicating scientific research and findings to the broader community is an important skill and one that is stressed by the Physics faculty. To that end, in addition to the outreach programs, there are internships and fellowships both on and off campus. "We also encourage our students to present their research at scientific meetings and to help faculty prepare papers for publication in scientific journals," says Hoffmeister.
"I think we do a good job of engaging students in Physics while maintaining a balanced approach to their overall education," Hoffmeister says. "Preparation for careers in science and engineering can be very technical and focused. The liberal arts curriculum at Rhodes provides our students an important breadth of learning."


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Midterm is nearly upon us again and we'll soon be looking for ideas to keep our small ones busy during their Halloween break. So I've got just the thing and even though there's no baking involved… there is still flour… and there is definitely messiness, which lets face it, our kids love. Here's what you'll need to make this Halloween pumpkin piñata.
A balloon, 1/2 cup of flour, 1 cup water, newspaper, orange tissue paper, orange crepe paper, black card, white paper, 2 craft eyes, green cupcake case, ribbon or string, paper glue and most importantly – lots of candy.
Steps 1-4. Mix the flour and water together to form a paste. Blow up your balloon. Cut the newspaper into stripes. Dip it in the paste, wrap it around the balloon and smooth down. Using this method cover the whole balloon leaving a biggish hole at the top. Repeat this three to four times. Leave overnight to dry.
Steps 5-8. When the balloon is dry, gently let the air out and carefully pull the burst balloon through the opening. Using paper glue cover the balloon in orange tissue paper. Next, with the crepe paper still folded, cut it into even strips. Unwrap each strip and cut into three even lengths. Dab some paper glue around the opening at the top and stick each strip from the top allowing them to flow down the sides. Repeat until the strips cover the complete balloon. Leave to dry.
Steps 9-12. Cut two oval shapes from the black card for the eyes, stick the craft eyes to these and then on to the piñata. For the mouth, cut out a half-moon shape from the black card and stick on under the eyes. Cut out a few small squares from the white paper for the teeth and stick onto the mouth. Now for the fun part… Fill the piñata with lots… and lots… and lots of candy. Glue the cupcake case on to seal the top and using a sharp object carefully pierce a small hole on either side at the top, thread through the ribbon and tie a knot. Tie your Halloween pumpkin piñata on to a tree branch, sit back and watch the small ones have amazing fun.
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The full list of games encompasses a wider variety of games from the SEGA library. These include Virtua Fighter, Crazy Taxi, Sonic the Hedgehog, House of the Dead, Billy Hatcher, Samba de Amigo, Super Monkey Ball, Virtua Striker, PuyoPop Fever, Nights, Space Channel 5, and Chu Chu Rocket. It's pretty much guaranteed that there should be at least one of these games that will strike a chord in gamers' hearts. Even if they don't there are plenty of mini-games that have three levels of difficulty that should appeal to anyone, especially the younger kids that this game is geared towards. But enough blathering and let's get on to the game-by-game descriptions.
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The action here puts the player in the left side of the screen and the virtua fighters are on the right. The action isn't freeform with a lot of slapping, but instead the game calls most of the shots for you. There will be blue icons that appear on the player that indicate that spot needs to be guarded. By moving hands over the spot in time the virtual attack will be blocked. At other times there will be orange icons on the enemy and if these get swatted, then it's score one for Team Reality.
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The Valley Theatre opened in 1937. From 1949 thru 1956 seating was listed at 937.
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Along with his pirate crew, captain Tomaj Balashazy rules the Madagascar coast from his tropical plantation—a fortress built to defend against the enemies he's made cruising the Indian Ocean. But when the American naturalist Dagny Ravenhurst falls into Balashazy's lagoon during an expedition seeking a dreaded and mystical species of lemur, it spells the end of the temporary peace on the island. Ravenhurst is beholden to the French industrialist Paul Boneaux—who enjoys a monopoly over the island's manufacturing and commerce—and needs his patronage to survive. When the two adversaries, Balashazy and Boneaux, are pitted against each other, the island boils with blood, and only one will emerge triumphant.
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Chapter OneAn Extinct Fish
August 1827
Mavasarona Bay, Madagascar
The orchid was exquisite.
The coconut-hued petals of the Angraecum sesquipedale bounced like a ballerina's twirling skirt as Dagny crawled with bated breath onto the branch of the tree. The largest, most delightful specimens grew twenty feet above the ground on trees not in the lushest areas of the rain forest, but in random straggling trees on the edges of woods. As it required considerable force to knock the heartbreakingly rare specimen from the branch, Dagny Ravenhurst crept like a limbless circus performer, and unfolded the clasp knife between her teeth. When she tried to whisper, "Come to me, my beautiful darling," her words came out as the wheeze of the asthmatic. She was so intent on her prey, she drooled on the metal knife.
Tentatively, one hand over the other like a torpid chameleon, her hands gripped the branches, hands tough from years of clinging to trees and waiting in suspended immobility for animals to appear. She was clad in the apex of Paris fashion. One of the joys of her newly elevated status in life was the employment she provided for a parade of laundresses.
"Mademoiselle!" cried Izaro, her local plant and animal scout. Dagny didn't want to look down, for surely she must be poised over the turquoise bath of the Indian Ocean by now, but she could imagine Izaro, tawny limbs akimbo with indignation, voluminous white lamba scarf slung across his bony shoulders. Under the shade of his wide, plaited reed hat, his screwed-up face always seemed to wonder, What is with this insane vazaha woman? She dresses like she's attending a ball, yet she engages in the daily pursuit of a phantom miscalled pleasure. "Mora, mora!" Slowly, slowly. "That branch is much too weak for your ... for you."
Crazy man, Dagny thought. He's implying that I'm fat! I may be a bit more bountiful than some of those walking skeletons who promenade in Broadway in New York, but I believe that the business of man's life is eating. The only reason I stayed in New York as long as I did was because most common councilmen believed indulging in delicious oysters caused sudden death if eaten in unlucky months that are without the letter R! So I remained behind in town to swallow the juicy dainties ... and the canvass backs ... macaronis ... jellies ... alamode beef ...
