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WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman's campaign said Wednesday that jobs lost at a company managed by rival Mitt Romney counter his claims of being a job creator.
Huntsman's campaign and allies said Romney's venture capital firm oversaw more than 100 layoffs in New Hampshire while it eventually reaped millions in profits.
An Associated Press report this week found that The Holson Burnes Group, controlled by Romney's Bain Capital LLC, closed plants in New Hampshire and Gaffney, S.C., as it shipped other jobs overseas.
Former Claremont, N.H., Mayor Scott Pope — a Huntsman supporter — said Holson Burnes had told local officials the plant was closing in 2005 so it could expand operations in Mexico, long after Bain relinquished control of the company. But a bulk of Holson Burnes layoffs and furloughs occurred in the early 1990s under Bain's ownership.
The AP's review of financial and regulatory documents in the case of Holson Burnes contrasts with Romney's statements during the GOP presidential campaign about his success creating jobs in the private sector. It showed how Holson Burnes trimmed its work force by hundreds while Bain eventually earned a 20 percent return on its investment.
The economic fallout from Bain's decisions struck hardest in New Hampshire and South Carolina, early primary states that will shape the Republican race and Romney's White House prospects. Romney knows President Barack Obama and other Republican contenders will be picking apart his tenure at Bain.
"President Obama and his friends on the left are continuing their attacks on the free-enterprise system, and by attacking free enterprise they are willingly dividing Americans," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the AP in response. "Mitt Romney has a quarter-century of experience working with entrepreneurs and real businesses in the real economy."
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, was spending the rest of the week touring New Hampshire by bus.
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Residents of White Oak Landing subdivision in southeast Baton Rouge say they will fight plans to put a 16-foot-tall sewage pumping station at the entrance to their upscale neighborhood, a decision city-parish officials say is final.
To assist them in their fight, the White Oak Landing Civic Association has hired Alvin Fairburn & Associates LLC, a Denham Springs-based engineering firm, to help persuade the city-parish to choose an alternate site, said Gehl Davis, the president of the civic association.
The new pumping station is part of the city-parish's Sanitary Sewer Overflow project, a $1.4 billion, federally mandated upgrade of the parish's sewer system's infrastructure.
As part of the project, the Department of Public Works plans to upgrade the current pumping station now operating near the south end of Woodlake Bridge on Woodlake Drive, DPW interim Director David Guillory said.
White Oak Landing experiences sewer overflows almost every time it gets a hard rain, Guillory said. When overflows occur, raw sewage runs into Jones Creek and the subdivision's lakes, he said.
Because of federal regulations, the new pumping station must be elevated above ground level in order to protect it from potential floods. The new station is to be constructed on a platform standing 10 feet high, Guillory said.
Structures on the platform, including the pump and a generator, would add another 6 feet to the height of the installation, Guillory said.
But Davis, leader of the homeowners association, said the completed pumping station would ruin the look of the entrance.
"We call it a drilling rig," he said, referring to the proposed structure.
"We are not unhappy if they put it on the ground," Davis said. "Our problem is that they are going to put it in the air."
Erecting the pumping station atop a 10-foot platform would dwarf the subdivision's entrance sign and obscure the view of one of the neighborhood's five lakes, he said.
Davis asked DPW to consider an alternate site for the pumping station adjacent to four homes near Beaconwoods Drive on a walking trail that is owned by the civic association.
However, the property owners near that proposed site have objected to having the new pumping station installed close to their houses, Guillory said.
In an attempt to ease community concerns, DPW personnel met with the homeowners and revised the design of the Woodlake pumping station, Guillory said. The original plans called for a structure about 20 feet high, he said.
Trees and bushes will be planted around the pump station to help obscure it from sight, Guillory said.
In a Dec. 7 report, the engineering firm CH2M Hill, which is the contractor overseeing the Sanitary Sewer Overflow project for the city-parish, analyzed the current location and the proposed location, concluding that building the station at the subdivision entrance would be the preferred solution, according to a copy of the report.
The report listed six disadvantages of the civic association's proposed site, among them the finding that changing sites would require the addition of a pump station and force the city-parish to upgrade the pump station at the current location anyway.
Access to the Beaconwoods site would be difficult from Woodlake Drive, the report said. The report also said that the land for the site would have to be purchased and the site currently consisted of a "walking trail with many trees."
In a Dec. 17 letter, Ted York, of Alvin Fairburn, urged DPW to reconsider.
Easy access to the homeowners' preferred site is available from Beaconwoods Drive, York asserted.
"Since it has been stated that the recommended location for the new pump station is covered with trees," York wrote, "it is clear that no one has actually been to the site to look at it. We suggest that we meet someone out there so that they can actually see the site."
Further, the construction of a second pumping station would mean that the current one could be downsized when it is upgraded, and it may not have to be placed on a platform, York wrote.
The homeowners association has said it would be willing to donate the land for the pumping station and that the walking trail could easily be routed around the station, York said.
Joseph Young, of CH2M Hill, said engineers did examine the homeowners' proposed site before they created their report on the issue.
The proposed project is one of 16 pumping stations to be upgraded during an 18-month phase of the Sanitary Sewer Overflow project, which is expected to begin in the summer, he said.
William Daniel, Mayor-President Kip Holden's chief administrative officer, said in a written statement that a pumping station or a treatment plant had existed at the current location since the subdivision was accepted for city-parish maintenance in 1978.
"We have few options as to the location of the upgraded pump station," Daniel wrote. "The original placement of both the pump station and treatment plant were sited so as not to be located among the subdivision homes and were placed at low points in the subdivision to take advantage of gravity."
DPW had taken homeowners' concerns into account and was working to build "a very attractive building," Davis said in the statement.
The civic association is ready to bring the fight to the mayor and Metro Council, Davis said.
"If you think this will totally destroy our entrance," Davis wrote in an email to the civic association's members, "please begin making waves with all of the people listed below."
The email included the names, email addresses and phone numbers of all 12 Metro Council members, as well as the numbers and email addresses for Guillory, Mayor-President Kip Holden and Daniel, the Holden administration's CAO.
"Call and email more than once," Davis wrote. "We need to make this into the bad idea it is with those who will make the final decision on this monstrous project."
Davis' email encouraged the residents to "get political help" to stop the project.

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Snowy River National Park
Snowy River National Park is a national treasure with its vast tracts of precious wilderness, spectacular diversity of plant and animal life and, at its heart, the iconic Snowy River. It is an ideal park for adventurers, who need to be well equipped and well prepared.
