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Having a baby is truly a wonderful thing. You and your spouse are creating the most precious thing you'll ever put your hands on. And while no two babies are exactly alike (not even twins), for the most part, moms have a natural instinct for taking care of the little rug rats. Dads, on the other hand, are a bit more clueless.
Sure, an owner's manual would be a monumental help to everyone, but until Apple invents an iBaby, don't hold your breath. No, new parents most certainly have their hands full. New moms are trying to get a handle on taking care of their newborn and their mostly useless husbands.
Are there things a guy needs to know before knocking up his wife? You better believe it! Here's a look at 7 things I wish I knew before my wife and I even attempted having our first child.
1. Women's bodies change. Well, duh. Of course they do. Their bellies get ginormous. But that's not what I'm talking about. During pregnancy, women actually get this vertical black line that runs down their belly. (AKA, linea nigra.) For sympathy, grab a Sharpie and do the same to yours.
2. Buy a cup. I can't tell you how many times I've been kicked in the family jewels. By my family, I mean. Specifically my kids. Babies loooove to kick, especially when they first realize they have legs. So my biggest piece of advice is to wear a cup. Always.
3. You'll have no idea what you're doing. Read as much as you want. Watch as many movies as you want. The instant you bring your newborn home for the very first time, chances are you'll sit on the couch, stare at your wife, and you'll both say, "Now what?"
4. Holy crap. No pictures, no books, no words can ever prepare you for how insanely monstrous and grotesque a baby's first poop can be. No joke, I nearly fainted the first time I saw my son's first diaper change. (And my wife almost burst her stitches!)
5. Naps are highly underrated. Ever get just five hours of sleep in one night? Spread out in small batches of 15-minute increments? Yeah, get used to it. Say goodbye to a regular sleep pattern for a few years and embrace the afternoon nap!
6. Making a belly button is disgusting. Belly buttons are cute. But when you see first-hand how they're actually made, chances are, you'll throw up in your mouth. When the umbilical cord is cut, it's clamped off, so newborns don't have belly buttons yet. They have nasty little wrinkled tubes of skin that dry up after a few days and eventually ... just fall off. If you're lucky like me, it falls off and you have no idea when or where. Gulp.
7. Pregnant women pee when they sneeze. Pregnant women do it. Moms do it. It's apparently pretty common but we guys have no clue. Women will often say, "I laughed so hard I peed my pants." We guys always thought it was just an expression. We thought wrong.
What words of advice can you give to expecting parents?
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SOCORRO, N.M., April 7, 2003 -- The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) recently published the latest issue of New Mexico EARTH MATTERS, a free, semi-annual newsletter for New Mexicans interested in the state's water, landscapes, and earth resources. The primary focus of the current issue is on caves and karst in New Mexico.
Caves are due to karst, solution features in soluble sedimentary rocks, such as limestone and gypsum. Previously believed to form only near the surface, karst is now known to also form deep underground.
"The caves of New Mexico are among the most outstanding, beautiful, and geologically significant in the world," the featured article states. New Mexico is home to the deepest cave and the longest gypsum cave in the United States, as well as Carlsbad Cavern, a major tourist attraction.
The article goes on to list the different types of karst, which include carbonic acid, sulfuric acid, and evaporite karst. Carbonic acid karst is the most common, accounting for over 90 percent of the planet's karst terrain. Sulferic acid karst, however, is responsible for some of the most spectacular caves in New Mexico, including Carlsbad Cavern.
This issue also features a staff profile of David W. Love, Principal Senior Environmental Geologist, who has worked with the NMBGMR for more than 20 years. The article highlights his career and professional achievements.
New Mexico EARTH MATTERS is available twice a year, free of charge, from the NMBGMR. For more information about the periodical or any other NMBGMR publication, write to the Bureau Publications Office, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, or call (505) 835-5410, or visit the website at http://geoinfo.nmt.edu.


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Owner: Why Dallas Stars fired general manager Joe Nieuwendyk
The Stars this morning made the firing of Joe Nieuwendyk official with a press release, but would not confirm the hiring of Detroit assistant GM Jim Nill.
Stars owner Tom Gaglardi said he talked with Nieuwendyk this morning, and thanked him for the work he has done with the organization. He also said he offered Nieuwendyk the opportunity to work within the Stars organization if he felt that would be a good fit. Nieuwendyk has a year left on his contract, and there have been instances in the NHL of people remaining on to scout.
"I have a lot of admiration and respect for Joe Nieuwendyk, and I told him that," Gaglardi said. "I offed him an opportunity to stay in the organization in a capacity he would find fitting, and he told me he would think about it."
Gaglardi said he came to the decision to make a change after studying the progress of the team over the past two seasons.
"Statistically, I just think we have too many issues that reflect a lot of problems," Gaglardi said. "We didn't improve significantly in any area, other than our power play, where we went from 30th to 17th. We have to work to become a good team in every area, and then the playoffs and everything else will take care of itself. Right now, we're not good enough."
Nieuwendyk was hired by Tom Hicks in 2009, and faced several challenges in his tenure. Hicks quickly lost control of the team to banks, and Nieuwendyk was forced to work with one of the lowest budgets in the league. However, Nieuwendyk's coaching decisions have not worked out, and that's one of the reasons his teams did not make the playoffs in any of his four years. Before this current run of five straight years without the playoffs, the longest stretch in franchise history was three years, so Nieuwendyk's teams broke that on their own.
Nieuwendyk fired Dave Tippett, who went on to become Coach of the Year with Phoenix. He also passed on hiring Ken Hitchock, who went on to become Coach of the Year with St. Louis. He fired Crawford two years into a three-year contract And hired Glen Gulutzan. He has a team option on his deal now, and there is a chance that won't be renewed.
Gaglardi said all of those decisions will be left to the new GM, and that everyone on staff would be evaluated by the new GM.
Gaglardi said that Nieuwendyk should be proud of the work he has done stocking the system with prospects.
"If you look at where we are now compared to when he got here, we're miles ahead, and he should take a lot of pride in that," Gaglardi said "At the same time, I think we need to go in a different direction to take the next step. I think that a change could help make us become a consistent playoff team."


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Color Forecasting: Orange & Gray
At last, it's January, which means that everything old is new again; and that it's time to look ahead to what trend-spotters are calling the ones-to-beat this year in color forecasting. Perhaps we'll forecast a few of our own.
Longtime readers of this column will remember that I mostly take this with a grain of salt; I try to parse what's being sold to us and to look either for ideas that I can steal outright or thumb my nose at.
I have a pile of press releases in front of me, and these things usually run along these lines: color of the year; or colors of the year by grouping, such as urban, ethnic and natural. But let's back up a bit and say — if I have my ear properly to the ground — that we're in times of austerity. Colors across the fashion/print/art/iPod spectrum the last year or two seem to represent conservatism (tweedy) or apostasy (neon).
The one thing that stands out in all this information so far is orange. It's not Safety Orange, not 70's orange, I'm not even sure it's the spicy orange I saw all over Paris trade shows three years ago. As per Pantone's color of the year 2012, it's both a jolt of inspirational energy, with a balancing hint of new-world synergy. Think dried orange peel or batik paprika you can use in your home, or lava.
The second thing that stands out is gray. The Naughties were a gray decade (sleek urban tweedy minimalist sophistication by way of Antwerp, not service elevator) and that seems to continue in these sharkskin colors that won't require a reboot in six months time. Add to this a couple of corals, traditional slate blues and a hold-out comfy brown, and you get the 2012 picture. I must say, I love the Sherwin Williams 2012 color wheel, though it seems more like a new restricted palette than a yearly forecast.
I see already that I may sign up for a Color Trends 2013 workshop, which makes me look askance — the whole world could be changed by the beating of a butterfly's wings before then. But this is mostly to the trade — those designers of iPhones need a long lead-time in producing technology for the next generation.
As for my simple self, I'm not a trend follower or setter, but I do have my antenna set to vibrate on this, lately: underwater blue or turquoise so dark it almost runs to black.
What about you?
