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In the summer of 1812, as the half million soldiers of the Grande Armée marched across Europe in Napoleon's doomed Russian campaign, a nineteen-year-old in the Devonshire village of Lynmouth set out to change the history of Europe all on his own. Anyone strolling along the beach at Lynmouth that summer, around sunrise or sunset, might have caught him at his epochal work, which to the casual eye would have looked like a boy's game. He knelt down by the water and launched toy boats, waterproofed with wax and equipped with masts made of sticks, into the Bristol Channel; he launched handmade hot-air balloons, their silk canopies inflating and floating away toward Wales and Ireland.
To Percy Bysshe Shelley, however, these fragile devices were as dangerous to the established order as Napoleon's grapeshot. Each one contained a copy of "A Declaration of Rights," a manifesto that set out Shelley's radical creed in thirty-one propositions. "Government has no rights," he announced. "All have a right to an equal share in the benefits and burdens of government"; "A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights." It was Shelley's version of the declarations that had launched the American and French Revolutions, and he saw no reason that his work—though the product of a single ardent mind, instead of a Congress or an Assembly—shouldn't have equally momentous results. Weren't poets, as he would write almost a decade later, the unacknowledged legislators of the world?
The image of Shelley entrusting his words to the elements captures both the admirable and the questionable sides of his tumultuous career. Shelley's certainty that his messages would reach their rightful audience, despite the odds, expresses his faith that justice is radiantly simple. He wrote the "Declaration" in the same spirit, sure that if the world could be made to see the truth, as clearly and passionately as he saw it, all selfishness would disappear. Like Jesus, whom he blasphemed, admired, and at times resembled, Shelley would take no thought for the morrow. He stood to lose personally from the social revolution he preached. As the son of a country squire, he was due to inherit an estate, a title, and a fortune; but he didn't hesitate to renounce them all for the sake of his ideals. During his first year at Oxford, he published an essay, "The Necessity of Atheism," and sent it to the university's leading officials, practically begging to be expelled. When he was, to the horror of his well-meaning, conventional father, Shelley made things worse by eloping with a sixteen-year-old girl, Harriet Westbrook. Cut off by his family, he was reduced to scraping by on small loans, but he remained impulsively generous to friends, and even to strangers.
Unlike the average radical, then, Shelley didn't just challenge social taboos; he openly violated them, living his personal life in accordance with unpopular principles like equality, women's rights, and free love. As a result, he became so reviled in England that he had to emigrate, spending the last four years of his life in Italy. Such unworldliness helps to explain why Shelley's closest friends remembered him as a kind of saint or angel. To Thomas Hogg, whom he met at Oxford, "he was a pure spirit, in the Divine likeness of the Archangel Gabriel; the peace-breathing, lily-bearing Annunciator."
At the same time, there is something exasperating, or worse, about the idea of Shelley trying to change the world with toy balloons. Throughout his adulthood, he considered himself a serious radical—even claiming, "I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science"—whose purpose in life was to advance the cause of liberty in England and Europe. But he consistently displayed an indifference to reality which went deeper than his propaganda techniques. Shelley's ineffectiveness as an agitator we could dismiss with a smile. But his political beliefs demonstrated the same contempt of consequence, the same elevation of pure motive over practical effects, the same lack of self-awareness. These qualities helped to make Shelley a genuinely illiberal thinker, whose politics verged at times on the totalitarian.
Because his poetry is deeply political, it is impossible to separate Shelley's abstract ideas from his sensuous, passionate poems. And because he believed, as much as any revolutionary of the nineteen-sixties, that the personal is political, it is equally hard to separate his art from his biography. That is why, during his lifetime and ever since, Shelley's private life, his politics, and his poetry have presented readers with a single, inextricable problem. "And did you once see Shelley plain?" Robert Browning wrote; the line is famous because nobody ever has.
"Being Shelley" (Pantheon; $30), by Ann Wroe, does not even try to see Shelley plain. Instead, as the title suggests, Wroe tries to see as Shelley saw—to inhabit his consciousness and capture its every movement. This is, as she frankly says, "an experiment," and any reader who opens the book expecting a conventional biography is in for a surprise. While Wroe offers some basic biographical information and quotes copiously from Shelley's writings, she does not tell a chronological story or analyze individual poems. Instead, like an alchemist at the cauldron, she volatilizes Shelley's life and work into their basic elements: her book is divided into sections titled "Earth," "Water," "Air," and "Fire."
The book is more an act of mediumship than a work of biography, and it depends for its success on the fineness of Wroe's intuition and the intensity of her identification with her subject. Fortunately, Wroe seems to have Shelley's entire life and work spread out before her in a mental map, allowing her to draw some unexpected connections. Shelley's language is kneaded so deeply into her own that some familiarity with the poems is required to recognize all her allusions. "If others thought him 'a blot,' he was a bright one," she writes, subtly quoting Shelley's sonnet "Lift not the painted veil": "through the unheeding many he did move, / A splendour among shadows, a bright blot / Upon this gloomy scene." At times, Wroe shifts from narrative to fuguelike lists of images. "Water could not be counted his friend," begins one such catalogue, which goes on to show us Shelley being baptized in 1792, getting caught in a rainstorm in 1814, and sketching raindrops in his notebooks, which are themselves smeared with seawater. All the while, Wroe, who assumes some prior knowledge of the Shelley myth, also means us to remember how the poet died. In 1822, just a month before his thirtieth birthday, he drowned off the Italian coast near Livorno, having insisted on launching a small boat even though a storm was brewing.
Wroe's free-associative method would not get very far with most poets, perhaps. But it is well suited to Shelley, whose poems return again and again, as it were compulsively, to a few primal scenes and images. A boat travelling down a river under a canopy of leaves; a deep, narrow cave in the mountains or by the water; the play of light on the sea—these images seem to bubble up into Shelley's consciousness from some mysterious elsewhere, much as the landscape of "Kubla Khan" came to Coleridge in a dream. To W. B. Yeats, Shelley's use of such archetypes was proof that he had access to "some great memory that renews the world and men's thoughts age after age." Shelley, Yeats was sure, was "what people call 'psychic.' "
The whole repertoire of Shelley's archetypes, psychic or otherwise, is on display in "Alastor," his first major poem, written in 1815, when he was twenty-three. It recounts the visionary quest of a Poet—with an unapologetic capital "P"—who travels the East in search of a woman he once saw in a dream. This "veiled maid" is an embodiment of "Knowledge and truth and virtue." But it is characteristic of Shelley that she is also a sexual being, and that her visitation takes the form of what we would now call a wet dream. The movement of Shelley's verse imitates the rhythm of orgasm in a way that still feels startling:
He reared his shuddering limbs, and quelled
His gasping breath, and spread his arms to meet
Her panting bosom; . . . she drew back a while,
Then, yielding to the irresistible joy,
With frantic gesture and short breathless cry
Folded his frame in her dissolving arms.
When the Poet wakes up, he realizes that he cannot live without seeing the maid again. But this need to pursue "Beyond the realms of dream that fleeting shade," to find the Infinite in the real world, seals his doom. The rest of the poem is a deliquescent series of landscapes and waterscapes, as the Poet pilots his "little shallop" down a river that is nominally in the Caucasus. But no map can point the way to "the shifting domes of sheeted spray / That canopied his path o'er the waste deep," the "pyramids / Of the tall cedar overarching," the "Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, / Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom / Of leaden-coloured even," which the Poet discovers. "Thou imagest my life," he declares to the river, and the scenes he passes through "Have each their type in me." Inevitably, this passage through the landscape of his mind can end only in death.