Dagny had no option in the matter. Most of her life she'd been in mortifying poverty. She'd worn the costumes more suited for a rag doll than an adult woman, men sobbing that her rib bones hurt their kingly figures, until she'd given up even looking in the larder at the roaches that devoured her last bite of biscuit. She -and her family of two brothers-shambled about like anatomical displays of bones, hiding their shame with ill-fitting burnooses and capes, their caved eyes like vortices of the sea that sucked men to their death. Passersby must have thought them denizens of opium dens, and that they might have been in their fantasies, but they could ill afford that luxury.
Living was much improved now, and Dagny intended to indulge at the spoils of the grand table.
The closer she came to the shivering, delicate sesquipedale, the more it resembled a fantastic bird of paradise in flight, with a long forked swallowtail, hummingbird's head, and the strangely mammalian arms of a swooping bat. Not seen since 1822-at least not by vazaha or written in dry vazaha journals-Dagny thought of sending the orchid to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, or perhaps this institution she had only heard of the other day, gardens with the strange name of Pamplemousses, a few islands over on the Mauritius where the French ruled, only two days' sail in a small schooner.
"Missus!" Izaro whined. "Come back! We must call some of the coconut climbing boys to get that flower for you!"
Her brother Salvatore was something of a naturalist, as well. Proclaiming that Malagasy rocks were the oldest under the sun, today he'd gone on an expedition to Iron Mountain to inspect some primitive and rude smelting furnaces. He worshipped his "rocks" with fanatical devotion, but it was all so adorable that Dagny was often fond of telling him he had rocks instead of brains.
It was her own monomaniacal quest that had brought them here to the End of the World, an island detached from mainland Africa so many eons ago it had sprouted a wild assortment of endemic beings found nowhere else: fragile orchids that could only live under glass, coral masquerading as swords and lace, mythical underground caverns where translucent blind fish bumped into rocks and animals without backbones fell over, and the crowning oddity of them all: the aberrant and oft-murdered aye-aye, supposed to be a squirrelly rodent, though Dagny was skeptical of that, and imagined the thing of the same lemur family as the cuddly toylike monkeys that enjoyed taking the sun. It was met with dread superstition among Malagasy natives and no small wonder, with its batlike ears, ever-growing incisors that gnawed through coconut shells, skeletal hands with a frighteningly elongated middle finger for digging grubs from trunks, and, so it was rumored, an odor so funky one wished one were walking on the mephitis of the East River trash barge instead of standing next to this devil's messenger.
Then there was the carnivorous fossa cat as big as a panther, a terrible animal that killed rats and snakes by sticking its tail down a hole and farting.
Dagny could lean a few inches closer and easily swipe the orchid where it adhered so tenaciously to the branch. If only rice were not the main staple of life on this island! She removed the slimy knife from her mouth and muttered, "Rice ... rice pudding ... rice syllabub ... fried rice ... Oh! I could live here forever, if only I could find civilized food worthy of a naturalist's daughter!" If she raised the knife just so high, it was possible she would gain enough momentum to cleave the glorious orchid below the pedicel, and even if it fell to Izaro below, he was waiting to catch it in his net. "If only there was someone worthy in this backward bush! If only-"
A sharp crack heralded Dagny's precipitous plummet. Still clutching the knife, the fall was long enough, almost languorous in her retarded motion through the warm, feathery pillows of air that she had enough time to ponder, If I were smart, which I plainly must not be, I'd use this knife to cut the laces of my bodice, as these cotton petticoats, when wet, will certainly drag me to the bottom of the bay.
As though in one of those oddly immediate dreams when one tries to grab the matchbox to light the lamp and one's ghostly hand sallies right through the solid object, she remotely observed that the broken tree branch floated down at a much swifter rate than her descent. How odd. Do I not weigh more than that branch? Releasing the useless knife, she reached out to touch the orchid, its petals the velvet of blancmange. Although she knew to touch it would mean its death, in an emotional pirouette worthy of Marie Taglioni, Dagny clutched the flower to her bosom, smearing her face in the delightful petals that hearkened her back to childhood gardens, before everything had gone frightfully wrong.
She hit the water's surface with an explosive bang and immediately sank at least fifty feet.
She was right: the yardage of cotton embalming her dragged her to the very bottom of the lagoon. Lucky she'd left her hat back on the bluff with Izaro. An angelic grove of peachy coral coruscated in the celestial light beamed to Dagny's depths by a sun that now seemed high overhead indeed.
This is it, then. I am meant to die here, staring at this six-foot iron-colored Cretaceous fish that looks like an armored fossil sent straight from Ultima Thule, and.... A trondro? Dagny touched the ugly, sedate fish lips with the orchid-crowned branch. Neither fish nor flora recoiled in fear, both undulating with contentment in the cozy womblike waters. Why, ichthyologists would be pleased to see you ... you ugly, extinct Cretaceous fish!
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These were usually the happiest of times for Tomaj, the days immediately after careening his beloved Stormalong, when the most heinous heaving-down work was done, that awful yet irresistible job that brought men together in an other-worldly camaraderie. They were at their most haggard and frowzy, eager to spend their gun-money on the few pleasures the island had to offer-the few they didn't already possess. Though they'd broken a mast in the Strait of Malacca, they'd replaced the jury-mast and were all an end now, embayed with their old flotilla in their glorious port of Mavasarona, and the joy was palpable as the men went about their making and mending. Men reefed the newly set sails, and the absence of a pennant told any potential raiders they were out of commission, though Tomaj reveled with glee knowing his bow-chasers were at standby, the match-tubs back in place.
Tomaj assisted the joiner in chiseling some gingerbread work. He leaned against a water-butt, and as he would never want to muss his Marcella waistcoat, he tucked a kerchief into the cambric frill of his shirt, opened fashionably at the throat and dressed up with a lacy cravat. No matter what his workaday task in Mavasarona, Tomaj enjoyed the role of dasher.