Paint colors from this color forecast:
Tangerine Tango 17-1463 TCX
Benjamin Moore
Wythe Blue HC-143, plus:
Montpelier AF-555, Amethyst Shadow, Stardust 2108-40, Nimbus Gray 2131-50, Sharkskin 2139-30, Storm Cloud Gray 2140-30, Revere Pewter HC-172, Ballet White OC-9, White Dove OC-17, Battenberg AF-70, Refined AF-75, Pashmina AF-100, Gypsy Love 2085-30 or Persimmon 2088-40, French Press AF-170, Masada AF-220, Farm Fresh AF-360, Dunmore Cream HC-29, and Fresh Olive 2149-30.
Argyle (SW 6747), plus:
Red Bay (SW 6321)
Honorable Blue (SW 6811)
Bosc Pear (SW 6390)
Olympic Paints:
Root Beer C25-5
Indiana Clay A24-5
Colonial White C10-3
Wet Coral A28-5
Caruso A58-4
Pigeon, Brassica, Railings and Babouche
(Images: 1: Mark Chamberlain, 2: Pantone, 3: Sherwin Williams, 4-8, Benjamin Moore, 9-10: Olympic Paints, 11-12, Farrow&Ball, 13: Mark Chamberlain)


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In an emotional announcement today, former Republican House Speaker Steve Sviggum told the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents he would resign from the governing body.
Sviggum was serving as both a university regent and as chief spokesman for the Senate Republican Caucus. The Board of Regents met Thursday to discuss whether the two jobs are in conflict. A three-member regents panel determined last week that Sviggum had an "unmanageable conflict of interest," and that he needed to choose one position or the other.
The Regents were preparing to vote on a resolution that would ask — but not force — Sviggum to resign his spot on the board or his spot with the GOP.
In the few minutes he was given to address the board before the vote, Sviggum made it clear he did not see this as a fair fight.
"There's that line about fighting city hall. For those who think fighting city hall is tough, try fighting the University of Minnesota Board of Regents," said Sviggum.
Sviggum told the board he disagreed with the findings in the resolution.
"For those who think fighting city hall is tough, try fighting the University of Minnesota Board of Regents."Steve Sviggum
Regents had sought opinions on the matter from both university counsel and an outside attorney. Both determined Sviggum faced an irreconcilable conflict that could harm the university's reputation.
Acting on those opinions, an ad hoc panel made up of three regents approved the recommendation that was before the full board Thursday.
The panel had said Sviggum's partisan job with the Senate Republican Caucus unduly politicized the board, and Sviggum risked the political autonomy of the university by holding the Senate and regent positions at the same time. They questioned whether he would be able to put his Republican loyalties aside when they intersect with issues involving the university.
Until the Thursday meeting, Sviggum insisted he could serve, both as a regent and as spokesman for the GOP caucus, without conflict.
But in the end, Sviggum offered up his resignation, saying he didn't want to confront the board any longer on the issue.
"This hurts bad," he said, choking back tears. "But for the good of the university, for the good of Minnesota, I will again, again, leave something that I love. Madame chair, if you ask for my resignation, you will have it."
With that, Sviggum handed out copies of his resignation letter to reporters at the meeting, and left the room while the rest of the regents prepared to vote on the resolution asking him to resign. It passed unanimously. Regent Clyde Allen said the board's action wasn't personal.
"The issue was about the conflict between the two jobs, and not about personalities," he said. "I hope in the long term, Regent Sviggum will be able to see that."
This is the second time Sviggum has faced a choice over a conflict of interest issue during his short time with the Regents. Last spring, Sviggum quit a teaching and fundraising position at the university's Humphrey School, because a regents committee determined he faced a conflict by holding those two jobs.
After the meeting, Board of Regents chair Linda Cohen said she would accept Sviggum's resignation, and she said finding a replacement for Sviggum on the board should happen fairly quickly.
"That is up to the Legislature and the governor to figure out," she said. "The Board of Regents doesn't figure out how they replace a regent."
Asked by reporters about the replacement procedure, Gov. Mark Dayton cited a 1973 opinion from the attorney general that says when the Legislature is in session, its lawmakers who have the authority to name a regent's replacement. Dayton said he won't challenge that interpretation of the law.
Read Sviggum's resignation letter:Steve Sviggum Regents Resignation


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The Raiders have hired Tony Sparano to coach the offensive line and serve as assistant head coach, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Wednesday.
Sparano was recentely let go as the offensive coordinator of the New York Jets. His resume also includes being head coach of the Miami Dolphins and offensive line coach for the Dallas Cowboys.
A Raiders official said the club was not confirming the hire.


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Everyone has been celebrating the recent increase in U.S. home prices. But in the latest RPX monthly housing market report, Quinn Eddins, Director of Research at RadarLogic writes that it is too early to call a housing recovery.
Looking at the 25-MSA RPX composite home prices that are up 9.2 percent as of November 21, Eddins writes that the "public discussion has missed a critical point", that the gain reflects the weakness of home prices in 2011, more than the strength in 2012.
"In each year since the end of the housing boom, the RPX Composite has weakened during the second half of the year. In 2011, it weakened more than usual.
"So when we talk about a 9.2 percent year-over-year gain in the RPX Composite, it is a gain off an unusually low base. It does not simply reflect strength in housing prices during the 2012, but also extreme weakness in housing prices during the second half of 2011."
What's more the rise in home prices has been driven by a shift in the composition of sales driven by institutional investors trying to build up rental property portfolios. In a report released earlier this month Eddins wrote:
"Investors appear to be purchasing properties mostly from two sources: financial institutions selling REO and investors trading distressed properties purchased earlier in the housing crisis. They have not purchased significant volumes of homes from builders and households.
"Thus, it is hard to see a direct connection between the current increase in institutional demand and future gains in household demand, especially at a time when traditional buyers are faced with high down payment requirements and tight standards for mortgages."


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Re: st: RE: St: Panel data imputation
David Bai <email@example.com>
Re: st: RE: St: Panel data imputation
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:26:30 -0400
Thank you, Nick and Maarten, for the very detailed response. Very helpful. Given the limitations of this command, it looks like that multiple imputation would be the best approach to dealing with the missing values. Am I understanding it correctly?
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox <email@example.com>
To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com' <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 6:53 am
Subject: st: RE: St: Panel data imputation
The straight answer to this question is that -- as the help for
-ipolate- makes
clear -- there is an -epolate- option which you can use at your peril
to fill in
values at the ends of your series. This will work with panel data too,
in the
sense that you will get what you ask for.
Note that -ipolate- is a command, not a function.
On the larger issue, raised by Maarten Buis, I hope we could all agree
interpolation, which has a centuries-old history, is not quite a kind
imputation, which is currently so fashionable as a species of
statistical white
magic. (Naturally, your definition of imputation might be so wide that
interpolation is a special case; I would want to suggest that such a
definition will only lead to misunderstanding.)
I can see various advantages and disadvantages:
1. Interpolation is usually relatively simple to define. The linear
interpolation offered by -ipolate- certainly qualifies.
2. Interpolation is in various senses unstatistical, as
a. it takes account of at most local structure and works with data one
variable at a time.
b. it typically reduces variability, which distorts statistical
analysis to an
unknown extent
c. it is deterministic so is not accompanied by any estimate of error.
Clearly, this isn't a complete characterisation. Also it simplifies
some larger
I am at an extreme position within this list, as I have never used
but I have often used interpolation for gappy time series or spatial
series with
no covariates. Such work has had as side-effects programs -cipolate-
-csipolate- on SSC.
If you are using interpolation I have some hackneyed pieces of advice:
* Get a feeling of how interpolation treats data like yours by
introducing gaps in good quality data and seeing how successful
interpolation is
at reproducing known values.
* Try different kinds of interpolation to get a sense of how far they
* Go very easy on the extrapolation.
This commentary steals one cogent remark made by Patrick Royston in a
conversation at the recent London users' meeting.
Maarten Buis
-ipolate- is generally not a good imputation method. Look at -help mi-
-findit ice- instead.
David Bai
I have a panel data (year and revenue) and would like to use
ipolate function to impute the missing values for some years. What kind
of data will not be imputed if I use this method? It looks like that,
when I have missing values for the beginning year or the end of the
year, this method will not impute the missing values in these years. Is
there a way to deal with this problem?