Shelley's dreamlike language and sensuous imagery made him one of the favorite poets of the prudish Victorian age, once his sexual radicalism had receded into legend. But this popularity was founded principally on such short lyrics as "To a Skylark" or "Mont Blanc," whose descriptions of nature can be more easily detached from politics. Today, it is Shelley's longer, stranger, more aggressively philosophical poems—some of them flawed and incomplete—that seem to represent the core of his achievement. During the poet's Italian sojourn, masterpieces came in a steady stream. In four years, he produced the mythic drama "Prometheus Unbound," which began as a translation of Aeschylus and became an apocalyptic allegory of revolution; "The Cenci," an homage to the Jacobean drama, in which a father's rape of his daughter becomes a symbol of patriarchal tyranny; "Adonais," an ode on the death of Keats, which turns the poet into a martyr, slain by an unfeeling world; "Hellas," a piece of propaganda for the Greek revolution against the Turks; and "The Masque of Anarchy," a joyous libel of England's ruling statesmen. As Shelley got older, his political vision grew broader and deeper, until the revolution he imagined was less a change of regime than a renovation of humanity itself. And this far more radical dream, nearly religious in its scope and intensity, is at the heart of his greatest poems.
Shelley's uncanny power lies in his gift for projecting his deepest fears and longings onto a hallucinatory cosmos. In his highest and most Shelleyan moments, the suggestive richness of his language, along with his ecstatic rhythms, allows him to abolish the distinction between himself and the world. In his essay "A Defence of Poetry," when he claims and possibly believes that he is describing the effect of Bacon's prose, he is actually talking about his own verse: "it is a strain which distends and then bursts the circumference of the hearer's mind and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy."
That bursting and pouring reaches its highest pitch in "Ode to the West Wind." Wroe makes much use of Shelley's notebooks, which are preserved at Oxford and the Huntington Library, to evoke his inner world. Sometimes her interpretations of the poet's drafts and doodles feel arbitrary, or else overdetermined, as when she sees his handwriting, in a passage about weeping, as "digging and jerking as if in paroxysms of tears." But she finds something genuinely revelatory in the drafts of the "Ode," which Shelley wrote on the afternoon of October 25, 1819, in a wood near the Arno in Florence. In trying to define the exact relation between himself and the wind—which he imagines as the "Destroyer and Preserver" of the universe—Shelley made several false starts. "Be thy," "Be thou through," "in me," "to the," he writes, crossing out the words each time. Finally, he lights on the famous, thrilling lines: "Be thou, spirit fierce, / My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!" No prepositions can separate the poet from the world: the two must be not just identified but identical. That is the impossible ambition of Shelley's poetry, which at moments he seems to make possible through the power of his language.
Yet it is also a Luciferian ambition, which aims to violate some essential order of the world and of the human mind. "He overleaps the bounds," Shelley writes of the Poet in "Alastor," and his own poetry lives in a perpetual overreaching. He was well aware that this could be considered a species of pride, and he took a mischievous pleasure in identifying himself with the great villain of pride in English literature, Milton's Satan. The last line of his "Declaration of Rights" reads, "Awake!—arise!—or be for ever fallen"; there is no attribution, but Shelley hoped that his audience would recognize the words with which Satan rallies the fallen angels in the first book of "Paradise Lost." In "Julian and Maddalo," Shelley portrays himself and Lord Byron—thinly disguised as the title characters—in conversation, "forlorn, / Yet pleasing such as once, so poets tell, / The devils held within the dales of Hell, / Concerning God, freewill and destiny." He even wrote an "Essay on the Devil and Devils," in which he argued that "Milton's Devil as a moral being" was "far superior to his God."
Wroe tries to explain Shelley's interest in the Devil, and in all kinds of demons and ghosts, by invoking another of her book's many avatars, "Monster-Shelley"—the side of him that enjoyed reading tales of horror, and liked to scare himself and other people with hideous visions. She even suggests that his vaunted atheism was just another kind of thrill-seeking: "As a devil-figure he was interesting, but not uncommon. He could do much worse, scaring the custom-bound much more thoroughly. Monster-Shelley therefore took the title 'Atheist' and blazoned it on his forehead." This assumption doesn't do justice to the earnestness and importance of Shelley's radical commitments—although it is true that there was an element of performance in his atheism, especially at first. His letters just before he was expelled from Oxford, a martyr to the atheist creed, are filled with Voltairean bravado: "Oh! how I wish I were the avenger!—that it were mine to crush the demon; to hurl him to his native hell, never to rise again, and thus to establish for ever perfect and universal toleration." The sentence is comic in its tonal paradox—the prophet of toleration thundering like a Spanish Inquisitor—and doubly so thanks to Shelley's failure to recognize the comedy. To Matthew Arnold, indeed, it was this "utter deficiency in humor" that was Shelley's "disastrous want and weakness." Arnold did not simply mean that Shelley couldn't tell a joke but, more fundamentally, that he could not step outside himself and look impartially at his own weaknesses, limitations, and failures. Like many adolescents, but few adults, he did not really believe that he had any.
To his contemporaries, the signal example of Shelley's moral arrogance was his treatment of his first wife. When Harriet Westbrook, in rebellion against her father and her school, begged Shelley to rescue her, it was the kind of cause that he found hard to resist. He agreed to elope with a girl he had never considered more than a friend. "If I know anything about love, I am not in love," he had written just weeks before the marriage. He loved the idea of getting married even less: "A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequired fetter." But he recognized that living together out of wedlock would hurt Harriet's reputation much more than his own, and he agreed to go through with the ceremony.
Things worked well enough for two and a half years, as Shelley enlisted Harriet in his political activities and taught her to parrot his catchphrases. She helped to distribute his youthful tracts but seems to have regarded the activity as little more than a lark. "We throw them out of the window and give them to men that we pass in the streets; for myself I am ready to die of laughter when it is done and Percy looks so grave," she wrote in a letter. They had already started to grow apart when, in the summer of 1814, Shelley fell in love with Mary Godwin. Mary was then sixteen, the same age that Harriet had been when Shelley married her, and she had intellectual gifts that Harriet could never match. Just as important was her intellectual pedigree: she was the daughter of William Godwin, a radical thinker whom Shelley worshipped, and Mary Wollstonecraft, the crusader for women's rights. Add the fact that Mary was instantly smitten with Shelley—it seems that they had sex for the first time by her mother's grave, to mark their spiritual union—and Harriet never really had a chance.
The lovers ran off to Europe, taking with them Mary's half sister, Jane Clairmont. Harriet, pregnant with Shelley's second child, was left behind to face scandal and ostracism. Today, it is hardly tempting to add to the chorus of moral indignation that pursued Shelley across Europe and beyond the grave. To marry someone you do not love, and then leave her for someone you do, does not look like a crime under our more liberal sexual dispensation. The truly disturbing aspect of Shelley's behavior was his self-justifying refusal to acknowledge Harriet's distress. According to his free-love principles, marriage should not be a permanent, exclusive arrangement; for a man to love different women at different times (and vice versa) was only natural. A heart that loved only one object would build, he wrote in "Epipsychidion," "a sepulchre for its eternity." And, because he was sure that his principles were correct, he could not help deducing that his actions were justified. With complete sincerity, he invited Harriet to come to Switzerland and live with him as his sister, while Mary would take over the role of wife. Then Shelley explained that he himself—the man who had just abandoned her—was Harriet's one "firm and constant friend," the only person in the world "by whom your feelings will never wilfully be injured. From none can you expect this but me—all else are either unfeeling or selfish."
The inhumanity of Shelley's attitude was made even clearer a year and a half later, when Harriet—cut off from her husband, raising Shelley's two children, and pregnant by another man—drowned herself in the Serpentine, in London. Shelley, again, knew that it could not be his fault. "Everything tends to prove," he wrote to Mary after hearing the news, "that beyond the shock of so hideous a catastrophe having fallen on a human being once so nearly connected with me, there would in any case have been little to regret." It is not entirely clear whether the thing that Shelley does not regret is Harriet's death or merely his own conduct, but the words are chilling. In the months that followed, Shelley embarked on a highly self-righteous legal battle with Harriet's father for custody of the children he had abandoned. When the ruling came down against him, he felt personally victimized by the Lord Chancellor.