The crews had all been home to their wives, screwed their brains out, and now were laid up in ordinary moored at the anchorage. Hands lounged about on the windlass and forecastle deck, cut-splicing and crowning fag-ends of ropes. More sedate fellows made neat Flemish fakes, and palm-and-picket men sewed canvas while other young gents played a boisterous game of skittles, the balls bowling heavily across the deck. As they had no back-board, the balls had a tendency to disappear down the scuppers, so someone had ingeniously brought out a harness-casket-from Slushy the Bootblack Boy's galley, presumably, to judge from the racket Slushy raised, scampering about with his spidery limbs flailing. The young sportsmen only teased, claiming the toughness of the meat inside the casket was because Slushy had forgotten to remove the harness of the horse he packed in it.
The entire luminous tableau might have been a serene painting by Pocock. Zaleski, a crotchety Britisher with the most mellifluous tenor, took up belting "Round the Corner, Sally."
Round the corner is a long, long way, To Valipo and Caleo Bay Round the corner we must roam, We don't care if we never go home.
Other men joined in, and their coarse and lusty singing brought a smile to Tomaj's mouth.
The quartermaster Antoine Youx hove into sight, casually setting his tall, scrawny bum on the water butt. "Êtes vous tout droit, Capitaine?"
"I'm fine."
"The foot of the fore topsail has been repaired," Youx informed him. "Find anything out in Tamatave?"
"I stopped in at the Port Admiral's office. Remember that Soper fellow, the Lloyd's of London agent? He was there. Told me an interesting tale. Another Lloyd's agent in Smyrna had a pirate's brain, picked in brine in a jar"-Youx gasped in horrified surprise-"and he intended to take it to Baltimore to be tested."
"Tested? For what?" Youx was a craggy, worn-out character who looked much older than his thirty and five years. The nautical life did that to one, if one was always like Youx, jumping aloft in the riggings and forever sliding down the shrouds and backstays, insisting on reefing and furling because allegedly every other experienced foretop-man was a grossly incompetent looby, even the men who'd been with them since New Orleans. Still, he was an honest, straightforward, bang-up cove, an extremely willing and able worker doing his best to honor his predecessor. Best of all, he'd selflessly chosen not one or four or five Malagasy wives, as most hands did, but, following Tomaj's illustration, merely rotated women into his chambers based upon whim or the weather.
Standing, Tomaj took the kerchief of wood shavings to the rail and dumped them overboard. He thought of the tea-wagon they'd just captured last month, chock-a-block with dates and rice. The men, irate at being unable to find the usual gold bars or bags of loose gems that Indiamen often carried, had flung overboard all the dates, most especially the hated rice. Rice! What use had any Mavasaroan for the ubiquitous pasty garbage? "I imagine they want to study it, maybe palpate different sections to discover what turns moral, upright citizens-you know, bankers and insurance men, such as we were-into deviate, blood-thirsty, pillaging despots."
Youx threw his head back and laughed heartily. With the myriad of smile lines radiating from his eyes, when he laughed he resembled a sun-dried plum-a handsomely Gallic one, to be sure. "Aye. Weren't we all bankers at one time? I, myself, was a broker of fine stocks with the Barclay firm, and played chess with Louis de la Bourdonnais."
"Ah, his own automaton could beat Bourdonnais at chess."
A school of brilliant angelfish gathered to inspect the wood shavings, their dorsal fins frothing the water's surface, spraying adamantine droplets and elbowing out the small lemony butterfly fish. I'm sick to death of rice, thought Tomaj. Perhaps tonight back at the house I'll get Ramonja to concoct a nice dressed lobster with macaronis ... The smoke of his kitchen emits incense worthy of the gods.
"A pickled pirate's brain?" The joiner Smit finally reacted to Tomaj's news. "I never. Did he happen to say whose brain it was?"
Eighty yards away in the lagoon there came a loud splash of something heaved from a great height. It was no ball, as there was no report, but the crew, being engaged in a skittish trade, ran like riggers to the rail. Tomaj dashed forward, dodging the gunners McInerny, Castillo, and Hegemsness as they flung down their marline spikes, shakings and oakum scattering.
Over the lagoon, Tomaj saw only an indefinite cat's paw where the skin of the water had been pierced. Grasping the boatswain Broadhecker by the sleeve, Tomaj demanded, "A fish, did you see?"
"That's the mightiest fish I've ever heard. A humpback, we'd see from here. I'm taking the longboat ashore to get the quarter-gunners." As Stormalong carried twenty-eight guns, Tomaj felt it prudent to keep seven of the skilled, intelligent orphans aboard, tough boys picked up in various ports of the world. "Might I use your speaking trumpet? I'm sure they can hear me from their houses."
"It's in the binnacle."
Tomaj turned to Zaleski. "Yes."
"I'm not shooting you a line, old man." The venerable salt affected a false air of humility, holding his fusty old Turkish skull-cap. "But that weren't no shot, nor fish. Looked to me like a fancy lady." A few men who backed Zaleski up in his absurd claim smiled widely, displaying an array of noisome, rotten teeth.
Tomaj barked, "There's quite a large difference between a giant fish and a fancy lady, Zaleski. What makes you say a fancy lady fell into the drink?"
The gangly man gestured sincerely with the cap. "Because it were, Balásházy! Answer me this: What sort of ball is rigged out in a shade o' orange satin what looks like the color of the Imam's palace at sunset?"
Tomaj glanced at the able seamen behind Zaleski. "Do you agree? Did you see a lady as well?"
"Aye, sir, definitely a lady, soaring through the sky with frilly petticoats all aflutter."
"We was standing right there in the waist rattling down some shrouds when we sees this orange bloom whaling through the sky like a plumy heron."
Tomaj saw no more ripples over the lagoon. A Malagasy fellow stood at the foreshore, gesticulating wildly like a shorebird flapping his white lamba, wading three steps into the water only to race back to the beach as though a colossal hammerhead lurked in the coral shoals. Whisking the speaking trumpet from Broadhecker's grip as he jogged past, Tomaj bellowed out in Malagasy, "You there! Did a lady just fall into the lagoon?"
Of course, he couldn't hear the fellow's answer, the fellow not possessing his own speaking trumpet, so Tomaj ordered Broadhecker, "Call Firebrand!" Firebrand was their best swimmer, having spent time on one of those West Indies islands where most seamen lolled about all day sipping drinks from coconut shells.
"Ashore in Harmony Row," piped a hand.