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From Melbourne via Princes Hwy then turn off to Buchan; from Orbost via Yalmy Road or C612 to Bonang on north-eastern edge of park
Best season
Summer for camping; autumn for scenic driving
390 km north-east of Melbourne; 10 km east of Buchan; 30–40 km north of Orbost
Park information
- PV Buchan Caves Reserve (03) 5155 9264
- PV Orbost (03) 5161 1222
98 700 ha
Visitor information
Buchan/Orbost (03) 5154 2424
Featured Activities in the National Park
Fly-fish for trout in the Snowy tributaries
Canoe down the Snowy and explore its wonderful rock-rimmed gorges
Watch the impressive Little River Falls plummeting 600 metres into the river
Camp in the wilderness and enjoy the pristine mountain air
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A look at the past
It is thought that the Kurnai people traditionally hunted and fished in this area, camping by the river and spending time on their way to the Snowy Mountains for the summer. They were displaced from the 1830s on, as pastoralists arrived with cattle from New South Wales in search of new pastures, and later miners settled to try their luck (silver was mined downstream from McKillops Bridge in the early 1900s). The national park was not declared until 1979, but isolation has largely preserved this north-eastern corner of Victoria.
Natural features
The landscape is rugged, vegetation is thick and the almost mythical Snowy River courses through the park. Although around half its natural flow is diverted westwards to the Snowy Mountains Scheme as a source for hydro-electric power, the river can still be a rushing torrent or slow to a wide, deep, sandy-banked pool as it wends its way south. Over 20 million years the river has carved deep gorges, with the state's deepest – the dramatic Little River Gorge – just upstream from the confluence of the Little and Snowy rivers. More than 300 caves with spectacular limestone formations are also located in this region, with two fine examples open to the public (daily tours) in the Buchan Caves Reserve, adjacent to the far south-western border of the park, near the town of Buchan. The Fairy Cave, with impressive stalactites, is over 400 metres long.
Native plants
In the south of the park, hidden in the folds of the ranges, are pockets of cool temperate rainforest, while in the higher, more isolated areas alpine ash dominates. To the east stand tall, wet sclerophyll forests and in the northern region, which falls in a rain shadow, are dry forests of white cypress pine and white box. Along the river's rocky slopes and sandy banks you will see the lovely Snowy River wattle, recognisable by its soft bluish-green foliage.
Around 30 mammal species and 150 bird species inhabit the park as well as numerous reptiles. Watch in open eucalypt forest for the rare brush-tailed rock-wallaby, distinguished by its plump, well-furred tail. Another special sight is the male superb lyrebird with its showy, curved tail feathers (the track to Raymond Falls is a good spot to look). The elusive olive whistler forages in the riverside thickets.
Bushwalking, canoeing and rafting, 4WD touring, trout fishing, horse riding and views of the mighty Snowy River are the main attractions. Check with Parks Victoria for private operators who run guided activities within the park.
Walking allows you to fully experience the park's tranquillity. For those seeking a relaxing stroll, there is the Snowy River Nature Walk (1.5-km circuit, 30 minutes, easy), while the strenuous but rewarding Silver Mine Walking Track (18 km return, 9–10 hours) is a loop walk that is best done as an overnight trip; both leave from McKillops Bridge. Two short walks (each 800 metres return) lead to lookouts over Little River Gorge and Little River Falls (see Scenic Views). The gorge, with cliff walls towering 500 metres high, is a good spot to watch for brush-tailed rock-wallabies.
Canoeing and rafting
Skimming along past gorges, sandy banks and idyllic scenery is an unforgettable experience. During winter and spring the level can rise or fall up to 9 metres overnight, resulting in dangerous conditions, while in summer the level may be too low. For experienced rafters there are some challenging rapids. The most popular trip, from McKillops Bridge to the Buchan River at Balley Hooley, takes three to four days. McKillops Bridge is the best launching place if you want to explore the gorges downstream. Canoeists should register at Buchan or McKillops Bridge before trips.
Four-wheel driving and touring
Roads, many of them narrow, unsealed, steep and rocky, wind through spectacular bush country with breathtaking views of mountain valleys and peaks, and sheer vertical drops at the side. The descent from Little River Gorge into McKillops Bridge is a challenging single-lane gravel road. The 4WD-only Deddick Trail and Bowen Track lead to more remote pockets of the park.
The Deddick Trail provides some challenging four-wheel driving for those who wish to tackle its steep decents and seemingly endless climbs out of secluded valleys. The use of low-range four-wheel drive is required in parts along this trail. Those with limited 4WD experience are better advised to travel along McKillops Road from Bonang through Tubbut to the Snowy River. Take special care at dusk and night-time when kangaroos and other wildlife are out feeding.
Scenic views
From the Little River Falls carpark, a 400-metre walk leads to a viewing platform to see the falls plummeting 600 metres into the river. Three kilometres downstream from Little River Falls, the yawning chasm of the 4-kilometre-long Little River Gorge can be viewed from a cliff-top lookout. Access is via a 400-metre walk from the gorge carpark. At Raymond Creek Falls, a 20 to 30-minute walk leads to views of the falls spilling into a deep clear pool.
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Jacksons Crossing camping area (bush camping)This is a delightful camping area. Access to the bush-camping site, on the banks of the Snowy River, is via Varneys Track, off Yalmy Rd. A 4WD is needed to reach this isolated spot in the south of the park, although... Find out more
Little River Junction camping areaLocated where the Snowy and Little rivers meet, this camping area is not far from Victoria's deepest cleft. At the spectacular Little River Gorge, stroll out to the cliff-top viewpoint for scenic splendour on your... Find out more
McKillops Bridge camping areasMcKillops Bridge provides an entry point to the Snowy River by conventional vehicle and is a popular place for launching canoes. The self-guided 18 km Silver Mine Walking Track starts from the bridge, which is also a... Find out more
Raymond Creek Falls camping areaThis tiny campground, comprising just 4 sites, is situated near a waterfall (it's about 1.5 km from the camping area to the falls) that pitches 20 m into a deep foaming pool, accessed off Yalmy Rd –... Find out more
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I used to pop in to the Bellhouse cafe once in a while when I was feeling like a casual coffee and cake or sometimes I go there on a lazy Sunday morning for breakfast but the last few times I was there, they were closed. So suffice to say that on a Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, I was keen to sit down and have some dinner at this new restaurant.
We walked in feeling slightly self conscious in our gym gear but our discomfort quickly fled as we were greeted by a lovely lady who looked past our appearance and made us feel comfortable and ready to dine. As we waited for a table by the window we had a quick chat to the host. She said that it was only their second trading night and the Bellhouse had been closed for about 4 months now. They had made some great changes to the place and I was really liking their decor.
We were soon seated and presented with the menus. I was pretty excited. So far, so good. Service was great with all three waitstaff that we encountered, they had an extensive drinks menu (alcoholic alert) and their menu looked really good. First things first, we ordered a drink each and then took our time deciding what to order.