As always with Shelley, the personal had a political aspect. His unshakable faith in his own goodness carried over into his thought, and even his poetry, to dangerous effect. Shelley considered himself a true philanthropist, and was willing to give his time and money to any good cause. But he had an enormous capacity for hatred, especially political hatred. Perhaps Lord Castlereagh, Britain's Foreign Secretary, deserved Shelley's indelible attack in "The Masque of Anarchy": "I met Murder on the way— / He had a mask like Castlereagh." Shelley's conviction that all authority figures were tyrants applied not just to unpopular politicians but to priests, schoolmasters, and even parents. In 1811, he inveighed, again without the shadow of a smile, against the oppression visited on Harriet, with whom he had just eloped: "Her father has persecuted her in a most horrible way, by endeavouring to compel her to go to school."
Quite simply, Shelley believed that anyone who disagreed with him was depraved at heart. As a result, his political vision was essentially Manichaean: "The Manichaean philosophy respecting the origin and government of the world, if not true, is at least an hypothesis conformable to the experience of actual facts," he wrote. Mankind was made miserable by the willful selfishness of tyrants and priests. And the millennium, in Shelley's limitless, idealizing vision, was not just a matter of universal suffrage. In "Prometheus Unbound," he imagines it as a time when the mountains of the moon turn into "living fountains," "ugly human shapes and visages" grow "mild and lovely," and it becomes "the pain of bliss / To move, to breathe, to be."
With so much at stake, wouldn't it be justified to kill the handful of wicked men who stood between humanity and its golden age? This was precisely the logic of the Terrorists during the French Revolution; and Shelley, though he often deplored the excesses of Jacobinism, never began to understand the perils of its utopian vision, or his own. In "The Assassins," an unfinished story written in 1814, he imagined a quasi-Jacobin community that would kill the world's oppressors as unhesitatingly as it would kill poisonous snakes: "And if the poisoner has assumed a human shape, if the bane be distinguished only from the viper's venom by the excess and extent of its devastation will the savior and avenger here retract and pause entrenched behind the superstition of the indefeasible divinity of man?"
"The Assassins" was a juvenile work, and most of the time Shelley went out of his way to insist that the revolution he desired must be nonviolent. He advocated a form of passive resistance, even in the wake of the Peterloo massacre of 1819, when cavalry charged at a demonstration on the outskirts of Manchester, killing eleven people: "And if then the tyrants dare, / Let them ride among you there, / Slash, and stab, and maim, and hew— / What they like, that let them do." But these pragmatic caveats remained on the surface. In the depths of his imagination, where his poetry was born, he remained vengefully Manichaean. In "Adonais," he seems to suggest that the right-wing reviewers who panned Keats's "Endymion" actually did not have souls. While the dead poet's "pure spirit" will become "a portion of the Eternal," he writes, their "cold embers" will "choke the sordid hearth of shame."
Shelley, who frequently quoted the Platonic injunction "Know thyself," never knew himself well enough to acknowledge the intolerance and self-righteousness that went hand in hand with his sublime egotism. Instead, exiled in Italy with few friends or readers, he indulged in the voluptuous self-pity that animates so many of his poems. In his own eyes, he was always misunderstood by the world, like the lonely creature he wrote about in "The Sensitive Plant": "But none ever trembled and panted with bliss / In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, / Like a doe in the noon-tide with love's sweet want, / As the companionless Sensitive Plant."
The most important limitation of Wroe's method is that it leaves her with as little critical perspective on Shelley as Shelley had himself. Being Shelley means feeling as Shelley felt, and Wroe tremblingly recapitulates the poet's sense of being too fragile for this world: "Rain punished Shelley, too. He stood in it, his heart naked to its freezing, battering drops." By the time he drowns, Wroe's Shelley has become literally angelic, ready to return to his heavenly home: "White wings unfolded vastly from his shoulders, as if through this battering frenzy he could rise to the upper sky." But, if there is one lesson to be drawn from Shelley's life and work, it is that you can't trust a man who believes he is an angel. ♦


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A motion to proceed with floor deliberations was adopted by unanimous consent after Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma dropped his hold. Both he and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had said on the Senate floor Tuesday night they wanted more time to study the 587-page resolution. They later asserted in a joint statement that the bill contains "egregious" so-called pork-barrel projects, as well as "hundreds of millions in spending that was never authorized by the appropriate committee and not requested by the administration."
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There are probably as many reasons to build a car as there are cars on the road. Be it reliving your high school years, buying the car you always wanted, or seeing a hot rod in a magazine decades ago and only now (being able to afford one) can you jump into the mix and build one for yourself or have one built. But some folks have lived with hot rods all their life-just as Bob Reed has.
If the name is familiar, it's with good cause. Facets of Bob's life are well-documented, from the blue four-door Deuce (chopped only 1 inch) with an aluminum small-block topped with a 6:71 blower that was featured in STREET RODDER back in the mid '80s, to the Ridler-winning Khrome Shoppe Special coupe that helped usher the smoothie look into the street rodding world back in 1984.
But Bob's history goes back much farther, as he was he appointed the NSRA's Oklahoma State Rep in 1971 (he recently received his 40-year pin from the organization). His wife, Deanna, helped with event registration back at the Memphis gathering in 1971, and the pair are of only a handful of people who have attended every Street Rod Nationals since the first one in Peoria 40 years ago. The '40 Chevrolet four-door Bob and Deanna drove to that event in 1971 is still in their garage in Poteau, Oklahoma, alongside a great cross-section of vehicles (including a '34 three-window he bought from Don Pilkington back in 1984, a 427 FE-powered '56 Ford Customline, a Hemi-powered '63 Plymouth, and an LS2-equipped '50 Olds 88) that showcases Bob's love of anything hot rod.
So it might not be too big of a surprise to find out his latest ride, a 1932 Ford sedan, debuted at last year's NSRA Street Rod Nationals as one of a select group of cars in the Builder's Showcase area. But the story of how it was built is interesting in how it started: with an engine. Bob had wanted a Buick Nailhead to power a hot rod and bought a few of the engines in order to get the best possible candidate for the build. Once he finished assembling the engine, he began looking for something to wrap around it.
For many years Bob has depended on D&D Specialty Cars, an Arkansas-based hot rod shop that features the talents of two brothers, Dale and Denny Johns. The Johns have been into building hot rods in Van Buren since the mid-'80s, and even built a custom Volkswagen convertible for ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons in that timeframe as well. Having a customer who returns to have other cars built is always a good sign of a working relationship and D&D has, over the years, worked with Bob on several of his projects.
It just so happened D&D had a four-door Deuce they were preparing to build, though in a different direction than what Bob was looking for, as D&D usually builds cars with a more contemporary styling. But once the concept was ironed out between them, Bob let the brothers go on the project, and he visited the shop only a few times during its construction. D&D approached the build with an eye on the traditional, but updating and customizing a few items along the way. The chassis, from Pete & Jakes, is set up on a wheelbase of 112 inches, but portions were both pinched and stretched to conform to what they were going to do with the body. A Currie 9-inch rear went it with coilover shocks and a set of Wilwood disc brakes, while up front a dropped axle, another set of coilovers, a set of hairpins, and another pair of Wilwood discs were used, too. ET III Gasser wheels, 16×4 were shod in ribbed Coker Firestone 500-16 rubber while the rear 16×6.50 Fueler wheels were wrapped in grooved Coker 820-16 skins.