"I'll be cursed." Tomaj paced the deck, his hands shaped into claws. He pointed a sudden stiff forefinger at a cowering hand. "Frost! You're always diving down for shellfish and mollusks!"
"Sorry, Captain," Frost said. "I can only get the clams that bite me around the calves and knees, sort of ... like."
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I find the working parents vs stay at home parents competition a rather bizarre one. Not least because regardless of if someone works or stays at home, their general situation has a large part to play in how difficult their life is from day to day.
Now I'm a stay at home parent, I also write this blog and study. Mr. C is very hands on when it comes to home life, but he works long hours, a lot of weekends and aside from him I have no other support. To be honest it became extremely difficult to stay on top of everything, so we hired some help. We now have the most wonderful cleaner and the boys are in nursery, giving me one morning a week to catch up on everything I haven't had a chance to do in the evenings. I rarely get to bed before 10:30pm at night and I'm constantly behind on emails.
It's hard work, but just because my situation is difficult at times doesn't invalidate someone else's situation. There are both working and stay at home parents that struggle to keep on top of things, there are elements of these people's lives that make their situation uniquely difficult, regardless of whether they work 40 hour weeks or spend their time at home.
Earlier in the week, someone on my social media feed uploaded an image that said, 'I hear you. Raising kids and running a house keeps me busy too. I also have this little gig on the side called a full time job'. This parent in particular has four children, two of which have already flown the nest and out of the two that remain, one is 18 and the other is in secondary school. So while yes she does work full time, the children who remain living in her house are of an age where they can dress themselves, feed themselves and are out of the house for a majority of the day. It seems an odd notion to compare her life to that of a parent with children who aren't yet at school age.
I recently spoke to a friend of mine, who is a stay at home parent, has a lot of support but was struggling with keeping the house straight. She mentioned how my house was always tidy and the washing always done. I looked at her a bit surprised, because she is still breastfeeding a baby who is at the age where separation anxiety kicks in. It is no wonder the house has gotten a bit messy, when my youngest was 4 months old, although there were always clean clothes to wear, my laundry basket resembled Mount Everest.
A huge difference between working and stay at home parents is the emotional battle that they go through. Now this obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but as a stay at home parent, I struggled with my sense of identity and needed to find something in life that made me 'me' again (you can read about that here). But as a stay at home parent with a lot of other things going on, I feel such an immense amount of guilt for not being there as much as I used to be for my family. Perhaps I haven't found the right balance yet, I don't know, but I think the emotional side of each situation plays a huge part in how they are uniquely different and therefore uniquely difficult.
But if we set the differences in situation aside entirely, then another aspect of the argument comes to light; just because a parent is juggling a lot of things, doesn't necessarily mean that they are doing them all well. I have a lot of things going on in life, but on weeks where I'm hugely behind on work, my children watch more TV than I'm comfortable with while I catch up. On weeks when I've got family life down, I've got an email inbox bursting at the seams. On weeks when I manage to keep on top of home life and work, I haven't been to the gym once, have gained 2lbs and have barely spoken to Mr. C.
So while I know most people will still argue that one is more difficult than the other, I wonder why being a stay at home parent is compared to being a working parent at all? It just seems a rather strange thing to compare when the two are so vastly different.
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In this stunning close-up of Messier 45 (The Pleaides) three of its brightest stars are clearly visible. In the top centre we see Alcyone, an eclipsing binary system. In the bottom right corner we see Maia, a blue-white giant. It is one of the stars surrounded by the emission/reflection nebula NGC 1432, also known as the Maia Nebula. The bright star to the left is Merope, a blue-white subgiant. It is the central star in the Merope Nebula, a nebula through which the Pleiades cluster is currently passing.
The Merope Nebula (also known as NGC 1435 and Tempel's Nebula, after the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel who discovered the nebula on October 19, 1859) is a diffuse reflection nebula of about 4 light-years across, located some 440 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Taurus (the Bull).
Reflection nebulae reflect light from a nearby star. In the Merope Nebula, many small carbon grains reflect the light. The blue color typical of reflection nebula is caused by blue light being more efficiently scattered by the carbon dust than red light. The brightness of the nebula is determined by the size and density of the reflecting grains, and by the color and brightness of the neighboring star(s).
It is long thought that the dust in the reflection nebula is the remnant of the cloud that the Pleiades formed from, but it is now known that the Merope Nebula is caused by a chance encounter between the open cluster of stars and the interstellar cloud it is plowing into.
The Merope Nebula contains a bright knot – designated IC 349 and also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, after the American astronomer E. E. Barnard who discovered it in 1890 – which lies at only 0.06 light-years distant to the southeast of Merope (seen in this image as the white, fluffy dot that almost sticks to the left side of the star). IC 349 is naturally very bright but is almost hidden in the radiance of Merope.
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Can Russian cinema be fashionable again?
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All too true. Unfortunately Americans want stupid films with explosions and sluts. I can't get enough of Russian Cinema personally. Perhaps if they put their work up on Youtube with subtitles (like Mosfilm has done)then they could gain larger audiences.
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- Pietro A. Shakarian said...
I would say that the lack of demand certainly extends from the marketing issue which is sad. I believe that many Americans (or at least Americans who are cinephiles) would be very receptive to Russian cinema, largely because of the contribution of Russian and Soviet filmmakers to the film medium overall. In other words, Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Tarkovsky, etc. provide a foundation that can be easily built upon. All Russian marketers need to do is to get the right people and to communicate the right message.
I also would like to note that, in addition to MosFilm and its amazing YouTube channel, there is another company that has done a very admirable job in bringing Russian and Soviet films to the US. This is the Russian Cinema Council (Ruscico), which has released some of the most significant Russian and Soviet masterworks to DVD in beautiful prints. If you have not seen their stuff, then you definitely should.
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Do you have tons of work on your "plate" today or for the rest of week? Try tweaking your first hour at work and see for yourself the amazing improvements that it can do.
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- Taylor advocates always arriving at your workplace on time or a little earlier. This can help you do a little planning and prioritizing, and can even set up your mood for the rest of day.
- Michael Kerr says that slowing down is the key. People who hurry to get things done on the first hour could induce panic upon themselves and to others around them. A little calm before diving into work can do wonders in setting up your direction and priorities for the whole day.