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Knock off the knockoffs, or we'll send the fashion police after you.
That's the message City Councilwoman Margaret Chin wants to send. Chin plans to introduce a bill making it illegal to purchase counterfeit designer merchandise. Violators could face a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.
"If they buy it from the back of a van or a back alley or some hidden basement somewhere, they know they're buying counterfeit goods," Chin said.
"I think it's good – all those knockoffs are hurting the real brand," James Mei told CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez.
Chin is reportedly fed up with tourists heading to her district – Chinatown – in search of the cheap imitations. Chin says the counterfeiters flaunt child labor laws and the funds may support other nefarious activities.
1010 WINS' Juliet Papa reports: New Yorkers say don't fine the buyer
The underground economy's main outpost operates along Canal Street in the shadow of legitimate stores that sell generic handbangs, t-shirts and trinkets.
Some tourists and residents were skeptical of the proposal.
"It's crazy, it'll chase away all the customers and scare all the tourists from coming down here," he said. "If you're going to stop it, you have to stop the seller."
"I thought this country was a free country, you can do whatever you want, and I go to jail because I buy a fake bag? That's stupid," Cintyha Tape said.
WCBS 880's Rich Lamb With Mayor Bloomberg
If the bill passes – it already has a number of co-sponsors – signs would be posted throughout the area warning shoppers of the new rule.
"If we start cutting the demand, ultimately we will cut the supply," Chin said.
"Sometimes people think they're buying the real deal, and it turns up to be a knockoff. What are you going to do in cases like that?" Danielle James said.
"When you've got a lot of tourists, like you do in New York City, then it's a bit harsh," tourist Robyn Langley said.
The new bill targeting buyers of counterfeit goods is set to be introduced before the city council on Thursday.
What do you think of the proposal? Sound off in our comments section.


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Ridgely Papers, 1664-1882, MS. 692
Ridgely Papers, 1664-1882
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Ridgely Papers, 1664-1882 Contact Information:
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Descriptive Summary
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Abstracts of the Ridgely Papers by Patricia D. Anderson, MF179.R545 A contains more on MS.692
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains papers pertaining to Capt. Charles Ridgely (1733-1790); his nephew and heir Charles [Carnan] Ridgely (1760-1829); Charles [Carnan] Ridgely's son John (1792-1867); John's father-in-law (and distant relative) Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely (1771-1829); and John's son Charles Ridgely (1830-1872). This collection does not contain all the papers of any one mentioned above, but deals largely with their business activities.
Capt. Charles Ridgely Papers
Capt. Charles Ridgely (1733-1790) was a sea captain, planter, iron master, Baltimore County politician, and builder of the Ridgely estate Hampton. His papers in this collection reflect all these activities.
The papers consist of correspondence (1757-1790), ca. 240 items) and financial papers, mostly accounts and receipts (1758-1791, ca. 200 items). The bulk of Ridgley's correspondence dates from 1782-1790 and correspondence from the earlier years can be found in MS. 692.1. Ridgely's correspondents in the 1782-1790 period include: John Dorsey, John Sterett, Samuel Chase, Benjamin Nicholson, Tench Tilghman, William Goodwin, Horatio Belt, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, John Dennis, Jesse Hollingsworth, Daniel Sheredine, Robert Gilchrist, George Lux, and Jehu Howell. Topics covered in these letters are the management of Northampton furnace, the hiring/buying of forge workers, and the acquisition of land, including some mention of property confiscated during the Revolution.
Although Ridgely was a political power in Baltimore County and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1777-1787, this group of papers does not shed much light on his political activities. There is a deposition (1786) stating that Ridgely was overheard to say he voted for Samuel Chase because Chase promised to move the seat of
government to Baltimore. There is also one letter (1782 Sept. 23) from Samuel Chase to _____ [Ridgely?] about British prisoners and the possibility of peace. There are two letters (1786, 1788) from George Lux detailing the political situation in Baltimore County and two letters (1787) from Robert Gilchrist about the 1786 election. Ridgely was accused of impropriety concerning his opposition to a turnpike in the county; there are two depositions regarding this issue. Another controversial topic was the new (1786) valuation of land in Baltimore County. George Lux's letter (1786) describes this, and there are also notes and calculations on this new valuation.
The financial papers in this collection are loose accounts and receipts for Ridgely's personal transactions as well as some for his business. There are a few receipts (1786 and n.d.) for work done in building Hampton. Some of Ridgely's receipts could be in the unidentified receipts in Box 12. Ridgely's financial record books for both his iron furnace and his mercantile business are in MS. 691. Financial papers from his estate are found in Charles [Carnan] Ridgely's papers, Box 5.
Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Papers
Charles [Carnan] Ridgely (1760-1829) was Capt. Charles Ridgely's nephew and heir. Charles [Carnan] Ridgely inherited both Northampton Furnace and the estate Hampton. He served in the Maryland legislature and was governor of Maryland from 1816-1819. His papers in this collection, however, do not deal with his political career. His correspondence (1790-1811, ca. 40 items) deals with running the iron forge and farming. Other items include a contract to find new stratum of coal, 1801; advertisements he circulated for a runaway Negro, 1791; and a catalog, 1829, of the contents of Hampton sold at his death.
The collection includes loose accounts and receipts (1784-1811, ca. 150 items) for Ridgely's personal and business transactions. Included in these papers are receipts concerning Capt. Charles Ridgely's estate. See also Box 12 for unidentified bills and receipts that could belong to Charles [Carnan] Ridgely.
John Ridgely Papers
John Ridgely (1792-1867) was the son of Charles [Carnan] Ridgley. In 1828 he married his distant relative Eliza E. Ridgely (1803-1867) who was the daughter of Nicholas G. Ridgely. The collection contains financial papers of both John and Eliza Ridgely while their correspondence is in MS. 1127 and their financial record books are in MS. 691.
John's bills and receipts (1829-1861), ca 200 items) contain many bills of sale for slaves (1829-1838). There are also accounts of farm items produced at Hampton (1840s). John was trustee for the estate Nicholas G. Ridgely left his daughter Eliza, and annual accounts appear with John's financial papers.
Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely Papers
Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely's (1803-1867) papers deal with finances. Eliza was quite musical and loose bills and receipts (1817-1859, ca. 100 items) include those for music lessons and repair of her harp in the years (1820-1826). (Eliza and her harp are the subjects of a portrait by Thomas Sully; the pertinent receipts are in Nicholas G. Ridgely's papers, Boxes 7 and 10.). Eliza's bills in 1840-1859 are for household goods. There are two record books kept by Eliza which list subscriptions to the Impartial Society (1849-1854), donations to the Widow's Asylum (1849-1851), and her personal expenses (1849-1853). These supplement her account books in MS. 691.
Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely Papers
Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely (1771-1829) was a Baltimore grocery merchant in the firm of Macdonald and Ridgely. Account books and letter books of this firm are in MS. 691. The firm was apparently successful; most of Ridgely's papers deal with the disposition of his wealth, not the grocery firm's activities.
Ridgely's correspondence (1799-1829) largely deals with the collection of funds owed him. There are numerous letters from relatives needing money including Ridgely's
brother Frederick in Lexington, Kentucky; his sister Sally in Elk Ridge, Maryland; his nephews Greenberry W. Ridgely, William S. Ridgely, and David Griffith in New Orleans; and relatives by marriage Henry Gassaway in Cincinnati and Alfred H. Dashiell in Philadelphia.
Many other letters deal with two lengthy lawsuits in which Ridgely was involved. In one case Ridgely sued the heirs of Samuel Chase (Samuel, Thomas, and Richard M. Chase) for a piece of waterfront property mortgaged to Ridgely. There is much correspondence (1816-1826) as well as a box of legal papers pertaining to Ridgely vs. Chase. A Chase bank book bearing on this case is in MS. 691. In the other case the Union Bank sued Ridgely for various reasons. Correspondence relating to these cases is found during the years 1822-1826.