The centerpiece to the car, as far as Bob was concerned, is the '66 425 Buick Nailhead that was machined 0.030 at O'Reilly's in Springfield, Missouri, before being assembled by Bob at home. Most of the engine components are stock, save for the SPAL cooling fan, the Schneider cam, and the Offenhauser intake manifold topped with twin Edelbrock carbs. The exhaust was fabbed at D&D, as were the distinctive headers. Sliding up to a TH400 trans, the Buick runs as good as it looks.
The steel '32 received many custom touches, including a filled roof, radiused wheel arches, and the body channeled. Hidden hinges were also added, as was a custom roll pan and perhaps one of the most unique additions: a dash taken out of a '55 Oldsmobile (Bob comments, "The dash is about as long as the car! So Dale had a heck of a time getting it to fit inside that car").
D&D also fabbed up the hood and painted the car using PPG materials before the rolled over into the shop's upholstery area (D&D is a full-service shop-from design and fabrication to paint and upholstery). Denny had thought of using a metal panels, and wasn't sure if Bob was going to like the concept but, when Bob saw what Denny wanted to do, told the builder he didn't need to look for anything else-he liked it. Oil-rubbed hinges were added to access doors in the floor section (between the rear wheel tubs) and custom door pulls were made just for this car. Bob's Speedometer (Howell, MI) refurbished the Olds gauges, and a tachometer was mounted on top of the dash and left of the Impala steering wheel. Custom seats, covered in dark brown leather, went in, as did a Vintage Air A/C system.
The car was only completed a couple of days before the 2010 NSRA Nationals, so the first time Bob got to see his finished hot rod was on the floor of the convention center in the Builder's Showcase area, and he was "stunned." Though he kept track of what D&D was doing, the last time he'd seen the car is when the interior was getting started. To see it all together was a bit overwhelming, but now that the car is back home in Oklahoma, he's getting used to seeing it in his garage. Now Bob has asked D&D to freshen up and repaint a '34 coupe he owns, and he's looking at a possible redo of the coupe he bought from Pilkington a few decades back. So even after decades of involvement in the street rodding hobby, Bob and Deanna Reed show no signs of slowing down anytime soon.


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WEBBER — Free Fishing Days is set for Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3. Fishing licenses are not required to fish any Kansas waters for these two days, including Lovewell Reservoir, near Webber and Lovewell State Park. However, vehicle and camping permits are still required.
In conjunction with Free Fishing Days, Lovewell State Park's Kids Fishing Derby is set for Sunday, June 3. Park and wildlife area staff and area businesses sponsor this annual event. Each year, participants have the opportunity to win the $200 Don Cart Memorial Savings Bond. The family of Don Cart, former Concordia resident and avid Lovewell area outdoorsman who passed away several years ago, has donated this bond.
Registration for the fishing derby is from 8 a.m. to noon at the state park office, with early registration prizes awarded to the first 50 kids who register. The weigh-in is set for 3 p.m. at the marina parking lot. Anglers will be divided into two age brackets: 7 and younger and 8 through 15 years old. Prizes will be awarded for the most pounds of fish and biggest fish in each age bracket, plus all participants present at the weigh-in are eligible for prizes drawn at random.
Area businesses and individuals have donated more than $1,000 in prizes and gift certificates for the event. For more information, phone Lovewell State Park at 785-753-4971 or email email@example.com.


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Ajmodadi Churna has great value in Ayurvedic practice as anti-spasmodic. According to Ayurvedic text, indigestion is the mother of all metabolic diseases. Long term indigestion predisposes the vitiation of vata dosha which then localizes in joints and muscle and produce spasmodic pain. Ajmodadi churna has an ability to retrieve the normal digestion thereby prevents vata disturbance. Ajmoda (Trachyspermum ammi), the major ingredient of this compound, apart from carminative and anti-spasmodic, has strong wormifuge properties hence, also useful in intestinal worm.
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AS A JUNIOR IN 2014: Hit .237 (9-38) … had two doubles … had one triple … hit one homerun … scored five runs … had four RBI ... recorded a double against Iowa State on Feb. 23 … had one hit at Cal on Apr. 15 … picked up a hit at Stanford on Apr. 22 … batted in one run on two hits May 3 at LMU … scored three runs and batted in three with three hits – including a triple and a homerun – at LMU on May 3.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2013: Played in 36 games while starting in 23 … collected five hits and was walked 10 times … had a hit and walked once vs. Sacramento State on Mar. 2 … walked twice vs. Cleveland State on Mar. 8 … had two hits vs. Northern Iowa on Mar. 9 … walked once vs. Oklahoma State on Mar. 10 … walked once vs. Idaho State on Mar. 23 … had a hit vs. San Jose State on Apr. 3 … walked vs. St. Mary's on Apr. 14 … walked vs. BYU on Apr. 2.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2012: Stepped in and immediately started at third base ... made 16 starts at third during the year and one as the designated player ... registered her first career hit against Portland State (Feb. 24) ... had hits in back-to-back appearances against Iowa State (Mar. 17) and Brown (Mar. 23) ... doubled in that game against Iowa State (Mar. 17) ... knocked in a run at UC Riverside (Mar. 25).
HIGH SCHOOL: Starred at Alhambra High School, one of the top Division III softball programs in the Bay Area … four-year varsity starter, who led the Bulldogs to the North Coast Section (NCS) Championship as a senior in 2011 … hit in the middle of a lineup that powered Alhambra to an undefeated league campaign as a senior … named All-Diablo Foothill Athletic League all four prep seasons as a third baseman … earned first team all-league honors twice … helped Alhambra advance into the NCS playoffs all four seasons … team captain as a junior and senior.
PRESONAL: Born in Walnut Creek, Calif. … daughter of John and Jill Krummen … has a younger sister, Jaklyn … excellent student, honored as a scholar athlete all four years at Alhambra … also lettered in volleyball as a prep … majoring in Political Science.


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FoodEssentials, aimed at solving food label data problems through technology, launched the LabelAPI. The API allows developers to integrate the most comprehensive, up-to-date food and drink product label database into apps and websites. Since 2004, FoodEssentials has dedicated itself to enlightening the food choice process. FoodEssentials CEO, Anton Xavier, summarizes:
"Our mission is to make vast amounts of food label data accessible to brands, developers as well as government entities, while keeping it simple to analyze."
FoodEssentials aggregates food label data and processes raw information to assign additive, allergen, ingredient and nutrient properties to each product. Currently, the FoodEssential database matches over 75% of product labels scanned by its developer partners. FoodEssentials hopes to increase its accuracy rate to over 95% by the end of 2012 and provide accurate, real-time food label data to all shoppers.
The LabelAPI uses REST protocol and a JSON data format. Developers can call product label data from over 50 million products, and 56,000 products are updated or added each month. The public API is free (up to 1000 calls per day). Developers interested can register in the members area.
Healthcare has taken a center stage spot in social and political forums around the world. Accordingly, the technology community has responded with fitness, health, and other wellness apps and APIs. Without question, food choices play an essential role in the overall health of the world. Accordingly, better access to food data should empower those making food choice decisions and the FoodEssential LabelAPI allows easy access to the most comprehensive food label information database through any app or website.


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The Capitol in Ruins, by George Munger, ca. 1814
Sightseers came to Capitol Hill to examine the Capitol after it was burned by British troops on August 24, 1814.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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America's second war with Great Britain flared in 1812. U.S. forces invaded Upper Canada the following year, burning the governor's house and legislative hall in York (now Toronto). Britain retaliated, sailing troops up the Patuxent River to destroy Washington's public buildings.