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Taryn Tate Of Limerick
(M) 7 April 2000, HM88797502, Brindle
1 May 1996
US CH Noinin Cnoc Noll Of Limerick
19 September 1992
US CH Grianan Ladd Of Limerick
5 January 1988
US CH Starkeeper's Ard Darby Grianan
4 September 1980
US CH Elmbrae's Starkeeper Trevor
18 June 1979
26 November 1977 Wheaten
US CH Kellcastle Alain Banselgare
19 November 1983
US CH Grianan Mann Of Limerick
5 May 1982 Wheaten & Brindle
26 June 1980 Black
5 April 1989
Health checks:
25 November 1986
20 December 1982 Gray & Brindle
26 January 1984 Red & Brindle
US CH Fitzarran Madara O Bailebrae
20 December 1982
US CH Solstrand Fenton Of Bailebrae
6 April 1980 Red & Brindle
6 January 1978 Gray & Brindle
16 April 1992
INT CH NL LUX CH Nasch From The Good Heath
10 November 1989
Cause of death: Accident
19 September 1986
26 July 1983 KCSB1027BU Brindle
Cause of death: DCM
INT CH Wistle von der Oelmühle
19 September 1981 Grey Brindle
6 July 1986
25 July 1983
2 November 1983 Grey
INT CH Miss Marple From The Good Heath
18 September 1988
Cause of death: Osteosarcoma
5 February 1986
26 July 1983 KCSB1027BU Brindle
Cause of death: DCM
30 December 1980 Brindle
6 July 1986
25 July 1983
2 November 1983 Grey
5 January 1998
US CH Kaelyn Conor Of Limerick
21 March 1993
5 March 1986
20 December 1982
US CH Solstrand Fenton Of Bailebrae
6 April 1980 Red & Brindle
6 January 1978 Gray & Brindle
US CH Starkeeper's K-Dheelis Gleann
23 August 1983
US CH Killeen's Fion Maccumhail
1 October 1977 Wheaten
26 November 1977 Wheaten
US CH Kaelyn's Promise Of Limerick
11 May 1988
12 October 1985
16 December 1977 Gray & Brindle
US CH Destiny Regan Of Limerick
19 October 1981 Gray & Brindle
31 May 1984
US CH Grianan Mann Of Limerick
5 May 1982 Wheaten & Brindle
26 June 1980 GRAY & BRINDLE
US CH Falcarragh Brenna Of Taryn
3 May 1994
28 October 1990
1 September 1985
29 April 1979
20 December 1982 Gray & Brindle
14 March 1986
20 December 1982 Gray & Brindle
31 July 1980 Gray & Brindle
20 April 1991
25 November 1986
20 December 1982 Gray & Brindle
26 January 1984 Red & Brindle
8 November 1984
13 March 1983 Wheaten & Brindle
31 July 1980 Gray & Brindle
Full siblings
Number of full siblings: 1
Half siblings
Number of half siblings: 39Number of litters with half siblings: 7
Litter number 1:
Born 22 June 1998
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Gabriel's Echo Horizons
Horizon Siobhan O'Caithness (9 Offspring) Lifespan: 10 years, 4 months
Horizons Rafferty McRick (2 Offspring)
Horizons Rosalind McRick (9 Offspring)
Litter number 2:
Born 16 May 1999
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Gabriel's Eliza Of Taryn
Taryns McGwire (45 Offspring)
Taryns Miss Millennium (8 Offspring)
Litter number 3:
Born 23 January 2000
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Encantado Sylvie Of Pinon
Litter number 4:
Born 11 March 2000
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Destiny Vanella Mcnoll
Destiny Kenyon Ruane McRick (10 Offspring)
Destiny O'Rafferty Mcrick (12 Offspring) Lifespan: 7 years, 2 months (Complications to treatment of Lymphosarcoma - Heart Failure)
Destiny Raina McRick (11 Offspring)
Destiny Rion McRick (17 Offspring)
Litter number 5:
Born 22 April 2001
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Kaelyn Gabardine Of Limerick
Conchobar Siofra Of Limerick (6 Offspring)
Court Polyester Of Limerick (1 Offspring)
Oxmoon Brogan Of Limerick (40 Offspring)
Litter number 6:
Born 3 September 2001
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Taryn's Abigail
Taryn Jordan Of Limerick (7 Offspring)
Taryns Jazzmessenger (34 Offspring) Lifespan: 7 years, 0 months (Tick infection - lymes disease and TBE)
Litter number 7:
Born 21 December 2009
Sire: Urlimerick Of Kilmara Dam: Carnasserie Grayson Of Eagle
Carnasserie Winter Solstice Of Limerick
Limerick Frosty The Showman (48 Offspring)
Limerick Jingle All The Way (5 Offspring)
Limerick Nollaig Ge Of Eagle (3 Offspring)
Limerick Seac Sioc At Glenn Eyrie
Limerick's Naughty And Nice Norah
Limerick's Sleigh Ride To Folkloire (5 Offspring)
Number of offspring: 90
Total number of unique descendants: 1,931
(Total born worldwide after Taryn Tate Of Limerick: 58,461)
Litter number 1. Partner: Destiny Vanella Mcnoll
Litter born: 2 December 2001
Destiny Duchas Elair McTate Gray & Brindle
Destiny Egan McTate (6 Offspring) Red Wheaten
Destiny Eiseac McTate Wheaten
Destiny Ennisdeaglan McTate Gray & Brindle
Destiny Kenyon Emeraldmctate Wheaten
Litter number 2. Partner: Legacy's Must Be An Illusion
Litter born: 26 May 2003
Legacys Crackerjack Gray & Brindle
Litter number 3. Partner: Pinehurst Elkanah
Litter born: 2 January 2004
Pinehurst Haxton (14 Offspring) Gray & Brindle
Pinehurst Connemara Kizment Brindle
Pinehurst Lemay (12 Offspring) GRAY & BRINDLE
Litter number 4. Partner: Court Polyester Of Limerick
Litter born: 22 September 2004
Tara Hills Justin Of Limerick BRINDLE
Litter number 5. Partner: Conchobar Siofra Of Limerick
Litter born: 26 March 2005
Conchobar Aeden Of Limerick Brindle
Conchobar Finnegan Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Conchobar Morann Of Limerick Wheaten & Brindle