In the end, we decided to share an entree of scallops which were fantastic! Cooked well and not rubbery at all with no weird aftertaste that we sometimes experience with scallops.
I have to say that the mains weren't spectacular. The duck was pretty good but the salmon was average, in my opinion. Presentation was good, though.
Dessert was great. We had the seasonal fruit crumble which ended up being apple and pear. It was delicious but very sweet, so luckily we had one to share between the two of us. I would have ordered a coffee but seeing as it was so late in the night, I decided to forgo it.
Ambiance ★★★★☆
Service ★★★★☆
Food ★★★☆☆
Drinks ★★★☆☆
Value ★★★☆☆
Price $$$ ($25-35 per main)
Price $$$ ($25-35 per main)
Marquay is open until late in the evenings and the kitchen closes at 10pm and I think they mentioned something about supper at 11pm. I love their decor and their service is great. Hopefully they maintain their great standards as it gets busier. This is definitely a place worth checking out, although I've not yet tried their coffee.


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Contrary to popular belief, Google's PageRank algorithm doesn't only apply to external (i.e., outgoing and incoming) links — it can also be used as a self-contained analysis tool to determine health, strengths, and weaknesses of your website's on-site links.
Of course, this has nothing to do whatever with the Toolbar PageRank (TBPR) Google has been using as a brilliant tool of social engineering for years, eminently safeguarded by plausible deniability all along. According to Google, it is, after all, intended "for entertainment purposes only."
So why is this important? Consider: out of the 150˜190 or so individual factors governing a website's ranking (who outside of Google can ever know for sure how many they are exactly?), there's only a handful you yourself have full control over.
First comes content, obviously: it's the one thing the search engines can't and won't create for you. Then there are other on-site elements, such as meta tags, title tags, the canonicals specification, page architecture, etc. Last, but not least, there's your on-site linking structure.
Organic Issues
In a nutshell, here's what you may get if you fail to optimize your on-site links:
- Non-indexed pages
- Pages dropped into what used to be called Google's "Supplemental Results Hell"
- Pages relegated to Google's "Omitted Results" filter
- Orphaned pages
- Broken links impeding rankings and accessibility
Websites that have grown "organically" in the course of the years, with several generations of webmasters and system administrators having tended to them (not to mention management, sales departments and creatives — think redesign!) are inevitably bound to encounter problems with their on-site linking structures sooner or later. Remember good old techie terms like "link rot"?
CMS Issues
Nor is this "organic" (i.e., human component) the only culprit involved. Content management systems (CMS), which drive a huge chunk, if not the overwhelming majority of large corporate sites, are another prime issue generator.
Many major CMS providers have latched onto the fact that "SEO" is all the craze now, so they take great pains to voice their claim that their systems have "full SEO features" implemented. Generally, this is, however, limited to including customizable (i.e., not entirely templated) meta tags, title tags, and keyword rich page or file names. From a professional SEO's point of view, this still leaves a tremendous lot to be desired. And, in any case, an optimized on-site linking architecture addressing a given site in its entirety doesn't seem to be part of their SEO efforts anyway.
What's worse, many sub-optimally organized sites aren't even their respective CMS's fault. Content management systems are, after all, pretty complex tools, and if the staff charged with implementing and configuring them aren't 100 percent sure of what they're doing, especially as regards state-of-the-art SEO requirements, it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out what you'll get in the end, and as a rule it's anything but pretty.
Promotion Issues
Finally, there's another important factor that may prevent your on-site linking architecture from being optimized the way it should be from a pure SEO perspective: your real life promotion environment. Regardless of whether you're trying to push sales online, solicit leads, offer customer support or establish and fortify your brand — you'll have your own, perfectly legitimate views of how to present yourself to your clients.
This will typically encompass specific, indispensable elements of design and corporate identity factors ranging from logos to icons and color schemes. And, yes, you may actually prefer a specific, non-standard type of site architecture for the very same reason as well.
(For example, you might want to focus on pushing your products overview or your customer survey pages rather than your mission statement or your news section. Some sites want their visitors to engage in some Flash based interactive features, such as an online game or a quiz, while others may prefer to point potential buyers to their global resellers network, etc.)
More often than not, this will mandate some kind of trade off between what would be the optimal linking structure from a purely SEO driven point of view, and whatever real world requirements need addressed.
Leverage Google's Published PageRank Algorithm
In any case, you should always be aware of what you're doing — and every single on-site link ought to have its own objectified rationale backing it up. In our experience of some five years investigating this matter, analyzing large corporate (usually CMS powered) websites, and optimizing their on-site link architecture, we've found that leveraging Google's published PageRank algorithm (in contrast to whatever modified version of it they may be deploying as part of their top secret internal ranking algorithm) offers us excellent, unbiased metrics to determine a given site's linking fortes and soft spots.
Nor can this be ignored with impunity: arguably the trickiest aspect of the matter is the fact that you may actually be losing search engine rankings, traffic, and sales due to a non-optimal on-site linking structure — without even being aware of the fact!
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Lord Deben, the well-known Tory green, has said that Christians cannot support the UK Independence Party.
Responding to a piece by Rev. Sam Norton on why he supports UKIP, Lord Deben said that it was "impossible to understand a clergyman supporting party dedicated to cut [sic] British aid to poorest, hating immigrants & foreigners".
Elaborating on his comments on Twitter, Lord Deben then said that UKIP's policy on overseas aid violates the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In response to an accusation that foreign aid increases dependency, he remarked, "So said the priest and the Levi [sic] as they walked past on the other side", referring to the parable of the Good Samaritan.
His comments were slammed by the Anglican blogger Archbishop Cranmer, who strongly criticised the Tory peer's tone:
"It is apparent that Lord Deben has a rather narrow interpretation of Scripture, if not a fundamentally erroneous view of Ukip policy. No matter how much the Rev'd Sam Norton reasons his politics intelligently and moderately, Lord Deben repudiates with pious maxims and pompous incredulity. It is hardly serious political debate under the aegis of Christian fraternity."
Lord Deben, formerly known as John Selwyn Gummer, served as Environment Secretary in John Major's government and was chairman of the Conservative Party during the infamous Brighton Bombing of 1984.
He has become an established figure on the party's left wing, pursuing Green causes and taking a pro-European stance. He currently chairs the Committee on Climate Change, which advises the government on its "climate budget", a projected limit on the amount of carbon emitted by the UK economy over a five year period.
In 1994, he converted to the Catholic Church in protest at the Church of England's decision to ordain women, however he takes a liberal stance on most other issues. His views on Europe, immigration and foreign aid are increasingly at odds with many in his party as the Tories seek to reconnect with lost right wing voters.