After a brief battle, the British entered the nearly deserted city on the evening of August 24, 1814. They attacked the Capitol, armed with gunpowder and torches. The north wing, occupied by the Senate, Supreme Court, and Library of Congress, took the heaviest damage. The south wing's first-floor rooms survived, but the House Chamber was destroyed. Many of Latrobe's great neoclassical designs—built under Jefferson's supervision—were lost. The nation had suffered a humiliating blow to its honor.


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BALTIMORE - A memo to Jenna Bush's security detail: the city of Baltimore does not care who you are. If you don't pay your parking tickets, you WILL be towed.
Baltimore city officials say a van attached to the security detail for Jenna Bush was towed after it accumulated six unpaid tickets.
A second Secret Service vehicle was also ticketed, said Adrienne Barnes, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Transportation.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed that one vehicle was towed and said the federal agency is paying the tickets. The spokesman said the van is not used to transport Bush, the daughter of former president George Bush.
Barnes said the van was picked up Friday from the city's impound lot.
Bush and her husband, Henry Hager, bought a two-story rowhouse in South Baltimore in April, a month before they were married. Hager works for Constellation Energy.


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Open enrollment for health coverage in 2014 is scheduled to begin tomorrow nationwide.
Dana Howard of Covered California says, even if there is a government shutdown, enrollment efforts will not be affected.
"While we were funded with federal grants, we are state operated and run. We do not use a dime of state taxpayer money, we have our own staff, so we are not reliant on federal staff to be able to fulfill our operations," said Howard.
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Landscape Services Internship at BrightView Landscapes, LLC
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Brighter futures start here. Welcome to BrightView. We're a team of talented professionals, driven by results and relationships, and committed to taking care of each other, clients, and communities.
BrightView was recently formed through the combination of landscape industry pioneers and leaders, Brickman and ValleyCrest. This defining event united more than 140 years of experience, an extraordinary portfolio of high-profile projects and clients, and a vast, national network of expertise and innovation. As one and true to our name, we're reinventing the industry while affording our 22,000+ team members access to the most comprehensive training, resources, benefits, mentorship, and opportunities for career advancement.
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Kristin Sport
School sport is much more than a pastime and healthy activity: it is also the context in which students can experience success and failure, realise their dreams and aspirations, and strengthen their teamwork skills and camaraderie in pursuit of their goals.
We offer over 20 different sports at Kristin. These are supported by our talented and experience team, including Head of Codes, Sport Managers, a dedicated Clubs Manager, Administration staff and Teachers-in-Charge. Alternative sports are also supported through local clubs. Our highest participation is in Basketball, Football, Hockey and Netball, and we run one of New Zealand's largest and most successful school Snowsports programmes.
Development and high performance programmes are offered across a range of codes to Middle and Senior School students. Find out more about the Kristin Sports Academy and our High Performance Programmes. All senior sport teams have access to iGolf Physiotherapy, which is located onsite at the Institute of Golf.
Director of Sport
Rob Taylor
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Kristin Sport Values and Expectations
The sports field provides many opportunities for personal development, and sport – be it social or competitive – is widely recognised as a means of developing character. This cannot happen in isolation, however. Character must be taught – it must be taught by coaches, leaders and role models who demonstrate its value both on and off the field.
VISION: Kristin School: Where GREAT SPORT happens.
MISSION: To empower all students to be physically active for life and strive for excellence in all aspects of Kristin Sport. Team sports and individual representation will be supported, within a positive sporting environment that embraces all abilities.
Coaches of Significance
The Kristin coaching team is dedicated to helping students develop character. This includes high expectations of behaviour, good sportsmanship, commitment, dedication and accountability. Our coaching programmes are centred on this principle which emphasises the process over the result: winning is a by-product of leadership, teamwork, talent, character and dedication. All coaches are expected to be Coaches of Significance.
- Coaches of Significance are role models of exemplary character.
- They lead with purpose and inspire others to be the best they can be, every day.
- They earn the trust and respect of team members and are the catalyst for uniting team members into a single, selfless team that accomplishes extraordinary and memorable feats.
- Coaches of Significance will make a profound impact on the lives of our athletes.
Acknowledging Success
We like to celebrate the sporting success of our athletes and to share our students' achievements with the wider Kristin community. Results and news updates are published online and in the school newsletter on a weekly basis, and a selection of stories are showcased in the biannual Kaleidoscope magazine. We are always keen to hear about the success of Kristin students in sports events held outside of the school. Parents are welcome to email us updates. Email the Sports Office.
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People were not created merely to live here on earth like animals that disappear after their death, but to live with God and in God, and to live not for a hundred or a thousand years, but to live eternally.
So begins this direct and heart-warming introduction to the Christian life that was first composed for the Aleut people of Alaska in the early nineteenth century. This book offers a classic Christian response to questions that we all must address at some point in our life: Why are we here and where can we truly find happiness and prosperity? In a time when the futility of the never-ending pursuit of material gain is being recognised more widely this work is more relevant then ever.
Since its first publication in Aleut in 1833 this book has been published in numerous Russian language editions and seven English language printings. This new English language edition is further enhanced with points for reflection at the end of each section that can be used as an aid for further engagement with the text either individually or in a guided group study setting.
The Priest John Veniaminov was a Russian born and raised in Siberia. He went on to become Bishop of a massive trans continental diocese and ultimately the Metropolitan of Moscow, the most senior Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is most widely known today by the simple title of St Innocent of Alaska.
Author: Kopyttseva, Natalia Mikhailovna
Form: Paperback
Pages: 240
This book is the ideal companion to the previously published Champion of Good: The Life of Father Ilarion (Holy Trinity Publications, Jordanville, 2011). All who have already encountered Father Ilarion through his life will be equally engaged by his words. Those who meet him first through his preaching will want to go on to read his life. Together, they convey a potent message of the possibilities that open to the human soul that turns to God with singleness of mind and humility. The sermons are grouped by subjects. One index lists the sermons in church calendar order and the other index lists the sermons in chronological order for those who wish to see what was preached in an historical context.
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The saints of our Church, even the greatest elders and ascetics, were once children!
On one summer day, in Konitsa of Epirus (Northern Greece), the young Arseny beheld the "Light of the world" with his own eyes. Over the years, this very child grew up to become the beloved saint we know today as St. Paisios the Athonite.
In this book, children will learn about the life of St. Paisios through sweet and moving stories, filled with wisdom and joy.
Author: Kopyttseva, Natalia Mikhailovna
Form: Paperback
Pages: 216
In Father I saw a person who lived for God…. In all life's situations, Fr Ilarion maintained a grace-imbued state of spirit, the fruits of which were love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and the other virtues that made it impossible to be near him and not feel glad just to be alive.
Many lovers of literature are familiar, through Dostoyevsky's works, with the concept of the Russian "Staretz," or spiritual elder. This biography offers a vivid portrayal of an authentic Staretz of our own day, Father Ilarion—a monk of the renowned Glinsk hermitage in modern-day Ukraine, who spent much of his life as a parish priest in a village in the Novgorod region of Russia. His life offers a vision of a simple Christian life in the contemporary world that will captivate the reader and awaken or rekindle a desire to live a life centered on the love of God and neighbour rather than on the pursuit of material wealth.
It also presents unique insights into the Orthodox Church in Russia under communism and in the immediate post-communist period, demonstrating how the Faith was kept alive after the closure of so many churches and monasteries and the exile or execution of clergy and believers. The account of the life of the Glinsk hermitage is particularly detailed. With many first hand contributions from Father Ilarion's spiritual children, this history also provides a glimpse into contemporary Russian culture and religious perspectives.
The book includes an eight page glossy photo insert.
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A wonderful new tool for Orthodox children! A Child's Guide to the Divine Liturgy is designed as an aid to help children negotiate their way through the Divine Liturgy and learn more about the Church and our faith. Small and easy to hold, with engaging illustrations, the guide is divided into six color-coded sections:
This guide is written to appeal to children ages two to ten. The very young child will learn basic vocabulary and come to recognize the various milestones in the Divine Liturgy. For the older child, the guide includes several longer psalms, quotes, and prayers; the 12 feast icons and kontakia; plus an extensive glossary filled with terms and vocabulary often heard throughout the liturgical year.