Other topics covered in Ridgely's correspondence include: the sale of Ridgely's land near Natchez, Louisiana (1800-1809); the bill for Thomas Sully's 1818 portrait of Eliza Ridgely (in Box 7) and an 1820 bill for Sully's portrait of Nicholas (in Box 10); the 1819 financial depression; the Gettysburg and Petersburg turnpike (1824-1825); stock in a Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, bank (1825-1829); Ridgely's support of Andrew Jackson (1827-1829); and the controversy over Macdonald and Ridgely's contracts to provide the U.S. Navy with groceries in 1829. Ridgely's correspondents included Samuel Chase, Samuel Chase, Jr., Thomas Chase, Jesse Eichelberger, Reverdy Johnson, and John Greene Proud. Nicholas Ridgely's papers also contain two letters (1799) from E[lizabeth] Patterson. These were written to his wife Eliza [Eichelberger] Ridgely.
Nicholas Ridgely's financial papers consist of loose bills and receipts (1793-1829). The record books are in MS. 691. The bills and receipts pertain to his personal finances and those of Macdonald and Ridgely. See Box 12 for unidentified bills and receipts that could belong to Nicholas G. Ridgely.
Ridgely died in 1829, and his business partner Alexander Macdonald was the executor of his estate. Macdonald's correspondence and receipts pertaining to the settlement of the estate are in Box 10.
Charles Ridgely Papers
Charles Ridgely (1830-1872) was the son of John and Eliza E. Ridgely. There are few of his papers in the collection. Those that exist include cancelled checks (1867-1869, ca. 50 items). Charles had been living in Europe prior to his death in 1872, and there are numerous London merchants' bills and receipts (1870-1871, ca. 100 items) to his wife Margaretta S. Ridgely.
Ridgely Land Papers
The collection includes about two hundred documents relating to land owned by the Ridgely family. Most of the land was in Baltimore County and the city of Baltimore. These papers are arranged chronologically and span the period 1664-1850 with the bulk from 1720-1850.
Peripheral Ridgely Papers
There is a group of papers in the collection that cannot be identified as belonging to any of the Ridgely family members mentioned above. These papers, therefore, have been filed separately in Box 12.
These include records concerning the Maryland Militia in 1794 and 1807-1809. The records are lists of officers and privates (1794, n.d.), militia company returns (1807-1808), and a list of men drafted (1809). There is also a copy of a letter (April 1781) from William Livingston to Samuel Huntington concerning Gen. Clinton's departure for Delaware.
There are also two accounts (1759, 1761) of William Ridgely (son of Robert), three accounts (1785) of Col. Charles Ridgely, and a group of unidentified bills and receipts probably related to Capt. Charles, Charles [Carnan], and Nicholas G. Ridgely.
John [Carnan] Ridgely's 1806 school book while at St. Mary's College is also in the collection. There are three letters of a Charles Ridgely (1845, 1860s). Other Ridgely items include a deposition (1746) concerning Northampton; two lists of slaves
owned (1780s, 1840s); two bills of sale (1818, 1832) for the sale of slaves; two architectural elevations, one of row-houses on Canal Street and another of an unidentified house; and N.G. Starkwether's floor plan for Mr. White's villa in Towson.
James P. Erskine was in business with an Eichelberger, a relative of Mrs. Nicholas G. Ridgely, and there are about thirty of his letters (1834-1840) concerning the business.
Box 1 Charles Ridgely Correspondence 1757-1784 Reel 1 Box 2 Charles Ridgely Correspondence 1785-1786 Reel 2 Box 3 Charles Ridgely Correspondence 1787-1790, n.d. Reel 3 Indentured Servant Contracts 1782 List of Hirelings at Northampton Furnace 1786 Laws Passed, April 1782 Session 1782 Confiscated Property Papers 1783, 1787 Turnpike Law Papers 1785, 1787 Plan of Land Valuation to Equalize Tax [1786] Estate Papers n.d. Legal Memoranda 1780's Box 4 Charles Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1758-1791, n.d. Reel 4 Box 5 Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Correspondence 1790-1811, n.d. Reel 5 Advertisements For Runaway Negro 1791 Contract to Find Coal 1801 Catalog of Belongings at Hampton 1829 Extract of Will n.d. Legal Papers 1804-1814 Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Estate 1831 Box 6 Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1784-1820, n.d. Reel 6 Box 7 Nicholas G. Ridgely Correspondence 1799-1823 Reel 7 Box 8 Nicholas G. Ridgely Correspondence 1824-1829, n.d. Reel 8 Eliza [Eichelberger] Ridgely Letters 1799-1800 Nicholas G. Ridgely Wills 1817, 1820, 1822 Legal Papers n.d. Powers of Attorney n.d. Memoranda n.d. Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Papers 1825 Reisterstown Road Stockholders List 1820 Transfer of Property 1824 Union Bank of Maryland vs. Nicholas G. Ridgely n.d. Box 9 Nicholas G. Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1793-1819 Reels 9 - 10 Box 10 Nicholas G. Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1820-1829, n.d. Reels 11 - 12 Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate Correspondence 1829-1836 Reel 12 Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate Bills and Receipts 1830-1834 Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate, Ground Rents n.d. Box 11 Nicholas Ridgely and Alexander McDonald vs Samuel and Thomas Chase re Chase's Wharf 1816-1826 Reel 13 Box 12 Maryland Militia Papers 1794-1809, n.d. Reel 14 William Ridgely Accounts 1759-1761 Col. Charles Ridgely Accounts 1785 Unidentified Bills and Receipts John Carnan Ridgely School Book, St. Mary's College 1806 Charles G. Ridgely Letter 1845 Deposition re Northampton 1746 List of Slaves [1780's, 1840's] Bill of Sale for Slaves 1818, 1832 Architectural Drawings (oversize) n.d. Poems ca. 1865, n.d. Insurance Policies 1818-1819 Fragments n.d. James P. Erskine Correspondence 1834-1840 Otho W. Eichelberger Letters 1846-1855 Eichelberger Insurance Policies 1810-1872 Mathew Smith et al. 1781 William Livington Letter 1781 William Andrew Will 1782 McHenry to John Caldwell 1789 Louis Gassawav to Samuel Moale 1822 Gagneau Freres to 1853 Agreement re Sale of Shot and Small Bar Lead [1820's?] List of Stereopticon Views ca. 1814 Advertisement re a Lost Horse 1785 Index to Account Book n.d. Medicinal Recipe n.d. Letter re Vaccination n.d. John Ridgely of Hampton Legal Papers 1831, 1846, 1852 John Ridgely of Hampton Bills and Receipts 1829-1845 Box 13 John Ridgely of Hampton Bills and Receipts 1846-1861, n.d. Reel 15 (1846-1858) Reel 16 1858 + Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1817-1859 Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely Account Books 1849-1853 Charles Ridgely (1829-1872) Cancelled Checks 1867-1869 Margaretta S. Ridgely Bills and Receipts 1870-1871 Box 14 Ridgely Land Papers 1664-1809 Reel 17 Box 15 Ridgely Land Papers 1810-1850, n.d. Reel 18
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Box 1
Charles Ridgely Correspondence
Reel 1
Box 2
Charles Ridgely Correspondence
Reel 2
Box 3
Charles Ridgely Correspondence
1787-1790, n.d.
Reel 3
Indentured Servant Contracts
List of Hirelings at Northampton Furnace
Laws Passed, April 1782 Session
Confiscated Property Papers
1783, 1787
Turnpike Law Papers
1785, 1787
Plan of Land Valuation to Equalize Tax
Estate Papers
Legal Memoranda
Box 4
Charles Ridgely Bills and Receipts
1758-1791, n.d.
Reel 4
Box 5
Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Correspondence
1790-1811, n.d.
Reel 5
Advertisements For Runaway Negro
Contract to Find Coal
Catalog of Belongings at Hampton
Extract of Will
Legal Papers
Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Estate
Box 6
Charles [Carnan] Ridgely Bills and Receipts
1784-1820, n.d.
Reel 6
Box 7
Nicholas G. Ridgely Correspondence
Reel 7
Box 8
Nicholas G. Ridgely Correspondence
1824-1829, n.d.