Conchobar Muldoon Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Conchobar Stoli Of Limerick Red Wheaten
Conchobar Katey Of Limerick RED WHEATEN
Litter number 6. Partner: Garbh Aerie Of Eagle
Litter born: 31 August 2005
Garbo Of Eagle (5 Offspring) Wheaten
Limerick Garson Of Eagle BRINDLE
Litter number 7. Partner: Breez'in Sophia
Litter born: 14 October 2005
Cu Muirin Tallulah BRINDLE
Cu Muirin Turrean (4 Offspring) BRINDLE
Litter number 8. Partner: Carroy Roonagh O'Donovan
Litter born: 25 March 2006
Carroy Falcor Of Limerick (28 Offspring) Lifespan: 9 years, 7 months WHEATEN
Carroy Fergus Mac Tate (23 Offspring) Wheaten & Brindle
Carroy Feileacan Mac Tate (7 Offspring) Lifespan: 8 years, 8 months (Renal Failure) Wheaten
Litter number 9. Partner: Absolut Kaleigh
Litter born: 1 April 2006
Wild Desert Braeden GRAY & BRINDLE
Wild Desert Shamus Silver
Wild Desert Foleys Lucky Charm Gray & Brindle
Wild Desert Malibu Of Absolut (3 Offspring) WHEATEN
Litter number 10. Partner: Caithness Amber Mactire
Litter born: 22 June 2006
Litter number 11. Partner: Halle Of Limerick
Litter born: 22 June 2006
Becker Of Limerick Red Brindle
Cash Of Limerick (10 Offspring) BRINDLE
Castlebrae Agassi Of Limerick Red Brindle
Limerick Blake At Gryffindor (1 Offspring) Red & Brindle
Nalaney J Connors Of Limerick (5 Offspring) BRINDLE
Starkeeper Mcenroe Of Limerick (53 Offspring) Lifespan: 7 years, 5 months RED WHEATEN
Sunjata Nastase Of Limerick Red Wheaten
Triple E Murray Of Limerick Red Brindle
Conchobar Veineas Of Limerick (3 Offspring) RED WHEATEN
Horizons Serena Of Limerick (2 Offspring) Red Wheaten
Litter number 12. Partner: Eirinn's Or Of Kaelyn
Litter born: 19 July 2006
Rogan Mohan Of Erinn Limerick (4 Offspring) Red Wheaten
Eirinn's Abigail Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Eirinn's Bryne Mctate Of Tory Red & Brindle
Eirinn's Orla Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Eirinn's Rafiki Of Limerick (10 Offspring) CREAM
Elrinn's Arwen Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Litter number 13. Partner: Garbh Aerie Of Eagle
Litter born: 18 September 2006
Gable Of Eagle Wheaten
Carnasserie Grayson Of Eagle (7 Offspring) BRINDLE
Gabor Of Eagle (7 Offspring) Brindle
Litter number 14. Partner: Limerick Lea Of Eagle
Litter born: 25 April 2007
Temair Levi Of Eagle Wheaten
Temair Liam Of Eagle Red Wheaten
Temair Lynwood Of Eagle Red & Brindle
Temair Limerick Of Eagle (10 Offspring) Wheaten
Litter number 15. Partner: Ierne's Sorcha Ni Shirey
Litter born: 17 May 2007
Ierne Starkeeper Harp Red & Brindle
Ierne's Bennett Of Killian Red & Brindle
Ierne's Hobgoblin Ruby Brindle
Ierne's La Folie (8 Offspring) Lifespan: 8 years, 7 months (Pneumonia) RED BRINDLE
Ierne's Stella Artois Lifespan: 7 years, 5 months (Endocarditis; infection of the heart. Diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation and early DCM at 4 yrs old.) RED BRINDLE
Torian's Apple Of My Eye (7 Offspring) RED & BRINDLE
Litter number 16. Partner: Ard Rhi's Alsabel Of Eagle
Litter born: 29 November 2007
Ard Rhi's Arlo Guthrie Brindle
Aran's Aobh Of Ardrhi (4 Offspring) Brindle
Ard Rhi's Anyka Brindle
Litter number 17. Partner: Glenamadda Starkeeper Verity
Litter born: 1 February 2010
Gryffindor Colin At Tara Hill (7 Offspring) Brindle
Gryffindor Courage At Heartsong Lifespan: 4 years, 5 months Brindle
Gryffindor Riley Brindle
Gryffindor's Corazon Magico De Tejas Brindle
Gryffindor's Petronus Brindle
Starkeeper Glenamadda Fyrenze Of Gryffindor (36 Offspring) BRINDLE
Gryffindor's Wild Rose O' Starry Glen (1 Offspring) Brindle
Litter number 18. Partner: Legacy's Charmed Life
Litter born: 12 November 2010
Legacy's Covergirl (1 Offspring) Red Wheaten
Legacy's Giselle (5 Offspring) Gray & Brindle
Legacy's Ruby Hagrid Red Wheaten
Legacy's Tyra At Salish (10 Offspring) Lifespan: 3 years, 11 months (Complications of whelping puppies ) Grey Brindle
Litter number 19. Partner: Taryn Wendy's Miracle Jory
Litter born: 2 April 2011
Jaiden Guardian Of Taryn Red & Brindle
Taryn Jasper Red & Brindle
Taryn Jericho Red & Brindle
Taryn Jernigan Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Taryn Rufus Red & Brindle
Taryn Jenelle Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Taryn Jocelin Of Hawkhaven (7 Offspring) Red Brindle
Taryn Josey Of Limerick Red & Brindle
Taryn Skylark Of Cusidhe Red & Brindle
Litter number 20. Partner: Folkloire's Ain'T She Sweet
Litter born: 3 May 2017
Folkloire's Limerick Moves Like Jagger Red Wheaten
Folkloire's You'Re The One To Stormhaven Wheaten
Folkloire Limerick Night Moves Brindle
Folkloire's Beltane Tate To Stormhaven Wheaten
Folkloire's Dancing In The Moonlight Gray & Brindle
Folkloire's Moondance At Wylde Mtn. Red & Brindle
Folkloire's Sweet Tate'R Pie Brindle
Folkloires Alley Cat Horizons Brindle
Total number of possible ancestors (5 gens): 62
Actual number of ancestors: 50 (24M/26F)
Ancestorloss: 12
Percentage lost: 19.35%
Ancestor loss coefficient (AVK): 80.65%Coefficient of Inbreeding: 0.88% (5 generations)
Coefficient of Inbreeding compared to breed average
The Kennel Club recommends breeding with a lower Coefficient of inbreeding (COI) than the average.