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Associate of Applied Science in Paralegal StudiesA paralegal is defined by the American Bar Association (ABA) as "a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible." National American University offers degree programs in both the Associate of Applied Science and the Bachelor of Science in Paralegal Studies. The Paralegal Studies degree provides students with the technical knowledge of a law office applications and the substantive legal knowledge to be a critical part of a legal team. The programs offered at the Rapid City and Sioux Falls campuses are separately approved by the American Bar Association. The program offered in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, including the Bloomington campus, Brooklyn Center campus, Burnsville campus, and Roseville campus, is separately approved by the ABA.
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Paralegals can seek certification from National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). Students from NAU are qualified to sit for the CLA exam and can receive the designation of "Certified Paralegal" or "CP" after successfully passing the exam. Paralegals can also seek certification from the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) through their PCCE exam. Graduates from NAU with two years of experience in the legal field are qualified to sit for the PCCE exam and can receive the designation of "Registered Paralegal" or "RP".
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Law enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
A tipster sent in a link regarding a hit-and-run in Roeland Park, Kansas which resulted in an unidentified pedestrian being airlifted to the hospital on Saturday.
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Hey! I found your blog last night as I was googling. I too struggle with overeating. I have been on a chronic dieter and lately all it's doing is driving me crazy! I was wondering where you are now in your journey. What foods are you staying away from? I feel like I will probably have to do something drastic to find victory and freedom. I just don't know what to do or how to stick to anything.
I got this message today from someone on facebook and I started to write a reply to her on there, but then I thought… hey, maybe everyone would like to know this… soooooo, here's my "update". It started out as an actual "reply" and then sorta morphed into a message to… everyone…
I'm on a bit of a struggle myself right now to be perfectly honest! I have found though that when I stick to the foods on my list (thecovenantdiet.com/what-i-eat) I'm totally golden!
But that's the hard part. Notice how I said I'm golden WHEN I stick to the foods on my list! I get caught up in the three-day-diet cycle… I can stick to it for three days and then I crater and then I eat like crap for four days (cause everyone knows that you can't start anything until a Monday, right??? Ha!). When I made the commitment originally and I committed for a year, I was totally great… it was almost easy… but then as soon as I was "done" with that year I started to do that justification game with sweets: "Oh it's a special occasion." or "Oh I don't really have any good food in the house" and my fav "Well, I already messed up for the day so might as well go for it!", etc. But then it got to the point where I stopped caring… even if I committed my eating and my nutrition to God. I think my subconscious knew that the main reason I was committing to God was only because I wanted to get the weight off again – not that I actually cared what God thought.
I think that it bothers me MORE that I'm going through a phase of not really caring either way if I'm honoring God or not… that's more worrisome than needing a larger pair of jeans. Keeping it real…
I need to get myself connected with God through habitually meeting with Him every single day.
I have completely neglected that very thing over the past year or two and I can tell that it is permeating into every little aspect of my life. Like, I don't care right now that my kids are sitting playing our iPad for the past hour. I don't care that my kitchen looks like the cabinets vomited out every single plate, cup, and utensil we own. I don't care that I have a week of laundry piled up. I don't care that my hair looks a mess. I don't care that I've stayed up until midnight for four days in a row and I am killllllling my body, my mind, my patience, my willpower. I don't care that I just ate half a bowl of cookie dough. Heck…
I don't even care that I don't care!
Okay, well, I sorta do care about that one a little. I guess that's why I'm writing this. But what I do know is that my soul won't change… my soul won't care unless I go to The One that made my soul. The One who crafted me. The One who genuinely cares that I… care.
Will meeting with Him every day "fix" me? Geez. I dunno. Will meeting with Him every day help to realign who I am with what I am meant to be: a blessing? Well, it is certainly a start.
But y'all. I ain't gonna lie…
I need help.
I need some encouragement to do that! I don't have anyone in my life that I am committed to in that regard… maybe one of you will commit with me. I don't know… maybe we can make one of those facebook groups or something? Some place… some people… where I can be reminded every day to go to Him who will remind me every day that I am intended to be a blessing and where I can remind you that you are intended to be a blessing. Where we can remind each other that we love the Word of God. That we NEED the Word of God. Where we can remind each other that a focus on Him is a blessing to us and then that's a blessing to the world. To be told time and time again that this food thing is only to distract us from our purpose.
I totally feel like I'm putting out there some kind of "Will you be my friend" plea or something! Haha! But, hey, why not?!?!?! Will you? Will you be my friend? I'll be your friend! We can help each other look to God… I just know it. What do you think???
Maybe, comment on here if you have an idea or would want to "be my friend" (haha)… or if you are on facebook or twitter let me know on there by commenting on a post or replying to a tweet. Let's see what we can figure out!
(And thanks to Miss Facebook Message Girl for messaging me… I know that you were reaching out for yourself, but your message will hopefully end up as a blessing to all of us!)


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Just a month ahead of what promises to be a very difficult summit on the EU's 2014 to 2020 budget, leaders are trading threats and blandishments, seeking advantage where they can to trim their bill.
The man in the middle, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, called last week for the 27 member states to be ready to compromise, but with Britain and Denmark threatening a veto, that seems a lot to hope for just yet.
"I hope we can reach an accord in November," Van Rompuy said.
"For that, we need something without which nothing is possible — a sense of compromise, alongside the political will to find an accord. If there is no willingness, then we will never get there," he said.
In July, the European Commission proposed a budget of 1.03 trillion euros (US$1.33 trillion), up 5 percent on the 2007 to 2013 package, sparking howls of protest from the seven major contributor states and demands for a cut of 100 billion euros or more.
Germany, France and Britain especially insist that with government budgets under pressure from all sides, the EU cannot expect to get away with such a large increase in spending.
"We can't have EU spending going up and up," British Prime Minister David Cameron said at the EU summit on Oct 15 and Oct.16, threatening to veto any November accord which failed on that score.
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a similar line on Thursday, saying she would veto a budget which did not give Denmark a 1 billion kroner (US$174 million) rebate.
"Our key message to the other countries and what we are fighting for, is that we have to have a discount and that we do not wish to pay other rich countries' rebates," Thorning-Schmidt said, without naming her targets.
Denmark currently has no rebate on its EU budget contribution — but Britain does and will jealously guard it, as Cameron has stressed time and time again.
Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria have also all negotiated rebates of various kinds, arguing that they are paying much more than other countries into the EU and not getting enough back in return.
The European Parliament has got in on the act too.
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Highlighting the potential for strife, the EU parliament on Tuesday rejected cuts demanded by some member states in the EU budget for next year, aiming to protect popular programs against shortfalls which disrupted them this year.
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Tuesday's vote means the parliament and the European Council, which groups the member states' political leaders, will now have to take up the budget for next year again to reconcile their differences.
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FAYETTE VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL: Evergreen's big 6-foot-9 center Brock Bates caused trouble for Fayette's varsity cagers in more than one way Saturday night.
Bates outpaced all scorers with 20 points, grabbed rebounds and blocked shots, but he also just got in the way when the Eagles had a chance to win it.
With eight seconds to play and a tie game, Fayette's Tyler Keefer got a steal and headed down court. He probably would have been in the clear for a lay-up, coach Todd Mitchell said, but he tripped over Bates's foot at mid-court and regulation play ended in a tie.
Both teams scored twice from the floor in the extra session, but the Vikings (15-3) shot seven for eight from the line to win 54-47.