He has also previously called for climate change sceptics to be denied airtime, protesting on Twitter about the BBC broadcasting an interview with climate change sceptic blogger Andrew Montford.


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TPM News
Group Crowdsources Effort To Put Up Anti-Obama Billboards
The group -- Billboards Against Obama -- was formed several weeks ago, and has already put up several billboards in the Atlanta metro area, according to local news reports.
While the group plans to remain anonymous, they have asked life coach, motivational speaker, and New York Times bestselling author Tommy Newberry to act as their spokesman. Newberry told TPM that the group was united by a common frustration against Obama and a desire to do something with that feeling.
But why billboards?
"Where are the people? They're out driving around," Newberry told TPM in an interview.
On the group's website, people can contribute money, sponsor new billboards, and even contribute new billboard designs. "Be seen -- be heard -- before it's too late!" the site reads. "There is a war going on...a war for the future of America!"
Currently, there are three billboard messages:
- Stop Obama's Socialism
- Now It's Personal: America's Coming For You Congress! Vote Liberals Out In 2010!
- If You're Not Outraged You're Not Paying Attention.
Each billboard features an illustration of President Obama.
Newberry says the group has received hundreds of monetary contributions so far, in amounts ranging from one dollar to thousands, and that the group is now looking to expand the campaign as far as the west coast. According to Newberry, the group decided to put their money and effort toward billboards rather than candidates because "we've delegated to politicians far too long."
"This is a way to go directly to fellow citizens," Newberry said.


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This plugs a nice gaping hole in the Twins outfield since they made the unbelievably brilliant move of trading Delmon Young to the Detroit Tigers last season. Furthermore, Michael Cuddyer can't make up his mind on whether to stay or go, so the team decided to take action.
Man, he looks serious in that photo. It's nice to see Willingham preparing himself for another sub-.500 season with another craptastic ball club.
The 32-year-old outfielder is expected to add some power to the middle of the lineup after batting .246 with a career-high 29 homers and 98 RBI for the Oakland Athletics last season. Ah, contract years.
Willingham is more or less the exact same player as Cuddyer, who the Twins can pretty much kiss goodbye after this signing... This is a shame for Twins fans and mildly exciting for whichever team's faithful get to cheer on his dimples next season. Adorable.
Also, Josh Willingham is damn sexy, so there's that.


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text: After being abandoned for years, the former gas station at the corner of 16th Street and Dr. Andrew J. Brown Avenue is finally being demolished! King Park acquired the property from the County Commissioners earlier this year and will have the dilapidated building torn down just in time for Christmas. King Park is especially pleased since it sits across the street from the Oaks Academy Middle School and students have to walk past this unsafe property every day. With the help of the City of Indianapolis, the underground storage tanks will also be removed and environmental testing will be performed. Only a few blocks from the Monon Trail on revitalized 16th Street, this is a prime site for redevelopment!


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The L.A. Lakers just won the NBA's Western Division beating the Denver Nuggets 112 to 92. The Lakers return to the finals for the 30th time (!). The top scorer was Kobe Bryant with 35 points, followed by Paul Gasol with 20. Now, we wait for the winner of the Orlando Magic / Cleveland Cavaliers series.
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Maybe it's the fact that I'm sitting in my hotel room, thirty miles up the interstate from Orangeburg, with Johnny Cash on the headphones singing populist murderer's tunes. Or maybe it's because I've been zigzagging around my native South these past six weeks, taking the political temperature of grassroots Democrats. (In sum, it's 100 degrees and climbing fast, even in the most "Republican" parts of Dixie.) But as I sit here sipping the obligatory late-night bourbon and trying to make sense of what I saw at South Carolina State tonight, what I can't get over has very little to do with what I actually heard and saw. It has everything to do with what the lily-livered, consultant-scripted Democratic Gang of Eight–OK, Gang of Six, as Mike Gravel has clearly never met a consultant, bless his heart, and poor dear Dennis has never been able to afford one–could not muster the guts to say.
There was nary a syllable uttered about race. This is not only shocking at a debate set in a state, and a region–not to mention a country–whose politics and culture and economic caste system, whose everything, has been defined and twisted and perverted by the artificial line between "black" and "white" for its entire history. It's not only shocking in the midst of a war that resembles Vietnam not only in its sensational waste of human life but in its undeniable quality of being a rich people's war and a poor–and disproportionately black and Hispanic–people's fight. It's even more shocking because these candidates were standing directly across from the site of one of the most infamous civil rights atrocities of the late 1960s, the Orangeburg massacre, when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened up on black students protesting a segregated bowling alley right here at South Carolina State and shot three of them dead while wounding twenty-seven more. The story was ignored then, though every officer was unjustly acquitted, and now it has been ignored again–even in the wake of another school shooting that did come up in the debate. But this is a part of the country where African-Americans fought bravely and staunchly and sometimes violently to make the Civil Rights Act a practical reality. And it's a place where the economic divide that continues to widen is largely–as we saw so vividly in New Orleans, and can just as easily see in Chicago and Los Angeles and New York City–a product of the quieter, subtler, but no less overwhelming white privilege that still prevails not only in South Carolina but in every crevice and corner of this numb and blind country.
Really, "shocking" is too mild a word. Failing to decry the racial and economic divide, on this historically black campus, in front of folks who can't afford to ignore it, whose history has been written in the very blood of race hate, is downright shameful. The shame extends to all eight candidates. And to all who cheer them on and fail to demand that they not blithely ignore the hideous plank in this nation's collective eye.
Barack Obama had his chance, of course, with the softball moderator Brian Williams threw him about the Confederate flag. All Obama managed was a dispassionate remark about putting the rebel flag in a museum for good. Not exactly fightin' words, and the opportunity to expound on what the flag means, and on the far more important substance beyond that divisive symbol, was punted completely. The others had their chances, too, when they were talking about Iraq and talking about the economy and talking about healthcare and failing to talk–as our theme repeats itself–about the American atrocities laid bare in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Race runs through every goddamned bit of it, swift and sure as poison. The Democrats' silence about it, particularly in this setting, is depressing evidence that even in this moment of historic opportunity for a big, bold, genuinely progressive politics in this country, there is not yet a single leading figure ready to step up and tackle our most pernicious and destructive national sickness.


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The Corinthian Club is in financial distress.
That was a hard sentence to write. I know this is a heart-breaking time for members of a social club founded 60 years ago. Memberships are down. Corinthians face a difficult decision: saving the house or the club. Or both?
I took the phrase "financial distress" from a letter mailed to club members May 11 by Shannon Galster, Corinthian president. She declined further comment and referrred further questions to Marion Hancock Fish, of Hancock and Estabrook, the club's attorney.