Average COI worldwide over the last 10 years for 5 generations is 3.36%.
Green areas are well below average COI. The yellow area marks average COI +/- 0.5% point. Red areas are well above average.
Lifespan in pedigree
Average recorded lifespan in pedigree: 7 years, 7 months.Based on lifespan-info of 12 entries in pedigree out of a possible 62 (19.35 %).
Recorded breed average in iwdb.org is 7 years, 5 months.Based on lifespan-info of 6296 dogs
Dogs that died in their first year are left out of the calculations, according to normal practice when calculating average longevity information in dogs.
Basis for veteran age is FCI-regulations; 8 years
We have 3 recorded veterans in this pedigree. 9 died before veteran-age.
We are missing info on 50 dogs
25.00% of dogs with known lifespan were veterans
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Common ancestors
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Sires and dams
Recorded screening results for Taryn Tate Of Limerick
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Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center
190 Main St, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301
Fundraising Events
This past March (2010) the First United Methodist Men's group, once again, worked tirelessly to put on a great dinner in support of the Center. Doug Reed, our Board of Directors President, cooked the entire meal while Rick Mills, Paul Fantini, Loren Mills, and Gerry Fortier (left to right) helped to serve.
Helping Persons of All Ages & Situations Find Meaningful Answers to Life's Problems.
Providing High-Quality, Non-Sectarian Pastoral Counseling, Psychotherapy, Couples & Family Therapy, Mediation And Meeting Facilitation at a Moderate Cost.
Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center
Address: 190 Main Street
Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301
Phone: (802) 254-9071
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday
Hours vary depending on each therapist's
or mediator's schedule.
We Accept:
We are the only counseling center in this area that provides services for people regardless of their ability to pay. In order to do that, we rely on contributions, insurance company payments, co-pays and the generosity of many. We accept most insurance companies including Medicare and Medicaid. Insurance co-pays are paid in cash or by check. Mediation fees are also negotiable.
Affiliations & Certifications:
Member of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce
The Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center would like to thank the following people for their generous support towards the expenses of the concert so that all ticket proceeds can be used for the benefit of the Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center:
Underwriters: Diana Bingham, Fred Breunig, Diana Lange, Patricia McNamara, Margo Neale, Carolyn and Joe Piaciak, Doug and Phyllis Reed, Esta Smith, Prentiss Smith, and Lise Sparrow.
Friends: Arthur Benedict, Irene Burtis, John and Mary Carnahan, Crispe and Crispe, Eve Fox, Ed and Margaret Maloney, Allen Myrick, Julie Peterson, and Edward and Jane Sbardella.
*With a special thank you to St. Michael Roman Catholic Church for letting us use their sanctuary for the concert and to Patrice Murray for all her hard work spearheading this event.
Welcome Center Fundraiser
On June 17th the Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center once again was given the opportunity to serve coffee and treats at the Guilford Welcome Center on Interstate 91. This event is a great fundraiser for the Center and gives us a great opportunity to meet people from all over New England. Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center would like to thank Doug Reed, Board President, and Janet Goldstein, Director, for organizing and working this event.
BPCC Celebrates 25 years of service
This spring the Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center was blessed to celebrate our 25th year of offering high quality counseling at affordable costs to the Brattleboro community and the surrounding towns. The celebration took place at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in West Brattleboro. We would like to thank all the people who worked hard to making this a successful evening.
Margaret Fogg, former Board President, was the emcee for the evening. Founding members Edward and Judith Flowers and therapist and early administrative director, Gary Pitkin were recognized during the event they spoke of their experiences beginning the Center and the obstacles that they had to overcome to make it a successful venture. In addition, Board President Doug Reed presented letters of appreciation. Leslie Kinney spoke about Pastoral Counseling and what it has meant to her being a part of this organization as she leaves her position after six years as Director of BPCC. She was also recognized for her work at the Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center.
After the formal statements were made people from the audience just began telling their own stories and sharing memories of their time here at the Center.
We all agreed that we are ready for the next 25 years!
Montpelier Community Gospel Choir
On Sunday, May 2 the Montpelier Community Gospel Choir performed a concert to benefit the Center at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church. Gary Pitkin, Clinical Coordinator and therapist at the Center offered the opening prayer to begin the event. A great time was had by all that attended.
Pictured from left are Therapists Eve Fox & Jill Neitlich, Janet Goldstein (Director), & Linda Dearstyne (former BPCC Therapist)
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For a site with such an optimistic name, it's funny how you can always count on Anchor Rising to pounce on anything that can be spun to reflect poorly on the state of Rhode Island. No, the glass is not half full according to that other blog; it's defective, leaking, and surely the fault of a public employee somewhere.
The latest example of this comes from Justin, Rhody's littlest think tanker and a guy who truly puts the "dismal" in the dismal science. What's got Justin so concerned this time is Rhode Island's ranking in the "Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity":
If we accept the proposition that a struggling economy leads more people to start their own businesses in order to generate their own income, then Rhode Island's position on the Kauffman Index's ranking is worrisome. The Ocean State ought to be highly entrepreneurial, because its employment situation is so bad. The other two states with unemployment rates above 10% are near the top of the entrepreneurialism list.
Rhode Island is tenth from the bottom.
Fair enough, and for the fringe-right that's more than enough to begin wailing that the sky is falling. But what Justin doesn't tell you, is that there are big regional differences between the states and that the index slants heavily towards those states with large construction sectors, an immediate disadvantage to densely populated states like RI.