"We had a lot of chances to win that one," Mitchell said, and he was proud of the job his squad did against the leaders of the NWOAA.
Shelby Franks, aided by Darrell Randall, held Evergreen's leading scorer, Mossing, to just four points. Mitchell was pleased with Coty Griffith's defense against Bates in spite of the height disadvantage.
Fayette went to the line nine times to the Vikings' 23 and committed twice as many turnovers.
Jason Rodriguez was the top scorer for the Eagles with a dozen points. Keefer collected 10 rebounds and one block, and he took one charge. Austin Hylander finished with a pair of steals and Franks gave three assists.
HILLTOP—The Eagles were up by 15 at half-time and kept pouring on the points for a 72-49 BBC win Friday at Hilltop.
Success at the line aided the win with a 16-for-27 showing.
"We did a good job of getting to the line and of keeping them away," Mitchell said. "We played really, really well. Some kids are understanding the fact that it's easier to get lay-ups than threes and we did a good job of attacking the basket."
Three Eagles ended the game in double figures: Griffiths with 20, Randall with 15 and Keefer with 12. Keefer and Rodriguez each finished with seven rebounds. Rodriguez also made three steals and Hylander gave four assists.
• Fayette (9-9) wraps up the home schedule Friday against league-leading Pettisville (15-2)
JV BOYS: One win; one almost.
Fayette's JV boys cage team made it past Hilltop last week without any trouble, but they couldn't repeat Saturday at Evergreen.
The Vikings took a big lead with an 18-8 second quarter and the Eagles never quite recovered. Evergreen took the non-conference win 44-39.
"We made a run at them in the fourth quarter, but we waited too long," said coach Matt Maginn.
Fayette gave Evergreen too many second chances, Maginn said, and committed too many turnovers.
Trevor Cox led scoring with 13 points, backed up by eight points each from Travis Kline and Nelson Barnhiser and seven from Hunter Colegrove. Maginn was pleased with Kline's hard play and 10 rebounds.
Cox scored 13 points Friday at Hilltop as the Eagles took the BCC game 47-35. Colegrove and Kline each added 10 points. Kline also collected seven rebounds.
"Hunter and Travis were really looking to attack the basket," Maginn said.
FAYETTE VARSITY GIRLS: A winning score eluded Fayette's varsity girls again, but the Eagles came mighty close to a victory twice.
Leah Brinegar can take a good share of the credit for those two strong showings as the sophomore finished with 20 points Thursday against Hilltop and 19 at home Monday against Delta.
The Eagles appeared to be out of the running Monday on Senior Night with Delta forging a 45-28 lead after three quarters.
Brinegar scored nine points in the fourth quarter and Brittany Seiler went six for seven from the line to nearly pull off the amazing comeback.
The Eagles combined for a nine-for-12 performance at the line in the final period but fell short in the 54-51 loss. They needed the points at the free throw line that failed to find their mark in the second quarter when they shot one for six.
Heather Cuff was back in the lineup after an injury. Elisha Hartman went three for four at the line.
The foul-filled game put the Panthers at the line 24 times (with 14 points) and the Eagles there 19 times (with 11 points).
Hilltop used its success at the line to pull off a 54-49 BBC win Thursday. Nine free throws went through the net in the final quarter to give the Cadets the edge.
Brinegar, with her first varsity start, scored 20 points.
• The Eagles wrap up the regular schedule Thursday at Pettisville. Sectional play begins Wednesday, Feb. 25, at Bryan when the Eagles take on Edgerton at 6:15 p.m.
JV GIRLS: Fayette's JV girls added a pair of victories to their record, downing Hilltop 25-20 and throttling Delta 30-8.
Delta was held to single buckets in three quarters Monday in Fayette's gymnasium and failed to score at all in the other period.
Nicole Shaffer had no trouble finding the bucket for the Eagles, making six baskets from the floor and shooting seven of nine from the line for 19 points.
Fayette never went to the line until the fourth quarter at home Thursday against Hilltop, but they made their chances count.
Trailing 18-16 after three quarters, the Eagles were awarded 13 chances in the final quarter and canned seven of them. The Cadets went two for two and failed to score from the floor.
Schaffer scored 12 points. Tori Lichtenwald shot three for four from the line.
MORENCI VARSITY BOYS: You can't say the Bulldogs didn't have their chances last week when Sand Creek visited.
With less than half a minute to play, Morenci was on top by a point and only needed ball control and some patience to pull off a victory.
Instead they got a missed shot and delivered one final chance for the Aggies to win. Sand Creek canned a three-pointer to take the lead.
Morenci had another 12 seconds to score but couldn't get the ball to go through the hoop.
"We had a couple legitimate shots and one desperation shot," said Bulldog coach Tim Bovee, but the result was the same with each one.
The Aggies took another close one, this time 57-55.
"It was a good game," he said. "Too bad we were on the losing end."
Bovee said his squad played really hard and had its lowest turnover game of the season. But too many shots were rattling around the rim and not going in and the Bulldogs couldn't hold their narrow half-time lead, 24-23.
Clayton Wolf finished with a 22-point night, but most of his damage came in the first half before the Aggies made a change in their defense.
"It was a lot tougher to get the ball to him after that," Bovee said.
Brett Bovee gave nine assists in a good ball-handing night and he hit a pair of three-pointers in the fourth quarter.
Matt Hoadley collected 10 rebounds and Anthony Tompkins made five steals and had numerous tips, Bovee said, praising his senior's level of energy on the floor.
Just a couple free throws or a lay-up would have made the difference that night, he said.
"In a close game, you've got to make them to win."
• Summerfield visits Friday as the squad tries to keep in the race for the league title. Morenci played the team close in the first round.
JV BOYS: Morenci's JV boys will get another starter back from the injured list this week, but it wasn't soon enough to help the depleted team last week against Sand Creek.
The Aggies outscored Morenci 21-5 in the second quarter and finished with a 54-29 victory.
"We didn't handle their pressure well and gave up the ball too often," coach John Craig said about the second period.
In the second half, the Bulldogs did a better job with the transition game—getting their shots off before the trap was established—but the ball wasn't making it through the hoop.
Luke Craig scored 10 points and Lucas Hollstein finished with nine.
MORENCI VARSITY GIRLS: Morenci's varsity girls cage team had one loss sandwiched between a pair of TCC victories as they continue to climb in the standings.
Free-throws carried the way Monday at Summerfield in a 59-52 victory. The Bulldogs hit 22 of 29 tries while the host team sunk only 13 of 26.
"We came out with intensity and that makes such a difference," coach Jim Yatzek said. "We played hard and tough and made our free throws."
Morenci made only one more bucket from the field, but Summerfield added extra points through five three-pointers.
Yatzek was delighted with the aggressive play from his squad, calling the night an all-around good team performance.
Nicolette Swimmer scored 15 points, gave five assists, grabbed seven rebounds and made three blocks. Tia Tompkins scored 10 points. Amy Gillman and Mariah Bovee each added nine. Bovee also finished with seven rebounds and Gillman gave an impressive defensive showing, Yatzek said.
"It was a big win for the girls," he said. "We're still the only ones who have beaten Sand Creek and now we've beaten Summerfield twice and Clinton once."
CLINTON—One win was all the Bulldogs got against Clinton this season. The Redskins came through with a 55-47 victory the second time around.
Morenci fell behind quickly and trailed by 15 at one point. The reason, Yatzek said, is a failure to box out.
The Bulldogs cut the lead to two points with about 90 seconds to play, but Clinton was making its free throws to stay on top.
"We had the chance to tie it up and take the lead and then the situation would have been the other way around," Coach Yatzek said. "They would have had to foul us."
The Redskins scored only one bucket in the final quarter, but 12 free throws went through.
Tompkins hit seven of eight for Morenci during the game.