Marion Fish confirmed that "money is the big obstacle" in the crisis. She said the Corinthians were exploring several options to keep the club in business, including a possible partnership with LeMoyne College, which held its first classes there in 1948.
Joe Della Posta, speaking for the college, confirmed that LeMoyne officials had met with officers of the club but that discussions were "very premature."
In a letter to members July 16, President Shannon Galster wrote that "LeMoyne College has agreed to reopen discussions of a LeMoyne/Corinthian/Barnes relationship, which we began earlier this year." She explained in the letter that "the historic relationship between LeMoyne and the mansion could be brought full circle if an arrangement could be made that brought them back into the picture."
Marion Fish said one possibility could be for the college to use the Corinthian Club as an alumni house.
She said how the facility would be used in the future is the primary focus of the talks, which continue. "The club is committed to the many interests we have in the community," she explained. "We have a lot to offer. We hope to be able to carry on the important heritage of the club in some way."
Corinthian's main asset is the handsome home - it's 156 years old this year - that rises on a piece of high ground east of downtown. It's a national landmark because of its connection to George Barnes, the abolitionist who had the home built as an Italian villa in 1853. The house was remodeled about 20 years later with addition of the distinctive Corinthian columns that gave the club its name.
The club began in 1947 at the prompting of the Manufacturers Association, where the executives wanted a women's social club as a selling point to managers being recruited to Syracuse, according to one of the 157 founding members, Beryl Digney. The house was mess right after World War II, Digney explained, and in danger of being sold and demolished. After Barnes died, it was the home of his daughter, Bessie, who married Judge Frank Hiscock.
The gracious homes that once lined James Street are gone, victims of an expansion of downtown eastward in the 1960s and 70s. All of private homes have been demolished; only Corinthian and the Century Club survive, as buildings, not places to live.
LeMoyne College held classes at the club house, 930 James St., when it first was purchased by something called the Women's Foundation. In 1949, the club moved in. At one point, membership reached 1,500. Now it's less than 200, including a handful of men.
The club also has cut hours and staff.
The Barnes-Hiscock House at one time included a large lot that stretched between James and Green Streets, with gardens extending to Green, a carriage house and gardener's cottage. The Women's Foundation that bought the house evolved into the Corinthian Foundation, which ran a senior center in the carriage house called Wagon Wheel. The center proved too costly for the club to operate. It closed in 2003.
The carriage house was sold to the Northside Hispanic Mission and assets of the sale were parked at the Community Foundation. Some proceeds of the transaction allowed the club to buy a strip of land next to the Corinthian Club to the east, which it leases and uses for member parking.
The club also rents parts of its building to local organizations, including the Junior League. Closing of Wagon Wheel lead in 2005 to creation of a new George and Rebecca Barnes Foundation, which is described as a "nonprofit historical society" whose main mission is upkeep of 930 James St. The foundation's first event to raise money was in 2006, tours of the club house and neighbor properties.
John Gamage, Syracuse's assessment commissioner, confirmed that he met with officers of the Corinthian Club two months ago at the club's request to discuss their idea to reorganize the group "as a new organization, like a museum." He said officers wanted to know if the club would be tax exempt, in such a change. It now pays taxes and is current on the bill.
"I told them this has lot of gray areas, including how the building were used," he explained. "Any commercial tenants would be a factor, for instance."
Marion Fish said one possibility under study could be to sell the club house to the Barnes Foundation in exchange for long-term use of the building by members.


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Gigi Hadid's mom reposts a nude photo of her daughter
Cody Simpson and Gigi Hadid took nude photos together, and Hadid's mom, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Foster, had a surprising reaction to the images.
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"This was not necessary," one commenter criticized Foster. "I wouldn't want to see my daughter and her boyfriend like that!!"
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As for Foster, she kept her caption sweet and simple with a heart and this description: "'Towel Series' by the extraordinary @MarioTestino @gigihadid @codysimpson #TowelSeries #MarioTestino."
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The Marriage Visa
Life in Honduras
Sue thought she would savor her time abroad, but it didn't turn out that way. She found it difficult to be separated from her family in the United States in the wake of her brother's death. Adjusting to life in Honduras was also difficult. "As soon as we stepped into that country we lost control over our lives," she remembers. "It stopped being a choice. I could leave but he couldn't. It was hard to enjoy the parts you thought you would enjoy."
At first they stayed with Juan's family in Curaren, a rural town a few hours from the capital. But they needed to be close to the U.S. consulate where they would be filing their paperwork and so within a few months, they moved to the capital, Tegucigalpa, where they shared an apartment with Juan's sister.
They hated living in the city. "It's hot, dirty, dangerous," says Sue. Juan worried about Sue's safety. Sue was accustomed to being independent and yet she couldn't safely go out by herself at night.
"In Honduras there are a lot of robberies," says Juan. "She went there with me so I felt like I'm responsible for her."
Juan spent the first six months of his stay in Honduras collecting paperwork and waiting in line. He says a typical day involved going to an office, asking for a paper document he needed, and then being told to come back tomorrow or the next day.
At one point, Juan was asked to provide the date of his baptism. His mother, who has 11 children, laughed when he asked her. How could she remember? And so one weekday he boarded a bus and traveled for several hours back to his village to secure his baptism records from the local church. But getting the information wasn't enough. Each Spanish record needed to be translated into English and notarized before it could be submitted to U.S. consular officials.
The piles of paper started to mount.
Red Tape
When Sue and Juan first attempted to launch Juan's visa application process they were derailed by a bureaucratic snag. At the bottom of a long list of paperwork they needed to submit was an original copy of a Honduran Resident Card for Sue.
But Sue wasn't a Honduran resident.
To get residency, Sue would need to find a job and a Honduran employer who would sponsor her. Within a few months, Sue found a position teaching English at a private school. If she and Juan had been married for three years or longer, her Honduran residency would have been granted immediately.
Once her Honduran residency was established, Sue could file the I-130 "Petition for Alien Relative Form" on Juan's behalf. This set the wheels in motion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to conduct a thorough background check on Juan. This step took five months. Sue says this one step can take up to eight years in the United States. The couple never met their DHS investigator. They only ever spoke to the Honduran receptionist at the U.S. consulate.
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Juan and Sue had passed their first hurdle. Their I-130 was approved. Next their application was forwarded to the Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. They needed to convince officials that their marriage was legitimate and that Sue could support Juan financially in the U.S. She was lucky her U.S. employer had granted her a leave of absence. She had the paperwork to prove they would have sufficient income upon their return to Minnesota.
Sue and Juan arrived at their State Department interview with photo albums and letters of support. They made sure to bring photos that included family members. "It makes you look like you're a real couple, hanging out with family and friends," Sue explains.