Reel 8
Eliza [Eichelberger] Ridgely Letters
Nicholas G. Ridgely Wills
1817, 1820, 1822
Legal Papers
Powers of Attorney
Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Papers
Reisterstown Road Stockholders List
Transfer of Property
Union Bank of Maryland vs. Nicholas G. Ridgely
Box 9
Nicholas G. Ridgely Bills and Receipts
Reels 9 - 10
Box 10
Nicholas G. Ridgely Bills and Receipts
1820-1829, n.d.
Reels 11 - 12
Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate Correspondence
Reel 12
Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate Bills and Receipts
Nicholas G. Ridgely Estate, Ground Rents
Box 11
Nicholas Ridgely and Alexander McDonald vs Samuel and Thomas Chase re Chase's Wharf
Reel 13
Box 12
Maryland Militia Papers
1794-1809, n.d.
Reel 14
William Ridgely Accounts
Col. Charles Ridgely Accounts
Unidentified Bills and Receipts
John Carnan Ridgely School Book, St. Mary's College
Charles G. Ridgely Letter
Deposition re Northampton
List of Slaves
[1780's, 1840's]
Bill of Sale for Slaves
1818, 1832
Architectural Drawings (oversize)
ca. 1865, n.d.
Insurance Policies
James P. Erskine Correspondence
Otho W. Eichelberger Letters
Eichelberger Insurance Policies
Mathew Smith et al.
William Livington Letter
William Andrew Will
McHenry to John Caldwell
Louis Gassawav to Samuel Moale
Gagneau Freres to
Agreement re Sale of Shot and Small Bar Lead
List of Stereopticon Views
ca. 1814
Advertisement re a Lost Horse
Index to Account Book
Medicinal Recipe
Letter re Vaccination
John Ridgely of Hampton Legal Papers
1831, 1846, 1852
John Ridgely of Hampton Bills and Receipts
Box 13
John Ridgely of Hampton Bills and Receipts
1846-1861, n.d.
Reel 15 (1846-1858) Reel 16 1858 +
Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely Bills and Receipts
Eliza E. [Ridgely] Ridgely Account Books
Charles Ridgely (1829-1872) Cancelled Checks
Margaretta S. Ridgely Bills and Receipts
Box 14
Ridgely Land Papers
Reel 17
Box 15
Ridgely Land Papers
1810-1850, n.d.
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Bri.m.wang necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Hi, we're Richard and Brian and we're currently building Fitocracy. Fitocracy is a web/mobile gaming site that is designed to make fitness and health a funner experience. We became very good friends in college due to a common interest in fitness and bodybuilding. After working in corporations for a few years, we both decided to start a technology company together.
Due to our backgrounds in fitness, we wanted to focus our energy toward how technology can make it a better experience. Only later did we find out we both also grew up playing a bunch of geeky RPGs. And that was our aha! moment.
Gaming mechanics are fast becoming the story of 2010 and for good reason - they make things funner and can significantly affect user behavior. Fitocracy will be a game layer on top of users' fitness activities that will help motivate them to improve their fitness while letting them have fun at the same time.
Our initial target audience:
- Tech savvy
- Likely owns a smart phone
- Active on Facebook and/or Twitter
- Age 17-40
- Has an interest in fitness (getting started or already active)
- Would like to increase motivation for fitness and/or enhance the experience
- Has a very basic understanding of fitness & nutrition (in other words, not completely clueless)
- Has experience playing games in the past, either via phone, video game console, computer, etc
The logo should:
- Include the word "Fitocracy" in it
- Convey a sense of playfulness and fun, but not overly "cartoony"
- Convey a sense of activity / fitness
- An accompanying image with the text is not strictly necessary but preferred. Ideally this would be something we could use as the icon for a mobile app/favicon
- Color scheme should be bold but simple. Maximum of two colors involved, gradients are ok on a limited basis.
- Site logos we are fans of: Foursquare, Gowalla, DailyBurn, scvngr, 37signals, Skype, Arcaplay, Shopify, FanPop
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When the new president of China Xi Jinping talks about the "China dream", the majority of observers outside China usually start to grow nervous. They picture a China staking out a bigger role in Asia, pressing up against the US' strategic interests, and whose leader is bold enough to tell the US president that "the vast Pacific ocean has enough space for two large countries".
For many in the west, the China dream looks remarkably close to an expansionist nightmare – the true sign that a wealthy China is also a pushy one. Inside China however, it seems the dream means nothing more than having the sort of lifestyles that people in London, New York or Sydney currently enjoy. It is a pragmatic, down-to-earth vision, where everyone has a car, a nice house, good food, and can travel abroad. In this sense, the dream is closer to the American one.
What is often missed is that Xi's China dream is also alluding to a sense of China returning to its past glories. He is talking about a culture and an identity which is long established but has been forgotten, eroded, or simply unacknowledged by the great wave of industrialisation and modernisation that the west has enjoyed for over a century, but which China only fully engaged with after the revolution of 1949. In this context, the China dream is making up for lost time, aiming to return China to the position it was in a couple of centuries ago.
We in the west misunderstand China's aspirations because on the whole, we are woefully ignorant about its history, hopes and dreams. Most Chinese have a strong sense of their history: TV programs dramatising historical events are common, as are films and books. Chinese leaders before Xi routinely and grandly referred to the "5,000 years of civilisation", and if there is one thing at the heart of China's nation branding now, it is this sense of a continuing and rich cultural heritage.
For westerners, trying to digest the complicated currents and counter currents of the Chinese past in one swoop will usually lead to failure; expecting our school children to become expert on the Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing eras is unrealistic. Asking people to wise up on such a vast stretch of history is bold, but there is a manageable route to do this. We can take a leaf out of the books of the Chinese, and try to give this a human face and convey it through digestible stories. That, after all, is how British history has often been taught – the tales of particular kings and queens, which act like symbols for the eras in which they lived, make the long chronology more manageable.
To try and do this, I have worked on a dictionary with more than 100 experts across the world over the last six years. It is the first attempt in a hundred years to simply tell the story of China's multiple and long pasts through its leaders. Figures like Confucius, Mao Zedong, and the First Emperor are all there, but so too are the less well-known figures – scientists like Bi Sheng, authors like Cao Xueqin, empresses like the sole female ruler of China, the great Wu Zetian. Surprise is always a good way of jolting people into awareness as they come to see history in terms of specific people and their influence, rather than try to engage with vast, impersonal trends and patterns. To find out that so much of Chinese history has been influenced by people from the margins is one insight gained from this process, as is the remarkable impact of literary and scientific culture from the earliest periods onwards.
This history, in fact, is not just China's, but the world's. Just a little understanding of this past helps a lot in looking at the China we are confronted with today. It shows how this history is an inspiration but also a weight and burden, and why it is something that leaders still, to this day, try to deploy – sometimes followed by much contestation.
For modern citizens in China, and for us outside, much of this history is either unresolved or ignored. Not knowing about it is not only a pity, but also a great inhibitor. My hunch is that if you really seek to understand the China dream, then looking back, not forward, is the best bet.


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As I had previously analyzed the situation in my column, Dwight Howard is leaving the Lakers to sign with the Houston Rockets. This signing dramatically alters the power dynamic in the NBA.
My prediction was not based on any inside knowledge, but an understanding of how free agents think.
Howard had his own unique way to evaluate options. Long-term financial gain, short-term economics, family, geographical location, profile and endorsements, winning team, coaching, role, system, and teammates all factor in differently for different people.
Houston was able to speak to what was critical to Howard, and the Lakers weren't.
The Lakers were never going to force Kobe Bryant to exit and until he leaves the Lakers are "his team."
Their coach insists on a run-and-gun system that does not feature a heightened role for a big man.
Laker fans never really warmed up to Howard and he was injured all year and felt unappreciated.
Because of the lack of state taxes in Texas, Howard may come out ahead after four years plus the first year of a new contract as compared to the max Laker deal. And the Lakers do not figure to be very competitive in the next year.
Howard did not care about the tradition and history of the Lakers -- he wanted to win now and be featured. The Lakers could not tailor their pitch to what was most critical to Howard -- a winning team he could be the centerpiece for with a supportive environment.