But the larger point here is an obvious one: not all states start at the same place! In fact, Rhode Island has shown incredible growth in the amount of entrepreneurial activity. RI saw an increase of 71% in the past decade (comparing 1999–2001 to 2009–2011)! That's 49 percent more than the national average and 5th nationally, behind only Nevada, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Georgia for growth in entrepreneurialism. Another decade of "underperformance" like that and Rhode Island would be in the top 10. Of course that little tidbit must go unmentioned because it doesn't fit neatly into Justin's "everything here sucks" worldview.
Look, it's dangerous to read too much into these state to state comparisons, especially when drawing conclusions about a state this size. My take, take these studies with a healthy grain of salt… and ignore the fringe-right's dismal science entirely.


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Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by SpellZ, May 27, 2011.
What the hell lol..
Open Safari... hit OPTION + V in the url browser, click enter...
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Cant believe no one found it amusing...
How can he have √.com?
how can he use that symbol?
Wow. I didn't know √ could be registered as a domain. That's a new one for me. Are there any other symbols that have been registered as domains?
I just checked it out..
All ASCII could be registered, but there must be at least 3 of them so
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Daniel McKENZIE (or McKINZIE) was born in Scotland, between 1766 and 1776. He might have been born in Stevenston, Ayrshire, but more likely he was born on the nearby Isle of Arran.
Daniel was a shoemaker. He married Ann BARBOUR in Stevenston, and since then, some of his descendants have remained in the "Three Towns" of Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan, although others have emigrated to Canada and to Australia. Daniel and Ann had the following children:
- John, a cotton hand loom weaver
- Alexander
- Grizel (or Grace), who married Andrew SILLARS
- Margaret, who married Hugh HOWIE
- Daniel, who married Elizabeth McGEE and then Mary McINDOE
- Samuel, who married Margaret McBRIDE (more below)
- Ann, who married John ANDERSON
Daniel's (and Ann's) son Samuel McKENZIE was a handloom-weaver of muslin. He married Margaret McBRIDE and had the following children:


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So I've had lots of response to the original article I wrote on my experience with CTE, and it's about time I gave an update! Since last writing, I underwent several months of intensive care with Dr Samuel Zoranovich developing our protocol (the Sardonicus-Zoranovich Method) of treating CTE. For those of you new to the game, CTE stands for Cerebellar Tonsilar Ectopia, also referred to as a Chiari Malformation – it's a herniation of the lower brain through the bottom of the skull. In silly terms, my brain won't stay inside my head. But really, symptoms can be debilitating: intractable headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations and severe neck pain – among others. The Sardonicus-Zoranovich Method (hereinafter referred to as SZM) draws upon a base of infant-style chiropractic adjustments, CranioSacral Technique, SacroOccipital Technique and long-axis neuromobilization.
Under Dr Zoranovich's care, I experienced a tremendous improvement: fewer and less intense headaches, decrease of all symptoms, and more importantly – I experienced an increase in vitality and life force. I was able to return to my daily running practice. I consistently "leveled up" – that is, every few weeks I found myself saying "wow, I never imagined I could feel this good / functional again!" … and a few weeks later, it would happen again. I continued care with my godfather Dr William Haffenreffer, a chiropractor near my home in New Hampshire (where I now practice, having left Dr Z in California). I taught him the protocol, and he now maintains my care (much less intensively than initially required). I still get checked 2-4 times a month: more frequently than someone without this condition, but I don't mind as it keeps me going strong! Not only don't I mind, but I credit this work as having saved my quality of life entirely. I am indebted with gratitude to the healers who have helped me on this journey.
Since I was diagnosed with CTE in 2010, and subsequently developed the SZM, I have diagnosed several cases and treated many more. Individuals with CTE have come to my office from near and far, sometimes for periods of intensive care when travelling from other states, to seek respite from this frustrating and debilitating condition.
With these individuals we have found varying levels of success. It very much depends on the individual situation: the extent and severity of the injury, as well as other factors affecting healing. Sometimes in addition to the SZM, emotional traumas embedded in body memory are processed and help to facilitate healing. I do believe I can say this about every single person who has come to me for help with CTE: we have made significant improvements in their quality of life.
I believe that we are all faced with individual challenges based on what life has for us to learn. Learning that I have CTE has been part of a tremendous journey for me, as has the subsequent development of the SZM with Dr Z. I chose not to follow traditional medical protocol for this condition (brain surgery with moderate to poor outcomes, and/or drugs that do next to nothing in the way of palliation). I am grateful for the opportunity this has provided me to learn and grow, and honored to participate in the healing journey of others who wish to learn from my experiences.
If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with CTE, I am happy to schedule a phone consultation to discuss your options. Visit my office website at www.sardonicusfamilychiropractic.com.


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Samuel Wood and Company is a progressive Partnership of leading Property Agents and Chartered Surveyors with dedicated residential sales, lettings and professional departments.
The company directors are Anthony Wood, Andrew Cadwallader, Russell Griffin and Gareth Samuel who are driving the business forward based on the principles and pedigree of the founder Senior Partners Gareth and Anthony.
Anthony is married to Julia, who also works within the Company. They have a son, Nicholas, who is also a Chartered Surveyor and daughter Rebecca, who has graduated and is working as a teacher. His hobbies include Field Sports, training Labradors, and his own dog recently became a Field Trials winner.
founded Samuel Wood and Company with Anthony Wood in 1995 and has a longstanding connection with Estate Agency. He, like Anthony, was a former partner of Hall Wateridge and Owen.
Gareth is married to Jane, who also takes an active part in the Company, working alongside him in the Shrewsbury Office. Both Gareth and Jane can often be seen at the local Point-to-Points, being horse owners themselves. Gareth is also a keen golfer, being a member at Shrewsbury Golf Club and at Ludlow Golf Club too.
from Shrewsbury is married with a young son and is an accomplished
musician. He started his career in property 25 years ago, training in Shropshire and went on later to work in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, gaining
valuable experience in the City's property market. He is based predominantly
in the agency's Shrewsbury office.
Independent and local, we pride ourselves on personal, pro-active and friendly service, employing experienced and qualified personnel who know the market place. Our office network expands from the North to the South of the county, together with our office in Shrewsbury, the county town, providing central coverage for our South Shropshire clients.