The interview took less than an hour and they left feeling encouraged. The interviewer said their decision to live in Honduras together demonstrated their commitment as a couple. It also helped that Juan had never been deported.
By this point, Sue and Juan had been living in Honduras for nine months. "At the embassy, people started to get to know us," Sue says.
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The Getaway is getting a restaurant. That bids farewell to the food trucks that have operated on weekends at the popular gathering spot on a once-fatigued stretch of waterfront Gandy Boulevard.
The culinary addition is slated to open May 23.
Shipping containers have been in recent vogue on the local restaurant scene, and The Getaway is the latest to hop on board.
Two cargo boxes have been retrofitted for food cooking and prep, and positioned in a backward L-shape near the large tiki bars. They're accompanied by high-top tables, landscaping and water features.
The design is in keeping with the Getaway's decidedly Florida-centric vibe, said partner Dave Burton.
So is the food.
Ted Dorsey — the executive chef at Castille, a fine-dining restaurant at Hotel Zamora on St. Pete Beach — developed the menu. He worked with Holy Hog chef/owner Danny Hernandez to incorporate the budding barbecue joint's offerings into a menu that includes a lot of shareable items but has a "gourmet twist," said Burton, who's also a partner in The Getaway.
An example: Burnt Ends Jalapeno Poppers combine one of Holy Hog customers' favorite proteins with cheese, wrapped in pepper candied bacon.
Despite the menu's upscale pedigree, prices will run from $5 to $15, with a handful of premium items (a baby back rib platter) reaching into the low $20s.
Until the rollout of the new eatery, the Getaway crowd has gotten its grub from food trucks, usually a revolving cast of I Wanna Wok, The Twisted Iron and Big Bang Barbecue.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Safety Ed Reed isn't making any promises that he'll be ready to go Sept. 9 against San Diego.
Houston's biggest offseason acquisition spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time since he started training camp on the physically unable to perform list after surgery to repair a partly torn labrum on April 30.
"I can tell you that it is close, but I can't say that it is the first game because I don't know," Reed said.
Texans receiver Andre Johnson said last week that Reed told him he planned to play in Week 1. Reed joked a bit when asked about those comments on Tuesday,
"I guess I've got to do it," he said with a laugh. "This is his team."
The 34-year-old Reed spent his entire 11-year career with the Ravens before joining the Texans in March. He said he still feels "tightness and soreness" constantly in his hip and that he'll know more about when he can play once he progresses past those problems.
"Once I get that out, I can kind of push it more," he said. "I'm not to the point where I can run 100 percent."
However, he is doing a lot of work as part of his rehabilitation including, pulling a sled, backpedaling and working on starting and stopping.
"I'm opening the hip up and stuff like that, but at some point it kind of grabs," he said. "So I've just got to get that scar tissue out and that edema out and everything. Once that that subsides, I can have a better timeline."
With a career that many believe will culminate in the Hall of Fame, coach Gary Kubiak and the Texans aren't worried about Reed sitting out the entire preseason. They know that he'll be prepared to step in and contribute as soon as he's healthy.
"I'm impressed with where he's at," Kubiak said. "We're going to listen to him. He's been through this before. I'm not concerned about him being ready for a preseason game. Right now, we're trying to get him ready for our season, so we're going to listen to him."
While he's unable to practice, Reed has assumed the role of an extra coach for Houston's secondary. Many of the players idolized Reed growing up and are eager to soak in everything he has to say.
Rookie second-round pick D.J. Swearinger has watched video of Reed before each of his games since he was in high school. Swearinger, who could fill in for Reed if he isn't ready for the opener, raved about all the veteran has taught him so far.
"Just being a pro about everything, on the field and off the field," Swearinger said. "Learning the full defense, it will help you a lot as safety because we are the quarterbacks on the defense. Off the field, you have to handle yourself as a pro no matter what — all eyes on you."
Reed's enjoyed providing tips his younger teammates and helping them improve. However, he feels a little strange about it because he's not able to be on the field to work with them.
"You can't be out there with your teammates moving around, communicating and it's a little tougher," he said. "Just talking in the meeting rooms and learning it just from a book standpoint and not physically doing it, it's always tougher. But I'm doing as much as I can to learn it mentally and watch the guys move around and communicate in meeting rooms. It's coming along well."


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With the Padres the proud owners of the best record in the NL (and tied for the second best in all of baseball), the tone of our story has changed. Where everyone had been wondering when the team would trade Adrian Gonzalezand Heath Bell, now people are beginning to wonder if we'll be buyers instead.
Jed Hoyer started off the talk mentioning he's not completely happy with the way the offense has been playing:
Frankly we've been fortunate to score as many runs as we have given some of the guys we've had struggling. The way our pitching staff has thrown has allowed us some patience. At some point our hitters will have to pick up our pitchers. We're not going to continue to pitch at this rate all season. I think it's unrealistic to think that.
The team, as of the writing of this article, ranks 23rd in the league in wOBA (13th in the NL) at .312. The team leader is Scott Hairston at .371, followed by backup catcher Yorvit Torrealba at .360, Adrian at an underachieving .359, and Chase Hadley at .349. Everyone else is well below average, with the most egregious offenders being sophomore slumping Kyle Blanks at .305, Evert Cabrera at .250, and Jerry Hairston at .234*.
To this point, the pitching (1st in ERA and xFIP) and defense (2nd in UZR) have led the way, but as Hoyer noted, we can't just count on getting by with a below-average offense. So who are some candidates to come fix this thing?
TSB favorite Tim Sullivan starts us off throwing Carlos Lee, Jose Guillen, and Jermaine Dye's names into the hat. Sullivan adds that the price tags hanging from Lee and Guillen might push them out of range. This leaves Dye, who's become something of a boogeyman around baseball. Following a disappointing contract year (-0.4 WAR), Dye failed to find a job this past offseason. He received interest from a couple of teams (the Cubs and Milwaukee were mentioned) but its believed he's priced himself out of different situations, which makes it all the more interesting that he'd be willing to come here:
"San Diego was one of the places Jermaine was excited about playing," (Dye's agent) Bob Bry said Tuesday. "He continues to work out every morning and hits most days and is still waiting for an opportunity with a team that has a chance to advance to the playoffs. San Diego, seemingly, would be a good fit."
Dye's bat could bring some added oomph to this lineup. Even last year, in a down season, Dye hit 27 home runs with a .344 wOBA. Unfortunately, he was also the worst defensive player in all of baseball. His UZR/150 was -26.4 and on his career, Dye is a -16.3 outfielder. This team definitely needs some offense, but what happens to our pitching and defense with Jermaine Dye roaming around the spacious confines of Petco Park?