Houston is not done making moves. They are working on a trade that would send Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik to Atlanta for power forward Josh Smith, who is another star at a very high level.
This creates a new Big 3 in the NBA. Howard will be paired with prolific scorer James Harden and prospectively Smith. That is a young and potent core.
The Rockets had already made a series of moves to clear cap space to sign Howard. This creates a new superpower in the Western Conference to compete with an aging San Antonio, as well as contenders Oklahoma City, Memphis and the L.A. Clippers. And Houston is a financially booming city with major resources and a population that puts it No. 4 in the U.S.
As for the Lakers, they have an aging team. Kobe is coming off an Achilles tendon injury with an unpredictable recovery schedule. Coach Mike D'Antoni allowed him to insist on playing more games than any aging superstar should.
Power forward Pau Gasol is older and he and the coach don't see eye to eye. Steve Nash was slowed by injuries last year and is aging. It will be "wait until next year" next season.
In 2014, the Lakers will have the cap room to sign one and possibly two premiere free agents and start to rebuild. Los Angeles is not a city known for long-suffering, patient Laker fans.
That explosive sound you hear coming from the Southwest is a dramatic changing of the guard in the NBA.
LEIGH STEINBERG is a renowned sports agent, author, advocate, speaker and humanitarian. His column appears weekly. Follow Leigh on Twitter @steinbergsports.


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We can let you do that, Dave
Ofcom has ruled that David Cameron did not break broadcasting rules when he told breakfast radio listeners that politicians who use Twitter risk making a "twat" of themselves.
The Tory leader also used the words "pissed off" during his July appearance on banal guitar pop station Absolute Radio, before adding "sorry, I can't say that in the morning".
Today Ofcom - which received 20 complaints - declined to take action against the station. "In the context of the interview and the programme overall the remarks did not breach the broadcasting code," it said.
After the show, presenter Christian O'Connell said Cameron's press secretary "leapt out of her skin" as her boss adopted his laddish vocabulary. In a debrief Cameron reportedly claimed "that's [twat's] not a swear word".
He later apologised.
The Tory leader has so far personally resisted the Twitter craze among the political class, although many of his subordinates have succumbed. ®


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Newsman-turned-TV talk show host Piers Morgan has banned Kelsey Grammer from his daily CNN program after the actor walked out over a photo mix-up last week.
The "Boss" actor stormed off the "Piers Morgan Tonight" set at the last minute after spotting a snap of his ex-wife Camille in the opening titles, according to the show host – and now Grammer has joined Madonna on the ex-tabloid editor's banned list.
Asked if he'll have the actor back on the show, Morgan states, "No, it'll be the last time."
Grammer has yet to comment on the drama but his representative says, "Piers needs to take responsibility for what he did to Kelsey. It's called accountability."
Last month, Grammer refused to utter Camille's name during a chat with TV host Oprah Winfrey, simply referring to the reality TV star as "that person."
The Grammers went through a bitter divorce and custody battle after splitting in 2010.


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Reviews are important. Customers often look at the average star rating, and the number of reviews a book has, before buying. But getting reviews isn't easy. For my last several ebook releases, I gave away free copies to fans in exchange for reviews, but this is time-consuming and labor intensive.
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BookRooster.com is a community of over 2,200 passionate readers/reviewers drawn from BookLending.com and other Kindle reader communities. They organize the distribution of review copies of your novel (in MOBI format for Kindle) to reviewers in exchange for their objective Amazon customer review.
I became aware of them about two weeks ago, and gave the service a try for my ebook Flee. (Disclosure: Catherine let me try their service for free.) So far Flee has accrued over twenty new reviews in the last few days, and has climbed considerably in the Top Rated rankings for Police Procedurals and Romantic Suspense.
The service costs $49, making it an affordable solution for authors who would like to have more reviews. If you read some of the reviews of Flee, you'll see they're honest and mostly well-written, and many of the reviewers hadn't ever read my work before, and have said they'll go on to read more of it. So BookRooster doesn't just offer reviews, it also can potentially widen an author's fanbase.
I asked the founder, Catherine MacDonald, a few questions about BookRooster, and she graciously responded.
Joe: Where did you come up with the idea for BookRooster?
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Then, as a reader starting to read books by indie authors for the first time, I began to realize how many fantastic books are not getting the readers they deserve. It seems that customer reviews are key to ensuring that books get discovered by other readers.
While authors sometimes struggle to find readers, there are huge numbers of passionate readers looking to discover new books -- over 26,000 of them on BookLending.com alone! I had seen authors use various approaches to find reader-reviewers and it just made sense to draw on the enthusiastic community of readers we have to create an easier way for authors to get their books to prospective Amazon customer reviewers.
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Joe: Besides Amazon, do you encourage reviewers to post elsewhere, such as Goodreaders, Smashwords, or B&N?
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Joe: As you accrue more reviewers, do you anticipate BookRooster raising its prices?
Catherine: We launched with an introductory price of $49 because we appreciate that this is a new and untested service and we wanted to give our "early adopter" authors an extra good deal to thank them for jumping in with us. Given the amount of work that goes into administering the service, we will likely be raising the price by $10 to $20 sometime soon so that we have some breathing room to develop new features and hire administrative help.
Joe sez: Considering how obsessive some authors are about reviews, and how essential it has become to have reviews, this is $49 well spent. But keep in mind that neither BookRooster nor its reviewers promise to leave glowing praise. If they don't like your book, they'll say so.
Also, I believe this service is different than something like Kirkus Reviews of the new PW Select, where gullible authors pay lots of money for a single review in those journals. As I stated earlier, I always give out free copies in exchange for reviews. That's the same thing legacy publishers do, giving away galley copies. BookRooster just makes it easier.
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The Finland.org.eg site is a distribution channel for information and services produced by the Embassy and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Please find the language options and font size and search functions at the top of the page.
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Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center announces the opening of its newly completed surgery center. The center features nine modern perating rooms, pre-and postsurgical areas, as well as private waiting rooms.
Adjoining the hospital, this new center consolidates the hospital's surgical services into a single perioperative site which results in better patient flow and a shorter wait time for patients and their families.
"The opening of our new state-of-the-art surgery center represents a major development for healthcare in the Northern Virginia market and emonstrates Sentara's continuing commitment to exceptional patient care," said Steve Porter, president and of Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center. "From
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Dr. Arthur Vayer, a surgeon with Sentara Surgery Specialists echoes Porter's sentiments.
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The amount of sunlight able to penetrate the water determines the photic and aphotic habitat zones. The photic (lighted) zone includes the upper ocean layers where there is enough light for plant growth. The permanently dark water mass below the photic zone is termed the aphotic (unlighted) zone.
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Last weekend, I went to Mass for the first time in well over a decade. To say that it was a strange and disorienting experience would be to understate things dramatically. But it was also a deeply comforting and familiar experience. I know that that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but in my experience very little ever does when it comes to sorting out one's personal relationship to faith.
I should maybe back up a bit.
I went to Mass because I was in San Antonio on a media tour, and the missions of San Antonio were part of that tour, and once I saw the missions – wandered their grounds, touched their walls, let myself be moved by the great stone carvings of angels and saints and crosses and the spirit of faith and mission – I decided that I needed to delve further into the experience offered there. If I was moved by the structures of the missions, would I be moved by the practice of faith that occurred therein? If I found myself drawn to the small prayer grotto devoted to the Virgin – and even moved so far as to murmur a little prayer there – might I not be drawn to the prayers and hymns sung in the chapels? Might this not be an opportunity to test my commitment to exploring faith?
Also, I heard there was a mariachi band at Sunday mass at Mission Concepcion. I decided to go.
I didn't go comfortably. I've been resisting the Catholic Church – the appeal of its familiarity, the lure of memory, the attraction of returning to the bosom of the faith that defined the happiest years of my childhood – because I don't want to like the Catholic Church. Everything that I loved about it as a child and a girl – the comforting rituals, the poetic words, the joyfulness of the hymns that were sung, to the accompaniment of acoustic guitars, in our hippy West Coast Irish Catholic parish – was gone, I thought – gone in spirit, anyway – and replaced by politics and controversy and all the terrible things that an adult mind and heart can't ignore. I didn't want to wrestle with that. If I was going to re-embrace a practice of Christianity – and that, I should note, has by no means been a given – I figured that it would probably be Anglican. Maybe United. But probably Anglican. I like the Archbishop of Canterbury.