WHITEFORD—A 50-44 win over Whiteford proved to be a great game for the bench players, Yatzek said. Gillman came through with 15 points and 10 offensive rebounds.
"Amy was the difference in the game," he said. "She's a tenacious rebounder and she really showed her potential."
Morenci was up by one point at half-time, but trailed often in the contest. The Bulldogs could have made it a lot easier on themselves with a better showing at the line. Only seven of 23 shots went through the hoop. The Bobcats sunk seven of nine.
Jackie Paris showed excellent ball control, Yatzek said, and Tess Ramsey played an overall strong game and collected five rebounds.
• Britton visits Morenci tonight and the Bulldogs travel to LCS on Tuesday.
JV GIRLS: Morenci's JV girls cagers notched four TCC victories.
The Bulldogs started with a 55-50 win against Whiteford, paced by Chelsea Phillips with 17 points and 13 from Matea Garcia.
They followed that with a come-from-behind win at Clinton, 48-46. Phillips gave another strong showing with 20 points.
The Bulldogs faced Sand Creek on Saturday—a game scheduled due to the absence of a Britton JV team—and Morenci claimed a 55-41 win, its third of the season over the Aggies.
Mercedez McCaskey played a good outside game with three three-pointers and a total of 16 points. Phillips added 15.
Monday at Summerfield, Phoenix Duncan led with 14 points as Morenci claimed a 42-39 victory.
"When they put a whole game together, they can be very competitive," said varsity coach Jim Yatzek.
MORENCI WRESTLING: Four Morenci wrestlers earned top-three finishes in the annual SCAA/TCC tournament that was dominated this year by Clinton.
Three Morenci wrestlers didn't compete as they gave injuries more time to heal before the district tournament.
Dustin Roller (130) was back in action for the first time in five weeks and claimed a second-place finish.
He started with a pin against Bellevue in 1:15 and followed with a 5-4 overtime win against Colon, taking the victory on a penalty point.
In the finals, he fell to Clinton, 9-11, giving up a lead in the final 15 seconds.
Roller's only two losses this season have come from the same Clinton foe.
At 103 pounds, Marcus Burciaga took second with only two matches for the day. He pinned a Colon wrestler at 1:46, then was pinned by Madison at 1:48.
Sam Majahrowski (285) won an injury default against Colon, pinned another Colon wrestler at :46 and lost to Clinton 4-7 in the finals for second place.
Tyler Guelde (112) pinned Colon at 1:38 and lost to the eventual champion from Bellevue, 0-15. In the consolation finals, he downed Clinton with a pin at 4:08.
Jordan Bach (215) scored a pin in 44 seconds in one of his matches.
Lucas Johnson, Jeff Nofziger and Loren Delmonico sat out for the day.
• Morenci is the host site for the team district tournament Thursday. The Bulldogs take on Sand Creek and Madison faces Hudson. The winner advances to the regionals in Addison.
The Bulldogs travel Saturday to the individual districts in Addison, with the top four in each division moving on to the regionals in Manchester.


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #518
Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish,
Come to the mercy-seat, fervently kneel:
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
Earth has no sorrows that heav'n cannot heal.
Joy of the comfortless, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!
Here speaks the Comforter, in mercy saying,
"Earth has no sorrows that heav'n cannot cure."
Here see the Bread of Life; see waters flowing
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above:
Come to the feast prepared; come ever knowing
Earth has no sorrows but heav'n can remove.
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#26 - Artifacts rendering a cloth which has two-side textures
Opened by Jorge Gascon Perez (jgascon) - Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 19:30 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Monday, 24 October 2016, 15:54 GMT
Dear PovRay maintainers and developers, congratulations for your great RayTracer!
We think that we have found a bug while we were rendering a piece of cloth.
In this piece of cloth were defined two textures, one for one side and one for the another side:
texture { mesh_tex0_0 } interior_texture { mesh_tex0_1 }
these definitions in their original context.
We have found some artifacts in the final rendering, in concrete near some wrinkles,
They are as though the texture of the other side was painted in the incorrect side.
Fortunately, we have a patch to fix this bug (thanks to Denis Steinemann, he made the
Although we have found this bug in the Windows and Linux 3.6.1 releases,
To apply this patch, inside the parent folder of the directory "povray-3.6.1" execute:
patch -p0 < other_side_artifacts.patch
And the "povray-3.6.1" will be patched and you will get a console output like this:
patching file povray-3.6.1/source/lighting.cpp patching file povray-3.6.1/source/mesh.cpp patching file povray-3.6.1/source/render.cpp
We don't know if this "hack" is enough smart to apply in the next release,
Best regards and thank you very much for your great RayTracer!
I've confirmed that the problem exists in both 3.6 and 3.7. Christoph, would you mind evaluating the patch for suitability?
Judging from both the patch and experiments with the sample scene, the described artifacts seem to be a member of the well-known "Smooth Triangle Artifact" class, caused by the discrepancy between the "unpertubed" surface normal and the true geometric surface normal.
From a first examination, it seems that the patch is a hack directly targeted at this particular variant of the Smooth Triangle Artifact only.
A complication with the patch is that it also seems to contain a few totally unrelated changes. While some deal with color clipping and gamma correction and are therefore easy to "filter out", there also seems to be at least one additional modification of the mesh code, making it difficult to tell which code changes actually constitute the fix for the reported error.
All in all, I consider this patch unsuitable, and suggest to instead tackle the underlying root cause in a more systematic fashion.
My proposal would be to generally distinguish not only between "unpertubed" and "pertubed" surface normals, but between "geometric", "smoothed" and "pertubed" surface normals (with "geometric" and "smoothed" normals being identical for most objects).
I agree with Christoph, the patch isn't suitable for the general case. However I will leave the bug open for now in case a more applicable solution becomes available.
Wow, I had no idea there was an interior_texture statement.
- Field changed: Status (Assigned → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #132.


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Does Chicago have the inside track to land President Barack Obama's library?
Speculation will surely move in that direction with the announcement that Marty Nesbitt -- a close Chicago Obama friend and former campaign treasurer -- is heading up a new foundation to develop and build the post-presidential library.
"I think the vision is that it's a place that's going to reflect the arc of his career and what he spent his time working on throughout his career, promoting economic opportunity, justice and human rights and the pursuit of that ideal of American citizenship," Nesbitt told NBC 5.
Another Chicago businessman, Kevin Poorman, is also heading up the non-profit Barack H. Obama Foundation. Poorman runs a company founded by Obama's Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. Julianna Smoot, a former White House social secretary and a top official in Obama's re-election campaign, is also leading the foundation.
Chicago, Obama's native Hawaii, and his college home, New York, have also expressed interest in housing the library.
But despite the Chicago connections, Nesbitt says don't assume the library will land in Illinois.
"We've tried to develop a process that creates a level playing field for any party, community, institution, developer that's interested in submitting a proposal, so we're not ... there's no pre-determination about what's more or less desirable than any other place, Nesbitt said. It'll all be a function of the proposals that folks submit, and the quality of those proposals."
The foundation will do the bulk of the fundraising for the library after Obama's second term ends. Nesbitt says the ultimate decision on where the library goes will be made by President Obama and the First Lady.
"I also think there's a vision of the library through its physical and virtual presence that will serve as an economic anchor for the community that it is ultimately situated in," Nesbitt said.
Last month, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that he wanted the city to put together a cohesive bid for the library. The University of Chicago, Chicago State University and the Bronzeville neighborhood have all expressed interest in hosting it.
U of C president Robert Zimmer released a statement Friday officially expressing interest in hosting the library, saying he firmly believes it should be "located in one of our neighboring communities on the South Side of Chicago."
"Such a location would reflect the personal and professional lives of the Obamas, as well as their commitments to society," Zimmer said.
Obama taught law at U of C before entering politics.