Moving on.
Another aging former All-Star whose name is in the mix is Andruw Jones. You might remember him from the monster bombs he hit in Petco as a member of the Atlanta Braves. Or you might remember him from the monster bomb he was as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. With his/Jake Peavy's Chicago White Sox off to a 14-20 start, Jones has made himself into a trade candidate with his .260/.360/.604 line. MLB Trade Rumors has made up a list of teams that might have interest, and said the following about ours:
The Padres have Kyle Blanks in left field, Tony Gwynn Jr. in center field, and Will Venable in right field. Of the three, only Blanks profiles as a top prospect, so the other two could be vulnerable to a Jones acquisition, should San Diego remain in the race.
I'm assuming they mean that AJ and Venable are vulnerable to losing their spot in the lineup to Jones, and not their spot on the roster. At $500K, Jones is a steal not a deal for the production he's put up, but will it last? I dunno, but Fangraphs took a shot at figuring it out:
Why so pessimistic? Because at this exact point last season, 111 PA, Andruw's production ceased. For those first 111 PA he hit .278/.405/.544, which amounts to a wOBA, .424, that is nearly identical to his mark this year. Yet from his 112th PA through his 331st, he produced very little. His triple slash sat at .183/.282/.419, a .320 wOBA. His only saving grace was power, as he hit 12 home runs and produced a .236 ISO during that span. Other than that, though, he showed few redeeming qualities.
Yet even if he avoids the drop-off he experienced last year, there's almost no chance he continues at his current pace. Even during his prime years he never produced a .400 wOBA. His peak year came in 2000, when he produced a .390 mark. He came close, too, in 2005, when he hit 51 home runs and produced a .382 wOBA. He might be able to help a contending team, but it won't be with the numbers he's producing now.
Jones is a gamble, more so than Dye, because it's hard to know who exactly we'll be getting. While he's slimmed down, this is still the guy who almost ate himself out of the league. He still has the power he's ever had and if the stars align, he could be the big bopper to help Adrian see more fastballs, but that's a big if.
As the season progresses, teams will start seeing their dreams of success slip away (but not us) and more and more players will start falling off the tree, leaving us with a better idea of what's out there. It is only May afterall. Still, isn't it nice talking about the stars we could trade for instead of the ones we could trade away?**
*Making matters worse, Hairston is fourth on the team in plate appearances. This jack of all trades is truly the master of none: he's also contributed a -0.9 UZR.
**Buster Posey and Dustin Ackley are future stars, jes' sayin'.
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Post subject: Tutorial: Setting Appearances with *setapp
I have documented the numbers for all eye, hair and skin colors.
Type *setapp for a list of the syntax including the order of appearance variables.
The pose number is what manipulates sprites. The horse poses are numbers 35-38 I believe, though it could be 34-37. Horse sprites look best when the skin color matches that of the horse, the character is female and their is no hair style; or in other words, bald heads of the same color as the horse hide best into the female horse sprite since heads cannot be removed, only bodies.
For all variables other than poses, stay within the numbers 0-15 as the number is only so many bits, it cannot hold values for high numbers. The rest are straight forward, however I have not documented the hairstyle variables. I figure you can just give them a new hairstyle along with their change in any other features and you can scroll through them until they like one. That's the only real work that needs to be done. They can always go to the New Character Screen and remember a certain number for hairstyle.
Hair (0-7 are regular and some are duplicates ie 11-13)
0 - white
1 - grey
2 - brown
3 - blonde
4 - light brown
5 - black
6 - red
7 - dirty blonde
8 - purple
9 - green
10 - aqua
11- brown
12 - black
13 - white
14 - dark blue
15 - dark green
eyes (0-5 are regular)
0 - blue
1 - green
2 - aqua
3 - brown
4 - black
5 - white
6 - purple
7 - emerald
(All numbers after this, 8-15, are all white)
skin(0-3 are regular, skin changes are EVENT REWARD ONLY)
0 - caucasian
1 - brown
2 - tan
3 - black
4 - white (actual white, not caucasian)
5 - grey
6 - brown
7 - gold
8 - wood
9 - jet black
10 - orange
11 - beige
12 - blue
13 - green
14 - aqua
15 - brown[/quote]
You are welcome to use these as event rewards, edit the post sprites for species options, change things about players as rewards, give players or admins anime-colored hair, etc.
Please note that anyone that turns their pose into a horse and then equips a horse deed at the same time will produce a sprite that could be interpreted as two horses having sexual intercourse as you appear as a horse mounting another horse. Sadly, the horse sprites are hard-coded and you cannot edit the poses.igcl to make more mounts. Note the existance of the armoured horse in the default bundle.
If beastiality is your thing, go ahead and experiment in Akarra.
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CHICAGO, IL (May 30, 2014)--Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer often benefit from chemotherapy before surgery to remove the tumor, but a test of one regimen by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center was halted when too many people experienced serious side effects such as heart attacks and blood clots in the legs and lungs.
All of the 31 patients included in the study received a combination of gemcitabine and cisplatin, two drugs normally administered for 12 weeks before surgery to remove the tumors. This became the standard of care after one study looked back, retrospectively, at a their experience with a group of patients who had already received the drugs over 12 weeks and found that more than one-quarter saw their tumors disappear before surgery. Although this is the standard of care, no one had yet followed a group of patients taking these drugs from the start--known as a "prospective" study--which is the best way to test how well the treatment works and to uncover any issues, said Dr. Plimack.
"It's important to prospectively investigate both the activity and the potential side effects of these two chemotherapy drugs in patients with bladder cancer," said Elizabeth R. Plimack, MD, MS, Attending Physician the Department of Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer, who reported these findings during the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "In patients who may be cured of their cancers, chemotherapy regimens that cause blood clots and other complications may delay or prevent life-saving surgery."
In Dr. Plimack's study, she and her colleagues gave patients gemcitabine and cisplatin over 6 weeks, rather than the usual 12. "Hitting tumors with chemotherapy more frequently might be more effective, and for patients who don't respond, a shorter regimen causes less of a delay in surgery," said Dr. Plimack, "and patients spend less of their life in cancer treatment."
But Dr. Plimack and her colleagues had to stop the phase II clinical trial before it was complete after 7 patients (23%) experienced serious cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and potentially deadly blood clots in the lungs or legs.
Even though gemcitabine is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular problems, she and her colleagues were "surprised" to see so many patients were affected. It's possible that condensing the doses into 6 weeks caused problems, but that's not the only explanation, said Dr. Plimack. "Two of the most severe cardiovascular events occurred after one treatment, so the dosing schedule was not the only factor here."