So I went in the spirit of research. I went to observe and report to myself on my findings. I didn't go to pray or to recite the Nicene Creed or to take Communion – not that I could take Communion, lapsed as I am – or to be blessed. I went to analyze.
I didn't analyze. I prayed and recited the Nicene Creed and didn't take Communion but approached the altar anyway with the other communicants and asked to be blessed by the priest – a friendly Texan who goes by 'Father Jim' – and fought back tears as he blessed me and prayed some more. I did get a little analytical during the Intercessions – I have mixed feelings about intercessory and petitionary prayer – but I still bowed my head.
And I sang. You can't not sing when there's a mariachi band strumming their guitars and blasting their trombones and singing with an almost manic glee about how wonderful is heaven! And how awesome the Lord! Such that for all my ambivalence about all things politically Catholic and practically Christian I joined in and sang in English and in Spanish – badly – and couldn't keep from smiling as the band leader – sunglasses around his neck, trombone in hand – shouted Hallelujah! This, I thought, this is what it used to feel like. Sure, it was folk guitars and Dylan-inspired hymns and I was young and didn't know from good music or bad, but it was happy. Joyful. It was a musical practice of faith that caused one's toes to tap and one's heart to lift. It was why I loved the Church. Because it made me feel joyful. It made me want to dance.
The mariachi Mass at Mission Concepcion made me feel that way again, for an hour or so.
I don't know what this means for where I go from here in terms of figuring out faith. I can't fly to San Antonio every weekend for mariachi Mass, and so far I haven't found anything like that anywhere near to where I live. And I am, still, deeply troubled by the Church and its politics and I don't know that that can be overcome with some trombones and cacarones.
But still, there was music. And I sang.
(You can read more about my trip – and get a chance to go to San Antonio yourself – over at Her Bad Mother.)
This weekend, I read an article in New York Times Magazine about the crisis surrounding the Catholic Church in Ireland as new, horrible, stories emerge about sexual abuse of children and efforts by the Church to cover up those stories. It was a teensy bit upsetting. So I started to write a post about it – in the middle of the night, fueled by outrage and tea – and realized, a few paragraphs in, that I'd already written that post. Like, last year, the last time that I was outraged about the Catholic Church. So I'm reposting it here, with the proviso that it should be read as articulating an outrage that increased by a factor of 10.
When I was twelve years old, I was confirmed in the Catholic faith.
The priest who administered the rite of confirmation was a man that I –
in the manner of all judgmental twelve year olds who recoil at elders
who seem weird and smell bad – did not like, although I did not, at the
time, dislike him quite so much as I did the nun who led the weekly
catechism classes for young members of the Church. Sister Anne was
elderly, and terrifying; she wore her black habit like a suit of armor
and carried with her a old wooden ruler, the kind with blade-like metal
embedded along the outer edge, and she would menace us with it,
sometimes cracking it down upon the side of a desk when some unfortunate
child failed to list the Seven Sacraments on command. Sister Anne, my
classmates and I decided, was not on the Right Side Of God.
Nobody that frightening could be good, we told each other as we
congregated outside during a class break. God wouldn't stand for it.
"She'll be punished some day," someone said. "She'll go to hell." That
thought was somewhat reassuring.
One of the boys disagreed. "God doesn't seem to care all that much if
the priests are scary, so why not the sisters? And the sisters don't
even do anything, not like the priests. He lets them" – he
practically spat the word – "be the bosses of the church." A few of the
other boys nodded, and there was much shuffling of feet. Somebody
murmured something about creepy being worse than mean,
and a couple of the boys moved away from the group. "God doesn't really
care about what those guys do. He just cares that we know the
sacraments," he added. "It sucks." I had no idea what he was talking
about, but I knew that I really didn't like the way church felt
at this parish – a parish that my family had only recently joined,
after relocating – at this parish, with this priest and this nun and
these scared children, and it seemed to me that if anyone was to blame,
it was probably God, who was in charge of the whole business, as I
understood it.
Years later, my mother asked me, in a telephone conversation, if I
remembered Immaculate Conception, the church where I'd been confirmed,
and the priest who'd administered those rites. "I remember the sister
who taught my catechism more than him," I said. "She was evil."
"Well, not as evil as him, apparently. He's been accused of abusing
some of the boys. You know" – her voice dropped to a whisper –
And I thought: well. That explains a lot.
I was in my early twenties by then, and it had been a couple of years
since I'd been to Mass. Religion was the opiate of the masses, Marx had
taught me, and my mother had gone ahead and confirmed what he and
Machiavelli and Nietzsche and the kids in the parish of Immaculate
Conception – and, we would someday learn, parishes everywhere – already
knew: that religion sometimes gives very bad people an opportunity to
very bad things, and to get away with it. So I abandoned religion,
mostly entirely.
By my early thirties, I was trying to get it back. Or, rather, I was trying to figure out whether I should
get it back. I had loved God, and the Catholic Church, for a long time,
before the unpleasantness of Immaculate Conception, and, later, my
parents' separation and divorce and mutual crisis of faith (another
story entirely, although not one, perhaps, that is mine to tell). I
missed them, sometimes. And I worried, sometimes, about how I would
navigate the waters of faith once I had my own children; how I would
raise them to have faith, if I wasn't – if we weren't – at home in the
Church. Because I knew that I wanted them to have faith.
I just wasn't sure how, and on what terms. I struggled to figure out
how to renegotiate my relationship to God and to faith. And even though I
told myself that I wanted to explore faith in all of its forms and consider all options, I have, deep down, always assumed that if I returned to church it would be to return to the Church, the Catholic Church.
I had sort of thought – this year after my father's death, this year during which we need so much prayer for my nephew – that I might, this year, return for Easter. But then the Catholic Church went ahead and screwed it up and put me off religion, again.
Allegations of abuse within the Church are not new, of course. But
it's not the allegations – the fact – that abuse occurred (horrifying as
that is) that are destroying the remnants of my faith in the Church:
it's the Church's refusal to take responsibility for it.
It's the Church's refusal to admit that mistakes were made, that it
failed to protect children. It's the Church's inability to be humble, to
acknowledge that the failure to protect children was a human failure,
one made within the Church, by the Church, and that it let God down.
That it let us down – that it let the children down – is
obvious. That it claims now to have God on its side, that it claims to
be on the side of what is good and right, and that it insists that all
those who express horror at what it allowed to happen are agents of
persecution who are needling them – and by extension, God – with their
evil accusations and petty gossip is a travesty of such magnitude that I
have trouble, in some moments, even believing that it's happening. It
reads like the plot of a bad conspiracy-themed action novel, wherein
robed men give booming speeches about Protecting God's Church At All
Costs while minor henchmen destroy documents and arrange for naysayers
to be 'disappeared.' Somewhere, Dan Brown is taking notes, furiously.
This is all so appalling, so terrible, because the Church's refusal to take responsibility
for the horrors committed on its watch and its refusal to take
responsibility for not addressing and eliminating those horrors when it
could makes it seem as though, in the words of my young fellow
catechumen, "God doesn't really care about what those guys do." When the
Church insists that the reputation of the Church is more important than
the well-being of innocents, when the Church puts the Church first and
insists that this is what God wants it to do, God is on its side, if you criticize it you criticize God and also Jesus and all the saints and probably your grandmother, too,
well, it sets itself up as the earthly representative of a God that no
good person should want to follow. And in so doing, it destroys faith.
Or, at least, it shakes it really violently.
The more reasonable explanation, of course (assuming, that is, that
you believe in God), is that the Church is not representing God. Or that
the men who are running the Church, and the men responsible for not
purging the Church of the sickness within it, are neither representing
God nor the Church as it was meant to be, whatever that 'meant to be'
was supposed to be, or whatever. But for Catholics, no such distinction
can be easily made. The men of the Church are the Church; the
Pope is its head and the direct line to God. And so if we accept, as the
Church claims, that God is on their side, then we are left, again, with
the lament of my young peer, a young man, a child, who was almost certainly abused: "God doesn't really care about what those guys do."
I refuse to believe that. I believe, instead, that the Church has
failed, or, rather, that those who defend the institution of the Church
over and against its most vulnerable members have failed. I believe that
this failure stands as evidence that this Church, which is to say these men, cannot speak for God. That no
man – or woman – can speak for God. And that the only possible
demonstration of faith in the face of everything that has happened is, I
think, to turn away, to refuse to listen, to deny their authority to
speak, to disavow belief in their claims about God, their God, and to
believe in another God entirely. One that makes sense. One that does care about 'what those guys do.'
Who or what that God is, I don't know. And I don't expect that that
God can make any of this better, or make any of this make sense, or do
anything to make the ugliness in the world – including the ugliness
being propagated by the Church, who would deny the depth and breadth of
that ugliness as it pertains to them – anything less than what it is.
But I need to believe in a better God, and in a better kind of faith,
whatever that means.
Postscript: I mean no offense to Catholics who are comfortable
remaining in the Church. I understand how it is possible to distinguish
between the Church – which, as one commenter has noted, might better be
identified with the people of Catholic faith, rather than with the
Vatican or with the men who claim to speak for God – and its
representatives in the Vatican and elsewhere. I'm struggling with that,
because I know that the Church is full of good, good people. I just know
that, so long as 'the Church' – which is to say, again, its
representatives – disclaim the proven horrors as their responsibility,
and disdain the seriousness of what happened, I cannot imagine
supporting it/them in any way.
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Ryan Grant's record setting run at KartSport New Zealand's annual Mi Sedaap instant noodles-backed CIK Trophy of New Zealand meeting in Wellington has continued, the Aucklander winning the premier senior KZ2 class title for a record-setting sixth time at the KartSport Wellington club's Wynn's Raceway at Kaitoke, Upper Hutt on Sunday.
The CIK is the governing body of KartSport around the world and the annual Trophy of New Zealand meeting has the status in kart circles the annual New Zealand Grand Prix does in car ones.
As he did last year, fellow Auckland international Daniel Bray kept Grant honest. But bar Bray's win in the second KZ2 heat race on Saturday the event proved to be another Grant benefit, the 29-year-old setting the quickest lap time in qualifying and the fastest race lap on his way to four wins from five starts.
Third was Bray's teammate, Matthew Hamilton from Christchurch, fourth kart and V8 SuperTourer racer Richard Moore from Auckland.
In the other Mi Sedaap CIK Trophy of New Zealand international class, the Junior KF3 one, victory went to reigning North Island class champion Mitchell Turner from the Hawke's Bay with Aucklander Arron Crighton second and Mitchell Sanders from the Bay of Plenty third.
Earlier in the weekend it looked like Dylan, younger brother of last year's KF3 class Trophy winner Josh Drysdale from Palmerston North was going to be a serious title threat, but Turner shadowed him in qualifying and the heats and went on to win the Final after a good early battle with Drysdale when the latter's engine failed.
The Mi Sedaap meeting attracted over 100 entries from up and down the country and doubled as the opening round of the 2013 Formula 125S KartSport club's Pro Kart Series. Points leaders in that series are now Ryan Grant (KZ2), Mitchell Turner (KF3) and Snow Mooney (KZ2 Masters).
Mooney had a tough battle on his hands against fastest qualifier Mark Lane and heat winners Lane and fellow class and club stalwart Steve Brown, but found the class title his when Brown was handed a technical DQ after the Final. Lane, 3rd on the track, also received a technical DQ.
In the Challenge Trophy support classes the winners were Mathew Kinsman from Auckland (125cc Rotax Max Light), Ryan Cappelman from Wellington (Senior 100cc Yamaha Light), Marcus Armstrong from Christchurch (Junior 100cc Yamaha), Liam Lawson from Auckland (Junior Restricted 100cc Yamaha), and Thomas Boniface from New Plymouth (Cadet).
The 2013 Mi Sedaap CIK Trophy of New Zealand will be televised with two 30 minute programmes screened on TV3 on Sunday March 31 and Sunday April 28 at 3.00pm respectively, with repeats on CUE TV.
2013 Mi Sedaap CIK Trophy of New Zealand KartSport Wellington Wynn's Raceway Kaitoke, Upper Hutt Fri-Sun Jan 25-27
KZ2 Final 1. Ryan Grant; 2. Daniel Bray; 3. Matthew Hamilton; 4. Richard Moore; 5. Matt Williams; 6. Kent Wheeler; 7. Shaun Grocock; 8. Christopher Cox; 9. Arie Hutton; 10. Jordan Morris; 11. Mitchell Brown
KF3 Final 1. Mitchell Turner; 2. Arran Crighton; 3. Mitchel Sanders; 4. Thomas Batt; 5. Logan Brown; 6. Oscar Drummond; 7. Dylan Drysdale; 8. Maddison Wise
KZ2 MastersFinal 1. Snow Mooney; 2. Mark Wheeler; 3. Garry Claxton; 4. Todd Wheeler; 5. Brett Hollander; 6. Warren Parris; 7. Peter Hoare; 8. Roger Beuvink; 9. Jack Fuller; 10. Leo Bult. DQ. Steve Brown, Mark Lane
125cc Rotax Max LightFinal1. Mathew Kinsman; 2. Scott Manson; 3. Andy Schofield; 4. James Penrose; 5. CJ Sinclair; 6. Chris Lee; 7. Paul Booth; 8. Samuel Sarcich; 9. Brent Melhop; 10. Jack Bridgman; 11. Karl Cameron; 12. George Keast; 13. Brendon Hart 1
Yamaha LightFinal 1. Ryan Cappleman; 2. Brad Still; 3. Alex Geary; 4. Jaden Hardy; 5. Patrick Davy
Junior 100cc Yamaha Final 1. Marcus Armstrong; 2. Travis Day; 3. Maddison Wise; 4. Trey Nairn; 5. Ryan Yardley; 6. Matthew Podjursky; 7. Kieran Woods; 8. Michael McCulloch; 9. Jordan Lum; 10. Bill McCulloch; 11. Jared Parker; 12. Zac Thompson; 13. Madeline Stewart; 14. Tyler Smith; 15. Taylor Burling-Claridge; 16. Jai Buckley; 17. Suvarn Naidoo; 18. Jacob Cranston; 19. Ashleigh Stewart; 20. Sebastian Bainbridge; DQ 9 Jordan McDonnell
Junior Restricted 100cc Yamaha Final 1. Liam Lawson; 2. Caleb Cross; 3. Reece Hendl-Cox; 4. Matthew Payne; 5. Nicholas Evans; 6. Bayley Walker; 7. Lee Zeltwanger; 8. Hunter Cheetham; 9. Rianna O'Meara-Hunt; 10. Connor Burson; 11. Dylan Frere; 12. Josh Donohue; 13. Kaleb Ngatoa; 14. Dylan Smith; 15. Jarod Fisher
Cadet Final 1. Thomas Boniface; 2. Tom Greig; 3. Ben Morrison; 4. Blake Evans; 5. Jackson Rooney; 6. Riley Jack; 7. Ryan Wood; 8. Ethan Donohue; 9. Sam Wright; 10. Ashton Grant; 11. Dylan Grant; 12. Joshua Bethune; 13. Reuben Adams; 14. Fynn Osborne; DQ 89 Joshua Parkinson
CAPTIONS: 2013 Mi Sedaap KZ2 class CIK Trophy of NZ trophy winner Ryan Grant leads runner-up Daniel Bray (action shot) and shares the podium (middle) with runner-up Bray (left) and third-placed Matthew Hamilton (right). Winner of the 2013 Mi Sedaap Junior CIK Trophy of New Zealand, meanwhile, was Mitchell Turner (action shot). He is also seen (centre) on the podium with runner-up Arran Crighton (left) and third placed Mitchell Sanders (right). Photo credits: (action shot) Hagen Hopkins (podium shots) Jordan Moss.
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