Gemcitabine is a frequently administered drug, so it is critical that researchers continue to follow patients receiving it, said Dr. Plimack. "In the meantime, patients who have concerns about taking gemcitabine should consult their doctors about their individual plan."
Dr. Plimack's co-authors include Jean Hoffman-Censits, Alexander Kutiko, Richard E. Greenberg, Marijo Bilusic, David Y. T. Chen, Rosalia Viterbo, Costas Lallas, Jianqing Lin, Edouard Trabulsi, Daniel M. Geynisman, W. Kevin Kelly, Marc Smaldone, Karthik Devarajan, Beth Adaire-Halenda, Charlotte Cione, Deborah Kilpatrick, Gail Duncan, and Yu-Ning Wong.
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Jennifer Camp, co-founder of Gather Ministries, and author of Loop, grew up in the middle of an almond orchard in Northern California and now lives in the busy Bay Area with her husband and three kids. A former high school English teacher, she loves to write, but she especially loves to encourage people to seek and live out the truth of their story, their identity in Christ. You can find her writing at her blog, Jennifer J. Camp .You can connect with Jennifer on both Facebook and Twitter. She would love to have you join her there.
The Personal Battles You Face and How to Fight Them with Jesus
We will slay the dragons,
and we will storm the castles,
and we will win a battle or two . . .
My dear friend's little girl is up on stage, playing the part of young Will in the musical, Big Fish. Her voice is high, strong and sweet. Our culture compares voices like this to "like an angel", and I understand this phrase, when I hear her sing.
But it's more than that, too.
For angels are not meek and mild. Nor are they necessarily small and sweet. Rather, they are powerful. They are intimidating. They make people tremble when they see them. In the Bible, we hear angels tell humans "Do not fear" as they stand in their presence.
I imagine it is hope that is the opposite of fear. Perhaps, faith is the opposite of fear, too.
When my friend's young daughter sings you can't help but be convicted: Yes, this must be what an angel sounds like. Or, at least, this is a voice I want to tuck deep into my heart, a recording to hold fast.
I wonder what else we hear when we tune our hearts to God. Notice sound all around us–messages spoken–all ushering us to God.
These ears of ours? These hearts? We need to keep them open.
We will slay the dragons,
and we will storm the castles,
and we will win a battle or two . . .
Hear her now. She sings it. Slaying dragons. And storming castles. And winning battles. Doesn't your heart leap when you consider what this translates to in your life? Doesn't something in you call out, wanting to do these very things?
I bet it does.
Let's fight these personal battles of ours with Jesus by our side.
Yes, we are made to slay dragons. We are made to storm castles. We are made to win battles. It just might not look exactly how the song describes.
But it doesn't make it less true, and here's why: We are made by a Creator who brings light into a world of darkness. When the angels came to rejoice in the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, born on earth, it wasn't a lullaby they were singing. It was a war cry and celebration all at once, a rejoicing in a battle for hearts about to be rescued–and rescued already because of the love of a King who came down.
When angels declared the greatness of God's love, when angels heralded the arrival of a King, a Savior, Emmanuel, could the message, underneath the song lifted high, have sounded a bit like this:
We will slay the dragons,
and we will storm the castles,
and we will win a battle or two . . .
Can these words, the war cry of love, be sung on a regular Thursday night from the stage of a school play? Can these words stir us because of who we are, because our Creator made something deep within us want to respond?
In songs of celebration and promise–and also of battles won–we recognize Home. We recognize what we are made to do–to not sit passive, defenseless and inhibited in the battle we face this day, in our particular lives, in our particular homes.
For we are made to slay dragons.
What are the lies, the disappointments, the wounds, Jesus is saying are yours to fight?
For we are made to storm castles.
What obstacles do you face right now and what relationships need you to come, with the love of Jesus, in your heart?
For we are made to win this battle.
Whom is Jesus calling you to love, with His full heart in you, this day, in the battle of your life right now?
Let's open our eyes. Let's hear the cry of the angels. Let's hear and respond to the battle drum.
We will slay the dragons,
and we will storm the castles,
and we will win a battle or two . . .
I think the voice we heed, when we hear beauty and hope sung out like a battle cry, is a voice of gentleness, sometimes, but also a voice of strength. To go to battle, to break lies that we are not good enough, to let Jesus show us what in us needs to be healed, means we are participating in the song of the angels. They heralded the coming of a King.
There are messages that we respond to in our lives, words we are meant to hear, whether in a song, or in a book, or in a prayer, or in an apology, or in a disagreement, that we can use going forward into the battle of hearts with our King.
What words are being sung around you, in a whisper, a whistle, a gush of wind, a welcoming hug that usher you towards the remembering of who you are, how you are made, how you are loved, and what battle you are now called to fight? I'd love to hear about it.
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Millions of us in Florida and other states went through Hurricane Irma.
All areas around the rivers, creeks and ocean in Jacksonville were hit hard, as you saw on TV. Jacksonville was flooded at historic levels. Major buildings are unusable. Many neighborhoods were and are flooded. Many still do not have power and cannot stay in their homes.
Our own neighborhood was hard hit by wind and driving rain, uprooting giant oak trees, pulling down power lines and poles, and destroying roofs and other structures. Streets are clogged and lined with fallen trees, debris, and downed power lines.
But as those who have experienced a threat of extreme danger, we want to take time this Shabbat to thank the Lord that we were rescued from great harm and loss of life.
Our Shabbat Services will focus on a timely text from this week's Haftorah reading.
Isaiah 63:7-9
7I will recall the lovingkindness of the Lord and the praises of Adonai, because of all that Adonai has granted us and his great goodness toward Beth Israel לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל (the house of Israel), which he bestowed on them in keeping with his mercy, in keeping with the greatness of his compassion. 8 For he said, "They are indeed my people, children who are not disloyal." So, he became their Savior. 9 In all their troubles he was troubled; then the Angel of His Presence saved them; in his love and compassionate empathy, he redeemed them.
We will also take time for a traditional Hebrew prayer of Thanksgiving, Birkat HaGomel, thanking God for his kindness and deliverance.
Transliteration: Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha'olam, ha-gomel l'chayavim tovot sheg'malani kol tov.
Translation: Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who rewards the undeserving sinner with goodness, and who has granted me all goodness.
On Saturday after the Shabbat Service, we will connect with each other during a Bagel Oneg in the Shalom Center, eating and fellowshipping together, and encouraging and supporting one another.
We look forward to being with you this Shabbat!
Rabbi David Levine


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Rossignol Saphir 100 Binding Included: These skis come equipped with Saphir 110 bindings which have a din range of 2.5-10 and are fully adjustable once mounted to most women's boot sizes between 261-327mm boot sole length. These bindings are a bit more aggressive than most women's style bindings.
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